Chapter 281 Past
The surprise on Nanzhi's face suddenly froze, and she looked at him in disbelief.
Aunt Liu...is gone?
Thinking of that possibility, Nanzhi's face became a little ugly: "Is Aunt Liu going out?"
The relationship between the two of them suddenly became cold. Shen Zhiyu looked at his mother-in-law in confusion, and then asked obediently: "Uncle Shen, is Brother Doudou here?"
When Shen Yuntian heard the little guy's voice, his eyes felt a little lonely. He wanted to rub the little guy's head, but he could only retract his hand when he saw how clean he looked now.
"Doudou is not in Yancheng, and Uncle Shen doesn't know where they have gone."
Shen Yuntian's voice was really hoarse, which made Nanzhi feel a little uncomfortable. After a moment of silence, she cautiously asked: "Yuntian, has something happened to you? If possible, can you tell me? "
Shen Yuntian hesitated for a while, then let the two of them enter the house.
This house is very small. Shen Yuntian spent 20 cents a day to rent it. Because he was busy with work, he had not had time to clean it up after moving in for a few days.
"Sister-in-law, please sit with Zhiyu for a while, and I'll get you a glass of water." After Shen Yuntian whispered, he went to the kitchen.
Only Nazhi and Zhiyu were left sitting awkwardly in the yard looking around.
"Aniang, is Brother Doudou lost?" Xiao Zhiyu's voice was small, her head lowered and she was very disappointed.
"Zhiyu, dear, grandma doesn't know this either. Let's ask uncle later." Nanzhi looked at the surrounding environment with a very complicated expression.
She didn't know what happened to Shen Yuntian and the others, but looking at the situation now, she was afraid it wouldn't be much better.
Thinking that something happened to Aunt Liu, who always protected her and called her girl, Nanzhi felt very uncomfortable.
"Sister-in-law, Zhiyu, I don't have much tea here, so you can just drink it." Shen Yuntian was a little embarrassed and could only bring out two bowls of warm water.
After registering at the dental store, he started working as a small laborer. He could earn seventy cents a day by helping to move and unload goods. Although he was a little bit tired from the hard work, he could still earn more money.
He has traveled to many places now, and he believes that he will be able to find his brother and the others sooner or later.
"Yuntian, has anything happened to you in the past two years?" Nanzhi said with difficulty, her hand holding the water glass tightening subconsciously.
Shen Yuntian was silent for a while, and then slowly spoke: "When we fled the famine, our family had a donkey, so we didn't buy another one. The family only put the food on the donkey cart. It was okay at the beginning, and we walked together. We are all from the countryside. We met the Li Zheng family halfway, so we continued on our way together.
Later, as we walked farther and farther, many of our fellow villagers left, and we met refugees from other places.
At first, they were worried about the large number of us and didn't dare to make any move, so we all just hurried on our way carefully. We thought that although the relationship was tense, we could still maintain it. However, one night, the temperature dropped suddenly and many people froze to death. A few refugees got interested and sneaked over in the middle of the night to grab things.
Fortunately, we took turns keeping vigil. Although everyone was fine, half of the food was taken away and the bedding was gone. "
Speaking of this, Shen Yuntian paused.
Nanzhi pursed her lips and said nothing.
The fact that he and the Miaomiao family were able to survive that winter was inseparable from the mule cart.
The mule cart's shed was built by my father and his two brothers. It was specially made into two layers with a gap in the middle. After the temperature cooled down, they filled it with dry straw to keep out the cold.
The carriage of Miaomiao's family was later modified by her father. Otherwise, how could the carriage with only one layer of bamboo woven survive a cold winter.
Especially after losing the bedding.
"Later, my mother-in-law caught a cold and died on the road not long after." When Shen Yuntian said this, his eye circles were slightly red.
My family has a large population. At first my mother-in-law said she would buy a donkey cart, but my father said no. In the end, the donkey cart was only enough to carry food. Even Doudou and the other children had to follow the adults on the road.
Later, the bedding was robbed, and half of the food was lost. During the night, they had to move the things from the donkey cart to the bottom of the cart, and the adults crowded together to keep warm.
Before she died, her body was already very stooped. In the end, she just said she would take good care of her grandson and left.
She worked hard all her life, but in the end she didn't even have a coffin.
"We walked for three months, and when we were approaching Huaizhong, we ran into bandits. They killed many people. My brother and I protected our family members from escaping, but we were captured by the bandits and taken back to the bandits' den. .
I stayed in the bandits' den for two months. Finally, the government in Huaizhong sent people to suppress the bandits, and I escaped. "
"and after?"
"Later I went to Huaizhong and found no news about my family. The only thing I knew was that my father was killed by bandits that day to protect his two sisters-in-law."
Tears already fell on Shen Yuntian's face, and he only hated his own incompetence in his heart.
If he could have been more useful, A Niang would not have been frozen to death, and A Dad would not have died in the hands of bandits.
"I stayed in Huaizhong for half a year, but I didn't find out any news. Even the relatives we wanted to join had already moved to Jiangyun. I thought maybe my brother and sister-in-law had also heard about this news. They were in Huai I worked in Zhongzhong and saved some money and went to Jiangyun."
Shen Yuntian fell silent and did not continue speaking.
Nanzhi understood what he meant.
Jiang Yun had no one, so he wandered around again trying to find his family, and finally arrived in Yancheng after two years.
"Where are Uncle Zheng and the others?"
"I don't know about Uncle Li Zheng and the others. They were just on the same road at first, and then they separated."
Nanzhi nodded, picked up the water glass and took a sip. The room between the three of them became deathly silent again.
Lian Zhiyu also drooped his head and did not speak.
Nanzhi's eyes were slightly red. She never thought that Aunt Liu and the others would encounter such things.
She remembered that the first time she met Aunt Liu was Shitou Hezhiyu because of the wild eggs when she first came here. At that time, Aunt Liu came down the mountain in a hurry and dragged her up the mountain in a hurry.
Aunt Liu always calls her girl, as if she is her own daughter.
Thinking of such a good person freezing to death on the way to escape, Nanzhi couldn't help but shed tears.
When I first came to this world, the first warmth was given by Aunt Liu.
"When I came to Yancheng this time, I also wanted to search again to see if there was any news about my brother, sister-in-law and the others." Shen Yuntian's voice was still hoarse, and he looked very lonely.
"Your throat and face..."
"It was done by bandits. They asked me to join their gang, but when I didn't agree, they locked me in the cellar. There were two dogs that ate carrion. My face was bitten by them, and my throat was when they were testing the medicine. Something went wrong.”
When Shen Yuntian said this, his tone was more relaxed. For the loss of his family, these things seemed to be nothing.