Li Erlin and the others didn't think about it at first. After listening to Li Ping'an's words, when they looked at the sleeves on that arm, the more they looked at it, the more familiar they became.
The three brothers Chen Dazhu stood on the spot in disbelief as if they were struck by lightning. Chen Dazhu woke up immediately and hurriedly stepped forward to squeeze Zhang Yu away. He knelt on his knees and pulled up the dirt and rocks like crazy. The second and third pillars also immediately followed. Keep up.
Zhang Yu sat down on the ground when he was squeezed away by Chen Dazhu, but he was not annoyed. He stood up silently and took a few steps back, watching quietly like everyone else.
They all know that the fathers of village chief Chen An and Chen Dazhu are cousins of the same grandfather. Speaking of which, Li Ping'an had to call Chen An his uncle. Because of this relationship, when Li Ping'an couldn't buy food in the county town, he would subconsciously ask Chen An for help when he saw him.
Soon, the head of the buried person was dug out first. Before the dirt and gravel on the face were cleaned, just by looking at the rough outline, it was possible to determine that the buried person was Chen An.
"Amber!" Chen Dazhu wailed, with grief on his face. He put his trembling hands under Zhang An's nose. After a moment, he collapsed to the ground and began to cry.
Immediately afterwards, the second and third pillars also shouted and cried in grief. It was hard to tell whether it was rain or tears on their faces.
The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became solemn and depressing. Li Pingan lowered his head and pressed his chin tightly to his collarbone.
Obviously, they were still alive at the city gate just now, but when they saw each other again, they were already separated by heaven and earth. He felt sad and remorseful. He was thinking, if he hadn't asked the village chief's grandfather to ask for food just now, or if he could have persuaded the village chief's grandfather to wait for them to leave together, one step earlier or one step later, would the village chief's grandfather not have met him? The mountain collapsed?
But no matter what he assumed, the village chief's body lay in front of him.
"Don't be stunned, dig out a road quickly, and we will take the village chief back!"
Li Erlin's low voice was slightly hoarse, and he felt very sad. When his family settled in Xiaochen Village, the village chief of Xiaochen Village was still Chen An's father. The village chief and his family helped immigrants like them a lot, not to mention just now. When they couldn't buy rice in the city, it was Chen An who came forward to prevent them from returning without success.
In this case, one stone of food for a month is indeed a life-saving food.
It's just that it's already dark. If they don't quickly open a way, they will have to spend the night here. They cannot spend the night in the wild and must bring the village chief's body back as soon as possible.
Everyone continued to dig forward with their bare hands with heavy hearts. When it got dark, the heavy rain that had fallen for most of the night and the whole day finally turned into drizzle. Fortunately, Li Erlin was worried about returning home in the dark before setting off, so he brought torches and fire sticks. Under the light of the fire, the group dug their way home without stopping.
I don’t know how long it took, but the hungry Li Ping’an raised his head numbly to see how far he had to dig, but he saw dots of fire in the distance. He was stunned for a moment, pointed forward and shouted: " Dad, there is someone, there is someone!"
Everyone looked up and saw that the fire seemed to be coming towards them. Zhang Yu said, "I'll take Dashan to see it!"
He is a hunter and often goes hunting in the mountains. Among all the people here, he is the most flexible and the best at hunting. The constantly moving fire in front of me didn't know who was holding the torch. Whether he was in charge of force or the eldest, he had the responsibility to go and observe.
Zhang Dashan learned martial arts from him since he was a child. When he was seven or eight years old, he went hunting with him in the mountains, and his skills were not bad. The reason why I brought him along was because if the person who came here was unkind, someone would be able to come back and inform everyone.
The father and son walked forward quietly, and soon they approached the torch team. Zhang Dashan's sharp eyes saw the familiar face reflected in the firelight in front of him, and he whispered in surprise: "Dad, do you think that is Song Bo?"
Zhang Yu stopped and looked intently with squinted eyes. He found that the person at the front was indeed Chen Song, the eldest son of the village chief Chen An, and his heart finally dropped. Just thinking that the village chief was dead made his heart sink again.
"Finally found you!"
When the two sides met, Chen Song felt relieved when he saw Zhang Yu and Zhang Dashan, the father and son. Then he saw that there were only two of them and they were dirty, so he frowned and asked worriedly: "Didn't you say that you have arrived?" Are you buying grain from the county? Why are you covered in mud? Where are Dazhu and Erlin?"
Zhang Yu didn't know how to tell Chen Song the news about the death of the village chief. After being silent for a while, he could only reply: "On the way back, we encountered a collapsed mountain. We couldn't get through. We dug the road until now. See Your firelight, come over and see what’s going on.”
Chen Song asked anxiously: "Are everyone else okay?"
"We're fine, just, just..." Zhang Yu hesitated, his voice getting softer.
When Chen Song heard that they were all fine, he completely let go of his worries. He turned around and shouted to the villagers behind him, asking everyone to help dig the road. He didn't notice Zhang Yu's abnormality.
The villagers were very enthusiastic. A dozen of them walked toward the collapsed mountain with Zhang Yu and his son in their arms. Some asked them whether the price of food in the city's grain stores had increased, and some told them about the current situation in the village. Condition.
From the villagers' mouths, Zhang Yu learned that the village had not suffered from flash floods, but the stream surged in the afternoon and all the paddy fields in the village were submerged. Fortunately, the village was not flooded.
Now everyone in the village has moved to Wubei Mountain with their belongings. Except for the village chief and his group who went to buy food, there is no one missing in the village. It was already dark and they hadn't returned yet, so Chen Song organized people to search for them along the official road.
Only then did Zhang Yu learn that the villagers were here to see them. His eyes suddenly became wet. He found Chen Song and choked with tears: "Brother Song, the village chief, the village chief..."
"Don't worry about my dad. He told his family when he left last night that if it rains too much, he will spend the night at my younger brother's place." Chen Song never thought that something would happen to his father. His younger brother Chen Bai was in the county As a government official, he rented a small courtyard in the county. It was not surprising that his father stayed with his younger brother for one night. He thought Zhang Yu was worried about his father, so he interrupted Zhang Yu to let him relax.
Zhang Yu was extremely angry. On the one hand, he was angry that he was not speaking politely, and on the other hand, he was angry with Chen Song for his impatience. No wonder the village chief did not let him go to the county government as an errand and let Chen Bai go. Chen Song's impatience was really embarrassing. If you want to work as a county government official, you might be able to cause a lot of troubles.
Zhang Dashan was also speechless at his father's hesitant look, so he said on his father's behalf: "The village chief is gone."
"If it's gone, it's gone...what did you say?" Chen Song didn't react at first, but suddenly realized something was wrong. He was stunned for a moment. He held Zhang Dashan's arm tightly with one hand, his fingers turned white, and he was obviously using With all his strength, he widened his eyes and pierced Zhang Dashan with his gaze like a sword, "What do you mean it's gone?"
The villagers, who were originally in high spirits, suddenly became quiet. Even though there were so many people, there was no sound.
Zhang Dashan felt that Chen Song's fingers were about to pierce his flesh. He gritted his teeth and forced out the words.
"The village chief is dead. He was buried by the soil that fell from the mountain. We dug up his body when we were digging the road."
