books44 Chapter 324 The Weeping Woman in Dongxi Village
Chapter 324 The Weeping Woman in Dongxi Village
Zhou Weide shouted, "Mu Tou, what are you looking for? Tell us so we can look for it together!"
Chu Xiaomu stood up, looking serious, and said, "It seems something is coming down from the mountain and heading north."
Zhou Weide and the other two also looked at the place where Chu Xiaomu had searched, and sure enough, they saw clumps of weeds that had been trampled down by people or wild animals, but the soil was dry and hard, so the size and shape of the footprints could not be seen.
Zhang Hou said: "It looks like a wild bull or a spotted deer, or at most a wolf, it's nothing serious."
Chu Xiaomu shook his head and said, "From the signs of the weeds falling over, it doesn't look like a four-legged beast."
Zhou Weide said, "If it's not a four-legged beast, then it must be a two-legged beast..." Suddenly seeing Chu Xiaomu's worried face, he came to his senses and said with wide eyes, "You mean...Shar country...Shar country people are coming?!"
Chu Xiaomu said: "Of course I can't be sure about this. I think there are no more than four or five people in this group. They shouldn't be Saudi people." Zhou Weide and the other two took a closer look at the surroundings and found that there were indeed two or three rows of messy footprints in the grass.
Zhang Hou said: "As long as they are not from the Sha country, there will be no problem. Maybe they are from the Dongzhong Army. Let's patrol the border quickly. We have a lot of things to do today." In order to visit Dongxi Village, he actually took the initiative to ask Chu Xiaomu to speed up the border patrol. That was something he had never done before.
Chu Xiaomu thought for a moment, then led the horse and sat on it, saying, "Let's go and follow the traces." Zhou Weide and the other two also got on their horses and followed.
The trace went roughly northward, and when it came to a slightly raised hill, it would pass through the top, and seemed to stop for a while. This made Chu Xiaomu even more worried - it was obvious that this group of "people" were observing the surrounding situation while walking.
After walking about 14 or 15 miles, we followed the footprints to a large green field of round-leaved wheat. The coarse wheat grains commonly used to make dry biscuits are harvested from this wheat. The messy footprints crossed the wheat field and reached the top of a small hill opposite.
The four climbed to the top of the hill and saw 17 or 18 gray, round tents built on the north side of the hillside. They were the tents commonly used by the herdsmen in Bicheng. These tents were clustered together, with a distance of 30 to 50 meters, or 70 to 80 meters. It was obviously a small village. There was a stream about 10 meters wide in the middle of the village, flowing slowly and quietly, without making any sound.
What was strange was that the village was unusually quiet. There was no sound of people talking, no sound of horses neighing or dogs barking, and even the birds that were common on the grasslands stopped chirping.
Zhang Hou asked in a low voice: "Mu Tou, how come a village suddenly appeared here? Could it be a trick of the evil spirits?"
Chu Xiaomu said, "This should be Dongxi Village." Zhang Hou was speechless and dared not say anything.
The four of them walked down the hillside, dismounted when they were close to the village, and led the horses slowly between the tents. Qisheng was also very sensible. He used to jump around happily, but now he calmed down and followed Chu Xiaomu quietly.
Zhou Wei De ignored all this and shouted at the top of his voice: "Hey, is anyone there?!" The village was still very quiet and no one answered.
Zhou Weide said to himself, "This is really strange. These tents don't look like they are uninhabited." He walked to a tent, picked up a hoe, held it in front of Chu Xiaomu, and said, "Look, wood, the tip of the hoe is still very fresh. It has only been used for a few days."
Chu Xiaomu took a look and saw that the tip of the hoe was indeed shiny and rust-free. He said, "Brother De'er, keep your voice down and don't scare the villagers." Zhou Weide said nothing more.
After walking for more than ten feet, they suddenly heard a woman sobbing softly from a tent next to them, like an owl crying in the middle of the night. Although it was the middle of the night and the sun was shining brightly, everyone still felt a chill.
The four of them bravely moved closer to the tent. The closer they got, the clearer the sobbing sounds became. It was obvious that someone was crying.
Chu Xiaomu lifted the curtain of the tent. In the dim light, he saw a person lying on the ground, shaking and crying. There were two people lying on the ground, and he didn't know whether they were dead or alive. The crying person was slender, with long hair hanging down to the ground. She was obviously a young woman.
Chu Xiaomu didn't care about being afraid at this time, he took three or two steps in and asked, "Miss, what happened?"
The woman cried and said intermittently: "Dad and Mom...they were all...they were all...bitten to death..."
Chu Xiaomu asked Zhou Weiyi to open the tent curtain, and when they looked down, they saw a middle-aged man and a woman, motionless with their eyes closed and their chests flat, obviously dead. But what puzzled Chu Xiaomu and the other three was that the skin on the faces, necks, and limbs of the two corpses was flushed, which was very different from the bluish-white color of ordinary corpses.
Chu Xiaomu asked: "What bit your father and mother?"
The woman shook her head and cried, "I... I don't know either... He suddenly jumped in in the middle of the night... After biting me... He immediately ran out... I didn't see clearly..."
Zhang Hou half-knelt beside the woman, put his arm around her shoulders, and said softly, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. We are soldiers from Bicheng, and we are here to help you. We will definitely help you catch that bad guy and avenge your father and mother."
Chu Xiaomu asked again: "Where were they bitten?"
The woman pointed at the man's neck and continued to sob.
Chu Xiaomu pushed aside the hair and clothes at the neck of the male corpse, and indeed there were two rows of fine wounds on the neck, which were obviously bitten by some kind of beast or evil spirit. The two rows of wounds were not big, thinner than the tip of a chopstick, and although a lot of blood flowed out, the injuries were not serious, and the skin and muscles did not turn black or blue, indicating that there was no poisoning. I don't understand how this woman's parents died from these bites that were neither serious nor poisonous.
The four of them remained silent, not knowing what to do.
The woman suddenly fell to the ground, grabbed Chu Xiaomu's feet, and cried loudly: "General... General... please save us... please save us..."
Zhang Hou originally wanted to help her up and comfort her, but suddenly he saw that her face was covered with gray spots, her nose was big, her lips were protruding, her eyes were small and her eyebrows were short. She looked completely different from a beautiful woman. He hurriedly jumped aside, frowned and stopped talking.
Chu Xiaomu gently helped the woman up and said, "We will do our best..." He turned to Zhou Weiyi and said, "Xiao Yi'er, go back immediately and call Xiao Gang and the other five to help."
When Zhou Weiyi was about to go out, Zhou Weide grabbed him and said, "Let me go. Xiaoyi'er, you stay here." He then went out. He was afraid of danger on the road, so he asked his brother Zhou Weiyi to stay with Chu Xiaomu and Zhang Hou.