After Zhou Youqi's wife was chased back, Zhou Xijun and Zhou Xiwei held her arm one left and one right, and followed Xiao Qiongzhi's previous reminder.

Zhou Xiwei said: "Mother, we don't have a father anymore, we can't live without you anymore, if you die, I won't live anymore." ”

Zhou Xijun said: "Mother, although you don't have a father, you still have us." And, just like the little master said, my father sacrificed to defend the motherland, and he is a big hero. ”

"We should be as brave as he is. You say, do you want to die or live? If you want to die, my brother and I will die with you; If you want to live, my brother and I will live with you! ”

Zhou Youqi's wife looked very annoyed.

She hugged them tightly, choked up and said, "Jun'er, Wei'er, my mother was just confused just now, just like Jun'er said, my mother still has you." Don't worry, my mother will never die in the future, and I will take you to live well! ”

"Mother's ......" Zhou Xijun and Zhou Xiwei were overjoyed, and hurriedly picked her up and went home.

One said, "Mother, your clothes are all wet, and your clothes are also wet, it's so cold, let's go home together and change our clothes first." ”

The other said, "Mother, although the bag on my head is good, my head still hurts a little, you can wait and boil two eggs for me to eat." ”

"Good, good, good!" Zhou Youqi's wife nodded, picked up Zhou Xiwei with one hand, held Zhou Xijun with the other, and hurried home.

Xiao Qiongzhi has been paying attention to the interaction between the mother and son, and it was not until this time that she was completely relieved.

She turned her head to look at the river.

At this time, more and more corpses floated down the river upstream.

Zhou Dayong and them, in just a while, fished out nearly 100 corpses.

Among them, several bodies were found, from the Zhoujia village clansmen.

And their families, after seeing it, inevitably had a heart-rending cry and wail.

Xiao Qiongzhi's mood was heavy.

Half an hour later, seven or eight hundred corpses had been fished out of the river.

The mayor of the township hurried over with a few people.

Zhou Yuandong reported the specific situation here to him in detail.

After listening carefully, the lieutenant chief thought about it, and said to the few people he brought: "Go and call all the patriarchs of all the villages in the township here to identify the corpses." ”

"In addition, by the way, remind the patriarchs of Xujia Village, Guojia Village, and Zhangjia Village in the upper reaches of the Peacock River, and ask them not to bring people to dig ice on the Peacock River in their village to fish for corpses, if you want to retrieve corpses, you will bring people here to fish, so that we can count the number of corpses and organize everyone to identify the corpses."

The men immediately did so.

About half an hour later, the patriarch of Wangjia Village, the closest to Zhoujia Village, brought about 20 people from Wangjia Village to identify the body.

By the way, they also brought ice digging tools and a large net, and proposed to the lieutenant that a large section of ice hole be dug in the water less than 100 meters away from the current location, and the net should be used to retrieve the corpses.

In order to find out some of the corpses that had drifted down the river upstream before the people of Zhoujia Village fished out the corpses.

The lieutenant thought it was a good idea and agreed.

By the beginning of noon, the patriarchs of the other 25 villages belonging to Quanpi Township, each with one or twenty people, rushed over one after another.

They understood that the identification of the corpse could not be completed until the corpse that floated down the Peacock River could be recovered.

Therefore, some of them learned from the patriarch of Wangjia Village, and asked the chief for his life, digging a large section of ice holes every 100 meters, casting nets or taking the tools they brought to pick up the corpses.

The other part of the people chose to relay with the clansmen in charge of retrieving the corpses in Zhoujia Village, and every half an hour, a group of people were responsible for retrieving the corpses.

Soon, more than 2,000 bodies were recovered.

More than 100 of them were corpses belonging to the military clansmen in various villages in Quanpi Township.

And the military clansmen in Zhoujia Village, among them, account for five.

It is equivalent to saying that a total of eight corpses of soldiers from Zhoujia Village were fished out this time.

Xiao Qiongzhi had heard Zhou Yuandong say before that there were a total of sixty-seven people in Zhoujia Village.

It also means that the soldiers in Zhoujia Village have a mortality rate of more than 14% in the first battle of Liangzhou alone.

It's horrible.

Since Zhou Dazhi joined the army, neither the county nor the township has announced or circulated any new news related to the battle of Chuqi.

Xiao Qiongzhi also thought that the Chu army would suddenly recruit a large number of soldiers, and there would be a shortage of quilts and cotton clothes, and reminded Chu Yunniang and Liu Wuxiu to sew a few sets of cotton clothes to prepare, but as a result, there has been no purchase of quilts and cotton clothes from below.

This made her think that now the two armies are in a stalemate, and there is no fighting, and many new recruits do not need to open the front line.

If it weren't for the fact that this battle of Liangzhou happened to be a night attack, and it was very likely to be a night attack to cross the Peacock River upstream, so that so many corpses of the soldiers of the Chu army and the Qi army who died in the battle would go directly down the river, I am afraid that everyone would be kept in the dark about the death of Zhou Youqian and others.

She was even more worried about Zhou Dazhi's safety, turned her head to look at the dog and the stone, and said to them: "Brother Gouzi and Brother Shi, you should go back to eat lunch first." ”

"By the way, inform my mother, just say that I, my uncle, and my second uncle are afraid that they will be here, and we will not go home until the corpses that no longer appear upstream and float down the river."

"Okay." The dog and the stone obediently did so.

However, it was only more than two quarters of an hour before they came back, followed by Liu Wuniang.

Among them, Liu Wuniang and Gouzi each carried a food box in their hands, obviously to deliver food to Xiao Qiongzhi, Zheng Bang, and Zhou Dayong.

Xiao Qiongzhi hurriedly called Zheng Bang and Zhou Dayong to come over and eat together.

Liu Wuxiu took the opportunity to tell them that she and Chu Yunniang had already heard that Zhou Yuandong had organized people to come to the Peacock River to dig ice and fish for corpses, and they also found the corpses of soldiers in several villages.

It's just that when she was about to leave, Wang Chunhua was called back from Wangjia Village by someone sent by Zhou Yuandong.

Zhou Youqian's corpse was also arranged by Zhou Yuandong and sent home.

Wang Chunhua was a little afraid to face it, and Zhou Youqian's body was swollen by water, and she took the big girl and hid in Xiao Qiongzhi's house together.

Chu Yunniang and Liu Wuxiu felt that Wang Chunhua was really pitiful when she caught up with this kind of thing, so they didn't drive her away.

Who knows, Wang Chunhua's widow's mouth is really disgusting.

At first, she was just grieving Zhou Youqian's death.

Later, she was persuaded by Chu Yunniang and Liu Wuxiu to open a little, so she changed to scold the injustice of heaven, why did it be Zhou Youqian of her family who died, not anyone else.

Even, she was so angry with Chu Yunniang that she scolded Chu Yunniang Kefu, so that she killed her husband in front of her, and then killed her neighbor's husband.

He also said that he was afraid that Zhou Dazhi would be killed now, but like Chu Yunniang's husband in front of him, he would not see the corpse in death, and asked Chu Yunniang to either get out of Zhoujia Village, or compensate her for 1,000 taels of silver in order to kill Zhou You's money.

was so angry that Liu Wuxiu beat her up and kicked her out of the house.

But today, almost all the clansmen came here to watch the corpse, no one was at home, except for Liu Wuxiu, no one could protect Chu Yunniang, giving Wang Chun a full opportunity to find Chu Yunniang and entangle.

She refused to stop at all, took the eldest girl, guarded the door of her own yard, and continued to scold Chu Yunniang.

Once Liu Wuniang ran out to beat her, she closed the courtyard door and hid.

When Liu Wuniang returned to Xiao Qiongzhi's courtyard and closed the door, she opened the door again and continued to scold, never tired of it.

Chu Yunniang's mood was seriously affected, she kept crying at home, Liu Wuxiu tried to persuade her to no avail, until now, Chu Yunniang didn't even eat lunch.

Xiao Qiongzhi listened carefully and couldn't help but be furious.

This Wang Chunhua, why does she like to die so much?

She finished the rice in the bowl in three or two and asked Zheng Bang to take her home to have a look.

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