Chapter 15: Sacrifice a place to keep the city

"Is this true?

By the way, every time I used to renovate the ancestral hall, I felt that the cost was too great, and I suspected that you had embezzled a lot, but I didn't expect it to be used here!"

The clan elder who was originally sitting on the side, that is, Wang Hongjun's second uncle, stood up slightly trembling and said excitedly.

Not only him, but everyone who listened and understood, all of them were very excited.

Although I know that there will definitely be some problems with that thing for ten years, but when I am so hungry that I eat grass roots and bark, and even Guanyin soil, how can I take care of those.

As long as you can live, it's better than anything else.

"It has nothing to do with me, it was told by my ancestors for generations.

I also used it in the fourth or second year of the year, but I didn't say it directly at the time, I just picked it out secretly, saying that it was the inventory in the clan.

This incident should be remembered by the older people in our village, because we all drank that slightly musty paste back then.

The taste is a little worse, but it does make it hungry.

There is no way now, the ancestral hall has been looted cleanly, and I can't arrange what my ancestors left behind.

If you don't say it directly, but take it out secretly, you don't know what you say!

There is another thing, what happened in the ancestral hall today, you are not allowed to tell outsiders, don't say it to people from other villages, even the mother-in-law at home is not allowed to say it.

It's life-saving.

Whoever says it will starve to death!"

Wang Haihua was a little worried and admonished again, although he knew that there should not be such a stupid person, but it was difficult to guarantee that no one would suddenly have a bad brain and would not be pitied by others.

So, there are some things that need to be reminded.

In the case of such a total famine, it is more important to preserve oneself, and as for the other villagers, that is the responsibility of the state.

Everyone is not a person who does not know the importance of the matter, so naturally they are guaranteed again and again.

Then, with a slightly relaxed expression, he disbanded and left.

As for the 1,000 catties of relief grain, it was finally decided to put it in the canteen, because it was not easy to divide it, and this 1,000 catties of relief grain had both coarse grain and fine grain, although there were very few fine grains, but there were also dozens of catties.

It is not easy to find out what proportion of coarse grains and fine grains should be divided and how much each household should share.

Therefore, it is better to put it directly in the cafeteria for everyone to eat together, at least it will not continue to rip off.

Wang Xin didn't know about these circumstances, and he was not qualified to participate in the meeting in the ancestral hall at all.

Don't talk about him, his eldest brother is not qualified to participate, so their family went to one, that is, his father Wang Daniu.

Previously, everyone in the ancestral hall had promised that they would not spread the news, so when Wang Daniu came back, he didn't tell what happened in the ancestral hall.

just said with a smile on his face that the problem could be solved, and the village chief could ensure that everyone would not starve to death, and as for the slightest bit of it, he would not say anything.

Wang Xin didn't know at all, he was still kindly trying to find a way to sow all kinds of seeds on the mountain.

Because he can only do this step while preserving himself, and no matter how much he does, there is no way at all.

Although he pitied others, it was obvious that he still paid more attention to his own life than his own life.

As for why he kept sprinkling all kinds of cold-tolerant plant seeds on the mountain, he was just uneasy and guilty.

Sowing these seeds will make him feel a little more comfortable, and he will think in his mind that I have done something for them, and I have done my best.

In this way, you will not feel guilty, or you will not feel too guilty.

I have to say that he is still quite poor in terms of temperament, he is really just the temperament of an ordinary civilian, and he has no meaning of being a hero or a strong man.

……

Next, it got worse.

At the beginning of September, it rained heavily, and everyone was very happy, thinking that God was finally going to let them go.

But who knows, the rain never stopped, and it continued until the end of September, and although it did not become a major flood that drowned them all, the autumn harvest was completely lost.

Originally, the sweet potatoes that were specially planted for drought were almost rotten and dead.

As for rice.

It is true that rice needs water, but it does not need water that almost submerges them.

This time, it was really nothing.

At this moment, no captain dared to report the data blindly, and everyone united again to go to the People's Commune to ask for relief.

The results certainly won't be much better.

After all, because of the people's communization movement and the launch of satellites, the grain production of the whole country has been reduced.

In addition, natural disasters have been relatively frequent in the past two years, and the whole country is short of food.

So, there is no food at all.

The first thing the state needs to ensure is the food supply of several large cities, such as Kyoto, Huhai and other areas.

They don't have to get food in these remote areas, even urban residents, let alone rural areas.

In these areas, there has been almost no increase in mortality for three years, or very low.

Do you know what the price to pay is?

The price paid is that the mortality rate of the land of abundance is more than 34%, and the total population has decreased by more than 6 million.

Because, the food they eat is forcibly drawn from the land of abundance.

When most of the land of abundance fell into drought, more than 10 billion catties of grain were still forcibly transferred.

Can the mortality rate not be high?

When food was scarce, most villages began to dig up grass roots to eat tree bark, and more and more people were swollen and starved to death.

Sometimes, the body is not buried.

Or, a newborn child can ......

The ancestral hall in Wangjia Village finally collapsed.

There was no way, the villagers really had nothing to eat.

Of course, even with nearly 100,000 grain bricks in his hands, the old village chief only gave them very few things each time, only to ensure that they would not starve to death.

Because they have to go with the flow.

When everyone is hungry and thin-skinned, they must be like that, otherwise, isn't that clearly telling others that they still have something to eat?

In order to ensure safety and not to be obtrusive, eating only a little at a time to stay alive is something that all the villagers agree on.

By the end of December, nearly two adults had died in some villages, and when everyone was almost desperate and even desperate, relief food was finally allocated.

Wang Xin finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Recently, he has been really depressed, and even wanted to exchange all the money in his card for food countless times and secretly threw it out.

In the end, he still suppressed his heart.

He has to think about himself, he has to think about his family.

Those were not his responsibility in the first place.

At that time, he could only hypnotize himself through such hypnosis, and hypnotize himself not to see those tragic conditions.

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(PS: I've been a little depressed to check the information recently, and I'll fast forward to end the three years tomorrow, otherwise I'm going to be depressed!)