Farm widows have space, pick up a treasure on the way to escape

Chapter 239 Do you really want him to accept the fact that his family is gone?

After saying that, he also took out ten taels of silver as an apology, and the old man's son's face looked much better.

Lou Chong asked: "Then do you know where the bodies of those people in Lujiacun are now?"

"Oh, where else could they be?" the old man said with a sigh, "There were too many corpses to deal with, and they were afraid of disease, so the officers and soldiers transported the corpses to the mass graves and burned them all."

Lu Baichuan stood there with an expression struck by lightning. He didn't even know when the family left.

"master……"

He spoke, but didn't know what to say.

No wonder they searched so many places but found no news. Did the master’s family members disappear?

He didn't even dare to look at Lu Baichuan's face, for fear of seeing his desperate and painful expression.

Over the years, he has known his master's suffering.

From the very beginning, I wanted to do something for the country so that foreign bastards would not dare to harass the people of Beiyan easily.

The master, like all passionate men, just wants to contribute to this country and protect the overall situation of the country, so that the people in the country can live and work in peace and contentment.

People who work in their profession are concerned about many people. He also understands his master's practice of hiding his name. If it were him, he would do the same.

I wanted to earn fame one day and welcome my family to live a good life with glory. Who knew that a natural disaster would destroy so many families.

"Let's go to the rogue den!"

Lu Baichuan is not as depressed as Lou Chong imagined. His only hope now is the bandit den. Maybe there are still survivors there?
The people in the government are too busy to deal with the ordinary people, let alone suppress the bandits, which is something that cannot be done in peaceful times, let alone the world is still so chaotic now.

The two of them got on their horses and headed straight for the bandits' den.

It might be a little difficult for ordinary people to find a bandit's den, but in the eyes of Lu Baichuan and Lou Chong, it was nothing, and they quickly found a few shabby thatched huts.

If it weren't for the fact that there were some rocks blocking the way for defense, Lu Baichuan wouldn't have believed that this was actually a rogue den.

The two of them walked inside, but they couldn't tell that this place had once been a bandit's den.

A large pit was found behind the thatched house. There were many bones in the pit. Judging from the clothes that had not rotted, most of them were men, but there were also one or two women.

Lou rushed forward and used a branch to pull at the clothes, and found that the clothes of the two women were fat. They must have been quite fat when they were alive.

Lu Baichuan only took one look and said, "These are rogue bandits."

In the era of escaping famine, who among ordinary people could eat so fat?

Either they were bandits or some wealthy families.

But if they were really wealthy, there would be no need to flee.

Lou Chong threw the branch in his hand and said: "If what that family said is true, then these bandits should have been killed by a group of bandits behind them."

Lu Baichuan thought for a moment and said, "The people coming behind are not rogues, they should be people who came to rescue the captives."

Lou Chong looked at him puzzled, wondering how he got these deductions.

Lu Baichuan then continued: "If ordinary bandits kill someone, will they be kind enough to dispose of the body? Also, although the houses we just looked at are now dusty, we can see that someone had carefully cleaned them up before. , that means that after the group rescued the prisoners, they stayed here for one night and left the next day."

At this point, Lu Baichuan did not continue because he was no longer sure whether the group of people who broke in were still related to the Lu family members.

According to what the family just said, all the young and middle-aged men of the Lu family died on the road outside Liujia Town. The eldest and second brothers of the family were ordinary people. Even if they were alive, they would not be able to fight back and kill the bandits so neatly.

Yes, neat.

Although Lou Chong just pulled the bodies casually, he still found that there were no major injuries on the bones of these people, and they should have been killed with a knife.

His heart fell into confusion again, so did he really have to accept the fact that his family was gone? "Master, the March period is coming soon, it's time for us to return to Jingzhou."

Although it is inappropriate to say this at this time, it is indeed true.

The dead are gone, but the living still have to live.

What's more, Lu Baichuan is a rare talent and must live a good life.

Lu Baichuan did not say anything. He was unwilling to do so, but he could not fail to promise King Chen.

His hands were clenched into fists and his back teeth were clenched tightly.

He watched all this unwillingly and came back after going through all kinds of hardships, but his family was all gone.

So what's the point of him doing this?

A fire was set off and the rogue den was burned to the ground.

Finally, they went to the mass graves, but there was nothing there except a few solitary graves.

Also, those officers and soldiers wanted to save trouble and burned the whole thing on fire. How could they still erect a monument?

"I'm going to the county government office."

He turned around and left. On the surface, there was nothing unusual, but Lou Chong knew that he had actually been suppressing his emotions.

There were very few people in the county town. They had just experienced a natural disaster. Everyone had little money and most people had fled. The whole city was empty.

When we arrived at the county government office, the two government officials at the door were dozing off, which showed how busy the county government office was.

Lou rushed forward and kicked them, and the two kicked their legs a little irritably, muttering: "Who is it, what are you doing?"

They still didn't wake up, and Lou Chong didn't bother to say anything to them. He drew out his sword and put it against one of them's throat.

The man stopped being frightened as soon as he fell asleep. He opened his eyes and saw the two people in front of him. Before he could speak, Lou Chong showed him his token. The man hurriedly knelt down and said, "Sir, please spare your life. I'll take the little one here." You go see our adults!"

The other one also woke up after hearing this, and knelt down and kowtowed together.

Lu Baichuan didn't say anything and already walked inside with his legs up.

The county government office was empty. Two government officials ran to the front to lead the way, shouting loudly: "Sir, sir, there are adults from the capital coming!"

The government officials were all so lazy, let alone the county magistrate. He didn't even wear official uniforms. When he came out, he only wore a white undergarment. His eyes were sleepy and he didn't wake up at the first glance.

"Who are the two adults?"

He subconsciously panicked. Changzhou was sparsely populated. Although there were refugees coming back, everyone's vitality was severely damaged. There was nothing to deal with for the time being. He had nothing to do and could only sleep. Who knew that these two people suddenly came.

Lou Chong showed him the token again and said: "We are from Prince Chen's Mansion. His Highness had some things to implement during the disaster relief work in Changzhou. Please bring your book of registered victims to us for inspection."

It turned out that they were just checking the death toll and did not blame him for sleeping at noon. The county magistrate was very happy and sent someone with a smile to find the booklet and show it to them.

Lu Baichuan went directly to the page about Lujia Village. He came to the village chief's family, and several uncles' families with whom he had a good relationship. After that, his eldest uncle and his second uncle's family, and then his family, starting from his father, mother, and brother. From his sister-in-law to his wife He Jiuniang, no one was spared.

He also saw his name on it.

He held back his composure and asked, "What's going on?"

The county magistrate came over to take a look and said, "Oh, sir, are you talking about this person? This person went out as a escort four years ago and did not come back. This means he is dead by default."

He also saw the words "eldest son, Lu Ziyu" written behind his name in the column for children.

(End of this chapter)