Later, Zhang Xing paid attention, and sure enough, she saw the pair of brothers many times at the back of the team. The wound on the elder brother's forehead had healed, leaving a scar the size of a lentil, which was connected down to the corner of his eye, adding a bit of gloom to the originally handsome face. The two brothers had moon-white plain weave dark flower soft satin clothes that were unrecognizable, and their capes were scattered, just like the beggars all over the ground nowadays.

After more than half a month, I finally arrived in Huaiyang, but I saw that the city was densely packed with homeless people, which was spectacular and huge, and there were countless people. Zhang Xing was stunned in her heart. Zhang Shuisheng was afraid that his daughter would get separated, so he carried the burden, held the younger daughter tightly with one hand, and instructed the eldest daughter: "Xing'er, hold on to your sister, don't disperse." ”

It was getting late, and everyone in Quantang Town was busy looking for a place to stay. It's just that they came late, and under the wall, in the broken temple, a group of good people have already been bullied. After dragging the children and daughters around, they found a dry clearing about a few hundred steps below the city, and several families set up their own tents.

Zhang Xing divided the leftover wild vegetable soup from the morning into three portions and used it with her father and sister. Zhang Shuisheng had to inquire about the news, and asked his two daughters to rest earlier, and he and Li Dazhu inquired about the news. When I came back from a busy night, my daughter Zhang Xing hadn't slept yet, so she sat on the grass mat and took a big leaf and tied it into a pu fan to chase mosquitoes for her sister. When he saw him come back, he immediately brought out a basin of hot water and asked him to soak his feet.

Zhang Shuisheng took off his straw sandals and soaked his feet in hot water, and put wormwood in the water, and the fragrance of grass invaded his bones with the heat, and half of the fatigue of the whole day was suddenly gone. Zhang Xing took a pu fan to his father to repel mosquitoes and fanned the wind, and asked, "Dad, how is it?

Zhang Shuisheng nodded and said, "Yes, yes, but only once a day, if you can arrange it, if you can't arrange it, you won't have it." Zhang Xing's subordinates froze and said, "Then I'll take my sister there early tomorrow." ”

Zhang Shuisheng touched his daughter's head and said with a smile: "Just take your sister tomorrow, Dad." "My daughter went, it was useless to grab it early, this porridge was said to be the first to be served, in fact, everything is not a fist to speak, whoever is ruthless can take the lead.

Zhang Shuisheng soaked his feet and lay down to settle down, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, the sky was getting hotter and hotter, the ground had been exposed to the sun for several days, and the heat was steaming up along the grass mat, and people were like lying in the fire and roasting, which was extremely uncomfortable. Zhang Shuisheng tossed and turned for a while before he fell into a dream. In the dream, he carried the burden and took his two daughters through the crowd, it was hot for many days, and he felt extremely thirsty, but he couldn't find the Dazhu family.

was so busy that his throat was smoking, and suddenly a person fell at his feet and shouted: "The master, the master, can be regarded as finding you." ”

He looked down and saw that it was Ye Hexiang, but the mother-in-law was empty-handed. He was full of surprise and became frightened again, grabbed the woman, and asked, "Where is Jinbao?

Ye Hexiang howled and cried, hugged his leg and said: "Boss, don't blame me, don't blame me, Jinbao is disobedient, he always cries, always shouts hungry, but I have no choice, everything I eat has been snatched away, I am a woman, I can do it, I am also hungry." ”

Zhang Shuisheng felt that he was going crazy, grabbed the mother-in-law, gritted his teeth and asked, "You stupid woman, what happened to Jinbao?"

"I, I gave Jinbao away. The family has food, but lacks a son. Ye Hexiang cried and shouted, "Jinbao follows that family to eat and drink, and the house is ......."

Zhang Shuisheng kicked at Ye Hexiang, only to feel that his heart began to hurt, other families lack sons, is there too much in his family? Jinbao is also his only son. This mother-in-law, who first lost her two daughters, and now even her own son has to be given away, this kind of vain motherhood thing really deserves to be beaten to death!

Zhang Shuisheng was so angry that he woke up from his dream all of a sudden. The night is deep, the bright moon is in the sky, the noisy and noisy day has finally stopped, there are many people lying on the ground, not far away I don't know which child is crying, the mother softly soothes and comes intermittently, and the voice is blank and empty and can be heard from afar.

Zhang Shuisheng sighed and turned his head to look. The straw mat not far from him snuggled up to his two daughters, and although the arms of the eldest daughter were short, they still tightly circled the younger daughter. His two daughters were already thinner than the others, especially the eldest daughter, who was a head taller than her in the same year. In the past few months, the eldest daughter has been even thinner, and her arm is only covered with skin and bones, which is white and jagged, which makes his heart ache and sore.

Zhang Shuisheng couldn't leave his two daughters, but he was really worried about Ye Hexiang, so he searched everywhere every day after grabbing porridge, only hoping that Ye Hexiang would also come to Huaiyang and let him find him. However, he ran everywhere outside Huaiyang City, but he didn't find anyone.

As the number of displaced people outside Huaiyang City gathered, and food became more and more scarce, Mr. Wan of the Jishi Pharmacy in Quantang Town exchanged his young and beautiful steproom for two flatbreads. The woman was dragged away with her son in her arms and wept so much that she was broken.

Huaiyang City is heavily guarded, and you can't get in when you are idle. Two porridge sheds in the west and south of the city give porridge once a day, and the porridge can still see a few grains of boiled rice at the beginning, and later, the clear one can see the figure of the person, and this is also robbed by everyone. Gangs and food grabbing have become commonplace, and the Quantang gang composed of Zhang Shuisheng, Li Dazhu and others also joined the fighting, and sometimes dozens of people fought for a bowl of gruel that could be seen by people.

Zhang Xing's collection of wild vegetables and grass roots has been eaten, her father may not be able to bring back food every day, the bark and grass roots several miles away from Huaiyang City have been stripped and eaten, and there is no green in sight, she has to get up early every day, and take her sister to go far and wide to find food that can satisfy her stomach. Suddenly, one day, Li Cui's forcibly pulled the two sisters back.

She whispered, "Do you dare to run away?

Zhang Xingchu didn't understand the meaning of this at first, and said blankly: "Lost?"

Li Hongshi pulled her over, sighed, raked Zhang Xingxing's yellow hair with her thin hand, and whispered: "Girl, I know that you are a sensible person, and I feel sorry for my father and sister, but it is really not peaceful now." The children said they were lost, but they could never come back, but they were found, but I am afraid that they would only have one or two bones. ”

Zhang Xing was terrified, and suddenly understood. Li Hongshi asked his daughter-in-law to take the dried vegetable roots that contained half a basket, stuffed them into Zhang Xing's hand, and said, "Take it, your Grandma Li has nothing else." ”

Zhang Xing took the basket, took her sister back, sat blankly for a while, and rummaged in her broken basket like crazy, turned out an iron pestle eight or nine inches long, and grinded the slightly pointed end on the stone for a long time, until the skin was bloody, and then wrapped the pointed end and hid it in his sleeve.