Natural disasters are a tiger that cannot be fed, especially when people neglect to take precautions, it is even more unscrupulous, and it eats people, which is more powerful than a real tiger. First of all, there was a big smelting of steel, and each family contributed all the iron tools in their homes, and the pig iron pot was divided into two and thrown into the earthen iron-making furnace to make steel. The output of the ground is also blowing higher and higher, from 1,000 catties to 30,000 catties, "how bold the people are, how productive the land is". That's the slogan of the time. Children are not sensible, just follow the adults to watch the excitement, the village set up a large canteen, and every household distributes meal tickets. Go to the brigade canteen with a meal ticket to receive dry rations. There are also food tickets, and you can get the dishes, which is quite effortless. When people go to work in the fields for a day, they don't have to go home to cook by themselves, they go directly to the canteen to cook and cook, and the housewives can't keep their mouths shut. It's just that the good times didn't last long, and God was blind and made a three-year natural disaster. The Chinese have always had the habit of storing grain for every household, but they have only caused the collective canteens to get carried away and forget this ancient precept of "guarding against cheapness every year and guarding against thieves every night." Only then did they suffer a big loss. The canteen is still the same canteen, but the supply of dry food is getting less and less. In the most difficult time, each person can only receive one sweet potato face nest per day. Three meals and one nest, is it possible? Of course not enough. So, people went around digging wild vegetables to fill their bellies. The big poplar tree on Zhangbei Road has just sprouted, and it is not much bigger than the old cat's ears at that time, and it has already been plucked by people. Li Er's father, Uncle Li, saw that the signs were wrong, there were ten people in the family, how could they eat these ten nests a day. Hurry up and find the ancestral tofu burden from the small west house, set the stove and pot, and open the tofu. This work is in the water, and it goes in the pulp. Turning beans into tofu and then putting on manual labor does not count as money, and the whole sun and rain are sold along the street, and the money from selling tofu is bought into beans, almost not a penny. Say you don't earn it? The remaining half of the tofu dregs is the earnings. Although tofu residue is not nutritious, it is also made of grain, and with it, you can save your life.

The huge family was not so lucky. First of all, the huge master was dismissed from the errand of watching the field by Captain Wang, which was all the year before last when the huge warp injured the fat bean, and the fat bean took the opportunity to blow the pillow wind to Captain Wang, which is why the huge master was dismissed. This hateful long-tongued woman, her evil anger is out, but she can make the big family's family miserable. First of all, the big master was angry and hooked up the tuberculosis for many years. Later, due to malnutrition and edema all over the body, several nest leaders came back, he looked at the two brothers of the huge Pang Er, this is the hope of the family, you have to eat, and then see the little daughter Xiao Taohong snuggled on the edge of the chair she was sitting on, Chu Chu was pitiful, those little eyes stared at the black nest heads in her hands without blinking, the daughter is young, how can she do without food, she has to eat. Then he turned to look at his wife, who went to work hungry every day. In addition to work, before going home, I had to collect some firewood and carry it home, and I had to dig wild vegetables. In those days, digging wild vegetables was similar to digging ginseng in the Northeast now. The head of a little wild vegetable in the flat ground is slightly exposed to the ground, and it has long been discovered, and the person who digs the wild vegetable is digging it with the roots. It's not just eating wild vegetables, but eating the long white roots. In this way, wild vegetables were found to be missing one by one. It became a vicious circle, and by the spring of the following year, there was almost no trace of wild vegetables in the field, and whoever went out to work could dig up three or five wild plants with long roots, and that was a great thing. The huge lady with a sallow face, the huge master handed over the remaining half of the nest. With tears in her eyes, the huge mother pushed the nest head to the huge master again. My man is sick, how can he survive until tomorrow when the canteen is open if he doesn't eat? She felt that the world was spinning, and she couldn't move her feet, but she still held on, drank a bowl of hot water, propped up her intestines, and lay on the kang in a sweat. Master Pangda broke half of the nest in half, kept half of it for himself, handed half to Pangniang, and motioned for her to eat it. At first, the big mother didn't eat, and she couldn't stand her husband repeatedly handing over the nest head, and when she pushed it for the fourth time, she silently took it in her hand, and ate the small piece of the nest head like a dragon banquet. Seeing her eat up the nest, the big man was satisfied, and he lay down beside his wife, his hand on his wife's shoulder. The two of them have not been so comfortable for many years, snuggling up and sleeping together. When she woke up, her husband was gone, she thought that her husband was going to relieve him, and she didn't care, but after a long time, she felt that something was wrong. Especially last night, her husband's slightly trembling hands, the loving eyes when she was told to eat the nest head, she was startled, and hurriedly rushed out of the door, she saw her husband --- him, he had hanged himself in the middle of the night, just on the tree in the middle of the yard, the whole family cried together, the cry was earth-shattering, miserable, heart-wrenching, alarmed the neighbors, everyone put the big man down, people were already cold. Everyone pinched and pushed the back to wake up the huge mother, and then helped to handle the funeral. Poor Master Pang, before he died, he still stuffed that piece of nest head into the hands of Da Da Niang, and the love between husband and wife was deep. He would rather be a starving ghost on Huangquan Road, but also let his wife eat more, he knows that after his death, the burden of the family falls on his wife alone, what a pressure on her, half a nest head to his wife, would rather die than drag down his family, huge master, you are a real man! We, the younger generations who are still alive, admire you and bow to you, you are the best man in our East and the best husband in the world.

Many years later, the fat bean got off the whirlwind, the corners of his mouth were raised to the upper right, and he couldn't come to many big hospitals, and the shape, at first glance, looked like a woman whispering to others, and she was afraid that outsiders would hear it, is this an explanation from God to the big man?

The reality is getting worse and worse, not long after the death of the big man, due to the long-term lack of food, Pang Er became crazy, he stared at the blood-red eyes all day long, no matter who he saw in his hand to eat, he would go up and grab it, and the children of the neighbors in the neighborhood would run away when they saw him. Huge bigger than him, he couldn't grab it, so he grabbed his sister Xiao Pink, and when Dang Niang went to the cafeteria to bring back the nest leader and distribute it to the three children, she had to be very careful. Huge took the head of the nest, turned around and ran, eating as he ran. Pang Er has a big mouth and gives him a nest head, the big mother hasn't handed the other half to Xiao Taohong, Pang Er's nest head has been stuffed into his mouth first, he reached out and grabbed it in Xiao Taohong's hand, Xiao Taohong is a girl, and she is young, how can she take Pang Er, who is like a wolf and a tiger? was robbed repeatedly, she was anxious and cried loudly, but what could she cry onto, Pang Er swallowed her dry food in two bites. Huge Niang can't do it, the palms and backs of the hands are all your own, which finger can't bite?

Xiao Taohong hadn't eaten for three days, and she was hungry and came to the courtyard of the Kidnapper Primary School, leaning softly against the root of the east wall, and slowly fainted. A lot of flies circled around her, and a green bean fly lay motionless in the corner of her eye, like a maggot.

Every morning, Li Er takes half of his nest head and half of his tofu dregs to school to eat. On this day, he saw Xiao Taohong lying there still in two classes, so he took advantage of the break to push her. He pushed, and the little peach's body fell limply down the wall. Li Er was startled, and reached out to try her snort, and there was still a trace of breath. He hurriedly called out to the huge and asked what was going on. Huge and sputtered about Pang Er's snatching of little pink dry food. Li Er asked him, "Why don't you give her something to eat?" ”

Huge lowered his head and replied in a low voice: "I can't eat enough, I can't take care of her." ”

Hearing this, Li Erqi kicked down the huge one, and scolded angrily: "Bad seed, you don't save your sister, which classmate is in trouble in the future, can you sacrifice your life to save you?" You're not human, you're a dog with no tail! ”

After school at noon, everyone left the school one after another, and Li Er didn't want to eat half of the nest he brought from home. He twisted the nest head into the size of a small Chinese medicine pill, round and slippery, and put it into the little peach's mouth one by one. At first, Xiao Taohong didn't open her mouth, so Li Er put the first one in her mouth and waited, wiped Xiao Taohong's face clean with his cuffs, and waved his hand to drive away the flies flying around. Maybe it was the lure of food, maybe it was the sky with eyes, little peach should not die, her mouth moved, and she ate the first nest pill, followed by the second and third, and when the last pill was sent into her mouth, she slowly opened her eyes. Seeing that Li Er was feeding her "wow" and crying, Li Er wiped away her tears and comforted her: "Eat, after eating Wotou, I still have a large piece of tofu dregs, half of us." ”

Xiao Taohong ate the tofu scum dumplings that Li Er gave her in her mouth, and tears kept pouring out of her eyes, could she not cry? 's own brother, even his own mother, didn't save his life, and Li Er, an elder brother and classmate who was not related to his relatives and had no reason, gave himself the nest head to save his life and saved his life, what kind of love is this! Although she didn't understand these things when she was young, she felt that Li Er was closer than her own mother and brother. She cried and shouted: "Second brother Li, you are my own brother." The word "pro" is added in front of this brother to express the gratitude of the little peach from the bottom of her heart. She hugged Li Er and cried like a tearful person, and finally fainted from crying. It is with this section that she has recognized Li Er, her own brother, all her life, and she would rather die for him. This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

In the next few days, Li Er gave Xiao Peach half of the nest he brought to eat, and then divided the half of the tofu scum dumpling he brought into two and ate it separately with Xiao Pink. A few days later, the little peach gradually recovered. Li Er also used a glass bottle to fill some syrup from the tofu at home to remove the fire for Xiao Taohong, so that Xiao Taohong's body recovered faster.

Li Er saved Xiao Taohong's life, but he himself was getting thinner and thinner, first his legs were weak, and then he looked at things and shook, although he always had a big mouthful of nests in his schoolbag after school for him to fill his hunger, but after all, it was too little to save his life. Many years later, I realized that a large mouthful of nests in his schoolbag was secretly put in his schoolbag by a female teacher, which was a kindness from the teacher, and the teacher couldn't eat enough, and left him a big mouthful of nests, which is a lot of teacher-student affection. It was the female teacher who saw his rescue of Xiao Taohong clearly, she was afraid that Li Erzhen would be starved to death, so she did this, female teacher, you are the best teacher in the world!

Before school was over, Li Er was sent home. Uncle Li, who had just entered the house selling tofu, saw his son like this, and quickly ordered his wife to make a fire and make tofu in advance. Tofu is usually made in the second half of the night, and it is finished just in the morning, so that it can be picked out early in the morning to be sold back. This morning, the bean juice had already boiled well in the first half of the night, Uncle Li didn't care about ordering tofu, so he hurriedly filled half a bowl of bean juice, blowing it was neither cold nor hot, and tried to pour it into Li Er, and Li Er slowly woke up. When I opened my eyes and looked at my father, two lines of hot tears flowed down my cheeks silently. I basically didn't eat for six days, although my life was not lost, but the vitality of my body was greatly injured, and I was tortured by Zhang Fengxian in Hebei for three days and three nights, so that his vitality was almost exhausted, no matter how he took care of it later, he could not recover these two fatal injuries, so that he was less than a year old, and he was riddled with a variety of diseases, which was directly related to the rescue of Xiao Taohong who almost starved to death this time.

Huge Niang thought that Little Peach would starve to death, but she didn't die, and her face became more and more beautiful. learned from the huge mouth that it was Li Er who sacrificed his life to save him, so he was grateful. Whenever Li Er came to play at home, as long as there was a little bit of delicious food, she would not hesitate to take it out for Li Er to eat, and she had been doing this for many years. In her heart, Li Er is not only her son's classmate, but also her daughter's life-saving benefactor, and a little man worthy of her admiration.

Besides, Pang Er, even if he ate Xiao Taohong's rations, he still didn't have enough, the children next to him saved their strength and couldn't run, but he couldn't, he couldn't control himself, he was hungry all day long, and he wanted to bite when he was hungry. After thinking about it, she changed her original mind, she wanted to give up Xiao Taohong to protect Pang Er, but Xiao Taohong saved Li Er, and Li Er insisted on giving Xiao Taohong a part of the dry food and tofu dregs every day. Even if Xiao Taohong doesn't eat the dry food at home, she can't keep Pang Er.

When she got up that morning, Da Da Niang said to Da Da and Xiao Taohong: "Today you two are hungry for a day, go to school, my mother has something to do." Huge wanted to bargain, but was scolded by Dang Niang: "You don't even give your own sister a mouthful of dry food, she calls you brother in vain, you are a man compared to Li Erlai, it is really a heaven and an underground, think about it." ”

Huge led Xiao Taohong to the school, opened the door of the classroom, and Li Er then arrived at the school. It just so happened that Uncle Li sold more than four taels of tofu yesterday, and each child was divided into a small piece. Li Er divided the tofu he brought into three parts, picked up a larger one and gave it to Xiao Taohong and put it in her mouth, Xiao Taohong was willing to swallow it, and jumped in circles in the classroom with it in her mouth, she regained her innocent nature. Li Er, you are a good person who saves people's lives, wins the seventh-level floating slaughter, and has immeasurable merits.

The three of them shared the dry food and tofu brought by Li Er, and they were so satisfied that he swore to Li Er: He will also do his best to take care of his sister in the future.

Xiao Taohong listened happily, and she said, "I have two brothers, and a brother who is closer than my brother." "After that, Xiao Taohong called Li Erqin brother, this name has been decades, and it is still called today, you say, is this thing touching?

Dang Niang washed Pang Er clean at home, changed into his New Year's clothes, and put his clothes into the only new burden in the family, took out the family's rations, and let Pang Er eat to his heart's content, and then led him out of the village and went straight to Zhangdian Railway Station along the main road. Outside the station gate, the huge mother tied the burden obliquely to Pang Er, and led him into the station, and got on the platform for a train that was about to start. got into the carriage, and the huge lady found a seat for Pang Er to sit down. She took out the scissors, cut off a small handful of hair from the inconspicuous place on the top of Pang Er's head and held it in her hand, kissed Pang Er's forehead, and got off the train without looking back. Then he grabbed the handful of hair and went home crying, poor Pang Er embarked on a long journey, and could never go home again, where did the train take him, no one knows so far, maybe he is now sitting in a nursing home in the distance.

Pangniang cried and returned home, wrapped Pang Er's hair with a clean red cloth, carried it in her arms, came to her own cemetery, picked up the soil of Pang's grave, buried Pang Er's hair in it, and muttered to the grave: "Old man, I can't do this, I can't do this, I'm waiting for starvation at home, it's better to let him escape for his life, you two are waiting for me below, after I die, the three of us will meet, and I will kneel down to you to make amends." ”

When Pangniang returned home, the sky was already dark, and she saw the two children of Pangda and Xiao Taohong, but Pang Er was missing, Pangniang was sad for a while, she took the two children into her arms and cried loudly, think about it, can she not feel uncomfortable?

The superiors knew the real situation here, and soon allocated relief food, the canteen was canceled, and the families distributed the food at will. In addition, the higher authorities called on the villagers to use a variety of fast-growing vegetables in their own fields, such as spinach, lettuce, pumpkin, winter melon, etc., and provide seeds for free, which can be harvested in dozens of days. Solved the crisis of the East Kidnapper. It turned out that Wang Shengli, the captain of the brigade who concealed the truth, was removed from his post for reflection and no longer served as a village cadre.