Boss Jiang was so happy to receive the praise from his little girl, but he had to pretend to be calm on the surface. He coughed lightly and waved his hand, "Go and see if there is anything you need to bring. Dad will call you when we leave later."

"Okay, Dad."

Jiang Huaixu trotted over to Jiang Wei and Jiang Fu.

"Little sister, I want to go to town too..." Jiang Wei said pitifully.

Jiang Huaixu: "Your feet don't hurt anymore?"

Jiang Wei pursed her lips and didn't want to talk anymore.

His eyes swept over the two of them, and Jiang Huaixu hooked his finger at them mysteriously.

"I have something important for you two to do."

Jiang Wei and Jiang Fu looked at each other and hurried over.

The three of them whispered for a long time until Boss Jiang shouted loudly. Jiang Huaixu stood up and said, "Do you understand?"

"I understand!" Jiang Wei nodded repeatedly with sparkling eyes, her face full of excitement.

Jiang Fu hesitated, "Second cousin, what if I..."

Jiang Huaixu interrupted Jiang Fu's weak words, "There's no such thing as a catastrophe. At worst, they'll just quarrel. It's nothing for children to quarrel a little. It won't have much impact on either family. Don't worry too much."

As she spoke, she threw a small cloth bag to Jiang Wei, "There's some mosquito repellent in it. Light it up when you go to bed. I'm leaving!"

After saying that, she ran towards Boss Jiang who was waiting for her.

"Dad, let's go!"

"Xu Jie'er, come here, Dad will carry you for a while." As Boss Jiang said this, he was about to squat down, but Jiang Huaixu hurriedly stopped him.

Boss Jiang had been carrying food for a whole day and was much more tired than her, not to mention that she recovered her strength quickly.

"Dad, I can walk, don't worry. Let's hurry up, or it will be dark soon."

After hearing this, Boss Jiang felt a sense of urgency and stepped forward.

After walking along the path for more than half an hour, the two passed a village. It was dinner time, but there was no smoke rising from the village. From afar, they could see mud piled up at the door of the house facing the path, covering the threshold. No one had cleaned it, and the door was half-open.

A strange feeling flashed through Jiang Huaixu's mind. Unlike Shili Village, this village was a large one, and the terrain was higher. Logically speaking, as long as the house did not collapse, one could hide in one's own house to avoid the flood. In this case, it was a bit weird that there was no sign of living people in this village.

【Tuanzi, is there anyone nearby? 】

[Are you talking about a living person or a dead person?] Fu Tuan scratched his ear with his claws.

[Both.]

【There are no living people, only dead people.】

Jiang Huaixu stopped suddenly.

"Dad, are you hungry?"

When Boss Jiang saw the little girl suddenly stop and move forward, he took out two sausages and biscuits from his bag.

"We'll eat as we walk. Take these."

Jiang Huaixu was slightly stunned. Every time she took out biscuits and sausages, she distributed them according to the number of people. Logically speaking, based on Boss Jiang's appetite, there wouldn't be so much left.

"Dad, didn't you finish what you gave me earlier?"

Boss Jiang laughed heartily, "I'm used to eating pancakes, so I'll leave these for you. Take them quickly!"

As he said this, he was about to stuff the sausage and biscuits into Jiang Huaixu's arms.

Jiang Huaixu's eyes were hazy for a moment. She remembered that when she was a child and her family was not so well off, her parents seemed to have done something like this, leaving all the delicious food for her.

Even though sometimes love that is too self-sacrificing may be a burden to the recipient, it is undeniable that it is love.

"Dad, I took these out just to eat with my family. If you don't eat them, I'll be sad." Jiang Huaixu said bluntly, "I'm going to ask for a drink of water. Think about whether you did the right thing."

Boss Jiang was stunned by what he said. When he came to his senses, he saw that the little girl was already walking towards the house closest to them, and hurriedly followed her.

He followed the little girl somewhat helplessly, whispering, "Xu Jie'er, it's Daddy, Daddy wasn't thoughtful enough. Sigh. I was just thinking that if we finished eating all the food in the little house, I'd eat less and save some..."

"Dad, we're just escaping a year's famine. The food in this little house is enough for us to eat, so don't worry." Jiang Huaixu paused. "Please wait outside first. I'll go in and see if anyone is there."

Only then did Boss Jiang realize that the two men had already walked to the outside of the courtyard wall of a house on the edge of Niutou Village. He hurriedly nodded in response.

After seeing the little girl's back disappear at the door, he carefully put away the sausage and pancake, took two steps forward and looked into the yard.

When he saw this, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know what it was.

At the same time, Jiang Huaixu, who had walked into the yard, had already entered the main house of the family. A thin old woman was lying on the floor of the main house. She had been stabbed several times, and the blood under her body had spread to the door, and the color had turned dark brown.

The room was already filled with the stench of corpses. She covered her mouth and nose, squatted in front of the old woman, and briefly checked her wounds. She found that the old woman had been dead for about two or three days, and her body was covered with knife wounds, not with a kitchen knife or a dagger.

The time of death and the knife wounds on the body... She had some guesses in her mind, but she didn't dare to jump to conclusions.

After checking the east and west rooms, they found the bodies of three children. The children were not very old and were obviously the old man's grandchildren.

Finally, I went out of the main house and checked the kitchen, but no other bodies were found.

After leaving the kitchen, Jiang Huaixu saw Jiang Laoda peeking in from outside the courtyard gate. Seeing her, he hurriedly asked, "Xu Jie'er, what's going on? Is there no one here?"

Jiang Huaixu walked quickly to Boss Jiang and said, "Dad, come with me."

She pulled Boss Jiang's arm and walked out the door. As soon as she opened her mouth, she said something that made Boss Jiang shudder -

"Dad, are you afraid of the dead?"

Boss Jiang was so frightened that he started stuttering, "Xu, Xu Jie'er, w-what are you saying? Who is a good person who is not afraid of death?"

Jiang Huaixu: ······I always feel like an arrow has inexplicably hit my chest.

"Did something happen to this family? Did they drown?" Seeing the serious expression on the young girl's face, Boss Jiang couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

It's not surprising that people died after the flood.

Jiang Huaixu nodded: "This family was wiped out. A mother-in-law and three children were hacked to death."

Boss Jiang was shocked, "What?!"

Before Boss Jiang could fully digest the news, Jiang Huaixu dropped another bombshell, "I suspect everyone in this village has been murdered."

“This, this…”

Boss Jiang kept saying this for a long time but couldn't make out what he was talking about. His face flushed red and he stomped his feet and pulled Jiang Huaixu to go back.

Jiang Huaixu didn't even use a third of his strength to pull Jiang Lao Da back, "Dad, we can't go back. Have you forgotten that we still have to go to town?"

"Well, let's go quickly. If we wait until dark..." Boss Jiang looked at the sun hanging on the edge of the sky and was about to fall. He couldn't help but shudder, and goose bumps stood up all over his body.

"Let's go, let's hurry up. We'll be in town soon after passing through this village." He pulled Jiang Huaixu and was about to walk forward.