With Pinxixi in hand, I have a supermarket in the Changzheng!

That is to help the kittens defecate. These cats are so young that they cannot defecate on their own now.

In the past, the mother cat would use her tongue to help the kittens defecate, but now the mother cat has passed away, and Zhou Yue is the only one who can help.

Zhou Yue used tissue to wipe the kittens' anus and helped the seven kittens complete defecation one by one.

After taking care of the kittens, Zhou Yue prepared to return to the camp. She had been out for a long time, and if she didn't go back, everyone would become suspicious.

But now that she has returned to the camp, what should she do with the cats?

The ownership of these cats is a difficult issue, and it is obviously not realistic to take them on the Long March.

These cats are so small that if you take them with you, you have to feed them every few hours.

It was very inconvenient, so Zhou Yue directly rejected this plan.

After much thought, I decided to let these NPCs take care of it.

When Zhou Yue returned to the camp, the people in the camp were not sleeping, but were in a mess.

"Everybody, get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

"Be careful with the weapon in your hand!"

Zhou Yue saw a large group of people gathered in front of her, so she hurried over and joined the crowd to see what was happening.

There was a dog in the middle of the crowd, a big black dog, which was being pinned to the ground by several soldiers with sticks.

As soon as Zhou Yue saw the dog, she felt something was wrong.

The dog was pinned down by several sticks and was in a frenzy, barking and making noises with its mouth open, as if it wanted to bite someone.

The dog's mouth seemed unable to close, and saliva flowed from the corners of its mouth to the ground, forming a large puddle.

There were also some body twitching and stiffness.

Zhou Yue felt that the dog might have rabies!

Several soldiers held the dog down with sticks, while the surrounding Red Army soldiers were talking about it.

"This dog is so fierce! It almost bit me when it rushed over just now!"

"That's right! It's like he's gone crazy!"

"Could it really be a mad dog? I heard that a child in the village was bitten by a mad dog and is almost dead!"

"Is it really a mad dog? Or is it just stimulated?"

Everyone was talking about it, wondering whether the dog should be put to death.

[Sister Yueyue! This dog really has rabies! The risk factor is extremely high! We can’t keep it!]

After hearing this, Zhou Yue knew that the dog had to die, otherwise if it bit someone, more people would die.

Moreover, this dog has entered the rabies stage and will not live for many days.

Among the crowd of onlookers, there were NPCs set by Zhou Yue.

After receiving the message sent by Zhou Yue, the NPC spoke loudly in the crowd.

"I've seen a mad dog in my neighbor's house before! This is definitely a mad dog! It must be put to death, otherwise it will harm more villagers!"

When the soldiers nearby heard this, their nerves tensed up and they hit the dog harder with their sticks, pressing it to the ground.

"In that case, let's shoot the dog!"

"Right! We can't let the villagers get hurt again!"

For the sake of public safety, the Red Army finally shot the black dog to death and burned it in a bonfire.

After these things were settled, Zhou Yue and Sister Xiuhua spread some straw on the ground and fell asleep.

In the evening of the next day, Zhou Yue heard the sound of suona coming from afar.

Zhou Xing, Zhou Yue's younger brother, who was helping her cook, stretched his neck and looked into the distance.

"Sister, someone is playing the suona, is there something happy happening?"

Zhou Yue didn't say anything and touched her brother's head.

"Silly boy, playing the suona is not necessarily a happy event..."

Zhou Yue found out through the system that the suona playing this time was not a happy event but a funeral.

The little boy who got rabies yesterday didn't survive.

He passed away in the afternoon of the next day and left this world.

In rural areas, when someone passes away, suona will be played, but the music will be more sad.

Some soldiers in the army went to this house to inquire about the situation. After learning the news, they returned and reported to Commander Liu.

Chief Liu sighed, "Alas, such a young child is gone, what a pity. Let's prepare some things and send them over so that his parents won't be too sad."

"Yes!"

Soon after, several soldiers came to the house carrying rice, flour, grain and oil and gave these things to them.

Zhou Yue didn't have a good impression of them because of how they tortured and killed the mother cat yesterday.

However, the dead are the most important, and sending some gifts is also a thoughtful gesture from Chief Liu.

At this time, a mourning hall had been set up in their yard.

Zhou Yue watched the funeral through screen projection.

Zhou Yue felt very familiar with the layout of the mourning hall and some funeral procedures.

When Zhou Yue was a child, she lived with her grandmother and attended funerals of elderly people in the village.

A mourning hall was set up in a large shed in a large courtyard.

There is an incense table inside, with incense, paper and candles burning.

The boy's parents were crying so hard that they couldn't speak. His mother was so exhausted from crying that she didn't even have the strength to stand.

Many villagers came to pay their respects and comfort them, asking them not to be too sad.

Then Zhou Yue saw two men, one old and one young, appear.

Looking at these two men, Zhou Yue had an indescribable feeling.

I always feel that their temperament is different from that of the villagers next to them.

When they saw the two men arrive, people around them came over with tea and were very respectful.

"Master Qin, you are here. You must be tired from the journey. Come and have some tea!"

Taoist Priest Qin looked to be around fifty or sixty years old, with some gray hair on his temples.

The young man next to him was in his twenties or thirties. He was his son and the successor of his mantle.

Taoist Priest Qin is a professional in performing rituals in the surrounding villages. Whenever there is a funeral, they will go to him.

Let him help the dead souls to be reborn so that they can reach heaven soon.

Taoist Qin waved his hand and took out the things from his cloth bag.

"No, let's drink it later."

Then Taoist Qin and his son started to get busy.

They took out incense burners, placed them in the four directions of east, south, west and north, and inserted incense sticks and candles on them.

After that, they started to perform rituals to pray for the souls to be reborn. Taoist Qin kept chanting something, and the lyrics in his mouth never stopped.

The surrounding villagers all gathered around to watch, not daring to say a word.

They are very taboo about these matters related to ghosts and gods, and dare not take any action for fear of offending the ghosts and gods.

Zhou Yue didn't find it interesting at all. It was no different from the rituals she had seen in the village when she was a child.

The Taoist priests just chanted something, and then everyone lined up to burn incense and kowtow.

When she was about to ask the system to turn off the screen projection, the next steps shocked her.

"Come on! Put the millstone on me!"

Taoist Priest Qin lay on a large table and instructed his son to move a large millstone next to him.

Friends who have lived in the countryside must have seen a big millstone.

There are no grinders in the countryside, so when you want to drink soy milk or grind powder, you will use a grinding disc.

This millstone is not light. It is made of pure stone and weighs dozens of kilograms.

The Taoist priest's son picked up the big millstone with all his strength. It was so heavy that he clenched his cheeks tightly.

It took a lot of effort to bring the millstone over. Zhou Yue's eyes widened when she saw the scene below.

He actually placed this millstone on Taoist Qin’s chest!

Zhou Yue couldn't help but worry about this old Taoist priest. Can this man handle it?

Even a strong young man would find it hard to breathe under such a heavy millstone.

What’s more, this is an old man in his fifties or sixties. If the millstone falls on him, someone might die!

Zhou Yue really couldn't understand what he was supposed to do with such a heavy millstone pressing on him.