Chapter 4 Carnage
A pile of new graves bulged up on the grassland. Yun Xiao used an engineer shovel to slap the soil. He ate a can of canned beef and fed some to Xiaobai. The little guy fell in love with the smell of canned Meilin almost instantly, and ate with one claw, squeezing the canned box and then screaming at Yun Xiao for water to drink. His cute appearance comforted Yun Xiao's messy thoughts.
I found some Yunnan Baiyao ointment and applied it to my thighs, attached my sleeping bag to my horse's back, and then climbed onto my horse's back again.
With the barrier of the sleeping bag, I feel much more comfortable.
In the evening, Yun Xiao encountered a sudden rainfall. The wind and rain on the grassland came quickly. Before Yun Xiao could come, he put on a one-piece raincoat, and the soybean-sized raindrops had already hit. A water curtain hung between the sky and the earth, and the temperature dropped sharply. Yun Xiao shivered and was trembling. Fortunately, compared to the possible cold, the Huns' sabers were even more terrible. The heavy rain overnight was enough to destroy Yun Xiao's footprints, and it also hindered the speed of the pursuers.
After rushing through the rain for a night, Yun Xiao felt his throat very dry, his head was a little dizzy, and he had an unexpected fever. After crossing a dense grass, Yun Xiao finally saw the fields.
Farming is a means of making a living for Han families for thousands of years. The peaceful Han people do not like looting, but like to ask for food from the earth. All the harvest is the income from labor. Compared with those shepherds who like to loot, fertile land is the trace of human civilization.
A girl aged six or seven, with a boy of four or five, digging wild vegetables on the edge of the field. In early spring, no family has enough food to eat.
Yun Xiao was dizzy. If there were fields, there were city walls. If there were land, there would be city walls. If he entered the city wall, he would be safe. He ran towards the two children by horses. The little boy looked foolishly at the tall horse running towards him. The little girl with a panic looked dragging the little boy to run away desperately, and she didn't even have time to pick up the wild vegetable basket.
Yun Xiao felt the world spinning, and he wanted to open his mouth and shout a swollen throat, but he couldn't even make a syllable. He wanted to shake his arms and say hello, but he found that his arms were as soft as two noodles, and he couldn't lift them up no matter how hard they were.
"Pu" Yun Xiao lost consciousness when he saw a dark look in front of him.
The green light was like beans, and a cold moonlight spilled into the room from a hole in the wall. An old woman with gray hair pushed the cardinal one after another, and the drops of sweat under the coarse cloth headscarf were shining brightly by the cold moonlight.
The cardinal pushed the pen and weaved it into pieces. There was only a clicking sound in the room made of loess, which was a bit terrifying.
The first thing I found out was Xiaobai who woke up. The little guy was lying quietly beside Yun Xiao. When Yun Xiao woke up, he gently licked Yun Xiao's nose with his barbble tongue.
Yun Xiao tried to talk, but his swollen throat hurt so much that he couldn't say a word. The strength in his body seemed to have been exhausted, leaving only the strength to breathe.
Xiaobai's actions alarmed the old woman, and the old woman got up and walked over.
"Did you run over from the Huns?"
Yun Xiao nodded with difficulty.
"It's a sin."
The old woman wiped her tears, and Yun Xiao pointed to the backpack in the corner of the wall. The old woman took the backpack over, and Yun Xiao used all her strength to pull the spring away and took out two pieces of paracetamol.
The old woman was very surprised by the zipper design, and Yun Xiao pointed to the thick porcelain bowl on the floor mat.
He swallowed the paracetamol with cold water. The stimulation of cold water made the swollen throat feel much more comfortable. Yun Xiao fell asleep again. Paracetamol was very effective in relieving fever and was a necessary medicine for jungle exploration.
The face felt cold, and Yun Xiao opened his eyes. The old woman was still in the fabric and looked at the hole on the wall. The sky outside was already bright. She was sore all over and felt so uncomfortable. Xiaobai was wet all over and was grabbing Yun Xiao's face with her claws dripping with mud.
Seeing that Yun Xiao was still moving, Xiaobai ran to the old woman. He walked two steps towards the door, called the old woman a few times, and then walked outward. It was obvious that it was asking the old woman to follow it.
The old woman stood up in confusion, beat her sore lumbar spine, and followed Xiaobai out. Yun Xiao was awakened again by the child's cheers, and the two children were talking loudly. The old woman scolded her loudly, as if she was afraid of waking Yun Xiao. She tried to move, but she still had no strength in her body, and sweat was still constantly.
Soon, the fragrance of fish came from the yard. A young girl who was six or seven years old wearing a coarse cloth clothes and two beautiful eyebrows and eyes tied up with a thick porcelain bowl, walked in with a thick porcelain bowl.
Yun Xiao had a long mouth, but he still couldn't speak.
The warm fish soup was fed into my mouth one spoonful of spoonfuls of it, and it had a scent of grassy smell, which probably was because there was no oil and salt added.
After a large piece of fishy fish meat entered the mouth, Yun Xiao felt that he no longer sweated and became a little energetic.
Suddenly, there was chaos outside, and a woman's voice was quickly saying something in dialect. Yun Xiaozhi stood there and didn't hear clearly.
Several equally old women opened the door made of wood and dragged Yun Xiao into the yard. They moved a water tank away, revealing a black hole. They threw Yun Xiao in. Yun Xiao saw a younger woman riding the four horses that Yun Xiao brought back and running into the woods with no life.
The cave was not big, and Yun Xiao fell to the ground and felt as if he had fallen apart. Suddenly the entrance of the cave turned black and something slammed down with a sound. It was hitting Yun Xiao's chest, and Yun Xiao almost didn't breathe.
Two people came down again, and from the blurry figure, they were two dolls.
The entrance of the cave was covered with a bang, and then the sound of moving the water tank. It seemed very messy outside, with people and horses neighing, and the crying screams came down through the ground. Then a trace of fireworks came from the ground.
I don’t know how long it took, but the water tank was finally opened. The woman who had been riding a horse stood at the entrance of the cave and pulled Yun Xiao and the two children up one by one.
The thatched hut was still emitting black smoke, and several corpses were lying on the ground. None of them were intact, one was thrown from arms and thighs. The blue-gray intestines were hung on the tree, and all the corpses were gone. The blood almost dyed the entire courtyard red, and the dry bark was covered with a layer of black stick.
The middle-aged woman gathered corpses one by one in the east and the west, but because she had no head and was too fragmented, the corpses were piled up.
Yun Xiao looked at everything in front of him blankly. He never thought that the killing of the Han people by the grassland people would be so bloody. The scenes that were only seen in textbooks before appeared in front of him were so shocking. Yun Xiao could not understand why humans committed such crimes against their kind.
The two children were surprisingly calm, not crying or making a fuss. Following the middle-aged woman gathered her body, she walked on the ground with her thighs at a young age. There was an indescribable weirdness in Yun Xiao's eyes.
In later generations, they were less than the age of elementary school, but now they are digging soil with their hands to bury the bodies.
Yun Xiao took out the engineer shovel and began to dig a pit silently. Since he came to this world, he had to face this reality. Only the strong can survive in this world.
Several people worked together to dig a large pit and buried the body.
Xiaobai jumped out of some corner, looked around nervously, his expression was very nervous, obviously frightened.
Yun Xiao opened his backpack and prepared to take out a ham sausage to comfort Xiaobai. He remembered that there should be one left in this thing.
"Pu Ta." A small wooden sign fell to the ground. Yun Xiao was about to pick it up, but the middle-aged woman next to him snatched it like she saw gold.
"Where did you get this brand?"
The middle-aged woman had a strong accent and said it twice before she could hear it clearly.
"This is an old man I met on the Huns. He was killed by the Huns."
The middle-aged woman held the wooden sign and was tearful. She had restrained so many corpses just now and could not see her crying so sadly.
"As you said, it should be my father-in-law."
The middle-aged woman put the card on the top of the grave and kowtowed with her two children.
"Our village is called Weijia Village. There were more than 20 households and more than 100 households. A few years ago, the Huns invaded the border, and the old and young people in the village were arrested, leaving only a dozen of us who were hiding in the mountains and were not plundered. Unexpectedly, we suffered such difficulties again today. How can we live in the future?"
"Auntie, you saved my life. In the future, if I eat it in one bite, you will be indispensable."
Four people and four horses walked towards Mayi. It was a city wall next to the Great Wall, where the Han army was stationed in a relatively safe place.
"Auntie, your surname is yours."
"Just call me Aunt Wei. These two kids, the girl is called Wei Ya and the boy is called Qing'er, are both the children of the old people."
"Wei Qing! Then isn't his sister Wei Zifu?"
Chapter completed!