The two sisters packed up their old clothes in the house.

Each of them is dressed in a jacket that can be stuffed with reed flowers.

Each of the sisters had only two sets of clothes, a thin set of linen clothes for spring and summer, which were already worn on their bodies.

There is also a set of thicker linen jackets to wear in winter, which are covered with patches, comparable to those called Hanako.

But from the little girl's faint memory, Xu Yue found that a little doll like her, who had complete clothes to wear, was already the envy of the children in the village.

Many of the older daughters in the village do not even have a set of clothes, so they usually hide in the bed, do not go out, and do not see guests, and only when it is time to get married, can they get a set of clothes to wear out of the house.

If a girl can get a new dress to marry, it is the most decent dowry.

In this backward era when the flow of silver money was inconvenient, cloth was even better than gold and silver jewelry, and silk fabrics such as silk were also the most popular hard currency among merchants.

Xu Erniang pinched her nose as she pulled out a "modern splicing style" sheet from the broken wooden box that exuded a rotten atmosphere, and beat the sisters' clothes into a bag and put it at the head of the bed.

Xu Yue walked around the house and found that her father and sister had not put up the pots and pans, guessing that they might not have noticed the value of these things, she silently put away the five broken pottery bowls at home, a clay pot for cooking rice and vegetables, and put them in the back basket where her father and mother placed the food.

All that's left is the mat and bedding for sleeping, and I'll have to sleep one night tonight, so I'll get up tomorrow morning and clean up.

Everything was packed up, but the family was so poor that there was nothing to clean up, so Wang put out the torches, tied them to the door, and went back to their rooms to rest.

It was a moonless night, the whole village was dark, and the wind outside the house was whining, as if there was only one living family in the world.

Xu Yue woke up from a strong sense of unease, and saw the shadows of the trees outside the window swaying, and pounced on them like ghosts.

Under the influence of this inexplicable uneasiness, Xu Yue, who couldn't feel fear when she saw dead people during the day, suddenly hugged Xu Erniang beside her in fear.

With such a big movement, Xu Erniang was awakened, first stunned, and then the corners of her mouth curled, patting the back of her sister in her arms with both hands, and coaxing: "I'm here, I'm here." ”

Hearing the gentle reassuring voice, the strong uneasiness in Xu Yue's heart slowly eased.

At this moment, the wind outside the house suddenly became stronger, blowing the door next door "creak", and somehow, Xu Yue suddenly thought of the old man next door.

The intense uneasiness that had just been suppressed rose again!

"Sister, I want to go out and have a look next door." Xu Yue begged in a low voice, "Will you accompany me?" ”

Xu Erniang snorted, she seemed to be a person who was born to walk in the dark, and the ghostly shadow of the tree with teeth and claws could only become the background board of her glorious majesty.

Xu Yue looked at Xu Erniang, who got up to put shoes on herself, and suddenly felt that she was not so strange.

The two sisters opened the door and were about to go out, but Xu Da and Wang next door were actually awakened by the two of them and followed out.

"Daddy, Daddy?" Xu Yue didn't expect her father to be woken up.

"What are you two little girls going to do in the middle of the night? Don't you know how dangerous the night is? Wang asked with a frown.

Xu Da also looked at the two sisters with displeasure, children should look like children, and if there is something, they have to report to the adults first.

Xu Yue knew that they were worried about their safety, and said the strong uneasiness in their hearts.

"I just want to go over and see how the old man is, he's alone, a little pitiful." Xu Yue said.

But in reality, she already had a sense of foreboding.

"Let's go, Xu Da, you go get the torch." Wang quickly made up his mind.

Xu Yue was slightly stunned, Xu Da had already lit the torch and walked over, seeing her stunned face, she couldn't help but want to laugh a little, and urged with a smile:

"Let's go."

Xu Yue nodded, and the family of four walked out of the fence courtyard and walked next door.

The two families were not far apart, and they walked in a few steps to the house where Xu Yue had come during the day.

The door was open, crumbling in the wind, and the old man who had sat on the threshold was no longer here.

Looking at the dark courtyard inside the gate, Xu Da and Wang glanced at each other, asked Xu Erniang to take her young sister, and stepped in first with a torch.

The yard was empty, and the slightest useful things had been snatched away. All the way to the hall, a straw mat was exposed in front of the couple, and on the straw mat, an old man lay peacefully.

"It's dead." Xu Da said indifferently.

Xu Erniang's eyes lit up, as the saying goes, an alchemist who doesn't want to be a necromancer is not a good light magician!

Isn't this corpse in front of you the best material for the undead?

Xu Erniang excitedly led Xu Yue and was about to come forward to take a look, but Xu Yue pulled her tightly, "I don't want to see it!" ”

The big eyelids looked at her in horror, Xu Erniang's heart softened, she stopped helplessly, stroked the top of her sister's hair, and enjoyed the feeling of being dependent.

"My poor sister, the goddess of light will bless you." She smiled and comforted.

Xu Da frowned slightly, and said in his heart What kind of slang did this cheap eldest daughter say, why couldn't he understand a word?

Wang sighed, turned to his little daughter in awe, and said, "Bury it." ”

Xu Yue nodded, Xu Da's face was slightly gloomy, he didn't want to be contaminated with these senseless causes and effects.

Xu Erniang shrugged, she didn't care.

The status of the head of the Wang family cannot be shaken for the time being, she said that if she is buried, she must be buried, otherwise how can they be embarrassed to inherit the old man's "inheritance"?

Xu Erniang knew this very well, and led Xu Yue, who didn't want to face the dead old man, to rummage around the house, but unfortunately the old man's house had been robbed before, and the sisters rummaged for a long time and didn't find anything that could be used.

The darkness did not seem to affect the sight of Xu Yue's family, and the torches were left for the two sisters, and Xu Da and Wang wrapped the old man's body in straw mats and carried them out, ready to find a hillside to bury.

The Xu Yue sisters, who only got a skin water bladder at the old man's house, went home first with torches.

In ancient times, at night, he couldn't see his five fingers, and even the Wang family, who had good eyesight, could only barely see the outline, and it was all thanks to the memory of the village that he successfully walked to the small hillside at the entrance of the village.

The terrain of the whole village is relatively flat, and the surrounding mountains and forests are not high, only this small hillside is slightly higher, standing on the hillside, you can see the official road leading to Changyi County, the seat of Shanyang County, in the distance.

Xu Da and Wang dug a shallow pit and quickly buried the old man's body, and when they turned around and were about to go back, there was a movement in their ears, and the couple looked back, and their faces changed greatly!

A long fire dragon connected by torches appeared on the official road, the sound of horses' hooves galloping tens of thousands of people rolled towards Changyi, and a red and worn flag stretched wantonly in the firelight, and the fierce face of the flag bearer was shocked.

But these soldiers were not uniformly dressed, and the weapons in their hands were varied, the only thing that was uniform was that they all wore strips of black cloth around their arms.

The memories of the original body in Xu's brain surfaced, and his voice became sharp:

"Not good! It's a rebel army of bandits and rogues, go! ”