The ancients went to bed early, especially the ordinary people in the countryside, in order to avoid the extra cost of lighting the lamp and consuming fuel, there was basically no other nightlife except for Papapa.

didn't talk for a long time, the Lin brothers seemed a little sleepy, and even Chen Kai, after a day of running, his eyelids began to fight, so he simply lay on the straw and fell asleep. Early the next morning, Chen Kai woke up quietly, Lin Dexiao was preparing a meal, but his brother was not in the house. A moment later, the meal was ready, and Lin Dezhong also returned, but this time he came back with a new pair of straw sandals and handed them to Chen Kai.

"Country craft, Mr. Chen don't laugh."

It looks like it should be newly made, a little sloppy, and it took some time to get up early in the morning and be busy. Chen Kai got up to thank him, but Lin Dezhong still looked a little embarrassed.

"I know how old I am now, and I dare to ask how old is the virtuous uncle?"

Yesterday night, Chen Kai kept calling them Brother Lin and Little Brother Lin, because these two people looked like they were about twenty, compared to him who had worked hard in society for a few years after graduation, they must be smaller, but it is unknown how much smaller.

"Gui Geng doesn't dare, my brother is fifteen this year, and he is two years old."

Two underage half-grown children, Chen Kai subconsciously wiped the sweat on his forehead. Especially when he thinks of his ability to survive independently in this era, he can't compare with him at all, Rao is his face has always been not thin, and he is really a little embarrassed.

The father of the Lin brothers is middle-aged, and there are two older sisters at home, who are not wealthy, but they can barely eat enough. However, a few years ago, they broke their legs while serving in conscription, and their family was originally a small family in the village, without the protection of the clan, so they lived a very hard life.

It is one thing for the ancients to start a family earlier, and it is another thing for the children of the poor to become a family early, and in recent years, they have also received occasional help from their uncles, who are also poor, otherwise the life of this family will only be more miserable. Because of this, his mother instructed the two to send some to their uncle's family, who might not be able to eat meat during the New Year's holidays, when they hunted a lot of prey. Because of this, the two brothers were naturally resentful of their uncle's death.

After eating something, the three of them returned to the small village of the mountain pass. The village was ransacked, and the corpses were stripped of their clothes, and they didn't plan to find anything to use.

They came here to bury the bodies. However, there were no tools, so I had to use tiles, wooden sticks, broken bowls with missing mouths, and pieces of bamboo to dig little by little, if it weren't for Chen Kai's request to participate in the excavation work, the big pit where the corpses were buried would not be said to be noon, but I am afraid that it may not be able to be dug out in another hour or two.

After digging the pit, the exhausted trio only breathed a sigh of relief, and the two brothers made a simple stretcher to carry the corpse, while Chen Kai dipped the blood of a rabbit caught by Lin Dezhong on the road and put it in a broken bowl, and wrote on a wooden board.

The work was much simpler than it had just been, but it took some time for the corpses to decompose. After a long time, the body was buried, and Chen Kai inserted the plank in front of the grave.

The common grave of 29 victims in Niujia Village!

The head is gone, and the corpse is decomposed to varying degrees, and it is impossible to tell who is who. Not to mention, the Lin brothers were not from this village, except for their uncle and cousin, there were not many people who could be recognized at a glance, and it was even more impossible to know their names.

The unfortunate rabbit and the wild things that the Lin brothers had originally intended to give to their uncle became sacrifices, and after the sacrifice, the three of them left the small village and walked towards the dirt road where Chen Kai came.

With the guide, Chen Kai realized that walking in the opposite direction when he came was a fishing village by the sea. This is the place where Chen Kai had planned to go last night, because he should be able to find a boat there, and on the other side of the sea, less than twenty nautical miles, there is an island on the island, and there is a person on the island that he wants to see—with the current conditions, only if he manages to meet this person, the hope of survival will be greater.

The three of them set off and soon came to the fork in the road. Chen Kai had a bottom on the target, so he embarked on the road back the same way. Just didn't take two steps, turned his head to look, but found Lin Dezhong squatting at the fork in the road, carefully observing something on the ground.

"Brother Lin, what's wrong?"

Chen Kai walked closer, followed the direction of Lin Dezhong's finger, and quickly understood what he had been observing just now.

It was a rut print, and it looked very shallow, probably a few days old. However, perhaps because the things carried on the car are not light, and there are not many people on this mountain road, the imprint has not been covered up until now. There are still some footprints around the rut prints, but most of them are too shallow to see. However, as I continued walking, there were a few footprints not far away, probably from the previous water stains and mud marks, so I could see the size and outline more clearly.

"It's supposed to be a woman."

On average, women are smaller than men, and Chen Kai is smaller than his feet, and those footprints are indeed slightly smaller than his, but they are not as small as the difference between adults and children.

"If you go down this road, you will be dividing the water."

Speaking of this, Lin Dezhong couldn't help clenching his fists, and anger and hatred popped out word by word from between his clenched teeth: "It should be the injustice done by Che Renzhong's subordinates of that dog thief!" ”

Che Renzhong was the chief soldier of Chaozhou appointed by the Qing court, and there were two or three thousand soldiers under his command. The murderer was confirmed, but the Lin brothers also knew that they really didn't have the ability to avenge their uncle's family, so that on the next journey, the two brothers were always silent, and the atmosphere was very depressing.

Stepping on the road to the beach, wearing new straw sandals, food in his stomach, and water on his body, with sufficient preparation, Chen Kai's speed was far better than yesterday. By the end of the evening, they had already hurried to the small fishing village described by Lin Dezhong.

Like the small village of the mountain pass, the small fishing village was deserted, but there were no bodies to be seen, and there were no traces of blood, and it looked more like it had been moved.

The three of them rested in the village for the night, and in the middle of the night it rained a torrential downpour. When I woke up again, the clouds cleared, and on the sea outside the village, there were indeed boats swimming, which seemed to be patrolling and drilling.

"The soldier on the ship should be the subordinate of the deputy chief soldier of South Australia, let's go over and say hello, it's time to meet that uncle."