The news was leaked out by the villagers who had fled, and those people didn't even care about their family's fields, braved the heavy snow, rolled up and ran away with their families.

"Quick, let's follow them, it's too late!" Mrs. Su urged Old Man Su, the jacket on her body was so dirty that she couldn't see the color, holding a stone in one hand, and carrying a package that was also so dirty that she couldn't see the color clearly, which contained the begging nest, which was as hard as a stone.

Old man Su coughed twice, he was sick, his body was not well, his body was not as good as Mrs. Su, he was holding the other hand of the stone, and the other hand was still holding a crutch, the crutch was picked up, and I don't know where it was a dead branch, at the beginning, he also grinded out the blood in his palm, and then after holding it for a long time, he smoothed the lines on the crutches, but it was much better.

Seeing that Old Man Su coughed twice, Mrs. Su was worried: "Old man, are you okay, if you really can't do it, let's rest." If it was before, she would definitely not say this, but now, there are only three people left in the old Su family, two old and one small, if the old man is gone, how can she live with a half-old grandson?

As soon as she thought of this, Mrs. Su couldn't help but feel sad, the village is over, the county is over, her son and grandson have no news, and she doesn't know whether she is dead or alive.

Old man Su said: "Don't rub it off, let's go quickly, it's already slow, and if you stop again, you won't be able to keep up with the team in front." ”

Mrs. Su looked up and saw that the people who fled in front of them were about ten meters away from them, and they were walking really fast.

As he was walking, there was a commotion in front, Old Man Su was presbyopia, and he looked far away more clearly than he saw close, he looked up and glanced ahead, and suddenly his face turned pale, and he moved his mouth: "Quick, let's hide, there seems to be a bandit in front......" After saying a few words, he gasped, and he didn't know whether he was scared or sideways.

Mrs. Su looked to the left, the left and right were very empty, where could I hide.

Still a clever stone, he whispered: "Get down, let's lie down in the snow over there, this snow is thick, they may not be able to see it." ”

Mrs. Su wanted to praise the stone, but now that she has time, the three of them shrank and moved to the side, looking for low-lying land, and the three of them lay on the ground and didn't dare to move.

At this time, there was a shouting sound in front, mixed with crying, and footsteps, extremely fast footsteps, as if running, but after a while, the footsteps were gone, Mrs. Su thought, isn't it catching, just thinking, a scream came.

The three of them were full of sweat, and they didn't need to look at it to know that the bandit must be coming.

The footsteps outside went back and forth, and the crying became farther and farther away, until there was no sound outside, and the three of them didn't dare to look up, and after a while, the stone quietly poked his head out and looked over there, and he was happy on his face: "Milk, no one, we're fine." ”

Mrs. Su got up with difficulty, and the places that were attached to the ground were frozen, wooden, and I don't know if they were frozen.

Over there, Old Man Su said with a dry throat: "Old woman, help me, I can't move." ”

Mrs. Su walked over, looked down, this old man Su's face was so white that she couldn't look at it, she couldn't take care of herself, she bent down and was about to pull Old Man Su up, pulled a few times Old Man Su didn't move, or the stone came over, and turned Old Man Su over with all hands and feet, and then helped him up.

Mrs. Su took one of the nests in the package and gave it to the stone.

As usual, the stone bit hard, and then bit off a small piece, he chewed slowly, and the old woman Su and the old man Su didn't eat it, not because they didn't want to, but because they couldn't bite it.

Shi said vaguely: "Milk, otherwise, let's go back to the mountain." "There are holes in the mountains, and there are dead branches, and when the time comes, is it better to make a fire and cook something than to flee outside?

Old man Su was a little moved, and Mrs. Su reluctantly said: "There is nothing to eat on the mountain, and we can't catch those wild things, what if we encounter wolves and tigers?" "I thought it would be better to live in the mountains before, but the food is getting scarce and scarce, and if I don't leave, will I starve to death?

It's freezing on this day, and there is no door to the cave, if something breaks in during the night, then, you can only wait for death!

The stone took another bite of the cold and hard nest, and soon he had eaten the whole nest, and he stood up and said, "Grandpa, grandma, I'll go and collect some firewood to make a fire......

Before he finished his words, he asked Old Man Su to interrupt: "Don't go, help me up, go, I remember that there is a small village around here, let's go and avoid it first." "It would be nice to have a sip of hot tea.

The stone and Mrs. Su helped the old man Su up, he picked up the old man's crutches again, handed it to the old man Su, the three of them supported each other, and slowly walked to the front, and when they reached the place where the thieves caught people, the stone suddenly shouted: "Milk, there is a copper plate on the ground!" ”

Mrs. Su looked at the ground: "Where, where?" ”

The stone ran over, picked up all the copper plates scattered on the ground, and counted them, and there were more than eighty of them! He didn't go to school and couldn't read, but he could count money.

In addition to the scattered copper plates on the ground, there were also soiled dry food and clothes, all the stones were picked up, and he was pleasantly surprised to find a women's steamed bun, the steamed bun was stained with yellow mud, and the stone tore the outer layer of skin, and then broke it in half, and happily handed it to Old Man Su and Old Man Su.

He said: "This is soft, bite well, grandpa, grandma, you can eat quickly." ”

Mrs. Su's eyes were hot, and she felt that her good grandson was sensible, she took half a piece of white-flour steamed bun in her hand, and took a bite, Old Man Su's body ate quickly, and after a while, half of the steamed bun was finished for him.

Mrs. Su only ate half of it, put away the other half, she helped the stone to stuff some of those things into the package, and the other was to be divided among the three people to hide, as for the clothes, all the clothes that could be worn were worn on the body,

The full clothes he wore were worn on his body, inside his dirty jacket, and no one outside could see it.

After that, the three of them walked to the small village that Old Man Su said, which was far away from the official road and was very biased. It wasn't until it was almost dark that they found the village, the village was quiet, there was not even a single smoke, and some of the courtyard doors were still open.

Stone turned around the village, and then took the old man Su and the two to a house, on the way, the stone also said: "This family has firewood, and there is a well, let's go to the well to get some water and boil it......"

When Mrs. Su heard this, she was also very satisfied.

Old man Su's stomach was very cold, and his body was cold, but he didn't say it, and when he was in the house, he saw a lot of firewood, so he said to the stone: "I will boil more water later, I want to take a bath." "He didn't talk about cleanliness, he just wanted to use hot water to force the cold off his body.

The stone should be down.

Even though Old Man Su took a hot bath, it still burned in the middle of the night, and the second one didn't work, and then they stayed.

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General Su went to Sujia Village again, and this is the second time he has come.

The Sujia Village in front of me has long since changed, before the village was burned clean by a fire because of the plague, only a layer of black traces remained, and now it is snowing, and the white snow covers the ground, looking at it from a distance, it is white and vast, and it is connected with the heaven and earth, only the river in the village is still the original appearance.

If it weren't for the fact that Su Jiang had lived here for more than thirty years, I am afraid he would not have recognized it. This flat land, where it looks like a person, it is difficult to fall asleep in the open air, and it will freeze to death.

General Su walked around the land of Sujia Village, walked and walked, and walked to the back mountain, he looked up and saw that the door of the house at the foot of the mountain was closed, and the door of the house was still open when he came the day before yesterday, why was it closed?

Could it be that someone from the village has returned? This house on the mountain has been deserted for a long time, and there was no one living here when General Su was at home.

Su Jiang strode over, the door was closed, but it was not locked, he pushed, did not push it open, the door was bolted, Su Jiang was happy in his heart, that is, there were people inside!

He started knocking on the door.

After knocking for a while, no one came to open the door, the house was quiet, what was going on, was there no one, but if there was no one, why was the house bolted?

Since he refused to open it, Su Jiang climbed over the wall and went in, he looked around, only to find that the person was hiding in the kiln, it was Anan, Li Zheng's nephew, Su Jiang watched him grow up, and he was from the village.

Sunan was also taken aback when he saw General Su: "Uncle Erniu." "He's still alive!

He was scared to death, and thought that the bandits had found it again.

After Sunan was stunned, he hurriedly pulled General Su into the cellar and said, "Uncle, let's hide it first, don't expose it outside, in case we recruit the bandits, it will not be good." "I don't know what those thieves want to do, they actually caught someone and sent it to the county, where there is a movement every day, and if one is not good, he will die there, alas, don't mention it.

General Su showed embarrassment on his face, and he said, "I see that it is very quiet outside, there should be no bandits." "If you let him admit that he is a 'bandit', it is indeed a little unspeakable, not to mention, he is not, this bandit is simply false.

Sunan looked outside, the door was closed, and he couldn't see anything, he pricked up his ears and listened, and it was really quiet outside, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

General Su asked him: "What's wrong with the village, what about the villagers?" "The most important thing he wanted to ask was his blood relatives.

When Sunan heard this, his eyes were obscure, and his voice was a little hoarse: "The village was plagued, and most of them died, and those who could escape fled, and those who did not collect the corpses were rotten in the house, and the people of the yamen were burned with fire." "His mother died in that fire, too.

Moreover, the slut swept up all the belongings in the village, which was told by a villager who had escaped, and when the man saw him, he was like seeing the enemy who killed his father, and he was still confused at the time, and later he learned that the daughter-in-law he married was actually such a person, and he was really blind.

He heard from the surviving villagers that his mother did not die at the beginning, it was good, and the slut was still fine the day before he left, he had to suspect that his mother's death was related to the slut, but there was no evidence, only guess, and nothing could be done. Besides, that slut took the money and ran away, the world is so big, who knows where she went?

"Anan, where did they flee? Have you seen my family? General Su's words dragged Sunan back from his memories.

Sunan looked at him, lowered his head and said, "I've seen Dashan and his mother, as well as the osmanthus girl, but others don't know." "When he fled, he took the uncle out, the mother died, he swept the ashes of the house, put it into the altar, and then went to the county with the altar, and then met the mountain, only to say that he uncle's big city god temple, he secretly went to the city god temple, went but did not find anyone, looking for someone to ask, still no news.

Later, the county moved again, and saw the 'bandits' arresting people, so he fled back to the village with his mother's ashes, he thought, first bury his mother, bury his father together, end the matter, and then leave.

Sunan whispered again: "My aunt and Grandma Dashan separated from each other and lived here, and later moved to the town." He told him everything he knew.

General Su nodded and said, "I know, they are in Zhangjia Village now. ”

Sunan looked at him and asked, "Uncle, have you found your aunt?" ”

Su Jiang's face was a little embarrassed, and he muttered: "I haven't seen him for four years, and I haven't brought a letter home, I just don't know if she will blame me......" He wanted to go, but he didn't know what to do to her, Zhu Shizi had to do what he ordered, and he dragged down the matter of looking at Zhangjia Village, and after three days, he hadn't gone back to take a look.

Hometown timidity, I'm afraid that's what I'm saying.

Sunan listened for a long time and said, "Uncle, you haven't seen your aunt, how do you know that she is in Zhangjia Village?" ”

Su Jiang said:

General Su said: "Wang'er said it to his uncle." ”

Sunan asked again: "When did you say that?" ”

General Su said: "Three days ago. ”

When Sunan heard this, he shook his head: "Uncle, it's too late, in three days, the news of the bandit has spread all over the place, and the people in Zhangjia Village may also leave, even if they go now, they may not be able to find anyone." "Whoever doesn't run is stupid, even if the house and the field are there, but if there is no life to spend, then what's the use, it's better to bring the money and go with the title deed, and wait for the court to kill the bandits, and they will come back, anyway, this title deed is in hand, and things can't run."

Even if the thieves want to take it, they will take those who can move it, and the countrymen even look at the salt tightly, so there is nothing valuable.

General Su's face changed when he heard this, he forgot about it! You have to hurry to Zhangjia Village, otherwise, you may not be able to find anyone!

He stood up at once, and went out the door, pretentiously for three days, and now forgot what he had been thinking about before.

When Sunan saw it, he raised his feet and followed, the whole village is such a place to hide, but anyone who comes to drill here, it is indeed not safe. Sunan thought that if Uncle Er Niu could survive the military service, he must be a capable person, so it was better to follow him and save his life first.

Zhangjia Village is not close to Sujia Village, and the 'bandits' over there have not yet gone, and Su Jiang wants to wait until he goes to the mission to see Su Aniang again, but now it is out of order.

Su Jiang walked quickly and quickly, Su Nan trotted to follow, Su Jiang looked back at him, he smiled at Su Jiang, Su Jiang didn't say anything anymore, if you want to follow, there are not many people left in Sujia Village, a big village of 100 people, in the face of the plague, they almost died.

After walking for more than an hour, Zhangjia Village finally arrived, and heard a voice inside from a distance, Su Jiang breathed a sigh of relief, the people of the Zhang family have not left yet, Dachun should be there.

Su Jiang walked into the village with a happy face.

Sunan followed, he looked at General Su's back, and suddenly remembered something, didn't Ah Wang go to find Uncle Erniu, Uncle Erniu came back, why didn't he see Ah Wang?

When Su Jiang walked into the village, he was stunned, the third child actually brought 200 people and arrested all the people in Zhangjia Village, his face was a little stiff.

There was also a person with a whip, who whipped the villagers who tried to escape, and said coldly: "Who let you run, stay honest with me, I sue you, none of you want to escape today." ”

Seeing this, Sunan's face turned blue, and now he hit the muzzle of the gun.

Su A-Niang was also in that group, and she saw Su Jiang at once, her man is back, back!

Sure enough, he didn't die!

Su A-Niang was so happy that she almost grinned.

Su Daniu put her hand on Su A-Niang's face and wiped it: "Mother, why are you crying?" ”

Su A-Niang was shocked to realize that when she touched her face, she was already in tears. When she came back to her senses, she saw that she wanted to kill these bandits with a thousand knives, oops!

Can't let Erniu be caught!

When she came back, she saw such a little hope, how could she fall into the hands of bandits like this? She hurriedly shouted to General Su: "Hurry up, run away!" She knew that Erniu was coming to her, go quickly, leave her alone!

Sue will stand in place, as if he hadn't heard.

Sunan heard it, he was about to flee with Yusu General, and just as he was about to do so, the third child raised his chin and said in the direction of Su Jiang: "Catch the one behind you!" ”

He thought that Su A-Niang was talking to Sunan, but he didn't think that Su Jiang had something to do with the village women here.

Only Zhu Shizi knows some about Su Jiang's family, and these companions who work together don't know, they don't even know whether Su Jiang is married or not, and most of them think that Su Jiang is not married, because they didn't see Su Jiang send things to his family, and they didn't see Su Jiang's family have a letter to deliver it.

If anyone in the army has a family, who will not send silver back?

Su Jiang didn't do what the third child said, he slowly walked to Su Aniang's side, and brought Su Aniang and Su Daniu out, no one stopped him, very smooth.

The third child looked at him a little strangely.

The Zhang family was also brought out by General Su, like Mrs. Zhang's uncle Zhang, all of whom stood in the open space on the other side.

Sunan also shrank and stared at Su Jiang, as if he understood something.

When the people in Zhangjia Village saw this, they thought they could release them, and they made a fuss, but they didn't get anything but whips, and those people became honest.

Suddenly, someone shouted: "They're in a gang!" His hand pointed straight in the direction of General Su!

All eyes fell on the direction of General Su.

"Ah, he's a bandit too!"