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Chapter 131

Brother Lin has been living in the mountain village. Although he knew a few days ago that there would be trouble in the town and that there were refugee soldiers causing chaos, he was still shocked when he saw it with his own eyes: "Brother Zhen, what should we do?!"

While they were talking, the refugee soldiers had obviously discovered the village at the foot of the mountain. They showed a happy look on their faces and waved their knives excitedly.

"I have conducted several drills with the villagers before, and we should be able to cope with it for a while, but these refugee soldiers are not stupid. They should soon find traces of people living in the village and guess that we must be hiding, so they will search everywhere."

"Brother, we will keep an eye on them here. If these refugee soldiers get close to other small holes, we can kill them by surprise." In this situation where it is either you or me, with the tunnel as a support, we can launch a sneak attack through the small hole without anyone noticing.

There are only more than 30 people, and they will definitely separate when searching the house.

As for the refugee army, they were originally sent out to hunt down the soldiers in the town, but two days ago, they saw with their own eyes that another group of people with the same number as them were killed by a group of extremely fierce soldiers, and they were so scared that they dared not move forward.

Anyway, the king and the boss above were not there, so they were lazy and no one would notice.

But they didn't expect that they were so lucky. They actually found a village while walking.

This made them very happy. There are people in the village, so there is food and drink, and everyone can have fun. When they stay here for a few days and go out, maybe others have killed the group of soldiers.

The leader of the refugee army called the two men behind him: "You two, go into the village first to explore the way and see if anyone here has escaped."

"Yes." They only searched the village, not the soldiers who could threaten them. The two accepted this good job, maybe they could enjoy it first.

The two refugee soldiers ran quickly into the village, kicked open the yard of the nearest family, and searched inside and out but didn't see a single person.

The other refugee soldier was just like him, not even a ghost was found.

The two looked at each other in bewilderment at the empty yard and houses, "Could it be that the people here have moved away?"

"Let's go back and tell the boss."

The two ran back to tell the leader of the 50-man refugee army about the situation in the village. When the leader heard that there was not even a single person in the village, he frowned and said, "Impossible, we clearly heard a sound when we were on the mountain just now."

He held the knife in his hand and thought for a while: "Everyone go down, I want to see what's going on."

The leader came to the yard closest to them that had been searched by the two refugee soldiers, and saw that the far door was wide open, and the door of the house facing them was not closed. Although the tables and chairs inside were not neatly arranged, they were still neatly arranged.

The leader swept his eyes around the house, then walked to the kitchen and touched the still slightly warm stove, raised his hand and looked at the dust on his hand: "The people in this village didn't leave, but I don't know how they found us and hid first."

"Hidden?"

"That's right," the leader kicked over the cabinet next to him where the dishes were placed, "The stove is still hot, and there is not much dust on it, which means that someone often cooks with fire."

"According to the sound we heard on the mountain, they can't run far, or they are hiding somewhere in the village, find them for me!"

When the refugee army heard that the people in this village dared to resist, they rushed into other courtyards and houses with knives and searched one by one.

The family they searched happened to be the family of Aunt Liu, Lin Zhen's neighbor. When they heard the clanging sound, they subconsciously ran to the entrance of the tunnel and hid in the tunnel.

This was a drill that Zhen'er of the Lin family had gathered all the people in the village together for several times. It was called a drill. Anyone who heard this sound meant that there was danger and they had to hide in the tunnel.

After practicing a few times, they were familiar with the route. When they heard the sound today, they thought it was another drill. They hid in the tunnel as quickly as they had done the previous times.

Lin Jiazhen'er would come to see it in person. Anyone who didn't hide in the tunnel would be dragged out to practice five times.

Aunt Liu's family, who had hidden in the tunnel, soon noticed something was wrong. They heard the sound of things being smashed and the voice of a strange man talking in the tunnel. Aunt

Liu's family, who were hiding in the tunnel, became scared. Aunt Liu's husband walked along the tunnel to the hole under the old pear tree in the yard and looked out. He just happened to see two or three bandits with knives rummaging around in his house and the yard, and there were more than a dozen on the road outside the yard.

He suddenly covered his mouth, and with trembling hands, he blocked his hole with a thumb-sized ball of mud, turned around and ran back: "Bandits, bandits, so many bandits!"

"What!?" Aunt Liu's eyes widened in horror, and the other members of the Liu family also looked at the top of the tunnel, feeling terrified.

Then they were extremely thankful that they got in quickly. If they had been a step later, they would have run into the bandits and would have definitely died.

It was a pity that the furniture in their house could not be moved in. I am afraid there would not be much left.

Fifty refugees rushed into the yards of one house after another, but did not find anyone. Their faces became more gloomy and irritable.

The leader looked at the house that was almost overturned by them and gritted his teeth: "There must be some place we missed, or there must be a big place in this village where people can hide. Find it, keep looking for me!"

The new house of the Lin family, which had only been built a few years ago, was somewhat conspicuous in the village, so it was naturally visited. The sound of things being smashed sounded light and dull in the tunnel.

Lin Zhen, the eldest and second brothers of Lin, were holding kitchen knives and hatchets in their hands, and walked towards the holes where the kitchen knives and hatchets could be inserted. Lin Zhen said to the eldest and second brothers of Lin, "Don't make a move unless you are sure of killing them with one blow. If they make a noise and attract other people, it will be more difficult for us to deal with them."

"I know, brother Zhen, you have to be careful too."

"Don't worry, even if they can see where I'm going to attack, I'll put down the baffle at that time, and they won't be able to do anything to me for a while."

When repairing the tunnel, Lin Zhen had imagined various situations and deliberately set up baffles at many openings. The palm-thick wooden boards were stuck from the ground into the grooves of the tunnel, and it was not easy to split them.

Moreover, these wooden boards were given by Ma the carpenter. They were made of a local tree called ironwood, which was so hard that even if they were cut with a knife, there would not be much mark.

Lin Zhen, holding a kitchen knife, followed the winding tunnel to a small exit on the left wing. He climbed out after listening to the noise outside and quietly moved the specially made movable stone on the wall.

Next to him, a sly-looking migrant soldier was waving a knife at the things on the bed of Brother Lin and Sister Lin in the wing. He bent over and crawled on the ground to see if there was anyone under the bed, cursing: "Nothing good has ever happened since leaving the city. I'm either chased by those sons of bitches behind me or chased some soldiers in the mountains. There's not even a woman in this broken place. I'm so suffocated."

The migrant soldier who was searching with him outside heard him nagging inside and said impatiently: "What are you mumbling about? Hurry up and leave."

"Okay," said the sly-looking man, "I think there's no one in this village."

The man outside had finished searching and didn't want to listen to his nagging, so he said a word and left.

The shifty man had already searched Lin Zhen's side. It happened to be next to the waist-high cabinet used by Brother Lin and Sister Lin, where all the clothes were stacked.

He impatiently used a knife to pick up the clothes everywhere, bending over to feel inside.

Lin Zhen, who had been waiting for a long time, clenched the kitchen knife in his hand, took out the stone that was just enough for him to stretch out his hand, and stabbed him in the neck without hesitation. With

a "swish", the kitchen knife pierced his neck. The refugee soldier covered his neck tightly without making any sound, looked at the wall where the kitchen knife was retracted, and fell to the ground.

After dealing with the refugee soldier, Lin Zhen quickly reset the stone on the wall.

Suddenly, just when Lin Zhen had returned to the tunnel and was about to cover the wooden board above, the refugee soldier who had left actually came back and ran in while saying, "Something is wrong with this village. Several of us have been tricked, but the boss has caught a family and asked us to go over!"

Click -

Lin Zhen's heart trembled violently.

A family was caught. Whose family is it! ?

When the village dug the tunnel, every household participated. It was inevitable that neighbors would visit each other. If they met those who had a good relationship, they might even tell each other the entrance to the tunnel.

The neighbors of the captured family were also in danger.

Lin Zhen quickly covered the entrance to the tunnel and ran back into the tunnel. The elder and second brothers Lin, who had not found a chance to escape, also learned about this from the hole. The three of them looked solemn.

The Lin family members who learned about this from them were worried: "This, what should we do? We don't know which family was caught, and we can't go out rashly."

Those criminals had knives in their hands and killed many people. If they went out, they would simply die.

Lin Zhen leaned against the earth wall of the tunnel and couldn't think of a solution for a while.

In Xialiyuwan Village, the refugee army, who almost turned the entire village upside down, knew that there were people inside but couldn't find a single shadow, looked at the few people who were pulled out, and raised a bloodthirsty smile at the corners of their mouths.

"Good, very good, you hid really well," the leader of the fifty refugee soldiers squatted down, pinched the young woman who was not bad looking, and looked at the trembling old woman whose waist was weak, "We searched the whole village, and only you, an old woman, were doing things in the house so brazenly, you are really brave."

Li Zhaodi's eyes were dull, and she fell to the ground completely. She didn't expect that she was just like before, not wanting to fulfill the wishes of the Lin family, and didn't take the sound seriously, but was caught by this group of people.

She suddenly hugged the thighs of the refugee soldiers with tears: "Please spare my life, I kowtow to you!"

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Her son Li Jiu, daughter-in-law, and husband all wanted to go back a few minutes and strangle her to death.

If she hadn't refused to listen to the advice and insisted that the Lin family deliberately dug the tunnel to torture people, she would not hide inside when she heard the sound, but would have shouted to them to come out in the house, saying that it was safe outside. She

also said that Lin Zhen was a vixen who ate people without leaving any bones, and ate the hearts of all the men and boys in the village.

Suddenly, Li Zhaodi raised her head and looked at the leader of the refugee army: "Master, are you here to find food? I will take you to find it. Our village was the first to use the composting method. We have a lot of food stored. From the dry weather to now, no one in our village has starved to death."

The refugee army was formed slowly by refugees from other places who gathered together. They knew very well how serious this drought that had not been seen in decades was. The old woman in front of them said that no one in their village had starved to death until now, which really made them too excited.

How much food must have been stored to survive until now.

The leader of the refugee army said "oh" and turned to Li Zhaodi: "So you know where the entrance to the tunnel of your villagers is?"

"..." Li Zhaodi was stunned. She didn't know that since the falling out with the Lin family five years ago, the villagers have not interacted with her family much.

At first, she was still arrogant and thought that her family was a wealthy family in Liyu Village, and those people would come back to curry favor with her sooner or later.

But the composting method allowed the people in Liyu Village to have a bumper harvest for several years. Every household had spare money, so they built a house and married a new wife.

In addition, the Lin family was very hypocritical and won over most of the people in the village. Unknowingly, Li Zhaodi found that her family had become a marginal household and was not doing well everywhere.

If you say who Li Zhaodi hates the most, it must be Lin Zhen of the Lin family.

If it weren't for Lin Zhen, his son would have married Lin Xiaoyao long ago. The spicy hot pot shop in the town and the current house of the Lin family are all her Li family's!

How could it end up like this now.

Li Zhaodi's eyes gradually turned crazy. She said to the leader of the refugee army: "Gentlemen, I know that my life is worthless. If you want my life, it's as easy as crushing an ant."

"Master, although I don't know the entrance to their tunnel, I know which family has the most food. As long as I take people to that family and look carefully, the food I find will definitely satisfy me."

"Yes, your life is worthless to me," the leader of the refugee army kicked her away, kicking Li Zhaodi to the ground with her arms and legs spread out. "But I am not an unreasonable person. If you do something for me, you will naturally be rewarded. You can keep your life."

Li Zhaodi was overjoyed and kowtowed repeatedly: "Thank you, thank you."

"Hahahahaha." Before the drought, the leader of the refugee army was just a street thug. After joining the refugee army, he was just an inconspicuous member. He finally became the leader of a small team and had to run around in the mountains.

Now someone actually calls him master.

He likes this name.

He grabbed the young woman who was kneeling beside Li Jiu and threw her to his subordinates who had been waiting with red eyes: "Hold her tightly, she will be yours after this."

"Ahhhhhhhh!!!" The young woman was thrown into the pile of refugee soldiers, and she stretched out her hand to Li Jiu in fear, "Li Jiu! Save me!"

Li Jiu, who was also kneeling on the ground, moved his hand and was grabbed by Li Zhaodi, who said righteously: "As long as you are happy, she is just a girl, why are you reluctant to give her up?"

"Mom..." The hand that grabbed Li Jiu was not strong, but Li Jiu did not have the strength to break free. He did not dare to look back, and could only lower his head and cover his ears.

Li Zhaodi thought to herself, after this time, when the Lin family is eliminated from Liyu Village, her son can find any girl he wants, so it's not a pity.

The leader of the refugee army laughed again and said to Li Zhaodi, "I like people like you who are sensible. Lead the way. I want to see how much food the rich family you mentioned has."

Li Zhaodi rolled over and got up from the ground, pointing to the road connecting to Liyu Village: "It's just in front, the one with the largest tiled house." She rolled her eyes and said, "Master, you don't know, this family not only has a lot of food, but also has a vixen known to all the villages. She is so beautiful that any man who sees her can't walk."

"Master, you will definitely like it if you see it."

The expression on Li Zhaodi's face was even a little excited. As long as she thought of the fate of Lin Zhen, a little whore, falling into the hands of these people, she wanted to laugh up to the sky.

What could be happier than watching your enemy suffer while you are watching from the side.

Let's see if that little whore can still be so powerful in the future.

The leader of the refugee army had planned to stay here with his men until Tianwang and his men had killed all the officers and soldiers in the mountains, and then go out to join them. He was very interested in the beauty that the old woman mentioned.

Soon, Li Zhaodi's eyes lit up and she pointed to the several large tiled houses of the Lin family: "Master, this is the house. The composting method came from his house. I wonder how much food is stored there."

The refugee soldier who went to the house to search with him, but only saw the other party's corpse, suddenly heard a voice from outside and ran out quickly: "Boss, the mouse was killed, but I didn't find anything suspicious."

On the way here, the leader of the refugee army had heard Li Zhaodi talk about the structure and construction of the tunnel. He knew that the tunnel was very flexible and could be attacked or defended. Maybe someone was watching him through the small hole.

He raised his hand and said, "Everyone, move everything out of the house. Don't miss any suspicious place. Don't go in if you find an entrance. Start digging along the entrance. I don't believe that I can dig through it from the top and still not find anyone."

This is the most useful method thought of by the leader of the refugee army. Although it takes some effort, it is the most useful method.

Otherwise, according to what the old woman said, this tunnel is not afraid of smoke or water, and it will be blocked by the baffle when entering, which is very troublesome.

"Yes." The refugee soldiers below took the order and immediately moved the things in the Lin family's house. As long as they could see it, they moved it out. There

were so many people outside and so much noise, all the Lin family members in the tunnel heard it.

The second brother Lin, who had seen the situation in the yard and the house from the hole, ran back: "I, I saw Li Zhaodi, she was with the refugee soldiers!"

"It's her." Lin Zhen understood instantly. The Li family was lazy when digging the tunnel, and they were not diligent when practicing. Several times when he went to check, Li Zhaodi was obviously coping.

Due to the conflict between him and her, Lin Zhen went to talk to the old village chief several times, but the effect was not very good.

Unexpectedly, it was her family that was caught. Lin Zhen was not surprised that she would lead people here.

Lin Zhen listened to the voice from above and said to the eldest and second brothers Lin: "Brothers, you should quickly take Dad, Father and the children to the tunnel in the back mountain." Father

Lin grabbed his hand tightly: "What about you?"

"I want to go too. Later, the eldest and second brothers and the eldest and second sisters-in-law will come with me to put down all the baffles to prevent the refugees from seeing the entrance and running in. At the same time, they also play a supporting role. I'm afraid they will destroy the tunnel and cause a landslide." Before

he finished speaking, he heard a little sound from the tunnel on the left: "Oh no, the tunnel entrance at the water tank has been discovered by them. I'll go over and pull the baffles first. Brothers, you should quickly take Dad, Father and the children over."

Lin Zhen moved quickly, grabbing the oil lamp and rushing over in the blink of an eye. When he passed by, he saw the stone slab covering the entrance being moved away, and found the refugees at the entrance of the tunnel shouting excitedly and jumping in.

"Bang!" At the critical moment, Lin Zhen closed the baffle and quickly retreated.

The migrant soldier who jumped into the tunnel saw him, stretched his neck and said, "Boss, I just saw someone, but he ran too fast, so we didn't catch him."

"Tsk tsk, he looks really..."

What is really, this uneducated migrant soldier couldn't say, he just said: "If I can have a fight with him, I'll give him my life!"

The leader of the migrant army raised his eyebrows: "You kid has never seen the world, you can

even call a sow a beauty." He quickly glanced at Lin Zhen, who was seen under the dim oil lamp. The migrant soldier patted his chest and said: "She is very beautiful, prettier than the beauty next to the king."

The leader of the migrant army was in high spirits when he heard him say that. The guy next to the king was not young either. He was snatched away from the government office in the prefectural city. It was said that he was the favorite guy of the prefectural magistrate. He had fair skin, willow-shaped eyebrows, and cherry lips. He once saw her from a distance and almost lost his soul.

But now there is a beauty who is more beautiful than him. The leader of the refugee army looked at Liyu Village and felt that this place was a great place for Feng Shui. Not only did he not have to be exposed to the wind and rain in the mountains, but he could also enjoy the beauty that only the king of heaven could enjoy.

"Dig, keep digging!" The leader of the refugee army laughed.

Li Zhaodi next to him showed a look of relief.

All the baffles were put down. Lin Zhen and his elder and second brothers Lin retreated to the tunnel in the back mountain where Lin Adie and his friends were. This was used to observe the terrain and situation. There were two holes under a small mound of earth and a stone as big as a millstone.

Lin Zhen had secretly inquired through the holes as soon as he arrived. He originally thought that if there was no one in the back mountain, his family would expand the scope of the hole as soon as possible, make a hole for people to get out, and run into the bamboo forest in the back mountain from here.

Although it was not particularly safe, it was the best way he could think of.

But after looking through the hole, he knew that the method he thought of would not work.

Li Zhaodi must have told the refugee soldiers about the tunnels that were interconnected, so there were a few refugee soldiers watching in the back mountain.

They were afraid that they would be discovered as soon as they stuck their heads out of the holes.

What should I do?

What should I do?

Lin Zhen clasped his hands on his knees, and for the first time in so many years, he felt almost suffocated.

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Lin Adie and Lin Fu frowned, and Lin Zhuzi and Lin Shitou were also very uneasy.

The dim oil lamp emitted a weak light in the tunnel, as if it would be swallowed by darkness in the next second.

The refugees who found an entrance began to dig in turns, and soon, the first shielding board seized by Lin Zhen was dug out.

The iron wood is hard and heavier than ordinary trees. When digging, the refugees thought it was made of iron at first, but after lifting it out, they found that it was a good wood.

The little leader who was in charge of the fifty or so refugees knocked the shield with the tip of the knife and snorted and laughed: "Only because I have a lot of people under me can dig a tunnel from it, otherwise this shield alone will make people helpless."

He had seen the tunnel of Li Zhaodi's family before, and it was nothing compared to what he saw before him. It seemed that Li Zhaodi was not lying. This family really had a lot of food, and there was also a beauty as a partner, which was great.

"Swish..."

"Swish..."

The sound of the soil being dug in the tunnel was getting closer and closer. Lin Zhen, Sister Lin and Sister Lin had already pulled over several girls and boys from their families, and put their hands covered with dirt and dust on their faces and necks.

Sister Lin pulled the pasted Huaixiang behind her and looked at Lin Zhen: "Brother Zhen, you too..."

"No need." With Li Zhaodi looking for him, I'm afraid she has already helped him to publicize it in front of these refugee soldiers who have done all kinds of bad things. It won't work even if he applies it.

Lin Zhen sighed at this moment. After applying the lard paste for more than ten days, his skin has returned to its previous appearance. There is no trace of wind and frost left, which is very eye-catching.

He couldn't help but grit his teeth, thinking about all the things he could use, silver, food, these things have a 90% chance of saving his life and the lives of the Lin family when the law is still in effect.

But facing the refugee army, these are all things that are at their fingertips, all paper-made.

"Swish..." The last baffle was lifted out, and the only light source in the tunnel instantly lost its function under the sunlight. The

last section of the tunnel was dug up, and the refugees, whose hands were a little sore, looked at the tunnel with hatred, vowing to chop the family into pieces.

However, when they saw the man squatting in the tunnel, their breath was choked.

The refugee leader stared blankly at the face that was being lifted up, squinting slightly because of the strong sunlight, and the voice in his chest was very agitated.

He had never seen such a beautiful person, yes, he could only be described as beautiful. He was like a goblin hiding in the tunnel, and would disappear if exposed to people, just like the imagination of the little leader.

The little leader pushed away the crowd, jumped down the half of the tunnel on the back mountain, and walked towards the Lin family hiding in the remaining half of the tunnel.

"Zhen'er, Zhen'er." Lin's father grabbed Lin Zhen's hand in panic and called him softly.

The young leader regained some consciousness and laughed at Li Zhaodi, saying, "You old woman, you are telling the truth. She is really a beauty, a real beauty."

Li Zhaodi looked at Lin Zhen with resentment and pride, "I dare not lie to you."

She knew that this refugee soldier was just like the men in the village. Wherever Lin Zhen went, he couldn't help but look at him. Even though Lin Zhen, a slut, had been married to two men, many people came to propose marriage, including rich people in the town and unmarried boys.

All these people were bewitched by Lin Zhen, the vixen.

She stared at Lin Zhen and said to the young leader, "You have to be careful. This guy is not easy to deal with. He is very petty. If you don't pay attention, he will hurt you and run away."

The young leader listened to her words and looked at Lin Zhen, showing his yellow teeth, and couldn't wait to reach out to grab Lin Zhen in the tunnel.

Suddenly, an arrow whistled from the bamboo forest above them, instantly piercing the throat of the little leader whose hand had touched Lin Zhen's shoulder. Then, more than a dozen arrows followed closely behind. Taking advantage of the terrain, the refugee soldiers below dared not raise their heads. They died without even seeing who was above them.

"It's the officers and soldiers from the town!"

"Run to the back and get weapons!"

In order to dig a tunnel, these refugee soldiers didn't even take their knives. They hurriedly dodged to the Lin family's house to get the weapons placed there.

The little leader who was shot to death was unwilling to close his eyes. He stared at Lin Zhen with his eyes wide open. His hand fell from his shoulder to his knees. The blood gushing from his neck quickly seeped into the mud of the tunnel.

The children were terrified and screamed and hid in the arms of adults.

Lin Adie's hands were shaking so much that he pulled Lin Zhen to him: "Zhen, Zhen'er... Zhen'er..."

Lin Zhen, who had just escaped a disaster, was a little weak. He didn't know who these people who killed the little leader were. He couldn't take the Lin family out, but he was afraid that the refugee army would come back. He was pulling several places for a while.

Suddenly, a figure quickly jumped down from the mountain and stood in front of the dug tunnel. Lin Zhen subconsciously looked up and saw that the man had a pair of long legs. The black pants seemed to have been worn for a long time, and they were covered with dust and worn cracks.

Looking up, there was a thin waist tied by a belt, and an upper body without clothes wrapped with black cloth strips, which was wet layer by layer and exuded a bloody smell.

And the skin exposed in some places that were not wrapped was not intact, and there were fresh and old scars that were about to close.

The boy's figure has not yet reached the peak of adulthood. His shoulders are still slender, with a thin layer of muscle covering the still growing bones.

"Gu, Gu Lin." Lin Zhen stared blankly at the boy standing in front of him whom he had not seen for half a month. Seeing his dusty face, immature chin and a little green stubble growing above his lips, his chest felt sore and swollen.

Seeing that he was safe, Gu Lin's tightly clenched heart finally loosened a gap for him to breathe.

He held the broadsword in his hand, and his palm, which was also wrapped in black cloth, stretched out to Lin Zhen's eyes, and wiped the dust on his forehead with his thumb.

His hand, which originally only held a pen except for bending the bow and shooting arrows, became rough, and it would make a slight sound when it rubbed against Lin Zhen's skin, making the movement of his thumb very distinct.

Suddenly, he turned around and strode away, following Nie Yong and others in front.

Lin Zhen wanted to call him, but before he could open his mouth, his figure completely disappeared from his sight.

The Lin family members who were suddenly rescued also saw Gu Lin, and they couldn't believe that the man who was full of murderous aura and made people feel scared at the sight of him would be silent in front of them and always just follow Lin Zhen's tail.

All this happened too quickly. Li Zhaodi, who was standing next to the little leader, didn't expect things to turn out like this. It was obvious that Lin Zhen was going to be in big trouble in the next moment, but someone would come out to save him.

Judging from the appearance, the person who saved him was also his lover.

Without the support of those refugee troops, Li Zhaodi noticed that the Lin family members had cast their eyes on her, and hurriedly ran back.

Lin Zhen rushed out first and grabbed the braid behind her head: "Li Zhaodi, you don't think that I, Lin Zhen, am so broad-minded that I can let go of someone who pushed me to death."

If Gu Lin hadn't appeared, what would be the fate of the Lin family? Lin Zhen could foresee it just by thinking about it, and he grabbed Li Zhaodi's hand without mercy.

Li Zhaodi's neck was nearly broken by Lin Zhen's pulling. She covered her painful scalp and looked at Lin Zhen and said, "You can't blame me, Brother Lin. I was also coerced by that gang of villains. If I didn't do what they said, I would have lost my life."

"No one is not afraid of death, I just-"

"Do you think I will believe you?" Lin Zhen sneered, remembering her smug face clearly. Lin

Zhen said to the elder brother Lin and the second brother Lin: "Brother, go get a rope to tie her up first, and when Shuanzi comes back, ask the village chief to call out all the villagers to let them see what Li Zhaodi has done. We can't let her continue to harm people in the future." The

elder brother Lin and the second brother dragged Li Zhaodi from Lin Zhen's hand with her hands tied behind her back and tied her up in a few seconds.

Li Zhaodi panicked. She struggled frantically, "Lin Zhen, what do you want to do? What right do you have to tie me up? Let me tell you, my sister-in-law's family is a well-known family in the town, and they have some friendship with the county magistrate. I will sue you in court when the time comes!"

Lin Zhen felt sick even when she heard her voice. She grabbed a bunch of weeds next to her and stuffed them into his mouth. "Put her in the yard."

This thing can be done by Brother Lin alone. A farmer who works all year round is more than enough to carry an old woman.

Lin Zhen was not sure where the refugee army was and where Gu Lin was. He took the Lin family members who came out of the tunnel back to the house and asked them to block the door from the inside.

He pulled a chair and sat on it.

Gu Lin just now kept flashing in his mind. The boy's thinner face was a little darker than when he left the Lin family. It was a darker honey color. His

long hair was tangled, and there was a little light stubble on his chin and lips.

And his upper body was wrapped with strips of cloth. When he stood in front of him, the smell of blood was so strong.

The house was dug up in a mess. A wall on the other side of the water tank was about to collapse. The adults told the children not to go there, and they all crowded into the main hall and the wing room on the other side.

Father Lin came over with a half bowl of water: "Are you thinking about the child Shuanzi?"

Lin Zhen took the bowl and nodded gently.

Father Lin whispered: "Shuanzi..."

After seeing Gu Lin today, Father Lin suddenly felt that the name Shuanzi sounded a bit strange. He knew that Lin Zhen gave Shuanzi a name, and said: "I really didn't expect that this child Gu Lin would be so promising. Maybe it's because he doesn't often talk to his family. What I remember most is the day you carried him back. He was thin and small, and looked very scary."

Lin Zhen was also reminded of the past. He drank the water in two or three gulps and said to Father Lin, "I don't know where they chased the people. I'll take a look in the yard."

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The Lin family's yard was full of things thrown out by the refugee army. There was almost no place to step. They were also worried that the refugee army would appear again, so they didn't dare to come out to clean up.

Lin Zhen walked around the pile of things and looked at the road in front of his house.

The sky gradually darkened, the crescent moon hung on the treetops, and the wind was chilly.

The Lin family had confirmed that the refugee army had been driven away by Gu Lin and his men, and they would not come again in a short time. They picked up the usable things and threw all the unusable things outside the yard to the garbage disposal area.

Other villagers also found that the thieves had left at night, and they emerged from the tunnel in groups of three or two.

They were really scared today. If it weren't for the tunnel, they would have faced the thieves face to face, and they would have lost their lives.

They were grateful to Lin Zhen for asking them to dig a tunnel, and immediately took some things and rushed to Lin Zhen's house. Unexpectedly, as soon as they left the house, they met someone who was also going to Lin Zhen's house. They were both relieved and scared when they talked about hearing the noise outside in the tunnel.

He was very brave and killed several refugees. The military man told the story of what happened today like a storyteller.

Uncle Ji was also in the crowd. He listened to the villagers and nodded constantly.

Today, after their family had dinner, they were about to take out the tools for farm work and sharpen them to prevent them from being damaged by rust. Suddenly, they heard the sound of clanging clanging and were stunned for a second. The children in the family were clever and pulled him into the tunnel.

This was the alarm when Lin Zhen said that danger was coming. When they heard the alarm, they had to hide in the tunnel. Uncle Ji's family was influenced by Uncle Ji and believed in Lin Zhen very much. They dug the tunnel honestly when he asked them to dig the tunnel, and they performed every time without any water.

At first, they thought it was another surprise drill, but the next second, they heard the voices of strangers in the house talking and smashing things. They saw the criminals with knives through their eyes, which scared Uncle Ji's family so much that they almost collapsed.

But the entrance to his family's tunnel was very hidden, and the criminals left without finding it.

Uncle Ji's family, who had almost escaped death, was safe. The whole family came and wanted to thank Lin Zhen in person.

Dozens of villagers holding oil lamps in their hands soon arrived outside the Lin family's yard and patted the gate of the yard: "Brother Lin, I'm here to thank your family."

"Brother Lin, I want to thank you very much today. If it weren't for Ji asking everyone to dig a tunnel, I would have died today."

"..."

The Lin family members who were cleaning up the house heard the noise coming from outside. Lin's father went to open the gate of the yard himself: "You are too polite, but my yard is a mess and there is no place to entertain you."

The villagers were very happy to see Lin's father open the door, but they didn't expect to hear that Lin's father had messed up his yard. When the Lin family built the house, many of them came to help. They knew that the Lin family's yard was very spacious and it was not a problem to put seven or eight tables.

Uncle Ji looked towards Lin's father and saw a lot of broken things piled on the ground in the yard, including pots, pans, cabinets and stools. The wall on the right had collapsed. Only the two rooms in the main hall and the four side rooms on the left were intact.

Uncle Ji was horrified: "What happened? Was it done by that gang of criminals?!"

Lin's father said: "Yes, they found the tunnel in my house and forcibly dug it open. If the officers and soldiers on the mountain hadn't discovered them, I'm afraid that our Lin family would have been..."

Uncle Ji couldn't believe it: "Criminals also broke into our house, but the entrance was not found. Your family has Brother Lin watching every day, so how could it be found so easily?"

There was no concealment of anger in Lin's father's eyes: "It was Li Zhaodi. Her family didn't take the warning seriously and was caught by the criminals." "

For so many years, she still hates that our Lin family didn't marry into her family. She brought criminals to my house and asked them to dig up the ground in the house. Finally, they found the entrance to the tunnel in my house."

"My Lin family doesn't think we have done anything wrong to her family. Everyone knows what happened back then. How could they join those ruthless criminals to take the lives of more than a dozen members of my Lin family?"

The people of Liyu Village gathered in front of the Lin family's yard were shocked. They dug a tunnel themselves, and they knew that although the entrance was very hidden, if the other party had more people and turned up every inch of the ground to investigate, they would definitely find some clues.

Not to mention that there was Li Zhaodi inside to give instructions. Although she didn't know where the entrance to the Lin family's tunnel was, everyone would chat casually when the tunnel was being repaired, so it was hard to guarantee that she would have guessed it.

Uncle Ji was furious: "Where is she now? All the people in our village are here. We must give your family an explanation! We must not let her off easily!"

"She wanted to cheat your family back then. She spread rumors in the village before she succeeded. She relied on the fact that her sister-in-law was a well-known family in the town to scold anyone who questioned her. She should have kicked her out of the village at that time!" "

Where is she now?" The old village chief also came. He frowned fiercely and knocked the cane in his hand hard on the ground.

Father Lin said: "She has been tied up by my family. She is right there."

Father Lin pointed to the corner of the yard. Li Zhaodi, who was tied up with her hands and feet and stuffed with wild grass in her mouth, was crying.

No one noticed anyone there in the middle of the night. The old village chief said with a sullen face: "Go and pull her over."

Lin Zhen and other members of the Lin family who had cleaned up the mess also came out. The old village chief looked at Lin Zhen and his eyebrows were much kinder: "Brother Zhen, you have made an indelible contribution to the fact that Liyu Village was spared from a catastrophe this time."

"What should we do with Li Zhaodi? I want to hear your thoughts."

When the village chief asked, the villagers had already carried Li Zhaodi over. Someone had pulled the weeds out of her mouth. She cried and shouted, "Murder! The Lin family is going to kill someone!"

Seeing so many people in the village, Li Zhaodi's eyes flashed with a light of salvation. Her bound hands and feet crawled like a caterpillar towards the family she had some friendship with, "Zhang family, please loosen the rope for me. The Lin family has tied me up for an entire afternoon without any reason. My hands and feet are about to break."

The person she called noticed the people around him looking at him, and quickly stepped back: "Lin Da has told us what you did. You are asking for trouble and you want to drag the Lin family into the water. You are so cruel."

Li Zhaodi's heart skipped a beat, and she tried to calm her expression: "You all know that the Lin family and I don't get along well. They finally got the chance and naturally smeared me to death. You can't listen to them."

At this point, the only way Li Zhaodi could think of was to deny it to death. Anyway, the refugee soldiers were gone and there was no evidence.

At this moment, Li Zhaodi hated the refugee soldiers who looked like dragons but were actually worms. If dozens of people said they were useless, then they would be useless. Otherwise, how could Lin Zhen's family still jump in front of her.

Not to mention how much she hated Lin Zhen and the Lin family, Li Zhaodi cried and cried, feeling extremely wronged.

Suddenly, a voice sounded from behind the crowd, "She lied. When the warning sounded in the village and everyone was hiding in the tunnel, she refused to go in. She also said that Lin Zhen dug the tunnel specifically to torment people."

"She also led those people to the Lin family, saying that the Lin family had the most food, and mentioned Zhen Ge'er in front of those people, hoping that those people would tarnish Zhen Ge'er's innocence."

Li Zhaodi and the Lin family were put together. The villagers sided with the Lin family and did not believe what Li Zhaodi said, but this voice made everyone even more angry.

"No wonder you were caught, it turns out that you took Zhen Ge'er's kindness for granted!"

"You did something wrong, but you still wanted to lead people to the Lin family. Now you are turning the tables. Li Zhaodi, do you have any shame!"

"It's too easy to drive someone like her out of the village. Let's hand her over to the government and let the government give her a beating and put her in jail!"

"It's so chaotic outside, how can the government take care of these things?"

"..."

At this time, everyone suddenly remembered the person who said that, turned around and looked at her in surprise.

"Li Jiu's wife?"

"You, what are you doing..."

Li Zhaodi is her mother-in-law, why did she jump out at this time.

Li Jiu's wife pushed through the crowd and walked out, suddenly spitting on Li Zhaodi's face, "You caused us to be caught by the criminals. In order to save your own life, you watched me being caught by the criminals, and you said you were just a girl, there was nothing to be reluctant about."

"God has eyes, and didn't let you hurt anyone!"

Everyone knows what the fate of a girl who falls into the hands of criminals is. If she didn't say those chilling words at that time, Li Jiu would be like a soft egg and dare not even look back at her, and Li Jiu's wife would not hate her so much.

The villagers didn't expect that besides bringing the bad guys to Lin Zhen's house because of personal grudges and deliberately mentioning Lin Zhen in front of them, Li Zhaodi would actually do this.

That was her daughter-in-law, who had been married for five years and had given the Li family three children. She was diligent and filial, and greeted people with a smile wherever she went. No one in the village could say a bad word.

Li Jiu's wife rushed out and shed tears silently, and said to the old village chief: "Village chief, no matter what happens to Li Zhaodi in the future, I don't want to be a wife of the Li family anymore. I will move out of the Li family tomorrow and live in the old thatched house at the entrance of the village. When the drought is better, I will go back to my parents' home."

Li Zhaodi, who was exposed in front of her, was so angry that she fluttered on the ground: "You rotten-hearted little bitch, my Li family can only want you because your ancestors burned incense. You can't leave even if you want to!"

In the past, Li Zhaodi would have ignored her if she wanted to leave. Anyway, her Li family has land and can marry any kind of woman.

But she knew that if what she did today was exposed, it would definitely affect her son's reputation, and it would be difficult for him to marry a good woman.

She wanted to keep this little bitch first, and then torture her to death, and move to another place to let her son marry a young and beautiful woman.

The old village chief standing in front of Lin Zhen no longer looked at her, and turned a deaf ear to what she said, just looking at Lin Zhen, wanting to hear what she meant.

Lin Zhen looked at Li Zhaodi on the ground, and looked at the old village chief: "People like Li Zhaodi will take people to my house today, and they can take people to other families in the village tomorrow."

"Village chief, according to my opinion, his son and husband should be driven out of the village, and they can settle down wherever they want, but Li Zhaodi cannot be released. Tie her hands and feet, gag her mouth and throw her to the back mountain." The drought in Anyuan Town is not as severe as that in the prefecture. There are wolves, tigers and leopards in the mountains. If Li Zhaodi is thrown to the back mountain, she will definitely die.

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"Okay." The old village chief nodded and agreed with Lin Zhen's statement.

Li Zhaodi really couldn't be kept. At this time of year, she might encounter villains like today in the future. If she makes trouble again, it won't just be the Lin family that will be in trouble.

Li Zhaodi on the ground was stunned, and then she yelled at Lin Zhen frantically, with a mouthful of foul language that made the villagers present unable to bear to listen.

Zhao Xiu, who was behind Lin Zhen, stuffed the original ball of weeds into her mouth to block her mouth.

"Woo, woo woo woo woo!!!" Li Zhaodi's eyes almost popped out of their sockets, and her body fluttered on the ground, raising dust.

The villagers who came to thank the Lin family were silent for a while about the way Lin Zhen dealt with Li Zhaodi, and most of them said that this was the best way.

Who is not afraid of things that harm people.

Several men who were good friends with the elder and second brothers of Lin came out to ask if they needed help. Li Zhaodi was fat and plump, and if there were not enough people, they might not be able to lift her.

When the elder and second brothers of Lin thought about the disaster that Li Zhaodi's family had almost encountered today, the two honest and kind-hearted men became cold and hard. Five or six men grabbed Li Zhaodi from the ground and walked towards the mountain behind. After

dealing with Li Zhaodi, the old village chief said to Lin Zhen and Lin's father: "The wall of your house collapsed, and the foundation may need to be refilled. Tomorrow I will find a few people to help you with it. You can rest tonight."

After such a big shock, the children were still in shock, and the adults' faces were gloomy.

As soon as the old village chief finished speaking, Uncle Ji and the others nodded repeatedly, and spontaneously put the things they brought in their hands in the left wing room that had been slightly vacated, and threw the garbage swept out by the Lin family into the garbage dump outside. There is strength in numbers

. Soon, the Lin family's courtyard will be able to see some traces of its former self. Lin Adie, Lin Fu, and Lin Zhen looked at the villagers who left the Lin family one after another, and couldn't help but sigh in their hearts. Fortunately, none of them were like Li Zhaodi.

She was only a minority. Lin Zhen turned to Lin Adie and said, "Dad and Father, you don't have to be busy tonight.

Just like the village chief said, if we find a few more people tomorrow, we can repair the house in two days. Go to bed early. "

"What about you?"

"...I'll wait for my eldest brother and the second brother here."

"Okay, you three brothers can rest when they come back."

"Yeah."

Lin Zhen nodded and watched Lin Adie and Lin Fu go into the house. The main room where the old couple lived was not damaged.

They put the overturned bed and cabinets back in place and made the beds. It was no different from before. It was just that Lin Zhen and Chunxiang Xingxiang, who originally lived in the right wing, had to live in the left wing, so the others had to squeeze in a little. When the figures of the old couple completely disappeared from his sight, Lin Zhen's shoulders relaxed slightly.

He looked at the dark village outside the yard, and he felt very annoyed. He was thinking about Gu Lin. Thinking about his appearance in the short time he appeared today, why he had so many strips of cloth wrapped around his body, why there were so many wounds on it, and... Lin Zhen unconsciously stretched his hands to his cheeks and forehead. Suddenly, Lin Zhen realized what he was doing and put his hands down abruptly, picked up the broom and swept the yard.

When the elder and second brothers Lin who had thrown the people away came back, they saw Lin Zhen sweeping the floor alone: ​​

"Xiao Zhen, where are your eldest sister-in-law and the others? Why did they leave you alone?" Lin Zhen's chaotic thoughts were interrupted by the elder brother Lin's voice.

He raised his head and said: "The children are all scared. I asked the eldest and second sisters-in-law to talk to them for a while." Although Lin Zhuzi and Lin Shitou were already thirteen or fourteen years old, they had never experienced anything after all, and they were a little scared.

Chunxiang, Xingxiang, and Huaixiang, who are younger than them, are in a similar situation, especially Tiedan, the youngest child in Brother Lin's family, who vomited just now, scaring Sister Lin so much that she dares not leave now. Lin Zhen felt something was wrong because of what flashed through his mind just now, and he felt even more like honey in front of his family. He quickly said to Brother Lin and Brother Lin: "Brother and Brother Lin, you should also go and see the children. I will go in after I finish sweeping this."

Brother Lin and Brother Lin both love children. They didn't notice them when they were busy just now, but now they are worried after hearing what Lin Zhen said: "Then we will go in first." Lin Zhen has always been reliable in front of them, and he does things in moderation.

They don't need to worry about these trivial matters. The two brothers washed their hands and went back to their respective rooms to visit their wives, husbands, and children. Occasionally, subtle sounds came from the side rooms. Lin Zhen exhaled, lifted the garbage that was swept together to the garbage pile, and walked home with the garbage bucket.

Suddenly, Lin Zhen stopped and stared at the group of people who appeared at the door of his yard with wide eyes. It was the officers and soldiers from today. They were all covered in dust and had fresh wounds on their bodies, as if they had crawled back from a mass grave. Gu Lin, who he had just been thinking about, was supported by two men on the left and right, with his head bowed. The trash can in his hand fell to the ground. Lin Zhen ran to Gu Lin, who was supported by someone, and held his face: "Gu Lin, Gu Lin."

"Ahem..."

Nie Yong, who was supporting Gu Lin, was also seriously injured. He swallowed the blood foam in his mouth and said, "Captain Gu is too seriously injured and can't hold on any longer. We can only take him back to the village." Lin Zhen only had Gu Lin in his eyes. Gu Lin's face was covered in blood, so sticky that his original skin color could not be seen clearly.

But Gu Lin, who had never cried out in pain, had his eyes closed and his eyebrows furrowed, as if he could not bear the pain in his body. Lin Zhen's hands were shaking, and his voice was shaking, "Come in quickly, I'll find you some medicine right away," he shouted to the elder and second brothers Lin in the room, "Brother, clear two rooms and boil some hot water!" The elder and second brothers Lin, who were talking to his wife, husband and children in the room, turned over instantly when they heard his voice. They came out and saw Nie Yong and his group, who looked like blood gourds. They were shocked, and then they saw Gu Lin, who was supported by Nie Yong and a soldier, and ran over quickly,

"Shuanzi!"

"Where is Shuanzi injured!?" He was just rescued by Gu Lin and his men today, and now seeing him like this, the elder and second brothers Lin were very anxious. The two quickly turned around and went into the house to ask Lin Zhuzi and Lin Shitou to vacate their own rooms and temporarily live in their houses, so that Lin Zhen could move in with Gu Lin and Nie Yong.

The smell of blood on them was so strong that the room was soon filled with the smell of blood. Sister Lin held Tiedan in her arms, and Sister Lin also stood up. When they saw the soldiers of the 10th and 7th flags in the house, they almost cried out in surprise. Lin Zhen didn't have time to talk to them, so he said to Brother Lin and Brother Lin: "Brother, go and ask every household and bring all the herbs they have. Brother Lin, boil some more hot water."

"I'll make something easy to swallow." Sister Lin said without Lin Zhen's instructions. She remembered that if it weren't for these people today, their family might have died. Sister Lin had no choice but to coax Tiedan, who was feeling uncomfortable, and called Lin Zhuzi: "Zhuzi, go and get some cotton cloth from home, and your sister and I will tear it into strips." The Lin family, which had originally been quiet, became busy in an instant. Brother Lin put on his shoes, carried a backpack and went out.

Brother Lin took Lin Shitou to the river to scoop water, and Sister Lin took out the wheat flour that had been stored for a long time and prepared to make the cat ears that Lin Zhen had made. The people of the Tenth and Seventh Flags, who were already at the end of their strength, looked at the Lin family members who had become anxious and busy because of their arrival. Their bodies, which had been holding on, suddenly lost their strength and they fell to the bed and the floor.

Lin Zhen looked at Gu Lin and other people who were not much better on the bed, and said to the children at home: "Go call Uncle Ji, Aunt Liu, and Aunt Ma to help."

With so many people, it would be best if their wounds could be treated in time. Excessive blood loss could also be fatal.

Gu Lin woke up in a warm atmosphere. He half-opened his eyes and was blinded by the sunlight. Then he saw the person lying on the edge of the bed.

Gu Lin was too familiar with Lin Zhen, his face, his voice, and every ups and downs of his body.

Even though the person lying on the bed had his head completely buried in his arms and his shoulders were covered with a gray-black dress, Gu Lin recognized him in an instant.

He slowly stretched out his hand and touched the slightly curly hair at the tip of Lin Zhen's ear. Suddenly, Lin Zhen raised his head and grabbed his outstretched hand.

"..." A silent silence spread, and no one spoke first.

Father Lin, who came in with a bowl of noodles, was so happy to see Gu Lin wake up that his eyes were bent: "Shuanzi, you finally woke up. If you don't wake up, your father will go to pray to the gods and Buddha."

"Come, have a bowl of noodles. You haven't eaten for two days. The little bit of sugar water your father poured into you must not be enough to satisfy your hunger." Father Lin now thought of Gu Lin's bloody appearance and Lin Zhen's treatment of his wounds when he saw him. He was very happy that Gu Lin could wake up.

He was not joking when he said that Lin Zhen would go to pray to the gods and Buddha. Gu Lin was absent-minded for the past two days and spent most of the time guarding the bed. Gu Lin would change his cold towel and feed him sugar water whenever there was a little movement.

Father Lin was very relieved. He used to worry that Gu Shuanzi and Lin Zhen had a bad relationship.

But now they are obviously much closer. Even if Gu Shuanzi gets married and has children in the future, he will treat Lin Zhen well and not let Lin Zhen be left without a place to stay.

Gu Lin listened to what Lin's father said and looked at Lin Zhen: "Uncle Lin, I'm hungry and want to eat noodles."

Lin Zhen glanced at his pale face and took the noodles handed over by Lin's father.

Gu Lin had been in a coma for two days. The others had woken up one after another before him. Those who could move ate the noodles by themselves, and those who couldn't move were fed by Aunt Liu, Aunt Ma and Uncle Ji.

Lin's father originally brought this bowl of noodles to Lin Zhen, but he didn't expect Gu Lin to wake up, so he gave it to Gu Lin first.

Lin Zhen picked up a chopstick of noodles, waited for the hot noodles to cool down, and put it to Gu Lin's mouth.

Gu Lin looked up at him, his emotionless and handsome eyebrows looked weak because of his paleness: "I can't eat it like this."

Lin Zhen remembered that he was lying flat, with wounds covered with medicine and wrapped with cloth strips all over his body, and he couldn't move.

He put the bowl down, leaned forward, put one arm around Gu Lin's back, and with the other hand, stuffed a pillow behind him. Suddenly, he heard Gu Lin, whose head was against his shoulder because of the posture, say in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "I miss you."

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He was always so straightforward, so straightforward that it was impossible to fool or ignore him.

Lin Zhen knew that his thoughts were completely different from his own. He paused for a moment and put him on the pillow. He lowered his eyes and handed the noodles to his mouth: "The yamen runner who came here to inform was vague. Is it not just the group of refugees we discovered before who attacked Anyuan Town? Are there other people involved?"

The noodles were made by other people in the family. They were thicker and cut with a knife. The soup was filled with lard and fried crispy oil residue. It was a good breakfast even before, let alone now.

Gu Lin, who hadn't had a hot meal for many days, ate very quickly, and Lin Zhen fed him faster and faster.

While the noodles were cooling, Gu Lin nodded: "The refugee army we encountered only had about 500 people, and later there was another one that came from the city. The two together numbered about 2,300."

"Why are there so many!" Lin Zhen was shocked. He didn't know how many soldiers there were in Anyuan Town, but judging from the number of militiamen from the village, there shouldn't be many.

In the era of cold weapons that relied purely on human lives, the disparity in numbers was extremely deadly. He looked at Gu Lin, who had no good skin and flesh on his body and had to feed himself, and then looked at the other soldiers who also lived in the same room, and had a bad feeling in his heart.

Nie Yong, who woke up earlier than Gu Lin, leaned against the wall: "There are only more than 400 people in our three institutes. We can't fight head-on. Captain Gu came up with a method of dividing and annihilating them. If the enemy is large, we run away. If the enemy is small, we surround them. We rely on our local people's familiarity with the terrain and terrain to wear down the refugee army bit by bit."

"Yes, Captain Gu also took us to stop them along the way and killed hundreds of them first." Zhang Tie also woke up and was being fed noodles by Lin Shitou.

He was seriously injured and there was no meat on his leg. When Lin Zhen took people to treat him the night before, he thought he would not be able to hold on. Unexpectedly, he was in good physique and survived.

Gu Lin was the last one to wake up. The others who woke up talked about everything that happened in the past half month.

Lin Zhen, who fed noodles to Gu Lin, Lin Shitou, who fed noodles to Zhang Tie, and other people who were originally working in the house and the yard, gathered around at some point to listen to them talking about these things that were far away from them.

Finally, Zhang Tie said, "We were originally going to go around the cliff, but Captain Gu discovered the refugee army, so we rushed all the way here."

"Don't worry, we have dealt with all the refugee army, and they will never come back."

Zhang Tie's beard had not been shaved for many days, and it was hairy. He looked like a man in his thirties or forties, but he sounded only in his early twenties.

There were many young men of this age in the village, but they were just ordinary people digging for food in the fields. Not to mention killing the refugee army, the timid ones would be scared by snakes and insects, and they were so useless that people would shake their heads when they saw them.

Compared with these soldiers who had escaped death, they were simply unbearable.

Lin Zhen noticed that these soldiers kept talking about Captain Gu. Captain Gu proposed a plan to divide and annihilate them. Captain Gu led them to block the refugee army. Captain Gu asked them to smear feces on the broken porcelain pieces of bamboo swords in the trap. Captain Gu rushed into the 300 refugee soldiers in the forest and killed dozens of them. Finally, he led them to grind the remaining refugee soldiers to death...

The 14-year-old Gu Lin was already the leader of this group of people who were convinced by the people. He led them to survive again and again.

There were 22 people in the 10th and 7th flags, and now there are 18 left, all of them seriously injured.

However, there were more than 500 refugee soldiers who died in their hands, which was one-third of the refugee soldiers who entered the forest to encircle and suppress them.

Lin Zhen had finished feeding the noodles in his hand. He stood up with the empty bowl and said to Gu Lin, "You should have a good rest."

After encountering enemies one after another, Gu Lin was injured. He felt a little tired after eating a bowl of noodles. He nodded, leaned on the pillow and watched Lin Zhen go out.

The one who was feeding the others noodles didn't have the heart to disturb them to rest, and when he left, he thoughtfully put water at the bedside for them and closed the door.

Gu Lin was about to close his eyes when Nie Yong started to chatter: "Gu Lin, is that your father? How come you don't look like your father at all?"

"He's my Uncle Lin."

"Uncle Lin?" Nie Yong was a little confused. Someone just said he was his father, but how come he became uncle in his mouth?

Gu Lin said: "He is my stepfather. After my father died, he took me back to live with my mother, so I call him Uncle Lin."

Wow!

Nie Yong opened his eyes wide. It was not easy for Gu Lin to say so many words. You know, in addition to analyzing the battle situation and telling others what to do, Gu Lin talked a lot. It was a blessing for him to reply to him with a word for irrelevant things.

Now he actually took the initiative to explain why he called him Uncle Lin instead of Dad.

Nie Yong couldn't help but have some curiosity about the husband just now. He said casually: "No wonder, I said your uncle Lin was too young, how could he have a son as old as you."

"Your uncle Lin has been living with you for so many years, hasn't he found another one?"

Gu Lin suddenly turned his head and looked at him with dark eyes.

Nie Yong's heart skipped a beat. He didn't think there was anything wrong with what he said, but Gu Lin's look at him was really too sinister.

Wow, Nie Yong's eyes widened in disbelief, his fingers tremblingly pointed outside the door, and then pointed at Gu Lin.

He himself liked his little wife very much, and saw the strong possessiveness he had in Gu Lin's eyes.

That was not something that would exist between father and son. It was a love that could only be born out of a heart full of uncontrollable emotions!

This... How could this be...

If they leaked a little bit, there would be no place for them here, no, anywhere.

Nie Yong felt that his brain was like a ball of paste, and he couldn't stir it.

He wanted to say something to Gu Lin, but Gu Lin had already closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Zhang Tie, who was standing next to him, felt that Nie Yong was weird, and said in a tiger voice: "Team Leader Nie, why are you staring at our team leader? You don't think our team leader is too powerful, so you want to marry your daughter to our team leader Gu, right?"

Nie Yong looked at the thick-skinned Zhang Tie with despair, and for the first time, he felt that it was really comfortable for such a person who knew nothing and understood nothing.

At least he didn't have to be like himself, knowing such a secret that must not be told to others, and he was almost suffocating.

He told Zhang Tie to go to sleep quickly and not open his mouth in a bad mood. If he didn't know that Gu Lin liked his stepfather, Nie Yong would have some thoughts in his heart.

His daughter is pretty and cute, only two years younger than Gu Lin, and it would be just right to get married in two or three years.

Moreover, he has been following Gu Lin for these days, and he knows that this kid is very capable. Although his temper is a little cold, he is very reliable. If his daughter can follow him, in the future, not to mention glory and wealth, she will definitely live more comfortably than most people.

But after seeing Lin Zhen, Nie Yong's thoughts vanished.

Such a beautiful person is no less beautiful than Gu Lin, and they are a perfect match.

It was the identities of these two people that made Nie Yong tremble with fear, and he wanted to grab Gu Lin's shoulders and shake him hard. You kid is really a lunatic, crazy about fighting, crazy about killing, and now you are crazy about marrying a wife.

When Lin Zhen came out of the house, he was surrounded by Uncle Ji, Aunt Ma, Aunt Liu and others, "That's Shuanzi, didn't Shuanzi go to the capital to study? Why did he join the army?"

Lin Zhen put the empty bowl into the basin beside him and said to Uncle Ji, "He also learned some martial arts in the academy. The county magistrate saw that he was smart, so he kept him in the town."

"Then Shuanzi is an official from now on. I just heard those people asking him to be the leader."

"He left in a hurry and I didn't follow him. I don't know how he became the leader." Lin Zhen really didn't know how he became the leader of these people, but when he thought of him covered in blood the night before and frowning when he was unconscious, he felt a lingering fear.

Aunt Ma said, "At least he's back. I think we should ask him to go to the capital to study. It's better to use a pen than a knife. At least your father won't have to worry so much."

Although Uncle Ji admired these people and was happy that Gu Lin was a leader and could lead people, he said with a sense of sympathy when he recalled the wounds on the soldiers he helped to treat, "That's right. It's safer to use a pen."

If his own child went out to face knives and swords all day and came back like a blood gourd, his body would be weak.

Lin Zhen nodded, "If it weren't for the drought, he would have finished the provincial examination by now. He has a chance of success. Let's wait until his wounds get better."

Originally, the villagers were going to come to repair the Lin family's house yesterday, but Gu Lin and his people came, so the matter had to be put on hold. After all, repairing the house made a lot of noise, and a lot of people walked in and out, which inevitably disturbed them.

Lin Zhen went to get the hot water, poured it into the basin, and added some cold water to wash the dishes.

Aunt Ma and the others squatted down to help.

Aunt Ma was much better now, but she could only recover slowly over time. Lin Zhen was so anxious that night that he thought of her when he asked people to help, and wanted to ask her to go back and have a good rest that night.

But Aunt Ma said, "It's better to keep me busy so that I don't have to think about Xiao Min's family every day."

When she mentioned Ma Min, Lin Zhen felt uncomfortable. Until now, he still hasn't told Aunt Ma that he had walked a distance with Ma Min.

After washing the dishes, Lin Zhen and Uncle Ji and Sister Lin turned out the herbs brought from various families in the village to dry them, and cut them into small sections for easy cooking.

Aunt Ma, Sister Lin, and Aunt Liu, who were good at sewing, took out a lot of cloth that they had bought but had not yet used from the Lin family to make clothes and pants for Gu Lin, Nie Yong and the others.

Their clothes and pants were in tatters, with holes everywhere from knives and arrows, and they couldn't be mended.

Not to mention that it has been soaked in blood again and again. There is not enough water to wash it now, so it is better to make a new one.

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It was only in the past few years that the Lin family had a good life, otherwise they would not have been able to turn out so much cloth.

Aunt Ma was a good hand at making clothes. She looked at the cloth on the table and said, "You stretch the cloth first, I will go and measure their sizes."

A bunch of soldiers were all tall and had to run around frequently, so it was uncomfortable for them to wear clothes that didn't fit.

Lin Zhen was cutting herbs and said to Aunt Ma, "There's no need to measure Gu Lin's." Then he told Aunt Ma the size of Gu Lin very skillfully.

He knew the temper of the kid. He didn't like to be touched since he was a child. If he was touched, his face would turn black. He didn't distinguish between men and women, young and old, ugly or beautiful, and all of them were not allowed.

When Aunt Ma heard the size, she laughed and said, "Shuanzi has a good figure."

Most of the boys and girls in Luozhou are not as tall as those in the north. There are only a few like this in the Lin family. Aunt Ma remembers that Gu Shuanzi is only fourteen or fifteen years old. In two years, he will catch up with his uncles.

It's good for a boy to be tall. He is tall and girls like him.

Aunt Ma went to measure the sizes of the others, and took Aunt Lin and Aunt Liu to cut the cloth together. Lin Chunxiang, Lin Xingxiang, and Lin Huaixiang also came to help.

Since the drought came, it has been a long time since it was so lively. Everyone was frowning all day long, calculating the food in their hands. Even if it was enough for their own family, they couldn't be happy facing the sun outside.

Suddenly, Mrs. Zhong, who had been in the Lin family for more than ten days and had not moved much because of her poor health, came out with the help of the door frame: "I will help you sew clothes."

Lin Zhen hurried to help her: "Old lady, there are enough people here, you should go back to the house and lie down."

"I have been lying down for so many days, and your family has taken care of me three meals a day. It's okay to make some clothes." After parting with Gu Lin in the town that day, Mrs. Zhong spent most of the day walking and stopping to walk to Liyu Village. At that time, the tunnel of Liyu Village was in the final stage of finishing. Every household was carrying the excavated mud to the forest. As soon as the old lady entered the village, she was found and pointed out the way.

As soon as Lin Zhen saw her and heard that Gu Lin asked her to come, he set up a bed in the house without saying a word and let her stay.

Old Mrs. Zhong was weak to begin with, and she was a little tired from walking from the town. She had been lying in bed these days. When she went down the tunnel before, it was Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Lin who supported her to go in. After

hearing what she said, Lin Zhen did not stop her and pulled a stool to her side: "The old lady

's needlework is as good as Mrs. Chen's, and these clothes are made faster." "Xiao Yan's mother's needlework is much better than mine. If it weren't for her, she wouldn't be able to support Xiao Yan's studies over the years, and occasionally she would have to buy medicine for an old woman like me..."

When talking about Mrs. Chen and Zhong Yan, Old Mrs. Zhong fell silent.

When the others saw this, they thought that if there were family members taking care of her, the old lady would not come to live in the Lin family, and they didn't want to ask what happened inside, for fear of touching the old man's sad things, so they changed the subject to make clothes.

There is strength in numbers, and more than a dozen clothes were made in just one day.

Lin Zhen picked one up and took a look. The fabric was breathable and comfortable cotton, with fine stitches and perfect workmanship.

He said to Aunt Ma and Grandma Zhong Yan, "We can let them wear them tonight, and they don't have to wear those rags of clothes and pants anymore."

Aunt Ma and Grandma Zhong Yan were winding the thread, while Aunt Lin and Aunt Liu were collecting the fine scraps to be used for shoe soles or other things in the future.

Hearing what he said, he was overjoyed.

Of course, more than a dozen young men couldn't wear their clothes. They had to cover their heads with a quilt. If they wanted to use it, they had to borrow someone else's slightly better pants.

Originally, Brother Lin and Brother Lin wanted to give them their own clothes to deal with them, but Aunt Ma and the others were making them, so they didn't let them take them.

Lin Zhen and Aunt Ma went into the house with a pile of clothes and pants. Aunt Ma went to another room. Lin Zhen stood in Gu Lin's room: "They are all made according to your size. Take them and compare them to see if they fit."

Nie Yong already knew that Gu Lin liked him. When he thought of the identities of these two people, he felt uncomfortable all over. He felt that he would be silenced by Gu Lin. He

kept thanking him with his head down: "Trouble Lin..." Lin what?

He is older than Gu Lin. They are brothers now. If they really get married in the future, Lin Zhen will be his brother's wife.

But now Lin Zhen is Gu Lin's father...

What the hell is this? ! ! !

Nie Yong's head turned and said, "Trouble Mr. Gu."

Nie Yong secretly gave himself a thumbs up. This title is definitely correct. There is nothing to say about it from any perspective.

Lin Zhen rarely heard others call him Mr. Gu. He didn't react for a while. He was stunned for a while and handed him the clothes that seemed to fit his height best.

Finally, it was Gu Lin's.

Lin Zhen stood in front of the bed and put the clothes and pants that definitely belonged to Gu Lin on the bed: "It's time to change the medicine on your body. Change them after dinner."

"Well," Gu Lin looked at him obediently, "Uncle Lin, I want to go to the toilet."

"..." Lin Zhen felt that since this kid had been a soldier for half a month, he was bolder than before. He was more restrained when he first revealed his thoughts.

Gu Lin suddenly curved his eyes: "Help me put on my clothes, I'll let my second uncle help me go."

He seldom smiled. In front of outsiders, he almost always pursed his lips and looked serious. Only in front of Lin Zhen would his expression relax and show some youthful spirit.

But at this moment, the slightly curved eyes were not often seen even in front of Lin Zhen. The emotionless eyebrows and eyes were accompanied by a little smile, like the sun shining on ice, cold and a little warm, so that Lin Zhen couldn't bear to refuse his words.

He licked his lips, picked up the clothes on the bed, and helped Gu Lin from lying flat to sitting, then put the sleeves of the clothes from his fingertips to his wrists, then his arms, and shoulders.

In the capital city, Gu Lin always wore long robes with wide sleeves and silk ribbons, which made him elegant and graceful. It was impossible to tell what the flesh and bones under the clothes looked like.

It was not until today that Lin Zhen realized that this child had really grown up. His arms were no longer the same as when he first brought him back, which would break at the slightest fold. They were slender and strong, and his chest was much wider. There were even faint muscles on his waist and abdomen. It was not exaggerated, but a thin layer, which looked just right.

Lin Zhen's fingertips suddenly seemed to be burned by fire. He casually put the clothes on him, and went outside to call Lin Erge without even tying the belt.

Gu Lin looked at his open collar, and the curve of his eyes became more obvious.

He struggled to endure the pain, tied the belt that Lin Zhen had just put down, and picked up the pants next to him and put them on.

When Second Brother Lin came in, he said, "Second Uncle, I can go by myself, you take care of your own business." Second

Brother Lin scratched his head, wondering why the two father and son said different things: "Your father said you were seriously injured and asked me to help you."

Gu Lin stood up while holding onto the bedpost: "It's okay." He moved slowly, although slowly, but he really didn't need help.

Second Brother Lin said, "Then I'll go out."

Gu Lin walked out of the room where he had been lying for two days, step by step. Lin Zhen, who seemed to be fleeing, was cooking with others. When he saw Gu Lin coming out holding onto the wall, he didn't ask Second Brother Lin to help him, and the spatula in his hand almost fell out.

This bastard, he can still lie!

He couldn't move just now and needed me to dress him, but now he can run out by himself.

Aunt Ma and the others had already gone back, leaving only the Lin family and the eighteen people from the tenth and seventh flags.

The Lin family respected them very much. After cooking, they put two tables in the room where they lived to prevent them from moving too much and hurting their wounds and bones. The Lin

family ate in the main room, with steamed rice made of sorghum and buckwheat, a large pot of salted dried vegetable soup, and a large pot of fried dried bamboo shoots.

Nowadays, even the grass on the mountain fields is almost dead, not to mention wild vegetables. Every year, Lin's father makes a lot of salted dried vegetables and keeps them for the next year. The dried bamboo shoots were originally collected and prepared to be taken to the Zhenyouwei snack restaurant in the town.

If the drought continues, the Lin family will have no vegetables to eat.

More than 30 people were eating happily, when suddenly, there was a sound outside the yard, as if something fell to the ground.

Lin Zhen was closest to the door, so he put down his bowl and said, "I'll go take a look, you guys continue to eat."

He stood up and walked out, holding the oil lamp in one hand and blocking in front of him with the other hand to prevent the oil lamp from being blown out.

Soon he found that there were several people lying outside his yard. They were facing downwards and he couldn't see who they were. He quickly put the oil lamp in a corner of the wall to avoid the wind and lifted up the head of one of them.

"Ma Min!" Lin Zhen shuddered all over and hurried to look at the person next to Ma Min. Who else could it be but Lin Xiaoyao who was looking for them? There were also several people next to them, including Zhong Yan, Wang Qin, a servant next to Wang Qin, and Huang Yuwen.

"Hurry up, Xiaoyao and the others are back! Hurry up and carry them in!"

Everyone in the room ran out. Father Lin stared at the person who was held in Lin Zhen's arms: "Is it Xiaoyao? Xiaoyao is back!"

"It's Xiaoyao. The one next to them is Ma Min from Aunt Ma's family. There are also Zhong Yan, Wang Qin, Huang Yuwen and the others. Father, quickly boil some salt and sugar water. Brother, second brother, sister-in-law, and sister-in-law, come with me to help the people in." The situation of the few people was really bad. If it weren't for the fact that the facial bones could still be barely seen, Lin Zhen would not dare to confirm that it was Lin Xiaoyao and the others.

They were so thin and haggard that the skin on their faces was all cracked and the cracks on their lips were so deep that the flesh inside could be seen.

The child he had been thinking about for a long time had returned. Father Lin burst into tears and choked up as he went to boil salt and sugar water.

The eldest and second brothers of Lin supported Zhong Yan, Wang Qin, the servant beside Wang Qin, and Huang Yuwen. The eldest and second sisters of Lin supported Ma Min and Xiaoyao.

Lin Zhen saw that Xiaoyao was still carrying a backpack on his back, so he hurried to take the backpack off, but found that the weight inside was wrong.

He lifted the clothes on the backpack and looked inside. It turned out to be Ma Min's child who was still in the cradle. Compared with these adults, the child's condition was much better, and there was a little blood on his mouth.

Lin Zhen grabbed Ma Min's hand and looked at it. There were indeed many wounds on it that had healed and cut, and cut and closed again.

The same was true for Xiaoyao Lin.

Lin Zhen's heart was choked and he could hardly breathe. He took the child out of the backpack. The child was very sensitive and seemed to realize that it was safer here, and he cried softly.

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The boiled salt and sugar water was quickly cooled, and each person drank a large bowl.

Then Lin Zhen asked Lin Dasao and the others to grind a small bowl of the millet that Gu Lin got from the county magistrate, and grind it into rice paste to feed Ma Min's child.

Sitting on the bed, Lin Zhen looked at Ma Min lying on Lin Dasao's bed and thought of the people the Lin family helped in.

Lin Xiaoyao, Ma Min, Zhong Yan, Wang Qin, Huang Yuwen, and the servant named Wang Youcai beside him, missing Chen Niangzi, the two servants beside Huang Yuwen, and another servant beside Wang Qin.

These people...

Just thinking about it, you know what happened to these missing people. They said goodbye in a hurry that day. Gu Lin and he escaped from the tall bandit leader with a narrow escape. Zhong Yan, Wang Qin, Huang Yuwen and the others didn't know where they escaped to and what happened to them. Just when

the appearance of these people who were not here appeared in Lin Zhen's mind, Lin Xiaoyao on the bed suddenly vomited violently, and the salt and sugar water he had just drunk flowed out of his nose and mouth.

Lin Zhen quickly turned him over to lie on his side and patted his back.

Lying flat like this and vomiting can easily choke the lungs, which is very dangerous if not treated in time.

After vomiting the last mouthful of salt and sugar water in his stomach, Lin Xiaoyao finally calmed down. Lin Zhen helped him up and leaned him against the head of the bed. He went to the pot on the stove and filled another bowl of salt and sugar water. When he sat on the bed and was about to feed him, his hand was tightly grasped by Lin Xiaoyao, who swallowed impatiently with gurgling.

"Go slowly, don't choke." Lin Zhen looked at Lin Xiaoyao, who had lost his human form in just half a month, and stroked his back.

Soon, the whole bowl of salt and sugar water was in Lin Xiaoyao's stomach. He leaned softly against the wall, looked at Lin Zhen with half-opened eyes, and suddenly raised his arms to Lin Zhen.

Lin Zhen silently moved forward, let him hold him, and gently put his hands around his waist and back.

"It's great..." Lin Xiaoyao's voice was too hoarse, and if you didn't listen carefully, you couldn't hear what he said.

Lin Xiaoyao is 21 years old this year. When Lin Zhen first met him, he was only 15 years old. He was thin and small, with dark skin. He was also dull when he saw his third brother.

Later, he followed him to the town to sell spicy hot pot, learned to read and write, and followed him to the capital to open a store.

He became more and more generous, and was good at work and shopping. Except for secretly liking Zhong Yan, his life seemed to be uneventful.

Lin Zhen hugged him and said, "Do you regret going on this trip?"

Lin Xiaoyao's head was next to him, just like when the two were still in the Lin family, there was no extra bed and they could only squeeze on a stone bed: "No regrets."

"I just regret it."

"I used my life to find him once and met him once. From now on, I will only live for myself. I am just Lin Xiaoyao."

No regrets, just regrets.

Lin Zhen didn't realize the words in his previous life, but he heard them from Lin Xiaoyao, who was younger than him.

Lin Xiaoyao and he both knew that as long as Lin Xiaoyao went to find Zhong Yan, with Zhong Yan's temperament and the friendship between the two families, it would be no problem for Zhong Yan to marry him.

Perhaps it was not just the two of them who would think of this. Father Lin, father Lin, other members of the Lin family, including Zhong Yan's grandmother, might all think so.

The life-saving grace should never be repaid too much.

But Lin Xiaoyao said that he would only live for himself in the future. He still liked Zhong Yan, but he did not plan to be with Zhong Yan.

Perhaps, Lin Xiaoyao had already thought so before he left.

Lin Zhen didn't know what it felt like to like someone. He just felt that Lin Xiaoyao in front of him seemed to be about to break: "Xiaoyao..."

Lin Xiaoyao buried her face in his shoulder, "People always have to be stupid for a while before they can understand what's going on. Zhong Yan and I..."

When this name was mentioned, Lin Xiaoyao's chest and eyes hurt. He took a deep breath and said firmly: "They are completely different people. He is suitable for a girl or boy who understands his talent and his poetry. As for me, when the drought is over, I want to go out and do something of my own."

"I have learned so much from my third brother for so many years. It should be enough for me to go out and try my luck."

"Okay," Lin Zhen hugged him, "I will go to check in person when the time comes to see how you have learned."

After holding on to talk to him for a while, Lin Xiaoyao fell asleep on Lin Zhen.

Lin Zhen helped him lie down and tucked him in. He looked at Lin Xiaoyao's skinny face and reached out to wipe away the water marks from his eyes and face.

"How is it, is Xiaoyao okay? I feel bad seeing him like that." As soon as Lin Zhen came out of the house, Lin's father ran up to ask.

Lin Zhen closed the door behind him and said, "It's okay. He just woke up and said a few words to me."

"That's good, that's good," Lin's father patted his chest and finally put his mind at ease. Suddenly, he hesitated and said, "That Zhong Yan..."

Lin Zhen took his hand and pulled him to the stove, putting down the empty bowl: "There is no relationship between the two of them. Whether it is Xiaoyao and him, or him and Xiaoyao, they will just be acquaintances in the future."

"Has Xiaoyao figured it out?"

"There is nothing to figure out. It's just that after some things, my thoughts are different."

"Alas..." Lin's father wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say. Lin Xiaoyao is his own child. How could a father not hope for the best for his own child?

But love is not something that can be forced. Those couples who have slept together for most of their lives still have two minds and can't get together.

Lin Xiaoyao and his friends came back at night, and no one saw them. Lin Zhen thought for a moment and said to Lin Adie, "I don't know when they will wake up. Dad, knead the leftover wheat flour from the previous two days. When they wake up, make noodles. I'll go to Aunt Ma's house and tell her that Sister Ma Min is here."

"She and Uncle Ma have always been concerned about Sister Ma Min. They must be very happy that Sister Ma Min is back."

"Go ahead." Ma Mujiang was a rare outlier in the village. Aunt Ma only gave him a daughter, but he never said anything. He treated Aunt Ma the same as before, and always brought something back from work, whether it was food, things to use, or new gadgets.

After Ma Min married and moved to the capital, the couple lived in the village. As long as Ma Min came back, the couple would smile all the time.

Many people said behind Ma Mujiang's back that he was stupid. He had such a good craft, and while he was still young, he should quickly marry a new wife and give birth to a big fat boy to carry on the family line.

Carpenter Ma always said the same thing about it, no more trouble, no more trouble, I just need Min'er's mother to accompany me.

Aunt Ma fell ill because she was worried about Ma Min after the drought. If she knew Ma Min was back, she would be very happy.

The two families were not far away. Lin Zhen fixed the oil lamp in a simple lantern and walked towards Aunt Ma's house.

At this time, Lin Zhen thought that Carpenter Ma and Aunt Ma should have gone to bed, but the lights in the house were still on. He stood outside the yard and shouted: "Aunt, I'm Lin Zhen, I'm here to tell you good news."

"Squeak," Carpenter Ma opened the door, and he stepped aside, "Brother Zhen, come in quickly, your aunt is making ginger tea, you can have some."

Lin Zhen frowned: "Aunt caught a cold?" As he spoke, Lin Zhen put the lantern in the corner.

"No, she just wanted this."

Aunt Ma saw Lin Zhen and waved for him to come over: "Come and drink some. I put less sugar and the taste is stronger. You can sweat more when you drink it."

The taste of ginger soup depends entirely on the ratio of sugar to ginger. If you like it spicier and more effective, add more ginger. If you like it lighter, add less ginger and more sugar.

Lin Zhen looked at the many white hairs that had appeared on Aunt Ma in just a few months, took the bowl and took a sip, "Aunt Ma, I came here to tell you good news, why haven't you asked me what the good news is yet?"

"You're going to tell me anyway, I'm listening."

Lin Zhen finished drinking the ginger soup in his hand and reached out to hold the bowl in her hand: "I promise that you will like this good news, Aunt."

"Sister Ma Min is back, at my house."

"——"

The bowl in Aunt Ma's hand really slipped out of her hand. If Lin Zhen hadn't held it with his hand in advance, the ginger soup and the bowl inside would have all fallen to the ground.

Her lips trembled, and she grabbed Lin Zhen's shoulders excitedly: "Brother Zhen, what did you say? I, why didn't I understand, you said..."

"Sister Ma Min is back, and she came back with Xiaoyao. You and Uncle Ma come with me to see her." Lin Xiaoyao put the bowl of ginger soup in his hand on the table next to him, stood up and picked up the lantern in the corner.

Ma the carpenter and Aunt Ma, who had been stunned by the news, were completely unable to react. They were stunned and followed Lin Zhen out the door like a machine.

When they got outside the yard, the old couple realized what Lin Zhen had just said. Their daughter, whom they had been thinking about, was back and was now at the Lin family!

Aunt Ma held Lin Zhen's hand tightly, and her steps became faster and faster: "How did Xiao Min come back? How did she go to your house? I have been dreaming about her these days, both good and bad. If it weren't for your uncle Ma stopping me, I would have gone to find her. Even if I die, we would die together."

Ma Min had already returned, and Lin Zhen did not continue to hide from them that he had traveled with Ma Min for a period of time, from when he met Ma Min in the hands of a group of gangsters who blocked the road to when his foot was pierced and he had to leave them.

Aunt Ma and Ma the carpenter were extremely sad when they heard that Ma Min's husband and the people from her husband's family were gone, and there was only a baby in her arms.

Last year, Ma Min and her husband brought their two older grandchildren to see them. At that time, they hadn't realized that Ma Min was pregnant. The two grandchildren...

Soon, the three of them arrived at the Lin family.

Carpenter Ma and Aunt Ma ran into the room where Ma Min and Lin Xiaoyao were lying. Lin Zhen, who was a few steps behind, heard the uncontrollable crying coming from inside.

Lin Zhen did not go in, and the other members of the Lin family did not go in either. They just stayed outside to do their own things.

In this natural disaster, it is extremely lucky and not easy to be reunited.

There were so many corpses lying in the wilderness, and no one had the chance to pick them up.

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Inside the house, Aunt Ma's eyes were blurred with tears, and she almost fainted from crying as she looked at Ma Min, who was very different from her daughter in her memory.

When she was still in the boudoir, Ma Min was raised by her and Ma Mujiang as a baby. Fortunately, this child was sensible. Even though they loved her in every way, she did not develop a willful temper. Instead, she was very caring.

Later, Ma Min fell in love with Yang Mu from the prefectural city in the town at first sight. Yang Mu even eagerly inquired about Ma Min's residence and asked the matchmaker to come to propose marriage.

At first, Aunt Ma and Ma Mujiang were not optimistic about this marriage. They thought that the prefectural city was too far away. They only had this one daughter, and they would not be able to rush there in time for anything in the future. They rarely saw each other twice a year.

But the couple could see that Ma Min looked at Yang Mu with joy, and it was clear that she liked this Yang Mu.

What else can they do? The couple came together because they loved each other. Knowing how difficult it is to have the person next to them, they finally nodded and agreed to their marriage.

At that time, Aunt Ma and Carpenter Ma could never have imagined that Yang Mu would be gone now, and their first and second children were also gone, leaving only Ma Min and a child who had not yet been weaned.

Lin Xiaoyao and Ma Min, who drank the second bowl of salt and sugar water, did not wake up. They were all too tired and exhausted. It was already beyond their limit to walk here. Even though Aunt Ma cried out as she looked at Ma Min, the two of them still slept peacefully. Aunt Ma and

Carpenter Ma walked out of the house with red eyes: "Brother Zhen, your uncle Ma and I will not go back tonight. We will take care of it here. There are many people in your family now, and it would be bad to trouble you again."

"Aunt, you can stay. By the way," Lin Zhen turned back to the back of the main hall, picked up Ma Min's child from the bed of Lin Adie and Lin's father, and walked to Aunt Ma, "My father just fed him some rice porridge and he fell asleep. "

Aunt Ma and Uncle Ma had heard Lin Zhen talk about this child on the way. All they saw was the changed Ma Min, and they were a little at a loss when they saw the child.

Lin Zhen gently put the sleeping child in Aunt Ma's arms: "It's a little boy, he doesn't cry or make a fuss, and he sleeps when he is full.

The child is only a few months old, and his bones are still soft. It's just that he had no milk to drink on the road, and there is only a little meat on his face close to the bones.

Aunt Ma held the child with tears in her eyes.

Needless to say, Ma Min went through a lot of hardships to protect this child from such a bunch of bad guys. She carefully touched the child's hair and said, "Whether it's a boy or a girl, it's all good.

The Lin family was having dinner when they suddenly found Lin Xiaoyao and Ma Min. By the time they settled them down, the dishes and rice on the table were all cold.

Lin Zhen brought the pot of salted dried vegetable soup and called Sister-in-law Lin and Sister-in-law Lin to reheat the food and finish the meal.

Gu Lin and Nie Yong also heard the noise, but Lin's father went to greet them early in the morning, so they finished eating before the food got cold. After the Lin family finished eating, they went to clear the dishes and chopsticks. Collect them together.

The next day, Lin Zhen was half asleep when he heard the sound. He rubbed his eyes, and his gradually clear brain realized that there were several more people in the house. Last night, he and several people in the Lin family slept on the floor.

Fortunately, the weather is not cold now, otherwise I can't lie down.

Lin Zhen rolled up the quilt and put it back in the cabinet, and then carried the hay underneath to the woodshed. Suddenly, he just put the hay in the woodshed and turned around, and almost bumped into someone who appeared behind him. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and took a step back: "Why don't you make any sound when you walk."

Gu Lin, wearing new clothes, looked at him: "Uncle Lin, what are you thinking about? I called you and you didn't hear it."

"..." It turned out that he didn't notice it.

Lin Zhen found that Gu Lin seemed to have grown a little taller. He was only a little taller than him before, but now he is five centimeters taller. He needs to look up slightly to see him.

He touched his nose and said, "You already know that your youngest uncle and Zhong Yan came back last night. "

"The two servants beside Huang Yuwen, Madam Chen, and Wang Youli beside Wang Qin haven't come back yet, as well as the two girls and the boy who followed us on the road. I guess... most of them are in danger."

Gu Lin was silent. Wang Qin and Huang Yuwen had known him for quite a while. They had studied together at Master Xu's place, and later went to the provincial capital together. Although they were in different classes, Huang Yuwen and Wang Qin would come to the shop to find him from time to time, and they would often go to and from school together.

Wang Qin and Huang Yuwen were his few friends. Although he had never mentioned them, he always remembered the first time he went to Master Xu's place, because a student in the school said something insulting to Lin Zhen, he had a fight with the other students in the school. It was Wang Qin and Huang Yuwen who brought a few people to follow him and fight with the other students, and they were also beaten by Master Xu together. Ruler.

Gu Lin understood that if Wang Qin and Huang Yuwen had not intervened that day, even if Master Xu wanted to keep him, the families of those students would not have given him a good time.

It was the family background of Wang Qin and Huang Yuwen that forced the families of those people to suffer this loss.

It was a blessing in disguise that Wang Qin and Huang Yuwen could come back.

But Madam Chen...

and the two boys and girls who thought they could survive by following them...

There was only silence between the two of them.

Voices came from the room, the voices and sobs of people who woke up one after another. Lin Zhen said to Gu Lin: "Go back and lie down, your injuries are not healed yet."

"You can get out of bed, you'll leave soon."

"So fast, but your..." Those injuries can't be healed in just a few days. If you really care about it, one or two months is too short.

Gu Lin said: "According to the time calculation, the soldiers of other small flags and the refugee army have encountered them several times in the past few days. We need to understand the general situation as soon as possible. "

Except for the more than 500 refugee soldiers they dealt with, there are about 1,200 refugee soldiers facing other small flags. The sooner Gu Lin and the others go back, the pressure on other small flags will be reduced.

Lin Zhen can't do anything about this. He can only think of a way. It's really impossible to fight those refugee soldiers face to face. He can only be a drag. Besides, Gu Lin is the same as him in one respect. He is a very opinionated person. What he says means that he has pondered it several times in his mind and determined the specific process of this matter.

He looked at Gu Lin and said, "Then I'll go back to the house and ask your aunt and second aunt to make some dry food for you. "

After saying this, Lin Zhen was about to go back to the house.

Suddenly, his arm was grabbed, and before he could react, he was pulled into the woodshed.

"Bang--"

The wooden door was closed by Gu Lin, and Lin Zhen saw countless tiny dust particles flying in the beam of sunlight projected from the low window.

Gu Lin held him on the waist and back with one hand, and on the buttocks with the other hand, just like he held Gu Lin when he was a child, the posture of holding a child.

His legs were hanging on Gu Lin's waist, and his whole body was taller than Gu Lin, looking down at Gu Lin.

He could see Gu Lin's perfect hairline, the shape of his eyebrows, his high nose, and his thin lips. Everything that was familiar became a little strange because of the different angles.

"Gu Lin!"

"Yeah."

"How could you..."

"Yeah."

The woodshed was next to the wing room on the left, and the people from the tenth and seventh flags lived in it, as well as Lin Xiaoyao, Ma Min, and the two families of the eldest and second Lin brothers.

When Lin Zhen thought about being seen in this state, he felt as if he were being pricked by

needles all over his body. Gu Lin held him face to face like a child, raised his handsome face after shaving, and looked at him with dark eyes: "Uncle Lin, do you remember what I said to Uncle Lin that day?"

Of course Lin Zhen remembered, he said, I miss you.

"I miss you," Gu Lin looked at him, and said these three words in a hoarse voice, still in the growth stage, "As long as I think of you, I won't let myself fall."

His eyes were so warm, so warm that they were not the same as his usual self, like a ball of flame in the ice, burning people's flesh and bones to melt.

After a long while, Lin Zhen gritted his teeth: "This is wrong."

Gu Lin let go of the hand that was hugging his waist and back, and just like that day when he came down from the back mountain to save him, his thumb gently brushed across his forehead.

Lin Zhen wanted to dodge, but he was not as fast as him.

Suddenly, Lin Zhen's messy hair fell down from his head after a nap. His thick black hair was slightly curled, like seaweed in the water, instantly making his pale face look smaller than his palm.

A strand of hair stuck to his slightly plump lips, fluttering slightly with his breathing.

Lin Zhen reached out to grab his hair, and found that the headband he used to tie his hair was in Gu Lin's hand.

Gu Lin, who originally just wanted to take something as a thought, looked at Lin Zhen with his hair loose, and suddenly felt his heartbeat speed up. He stared at Lin Zhen infatuatedly, and could clearly hear the increasingly rapid and heavy heartbeat coming from his chest.

He suddenly clenched the headband in his hand, at a loss.

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Chapter 140

Gu Lin felt that something was wrong. This Lin Zhen was different from what he had seen before. It was like something was about to burst out of his body.

But he didn't know what it was.

Lin Zhen was an adult man who had experienced things in his previous life. He knew what was going on at a glance and angrily slapped Gu Lin on the shoulder: "Put me down!"

Gu Lin felt that he was a little afraid to touch Lin Zhen, so he put Lin Zhen down.

He clutched the hairband in his hand, and confusion appeared in his dark eyes: "Uncle Lin... I..."

Lin Zhen didn't look at him or listen to what he said. After being put down, he opened the door of the woodshed and went out.

Gu Lin looked at his back with his hair loose, and held the hairband in his hand in front of him. It was an ordinary green hairband, without any embroidered patterns or gold and jade decorations, and it had a new smell mixed with soap beans on Lin Zhen's body.

Gu Lin put the hairband to his nose as if he was bewitched. Bang, his ears were red and bleeding, and he stuffed the hairband into his arms in a panic.

On the other side, Lin Zhen bumped into Lin Adie who had just gotten up when he entered the house. Lin Adie looked at him and said, "Why did you go out without combing your hair? Wouldn't it be uncomfortable to have your hair down?"

"I just got up and haven't washed yet," Lin Zhen gritted his teeth and gathered his hair, "I'll go tie it up now."

He walked around Lin Adie and took out a new headband from the wicker basket for small items. He used a comb to separate his hair into two strands and combed the left side first.

Lin Zhen's hair was thick, black, soft, and a little curly. A girl might love it, but he just felt it was troublesome when it was on his head.

He trimmed it from time to time, but he couldn't trim it too much at the moment, just leaving a little below the back.

Unlike Gu Lin, his hair was already below the waist when he let it down, and it was straight and thick.

Realizing that he was thinking about that brat, Lin Zhen paused the comb in his hand, closed his eyes, quickly tied his hair back together, braided it into a bun, then took a handkerchief and a toothbrush to go outside to wash his face and rinse his mouth.

The river that runs across Upper Carp Village and Lower Carp Village in Carp Village has not dried up, but there is less water, so buckets cannot be used, and you have to use a ladle to scoop.

And you have to be gentler to avoid scooping up the mud and sand at the bottom of the river.

When Lin Zhen finished washing up, almost everyone in the house got up. Grandma Zhong, who was not in good health, slept deeply at night. When she got up today, she saw Zhong Yan in the house and thought she was dreaming.

Zhong Yan didn't expect to see him here, and both the grandfather and grandson were a little excited.

Lin Zhen then remembered that he was in a hurry last night, Zhong Yan was unconscious, and Grandma Zhong fell asleep, and they didn't tell them that the other party was here.

Lin Zhen put the towel and toothbrush back on the table and said, "Let's wash up first. After washing up, we can eat and chat."

Wang Qin, Huang Yuwen, Ma Min, and Wang Qin's servant Wang Youcai also woke up. When the survivors woke up, their brains were still not able to react. They thought they were still in a dream until they were called by the Lin family several times.

Wang Qin was dazed, his deeply sunken eyes were lifeless, and Wang Youcai was similar.

As soon as Ma Min woke up, she turned over to look for her child. Aunt Ma, who had been at the Lin family for a night, quickly put the child who had eaten another bowl of rice porridge in her hands. Ma Min first hugged her child tightly and breathed a sigh of relief. When she looked up and saw Aunt Ma and Ma the carpenter next to her, she was struck by lightning.

"Dad... Mom..."

"I... I am not dreaming..." If you want to say who supported Ma Min along the way, besides the child, it was Aunt Ma and Uncle Ma.

Many times she was about to give up, and could only stand up and continue walking by thinking about their faces.

Aunt Ma hugged her tightly: "Min'er, it's mother, mother is here."

Ma Min blinked her eyes and tears instantly wet her cheeks. She grabbed Aunt Ma's clothes tightly, her face pressed against Aunt Ma's shoulder, and cried silently with her mouth open.

Soon, the silent crying turned into wailing.

Before the drought, Ma Min was the only daughter of her parents before she got married. Her father was the best carpenter in several nearby villages. The family never lacked food or clothes. She was the happiest girl in the village. I don't know how many girls and boys envied her. After marrying her husband Yang

Mu, Yang Mu treated her as she did at the beginning, and her mother-in-law was also very generous.

But all of this was gone overnight. The drought came, and their family packed up their belongings and fled from the village. Just a few days after leaving the city, they were stopped by the gang of bandits.

Her mother-in-law, husband, and two children died in front of her in the blink of an eye.

And because she was pretty, she used her obedience to protect this last child.

Now, in the eyes of most people, she might as well die. She should die the moment she lost her innocence.

But she couldn't bear to part with her husband Yang Mu's last bloodline, and her parents whom she had never seen. She

was full of resentment and panic, and she vented it with her crying.

Aunt Ma patted her back while crying: "It's okay, Minmin, we will live a good family in the future."

Zhong Yan, who came back with her, had moist eyes and looked up. Wang Qin and Wang Youcai seemed to remember what happened on the way and wiped the tears from their faces.

Lin Zhen and others silently put breakfast on the table and helped them sit down.

Zhong Yan, Wang Qin, Huang Yuwen and others who had not eaten a proper meal for a long time had no resistance to the breakfast in front of them. As soon as they sat down, they wolfed down the food in the bowl. Only Zhong Yan maintained a little decency as a scholar.

Suddenly, Wang Qin, who had a mouthful of breakfast, burst into tears: "It would be great if Chen Niangzi and the others could eat these things."

Everyone else at the table stopped, thinking the same thing.

Soon, Lin Zhen learned from them what happened to Zhong Yan, Wang Qin, and Huang Yuwen after Gu Lin had to stay behind and carry him on his back to choose another way because his foot was pierced. Before

they ran out of the woods, they were caught up by the refugee army like other refugees fleeing famine. Chen Niangzi, who was in poor health and could not run away, was killed on the spot. Zhong Yan, Wang Qin, Wang Youcai, Wang Youli, Huang Yuwen, and two servants were dragged away by the panicked refugees to escape.

Those refugee soldiers were addicted to killing. No matter whether they were men, women, or young, they would die if they were caught up. Another servant beside Wang Qin, Wang Youli, was also caught up and hacked to death while fleeing.

Later, the rest of them took advantage of the crowds and chaos to hide in a pit, hiding for two days and two nights before coming out.

At this moment, they had lost their direction. They had neither water nor food, so they could only move forward in an approximate direction.

Fortunately, Wang Youcai was very familiar with this road. He identified the road from a dirt hill and led them to continue walking in the direction of Anyuan Town.

However, Chen Niangzi's body could never be found again.

Hearing this, Lin Zhen looked at Zhong Yan. The relationship between Chen Niangzi and Zhong Yan was not comparable to that of an ordinary mother and son. Chen Niangzi had been a widow for many years. Because of her widow status, many places did not hire her to work. She could only earn a meager amount of money by sewing and washing clothes to support Zhong Yan and Mrs. Zhong.

When Zhong Yan was older, she worked day and night to do more work and sent Zhong Yan to school. When

Zhong Yan passed the imperial examination, Chen Niangzi, who was only in her thirties, had very poor eyesight. It was as if she was blind in dim light. Her hands and back, which were deformed by years of washing clothes, would ache on rainy days.

The death of Chen Niangzi must have been a devastating blow to Zhong Yan. He would blame himself for not being able to bring back Chen Niangzi's body and let her return to her roots.

But they had already lost their way when they were being hunted. If it weren't for Wang Youcai, they couldn't even find the way back, let alone go back to find Chen Niangzi's body.

That would undoubtedly be sending their lives to the hands of the King of Hell.

Later, after they set out on the road, they had nothing to eat or drink, so they could only dig tree roots to fill their stomachs. However, the drought there was much more serious than in Anyuan Town. Sometimes the tree roots dug out after digging for a long time were dry, without any moisture, and only sawdust was found in their mouths.

Gradually, they rested longer and longer, and their minds became more and more confused.