"No! Help!" Li Laosi was the first to react and ran over in a few steps. He wanted to push the door open, but the door was locked from the inside.
He could only pat the door hard, "People inside, open the door quickly!"
Unfortunately, no one inside answered.
At this moment, Sister-in-law Qiong, Liu Biaotou and others also rushed over. Li Laosi gritted his teeth, took a step back, and kicked the door open with a bang.
Everyone looked up and gasped in fright.
The bodies of four children were placed side by side on the ground, and the women were already hanging from the rafters.
"Hurry and save people!"
Li Laosi raised his foot and was about to go in, but was stopped by Sister-in-law Qiong.
"There's no need to save, it can't be saved!"
Li Laosi was stunned when he heard this, and Liu Biaotou and the villagers were also anxious, "You haven't saved me yet, how do you know you can't save her!"
They ignored Sister-in-law Qiong, pulling up the table and stepping on the stools. , quickly put down all the women, and then... they all fell silent.
The woman's body was almost cold, and Daluo Jinxian could not save it.
Some villagers blamed themselves, "Just now we left some people to look after them."
"Yeah, I just thought about them and were sad, and they would be better after a while. How could I have thought..."
Sister-in-law Qiong shook her head and said softly, "You are the ones who Saving them for a moment and persuading them once can never persuade or save them for a lifetime. They are determined to die, and they will always find opportunities."
"It is better to die than to live. The bandits are already dead..." Some villagers did not believe it. Sister-in-law Qiong went to the table, and sure enough, there were blood letters and tokens there.
She picked it up, glanced at it briefly and said, "They are the family members of the Guo family of Taihua Academy in Kyoto. Please let us bring the news of their deaths to the family. A scholarly family like the Guo family values chastity far more than life. These days. These women originally endured humiliation and lived in order to survive for their children.
Now that the children are dead and their virginity is gone, they have no reason to live. If everyone feels pity for them, please keep their affairs a secret, and no one will ask in the future. , everyone said that their family was murdered by bandits at the same time."
Everyone felt sour and heavy in their hearts after hearing this, and wished they could pull out the bandits and kill them ten thousand times.
Sister-in-law Qiong asked Li Laosi and Liu Biaotou to read the blood letter and tokens, and then put them in their arms.
"Our wives are old acquaintances with Mr. Guo's wife. Although we haven't seen each other for many years, if these things are given to our wives, they should be delivered to the Guo family. Don't worry, everyone will definitely not take credit for your efforts. ..."
Li Laosi quickly waved his hand, "We didn't help much, and we didn't get much credit. But we did not notice these poor women under our noses, causing them to commit suicide, and I feel very bad about it."
Liu Biaotou also nodded . , sighed and said, "Now that things have come to this, I can only help bury him in peace."
Sister-in-law Qiong said, "Look around to see if there is any luggage from the Guo family or women's clothes. I will help them sort it out and bury it in a dignified manner. In the future, when someone comes to their house to dig up the bones, it won't be too ugly."
The woman is still careful, Li Laosi and Liu Biaotou couldn't have imagined so much, but they were willing to give their full support.
The villagers immediately dispersed and searched everywhere, and sure enough, they found several packages on the ground in the west room.
Not only were there clothes, but also some odds and ends, including a few bottles of pills.
Sister-in-law Qiong briefly identified it and took a bottle to Uncle Wu.
"This should be for treating wind and cold. It's the same as what our wife took before. You can feed the child one pill first."
Wu Sanshu thanked him quickly. Gou Sheng'er had a cloth on his forehead. He had woken up now. He also tried hard when he saw his father. I cried a lot, but the fever still didn't go away.
This pill couldn't be more timely!
Sister-in-law Qiong nodded, then took the clothes and helped the Guo girls put them on.
She was the only woman, and no one else could help her, so she simply moved the wooden box in the house and sent it outside, intending to temporarily use it as a coffin.
In the middle of the work, a villager suddenly exclaimed, "Come quickly, there is food here, a lot of food!"
Everyone quickly gathered around. This was a wing room. The room was not big, but there were three layers of grain bags stacked on the earthen bed, more than twenty bags. One of the open ones was half eaten, and inside was white japonica rice. .
There are four or five jars of vegetable oil, some salt, ginger, garlic, etc., and even a jar of candied apricots. It is obvious that these things must have been brought by the Guo family on the road, and they did not want to be robbed by these bandits...
"Tai Okay, great, we don't have to worry about starving during the winter."
"If I take this back, my family will probably go crazy with joy."
Li Laosi and Liu Biaotou looked at each other with a tacit understanding.
"Let's bury the Guo family first, and then search the yard carefully. These things belong to the Guo family. We have received their kindness, and we have to do something to bring the things back with peace of mind."
All the villagers said. They all nodded and quickly carried out all the boxes in the yard. There were five people in total, which was enough for the Guo family to live in.
Li Laosi led people to carry back several men hanging in the woods and helped them put on their clothes.
I don't know how many days these people had been frozen. The corpses were so hard that everyone's hands and feet were severely damaged.
It's freezing outside, so it's hard to dig a hole.
Everyone evacuated the things from the west room of the main house and dug up the ground.
Maybe good people will be rewarded. When a floor tile near the corner was dug up, a jar was revealed, which was filled with silver.
Everyone was shocked. It was obvious that this was the dirty silver hidden by the bandits.
This jar of silver seemed to start a treasure hunt for everyone. For half the night, the graves of the Guo family were dug out, and three feet of ground was dug up in the entire courtyard.
It's a pity that there is nothing else except the jar of silver.
Everyone was disappointed, but Liu Biaotou shouted.
"What are you thinking? Are you too greedy? We came here to save the child. Now that the child has been saved, we have received so much food and a jar of silver. We are already very lucky. If something went wrong last night, We are all going to see the Lord of Hell at this time!"
After hearing this, everyone felt that this was the truth, and they all laughed guiltily.
No one complained for a while, and they quickly helped to bury the Guo family.
Because they didn't know who was related to whom, and to avoid the embarrassment of having their eldest brother and younger siblings buried in the same box, the Guo family still buried men and women separately.
One box for two women, one box for two men, and one box for four children.
Finally, all five boxes were put into the pit.
Sister-in-law Qiong found a blackened wooden stick, pulled out a piece of white cloth, and briefly recorded the characteristics of the Guo family members buried in each box, planning to hand them over to the Guo family in the future.
Li Laosi picked up the ax, marked the box, and then jumped up. Everyone looked at the twelve members of the Guo family and felt uncomfortable in their hearts.
Heaven and earth are so unkind that they regard all things as stupid dogs!
In troubled times, human life is no more fragile than the weeds on the roadside.
"Mr. and Madam Guo, we are also poor people fleeing famine. We unexpectedly came here and caught up with your family. This is all we can do. We hope you are satisfied.
I don't know where the food and money are . It's not from your family, we are going to take it away. When we go out of the mountains and forests and arrive in the south of the Yangtze River, we will definitely find your family and explain this matter. Please wait quietly for your family to take you back."
Li Laosi finished speaking seriously, and then took Everyone salutes.