After the cannon fodder father and daughter married into the family, the whole family regretted it

Two hours later.

More than 20 disaster victims were tied up tightly with ropes, thrown into a pile, and gagged. Each of them was beaten with a black eye and a swollen face.

Some people were not satisfied and would kick and beat them from time to time.

Seeing this, the village chief had no intention of stopping them.

These people burned, killed and looted, and injured many of them. It is only right that they can vent their anger now.

"Alas." The village chief sighed, called his son over, and handed him a pen and paper. "Come, report the number of casualties in each family."

The village chief's family was not rich, but they sent their sons and grandsons to school for two or three years.

I didn't think about taking the imperial examination, I just wanted to learn how to read.

If you want to find a job in the county or communicate with people from outside, being able to read and write is an advantage.

“Start from the east end of the village.”

Someone immediately responded: "No one in my family died, but the old man and the old lady were injured."

Someone from the second family stepped forward, and the woman's voice was a little tearful: "No one in my family died, but my youngest son's leg was cut and he's bleeding a lot. Doctor Gu, can you go see him first?"

Doctor Gu was too busy bandaging wounds in the crowd to handle the situation, so he immediately agreed when he heard this.

The village chief also said: "Treat the seriously injured people first!"

After saying that, he waited for the next company to report.

After waiting for a while, the scene was still quiet.

"What about the third one? Why didn't you report it?"

Someone stood up, his voice uncertain: "It seems that the only people in the third place at the east end of the village are the old couple from the Kang family. They haven't come yet, so I'm afraid they've already..."

He didn't need to finish the rest of the words, but everyone present understood what he meant.

These two old men and women are also miserable people. Their children are unfilial and rarely visit them after they separated from the family. Now they have become victims of the disaster and 80% of them are gone.

There was silence for a moment, and everyone continued to report. This time it went much more smoothly, except for one household where no one came out to report.

The village chief immediately called a few men to take a look.

When the men came back and the village casualties were almost counted, he hurriedly asked, "What's the situation?"

The men's faces showed a mix of depressed and complex emotions. Finally, one of them stood up and said, "Mrs. Zhang... she's dead. Her head was smashed. We looked for the two children, but couldn't find them. They must have been abducted."

Mrs. Zhang had a miserable life. Her son was sent into exile, and soon after, news of his death spread.

The daughter-in-law remarried and left the two grandsons to her.

Now that she is gone and her grandson has been kidnapped, he will probably be eaten.

Next to it, on the rough straw paper, a few more words were added to the list of deaths and missing persons.

A total of three people died in the village, and there were about thirty seriously injured. The village chief arranged for Doctor Gu to visit the families of the seriously injured first.

As for minor injuries, most people have them, and everyone is used to it, so these minor injuries can be healed by themselves.

In addition, five households had all their food robbed, and more than twenty households had part of their food robbed.

Even though they immediately organized a counterattack, the losses were already so heavy.

I don’t know who couldn’t hold back and started crying first, tears rolling down her cheeks, and Mrs. Luo slapped her thigh and cried.

"Why? Why does God treat our family like this? My Luo family has never stolen, robbed, or cheated in these years, so why is it so difficult just to survive?"

These words touched the hearts of many people. After a night of fierce fighting, they could no longer hold back and burst into tears.

Under the influence of emotions, everyone burst into tears.

The sound of crying was everywhere. Fang Nanzhi stood in the crowd and shrank back.

Qian Fengping hugged her tightly, patted her back gently, and comforted her silently.

The old village chief's face was extremely vicissitudes. He let everyone cry for a while before speaking: "I know that everyone feels bad about this kind of thing, but life must go on!"

"Wipe your tears! Besides, crying too much is bad for your health. How can it replenish your body?"

His words were of no use at all. After he said them, everyone cried even harder.

The village chief sighed and said, "Go ahead and cry, there's nothing I can do about it."

Fang Tong raised his doubts amid the crying.

"Uncle Village Chief, I just want to know, our village has a patrol team guarding it, why did they only come to warn people after they broke in?"

Shouldn't we inform you in advance?

If we had known earlier, every household would have responded earlier, or more people would have gone to the village entrance to provide support, preventing the victims from entering the village and thus reducing the losses.

This statement awakened many people.

Someone followed suit and wondered, "Yeah, and how did the ancestral hall catch fire?"

"Yes, I'm not prepared at all."

Among the crowd was the man who had brought the news yesterday. He had a broken arm, and the injury was serious. Doctor Gu was bandaging him. Upon hearing what everyone was saying, he immediately said, "We don't have enough manpower, so we didn't make it in time."

This time it was the village chief's turn to be puzzled.

Only ten people were selected before, but later when he met a dozen disaster victims exploring the way, he increased the number of people in the village patrol team.

"How can it not be enough? I've arranged more than 30 people. Some of them will block the way when someone comes, and I can just call someone else over to help everyone else. It's definitely enough!"

There were quite a few people from the village patrol team present. They looked at each other, but no one spoke. However, they could not hide the guilt on their faces.

The old village chief immediately realized that something was wrong.

"what happened?!"

"It's already this late, and you're still not saying anything? Tell the truth! Otherwise, if it happens again, won't the lives of the entire village be at stake?"

The old village chief was so angry that he grabbed Zhao Dashan who had just spoken and asked, "Zhao Dashan, tell me what's going on. If you don't, all the people in your patrol team will be kicked out of the village!"

Zhao Dashan gritted his teeth and said, "We were short on manpower because... half of us secretly went home to rest. The disaster victims took a small path that led directly to the official road at the village entrance. They suddenly appeared and started fighting with us. I had a hard time getting away and coming back to report the news."

Zhao Dashan also felt a little aggrieved: "For this, I even broke my arm."

The village chief frowned, extremely angry. His slightly cloudy eyes scanned the guilty men in the crowd. "What's wrong with you guys? Are you lazy and want to poop? Do you have to rest at the critical moment? Are you still human if you're just holding yams and not working? Where do you think the lives of the whole village are?!"

The village chief pointed at and scolded those men for a long time, but no one dared to speak or accept the scolding.

It's indeed their fault.

After cursing for a long time but failing to get anything out of him, the village chief became even angrier, and the old man's chest heaved as he breathed heavily.

Tiezhu was really worried that he would die of anger, so he spoke up, "Village Chief, please calm down. We're not just being lazy. We heard that the disaster victims in neighboring Lin'an County were too brutal. Not only did they kill, set fire, and rob food, but they also abused and killed the elderly and women if there were no men at home. We're worried that the remaining people at home can't protect us, so we want to go back home to see what's going on."

Fang Tong was actually a bit curious: "Tiezhu, where did you hear this rumor?"

Tiezhu didn't hide it: "It was the two nephews of the Fang family who said it."