Chapter Twenty-Four: Farewell
Finally stumbling and sleeping in the open to the entrance of the town, the family stood upright there, their brains buzzing, and despair swept everyone again. They thought too simply, not only their entire village, but the entire town was destroyed.
The hustle and bustle of the past has faded to gray, and breathing can be heard in the silent streets, and dense and chaotic charred corpses are scattered all over the streets. Only a few sporadic pieces of wood were roasted by the red embers, and occasionally there was a "crackling" sound.
The scene that Lin Yuan had deliberately bypassed the day before reappeared in front of them, and the scorching smell was only worse. Wen Wan and the two elders of the Lin family bent down in unison, clutching their chests and nauseating, huge tears like a thousand catties falling from their faces, falling into the dirt and splashing dust.
Lin Yuan covered the eyes of his two sons, and comforted everyone in a dumb voice, "Let's go, go to the city." ”
Wen Wan suddenly squatted down, grabbed Lin Yuan and cried. She wants to go back to Guzi Village, and her father and mother are still at home!
"I'm going back to Guzi Village! I'm going to find my mom and dad! Let's go and report the news, it's too late! If there is more than just Lizi Village, then what will happen to Guzi Village, which is only half a day's drive away from Lizi Village, she dare not think.
"We are old and young, and we can't walk through it in a day or two. You wait here, I'll go in and see. Lin Yuan said and placed them on the side of the dirt road at the entrance of the town, and he quickly ran into the town with the cold.
Wen Wan held the burden in her arms tightly with red eyes and forced herself to let go, as if this way her aching heart had a chance to breathe.
After a while, Lin Yuan was sweating profusely and walked over with a dirty donkey cart and helped the family into the cart.
"Let's go, let's go to Guzi Village." He pulled Wen Wan into his arms and carefully wiped away her tears before helping her to the car, he knew what she was worried about. But......
He had come across the donkey cart where he had bought his own donkey cart. All the horses and carts were burned, the donkeys were gone, the ground was covered with flesh and viscera, and the body of the owner of the car dealership was still hanging empty and shriveled on a tree. The donkey alone stood in the ruins and screamed bitterly, with the broken reins still in his mouth.
There is no endless road, and he still hit the luck of luck.
The donkey cart ran along the path, everyone bowed their heads wiltedly, and the car was eerily quiet. On the dusty road, only the sound of a man driving a car and a heart-wrenching partridge cooing could be heard.
Fortunately, when the donkey cart arrived at the entrance of Guzi Village slowly, what Wen Wan saw was not ruins. She bit her lip tightly and said Fortunately, Guzi Village may have slipped through the net, and the joy of being reborn after the catastrophe diluted the tension. Obviously, her body was so soft that she couldn't speak, but her hands were always tightly gripping the frame of the car, and her joints were white.
Lin Yuan drove into the village, and he didn't encounter anyone in the short distance, and the scenes of children laughing in the past are still vivid. They didn't care about it, so they rushed to the gate of the Wen family's compound and stopped the car, Wen Wan jumped out of the car and hurriedly pushed the door and was about to enter.
"Wanwan, why are you here? Why are you crying? Wen Wan turned her head, so happy that her teeth couldn't see her eyes, and it was her eldest brother Wen Fusheng who called her, carrying a bundled pheasant and hare in his hand, and a large bamboo basket for hunting on his back.
"Big brother, our village is in trouble. I'm not at ease, go home and see. Wen Wan cried and laughed and walked over, and tugged at his sleeve with red eyes like when he was a child.
"When? A-Yuan, come in, come in! He pushed open the door covered in mud to greet Lin Yuan, but the door was unlocked.
After staying up in the mountains for two days and one night, his eyes were red, and he squinted, clumsily freed up a dirty hand to hold Wen Wan and protect her behind him.
Wen Wan smiled and was about to go in, when the brother who was standing in front of her let out a heart-rending howl, letting go of her and pounding her head like crazy.
Wen Wan shook it, pushed her brother away, and collapsed to the ground, her head hurting like a pinprick.
The house was not burned, but the blood in the yard was spilling all over the ground, and her father and mother were lying on the ground, and the white intestines and red limbs were scattered on the ground.
Her father's head rolled out like a deflated ball, and her mother lay there silently, two huge blood holes in her chest spurting blood out like fountains, two blood holes in her eye sockets, and dried black blood clots around her mouth.
"Auntie! Mother, what's wrong with you? Dad, don't scare me! She crawled over her hands and feet as if she were crazy, and put her arms around her mother's head and cried and pushed her father like crazy.
This is the mother who is willing to empty her family for her, this is the mother who scolded her for being unproductive while serving her in confinement and helped her bring a baby for half a year!
She was like a helpless child, holding her mother and rubbing it on her face, and shaking her hands to touch her mother's bloody eyebrows, and screaming in pain seemed to penetrate everyone's eardrums.
The second elder of the Lin family in the donkey cart shook his body, and he was busy covering his grandson's ears and saying that his heart was not good.
"Auntie, don't lie to Wanwan, get up! Wanwan sees you coming, you get up, don't scare me! Please! Auntie, stop playing, I'm angry! She smacked her mother as if she were mad, and whimpered and looked around like a detached little beast.
Lin Yuan knelt behind her with red eyes, his forehead slammed to the ground without saying a word.
"A-Niang, Wanwan is afraid, I'm afraid! Don't scare me, you love me the most, don't you? She followed her mother's example, gently wiped her mother's blood on her face with distress, and kissed her mother's forehead as a treasure.
"Mother, mother, Wanwan wants to eat your rolled noodles, and I haven't made my father's winter coat yet!" The voice is hoarse and the gaze is glazed.
She was born with a hard life, and she had to be this mother who treated her like an eyeball in her two lives, but she didn't expect that she was born without parents, or gone!
For a long time, the person in her arms "coughed" twice, and laboriously raised her bloodstained hand to grope her gentle face.
Wen Wan's teary eyes were hazy, she grabbed her mother's hand and put it on her face, and looked at her mother in surprise, "A-Niang, A-Niang, are you awake?" You're scaring me to death! Auntie, hold on, don't leave Wanwan! A-Yuan, A-Yuan, my mother is awake, carry my mother to see the doctor! ”
She wiped her tears and was about to drag her mother. Seeing Lin Yuan weeping and not moving, she lowered her head and shook her mother's arm and screamed "ahhhhhhhh
Two lines of bloody tears appeared in her mother's hollow eye sockets, and she silently opened her hand, and inside was a piece of blood wrapped in a crumpled silver ticket and a few pieces of broken silver.
"Son..... Ahem...... "This money is the fifty taels saved by their old couple and the fifty taels that Lin Yuan gave at the beginning, she held it in her hand and didn't let anyone snatch it, her daughter's life is more important than her life!"......
"You...... You want...... Filial...... In-laws, body ...... Considerate....... Man. Child...... Ahem...... Mother guards...... Guarding you" Blood blocked her throat and kept spilling out, she had reached her limit, and she tried her best to beckon Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan couldn't help crying even when he crawled and knelt beside his mother-in-law, and he kept crying one after another.
"You....... If you ....... Bad for her, I ...... I'm a ghost......" The voice gradually faded away, his hands hung down lifelessly like dead branches, and his eyes were still staring in the direction of Lin Yuan.
Her heart and liver are her stupid daughter, she can't bear it, she can't let it go!
"Don't worry, I know! I'll guard her for the rest of your life," Lin Yuan slammed his head.
Wen Wan's mother's eyes, which were already cloudy and lifeless, slowly closed, and the bloody tears in the corners of her eyes dripped into the soil, smashing out a blood flower.
The abdominal pain was like a knife, the cold was biting, and Wen Wan cried desperately as she hugged her mother's body, but her parents could no longer hear her. Her mother would never again poke her head with her pointed fingers and scold her for being unconscious.
"The pheasant that the eldest child hunts can be stewed in soup for the girl to drink at night, and the girl also loves to eat her own dried tofu skin. Oh, and the eldest daughter-in-law's filial white fungus red dates were also brought back to her little Wanwan! ”
"You don't have to worry about it, and you don't say that you will go home to see your old son, as soon as you come back, you will ask for money, wait, I will give it to you tomorrow!"
"You wicked obstacle, why don't you ask your brother to pick you up? My little Jiaojiao has suffered a great sin! For my mother, I really can't wait to hurt you. ”
"Their Lin family dares to treat you badly, and they killed them alive for your mother to call your father and brother!"
"Wanwan, Wanwan, Wanwan......."
"A-Yuan, I, I don't have a mother." Tears soaked her clothes, and her pregnant body was exhausted, and she fainted, not hearing her brother's heart-rending howl.
When Wen Wan came over, she was already lying on the donkey cart, in addition to her family, there were also a pair of children of her younger brother and eldest brother, and her eldest brother and her man sat side by side in front of the donkey cart as if they were dehydrated, bowing their heads and saying nothing.
She stared at the retreating dirt roads on both sides with her empty eyes, not eating or drinking, and silently. For the first time, I became disgusted with this legendary rich and prosperous Ming Dynasty!
She didn't know that when she fainted, her brother saw her father and mother die tragically and was dismembered and disemboweled, and her sister-in-law was gang-raped and died. I messed up my mind and ran to the kitchen like crazy to get a knife to wipe my neck and commit suicide.
Fortunately, Lin Yuan's sharp eyes snatched it in time, and her brother had the opportunity to find the three children who had hidden in the morning in the firewood. They're already stupid and stupid, and they can't even recognize people!
Even if she knew, she wouldn't change anything but cry and suffer. Even if it weren't for that terrible dream that night, maybe even Wen Wan's whole family would have died.
The donkey cart swayed all the way, and the sun dodged and fell down the hill. The whirring wind seems to blow into people's bones, making people shiver and chill all over their bodies. Gently wrapped in a thin quilt, desperately absorbing that little bit of warmth, but, like falling into an ice cave!
Until the donkey cart entered Qingzhou City without hindrance, the sound of selling on the street was still the same, the warm yellow lights were still bright and off, and the voices of people were still boiling. It's just that the people in the car are full of desolation, and the lights of Yan Shan can't warm their dead hearts.
When he arrived at the second house purchased by the third elder of the Lin family, the second elder of the Lin family had a slight flush on his face again. Lin Yuan walked to the gate of the courtyard in two steps and patted the door with a "bang". Father Lin and Mother Lin couldn't help but help each other get out of the car, standing beside their son with tears in their eyes, waiting for the third child to answer the door.