"Don't worry, we're really fine."
Wei Ci sighed. Looking at their expressions and then listening to their obviously comforting words, who would believe them?
Looking around the room and not seeing anyone else, Wei Ci pursed her lips and had a bad feeling.
"Second brother, didn't you go to pick up Grandpa Erzhu? Where is he?"
The four people who were still trying to force themselves to laugh and joke suddenly had frozen expressions on their faces.
Wei Ci's bad premonition grew stronger and stronger, until her heart began to ache.
With a trembling voice and choked with sobs, Wei Ci grabbed the hem of Wei Qingfeng's clothes, looked up at her second brother with hope in her eyes.
"Second brother, didn't you say you would bring Grandpa Erzhu back? Where is he?"
Wei Qingfeng's Adam's apple rolled up and down, and the corners of his eyes turned red.
"Come with me."
Holding his sister's hand, Wei Qingfeng walked with a slight limp as he led her to the next cabin.
The door opened and Wei Ci was frozen in place, eyes wide open.
Six pitch-black coffins were neatly placed in the cabin, silently.
"Second brother..."
Wei Ci cried out with difficulty, tightly clenching the hand holding her second brother's, and looked worriedly at Wei Qingfeng who was shrouded in sadness.
She was also sad that several elderly people could not come back. After all, they were very good to her.
Every time he met her, he would take out a handful of wild fruits or sweet grass roots from his pocket to coax her, would call her Xiao Aci with a smile, would secretly take her to the mountains to find food, and would use the subsidy to buy a lot of snacks to share with the girls in the village.
But the saddest ones are the boys like my second brother who were raised and raised by them.
"Before, when you were sick, your parents took you to see doctors everywhere and were never home. My eldest brother was busy going to school to earn work points, so I was often left alone. Grandpa Erzhu would take me into the small courtyard and stay there all day until my eldest brother came back to pick me up."
Wei Qingfeng looked at the six coffins in a daze, and spoke with a hoarse throat.
"They taught me to read, martial arts, and many life lessons. I've eaten more meals with them than with my parents. I thought they would watch us grow up, get married, and have children, and then come back to teach our children, laughing and cursing in anger while holding sticks. But how come..."
How come everything changed so suddenly?
They have lost all desire to live. For the sake of their family members who died tragically, they would rather sacrifice themselves to seek revenge, and they will do so at any cost.
Wei Ci's eyes also turned red, and she looked at her second brother worriedly. Wei Qingshan and others stood silently behind the two of them, silently took off their hats, and silently looked at the six coffins in the cabin.
"Originally, they could have survived. When we found them, their plan had just begun..."
However, no one expected that among their own people who were lurking undercover in the island country would become a traitor and sell out everything.
As a last resort, the other comrades reacted quickly and changed their names and places. Grandpa Erzhu and his companions were unfamiliar with the place, and the contact comrades had lost contact for a while, so they could only rely on experience to slowly explore on their own.
It was at that time that they arrived at the island country.
"I don't know how Grandpa Erzhu and the others found the real culprit behind the scenes. Anyway, they found him and then took action without telling them."
When they reacted and tried to stop them, they only had time to see the backs of those determined figures, and then there was a devastating explosion.
None of the six coffins contained an intact body.
This was pieced together bit by bit by him and Wei Liang with all their efforts based on their familiarity with them.
He would never forget the look that Grandpa Erzhu gave him when he was dying. It almost became his nightmare, and he could never sleep peacefully since then.
"Aci, let's send them home!"
"good!"
Wei Ci nodded, her voice choked with sobs. As Wei Qingfeng knelt down and kowtowed, the people behind him saluted with red eyes.
"Grandpas, we're home! Follow us back to the village, don't run around and get lost!"
With a shout, six coffins were put onto the truck. The four seriously injured people refused to go to the hospital and insisted on sending these old men home personally.
Unable to persuade them, he had to let a dozen soldiers follow him. Wei Qingshan and Gu Zhan were also accompanying him. The master of traditional Chinese medicine also climbed onto the truck carrying a medicine box.
Two trucks sped towards Magou Village. Wei Ci sat in the truck with Wei Qingfeng, leaning against the coffin. Her little hand tightly held Wei Qingfeng's hand to comfort him.
The car was on the road for two days. Everyone spoke very little along the way. Wei Liang even fainted once and was only awakened after being pierced all over his body with silver needles by the master.
"Grandpas, we're...home."
From a distance, Wei Ci saw a large group of people at the entrance of the village. His great-uncle was standing at the front with his hands behind his back. The old man who used to be the most energetic had his back inexplicably bent, his hair had turned completely white, and there seemed to be more wrinkles on his face.
The truck stopped and the atmosphere became heavy.
The great-uncle looked at the wounded younger generations, then at the heavy coffins, his voice low and hoarse.
"Jianguo, go and welcome Erzhu and the others. Let them know that you are home and they can rest assured."
Wei Jianguo was dressed in black, his pipe was gone, and his face was more serious than Wei Ci had ever seen.
"good!"
On this day, no one came to find fault with them and accused them of being feudal and superstitious.
On this day, all the children in the village did not go to school. They knelt there obediently in mourning clothes. All the young people who worked from all over the country rushed back, and all the married girls returned to their parents' home with white flowers on their heads.
There was no crying at the funeral. Everyone was quietly and methodically cleaning up for Grandpa Erzhu and the others. Even after seeing the situation inside the coffin, their hands were shaking badly, but they didn't shed a single tear.
"Ancestors of the Wei family! Our children are on their way! Remember to pick them up! Don't let them get bullied!"
"Erzhu! Lead them! Home!"
One sound after another, each one is desolate and tragic.
It was not until the six coffins were sent to the Wei family's ancestral tomb one by one that the deafening cries were heard. Many men were crying with tears streaming down their faces, and hatred was thick in their eyes.
"All descendants of the Wei family, listen up! As long as you still have the surname Wei, regardless of gender, remember this! Let's live our lives together! This fight will end until death! Whoever dares to betray our ancestors and forget our blood feud, I will personally send him (her) back to the path of animals!"
The great-uncle's voice was sonorous and his eyes were sharp. The momentum he displayed on the battlefield was so overwhelming that everyone was breathless.
"Qingshan, send those three brats to the hospital. I'll pay for them when they're fully recovered and they can be discharged.
His eyes fixed on Li Duoxi's missing arm, and a flash of pain passed through his great-uncle's eyes.
"Don't worry, I will send them to the best military hospital. You don't have to pay for it. The country is there to help."
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