After Lu Yuexian drank the pot of egg soup that he didn't know if it could be called food, he carried the pot on his back and walked not far from the back mountain. After searching everywhere, he finally found his grandmother's blackened and broken body, and then carried his grandmother's body back little by little with a pot and placed it next to the stone bed. After doing this, he began to piece together the body of his grandmother, but found that one of his hands was not there. So he went to that place again, but no matter how much he searched, he could not find it. Finally, he remembered that his grandmother's hands were still on the soldier's right hand after they were cut off, so he walked towards the entrance of the village, hoping to find the hands that had once been kind at the entrance of the village. Fortunately, the three Xiyan soldiers did not bring their blackened hands back to the barracks as trophies. For them, the head is the only proof of calculation of military exploits. Lu Yuexian found the pair of charred black hands beside the abandoned road at the entrance of the village, and finally pieced together his grandmother.

There is a saying in the village that when a person dies, he should be buried in the earth, and then his soul can rest in peace. Because that Uncle Wang always told stories about people who didn't enter the earth, their souls couldn't rest in peace, and finally turned into ghosts and wandered around in this world, Lu Yuexian insisted that no one should let these relatives go to the ground. Lu Yuexian had no other idea about where to bury his relatives, he wanted to bury them all under the land that had been turned into charcoal, which was once called a writer. However, there was another problem that always bothered him, that is, no matter how he searched, he could never find his father's head, and when he saw that many uncles and uncles in the village were like his father, he guessed that this might have been taken away by the soldiers of the Xiyan Empire. In the end, I gave up the search and dug up in that place instead. How difficult it is for a five-year-old child to dig a pit that can bury four relatives, and at first he uses the hoe that his father used often, but he does not know how to use it correctly. Moreover, in the past, when his father saw that he was still young, he never let him touch farm work, because after he dug jerkily for a while, his hands had already ground out blood blisters. But the hoe was still a little too big for a five-year-old man, and he dug for a long time before digging a little bit. Seeing this, Lu Yue felt that he had no strength before he dug well. So, he ran to the kitchen again, found the broken bowls, and slowly dug them up with the fragments of those bowls. For him, although this method takes a long time, it can conserve his strength as much as possible.

In this way, Lu Yue dug obliquely for several days, during which he found some food in the village. However, most of these foods are in the kitchen stove and pot, which are either full of soot or have long been charred, after all, only such food will not be taken away by those soldiers of the Xiyuan Empire. In the past few days, the Nanchen Empire has not sent anyone to this small village. Although the slaughter of the small village was not a big deal in the war era, as the people of the empire, the empire should always send some people to deal with this matter, after all, exposing corpses in the wilderness can easily cause epidemics, and when the time comes, a large-scale plague will not be more damaged. Maybe the Empire hadn't discovered the tragedy yet, or maybe it would take a lot of time for them to arrive. When Lu Yue's inclined pit was dug, he put his grandmother, father, and mother in turn, and his sister was still in her mother's arms. Then he took some straw from the field to cover them up to prevent the soil from coming into direct contact with them, and then slowly covered them with soil. It was already five days later, and in five days, he had almost turned over the village, and he had found everything that could be used as food. The dirt, soot, blood blisters in his hands, and his clothes have also been worn out, and Lu Yuexian at this time is completely a miserable beggar image, miserable.

"Tuk ...... Du ...... "When Lu Yue buried his close relatives and was thinking about how to deal with other people, not far from the entrance of the village, he suddenly remembered the sound of hurried horses' hooves. Lu Yuexian thought that the cavalry of the Xiyan Empire had come again, so he hurriedly ran to the back mountain in fright, and hid in the cave last time.

The person who came was also a cavalry team, but according to the costumes, it should be the border garrison of Wushi City of the Nanchen Empire. They stopped at the entrance of the village and looked at the ruined village.

"My lord, it seems that the brutes in Siyan are slaughtering the village again, and those bastards have been getting more and more excessively lately......" As if he was about to say something, the soldier's words were interrupted by the man in charge. I saw him press his hand in the air and said, "Needless to say, as for all this, the military has its own disposal." Now, our empire is strapped in the seas, so bear with me now. After a while, I want those bastards to look good. ”

"Yes, sir!" replied the soldier from earlier, and then added, "My lord, what about the corpses of these untouchables?"

The leader frowned and thought for a while, then said, "Put the bodies of these people together, and then burn them." With so many corpses, it would be too much trouble to bury them. Moreover, if so many corpses are not disposed of, there may be some kind of epidemic. It's not good to spread it to Wushi City. Just as everyone was about to act, the man suddenly said, "If you find a living mouth, let him be freed, and they may be plagued." Got it?"

"Yes!" everyone took the order and scattered.

For these people, the peasants in the remote villages are untouchables, and they usually don't even want to look at them. Although in many cases, every imperial war on the continent relied on the untouchables in the eyes of the so-called aristocracy, ordinary people were never treated as they deserved. Just as the construction of a country or city always depends on the toilers, but it is rarely their turn to enjoy these things.

The fire that had not been extinguished was burning in the village again, only this time it was not the houses that burned, but the villagers who had been slaughtered by the soldiers of the Western Yan Empire. After doing all this, the cavalry of the Nanchen Empire left in a hurry. For their part, the empire slaughtered the villages of their own empire, but they didn't care. They naturally see this as part of the sacrifice required in war. People say that war kills, but for these people, war does require death, but it is not only the soldiers who die, but also these untouchables in their eyes.

Lu Yue hid in that cave and watched all this, although he found that the clothes they were wearing were different from the clothes worn by the people before, he still didn't dare to come out. Just hiding at the mouth of the cave and watching secretly. He didn't worry about what those people were doing to the vanished village now, and almost everything he could eat was moved here. He chose this place to spend the night these days. When Lu Yue saw those people piling all the villagers together, she felt a trace of inexplicable relief in her heart. But when he saw the next scene, he was extremely resentful. Somehow, after piling all the corpses together, the soldiers chopped them all into pieces and threw them into the fire. It seemed to be frolic, but this kind of frolicking was too vicious for Lu Yuexian.

After all the Nanchen cavalry left, Lu Yue came to the still burning fire and sat silently. When the fire was extinguished, he found a lot of powdery things on the ground, and remembered what his grandmother had said to him: "When a person dies, if he is cremated, if he finds something powdery, he should collect it, because it contains the soul of that person." In order for that person to rest in peace, it is best to bury the collected soul powder in the ground. Thinking of this, Lu Yuexian returned to the cave, poured out all the so-called food from the big clay pot he had found in the village, and then came here with the big clay pot in his arms, and carefully put the powder into the big clay pot. At this time, the sky was getting darker, and a five-year-old child was silently collecting the powder on the ground, while looking at the entrance of the village vigilantly. Lu Yuexian was worried that those people would suddenly turn back, but fortunately, when Lu Yuexian got all the powder into the clay pot, there was no movement at the entrance of the village. When the big clay pot was not filled with anything, Lu Yuexian could barely pick it up, but at this time, after putting so many ashes into it, it was extremely difficult for Lu Yuexian, who was only five years old, to hold this big clay pot. However, he knew that he could not leave the ashes of these relatives here, so after spending a night carrying the clay pot back to the cave, after a day of panic and a busy night, his body finally couldn't bear it anymore and fell asleep directly in the cave.

After waking up the next morning, Lu Yue slanted at the big clay pot and the food all over the ground that he didn't know if he could eat. Lu Yuexian was a little dazed, he didn't know what to do, this village obviously couldn't stay any longer, and Lu Yuexian didn't want to stay in this village that had disappeared. Looking at the clay pot, Lu Yue thought for a while with his little head, and felt that the clay pot placed in the cave was also counted as soil, so he picked up a little something to eat, and then came to the outside of the cave, and after disposing of the cave indiscriminately, he began to go towards the outside of the village. Walking to the entrance of the village, Lu Yue looked back at the place where he had always lived, gritted his teeth, and only heard him shout to the village in that immature voice: "Dad, mother, grandma, sister, uncle and uncle...... I'm leaving, you have to bless Xiao Yuexie, bless me to be able to avenge you......" Lu Yuexian wiped away her tears with her hands, and secretly swore: "From now on, I will never cry again, I must not cry again." He turned around and left without looking back.

The early morning sun illuminates the earth, and the oblique sunlight pulls the shadow so long, and Lu Yue's thin shadow looks so slender under the illumination of this sunlight, as if it will disappear between heaven and earth at any time, but it seems so persistent.