"Master, it's getting dark, it's hot to death, let's find a shady place to rest for the night, shall we?"

Pass through Sanhu Village and Luofeng Village in the far northwest, and then go out of the county border.

Wang Shihua wanted to take advantage of the evening to see the famine situation in other counties, but when he heard Xiaomei say this, he saw Xiaomei's face and looked back at the guards, all of whom were tired, Wang Shihua could only nod, pointed to the forest on the hillside on the left, and said with a smile: "Just go to this mountain and station." ”

The guards immediately became cheerful, untied their tents and all the household utensils from their horses, and left fifty people to guard the horses at the bottom of the mountain, and the remaining two hundred or so all set off for the mountain.

At the top of the mountain, under the command of Erhu, the guards were busy setting up tents, sending guards, and lighting fires for cooking......

Wang Shihua looked at the mountains and the feeling of seeing the small mountains made the depressed breath in his heart not vomit or be unhappy.

Take a deep breath, put your hands to your mouth to make a trumpet shape, and shout, "Oh~... Oh~... Oh~..."

"Oh~... Oh~... Oh~..."The mountains responded to the transmission, and they didn't know how far it went.

Xiaomei smiled: all afternoon, Wang Shihua was silent, his brows furrowed slightly, Xiaomei knew that he was thinking about the corruption of the chief of the body, but she didn't know how to persuade her. Now, seeing Wang Shihua venting her boredom by taking a look at the mountain momentum of the mountains, she finally put her mind at ease.

To be precise, Wang Shihua laughed once in the whole afternoon: seeing that the famine situation in Luofeng Village was even stricter than that in Sanhu Village, Wang Shihua smiled and said three words in a row: "Good... Good... Well..."

Xiaomei was curious and asked him why he was so unconscionable, happy to see that these people were about to become disaster victims?

Wang Shihua smiled and replied with an extremely selfish but rather profound sentence: "It has nothing to do with me whether they starve to death or not, who made them not my Wang family?" ”

After dinner, everyone took off their clothes, grabbed a handful of artemisia grass and threw it into the coals, and put their clothes on top of it to smoke it...... The mosquitoes in the mountains are extremely ferocious and swarming, sucking blood can suck people to death, and the smell of smoke emitted by Artemisia grass when it is lit can repel mosquitoes.

Xiaomei had seen the world with Zhang Cuiyun outside, and she didn't feel a trace of shame for the guards who were naked, and sat generously by the fire to help Wang Shihua smoke his coat, and after Wang Shihua got dressed, she grabbed a few half-burned branches and hid in the largest tent, and soon, green smoke came out of the tent.

After a while, Xiaomei came out, walked to Wang Shihua's side, and whispered: "Master, after a day's journey, my body is slimy, can you help me ask them who knows if there is a stream nearby?" ”

Xiaomei has been serving Zhang Cuiyun since she was a child, although her temperament is straightforward with Zhang Cuiyun, her mind is much more delicate: she can only say this to Wang Shihua, asking others aggressively, there is a suspicion of hooking up and showing off. But she is smart and smart, although her voice is not loud, but it is just enough for the second dog two or three meters away to hear.

Without Wang Shihua's instructions, the second dog turned around and shouted: "This hot day can heat people to death, which brother doesn't know how there is a stream near here?" ”

"Brother Ergou, I know." One of the guards immediately stood up and pointed to the bottom of the hillside to the northwest, and said, "Go down the trail, there is a stream there." ”

"I know you didn't talk about it sooner." The second dog shouted angrily: "With your eyesight, I will let you raise horses when I turn around." ”

Everyone smiled, but they all looked at Wang Shihua: Everyone wants to take a bath to relieve the heat, but without Wang Shihua, who dares to leave the team without permission?

"Follow me from the first squadron, and you will go together when we come back."

Of course, good things must be used by the head of the family first, otherwise how can they reflect the dignity and humility of the upper and lower levels? This is a natural privilege of those in power.

"The first squadron, assemble, assemble ... Don't forget to bring extra torches. The monkey immediately jumped up excitedly and waved his hand: "Hurry up, protect the head of the house and the lady." ”

Wang Shihua kicked on the monkey's buttocks, put his hands behind his back, and took the lead in leaving, Xiaomei and Ergouzi hurriedly followed, followed by the monkey and his fifty men.

When I came to the place where the guard was pointing, there was a stream two or three meters wide.

As soon as he saw this clear stream, the second dog smiled, and was about to call everyone to follow the rules, but Xiaomei said: "Let's go farther and go up, the water there is cleaner." ”

Everyone praised the third lady for her delicate mind, that is, she would consider it.

Walking all the way along the path by the creek for more than two miles, Xiaomei, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, turned around and asked in a low voice: "Shihua, listen, is there someone crying in front?" ”

"Daddy... Dad... I don't want to die, I don't want to die, you let me ......"

Sure enough, there was an intermittent cry, but there were many mountains and dense forests here, and I don't know how far away.

"It should be right in front, go check it out." After speaking, he looked back at Ergouzi, who quickly took out his gun, and at the same time whispered to the people behind him: "Pass the word, put out the fire, the first team will go up to explore the way, don't alarm the other party, and the rest of the people are on guard..."

The torches were extinguished, and in the cold moonlight, there was the sound of pulling the bolt. At the same time, ten guards bypassed Wang Shihua, holding guns, bending over, and rushing forward quickly.

After walking for ** ten meters, I came to a corner, and saw the ten guards standing in front of me lying on the ground, looking at the bottom of the road, Wang Shihua quietly touched it, and before looking down, he asked in a low voice: "What's the matter?" ”

"The head of the family, that man wants to drown his two female babies with his own hands, but he really can't do it, and he is hesitating."

Wang Shihua hurriedly looked down, and his eyes immediately widened: through the cold moonlight, a tall adult man could be faintly seen, standing in the waist-high stream, his hands were not in the water, and his whole body was trembling...... Although the other party has his back to him and can't see his face clearly, he can know with his ass that if he wants to drown his child with his own hands, there is no greater compassion in the world than this...... It's not that there is really no way to live, who would be?

Sure enough, as the guards reported, after the man pressed the child's head into the water with both hands, he saw that the child's hands were tossing less vigorously in the water, and hurriedly lifted the child up.

The girl on the left only coughed and choked and couldn't even speak, while the girl on the right, who was a little taller, hurriedly grabbed the man's hand, coughed a few times, and hurriedly cried after regaining her strength: "Daddy... Dad... Don't drown me. I'll never eat again, I won't eat a bite, and I'll help you work every day...... Dad... I don't want to die, can you raise me? When I grow up, I will honor you well, and I will be better than they are to you......"

In this extremely old-fashioned rural village, the concept of male superiority and inferiority of women is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and many people will ask the midwife to kill the midwife when they see the girl they give birth. What's more, in this year of catastrophe, the life of girls is even lower, and in some places, in addition to selling girls to brothels, no one in the capital buys them when they go outside to sell them...

Wang Shihua had heard and knew this, but the question was that this was the first time he had seen such a living human tragedy, and he was immediately furious and wanted to stand up and stop it...... In a way, it is precisely because he has never seen these things that Wang Shihua will only think about his own family when arranging how to deal with the victims. Seeing this scene now, the impact on his thoughts can be imagined, after all, he is still a human being, and he can't be like a stone.

"Daddy... Dad... Don't kill the third and fourth sisters...... Dad... Dad... Don't you kill ......"

There was a cry in the distance, and when I looked up, I saw a fire dozens of meters away, which was coming quickly this way. Wang Shihua could only continue to watch.

"Big sister... Eldest sister... Daddy is going to drown me, come and save me, come and save me......"

Hearing the cries for help from this side, the man's speed was even faster. The torches shook a little, and it was obvious that she was staggering, and she didn't care to see the road at all.

Soon, I saw a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old holding a torch and rushing quickly to the stream.

threw away the torch, hurriedly rushed to the stream, and snatched the two sisters out of Daddy's hands without hesitation. Pick one up, pull one, and quickly go ashore. This girl was very calm, only shushing her two younger sisters and asking for warmth, but she didn't blame Daddy, obviously, she also knew Daddy's helplessness in doing this.

The man's teeth clenched, his fists clenched, and he slammed into the water without shouting.

"Daddy... Let's go home..."

The man looked back at the faces of the three daughters, and saw that the eldest daughter had a cold face, while the other two peeked at him with fear in their eyes and hid behind the eldest daughter. The man finally left tears in his eyes, and asked in a hoarse voice, "But, ...... at home"

"Daddy... Don't talk about it. Didn't the rich man of Tian want to wait for me to be my fifth aunt after I was sixteen? I agreed. When you turn around, you will tell him, I don't want any other dowry, only 2,000 catties of grain. If he doesn't agree, he won't talk about it again. ”

Somehow, when Wang Shihua heard this, his first reaction was: This girl is so big, or rather, this girl is absolutely confident in her appearance, and she is not afraid that the old pervert will not agree. You must know that in this year of great disaster, 2,000 catties of grain is not a small amount for the landlord. In a way, a woman's appearance can be linked to the dowry. Just two thousand catties of grain when you open your mouth is definitely not something that ordinary people dare to think and say.

The man held back tears and looked at his eldest daughter in a daze. After a short while, he hit the water violently, and finally opened his hands and shouted angrily to the sky: "God~... Open your eyes and look at us, have mercy on us, and leave us a way to live...... Who will save my poor sons and daughters, my wretched family? ”

"I'll come..."

I didn't expect that when I shouted, someone would really reply. The man was suddenly startled, feeling a little overwhelmed, and subconsciously looked at the source of the sound, ran ashore to the three daughters, and put the three daughters behind his back.

But I saw that the torches were lit one after another, and under the firelight, a group of men with loaded guns surrounded a tall man and walked over.

The man couldn't figure out their identities, and in his opinion, the people who could have dozens of guns were either rich and powerful, or bandits. The man hurriedly lowered his body and grabbed two large pebbles, but he still felt that he had no confidence in his heart.

It was the eldest daughter behind him, who was grasping the pebbles in each hand, and there was no fear in her eyes, but she looked curiously at the man who was walking with his hands behind his back.

Thinking about it, she is so disheartened with this world that she has no choice but to be a little wife for an old man in her sixties and seventies, so it is not unacceptable to be a wife to the bandits, as long as she gives her family food and lets the whole family live. What's more, this man is tall and handsome, and his momentum is extraordinary, and it is better to be able to be his wife than to be the little wife of Wang Ba...... She is not generally confident in her looks.

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