Ancient people went to bed early, especially ordinary people in the countryside. In order to avoid the extra expense of lighting lamps and fuel consumption, there was basically no other nightlife except sex.

After chatting for a while, the Lin brothers seemed a little sleepy. Even Chen Kai's eyelids started to fight after running around all day, so he simply lay on the straw and fell asleep. Early the next morning, Chen Kai turned around quietly.

When he woke up, Lin Dexiao was preparing a meal, but his brother was not in the house. After a while, the meal was ready, and Lin Dezhong came back, but this time he brought a new pair of straw sandals and handed them to Chen Kai's hands.

"Mr. Chen, please don't laugh at country craftsmanship."

It looked like it was a new compilation, it was a bit rough, and it took some time to compile it after getting up early in the morning. Chen Kai stood up and thanked Lin Dezhong, but Lin Dezhong still looked a little embarrassed.

"I know how old I am and how old I am, but I dare to ask how old my virtuous brother and noble brother are."

That night last night, Chen Kai kept calling them Brother Lin and Little Brother Lin, because these two people looked like they were only around 20 years old. Compared with someone like him who had worked hard in society for several years after graduation, they were definitely younger.

Yes, we just don’t know how much smaller it is.

"Gui Geng doesn't dare. My younger brother is fifteen this year, and I am two years older than Chi."

Chen Kai subconsciously wiped the sweat from his forehead with two underage boys. Especially when he thought about the ability to survive independently in this era, he was completely unable to compare with them, even though he had never been so shameless.

It's thin, which is really a bit embarrassing.

The father of the Lin brothers had a son in middle age, and they had two sisters at home. They were not rich at first, but they could barely have enough to eat. However, they broke their legs when they were doing hard labor a few years ago.

It is a small family in the village, without the protection of the clan, living a very miserable life.

It is one thing for the ancients to start a family and start a business earlier, and it is another thing for the children of the poor to head the family early. In recent years, they have also received occasional financial support from their equally poor uncle, otherwise the life of this family will only be more difficult. Because of this, his mother

He would ask the two of them to send some meat to their uncle's house when they hunted a lot of prey during the holidays. Because of this, the two brothers were naturally resentful of their uncle's death.

Endless.

After eating some food, the three of them returned to the small village of Shan'ao. The village was completely ransacked, and the corpses were all stripped of their clothes. They didn't expect to find anything useful.

They came here to bury the body. However, they had no tools, so they had to use tiles, wooden sticks, broken bowls with gaps, and pieces of bamboo to dig bit by bit. If it weren't for Chen Kai's efforts,

They were asked to participate in the excavation work. Not only was it noon, but it was probably not possible to dig out the big hole where the body was buried in another hour or two.

After digging the hole, the exhausted three people just took a breath. The two brothers made a simple stretcher to carry the body. Chen Kai dipped the blood of a rabbit caught by Lin Dezhong on the road and put it in a broken bowl on a wooden board.

Write on it.

This work was much simpler than before, but it still took some time to rot the body. After a long time, the body was buried, and Chen Kai inserted the wooden board in front of the tomb.

Twenty-nine of the victims in Niujia Village are buried together!

The head was gone, and the body was decomposed to varying degrees. It was impossible to tell who was who. Not to mention, the Lin brothers were not from this village. Apart from their uncle and cousin, there was not much that could be seen at a glance.

I recognized a few people, but it was even more difficult to find out their names.

The unfortunate rabbit and the wild animals that the Lin brothers originally planned to give to their uncle became sacrifices. After the memorial ceremony, the three of them left the small village and walked towards the dirt road where Chen Kai came.

With the guide, Chen Kai realized that walking in the opposite direction from where he came was to a fishing village on the seaside. That was where Chen Kai had planned to go last night, because he should be able to find a boat there, and on the other side of the sea, it was probably

There was an island less than twenty nautical miles away, and there was a person on the island that he wanted to see. Under the current conditions, only by trying to see this person would the hope of survival be greater.

The three of them set off and soon arrived at the fork in the road. Chen Kai had a clear idea of ​​the target and set foot on the road back. He didn't take two steps, but turned around and saw that Lin Dezhong was squatting.

At the fork in the road, he carefully observed something on the ground.

"Brother Lin, what's wrong?"

Chen Kai walked closer, followed the direction of Lin Dezhong's finger, and soon understood what he had been observing just now.

It was a rut mark. It looked like it was already very shallow. It had probably been there for several days. However, perhaps it was because the car was carrying heavy things, and there were not many people traveling on this mountain road, so the mark was

It has not been covered up yet. There are still some footprints around the ruts, but most of them are too shallow to see clearly. However, if I continue walking, there are a few footprints not far away that are probably stained by water.

I stepped on the mud marks, so I can see the size and outline more clearly.

"It should be a woman's."

On average, women are smaller than men. Chen Kai compared his feet and found that the footprints were indeed slightly smaller than his, but not as big as between an adult and a child.

The difference comes out.

"Go down this road and you'll reach Fenshuiguan."

Speaking of this, Lin Dezhong couldn't help but clenched his fists, and anger and hatred popped out word by word from the clenched teeth: "It should be the injustice done by the subordinates of that thief Che Renzhong!"

Che Renzhong was appointed by the Qing government as the Chaozhou General Soldier, and he had two to three thousand soldiers under his command. The murderer was confirmed, but the Lin brothers also knew that they did not have the ability to avenge their uncle's family, so they had to wait for the rest of the journey.

Along the way, the two brothers remained silent and the atmosphere was very depressing.

They set out on the road to the beach, wearing new straw sandals, with food in their stomachs, and water on their bodies. With sufficient preparations, Chen Kai's speed was much faster than yesterday. By evening, they were already in a hurry

Arrive at the small fishing village described by Lin Dezhong.

Like the small village of Shan'ao, the small fishing village was also deserted, but no corpses were seen, and there were no traces of blood. It looked more like it had been moved away.

The three of them rested in the village all night, and there was a heavy rain in the middle of the night. When they woke up again, the clouds dispersed, and there were indeed boats swimming on the sea outside the village. They seemed to be patrolling, and they seemed to be patrolling.

Practicing.
Chapter completed!