Zhang Xing slept until midnight and was awakened by the cry of the stone, only to know that Li Hongshi had gone. These days, Li Hongshi wakes up from time to time, she expected that she would be about the next few days, and she was already prepared in her heart, but when it was her turn beforehand, she was still sad, and she was crying while scrubbing and changing her clothes, and tidying her up.

It was already dawn, and Zhang Shuisheng also woke up, cried, and fell asleep again. Shi found a straw mat, wrapped his grandmother, and dragged Zhang Xing and Zhang Xing to a mass grave not far away, dug a deep pit and buried it. There are four members of the Li family, but in more than a month, they went to three of them, and the three bare earth graves were lined up side by side. The stone knelt there and refused to rise, and he could no longer cry, only tears, his eyes were red, his mouth and cheeks were chapped and bleeding.

Zhang Xing knelt with the stone for a while, and then persuaded: "Let's go." He pulled the stone up, and the two of them went back together. Before she arrived at the place where she lived, Zhang Xing heard her sister Zhang Tao crying and screaming. She glanced at the stone, and the two of them ran over quickly.

At the door of the grass shed where they were resting, a skinny man was dragging Zhang Tao outside. Seven-year-old Zhang Tao kicked and scratched like a little wild cat.

Zhang Xing rushed over as if she was crazy, pulled out the iron pestle in her sleeve, and slammed it into the man's arched back. The man let go of Zhang Tao with a scream, and before he could turn around, the stone rushed and knocked him far away.

This person was also hungry, passing by a grass shed and seeing that there was only a yellow-haired little girl guarding a half-dead adult, he had crooked thoughts, and also wanted to taste the taste of human flesh, he wanted to carry people and run, but although the little girl was young, he was very fierce, and he was hungry for several days, and people couldn't get their shoulders, so they had to be dragged to the wilderness.

Who knew that Lu Dao dragged people out of the shed, and a bloody hole was pierced in the back, and there was a violent collision, and he was suddenly knocked far away, and it was easy to stand up crookedly, and he saw two and a half children of a man and a woman standing in front of him. One was a little taller, with a hideous face, red eyes, and clenched fists, staring at him viciously like a wolf, and the other was a girl, thin and weak, who looked like a gust of wind could blow it away, but which frightened him more than the boy. She stood next to the boy, protecting the seven or eight-year-old girl behind her with one hand, and holding a bloody iron pestle in the other, her face was calm, and she looked at him coldly.

Looking at the iron pestle that was dripping blood, this person suddenly felt the pain in his shoulders and heart, reached out and touched it, his hands were full of scarlet blood, and his face turned white with fright for a while, and then he looked at the two children in front of him with different expressions, and his heart became more and more afraid--where is this like two and a half children? is so fierce, I'm afraid that a strong man may not be able to take it. It seems that this human flesh can't reach the mouth.

The man was timid, and with one hand on his shoulder, he cowered and walked away.

Zhang Xing hurriedly pulled Zhang Tao over and looked up and down. I saw that she was fine except for an extra bruise on her wrist. Breathing a sigh of relief, I ran into the shed to take a look. Zhang Shuisheng didn't know where he felt a stone in his hand, and he had already climbed from the straw mat to the door, and the wound on his chest had cracked and bleeding.

Zhang Xing and Shi hurriedly carried Zhang Shuisheng back, and Zhang Shuisheng grabbed his two daughters for a long time. Zhang Xing comforted him for a long time before he let go.

Zhang Xing changed the medicine for Zhang Shuisheng's injury, fed him a bowl of soup and medicine, and put him to sleep. Looking at the grass shed that had been turned over in a mess, I couldn't help but sigh. The water has not receded, the plague is rampant, Huaiyang is no longer giving porridge, more and more people will die of hunger and disease, food is scarce, and their half-old children are afraid that it is just a delicious meal in the eyes of everyone. There will be a second time in today's events. They can't be so aggressive in front of this group of hungry people anymore, they have to find a hidden place to hide.

Zhang Xing discussed with Shishi, and the two decided to move to the temple where the first dead died, where no one dared to set foot anymore because of the epidemic first. In fact, it was precisely because it was the first to appear in the epidemic that all the things in it were burned, and the floors and corners were sprinkled with lime, but it was much cleaner and safer than other places—where has no one died outside the city now?

But Zhang Xing didn't really dare to live in it rashly, so she only cleaned up a place outside the broken temple and leaned against the wall, simply built a shed with stones, and moved Zhang Shuisheng and his belongings over.

This ruined temple is really much safer than other places outside the city, people die every day outside Huaiyang City, and the dead people in the mass graves outside the city are piled up, and most of the dead people who were sent over were wrapped in straw mats before, and then most of them were not wrapped in any cloth, and they were thrown away. Outside the city, the herds of wild dogs were red-eyed. And none of them have fallen, of course, Zhang Shuisheng is not counted.

After moving to the broken temple, Zhang Xingshi usually went out day and night, looking for food everywhere, stealing, robbing and killing one by one. They now cooperate very tacitly, often one in the open and the other in the dark, only caring whether they get things or not, regardless of whether others live or die. Sometimes when you encounter something more ferocious, you can't grab it, so you just walk away.

Not long after the outbreak of the plague, most of the homeless people outside the city walked and died.

One evening, Zhang Xing led a first-class crowd in front of him, and took this person to the forest where the ambush had been set up earlier. For fear that someone would follow them, the two of them were going around in circles in the forest, preparing to go around for a while and then go back to the ruined temple.

Suddenly, I heard someone shouting: "The court's relief has arrived! The court's relief has arrived!"

Zhang Xing ran out of breath, suspecting that she had misheard. As soon as the stone grabbed Zhang Xing, he ran out of the forest. The two ran out of the forest, went to a high post, and saw the crowd of people under Huaiyang City, and the crying and shouting shook the sky.

Zhang Xing looked at the crying and shouting crowd in front of her in a daze, and muttered, "Is it over?"

Shi suddenly knelt on the ground and cried loudly: "Dad, mother, grandmother, the court has sent food, the court has sent food......

Zhang Xing still didn't dare to believe it all, so he dragged the stone to prevent him from passing, and the two hid in the shadows, listening to the discussion of people who seemed to be crazy nearby. The food relief from the imperial court really arrived in Huaiyang, and Gu Yongfeng, the king of Huaiyang, summoned good doctors to develop an anti-epidemic prescription, and prepared to start distributing herbal medicines in the near future.

The excitement of the people gathered under the city did not disperse for a long time, Zhang Xing was worried about his father and sister, so he dragged the stone back to the broken temple, washed his hands, and had a meal. But he didn't eat the stone, but sat in a daze. Zhang Tao talked to him, but he ignored him.

Zhang Xing hugged her sister over, smiled and said, "Your brother Shi feels uncomfortable, you go to sleep first, and he will be fine tomorrow." ”

Zhang Tao fell asleep. Zhang Xing sat next to the stone, wanting to say something, but couldn't say anything. Shi Shi turned his head, looked at Zhang Xing with red eyes, and said, "Why didn't the imperial court send out relief food earlier? Xing'er, why didn't the imperial court send relief food earlier?"

Zhang Xing looked at him, opened his mouth, and didn't say anything after the most disappointment.

What could she say? What did she say? Did she talk about the slightest thing she had heard? There were rebellions, there was barbarian invasions, the imperial court wanted to fight, and there was no need to build dams, dredge rivers, and the army that fought first with food. But can these stones comfort nothing? These are too far away from them, what court, what barbarian rebellion, these are too far away, the stone does not know the way, she first came here, and she did not know the way. She only knew that too many people had died in this great water.