Chapter 361: Ancestor Worship (5)
The north wind is howling, snowflakes are floating, and the cold wind that is everywhere is like a bone-scraping ice skate, which is biting cold.
Liujia Village.
This is a remote village located north of Laiyang Prefecture. Under the cover of ice and snow, the village seems to be buried in a snow pile.
"rustle!"
In the wind and snow, a man wearing a shabby cotton coat with animal skins wrapped in his head and hands and feet was walking towards a big room in the middle of the village, deep and shallow.
This big house is different from the small thatched huts and mud houses around it, with blue bricks as walls and black tiles as roofs.
Although it is full of traces of time, it can be called a luxury house here.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Two doors were slammed.
"The clan leader is about to open the door. Something happened. Liu Laogen and his family were frozen into ice last night."
The man curled up and jumped in front of the door. The cotton coat on his body could not bring him a trace of warmth. He only felt cold all over and his hands and feet were a little numb.
The closed door was quickly opened, and an old man with a gray beard curled up and appeared in front of the man. This person was Liu Zheng, the patriarch of the Liu clan of Liujia Village.
"Didn't you just asked every family to get firewood back yesterday? Why are there anyone else frozen to death?"
Due to the shortage of firewood, in order to prevent everyone from using it randomly, all the people of Liujia Village have been put away and managed in a centralized manner. The clan leader sent firewood to each household once a day. Although it was not much, it could be used to survive the coldest hours in the middle of the night.
"Liu Laogen's firewood was stolen. He didn't make a fire to keep warm last night. He froze to death at the door with scars on his body."
The man looked sad and angry. In the past few years, people from the Liu clan died and those who fled to flee, were less than half of the people who were able to return here.
I thought that the drought had passed and everyone could finally live a peaceful life and cultivate their health, but I didn't expect that I would encounter a snow disaster again! Many people were frozen to death.
"Dad, it must have been done by those outsiders. Not only did they occupy our land, they are still robbing us now, and they are too bullying!"
Behind Liu Zheng, a burly man said angrily.
When they returned to the village, they found that a group of foreigners had occupied the nest and lived here, with a large number of people.
Seeing this scene, the Liu family was furious on the spot. Without saying a word, they fought one fight first, but the number of people did not have the advantage and they were soon at a disadvantage.
At that time, the Black Armor Army was busy fighting, and the county chief had no time to deal with the affairs of these small villages, and only sent a small official to be a peacemaker.
The little official didn't know if he had benefited from the foreigner, so he was obviously too frustrated. In this case, the Liu family had no choice but to talk.
Finally, after negotiation, the Liu family could get their own houses and fields back, but the ownerless houses and fields were given to those outsiders.
"Let's go, call people, let's go and ask them for people!"
Liu Zheng shook his beard and was about to walk out.
"Dad, you are weak, just be at home, I'll go."
The burly man grabbed Liu Zheng and persuaded him.
"I can survive the drought in a few years. What's this little snow? Go and call people and then everyone will gather in the ancestral hall first."
Liu Zheng shook his son's hand away and walked out.
As the sound of gongs rang out, the villagers who were originally staying at home left their homes and gathered towards the ancestral hall.
After Liu Zheng arrived at the ancestral hall, he took out the key and opened the door. The next moment, he glared with his eyes, raised blue veins on his forehead, shouted, and fell straight to the ground.
In the spacious ancestral hall, the plaques and altar tables originally enshrined on it were gone.
When the village came here, when they found that the fainting clan leader and those missing spirit positions were hot, they didn't have to discuss anything. They just carried the guy and rushed towards the other side of the village.
Shortly after the villagers left, Liu Zheng also woke up.
"Captain, how do you feel when you wake up?"
The two men who stayed to take care of Liu Zheng asked.
Liu Zheng did not answer, but looked around and asked, "How long have I been in a coma? Where are they?"
"Brother Min has taken everyone to seek justice."
Liu Zheng's face changed slightly, "Go away!"
As he said that, he struggled to stand up and walked outside.
When the three of them walked to the other side of the village, there was already a fight here.
"Stop it all, stop it!"
Liu Zheng shouted loudly
His voice was quite loud, and his voice was broken, but both groups of people were already angry, and no one noticed Liu Zheng's existence at all.
Red plums were quickly splashed out from the white snow. As the villagers fell to the ground after being injured, Liu Zheng was both angry and anxious.
"Boom boom boom..."
At this moment, a thunderous sound came from far away, and the strong vibration caused the snow on the surrounding eaves to fall down, and also attracted the attention of the villagers.
"What is that?"
"No, it's the cavalry! Some cavalry are coming!"
A dark figure appeared on the white plain. As the thunder rolled more and more, everyone could see the shadows clearly.
Seeing the army coming here, everyone didn't care about fighting, threw away the guys in their hands and fled in scattered.
"Dad, why are you here? Let's go!"
When Liu Zheng's son saw his father, he was about to run away, but he was thrown away his hand, "Let's go, our home is here, where are we going?"
Seeing that my father was stubborn again, the man had to stand there with him.
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"Sister, look, Liujia Village is here."
In a carriage, Liu Feng lifted the curtain and said to Liu Yue who was sitting next to him. Looking forward from here, you can already see the outline of Liujia Village. The two siblings grew up in this place.
"I'm finally back."
Liu Yue held her parents' spiritual position in both hands, and a layer of mist appeared in her eyes.
After leaving Yucheng, Liu Feng first found the place where his parents were buried based on his memory. When they dug it open, only one-third of their bones were left. If they were a few days later, they would probably have lost even these bones.
Seeing this scene, Liu Yue was naturally very sad. She put her parents' bones into the prepared nanmu coffin, and then turned to Liujia Village.
As the carriage slowly stopped, the voice of the Jinyiwei came in from outside, "Master, Liu Zheng, the head of Liujia Village, asked for a meeting!"
"Class leader?"
Liu Feng frowned, lifted the curtain again, and saw several people kneeling on the snow at a glance. Among them, the gray-haired old man was obviously Liu Zheng.
After being swept by Liu Feng's eyes, Liu Zheng and others couldn't help but tighten their muscles. Although it was snowy and snow, a cold sweat broke out in their bodies.
Chapter completed!