Volume I, Chapter 19: Discussion of the Plan
After a while, Xu Da came to Xu's house, and according to the usual practice, everyone sat around the fire, but this time there was another Zhao Jin.
"Changzhong County is one of the counties we didn't like to pass through when we used to walk darts, the county officials here did not act, the people were often oppressed during the Taiping period, and bandits were rampant, these bandits robbed homes and houses all year round, and there were a lot of lives on their hands. But this is where we have to go. ”
Chen Sihuai pointed to the map brought by Zhao Jin and said to them, and Wang Er also spoke:
"I used to go out with my companions to sell goods and avoid Changzhong County, this place is not very peaceful, the mountain roads are rugged, and I have indeed heard that there are bandits in this place, these bandits are afraid that they will be more rampant in disaster years, if we meet these bandits on the road, how can it be good."
After listening to Chen Sihuai and Wang Er's words, Xu Wen pondered for a while and glanced at Xu Yunqing.
"Grandpa Chen, how long will it take for us to leave tomorrow to enter the bandit-infested realm."
Xu Yunqing asked Chen Sihuai first, because he felt that Chen Sihuai's tone was wrong when he talked about bandits and county orders just now, but he was smart and didn't ask much.
"It will take about two and a half days, and Changzhong County is much larger than Dafang County."
"In that case, let's set off tomorrow and walk all the way here, find a hidden place to rest here, and then trouble Uncle Zhao's guards to touch the uncles in the village to see the situation on the road ahead."
Xu Yunqing pointed to a place, about twenty kilometers away from the first bandit's den, and then said to them, Xu Wen also nodded, obviously agreeing with his statement.
"Okay, there is a mountain forest in this place, the concealment is okay, we can camp here, and it is far from the bandits' den."
Chen Sihuai obviously knew this road very well, and he didn't know if he used to pass by darts often, and after agreeing on the plan, they left the Xu family.
Xu Yunjin called all her family members to surround her, and took out a few packets of medicinal powder from her pocket, which made her a little worried about the safety of her family during the day today.
"This is a drug I bought on the farm, I added chili powder to it, it will keep their eyes open, each of you take good care of it, if we encounter any danger on the way, just scatter them and run away."
There are chili peppers in this world, but they are only grown in large quantities in the southwest region, and the northern region is dry and easy to get hot when eaten, so few people grow them and they do not sell them.
Xu Yunjin, who is fond of spicy food, has not eaten spicy dishes for several years, and he only occasionally throws some dogwood into the dishes when cooking at home.
The Xu family took the medicine powder and put it in their purses seriously, and the purses that Xu Yunmeng practiced when he was resting recently were hung on the Xu family's bodies.
"Daddy, the guards of Uncle Zhao's family will definitely be the most powerful at that time, you take these hemostatic drugs and powder to Uncle Zhao, and let him distribute them to those guards."
Xu Yunjin assigned his father a task again, and it was most appropriate for Xu Wen to do this.
Xu Yunjin can see that Zhao Jin has an inexplicable trust in his father.
There is no need to explain the origin of these things to him, if it weren't for the good relationship between Zhao Jin and the Xu family, she would have ...... Confused.
After distributing the powder to them, Xu Yunjin thought about it, and still bought two daggers from the farm and handed them to Xu Yunqing and Xu Yunnan.
Xu Yunjin didn't want them to see blood on their hands at a young age, but the road ahead was not easy.
They may encounter more dangerous things in the future, so Xu Yunjin still gave each of them a dagger.
The Xu family watched this scene silently and did not stop it, and the two brothers did not say anything, and carefully put away the dagger.
The people of Dazhai Village have been following them not far and not close before, although they can't get rid of it, but they have always been very peaceful.
Two days later, they were still thirty kilometers away from the bandits' den, and everyone froze in place, unable to move at the miserable scene in front of them.
Because this place is full of corpses, I don't know how many days have passed, the corpses have begun to decompose, and there is a stench in the air.
There were overturned carts everywhere, and some rag sacks were thrown on the ground.
There were no bodies of children or women on the ground, so it can be seen that they were all taken by the bandits, and the women were taken away for good reason.
Children who don't have to eat are taken away, so ...... Thinking of a possibility, some people's faces became very ugly.
"Wow Wow Wow ......"
When I saw the dead people all over the ground, many of the children were so frightened that they opened their mouths to cry.
Immediately the adult next to him covered his mouth.,It's very close to the bandits.,What if it's heard.。
"Let's go, let's go to the woods ahead first, the people here don't know how long they've been dead, it's not safe."
Looking at the stunned villagers, Xu Yunjin scolded them and told them not to touch anything on the ground.
The group sped up to avoid the corpse and walked forward for half an hour before reaching the woods.
"Vomit ......"
Xu Yunmeng finished vomiting the contents of her stomach, and leaned on Li's shoulder weakly, and when she just passed by, she wanted to vomit.
I had to hurry to endure it until now, and after stopping, I couldn't stand it anymore and vomited out all the contents of my stomach.
The faces of the others are not very good-looking, although Xu Yunjin is calm on the surface, he is still frightened by this scene in his heart.
This kind of thing, she has thought about all the way, it may be starved to death, it may be exhausted by thirst.
But I didn't expect that I was not killed by natural disasters and wars, but by my own people.
Xu Yunjin's heart was constantly churning at the moment, and something in his heart seemed to rush out.
At night, several figures came out of the Xu family's camp, went from the Xu family to the Zhao family's team, led the two horses given by the Zhao family, and quietly walked out of the station.
After walking for two miles, Xu Wucai took Xu Yunnan, and Xu Wen also took Xu Yunjin to ride on a horse and ran to the place where the body was found in the daytime, and the two brothers of the Xu family can ride horses.
Hundreds of corpses were placed there, the weather was so big, Xu Yunjin was a little worried, so he discussed with his family after dinner, and wanted to go and bury them, but the Xu family had no opinion, and the four of them set off in the middle of the night.
Several people stopped not far from the body, and Xu Yunjin bought several protective suits, protective shields, masks and gloves from the system.
Taking out two hoes and shovels, the four of them dug the pit with a hum, and after half an hour, the two rows of big pits were dug up.
"Dad, big uncle, you pour quicklime water in the pit first, and then move the corpse in."
Quicklime is mixed with water in proportion and has a certain disinfection effect.
She wanted to burn this place directly, but Xiao Yi said that the smoke would be found by the bandits, and someone would definitely come to check it at that time, and it was risky, so she changed it to lime water.
It didn't take long for the lime water to be splashed, and it took the four of them two quarters of an hour to bury all the bodies in the pit, and for the sake of safety, Xu Yunjin poured a lot of lime water into the pit before burying the pit.
Xu Yunjin looked at the two rows of grave bags on the side of the road that were slightly above the ground, took a step back and bowed.
This is the only thing she can do for them, and she only wishes them peace and joy in the afterlife.
Xu Wen and the others also bowed to Xu Yunjin, and Xu Yunjin bought one hundred and twenty-three wooden cards on the farm and inserted them in front of the earthen pit.
They had just counted one hundred and twenty-three in all, and it looked like a tomb, and when they were done, they rode back to the camp.