When the women of the gang in Quantang Town saw that Li Hongshi had woken up, they persuaded one after another. Li Hongshi wiped away a handful of old tears, sat up, patted the stone on the shoulder, and said, "Stone, go, go, go and see your mother's ......." As soon as he opened his mouth, tears fell again. Qi Anshi hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop it, and said, "Grandma Li, you just lie down, and someone on the stone's side will clean it up." ”

Li Hongshi waved his hand, still struggling to get up. The stone sobbed and carried Li Hongshi to the Li family's grass hut. As soon as he came in, he saw Zhang Xing and another woman scrubbing and changing clothes for Li Cui's family, who had been covered with blood and had changed into a body of clothes.

When Zhang Xing saw Li Hongshi and the others coming in, she hurriedly put down the basin in her hand and stepped forward to help. Li Hongshi shook her hand vigorously and said, "Good boy." ”

Zhang Xing only lowered his head and sat down with Li Hongshi in his arms. The Li family is the best person to treat her in this life except for Zhang Shuisheng, before Li Hongshi fainted, everyone was in a hurry, and after carrying Li Cui's back, he put it aside. She felt that the weather was hot, and Li Cui's had been letting go for a long time, Xu was not good-looking, although most of the dead people were dragged to the mass grave now, she was grateful to Li Cui's kindness to her, and wanted her to be decent, so she pulled a woman to help, and the two of them cleaned up Li Cui's together.

Li Hongshi sat next to Li Cuishi and couldn't help but burst into tears again. Everyone persuaded again, Li Hongshi collected his tears, and said to Qi An's family: "Chongshan's family, the future of the stone fuck has to worry about Chongshan." It's too hot for the stone to stay overnight, and I still have a broken mat here, so I can wrap her up. ”

Qi Anshi hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Grandma Li said that this is to see the outside." After speaking, she pushed her daughter Qi Guangyi, "Guangyi, go and call your father." ”

Qi Guangyi quickly called Qi Chongshan over, and Li Hongshi endured his sadness and explained. Several men wrapped Li Cuishi in mats and carried him to the mass grave and dug a deep pit to bury him. Li Hongshi cried so much that his liver and intestines were broken, and he was finally carried back by the stone.

After all this is done, it is getting dark again. Zhang Xing rushed back, Zhang Shuisheng was still the same, and Zhang Tao curled up on the side and fell asleep. She hurriedly picked up her sister and put her on a straw mat, burned another pot of gnocchi made of elm bark, kept a bowl, and gave the rest to the stones, so that he could persuade Li Hongshi to use it better.

The stone nodded silently. Zhang Xing couldn't help but have sour eyes when she looked at him like that, grabbed him again, and whispered: "I know that you feel uncomfortable, but your grandmother is old, and she is too sad to be afraid that it will not be good for her body." You have to persuade her more, and you have to pay attention to yourself. ”

Stone's eyes were blood-red, and he nodded silently. Zhang Xing saw him enter, so she turned around and went back, woke up Zhang Tao, used some food, and settled her father properly. I've been busy all day, obviously I'm so tired that I can't sleep.

The moon was bright overhead, the heat on the ground was steaming, and the surroundings were oppressive and dull. The Li family and his wife are gone, only a sixty or seventy-year-old Li Hongshi and a teenage stone are left, the father can't get up, the younger sister is still too young, the flood has not receded, the epidemic has occurred not far from here, and there is no light in sight. Zhang Xing guarded his father, he didn't fan for a while, he was confused for a while, and suddenly he breathed a long sigh of relief, secretly clenched his fists, and said in a low voice: "It's going to be good, it's going to be good." ”

However, hope did not come because of her expectations, and a few days later, five people died overnight in a ruined temple less than half a mile away from Huaiyang City. The people crowded in the same temple soon fell ill one after another, and in a few days they died cleanly, and soon there were similar deaths of displaced people under the city, and for a time the displaced people were terrified, many left, but many more came—many villages and towns had a plague, and the outbreak was rapid. These are mostly small towns and villages, and there is not much medicine originally, so they are at a loss all of a sudden, and they are even more scarce. In these places, many people who have not yet contracted the disease have dragged their families to Huaiyang.

In order to spread the immunity to the city, Huaiyang became more martial law, and was not allowed to enter, and even the two soup kitchens in the south and north of the city were stopped.

Li Hongshi fell ill after persisting for a while, and Zhang Xing ran to many places with stones to pick herbs, but to no avail. Although none of the families in Quantang Town have been infected with the epidemic, they are still panicked, and because Li Hong's family is sick, they have to dislike Li Zhang's family.

Originally, they all got together halfway, and there was not much deep friendship, and when everyone was in danger, people took care of themselves first. Several families gradually isolated the Li Zhang family. Although Qi Chongshan had received help a few times, he was scolded by his mother-in-law pointing his nose, so he also gave up.

Fortunately, the Li family had stored a lot of things before, and Zhang Xing ran out from time to time, and the Li Zhang family had not stopped eating for a while. But only three children in the two families are good, but they are isolated alone, Zhang Xing is worried every day, and the pointed iron pestle does not leave her for a moment. Shi was also very vigilant, and took turns keeping vigil with Zhang Xing, but after a month, he seemed to be a completely different person, who used to be playful and naughty all day long and never see him again, silent, or guarding his grandmother, or following Zhang Xing.

A few days after the porridge shop stopped giving porridge, several of the gangsters in Quantang Town broke off their cooking and began to run out of the village to find food, and only a day or two later, one of them began to vomit and diarrhea. The rest of the families were terrified and moved in all directions that night. Zhang Xing was also afraid, and used a few straw mats with stones to move Li Hongshi and Zhang Shuisheng to a shed that had been abandoned.

Li Hongshi finally ran out of oil and dried up, and after a few days of dimming, he suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and slowly stroked his grandson's head with his thin hand. Shi was awakened and overjoyed when he saw his grandmother wake up, grabbed Li Hong's hand, and said, "Grandmother, grandmother, are you awake?"

Li Hongshi looked at his grandson with a smile. Stone thought that the moonlight was so good this night, and his grandmother's face was much better, "Grandmother, what do you want to eat? I'll make it for you." He said happily.

Li Hongshi only held the hand of the stone and did not let go. Thinking that his grandmother did not believe him, the stone said, "Grandmother, don't worry, I will not burn this straw shed." ”

Li Hongshi took the stone's hand, shook his head and said, "Don't go, grandmother can't eat, grandmother can't do it, I'm going down to see your father." ”

Shi Shi couldn't help trembling, knelt on the ground, shook Li Hong's hand, and said tremblingly: "Grandmother, you, don't lie to me, I, I'm afraid......"

Li Hong's tears flowed out, this is her precious grandson, who has always been held in the palm of her hand, she has not suffered a little, she is reluctant to leave him, and she can't rest assured that he can't let him go, especially at this time, but she can't help her life. She moved her head closer, pressed her grandson's ear, looked at the door, and whispered, "Good grandson, don't be afraid, have you seen Xing'er?" Follow her, follow her and you can live." ”

The stone followed Li Hong's eyes. The shed had no door, and the moon shone in, and a dappled light and shadow fell, and beside the light and shadow lay a thin figure with a child in his arms. She rested one hand on the straw mat on which her father was lying, and the other hand was tucked into her sleeve, which contained a pointed-toe iron pestle that had killed people. The dappled light and shadow illuminated half of her face, which was sharp and thin, but white and jade-white. The surroundings were pitch black, and only this thin figure was bright.