Li Erlin took the sack that Li Ping'an was carrying on his shoulders and put it on the cart and piled it on top, and took out something wrapped in oil paper from his arms, "Ruyi shouted hungry just now, I bought a few meat buns, which are reserved for you." ”

Li Ping'an opened it and saw that there were three buns inside, one of which had been eaten, and it was not difficult to guess that Xiao Ruyi had no appetite after eating.

Li Erlin is such a strong laborer, there is no reason why a bun will eat half and leave half, and it can only be a small Ruyi.

Li Ping'an was the last to come back, and he picked up a bun and devoured it, and Chen Song shouted home in a hoarse voice.

"Dad, why didn't you see Uncle Abai? Won't he go back? Li Ping'an glanced at the young woman and her two children, and recognized them as Chen Bai's daughter-in-law and two sons.

Li Erlin's face sank, and when he passed through the city gate and walked away, he lowered his voice and said, "Ah Bai is gone, just on the cart pulled by the village chief." ”

Li Ping'an's footsteps paused, and then he moved again, looking at Chen Song's back in front of him, his heart was full of mixed feelings.

In the past two days, one thing after another, he felt out of breath. However, Chen Song was even more miserable, in less than twelve hours, first there was no father, and now there was no brother, and he was the only adult strong man left in the family.

The pace of the return journey was far less brisk than when it came, and everyone was solemn and silent, pulling the cart and pushing the cart, and the movement looked a little numb. When they came out, no one thought that when they went back, in addition to food, they would also bring Chen Bai's body.

When she saw Chen Bai's body, Mrs. Chen, who was in her prime, couldn't stand the blow of another white-headed person sending a black-haired person in a short period of time, and fainted.

The village chief's house was in a mess again, and the cries were endless, especially the cries of several children, so immature and sharp, like thorns pierced in everyone's hearts.

A sad atmosphere enveloped the whole greenhouse, and everyone was close to each other, and many people could be seen kneeling with their hands folded, praying with sad faces to God to let them go.

After the families took the grain back, the villagers gathered around the village chief's house, which was covered by several floors inside and out, and the patriarch and clan elders sighed and had no intention of dispersing the crowd.

After a long time, Mrs. Chen woke up, looked at the two bodies on the ground, and said bitterly: "Carry it and bury it, bury it." ”

After speaking, it was as if he had drained all the strength of his body, his body was paralyzed, and he couldn't see any vitality in his eyes, and the whole portrait was covered with a layer of gray, like a gloomy sky.

The ancestral grave of the Chen clan is on the hill behind the house, and to the east of the big grass hut where they now live, there is still some distance to go up.

Fortunately, the house at the foot of the mountain was not flooded, and the villagers surnamed Chen sent a few people down the mountain to carry out a coffin from the village chief's house, which was originally prepared by Mrs. Chen for herself, but she didn't use it, but her son used it first.

As for Chen Bai's coffin, it was originally prepared for himself by the patriarch Chen Zheng, and he offered to bury Chen Bai.

There was no funeral, but two coffins were carried to the ancestral grave of the Chen family, two pits were dug, the coffins were put into the pits, and the soil was buried.

Chen Song knelt on the ground and burned the paper money, and said secretly sad in his heart: Dad, little brother, I have wronged you for the time being, and when I get through this difficulty, I will hold a beautiful funeral for you.

After burning the paper money, he kowtowed a few more times, gritted his teeth, got up, turned around, and left resolutely.

At the moment, he has more important and urgent things to tell you.

When he returned to the hut, he had people call every household in the village who could be in charge of the house, and gather at the place where they would assemble before they set out in the morning. At this time, everyone was idle, and after a while, hundreds of people gathered in the open space outside the grass hut, some of them were specially called to the head of the house, and some came to join in the fun and wanted to hear what was going on.

However, although there were many people, there was a bustling and black oppression, but no one turned their heads to each other, and their dark and vicissitudes of life were covered with unsolvable melancholy.

"Uncles, brothers!"

Chen Song's voice became even more hoarse, he shouted at the top of his voice, and everyone's eyes were focused on him.

Arching his hand, Chen Song then raised his voice and said: "I heard the news, the granary in the county was attacked by a group of bandits last night, and my younger brother Chen Bai happened to be on duty in the yali......"

It turned out that last night, a group of bandits with weapons suddenly appeared near the granary and attacked the granary, and the officials on duty had a fierce fight with the bandits, and the sound of the fight woke up the people nearby, and they were suddenly panicked and shouted. The granary was not far from the county government, and I had already faintly heard the sound, and I met the fleeing people who came to ask for help.

Chen Bai's errand in the county government is a scribe in the house, yesterday the rainstorm did not stop, Qingfeng County was affected by the disaster in many places, he was working overtime to count the damage situation, at first glance I heard that there was actually a gang of bandits to attack the granary, and hurriedly followed the official to help, unfortunately died under the knife of the bandits in the fight.

The remnants of the bandits probably saw that the government was receiving more and more support, and knew that the operation had failed, so they simply set fire to the granary and fled in chaos, and when most of the officials arrived, the fire in the granary could not be extinguished, and it was not extinguished until dawn this morning, and all the grain in the silo was reduced to ashes.

Because the bandits appeared suddenly, and the goal was clear, it seemed to have been premeditated, and the retreat seemed to be missing in a blink of an eye, the government suspected that the people near the granary were suspected of harboring the bandits, and there might even be accomplices, and before the fire was extinguished, all the surrounding people were arrested.

This is also the reason why Li Ping'an can't see a few people on many streets in the city, and they don't dare to go out at all.

As soon as Chen Song finished speaking, the crowd exploded.

At present, the summer grain harvest is out of order, grain prices are soaring, and the grain stored in the government's granary is not only used for disaster relief, but also has the effect of selling at a low price to curb grain prices.

For a moment, the breath of despair spread like a tide.

The government has no food relief, and the price of grain in the grain store is one price a day, what should they do when they finish eating the surplus grain at home?

At this time, Chen Song said again: "Don't worry, the county lord has sent someone to report the disaster situation and the arson of the granary by bandits to the state government, the state government will not sit idly by, today we bought grain, save a little food, and after a while we can wait for the grain sent by the state government, as long as the government has food, the price of grain will not rise!" ”

When the villagers heard this, their faces softened a little.

Li Ping'an breathed a sigh of relief for a moment, but soon asked Li Erlin in a pessimistic whisper: "Dad, do you think the government will really take care of us?" ”

Li Erlin rubbed his face, "Now I can only trust the government!" ”

Can you only believe it?

Is it worth believing?

Li Ping'an suddenly missed the life of his previous life, and he believed in the government and soldiers of his previous life more than the government of this era. The strength of that trust, even if a soldier pointed a gun at him, he believed that there was an enemy behind him.

At this time, the situation in another place was different from the gloomy atmosphere on the mountain behind Xiao Chen's village house.