September 12th, sunny.

‘I learned a huge good news from my parents yesterday, and the city of Thunder Ye City has been reopened!’

‘This is a great thing. It means I don’t have to hide in that small dark room anymore, and can eat, sleep, and walk outside. Although Yeah still doesn’t allow me to leave the house, it’s good to be able to walk around in the backyard.’

‘Today, when the sun just rose and it was just bright, Yeye took us out of the dark room, cleaned up the backyard first, and then went to the restaurant front hall.’

‘There is a mess now, much more chaotic than the backyard. The wine and snacks in the cabinet are gone, and the counter is cut by an axe. Yeye said that he is looking for a secret lattice at the counter. I really don’t know what the big cannibal thinks. Isn’t the money all in secret places? Which one will leave a secret lattice at the counter?’

‘The table, chair, bench, and only two were lost. Ye Ye guessed that they were taken away by a big cannibal who had just been short of seats; but some tables still had blood on them, and there were large pieces of dried blood on the ground. Ye Ye Ye repeatedly wiped them for more than ten times but didn’t clean them, so he could only ignore them.’

‘Walking out of the house, I met my neighbor Fang Bo. He was surprised to see us, probably thinking that our family had been killed by the cannibals.’

‘Yeye came forward to talk to him and asked about the current situation. Fang Bo said that the Great Cannibal had already controlled the big-headed soldiers and were not allowed to go to the streets at will. There were soldiers named the gendarmerie patrolling the streets. Since a few days ago, I have never heard of the Great Cannibal soldiers killing and robbing.’

'But everyone is still very scared. The money at home is hidden in the most secret place, and the eldest girl and the young wife at home are still hiding in the cellar. They dare not wear better clothes and buy more food...'

'As he spoke, Fang Bo talked about the time when the Great Cannibal was raging in the city a few days ago. Although Yeye drove me back halfway after hearing it, I still heard a lot. It's hard to imagine that the Great Cannibal was so cruel...'

‘After I came back, my mother and I continued to clean the yard and the lobby, and actually swept out an arm! I was so scared that I screamed. My mother quickly covered my mouth and let it go when I stopped screaming. She rolled up her arms and other garbage, and after a while, let Yeye throw it to the garbage-splitting place designated by the Great Cannibal.’

'But even though I stopped screaming, I was still very scared. I felt that I would have nightmares at night.'

‘After cleaning the lobby, Yeye took some money to buy food and vegetables. The food hidden in the dark room was almost eaten up. My mother felt that there would never be any guests coming to the door in the past few days, so she didn’t prepare any guests.’

‘…’

Su Junwen was writing in his room when he suddenly heard her mother's shout: "My grandma Wen?"

"Mom, I'm in the house." Qin Wen put down his pen and walked to the door and said.

"Go quickly and wash two cucumbers." said her mother Rong Niang.

"Why should I wash the cucumber at this time?" Zhen Wen asked in confusion. Her parents did not have the habit of eating cucumbers.

"A guest is here, and the guest wants to eat and shoot cucumbers." Rong Niang said.

"There are still guests?" Qin Wen was surprised.

"I am a man who escaped from the city when a big cannibal entered the city. I heard that Sailye City opened the city and came back to see if his acquaintances were still alive. Just as we were hungry, we came in to eat something." Rong Niang said.

"I understand, let's wash the cucumbers now." After Qin Wen said that, he went to get the cucumbers.

"I'll put it in the kitchen later. Be careful not to go to the lobby." Rong Niang instructed again.

"I understand." Qin Wen agreed.

"Tomorrow, I have to instruct Su Zhan to buy more food and vegetables. Although it seems that there are fewer, there will be a few more customers." Rong Niang said to herself again.

After a while, Qin Wen prepared to take pictures of the cucumbers and put them on the plate and handed them to his father. Her father took the plate to the lobby.

"Customer, this is the sauce meat, cucumbers, and hu cakes you want." Su Zhan walked to the only guest with a few plates and said.

"Thank you." said the guest.

"You don't have to be polite at the guest officer."

"Shopkeeper Su, I have come to your restaurant for dinner before. I remember you have a son and a daughter, and they are all okay." The guest chatted with Su Zhan for a few casually and asked suddenly.

"Everything is fine, everything is fine." Su Zhan didn't remember the person in front of him. Although he claimed that he had come to his house for dinner, he was still very vigilant and answered vaguely after hearing this.

"Oh." The guest let out a light voice, said a few more words to him, lowered his head and started eating. Su Zhan turned around and returned to the counter.

"It seems that his son and daughter should be alive and intact." As soon as Su Zhan walked away, the guest said softly.

‘He’s Zhuo Ya. She heard yesterday that Sai Ye was open to the city, so she cleaned up and left General Pei Luo City early this morning and rushed to Sai Ye City.

Zhuo Ya bought a donkey for transportation. He arrived at the first time. After entering the city, he followed the route he had escaped to search for the bodies of his uncle and Tong Shuofan, but he saw that there were no corpses along the way.

She asked the old man who was cleaning the streets and learned that the cannibals in front of Kaicheng had forced the remaining people in the city to put away all the bodies and threw them to the north of the city, burning them with fire.

Zhuo Ya became even more angry. ‘The big cannibal kills people, but he doesn’t even leave a whole body!’

But she also knew that it was impossible for her to find the bodies of the two, so she could only go to the place where she lived before and search for the relics of her uncle and Tong Shuofan.

But this place has been extremely messed up by the cannibal. She searched for a while before she found a few things that were sure they had used.

After finding a few things, Zhuo Ya cried for a while, then looked at the dirty and messy yard. She originally planned to stay here at night and changed her mind. She went out to find an inn. When she saw this restaurant on the way, she felt hungry, so she came in to have something to eat.

She said a few words to Su Zhan, and told Su Zhan about her fake identity to dispel his doubts, and asked Su Zhan's name by the way.

But when she heard this name, she suddenly remembered that Dimarsh seemed to have mentioned it on the way to escape, saying that it was his uncle's name, and then she remembered that Dimarsh said that his uncle opened a restaurant on the street south of the city, and she immediately confirmed that this person was Dimarsh's uncle.

She then asked her family after he brought the meal and got the ambiguous answer.

"If you can see Dimarsh or Danya again, tell them that their uncle and his family are still alive." Zhuo Ya said to himself again.

After a while, Zhuo Ya finished her meal and checked out and left. But before leaving, she looked at Su Zhan again before leaving the restaurant.

"Rong Niang, do you remember the guest who just left?" Su Zhan called his wife over and asked.

"I don't remember, either I have never been to our house for dinner in the past, or I have only been there once or twice." Rong Niang vaguely glanced at Zhuo Ya in the backyard just now.

"He said he knew us and asked Jing Yi and Wen Niang." Su Zhan said.

"Maybe he is really a former guest." Rong Niang said: "It's not uncommon to ask for a few casual words."

After saying this, she saw that Su Zhan still couldn't let go, and said, "Why, do you still guess he is a spy of the cannibal? I'm not belittled our family. Where is our family worth inquiry? Even if the cannibal sends spies to the city, they will not be able to find out about our family."

"What you are saying." Su Zhan felt that his wife was right and smiled and said, "It's because I'm thinking too much."

"What about Jingyi and Wenniang." He asked again.

"Jingyi is playing in the backyard, and Qin Wen writes in his own room."

"Jingyi is really lazy than his sister. What's the use of practicing writing in Junwen? Don't let her continue to waste the stack of Junwen."

"Women can't write?" Rong Niang retorted: "According to me, women should also read and recognize words in order to teach all their children in the family well."

"Besides, now it is already a government official of the great cannibals, and it is useless to be able to write Chinese characters in the future. It is better to learn the great cannibals' writing."

"The Tang army will definitely fight back!" Su Zhan shouted immediately, and his eyes were very fanatical.

"Yes, yes, the Tang army will definitely fight back." Rong Niang said hurriedly when she encountered the taboo of the Lang Jun, not daring to argue again.

"Jingyi reads and recognizes words. A few days ago, so many people died in Suye City. Many officials in the yamen defected to the cannibals in order to eat in one bite. After the army returned, they would definitely not use these officials. Our family Jingyi had the opportunity to enter the yamen." Su Zhan said again.

"Yes, yes, yes." Rong Niang agreed again.

Su Zhan said for a while, and another guest came, and he stopped talking to entertain him. Rong Niang hurried back to the backyard.

"Mom, are you dissatisfied with me writing a diary with pen, ink and paper?" She came to the backyard and saw her daughter walking out of her house and said timidly to her.

"How could this happen?" Rong Niang said immediately. But when she saw Zhen Wen's expression of disbelief, she patted her head and said, "Even if it is, it doesn't matter. If you have me, if you like to write, continue to write. Maybe in the future, you can still be passed down to future generations like the articles of great writers."

"How is that possible?" Jun Wen smiled. She had just read a few books, and how could anyone else be willing to read the things she wrote?

Rong Niang couldn't help but smile. She felt it was impossible, but she was comforting her daughter, so she said casually. Seeing that her daughter was feeling better because of this sentence, she hurriedly said a few more words to restore her daughter's mood and return to her house.

Rong Niang looked at her daughter's back and smiled again, turned around and walked into the kitchen.

...

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Zhuo Ya walked out of Su Zhan’s restaurant and found an inn to stay in. When she went upstairs, she happened to meet a big cannibal coming down from above. The man saw that the person he was facing was a Turkic man and smiled at her, and then he got down.

But when Zhuo Ya saw this great cannibal, she subconsciously held the knife Bing on her waist and waited for the great cannibal to pass by before letting go. She hurriedly stepped upstairs, found the house she lived under the guidance of her friend, closed the door and put the package down and sat on the bed, and took out the relics of her uncle and Tong Shuofan whom she found.
Chapter completed!