Chapter 46 Two-legged Sheep
Liu Fuyi and Wan Liqing did stay, and not only that, they also got a mule cart.
One of the empty mule carts that was carrying grain was given to them, and the other horse-drawn carriage went to Zhou Yunshu.
The joining of Liu Fuyi and Wan Liqing did not attract much attention. Except for eating, they basically would not leave their mule carts in the team, and their presence was very low.
The patrol team did not send anyone back to look for the villagers of Dujia Village who had fallen behind, and Du Youtian and his team did not arrange for anyone to go back.
Except for those who took the initiative to catch up, Du Youtian and the others seemed to have forgotten those who fell behind, and started to hurry on their way without saying a word.
This time they traveled very fast, fearing that they would be overtaken by the unknown refugees behind them. As for those who fell behind, they never mentioned them again.
Facts have proved that crisis brings motivation. The journey that originally took two days can now be covered in one and a half days. On the third day, they passed by a village, but it was still empty.
However, although it was an empty village, there were signs of human activity in the village. In the yard closest to the village entrance, Wei Zhong and others found traces of people making fire.
It is just not clear whether the people who lit the fire in the village were refugees or locals.
After Wei Zhong and his patrol team patrolled the village and found no one else, they arranged for the team to rest in the first four courtyards at the entrance of the village.
Zhou Yunshu and her group rested in a yard with Doctor Xue, Manager Liang, Wei Zhong and others.
They cooked their own food at night. They had enough food and happened to live in the same yard, so they cooked together.
Li Jialan cooked dinner together with Liang Zhanggui's wife Li Dani, Liang Lao San's wife Fang Ye Zi, and Liang Lao Si's wife Dong Hehua.
The staple food is the rare dry rice, served with dried vegetable egg drop soup, preserved vegetable and bacon, and fried potato shreds with sausage.
The three dishes are limited in quantity, but you can eat more rice.
Zhou Yunshu, Wei Zhong and Manager Liang were holding their bowls and discussing how to proceed safely in the open space next to the fire when a scream suddenly came from outside the yard.
Wei Zhong stood up suddenly, especially after the scream, several more were heard.
Zhou Yunshu listened to the noisy sounds outside and silently took a mouthful of rice. Why is there never a moment of peace and quiet in these days?
"I'm going to see what's going on outside."
After Wei Zhong finished speaking, Zhou Yunshu nodded and continued eating.
Seeing Zhou Yunshu so calm, Shopkeeper Liang calmed himself down and sat down again, continuing what he had just said.
"After passing this dilapidated temple, walk another ten miles to the village at the foot of the mountain. Although this village is small, most people make a living by hunting. When my father was still alive, he often went to this village to buy furs."
"Are you sure you still know the way?"
Zhou Yunshu asked this because Shopkeeper Liang said that the last time he walked this mountain road was five years ago. A lot can change in five years, let alone a mountain road.
Shopkeeper Liang didn't insist he wasn't mistaken, but simply said, "I've walked this route back and forth seven or eight times. If nothing has changed, I wouldn't be mistaken."
"Also, I always feel that the people in the village below the mountain are still here. They live off the mountain, so they won't die of thirst so easily. They might even live better than the people in Anshan County."
"So what I thought was that when we get there, we can pay the hunters from the village down the mountain to lead us."
Shopkeeper Liang pointed to the simple map on the ground and continued, "If we don't go up the mountain, it might take us another half a month to go around here."
"You've seen how irrational those disaster victims are. The disaster is especially severe southward, and the people are bound to be even more frantic. Rather than being stared at like a piece of fat meat by them, we should go into the mountains. At least the wild animals there will be afraid of us when they see so many of us."
Zhou Yunshu nodded, and Wei Zhong also figured out what happened outside and walked in.
Du Mazi also came in with Wei Zhong. Du Mazi usually had a dark face, but at this moment he was so scared that his face turned pale.
Shopkeeper Liang looked at Du Mazi's pale face and Wei Zhong's gloomy face and asked, "What happened?"
Wei Zhong took a deep breath and said, "Someone went to the back of the yard to urinate and accidentally stepped on some bones. When they lit a fire, they saw a head of a person who had died not long ago, and next to that were clean human bones."
Wei Zhong looked at Zhou Yunshu and the other person in front of him, who were thinking for a while and then reacted immediately, and swallowed the words he had not finished saying.
The head was not a complete one. It had been tortured so badly that its original appearance could not be seen. The people who saw it were frightened and fainted on the ground.
Even he looked away immediately after taking a look. It was hard to imagine what kind of horrific things that person had experienced in his life.
"Two-legged sheep." Shopkeeper Liang uttered these two words tremblingly.
Wei Zhong was about to speak when Du Mazi suddenly ran to the side and started vomiting violently, making the faces of several people around him turn green.
Du Mazi wanted to strangle himself at this moment. Why did he love to join in the fun? If he hadn't moved forward, he wouldn't have seen the head of the person who died with his eyes open and in a tragic state.
He didn't dare to close his eyes now. Once he closed his eyes, the head with bulging eyeballs and almost unrecognizable original features would stare at him.
Zhou Yunshu exhaled deeply and said, "Keep everyone in the team under control and intensify patrols. We'll leave as soon as possible after daybreak."
Anyone who knows that there are such a group of beasts living around would not be able to sleep well.
In order to let everyone have enough rest, this matter was not publicized that night. Wei Zhong only briefly talked about it the next morning after everyone had finished their meal.
The elderly in the team were fine, as they had a slightly stronger psychological ability to accept things. However, many of the young people changed their expressions, and the women even restrained their children, not daring to let them leave their sight for a moment.
It was under such low pressure that the entire team left the deserted village and moved forward. Not long after they left, several people with bows and arrows came to the village.
One of them looked at the footprints and the human bones on the ground, kicked the stone in front of him away, and said in frustration: "Damn it, they still got away!"
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Because of the human bones, there was no sound in the team the entire day.
Zhou Yunshu was holding her child and telling stories in the carriage. Outside, the cars of Wei Zhong, Manager Liang and others tightly protected her and Doctor Xue's cars in the middle.
As the sun was setting, Zhou Yunshu came out of the carriage to get some fresh air. Shopkeeper Liang pointed to a dilapidated temple not far away with smoke rising from it and said in surprise, "Mr. Zhou, we've arrived at the dilapidated temple!"
Zhou Yunshu was not as happy as Manager Liang. She frowned as she looked at the smoke rising in the distance. Something was wrong.
If it was a caravan, there would definitely be mule carts or horse carriages parked outside, but no, there was nothing, only smoke from cooking and an indescribable fragrance in the air.
A questioning voice suddenly came from the crowd.
"Whose family is stewing meat?"
“It smells so good!”
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