Chapter 25: Escaping the Crisis
Gu Tianxing pondered, if he continued like this, he wouldn't need to use tea skills, but he was afraid that he would be discovered.
If you go head-to-head with these soldiers, you can win, but I'm worried about what kind of marching formation they will have.
Moreover, so many villagers can't protect them at all, and some people will definitely lose their lives because of this.
Just when he was at a loss, a wolf howl was heard in the distance.
Her eyes lit up, yes! There is also a trick called driving away the wolf, and you can be really stupid.
At that moment, he unfolded his divine sense and drove the wolves over, and more and more wolf howls around him came and went, and those who listened to it shuddered.
Among the soldiers was humane:
"Boss, let's go back, for a few untouchables, there must be a lot of jackals, tigers and leopards in the deep mountains and old forests here."
The rest of the people spoke out in response.
In the end, the group decisively killed a few villagers who were leading the way, mounted their horses and rode away.
As Gu Tianxing's divine sense converged, the wolves quickly fled away, and everyone in the cave was still silent, and no one got up to take a look.
"Bang", everyone woke up, only to find that the sickle in the hand of the third uncle had fallen to the ground.
Gu Anxia has been out for more than a year, and he has become a lot bolder.
He gently moved to the entrance of the cave, probed for a moment, exhaled deeply, turned back to the cave, wiped the cold sweat on his head, and said:
"Now, those officers and soldiers have left, we can't go out in a hurry, let's hide in this cave for two or three days before making plans."
That night, everyone couldn't sleep.
Although I didn't see those officers and soldiers kill with my own eyes, when I heard the screams of the lepers, I knew that they were probably more than lucky.
If you think about the village again, I don't know what the situation is now? Even more secretly glad that he escaped with the old father's family, otherwise......
In the three days in the cave, Gu Tianxing can be said to have spent his days like a year, sleeping every night with the sound of insects and wolves.
There were thirteen families living in a cave, and they were so crowded that they couldn't turn over.
Her father and mother felt sorry for her, and let her sleep in the board car with the third uncle's little girl every day, which was so painful.
The food was even worse, it was all steamed buns before escaping. There are many wild beasts outside, but everyone's fear of this inner mountain has penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and they do not approve of going out to hunt and open meat.
Originally, even the water she drank was raw and cold stream water, so Gu Tianxing had to tell everyone through her fourth uncle's mouth:
There are Gu worms in the cold water, and if you drink it into the abdomen, you will have a big belly and poop, knock fat and suck the marrow, so that you can have hot water to drink.
On this day, it was the turn of Gu Dad's house to keep vigil, and Gu Tianxing also followed.
Because it was the second half of the night, everyone was asleep, so Gu Anxia asked Gu Tianxing if it was safe to go down the mountain now?
Her fourth uncle didn't know divine sense, and he only thought that his little niece could count one or two.
Gu Tianxing did not shirk, and immediately observed.
Although the village was in ruins, it was not burned by the fire, and the cavalry was nowhere to be found, and several nearby villages were observed, most of which were the case.
Hearing his granddaughter say that the gang of thieves was gone, the old father's heart finally fell to the ground.
The next day, they discussed with everyone and returned to the village, although everyone was worried, but they also knew that staying in the cave was not a long-term solution.
So according to the proposal of the ancient four, the family came out of the prime of life and went back to the village to investigate. The elderly, women and children followed, and if there was any case, they would use the smoke as a signal.
Carefully along the way, the thirteen families who finally escaped were all rushed back to the village.
Looking at the tragedy in front of them, everyone had numb scalps, cold sweat on their spines, and more bile was about to vomit out.
In the end, everyone had to bite the bullet and work together to dig a big pit and bury the villagers who were killed.
Everyone is more or less related to each other, looking at the familiar faces, it is even more sad to come, and for a while, the cry of Daao Village was quiet.
Li Zheng led everyone to the door of the ruined ancestral hall and kowtowed a few times.
The third uncle was in tears, and even confessed to his ancestors that he had failed to persuade more people to flee for refuge.
Fortunately, there were still a few children in the village who survived.
Originally, after the group of soldiers and bandits robbed food and killed people that day, they asked the leper and others to find each cellar, and the grain hidden in it was emptied, and people would not keep it.
Fortunately, some people have more than one cellar, so the children hiding in it can get away with it.
After discussing the matter of raising these children, the villagers went home to clean up their houses.
Gu Tianxing arranged for Gu Tianxing and her fourth uncle Gu Anxia to go to find the Dafang family together. Not long after the two of them left the village, they found that the old man with a vegetable face and his two sons were also rushing back.
It turned out that as soon as Gu Dagang caught up with his son that day, he found that the cavalry was already in Wujia Village. Fortunately, the scene was chaotic at that time, and the three of them had a chance to hide.
Xiao Wu is not so lucky, she is a woman with a slow walk.
When she arrived, Wujia Village was basically slaughtered, but she insisted on entering the village to find her children and her mother's family. In the end, it fell into the hands of that group of soldiers and bandits, and they had to hit the wall and die!
The two children of Dafang, Gu Tianjin, Tianyu, were mostly silent all day long because of their mother's death. People who usually don't go to home, but now they don't come out of the house much.
Gu Tianxing was afraid that the two cousins would have a case, so he often secretly brought delicious food and told stories to the two.
Because of this disaster, Daao Village is even quieter.
In the past, every evening, after cooking, the women would gather under the old locust tree in the village and gossip.
Nowadays, even when they meet, they just nod, as if laughter has become a luxury.
If there is anything to be happy about in the hearts of the villagers at this time, it is that the crops in the fields are growing very well.
Butterflies and bees dance in the fields of rape flowers, and when the wind moves, it resembles a yellow ocean.
Most of the wheat is now filled and is about to ripen. The ears of wheat are thick and hairy, like the tail of a squirrel.
The yellow and green of the fields in this field have become the warmth in the hearts of the villagers of the entire Daao Village, and are bringing them away from the despair and coldness of the past.
Gu Tianxing also went to the field a few times with her father, and the old man muttered that this year's harvest was good, and it would be harvested in a few days. Looking at such a scene, her heart was also warm.
Originally, she pondered to persuade her father to arrange for her family to leave Baima County earlier, on the one hand, because of locusts and the drought that would last for three years.
On the other hand, because the temperature has been getting higher and higher recently, many people have died in various villages before, and I am afraid that there will be a plague.
But now, I can't bear these grain crops.
Gu Tianxing comforted himself, wait a few more days, harvest the crops early before the locusts come, and then persuade everyone to leave, it should not be too late.
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That night, the wind blew, and it blew harder and harder. Gu Tianxing was worried that the rape flowers would be blown off, and it would not look good.
But the old father smoked a dry cigarette again and became silent.
Everyone in the family knows that the old father doesn't smoke much on weekdays, and only when he is sad and ruthless, he will smash it non-stop.
As long as he remembered the bad things of the previous days, they didn't ask questions.
The next morning, while Gu Tianxing was still lying in bed, he heard a gong ringing in the village, and someone shouted in panic:
"The locusts are coming! The locusts are coming! ”
At first, it was just three or two people, and after a while, I heard many people shouting.
Gu Tianxing had never seen a plague of locusts, and when she went out to look up at the sky, she was shocked a lot.
The sun hung in the sky, but it seemed to have fallen into a sesame pot, obscured by a dense mass of locusts.
The swarm of locusts seemed to be controlled by someone, hovering in the sky, up and down, like a black whirlwind.
With incense burning in his hands, he led many people to kneel on the ridges of the fields, prostrating to the heavens and praying, hoping that the gods would protect the locusts and let them leave quickly.
But the plea did not seem to work, and the flapping of wings grew louder and louder, and when the overwhelming swarm of locusts was still a few feet above the ground, many of the children covered their ears and buried their heads under their elbows.
Not to mention them at this moment, Gu Tianxing himself had a little urge to pull out his legs and run away.
Without waiting for her to make a move, she only listened to the sound of a burst of rain lapping the crops in her ears, because the locusts had fallen on the grass, on the trees, and on the crops.
Some young women with straw handles and brooms tried to drive away the locusts from their crops, waving them but not daring to hit them.
Gu Anxia dug a big hole in the courtyard, wrapped a few books in a hurry, and buried them in it.
Gradually, patches of green and yellow are disappearing at a speed that is visible to the naked eye.
People's prostrations and supplications have also turned into sittings and cries.
Gu Tianxing's scalp was numb, and she felt that she would probably not forget what she saw today in her life.
The departure of the locusts is like an air force exercise in the 21st century, they are like soldiers under orders. Almost at the same time, the wings were spread and flew into the air, and the ears of the people who buzzed and shook hurt their ears.
For a time, the entire Daao Village was dark, and everything was shrouded in black shadows.
After a few hours, Daao Village reappeared in the sunset, without the fragrance of rape flowers, and the butterflies and bees were gone.
All that remains is the sad cleanliness of the fields and the broken hearts of the villagers.