The end of natural disasters: the daily life of child brides in ancient times

The marks were too fine to have been made by a knife or axe.

Moreover, the bite marks are more pronounced at the joints of the bones.

That was clearly caused by frantically scraping and biting for a long time in order to gnaw away the fascia.

In the skeletal remains, the tiny finger bones in the hand and foot bones have all disappeared.

The break is stubble-like, clearly indicating that it was violently bitten off.

Just then, a gust of wind blew through the gaps in the gnawed ribs, making a low sound, as if the soul of the dead was still lingering nearby.

Looking at the skeleton, Lu Qingqing already guessed how he or she had died, and couldn't help but sigh.

"There's a skeleton on the left side of the road, everyone move aside!"

This shout startled Old Man Zhuang and Sun Yue, who were squinting as they drove the carriage behind them, awake.

When they saw the skeleton to their left, their bodies stiffened.

They hadn't seen any dead bodies or skeletons for quite some time, so seeing them suddenly gave them the creeps.

The group spontaneously avoided the skeleton, and many people even avoided looking at it.

However, after walking for a short while, Lu Qingqing discovered two skeletons, one large and one small, in a ditch below the official road.

After several skeletons were discovered, everyone's hearts were in their throats.

A quarter of an hour later, seeing the abandoned village not far to the right of the official road, she reined in the carriage.

From the official road, it was clear that the roofs of some houses in the village had collapsed.

Looking at the dense weeds growing on the path, it's clear that no one has walked here for a long time.

Thinking that each family in the group had used up more than half of their water buckets, Lu Qingqing told Bai Song and Qian Chengzhi that she had decided to lead a group into the village to check the situation.

She carried a compound bow and quiver on her back and took out the sword from her waist.

Beside him, Qin Lang, Yan Xu, Qian Chengzhi, and more than a dozen others were also armed with weapons for self-defense.

The group looked at the lush weeds growing on the path and habitually tapped them with sticks.

Only after confirming that there were no snakes hiding inside did they continue forward.

When they arrived at the village entrance, the group looked at the houses that had obviously been abandoned for a long time and walked inside.

After walking past two rows of houses, I saw a large pile of white bones not far ahead.

This place appears to have been the site of a massacre.

The scattered bones on the ground were piled up densely.

At a glance, there were at least dozens of human skeletons.

The most terrifying thing is that there were maggots and ants crawling under these bones.

Everyone unconsciously looked away.

But when they thought of the gnaw marks on the bones they had just seen, the first thing that came to mind was the pack of wild dogs.

Now everyone knew how those stray dogs survived.

However, it was probably not wild dogs that killed these villagers.

Only after the people died did the pack of wild dogs discover their bodies.

Qian Chengzhi sighed.

"Alright, let's go to the village and see if there are any wells or ponds."

"Let's get some water and leave quickly."

The group agreed and split up into two or three groups to search.

Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang walked along the main road north of the village. When they reached the very back of the village, they found a pond next to the woods.

Looking at the stone steps built next to the pond, this pond must have been the village's previous water source.

The two went back and informed the others.

Before long, the procession entered the village in a grand procession.

Before coming down, Lu Qingqing had instructed everyone that there were remains in the village, and they must wear masks.

At this moment, everyone was covered up completely, even the children.

But the pack of stray dogs didn't follow behind as they had before.

They left the path only after everyone had entered the village.

They skillfully made their way from a small path on the west side of the village to a pond in the northwest of the village.

The pack of wild dogs had been following them for so long; they must be incredibly thirsty.

After drinking water for a while, we rested in the woods where we often stayed.

Before long, two small stray dogs got up.

I circled around the village from the west and kept a close eye on the people drawing water from the pond behind the village.