Chapter Twenty-Three: Slaughtering the Village
"Chief, this is it! This family is the richest in the village. Look at this big yard! Blue and his men stopped in front of the Lin family's green brick house and danced excitedly.
"Kill your hands and feet quickly, repair here overnight, and set off again tomorrow." The leader, whose face was covered in blood, grabbed a half-dead woman next to him, ripped off his clothes and grabbed two handfuls on her chest, and was smirking lewdly. Coldly, the woman opened her eyes and suddenly used all her strength to take a bite into his ear.
"!" The strong man was in pain, raised his foot and kicked the woman in the abdomen, kicking the man like a rag doll.
He covered his ears and saw the blood gurgling with one hand, picked up the knife in his hand, walked over and stabbed her head, stabbing again and again. The spurting of brains mixed with blood sprayed his face, and he wiped it with his hands excitedly, laughing, and his face was red like a demon from hell in the light of the fire. The Warat soldiers behind him also laughed at the woman who was inadequate.
"Wan Niang, Wan Niang, I regret it! You shouldn't save that brute who kills people without blinking! Nothing, nothing! The son is gone, the husband is gone, and the home is gone. Zhao Li held half an ear in her mouth, blood splashed, and in the remorse of her internal organs, she opened her eyes and watched the sky get darker and darker, and tears quietly stopped in her white jade-like ears.
I saw that the courtyard door was locked, and only half a jar of rice noodles was left in the house. The dark and thin young man had a gloomy face, "Damn! Slut! I actually ran away! ”
He slashed at the donkeys grazing in the shed behind the house, hating himself for being a step too late!
And Lin Qiniang and the others stayed in the cellar for five days, but fortunately, they had dry food to satisfy their hunger, although the panic lasted until dawn on the fifth day.
During this period, the village chief's family, including his in-laws, were restless and wanted to go out, but they were all held back by Lin Yuan. What can make the cellar tremble in the mountains is not something they can handle, and they must not rush out.
The five days in the cellar had slowly exhausted all their fears and patience, and on this day, when the sun set, Lin Yuan called the village chief to bring a kitchen knife and prepare to go to the village to check.
Wen Wan tugged at his sleeve, "Don't go!" ”
Lin Yuan held her hand, "I have to go out, I'll take a look at the entrance of the village, and wait for me to come back, huh?" ”
Wen Wan saw that she couldn't hold him, so she had to let him go.
The moment the cellar was opened, the light stung Lin Yuan's eyes. He squinted his eyes and stretched out his hand to block the light, and after getting used to it for a while, he took the village chief with his waist bent and walked towards the village little by little.
The two of them didn't say a word, and their hearts were full of apprehension and uneasiness.
When they arrived at the entrance of the village, the two stayed there for a while. The village of Plum, where they had lived for generations, was gone, replaced by a scorching ruin. Deathly silence replaced the usual laughter, and large swaths of dried red and black filled their eyes.
No grass grows, hell on earth!
The legs of the two seemed to be rooted and could not take another step forward, and fear and despair were like ants constantly gnawing at their hearts. The village chief recovered from the shock, his body was paralyzed and wailing, and the old man of the age of the sixtieth birthday lay in the soil with tears in his eyes, his head smashed into the ground, and he didn't even have the courage to take a step in.
The charred corpses in the village with different shapes and terrifying deaths are all living people he watched grow up!
Lin Yuan looked up from the bitter cry of the village chief, and he remembered the sister-in-law who scolded him as much as a pig and a dog when he went to call the door that night, and the eldest brother who lowered his head and was forever silent. He got up and stumbled in the direction of the old house, and every time he saw a huge charred corpse, his heart sank, if, if he didn't listen to Wan Niang, he was lying here.
Sure enough, the old house was also in ruins, and Lin Yuan knelt down. This seven-foot-tall man shook his hands and cried like a child, tears like the sea, engulfing everything, leaving only a vague world.
His brother and sister-in-law turned into two charred corpses lying on the edge of the threshold, like honeycomb coal and like low-quality carbon. Their limbs wandered around in disarray, only their torso staggered together, their wide-open mouths silently speaking of pain.
His eldest brother, who has always been silent, has been protecting his wife in his own way until he dies, and his posture is clearly blocking the door to prevent others from approaching half a step!
No, two nephews! His brother and sister-in-law are protecting the child. He got up and stumbled through the ruins, and in a blackened tank he saw the bones of his two nephews, like boiled eggplants, with their heads on the edge of the tank with purple faces, and their black hair like seaweed floating on the water.
Lin Yuan's tears fell uncontrollably, his brother and sister-in-law must have hidden their nephews in the water tank and ran out to die by themselves. They used their bodies to block the doorway, and before they died, they were tortured in some way, but they forced themselves to open a way for their nephews to live. However, his nephews were still burned alive in the tank!
Lin Yuan slammed his fist into the ground, and the bodies of his nephews were lying next to him, and he wiped the howl of "ahhhhh
Wen Wan kept walking around in the cellar, Lin Yuan and they had been out for most of the day.
She looked at her well-behaved son and at the candles in the cellar that were about to burn out, and bit her lip to wonder if she should go out and have a look. Suddenly, there was a sound at the entrance of the cellar, and after a rustling sound, Lin Yuan and the village chief stumbled into her sight.
"How's it going? Your nephew, they're still waiting for us to go back! Lin Yuan's mother looked at the cellar mouth, pulling her son and longing to go home now, her good grandson was still waiting for her to steam egg custard for them to eat!
Lin Yuan broke free from his mother's hand and sat on the ground with red eyes and collapsed, stunned without saying a word.
The village chief, red-eyed and hoarse, bulged out like a bellows, whispered the same thing over and over again.
"Dead! They're all dead! Dead! Nothing! Even a dog didn't survive, and after saying that, he covered his face with his hands and sobbed secretly, tears pouring down from between his fingers.
Wen Wan understood, she walked up to Lin Yuan and squatted down, and asked him anxiously, "Is there an accident in the village?" Everybody's dead? You speak! It had to be him! The person who was rescued by the Zhao family! ”
It was as if she had suddenly opened her mind, and she made a firm judgment. It was all so coincidental that she couldn't help but think of the harmless face of the humans and animals who smiled at her. The village chief and Lin Yuan both looked at her, and they were suddenly enlightened.
The village is already remote, let alone in Qingzhou City, where can normal people touch this small village deep in the mountain col? Unless someone writes down the road to bring people in, and there are no people who should be outside, except for the Zhao family to rescue the young man.
"Holy! We're going to have a lot of food and drink for him! The village chief also remembered those bright eyes, thinking that when he saw him black and thin, he had pity for him to eat.
Father Lin was full of thoughts about his eldest son who could only bury his head in work, and he was about to hit his head against the wall when he dropped the cigarette stick, but Lin Yuan quickly stopped him.
He rolled all over the ground, pounding his heart and crying bitterly: "White-haired people send black-haired people!" Son, it hurts me! ”
He just wanted to take his wife and son to go underground with his children and grandchildren immediately, leaving this miserable world. Even the dancing candle flame seemed to be choked by the neck, fluttering twice and shedding tears.
For a moment, the whole cellar was filled with mournful cries, and no one had the heart to care about others. The tragic experience and unknown fate cost them half their lives.
After sitting in the dark of night, there was a little light in the cellar, like everyone who had survived the catastrophe. Lin Yuan, the man in charge, stood up abruptly in the dark cellar.
"Let's go after resting, and take the food and money from here to the town to make a living." It's not a way to hide here, the dead won't come back to life, and the living have to live.
The village chief had a large family, and he moved the grain from the small half cellar and told Lin Yuan that they were going to go to other places to join their relatives. sighed and said goodbye to Lin Yuan, and the family left their homeland with their arms, and the rickety back was full of vicissitudes.
Wen Wan sighed, took her son with a big burden, and followed her in-laws and husband out of the cellar. She saw that her in-laws' black hair had turned gray overnight, but they still suppressed their sadness and followed their son silently and carefully, trying not to cause trouble.
Lin Yuan shouldered his two sons on his shoulders, "Don't go back to the village, there's nothing, go directly to the town to find another way." ”
The village was destroyed and the cars were gone. He and the village chief dug pits and buried all the bodies they could see. Now they can only walk to the town, but the old, weak, sick and disabled have to walk for at least a whole day and a night on the road of the donkey cart for an hour.
Carrying his two sons for a day, Lin Yuan's shoulders hurt his heart, and the two old men also helped each other panting, gentle and pregnant. He laid down his son and motioned for the group to rest, and when they had had enough, they continued to make their way to town.
"You two go first, let your father rest for a while, and my mother will hold you when you count to three." Wen Wan coaxed his two sons, and Lin Yuan still had to take care of the two old ones, which was really difficult.
The two of them gritted their teeth and insisted on walking for about an hour, frequently looking at Wen Wan.
Wen Wan turned a blind eye and still counted "one-two, one-two, one-two-one, one-two-one." ”
Lin Hean was still waiting for his mother to hug him, but Lin Hefang opened his eyes wide, "Mother, don't you know how to count three?" ”
Gentility:........
Lin Yuan turned back with his parents in his arms, looked at his two sons with a vegetable face, and squatted down to carry them one by one on his shoulders and walked forward. This man single-handedly carried his wife and children, and his home on his shoulders.