Quyang County is close to Jinling, and the owner of the horse village sent someone back to Jinling to report the matter on the same day.

By the next morning, before everyone was ready to leave, the old monk had rushed to Quyang County with a few supervisors.

The old monk loves the people like a son, and he is most disgusted with corruption and corruption, and he is full of anger, obviously to be strictly investigated.

There is a specialization in the art industry, and it is the matter of the old monk to investigate the lawlessness of the officials in Quyang County.

Huo Bao and his entourage left Quyang County and went to Lingshui.

Before noon, I met a scout who came back from Lingshui.

At noon yesterday, the three men and horses rushed back to Lingshui County for the funeral.

Lingshui County, however, has closed city gates, martial law inside and outside, and does not let people enter the city.

It was the Liu family who got the news and moved out of Mrs. Han to come forward in person, so she opened the city gate and welcomed the three disciples into the city.

Huo Bao and Shui Jin have all seen Mrs. Han.

"Finally, there is someone who understands!"

The main road of the horse village.

Shui Jin disagreed: "Why did you go earlier, if you really understand, you can raise three bastard sons?" The face is sweet and bitter, pretending to be virtuous! ”

Huo Bao nodded, deeply convinced.

Of Marshal Liu's three sons, the eldest son died without seeing his name, and the remaining two really couldn't stand up, so there would be three disciples who stood out.

The owner of Ma Zhai said: "It doesn't matter if she really understands or pretends to understand, even if she pretends to understand, having such a widow as a buffer is better than being a fool!" Now that the third master has arrived, we should also send someone to inform him first, the misunderstanding of the province! ”

Huo Bao and Shui Jin have no objection.

The owner of the horse village sent people to take the first step and went to Lingshui County to find the funeral matters.

The Chuzhou army continued to hurry, and when it was dusk, they arrived outside Nanshan Village.

This is also the route set before, and it is also convenient for Huo Bao to worship his deceased mother.

……

Looking at the smoke from afar, Huo Bao couldn't help but be stunned.

The small village, which was dead last time I came, came to life.

I don't know if the villagers who fled the famine before have returned, or if they have been occupied by new displaced people.

In the second half of this year, with the expansion of the territory of the Chuzhou Army, Quyang County has become more and more stable.

In July, Deng Jian, Ma Juzi and others swept the locality, cleared the road tyrants and bandits, and the county government also did their best to rebuild the local post-disaster and restore production and life, giving seeds and livestock on credit, and all kinds of welfare.

Speaking of which, Quyang County was able to recover so quickly after being ruined, which is the political achievement of the previous Quyang left-behind Wang Qianhu.

This Wang Qianhu is Wang Wu, the three thousand households under Deng Jian, and Huo Bao's future father-in-law.

Because of his thoughtful and capable actions, he was transferred to Hezhou by Huo Wu to stay behind, and a few days ago he was transferred back to Chuzhou as the head town of Chuzhou.

In accordance with the rules of the Chuzhou Army, the recommendation responsibility system.

Wang Zongzhen's previous credit was almost erased by his brother-in-law this time.

I just don't know if he is involved in Quyang or not, if he is involved, the position of this general town will be unstable.

Thousands of people and horses came to the outside of the small village, and such a big movement had already alarmed the small village.

One time later, a man in his forties with a bit of activity between his eyebrows and eyes came over surrounded by several villagers.

Seeing Huo Bao, the man was puzzled and didn't dare to admit it.

Huo Bao recognized it, this man was a villager before Nanshan Village, a member of the Niu family, and the uncle of Niu Dalang and others.

He is a merchant in Nanshan Village, and he has more knowledge when he travels south and north, and when the epidemic began last year, he took his family to avoid it.

"Uncle Abacus......"

Huo Bao said what he used to call him.

The man listened to the local accent before he dared to recognize people: "Oh, what a little treasure!" ”

Huo Bao nodded and said, "When did Uncle Abacus return to his hometown?" Isn't there no one left at the head of this village? ”

The man sighed: "When I came back at the end of June, things are expensive to leave my hometown, people are cheap to leave my hometown, and it is not good to treat them outside...... There was no one in the village, and I was shocked when I came back......"

Speaking of this, he looked behind Huo Bao curiously: "Xiaobao has joined the army?" …… Your Daddy...... When did you go......"

Huo Bao is wearing plain clothes, and the boots on his feet are also plain, which is a dress of filial piety.

It's really that last year's epidemic was menacing, and there were too many deaths, so this man would be misunderstood.

"My mother left in October last year, my father is fine, and now he is ...... in Jinling"

The man nodded and said, "Jinling is good, Jinling is good, Fifth Brother Huo is a capable person, even if he is outside, he will definitely not be wrong!" ”

Listening to the tone, it seems that he doesn't know that the marshal of the Chuzhou Army is Huo Wu.

Thinking about it, when Huo Wu is mentioned outside, it is either Marshal Huo or Huo Wuye.

mentioned his origins, they are all Quyang people or Binjiang Huo clans, where are a few people who will mention a small mountain village?

Huo Bao looked in the direction of the village, the cooking smoke was not dense, but it was not less.

The man looked in the direction of Huo Bao and said, "Those families who fled from the famine in our village, in addition to my family, a few more families have also returned, and the remaining dozen or so families are homeless people, arranged by the county government in July...... occupies the empty houses in the village...... But don't worry, Xiaobao, your yard is still empty...... But the courtyard of your uncle's house was occupied by a family with many brothers......"

Huo Wu's family is quite prosperous in the village, and the yard was also newly built by Huo Wu before he got married, although it has been more than ten years, it is much more neat than the yard where other families have lived for decades.

How come no one has the idea of this yard?

Just scared to pee.

The good yard is full of graves.

Needless to say, some of these graves were simply repaired by Huo Wu and Huo Bao when they came back from Jinling at the end of March and passed through Nanshan Village, one of which was Niuniu's parents, and one of the big ones was the deceased of other Nanshan villages.

As for the burned corpses of the bandits, they ignored them.

But when Huo Shun returned at that time, he didn't know the details, thinking that the bones were all relatives, so he was also buried.

Therefore, the courtyard of the Huo Wu family, which was originally quite spacious, was full of graves.

The displaced people were assigned by the yamen, relying on the large number of people, and there were few local households, and they dared to occupy empty houses, but they did not dare to dig graves.

According to the law, those who dig graves lightly flow and those who dig heavy graves are hanged.

Huo Bao remembered the past, and it was as if he was in a different world.

At that time, he had no memory of his previous life, he was just a very brainy child, who loved to pretend to be an adult when encountering problems, and was not as lively and noisy as ordinary children.

In the eyes of his father, this is his son who is extremely well-behaved.

Huo got married after five years, and he got this single seedling with the apprentice couple for more than ten years, but he really raised it as a big baby.

Other people's families are "strict fathers and loving mothers", and Huo Bao's family is "loving fathers and loving mothers".

The parents of other people are chasing their children with feather dusters, and they want to be honest with their naughty children.

Huo Wujia is a husband and wife, but they coaxed their son to go out to play, for fear that he would be bored at home.

However, there are two couples, one is bold and atmospheric, the other is virtuous and gentle, and there is no flaw in the person, otherwise they are so accustomed to children and raise a little bully early.

Thinking of the kindness of the disciples, Huo Bao's eyes were damp.

The most alive days in two lives were those years.

The troubles of life start with literacy, which is not this boundary for Huo Bao, but it is similar.

If he was given a choice, he would rather not recover the memories of his previous life, not experience the epidemic last year, and live a happy life as a family.

The man took a careful look at the owner of the horse village and the water in.

Huo Bao came out of his memory, and when he saw this, he said to the owner of the horse village and Shui Jin: "Sixth uncle, Brother Shui, this is my uncle Abacus, the clan uncle of Brother Qing...... After that, he said to the man: "Uncle Abacus, this is the Chuzhou Army...... General Ma, General Water! ”

The man hurriedly bowed and saluted.

The master of the horse village said angrily: "You're welcome! ”

Shui Jin also said: "It's not an outsider, we are familiar with Niu Qing." ”

The man said excitedly: "Xiaobao, what this general said is true? Qing Boy is still alive? ”

Huo Bao saw that his reaction was familiar, and it was the same when Huo Shun first knew that everyone was safe.

"Alive, always with us, not only Brother Qing is here, but the Niu family also has Brother Da Lang, Brother Erlang, and a few small stools, all of which are all fine, and they are all in Jinling ...... right now."

The man in his forties, his eyes turned red all of a sudden, and he choked up: "It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive!" Our Huo and Niu families were originally the surnames of this Nanshan Village, but only our family was left in the lead, and this thought made people feel painful, and they couldn't fall to the ground......"

Huo Bao did not rush into the village to see the house, but greeted the owner of the horse village and wanted to go to the back mountain.

The blessed land of the Huo family is there.

The master of the horse village said: "Go together, I should also go to worship!" ”

When the water enters here, it must go with it.

The owner of the horse village gave the order to go down and set up camp at the entrance of the village.

The three of them took a dozen of their own soldiers to the back mountain.

Because the route to Nanshan Village was pre-planned, the rituals were all prepared in Quyang.

The Huo family's five blessed lands are all here, and they have been passed down for four generations, and there are many graves.

Except for Mrs. Huo's grave at the highest place, there are five rooms left, each with its own piece of land.

Here in the fifth room, there are only three graves, Huo Bao's grandfather and grandmother's, his uncle's, and one is the tomb of Huo Bao's mother's apprentice.

Huo Bao sacrificed his mother, and the master of the horse village and Shui Jin followed the sacrifice once.

The man accompanied him throughout the whole process, pointing to the new graves of all sizes not far away: "I didn't expect that this epidemic would hook so many people to ......."

After Huo Bao sacrificed his biological mother, he sacrificed his grandfather and uncle.

There are still a few sacrifices left, one is for Huo Shun's wife and daughter, and the tomb of the mother and daughter was found in the big house.

The mother and daughter were buried by Huo Shun in Quyang's own yard before, and they were buried back to the ancestral grave in June.

There were two sacrifices left, Huo Bao asked someone to carry them, entered the village, and went directly to his house at the entrance of the village.

……

In the yard, the grass is green.

The courtyard was densely packed with graves.

There is a slightly taller one, which was dug by Huo Bao and them, and the small grave next to it is Niuniu's parents.

Huo Bao worshipped directly in front of these two tombs.

said that when I could think of the pig killing meal at the beginning, it became the last supper.

Cause and effect can't be explained.

If the Huo family hadn't killed the pigs at the beginning, everyone would have lived scattered, and they would have hid when they heard the movement outside, and they couldn't say that they would have survived two more.

But without that meal, everyone escaped the rout and slaughter, and they might not be able to resist the famine that followed.

I can't tell.

In troubled times, human life is like a mustard.

It's just that it will pass.

The village in front of you is beginning to come back to life.