After a while, Niu Abacus brought a lot of people over.

In addition to a few families surnamed Niu, other villagers who settled in Nanshan Village also came over.

Weddings and funerals are a matter of you helping me and I helping you.

Moreover, these people also know the roots of the Huo family, and know that the yard they live in now and the land they are assigned to are many of the Huo family's properties.

If the Huo family wants to take it back, it's just a matter of one sentence.

The Huo family does not take it back, it is benevolent and righteous; If it is taken back, it is also deserved.

Who doesn't know the name of the Chuzhou Army in Huainan Province now?

In the famine year like last year, if it weren't for the Chuzhou army to provide relief to the local county government, these displaced people would not have been able to settle down in Nanshan Village.

The villagers were not only afraid of the Chuzhou army, but also grateful.

The courtyard of Huo Wu's family is almost one acre of land, which is spacious, but the villagers and the Chuzhou army guards add up to hundreds of people, and they are immediately full.

Huo Bao saw it and said to Niu Abacus: "Uncle Abacus pointed to two people to go to Nanshan Village to point points......

Thinking about moving the grave, Huo Bao came over this time, accompanied by a feng shui gentleman from Quyang County.

Niu Abacus hurriedly responded, and did not call anyone else, but directly called his eldest son over, and instructed him to take Mr. Feng Shui and dozens of people to the two blessed points in Nanshan.

"How many places?"

Mr. Feng Shui asked.

Niu Abacus looked at Huo Bao.

"There are three places on the Huo family's side, one is in the second room in the east, and two are in the fourth room in the west."

Huo Bao thought for a moment.

Aunt Huo Qi, Huo Baisui's mother and son are in the second room of the Huo family, and Niuniu's father and mother are in the fourth room of the Huo family.

There are three graves in the courtyard of the Huo family, the small grave of Niuniu's father, the grave of the two surnames of Huo Niu in Nanshan Village, and the grave of the Lingshui rout.

Huo Bao took fifty personal guards, and some villagers who followed twenty went to the Huo family cemetery, and the rest began to work in the courtyard.

All three pits were shallow buried, and the remains were exposed after digging less than a meter down.

The remains were all burned, and they could not be put together in human shape, and many villagers turned white when they looked at them.

Huo Bao prepared a bone altar before, and first picked up the bones for Niuniu's parents.

For that cousin, because of the age difference, Huo Bao didn't have any contacts, but remembered that he was a hearty man.

The intestines that were stabbed by the rout soldiers flowed out, and it was also because he protected his wife and daughter, bare hands, and resisted the enemy head-on.

In the end, he took a breath and begged Huo Wu, the cousin, to take care of his wife and daughter.

There is also Niu Niuniang, it is not advisable to abandon a woman and die for her husband, but for a woman who has lost her father and mother and son one after another during the epidemic, her husband is the last support, and it is pitiful to be unable to stand the pain of losing her husband.

Huo Bao sighed in his heart and covered the mouth of the altar.

Half an hour later, the pit where the villagers of Huoniu were buried together was almost dug and the pit where the defeated soldiers were buried together.

The bones of the defeated soldiers will be moved to the wasteland outside the village.

The remaining six people were buried together, and compared with the pit where Niuniu's parents were buried together, it was even more chaotic.

Large and small, black, white and white bones are mixed together.

Several family members surnamed Niu were silent, looking at Niu Abacus.

Niu Abacus was a little at a loss: "Xiaobao, this ...... Can this be separated? ”

In March last year, Lingshui broke into the village, killing seven villagers surnamed Huo and Niu and seriously injuring one.

The seven people who died were Niu Dalang's wife, Niu Laogang, three children of the Niu family, Aunt Huo Qi's mother and son, and one seriously injured was Niu Niu's father.

Niuniu's father was seriously injured, and after carrying him back to Huo Wu's house, he begged Huo Wu to swallow his breath, and his father and mother were martyred immediately, which added two lives.

Among the nine, Niu Dalang's wife was carried home by Niu Dalang and buried in his yard.

Niuniu's father and mother were in one place, and the other six were in one place, and they were burned separately.

When Huo Shun passed by Nanshan Village, he made everyone settle down.

These six people are in the pit, that is, four members of the Niu family and two members of the Huo family.

Huo Bao glanced at Niu Abacus and said, "I invited a servant from the county government to come and identify ......."

"Clearing Grievances" mentioned "dripping blood and knowing bones", which was denied by later generations and considered unscientific.

On the contrary, it is a pretense, word of mouth, but there are some small skills to identify life and age.

Professional things are left to professionals.

Quyang County's work had already been prepared and began to identify the bones.

There is a difference between men and women, and the first thing to be identified is the bones of Aunt Huo Qi.

However, after being burned, all that was left was half a skull and two tibiae.

Later, it was the bones of the old gangster, who were old and osteoporosis, and they were easier to distinguish than others.

The remaining four people are all young and strong, but it has always been difficult to distinguish.

Huo Bao said: "Huo Baisui has an injury on his arm......

But lo and behold, I just found a fractured humerus.

Huo Bao installed this humerus and the previous skull and tibia with two bone altars.

There are three young and strong people left in the Niu family, who are of similar age, and they have no recognition, but it is difficult to distinguish.

Niu Abacus didn't think anything, and said, "Then let's bury it together!" ”

These two people are the children of the Niu family, their families are dead, and they are buried together in the ancestral grave of the Niu family, and they can also share some incense during the New Year's Festival.

On the contrary, it is an old gangster, who is here in the end, and there is also a nephew Niu Qing, who will not worry about being worshiped in the future, and can be buried alone.

Huo Bao thought of Niu Qing, and he wanted to speak before and stopped, and he estimated that he was also full of entanglement with Niu Laogang.

If there was no old gangster Niu Qing who was fatally stabbed, Niu Qing died early in the morning at the hands of the rout.

But if it weren't for the old gangsters Niu Qing who cheated the Niu Qing family's grain storage, the Niu family would not have been weakened due to tight clothing and food, and no one else except Niu Qing had survived the epidemic.

is not only a life-saving benefactor, but also an enemy who has harmed his parents, brothers and sisters.

It's just that Niu Qing is kind in the end, and he finally thought that the dead were great, took the silver out, and asked Huo Bao to let Niu Lao mix into the soil for peace.

There was not much silver, only twenty taels, and Huo Bao had already taken it out before and gave it to Niu Abacus.

Before, Huo Bao wanted to clean up his yard, so that the Huo family could have a place to stay when they came back to worship in the future.

But looking at the three pits in the courtyard, he couldn't help but shudder.

Even if you know that there are no ghosts in this world, it is also alarming to be cautious that there are so many dead people buried in the yard.

It is still necessary to clean it up, but it is not suitable to continue to live in people.

Thinking of this, Huo Bao took out a hundred taels of silver, of which fifty taels asked Niu Baisui to help repair the yard of the house, and fifty taels asked Niu Baisui to buy a banquet to thank the villagers who helped today.

Moving graves is also a trivial matter, and you need to eat a feast.

Niu Baisui hurriedly waved his hand and said: "It's too much, too much, or so many ......."

The banquet in the countryside is just four bowls and four plates, where does it make so much money?

Moreover, when the grave was moved today, there were not only the bones of the Huo family, but also the four members of the Niu family.

For this dinner, the Niu family also took half of the silver.

"The rest will buy rice and cloth, and each family who helped this time will share some thank-you gifts!"

Huo Bao Dao.

Niu was 100 years old and then took it.

The courtesy is still exchanged, this is the favor of the township, although this ceremony is heavier.

But now in this year, seeing that the summer harvest is hopeless, everyone is having a hard time.

The fifty taels of silver sent out to buy a banquet can still have more than 40 left, and there are also two or three taels of silver distributed to each family, and the grain is enough to buy a few stones, and it will be over this year, and the cow will be 100 years old and get this benefit on behalf of the villagers.

It's just a temporary banquet, and I don't have time to go to the county to buy it, so I can only make it up in the village.

There was money on the left and right, and everyone was happy to take their own chickens and ducks out.

I made up ten chickens, ten ducks, four bacon, and five air-dried rabbits, and the meat dishes were about the same, and the rest were cabbage, radishes, and other green vegetables.

All of a sudden, not only the men in the village were busy, but also the women in the village.

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The mountain behind the village is the blessed land of the Huo family.

Several new graves have been piled up, and tombstones have been erected.

Huo Bao worshiped one or two in front of several graves, and also worshiped the tombs of Mrs. Huo and his grandfather, and then went down the mountain with the cow to be 100 years old.

At this time, it was already Shen Zheng.

Huo Bao's personal guards, plus the men from Nanshan Village, sat at a total of nine tables.

Huo Bao replaced wine with tea and thanked all the neighbors.

By the time the noodles were finished, it was already dusk.

Huo Bao became a villager and left Nanshan Village......