"Settled, huh?" The fourteenth brother asked.

Niu Laohan pointed to the table with chopsticks, "Young man, eat more vegetables, it's not easy for people in a hurry to eat hot, you're welcome." ”

He didn't answer Brother Fourteen's question directly, Brother Fourteen was a smart person, smiled and didn't follow, just ate vegetables.

We didn't ask too much, although we needed to know about the village, and we were not in a hurry to talk about it this night, let's talk about it during the day.

These villagers made a fuss until late, and we followed them out of the funeral all the way, and then came back, muttering in our hearts, crying so much, what can we do to invite the zombies? But strangely, their voices were quite loud, but no corpses were attracted to them, and there were no scattered zombies.

Could it be that people have any special methods of expelling corpses? The end times have experienced more and more, and we are convinced that the masters are among the people, like the goddess Mu Zhi's Gu technique, which is outside the scope of our previous cognition, so now we look at everyone with an unfathomable look, and we dare not despise anyone.

We arranged a room for the night, which was next door to this family, which was an empty house, and Niu Laohan lived next door to the other side of this family.

"Children, don't wander around the village at night, close the courtyard door, don't come out to look at any movement when you hear anything, sleep in the house, this house has no owner, but you won't be taboo about this, right?" Old man Niu told us when he sent us into this empty courtyard.

"Uncle Niu, what will happen in this village at night? How can you say it so mysteriously? Tang Xiao couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked.

"The little queen is just curious, just listen to the old man's words. Go in and sleep, sleep, sleep. After speaking, the old man Niu turned around and walked out of the yard and left.

Our cars are parked outside the compound, so we don't have to worry about theft, and even when we sleep, we will leave two friends on guard.

The courtyard door is made of wood, but it is also sturdy, the house is empty, fortunately there are enough bedrooms There are three rooms, each with a few beds, the villages in Yunnan are different from the north, because the climate is warm, they need to live on the kang.

Although we know that the owners of these beds are no longer alive, but we are just like Niu Laohan said, in these last days, who will taboo these things like before? When you have a place to sleep, you are content.

However, we still took the sheets from each bed to the yard and shook the ashes violently, and then put them back on the bed and slept together.

This village looks too normal, it seems very abnormal, the village of the last days, there are no high walls around it, someone has passed away and the funeral banquet is in a big way, no matter how you think about it, it feels very weird, which makes us feel uneasy, and we dare not sleep boldly with confidence.

When we were resting, it rained heavily and didn't stop until the early hours of the morning.

In a daze, I suddenly heard a woman crying in the distance, crying extremely sadly, although the voice was far away but very clear, it was certainly not a hallucination.

We all sat up vigilantly and came to the courtyard, and found that the rain had completely stopped, and Luo Han and Tang Xiao, who were in charge of the guard in the second half of the night, were leaning against the courtyard gate and listening carefully.

Everyone was just like this in the dawn, listening to the woman's grief-stricken crying, I stood beside the fourteenth brother and quietly asked, "Is it a ghost?" ”

The fourteenth brother smiled dumbly, "How can there be so many ghosts, people are crying, listen, there is a lot of anger." ”

"Do you want to go out and have a look?" Nian Nian was a little frightened when she heard this, and hugged her arm tightly.

"Didn't Uncle Niu warn you not to go out of the yard at night? Does this make us respect some kind of customs in this village? Thunderstorm whispered a reminder that he was now serious about customs.

"I don't see any danger, let's not mix it." Zhu Hong also whispered.

At this time, in addition to the woman's cry, there were other voices, and several people were whispering to persuade the woman, but they couldn't hear the content of the speech, both men and women.

"With such grief, it won't die again, right?" Qin Xiaoman said uneasily, in fact, we are all a little confused, women cry at night, except for the quarrel between husband and wife, that is, there is an accident at home, listening to this woman crying so miserably, it does seem that someone in the family has passed away.

The woman's crying continued unabated, except for the occasional whisper, but there was nothing more, and we listened to it for a long time, and the sky was getting brighter, and we decided to go back to the house and get breakfast first.

When the sky was bright, we opened the courtyard door, and we saw that in the distance, in front of the door, a white flag representing the funeral was erected, and the courtyard door of that family was wide open, and people went in and out.

"What's going on in this village? Yesterday was not just one, today is another, this mortality rate is too high. No, you have to ask, it's weird. Thunderstorm muttered.

We looked around, but we didn't see the figure of Niu Laohan, so we wanted to inquire with him first, so we simply went over to check it out for myself.

When I came to the outside of the courtyard, I found that there was a big red coffin parked in the courtyard, but it was with the lid open, which was really surprising, someone just died last night, and this morning's coffin was put on the table, even if the wood was cut and the coffin was beaten, it was not so fast.

However, the dead man was not in the coffin, nor was it placed in the mourning hall, we followed the villagers around the courtyard, and did not see the dead man, and immediately became a little confused.

"Fellow," Luo Han grabbed a middle-aged man and asked quietly, "where is the deceased here?" We need to have someone to worship to. ”

The man looked at us for a while, and then said, "Stop in the back room." Are you any relatives of this family? ”

"Uh, no, passing by."

"So what are you doing here? Let's get out of here. After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he entered the back room.

Looking at the other villagers, they all hurried in and out, not knowing what they were busy with, and no one paid attention to us.

We also wanted to go into the back room to see the situation, but we felt that the atmosphere was inexplicably weird, and besides, it was indeed rude for us outsiders to trespass, so we were much more cautious in order to avoid getting into trouble like the swallow hole again.

Exiting the courtyard, we did not leave, but stood not far away and observed the house.

It seems that the villagers of the whole village have come to mourn, and everyone has brought filial piety clothes, to our surprise, there are many people wearing filial piety in this family, and dozens of people are wearing sackcloth in a blink of an eye, what's going on? Are all the people in this village close relatives?

While they were confused, a cry erupted in the courtyard of the family, not of one person, but of a group of people, and then a man shouted, "Rise to the coffin!" ”

Is this going to be a funeral? We are even more puzzled, although the funeral customs in the north and south of the countryside are different, but no matter where, people have to stop at home for three days after death, there are many sayings, but this family last night the dead will be funeral today, which is too hasty.

The first to come out of the courtyard were a few young juniors, some of them were holding pots, some were scattering paper money, and the middle juniors were holding a black and white photo, no matter the size or color, it was a standard posthumous photo.

This posthumous photo seems to have been prepared too quickly......

It's as if the people in their family knew that this person was going to die, and they had everything ready early.

In the howl, eight middle-aged men carried the big red coffin out of the yard, and the others were huddled around, at this time, a few young descendants suddenly rushed to the coffin's only way, kneeling in a row, and the big coffin was carried from behind these descendants, and we all widened our eyes, what is this doing?

"Huh? Why haven't you left yet? Niu Laohan suddenly appeared beside us and asked very strangely.

can be regarded as finding someone who can ask, so we hurriedly asked him, "Uncle Niu, why has someone passed away again?" What's going on? What's wrong? ”

Niu Laohan said with a calm face, "What's so strange about this, it's been three years, and this village has come to an end." ”

"What day? Oh, my Uncle Niu, please make it clear, this will suffocate us to death. When we go back to Chengdu, how can we report to the leaders about the situation in this survivor village? "The thunderstorm scratched its head like a gorilla.

"Someone in the village is leaving, we are the whole village to see them off, if you want to hear it, come along." After Niu Laohan finished speaking, he followed the funeral procession and walked towards the cemetery again.

The cemetery is actually not far from the village, we didn't pick up the car, so we simply followed on foot, the weapons were all on our bodies, and we didn't find any corpses near the village, so we weren't worried.

"Before the end of the world, our village had a nickname that few people knew, Cancer Village." The old man Niu walked unhurriedly and said unhurriedly.

"Cancer Village? What's going on? ”

"Thanks to the factory on the river in the village, they poured all the production waste into our mother river, and as a result, we became victims, and at first everyone just felt chest tightness and coughed, and later, people were always diagnosed with cancer, and it was found to be terminal, and there was no cure."

"We've heard about it, but we haven't seen it with our own eyes." The fourteenth brother frowned and said, "But it's been three years since the end of the world, and that factory has long stopped producing and dumping waste, right?" ”

"Child, cancer has an incubation period, and before the end of the world, everyone in our village will have this terminal disease, but now it is beginning to break out and die." Old Man Niu shook his head. "In our village, there are not many families with a whole population, so as long as whoever leaves, our whole village will send him together like blood relatives, and the younger generations in the family will do it together."

No wonder someone in the family passed away, and the whole village wore linen and filial piety, which makes sense.

"That factory is hateful! But in a society governed by the rule of law, how could the state allow this to happen? Even if you make aircraft cannons, you can't pay for human lives. Qin Xiaoman was very puzzled.

"Xiaoman, you, what a child." Zhu Hong said to Xiaoman in the tone of an elder.

"I'm not a child, I'm not!" Qin Xiaoman was very resistant to Zhu Hong calling her that.

"In the past, there were too many acts of self-destruction in the Celestial Empire, and now that the country is gone, we will not talk about its fault." Niu Laohan actually looked at this issue extremely indifferently and detached.