Chapter 192 Incident
The advantage of having more than a hundred people living near the Zhou family is that Chen Lie and his friends no longer need to go around to pick up the Zhou family and the Zheng family every time they go hunting. Because they have the young man from the Feng family and Gan Erlang, there are enough people, so it is no problem to open up wasteland, plant crops, collect and trap pheasants in that area.
Chen Lie and Chen Dashan led the people from the village outside the village and began to explore in another direction of the village outside the village.
When the yams began to be harvested, the autumn harvest, which had been delayed for a while due to the lack of sunlight in the valley throughout the year, also began.
At that time, people in the villages outside the village were busy digging yam, so the autumn harvest in the valley was the responsibility of the people who stayed in the valley, collecting the yam from each family regardless of their family's origin.
In addition to the elderly and women, the child soldiers were also very helpful at this time. The younger ones like Shen Jin and Shen Yin also helped with some chores within their ability.
It was a bustling harvest scene, but no one expected that Shen Jin would cause trouble when he helped Old Man Lu in the field to fill a bamboo tube with water.
It turned out that what everyone was harvesting was the rice from the Lu family's fields. The people in the valley lived closest to the Lu family. As they were old, they would inevitably feel thirsty and tired after being busy for hours. Shen Jin was in charge of the light work at the time. Seeing that Old Man Lu couldn't pour out much water with the bamboo tube, he offered to help pour some. Since the Lu family was closest, he naturally went to the Lu family.
Shen Yin watched and asked Old Man Chen, Mrs. Chen and Old Lady Xu nearby if anyone wanted to fetch water. Everyone was tired and thirsty, so the two brothers each took two bamboo tubes and left.
Because of Wang Chunniang, the Lu family actually left someone behind for such an important event as rice harvesting, namely Lu Da Niang.
Shen Jin went in to pour water, and Lu Danniu naturally helped. It was just a matter of filling some water, and then leaving. As a result, Wang Chunniang, who had been locked up in the cave for many days, stared at Shen Jin, suddenly sneered, and said sarcastically: "You two brothers are the mother of milk."
Shen Jin glanced at her, thinking about what Shen An had told him, and was not prepared to respond.
But he ignored her. Wang Chunniang had been holding a lot of anger in her heart for days. Seeing that even Shen San and Li's son ignored her, the anger in her heart suddenly came out.
"You guys are following your good brother and sister-in-law around to enjoy the good life. How come you don't care about how your parents and sister died?"
Shen Jin's face visibly darkened, while Shen Yin's face turned slightly pale.
Wang Chunniang felt relieved when she saw the two brothers' faces change. "The valley is so good, how did your family end up so miserable? Why would I help you now? If I had taken you with me, would you three brothers still be orphans?"
Not to mention Shen Jin and Shen Yin, Lu Danniu's face turned pale and she screamed, "Mom, what are you talking about!"
Through the wooden fence, Lu Danniu could only speak out to stop her. The key was not in her hand, and she couldn't cover her mother's mouth even if she wanted to.
"What am I saying? Tell me the truth. If I were Shen San or Li, and gave birth to a son like this, I would crawl up and strangle him to death as a ghost at night."
There were two "pop" sounds. One was the bamboo tube filled with water in Shen Yin's hand falling to the ground, and the other was the bamboo tube in Shen Jin's hand being thrown towards the wooden fence where Wang Chunniang was imprisoned.
Lu Danniu was shocked and tried to persuade Shen Jin with shaking hands: "Xiao Jin, don't listen to my mother's nonsense."
Shen Jin's face was ugly, his breathing was rapid, and he stared at Wang Chunniang without turning his head. He said to Shen Yin beside him: "Xiaoyin, go out first."
Shen Yin's eyelashes were already wet, and she couldn't move her feet for a moment. Shen Jin and Lu Danniu said, "Take my brother out."
How could Lu Danniu dare to leave?
Shen Jin shouted, "Get out!"
Although she was two years younger than her, Lu Danniu was really frightened. Thinking that her mother was imprisoned, she saw Shen Yin crying out of fear and hurried to pull Shen Yin away.
Wang Chunniang was frightened by his shout. She turned around and saw a nine-year-old boy. She swallowed and suppressed her shock.
Seeing Lu Danniu dragging Shen Yin out, Wang Chunniang sneered: "What, am I wrong?"
Shen Jin walked towards the fence step by step, staring at Wang Chunniang with his eyes. There was a darkness in his eyes that made Wang Chunniang feel a little scared for some reason, and she subconsciously wanted to step back.
There was actually no room for her to retreat in the small cave. She sat on the edge of the bed, only two steps away from the fence.
Shen Jin stared at Wang Chunniang: "You know how miserable our family is. Do you know how miserable it is?"
"Do you know how my parents and sister died?"
He spoke in a very logical manner, and his voice could even be described as calm, but Wang Chunniang felt that beneath that calmness there was a kind of terrifying madness.
He was indeed crazy. He was crying and laughing at the same time. There was no sound, only the trembling of his chest. He was shedding tears, but it didn't look like laughing or crying. Such an expression on a child's face was more alarming than a simple laugh or cry.
He laughed and cried, and held his chest for a long time. He panted heavily and stared at Wang Chunniang and said, "I tell you, the food is gone, the crops in the fields are also destroyed, and everyone has been driven into the city like ducks and surrounded. There is nothing to eat."
"Do you know what happens when people are hungry for a long time?"
"Eating human flesh, have you ever seen it?"
As he spoke, his breathing became heavier, his chest felt suffocated, and he pressed it with one hand, staring at Wang Chunniang with red eyes: "Do you know how my sister died? Huh? How dare you say such a thing?"
As he said this, his emotions became more and more uncontrollable: "There are cannibals everywhere in the city. If they can't eat others, they will eat their own children. If they can't eat their own children, they will suffocate them to death and give them to others to eat, and exchange them for meat."
"Have you ever experienced this? How dare you say such a thing?"
"My sister died at the hands of my father, my mother hacked my father to death, and my father fought back and stabbed her to death, you know? If it wasn't for Manager Xu saving us, all three of us brothers would have been chopped up and boiled."
"Why, are you satisfied? Don't we deserve to live? Huh? Don't we deserve to live?"
"My elder brother and sister-in-law saved us and brought revenge upon us, didn't they? Huh?"
With this question, the last bamboo tube in his hand was smashed into the gap of the fence, hitting Wang Chunniang on the head and face.
Shen Jinyou pressed his chest, feeling so painful that if he hadn't been holding onto the fence, he would have slipped down.
"Why? Why do you expose our scars? Why can someone like you hide here so peacefully and live well?"
He collapsed as he spoke and sat outside the fence with his mouth wide open to breathe, tears streaming down his face. The nightmares that had haunted him during the many sleepless nights seemed to come back to him and weighed down on him.
As soon as Lu Da Nv came out of the cave, she was eager to call her grandparents. The fields were only a few steps away from her home. When Old Man Lu and his gang rushed over, this was the scene they saw.
Manager Xu and Shen Lie never elaborated on the deaths of Shen San, Li, and Tian Ya, but this is what happened.
Lu Shuanzhu was most afraid of his mother causing trouble. He lived closest to home, and he heard Shen Jin's words when he was running in. The last few words stopped him in his tracks.
The words his grandmother said at the beginning, and the accusation made by Shen Jin who was breaking down and crying and asking why someone like you could hide here safely and live well, came to his mind one after another.
Mrs. Chen was a step slower. When she came over, she found Shen Yin stuck in the corner of the cave entrance, shaking badly.
During the last few days in Qiyang County, Shen Yin was so hungry that he had lost consciousness of the outside world most of the time. He vaguely knew that something was wrong with his parents' deaths, but he never knew that Tian Ya died like this.
He always thought that Tian Ya was stolen away by someone.
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