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After appeasing the two children, Liu Man'er coaxed Ye Tianchen again, he was still young after all, he didn't know what was going on, the so-called horse thief, he didn't understand, he came to this mountain in a hurry last night, and he also cried for a while.

Seeing so many people today, everyone was noisy, and he was also a little frightened, and kept holding Fang's hand, clamoring to go home.

Fang couldn't coax him, so he had to let Liu Man'er come over to coax, and Liu Man'er told him a story, which slowly diverted his attention.

After an hour or two, the men in the village came down from the mountain, their faces were all with a sad color, and their faces were even darker.

She was also able to guess that the situation was not good, so she kept the doubts in her heart, and she would know when she went down the mountain anyway.

Sure enough, Li Chang sighed and said to everyone: "You can go down the mountain, everyone go to their own homes and clean up, alas." ”

Everyone knew that their home must not be very good at the moment, but it was also a joy to learn that they could go down the mountain, they were cold and hungry on the mountain, and they were very uncomfortable sitting on the ground, and they wanted to go home for a long time.

However, when I came to the entrance of the village, I saw blood stains all over the ground, although the body was gone, but it also made people feel panicked.

"What about the people who came down the mountain before?" Someone asked in a whisper.

"They're all dead." The chief sighed and said, "We dragged them to the ancestral hall, and then we will notify their relatives to claim them and bury them." ”

Liu Man'er also felt extremely frightened in her heart, but she was even more frightened than Ye He and Cao'er, and the two of them squeezed her hand tightly.

Liu Man'er suppressed the urge to tremble in her body, and pretended to be calm: "If something like this happens, please ask the mage to come over and help them spend it when the time comes." ”

"That's the way it should be, let's go back to our own houses first, clean up the house, and see if there are still people to live in." The chief was also extremely uncomfortable in his heart, he had been the chief for so many years, and he never thought that such a thing would happen.

This time it's thanks to Liu Man'er, otherwise, who knows if he will be the soul of this knife.

"Don't be sad, everyone, your life matters." Liu Man'er comforted everyone: "The green mountains left are here, and I am not afraid of no firewood." ”

"What you said is light, we are not you, we have shops in the county, our house is gone, how can we live in the future." Some of the women burst into tears when they saw their yards.

Liu Man'er had seen this scene before, and there was not much fluctuation in her heart at the moment, but she just bypassed the ancestral hall far away and went back to her home.

When she arrived at the door, Liu Man'er couldn't help but burst into flames, she just swept around the house before, and didn't take a closer look, but when she went in, she found that her yard was already a mess at the moment, and in the backyard, the flowers and plants she planted were also trampled to death.

But fortunately, most of the chickens and ducks in the family are still there, and they are running around in the yard at the moment, and there are a few fewer sheep, and the others are frightened and running wild in the yard, and those rabbits are a lot less, only a few are left.

Make wedding dresses for others in vain.

Liu Man'er sighed, and thought of her shiitake mushrooms again, fortunately, her shiitake mushrooms were still there, and the door had never been opened at all.

The damage to the wings on both sides is not very serious, as for the kitchen, it was burned very badly, the main house connected to the kitchen was also burned a lot, it was smoking at the moment, and Liu Man'er couldn't take care of anything else, so he asked people to put things down first, fetch water to extinguish the fire, and after all the fire was extinguished, Liu Man'er also felt a little tired, and sat on a blackened chair.

The home she worked so hard to decorate, it was hard to make it look so good, all kinds of things were fully arranged, and now it is really back before liberation, and it is absolutely false to say that she is not uncomfortable.

However, what made her even more uncomfortable was that the dead people in this village, as well as other villages, must have also suffered a lot of losses, she had never seen so many dead people, and when she thought of it, she felt that there were many souls around her.

"Let's all go to their respective rooms and check their belongings." Liu Man'er commanded, and then went to her own room.

Inside the room, some clothes were thrown everywhere, the room was full of black smoke, and the windows were also burned, but the house was fine, the damage was not serious, but the ground was a mess.

This fire should have risen from the kitchen, after all, these horse bandits don't have so much energy, every house will light a fire for you, Liu Man'er's room is far from the kitchen, but the damage is not great, out of the room, she looked at the pot of flowers on the balcony, fortunately, her wormwood is also planted there safe and sound.

When she came downstairs, everyone reported their losses, Fang said that some of the cloth in her house was missing, Liu Man'er then remembered that there was a small warehouse upstairs, and when she opened it and looked inside, most of the things she placed in it were gone.

and the mink fur she bought for Fang and the others before, saying that they were going to make clothes, is gone, and Aunt Han came over and said that all the rice and noodles in the kitchen are gone.

Liu Man'er sighed, opened the cellar again, luckily, the entrance to the cellar was opened in the corner of the kitchen, and no one found it, she went in to see, the grain in the cellar was still there, and the Baihua wine she made was also there.

Ye He also rushed over and found that the Kong Ming lanterns they made were also there, and finally broke into tears and laughed, and said with a crying voice: "Our wish is still there." ”

"Yes, it's still there." Liu Man'er nodded and touched her head: "Don't feel uncomfortable." ”

Fortunately, when she withdrew, people poured water on the ground and drenched it, so at this moment, her family suffered much better damage than others' homes.

At least, in addition to the kitchen of her house being burned clean, the other houses were only burned to black, which was not miserable.

"Pack up the house and go." Liu Man'er said: "Clean the house, and I'll put those chickens and ducks together." ”

Liu Man'er said that she took a blackened bamboo pole to catch chickens and ducks, and Shuai Shuai and two dogs also helped her dare.

The ducks were all in the pond after they ran out, but the chickens flew everywhere, and Liu Man'er drove them for a long time to get them back to their original places.

And put the sheep in place, fortunately her yard is large, if the yard is small, I am afraid that these people will be caught all.

The small huts she had dug before to raise rabbits had just caught them all in one go, and one or two of them had slipped through the net.

This rabbit was originally a timid creature, but now it is even more cowardly, and it is all shrunk in the corner.

Liu Man'er estimated her own losses, just these hundred or so rabbits turned into two, at least a few taels of silver, not counting sheep and chickens.

Of course, money is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that many of the flowers and plants she planted were trampled on by them.

In fact, these losses are secondary, the trauma in her heart is huge, looking at this environment, she feels uncomfortable in her heart, while holding the flowers and plants, tears are also dripping.

What kind of world is this, one second he was happily waiting for Ye Feng to be admitted to Xiucai, but the next second, he was facing such a thing.

A person silently supported these flowers and plants, and after cleaning them up, he went to the front yard, Aunt Han and others were cleaning, and after cleaning up these messy things, Liu Man'er found that the floor was all black.

The loss of the study was great, some desks, including bookshelves, were burned out, and the books on them were not left, as if they had been thrown in the middle and burned down intensively, and even the ceiling was charred black, almost not burned through.

Who is it, grabbing money, grabbing money, why do you want to burn her house? If she has the opportunity in the future, she will definitely not let them have a good time!

I inspected the new house, and went to the old house, the old house is needless to say, the kitchen is full of firewood, the firewood is very hot, the three main houses have been burned and only a few green bricks are left, and the thatched hut in the wing house is also burned and only the mud is left there.

After all, the wings of the old mansion are low and thatched, and a little spark is enough to destroy them.

It took Liu Man'er several days to clean up the house, but even if it was cleaned up, the traces of the burn were still there, especially in the kitchen, even if the roof was newly built and tiled, the entire black wall could still be seen to have been burned here.

In fact, this is nothing, the most important thing is that Liu Man'er used to feel that this village has always been very safe except for some thieves, but after such a thing, she no longer has that sense of security, and she worries every day whether the horse thief will come again.

In the past few days, the county has received news that the government has sent someone to collect the corpses of the first two villages, and appeased these villagers, after all, there are always some people who have escaped in each village.

Dawan Village, also the dead villagers were collected, Xiaowan Village too, in short, this along the way suffered a lot of losses and injuries, the government came to ask some information, and said that it would be reported to the imperial court, and try to exempt the villagers from paying taxes for one or two years.

But in addition to the villages on this road, in the following days, many other villages encountered horse thieves, and these horse thieves did not know where they came from, and did all kinds of evil, and robbed some women to go to the mountains.

As Liu Man'er and Li Changye Xiutong said worriedly, they burned and looted everywhere, but they were not caught by the people of the government, but occupied the mountain as the king in Harrier Village.

This harrier village belongs to the town next door, only a few dozen miles away from here, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the government has no way to take them, and the nearby villagers are even more trembling, worried that they will come to burn and loot again.

Of course, this is for sure, although these horse thieves have temporarily hoarded food, but when they have eaten this food, they will inevitably come to the bottom of the mountain to replenish it.

They don't work, and there is only one way to do it, and that is to rob.

Several times the nearby villages were attacked, but they were better off than before, and the bandits did not kill or set fires, but only grabbed some food and kidnapped a few girls.

But this is even more alarming, they clearly regard the villagers in this vicinity as their flock, and do not kill them in order to get food from them.