Everyone was heartbroken at the loss of so much food.
Those whose food had been stolen chased the man for hundreds of meters but couldn't catch him, so they could only walk back cursing.
"What a bunch of damn things, they even steal food. Why don't they choke to death?" Old Mrs. Wu said cursingly.
I just counted how much food was stolen from her house.
They couldn't get the food back, so they could only continue on their journey, thinking that once they reached the city, the prince would definitely find a good place for them.
However, misfortunes never come alone.
When they were resting at night, something happened again.
They found a suitable place to rest, had a simple meal and then went to bed.
As usual, Shen Lizheng arranged five people to keep watch.
But after the others went to bed, the five men also dozed off as before.
Nothing had ever happened at night before, so they took it for granted that there would be no accidents.
So when a group of people came quietly over, the nearly two hundred people in Shenjia Village were unaware and were still sleeping soundly.
In the moonlight, one can see many people walking quietly in the distance, their eyes greedily looking towards the place where the people of Shenjia Village rested.
What they were looking at, besides the food, were the children sleeping soundly next to their adults!
"Ahhh, someone is snatching the child!" A woman's scream woke up the group of people who were sleeping.
The woman desperately grabbed the child who was almost snatched away.
The severe pain in his arm also made the child cry out.
"Waaaaa~ It hurts. It hurts so much." The child kept repeating the same sentence over and over again.
But it was this sharp cry that completely woke up the people of Shenjia Village who were still confused and had no idea what was happening.
As soon as those people saw that they had all woken up, they knew that if they delayed any further they would lose everything they had already obtained.
One person immediately shouted, "Everyone run."
After saying this, the man who was still fighting with the woman for the child dropped the child, picked up the bag on the ground, and turned and ran away.
The woman cried bitterly while holding her child who was almost taken away.
At this time, the others who had reacted also started shouting.
"Catch the thief! My food has been stolen."
"My grandson is missing. He must have been taken away by those people just now. Everyone, please help me find my child!"
For a moment, cries, calls for help, and shouts of curses were mixed together.
They just sat there crying and didn't try to catch up with those people as quickly as possible.
By the time they got up crying and tried to retrieve the lost food and children, those people had already fled in all directions.
It was dark at night and they had no idea where to find those people.
The woman who snatched the child back was very grateful. Fortunately, she woke up when she sensed the movement around her, so the child was not lost.
But others were obviously not so lucky.
The home of old lady Wu, who had suffered a series of disasters, was now in chaos. They felt it was too hot and stuffy to lie inside, so their resting place was at the very outside of the crowd, and it also became the first place visited by those who came to steal things.
Her grandson was only six and a half years old. Just when she heard the shouting, she saw a black shadow quickly pick up her grandson and run away.
But she hadn't even realized what was happening, and by the time she realized what was happening, her grandson was gone.
In addition to Old Lady Wu's family, there were two other families whose children were lost, and the rest had the most food stolen.
"God damn it, they're still coming after we already robbed them this afternoon, what a bunch of black-hearted bastards."
The silent night became completely noisy.
Old Lady Wu and the other two families who had lost their children couldn't find their children and had no place to vent their grief.
Suddenly I remembered that they had someone on guard at night. Where was that person?
Why didn’t they wake them up in advance when a thief came just now?
If they had been woken up, this wouldn't have happened.
Old Lady Wu got up from the ground and blurted out, "Whoever keeps watch tonight, you have to pay for my grandson."
The other families who had lost their children and food finally found a way to vent their anger and gathered around those who were keeping watch.
The five people who were on guard were dumbfounded when they saw this. They were afraid that they would be blamed for this, so they hurriedly shirked responsibility.
"It's not us. It's already late at night. The other five people should be on guard. So this has nothing to do with us."
"It's not our fault. When it was our turn to keep watch, the people from the previous shift should have called us, but they didn't."
Both sides insisted on their own opinions and neither was willing to take the blame.
When old lady Wu saw that her son was among the people keeping watch today, she went up and slapped him twice.
"You bastard, your son has been taken away and you are still sleeping, I will beat you to death!"
After she slapped them twice, it was as if a strange button was turned on for everyone.
It doesn't matter who is right or wrong.
Everyone rushed forward and started beating and kicking the ten people who were supposed to be on guard that night.
The farce gradually calmed down at dawn.
The strength in everyone's hearts relaxed and they sat on the ground in a daze.
They had a huge fight that night, but neither of them had the courage to say they wanted to go alone.
Even with so many of them together they couldn't stop being robbed twice in one day, let alone with so much food after they separated.
Only at this moment did they realize how lucky they were to be traveling with Mr. Shen's family.
They thought that there would be no more robbers since they were almost at the provincial capital, so when Shen Xiucai and his men said they were going south, they didn't even try to persuade them to stay.
A woman who had lost her child sobbed and said, "In this year of famine, what's the point of taking the child away? Isn't that just one more person's food?"
A voice explained: "They have no food at all, so they can't do anything. Have you forgotten that the people in the robbers' den eat human flesh?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the people who had lost their children broke down and cried loudly.
I originally thought that the child was stolen to raise by a childless family, but at least the child was still alive.
But, but if this is used as food...
Besides, the Shen family heading south was peaceful, but Shen Yu'an, who had just returned from a trip, got into trouble.
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