Huainan, Hezhou Yangshan, Pingchengnan Village
Meng Siniang is the most ordinary peasant girl in the village.
The Meng family’s parents gave birth to seven children in total.
But a child is very easy to die when he is young, let alone in a country where there is not even a doctor.
In the end, only four children grew up healthy.
Among them was Siniang.
Siniang didn’t know whether life was easy or not.
Whether they are girls or boys, the children in the village have to help the family with work when they grow up.
The younger ones feed chickens and pick wild vegetables.
The older ones chop wood and carry water.
When you get older, you have to work in the fields with your parents.
The older children looked at the younger children.
I grew up staggeringly all the way.
Meng Siniang is naturally like this too. She also has an eldest brother and a third sister living above her.
The third sister took care of the fourth mother at home, and when she was seven or eight years old, she could make a fire and cook some simple meals.
When the eldest brother was twelve or thirteen years old, he followed his parents to work in the fields.
Naturally, the fourth mother also took over the work from the third sister and helped her younger brothers and sisters.
Her world is very small, so small that it only contains the familiar land and relatives.
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When Meng Siniang was sixteen, a matchmaker came to her door to arrange a marriage for her.
It’s Sun Aniu from the next village.
Sun Aniu is also an honest and honest farmer. There were no words left in his mouth, he just looked at each other and fell in love with Meng Siniang.
When farming was busy, Sun Aniu came to plow two acres of land for the Meng family.
He came here in a taciturn manner, and did not even meet Meng Siniang, and just went about his work in a nonchalant manner.
After finishing the work, he went back silently.
The third sister of the Meng family, who was married in this village, came back and joked with her sister, saying that Sun A Niu was really as good at plowing the ground as the big scalper from the village chief's family.
Meng Siniang was so ashamed that her face, which had been darkened by the sun, became even redder.
The Meng family's parents saw that the young man was strong and willing to work hard, so his life would not be too bad in the future.
He nodded and agreed to the marriage.
There are not so many details in the countryside.
The Meng family found a piece of red cloth for Siniang to use as a hijab.
Sun Aniu borrowed a bullock cart from the village chief and took Meng Siniang over.
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Meng Siniang, who has passed away, is still like her mother's family. There is nothing wrong with the family and outside.
A Niu is the only son in the Sun family. Although the family is a little poorer, there are fewer quarrels between the parents.
The father of the Sun familyMy mother is also easy to talk to, and she is so satisfied with her only daughter-in-law that she always praises her to everyone.
Meng Siniang felt that there was no better life.
As long as he is diligent, Aniu can live happily farming.
With a few more children, life will always get better and better.
It’s like God follows people’s wishes.
The winter of the first year after Meng Siniang got married, she was unhappy.
Soon, their first child was born, then the second, then the third...
However, just as Meng Siniang welcomed the newborn with joy, time.
The drought is coming.
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At the beginning, everyone just thought it was too hot this year, so the harvest was expected to be poor.
It would be better if every household watered more frequently.
Everyone tightened their waistbands and got over it.
Just hold on and it will pass.
However, that summer, the rain did not come for a long time.
Crops appear brown.
The river gradually stopped flowing.
The farmers were so anxious that their mouths were full of tears.
No matter where crops grow in the ground, they are clearly the life of the family members.
But the situation never got better.
The land began to dry out and the crops withered.
The whole village was shrouded in gloom and mist.
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This is the third year.
There is no more smiling face in the village.
Wells dried up and they had to walk longer distances to find water.
Sometimes we even have to queue for a long time to get enough water to moisten the throats of the whole family.
Food is even more scarce. In order to save rations, almost every family only eats one meal.
Anyway, there is no water in the ground, so it has long been deserted.
If you don’t have to work in the fields, go out as little as possible to slow down your hunger.
Even the only meal is just some coarse grains and weeds thrown into a pot to cook into a pot of gruel that can make people emerge early.
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But soon, the rice tank bottomed out.
People began to starve to death in the village.
Meng Siniang’s family has long been out of normal food.
Even the bark of the trees closer to the village had been eaten bare.
As for the mountains further away, people dare not go.
With the current level of weakness of the villagers, if they encounter a wild beast, it will be a dead end.
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In the Zhang family next door, another child starved to death today.
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Then ZhangThe smell of food wafts into the home.
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Almost everyone knows where the aroma of that food comes from.
But in the eyes of people who are so hungry that almost only their survival instinct remains, it is not just a pot of meat.
That is the elixir that you can live on if you take it.
Swallow it and you will live.
If you don’t eat it, you will die.
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No one wants to die.
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Sun Aniu didn’t want to either.
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So that day, when Meng Siniang woke up from a state of fainting from hunger or falling asleep,
smelled the smell of her own stove There was a scent coming from the stage.
The brain is confused and slow due to lack of energy provided by food.
Meng Siniang climbed from the bedroom to the stove in a rolling and crawling posture, almost on all fours.
Sun Aniu was holding a bowl and facing the stove directly, eating meat in big gulps.
"Me, me too..." Meng Siniang was anxious and had no strength.
She almost fell over.
Holding the bowl, he also took a sip of soup.
It seemed that the hot soup, which was fishy and meaty, awakened a little of Meng Siniang's consciousness.
"Our family, our family, how come there is meat in our family?"
Meng Siniang stammered and asked.
The sound of Sun Aniu eating meat stopped for a moment.
His mouth was full of oil, and he lowered his head to look at his mother-in-law, with tears in his eyes.
But he still swallowed the meat in his mouth.
Meng Siniang looked at Sun Aniu's face and suddenly had a very terrible suspicion.
Meng Siniang refused to think about it.
She just put down the bowl and stood up shivering.
He said,
"I have eaten, I have eaten, I will ask my parents and children to come and eat some too."
"Sister, second baby, third baby, come and have something to eat."
"Come, come and have something to eat."
Meng Siniang's voice became weaker and weaker as she shouted.
"Come, come and eat..."
Meng Siniang lost her strength, her vision turned black, and she fell limply to the ground.
When she woke up again, it was already night.
The eldest sister and the second baby also fell asleep with her.
The siblings were so hungry that their faces were sallow and their muscles were thin, and their two small bodies were stuck together.
I don’t know what I’m afraid of.
Meng Siniang remembered what happened before she fainted.
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Lu YiWhen we arrived at Pingchengnan Village, the whole village had a dead air.
Not to mention the fact that people were starving all over the place, one person in every three to five households was starved to death.
Just when Lu Yi took the clerk to the village, the clerk went to arrange disaster relief matters with the village chief.
Lu Yi couldn't hold himself back and had already gone to the villagers' homes to check on the situation.
The door of Sun's house was open, but Lu Yi knocked on it anyway.
Then a woman with a haggard appearance and dull eyes came out of the room.
"Sister, the imperial court has come to send relief food. How many people do you still have in your family?" Lu Yi opened his mouth to explain his intention.
He was wearing an indigo cloth robe, and his face, which was originally a bit bookish, was reddened by the sun.
Trying to show Meng Siniang as friendly a smile as possible.
Meng Siniang still looked like her soul had died long ago.
"Disaster relief food?"
"Oh, the imperial court, the imperial court..."
"This lord,"
"You Want some soup? ”