Liu Qiaoer tidied up the yard and prepared to go back to her hometown to pick up her children.
This courtyard is a little distance from the city gate and is on the same road as the county government office.
A flatbed truck passed by in front of them. Not only was the yamen runner pulling the truck despised, but the truck was also despised.
Liu Qiaoer took two quick steps forward and looked over, only to find that it was actually a truck carrying corpses.
Were all the bodies pulled out from the prison
Liu Qiaoer's scalp tightened and she followed the flatbed truck all the way to the woods outside the city.
I saw a big pit deep in the woods, and four or five yamen runners were filling it up.
When those people saw another flatbed truck full of corpses, they immediately started complaining.
"Why are there so many people today? It looks like we have to go to the temple to worship Buddha tomorrow."
"Why, are you afraid that they will come back to life?"
"I'm afraid of losing my good karma after burying so many people in one day."
Liu Qiaoer looked forward in the direction that the man pointed, and saw that there was also a big pit in front of her.
The pit has been filled up, and there are traces of fire. The white area looks like snow, but it is not. It is lime sprinkled on the surface.
Use lime for disinfection to prevent the stench of corpses from causing malaria.
Looking at the pit again, it is already filled with many corpses.
"That's all, that's all. This is the last truck. After we're done, let's drink together and worship the gods together."
Liu Qiaoer remembered the panic when Nanny Zhang left, and then the smell of blood when she entered the city in the morning. She suddenly understood something, and an indescribable feeling of depression and anger surged in her heart.
The human world is even scarier than the zombie world.
Zombies are a group of mindless animals, but those refugees are living people.
They were beaten to death just for protesting, and their families were not allowed to claim their bodies. They were all thrown into mass graves, burned and buried, and their bodies could not be found when they were later found.
No wonder the bailiff said it was a loss of virtue; the person who gave the order was a devil.
Thinking of yesterday's rumors, Liu Qiaoer's heart skipped a beat. She wondered if Lu Yunzheng himself was among these corpses.
Just when Liu Qiaoer was worried, the yamen runners finished their work.
They lit a fire, sprinkled dirt and lime on it, looked at the gloomy sky, and stamped their feet.
"The weather is so gloomy, it looks like it will snow today."
"Yes, this is the first snow this winter."
"Autumn has passed, winter is coming, and I don't know how much charcoal the new county magistrate will give us to get through the winter."
"I hope it's better than Lord Lu."
"Humph, it's enough to be about the same as Lord Lu. Some government offices don't even give charcoal to their subordinates, and they just keep it for themselves."
A group of yamen runners, talking one after another, passed by the big tree where Liu Qiaoer was hiding.
Liu Qiaoer also felt a little cold, so she walked slowly to the edge of the pit with her hands in her pockets. There was a loose layer of soil there, and there were trees all around.
It won't be long before the pit is filled with fallen leaves from the woods.
Liu Qiaoer crushed the lime with her toes and subconsciously dug up the surface of the pit. If she could really find Lu Yunzheng's body, she would bury him properly.
Bring the two children here and burn incense for him every year, so he won’t be lonely in the underworld.
Soon snowflakes mixed with rain began to fall.
The top layer of lime will heat up when it comes into contact with snow water, accelerating the melting of the bones.
Buried here, even if they were alive... they would be dead.
Just when Liu Qiaoer didn't know where to start looking, she suddenly froze, not daring to move. She froze there, and every hair on her body stood up...
Slowly lowering her head, she wanted to scream in fear, but she instinctively covered her mouth with force, opened her frightened eyes wide, and stared at her ankle...
There was a hand on the ankle, with well-proportioned joints and pale skin...
She was trembling all over. A person who had just died turned into a ghost. Could it be that she was resurrecting from the dead
Then I saw a person slowly sitting up from the pit...
She spat out a mouthful of blood and then fainted again, with the hand still tightly grasping her ankle.
"Live or dead?"
The rain hit the man's face, mixed with lime. He felt pain but still did not wake up.
Liu Qiaoer took a deep breath, looked carefully, and hurriedly used her sleeves to clean the person.
"Young Master, is that you?"
The man's face was burned and the skin was broken.
Liu Qiaoer blew a few more times and patted the man's face lightly.
"Lu Yunzheng, wake up, Lu Yunzheng, are you not dead?"
He placed two fingers on Lu Yunzheng's neck, and felt the veins beating faintly. This man was actually still alive.
Liu Qiaoer calmed down. Having returned from the end of the world, she knew very well that the desire to survive was human instinct. She quickly pulled the man out of the pit.
He brushed off the dirt on his body and took off his cotton jacket to put on him.
Looking at Lu Yunzheng who was unconscious but breathing weakly, Liu Qiaoer let out a long breath.
Fortunately, she was brave, otherwise, if he caught her and she ran away, he would have really died here.
His hair and clothes were covered in dirt, and his face was burned red and white by lime.
Liu Qiaoer simply carried the person on her back and walked towards the city step by step.
The first snow is slowly falling...
The snowflakes gradually became bigger and bigger, falling from the sky like goose feathers.
It falls gently on the roof, on the treetops, on the grass, and on the shoulders of passers-by.
Liu Qiaoer was carrying a person who was heavier than herself, and it was very difficult for her to walk. She stumbled with every step.
By the time Liu Qiaoer carried the person back home, the two of them had turned into snowmen, and Liu Qiaoer felt like she was almost suffocating.
The original owner's body was too weak, far worse than her at the end of the world. It seems she needs to exercise more.
Liu Qiaoer quickly put the man on the kang, heated it up, boiled the hot water, and then stripped Lu Yunzheng's clothes off. He was now covered with bruises and there was almost no healthy spot.
It took nearly two hours just to help him take off his clothes. The clothes were cut into pieces, and some of them fell off with flesh and skin hanging on them.
He was covered in wounds and blood, it was a horrible sight.
The only thing that could be seen was his face, but when he was buried in the mass grave, lime was sprinkled on his face and burned it.
"Such a serious wound could kill someone if you don't apply medicine quickly."
Indeed, some of the wounds had already rotted and the rotten flesh needed to be scraped off before medicine could be applied. Also, the legs were broken and neither of the two legs was intact.
Liu Qiaoer tried several times but still couldn't do it. She missed her storage space even more.
In addition to food, drinks, and modern weapons, the storage space also contains many medicinal herbs and exquisite scalpels.
Treating Lu Yunzheng's wound requires sterile operation, but it is not possible in the current environment.
The snow outside was getting heavier, and the officials guarding the Lu family should have left.
Liu Qiaoer locked the yard again, went out and walked towards the outside of the city. Halfway through, she turned back from another direction and came to the three-foot alley.
Fortunately, it was snowing heavily and the weather was very cold, so all the officials outside the government office had withdrawn.
Liu Qiaoer quietly came to the dog hole, kicked the bricks away, and nimbly got in.
The back garden, which used to be clean and tidy, is now full of withered flowers and willows and is a mess.
The bodies in the yard had been cleared away, but they were still being turned around as if they were going to be thrown into someone's ancestral grave.
Liu Qiaoer didn't care about anything else and ran to the servants' room where she lived.
Although the place was simple, no one had rummaged around. I found her bracelet from the pillow and put it on. Everything in the space was safe and sound.
"Beep, beep, beep" the storage space made a sound, which was the reminder sound of finding something good.
Liu Qiaoer was shocked. Could it be that the backyard was so dilapidated that there were still gold, silver and jewelry? No matter what, she would take them away as long as they were there and would never let others take them.
Following the clues, we came to Lu Yunzheng's yard. Compared with the servants' room, Lu Yunzheng's yard was dug up three feet deep and turned into a mess.
The reminder sound became even louder. Liu Qiaoer searched for it but didn't find anything good. She wondered if the system had prompted an error. When she was about to leave, she turned her head and glanced at the beam...