The midday sun was shining warmly, but the wind blowing from afar had become cooler.
And in this autumn season, there is a field of corn on the other side of the river.
Many of the corn leaves have turned white, but there are still ears of corn on the corn cobs.
Some of the corn husks have been peeled off, and the corn kernels inside are golden, shining faintly in the midday sun.
What is food? This is food!
Wang Laomao took his men to the place where the smoke was rising to get some food.
They only saw the smoke from cooking in the distance, but they didn't expect that there would be unharvested corn on the other side of the river blocked by the dense willow bushes.
"Do you want to fix it?" Zhang Xiaoyan asked, and the students looked at Shang Zhen.
They asked Shang Zhen simply because Shang Zhen was also a soldier, and the seven students including Zhang Xiaoyan were already accustomed to the soldiers' arrangements.
At this moment, they saw Shang Zhen's eyes light up.
In all of their impressions, Shang Zhen's character is trustworthy, but Shang Zhen's personality is taciturn.
Shang Zhen's eyes are shining now, which undoubtedly represents Shang Zhen's attitude.
"Fix it! Why not? You go and do it, I'll keep watch for you!" Shang Zhen said.
Is Shang Zhen still complaining about eating too much? He is a big eater now.
What others don't know but he knows is that these past few days he felt that when he flexed his forearm, there was actually flesh on his upper arm, although it was just a small lump.
This proves that I am not born skinny. As long as I eat more and exercise, my body will become stronger!
Don't talk to Shang Zhen about military discipline in this matter. He only received one day of drill training, and then the September 18th Incident happened. He even learned how to shoot from veterans like Li Fushun.
No one had ever talked to Shang Zhen about the issue of military discipline, and what Shang Zhen considered military discipline was the standard of conduct he had before joining the army. His people were so hungry, so what was there to be afraid of if he broke off a few ears of corn from the common people?
What's more, Shang Zhen also has his own petty thoughts. The ones who stole the corn were just students, not him.
When the four male students, Zhang Xiaoyan, Liu Wentai, and others heard Shang Zhen's words, they acted as if they had received an imperial decree, and they ran out diagonally.
There was not much water in the river here and it had turned into a small ditch. They could cross it without wading!
As for Leng Xiaozhi and the other three girls, they didn't move. After all, they were girls. Wasn't it enough for four boys to take action?
"Oh, Lord Buddha, I am so sinful!" At this time, Li Yajuan, who had a round face, pretended to put her hands together.
Shang Zhen glanced at Li Yajuan in surprise.
At Shang Zhen's age, he is of course interested in girls, but the three girls in front of him are not his type.
Shang Zhen's aesthetic view of the opposite sex follows the views of his family.
A woman with a big waist and round hips is strong enough to do farm work.
It turns out his mother always kept telling him, "Look at the daughter-in-law of so-and-so's family. She looks so cute and looks like a rich lady, but what's the point? She acts like a sickly girl every day!"
Then look at the wife of so-and-so. Look at her physique, and she gave birth to a pair of twins in no time, both of them are boys!
Precisely because Shang Zhen holds this view, at least for now he has no feelings towards these three female students of the same age as him.
But in comparison, he likes Li Yajuan more.
Perhaps it was because Shang Zhen was usually taciturn that he complemented her.
Li Yajuan's name is very dignified, but among the three female students, she is the most lively and lovely, and her round face looks festive!
Although Leng Xiaozhi looks handsome, his pretty face is always cold.
As for the other female student, Fan Mei, she is like a combination of Leng Xiaozhi and Li Yajuan. She looks ordinary, but her personality is neither hot nor cold.
"Why are you chanting Buddha's name for no reason?" Leng Xiaozhi said angrily from the side.
"It's not easy for farmers either. They sow seeds in the spring, weed in the summer, and then in the fall, chipmunks steal some of the crops.
"I was finally about to harvest, but a thief stole it. How could I not be guilty?" Li Yajuan glanced at Shang Zhen and smiled.
Shang Zhen was speechless.
It seems like I'm the only one eating this food. There are seven of you, and your waist is thicker than mine!
"Don't think that Ma Gan'er is honest. You just follow that dead monkey and bully Ma Gan'er!" Leng Xiaozhi stood up for Shang Zhen.
Girls naturally have their own private thoughts behind each other's backs.
They have been with Shang Zhen all the time these past two days and some of the things they say are no longer hidden from Shang Zhen.
The dead monkey naturally refers to Hou Kanshan, whom they look down upon.
However, Leng Xiaozhi's words left Shang Zhen speechless again.
Is this what you call standing up for me? You're standing up for me by calling me a nickname?
And sure enough, Li Yajuan laughed and said, "Listen, you're still standing up for Shang Zhen, why are you calling him a stick?"
After Li Yajuan said this, the three girls all laughed. It was obvious that they thought Shang Zhen was a mutton hotpot!
What does it mean to treat it as mutton hotpot?
Shang Zhen, who had suffered an unexpected disaster for no reason, ignored the three girls and said, "I'll guard outside," then turned around and went to the back.
In Shang Zhen’s subconscious mind, it’s natural that if I can’t afford to offend him, can’t I just hide from him?
Since he had no feelings for these three girls, he naturally wanted to hide away and have some peace and quiet.
And just as Shang Zhen turned around and left, the three female students who had succeeded in bullying the honest man started giggling again.
Girls like this are trouble!
At least now Shang Zhen really doesn't like this kind of petty-bourgeois female student. He still prefers the kind of big and strong girl who speaks loudly!
But Shang Zhen still felt a little embarrassed when he got to the other side of the willow bush.
Then he felt strange.
I am such an idiot. I was clearly in the right, but why did I feel like I had done something wrong to those three female students?
After Shang Zhen calmed down, he looked out through the gaps between the willow branches and leaves.
What he saw was still the vast valley and the continuous mountains more than a mile in front of him, which had become somewhat colorful.
A bird was flying over him, chirping and flapping its wings.
It seemed there was no other situation. Shang Zhen was just thinking about it when he suddenly heard a roar from behind him: "Put down the corn! Where did this little bastard come from?"
Just this sound made Shang Zhen shudder. He turned around and walked back from under the dense willow branches.
The voices were rough and it was obvious that they didn't belong to those students. Could it be that the real person who was stealing the corn from them has arrived?
Shang Zhen turned around and tried to go back, but because of the willow bushes blocking his view, he did not notice that there were two horses heading into the valley just in front of him on the right, which was the direction of the valley.
