freenovelworld Chapter 116 The Japanese Invasion
Chapter 116 The Japanese Invasion
The two workshops outside the city are about to be completed, and Su Weixi needs to go to inspect them to see if there is any need for improvement.
Qing'er, the teenager, and An'an and Ningning, the three followers, naturally clamored to go together, so Su Weixi had no choice but to take the three of them with him.
"Miss, can you please see if there is anything that needs to be modified?" asked Huang, the foreman in charge of building the workshop.
He was the brother-in-law of the mechanic mentioned earlier. Because the housekeeper said that their construction team worked very seriously and did not cheat, Su Weixi handed over the skin care workshop that Su Ma was going to build later to Foreman Huang.
"Yes, that's right. Everything is done according to the blueprint. After finishing the follow-up, let's go to the housekeeper to settle the final wages."
"Thank you, Miss. Thank you, Miss."
"Go down first, I'll take a look."
"Okay, miss, call me if you need anything."
After saying this, Foreman Huang stepped back.
Qing'er and the other two had also finished touring the workshop and came to Su Weixi.
"Sister, why did our family build two workshops at once? What are they going to do?"
"The first one we looked at was a seafood processing workshop, and now this one is a skin care product workshop my mother is planning to open." Su Weixi explained patiently.
"My sister and aunt are still as powerful as ever."
After Su Weixi confirmed again that there was no problem, he prepared to take a few people back to the city.
However, when they just passed Haihua's village, they heard the sound of drums coming from the navy garrison.
As a few people were wondering what was going on, they saw many fishermen running out of the village and beginning to flee in all directions, most of them heading towards the mountains.
The driver stopped a fisherman who was running up the mountain and asked, "Brother, what's going on? Why are you all running up the mountain?"
"Hey, why are you holding me instead of running away? The Japanese are attacking, run quickly." After saying that, the villager continued to run up the mountain.
At this time, Su Weixi and others finally understood what the sound of the navy's drumming just now meant. Apparently, the fishermen on the coast have lived in the local area all year round and have a better understanding of some of the situations.
"Sister, the Japanese are attacking, let's go back to the city quickly." Qing'er said anxiously.
"It's too late. If we rush over now, the city gate will definitely be closed. Besides, if we go over now, we might meet the Japanese on the way." As soon as Su Weixi finished speaking, the carriage fell into silence.
"Then what should we do?" Qing'er's tone became even more anxious at this moment.
They didn't bring many people with them today, only Furong, a coachman and two guards.
As for whether Qing'er had secret guards around him, Su Weixi didn't know. Generally speaking, these royal children all had secret guards around them.
"Don't make any noise, let me think about it."
Qing'er shut up immediately. An'an and Ningning stayed close to Su Weixi so as not to disturb their sister's thoughts. Furong got out of the car to check the situation.
"Take all the edibles in the car, get off, and let's go into the mountains." Su Weixi said, and quickly packed up the light things that could be used in the car.
After getting off the car, Su Weixi saw that there were indeed quite a few ships on the sea, and smoke could be seen rising from some directions.
The driver cut the horse's buttocks with a knife, and the horse ran away with the empty carriage in an instant. Su Weixi originally wanted to untie the carriage, but if he only let the horse go, the carriage would be too conspicuous if it was left there, so he had to do this, hoping that the horse could be lucky enough to escape the Japanese.
He ordered Furong and one of the guards to pick up An An and Ning Ning respectively, the coachman took the bundle, and another guard led the way, and the few of them walked forward.
Both guards had fought on the battlefield and were quite good at clearing a path in the mountains.
When they reached halfway up the mountain, they met some fishermen who were also fleeing up the mountain.
"Sister Xixi, An'an, Ningning. Grandpa, Sister Xixi and the others are here."
Su Weixi suddenly heard someone calling her, she looked up and saw it was Haihua.
"Haihua, where are your family members?"
"Sister, my grandfather and the others are over there. I finally found you."
"Looking for us? How do you know we went up the mountain too?"
"Someone in the village saw you going up the mountain. My grandfather was worried that you didn't know the way, so he asked us to look for you."
After a while, Haihua's grandfather, Village Chief Chen, came over and told them that there was a cave on the mountain. Whenever pirates or Japanese invaders came, the villagers would go there to take refuge, and asked Su Weixi and the others to follow him.
Now, Su Weixi understood why Haihua had just said that her family had been looking for him since they knew they had gone into the mountains.
The few of them followed the Haihua Island family and walked for more than two hours. Before it got completely dark, they finally arrived at the cave that Village Chief Chen mentioned.
The cave was very large and could accommodate about two hundred people. When Su Weixi and the others arrived, they saw that there were already quite a few people in the cave.
When they saw Su Weixi and his companions arriving, many aunts came forward to ask if they had encountered any trouble on the road. They also quickly helped Su Weixi and his companions clear out a place for them to rest, which was obviously the best spot in the cave.
Su Weixi knew that this was because she had taught them how to make oyster sauce before and the family had made some money. The villagers were grateful and did not reject the aunts' enthusiasm.
After the family workshop starts operating, a lot of people will be hired to work. They had previously planned to recruit some people in Chenjia Village. Now Su Weixi secretly decided in her heart that she could recruit more people in Chenjia Village as a reward for them.
After helping Su Weixi and the others clean up the place, those enthusiastic aunts dispersed. Su Weixi and the others were also tired, so they all found a place to sit down.
"Gulu, Guru."
Su Weixi and the others looked towards the source of the sound. Ningning covered her stomach with her hands, her face flushed. It was Ningning's stomach growling. After traveling all afternoon, everyone hadn't had lunch yet, so it was normal to be hungry now.
Su Weixi took out the bag he had packed earlier and found some cakes and dried meat to share with a few people. There was no other way, he could only deal with it casually like this.
Furong and the escort driver were unwilling to take it. They knew there was not much in the small bag and they did not want to eat their masters' rations. In the end, Su Weixi forced it on them and they took it.
Because Su Weixi said that they, the siblings, still rely on them for protection. What if they don’t have the physical strength and encounter danger?
During this time, Grandma Haihua came over and gave Su Weixi and his friends some boiled water and some dry food. Su Weixi was originally prepared to accept only the water, not the dry food, because they did not bring any water.
But Grandma Haihua insisted that they accept it, saying that they had been prepared. Their village had encountered such a situation before, and every household was very experienced. When escaping, every household would take some necessary things with them.
There were even some food, earthenware jars for boiling water, and bowls for drinking water that they had left behind in the cave.
Su Weixi secretly admired in his heart, as expected, everyone has great wisdom for survival.
Later, other families also sent some things over. Su Weixi couldn't resist everyone's enthusiasm and accepted them one by one.
I just took out some dried meat strips and asked An An and Ning Ning to share them with the children in the village. The two little guys had already played well with the children in the village, so they naturally completed this task perfectly.
Su Weixi looked at the fire in front of him, thinking about how to deal with it next.