The sound of wood attracted Lin Rui and others. When they got closer, they saw that it was the body of a little girl.
The little girl looked like she had just died. The normal skin color on her face had not completely faded, and her little hands still felt warm to the touch.
It must have just recently climbed to the shore to drink water, but then it didn't have the strength to get up and drowned here.
It sounded heartbreaking and desperate. The little girl just stretched her head from the ground to the shore to drink water. As long as she was full, she could raise her head, bend her body and take two steps back to escape danger. Even a one-year-old crawling child could do this, but she couldn't. She was so hungry that she had no strength. Her two little tufts of hair of different heights were wet and hung on both sides.
Lin Changtai frowned and shouted towards the shore: "Whose family is this child? Where is the adult? How come you didn't even know he drowned?"
The person lying opposite said, "Her family left. When they found out she had drowned, they didn't take her with them or collect her body. They just left."
this......
It doesn't seem surprising. We have seen people selling their children and girls on the road to escape famine, let alone such a dead child.
If he didn't abandon it, would he bring a corpse with him? He already had nothing to eat or drink, and carrying a corpse would not only add weight but also slow down his journey.
After all, he is their own child. Do they really expect his parents to eat him like those cannibalistic disaster victims?
Not everyone can break the moral bottom line and eat the flesh of their own kind.
Lu Sufen took a look at the poor little girl and handed Mu Tou a hoe from her home. "Mu Tou, since you found her, please send her off. Find a place to bury her and let her rest in peace."
Mu Tou nodded, bent down and picked up the little girl: "I'm sorry, little sister. In your next life, you must be born into a good family. You must keep your eyes open and don't starve to death in this chaotic world. It would be best if you were born into a wealthy family, become a daughter, have servants to serve you, and be loved by your parents."
Lu Sufen and her son each took a hoe to dig a hole. The little girl was thin, so it didn't take much effort. They finished the job in a short while. Mu Tou found his own tattered clothes and wrapped up the dead girl.
Suddenly, he exclaimed in surprise: "Mom, look, this little girl actually has a mole between her eyebrows!"
Lu Sufen took a look and found that it was indeed the case. In Linjia Village, people like to call this kind of mole Guanyin mole, which means that girls with this mole will be blessed with good fortune by the Bodhisattva.
"Yes, I am unlucky in this life. I hope I can be born into a blessed family in my next life, kid."
Lu Sufen sighed, let the wood wrap the little girl and buried her, and also built a small grave.
The ancients believed in being buried in peace, so as to avoid becoming a wandering ghost in the underworld.
Lin Rui and Lin Zijun also asked the disaster victims who were also fleeing famine nearby, and learned that this place was very close to Baixing Town, only about twenty miles away. As long as they walked faster, they could arrive before evening today.
Finally, we were about to reach the end of this escape from famine. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, knowing that they could finally survive.
The people and cattle rested for half an hour, and then everyone started to get busy and prepare to set off.
Lin Changtai and Lin Changshou were in a good mood this time and even hummed a little tune.
Baixing Town and Baituo Town are the only two places that must be passed through to reach Huangmo Pass. If they walk in a straight line, they will first pass through the city of Baixing Town.
The border cities cannot be compared with the majestic cities like Linjing in the Central Plains, as their area is several times smaller.
Especially the town of Baixing, which looks like a small street in a modern 18th-tier city. After Lin Rui and others walked in, they found that it was dilapidated. There was no one on the entire street, as if they had walked into a dead town.
This made Lin Changshou and the others, who had desperately walked here, lose their guard: "Where are the people? Where are the people? Where did the people inside go?"
Lin Zijun and Lin Zikun came out of a house, holding their noses, and said with bitter faces, "Chief, Chief, come and see!"
When Lin Rui and San Liang walked in, they saw that the person lying on the simple bed had dried up like a human, as if he had been dead for a long time.
"Chief!"
“Chief, this is also the case!”
In an empty small town, half of the ten households had corpses lying on their beds. There was no trace of ferocity on their faces, and they passed away peacefully.
It was as if he had accepted the fact and disappeared along with this old place without any worries.
After looking around, Lin Rui also discovered a clue. That is, the people left behind in this town waiting to die were all dying old people. All the young people and children were nowhere to be seen. Did they already go to Huangmo Pass?
At this moment, the weather suddenly changed, dark clouds gathered overhead, and it looked like a heavy rain was about to fall.
Lin Rui said: "First, find a house without corpses to spend the night!"
"Okay!" After knowing that these were the corpses of old people who died willingly, everyone's courage, which had already been trained to be very strong, suddenly became fearless. In this world, people eat each other, so how could they be afraid of ghosts?
Gao Zening of the Gao family waved to everyone in the teahouse across the street: "Patriarch, come to this teahouse. It's spacious and there's even a kitchen!"
After Lin Rui and the others had all moved to the teahouse, the rain suddenly began to pour down, and then a strong wind began to blow. It was similar to the storm that the Lin family had encountered in Lianshan before, and the weather suddenly turned cold.
The temperature, which was originally around 30 to 40 degrees during the day, began to drop sharply after the first day in Baixing Town. The teahouse was unoccupied and under renovation, so the doors and windows that were in good condition when I entered were blown off the window and door frames with a bang by the strong wind.
The wind carrying raindrops blew in immediately, making a whistling sound, and the wet and cold raindrops blew onto everyone's exposed face and body.
Second Sister Lin quickly covered Qingqing's little face with her clothes, covering her tightly.
Gao Yumin immediately took his family to fix the windows and wooden doors. Otherwise, if such heavy rain continued for a whole night, everyone in the teahouse would not even be able to light a fire and would freeze to death!
Lin Zijun and Lin Zicheng also brought their brothers to help. Everyone worked together and finally sealed the doors and windows of the teahouse.
Lin Changxi and Sanliang pulled the ox cart from the small road to the kitchen to use as a temporary cowshed.
As the weather grew colder, everyone took out the blankets they had brought from home and wrapped themselves up as a family. They lit a fire, and with so many people around, the feeling of cold was finally reduced a lot.
It's summer in a second and winter in a second without any hesitation or transition period. God is trying to kill the victims!
Lin Rui felt that he, who had a golden finger, was living such a miserable life, not to mention the refugees who were struggling in such an environment.
Everyone ate a few quick meals in the evening and hid in their quilts, shivering. The weather had suddenly become so cold. The rain outside kept hitting the doors and windows, and leaked in through the gaps. Chen Mei reluctantly pulled a piece of unworn clothes from home to block the gaps. It was because their sleeping places were so close!
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