The ones who ran out were Niu Daochang's daughter-in-law Wang, and Feng Laosan's daughter-in-law Sun.
The two of them went to look at the house together. They didn't know what they saw, so they pulled her together and ran out.
Niu Daochang's eldest son, Niu Xing, saw this and rushed to greet him.
"Mom, what's wrong? What happened?"
Mrs. Wang was usually very courageous. She followed Mrs. Yang all the way and never hesitated about anything. But now she turned pale with fear.
"Inside," Wang said, "there are dead people."
Mrs. Sun also nodded: "It's in that broken vat. He must have died not long ago. My aunt and I went in to look for anything that could hold water..."
"The mouth of the broken jar was blocked by a fallen piece of wood. We moved it away and saw, oh, there's someone there."
Seeing this all of a sudden did not frighten them.
Niu Daochang's second son Niu Sheng also came over. When he heard this, he and Niu Xing looked at each other, and then the two brothers walked towards the house.
After a while, the body was lifted out of the vat.
It was a female family member. Her body had not yet rotted. She had been dead for a day or two at most.
This happened to me when I first moved here, and everyone was talking about it.
"I don't know where you are from? Why did you die here?"
"It's so pitiful that I don't even have any pants on underneath."
Old Mrs. Yang asked her two grandchildren to bring straw to cover the woman first.
Mr. Song stood aside and said: "Find two people to report to the city. Someone should take the body away. Let's not touch it yet."
Just as Mr. Song said not to touch it, he saw Zhao Luoyang squatting not far from the body, covering his mouth and nose with a towel in one hand, brushing away the hair from the body's face with the other, and looking at it carefully.
Mr. Song finally saw that the little fox was extremely courageous.
After Zhao Yuanrang and Zhao Yuanji brought straw, Zhao Luoyang helped cover the body. Then he stood up, found a water bag, washed his hands, and then returned to Mr. Song.
"Sir," Zhao Luoyang said, "have you seen the clothes that woman is wearing? They seem to be different from ours."
If you want to ask me something, just call: Sir.
Even when there is nothing wrong, you still have to quarrel with him. Although Mr. Song's gloomy spirit becomes more active during the quarrel, he will definitely not admit it.
Mr. Song said: "That should be someone from the village."
Zhao Luoyang asked Shi Jiu to exchange the county journal. He hadn't had time to read it yet, but he had heard people say that this place is close to Waifan, and there are many villages where people dress and have different habits from them.
Old Mrs. Yang said: "No matter where she is from, take her to a shelter from the wind first. It's not easy for anyone these days, and this girl looks pitiful."
Being disheveled when you die can easily make people think of bad things.
The female relatives came forward to help and asked the two boys from the Niu family to move the body back to the house.
Without further ado, Zhao Xueli went to find the head of the district, while Zhao Xuejing and Niu Daochang went to the Yamen Office to report to the officials.
When such an incident happened while cleaning up the house, everyone was somewhat upset, but thinking about it, they felt that it was thanks to the Zhao family that they led everyone to Taozhou together.
After thinking about it this way, I will have to work harder to live a good life in the future.
Zhao Xueyi was a capable worker, so he took a few men and found several connected houses in the village. Although the houses were in a mess and the windows were leaking, fortunately they were still strong and no matter how strong the wind was at night, they would be fine.
The women worked together to clean out the house, and Zhao Xueyi and others went to look for wood nearby. They always had to seal the windows, otherwise it would be no different from sleeping outside in this way.
With such weather, you will definitely get sick after a night of blowing. The medicine is so expensive right now that I can't afford to get sick.
Zhao Luoyang helped Mrs. Yang, Mrs. Xu and others sit down, and then helped her mother move the debris in the house.
The house that has been abandoned for a long time has everything in it.
Mrs. Yang told her granddaughter: "Be careful."
The men all saw that there were no wild beasts in the house, so they boldly let the women in to get busy.
Looking at the collapsed kangs, Luo Zhenniang couldn't help but sigh: "It will take a long time to tidy up everything here. It's getting cold now, and even the soil for making clay is hard to find."
Zhao Luoyang said: "We have a lot of manpower, so we can definitely do it." As he said this, Zhao Luoyang wondered whether he should sew a moisture-proof pad inside the mattress. That thing is quite warm.
"Shi Jiu," Zhao Luoyang said, "You are right. We cannot upgrade the system for the time being, and we have to think about exchanging it for something."
Shi Jiu responded.
Zhao Luoyang moved back and forth many times, and when he looked at the house again, it seemed clearer. It was better to have only four walls than a mess.
"These houses are too shabby," Shi Jiu's voice came from the system. "I don't know how long they have been blown by the wind. The walls are cracked. Let your fourth uncle take a good look at them. At least they must be strong."
This is the house left by the imperial court to the emigrants.
Ji Ji frowned: "The place you were assigned is still a good place. What will happen to the bad place? I don't know how many people will freeze to death in winter."
"Otherwise, you can use the system first and wait until it feels better..."
Zhao Luoyang felt that Shi Jiu was too nervous: "When I exchange some rice grains and other supplies tomorrow, I can upgrade. Anyway, when we get to Taozhou, and Mr. Zhao is here, nothing big can happen."
Shi Jiu was silent. Zhao Luoyang was right, she didn't care, why should he think about it for her, but...he really never thought that the village where the Zhao family settled would be like this.
As soon as I set foot, a dead man came out. I don't know what happened.
Li Zheng of Fengxia Village has other thoughts. Maybe there will be no movement between West Village and East Village for a long time.
If everything was calm, he might be able to leave with peace of mind, but he wasn't too relieved right now.
While Shi Jiu was thinking about it, people from sixteen households worked together to clear out seventeen houses. Then they cleaned the water items and waited for the men to come back from fetching water.
Zhao Xueli and his men waited for half an hour before they were allowed to go into the east village to fetch water.
While fetching water, someone was watching them all the time.
"It's like we're trying to steal something," Cao Cheng said. "After beating them a few times, they got impatient. They said they had enough for us to drink. I said there were still livestock. Their eyes looked as if I was causing trouble."
Cao Cheng took care of the animals along the way. He felt heartbroken as he watched the donkeys become thinner and thinner as they walked.
Everyone collected money to buy these animals, and they will be of great use in the future. It is inevitable that they will be fine on the road, and they will lose a few of them when they arrive.
Feng Laosan, who had a hot temper, patted Cao Cheng: "I can't help but be angry, but Brother Xueli is right, we are new here, it's best to settle down safely."
Cao Cheng sighed: "I'm going to fetch water again. I'm afraid I have to go there to fetch water all winter."
Feng Laosan was worried about Cao Cheng and followed Cao Cheng.
When they came back, Zhao Xuejing and Niu Daochang led the Yamen to come. The Yamen led the people to carry the body away, and took the civil servants who came from the Yamen to call Li Zheng for questioning.
Li Zheng didn't know where the body came from. As he spoke, he glanced at Zhao Xueli and the others, his eyes full of suspicion, as if the body was brought by the relocating people.
Zhao Xuejing whispered to Zhao Xueli: "Thankfully we discovered it immediately, otherwise they might have suspected that we had killed someone and deliberately hid in the house."
Li Zhengdao: "It's definitely not done by people in our village. We have been in Fengxia Village for generations, how could we do such a thing? It's a mess outside these days. I heard that the government office is going around arresting fugitives, and some fugitives are hiding in
Inside.”
"Just two days ago, some people even went to a farmer's house in the east to grab food, and pushed the little girl to the ground. She got such a long wound on her head that she is still nursing her on the kang!"
At this point, Li Zheng changed the topic: "I'm not saying that relocation is not good. What I mean is that this matter needs to be investigated carefully. I don't know who did this outrageous thing."
After listening to Li Zheng's words, Zhao Luoyang went to see the original villagers in Fengxia Village. Those villagers were more wary of them.