"This is too tragic!" A member of the Tai family couldn't bear it any longer and said with a sob, causing everyone to burst into tears.
Everyone is born with the love of their parents and family, hoping for a smooth and peaceful life with plenty of food and drink. But no one can see the road ahead. Who knows that after enduring natural disasters and famines, they will eventually die at the hands of foreign invaders?
The home is gone, the house is gone, and the relatives are gone!
"Woo, woo, how am I going to live from now on?"
"Daddy and Mommy, woooo, I want Daddy and Mommy!"
Everyone in Sancha River was crying their hearts out, and Taijiacun and the others were there with them, feeling extremely fortunate. Sometimes, a single thought can determine a blessing or a curse.
At this time, a group of Tunhewei soldiers came galloping over, shouting, "Why aren't you leaving? The Russian devils have all scattered, and there's no way they can all be caught. Who knows when they'll show up again! Hide quickly, or the few people left will be killed!"
"Let's go!" Old Master Tai waved his hand and asked everyone to help the young and old onto the horses and quickly head towards the foot of the mountain where his home was.
He planned to go to the wooden house halfway up the mountain to settle everyone down for a while, and then send them to the valley, or stay there temporarily until the Russian devils were cleared out.
Where there are people, there are strange things. Fifty-three people survived in Sancha River, including a fat woman. Her house was half burned down, but she still insisted on going home to pack her luggage.
"No, let's go to my house first. I haven't picked up my new coat yet, and there are also the chickens I raise..."
The Tai family man couldn't help but yell, "It's already this late, and you're still thinking about your chickens and ducks? Why didn't you agree when I asked you to go into the mountains together? Now you're worried about your family's wealth! The Rakshasa devils may come back at any time, and let everyone risk waiting for you!"
The fat woman had lost her husband and child, and now she felt she was being bullied. She wailed at the top of her lungs, "The Rakshasa devils killed my husband and child! Woohoo! You bully me too! I'll be a widow in the future, so what if I want to take my things with me to live? If you had told us beforehand that the Rakshasa devils were coming to kill, why wouldn't we have followed them into the mountains? You hid well, leaving us behind to get slaughtered!"
This is a complaint!
Are you blaming your savior before you're even out of danger?
I really don’t know whether to call her stupid or call her an ungrateful person!
Old Master Tai's face also turned cold. He spoke loudly to the people of Sancha River, "When we were about to go into the mountains, I told your Village Chief Dong everything clearly. You refused to leave, and instead, your Village Chief Dong was so angry that he went up the mountain himself. Now that you are in trouble, you can't blame anyone else.
"At such a dangerous time, our fellow villagers from several villages risked their lives to come here. To be honest, who doesn't fear death? But we still came because we have been neighbors for many years!
"But if you don't appreciate it and cause trouble at this time, then just pretend we were never here and you can just watch over it yourself!"
The rest of the Tai family and the people from Zhangjia Village and Liujia Village also looked unhappy. No one wanted to work for nothing!
The young and old who were still alive in Dongjia Village quickly spoke up and shouted.
"Uncle Tai, don't be angry. We can't thank you enough for saving our lives."
"Yeah, let's go quickly, as long as we can survive!"
The fat woman saw that she had incurred public outrage, but she refused to give in and defended herself, saying, "I just wanted to pick up a few things. It won't take long."
Unfortunately, Mr. Tai had lost his patience. He pulled the fat woman off the horse with his own hands, threw her to the side of the road, and then shouted.
"Let's go, hurry up and get going!"
Everyone felt refreshed, and immediately patted their horses' butts and hurried on their way!
The fat woman was stunned by the fall. She finally got up and wanted to catch up with the others to save her life, but she was also thinking about getting her things. While she was hesitating, the horse team had gone far away and disappeared into the night.
She sat down on the ground, crying and cursing, "You have no conscience! You bullied me and made me a widow! My father, please open your eyes and look! Your wife is being bullied to death!"
Unfortunately, her deceased husband could not speak, otherwise he would have been the first to scold her.
Just now, when the thieves entered the village, she happened to go to the toilet. When she heard the bad noise, she not only did not report it, but was the first to get into the water tank and escaped the hacking and arson!
It can be said that all the family members died at her hands. Otherwise, if they had hidden in time, at least two more people could have survived!
Who gave her the nerve to run here and cry?
Let’s not talk about this heartless guy, let’s just say that Grandpa Tai and others led the surviving villagers of Dongjia Village all the way to their own village, and then climbed up to the wooden house in the dark.
Everyone sat on the warm kang again and drank hot water, and finally felt like they had escaped death.
The children couldn't help crying again, while the old people thought more.
Although they suffered the same disaster, their village was devastated, while the Tai family was unscathed. There was a reason for such a sharp contrast.
Although the Tai family lived a good life, they also did not forget to prepare for bad days.
The young and old men in the village and the veterans are all good at following orders. There is a refuge in the mountains. There is a temporary wooden house halfway up the mountain. It is well built and has all the necessary supplies.
Think about their village...
Old Master Tai was worried about hearing some noise in the mountains. Even though his family was scared, he called a few villagers to go back and report the news after daybreak.
The main reason is that the people in Sanchahe want Village Chief Dong to make arrangements. He doesn't want to interfere in other people's affairs. If things go well, no one will thank him, and if things go badly, he will be blamed.
Actually, the old man's worries were misplaced. In the valley a few mountains away, the crying and noise from the village could not be heard at all.
During the day, everyone cleaned the valley, picked up stones to pave the path, fetched water and mud to make repairs, and after dark they heated the kang and cooked porridge for meals. Men, women, young and old were all very tired.
Almost as soon as the night watch rotations were arranged, the rest of the people went straight to bed.
The cave allocated to the Tai family was quite spacious. Tai Jiye and his men built a large kang in the cave, hung a straw mat in the middle as a partition, and built an earthen stove at the head of the kang, with an iron pot on it. They could boil water and cook porridge by directly heating the kang.
There is a large temporary wooden table near the door, which provides support when cooking and cutting vegetables, and people can sit around it when eating.
Half of the cave entrance was built with a stone wall to block the wind, and the other half was hung with two layers of straw curtains for easy entry and exit. Behind the straw curtains was a large, short wicker basket covered with an old quilt, which served as Zhimaqiu's makeshift bed. This way, he could lie down while guarding the cave at night.
Zhuzhu, the precious baby, was naturally protected by the whole family. She slept at the innermost side of the cave, with Yang Lihua and Liu Dongniang on her left and right, for fear that the fat girl would be blown by the wind or scared by insects that appeared from somewhere.
Even if the earthen kang became cold in the second half of the night, she wouldn't feel cold because of the body temperature of Yang Lihua and Liu Dongniang.
It is true that young people do not know the taste of sorrow.
For the villagers, seeking refuge in the mountains is a helpless act, and they always feel uneasy when leaving the village.
But for the children, living in a different place is extremely novel, just like camping.
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