Under the disorderly social ecological environment, the forest law prevails, and the door root is not hard, so in the turbulent era, the local people think that there are many children and many blessings, and the childless will be taken away by the dog when they are old. The caidong families that can stand in the chaotic world are basically large households with strong people, and the big caidong who are not prosperous are often in a disorderly society, either by Mr. Accounting For his life by hooking up with his little wife to make money, making a wedding dress for others, or dying at the hands of bandits or hooligans. The small rich people of the soft portal are difficult to gain a foothold in the chaotic world, they are good dishes in the eyes of bandits, goons, and hooligans, and in order to survive, they marry the local hard portal in order to be protected.
In the hinterland of Guanzhong in the autumn of 1930, in the constant sound of gunfire from warlords, the people who struggled to survive had no way to live, and they did not know where it was a promised land! In Xingping County, on the arid northern plains, most of the broken houses entered the village were uninhabited, and the mud doors blocked the windows, and many families became extinct. The villagers, who barely could still move, had fled to the village and went to the North Mountain and the original to ask for food, and more people died on the way, becoming ghosts of a foreign land!
The drought continued, the villagers could not eat, the poor people's houses on the foil was torn down, thrown away the dust and crushed as food, boiling water can be eaten. There was a shortage of materials, there was no firewood to burn in the winter, the dead trees were cut down, and the house wood was demolished. After the only house in the poor family is demolished, there is only the life of the temple, and the life of the family is handed over to the gods, waiting for the summons of the gods and ghosts at any time. In the late years of the year, some of the rich owners in the past could not survive the entanglement of hunger, and some people who starved to death carried out of the house!
Like our family, a traditional family that is charitable and charitable, the Beijing goods shop in the county town is closed in the New Year, forty acres of land only have the strength to plant twenty acres, and the mud bodhisattva crossing the river itself is difficult to protect. The great-grandfather and great-grandmother who lived in the southwestern township of Xingping no longer had any food to help the poor. In the midst of the tragic famine, the grandfather and grandmother who lived in the south of Xingping City still hid their great-grandfather and great-grandmother, and in Nanzuo Village, they quietly took in several women and children from the southwest township who were related to their relatives and brought their ancestors, and used the stored sour yellow cabbage and grain bran, oil residue, and wheatgrass noodles to reluctantly support these five or six people who had lost all their livelihoods.
After nightfall, in the countryside of Xingping County, families are closed, and the village is surrounded by dead silence except for the children's hunger and cold cries. Bandits and thieves rode out in the night, breaking the door and picking locks, robbing and stealing the hungry people. When encountering bandits robbing, the sparsely populated families have only a little food and property to survive in their homes, which is not only difficult to keep, but will cause disasters to cause the owner to die violently - because of grasping the grain bag that does not let go.
Guanzhong people continue to accumulate habits is to relocate the land, not out of the Qin River, see the South Mountain and the North Mountain still have green vitality, a part of the people in the Weibei Plain, the family fled to the North Mountain to forage for food, some of the original people fled to the South Mountain to survive, unlike the people in Henan and Shandong, they can flee to Shaanxi and break into the Guandong to survive. In the view of the conservative Guanzhong people, in the history of the general drought and flood protection of the feng shui treasure land of eight hundred miles qinchuan, still suffered such a catastrophe, the people's livelihood in other places will be more miserable, more people will starve to death, rather do ant legs, do not do sparrow mouth, so there are very few people who flee the province to ask for food, and most of the people who starve to death are from their own books.
The famine has developed deeply, most of the families in the hinterland of Guanzhong have no food to eat, and in every village, sooner or later, there are children who are hungry and unbearable, and the cries of tearing their hearts and lungs are wafting. Listening to my grandfather's story when he was alive, the rich owner's family, which was still full of food at that time, was used to drink the brush pot water for livestock after the meal, but it was also said by the poor neighbor to say all the good things and go back to feed his family's crying children. There is a family in the village that eats, and there are often ten families and eight hungry poor neighbors, waiting for alms and competing for the family's brush pot water. Poor neighbors are eager for their good luck that day, the bucket left in the rich neighbor's house can be dipped in light, and after the brush pot water is boiled, a little precious grass roots or leaves are laid down to send off the family's hunger. But where is so much brush pot water! There are no relatives of a thousand years, but there are thousands of years of township party, they still have food to eat, they cannot watch their neighbors starve to death, some well-meaning rich owners have no grain to borrow, but they cannot bear the hungry cries of the neighbor's children, the old man is hungry and dying, in the only meal he cooks every day, double the water in the rice pot, when he eats porridge without a few grains, he also gives one or two bowls of thin soup to each family of his neighbors, and sends beggars who are hungry at the door.
From time to time, old people who starved to death were carried out of the village, and the etiquette of burying the dead in the village had long ceased, and people were buried in coffins in the past, and at this time they were buried with only a straw mat. The surviving living, enduring hunger, staggered into a shallow pit in the hard as a stone slab to bury the dead hastily. The dead buried in this way have become the targets of wild wolves and wild dogs. They are born with an unusually good sense of smell, a keen eye in the shadows, and sharp claws that enable them to succeed. Under abnormal circumstances, their survivability is far better than that of noble human beings, and they are greedy, not only chewing the hungry corpses on the road into white bones, but also burying dead bodies in the ground and gnawing on the ground, leaving a mutilated white bone for people to bury for a second time...