Chapter 2: Rushing for food
The screaming sound was particularly permeating in the silent night, and Lu Yan couldn't help but think of the words of the crazy woman during the day, and got goosebumps.
At this moment, the screams rang out again, and after several successive sounds, fell silent.
"It seems to be the voice of that crazy woman, is it going crazy again?"
Lu Yan pondered.
Then he tightened his clothes, pushed open the door and walked to the living room, and saw that Lu Qingshan and Wang Cui were also in the living room.
Lu Qingshan was quite calm, but Wang Cui was a little nervous.
The three of them did not speak, and waited in the living room for a while, but did not hear the scream again.
"It should be that crazy woman who is crazy, it's okay, Yan'er, you go to sleep, call us if there's anything."
Lu Aoshan Road.
"Dad, mother, you go to bed early."
Lu Qingshan answered, walked into the room, closed the door, and lay down in his clothes.
This time, it was even more difficult to fall asleep, and the mad woman's words lingered in my ears and could not be dispersed, until finally I was really sleepy and could not fall asleep again.
Nothing happened overnight.
The next day, Lu Qingshan entered Woniu Mountain early in the morning to hunt, and Wang Cui went to dig in the field with a hoe, preparing to plant potatoes, so that Lu Yan could rest and recuperate at home.
Lu Yan ate a bowl of porridge, then walked around the village and saw several old villagers gathering together to chat.
"Uncles, do you know where the aunt who went crazy yesterday lives?"
Lu Yan stepped forward to inquire.
"If you want to find Aunt Niu, you don't have to go, I will live next door to her house, Aunt Niu went crazy last night and ran out of the village, and his family chased him out of the village and has not returned."
An old man said.
"The whole family ran out? Didn't anyone come back? ”
"Nope!"
Old man said.
"Strange!"
Lu Yan pondered.
Generally speaking, even if you want to chase a crazy woman, you should leave one person to watch the house, why did the family chase them all out and didn't return all night.
In the wilderness of this world, it is not safe at night, poisonous insects and beasts are infested, and on the way to exile, he saw many people being bitten to death by wild beasts and dragged away, and he himself almost died in the mouth of a fierce beast.
Regardless of whether the madwoman is chased or not, he should return to the village as soon as possible, and he will not return all night?
Could it be that after the family chased them out, they were all bitten to death by wild beasts?
Or is there another reason?
Gate valve Liu.
Lu Yan's heart moved.
Yesterday, the madwoman shouted in front of everyone that today, the whole family will disappear, which is too much of a coincidence.
If it was really done by the gate valve Liu, why did it do it?
Aunt Niu's words yesterday?
Just because of the crazy words of a crazy woman, why should it be?
On the other hand, if it was really done by Liu, it would prove that Aunt Niu's words yesterday were true.
Thinking of this, a chill rose from Lu Yan's heart.
The villagers in the empty houses in the mountain village are all dead, but not under the plague, but by ghosts.
The ghost asks for his life, Lu Yan didn't believe it before, but such an outrageous thing has happened, what else is impossible?
What's more, in this world, there is such extraordinary power as martial arts, and it is normal for other outrageous things to happen.
"Uncle, was Aunt Niu crazy before?"
Lu Yan took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and asked.
An unnatural look flashed across the faces of several villagers, but they quickly covered it up.
"I wasn't crazy before, but in the plague before, all her children died of illness, and since then, I've been crazy, talking crazy all day long, baby, don't take it to heart."
It was the old man who answered.
"Uncle, did there really happen a plague here before?"
Lu Yan suddenly asked.
"Naturally, it's true, many acquaintances are gone."
The old man sighed.
Lu Yan asked a few more questions, but did not get any useful information.
But Lu Yan always felt that something was wrong in his heart, but he couldn't say what was wrong, he had too little information.
"If you come, you will be safe, let's take one step at a time, and be cautious in the future."
Lu Yan said secretly.
As for moving out of the mountain village, it is not realistic.
Their family, all registered, belong to the villagers of the backing village, while the other villages are full, and even if they want to move to other villages, they will be turned away.
As for Changfeng City, it is even more unrealistic, the price of any house in the city is astronomical for them.
Afterwards, Lu Yan walked around the village again, carefully observing, but did not find anything unusual.
In the evening, Lu Qingshan came back from the mountains and brought back a small basket of wild fruits and six or seven wild sweet potatoes.
Lu Yan checked it, and each wild sweet potato weighed more than a catty.
Wild sweet potatoes are widely distributed in the mountains of the original owner's hometown, but since the natural disaster, even the turf has been dug up.
The area around Changfeng City has not been affected, and the people have surplus food, and they rarely go into the mountains to find food, so it is considered to be 'rich in products', and wild vegetables, wild fruits, and wild sweet potatoes are not difficult to find.
"Look..."
Lu Qingshan opened a bundle of dry firewood and took out a pheasant.
The pheasant is very fat, about three pounds.
"The master, you really hunted pheasants, you can make up for Yan'er's body today."
Wang Cuixi smiled, and Lu Yan's stomach growled a few times.
"Damn, you clean up the pheasants, be careful not to be seen by others, I'll cut down some stinky trees."
After Lu Qingshan finished speaking, he walked out with a firewood knife, and soon after, he came back with a large bundle of emerald green branches on his back and spread it around the kitchen.
The stinky tree, a plant that is not found on earth, emits a pungent smell and spreads around the kitchen to mask the aroma of stew.
The rest of the village didn't even have enough brown rice, let alone meat, and once they knew that they had hunted pheasants, they would be envious and jealous, and maybe they would do something like stealing chickens and dogs, so it was better to be careful.
It wasn't until it was completely dark that Wang Cui cut half a chicken and stewed it with wild sweet potatoes, and the rich fragrance made Lu Yan secrete saliva frantically.
"Yan'er, you eat more, if you are in charge, you have to go into the mountains to hunt, and eat more."
After cooking, Wang Cui gave Lu Yan and Lu Qingshan a big bowl, which was mostly chicken, and he only had a small bowl, most of which were wild sweet potatoes.
"Mother, this chicken leg is for you, it's too much, I can't finish it."
Lu Yan wanted to clip a chicken leg to Wang Cui.
He knew that Wang Cui was also working hard to dig the ground during the day, and he didn't do anything as a family.
Mainly, he has just been seriously ill, his body is weak, and he can't do anything for the time being.
"Yan'er, you haven't recovered from a serious illness, it's time to replenish your body, you have to eat more, my mother is enough."
Wang Cui pushed Lu Yan's chicken leg back.
"Yes, Yan'er, you eat more, my father has eaten wild fruits in the mountains, and he is not hungry, so give some to your mother."
Lu Qingshan took a few pieces of chicken from his bowl and gave them to Wang Cui.
Lu Yan couldn't resist the second elder, so he could only eat it in a big gulp, and the only thing he could do now was to take care of his body as soon as possible, so that he could share some of the burden for the second elder.
This meal was the most fragrant meal that Lu Yan had eaten in this world.
The village was quiet tonight and there was nothing unusual about it.
Early in the morning of the second day, Lu Qingshan still went into the mountains to hunt, picking wild fruits and vegetables, and Wang Cui still went to dig the ground.
On this day, Aunt Niu's family still didn't come back, as if they had evaporated out of thin air.
Time flies like a white horse, and in the blink of an eye, ten days have passed.
In the past ten days, the village was very quiet, nothing abnormal happened, and the trace of uneasiness in Lu Yan's heart gradually dissipated.
Lu Qingshan doesn't harvest every day, but on average, he can always bring back a wild thing, or pheasant, or hare...
With the nourishment of meat, Lu Yan's health improved very quickly, and after ten days, he had completely recovered and his mental outlook was refreshed.
At this time, Lu Yan came up with the idea of learning hunting with Lu Qingshan.
If you want to survive in this world, you can't do it without a skill.
You can't practice martial arts for the time being, but it's okay to learn to hunt.
Hunting includes archery, which can protect oneself at critical moments, and on the way to exile, Lu Qingshan relied on a hunting bow many times to deter other people with bad intentions.
After breakfast on this day, Lu Yan just wanted to speak, but he heard crying not far away.
"It's the voice of the sister-in-law."
"What's going on?"
"Check it out."
Lu Qingshan took the hunting bow and pushed the door out, and Lu Yan and Wang Cui followed out.
Sister-in-law's house is next door to them, more than ten meters apart, and when they walked outside the door, they saw several big men walking out of Sister-in-law's house, carrying a few bags in their hands, and they knew that there was food inside.
"Leave us some food, you all take it, how can our family live."
A woman chased after her, crying out loudly.
"Get out of here, shout again to break your legs."
A big man slapped his sister-in-law in the face, staggered back, and sat on the ground with half of her face high and swollen.
"Mother, mother, what's wrong with you, woo woo."
A seven or eight-year-old thin little girl ran out, hugged her sister-in-law's arm and cried helplessly.
"It's them."
Lu Yan gritted his teeth secretly.
These men, whom he knew, were notorious scoundrels and robbers on the way to exile.
The three are named Wu Chaofeng, Li Shi and Li Mu.
It is said that the three of them have been apprentices in the martial arts hall for several years, although they have not learned anything famous, but they are also very rivals, especially Wu Chaofeng, who is headed by Wu Chaofeng, who has brute strength and sharp fist skills, and three or four big men can't enter the body.
On the way to exile, they were lazy and lazy, never looking for food themselves, and once others found food, they would take it by force.
Some people were robbed of food and starved to death.
The three of them also wanted to snatch Lu Yan's food, but were finally startled back by Lu Qingshan's hunting bow.
Now it is clear that the borrowed food has been squandered, and it is beginning to focus on other people's food again.
Wu Chaofeng also saw Lu Qingshan, Lu Yan and Wang Cui, stretched out his tongue and licked his lips, a thick malice flashed in his eyes, and then strode towards them.
"Yan'er, stand back."
Lu Qingshan stopped Lu Yan behind him, holding a hunting bow in his hand, and waited for him.