"They cleared it out so quickly! I thought it would take a while! After we go to the commune tomorrow, we'll start work the day after tomorrow."
"Why, Xiao Cui, you don't want to go to work? You can't have that thought. This year's spring planting has been delayed for so long. If you don't go back to work, you'll be left with nothing next year."
"Yeah, a lot of weird things have happened this year. The snow has been falling for half the year. Luckily, the captain and a few elders are here. They told us to prepare more firewood. Otherwise, who knows how many people would have frozen to death this winter."
"I heard that several people froze to death in the brigade next door, and they were all elderly people. Many of the educated youth who went to the countryside have also fallen ill and are still lying in bed!"
"God is really cruel this year. Not only has it been snowing non-stop, but the wolves have also come down from the mountains to hunt. Those poor families haven't recovered from their grief yet."
Hearing this, many people showed sympathy. Their team had lost a lot of people this year, and if they hadn't prepared in advance, the loss might have been even greater.
Thinking about the current situation of those families, they all look pale and dejected. The pain of losing a loved one is not easy to get over.
"What you said is not right. Aren't you a bit heartless? I'm freezing to death, but I'm still smiling all day long, eating meat and eggs from time to time. I gave birth to these unfilial sons. I want to crawl out of the grave and strangle them to death after I die."
The sister-in-law who was speaking was indignant about the old woman who froze to death. The old woman had helped her when her family was in trouble, and her family had always taken good care of the old woman over the years.
But her children are all hopeless, and so is her daughter-in-law.
Every time some food was delivered, it was snatched up by others and not a single bite reached the old woman's mouth.
Later they learned their lesson and let the old woman eat on the spot before they left. However, they did not expect that they were so heartless as not to heat the kang for the old woman in the middle of winter.
Because she got up late at night to heat the kang, she caught a cold, and they didn't get any medicine. In the end, it was Captain Cheng who brought a doctor to see my mother-in-law, and she got some improvement.
But it was winter and I couldn't visit him every day. Finally, I didn't know what happened, but the news of the old man's death spread.
After learning about this, many people in the team were so angry that they pointed at them and called them unfilial, but they pretended to be very good and said that the old man passed away peacefully.
Now that things have come to this, how can they pursue the matter since they have no evidence? They can only spend money to buy a good coffin so that the old man can rest in peace.
Su Tao was still eating melon, but suddenly her eyes turned red and she asked Song Tanglan beside her cautiously.
"Is what Lanlan and the others said true?" She asked this because Song Tanglan's family had a close relationship with the team leader and she always knew things that others didn't know.
"It's true. Grandma Qiu is gone. On the day the wolves came down the mountain, several people from the team died. Uncle Yougen even had his leg bitten off. Luckily he had a skill, otherwise his life would be even harder now."
Song Tanglan also sympathized with them, but things had already happened, that was the fact, and there was nothing they could do.
Moreover, because their injuries were too severe, most of the money from selling wolf skins was used to treat their medical treatment. The captain did not tell them the rest, thinking that he would tell them when the food was distributed next time.
He was also afraid that his wife would dislike him for having a broken leg and run away with all the family's money, which would make life even more difficult. After all, this kind of thing had happened before.
There had been such a precedent in the team before, and in the end the brigade lent him money and food.
"Ah, that's pretty miserable for him. He won't be able to work in the fields to earn work points anymore."
"But at least I saved my life, which is something I'm very grateful for. I heard from my second brother-in-law that there were more than 20 wolves coming down the mountain, and there were more than 50 people who went to kill them. In the end, everyone was injured, even my second brother-in-law was seriously injured! The harvest was huge, but the price we paid was not small."
Song Tanglan thought that her second brother-in-law could walk alone in the mountains, so she guessed that he was quite strong. But now they were besieged by a pack of wolves, and it was late at night, so it was easy to get injured if they didn't see the target clearly.
When Song Tanglan thinks about it now, she feels a little scared. She was already scared when she heard the wolf howling in the room.
If she were asked to kill a wolf, she might be eaten by the wolf without even being able to injure it.
Su Tao was also excited when she mentioned this. "You don't know, I was sleeping soundly at the time, and in the middle of the night something banged on my door. When I heard it was a wolf howling, I was so scared that I immediately pushed the cabinet to block it."
Su Tao thought of the scene and described it vividly: "Maybe it was because I made too much noise. The two educated youth next door heard it and took out their tools to help kill it. I wanted to come out to help, but was chased back to the room by Sun Zhiqing. You know, although I am strong, I have not learned any life-saving skills. I could only hold them back in the room. Afterwards, they killed the wolf, but I also suffered a lot of injuries."
Song Tanglan was also amazed when he heard this. Thinking that the two male educated youth were both sent to the countryside from the city and it was their first time encountering a wolf, they were able to face it so calmly, he had to praise them.
"They're really amazing!"
"I was shocked at the time, but I was also so scared that I didn't react. In the end, I didn't dare leave the room late at night for fear of danger."
Su Tao felt a little scared when she thought of that scene. At that time, someone knocked on the door in the middle of the night and she thought that there was a thief coming to rob them. Unexpectedly, it was a wolf coming down the mountain. Fortunately, there was only one wolf that came to their door, and it was skinny and looked hungry for a long time.
Otherwise, they would have surely lost their lives.
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