3. Alone
The Lu clan was preoccupied with the slaughterers, unaware of Lu Yuexian's culture. Seeing that there was no one outside the cave, he quietly sneaked out of the cave with his daughter in his arms, and after finding a hidden place, he watched the slaughterers from Xiyan gather in the village until they left.
"Mom, Mom, they burned down our village, what about Dad? How is Dad?" In any case, Lu Yuexian is only a five-year-old child, although he is precocious, it does not mean that his mind is really that mature. When his grandmother had just left, he was left with his mother and his newborn sister, so he especially wanted his father to be by his side at this time. It's just that something like this happened in the village, and he knew that his father must know, but he hadn't found his father until now, and he vaguely felt a trace of anxiety.
Lu Shi heard Lu Yuexian ask this, but her heart trembled, she knew that her man was very likely to have suffered a similar fate to this village, but she didn't want to believe it, or she was still praying. Pray that a miracle can happen to that honest man, otherwise, she doesn't know how to survive, how to survive in this troubled world with her two children when she is still in confinement at this time. Thinking of her two children, Lu Shi looked down at the daughter in his arms, and saw that his daughter was already asleep at this time, so he looked at Lu Yuexian who was full of coke ovens on the side. Suddenly, Lu Shi realized that something seemed to be wrong, and looked at Lu Yuexian again, definitely not because of his son. So he turned to look at the daughter in his arms, his face turned pale in an instant, his hands trembled and slowly probed his daughter's nose, and then quickly put his ear to his daughter's chest, and after doing all this, Lu suddenly shouted, "No!" and then cried loudly. Lu Yue saw her mother crying loudly, she didn't know what was going on, she just trembled and said, "Mom, what's wrong, Mom, don't scare me......" and then cried with her mother.
"Daughter, mom is sorry for you...... Mom, I'm sorry for you......" Lu's mournful howl resounded throughout the village, accompanied by the fire in the village, as if it was like an infinite resentment about to burn the entire sky. The Autumn Wind Brigade of the Xiyan Empire had long since left, and this small village, which was still full of smoke before, with the occasional sound of poultry chirping and the sounds of women and children frolicking in the village, was now only the mournful and helpless wail of the Lu clan.
At this time, the Lu clan was on the verge of collapse, and this kind of thing was unbearable for anyone. In order to save them, his beloved mother-in-law recently won them a ray of life at the cost of her life. And just now, in order to prevent her daughter's cry from making the three Xiyan soldiers find them, she actually suffocated her daughter to death like that. Looking at the daughter who was no longer breathing in his arms, Lu's heart was torn and torn by pain. Unable to bear the pain, she hugged her daughter in her arms and walked forward aimlessly. The weeping and wailing gradually subsided, and Lu whispered as he walked, while Lu Yuexian followed closely by his mother's side. By this time, he also knew what had happened, and looking at his sister who had smiled at her in the morning, he couldn't accept the cruel reality. But the reality showed its undeniable characteristics in a cruel manner, and Lu Yuexian also sobbed and followed Lu Shi's side, looking at the poor sister in her mother's arms who had left her mother's arms not long ago when she opened her eyes and had not really seen the world.
This small village is actually not small, in the past, it took Lu Yuexian nearly an hour to walk from the head of the village to the end of the village. But looking at the village that was filled with fire at this time, Lu Yuexian suddenly found that this village was really small and small, because this village could not accommodate those uncles and aunts who had passed away, and even his sister, who had only come to this world for a short time.
Lu walked on the main road in the village, I don't know how long, after leaving the village, he walked into the farmland that had been extremely busy in the past and was extremely quiet at this time. Lu Yuexian, who was following behind, was still following her mother, and when Lu Yuexian entered the village before, she had already found that the tears in her mother's eyes were no longer clear tears, but lines of blood and tears. And what fell on my sister's cold little face was no longer tears, but bloody tears full of despair. Walking in this farmland, Lu Yuexian can occasionally find some headless corpses, those corpses he knows, just like the headless corpse before, it is Uncle Xiao Wang who often tells him some scary horror stories, this Uncle Wang always spends a lot of energy to comfort Lu Yuexian every time he scares Xiao Yuexian to cry, but this Uncle Wang is always happy.
Lu walked aimlessly in the farmland, and soon walked into the farmland where she often came. Here she didn't stop until she tripped over something. Due to tripping, her daughter broke away from her arms, and when she saw her daughter out of her arms, Lu quickly stood up, quickly picked up her daughter, and even nervously tied the swaddling clothes together. After doing all this, she immediately glared at the thing behind her that tripped her up, and heard her scream in a terrible voice: "Don't try to take my daughter, don't think, my daughter is mine, it is mine." But when she saw the familiar headless corpse in the farmland, she smiled nervously: "Master, why are you sleeping here, look at you, you are still so careless, you have forgotten to bring your head when you sleep, it's so stupid." Lu stood up, came to the headless corpse, patted the corpse with his hand, and said, "Master, get up, let's go home, we can't sleep here, it's not comfortable to sleep here." But she found that no matter how much she filmed and called him husband, he just wouldn't get up. In desperation, Lu Shi tried to carry the corpse to his body, and then walked tremblingly towards her home, which had long been a sea of fire. I don't know how many times she fell down on the way, but after each fall, she always got up again and continued to walk forward with her husband on her back. As for Lu Yuexian, he didn't follow behind Lu, when he saw his father's headless corpse in his farmland, he kept making a loud roar in his head, and then the sky and earth darkened, and the whole person passed out. Maybe thanks to this coma, after all, Lu Yuexian is only a five-year-old child, and he lost three close relatives in one day, not to mention other acquaintances, how can a five-year-old child bear so much pain. Therefore, when he saw his father's headless corpse and the pain reached its limit, his body immediately reacted with stress, causing him to pass out.
The fire had been burning for nearly two hours, and Lu Shi was walking back with difficulty carrying her husband's corpse, but when she reached the door of her own house, she was a little overwhelmed. The former home was now in flames. I only heard Lu Shi ask the headless corpse and said, "What should I do if I am in charge? Why is there such a big fire in the house? Is my mother-in-law going to make any special dishes for us to taste? We still wait for my mother-in-law to come out and ask her again, so as not to disturb her, do you say? I think my mother-in-law must be going to surprise us!" After saying that, Lu slowly put down the corpse and made it lie on a stone bed on the side, only to hear Lu Shi say: " You used to like this place, every summer night you always like to take the little moon slant in this place to cool off, well, the little moon slant doesn't know where to play. You can sleep here first!" Then, smiling at his daughter in his arms, he shook and hummed the lullaby that had been handed down from the village. "How many stars are there in the sky? The insects on the ground are talking, good baby, sleep quietly, good baby of mother......"
Lu Yue came home with the hoe on her shoulder, and when she saw that her mother and others were there, she put down the hoe, snuggled quietly beside her mother, listened to the familiar lullaby sung by her mother, and fell asleep quietly. After a long time, the sound of the lullaby began to fade until it disappeared.
In his sleep, Lu Yuexian had a beautiful dream, in which his father and he were lying on the big stone bed outside the house to enjoy the shade, while he kept gesturing to his father with the meteor he had just seen. In the dream, his father told him that it would be very good to make a wish for a meteor, so he asked him if he had made a wish on a meteor. Just as Lu Yuexian was about to answer, she heard her sister's cry again, and then her mother called her father to come into the house to help take care of her sister. A meteor appeared in the sky again, and Lu Yuexian immediately sat up, and was about to make a wish, when he heard a loud roar. Then he woke up. After waking up, Lu Yuexian found that her snuggled body was a little cold, and she looked at it suspiciously, and found that there were many blood stains on her mother's chest, and her mother had long lost her breath of life. It turned out that Lu Shi was injured by the shovel-like thing in the front of the hoe in that rice field, and the previous wrestling almost caused the entire special shovel to pierce her chest, not long ago, she had bled too much, and finally left this world, and now, Lu Yuexian's last relative in the world has also left him.
Maybe it was excessive sadness, or maybe the tears had dried silently before, Lu Yue looked at the bodies of his three closest relatives, and did not shed tears, he just watched silently. Then he walked into the charred house, where there was nothing left, and when he came to the kitchen, which had been changed beyond recognition, there was nothing left but the stove. When she came to the stove, Lu Yue pushed off the charcoal on the stove diagonally, and then opened the lid of the pot and found that the pot of egg soup inside was almost steamed dry, and the eggs were already a little charred. Looking at this pot of soup that could no longer be called egg soup, Lu Yuexian directly grabbed the egg with his hand and ate it. Seeing that there was also a soup spoon that was burning and somewhat deformed, he used the spoon to scoop up the only remaining bit of egg soup and drank it all. In the process of drinking, the tears finally flowed again. In the process of swallowing, he cried in a low voice: "Dad, Mom, Grandma, Sister ......".