My whole family has crossed with Goldfinger

Chapter 50: The Last Moment

Several families lost one member, and it didn't seem to make a difference.

The other families pretended not to see the grain that Shi Laoer brought back, and old man Xu even refused Shi Laoer's move to hand it over for everyone to eat together, and only let him keep it for himself.

It's just a bucket, not much, even if it is taken out, it is not enough for so many people.

But Shi Lao Er didn't eat it by himself, but took it out to cook porridge and gave it to a few children. The adults could still hold on to the wild vegetable soup. I really can't stand eating some rice porridge.

The corn that had been left before was completely gone, and the family went around to pick up wild vegetables, leaves and bark every day, farther and farther away, and there was nothing to pick around.

Xu Yinyin was so hungry that she couldn't stand it anymore, so she took two chances to exchange for compressed biscuits while she was out looking for wild vegetables. In addition to the original piece, she and Xu Chunshan started a small stove with water mixed with glucose powder. Had a good meal.

I want to eat canned meat, but I dare not eat it. No matter how careful I am, I am afraid that it will taste bad. People who have been hungry for a long time have a good nose.

It was okay that it was Wuya last time, but if someone else smells it after eating it again, it will not end well.

So they only ate compressed biscuits, and the few of them wiped their mouths clean, drank water and rinsed their mouths before they dared to go back.

After eating compressed biscuits, I feel full in my stomach, and I can sleep well at night.

With something in his stomach, Xu Dajun didn't bother to listen to the wind anymore.

In the night wind, Xu Dajun could only hear someone talking on the tower.

"What? A mud-legged man who is fleeing famine dares to call himself a mighty general, and he is not afraid of laughing his teeth out!"

"What mud legs, I heard that he has read books for several years, and can write with serious literacy! Ordinary mud legs, how can he have such courage? Now he can command nearly ten thousand people under his hands! Yang County, Boyang County has just been conquered, and the heads of officials hang on the city towers! How dare you compare with him?"

"What kind of world is this? Those who fled famine want to become kings on their own?"

"Look at this posture, you can't tell! I heard that our prefect is asking Jin Pingwei to send troops for support! Otherwise, it won't be long before this mighty general of Lao Shizi will fight all the way to Fucheng!"

"No wonder, I said that our lord prefect is talking about mobilizing the rich households in the city to donate porridge and mobilizing them to buy people with grain. There are so many refugees outside the city. If the mighty general really comes over, these It’s hard not to join the ranks of mighty generals for the sake of one bite!”

"But can Jinpingwei have soldiers? I heard that the backer kings have all come to Weining Mansion in Yunzhou. Our Qingzhou soldiers can't be all transferred to one place to deal with the backer kings with all our strength?"

"Who knows? We are soldiers, just follow the orders from above."

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In the next two days, if people in the city came out to buy people, it was almost impossible to buy young girls. Gradually, some people began to sell their sons.

Later, even if they wanted to sell it, no one in the city came out to buy it.

Some people spread rumors everywhere, persuading these refugees to continue to go north, saying that Songyang Mansion in front would accept refugees into the city.

But few of the refugees had the strength to leave here for Songyang Mansion, and only a small part of them left here and there.

The Xu family didn't have the strength to leave, besides, they came to Yiyang Mansion just to join their relatives, so why did they go to Songyang Mansion?

Besides, Xu Dajun has already heard that the so-called rumors were spread by people specially sent by the city, and they wanted the refugees to leave here voluntarily and not gather outside Yiyang City.

No one in the city came out to buy people, and there was no porridge. Gradually, a large area outside the city starved, and every day people who died were carried by their relatives and thrown to the opposite woods. None, just throw it in the woods, dead in the wilderness.

When Xu Yinyin went there with Zhang Xiulan for convenience, she saw with her own eyes some refugees lying in the temporary mass grave and eating carrion, she turned pale with nausea, and Zhou, who went with her, even fell ill when she came back.

Not only the Zhou family, many people in several families fell ill one after another, some collapsed from starvation, and some collapsed from being unable to hold on.

Among them, the old man Zhou was the one who was so sick that he fell down. He immediately developed a fever and didn't subside for a long time.

The sons of Zhou Dachuan took turns guarding old man Zhou, but there was no other way but to guard.

Mrs. Xu also watched old man Zhou and cried for a long time, and then fell ill.

Among the old men and women, the only ones who still carried the weight were Old Man Xu and Old Man Zheng.

The heads of several families are gloomy and gloomy.

Old man Zhou's fever was getting worse and worse, and he rolled his eyes when he saw it.

Xu Chunshan couldn't bear it, so he secretly pulled Xu Yinyin and asked, "Yinyin, can I exchange it for antipyretics?"

The others were all starving and weak, but old man Zhou had a fever. If he didn't take medicine to bring the fever down, he would definitely not be able to survive tonight.

Everyone fled famine together, not to mention the revolutionary friendship, old man Zhou is still Xu Chunshan's biological uncle, how can he watch people die like this?

Human life was at stake, Xu Yinyin didn't hesitate, she quickly took a chance, exchanged for antipyretic medicine, added it to the water in a bamboo tube, and gave it to Xu Chunshan.

Holding the bamboo tube, Xu Chunshan squeezed Zhou Dachuan away, "Come on, let me drink some water for uncle."

I'm rolling my eyes, what water can I drink?

But Zhou Dachuan didn't stop him, he had accepted his fate in his heart, his father couldn't take it anymore, just drink some water, there is no way to go hungry, but there is water to drink, don't go thirsty.

Everyone watched Xu Chunshan pour water for old man Zhou, and they all felt that old man Zhou couldn't hold on anymore.

But until the evening, the old man Zhou did not die, Zhou Dachuan reached out his hand to touch it, and said in surprise: "Father is not burning!"

In the morning of the second day, old man Zhou woke up.

"Father, are you okay?"

Old man Zhou rolled his eyes and looked at the children and grandchildren around him. His mind was still a little unclear. He knew that he had fallen ill and thought he was going to go down to see the King of Hades, but he was in a daze. up?
Old man Zhou grinned, his body was still a little weak, but he also knew that he would not die, "It's okay, the King of Hades won't accept me!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the old man Zheng said with red eyes: "Our fate is so great that the Lord of the Underworld dare not accept it! How did you say that, if you survive a catastrophe, there will be future blessings!"

Old man Zhou, who was the most ill, was fine, and Xu Yinyin secretly put glucose powder in the water for the others who were hungry, and they were still able to hold on.

Compared with the other refugees who were being carried out one after another, none of the few families had any serious problems, which is something to be thankful for.

Even more fortunately, the gate of the city was opened again, and the porridge donation stopped for several days, and then started again.

On the day when the porridge was given out, the refugees outside the city cried a lot.

Crying for my relatives who starved to death, and crying for myself who almost starved to death, I finally drank porridge.

Several families also received the porridge, and everyone took two mouthfuls, and they finally had something in their stomachs.

After receiving gruel for three days in a row, Mrs. Xu could sit up even if she had been lying down for a few days.

And after a few days of porridge distribution, officials from the city came out and brought disaster relief instructions from the magistrate.

(End of this chapter)