Someone died?
Su Miaomiao's heart suddenly tightened, and she asked quickly.
"What happened?"
"The second son of the Li family, Li Ermao, was killed by a waist-thick tree on the hill behind. It's said his brains were exposed and he was flattened."
"Where is the person? Can he be saved?"
"It's too late. They say he died right then and there. If our workload wasn't so heavy this year, the kid wouldn't have been so anxious. He kept chopping trees without taking a break. He was so tired that his reaction was slow, and he didn't have time to dodge."
"Master, you said that child is only eighteen this year and hasn't married yet. He encountered such an accident at such a young age. And his parents only have him as a son, and their daughter married to another village two years ago. In the future, they..."
Lu Zhenzhen choked up when she said this and couldn't continue.
When something like this happened, Su Miaomiao's first reaction was whether the person still had hope of survival, and then she felt regret.
She asked, "Where's Zhang Xing?"
"He went up the mountain," Lu Zhenzhen replied quickly. "When something happened, the master sent someone down to find Zhang Xing. He said no one dared to move, and he wanted Zhang Xing to take a look first."
It would be good if Zhang Xing went.
I feel relieved to have Zhang Xing around.
Su Miaomiao sighed, her tone serious.
"That's right. Sometimes moving the injured can cause secondary injuries."
"Yeah." Lu Zhenzhen responded with a tearful voice, wiping her tears and saying, "If Master hadn't sent someone to invite Zhang Xing, we wouldn't have known about this happening in the village."
She looked up at Su Miaomiao and asked.
"Master, you said it's all fate, but why are the lives of our villagers so worthless? When will this end?"
As Lu Zhenzhen spoke, she began to cry sadly, her thin shoulders shaking with each twitch.
She and the Li family are neighbors and have a good relationship, so she couldn't accept this reality for a while.
Su Miaomiao felt the same way, so she went forward and hugged Lu Zhenzhen in her arms to comfort her.
"We will get through this, we will!"
When she said this, she seemed to have made up her mind, and her eyes became more determined.
An hour later.
The flattened Li Ermao was placed on the door panel by two men and carried to Li Ermao's home. The two elders of the Li family were each supported by a female relative and followed beside them with heavy steps.
Su Miaomiao stopped and watched this scene. She had a bad feeling about the outcome and didn't dare to move forward easily.
At this time, Zhang Xing came back with a medicine box on his back, his eyes gloomy.
"Sister-in-law, you're back."
"Well, Li Ermao..."
Before Su Miaomiao could ask, Zhang Xing answered first.
“No more.”
It really couldn't be saved.
Although I had anticipated this and was mentally prepared, I was still shocked when I heard the exact answer.
Su Miaomiao almost fell down, but fortunately Zhang Xing was quick to support her.
After she stood firm, Zhang Xing frowned and said.
"We can't stop working even if someone is missing. What kind of bullshit rule is this? The two people who carried the body are relatives of the Li family. After they begged and pleaded with Cui Fangzheng, Cui Fangzheng finally made an exception and agreed to let them send the body back first. After dropping the body off, they have to go back to work in the mountains immediately. There is no humanity at all."
Zhang Xing has always been calm and composed, especially towards irrelevant people and things, he never has any emotional fluctuations.
Now that he is so angry, even he must not be able to bear it anymore.
After hearing this, Su Miaomiao opened her mouth, but in the end, she said nothing.
A feeling of weakness spread throughout her body and she suddenly felt very tired.
This tiredness has nothing to do with the body, but the spirit.
According to the villagers' funeral customs, the funeral would be held early the next morning.
Li Ermao died accidentally due to a stroke and was considered an unlucky person. The villagers were kind enough to let him stay at home for one night before burying him.
In fact, the deeper reason is that too many people have died suddenly in recent years. Everyone is busy performing labor service and filling their stomachs. Not only do the rules of Ningguta not allow it, they themselves have no time to waste time on the dead. Once a person dies, he will be quickly abandoned, because the living have to move forward. There is nothing they can do about it.
This is the reality. The villagers can only keep the pain of losing Li Ermao in their hearts and continue to work numbly.
The next day, all the villagers got up early and spontaneously went together to bury Li Ermao.
The coffin was bought in a hurry and was crudely made, but the villagers were already very satisfied.
Because before they made money from collecting mountain products, the dead were wrapped in straw mats and buried in a random pit.
Now that the conditions of each family in their village are better than before, they can afford coffins.
Li Ermao's parents walked in the funeral procession, and their cries were heartbreaking to hear.
"Son, you've had a miserable life in this life. Don't be reborn as a human in your next life."
"This world is full of cannibalism. Our master is also wealthy, but in the end, he still ended up stranded in this bitter cold land, at the mercy of others."
"So, no matter what kind of family you're born into, you'll be eaten. It's just a matter of time, sooner or later. No one can escape it."
"It's just a pity for you. You suffered such a great disaster at such a young age. My good child, you are gone just like that. I hate it, I hate it!"
…
Li Ermao's mother's miserable cries reached the ears of the whole village in an instant.
After hearing this, everyone in the village felt regretful, sad, and shed tears.
They cried for Li Ermao and also for themselves.
They are no different from Li Ermao, except that Li Ermao is dead and they are still alive.
After this incident, Su Miaomiao had a deeper understanding of the words "life is as worthless as grass" and "this world is cannibalistic".
This made me more determined to change all this.
It was time for Xiao Yunfei and his team to set out to cut trees on the back mountain. Cui Fangzheng and the villagers were now lining up in the open space in front of Xiao Yunfei's house, waiting to set off.
The workload was too heavy, and in order to suffer less punishment next spring, many families, regardless of gender, age or status, as long as they were able to work, lined up to go up the mountain to cut trees.
Because of Li Ermao's incident, the team was in dead silence.
Cui Fangzheng raised his wrist and looked at his watch. This watch was given to him by Xiao Yunfei and it was very useful.
The time was almost up, but Xiao Yunfei, Wu Feng and the others were nowhere to be seen.
What's going on? When they saw Xiao Yunfei and the others at the funeral just now, they followed him.
He was just about to go to Xiao Yunfei's house to urge him in person, when he heard the sound of "he he he he".
It's similar to the sound of a multi-function micro-tiller starting up.
Before he could figure out what was going on, he saw a huge creature driving out of Xiao Yunfei's yard.
This thing is as tall as two people stacked together. It has a strange shape and is made of iron all over. There is also a huge mechanical arm in front. Just looking at it makes you shocked.
"Look, it's Xiao Yunfei. The person sitting inside is Xiao Yunfei!"
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