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The yard suddenly became quiet.

Everyone pricked up their ears and listened.

Mrs. Chen said calmly: “My family doesn’t have enough food, so how can we lend you?”

Aunt Huang hurriedly said: “I said it wrong, it’s not borrowing, it’s buying.”

“According to the current price of food, it’s ten times the price. Sell me some, otherwise Shanzi and I will have nothing to eat.”

Aunt Huang first said to borrow, but she was planning to buy food in Huainan County or Donghai County and then pay it back. The price of food there would not be ten times that of previous years.

But Mrs. Chen was unwilling to lend, so Aunt Huang made a quick decision and bought it!

Mrs. Chen hesitated for a moment and looked at Gu Zhang.

His family still had some coarse grains that they had bought before, but they didn’t eat much, so there was still a lot left.

Gu Zhang nodded slightly.

Mrs. Chen said: “Then I’ll give you two buckets. I can’t sell more. Alas, I can’t just watch you and Shanzi go hungry.”

“Don’t talk about ten times the price. When Dalang bought it, it was only five times the price. Just give it to me at this price.”

Aunt Huang was delighted: “Thank you very much.”

Mrs. Chen took out the bucket, measured two buckets of coarse grains for Aunt Huang, took the money, and continued to cook.

Mrs. Qian rolled her eyes and was about to say something to Gu Zhong when she heard Uncle Ma say: “If any family doesn’t have enough food, they can go to the city in two days and buy it then.”

Uncle Ma was kind-hearted, but he was afraid that every household would come to Mrs. Chen to buy food at five times the price.

After all, the price of food outside had risen tenfold.

Gu Zhong’s family was running out of food, and Mrs. Qian was reluctant to buy it, but looking at the current situation, she was afraid that Mrs. Chen would not lend it to her, so she was in a dilemma.

After thinking about it, she decided to forget it. If she didn’t buy it, she didn’t believe that Gu Zhang would watch his elder brother starve to death.

Even if he could, others would blame him!

Sure enough, they arrived at Xincheng two days later.

There were still many victims outside the city gate.

The court had already started disaster relief.

The court would distribute porridge outside the city gate every day, and the victims would naturally stay there with this bite of food.

Gu Zhang’s injury had long been healed, and he followed the village chief to inquire about the news.

Gu Fei was looking around, and suddenly a man with shifty eyebrows and rat eyes came over, looked Gu Fei up and down, then looked at Lanzhi, and then looked at Lian’er behind Gu Fei: “Little girls, do you want to have a full meal?”

“Follow me, there is food!”

Gu Fei rolled her eyes, this is a human trafficker.

Lian’er stepped forward and waved her hand to drive him away, “Go, go, we don’t lack food.”

The traffickers were reluctant to leave when they saw the three pretty girls, and they kept persuading them: “Little girls, I’m an honest man, I won’t lie to you, just follow me and I’ll feed you right away.”

Gu Fei saw that he was always pestering her, so she bulged her eyes, raised her fist, and threatened: “Go away, I’ll beat you if you don’t leave.”

Su Chen sat next to her and laughed softly. The girl looked cute with her bulged eyes.

She was a master who dared to chop people and kill wolves with a long knife, but when she put down the knife, she was just a silly little girl.

He didn’t know why, but he always paid attention to this little girl unconsciously. Maybe it was curiosity at first, but later he could always find something different in her.

Not only was she different from other girls, she seemed to have many different faces.

Zhang Ze glanced at his young master from the side and felt that his master paid too much attention to this little girl.

However, this was not his business.

Everyone’s face looked strange for a moment.

Zhang Laoda spat angrily: “Damn it if I had known, I would have fetched more water just now.”

After dinner, everyone had packed up, and the bald man and the woman came out of the side hall.

The woman covered her face, and Gu Fei saw that there were faint traces of tears on her chin.

When the woman passed by Gu Rong, Gu Rong turned his head and spat fiercely on the ground.

The woman and the bald man still sat down in front of the fire in the main hall.

Uncle Ma suddenly patted Chen Hu on the shoulder and winked at him.

Chen Hu followed Uncle Ma out.

Uncle Ma whispered: “Come with me to look around.”

The two went around the side of the main hall to the back. There was another main hall in the back, with a wooden statue of Guanyin, the paint peeling off and covered with dust.

This main hall was smaller than the front hall, and there were two side halls next to it.

Uncle Ma looked around and went into the side hall on the left with Chen Hu.

As soon as they entered, they were stunned.

There was a hook hanging on the beam of the side hall.

It was a thick iron hook used to sell pork in the market.

A human skeleton was hanging on the hook. The meat had been removed, leaving only a skeleton and a head, with two pieces missing from the cheeks.

The two hurriedly retreated and looked at each other. Uncle Ma clenched his fists and said: “Beast!”

Chen Hai’s face was distorted, and he gritted his teeth and said: “Uncle Ma, why don’t we kill those guys?”

Uncle Ma took a deep breath and shook his head after a long time: “The world is like this, what’s the point of killing them?”

“Let’s go, be more alert at night.”

Turning to the front hall, they ran into Gu Fei, Lian’er, and Lanzhi, and the three of them went to relieve themselves together.

Uncle Ma stopped: “You guys, don’t go to the side hall at the back.”

Gu Fei responded, and the others found an empty room in the alley on the side of the side hall.

Gu Fei walked out and couldn’t help looking back. If Uncle Ma hadn’t said it, she wouldn’t have wanted to go there. Uncle Ma’s words aroused her curiosity.

While Lanzhi was still tying her pants, she quickly slipped under the window of the side hall and took a look inside.

After just one look, Gu Fei ran back with a pale face.

After packing up and returning to the main hall, Uncle Ma saw that Gu Fei’s face was pale and sneered: “I told you not to go, but you insisted on going!”

Gu Fei looked at Uncle Ma with resentment: If you hadn’t said it, I wouldn’t have gone. Don’t you know that curiosity kills the cat?

She suddenly turned her head and looked at the woman leaning against the bald man.

This woman abandoned her husband and children to survive, without any shame.

But who knows, when will this bald man get tired of her, and she will be the next one to be hung on the beam?

A famine caused by a drought has forced out all the evil in human nature.

No one knows what they will become when they fall into that situation, and they were not necessarily much better than this woman and these men.

Perhaps because there were many people here, or perhaps because those men were full and have stored food, this night was quiet, and everyone has spent the night in peace.

Get up early, have breakfast, and continue on the road.

Compared with Xishan County, Hedong County has slightly fewer disaster victims, but there were still many refugees walking aimlessly with bags on their backs on the official road.

After walking for a few days, nothing serious happened.

That night, everyone found a village beside the official road to stay.

There was no one in the village.

Everyone did not dare to disperse, so they found a larger house and started to build a stove and cook.

Mrs. Chen had just finished cooking when Aunt Huang came over and said hesitantly: “Second sister-in-law Gu, half a bag of my food was stolen earlier. I’m out of food now, so I’d like to borrow some from your family.”

 

Gu Fei looked back and saw the bald man holding the woman’s waist with one hand, coming over. There was a door leading to the side hall.

When people are well-fed and warm, they will think about s**!

Only this sentence came to Gu Fei’s mind.

Sure enough, the bald man turned around and smiled provocatively at the young man: “I say, scholar, this woman has already belonged to me, what else can you do? Of course, do that kind of thing!”

The scholar’s face turned red, hugged the little girl tightly in his hand, while his teeth were clattering.

Gu Zhang frowned, he wanted to say something, but held it back.

The bald man hugged the woman and entered the side hall.

She remembered what someone said in my previous life when watching TV with my parents. If there were ambiguous scenes, your parents would be embarrassed, and you would also be embarrassed.

The Gu family has four generations living together!

The embarrassment was multiplied!

It can be said that it was like sitting on pins and needles, like a thorn in the back, and like a fishbone stuck in the throat!

Gu Fei didn’t know where to look, and in a panic, she met Su Chen’s eyes.

Su Chen’s face was also slightly red, and his expression was flustered.

When the two looked at each other, they felt guilty as if they were caught in bed, and the embarrassment was difficult to express in words. They both looked away in panic, Su Chen stared at his robe, and Gu Fei looked down at the bowl in her hand.

Gu Fei wanted to plug her ears, but she couldn’t do it. She didn’t know if her parents were paying attention to her expression at this time.

Don’t do it!

Damn, although she has been a virgin for two lifetimes, she understands, it’s simply killing her!

Every second felt like a year!

Gu Fei didn’t dare to pick up the dishes, and lowered her head to eat, for fear of accidentally meeting someone’s eyes again.

But the damn bald guy next door was unexpectedly persistent.

The noise kept coming in waves, drilling straight into her ears.

Everyone was so embarrassed, and young men like Gu Erlang and Gu Sanlang didn’t know where their blood was flowing.

Gu Zhang wanted to rush over and drive away the couple. He also wanted to cover his daughter’s ears, but in the end, he couldn’t do anything. He couldn’t bear it anymore, and hit the ground hard: “The world is going downhill, and there is no shame!”

At this time, the scholar who was sitting there holding the baby suddenly screamed, holding a two or three-year-old girl in his left hand, and picked up a five or six-year-old boy in his right hand, and ran out of the hall.

Aunt Liu was sitting at the door of the hall, and suddenly her face changed, and she screamed: “Oh no, the scholar jumped into the well!”

Everyone was shocked.

One by one, they ran out with their bowls and saw that the scholar was no longer in the yard, and even the two babies were gone.

Gu Zhang’s neck was not healed yet, so he didn’t dare to move. He heard someone shouting inside: “I have a rope here.”

Gu Sanlang ran back to take the rope and ran out again, hurriedly throwing it into the good mouth, shouting inside: “The people below grab the rope, and I’ll pull you up!”

He was answered by a few splashing sounds of water.

Gu Sanlang shook the rope, but it didn’t feel any weight.

After a while, Gu Qing also shouted a few times beside him.

The bottom of the well became quiet instead.

After a while, Aunt Liu said faintly: “Sanlang, go back to eat, he will die sooner or later.”

Gu Sanlang looked dejected and took back the rope. Everyone returned to the main hall with heavy faces and lowered their heads to eat.

There was a low sobbing sound in the side hall.

Mrs. Qian suddenly shouted, “Oh no, my family just drew a bucket of water!”

 

 

Gu Fei’s eyes turned cold, she closed his eyes, then opened them again, thrust the long knife forward, and “puffed” it into the woman’s belly.

The knife was pulled back, blood dripping from the tip of the knife, the woman swayed a few times and fell softly.

Gu Fei took the time to look around and everywhere was in chaos. In the back, Aunt Liu was holding a kitchen knife and slashing at a man climbing on their mule cart.

Mrs. Qian and Old Lady Gu were twisting into a ball, pulling each other’s hair.

In front, her mother was with Gu Sanlang, and her mother was holding a rolling pin, she hit a woman’s head hard.

Seeing that her mother was obviously in the upper hand, Gu Fei did not go over. She retracted her gaze and only stared at the area in front of her. As long as someone tried to come over, the long knife would swing mercilessly.

The chaos lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour. Perhaps because too many people fell, the remaining people around did not dare to rush up again.

But these people did not leave. They stood by the road with bloodshot eyes, staring at the mule cart.

Li Chunhua in front suddenly shouted: “Our mule!”

Gu Fei looked over and saw that the black mule weighing more than a thousand pounds slowly fell to the ground, its four legs kept twitching, and there was a bloody hole in its neck, still bleeding.

The mule cart also tilted forward, and the old lady fell out of the carriage while crying.

Gu Fei hurriedly shouted, “Second brother, carry grandma to this carriage.”

Gu Erlang carried the old lady over, and Gu Fei shouted again: “Sister-in-law, move the things in the carriage over.”

Lian’er ran over and helped Li Chunhua carry the mattress, quilt, and several bundles on the car to this side.

Everyone was alert to the remaining people while checking their losses.

Auntie Liu cursed: “Black-hearted things, you stole half a bag of steamed bread from me.”

Aunt Huang stared blankly at several people picking up the millet scattered on the ground in her family, and these people stuffed it directly into their mouths.

Mrs. Qian’s hair was disheveled, standing by the cart, panting.

Zhang Laodaran over, covering his arm, and shouted at Gu Zhang’s car: “Second Brother Gu, do you have any wound medicine? My arm was cut.”

Gu Zhang hurriedly took out a bottle of gold medicine from his bundle and handed it to him.

Uncle Ma walked back and forth and looked: “Is everyone okay? Can we leave?”

Zhang Laoda shouted: “Uncle Ma, wait until I apply the medicine before leaving.” ”

After waiting for a while, the convoy moved forward again.

Gu Fei looked back and saw that the people on the roadside ran quickly towards the mule on the ground, and no one cared about the people who had just been killed or injured and lying on the ground.

There was also a large bloodstain on someone’s clothes, and he also squeezed into the crowd to grab the mule meat.

Lian’er muttered beside him: “Didn’t they say that they would rather starve to death than eat mule meat? I heard that eating mule meat will make you unable to have children, and mule meat is very sour and not delicious.”

Gu Fei shook her head: “If you don’t eat it, you will starve to death. ”

They lost one mule carriage, so Old Lady, Gu Zhang, and Xiao Cao were all squeezed into the cart, and it was not easy for the others to get on the carriage to rest.

Fortunately, after walking for so long, everyone’s legs were stronger than before, and they all forced themselves to keep going.

They walked like this for more than ten days. In the evening of that day, Uncle Ma pointed to a dilapidated temple beside the official road ahead and said: “Let’s rest there tonight. This is already the territory of Hedong County.”

The gate of the dilapidated temple gate was half open, and the courtyard was full of dead leaves.

Everyone led the mule in and found people in the main hall.

 

The wild dog looked up and glanced over here, its eyes were red.

Gu Fei didn’t dare to look anymore, turned her head quickly, and took Lanzhi to walk a few steps quickly.

Fortunately, the weather was cold now, and the temperature during the day was only about a few degrees. These people died on the roadside and no one collected their bodies, so they didn’t rot quickly.

When the temperature warms up in spring, she can imagine how many bacteria will breed from the rotting corpses everywhere, and the plague will start.

At that time, people couldn’t leave even if they wanted to.

Gu Zhang leaned against the car saw it, and said to Gu Fei who was walking beside the car: “Alas, how did the world become like this? I should have gone to your uncle’s house by myself, and I would have dragged him along. Now it’s like this, if it doesn’t rain in the spring, there will be no way to survive.”

The village chief shook his head: “We have to hurry up and get to Huainan County as soon as possible.”

At noon, as they walked, they saw a large group of refugees sitting or standing on both sides of the official road ahead, estimated to be more than a hundred people.

There were men, and women, old and young, with some tattered bags and jars on the ground, as well as some sickles and machetes. These people seemed to have escaped from the same place.

Uncle Ma became alert instantly and shouted to the back: “Everyone, hurry up!”

He whipped the mule with a whip, and the mule trotted.

The people walking beside the car also quickened their pace.

Gu Fei hurriedly picked up Xiao Cao in Li Chunhua’s arms and put her into the carriage, then turned her head and shouted to Huzi: “Hurry up and climb on the carriage!”

The mule started running, Huzi’s two short legs couldn’t keep up, so how could he climb up?

Gu Sanlang ran over quickly, grabbed Huzi, and threw him on the shaft of the carriage. Huzi rolled and climbed into the car.

Gu Zhang held Xiao Cao in one hand and Huzi in the other side, while staring outside of the carriage.

Seeing that the mule carriages had already walked to the side of the group of people, Gu Fei held her long knife and looked around vigilantly.

At this time, someone in the crowd shouted: “Everyone, come on, rob them, they have a mule cart, so they must have food!”

“With food, we can survive!”

As soon as the voice fell, the crowd on the side of the road rushed up.

Uncle Ma stood beside the cart, his eyes like hawks were full of murderous intent. Seeing a man swinging a sickle, Uncle Ma dodged and slashed the man’s shoulder with the big knife in his hand.

Uncle Ma drew back the knife and chopped it again, knocking the man to the ground.

Gu Fei stood beside Lian’er, hiding Lanzhi behind. There were many people in front of them. A man, several women, and a half-grown child were unarmed and rushed to the cart.

Gu Fei swung the long knife, drawing a bright arc: “Don’t come if you don’t want to die.”

Several people hesitated when they saw the knife, but the man climbed into the car desperately. He climbed onto the shaft of the car, shouting: “What are you afraid of? You will die anyway, and I’d rather die a full death!”

Gu Fei’s expression turned cold, and the long knife in his hand passed over the man’s neck. The man swayed a few times and fell, holding his neck.

A woman cried: “Husband!” and threw herself on the man.

Gu Fei stared at the people around him and said in a deep voice, “Get away, I’ll kill anyone who comes!”

The people around him took a few steps back, looking at Gu Fei with fear in their eyes.

The woman on the ground suddenly stood up and threw herself at Gu Fei.