My Little Poplar - Chap 76

Back at the border station, the dozen men who had gone down had frozen to the point of being unable to walk, their lips were white, their hands were shivering, they had changed their clothes, they had gathered around the big blanket and baked in the fire and it took them a while to recover.

Unfortunately they didn’t rest long, they had a meal and set off, the men at the border station received word that they had found the four men who had escaped, they were probably on their way to join the rest of the group, they could hope to catch them all if they pursued them.

They had followed the trail of horses all day, the group had not rushed into the country, instead they had circled back near the border, probably even intending to return to one of the villages, they had guessed it, the four men would catch more people.

The next afternoon, they rendezvoused with a group led by Lao Sha. An exchange of information revealed that the group had escaped tracking and had gone deep into the mountains, probably in large numbers.

Lao Sha said: “The nearest village is only four or five kilometres away, this group must have been hiding here, there are people in the village to meet them, we need to go into the village but it’s a tough place, we can’t go out in the open, we can sneak in after nightfall.”

During the day, they went around the village and mapped out the terrain, it had been snowing all day, at night they would have been able to tell which houses were hiding by the traces around each house…

After the investigation, they hid in the hills to rest.

Huo Qiao looked at his watch and said, “Get some sleep, we have to find the gang tonight.”

Bai Xinyu stares up at Huo Qiao, the more he looks, the more he thinks… he’s pretty.

Huo Qiao notices his eyes, looked down at him and said, “What are you looking at?”

Bai Xinyu said: “I’m looking at the good looking lieutenant.”

Huo Qiao kicks him in the thigh, said with laughter: “You’re a good sport.”

Bai Xinyu looked at Yu Fengcheng, Yu Fengcheng was looking down and cleaning his gun, at this he also looked up and smiled at Huo Qiao, that smile was so sunny, Bai Xinyu felt bad, Yu Fengcheng was a serious wolf in front of others, in front of him Bai Xinyu knew that the cheetah was Yu Fengcheng’s true nature, shouldn’t he be happy that Yu Fengcheng never hid his bad nature in front of him?

Bai Xinyu asks Yu Fengcheng, pretending to be careless, “Did the Lieutenant bring you up when you were a kid?”

Yu Fengcheng said inexplicably, “He’s only seven years older than me, how could he have brought me up.”

“I mean, did you always follow him when you were a kid, like I always followed my brother, my brother was only five or six years older than me, he brought me up to play and have fun.”

Yu Fengcheng nodded and said, “There was a time when my grandma wasn’t well, he lived at my house for years, because he was nineteen years apart from my mum, my mum almost took him as a son.”

Bai Xinyu said happily: “That’s similar to my brother, after my aunt died, my brother came to live with me from time to time, I can understand why you admire the Lieutenant, I admire my brother too, I followed his example in everything as a child and I hope to be like him when I grow up.” Bai Xinyu was relieved to hear this, if we compare his feelings for Jian Suiying, it is easy to understand Yu Fengcheng’s deep rooted longing for Huo Qiao.

Yu Fengcheng gave an absent minded “hmm”.

Bai Xinyu asked again: “So, the Lieutenant has been in the army for so many years and you don’t have a girlfriend? My brother’s a womanizer but he’s still stable, he must not have met the right one.”