Zhao Suotou looked around the crowd for a while and saw Village Chief Su who was directing everyone to pack up.
He hurried over, a smile plastered on his face, and approached the village chief, greeting him respectfully: "Village Chief Su, we're here."
Village Chief Su turned around and saw that it was Zhao Suotou's family. A kind smile appeared on his face and he said, "Oh, you're here quite early. Okay, then you can follow behind Wen Jun's family. The young man in Wen Jun's family is steady and can take care of you if anything happens. It will be more convenient."
Zhao Suotou nodded repeatedly when he heard this and said, "Okay, the village chief will listen to you. Then we will follow behind Wen Jun's family."
After that, he took his family and followed the Su family carefully.
Although the family was still a little nervous about arriving first, their eyes showed their anticipation for the trip.
When Zhao Chunhua heard the noise behind her, her already bright eyes suddenly widened and became bright in an instant, just like a bright lamp lit in the dark night.
Not far behind the team, she saw her parents, who were so familiar to her, and other members of her family.
"Dad! Mom!" Zhao Chunhua's voice trembled with excitement, and the smile on her face was brighter than the wild flowers blooming on the ridge of the field.
She raised her arms high and waved them vigorously. The arc of her arms was full of eagerness and joy, as if she wanted to break through the distance in the air and pull her to her parents in an instant.
Zhao Suotou was talking to someone nearby. He caught a glimpse of his wife's happy expression out of the corner of his eye and followed her gaze.
When he saw his daughter waving excitedly at him, a smile as warm as the sun suddenly appeared on Zhao Suotou's weather-beaten face.
That smile showed his love for his daughter and the joy of the family being together. He just looked at his daughter quietly with tenderness in his eyes.
There were constant situations along the way, which were very frightening.
The team from Sujia Village struggled to move forward in this chaotic world. Groups of ragged, skinny refugees surged like a tide on both sides of the official road.
Their sunken eyes lit up instantly when they saw the supplies carried by the people from Sujia Village. They stared at them intently like hungry wolves seeing fat sheep. The naked desire and greed in their eyes made anyone who saw them feel a tightness in their heart.
Fortunately, the team from Sujia Village was large and powerful, and there were several burly and strong men from the Zhao family in the team.
When these strong men stood there, they gave off an air of being someone who was not to be messed with. The veins on their thick arms were bulging, as if they contained endless power.
It was precisely because of their presence that, although the greed in the eyes of the refugees was almost overflowing, they ultimately did not dare to directly grab things.
However, even so, the refugees' gazes, like thorns in their backs, were still fixed on the people of Sujia Village, as if they wanted to burn holes in them.
There was envy and jealousy in those eyes, and more importantly, there was an uncontrollable covetousness driven by hunger. This feeling was really terrible, as if being stared at by a group of poisonous snakes in the dark, making people feel uncomfortable all over.
Everyone knew that it was not advisable to stay here for long and they had to get out of the sight of these refugees as soon as possible.
So, everyone hurriedly quickened their pace, and the originally steady pace became hurried and flustered. Everyone just wanted to quickly avoid these creepy people.
But how could it be so easy to pass through this official road?
There were people everywhere, including refugees with their families, walking and stopping, passing merchants who were in a hurry and looked alert, and scattered people in groups of three or five who knew where they came from.
The people of Sujia Village were caught up in the bustling crowd and didn't even have time to eat lunch as usual.
Everyone could only hurriedly take out some dry food from their packages and eat a few bites while they were on the road.
The dry food was dry and tasteless when chewed in the mouth, but no one cared about it at the moment.
Everyone kept walking, their eyes fixed on the road ahead, hoping to get out of this chaotic and crowded official road as soon as possible and find a relatively safe place where they could stop and take a break with peace of mind.
As they walked, the team from Sujia Village was like a long, winding snake, slowly crawling on this deserted official road.
There is endless wilderness on both sides of the road, and the withered yellow grass trembles in the wind, as if telling the desolation and misery of this world.
The sky was covered with heavy dark clouds, which seemed to be ready to come down at any time, shrouding everything in the world in darkness.
In this oppressive atmosphere, a pungent odor, like a ghost, silently penetrated into everyone's nostrils.
The stench was so strong and putrid, as if it came from the depths of hell, making people want to vomit.
At first, everyone subconsciously checked their bodies, and after confirming that the smell was not coming from themselves, they began to talk about it.
The noisy discussions seemed particularly abrupt in the silent wilderness, but they also broke the previous suffocating silence.
"What's that smell? Why is it so stinky?" A young man frowned, covered his nose with his hands, his face full of disgust.
"That's right. The smell is terrible. Could something have happened?" An elderly woman echoed with a worried look on her face.
The village chief felt a tightness in his heart when he heard the discussion of the crowd. He looked up at the dark clouds in the sky that were getting lower and lower, and then looked at the winding road ahead. An ominous premonition came to his mind.
He knew very well that on the road of fleeing famine, any slight disturbance could herald the coming of disaster.
So he quickly called two strong and courageous young men from the village and said, "Da Hu, Er Hu, you two, go to the front and see what's going on. Come back quickly!"
Da Hu and Er Hu responded and ran forward like arrows.
Their figures quickly disappeared around the bend in the road, leaving behind only a cloud of dust.
But the stench still lingered in the air, and seemed to become stronger with the wind, as if it was going to swallow up the entire team.
Soon, Da Hu and Er Hu, who had gone out to explore the road, returned. They were staggering, their faces were as pale as paper, and their lips were bloodless. Their once rosy complexions were now extremely ugly, as if they had just experienced a great shock.
Seeing this, the village chief hurried forward and asked anxiously, "What's going on? What's going on up ahead?"
Da Hu swallowed hard and said with difficulty: "Village... Village Chief, there's a dead person ahead..."
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