Chapter 37: The Place of Burial (Two Chapters in One)
Zhou Jianxiong did not wait for the army to assemble, he directly turned over his horse and rushed out of the barracks, Dugu Jin followed, Zhonglang General sighed, and obediently went to gather people.
On the way, I happened to meet Zhou Guangxun who was rushing towards this side.
"Second uncle, something happened to Xiya." Before anyone arrived, Zhou Guangxun shouted.
"I know, the soldiers behind will be there soon" Zhou Jianxiong clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and the horse galloped, overtaking Zhou Guangxun and galloping forward.
Zhou Guangxun noticed Dugu Jin following behind his second uncle this time, he didn't know what happened before, so he just wondered why Dugu Jin followed behind his second uncle.
The three of them soon arrived at the villa, at this time the steward of the villa had come forward to mobilize manpower to search and rescue the buried people, because they were afraid of hurting the buried people, they did not dare to dig directly with a shovel, but wrapped the shovel in cloth and tightly wrapped it before they began to dig.
Zhou Jianxiong rolled over from the horse, saw Zhou Guangbi digging snow desperately not far away, strode over and grabbed his clothes, "Ya'er was rescued?" ”
"Second uncle, no, I can't find my little sister, I can't find it anywhere, the snow here is very thick, such a large area, I don't know where to start digging." Zhou Guangbi was so anxious that he was about to cry, what should he do, he didn't dare to imagine what would happen to his second uncle if something happened to his little sister.
"Second uncle, don't worry, there are many people with great strength, and you will always find your little sister, your little sister is not a blessed person, and Jiren has her own natural appearance." Looking at the second uncle's increasingly cold face, Zhou Guangxun persuaded him, don't let the little sister have an accident, the second uncle will be in a hurry again.
Zhou Jianxiong snatched the shovel in Zhou Guangbi's hand and found a place to dig hard. Shovel by shovel digging quickly, just hoping to have a trace of his daughter, he couldn't listen to other people's words.
Zhou Guangxun gave the third brother a look, and the two found tools and began to dig.
Here, Dugu Jin looked at the silent appearance of the people of the Zhou family, and her heart was full of tastes, the snow in front of her, there was no beauty to enjoy, only the coldness in her heart spread.
Here Xiao Jingqing moved Zhou Xiya to a spacious position in the cave little by little, and returned to the entrance of the cave, although his body hurt everywhere, but at this time self-help is more important than anything else, there is only one wooden stick in the cave except for the stone, Xiao Jingqing lay on the ground and dug the snow hard, the area of the cave entrance is not large, and the hollowed out snow has no place to put it, so he had to squeeze the snow into snowballs one by one with his hands and throw them back to make room, and soon his hands were numb from the cold.
The crowd didn't know when Li Mu left quietly, and after he appeared, he was already the owner of the villa with a mask, and at this time, he was anxious in the conference room to arrange a plan for the villa to save people, as well as follow-up compensation treatment, this time so many people were injured, and they were all people with status, if they didn't show enough sincerity, how to face the big officials and parents behind these people.
"What did I tell you at the time, I want you to pay attention to the snow on the mountain, but what are you all busy with, it snowed so heavily two days ago, and you don't know what is the use of sending someone to the top of the mountain to check, I hired you." Li Mu scolded loudly.
"Boss, we didn't expect something like this to happen." The steward spoke.
"I didn't expect it, but it will be too late for you to think about it." Li Mu stared, but unfortunately there was a mask to cover it, and people outside couldn't see it.
"The most critical thing now is to save people, mobilize the people of the whole mountain villa to do their best to treat the missing people, and immediately count the number of missing people, Manager Liu, you are responsible for this matter, Manager Jin, you are responsible for the aftermath, Manager Wu, you arrange for people to go to the doctor to treat the wounded, you must arrange them, this is my post, take it and ask Imperial Doctor Zhang to ......" Holding back his anger, Li Mu arranged things one by one.
"Yes," a few people responded and went out to deal with things.
Li Mu took off his mask and rubbed his brows gently, it was really unlucky, it happened so quickly that he didn't have time to react.
With a wave of his hand, the man in black hiding in the dark walked out, and Li Mu said, "Go and take a look outside"
Soon the man in black came back and shook his head at Li Mu, Li Mu took off his clothes outside and threw them to the man in black, and walked out as if nothing happened.
When they came to the foot of the mountain, the army had already arrived, and the people of the mountain village were looking for tools for them to participate in the rescue, and five hundred people came at this time, but the area at the foot of the mountain was not small, and it would take a lot of time for these five hundred people to dig up all these places.
"Why did you bring such a few people?" Dugu Jin grabbed the middle-aged general's shirt. There are 5,000 garrisons in the barracks, and now only 500 have come, is his Dugu Jin's words worth such a small number of people.
"General Dugu, I'm also for your good, you don't have any orders to send the soldiers out of the barracks to participate in the rescue, Your Majesty's anger will not be able to bear it, I also took a compromise in doing so, the number of five hundred is not too much, Your Majesty is to blame, and the punishment will not be too harsh, General Dugu, you and General Zhou can also mediate to calm Your Majesty's anger, and these five hundred people to participate in the rescue is enough, but it is just to delay some time." The general explained, but it was difficult for him to be bad, the Zhou family and the Dugu family were of course not afraid of His Majesty's anger, but where could he bear it.
"Hmph" Dugu Jin shook off the middle-aged general vigorously, looked at the scattered soldiers, and clenched his fists. Took a shovel and continued to dig into the snow.
"Dig up a whip" I don't know who shouted to get everyone's attention.
Zhou Guangxun ran over first, snatched the whip, and knew at a glance that it was the little sister's, this horse whip was made by him for the little sister, at this time Dugu Jin was standing not far from Zhou Guangxun, looking at the horse whip was also a little familiar, strode over, and snatched the horse whip, isn't this the horse whip that Zhou Xiya threw him a whip on?
"What are you doing?" Zhou Guangxun glared at Dugu Jin angrily.
"Come on, dig around here, hurry up." Dugu Jin ignored him, and directly called a few more soldiers to come over, and the horse whip was also tucked into his waist, and he didn't mean to return it to Zhou Guangxun at all.
Zhou Guangxun wanted to reason with Dugu Jin how the little sister's things could be taken away by any man, but when he saw that the second uncle came over, he had to put it down first.
"Second uncle, I've found my little sister's whip," Zhou Guangxun said, it seems that the little sister was really knocked down the mountain by the snow.
"This is not the foot of the mountain, the mountain is relatively steep, if the snow is rushed, people will not stay in the middle of the mountain, let people concentrate at the bottom of the mountain and dig on both sides of the mountain, so that the chance of finding people is greater." Zhou Jianxiong has calmed down now, knowing that even if he is in a hurry, it will not help, his daughter is still waiting for him to rescue, he can't panic.
"Okay, I'll order it right away," Zhou Guangxun nodded.
Time passed little by little, Xiao Jingqing's hands were frozen and he no longer felt anything, and now digging snow was only relying on the instinctive reaction of his brain, the time was not short, I don't know if Zhou Xiya inside woke up, Xiao Jingqing stopped, covered his hand on his face, and slowly walked towards the cave after turning around.
Behind him were snowballs that he had squeezed, which had been blocked in the passage, and he could only continue to throw them in little by little, and he didn't know how much he had to dig to dig through, and the snow couldn't be piled up here.
All the way, Xiao Jingqing returned to the deepest part of the cave where Zhou Xiya was, and saw that Zhou Xiya was still lying quietly on the ground, covered with his clothes.
Xiao Jingqing walked over and called her name softly, but unfortunately there was no response, touched Zhou Xiya's forehead, and found that her forehead was a little hot, Xiao Jingqing frowned, this is troublesome, if you have a fever, it will be too dangerous.
Seeing the snowball thrown by him in the corner, the corners of Xiao Jingqing's mouth curled, and there was no endless road, he walked over and tore his underwear vigorously, wet it in the snowdrift and wrung it out and covered Zhou Xiya's forehead.
Xiao Jingqing sighed, and gently took away the broken hair on Zhou Xiya's face, "Miss Zhou, I hope you can get through this hurdle, all I can do is try my best to rescue you, if not, then this cave may become a joint burial place for the two of us, I didn't expect that I would be desperate to save a woman today, hehe, this is all I never imagined." ”
It's a pity that Zhou Xiya didn't respond to him, Xiao Jingqing took advantage of this rest time to change Zhou Xiya's veil twice, got up and continued to dig snow.
In winter, it was dark early, night fell, the light of the lantern torch illuminated the foot of the mountain, an afternoon passed, and three people who were washed down had been rescued, but there was no Zhou Xiya inside, and Zhou Jianxiong's face became more and more gloomy.
Chen Yishan brought a basket of food, walked to Zhou Guangxun's side and persuaded: "Cousin, eat a little food, you have all been looking for an afternoon, if you don't eat something, how can you have the physical strength to find someone." ”
"I'll go get some for the second uncle, you go back first, it's not safe here." Where can he afford to eat now?
Chen Yishan could only watch her cousin leave, looking at the people around her who were still busy, clasping her hands together, God... Bodhisattva... Please bless you to find Xiya.
"Second uncle, let's eat something" Zhou Guangxun put the basket next to Zhou Jianxiong.
"Don't eat, I don't have an appetite, I can't eat, you go eat something." Zhou Jianxiong supported his body with a shovel in his hand, and after an afternoon of digging, his body was a little unbearable.
"Second uncle, don't find the little sister, you fell first, if the little sister knows that we didn't take care of you, she will lose her temper with us when she comes out." Zhou Guangxun had no choice but to borrow the name of the little sister, and the words of the little sister were the most effective for the second uncle.
"I don't know where that girl is now, I wish she could stand in front of me and lose her temper with me, but I'm so afraid, I'm afraid that I won't have this opportunity again." An iron-blooded tough guy like Zhou Jianxiong couldn't help but redden. The three people rescued, one was seriously injured, and the other two died, he was really afraid that what he would find was his daughter's body, although he saw countless dead people on the battlefield, and his heart was harder than a stone, and if something happened to his daughter, he couldn't accept it.
"Second uncle, my little sister will be fine, she may be waiting for us to save her, you eat something first, so that you can have strength." Zhou Guangxun opened the lunch box and handed over a steamed bun.
Zhou Jianxiong took it and bit it hard.
"Get out of here, I won't eat, you bunch of waste, what are you eating, hurry up and find someone for me." Over there, Dugu Jin threw out a tray and scolded the little guy loudly.
Dugu Jin's hair is also messy, and the chic energy on his body is gone, only a crazy face remains, but if a girl sees it, she will only regard his madness as a wild beauty.
"Who is he missing?" Zhou Jianxiong naturally noticed Dugu Jin, this person was the first to rush to the barracks to ask to save people, he thought that someone from Dugu Jin was missing, so Dugu Jin was so anxious.
"Second uncle, you should treat him as a warm-hearted person." Zhou Guangxun touched his nose, he didn't know how to explain it, he already knew what happened, and knew that the little sister was jealous because of a group of women who made the little sister roll down and disappear, and he also hated Dugu Jin, but looking at Dugu Jin's performance, he had to admit that maybe Dugu Jin really cared about the little sister, if it was just because of apologies, Dugu Jin would not have been crazy for an afternoon.
He doesn't know the future of the little sister, so he should not do anything to ruin the marriage, lest in the future, if the little sister really chooses Dugu Jin, don't be able to pass the second uncle because of this matter.
Zhou Jianxiong frowned, what does his nephew mean by the way he wants to speak and stops.
Seeing that the second uncle still wanted to ask, Zhou Guangxun quickly found an excuse to leave.
On the other side, Xiao Jingqing was still digging, and the impact of rolling down the mountain made him feel pain all over, plus the snow that had been digging here for so long, Xiao Jingqing was about to faint, but he kept reminding himself to persevere, if he fell, what should Zhou Xiya do, his lips were about to be bitten by him, and only the pain between his lips could make him sober.
Digging hard a few times, it seems to be a little loose and transparent, Xiao Jingqing's eyes are full of surprise, is it dug up? couldn't help digging a few harder, the snow covering the top fell down, and sprinkled Xiao Jingqing's head, Xiao Jingqing shook his head vigorously, and as soon as he looked up, he saw the starry sky outside, Xiao Jingqing's mouth grinned and leaked a big smile, he had never found that the stars outside were so good-looking.
Finally dug up, Xiao Jingqing continued to dig a passage that could pass through the body, and climbed out hard, the snow around was white under the contrast of the moonlight, and after a few steps forward, he saw the bright lights at the foot of the mountain, it turned out that they did not roll down to the foot of the mountain, but rushed to the side of the mountain. He didn't shout, afraid that the snow would continue to collapse.
Moved his muscles and bones, shrank in the cave for a long time, his body was stiff, but he didn't dare to stay outside, and turned over and returned to the cave, Zhou Xiya inside didn't know what the situation was.
came to Zhou Xiya's side, but heard her muttering something, Xiao Jingqing thought she was awake, but after calling her a few times, there was no response, Xiao Jingqing frowned, touched Zhou Xiya's forehead, it burned more than before, no wonder she was talking nonsense.
It was too late, Xiao Jingqing carefully dragged Zhou Xiya out, out of the hole, didn't care about the tiredness on his body, put Zhou Xiya on his back, and wrapped her tightly around himself with the coat he had covered Zhou Xiya before, the night road was too dark, so as not to fall and separate.
"Mother, I will definitely avenge you...... My daughter is so stupid...... Would you believe her...... Mother......" Zhou Xiya, who was on Xiao Jingqing's back, kept murmuring.
Xiao Jingqing walked down the mountain carefully, pulling the branches on the mountain from time to time, staggering one foot deep and one foot shallow, although he didn't hear much of Zhou Xiya's words, but he also guessed some, it seems that Mrs. Zhou's death is problematic, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and there are few people who die in vain at the door of a mansion like them.
ps: I'm sorry, I broke off yesterday, there was something at home, I made it up today, and I told you a bad news, we are spreading it outside, saying that for the big military parade, we are going to limit the power, and there may be a power outage in the next few days, and I don't know the specific time, so the time for me to update is uncertain, if there is no power, it can't even be updated, and the power outage is a large-scale power outage, I can't go to the Internet café, for the sake of environmental protection, the generator is not allowed to use, alas, I look forward to not cutting off the power............