Traveling through 1942 with space

It was still dawn in the morning and the camp was already in a mess. Hou Xiaoge was woken up and scratched his itchy hair. The more he scratched, the more itchy it became. He felt as if there were small animals crawling inside.

"Damn it! Do I have lice on my head?" After using his mental power to check, Hou Xiaoge suddenly felt unwell.

In this way, Hou Xiaoge leaned against the unicycle in a daze for half an hour, and used his mental power to pick out all the lice in his hair.

"No, I have to shave my head and use medicine to clean the outer space to kill the flea eggs completely." After dealing with the parasitic animals, Hou Xiaoge scratched his messy hair and felt very bad.

"Brother, is there anyone in the village who can cut hair? I want to get a haircut." After helping his elder sister pack her luggage, Hou Xiaoge came to his eldest cousin and asked.

"Of course I have. Grandpa Qi knows how to shave hair. Usually, when our hair gets long, we ask him to shave it. Your hair isn't long either! Why do you want to shave your head?" Hou Huanying replied, touching his short hair.

"I feel like I have lice in my hair. It's so itchy." Hou Xiaoge told the truth.

"Oh! That's a big deal. Lice are found on everyone's head except bald people!" Hou Huanying waved his hand and said nonchalantly.

There was no point in talking to him. After getting the answer, Hou Xiaoge stopped talking nonsense with his cousin and just turned around and left.

When everyone had packed their luggage and the team was preparing to set off, something unexpected happened in Hou Xiaoge's family.

It turned out that Hou Xiaoge had gotten more than 100 kilograms of food last night, plus the more than 30 kilograms in the afternoon, the Hou family suddenly had nearly 200 kilograms of food. So much food made the second aunt, who didn't want to leave home, think about it.

Also, yesterday, Second Aunt Li Cuihua’s family came to the camp. Hou Xiaoge didn’t know what they said specifically, but he only knew that Second Aunt Li Cuihua’s condition had been not good since her family left.

"Erda, please persuade Second Aunt. Not only are we suffering from natural disasters, but the damn Japanese devils will also attack our house sooner or later. It is better for us to escape to Qin Province as soon as possible." Hou Xiaoge looked at the dejected Erda and tried to dissuade him.

"I, I'll listen to your second aunt." Erda said this after a long time.

When Hou Xiaoge heard this, a thousand horses were galloping through his heart. Why is Erda such a blockhead and dominated by his wife?

He had no choice but to go and talk to his uncle. Hou Yangmin was also helpless about this because his second aunt's family was a big family in Hedi Township, and there were big landlords in the family.

Yesterday, my second aunt's family came over to persuade her and her family to stay and help the landlord farm the winter wheat at the end of the month. The landlord will also lend them food to help them through the winter.

Originally, Second Aunt was worried that the food would not last until the end of the month, but she didn't expect Hou Xiaoge to bring back so much food last night. This just fulfilled Second Aunt's wish.

After hearing this, Hou Xiaoge really wanted to slap himself. This was like shooting himself in the foot.

Just like that, after nearly an hour of persuasion, Second Aunt and her family insisted on staying.

Finally, at the suggestion of his uncle, he asked Heidan, the eldest son of the Erda family, to go to Qin Province with himself and others. In case the Erda family could not survive in the Central Plains, there was still a hope in Qin Province.

Originally, Hou Xiaoge wanted his cousin Qiuju to leave with him, but his second aunt refused on the grounds that his second sister needed to take care of Tieniu.

As the saying goes, the emperor loves his eldest son and the people love their young children, and this is truly reflected in Second Aunt.

In the end, Erda's family of four stayed and were given a wheelbarrow and 45 kilograms of food, while Hou Xiaoge and his group took the crying Heidan away.

"Alas! This is all fate." Hou Xiaoge shook his head and felt emotional as he watched the backs of his second aunt and her family walking away.

The team traveled seven or eight miles a day, and at dusk, they stopped to camp in a sheltered valley.

Hou Xiaoge took half a multi-grain cake to the clan elder and asked him to help shave his head.

The old man was very happy to see the cake and took it. Then he took out a razor and scratched it on the grindstone twice to sharpen the blade.

In just over ten minutes, Hou Xiaoge's head was shaved bald.

Hou Xiaoge touched the red dot on his head and nodded with satisfaction. He had finally passed the test of personal hygiene.

Next, it took another three days before the team finally left the territory of Luoning County.

"Quick, quick, get away quickly, the defeated soldiers are coming! They are stealing things." That day, the team was moving forward weakly on the official road, when suddenly a roar came from the front, and then the team was in chaos.

Hou Xiaoge had encountered deserters in the past month, but they were only three or five in number and posed no threat to the large group of refugees.

Hearing the shouting, he looked up and saw a large cloud of dust in the distance. He guessed that it must be a large group of defeated soldiers disturbing the people, so he called out to his eldest cousin to pull the wheelbarrow and quickly run to the ravine not far away.

"Hurry up, push the wheelbarrow down from here, and let's slide down together." Uncle Hou Yangmin came over from a distance, looked at the ravine which had a not very steep slope, and pushed the wheelbarrow down directly.

After the wheelbarrows and the women and children had all escaped down the hill, the men gathered together with their weapons and looked nervously at the fleeing soldiers who were looting everywhere not far away.

Hou Xiaoge quietly lay on the hillside and watched three deserters robbing a wheelbarrow. One of the deserters pointed a gun at the family on the wheelbarrow, while the other two were searching everywhere.

In the end, these defeated soldiers only found a cloth bag with only a few pounds of food in it. The dissatisfied defeated soldiers kicked the man hard, and then led their men to another target.

"Oh my God, the little food we have left is gone. How can we survive?" After the defeated soldiers left, the woman collapsed on the ground, crying loudly.

Such scenes were everywhere within a radius of three or four hundred meters in front of Hou Xiaoge. More than a hundred defeated soldiers were looting the common people like locusts.

After the defeated soldiers had looted the scattered refugees nearby, they began to turn their attention to the large group of refugees.

Suddenly, gunshots rang out and screams and curses were heard everywhere.

When more than sixty defeated soldiers arrived in front of the Hou family's fleeing team, a middle-aged man who looked a little fat and big-eared walked out of the team.

"Listen, you common people, the soldiers are fighting the enemy on the front line to protect the country and the people. Now they are short of food and wages, so I have come to collect donations for food and wages.

All you have to do is donate 100 dollars, and I, the battalion commander, will keep you safe." The fat officer said in a serene manner, using threats and inducements.

Hou Xiaoge saw the epaulettes on his shoulders and saw that he was a major. It was really outrageous that a battalion-level officer actually allowed his soldiers to rob civilians.

In fact, the reason why the fat officer said so much to the fleeing team from Nanjiagou was because they were not strong enough.

When they fought against the Japanese, they were defeated at the first blow. More than a hundred people fled for dozens of miles to the Shanzhou area. They only had more than twenty muskets left in their hands and they had very few bullets left.

If it weren't for the fact that the fleeing team from Nanjiagou had seven or eight muskets, they would have opened fire long ago. Why would they have said so much nonsense?

"General, one hundred dollars is too much. We are just disaster victims who can't survive. Where can we get so much money?

Here are ten dollars collected by all of our village, as a gift to you, General." The fifth elder of the clan walked out tremblingly, holding the ten dollars and begging.

The fat officer looked at the ten dollars and was delighted. "It seems that this refugee group is quite fat!"

"Humph!"

"You're giving such a small amount of money to beggars! I say, not a single dollar less than the one hundred, otherwise you'll be in big trouble." The fat officer said as he waved his hand, and the nine riflemen who followed him instantly loaded their guns and pointed them at the crowd.