Chapter 72: The Unlucky Shenjia Village People (2)
Everyone was very distressed after losing so much food.
Those who had been robbed of food chased them for hundreds of meters without catching up, so they could only walk back cursing.
"What a bunch of damn things. They even robbed them of food. Why don't they choke to death?" Mrs. Wu said cursingly.
Just now, a lot of her family's food was robbed.
The food could not be recovered, so they could only continue on their way, thinking that it would be better to wait until they reached Fucheng. The prince would definitely find a good place for them.
However, misfortunes never come alone.
When they were resting at night, something happened again.
They found a suitable place to rest and had a quick bite before falling asleep.
As usual, Shen Lizheng arranged for five people to watch the night.
But those five people dozed off as before after the others fell asleep.
Nothing had happened at night so far, so they took it for granted that there was absolutely no chance of an accident.
So when a group of people walked over quietly, the nearly two hundred people in Shenjia Village didn't sleep at all, but they were still sleeping soundly.
Through the moonlight, we could see many people walking quietly in the distance, looking greedily at the place where the people of Shenjia Village were resting.
And what they looked at, besides the food, was the sleeping children lying next to the adults!
"Ah ah ah, snatch the child!" A woman's exclamation woke up the group of sleeping people.
The woman struggled to hold on to the child who was almost snatched away.
The severe pain in his arm also made the child cry out.
"Wow wow wow~~ I hurt, it hurts so much." The child repeated the same sentence over and over again.
But it was this sharp cry that completely woke up the people in Shenjia Village who were still in a daze and didn't know what was going on.
As soon as those people saw that they were all awake, they knew that if they delayed any longer, they would lose even what they had already obtained.
One person shouted decisively: "Everyone, run."
After saying that, the man who was still fighting with the woman for the child dropped the child, picked up the bag on the ground, and ran away.
The woman cried bitterly while holding her child who was almost snatched away.
At this time, other people who had reacted also started shouting.
"Catch the thief, my food has been stolen."
"My grandson is missing. He must have been snatched away by those people just now. Please help me find my child!"
Suddenly, there were cries, calls for help, and yells all mixed together.
They just sat there and cried and howled, instead of using the fastest time to catch up with those people.
By the time they got up crying and tried to retrieve the lost food and children, those people had already scattered and fled.
It was dark at night and they didn't know where to find those people.
The woman who snatched the child back was very happy. Fortunately, she woke up when she felt the movement around her and the child was not lost.
But others are obviously not so lucky.
Mrs. Wu's house, which has been hit by disasters one after another, is now in chaos. They think it is too hot and stuffy to lie inside, so the resting place is outside the crowd, and it has become the first place for those who come to steal things.
Her little grandson was only six and a half years old. Just when she heard the shouting, she saw a black shadow quickly pick up the little grandson beside her and run away.
But she didn't realize what had happened just now, and by the time she realized it, her grandson was gone.
In addition to Mrs. Wu's family, there were two families that lost their children, and the rest had the most food robbed.
"Damn it, you've already been robbed this afternoon and you still come here, a bunch of shady people."
The silent night was completely noisy.
Mrs. Wu and the other two families who lost their children were unable to find their children and had nowhere to vent their grief.
Suddenly I remembered that they had someone keeping watch at night. What about the people keeping watch at night?
A thief came just now. Why didn't they wake them up in advance?
If they had been woken up, this wouldn't have happened.
Mrs. Wu got up from the ground and blurted out: "Who is keeping watch tonight, you will pay for my grandson."
Other families who had lost their children and food finally found a way to vent their anger and gathered around those keeping watch.
The five people on guard at night were dumbfounded, and they were afraid that they would blame this incident on them, so they quickly shied away.
"It's not us. It's already late at night. It's time for the other five people to keep vigil, so this matter has nothing to do with us."
"It's not our fault. When it was our turn to watch the night, the people from the previous round should have called us, but they didn't call us."
Both sides insist on their own opinions, and neither party is willing to take the blame.
When Mrs. Wu saw her son among the people who were keeping watch today, she went up and gave him two slaps.
"You bastard, your son has been taken away and you are still sleeping, I will beat you to death!"
With her two slaps, everyone seemed to have a strange button turned on.
It doesn’t matter who is right or wrong.
Everyone rushed up and kicked and punched the ten people who were supposed to be keeping vigil today.
It was only at dawn that the farce slowly calmed down.
The tension in everyone's hearts relaxed, and they sat on the ground in a daze.
One night, they got into a big fight, but they didn't have the courage to say they wanted to go alone.
With so many of them together, they couldn't stop being robbed twice in one day, let alone when they were separated with so much food.
Only then did they realize how lucky they were to go on the road with Shen Xiucai's family.
They thought that there would be no more robbers as they were approaching the state capital, so when Shen Xiucai and the others said they were going to the south, they didn't even bother to spare a word.
A woman who had lost her child sobbed and said: "In this year of famine, what's the use of taking the child away? Isn't that just one more person's food ration?"
A voice explained: "They have no food at all and can't do anything. You have forgotten that the people in the robbers' den eat human flesh."
As soon as these words were said, those people who had lost their children collapsed and kept crying and howling.
I originally thought that some family had no children and had to steal their children to raise them, but at least they were still alive.
But, but if this is used as food...
Besides, the Shen family heading south was peaceful, but something happened to Shen Yuyu who came back from a trip.