Hard work

Chapter 232
After the village head drove those people in the village back to live in their own homes, the entire Zhao family was empty.Lan Hua'er took this opportunity to go back and count the food again, and couldn't help crying and laughing.

Because it cost a lot before, it is not enough now no matter what.This is no longer a matter of tightness or not, but that it is not enough to eat enough to harvest next year.Lan Hua'er cried and laughed, and she could only pray that something would grow on the mountain this year and next year, so that she could find the lost things from the past.

If she really can't hold on, she can only think about letting Gaihua find someone to buy some food from the town outside and come back to deal with it.

These are expedient measures of last resort.The family has no income now, and it always makes Lan Hua'er feel very uneasy if they really have to pay out a sum of money.

The sky has just started to clear up now, and Gaihua dare not go back to town yet.He said that the town was already running out of food due to the heavy rain.The town is no better than the village. Indeed, some big merchants have granaries, and they store a lot of grain in the granaries, but the population of the town is much larger than that of the village.

Moreover, after the heavy rain closed the city, those businesses also raised the price of food a lot.Although the rain has stopped now, the road is still difficult to walk. A lot of falling rocks and other things have caused the commercial routes in and out of the town to be completely blocked, and the caravans outside can't get in at all. A lot of food was brought in.

After all, there is a limit to the food stored in the town. There are many people living there, and they are eating less and less food. Now it is estimated that they can no longer afford food.When Gaihua is free, she can't help but talk about it, saying that she doesn't know how the boss is doing.He wasn't too worried that his boss would not be able to eat, but there were still many bodyguards in the bodyguard agency, and they worked with him through life and death. Those people really didn't have homes or savings, so they didn't know what to do.

Gaihua said that he used to know a lot of bodyguards, but something happened when he was sending out a bodyguard, and when he was sent home, there was only one mother at home.Because they are doing such a dangerous business, many bodyguards have not yet found a wife.According to the jokes they said when they were drinking, that is:

"Put your head on your trouser belt, why bother with other young ladies. You are a widow on weekdays, but in the end you may even become a pretty widow. It's not easy to be a widow these days, forget it. People don't look down on people like us ,right."

Gaihua thought that they were all good people, but she didn't know what happened to them.

He just wanted to go to the town to have a look, and the current mountain road has probably been cut off by falling rocks.Now the disaster victims outside are all gathered together, and there is no way to go out to clean up the mountain road, so they can only stay at home like this.

People in the village gradually began to go out.

It's not because the surrounding environment is better, but because those who were robbed have nothing in their homes.Even at the risk of going to the back of the mountain to find food, they couldn't grab those victims.

It is better for those who store their food separately, they can save some money, and at least they can survive for the time being.But those families who have been completely robbed can't survive anymore, so they can only go out of the house, mix with the victims, and go around begging for food.

At the beginning, the people in the village still cared about the friendship with their hometown, and would open a door for them to let them eat a little bit.But gradually, more and more of these people came to the door, and even some victims of the disaster secretly followed them, and when the people in the village opened the door, they rushed up and rushed into the house of the person who opened the door to rob them.

After this happened two or three times, fewer people were willing to open the door.

Moreover, no one is well-off now. After the food is given out, the family will be hungry. Everyone slowly closed the door and no longer opened the door to the folks who knocked on the door.

Lan Hua'er also opened the door several times, but one time the family was almost rushed in by victims of the disaster.If it weren't for Gaihua and Zanglang watching from the sidelines and beating people out quickly, even their home would have been looted.Lan Hua'er herself broke out in a cold sweat from the fright, and after going back home, several people discussed it and decided not to open the door casually again.

No matter how careful they are, they can't hide from the victims who are trying to squeeze into the house to grab food.After all, they are desperate for their lives.Gaihua and Zanglang were holding a hoe and a pole, pushing and kicking people out as if they were going to knock people to death, and finally closed the door.

The villagers and disaster victims who could not get food gradually turned to the back mountain.Although they know that the back mountain is not safe, they have never experienced it for themselves.At this time, life is almost impossible to live on, even if you know that it is a mountain of swords and seas of fire, you can only rush in.

At the beginning, they lived well, at least they could find food from the back hills.

The back mountain has been completely destroyed by the torrential rain, and many plants have been killed by the rain and buried under the mudslides.But even so, some tall plants survived tenaciously.Those wild vegetables buried in the soil were also dug out from the ground, cleaned, and treated as a dish on the table.

Unexpectedly, one night, the roar of wild animals suddenly came from the other side of the mountain.

Lan Hua'er doesn't often go to the depths of the back mountain, and has never been a hunter.She used to catch something to eat, but it was a small animal like a rabbit, and she was not familiar with ferocious beasts, so she couldn't recognize what it was at all.

Zang Lang recognized it, turned his head to listen carefully, and his face became a little unhappy:
"It's wolves. There used to be wolves, leopards, and bears on the mountain. Bears also eat other things. They haven't come down yet. The wolves have nothing to eat on the mountain, so they can only come down."

"Come down..." Lan Hua'er was stunned, and then realized what Zang Lang said, and his face turned pale, "You mean... come down the mountain... to eat people?"

Zang Lang looked at Lan Hua'er's face, probably thinking that his words had frightened Lan Hua'er, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and said angrily, "Little lady, don't be afraid, I'm here. Just hide in the house and don't go out, it's okay." son."

He thought for a while, and then added, "It's okay for the wolf to go down the mountain at night. It's not yet the time to be hungry. If he was hungry, he probably came down the mountain during the day when there were many people. It's not a big deal at this time." , so many disaster victims outside..."

"A Lang," Lan Hua'er couldn't help calling him, "I see."

Zang Lang was yelled at by her, and he really calmed down, sitting upright beside her, as if expressing that he was always by her side.

Lan Hua'er sighed. Listening to the sound of the beast outside, she couldn't help but guess how many people would be treated as dinner by the beast running down from the mountain this night.

There were not many voices outside at first, but gradually they became one after another.

At this time, she finally understood the ancient people's thinking of killing wolves and hunting tigers.If there is any beast on the mountain, the village below the mountain will not be peaceful.

People at this time did not have as many weapons and ways to protect themselves as in modern times, so they could only hunt and kill the beast by every means.

Lan Hua'er sat for a while, and really felt that the sound of the beast outside was unsettling, so she stopped listening to it.

No matter how hard she felt, there was nothing she could do.It is impossible for her to let Zang Lang go outside at this time, what is the difference between that and killing Zang Lang directly.If only one wolf came, the people in the village could think of ways to deal with it. Now the sound sounds like a pack of wolves.Before the villagers were organized, it was impossible to deal with such a large herd.

It was impossible for her to open the door, so she could only sit in the room unreasonably, guessing what happened outside.

That night, Lan Hua'er didn't sleep well again.

When she got up early the next morning, she wiped the lotion casually, then hurried to the backyard, moved a small stool, and looked outside on her feet.

When she went out to watch, she happened to meet Tiesheng next door who also went to the backyard. Seeing Lan Huaer like this, Tiesheng was a little surprised:

"Alan, what are you doing?"

"Brother Tiesheng, let me look outside. The sound was so loud last night, I don't know what's going on. Did you hear it yesterday?"

"Hey, I heard it. It seems that many wolves have come down. I don't know if there are other things. They also scared Aru for a long time. She is still asleep at the moment." Tiesheng nodded and used The hoe in his hand knocked on the ground, "I see, don't look at it, it can't be anything to look at. Hurry up and cook at home. It seems that there are fewer victims outside today."

It is less.How can there be a lot? I don’t know how much was dragged away by wild beasts.

Lan Hua'er looked at the backyard for a long time, but couldn't see anything, so she had to go back.

According to Zang Lang's speculation, the beasts that came down the mountain last night probably ran directly towards the victims.After all, no matter how good the people in the village are, there is still a house with walls and a roof that can stop those beasts.

The victims all lived in thatched houses, many of which were dilapidated and collapsed. There was no way to shelter them from the wind and rain, let alone stop the attacks of wild animals.

Moreover, those victims have not eaten for a long time, lack of nutrition, they are all thin and small, and they have no strength to attack the beasts.In the eyes of beasts, these people are free meals.

Lan Hua'er didn't know what she was thinking.These had nothing to do with her originally, and she didn't need to care about them at all.But throughout the day, she still felt uncomfortable in her heart.If these ferocious beasts are used to coming to the village to eat people, they just don't care, they just watch the victims being eaten, but what about in the future, when the victims are all eaten?

It's really not a time for people to live.

　T_T, the Internet has been dead for half an hour... It's a scam! ! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)