Everyone realized the seriousness of the matter and hurried back home.
Everyone just took some vegetable buns and hurried to the back of the valley. The village chief said that they should gather at the back of the valley and wait for ten minutes at most. Whoever was not there by then would have to deal with it themselves.
If you are unlucky and encounter the Sakura people who come to take revenge, you can only blame yourself for your bad luck.
Lingzi's family of five arrived the fastest because she was responsible for leading the way.
Next came the village chief's family. The village chief was usually timid and fearful of death, so at this critical moment when the whole village had to escape, of course he arrived quickly.
I saw his wife and son carrying a lot of things, big and small bags, probably even bringing the quilts from home.
Lingzi's family was dumbfounded as they watched from the sidelines. They wondered how the village chief's family managed to carry so many things and run so fast.
"If I had known, I would have brought a blanket with me. It must be cold in the cave at night."
Lingzi's mother looked back at the things her family members had brought and muttered to herself.
"In my opinion, it doesn't really matter whether you take the blanket or not. The most important thing is to bring the food. Those Sakura people will definitely leave if they can't find anyone. Are they going to live in our village?"
Lingzi's father usually loves to eat, and this time when he fled, he took all the food hidden at home.
He held a bag of rice in each hand and a bamboo basket of radishes on his back. These were all the food for his family of five.
When the Sakura people came before, he hid these things in a dry well in the yard.
Now everyone has to hide in the cave. You must take these two bags of rice and a basket of radishes with you, otherwise you won’t be at ease if others go up to the cave.
Lingzi's mother, her brother and sister-in-law, and Lingzi were all carrying some vegetables and cakes. In fact, they also brought a lot of things, except for the quilt, which should be comparable to the village chief's family.
Soon, all the villagers came in a hurry.
This time everyone had a strong sense of time, and in less than seven minutes, almost everyone in the village had arrived.
Those who had elderly and children at home were afraid that they would walk too slowly and could not catch up with the main group, so they all had the young people carry them and run over.
Now the people in this village are carrying their own supplies and running towards the mountain that Lingzi mentioned.
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What a coincidence, when all the people in Niujia Village ran to gather behind the valley, Zuo Zhi and a dozen Sakura people just arrived at the entrance of the valley of Niujia Village.
Walk a short distance inside the valley entrance and you will reach Niujia Village.
Not only was this short stretch of road very narrow, it also looked uneven, so the two pickup trucks of the Sakura people were forced to stop at the mouth of the valley.
Zuo Zhi asked the two men who had been there before to lead the way.
"Team Leader Zuo, this is the village! Not only is it poor, but the roads are also hard to walk on. Look at my shoes, they are covered with mud."
One of the men leading the way complained casually.
"You knew the road was difficult but you didn't tell me earlier. I asked my brothers to change their shoes before coming back. What's the point of you making this hindsight now?"
Zuo Zhi glared at the two people in front of him, then looked down to see that he was wearing clogs. He then looked at the road beneath his feet, which was all mud and had many small stones in some places.
The roads in this village make it difficult for them to chase anyone. I don't know how these few crouching dragons and phoenixes found this broken mountain village!
"Yes... I'm sorry, Team Leader Zuo. I... We were so anxious to find those two women that we forgot about the bad road."
Seeing that their leader looked unhappy, the two men who were leading the way quickly tried to make amends by saying that as long as they entered the village, there would not be so many pebbles on the road.
In this way, a dozen or so Sakura people walked towards Niujia Village, stepping on the pebbles along the way, making a creaking sound.
"Why do I feel like something is wrong?" Zuo Zhi, who had just arrived at the village entrance, looked around for a long time suspiciously.
The entire Niujia Village gave him the feeling that it was playing the empty city trick. It was empty everywhere, as if all the people in the village had disappeared at once.
The fire on some people's stove has just been extinguished, and when you touch it with your hand, you can still feel the residual warmth.
"Team Leader Zuo, we checked and no one is home."
A dozen brothers who were sent out by Zuo Zhi to look for people came back and said that no one was in the villager's house.
There was no one in the village, which surprised Zuo Zhi! He looked at the situation at the scene and it seemed that they left suddenly.
"Interesting! These people reacted so quickly! It seems that this small mountain village is not simple!"
Zuo Zhi pulled the corner of his mouth, with an expression of fake smile, and he felt an indescribable depression in his heart.
He wondered in his heart, with so many people in this village, where could they hide all at once?
"Go look around the village. The people here should have just left. Take off your shoes and run as fast as you can. Maybe you can catch up with them."
"Yes! Team leader!"
More than a dozen men, including the two who led the way, all took off their clogs and ran around the village barefoot.
How painful must it be to run barefoot on a mountain road?
The endurance of these Sakura people is really extraordinary. They can run very fast without shoes on their feet.
However, they were unfamiliar with the nearby terrain, and even if they ran faster than an airplane, it was of no use. In the end, they still did not find anyone in the village.
Zuo Zhi was frowning as it was getting dark and the villagers had not returned yet.
"You guys will stay in this village tonight. I'll leave a pickup truck for you. There's food in it. As soon as you see the villagers coming back, set off a signal flare."
Zuo Zhi arranged four people to guard Niujia Village. He didn't believe that so many people in the village could run away and never come back.
If these villagers were just hiding nearby, then he would definitely get something if he sent people to wait in the village.
You know what, Zuo Zhi is quite good at Chinese linguistics and he uses all kinds of idioms and colloquialisms very skillfully.
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At around six o'clock in the evening, about two hundred people from Niujia Village hid in three caves.
The village chief sent two brave young men to run down the mountain in the dark to check the situation in the village, to see if the Sakura people had come.
If they don't come, it would be a false alarm at best, and they can go home to have something hot to eat and have a good sleep at night.
Unexpectedly, the two young men came back and reported that the Sakura people were still guarding the village.
As for how many people were in the village, they had no idea. Anyway, they saw the pickup truck. The Sakura people had driven the pickup truck to steal supplies.
"Then we'll just have to stay in the cave for one night. We can talk about anything tomorrow morning."
"Xiaoyu, go to those two caves and inform everyone. Tell them that it was me who said that we should stay in the caves at night. There are Sakura people in the village."
After the village chief finished speaking, he and his family hid in the innermost part of the cave to prepare some dinner.
"Those Sakura people won't live in our village permanently, right?"
"We can't just stay in the cave forever, right? I don't have much food with me. What are we going to do after we finish eating?"
Torches had been lit in the cave by this time, and the villagers gathered in groups of three or four to discuss what to do next.
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