Chapter Twenty-Three: A Chaos
Song Xian's return was joyful, but after the joy, he was deeply worried.
Changjiang burst the embankment this time, not to mention countless casualties, food is the most important, after the drought and flood, the most difficult thing is this famine.
Although the spring will take some dry food, but it will not last long, if the dry food has not been eaten and the water has not returned, everyone is afraid that they will starve to death on this mountain.
The next day, someone snatched dry food and beat them, and Ji Rui and the two were about to step forward, but they were pulled by Song Xian.
"If people don't punish heaven and earth for themselves, we can't control this matter."
Song Xian is not a good person, he just looks at these things coldly, Chun Yi didn't interject, lowered his eyes and thought about how to solve the problem of dry food.
Fortunately, there is a water source at the top of the mountain, so that everyone will not lack food and water.
In the face of life and death, human nature is selfish. Without the jurisdiction of the government, people's ugly faces are exposed.
When Song Xian and the others were eating dry food, Ma Cai walked over with Aunt Ma tremblingly, before the flood came, the two of them robbed all the valuable things at home, where did they still think of dry food, from last night to now they are hungry and have no strength.
The two of them have been to the Yongjia family, and they want to use the affection of the two families to let them give them some food, but the Yongjia family gave them white eyes and disgust, and before they could open their mouths, they were beaten out by the gold with a branch.
"That spring, can you give us some dry food?"
Ma Cai pushed Aunt Ma to Chunyi, Aunt Ma rubbed her hands and opened her mouth with difficulty, Chunyi looked up at the two, pursed her lips as if she was making a difficult choice.
The lack of food is obvious, in this case, it is a fool to give food to others, Chunyi is not stupid, but Chunyi has a bottom in his heart.
Ma Cai followed Chunyi's father and Chen's classmates, and went to Beijing to take the exam, and during the journey, Ma Cai saved Chen's life, so he had Chunyi and followed Ma Liang's baby.
Immediately the title of the gold list, Ma Cai's name fell to Sun Shan, the two had different fates, Ma Cai was in Beijing to prepare for another year, and returned to his hometown after falling off the list again.
Two years later, my father followed his mother to take him back to his home, and both died in less than half a month.
What's going on? Does the horse know or not?
Looking at the steamed buns in his hand, Chunyi looked up at Xianggong who was grinding stones, and Song Xian turned his head to look at Chunyi with a worried face.
"Just give it once."
Ji Rui didn't ask much with He Nuo, and followed the boss to grind the stones, although he didn't know what the use was, but it was definitely right to follow the boss.
Since Song Xian spoke, Chunyi weighed and took out two steamed buns, got up and walked to Ma Cai and Aunt Ma.
"I can give it to you, but I have one request!"
It's just that it didn't take long for Song Xian to stop the man who was about to hurt someone, but the man laughed like crazy, jumped into the water quickly, and dragged the struggling horse in the water.
It happened too suddenly, Aunt Ma slumped to the ground with two steamed buns, as if she remembered something, and looked at Chunyi who was protected by Song Xian in her arms viciously.
"Broom Star, you are the Broom Star, you killed your parents, and now you are killing my Ma family."
Chunyi has not yet come back to his senses, and when Ma Cai was about to reach the key point, he suddenly broke out and pushed Ma Cai into the yellow river water, and then wanted to commit murder to himself, if it wasn't for Song Xian's time, he was afraid of the same fate as Ma Cai.
Aunt Ma was still pointing at Chunyi and insulting, but she carefully put the steamed bun on her chest with both hands, and only got up and left after scolding for a while.
"Are you alright?"
This movement did not attract much attention, Song Xian looked at Chunyi with some concern, Chunyi turned pale, smiled at Xianggong reluctantly, signaling that he didn't have much to do, Song Xian was silent with a cold face.
He knew that Chunyi had a secret, but why couldn't he tell himself, maybe he could help her.
Seeing Chunyi's soulless appearance, Song Xian felt that Chunyi didn't have him in his heart, and when he thought of this, Song Xian felt inexplicably irritable.
Chunyi was looking at the direction of Ma Cai's fall into the water and pondering, but he didn't expect Song Xian to be thinking nonsense.
It didn't take long for the horse to float up with the mad man's body, followed by many corpses around him floating and sinking on the surface of the river.
The summer night comes slowly, and it is estimated that it is about to enter autumn, and the heat is not as rampant as before, and even the wind blows people very comfortably.
The water is slowly receding, and many eaves in Liuhe Town can be seen, but this flood is afraid that it will wash down many houses and inundate a lot of farmland.
I'm afraid this winter is a bit difficult!
Although the weather was not as hot as before, the corpses in the water were rotting and smelling foul, and many people ate about the same amount of food, and disputes and snatching became more and more common.
Song Po didn't listen to what was going on outside the window, she ate some dry food every day and read the scriptures, and the green bamboo served beside her, so she didn't need to intervene in the spring at all.
Qiao Mei is the same age as the stone, although there were many contradictions before, but now the relationship is better than anyone else.
Song Xian has his own ideas, although there is some dry food, it is not a way to survive like this.
The last time he fetches water, he saw a lot of traces of animals drinking water, and Song Xian plans to wait for the rabbit and take the two brothers to try their luck. As for He Nuo, let him guard Qiaomei and them here.
As soon as Song Xian and the two brothers arrived at the water source, they heard movement in the grass, and as soon as they approached, they heard the sound of "mmmmmmmmmm
The two brothers knew about it, but Song Xian didn't know it, and before the two brothers stopped it, Song Xian swept away the grass with a spear, and what he saw was the overlapping appearance of the two, and Song Xian's ears were red and left quickly.
The man who was disturbed was pressing the woman, covering her tightly, not paying the slightest attention to what had just happened.
The atmosphere between the three of them was rather awkward, and it was finally broken by a rabbit drinking from the water source.
The rabbit was oily roast rabbit meat in front of the three of them, Song Xian immediately rushed over, and the two brothers Jirui wrapped the rabbit's retreat, and after some efforts, finally captured the rabbit.
The three of them walked back happily with the rabbits, and found that many people were surrounding their tree sheds, and He Nuo was protecting them with the strength of one person.
The burden on Chunyi's body has long been remembered, but Song Xian's presence makes people dare not start, and after Song Xian left with the two brothers of Jirui, many people began to move, and I don't know who said that "Death and starvation are death, it is better to be a full ghost", the hungry crowd became restless.
After He Nuo found the abnormality, he shouted to protect Qiao Mei and follow Song Po, Luzhu had already been frightened and trembled all over, only Chunyi looked at the gold collector who showed a triumphant smile at him through the crowd.
If you guess correctly, Ma Cai's death is also the handiwork of the family.
It seems that the death of parents is not just a matter of who murdered them, but also a secret that is hidden in them.
"Hand over the dry food!"
The villagers who had been hungry all day shouted at the spring, the spring burden was dry food, but the dry food was not much, it could only support them for a few days, if they were robbed by these people, they would be the ones who starved to death.
Dry food must not be robbed!
At the beginning, some people were still afraid of Song Xian, but it can be seen that Song Xian has not returned for a long time, and this courage has become more and more emboldened, especially the people who have been taught by Song Xian before, they are even more arrogant at this time, and they are ready to reach out and snatch it, but they were poked by He Nuo with a spear, so no one dared to step forward.
Qiao Mei's tears of being frightened by such a formation fell, Song Po was not afraid, but with the trembling support of the green bamboo, she slowly retreated back with the spring.
When he brought Song Xian back, the burden had been snatched away, but the people who were snatched away were snatched by a wave of people.
The stone has already held Song Po out, just about to go in, He Nuo's forehead was hit by a wooden stick, He Nuo took a few steps back, followed Qiao Mei and Chun Yi completely separated, under the push of the crowd, He Nuo stepped on the air, in Qiao Mei's crying, He Nuo disappeared into the river, Song Xian did not have the slightest softness, and took the two brothers of Jirui to beat these people hard.
Chunyi hugged Qiaomei and comforted her, but Qiaomei was still roaring, her little face was red from crying, crying from evening to night, crying in a hoarse voice and crying again.
"It's okay, it's okay, your brother must be fine, don't you see the eldest master is also okay?"
In the end, it was the stone's words that made Qiao Mei stop crying, Chunyi immediately fed Qiao Mei with some water, Song Xian handed a roasted rabbit leg, Chun Yi tore the rabbit leg into a small piece with his hand, and then slowly fed it to Qiao Mei.
The aroma of roast rabbit meat caused many people to covet, but everyone had seen Song Xian's methods in the evening, even if the saliva fell on the ground, no one dared to step forward.
Qiao Mei was tired of crying, and grabbed Chunyi's wrist to prevent him from leaving, the two brothers of Jirui were sad, and Song Xian also felt guilty in his heart, if he didn't follow the two brothers of Jirui, maybe it wouldn't happen.
"Madam, Qiao'er's brother is gone!"
The small voice made Chunyi's nose sour, and Chunyi reached out to brush up the hair on Qiaomei's forehead.
"Don't be afraid, Qiao'er and Mrs., and the eldest master, and the stone, Sister Luzhu."
Qiao'er shook her head with red eyes, and finally couldn't help but bury her head in Chunyi's chest, sobbing softly, Chunyi could only gently pat Qiaomei's back, hoping that this would make her feel better.
"Boss, I didn't find He Nuo's body."
These words mean that He Nuo still has the possibility of survival, and the Qiao Mei, who was originally crying, was stunned and turned her head to look at the location of the eldest master.
"Sir, is my brother still alive?"
Song Xian nodded his head in a bad way, and Qiao Mei immediately reached out to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, and sat beside her lady obediently.
"I believe the words of the eldest master, the eldest lord said that my brother is still alive, and my brother must be alive."
In fact, Song Xian didn't know if He Nuo was alive, and he didn't find He Nuo's body around, maybe he was still alive, or maybe his body was floating elsewhere, I just hoped it was the former.
After this robbery, Song Xian no longer took the Jirui brothers out, but stayed by Chunyi's side, and those who had no food began to compete for those who were powerless, and the mountain was even more chaotic.
When the river receded, there was still no trace of He Nuo, and Qiaomei became more well-behaved than before, but she didn't laugh often.
Everyone also began to pack up and go down the mountain, and after everyone came down from Liushan, Qiao Mei pulled out her legs and ran in the direction of the house, maybe my brother was waiting for him at home? Chunyi was a little worried about Qiaomei, so she followed closely.
Qiao Mei's home was washed away by the flood, and nothing was left, and He Nuo did not appear in front of Qiao Mei.
It's like losing the backbone, Qiao Mei just sat on the ground and didn't cry or make trouble, but even this made Chunyi feel very uncomfortable.
That battle started because of himself, otherwise He Nuo would definitely be safe, Chunyi stepped forward and squatted down, stretched out his hand and rubbed Qiaomei's forehead.
"Qiao Mei and Mrs., Mrs. will help Qiao Mei find her brother."
After Chunyi comforted Qiao Mei, he took Qiao Mei to the Song Mansion, along the way Chun Yi looked at the houses that were washed away by the river, compared with the past, Liuhe Town was more like a dead town at this time, and the surviving people lost the desire to live.
The ground was full of sludge left behind by the receding river, and no matter who it was, the next day would not be easy.
Most of the Song Mansion was washed away by the river, but fortunately, the plane tree was standing, and Chunyi buried something under the plane tree, and after the competition on the mountain, Chunyi felt that it was not suitable to take it out at this time, and even if it was taken out, it had to be taken out secretly.
The gate of the Song Mansion fell, almost all the tiles on the eaves were washed away, except for the hall, the wooden beams of the other houses collapsed, and it was difficult to compare with the Song Mansion a month ago.
Chunyi quickly cleaned up a clean place so that everyone could rest, Song Xian took the stone to move out the sundries in the hall, and Chunyi went to the kitchen in the hope of finding something.
The leaves of the sycamore tree are yellow, and the branches are about the same, Qiao Mei obediently followed behind Chunyi, picked up all the things that could be used, and before dark, Song Xian followed the stone to finally clean up the hall.
After half a day of exposure, some useless firewood finally burned, and flowers bloomed in the dark night.
There are still some steamed buns left in the dry food, and I am tired of eating steamed buns in the past few days, but now there is really nothing to eat except steamed buns.
After thinking about it for a while, Haruki took out the water he brought back from the mountain, heated it in a cleaned jar, and then put the steamed buns into small pieces one by one.
It didn't take long to cook before the aroma began to diffuse, and although there was no salt, it was much better than nibbling on a dry steamed bun.
There is no complete bowl in the house, and Chunyi can only wash the broken bowl, so that everyone can barely take the broken bowl and eat the first meal down the mountain.
The night is bright and the stars are scarce, and tomorrow may be a good day, so that some unused wood can be dried and used as firewood.
The Song Mansion is really desolate, but it is not the Song Mansion that is desolate, the entire desolate Liuhe Town.
For the sake of everyone's safety, Song Xian insisted on keeping vigil, looking at his wife's sleeping face, he struggled in his heart for a long time, and after making sure that everyone was asleep, Song Xian slowly stretched out his hand, gently rubbing the tender little face, and I didn't know what to think of, Song Xian quickly bounced back, his eyes were full of confusion.
Why is it that when the hand rubs the face of Chunyi, there is a trace of indescribable numbness, which flows from the end of the hand to the place on the chest.