Doomsday housewives: the head of the family does not bow down

Chapter 136 Voluntary Sacrifice
The traffic flow stopped again, the front was crying and crying, and the back was cursing.

Xiao Zai was so hot that he took off his clothes until he was only wearing a pair of shorts. He was hanging out his tongue and panting like a puppy.

The metallic meow in his arms was also scalding hot.

Gu Guxi twisted the wet towel and kept wiping Tan Mingyu and Uncle Niu's foreheads.

Tan Mingyu and Uncle Niu's condition is not good. As the temperature rises, the wound is faintly inflamed and festering.

Si Mian has already got off the car and went to the front to investigate the situation of the disturbance.

It was Mu Cang who was driving now, she was a little worried, she turned her head to look at Tan Mingyu and Uncle Niu, who had no energy, and asked, "How are you doing? Would you like some more water?"

Tan Mingyu shook his hands, "It's okay, it's just too hot, and I feel a little weak."

Uncle Niu lowered his eyelids and rubbed around the bandaged wound, "My wound is itchy and hot, it hurts my heart..."

Seeing Uncle Niu scratching his ears and cheeks, Mu Cang couldn't help but feel that the scar on her lower abdomen was also itchy, so she rubbed it through her clothes.

At this time, the convoy began to move forward again.

She quickly released the handbrake and slid a little forward.

But Si Mian never returned to the car, Mu Cang looked forward, and now he was very close to Zhenlong Bridge, only a hundred meters away from the bridge head.

But looking from a distance, there are not many vehicles driving on the bridge. After counting, there are no more than five vehicles in total.

Is this due to the carrying capacity of the Zhenlong Bridge, so is the flow limited?
The ambulance moved a little further.

Mu Cang saw that a car didn't get on the bridge, and after handing in two baskets of supplies, he drove directly around the mountain road to the sand field empty dam under the bridge.

Along the Ruijiang River, there is a large empty dam, which belongs to the abandoned sand field operation area of ​​a Juancheng family.

Now, together with the abandoned battlefield, the green flag of the Heavy Industry Wheel Club has been planted.

They should have occupied the battlefield, and then set up a temporary camp for use.

There are many people with green armbands busy shuttling through it, guiding the parking of those vehicles and the arrangement of the people in the vehicles.

Mu Cang saw the people getting off the bus, all of them had sad faces and not much joy.

This should be the third type of choice, left behind, under the jurisdiction of Jiuxi Village.

It turns out that the third category also needs to hand in some materials.

I just don’t know what the status of this third category is in Jiuxi Village. Why do everyone look so pale?
The ambulance followed the funeral car and slid a little further.

After turning a corner, you can clearly see the situation at the end of the bridge.

Now there is a blue taxi in line, and the one making trouble is an aunt in her 50s.

Mu Cang knew this person, it was the aunt who scuffled with her daughter-in-law because of food poisoning.

Seeing her beating her chest and stamping her feet, she tried to force her way through the gate several times, only to be forked back by a few strong men with police steel forks.

In the driver's seat of the taxi was the young girl in her early twenties, the daughter of the aunt, who was yelling at her.

But I didn't see the daughter-in-law.

While fanning the wind, Mu Cang pricked up his ears to listen, concentrating on it, until Simian opened the car door and jumped into the passenger seat, then he suddenly came back to his senses.

"Si Mian, you're back. What's going on ahead?"

Si Mian's face was flushed by the sun, and after pouring half a bottle of mountain spring water, he replied, "The No. 15 car does not have enough supplies to cross the river, but they don't want to go to the battlefield to do coolies, so they made a fuss about offering sacrifices .”

Mu Cang was surprised and said, "Sacrifice? What sacrifice?"

Tan Mingyu and Uncle Niu also cheered up and leaned over to listen.

Si Mian pointed to the first line of the A4 paper pasted on the car glass, "A class of free people, offering sacrifices and tributes to cross the bridge. This tribute is divided into dead things and living things; dead things are all kinds of materials. If dead things Not enough, you can sacrifice living things. For example, people."

"people?"

Mu Cang and the others were greatly surprised.

Uncle Niu murmured: "No wonder, no wonder, I was on the side of the road before, and I heard people around me say that sacrifices to the bridge will kill people!"

Mu Cang remembered that Lu Youran seemed to have mentioned that he wanted to cross the bridge, and the conditions were harsh.Those who have materials have to hand in the materials, and those who have no materials have to take people as collateral.

She said: "Youran said before that there will be a grand sacrificial ceremony three days later. The situation of the third category of left-behinds is definitely different from that of the sacrificed people in the first category. Could it be...they want to use living people Sacrifice?"

Si Mian nodded, "Exactly. The bridgehead announcement has been posted, in black and white, on a voluntary basis."

Mu Cang was very puzzled, "Voluntary? Who would volunteer to sacrifice Zhenlong Bridge? That would kill people!"

Xiao Zai leaned over naked and asked, "Mom, did you throw it into the river and feed that dragon?"

Mu Cang was startled: "Did you see the dragon?"

Xiao Zai shook his head, "Didn't you say there are dragons? Sister Youran said that."

Mu Cang breathed a sigh of relief. Lu Youran's rumor was that people over 70 years old and children under 12 years old could hear the dragon's roar.

She was still a little afraid that her son would see the dragon...

If a dragon appeared in Ruijiang, it would really impact her outlook on life.

After all, those are impossible creatures, just fairy tales, aren't they.

The noise at the bridge was still going on. The old lady was as hot as if she had just been fished out of the Rui River. Her hair was spread out wetly, like a water ghost. Now she started to roll all over the ground again, making her whole body muddy and surrounded by steel forks. On the ground, the scene is poignant and comical.

Mu Cang sighed suddenly, and understood why it was the principle of voluntariness.

She murmured: "There are really people who voluntarily stay as sacrifices in exchange for the whole family, right?"

Si Mian groaned: "I see the handprints on the notice at the bridge head, and there are more than 20 people left."

Mu Cang suddenly felt a little sour in his eyes, and saw Si Mian pointing in the direction of the mountain wall.

In the shade under the mountain wall, parked a big red truck, the kind used to transport livestock.

The carriage is equipped with grid iron bars, which are ventilated and breathable, and can be seen at a glance.

Mu Cang saw more than 20 people in the truck. They were standing, sitting, or lying down. Some had ashen faces, some had empty eyes, some prayed with palms together, and some waved with smiles towards the north bank of Zhenlong Bridge. say goodbye.

Most of these people are elderly, and the rest are mostly disabled.

Mu Cang suddenly understood why they voluntarily stayed. They felt that they were a burden. In the dangerous doomsday, survival was difficult, so they didn't want to burden their friends or family.

It's just that this cruel decision is also a lifetime of pain for those who leave.

It seems that separation between life and death has become commonplace now that order has collapsed.

Mu Cang was still immersed in the desolation brought about by the doomsday, and Simian's mouth had already curled into a mocking smile, and he said: "The old aunt in front doesn't have enough supplies to cross the bridge. She could have chosen to stay and go to the battlefield, although she has to go to the battlefield every day." Under the arrangement of Jiuxi Village, I will do some coolies, but it is safe and sound. But she is not willing, she wants to cross the bridge and find her natal brother in Ningcheng. So I have to choose to sacrifice living animals."

Uncle Niu was horrified and asked, "She doesn't even let her own daughter go? Isn't this a black widow? She just poisoned her husband's grandson to death with mushrooms. Now, she doesn't even want her daughter."

Si Mian: "It's not a daughter. It's a daughter-in-law. She wants to sacrifice her daughter-in-law. It's a pity that the daughter-in-law went to dispose of the dead bodies of her father-in-law and son, and she didn't come back for a long time. So this old aunt, let's make a fuss."

(End of this chapter)