The lucky girl in the village has a good way of making money.

Chapter 470: News (Two chapters in one)

The bodies of the people who died of the epidemic were all cremated, and their ashes were taken back by their families for burial. Officials were busy in the streets and alleys, fumigating the people with atractylodes, mugwort, cloves, etc. to ward off evil and disinfect the places to prevent the disease from recurring.

The government resettlement centers were also gradually emptied, and all the people who had recovered from their illnesses left and returned to their respective places.

It is a pity that those who died in this epidemic survived, but those who survived could not help but feel fortunate.

Shopkeeper Wu and Zhao Wang were among those who were lucky enough to be rejoicing. After they recovered from their illness, they all returned to their shops to continue working.

Shi Liu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief knowing that all his men were fine.

Everyone was grateful to Doctor Wang, including Manager Wu and his men.

In fact, she should be grateful, but she just couldn't feel grateful.

It’s always hard to say what’s wrong with people when they have preconceived ideas.

However, the truth will eventually come to light, and we will tell you when the time comes.

Xingsheng Pharmacy continued to be crowded. The carriage drove slowly past without Shi Liu even glancing at it.

The matter came to an end, the city gate was reopened to traffic, and Shi Liu decided to go home quickly.

This time she went out, she missed her second brother Li Rongyu's wedding, and she probably also missed the births of her eldest sister-in-law and eldest sister. Calculating the dates, they were both due to give birth.

Shi Liu asked Zuo Cheng to book a boat and set off early tomorrow morning.

Huang Zhong rushed out when he got back to Lihua Hutong, saying anxiously, "Someone from home came to report that something big has happened!"

"Who is here? What happened?" Shi Liu's face changed. When the city was first closed, she asked Senior Brother Yang to go back and report that everything was fine. Later, Senior Brother Yang came back and said that everything was fine at home. After more than half a month, what happened at home? Could it be that my eldest sister or sister-in-law gave birth...

Shi Liu didn't dare to think about it any further, and hurriedly lifted her skirt and strode inside.

As soon as I entered the door, I met someone who ran out after hearing the noise.

When Jiang Bing saw Shi Liu, his eyes turned red and he knelt down in front of Shi Liu, "Miss, something happened in Erli Village!"

"what?!"

Shi Liu was relieved when she heard that the incident was not at Xiahe Village. But when she thought of Erli Village and saw Jiang Bing's haggard appearance, she felt dizzy. "What happened in Erli Village?"

Jiang Bing's voice was hoarse. "Six days ago, in the middle of the night, a group of bandits broke into Erli Village, killing people and burning the village. Countless people in the village were killed or injured..."

There was another thud, and it was Fu Dong who collapsed to the ground, his face pale. He asked Jiang Bing anxiously, "How are my mother and the others?"

Jiang Bing shook his head, his teeth chattering. "Your mother is dead, my mother is dead, and so are many people. My uncle was desperately sent out by Wang Huyuan and his men to the city to report the news to the Second Young Master. The Second Young Master has already reported it to the authorities. I rushed to the city the day before yesterday, but the city gates were closed and I couldn't get in. I waited at the city gate for two days, and finally got in today."

Fu Dong burst into tears.

Hearing the mournful cry, Shi Liu's eyes turned red and her nose felt sore.

The faces of the old and young in Erlizhuang, some familiar and some unfamiliar, floated before my eyes one by one, like slides, and in an instant, they all turned gray.

There are so many guards here. What kind of bandits are these and are so powerful?

Shi Liu calmed down and let Jiang Bing explain everything first.

But Jiang Bing shook his head. He couldn't explain the details clearly. He had been nervous for several days, and had been in a hurry on the road, and had not eaten or drunk much. When he finally passed the news to the girl, he was so sad and heartbroken that his body went limp and he fainted.

Fu Dong cried so much that her eyes became as swollen as peaches and she couldn't even stand steadily.

Shi Liu sighed and told Huang Fu to go to the dock to find Zuo Cheng immediately, telling him not to book a boat and to come back quickly because they would set off immediately and travel by land.

He asked Hu Zhen to help Jiang Bing onto the carriage, and he helped Fu Dong onto another carriage. He left the luggage behind and called Ke Hu and the others, and they set off immediately.

Let Huang Zhong wait for Zuo Cheng to come back and catch up. He is alone on one horse, so he can catch up quickly.

When they passed by Tongwanzhai, they asked Wu Yi to close the shop first and called Zhao Wang and two other employees to go back together, as their relatives were all in Erlizhuang.

The group went out of the city without stopping, and the horses' hooves were sparking.

Finally, we arrived at Erlizhuang, it was still early.

But they happened to run into Manager Deng and his men who had rushed back from the state capital after receiving the news.

Manager Deng is Fu Dong’s father.

When the two sides met, Manager Deng and his companions greeted Shi Liu, but no one wanted to talk more.

As soon as I entered the village, I smelled the burnt smell and the lingering smell of blood in the air.

He scanned the area, and saw signs of invasion everywhere. On the walls, doors, and the ground, there were spurting bloodstains.

As soon as he closed his eyes, Shi Liu seemed to see that night. In the pitch black darkness, thieves climbed over the wall into the village one by one. The people in the village were sleeping soundly, and the patrolling security guard used his last breath to sound the alarm.

There was chaos in the farm. The guards grabbed their weapons and fought with the thieves. The farmers were awakened and became panic-stricken.

The thieves were so bloodthirsty that they kept killing and killing.

The shouts and screams rang in my ears.

A pair of invisible big hands suddenly grabbed Shi Liu's heart tightly.

Shi Liu strode in. Fu Dong and the others did not care about the master and servant for the time being and rushed in first, calling out for their loved ones.

The outer courtyard was filled with coffins, and everywhere you looked was a pale white.

But those wearing white were all children, and the adults among them were Jiang Tong and others.

When Jiang De saw Shi Liu, he knelt down in front of her and cried, "Miss, Erlizhuang has fulfilled its mission, and the boxes are all in good condition."

Shi Liu couldn't hold back any longer, tears suddenly flowed out, she stared at Jiang De with his arm hanging around her neck, "Are you stupid? They are so ruthless, since we can't beat them, just give them to them, why resist to the death!"

How important is money than human life?

Just from hearing this one sentence, Shi Liu knew that these were not bandits at all, but rebels, rebels!

"How many people came?"

Jiang De said: "There was no moonlight that night, and it was pitch black. It was impossible to count how many people there were. The patrolling guards were killed before they could even raise the alarm. When the thieves reached the gatehouse, the guards sleeping in the back room woke up and put up a desperate resistance..."

Thinking back to that tragic night, Jiang De was shaking all over.

"They asked where the money was hidden... The guards tried their best to hold them back. I asked my wife to take my son out from the back wall and take the farmers to hide in the mountains. But there were too many thieves. I didn't know where they came from and killed anyone they saw. In order to protect the children, the adults died or were injured. The children also ran away. It was Hu Zi who was smart and took Huai Shu and the others to hide in the mountains. It was too dark at night and there were so many mountains that they couldn't search. That's how we escaped. Guard Wang and the others took me out of the village with my last breath to report the news... The thieves chased us, but luckily I hid in the woods and held on until dawn, then I hurried into the city to report the news."

Jiang De was so excited that he was a little incoherent. Yuan said he didn't understand how dangerous that night was, but Shi Liu could imagine it.

She glanced at Hu Zi and other children kneeling on the ground. There were only about ten children.

Of the original seventy people in Erli Village, except for those who were transferred to various places and not in the village, there were also those who were bought back later to learn medicinal cuisine and work in the workshop, plus forty guards - a total of one hundred and twenty-three people, of which only Jiang De and the ten or so children were left!
Pomegranate clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.

It was her fault. When she was preparing the ransom for Pang Ni, she transferred twenty more guards from Dazaozhuang to Erlizhuang. Together with the original ones, there were a total of forty guards. She thought that with the farmers in the village, she would be able to protect the people in Erlizhuang.

But I didn’t expect that the rebels would send so many people when they did take action!
No wonder so many guards couldn't resist.

What a cruel traitor! He kills people without blinking an eye. He is even more brutal than the bandits.

With so many guards, even if they were bandits, they would definitely be able to resist. But the other side is not bandits and they are well prepared.

Shi Liu was filled with anger and sorrow. She wished she could find those rebels immediately and kill them all to avenge the more than one hundred lives lost in Erli Village!

But at that moment she was filled with self-blame, blaming herself for the deaths of these people because of her.

I couldn't help but wonder, if the ransom for Pang Ni was brought from her home in Xiahe Village, then wasn't it her home that had the accident six days ago?
With the village guards and the security guards at home, can they resist?
Or they could choose Dazaozhuang. The wall of Dazaozhuang is high and there are many able-bodied men. Even if the thieves break in, not so many people will die.

Then she thought again that she should have withdrawn the silver directly from the bank - she shouldn't have gone through all this trouble just to fool the rebels.

The rebels killed her ruthlessly, wasn't it just to vent their anger at her teasing?

If I had known this would happen, what would have happened if I had given him the 200,000 taels of silver?

It's a pity that no amount of money could buy back so many lives.

All she could do was to fight these traitors to the death.

One day, we will wipe them all out and avenge Erlizhuang!
Shi Liu took a deep breath and glanced sideways to ask Hu Zhen to pass her some incense. With a solemn look on her face, she lit a stick of incense for all the heroic souls.

Fu Dong had already collapsed crying in front of her mother's coffin. Her father and brothers were working outside, and her grandparents were guarding the house in Luoshui City, so they all escaped the disaster, but her mother and two sisters died tragically.

The same is true for Jiang Bing and others.

For a moment, the crying was resounding throughout the sky.

The greatest pain in this world is the separation from one’s loved ones forever.

Shi Liu couldn't bear to watch any longer, so she went into the second door first, leaving Fu Dong and the others to cry.

Jiang De followed in and reported in detail what happened after that night. He went to the city to find the second son and reported the news. The second son immediately reported to the authorities and rushed to Erli Village with the officials. What they saw was the corpses all over the ground. The children such as Hu Zi who escaped the disaster were hugging their relatives and crying...

"The farm was turned upside down, but everything else was still there. The boxes were hidden so well that they couldn't find them. But more than half of the food in the storehouse was gone, and the rest was scattered everywhere. I guess the thieves couldn't take it away, but they were unwilling to leave it to us.

Captain He led his men to check around and found wheel tracks heading in the direction of Maojiagou. They chased them all the way, but when they reached Maojiagou, they lost all traces. Captain He guessed that the thieves came from Dafu Mountain and fled into Dafu Mountain, so they would be hard to find. "

The Dafu Mountain is vast and rolling, stretching all the way to Changzhou in the west. Unless people are sent to search the mountain, it is difficult to find any trace of it. However, without thousands or tens of thousands of soldiers, it is impossible to search the entire Dafu Mountain.

Shi Liu knew very well that these were not bandits but rebels. How could bandits not take away valuables and extort money from everywhere, but only steal food?

Only the rebels, who failed to find the so-called gold, silver and jewelry, would not let go of the food. After all, they needed food to rebel.

It would be rare for Captain He and his men to really catch someone.

She did not place her hopes on the county government. She took a deep breath and first talked about the funeral affairs of those who died in the village. Death is the greatest thing, and the most important thing is to bury them in peace.

"Please ask the masters of the Pufa Temple to perform a ritual, and then choose a suitable day for the funeral. I will bury him on Lishan Mountain. All the funeral rites will be borne by me."

There are more than ten hills and more than one hundred acres of land in Erlizhuang. Any hill is more than enough to be used as a cemetery.

Apart from the funeral, the catastrophe in Erli Village was also caused by her. She would definitely avenge them, but Jiang Zhuangtou and his family had lost their loved ones, so she had to make up for what she owed, and she would not be short of compensation money.

Jiang De hurriedly thanked everyone on their behalf. He felt exhausted for a moment, but he had to cheer up.

His wife also died, but fortunately, his daughter worked for the girl and his two young sons were also alive.

Shi Liu also asked Zuo Cheng and Hu Zhen to help with the funeral arrangements, and made sure they were done well.

Zuo Cheng and Hu Zhen were also in a very heavy mood. Most of the forty guards were trained by them, especially Guardian Wang, who used to follow the same master as them.

When he came out, he couldn't help but pat Liang Zheng on the shoulder and asked him to mourn. The girl Liang Zheng had met on a blind date had already been arranged to marry her, and now she died.

Although it is autumn, the weather is cool and there is no smell, six days have passed, so it is better to bury the body earlier.

Zuo Cheng and Hu Zhen acted quickly and invited masters from the Pufa Temple to perform a three-day Taoist ceremony.

After three days of rituals, the funeral was held.

On the day of the funeral, although Shi Liu did not wear mourning clothes, she still went to the funeral in person.

Paper money was flying all over the sky, as if it was snowing, covering the sky and the earth with a layer of white.

After the funeral, Shi Liu left Jiang Bing and Fudong to stay in Erli Village to mourn for their relatives for three months and to reorganize Erli Village.

He only took Hu Zhen, Zuo Cheng and others back to Xiahe Village.

So much has happened in the month I’ve been away from home.

Seeing her family members at this moment, Shi Liu couldn't help but have tears in her eyes.

Song embraced her and patted her gently, sniffling and saying, "Mother knows you are sad, but it is not your fault. It is all because of those damned bandits. They will not die a good death, and the Bodhisattva will not bless them!"

"Don't think too much and ruin your body—"

This girl is kind and benevolent. She must be very sad after so many people died.

The Song family also felt sorry for those who died and had been cursing those bandits for days.

But she and everyone in the family didn't know the details. They just thought that it was bandits who saw that the village was rich and killed people and robbed them for money.

Shi Liu would not explain the details to them, she just nodded with red eyes.

Good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be punished with evil. Those people will not have a good ending.

Song wanted to comfort her daughter and divert her attention, so she started talking about what had happened at home in the past month.

The second daughter-in-law came in. She was gentle and soft-spoken. She was an excellent daughter-in-law.

On September 15, my daughter Xiangli gave birth to a daughter, who was carved in the same image as Xiangli.

On September 21, Lin gave birth to a son, who was white and chubby, just like Baozhu when she was just born. It was also a coincidence that the brother and sister were both born on this day, and they could celebrate their birthdays together every year afterwards.

Listening to Song's chatter, Shi Liu's nerves, which had been tense for the past few days, couldn't help but relax.

Song was chattering non-stop when she suddenly heard her mother-in-law gesture to her. She looked down and found that her daughter had fallen asleep.

He also sighed softly for a moment.

Damn bandit, he deserves to die a miserable death.