Crossing the Unknown Country

When they arrived at the town, they were so scared that their legs went weak. The casualties here were too tragic, especially seeing so many dead soldiers from their own country. They were already scared on the way just now, but they could still bear it because they were all dead soldiers from the Dongjie Army. In the town, there were only a few wounded soldiers from the town garrison, and the bodies of soldiers from both sides were everywhere. There was no one else in the town. The whole Shili Town was empty. I heard that they fainted and escaped, and when they woke up, they saw this. All the shops were wide open, and the inside was a mess. Everywhere was quiet. They came to the government office together. There was no one here either, and things were thrown everywhere, probably dropped when they fled.

Everyone felt sorry for the things left behind. They were all clothes and household utensils. They packed them up and took away everything they could use. The villagers were so poor that they only had patches on top of patches and didn't care about anything. Otherwise, they would have been picked up by others in the end, which was a pity. They lifted the bodies together, divided them into two piles, and burned them. There were too many bodies and they had been there for two days. Some of them were already in a bad state. There were too many pits needed to bury them one by one. They didn't have enough time to dig pits together. They discussed with the wounded soldiers and decided to use cremation! At least they can rest in peace. Finally, bury their ashes. As for those who come later, they can only pay tribute to the big tomb. The ashes of those people from Dongjie Kingdom should be buried and flattened to be used as fertilizer for Ansheng Kingdom!

They didn't search the dead soldiers of Ansheng country, and let them keep their belongings on them. They didn't care so much about the soldiers of the enemy country, and searched them one by one. They kept part of the money for themselves, and left the other useful and remaining money for the wounded soldiers. They also carried them to a better yard nearby to live, and estimated that officers and soldiers would come soon. There was ready-made food and water in this room, and the soldiers with minor injuries could cook and take care of themselves and other wounded soldiers.

Finally, after they had made all the arrangements, they returned to their own villages. Each village now needed to make some arrangements, and the villages were in a mess. They were also told that if anything happened, they could send out signal fire, and they would come to help if they could. Looking at the wounded soldiers, they felt that their village needed to make some more preparations to prevent the enemy from attacking in the middle of the night, as they would not be able to escape in time.

Village Chief Li of Suhe Village came back with his people with a gloomy face. He told the villagers about the situation in the town with a serious expression. He asked everyone to think of a way to protect themselves if the enemy came in the middle of the night. They had seen the cruelty of the people of Dongjie Country, and they needed to be alerted all the time. When the border town war ended, they would be truly safe.

At this time, Su He felt the significance of Qin Shihuang's construction of the Great Wall. In this era of cold weapons, it was a barrier as big as a mountain. All they could do was to build more barriers. Su He's Fu Manduo was fed medicine and thrown into the basket on the roof, so he escaped. Su He couldn't take it and hide underground. If it barked accidentally, the whole family would die. Feeding medicine and throwing it on the roof was the best way.

Fu Manduo had been taken down by then. After waking up, it called out twice and then lay down in its nest waiting for its owner when it saw no one was around. Su He threw two steamed buns on the roof before leaving, fearing that Fu Manduo would be hungry if he stayed away for too long. He forgot to give it water, and as soon as he let go of it, it ran to the water bowl and kept drinking.

Fu Manduo was probably scared of being abandoned this time, and followed Su He closely with his tail wagging, not leaving him. He already had a sense of crisis and was afraid of being abandoned again.

Their house was not badly damaged. The furniture was not complete yet, and there were still many old things. Because of limited money, the whole family agreed to slowly prepare everything. All the rooms still had big kangs. With big kangs, furniture was rarely used. A kang cabinet, a desk and a stool were enough. Those people didn't really damage anything when they came in. They saw that the house looked good on the outside but poor on the inside. They didn't find anything, and they couldn't burn the house down, so they just looked through it carefully and didn't damage anything. But everything was all over the place and thrown all over the floor.