Chapter 228 Returning to the Village and Found that the House Was Robberized
Even though the wolves disappeared, the people of Shizi Village still didn't dare to move, because they didn't see the wolf killers come back.
In this way, one or two hundred people stayed at the bottom of the ditch until dawn, and only after they were sure that there was no danger did they continue to move into the ditch.
After walking for more than half an hour, I finally saw the sunlight.
They picked up a lot of wolf carcasses along the way. There were as many as twenty or thirty wolf carcasses, but they were all stabbed to death by swords and spears.
It was not until they got out of the Dead Man's Ditch that everyone felt like they were reborn.
Wan Laoer was the last one to come out of the Dead Man's Ditch. He was driving a ox cart and the ox kept stopping and starting, so he couldn't do anything about it.
After finally coming out of the ditch, everyone felt like they were paralyzed, staggering on the yellow earth. When the warm sun shone on their bodies, they felt like they were reborn.
Wan Laoer did not lie down, but quickly found Taurus.
"Village Chief, what happened last night? Didn't they say there was a wolf? Where is the wolf?"
Taurus also found it very strange. He clearly saw someone coming down to kill the wolves, and he did see many wolf corpses along the way, but he did not see anyone who killed the wolves.
"Someone came to rescue us last night, but they seemed to be hiding their identities and didn't want us to know. They were all dressed in black and came down directly from above our heads, killed the wolf, and then disappeared. Don't you think it's strange? I was wondering all night, who was that person?"
Wan Laoer was also confused after hearing this, but as long as everyone was safe, only Jinniu and Changfu were injured.
"Village chief, Changfu, you guys get on the ox cart and I'll take you back. The Beiliang thieves should have left tonight. Let's go back and take a look."
Taurus also planned so, and everyone supported each other and slowly went home.
After everyone's figures disappeared into the Dead Man's Ditch, a group of people in black slowly came out from another direction.
The leader was Wan Xingmo.
"Boss, the Beiliang bandits have all been wiped out. Our men suffered heavy losses, but we gained 5,000 war horses and 5,000 weapons."
"Collect the team and go back."
"yes."
Soon Wan Xingmo and his men disappeared in the endless sandstorm.
Wan Laoer and his companions stopped far away from Shizi Village. Because Jinniu and Changfu were injured, Wan Laoer volunteered, "I will go back and find out the situation. You guys wait here first."
But little Fubao held Wan Laoer and wouldn't let him go. Little Fubao was a little scared and now he is very dependent on Wan Laoer.
"Daddy, Fubao won't let you go. Fubao is afraid. Daddy won't leave."
Xiao Fubao's whole body was hanging on Wan Laoer, who looked at everyone in embarrassment. If it hadn't been for his family's ox cart blocking the road last night, everyone would have escaped. He felt a little guilty, but fortunately no one was killed.
"Good boy, Daddy will be back soon. Daddy will go back quietly to see if the bad guys have left so we can go home."
"No, Fubao won't let Dabai go. Let Dabai go in Dabai's place."
Xiao Fubao hung on Wan Laoer in a naughty way, and looked at Dabai, "Dabai, go and see if there are any bad guys in the village."
Dabai immediately stood up from the crowd, jumped directly from the ox cart to the ground, shook his fat body and ran very fast, and soon ran to the village entrance. Seeing this, Wan Laoer had to be patient and wait and see. In case Dabai couldn't do anything, he would go back to check.
But soon Dabai came with Ergou and Xiaolan.
It turned out that when they escaped last night, Ergou and Xiaolan lived at the end of the village and were the last to arrive. In addition, Yu did not come back last night, so the brother and sister became the weakest two people. Seeing that they could not escape, Ergou took Xiaolan to hide in the collapsed house that was haunted before. The two of them actually escaped because no one would think of searching a collapsed house.
"It's Xiaolan, Sister Xiaolan." Xiao Fubao saw Xiaolan from afar, quickly got off Wan Laoer, and ran towards Xiaolan.
Wan Laoer also hurried over.
"Ergou, Xiaolan, are you okay? It was so chaotic last night that I didn't even find you two siblings when I heard the enemy coming. Luckily you are okay."
Ergou was older, so he quickly said, "Uncle Wan, we are fine. The enemy came and killed a lot of people last night, but then it seemed like reinforcements came and killed all the Beiliang people. The village is now full of blood, and the bodies seem to have been dealt with by the reinforcements. The village is safe now, so you should go back quickly."
Everyone heard what Ergou said, so the family’s food was definitely saved.
After being frightened all night, everyone was finally able to catch their breath.
Wan Laoer was finally able to drive the ox cart back to his home.
As soon as he entered the house, Wan Laoer found that someone had been in the house, but it didn't seem like someone was sad, because there was a lot less food in the house.
"Mom, please take a quick look, have the things in your room been turned over?"
Old Mrs. Wan quickly got on the kang, opened the cabinet, and found that the things inside had been turned over, but nothing was missing, because she had already taken away the gold, silver and other valuables, so only some cloth was left in the cabinet.
"I looked through it, but nothing was missing. All the valuables were on me, what happened?"
"Food. We are short of several bags of food. About 500 kilograms."
Because the autumn harvest had just passed and the government had not yet come to collect taxes, the amount of grain each household had was known, so Old Lady Wan immediately asked Old Second Wan to go find the village chief.
"Second brother, go find the village chief and tell him that someone in the village took advantage of the chaos to steal food. If we wait until today and that person sells the stolen food, we will never have a chance to get it back."
Wan Laoer hurried to the village chief's house, but found that there were already people gathered at the door. They were all people who went to the Dead Man's Ditch this time. Their homes had been robbed to some extent. It seemed that the thief was the one who stayed behind.
However, no one dared to steal from the village chief's house.
Because Jinniu was injured, it was not convenient for him to beat drums and gongs, so he asked Changsheng to help gather the remaining people in the village.
"Changsheng, gather everyone at the entrance of the village. If anyone dares to disobey, just drag them over. Big brother, take a team of people to search every house. Only search those families who have not been to the Dead Man's Ditch. If anyone has extra food, write down their names and we will interrogate them in front of the whole village."
After Jinniu assigned tasks to Changsheng, he spoke to his eldest cousin Jinxi.
Jin Xi is the eldest son of the head of the Jin family. After hearing Jin Niu's words, he immediately picked twenty people at random from the crowd and divided them into two teams. The other team was led by his younger brother Jin Feng to search, which would be much faster.
After half of the people had left, Jinniu said to Wan Laoer, "Jinzhu, there is one more thing I want to trouble you with. I heard that you can read. Can you work with Mr. He to count how many people died in the village this time?"
Wan Laoer did not refuse. Only his family and the village chief's family had writing brushes, inkstones, and paper. How could other children have the opportunity to study? Their family paid a huge sum of one or two taels of silver a month to hire the village old man Mr. He to be a teacher for several children. The news had spread everywhere.
"Okay, don't worry, Village Chief. I'll go right away. You should take good care of your injuries."
Wan Laoer immediately took Mr. He and began to go door to door to compile a list of the deaths.
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