Zhang Shuisheng pushed and pulled several children out of the crowd. Li Cui's had to count his son again. Li Hongshi asked Zhang Xing what was going on inside. Before Zhang Xing could speak, Shi and Zhang Tao crackled and spoke. In particular, the stones, with comparisons, said that the original miserable situation was divided into twelve points. Zhang Tao's little girl was still nodding her head on the side.

At this moment, Zhang Xing had no choice but to shut up. After hearing this, Li Hongshi sighed and said to Zhang Shuisheng: "Since we have seen it, then stretch out our hands." O Shuisheng, you and Dazhu helped to bury the people, so that they would not be dragged away by wild dogs as food. ”

Zhang Shuisheng responded and went to Li Dazhu to do something. The bits and pieces scattered all over the place were coaxed and robbed, and the people watching the excitement also dispersed one after another, leaving only the two half-grown teenagers holding their relatives and not letting go. Zhang Shuisheng took off his clothes and covered the dead man with his upper body naked, and said to the slightly older young man next to him: "Mourn, your father and mother should not be left for a long time at this time, it is better to enter the ground as soon as possible." ”

The young man looked at Zhang Shuisheng blankly, the blood on his face was washed away by tears, and a white path appeared in the red, as if the tears had not yet flowed, and he looked extremely sad.

It's just a half-sized child, and he hasn't woken up yet. Zhang Shuisheng shook his head and called Li Dazhu to come over, and the two of them dug a pit and buried people together. After only a while, Qi Chongshan and the young man also came over, and the four of them together put the dead man on the ground into the soil.

Several loess piles were piled up, and the two and a half teenagers knelt on the ground and refused to get up. Li Dazhu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Zhang Shuisheng and Qi Chongshan, "Let's go." "Now they are also in difficulty, and they can only help so far.

When he rested this night, Li Hongshi called Li Dazhu and Zhang Shuisheng over, and said in a serious tone: "You have all seen today's events, but this is still not to Huaiyang, and this kind of thing will only be more in the future." My wife eats more food than you for decades, after the big flood in the 20th year of Jianwen, the Huai River only broke two openings that year, and the water is not as big as this year, so there are more dead people, killing people and robbing things are common, and people eat people. This year is probably even harder. If you want to survive alone, I'm afraid it's very rare. It's good for the two of you to be small, and now you have your own family, and the two families should support each other along the way, but it's not enough, you have to invite more accomplices to walk together. We won't bully others, but we also have to guard against others not bullying us. There are many people, if nothing else, they must be bolder. You say, "Isn't that the truth?" ”

Zhang Shuisheng listened, nodded, and said, "Uncle Niang is reasonable, and now you should really invite more people to walk together." "The two of them said that there are seven people, but there are old and young, and the real strong labor is actually only him and Li Dazhu, if someone really targets them, the end of the family today is theirs.

Li Dazhu is a filial son, he has always listened to his mother's words, and he nodded at the moment, and said to Zhang Shuisheng: "I think that the eldest brother is a good person, and he is from Quantang Town, I will go and tell him about it later." ”

The two of them did it as soon as they thought of it, and went to find acquaintances separately to talk about it, and decided on seven or eight families that night, all of whom were from Quantang Town. Everyone made an appointment, went on the road together, rested together, and if someone was looking for trouble, several families would deal with it together.

When I went on the road the next day, dozens of people acted together, which was very lively, which made several children happy, and the stone led Zhang Tao to run around, but in half a day, these children were familiar and became the king of children.

On the next road, as Li Hongshi expected, there were endless murders and robberies in broad daylight, and many people who were weak and weak were killed. There were more and more dead people on the road, and at first there were people who were eager to bury them, but later no one paid attention to them, and it became common for the dead and the living to live side by side.

Zhang Xing gradually became numb from the shock she saw at first glance, and the string in her heart became more and more tense. restrained her sister Zhang Tao from running around with the stones, and repeatedly told her father that she couldn't act alone no matter what. The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the stench of dead people that can be seen on the avenue from time to time is stinking, and as soon as they get closer, the huge green-headed flies fly away at once, densely packed, and people are shocked to see. Another worry hung like a sword hanging above her head.

Pestilence.

A catastrophe must be followed by a pandemic, and this is especially true in the 21st century, let alone now, when technology is so advanced. Zhang Xing didn't know when the sharp sword hanging above her head would fall, she used to eat by mouth, and she didn't know much about preventing and treating plagues and other things, all she could do was pay attention to hygiene, wash her hands before meals, eat and drink separately, and no matter how hungry she was, she wouldn't share utensils with others.

Fortunately, there is a Lang Zhong in their gang composed of people from Quantang Town, Mr. Wan. His family's men were robbed in Yuxian County, and the young woman he married later only had a few colors, but she was not good at handling them. If it weren't for Mr. Wan's ability, this family would have collapsed long ago.

Li Zhang's family had prepared earlier, and they had prepared a lot of edible wild vegetables and grass roots, and Zhang Xing sometimes cooked more wild vegetable soup to help Mr. Nawan's family, and got some things from him, either finished ointments and pills, or common sense of herbal medicine. She didn't know if it would be useful at that time, but some preparation was better than nothing, and she didn't want to be at a loss when she came to that day, and experience the pain of watching her loved ones leave again.

In addition to Zhang Xing, the Li family also began to get busy, and Li Hong's well-informed family directly exchanged a lot of medicine in Mr. Wan's hand with three dry cakes. Worried that Li Cui's family didn't know anything, they were all sixty years old, and when the team rested, he personally took his grandson Shi to go to a distant place to find herbs. Zhang Xing naturally didn't look at it dryly, whenever Li Hongshi wanted to go out with a stone, she would lead Zhang Tao to follow her - common sense has been heard a hundred times, it is better to do it with her own hands.

One day, Zhang Xing followed Li Hong's to pick a small half basket of Houttuynia cordata, and when she came back, it was already dark. Several people were hurrying back, Zhang Tao suddenly tugged on Zhang Xing's sleeve and shouted in a low voice: "Sister......"

Zhang Xing turned her head and asked, "What's wrong?" Is your foot hurting again? Zhang Tao shook his head, turned his head to look behind him, and whispered, "Someone is following us behind." ”

Zhang Xing was shocked, they are all old and young now, if they are targeted, then what is it? She hurriedly turned her head to look, and under the moon, there were only a few piles of withered yellow hay and some white tree trunks trembling slightly behind them.

Shi "snorted" and said, "You only know that those two guys have been with us for a few days." Zhang Tao looked at the stone in surprise and said, "Brother Shi, do you know which one is behind us?" ”

The stone was about to be tricked, Li Hongshi hurriedly grabbed him, sighed, and whispered to Zhang Xing: "Don't worry, it's the pair of brothers whose parents were robbed and killed a few days ago have been with us for a few days." Xu is looking at the number of us, follow the courage, don't care about them, they can't harm us. ”

Zhang Xing nodded silently and stopped looking back.