sbdcsierra Chapter 130 is coming
Chapter 130 is coming
"Mother!! Mother! Wow... Mother!"
"Grandma, grandma, grandma..."
The Zhou family members threw themselves on her and cried bitterly.
The older people in the village felt extremely sad. To see Huang die in this desolate wilderness, in a foreign land thousands of miles away from home, was an end they saw with their own eyes. They couldn't help but cry, crying for Huang and for themselves.
There was a lot of crying in the camp. Seeing this, the other refugees around couldn't help but think of themselves and their eyes also became red. In such a chaotic world, where would their tomorrow be?
The Zhou family members all cried.
The old man in the village stood up with red eyes, walked up to Li and said, "Guoguo's mother, don't just cry. Do you have clothes for her to change and clean herself up? Let your mother pass away with dignity. She has always been a decent person. Her clothes are always clean. You have to take care of her after she dies, so that she can go to see your father with dignity."
Li raised her head and wiped her tears. "There is one more, but she has left it there."
I think it was prepared for this moment.
"Go find it, and we'll change it for her."
Zhou Dacang cried loudly and hugged the old lady's body and refused to let them change, as if the old lady would not leave unless they did.
The villagers watched with deep emotion and turned their heads away in pity. After all, he was still a child. No matter how capable and steady he was in normal times, the fact that he was still a child was exposed at this moment.
It’s just that everyone is in a hurry. If they don’t change, they will become stiff and won’t be able to wear them.
They all followed suit, "Sanlang, let go quickly, we are going to change your mother's clothes, you have to let your mother leave in a dignified manner, right?"
"No!! I don't!! My mother is not dead!!" Zhou Dacang said loudly.
"Hey, why aren't you listening, kid? Your mother is gone to look for your father. A dead person is dead. You have to let it go. What did your mother tell you last night? Did she tell you to take good care of your nephews and nieces, and to find your two brothers? She's done with you."
"That's right. You are an uncle, and you have so many nephews and nieces at home. You can't collapse. You have to hold on. If you collapse, who can you count on with so many people in your family?"
"Uncle!" Zhou Guo cried out in fear and tears in his eyes.
Hearing the word "uncle", Zhou Dacang slowly raised his head and met Zhou Guo's frightened eyes. He had never seen such emotions in her eyes before.
His hands gradually loosened, his legs went soft, he knelt on the ground, leaned over and cried bitterly, he had no father and no mother!
Zhou Guo knelt down and moved over, hugged his arm, and they both cried bitterly.
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The old lady was finally buried together with Zhou Tao, so the two of them had a companion, and it would also be more convenient when they moved the graves in the future.
After the burial, they will be back on the road.
The Zhou family packed up in silence. They could no longer hear the old lady's voice. In the past, every time they packed up, she would patiently remind them to pack this and remember to take that and not to miss anything. Her chattering could drown out the noise of the whole family.
Zhou Guo took the honey out of the bag and put it in a large pottery jar. She handed the remaining half bamboo tube of honey that the old lady hadn't finished to Zhou Dacang, "Uncle, this is the last thing grandma ate. There's still half a bamboo tube left. You keep it."
Zhou Dacang took it in a daze, and after a while he put the bamboo tube on his back and placed it in front of his chest where he could see it at any time.
As the days passed, people were tired of this kind of life, having to eat, drink, defecate and urinate on the road every day. So many people had died along the way, and who knew how many more would die if they continued like this.
Fortunately, they have enough food and silver, which gives them some confidence.
Ever since one of the two younger children died and the other was lost, and the old lady was also gone, there has been no laughter in the Zhou family.
The family lost its backbone and no one was motivated to do anything.
Zhou Guo was eating and drinking soup while looking at his lifeless family. He couldn't stand this atmosphere. His uncle hadn't laughed or even cried these days. He had no expression at all. If he couldn't still breathe, eat, sleep and walk, he would be no different from a dead body, a living zombie.
She looked at her aunt opposite her again and shook her head. She didn't know whether she would get better in her life, and whether she still remembered that she had three children.
Her mother was busy picking up dishes and adding rice to the two children she adopted. If she saw someone's bowl had less rice, she would add more at the appropriate time. Ever since her grandmother passed away, she had never allowed herself a break. She would start working as soon as she opened her eyes, fearing that she would miss any of her children.
"Come on, Da Mao, have some more rice."
"No, Second Aunt, I'm full."
"What are you talking about? You're definitely not full. Eat some more..."
"No, no, no, thanks. I really don't want to eat anymore." Zhou Gu quickly backed away with the bowl in his hand.
Li turned to Zhou Dacang again, "Sanlang, can I give you some more rice?"
Zhou Dacang shook his head, feeling lonely and saying nothing.
Seeing this, Zhou Guo let out a long sigh, which was like a splash of water feet high on the calm lake. Everyone couldn't help but raise their heads and look at her.
The old man couldn't help choking and coughing so hard that tears came out. After a while, he said, "Cough, cough, you, you are so young, cough, sigh, sigh, sigh, cough..."
Zhou Guo quickly stroked his back, saying, "Master, you are not a three-year-old child anymore. How come you choked when you drank soup? Be more careful next time."
The old man's face turned red from coughing.
Everyone who cares please take a look.
It took a while for the coughing to stop.
"I wonder how long it will take to reach the north?" Zhou Dacang looked around and said the first words he had said in the past few days.
But the fact that he could speak was already a real surprise to his family.
In an instant, the tense and depressing atmosphere at home that had lasted for so long suddenly relaxed.
The old man said, "It shouldn't be long. We just need to follow them. If I remember correctly, if we go north for another seven or eight days, we will reach Beiyuan Prefecture. Once we reach Beiyuan Prefecture, we will reach the north. If we go north again, we will reach Humen Pass. After that, we will reach Mobei, the land of the Hu people."
"Hu people?" All the children in the Zhou family looked at him in surprise, not understanding how they ended up in the place where the Hu people were.
"Aren't we just separated from the Hu people by a checkpoint? If the Hu people go south and open the checkpoint, won't we be the first to suffer?" Li said with horror, her eyes wide open. Although she had never seen the Hu people, she had heard of a lot of them.
What about killing people without blinking an eye, growing tall and strong, eating human flesh and drinking human blood, beheading people and chopping melons...
Seeing them so surprised, the old man asked in confusion, "Hasn't coming to the Northland always been your goal? Outside the Northland is Mobei, don't you know?"