It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Jiang Fu and his companions rested for another two days before setting off. They carefully avoided the official roads and only traveled through the nearby woods.

It took four days of walking and stopping along the way to reach the northern part of Rongcheng County.

"Walk two miles further and you will reach our Jinjiazhuang." Jin Tianming pointed to the southeast. He, Jin Tianliang and Zhu Xiaohu were from the same village.

Jiang Fu and his companions looked in the direction from afar. Under the cover of night, they could only vaguely see traces of the house.

Everyone walked silently for about a quarter of an hour and stopped in the woods outside the village.

Here, the devastation caused by the roaring flood is even more obvious.

"How about I accompany you to go in and take a look?" Gao Zhuang looked at the ruins in front of him and said to Zhu Xiaohu worriedly.

They worked together during this period and their relationship became closer.

"No need for now. My brother Tianming and I will go down and investigate. If there are too many people, the people in the village might get scared."

Jin Tianming and Jin Tianliang agreed.

"Then be careful and call us if you need anything." Jiang Fu reminded.

Jin Tianming and the other two entered the manor cautiously. The manor was quiet and silent.

They spent half an hour walking around the village and finally confirmed that no one had lived here for a long time.

Zhu Xiaohu called Jiang Fu and others down to rest.

"Have they all moved away?" Xu Yuan looked at the collapsed wall in front of him in confusion, as well as the yellow mud ground that was embedded with dead branches and leaves, was uneven and raised by dozens of centimeters. It must have been formed by the dried and hardened silt.

"Maybe." Jin Tianming was also wondering. Judging from the financial resources and character of the people in the village, it was unlikely that they would leave their hometown.

But if they didn't move away voluntarily, how could they explain what was happening? I couldn't believe it was all gone...

Jin Tianming led a few people to the original site of his house. Now that night had fallen, they were not in a hurry to travel any further and planned to rest here for a day.

Besides, there was no one in Jinjiazhuang, so the three of them wanted to leave with everyone else, and they also had to find a chance to ask where the people in this village had moved to.

The nights in mid-October were already noticeably chilly.

Zhu Xiaohu took He Da, He Er, Gao Zhuang and Xu Yuan to the forest to collect firewood, while the rest of them prepared food on the spot.

Zhu Xiaohu was in a bad mood because he hadn't seen his family and had no idea how they were doing. As he walked, he started picking up the dead branches under his feet to vent his anger.

Tsk, why is this one so hard to pick... The branch under Zhu Xiaohu's feet was stuck firmly, and he kicked it several times but it didn't move.

He Da and his companions waited for Zhu Xiaohu to struggle with the branch without urging him.

Zhu Xiaohu tried a few more times, and then he just pulled it out with force, loosening the surrounding mud before he succeeded.

Just as he was about to leave with satisfaction, He Da suddenly said, "What's that smelly thing down there?"

"It smells like a rotting corpse." Gao Zhuang spoke faster than his brain and continued.

As soon as the words fell, several people looked at each other.

They had smelled this smell a lot in the past two years, and later it was Brother Fu who found a way to get everyone to swing hammers, and only then were they able to get rid of it.

"Please collect more firewood," Zhu Xiaohu said silently. "I'm going to find Tianming and Tianliang. Now that we know what's going on, we have to bury the body properly and prevent him from being trampled on the road again."

He Da grabbed Gao Zhuang, who wanted to help, and agreed: "Okay, let's pick up more."

Zhu Xiaohu, Jin Tianming and Jin Tianliang did not ask other people in the team to help with the exhumation of the corpse at first. They thought that if a familiar person touched the corpse, the deceased would feel more at ease.

But as the soil was dug up, many intertwined corpses were found buried underneath, and the rest of the people had to join in the burial.

It is hard to imagine the tragic scene of them running out of the door and being buried by the yellow mud in the end.

And how many people are still unable to sleep peacefully under the land that was forced to rise in Jinjiazhuang...