Chapter 109: The th Zang Clan's Anger at the Jingguan

"Chief, it's bad, it's bad, Aunt Guangji fell into a well and died, and followed my uncle Guangji to die..."

"what!"

The tribe leader and the village head, who were exhausted from working in the threshing ground, were unable to react for a moment when they heard the sad news. They were stunned for three full seconds. It was not until the young man who brought the news came up to them and repeated it breathlessly that the two of them came to their senses. Immediately afterwards, they staggered. If the young men around them had not protected them quickly, they would have fallen down.

The tears that had finally stopped burst out again. The clan leader was angry and sad, and he hammered his chest again and again.

"It hurts so much, it hurts so much! Why can't I let it go? Why can't I let it go? God, please open your eyes. Isn't it enough that so many people in my Xu family have died? Ah? Isn't this enough?"

The head of the village was also in a bad mood, his heart aching, "My son is confused, confused! He survived such a difficult situation, why is he still thinking about the narrow side, only helping my son, it is Uncle Qi who is sorry for you, and not taking good care of your family..."

Too many people died overnight. It would be great to be alive, but there are still people who can't accept it. How can the elders not feel pain?
Turning his face away and wiping away tears secretly, the surviving tribesmen around him couldn't help but think of themselves and couldn't help but feel sad again.

"My son, you died so tragically, leaving your mother behind like this. How can I live? I might as well die with you, my old bones!"

"Uncle clan leader, my parents are gone, my wife and children are gone, and my home is gone. What's the point of me living?"

Sometimes grief and death seem to be contagious. Seeing everyone like this, the clan leader became so angry that his heart ached. He scolded them all for making trouble, and as he scolded, he started to cry too.

This was the scene that Li Yaoguang and his group saw when they arrived.

Li Yaoguang was confused, wondering if there were still some evil people in the village who hadn't been killed yet?
He couldn't help but quicken his pace and walked forward to show concern. Seeing this, Shen Yue also quickly followed.

The head of the village, who had turned his head away and couldn't bear to watch, saw the two of them coming from afar. He quickly wiped away his tears and came forward to greet them.

"You two young men are here. Are your families all right?"

It’s no wonder that he has such a good attitude. If it weren’t for the two people in front of him last night, their entire Xujia Village would have been razed to the ground by Hu Di.

Li Yaoguang and Shen Yue nodded at the same time. Li Yaoguang said, "I'm worried about you, my family is fine, but on your side..."

The head of the village followed Li Yaoguang's gaze and couldn't help but sigh. He didn't hide anything and quickly told them what had just happened.

When Li Yaoguang and Shen Yue heard this, their faces changed color, and Li Yaoguang still didn't believe it.

"How could it be? Madam Xu was fine just now!" She had suffered a great disaster and endured such insults at that time, but she survived. "It doesn't make sense that she can't get over it now that everyone is safe and the incident has passed?"

"Yes, he can survive, but who knows?" The head of the village laughed bitterly, "I'm afraid that child is too stubborn and will die sooner. I pity the remaining two children."

"Oh! Where are they? Where are Sister Miao Niang and Brother Yi? Are they okay?", these two also committed suicide.

Seeing Li Yaoguang's concern, the headman hurriedly said, "Thank you for your concern, young man. I have already arranged people over there. The young men will carry Guangji and his wife over soon. Miao Niang and Yige'er will also be looked after. Don't worry, nothing will go wrong." The headman replied cautiously, but in his heart he thought that his nephew's wife was unlucky. It was a pity that she was so worried that someone would care about her. What kind of death was she seeking?

Seeing that Li Yaoguang nodded and stopped asking questions, and was about to go and check on Madam Xu and the others, the head of the village stopped sighing, then thought of the instructions of the two people in front, and hurriedly opened his notebook to report to the two of them.

"Wait a minute, young men."

"Is there anything else, Chief?"

Li Yaoguang and Shen Yue both stopped and looked over. The village head hurriedly said, "The two young men had previously ordered us to clean up the battlefield. My third brother and I carefully counted the number of people and recorded them in the register. There are a total of 200 Hu soldiers. I wonder if there are any that have been missed?"

Li Yaoguang didn't know this. It was dark at night and when she saw the light she only saw black dots. It didn't give her a chance to count the number of people, so she just shook her head.

Shen Yue said, "Normally, the Hudi have a small team of 200 people and a large team of 1,000 people. Xujia Village is located in a remote area and it is just a village, not an important city. It is normal to send a small team. If my guess is correct, the people who attacked here last night should be a small team. But just in case, the head of the village can send people to the outskirts of the village to look for their war horses. The Hudi are good at training horses, and those war horses will not run far even if their owners are not around. The head of the village can find all the horses and count them. If there are also 200, then it is correct."

After receiving the tip, the village head responded with an "ah", thanked the villagers, and then hurriedly went downstairs to send people to look for Hu Di's war horse.

Li Yaoguang helped his uncle up and took his family to look for Madam Xu and others. On the way, they met the couple who were carried back, and the brother and sister who were following behind them in sorrow. They hurried to greet them and show concern.

With so many people dead, there were only a hundred or so people left in the huge Xujia Village. People were afraid that Hu Di would come again, and they had no time to hold funerals according to the old rules. Moreover, the snow had not melted yet, so it was not easy to bury so many people.

As the matter was urgent, the clan leaders discussed and thought about their next plan. They simply organized people to move the firewood from each household, including the unburned debris from last night, to the threshing ground, and burned the ground to thaw it. They wanted to temporarily bury all the deceased relatives in the threshing ground and move them to the clan cemetery after the chaos was over.

This was the only solution, and everyone agreed. After receiving the order from the patriarch, the entire village started to carry out the plan.

The Xu family only has Xu Miaoniang and her brother left. Even if there are clan members taking care of them, they have to wait until they have buried their own family members before they can come and help them. Li Yaoguang and others can't just stand by and watch.

He whispered to Yang Ge'er to go up and call Yi Ge'er, and asked his uncle to watch the two younger ones. He, his aunt, and Shen Yue worked together, choosing a good spot in the threshing ground and started digging a hole.

As time was short, they planned to dig a large hole to bury the couple together, but when it came time to bury them, they ran into trouble.

Doctor Xu and Madam Xu were young, so they naturally would not prepare funeral supplies in advance like the elderly did. Xu Miao'niang was distracted by the loss of her parents, and when asked, she knew nothing and had no idea at all.

There was no other choice, Li Yaoguang and his friends could only go back to Xu's house to search, and finally found the two large camphorwood boxes that Mrs. Xu brought as a dowry, and finally settled the couple in there with great difficulty.

Two vermilion lacquered boxes fell side by side into the same tomb. At that moment when the sand and dust flew everywhere, Xu Miaoniang finally came to her senses and flew to the side of the tomb, calling for her parents. Her heart-wrenching cries mixed with the sorrowful sounds from the huge threshing ground, which made anyone who heard them sad and cry.

"You son of a bitch Hu Di, I'm going to grind them to dust, grind them to dust!"

Amid the crying, someone shouted, and then the sound of crushing bones and scattering ashes came one after another.

It was impossible to grind the bones and scatter their ashes because they had no firewood available. All the firewood that could be collected in the village was used to burn the ground to thaw the ice. How could there be any firewood left?
But just leaving these corpses to the elements, being eaten by wolves and tigers, everyone felt that it was too easy for them, a blood feud!
Thinking that they were going to leave anyway, they were not afraid of being targeted by Hu Di and retaliated against. The villagers, from the elderly to the children, all became ruthless and stripped Hu Di's body naked. They worked together to pile him up at the entrance of the village to make a memorial.