Chapter 15: Cannibalism
Zhang Xing didn't allow her sister Zhang Tao to leave her anymore, and the two sisters easily didn't go to a place that was too far away or too desolate, and they also paid attention to it quietly. Outside Huaiyang City, everything seems to be business as usual on the surface, there are fights and food grabs every day, and the loss of the child is just a private rumor by the woman. Often a few people get together and whisper that whose child didn't come home last night, and his father and mother didn't see anyone after looking for a night, and explained that they were playing in front of them, and in the blink of an eye, the child was gone.
Zhang Xing didn't know the names that the woman said. I didn't see any acquaintances around who had lost their children. It's other gangsters who want to lose their children. Each family only looks at its own children. Without the noise of the children, the surroundings seemed much quieter for a while.
Zhang Xing found that the pair of brothers who had followed them before were gone. I don't know if Lu Dao left, or if he was killed. This year, even the strength of the single adult is not immune, let alone two children. She guessed that most of them were more than lucky.
Women have women's worries, and men have men's worries. Zhang Xing often heard Zhang Shuisheng and others say that after Liu Shenzhou's rebellion in Heyuan, the barbarians in the north were not at ease, and they captured several states in a row, and the imperial court used troops everywhere, and the grain and grass were scarce, and the relief grain for the Huai River flood was probably not able to arrive in time. Huaishui three execution embankments, the flood is rare for hundreds of years, and it will not be able to retreat for a while and a half. It is receded, and this year's harvest in Jianghuai and Huai will definitely be greatly reduced, and I am afraid that this winter will be even more sad.
It's just that these things are far less important than in Zhang Xing's opinion.
I didn't dare to go out for a while, and the food of the whole family of three was all thanks to Zhang Shuisheng brought back from outside, sometimes not, Zhang Shuisheng's two eye circles were sunken, and he became thinner and thinner. Sister Zhang Tao's face is only the size of a palm.
Zhang Xingyi gritted her teeth and took her sister's hand, came to Li's house, and was about to speak. Li Cuishi grabbed her and asked, "Xing'er, are you going to go out to find food?" ”
Zhang Xing nodded, looked at Li Hongshi, and said, "Grandma Li, my father has gone to get the porridge, and I'll let Tao'er play with you for a while." Li Hongshi nodded and said, "Shi Damn is just going to go, so you two can go together." When the stone who was playing with ants in the corner heard this, he hurriedly threw away the branch in his hand and shouted, "I'll go too, I'll go too." ”
"Stand still." Li Hongshi called out to him and said, "You are not allowed to go anywhere, just play with Tao'er here." ”
With an adult with him, Zhang Xing felt much more relieved, but the two still didn't dare to go too far, so they only hurriedly dug up a small half basket of grass roots a few miles away. When I went back, I saw several adults looking for someone in groups - Mr. Wan's son was lost.
Zhang Shuisheng was looking around with his little daughter, and when he saw Zhang Xing coming back, he breathed a sigh of relief, quickly tightened up, and explained sternly: "Don't run far in the future." Dad will figure out a way to eat it. ”
Mr. Wan's son was not found, and he cried all night. Zhang Xing didn't fall asleep all night. On the second day, Zhang Shuisheng took his two daughters to Li Hong's and said, "Uncle, please help me take care of them." Li Hongshi responded, and Zhang Shuisheng and Li Dazhu went out to get porridge.
Li Hong's went out to boil water, Li Cui's also went out, the three children were in one place, and the stones were abnormally dull. Zhang Xing couldn't guess the mind of this half-sized son, so she only led her sister to weave straw shoes for her father. The weather was gloomy, the rain was not falling, and the shed was extremely dull. Zhang Xing had another worry in her heart - the shed above her head was just made of weeds, if it rained, how could she cover it? And her family of three didn't even have a place to shelter from the rain, so they only used a few sticks to support a list every night.
Shi sat next to Zhang Xing, and then suddenly opened his mouth and said, "Xiaobao was taken away by his father." ”
Zhang Xing was stunned for a while, and after a while, he remembered that Xiaobao was not the nickname of Mr. Wan's son? She looked at the stone in surprise and asked, "What did you say?" The stone looked outside and said slowly, "I saw that Xiaobao was taken away by his father." It was just a cup of tea, and after Xiaobao's father came back alone, he told my father that Xiaobao was gone. But I saw with my own eyes that Xiaobao was obviously taken away by him, how could he not see it? He looked at Zhang Xing again and asked, "Xing'er, you say, could Xiaobao have been hidden by his father?" ”
Zhang Xing felt as if her throat was choked, and she couldn't speak. The stone asked again: "Xing'er, you say, why does Mr. Wan lie about it?" ”
Last night's cry was still lingering in her ears, Zhang Xing felt chills all over her body, she thought that she probably knew the reason, but she couldn't say it. Suddenly there was a wind outside, and the grass hut above them shook as if it was about to be blown away. Zhang Tao's eyes widened and he looked at the top. There was a lot of noise outside, some of them grabbed things and some of them hurried to find a place to stay before the rain.
Zhang Xing remembered the two big baskets in his house and the bits and pieces in the baskets, so he quickly stood up and said to Zhang Tao: "You just stay here, don't go anywhere!" My sister will be back in a moment. ”
She hurried to her resting place, where the two large baskets were still in place, and the rags on them had been half lifted by the wind because they had been weighed down by a few stones. Zhang Xing knew that he couldn't pick up this burden, so he only dragged it basket by basket. When the stone saw it, he hurriedly came over to help. When the two dragged the two baskets to the side of the Li family's grass shed, the downpour came. Suddenly, the world was hazy.
It was raining heavily outside, and it was raining lightly in the hut. Even so, it's still much better than many people out there. The mother and daughter of the Qi family put up an oilcloth and stood next to each other.
It had been raining heavily for a long time, and there were fewer and fewer people running around in a hurry, and several men had not yet returned. The women were worried, so they asked Qi Guangzhi to go over to take a look, but who knew that Qi Guangzhi would never go back. Zhang Xing was restless, Li Hong's brows were furrowed, Li Cuishi stood up and said to his mother-in-law, "Mother, I'll go over and take a look." She put on a tarpaulin and was about to go out, but she saw a large number of people running through the rain not far away, and someone shouted, "Quick, quick, carry in." ”
Zhang Xing panicked in his heart, and when he saw a few familiar figures running in front of him, he immediately ran out. There was a person lying on the wooden plank that was carried, the rain was too heavy, her face was covered with rain, and she didn't see clearly who was lying down for a while, but she heard Li Cuishi standing next to her shouting: "Stone his father!" "I pounced on it all at once.
Zhang Xing retreated and stood away, let the stretcher pass, and only half of his heart fell, and suddenly saw a wooden board lifted from behind, and the slender hand of the person on it fell, and the five fingers were open, and the hand was holding the pole for a long time, and the index finger had been deformed and bent. She stumbled over.
Zhang Shuisheng was lying on the wooden board, his face was pale, his eyes were tightly closed, his chest was full of blood, and he couldn't see a little ups and downs.
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