Li Erlin didn't think about this aspect at first, but after listening to Li Ping'an's words, when he looked at the sleeve of the shirt on that arm, the more he looked at it, the more familiar it became.

Chen Dazhu's brothers stood on the spot in disbelief as if they had been struck by lightning, and then Chen Dazhu woke up, hurriedly stepped forward to squeeze Zhang Yu away, knelt on his knees and pulled up the dirt and stones like crazy, and the second and third pillars immediately followed.

Zhang Yu sat on the ground when he was squeezed away by Chen Dazhu, but he was not annoyed, silently stood up and took a few steps back, watching quietly like everyone else.

They all know that the village chief Chen An and Chen Dazhu's father are cousins of the same grandfather. Speaking of which, Li Ping'an still had to call Chen An his grandfather, and it was also because of this relationship that when he couldn't buy food in the county, Li Ping'an would subconsciously ask him for help when he saw Chen An.

Soon, the buried person's head was dug out first, and before he could clean up the dirt and gravel on his face, just looking at the general outline, he could determine that the buried person was Chen An.

"Amber!" Chen Dazhu wailed, his face showed grief, and he put his trembling hand under Zhang An's nose, and after a while, he collapsed to the ground, crying.

Immediately afterwards, Erzhu and Sanzhu also cried out in grief, and their faces couldn't tell whether it was rain or tears.

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became solemn and depressing, Li Ping'an hung his head, and his chin was tightly pressed against his collarbone.

Obviously, they were still alive at the gate of the city just now, but when they saw it again, they were already separated by heaven and man. There was grief in his heart, and there was self-blame. He was thinking, if he hadn't asked the village chief and grandfather to help ask for food just now, or if he could persuade the village chief and grandfather to wait for them to leave together, one step earlier or one step later, would the village chief and grandfather not have encountered a landslide?

It's just that no matter how he assumed, the body of the village chief lay in front of him like this.

"Don't be stunned, hurry up and dig a way, and we will take the village chief back!"

Li Erlin's deep voice was slightly hoarse, and he felt very uncomfortable, when their family settled in Xiaochen Village, the village chief of Xiaochen Village was still Chen An's father, and the village chief's family helped them as outsiders, not to mention that when they couldn't buy rice and grain in the city just now, it was Chen An who came forward to keep them from returning in vain.

In this case, being able to eat one stone of grain for a month is indeed life-saving food.

It's just that it's already dark, and if they don't hurry up and find a way, they will have to spend the night here. They could not spend the night in the wilderness, and they had to bring back the body of the village chief as soon as possible.

With a heavy heart, everyone continued to dig forward with their bare hands, and when it was just dark, the torrential rain that had been falling for most of the night and the whole day finally turned into a drizzle. Fortunately, Li Erlin was worried that he might go home in the dark before he set off, so he brought torches and fire folds, and the group kept digging the way home under the light of the fire.

I don't know how long it took, the hungry Li Ping'an numbly raised his head to see how far he had to dig, but he saw a little fire in the distance, and he was stunned for a moment, he pointed ahead and shouted in a loud voice: "Dad, someone, someone!" ”

Everyone looked up, and saw that the firelight seemed to be coming towards them, and Zhang Yu said, "I'll take the mountain to see!" ”

He was a hunter and often went up to the mountains to hunt, and he was the most agile and the most capable of all the people here. The fire in front of him was constantly moving, and he didn't know who was holding the torch, whether it was as a force or the eldest, he had the responsibility to go and observe.

Zhang Dashan followed him to learn martial arts when he was a child, and when he was seven or eight years old, he followed him to the mountains to hunt, and his skills were not bad. The reason why I brought them with me was also because I thought that if the visitor was not good, someone would be able to come back and inform everyone.

The father and son quietly walked forward, and soon approached the torch team, Zhang Dashan's eyes were sharp, and when he saw the familiar face reflected in the firelight in front of him, he whispered in surprise: "Dad, do you see if that is Songbo?" ”

Zhang Yu stopped, squinted his eyes and looked fixedly, and found that the person in front was indeed Chen Song, the eldest son of the village chief Chen An, and the heart that he had been carrying finally fell. Just thinking that the village chief had died, his heart sank again.

"I've finally found you!"

When the two sides met, Chen Song, who saw Zhang Yu and Zhang Dashan's father and son, was relieved, and then saw that there were only two of them, and they were covered with dirt, so he frowned and asked worriedly: "Didn't you say that you went to the county to buy grain, how did you get covered in mud?" What about Dazhu and Erlin? ”

Zhang Yu didn't know how to tell the news of the death of Village Chief Chen Song, so he was silent for a while, and could only reply first: "On the way back, we encountered a collapsed mountain, and we couldn't get over, so we dug the road until now." When I see your fire, come and see what is going on. ”

Chen Song asked anxiously, "Are everyone else okay?" ”

"We're fine, it's just ......" Zhang Yu slurred, his voice getting quieter and quieter.

When Chen Song heard that they were all fine, his worries were completely put down, and he turned his head and shouted to the villagers behind him, asking everyone to go and help dig the road. He didn't pay attention to Zhang Yu's abnormality.

The villagers were enthusiastic, and more than a dozen people hugged Zhang Yu and his son and walked towards the location of the collapsed mountain, some asked them whether the price of grain in the grain store in the city had risen, and some told them about the current situation in the village.

From the mouths of the villagers, Zhang Yu knew that the village had not suffered a flash flood, but when the next day came, the stream swelled, and the paddy fields in the village had been completely submerged, but fortunately, it did not flood the village.

Now everyone in the village has moved to Wubei Mountain with their belongings, and there is no one in the village except for the village chief and their group who went to buy grain. Seeing that they hadn't come back after dark, Chen Song organized people to look for them all the way along the official road.

Zhang Yu learned that the villagers were looking for them, his eyes suddenly moistened, and he found Chen Song and choked up and said: "Brother Song, the village chief, the village chief is ......."

"Don't worry about my father, he told the family when he left, if the rain is still too heavy, he will spend the night at the younger brother's place." Chen Song never thought that his father would have an accident, his younger brother Chen Bai was on an errand in the county government, and rented a small courtyard in the county seat, it was not surprising that his father lived with his younger brother for one night, he also thought that Zhang Yu was worried about his father, so he interrupted Zhang Yu's words to let him relax.

Zhang Yu was very angry in his heart, on the one hand, he was angry that he was not good at speaking, and on the other hand, he was angry with Chen Song's urgency, no wonder the village chief didn't let him go to the county government office on an errand but let Chen Bai go.

Zhang Dashan was also speechless about his father's stumbling appearance, so he said for his father: "The village chief is gone." ”

"If it's gone, it's gone...... What did you say? Chen Song didn't react at first, but suddenly realized that something was wrong, the whole person was stunned for a moment, one hand tightly grasped Zhang Dashan's arm, his fingers were white, obviously he had exhausted his strength, his eyes were round, and his gaze was like a sword stabbing at Zhang Dashan, "What does it mean that it's gone?" ”

The villagers, who were originally in high spirits, also suddenly quieted down, and there were so many people, but they were silent.

Zhang Dashan felt that Chen Song's fingers were about to pierce his flesh, he gritted his teeth and squeezed out the words hard.

"The village chief died, he was buried in the mud from the collapse of the mountain, and we dug up his body when we dug the road."