In the gray sky, there were clusters of lead-gray clouds, jagged, thick and oppressive.

The group of people who came to the village also turned from the small road to the official road to walk, and the rare low temperature for decades had already turned the official road into a frozen place, and there were white bones everywhere.

Most of the people who fled the famine on the official road were in groups of three or five as family units.

There are very few teams of dozens of people, so when the 30-odd escape team that blessed the village appeared on the official road, it still attracted the attention of the people around.

When these people's eyes saw the five carts pushed in the middle of their ranks, their lifeless eyes lit up instantly.

Although these carts have half-height sheds, they are tightly covered with black cloth.

But they seemed to be able to see that what was inside was food and drink, and they licked their lips with greed on their faces.

Seeing this, the people who came to the village were unequivocal, and they brought out the things they were holding in their hands to protect their chests, but if anyone dared to come, they would do it!

The refugees who fled the famine, when they saw this battle, could only sigh helplessly and continue to hurry, but they still couldn't help but be curious, and secretly looked at the team that blessed the village.

The leader of this team was a polite young man in his twenties, although he was on the way to escape from the wilderness, he wore a blue shirt and coat, and his black hair was tied into a bun with the same blue cloth.

The other man standing next to him looked about the same as him, but at the opposite end of the spectrum.

Wearing a gray jacket covered in mud, he was sloppy. The long hair was tied with a black cloth and a dead branch was stuck diagonally. There is also a black cloth wrapped around his left eye, which resembles the pirate robbing at sea in the picture book.

I saw that the one-eyed man who looked like a sea coward whispered a few words to the leading young man, and the leading man's face changed slightly, looked up at the sky, and then waved his hand and said, "It's not too early, let's stop here today." Everyone hurriedly lit a fire to keep warm and rested in place. ”

Hearing this, the group of people stopped beside the official road, organized a circle, and surrounded five carts in the middle.

The women started to get busy with the cooking of the fire from the cart.

The men were not idle, except for those who were on duty today, and all the rest went to the nearby mountains and forests to look for firewood and food.

Zhu Wuxian, with the support of Zhu Shunshun, got out of the board car.

After all these days of repair, the wound on her abdomen has basically healed, but she still can't work too much after being poisoned, so most of the time she is still lying on the cart.

But after all, no one knew that she was poisoned, so the people who blessed the village were still dissatisfied with her lying in the cart all day long.

As soon as she came out to breathe a sigh, there was a disgruntled discussion of the women.

"I really think of myself as a pregnant woman, look at her like that!"

"That's it! Lying in the cart all day long, refusing to walk a single step. ”

"I don't know what General Ye likes about her! What's so nice about the appearance of not having two taels of meat all over the body! It was the fat girl who also snatched her clothes at the beginning.

"Fatty! Be quiet, you don't want to die! ”

Before Zhu Wuxiao could speak, an aunt with the same fat face scolded the fat girl.

"Mother!" The fat girl still wanted to argue with her mother, but she was so frightened that Zhu Wuxiao turned around and swallowed back the words that came to her mouth.

Those gossiping women, looking at the pig-killing knife pinned to Zhu Wuxian's waist, also closed their mouths tacitly.

Zhu Wuxian raised her eyebrows with satisfaction, stretched her arms comfortably, and her small waist was tired after a day of riding on the board.

Just as she was hesitating whether to come to a section of Baduanjin, a heart-rending woman's cry came from not far away.

"Iron Egg! Iron Egg! Where are you? Don't scare your mother, come out quickly! ”

Everyone looked for a woman in her thirties, her hair combed into a bun without a strand of broken hair, and she was wearing a red cotton jacket. In addition to his anxious expression, he was very clean and tidy.

"Big brother, have you seen my iron egg?"

"Auntie, have you seen my iron egg?"

The woman asked, and everyone she asked shook their heads, sympathetic but helpless.

I lost my child in this famine year, what will be the end? Everyone knows it.

The woman's voice got closer and closer, and sure enough, she came to the place where the people of Zhujia Village were resting, and shouted loudly: "Auntie, have you seen my iron egg?" ”

"Girl, don't cry! It's pathetic. Who is Iron Egg? Your son? How old is it? ”

This woman asked no one else, it was Aunt Niu who had a holiday with Zhu Wuxiao before.

was shot by random arrows before, and blessed more than half of the dead and injured in the village, this woman is not dead! And not only did she not die, but neither did her three unsuccessful sons die.

What is the meaning of the scourge for a thousand years, I wish you all the best at this moment.

"Don't cry! Girl, don't cry. This poor thing, Tie Dan is your son? How old is it? What does it look like? ”

Aunt Niu, who wanted to eat her meat, was transformed into a bosom aunt at this time.

"Auntie, my name is Hexiang! The daughter-in-law of Linxia Village, the family fled here, and only me and Tie Dan were left! ......" The woman named Hexiang choked up: "Tie Dan is my son, who is just ten years old this year, very thin and dark-skinned. ”

"Guy just got to me!"

Hexiang reached out and gestured above her waist.

"Alas, they're all ten years old! It's a half-size, it's a pity! Aunt Niu sighed again and again.

"Isn't it? Half a strong laborer! ”

"If you don't encounter this snow disaster, in another four or five years, you will have to say that you will marry your daughter-in-law!"

The women sitting around Aunt Niu said one after another.

Isn't the focus of these women a little crooked? Shouldn't we pay attention to where the iron egg is? Why did you get the child to say goodbye?

Zhu Wuxiao looked down at Zhu Ping'an, who was standing obediently beside him, and made up his mind that he would never let him say goodbye at the age of fourteen or fifteen. How can I have passed the legal age in China.

"Auntie. Can you ask the people in your village to help me find my child? ”

Hexiang took Aunt Niu's hand, tears raining down.

"Auntie, I can't help it! Our family fled the famine, and everyone else died except me and my children! I can't do it anymore! ”

Seeing Aunt Niu's embarrassed face, Hexiang immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"Please, my aunt is a kind-hearted person when she sees you! Please! ”

Is she kind? Then you didn't see her trying to eat people.

Zhu Wuxiao complained in his heart.

"Hurry up, hurry up! That's a shame! ”

Aunt Niu hurriedly helped up the woman on the ground, and Zhu Wuxian looked over and saw that the woman's forehead was torn and blood was dripping down her face.

But the woman named Hexiang didn't react at all, and her eyes secretly glanced at the cart parked in place.

"Don't let anyone take it in, what if there's something missing?" I wish you all the best and said coldly.

"Best wishes! You're hard-hearted! Don't you see that this lady's forehead is broken? ”

Aunt Niu remembered her knocked out front teeth as soon as she saw Zhu Wuxian, and immediately choked.

Am I hard-hearted? Zhu Wuxian sneered in her heart, she forgot how human-faced and beastly she was when she instigated others to eat her own flesh.

"Aunt Niu, what nonsense are you talking about with her! She doesn't have children, how can she know what it's like to be a mother! ”

"Sister Hua, what are you talking about! Isn't she pregnant with a baby? It's been three months! Surely there is an experience! The fat girl with a face as big as the full moon said sarcastically.

Seeing that someone was helping, Aunt Niu suddenly became confident again, and helped the woman to walk to the bonfire in the circle.

Seeing this, Zhu Wuxian didn't say much, took Zhu Shunshun's hand and walked to the front of the board car where he was lying and sat down.

After a while, the men who had gone out to look for supplies came back one after another.

As soon as Aunt Niu saw Zhu Qingquan, she pulled the woman who lost the child forward, crying with tears and snot.

"What's the situation?"

Ye Nanmian, who was one-eyed, walked to Zhu Wuxian's side with a bundle of firewood and whispered.

"This woman has lost her child, and she wants to ask the people of Zhujia Village to help find it." Zhu Wuxian said coldly.

"Lost a child?" Ye Nanmian glanced at the woman not far away, "Is she a woman with a child?" I watched her cry, full of confidence. ”

Zhu Wuxiao raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect him to see it.

On the way to escape the famine, hungry and hungry, women with children are thinner and less complexion than women without children.

For women who have children, except for a few who are indifferent, leave food to their children unless they have a stutter.

And the woman's hair was tightly combed, and her clothes were clean, and her complexion was not ruddy, but it was not bad.

"Childe......" Before Adjutant Ding's voice fell, he felt Ye Nanmian's warning gaze, and hurriedly changed his words: "Virtuous son-in-law! Do you want to remind the village chief? ”

Ye Nanmian and Zhu Wuxian were both shocked by this 'virtuous son-in-law', Zhu Wuxian looked around and saw that everyone was busy with their own things, so he whispered: "Dad, you can just call him rich." Don't call a virtuous son-in-law. Remember, you call Zhu Dafa a butcher, and he calls Zhu Youqian your son-in-law. ”

"Got it!" Adjutant Ding nodded vigorously.

After getting along for so many days, Zhu Wuxiao can also see that Adjutant Ding is a kind and righteous person.

Since becoming the nominal father of the three of them, he has also taken a lot of care of Zhu Shunshun and Zhu Ping'an.

When it was his turn to pull the cart, he would also feel sorry for Zhu Shunshun, and wish them peace to sit on it. When it's not his turn to pull, he will also find an opportunity to resist the two siblings.

The children in the village, who often bullied the siblings, did not dare to bully them anymore when they saw that someone was protecting them.

So for calling him Daddy, Zhu Wuxiao didn't feel uncomfortable in his heart.

"Daughter, son-in-law. So should we remind the village chief? Zhu Dafa looked anxious.

And his 'daughter and son-in-law' looked much more relaxed, the two looked at each other, returned to the board and lay down, and the one who lit the fire continued to light the fire.

Some people only verbally persuade is useless, and they must have to endure hardships to remember for a long time.