After Wang Laoliu said this, his cloudy eyes gradually became dull.
Amidst the cries of grief, a life disappeared silently.
At this time, there is no need to worry about feng shui or tracing one's ancestry, just find a place to bury the body.
Aunt Wang Liu cried heart-wrenchingly, as if she was not the one who just stopped Wang Laoliu from drinking the last sip of water.
Although she was cruel, Su Man couldn't comment on whether she was right or wrong.
What is necessary in peacetime becomes a luxury in years of famine.
This is not only a test of their survival, but also a test of human nature.
Those things that could be hidden on normal days were exposed at this moment. Aunt Wang Liu used to marry Wang Man to a man who didn't exist in order to save money for her son to marry a wife, but now she can disown her as her daughter for the sake of her son.
Su Man looked at the place where Wang Laoliu was buried. In order to avoid being seen by others, there was no mark, as if he had never been buried.
...
Thanks to the eggs Suman brought back, they finally had a full meal.
That night, after the villagers went to bed, the village chief quietly left the team, carrying a small bag on his back.
Under the tree, Su Man, lying next to Grandma Zhou, looked in the direction the village chief left and sighed.
There is no need to guess why the village chief secretly left in the middle of the night. He must have gone to find his little grandson who had not returned yet.
The villagers have reached their limit. There is not enough food to eat. Everything edible and even the bark of the trees has been picked. If they stay any longer, they will just wait to die.
Even though the hope of finding his grandson was slim, his son was already dead and he couldn't abandon him. Regardless of whether there was hope or not, he couldn't give up.
The village chief looked at the direction of the villagers one last time and turned back without hesitation.
"village head."
The village chief was startled and turned around to see that Suman had caught up with him without him noticing.
"Wang Man? What are you doing..."
"Village Chief, are you going to look for Little Tiger?"
Xiaohuzi is the name given to his grandson by the village chief because he has a chubby face and is very smart and cute.
The village chief nodded. "Hu Zi is my only hope for Gui Sheng. When he died, he told me to take good care of little Hu Zi. Now that the child is nowhere to be found, I can't leave him alone."
"Village chief, you don't have to go, because Xiao Huzi is no longer here..."
"What did you say?" The village chief was in disbelief. He dropped the bag in his hand and grabbed Su Man's shoulders. In his excitement, he couldn't control his strength. "Have you seen Xiao Huzi? Where is Xiao Huzi? Tell me where he is."
Su Man hesitated and said, "In a dilapidated temple."
"A ruined temple?"
The village chief paused and suddenly said, "Little Tiger is most afraid of the dark. He must be so scared in a place like a dilapidated temple. Good girl, take me to find it quickly. If it's too late, Little Tiger will cry. What will happen if he cries? There is no candy he likes here..."
He kept muttering to himself, as if as long as he kept on talking, he wouldn't hear the bad news, but the tears in the corners of his eyes still revealed his heart.
The village chief's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he squatted on the ground and cried like a child.
Su Man knew that it was useless to say anything at this time, so she could only stand aside in silence.
That day in the dilapidated temple, she saw Xiao Huzi...in the pot of those bandits.
Although she couldn't see the face clearly, she remembered that there was a pair of tiger-head shoes lost on the ground of the ruined temple.
At that time, she just felt that he looked familiar. When she met the village chief and heard him talk about it, she remembered that Xiao Huzi was wearing a pair of tiger-head shoes on the road.
The reason why he didn't say it immediately was that he couldn't bear it. And looking at the expression of the village chief's wife, Aunt Yuemei, if she knew that her grandson was not there, she would probably follow him directly.
"Child, tell the village chief how my little tiger died."
The village chief was in tears. In just a few minutes, he seemed to have aged ten years.
Su Man couldn't bear to tell the truth, "When I went there, Xiao Huzi was... thrown to death by them."
Fearing that the village chief would be too heartbroken, she added, "But those bandits who harmed Little Tiger are now dead. Little Tiger's spirit will be comforted in heaven."
The village chief didn't say anything. His eyes were bloodshot and he gritted his teeth. "These damn bandits!"
After a long while, the village chief stood up, his back severely hunched. "Thank you, child, but don't tell your Aunt Yuemei about this for now. She...can't stand the shock."
"Yes, I understand."
"Go back to sleep."
Under the moonlight, the village chief staggered, looking like an old man about to die, without a single bit of life in his body.
The two of them walked back one after another. In the darkness, Qin Wanru turned over and happened to see Su Man.
Isn’t this Wang Man and the village chief?
Qin Wanru looked carefully and found that it was indeed them.
What good could happen between a man and a woman alone in the middle of the night?
Qin Wanru was filled with contempt. She had the nerve to say that she wanted Wang Laosi's clothes even though she herself had slept with a man.
No wonder the village chief sided with them, so this is the reason.
And the eggs. They had been searching for a chicken coop for so long but couldn't find any trace of it. Yet, she found the eggs as soon as she went out. It was probably the village chief who secretly gave them to her.
This bitch ruined her and her brother's reputation, and did all kinds of shameful things behind their backs.
It's really God's will that she caught me. Once this matter gets out, I wonder who will still believe her lies.
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next day
The villagers set out again on their journey south.
When they left, almost every household had an ox cart, but now there are only a few left to carry food.
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