There is a small mountain village at the foot of the West Mountain called Liujiacun.
The small village faces south. There is an old willow tree of unknown age at the entrance of the village. The drought is raging and the old willow trees are dead.
In the early morning of May 10th, a group of heavily armed and fierce cavalry, like the devils from hell, rushed into Liujia Village, raised their swords and spears at the unarmed villagers, and began a cruel and merciless massacre.
In despair, the old village chief ordered Niu Yao and other young men to flee quickly, not for revenge in the future, but to leave a ray of incense for Liujia Village. However, their desperate escape turned into a cat-and-mouse game for the armored cavalry. They were chased by more than 20 cavalry and shot dead one after another.
Niu Dawa was the last person targeted by the cavalry. He was lucky because at the critical moment a black dog fell from the sky and saved him from the flying arrows.
Black Dog did not help him take revenge, but asked him to come back and kill his enemies with his own hands after he succeeded in cultivation.
Twenty days have passed since that bloody morning, but due to the drought, there was no damage from rain and birds, animals, insects, and ants, so the bloodstains in the village still exist. Only the thick dust and dry brown color covering it silently tell people that a long time has passed.
Zhang Xiaozu stood under the dead old willow tree, looking at the small mountain village in front of him where he grew up. He really didn't want to believe that it had become a dead village, but the blood stains sprinkled on the wall that could be seen from a distance, and the The deathly silence that he could feel told him that what Niu Dawa said was true.
"Pawn, I'm back!" Zhang Xiaozu choked with trembling lips. Tears finally burst out of his eyes uncontrollably.
"Da Wa, I'm back too!" Niu Da Wa also burst into tears.
Behind the two of them, Qi Yoyo and Zhou Jianlai were silent. They didn't know how to comfort them, and they didn't want to comfort them. They all knew that Zhang Xiaozhu and Niu Dawa's emotions had been suppressed for a long time and needed to be vented.
When I walked into the village, I expected to see a tragic scene of corpses strewn all over the ground, but I didn't. Only blood stains were seen, not a body.
Zhang Xiaozu and Niu Dawa, with their eyes wide open, angry and frightened, searched from yard to yard with trembling steps. Along the way, they witnessed the inhumane and cruel behavior of Big Tooth Dog, and they were afraid that the people in Liujia Village would suffer the same fate.
In fact, they didn't see any corpses when they entered the village. They immediately had a bad feeling in their hearts, but they just didn't want to believe it, so they searched like crazy in every yard.
"Pawn, big boy, come here quickly!" Zhou Jianlai's shout suddenly came from the back of the village, as if he had discovered something.
Zhang Xiaozhu and Niu Dawa immediately ran to the back of the village after hearing this. As the distance got closer, a dense mass of graves appeared in their field of vision.
The two of them ran closer and looked at the dense tombs, feeling sad and secretly relieved.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Zhang Xiaozhu was overwhelmed with emotion. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed while wailing.
Niu Dawa put her arms around his shoulders and wanted to say a few words of comfort, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he burst into tears, and then the two of them knelt on the ground and cried holding each other's hands.
The man sheds tears easily because he has not reached the sad point.
Qi Yoyo's emotions were infected by the two of them, and she kept wiping tears aside.
Zhou Jianlai also had red eyes.
After crying for a long time, the two of them slowly calmed down.
"Did someone escape the disaster and return to the village to build these graves?" Zhou Jianlai asked, not only to express doubts in his heart, but also to distract the two of them.
"Probably not." Zhang Xiaozu denied Zhou Jianlai's guess and said in a hoarse voice: "If people from our village wouldn't build a cemetery here, the cemetery in our village is to the west. Even if it was built here, they wouldn't. One grave per person. Repair the tomb
The person should not be from our village, or at least not familiar with the people in our village. "
"Maybe they are from the nearby village." Niu Dawa guessed.
"Xiao pawn, this one turns out to be - your tomb." Qi Yoyo suddenly pointed to a tomb in front of her and said, "This grave has a tombstone, and it says 'Zhang Xiaopeng's Tomb', which is marked with a dagger. Engraved on it with a similar sharp weapon."
After hearing this, Zhang Xiaozhu hurriedly got up and walked forward in surprise. He looked at the grave and the wooden sign that served as a tombstone in front of the grave with confusion on his face. If he hadn't recognized his name, he would have doubted whether Qi Yoyo had misrecognized it.
Niu Dawa, Zhou Jianlai and Qi Yoyo also looked at each other in confusion.
Zhang Xiaozhu is obviously still alive, why would someone dig his grave and erect a monument for him?
"You're not really dead, are you?" Niu Dawa looked at Zhang Xiaozu and asked with a strange expression.
"Get out!" Zhang Xiaozu cursed angrily.
"There are words behind the monument." Zhou Jianlai said suddenly and read out: "Zhang Xiaopeng, I'm sorry that I couldn't fulfill your request to help you take care of the village. If you are still alive, you must come to Baiyun City to find me. Qi Ronger."
"It turns out to be her." Zhang Xiaozu suddenly realized, a warm current surged in his heart, and he was very grateful to Qi Ronger.
"Is that the friend you made in the black forest?" Qi Yoyo asked. She vaguely remembered Zhang Xiaozu saying this name.
"Well, it's her." Zhang Xiaozu nodded.
"You have to thank them properly." Niu Dawa said.
"Yes." Zhang Xiaozu responded, then looked at Zhou Jianlai and Qi Yoyo and said, "I want to stay in the village for one night. Is it okay to leave tomorrow morning?"
"No problem." Qi Yoyo agreed.
Zhou Jianlai nodded.
"I'll go home and take a look." Niu Dawa looked sad and walked in the direction of his home after leaving his words.
Zhou Jianlai followed Niu Dawa and left, fearing that Niu Dawa would be overly sad at the scene and something might happen to him.
"Can I follow you?" Qi Yoyo asked hurriedly when he saw Zhang Xiaozu walking in the other direction.
"Okay." Zhang Xiaozu responded.
Zhang Xiaozu led Qi Yoyo to the east end of the village and stopped in front of a small courtyard. This was Queer's home.
Looking along the open wooden door of the small courtyard to the courtyard, Zhang Xiaozhu looked sad and felt a throbbing pain in his heart. He and Keren'er's words of looking forward to the future were still in his ears. He never thought that in the blink of an eye, things were different and people were not the same as yin and yang. .
Zhang Xiaozu walked into the courtyard and found three pools of blood at the door of the hall. He guessed that they belonged to Queer, Queerniang and her brother. He didn't dare to imagine the scene at that time, and he didn't dare to think about the fear and despair the three of them felt when facing the big-toothed dog's butcher knife. Did Que'er call out "Brother Pawn, help me?", he probably did, but he didn't. She must have been heartbroken when she didn't show up.
The more I dare not think about it, the more random thoughts I have, and I can't control them at all.
Feeling mixed with grief and anger, overly sad, and anxious, Zhang Xiaozu coughed out a large mouthful of blood, hurriedly suppressed the surging air, looked away from the blood stains on the ground, and stepped into the main room.
The furniture in the main room was neatly arranged, and there were three pairs of bowls and chopsticks placed on the round table. There was crusted corn paste on the bottom of the bowls. It seemed that the three of them were eating when the accident happened.
Zhang Xiaozu entered the inner room. Most of the furniture in the inner room was neat and tidy. Only the closet door was open. I don't know if it was originally open or if someone was rummaging for something and opened it.
Zhang Xiaozu walked to an old dressing table, opened the small drawer underneath, and took out something wrapped in red cloth. He opened it and took a look at it before putting it into the mustard seeds.
Qi Yoyo could see clearly that there was a big red-headed flower in the red cloth bag.
The workmanship is very rough and ordinary. She was very thoughtful and knew at a glance that this should be the home of Zhang Xiaozhu's fiancée. Otherwise, how could a grown man like him go to someone else's house to pick up a woman's headband?
Zhang Xiaozu came out of Queer's house and went to the old village chief's house to have a look. Then he stopped going to other people's houses because he found that looking at it would only make him sad, so it was better not to look at it.
"My home." Zhang Xiaozu took Qi Yoyo to his home in the west of the village and introduced him to Qi Yoyo when he entered.
"It's quite spacious." Qi Yoyo said after entering the courtyard and looking around. It surprised her. She thought that Zhang Xiaozu was an orphan and lived in a dilapidated house that other people didn't want. She never thought that Zhang Xiaozu actually lived in a detached house and had three spacious houses. He seemed to be living a good life. Pretty good.
"The uncles and uncles in the village helped build it," Zhang Xiaopou said.
"It seems they all like you very much." Qi Yoyo said.
"The people in the village are simple and friendly, and everyone has a kind heart. They have never looked down on me because I am an orphan, and they all treat me as one of their own family members," Zhang Xiaozhu said.
The doors of the three thatched huts were all open. When Zhang Xiaopou entered his inner state of mind, he didn't find anything unusual in the house. It was just that someone had roughly rummaged through it, which made him frown involuntarily.
He quickly walked into the main room and went to the back bedroom. He walked to the end of the bed and removed a wooden box placed against the wall. Then he squatted down and picked off a stone on the wall. A black hole was revealed on the wall. He reached in and pulled out a Small wooden box.
Under Qi Yoyo's curious gaze, he placed the small wooden box on the bed, first grabbed an old piece of clothing and wiped his hands clean, then opened the small wooden box and took out a cloth bag, unfolding the cloth layer by layer. The innermost part is a neatly folded white cloth.
Zhang Xiaozu carefully unfolded the white cloth. When he saw the three words "Zhang Xiaozu" on the white cloth, he couldn't help but feel relieved, for fear that this only clue related to his life experience would be stolen.
"This is it?" Qi Yoyo couldn't help but asked curiously.
"I was abandoned under the old willow tree at the entrance of the village. When they found me, they found this name written on the ground next to me. The village chief grandfather was careful and felt that it was related to my life experience, so he rubbed the name with a white cloth and said Maybe you can find my biological parents by following the handwriting." Zhang Xiaozhu replied.
Qi Yoyo nodded and said: "Everyone's handwriting is different. You can indeed find the person who left the calligraphy according to the handwriting. But Dayu is so big and there are countless people who can write. It may not be easy to find the person who left the calligraphy. "
"Actually, it doesn't matter whether you can find it or not." Zhang Xiaozu shook his head with a wry smile, folded up the white cloth, put it away, and put it into the mustard seeds.
Qi Yoyo didn't answer because she knew that Zhang Xiaozhu was telling the truth. If he really didn't care whether he could find his biological parents, he wouldn't care so much about this piece of white cloth.
"Do you think there's anything weird?" Zhang Xiaozhu asked Qi Yoyo as he scanned the room.
"Have you noticed it too?" Qi Yoyo asked without answering, but before Zhang Xiaozu could speak, she continued: "These people seem to come just to kill people. In the room of your fiancee's house, the old village chief's house and your house, The furniture is all neat and tidy, and only places where people can hide, such as wardrobes and large tanks, have been rummaged. If they were here to rob money and food, they should have rummaged everywhere."
"Let's go and visit other people's houses." Zhang Xiaopou said.
After half an hour, Zhang Xiaozhu and Qi Yoyo looked at almost every house and found that just as Qi Yoyo said, every house was full of hiding places that had been rummaged through, such as rice vats and cloth bags for storing food, and There were no signs of searching in drawers or other places where money might have been hidden.
Obviously, this group of people seemed to have only one purpose in breaking into Liujia Village, and that was to kill everyone in Liujia Village.
