Chapter 865: The Secret Actions of the Victims of the Zheng County Disaster! The Support Should Be Mutual!

Ying Chengjiao subconsciously wanted to seek help from his external brain.

But not to mention that the external brains were not around, even if Ying Chengjiao asked for help, what could he do?

His external brains were all buggy!

Ying Zheng, Madam Han and Zhang Rang believed more than one that Ying Chengjiao really had the ability to communicate with ghosts and gods. How could they give Ying Chengjiao the correct answer when their cognition was wrong?

Ying Chengjiao could only stand quietly under the night, bathing in the starry sky and thinking alone.

The bonfires went out one by one, and the bright moon gradually fell.

Zheng County, where no birds or animals dared to approach, soon became quiet.

But this silence did not last long.

It was 4:00 am.

Zheng Chen quietly lifted the curtain, poked his head out and looked around furtively.

After confirming that there were no night watchmen nearby, Zheng Chen quickly waved behind him, and the nine old men from Dongxiaoli also carefully got out of the tent.

Following Zheng Chen and others, the curtains of the tents belonging to the Dongxiaoli victims were opened one by one, and the victims carrying heavy backpacks crept out of the tents and followed Zheng Chen to the edge of the camp with full vigilance.

After leaving the camp, Zheng Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, he was a little proud.

The skills of our scouts in the army have not been lost at all!

"Who!"

Suddenly, a low voice in the night startled the Dongxiaoli victims.

Zheng Chen hurriedly looked in the direction of the voice and vaguely saw a familiar face in the thick night.

"Sun Lizheng?" Zheng Chen asked in a low voice uncertainly.

Zheng Chen took two quick steps forward and finally saw the appearance of the person coming.

It was Sun Qiao, the head of Nanmalili in Liuzhi Township!

Zheng Chen was relieved and walked directly to Sun Qiao's side and whispered: "Sun Lizheng, are you assisting the night patrol under the order of your superiors?"

"Can you give me a favor for the sake of our past relationship?"

Sun Qiao looked past Zheng Chen to the backpack on his back and understood Zheng Chen's thoughts.

With a smile, Sun Qiao leaned close to Zheng Chen's ear and whispered: "Sun is waiting for you here."

"This is not a place to talk or do things."

"Are all the people coming from Dongxiaoli gathered?"

Zheng Chen had a vague guess in his heart, so he nodded quickly: "They are all here!"

Sun Qiao nodded gently: "Call the elders of Dongxiaoli and follow me!"

After speaking, Sun Qiao took the lead and sneaked into the night.

After Zheng Chen nervously observed the surrounding environment, he also waved behind him and took a group of Dongxiaoli victims to follow Sun Qiao closely.

After walking two miles and climbing over a collapsed hillside, and then turning a few corners, a wave of heat and fire rushed straight into Zheng Chen's face!

I saw that dozens of crude caves had been dug out under the broken wall hidden in the valley.

Hundreds of strong men were busy reinforcing the caves with rotten wood and broken boards, and they dared not move too much to avoid being discovered.

Hundreds of strong men were carrying shoulder poles on their shoulders, carrying full well water and going back and forth, their feet were full of wind.

Thousands of women were squatting beside the fires, pouring the carefully washed corn into the earthenware pots to cook.

In the past, even during the La Festival, they would not eat more dried meat, but now the women cut it into slices and put it into the pot without hesitation.

The light but eye-catching meat aroma made many people swallow their saliva subconsciously, but no one looked at the dried meat even more!

Zheng Chen cried out in a low voice: "There are so many people!"

"Zheng thought that only the elders of my Dongxiaoli were willing to do this."

"For this reason, Zheng also ordered all the elders not to tell anyone what happened tonight."

"But I never thought that there were so many people who thought the same as Zheng!"

Looking at the busy scene in front of him, Sun Qiao's eyes were full of emotion: "In previous years, even if there was a disaster, the elders would not share their own food with others, let alone cook together without distinction."

"Even if it is biological parents and children, as long as they live separately, they will use Two earthenware pots were used to cook rice, fearing that one family would eat one more grain of millet and one family would drink less soup. "

"But today, all the elders took out their stored grain, even dried meat and chicken eggs."

"Even villagers from different villages would pour their grain into the same earthenware pot, and even the elders in Junchaoli would pour the water they had worked so hard to carry back into the earthenware pots of the elders in Wayao!"

"I have lived for more than sixty years, and this is the first time I have seen such a scene in my life!"

Everyone in Zheng County knows that Junchaoli and Wayaoli had fought a war over water, resulting in dozens of men dead and hundreds of men injured.

Since then, although the two villages are not far from each other, they have no feelings for each other, and they have not intermarried for decades, and they are like fire and water.

But today, the villagers of Erli put aside the old hatred that had accumulated for nearly a hundred years and worked together to cook the same pot of rice!

This is incredible!

After a moment of silence, Zheng Chen smiled and said, "None of you superiors have ever considered which village, town or household we are from. If we continue to be fussy about it, or even get upset about it, wouldn't that make the superiors feel disappointed!"

Hou Chao, the chief of Houfang Township, strode towards Zheng Chen and laughed loudly, "Zheng Lizheng's words are very true!"

"We all came here voluntarily to express our gratitude to the superiors. We must put aside the past grudges, otherwise wouldn't it cause the superiors to worry?!"

After bowing his hands in greeting, Hou Chao looked at Sun Qiao and said, "Thank you, Sun Li is returning to the camp, so as not to alarm the soldiers on patrol at night."

After Sun Qiao handed over his hand, he turned around and left.

Hou Chao looked at Zheng Miao again and said, "How many Dingkou did Zheng Lizheng bring this time? How much grain?"

Zheng's neck raised slightly and he said: "I have two hundred and six strong men from Dongxiaoli who came here, bringing a total of sixty stones of corn, twenty pieces of dried meat, and twenty baskets of wild vegetables!"

This is already half of Dongxiaoli’s food reserves!

Zheng Ming believed that even though there were many victims coming to see him off, there would definitely be no more generous people than them in Dongxiaoli!

Hou Chao was really surprised and said: "I brought so many!"

Zheng Ming said seriously: "Well, I heard that the children are going to Tong County, Xiagua County and other places today to continue rescuing people."

"We can't let the children go across the mountains hungry!"

"Originally, I was thinking that I couldn't bring the children some food for the journey, and I felt quite ashamed."

"Fortunately, there are still you all!"

"With your help, the children will be able to not only have enough to eat, but also bring some rations to set off!"

Hou Chao also smiled and said, "I was just as worried as Zheng Lizheng."

"But now it seems that the food is not too little, but rather too much."

"Now the elders from Houfang Township, Liuzhi Township, Chishui Township, Wayaoli, Junchaoli and other three townships and seven li have brought food. If we make them all, there will definitely be too much."

"Zheng Lizheng only needs to take out half of the grain, and the rest should be kept by Dong Xiaoli for his own use!"

Zheng Jian's eyes widened: "Youzhi is doubting my Dong Xiaoli Tan's intention to eat pot pulp!"

Hou Chao helplessly pointed at the cave and said, "There really aren't that many places left for cooking."

"According to my expectation, the remaining elders in the countryside and four miles away may not be able to sleep soundly. It's just that they arrived a little late."

"We can't let the children carry baskets of food on their backs, right?"

"Isn't the rice all stinky?"

After Hou Chao persuaded him for a long time, Zheng Miao finally nodded: "Then I'll listen to the rules."

"Fathers! Make food!"

A group of victims in Dongxiaoli hurriedly piled their backpacks together and shouted excitedly: "Wei!"

The rice-making team in the cave has grown a bit stronger.

Correspondingly, the smoke floating above the cave became a bit thicker.

The corner of Ying Chengyu's mouth twitched slightly, and he put his hand on his forehead and said: "You are all veterans of Guanzhong, how can you be so negligent!"

It is true that the cave Hou Chao was looking for had walls on three sides to block the fire, making it a very suitable place for cooking.

But the moonlight is bright and beautiful tonight!

Under the bright moon, the thick smoke caused by thousands of people making rice at the same time is impossible to ignore!

Wang Bo, who was in charge of night patrol today, had already found out the information that Ying Chengyu had reported to the victims about secretly leaving the camp, making it difficult for Ying Chengyu to pretend not to know.

But no matter how difficult it is, you still have to pretend not to know!

Ying Chengyu ordered in a low voice: "Ask the night patrol officers to spread out five miles and hide their bodies with vegetation so as not to disturb the victims."

"Don't tell anyone about this, keep it secret!"

Wang Bo said in a low voice with some confusion: "Of course, the victims of the disaster do not have much food reserves. They still need to rely on the food reserves to survive until the autumn harvest, and the harvest of Zheng County's autumn harvest this year may not be enough for them to continue the next autumn harvest."

"I think it's better to advise the victims to save money!"

Ying Chengyu smiled and shook his head: "You pity the victims, why don't the victims pity you?"

"Emotions, help and rush should all be mutual."

"Just give them a chance to express their feelings."

Wang Bo still couldn't understand what Ying Chengyu was doing, but he still held up his hands and said: "Wei!"

Unable to stop the victims, Wang Bo personally led a hundred guards to sneak around the cave, silently protecting them from danger and quietly watching them going back and forth.

At four quarters of sunrise (6:00), the camp slowly wakes up.

Feng Jie, Zhou Qingchen, Zhuang Qiu and other key rescue forces stood up silently, packed their bags, and slowly gathered towards the south side of the camp.

"Your Majesty!" Meng Yi was the first to step out and said solemnly with his hands raised: "We have 1,985 guards, 100 ministers, and 3,651 righteous men from Zheng County."

Zhuang Qiu then came out and raised his hands and said solemnly: "A total of one thousand four hundred and seventy-seven students from the second and third phases of the military academy have arrived."

"The fourth-term students of the military academy have gone to various disaster areas and are waiting for orders from the school at any time!"

Ying Chengyu returned the gift with his hand, and then said in a deep voice: "The baggage, food, grass, and tools have all been transported to the surrounding areas of the disaster area."

"Officials in various disaster areas have also begun organizing self-rescue for victims."

"The situation in each disaster area is different, so I can't say more, but I believe you can only respond to the situation!"

"Pass this order to me!"

"Go to war!"

More than 7,000 people raised their hands and shouted: "Wei!"

With a final look at the resettlement camp for the victims with a smile in their eyes, Feng Jie, Zhuang Qiu, Zhou Qingchen and others packed their bags tightly and embarked on the journey to the next disaster area.

But they had just taken a few steps when a group of figures rushed from the west.

Feng Jie and Meng Yi were horrified and shouted in unison: "The whole army obeys the order..."

But before they could finish speaking, Zheng Miao's wheezing voice reached everyone's ears: "Kids! Wait!"

Feng Jie quickly stopped Meng Yi and said, "They are disaster victims!"

Meng Yi was shocked: "Aren't all the victims resting in the camp?"

"How come they got up earlier than us and even went to the west side together?"

"What on earth do they want to do!"

Before Meng Yi had time to think, thousands of disaster victims carrying shoulder poles or backpacks had already run to the rescue team.

Zheng Chen panted heavily, and with his rough right hand he scooped out a large spoonful of corn rice from the rice bucket and put it into a wooden bowl, then handed it to Feng Jie, who was stunned, and gently reminded him: "Kid, eat first!"