Chapter 35 Chapter Thirty-Four

Dan is almost three years old, and he can already run around in and out of the house.This morning when he came together, he went outside to play, holding a pot helmet in his hand.This pot helmet was specially baked by Zhou Liang for his precious grandson. The fine noodles are mixed with eggs, sugar and walnut powder. It is fragrant and crispy, and the baby with tender teeth tastes just right.In the severe drought years with two consecutive crop failures, I am afraid that only Zhou Kewen's grandson has this good fortune. As soon as Dan went out, he met Heichou.Heichou went to the plateau to peel the bark and passed by here.When Heichou saw the pot helmet in Dan's hand, his saliva immediately flowed out. He quickly stuck out his tongue and sipped back the saliva.Now I can't eat enough to fill my stomach, and my saliva is also precious.After all, saliva is not food. It can only moisten the throat and not fill the stomach.Heichou hadn't seen food for a month or two. Now that he met this pot helmet suddenly, the hungry insects in his stomach were awakened. They gnawed at his stomach, and Heichou felt his internal organs It hurts.Heichou wanted to snatch the pot helmet from Dan's hand, but he didn't dare, as soon as the baby cried, the parents would rush out immediately, and he was an adult who would grab the baby's food, where would he put his face?

If you don't dare to grab it, if you don't grab it, you will be hungry and panic. Hei Chou has a solution.He smiled and said to Danwa, baby, uncle asks you, have you ever seen a horse? Custard said childishly, I have seen it, it is in my barn. Heichou said, that is a real horse, you dare not touch it.Do you want a juggling horse that you can hold in your hand? The egg is a doll after all, he said, thinking, where is it? Heichou said, the pot helmet in your hand can bite out a horse, try it. Dan holds the pot helmet in front of his eyes and stares at it, not knowing how to bite.Heichou said, you don't know how to bite, so give the pot helmet to Uncle, and Uncle will bite it for you, making sure to bite out a live horse.

Dan happily handed the pot helmet to Heichou, and Heichou took the pot helmet, took a bite immediately, and swallowed it before he could chew, making him roll his eyes because of choking.The taste of the grain is really fragrant, no matter how good the wild vegetable bark is, it can't compare.Heichou didn't have this kind of experience before, but now he does.With this comparison, Heichou felt that he was doing the right thing by leaving the little food left at home for his mother to eat.The old man has a bad appetite, how can he eat the bitter and astringent wild vegetable bark?Even if she can eat it, how can she overcome it?

Seeing Heichou choking and panting like a hen crowing eggs, Egg widened his eyes curiously.This doll is too small to know what it's like to be hungry.He asked Heichou, where is the horse? Heichou breathed a sigh of relief and said, don't worry, uncle will bite you slowly.He took another bite and said the horse's tail was out. Egg said, where is it?Not like! Ha, said Heichou, isn't it? I'll bite again.He took another bite and said the horse's head came out. Egg shook his head and said, it's not like that.Heichou will bite again.He bit down one bite at a time, and the square pot helmet became the size of an egg in no time. He didn't dare to bite any more, so he returned the strange shaped pot helmet to the egg, saying that the horse could fly if you look at it.

Dan held the horse in his hand, but he couldn't tell what the horse looked like at first glance. While he was still in a daze, Heichou quickly slipped away. Dan couldn't see it by himself, so he took the horse home and showed it to adults.As soon as the egg came in, Mrs. Zhou Liang praised his grandson, saying that my baby is so good today, and Guokui ate so fast.Egg showed Guokui to his mother-in-law and said it was a horse, and I already had a horse.Zhou Liang was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what was going on.She asked her grandson, who bit the horse for you?Dandan was still young, so he couldn't recognize everyone in the village, he just said, it was uncle, that uncle, black uncle.Zhou Liang cursed angrily, what a short-lived ghost even deceives a three-year-old baby.

Zhou Kewen was also there, he smiled wryly and said, look at the world. At this moment, the long-term worker Chang Gui hurried home, met Zhou Kewen and said, shopkeeper, go and have a look, all the trees on our field have been stripped. Zhou Kewen snorted, thinking why so fast?Yesterday he went wandering in the field, the tree is still fine.He said to Chang Gui, let's go and have a look. Zhou Kewen loves to plant trees.He planted trees in all the vacant places in front of and behind the house, even in the corners of the fields where the plow could not be watered.Others said it would be a wasteland, but if he said it would be a wasteland, let me make a good one.What he said was the truth.Zhou Kewen planted trees not for wood, but for scenery.Others think there is something wrong with him. Are you a farmer or a crop grower? Why do you want such a beautiful scenery?Can it eat or drink?Even his wife thinks so, she always says to him, you are a bird, you like trees!Zhou Kewen has read too many pastoral poems, so he always makes Zhoujiazhai look like a peach blossom garden.Tao Yuanming's "Dogs bark in the deep alley, roosters crow at the top of mulberry trees", Wang Wei's "Egrets flying in deserted paddy fields, and orioles singing in shaded summer trees", and Meng Haoran's "Green trees close to the village, green mountains and guo slant outside" are all his yearning. realm.Is a village a village without trees?A village without trees would have no charm and air, and he couldn't stay in such a village for a day.He is really eating trees and drinking trees, what he ingests are the souls of trees.

Zhou Kewen came to the field to take a look, ah, my heart ached to death.Rows of trees on the ridges have been stripped of their bark, exposing their white trunks, as if a person had been disembowelled.Zhou Kewen didn't feel that the tree was in pain, but felt that his body was in pain, as if someone had peeled off the skin on his body one by one, and it hurt like a heart-rending pain.The wounds of the trees are still oozing juice, dripping down drop by drop, that is the trees are crying.People often say that a tree with a living face has a living bark. Can a tree still live if the bark is peeled off?Zhou Kewen was so angry that his face was blue and purple, he cursed loudly, "Bark peeler, my mother, if you don't have food to eat, go eat shit!"

Chang Gui's eyes widened in astonishment, the shopkeeper actually swears foul language!He had been in Mingde Hall for many years, and it was the first time he heard Zhou Kewen curse people so viciously. Of course Zhou Kewen knew who did it, it was all done by people who were forced to do nothing by hunger.It is now a lean spring, and there are too many people without food.People who grow opium don't store grain in the first place, but buy it now and eat it now. Now that both crops have failed, how can there be anyone who sells grain?Those who were desperate for hunger took the risk.

The problem is that not all of these barks are edible.The elm and mulberry trees are barely edible, but Ailanthus and neem are not even eaten by livestock. Why do they peel off the bark of these trees?Could it be that they are rougher than animals? There are a lot of scavengers in the field.Some dug wild vegetables, some dug out mouse nests, and some picked up goose dung. They heard Zhou Kewen's yelling and scolding. Many people raised their heads and looked at Zhou Kewen, with resentment in their eyes.There may or may not be people who strip bark among them. Regardless of whether they have or not, they are all people without food. Zhou Kewen scolded people without food for eating shit. Just be angry.Those who have food are so buff, and they don't treat people without food as human beings!

The old man who digs wild vegetables has spoken, Brother Xiucai, don’t scold, this is all forced by God, and it’s not just your tree that has been peeled. If you look far away, which tree still has bark?People who eat tree bark are pitiful enough, and you tell people to eat shit, it's too unkind!Zhou Kewen only cared about his own trees just now, but now he looked at it from a distance, and it was indeed the case, all the visible trees were showing shocking white stubble, as if they were wearing sackcloth for God.Most of Zhou Kewen's anger dissipated, and he also realized that he lost his composure just now, and his words were serious, and he was suspected of causing public anger.

He made a haha, and said to Lao Ba, I just said this casually, who is serious.Immediately afterwards he asked Lao Ba, his eighth uncle, can the bark be saved if it is peeled off?The old eight said that if they were mixed with some mud, they might still be able to survive.Zhou Kewen immediately told Chang Gui, listen to the eighth uncle, and go back to make love with the mud.In fact, he knew this way a long time ago. He wanted to sell face to Lao Ba and ease the atmosphere. But Lao Ba didn't seem to appreciate it.He said, Brother Xiucai, people often say that flowers do not last a hundred days, and people do not have a hundred years of wealth. The rich have to think about it, maybe he will become poor! Of course there are thorns in Lao Ba's words, but Zhou Kewen didn't care about it. On the contrary, he thought it was a reminder to him.People should be prepared for danger in times of peace, and often treat times as no times. Only such a good situation will be passed down from generation to generation.But now who in his family has suffered?They are all rolling in the rich nest, and they regard the good times as less than farts.Let's just talk about the drought in front of us. Both crops have failed, but his family's life is still the same, what to eat and what to drink. Compared with the villagers, they are in two worlds.This is not good, Zhou Kewen thought, this is because they have spoiled them, and they should be allowed to live a hard life, suffer like the villagers, and they will know how to live.Now is a good opportunity, how many years does this drought come once! With this idea in mind, Zhou Kewen walked around the ground to see how other people scoured for food.He has eaten wild vegetables and knows what it tastes like. The food taken out of the mouse hole is still food even though it smells bad. He is familiar with this, only goose dung he has never eaten.This thing was also picked up before, and it was feed for pigs.Zhou Kewen thought that it should be the most unpalatable, so he made up his mind to let everyone in his family taste the taste of goose dung. Zhou Kewen picked up a lump of goose dung by himself. It was a green bump the size of a penny, with mucus in it, like vegetable dregs that hadn't been chewed and spit out.Zhou Kewen put it in front of his nose and smelled it, and there was a strong fishy smell.After all, dung is dung, even if it is bird droppings, there are so many people fighting for this kind of droppings.Zhou Kewen thought that the wild geese flying all the way from the south, pecking at the crops and pecking at the weeds, there should be some grain particles in their droppings.Even if not, the grass dregs in the feces can be eaten, and it is safe to eat, and it is guaranteed to be non-toxic. Zhou Kewen looked around and saw wild geese one after another on the flat field. They returned to their hometown after overwintering in the south. Unexpectedly, there is almost no grass growing in their hometown now.In previous years, this time is the season full of spring, with red flowers, willows and green grass, green grass in the sky, and the wheat in the field has also risen from hibernation. They stand upright, stretch their leaves, and joint tillers in the warm sunshine.But this year so far, there is no trace of spring.The green has disappeared, the leaves have been brushed away, and the weeds and vegetables have also been shoveled.The wheat that was dry-planted last winter basically did not germinate, and some wheat seedlings in the irrigated fields barely squeezed out of the ground, but due to the lack of moisture, they lay limp and yellow on the ground, as if they were seriously ill.The agricultural proverb says that when the spring equinox wheat rises, the fertilizer and water must follow closely. What can I do if it does not rain?Zhou Kewen's wheat is almost like this. Last year, when the seeds were planted, they were watered, and they were never watered again.It wasn't that he didn't want to water it, but that the well was almost dry and there was no water to draw.Wild geese are now one after another in a wheat field like his, and they also want to eat.They return home like an arrow, traveling long distances, thinking about the good life in the north, drooling when they think of the flowers, herbs and fertilizers in their hometown, but they didn't expect to return to their hometown to become like this!They have no choice but to gnaw on these wilting yellow wheat seedlings to satisfy their appetite. Zhou Kewen saw the wild geese ruining his wheat seedlings, but there was nothing he could do. There were too many wild geese, and one wave after another was driven away. Can't come over.Besides, if he really went to chase him away, the villagers would definitely scold him. How many people are waiting for the goose dung to go to the pot? Didn't you cut off other people's food supply?Looking at the people picking up goose dung all over the ground, Zhou Kewen sighed. Back home, Zhou Kewen sent Chun'e to pick up goose dung.Chun'e asked, Dad, what are we doing picking up that thing?Do you feed the pigs?Zhou Kewen's face turned black and he said, slap your mouth, let someone eat it!Mrs. Zhou Liang said, you are tired of white rice and fine noodles, do you want a change?Zhou Kewen said, I am not alone, the whole family will change! Chun'e went there for a long time, and came back with a loop of caged goose dung.The whole family didn't know how to eat this thing.Zhou Kewen said to Chun'e, if we don't know how to eat, there will always be something we can eat. There are so many goose dung pickers in the village, go and ask.Chun'e was very displeased, thinking that his father's taste was also weird, so she refused to eat the white rice and fine noodles at home, and insisted on eating bird's nest.But the slander is the slander, she didn't dare to disobey his father's words, so she went to Gou Sheng's house.Just now when I was picking up goose dung in the field, I met the leftover wife of a dog. The wife of the dog came early and returned early after picking up a loop of cages. She must know how to cook goose dung as a meal. As soon as Chun'e entered Gou Sheng's house, she heard crying and cursing inside.Gousheng's father was lying upright on the cave floor, with half of the rope wrapped around his neck. Gousheng chased and beat his wife all over the yard, and she screamed like a pig after being beaten.Chun'e was taken aback, not knowing what was going on.After asking the people who tried to persuade them, I found out that the leftover wife of the dog had caused trouble.When the daughter-in-law came back from picking up goose dung, she found that her father was lighting a pot in the kitchen. She opened the pot, and the heat was steaming. I couldn't see the contents, but there was a smell of meat that came straight to my nose.The leftover daughter-in-law is very angry. There has been nothing to eat at home for a long time. She went out to get something to fill her stomach. She first wanted to eat it for her father-in-law, but this old thing took her family as a thief and hid it for herself. Yes, secretly eat while she is not at home!The dog leftover wife turned pale, slammed the kitchen door and went out.Gousheng's father knew that his daughter-in-law had misunderstood him. He said that he dismantled the cattle halter at home. It was made of cowhide. He wanted to cook it to see if it could be eaten.The daughter-in-law snorted, not believing it at all.The dog leftover's father was in a hurry, saying that whoever steals the food will strike five thunders from the sky, and the daughter-in-law replied, who is afraid of the five thunders from the sky now?Hitting five thunders every day is a blessing, and you will not suffer from starvation if you die.Gousheng's father was an upright person, but he didn't expect to be seen as a thief by his daughter-in-law when he was old, so he hanged himself in a fit of anger. Chun'e slipped out quietly, and went back to tell her father about it.Zhou Kewen was stunned for a long time after hearing this, and said nothing.Chun'e said cautiously, "Father, we still have plenty of food in our family. Look, let's give it to them... Zhou Kewen interrupted her, saying why, give it to them?"Chun'e said, I didn't mean to give them, but to lend them and sell them.Zhou Kewen said that this is not a matter of borrowing and selling.I told them a long time ago, farmers are born to grow food, if they don't listen, they have to be punished by God! What else did Chun'e want to say, Zhou Kewen asked, did you find out, why do you eat goose dung?Chun'e stuck out her tongue and hurried out.Zhou Kewen said later, I just want you to suffer from the crime of starvation, and you will know how things are going! Chun'e went to Maowa's house, and Maowa also went to pick up goose dung today.When she entered, Maowa's wife was cooking. She explained why she came, and Maowa's wife asked, "Your family has a lot of food, and you still want to eat this stuff?"Chun'e said, it's a famine year, so eat with thick and thin.Maowa said at the side, Uncle Xiucai will pass the time. Let me tell you, this goose dung can’t be eaten alone, it’s too fishy. This is how we do it. Add water and white clay to boil the goose dung into a paste soup. It smells delicious. Baitu Chun'e knows that it is Guanyin soil, which can be dug under the old cliff. It is white and thin in color. People often use it and mud to smear the wall. I didn't expect this thing to be edible.It can be eaten, Maowa said, look, the ones at the entrance of my kiln are just dug. Chun'e groaned, and said that I would dig it too, and sprinkle soup for them. After Chun'e left, Maowa's daughter-in-law said to Maowa, when did we drink goose dung paste soup with white clay?Aren't you a jerk.She knew that this white clay should not be eaten unless it was absolutely necessary. Someone had already eaten it, and it couldn't come out after eating it. Maowa said, I get angry when I see them. There is so much food hidden in the house and they are so stingy. It is obvious that they want to take advantage of the famine and sell it for a high price. I will let them suffer! Sure enough, Zhou Kewen's family was blocked.Zhou Kewen squatted in the hut for a few bags of cigarettes, his legs were sore, his head was full of veins and his face was sweating, but he couldn't come out, so he had no choice but to pull up his pants and call his wife, so that Zhou Liang could do well in the hut Pick him out.Zhou Liangshi had just finished laughing at the old man, but he didn't expect to come out, so he had to ask the old man to repeat his actions.When it was Chun'e's turn, it was difficult. She was a little daughter-in-law, how could she have the nerve to let others pick that place, so she could only do it by herself, and almost broke her body. This family occupied the hut, but it suffocated the long-term workers.What they eat is white rice and fine noodles. I don’t know what the owner’s family is doing. The old cat can’t come out inside. Does it smell good there? Early the next morning, President Qin of the Jiangzhang Town Chamber of Commerce sent someone to invite Zhou Kewen to dinner.Zhou Kewen felt strange, he didn't have a business name in Jiangzhang Town, why did the president of the chamber of commerce seek him?He was taken aback when he arrived in the town, and he hadn't been here for many days. This famous town in Guanzhong has almost turned into the Temple of Yama.On both sides of the street, there are dead people lying on the ground every now and then, and if they are not careful, they will stumble over them.These corpses are of all ages, the elderly, women and dolls are the most numerous.In the city gate, Zhou Kewen saw a pair of dead mother and child. The poor baby was still holding its mother's nipple after death.The most terrifying thing is those open-air pot tables, where food stalls and pots are placed during the day, and there is still a residual temperature inside after the guys are removed at night, and the beggars are huddled in the hearth overnight.The nights in early spring were still very cold, and many of these cold and hungry beggars could not bear it, and died before dawn the next day.Their corpses were densely inserted into the hearth, like an incense burner filled with incense sticks.Zhou Kewen's hair stood on end when he walked past these pots, he had never seen such a dead person! President Qin greeted Zhou Kewen at the Xifu Paomo House.As soon as they sat down, the waiter took out two Yaozhou old bowls and four pot helmets and asked them to break the buns by themselves.Unexpectedly, before they even made a move, a circle of beggars would hula up and surround them, and the buddies couldn't drive them away.They had no choice but to break open the pot helmet and give each one a piece.These beggars left, and there was another group of beggars around another table. There was a person eating mutton steamed buns alone, ignoring the beggars.A beggar got angry, and spat into the man's bowl in a pooh-pooh manner. The man got angry and picked up a bench to swing him over.Chairman Qin hurriedly stopped him, saying that he must never dare, you can see that he can be blown down by a gust of wind, and someone will die.He was so popular that he picked up a bowl of steamed mutton and threw it outside the door, saying that I told you to eat it!Unexpectedly, those beggars scrambled out of the door, some picked up food on the ground, and some simply lay down and sucked. President Qin said, I'm sorry, we can't eat a meal safely.Zhou Kewen said, don't be polite, and I don't owe this meal, please tell me if you have anything to say.President Qin said, you saw it just now, there are dead people piled up everywhere in our street, it's almost like hell.There used to be a corpse collection team in the town, but now there are too many dead people, they are too busy, the corpses cannot be cleaned up in time, the streets are smelly, and business cannot be done.Our chamber of commerce has decided to pay someone to collect the corpse. Everyone says that Mr. Zhou is a man who is eager for justice, so I will trouble you for this embarrassing matter. This is indeed a difficult thing.The chamber of commerce has searched several villages, but none of them would do it, because it is bad luck to carry the dead, and the chamber of commerce is unwilling to pay a large price.The Chamber of Commerce is unwilling to pay a large price because there are too many dead people, and they don't know how long they will die, so how much money should be posted?Of course, Chairman Qin would not tell Zhou Kewen about this. He heard that Zhou Xiucai is a person who likes to wear high hats, so he used the high hat to cover him. Zhou Kewen is certainly happy when someone praises him, but he is not someone who will get dizzy when his hat is covered.He told President Qin that this matter might not be easy to deal with. Besides parents, who would want to collect the corpses of others?Chairman Qin knew that he had hit a rock again, but he couldn't afford to delay this matter. The more people were dragged on, the more dead people would be and the more rotten the smell would be.He was a little anxious, so he said, then you don't want to do it? Chairman Qin showed his flaws when he said this, and Zhou Kewen guessed that he must have found someone else.In other words, if others don't do it, we are not melon seeds!Chairman Qin was not reconciled, and said that we should discuss it again.Zhou Kewen said, what are we discussing?I don't want money.President Qin asked in surprise, no money, nothing?Zhou Kewen said, why?I want food!He knew that the people in Zhoujiazhai were most short of food. Money was of little use, and even if they had money, they might not be able to buy food. Besides, compared to food, money was depreciating every day.When President Qin heard this, he cursed in his heart, this guy is still a scholar, and his heart is darker than a big boss. Who doesn't know that food is expensive now, and he wants food immediately!He said, this is not easy to handle, you know that our chamber of commerce is for business, how much money do we have in hand, where does the food come from?Zhou Kewen said, let me give you an idea, the food will come without the chamber of commerce.Chairman Qin said, where did such a good thing come from?Zhou Kewen said, isn't there a free warehouse in Jiangzhang Town?You go to the head of the righteous warehouse, I think you must be familiar with each other, and ask him to provide food to pay for the collection of corpses. The righteous warehouse was originally designed to deal with famines, and now is the right time. President Qin patted his head and said, that's right, why didn't I think of this trick?He said to Zhou Kewen, you go back and greet people, I will go to Cangtou right away, it should be fine. When Zhou Kewen left, he suddenly thought of a question. He asked President Qin, now that the drought is so severe, why isn't the charity warehouse in the town releasing relief?Chairman Qin said, I met Cangtou a few days ago and asked about this too.Cangtou said that now Jiangzhang Town is full of refugees from other places, and our free warehouse is set up for the local people, and it will only be opened when our place is too barren.Besides, releasing relief now is tantamount to recruiting refugees here.They swarm wherever there is food, there are already enough refugees in the town, and we locals will be squeezed away by beggars. Zhou Kewen thought so too.The Yicang in Jiangzhang Town is the food that the people of Jiangzhang paid for, and the purpose of their payment is to prevent famine in the new year.Although the local area has not yet caused death, who knows how long the drought will last, and if it continues, people will starve to death, and then they will have to rely on the righteous storehouse to save people.Now open a warehouse for outsiders to eat, what will the locals do then? Zhou Kewen returned to Zhoujiazhai, estimated in detail the difficult situation of the villagers, selected dozens of young men to recruit them to the ancestral hall, and said that they would go to the town to bury them.Some people were so happy that they wanted to kowtow to Zhou Kewen, saying that Uncle Xiucai had done a good job for everyone.There are also people who are unwilling, saying that it is unlucky to touch the dead.Ordinarily, whoever doesn't want to go doesn't have to go, there are plenty of people who want to go, but Zhou Kewen is stubborn, he just wants these people to go.He scolded them badly, saying that it wasn't for the sake of you still having parents, I would definitely replace you.But you still have parents, you have to feed them, if you let them starve, you will be a rebellious son, there is no place for a rebellious son in Zhoujiazhai, you have to go if you go, or you have to go if you don’t go! Those people were so scolded that they dared not speak, and finally had to go. The Zhoujiazhai corpse collection team came to the town.Some of them pushed carts, and some carried them with door panels. People from the Chamber of Commerce counted them and distributed them food according to the number of corpses collected.Heichou and Maowa lifted a door panel and started to run fast. They felt that people with carts had an advantage over them. They were one living person against one dead person, and they had two living people against one dead person. They needed to run more In order to equalize with others.But they didn't eat any hard food in the morning, only goose dung soup and elm flour pancakes, and they couldn't stand it for a while.The road to carry the dead is quite long, from the town to the moats on the outskirts, where there are mass graves.This time the two of them carried the body of a thin man, and after walking halfway, they were exhausted. They put down the door panel under a locust tree outside the city wall, and sat down to catch their breath.Maowa took out a lump of bran from his pocket and gnawed on it, Heichou looked at it anxiously, dripping down strands of saliva.He begged Maowa to say, break some for me, I am too hungry.Maowa refused, Heichou said, if you don't give me, I will lose my strength, and you will carry the dead body alone in a while.This is a threat, Maowa has no choice but to give Heichou some points.If Hei Chou really played tricks, what would he do by himself?Don't say that he can't move his back at all now, even if he could, he wouldn't dare, how does it feel like a dead person lying on his back! Both of them were holding the chaff balls in both hands, eating them wholeheartedly, for fear of spilling any of them.Suddenly a hand stretched out from behind and grabbed the baby's arm.Maowa thought that someone was going to steal his food, turned around and cursed, "Jiyou"—he didn't finish cursing, but his voice turned into a terrified cry: You're a corpse! Heichou also looked back, ah!The corpse on the door panel was gone, and the thin man crawled up to them and stretched out his skinny hand to them. Ghost! It turned out that the skinny man wasn't dead at all, he just fainted from hunger, and now he came back to life when he smelled the aroma of food.This frightened Maowa and Heichou to death. How could Maowa and Heichou be willing to give him food?He lasted for a while and passed out again.Heichou asked Maowa, what should I do?He's not dead yet, so we can't bury him alive, right?Maowa said, you are useless, is it easy for us to carry him so far?buried!He greeted Heichou and lifted the man to the door.As soon as they moved, the man was shaken awake again, and he said feebly, give me something to eat, I don't want to die.Heichou couldn't bear it a bit, and said to Maowa, you still have food in your pocket, give him some.Maowa said, you melon, if he eats it, he won't die, so we carried it for nothing.He turned to the man and said, brother, I advise you to die, just like you, if you have today and no tomorrow, you will die after all, you are lucky, today we will collect your body, and you will fall into the ground For safety, if you die in the future, no one will bury you, and the wild dogs will tear you to pieces. We are doing good deeds. The man no longer had the energy to speak, but his eyes were still wide open, making it difficult for Mao Wa Hei Chou to strike.Maowa closed his eyes with his hands, and he opened them again stubbornly.Heichou knew what he meant, and he said to Maowa that he didn't want to be a starving ghost, so you should give him something to eat.Maowa took out a handful of chaff balls from his pocket, pinched them to the man's mouth and said, "If I eat it for you, you will die, you mean what you say."Maowa stuffed the food into the man's mouth, and he swallowed it without even chewing.As expected, he was going to die, so he closed his eyes obediently, but at the same time as the eyes closed, two lines of tears leaked from the corners of his eyes, the tears were very heavy, and they dripped on the door panel with a clicking sound, which frightened Maowa Heichou Jump. Maowa and Heichou carried him to the edge of the mass grave in a panic, one held his head and the other lifted his legs, and threw him into the pile of dead with a plop. When it was getting dark, Zhou Kewen came to the town, bringing a large bundle of incense paper money and Sun Taoist from the Empress Temple.He gathered the corpse collection team in front of the mass grave, where he wanted to do a ritual for the undead.Zhou Kewen had never been to a mass grave before this, he had only heard of this place.When he was standing by the moat now, the sight in the mass grave made his scalp twitch.The corpses inside were stacked on top of each other, old and young, men and women, clothed and naked, like a random pile of firewood sticks.This is too scary, too worrying!How many fathers of children, mothers of dolls, grandsons of grandpas, daughters-in-law of mother-in-law are there!They are good grandsons, good sons, and good wives just like his grandson, his son, and his wife, but now they are broken and thrown into a mass grave! Sun Daoren incinerated the joss paper money, murmured words, gestured with his hands in the air for a while, and then asked the body collectors to step over the fire one by one, saying that it was all right, and I had already rescued them. Everyone was relieved at once.Once the ceremony is done, they will no longer be afraid of wild ghosts.They were grateful to Zhou Kewen, because he was still thoughtful.The body collectors threw soil down from the moat bank with shovels, covering the bodies in a short while, as if covering them with a yellow quilt.But the quilt was too thin, and the person who collected the body was obviously perfunctory.Zhou Kewen said, throw more soil and bury it thicker.Maowa said, Uncle Xiucai, forget it, this mass grave is buried layer by layer, and there will be more dead people on top of them.nonsense!Zhou Kewen reprimanded, why don't you have any sense of awe!People often say that the dead are the greatest, they suffer while alive, and they should be allowed to live safely in the underworld after death.Maowa muttered in a low voice, they are all dead, what else do they know?Zhou Kewen glared at Mao Wa, grabbed Mao Wa's shovel, and said that you don't want to touch me!Maowa hurriedly asked for the shovel, saying how dare you work on your old man, I will come, I will come.Everyone worked together to fill the pit with a thick layer of loess. This made Zhou Kewen feel better.After reading the scriptures, the souls of the dead have been saved. Although the dead do not have coffins, the soil is very thick, and no wild wolves and dogs will disturb them.He did everything he could, and at least he was able to stand up to these dead strangers. The person who collected the body went to the chamber of commerce to receive the golden wheat.This is actually more precious than gold, and they get drunk when they smell the fragrance of grain.