After dressing as a widow

Gu Lin felt that something was wrong, Lin Zhen like this was different from what he had seen before, as if something was about to rush out of his body.

But he doesn't know what it is.

Lin Zhen was a grown man with experience in his previous life, and he knew what was going on at a glance, so he slapped Gu Lin on the shoulder angrily: "Put me down!"

Gu Lin felt that he was afraid to touch Lin Zhen, so he let Lin Zhen down.

He was clutching the hairband in his hand, 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 firewood room and went out.

Gu Lin looked at his back with loose hair, and held the headband in front of his eyes. It was an ordinary blue headband, without any embroidery patterns, nor decorated with gold pendant jade. A new smell mixed with the body.

As if bewitched, Gu Lin brought the hairband to his nose, and with a bang, his ears were bleeding red, and he stuffed the hairband into his arms in a panic.

On the other side, as soon as Lin Zhen entered the room, he collided with Father Lin who was up. Father Lin looked at him and said, "Why did you go out without combing your hair? It's not uncomfortable if your hair is loose."

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

He bypassed Father Lin, went to find a new hair tie in the rattan basket for small things, took a comb and divided the hair into two strands, combing the left side first.

Lin Zhen's hair is thick, black and soft, with a bit of curly nature, he might love it on a girl's head, but he just finds it troublesome to put it on his head.

Trim it from time to time, but because it can't be trimmed too much at the moment, just leave a little under the back.

Unlike Gu Lin, whose hair has been lowered to the waist, straight and thick.

Realizing that he was thinking about that brat, Lin Zhen paused the comb in his hand, closed his eyes, and re-tied his hair, braided it into a ball, and then returned it with the handkerchief. There is a toothbrush to go outside to wash your face and rinse your mouth.

The river in Liyu Village that runs through Upper Liyu Village and Lower Liyu Village has not dried up, but the water is relatively scarce, and the bucket cannot be filled, so you have to scoop it with a ladle.

It should be lighter so as not to scoop up the sediment at the bottom of the river.

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

Zhong Yan didn't expect to see him here, both grandparents and grandchildren were a little emotional.

It was only then that Lin Zhen remembered that Zhong Yan was in a coma last night, and Grandma Zhong fell asleep without telling them that the other party was here.

Lin Zhen put the handkerchief and toothbrush back on the table, and said: "Let's wash up first, after washing, let's chat while eating."

Wang Qin, Huang Yuwen, Ma Min, and Wang Qin's servant Wang Youcai also woke up. When the rest of the survivors just woke up, their brains were still unable to react. They thought they were still in a dream, until they were called by the Lin family. It took several times before it fell into place.

Wang Qin was dumbfounded, his deeply sunken eye sockets lacked expression, and Wang Youcai was similar to him.

As soon as Ma Min woke up, she turned over to look for her child. Aunt Ma, who had stayed at Lin's house all night, quickly put the child who had eaten another bowl of rice cereal into her hand. Ma Min hugged her child tightly and let go for a while. When she raised her head and saw Aunt Ma and Carpenter Ma next to her, she was struck by lightning.

"Father...Mother..."

"I...I'm not dreaming..." Aunt Ma and Uncle Ma were the only ones who supported Ma Min along the way.

Many times she couldn't hold on anymore, 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, who was hugged in her arms, blinked, tears wet her cheeks instantly, she grabbed Aunt Ma's clothes tightly, put her face on Aunt Ma's shoulder, and wept silently with her mouth open.

Soon, the silent crying turned into howling.

Before the drought, Ma Min was the only child of her parents before she got married, and her father was the best carpenter in the nearby villages. The family was never short of food or clothing. She was the happiest person in the village. Girl, I don't know how many girls and brothers are envious of her.

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

But all of these disappeared overnight. When the drought came, the family packed up their belongings and escaped from the village. They were stopped by the gathered gangsters just a few days after they left the prefecture.

Mother-in-law, husband, and two children died before her in the blink of an eye.

And because of her beauty, she used her obedience to protect the last child.

For her now, in the eyes of most people, she might as well die. She should die the moment she loses her innocence.

But she couldn't bear it, she couldn't bear the last blood of her husband Yang Mu, she couldn't bear to bear her parents who hadn't seen each other yet.

Full of resentment and panic, they vented out along with the crying.

Aunt Ma cried and patted her on the back: "It's okay Minmin, let's live a good life as a family from now on."

Zhong Yan, who came back with her, had wet eyes and raised his head. Wang Qin and Wang Youcai seemed to remember what happened along the way, and wiped the tears from their faces.

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

Zhong Yan, Wang Qin, Huang Yuwen and others, who hadn't eaten a decent meal for a long time, had no resistance to the breakfast in front of them, and they devoured the food in the bowl as soon as they sat down. Only Zhong Yan maintained a little literati's decency.

Suddenly, Wang Qin, who stuffed his mouth full of breakfast, burst into tears: "It would be great if Mrs. Chen and the others could eat these things."

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

Soon, Lin Zhen knew from them what happened to Zhong Yan, Wang Qin, Huang Yuwen and the others after Gu Lin had to stay behind and choose another path behind his back because his feet were pierced.

Before they ran out of the woods, they were chased by the refugee army like other refugees fleeing from famine. Mrs. Chen, who was in poor health and could not escape, was killed on the spot. Zhong Yan, Wang Qin, You Cai Wang Li, Huang Yuwen and two servants Surrounded by refugees fleeing in panic, they fled for their lives.

Those refugee soldiers were addicted to bloodthirsty, no matter men, women, old or young, as long as they were caught up, they would die. Wang Li, another servant beside Wang Qin, was also chased and hacked to death on the way to escape.

Later, the rest of them hid in a dirt pit when there were many people in a mess, and they hid for two days and two nights before coming out.

At this moment, they had lost their direction. They had neither water nor food on their bodies, so they could only estimate the general direction to go forward.

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

But Mrs. Chen's body was never found again.

Hearing this, Lin Zhen looked at Zhong Yan. The relationship between Mrs. Chen and Zhong Yan was incomparable between a mother and her son. Mrs. Chen had been a widow for many years. Because of her status as a widow, she was not hired to work in many places. She could only earn money from sewing and washing clothes. The meager money supports Zhong Yan and Mrs. Zhong.

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

When Zhong Yan was admitted to Juren, the eyes of Mrs. Chen, who was only in her 30s, were very bad. When the light was dark, it was as if she was blind. Her hands and back, which were deformed by washing clothes all the year round, ached even on rainy days. .

Mrs. Chen's death must have dealt a devastating blow to Zhong Yan, and he would blame himself as a son of man for not being able to bring back Mrs. Chen's body, and not let her return to her roots.

But when they were hunted down, they had already lost their direction. If it weren't for Wang Youcai, they wouldn't even be able to find their way back, let alone go back to find Mrs. Chen's body.

That is undoubtedly sending one's life to Lord Yan.

Later, when the few of them went on the road, because they had nothing to eat or drink, they could only dig tree roots to satisfy their hunger, but the drought over there was much worse than that in Anyuan Town, and sometimes the roots dug out after digging for a long time were Dry, with no moisture at all, just sawdust in your mouth.

Gradually, their rest time became longer and longer, and their minds became more and more confused.