The girl who wears fast

Chapter 1290 The Daughter Abandoned While Escaping (2)

Pu Qirui led his soldiers to arrive at Qing'an City after two days of driving day and night. His superior, General Ouyang, originally wanted to send troops to resist the enemy, but it was too late. The massacre had long since ended. When the people arrived at Qing'an City, they could only see a mess everywhere, full of corpses of compatriots.

Everyone was distraught, but the enemy army had already disappeared, so they had to stay to clean up the battlefield and bury the dead people of Qing'an City.

During this period, they collected many corpses, but they didn't see a living person. They thought that all the people in the city had been killed, but they didn't expect to see Chang Shichu here, a little girl who looked only thirteen or fourteen years old. , dragging the injured body, silently disposing of the corpses of the common people.

"Since you are injured, go back and rest. Let us handle the remains of the remaining compatriots." Pu Qirui softened his voice and said to Chang Shichu, as if he was afraid that she would be frightened by him.

Chang Shichu shook his head and said, "No, my injury is not a problem. With the help of multiple people, we can dispose of more remains. If the remains are exposed to the outside for too long, it is easy to breed diseases. It is better to dispose of them earlier."

After hearing her words, Pu Qirui stopped persuading her, after all, what she said was reasonable.

Pu Qirui asked her some more about the situation in the city, and then he didn't waste any more time. He was busy collecting the remains. At this time of grief, everyone didn't intend to talk and chat, but just silently lifted up the corpses of Chinese people. , cremate them, pack up the ashes, and dig up the grave...

A few days later, some people who got the news before the massacre and escaped from Qing'an City saw that they were no longer in danger, and began to come back one after another with their families.

When they saw the corpses of their compatriots all over the ground, apart from grief and hatred, they endured the pain and helped to collect the corpses.

Half a month later, the streets of Qing'an City finally recovered, but the black blood stains that seeped into the soil still left marks, and I don't know how long it would take to completely disappear.

Too many people died in Qing'an City, and too few people came back, the whole city was very empty, but the lives of the people are extremely tenacious, as long as they are given a little hope, they can take root and grow by themselves, so as time goes by As time passed, the shadow of the massacre gradually dissipated, and people who emigrated from other places gradually filled the once empty city.

Pu Qirui saw that the lives of the people in Qing'an City gradually returned to normal, so he planned to take the soldiers away. He found Chang Shichu and asked if he needed to help her find her family.

When Chang Shichu heard his question, her eyes were a bit indescribable, she wished she would never have any contact with those "family members", how could she want to go to them?

So she resolutely shook her head and refused, saying, "Thank you, General Pu, for your kindness, but I don't need your help in finding my family."

"You don't have to worry about bothering me. For finding someone, I just need to contact some people and check if there are any merchants with a common surname in my place. It won't take me any time and energy, just treat it as my replacement." The dead people thank you for collecting the remains, so you don't have to have any psychological burden." Pu Qirui thought that Chang Shichu didn't want to trouble him, so he refused.

How could Chang Shichu not see that he had misunderstood?Because she explained very frankly: "I don't want to find them, not because it is difficult to find them, but because I don't regard them as my family anymore, because they abandoned me when I was fleeing before the enemy army came, and put I stayed here alone. If I hadn't been smart enough to cover myself with other people's corpses, I would have died on the day of the massacre. I had already paid back my life to the Chang family, and now I have recovered this life It’s all just me.”

When Pu Qirui heard her words, he was so shocked that he didn't know what to say. After a while, he said regretfully: "Sorry, I don't know what's going on in this. Since you don't want to look for your relatives, then don't look for them." It's just that you are still young, can you live alone?"

Chang Shichu said: "Yes, haven't I survived well for the past half month? I have also done a lot of things, so you don't have to worry about me."

Pu Qirui looked at her pale face that hadn't recovered from her injury, and hesitantly made a suggestion: "Why don't you leave with us? There are many female soldiers, female doctors, and female nurses in our army. You want to be a soldier. Or learn how to heal the wounded from the doctors and nurses."

"No, I just experienced a massacre, and I don't want to go through the war again." Chang Shichu still rejected him.

Pu Qirui had no choice but to keep all the silver dollars on his body, and said: "Leave this money to you. Presumably the Chang family will not leave you money. This money can at least last you for a while."

Chang Shichu was silent for a while, but this time she did not refuse him again, she accepted the silver dollars and said, "Thank you, General Pu, I will return the money to you in the future."

She knew that this man had a cold face and a warm heart, but she just couldn't bear to see herself penniless. If she didn't accept him, he would be very worried, so she didn't reject his kindness this time.

Sure enough, seeing that Chang Shichu was willing to accept the money he gave, Pu Qirui breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that Chang Shichu would be too stubborn and refused to accept his money.

Chang Shichu was the first living person he saw when he entered the city of Qing'an, which was full of corpses, and when he saw her, she was collecting the corpses of his compatriots, trying to let them retain the last decency, which made him He has a good impression of Chang Shichu and thinks she is a kind and tough girl, so he wants to help her.

"If you have any difficulties, you can write to me." Pu Qirui took a pen and wrote down his mailing address to Chang Shichu, "I will help whatever I can, but I often have to fight everywhere, so I may not be able to." I saw your letter in time."

"Thank you, General Pu." Chang Shichu accepted the note he gave.

After seeing Chang Shichu, Pu Qirui quickly left Qing'an City with his soldiers.

The empty houses in Qing'an City began to be gradually filled with people. Those houses had no owners. The owners had either fled with their families or died in the massacre of the enemy. Therefore, whoever occupied it first could live in it.

As for those who fled, will they return to reclaim their houses later?This is not an issue that needs to be considered today. In this era of turmoil and extremely inconvenient transportation, fleeing does not mean being away from danger. The original owners of those houses do not know how many of them will reach their destination alive, even if they arrive. , I don't know how many people want to return to Qing'an City.

Even if they really come back, but everything in Qing'an City was rebuilt by later generations, who will recognize your land and house deeds?
(End of this chapter)