Chapter 49: Rest in Peace

"If you want people, exchange them for food." Although they were angry, they still exchanged the people for food, and Xiang Yu did not ask for more.

Each person exchanges one pound of food. Any food will do, except tree roots and grass roots. She doesn't want these because they are everywhere in the mountains.

But Xiang Yu's action also made them understand that Xiang Yu was not the murderer, because the murderer had robbed so much food and must not be short of food.

The four children also apologized to Xiang Yu.

Half a month later, another family in the village died, also including the elderly, the weak, women and children, and all the food in the house was also looted.

The villagers didn't dare go out, and even the doors and windows were reinforced.

The village, where some noise could be heard in the past, is now completely silent.

A week later, there was a knock on the iron gate. When Xiang Yu opened the door, he saw the village chief's son standing in front of the door with paper and pen in his hand.

The two had been to the city together before and knew each other quite well. The village chief's son had red and swollen eyes, obviously having cried recently.

Seeing Xiang Yu coming out, the village chief's son wrote something on a piece of paper. Xiang Yu took a closer look and found that the upper half of the paper was full.

The records also include the names of people in the village.

"Why do you remember this?" Xiang Yu scanned the name above and had some vague guesses in his mind.

"There are too many elderly people in the village. They may not be able to withstand the severe cold and die at home without anyone noticing. From now on, I will check the village every day..."

The village chief's son moved his stiff fingers, turned around and left.

"Is the old village chief okay?" Xiang Yu called out to him.

"My father died two nights ago," he sobbed softly, but his father told him a few things before he died, and visiting those elderly people every day to check on them was one of them.

Xiang Yu was not surprised that the old village chief had died. As the temperature gradually dropped, the old man had many health problems and might not survive.

The colder the weather gets, the more problems that have accumulated in them over the years will burst out.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the village chief's son came to find Xiang Yu with three young men. After a day of visiting, he discovered that four elderly people had died in the village.

They all died at home without their children being around, and were not discovered.

Since he couldn't find anyone else in the village, he went to Xiang Yu and said, "Help me deal with the bodies of the old men. I won't let you work in vain. Give me food."

"Okay," Xiang Yu followed a few people out the door. If there was food to be taken, she would definitely go.

After all, the character is here.

The four elderly people were actually two couples. Their children were working away from home and were unable to return in time after the road was blocked by the blizzard.

Pushing open a light wooden door, several people walked in. Two old people were lying on the bed, and the stove beside the bed was filled with ashes of burnt wood.

There was no warmth in the house.

“Oh my god…” Someone stepped forward and lifted the quilt, only to find that the exposed skin of the two old people was covered with corpse spots.

But due to the low temperature, their bodies did not rot, but a faint stench could still be smelled.

Xiang Yu was of course familiar with that stench; it was the smell of a corpse.

Several people immediately covered their mouths, and one person rushed out directly, "I quit, you can find someone else..."

At this moment, he was scared and wanted to vomit. As he left, another young man in the team followed him.

Of the five-member team, only three were left.

"Whatever they do, just let them rot here," one person suggested, but the village chief's son just shook his head, indicating that if he wanted to leave, he could do so.

The man did not leave in the end, probably because there was really no food left at home.

The three men dug a pit. Xiang Yu lifted up their feet, and that man lifted up their upper bodies. Only then did they get the two bodies out and bury them.

After dealing with the four bodies, Xiang Yu got three kilograms of rice, two kilograms of potatoes and a bundle of firewood. He felt it was a good deal.

The old village chief assigned this task to his son, probably because he wanted all the elderly people in the village to be buried in peace.

As for the food given to her, it should have come from the homes of those two old people.

It was already evening when he returned home. The sky was gloomy. Xiang Yu was holding the food in his hand. After walking for a distance, he found someone following him.

The man tracked very carefully, had a strong anti-reconnaissance awareness, and tracked at a very long distance, making it difficult for ordinary people to detect him.

But Xiang Yu is not an ordinary person at all. After realizing that he was being followed by the other party, Xiang Yu did not stop at all, but only stopped every time he turned a corner.

I always glance at the direction where that person is hiding out of the corner of my eye.

Pretending that everything was normal, Xiang Yu opened the iron gate and entered the house, but the iron door was not closed immediately.

Through the tiny gap, Xiang Yu looked towards the black shadow, but it was too dark to see the man's appearance for a moment.

But judging from his figure, he should be a man, and a very strong one.

The man walked towards Xiang Yu's yard step by step. After looking around vigilantly, he went around to the back of Xiang Yu's yard and hid under the wall.

Xiang Yu pretended not to know. After putting down the things in the room, he casually moved a stool and put it down again, deliberately making some noise for him to hear.

After lighting the kerosene lamp, Xiang Yu used scissors to press down the wick. The room suddenly became dim, but people could still see things barely.

He took out a model dummy from the space, put a wig on it, and put it into the bed. After everything was done, Xiang Yu deliberately made a sound of water.

Making the other party mistakenly believe that she had already started washing up, but at this moment she was standing behind the door of the room on the right side of the living room.

After listening carefully for a while in the room where she stored firewood, she indeed heard some small noises coming from the backyard.

I guess that person climbed over the wall to get in. He could easily climb over a two-meter-high wall, so he must have some skills.

Moreover, his anti-reconnaissance ability when he was tracking was also not weak. He must be a martial artist. Xiang Yu did not dare to take the risk and directly took out his gun.

Standing in the shadow behind the door, Xiang Yu held the gun in both hands and slowed down his breathing.

Soon, half an hour passed. The other party must have been unable to wait any longer. There was a rustling sound from the door lock at the gate, and he could actually open the lock.

She had already dimmed the oil lamp in the house, the door to the living room creaked open, and the man immediately slipped into the house.

The warmth in the room gradually warmed up his frozen body.

Looking at the bulge on the sofa bed, he clenched the hammer in his hand and carefully approached the person on the bed.

With a bang, he smashed the long hair with the hammer in his hand, but the expected brain-splattering scene did not occur.

Instead, I felt a sharp pain in my back. Oh no, I was tricked.

He reacted quickly and looked towards where Xiang Yu was hiding almost instantly.