An hour later, Wen Fu and a few villagers returned in vain, not only did they not find the horses and mules, but they also did not find the pigs and cattle that the Jiangjia villagers put into the forest.

Jiang Laohan sighed, but soon stopped being entangled.

As long as people are there, those things are just things outside the body, and you can buy them when you make money later.

It wasn't until evening that all the people in the cave were freed.

People from Jiangjia Village returned to the village one after another.

After Uncle Jiang knew that his younger brother's family was also going back to the village, he sighed and said goodbye to his younger brother in tears.

But as soon as I entered the village, I found that the whole village had been burned down, and not a single house was intact.

The villagers sat beside the ruins and cried loudly, and some people actually counted Jiang Saburo's family.

"If it weren't for them, how would we have suffered such a disaster."

"That's it! They didn't come, our village is fine, now it's good, it's all over! ”

Jiang Jiu couldn't listen to it anymore, and said angrily: "Enough! Didn't you go to the next village? Or go further afield! Is there any village like ours that has not had a single casualty? If my brother hadn't come to warn me all night, you would have died in the house! Can you still cry here? ”

"Humph! A pack of white-eyed wolves! Uncle Jiang snorted coldly: "My nephew shouldn't have saved you!" ”

Jiang Dahu sighed, "Okay, okay, don't cry, the villains are here, the house is soft, hurry up and think about building a house, it's going to freeze, what's the use of you complaining here!" ”

"Build a house? What if the first-class bandits come again? ”

"yes, wouldn't it be in vain if the first-class bandits came?"

Jiang Dahu glared: "Then you won't come here to cry bandits?" ”

Uncle Jiang rolled his eyes: "It's up to you whether you build a house or not, the weather is getting colder and colder, when the time comes, you can make a hole and live with the blind mice, and the bandits in the province will work in vain!" ”

Villagers: ......

Let's talk about Patriarch Chen and Jiang Laohan and his party.

Wang Dashan returned with a message.

"The bandits are all going to the county seat!"

Wang Dashan took a sip of the water handed by Jiang Cheng and said, "I saw with my own eyes, many people holding beast tooth flags, as well as mule and horse carts, and there were thousands of people in Wuyang. ”

Jiang Laohan frowned: "Go to the county seat?" Are they trying to attack the county seat? ”

Patriarch Chen also had a solemn face, "No wonder the villages were swept away, it turned out that they wanted to prepare grain and grass before attacking the city." ”

"It's terrible. My eldest brother and Erlang haven't come back until now, I don't know if they were taken away. The more Jiang Laohan thought about it, the more scared he became.

Patriarch Chen: "Don't guess anything, let's go back to the village quickly." If they can't see anyone when they come back, they will definitely go back to the village, and they can't stay here for a long time. ”

"Okay, let's go back to the village first."

Everyone got up with the futon and the only food left, and followed Jiang Laohan's family to Chen Village.

Jiangjia Village is twenty miles away from Chen Village, but that is the distance of the official road, and if you walk from the trail, it will be more than twenty miles.

At this moment, it was already dark, and they only dared to light two torches to move forward, one end and the other to illuminate everyone.

No one in the whole team made a noise, even Wen Tian didn't squeak, just because Lin gave a bracelet to a villager and asked him to walk with Wen Tian on his back.

When they encountered villages along the way, they avoided it far away, and even the torches were extinguished, so everyone hurried with their heads buried in the shallow foot.

Finally, in the middle of the night, I arrived at Chen Village.

From a distance, the village was pitch black, and there was not even the sound of dogs barking.

Patriarch Chen found Jiang Laohan to discuss, "You can't enter the village at this time, you have to let someone go to explore the situation first." ”

Jiang Laohan nodded, "Okay!" Why don't you go to the south slope first, there is a far away from the village, and there is a bamboo forest, if there are no bandits stationed, everyone will live in my house first. ”

"Okay, that's it." Patriarch Chen immediately nodded in agreement.

Autumn nights are cold, sleeping in the wild is not good, many people don't even have bedding, if you freeze overnight, you can't get sick, it is good to have a shelter from the wind and rain.

So Wang Dashan and a villager ran into the darkness and went to the south slope to check if there were any bandits.

They came back in less than half an hour, and said to Jiang Laohan in a wordless way: "There are indeed no bandits in Nanpo, but your house has been burned. ”

Jiang Laohan was stunned for a moment, and his heart instantly ached to the point of dripping blood, "It's all burned?" ”

Wang Dashan nodded, "Third Uncle Jiang's house is fine, only the stove room was burned, but the main house was not damaged much." ”

Chunniang breathed a sigh of relief when she heard it.

Jiang Laohan was silent for a moment and said, "Then let's go to Nanpo quickly." "It's late at night, and in an hour or two it should be dawn.

"Okay, let's go." Patriarch Chen took the lead and walked forward, feeling very uncomfortable.

Even the Jiang family's house on the southern slope was burned, but what about their own? Alas, what a disaster.

The group soon arrived at Jiang's house on Nanpo.

Through the moonlight, the once neat tiled house was already dilapidated.

It's okay for Jiang Saburo's house, although the stove room was burned, but only one corner of the three big tile houses was destroyed, as long as a few tiles were repaired, there should be no big problem.

Chun Niang was the first to run into the house, only to see that the house was in a mess, there were ashes and burn marks on the ground, as well as discarded rags, and there was a mess on the kang in the house, as if many people had slept on it.

All kinds of leftover bones and food scraps were thrown to the ground, even on the kang.

The most painful thing for Chunniang is that the furniture and other things at home are gone.

However, the floor tile where the silver is buried in the corner of the room has not been moved, which makes Chun Niang happy and worried, but she can't dig it up and check it at this time.

Find a broom in the yard to clean the earthen kang, spread the futon brought back on the kang, let the mother-in-law, sister-in-law, second sister-in-law and two nieces sleep on the kang first, and take the little girl and two sons to squeeze next to it.

Everything will be talked about tomorrow, and after the road in the middle of the night, they are almost exhausted and collapsed.

The other room was also full of women and children, and Mrs. Wen took her daughter and grandmother and many women to huddle on the cherry blossom kang.

The men lay on the floor in the hall and barely lasted until dawn the next day.

At this time, it was already three poles in the sun, and when Yingbao got up, he saw two large iron pots in his yard, and the pots were full of two large pots of rice porridge.

Grandpa and Patriarch Chen sat under the eaves of the porch and listened to Wang Dashan's report on the situation in the village.

"There are no bandits in the village, but many houses have been burned."

"Has anyone from the village come back?" Patriarch Chen asked.

Wang Dashan: "A few families have already returned and are cleaning the house. ”

Patriarch Chen brushed his beard and asked, "My house was also burned?" ”

"That's not true, but the third grandfather's house was burned down several times."

Wang Dashan Niang stuck her head out of the window and asked, "Dashan, what about our family?" ”

Wang Dashan: "It's also burned." ”

Dashan Niang's brows furrowed, but she was not very sad, because her family built a house here on the south slope, although there is still only a frame, but the bricks and wood bought by her family are well piled on the south slope.

Since the house in the village was burned, he simply didn't go back, so he lived in a wall frame and waited for her husband to come home and put the roof on.

Also thinking like her are Li Dayong and Li Eryong's family, because they have also built a house on the southern slope, and they have not yet had time to build a roof.

When the bandits first came out, the blind old father insisted on letting them send him to the south slope, and then he stayed alone in the south slope wall, living on the dry food and water left by his son.

Early this morning, Li Dao and Li He went to look for their grandfather on the wall frame of their house, but they didn't expect that the blind grandfather was not killed by the bandits, and there was no shortage of food.

Not only is it no less, but there is also a small bag of rice.

According to the blind grandfather, a man gave him a bag of food and told him to live well.