The billionaire girl: Daddy and Mommy, love me again

The once prosperous and bustling Cangwu Town is now lifeless. The silt after the flood has buried the original houses deep underground, and people have rebuilt simple shacks on the mud.

Before the flood, they received a notice from the county magistrate, escaped and saved their lives. After the flood, they returned to their hometowns after wandering outside. Although their homes were no longer a family and they had to start all over again, they were not afraid. They were originally poor and of low status, but they had hardworking hands and could build houses and dig food from the ground.

When they excitedly returned to their hometown carrying their broken baskets, the sight of rotting and smelly corpses shattered all their enthusiasm and yearning for their future life.

From the swollen and rotten faces, one could vaguely identify their identities: they were all former neighbors, relatives and friends. But they were also a group of stubborn people who did not know how to adapt.

At that time, the county issued a notice that there would be a flood. Most people scoffed at it, thinking it was nonsense. Only a small number of people were skeptical and fled with their families amid their ridicule and sarcasm.

It was because of this that they escaped death. Although these few months away from home, displaced and hungry were not easy, at least the whole family was still alive.

With grief and compassion in their hearts, they endured the pungent stench as they collected the bodies of their dead neighbors. They were just about to start working hard and starting a new life, but unexpectedly, the people around them fell down one after another.

It seemed as if God was playing a joke on them. They thought they were worthy of the heavens above them and the earth below them. They got up early and went to bed late every day, working tirelessly and never missed any corvée or taxes. Perhaps they had committed too many sins in their previous lives, otherwise why would God not let them go?

They watched helplessly as their parents, children and grandchildren developed fever and fainted, and their bodies began to fester and fester in the blink of an eye, but they were helpless. They had no doctors and no medicine, so they could only stay by their sides in a state of panic and watch them die with their eyes open.

As they buried their dead family members one by one with their own hands, they finally saw a glimmer of hope in these dark days.

A group of soldiers and officers came to their small village with a doctor.

The suppressed sobbing stopped, a glimmer of light rekindled in the dull eyes, and the dead heart began to beat faster.

The leading officer glanced at the crowd and said a cold and ruthless word, which pushed them, who were standing on the edge of the cliff, into the abyss.

"It looks like we can't stay in this village anymore. Come on, help them and send them on their way!"

As he raised his hand and swung it down, the soldier behind him, who had covered his mouth and nose, drew his weapon.

How ridiculous it is that the swords, spears, swords and halberds that were originally used to resist foreign enemies are now flashing cold light and pointing at the necks of their own people.

Seeing the cold light approaching, no one resisted, and no one begged for mercy. Just let it go. At least the family can be together. They were already living a life worse than death. Rather than dying of illness, dying in pain, and experiencing the torment of life and death every day, it would be better to just go like this.

"Hahahaha... Don't be afraid, kids. Close your eyes and think of it as a dream. Remember to think twice before you reincarnate in the underworld. Be sure to choose a good family and don't reincarnate into a poor family like ours."

An old man in his fifties or sixties with white hair and a weathered face slowly stood up from the crowd, and every movement seemed so difficult.

He stood where he was, glanced slowly at the crowd, and then staggered forward. His skinny body swayed in the wind. He hunched over, bit his lips tightly, and refused support from behind.

The setting sun elongated the old man’s back infinitely, making him look desolate and desperate.

"I'm the head of Liujia Village. Let me go first!"

He closed his eyes, waiting for the butcher's knife to fall. The wind from the knife blew through his hair, and he could already feel the chill on his neck.

"Leave people under the knife!"

bang——

Han Ren was knocked to the ground, and the old village chief let out a long sigh and fell down.

"Village Chief! Village Chief!"

When the villagers saw the village chief fall down and lost his backbone, they all came forward to support him.

A black-faced general rode over with a group of soldiers.

"Don't hurt the lives of the people. Move them to Cangwu Town and keep them under unified supervision!"

The small leader who had previously ordered the massacre of the civilians looked embarrassed when he heard this.

"General, you must not do that. The plague is as fierce as a tiger. Wherever the plague appears, it is better to kill a thousand people by mistake than to let one person go. Otherwise, the plague will spread. Please think twice, General!"

As his words fell, the people who had originally been ready to die suddenly became filled with resentment.

It is better to kill a thousand people by mistake than to let one person go. Their lives are lives, but the lives of the people are worthless.

Everyone stood up and looked at the little leader who had just spoken out with indignation, wishing they could pounce on him, skin him alive, and eat his flesh.

“Move them to Cangwu Town. They are only allowed to enter but not leave. They must be kept under strict surveillance. If the higher-ups blame them, I will take the blame. You don’t need to worry.

If anyone disobeys orders and massacres civilians, don't blame me for being merciless and taking your head."

"As ordered!"

All the officers and soldiers present, except the small leader, breathed a sigh of relief. Their swords were used to fight the enemy, not to slaughter innocent civilians.

The little leader, Li Wensheng, stood aside without saying a word, with a sullen face and flickering eyes.

He was the younger brother of the thirteenth concubine of the Yinzhou County Magistrate. He entered the army through the back door and became a centurion. Before leaving, he received a secret letter from Yinzhou County Magistrate Liu Deyuan.

All the people in Liujia Village were driven to Cangwu Town. There were already many people from other villages in the town, and the town was surrounded by a group of soldiers.

People from the surrounding villages were driven to Cangwu Town. The whole town was filled with a thick smell of death. They had lived here for half a month. They had expressionless faces and empty eyes, like walking corpses.

Many dead bodies were carried out to be cremated every day, and they gradually got used to their original grief and pity and became numb and dull now.

Fortunately, they still knew to take their bowls to the town entrance on time every day to get porridge so as not to starve to death.

The black-faced general Zhang Hu stood silently outside the corpse burning pit, looking down at the piles of corpses in the pit with his sharp eyes like an eagle. A trace of fatigue flashed in his eyes. He wrinkled his nose and looked up at the people who were receiving porridge at the gate of Cangwu Town.

Their skin is gray, their lips are chapped, and their eye sockets are sunken like two black holes, giving people a creepy feeling of fear, as if they are demons crawling out of hell.

He sighed weakly, his body trembling slightly, trying to steady himself but to no avail, his eyes full of confusion and bewilderment.

Where is the vitality?

He disobeyed orders and insisted on keeping the people trapped in Cangwu Town, but it seemed that this only delayed the time of death, while the pain was infinitely magnified.

In the past few days, more and more people died, and even several officers and soldiers guarding outside the town contracted the plague and died.