Chapter 51: Escaping the Famine (2)

(Add more to the little things of the Whiskers)

When Liu Zhu returned to the shelter where the second sister's family stayed, he saw the second sister and her nephew sleeping heavily under the quilt, while the little adult-like niece Xiao Ju was sitting there, although her head nodded more happily than a chicken pecking rice, but she was still holding on there.

He leaned over gently, wanting to help Xiao Ju lie down and sleep. Unexpectedly, before his hand touched Xiao Ju, her eyes opened, and the person subconsciously shrank back, and at the same time, there was a vigilant look at him in his eyes. He hurriedly said, "Xiaoju, I'm my uncle!" Don't be afraid! ”

Xiaoju seemed to be asleep, feeling that someone was approaching her, she subconsciously stepped back, and then tried to open her heavy eyelids, maybe she didn't wake up and was sleepy, but she vaguely saw a tall figure stretching out her hand towards her, and she was frightened, but there was no trace of sleepiness. At this time, when he heard Liu Zhu's words, he came back to his senses.

"Uncle, it's you! Didn't eat, did you? Xiao Ju sat up straight as she spoke, so as to give up her place for Liu Zhu. This shelter is still too small.

"Well, I'm not hungry!" In fact, when Liu Zhu greeted his father and mother in the past, everyone was eating, and no one except his father and mother opened his mouth to ask him to eat. However, his share has long been hacked by anyone, because he saw that the food basket was empty. Daddy wanted to give him the straw ball in his hand, but he refused. It's just that the second sister prepared his food.

When my father and mother heard him say that the second sister had something to eat, she let go of a matter in her heart, and asked him to hurry over to guard the second sister's family, after all, a woman with two children, see that these places are all fleeing from the famine, so don't be bullied by others. First, he was worried about the second sister and the two sensible children, and second, he didn't want to see the faces of his brothers and sisters-in-law, so he didn't say anything, turned around and left.

Xiao Ju looked at her uncle's depressed look, and at the same time, she didn't need her super hearing to hear the 'gurgling' sound from the other party's stomach, how could she not understand it in her heart. Hurriedly took out a few vegetable cakes that had been left early and handed them over, "Uncle, we are all full!" This is left to you! ”

Liu Zhu took the cakes, and the person became a little stupid, and at the same time, the eye circles began to slowly turn red, and he called out in a choked voice, "Xiaoju!" Xiao Ju knew what he was thinking, but he still told again: "Uncle, you don't have to worry!" We still have something to eat! It also guarantees you food every day, but you can't talk to anyone! Grandparents can't even say it! ”

"I know!" In the dark, Liu Zhu couldn't see Xiao Ju's expression clearly, but from her tone, he also felt the importance of this matter, so he responded in a hoarse voice. At the same time, he quickly stuffed the few cakes in his hand into his mouth.

In the past year, he has never had a full stomach, and he is in a state of hunger every day. I have a crazy obsession with food, and I can't wait to stuff everything I see and eat into my stomach. Only at noon today, with the second sister's family, can I be regarded as filling my stomach that has been empty for a long time a little more comfortably. But now that I've been walking for most of the day, I'm already hungry and hurting.

Xiao Ju's vision is different from ordinary people, she saw the wolfing uncle, she knew that it was because she was hungry, and she didn't speak, just took out the water bladder placed beside her, and asked while handing it over: "Uncle, do you know where everyone is going to flee the famine?" ”

"This" Liu Zhu swallowed the big mouthful of bread in his mouth, opened the water bladder that Xiao Ju put in his other hand, and drank a few sips of water before he continued: "I don't know this very well!" But from the direction we are going today, it should be to Zhengzhou. ”

"Uncle, Zhengzhou has been in drought for two years like ours, and this year it should have been plagued by insects, right? What's the use of running that? "Xiaoju is really puzzled, tired and tired, it is better to stay at home and wait for death! At least it's a little more comfortable to die.

"Of course, you don't go there to stay there and wait to die. When we got to Zhengzhou, we moved on to other places. And it's good to get to Zhengzhou! Then you won't have to walk! Find a way to climb on the train, you can get out of this place where you don't even get grass, and everyone can live! Liu Zhu's words revealed a kind of longing.

Xiao Ju listened to her uncle's words, frowned and carefully recalled in her mind the escape route of those victims who watched "1942" back then: At that time, most of the victims from various counties should have gathered in Zhengzhou, because the Longhai line from Luoyang to Zhengzhou was cut off by the Nationalist government at that time in order to block the Japanese soldiers, so there was no train to take in Zhengzhou, and my uncle's idea seemed to be in vain.

I remember that the victims in the film found that there was no train to take after arriving in Zhengzhou, so they walked all the way to Luoyang along the west, and then escaped from Luoyang to Tongguan by train.

It's just that Luoyang is the seat of the Henan Provincial National Government, and it is also the seat of Tang Enbo's 31st Regiment. The military discipline of Tang Enbo's troops is not recorded in history, and the most important thing is that Tang Enbo is not a good person.

According to historical records, in 1932, when Tang Enbo was the commander of the 89th Division, he led his troops to participate in the fourth 'encirclement and suppression' of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui revolutionary base areas

Xiao Ju thought of this, and made a big fork in his heart about this place in Luoyang, at this time Luoyang is Tang Boen's territory, it is conceivable that these disaster victims are pouring in, like Tang Boen, an inhuman ruffian, will not let the disaster victims enter Luoyang City at all.

But Luoyang is the primary channel for the victims to flee the famine, and there will definitely be a conflict with the army stationed in the city. And the people in the family are either small or weak, and if they are not careful, they will either become the ghosts of the guns of the defenders of the city, or they will be trampled to death by the victims, or they will become the ghosts of the cars when they climb the train.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ju couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart, no, she resolutely disagreed to go that route. She wants her mother and Zhuang Zhuang to accompany her through this life safely.

"Uncle, is there no other way to leave Henan?" Xiao Ju thought about it for a while, but unfortunately the little geography knowledge she learned in modern times had already been returned to the teacher, so she had no choice but to ask Liu Zhu.

"We can also go to Xuchang and then to Nanyang! It's just that this road is more difficult to walk, and there are battles everywhere, mainly because there are no trains along the way, and it all depends on your feet! On the way, I have to look around for food, which is not ordinary hard work! Liu Zhu thought for a while, and his eyes widened as he answered, wanting to see Xiao Ju's expression through the darkness.

He didn't understand, why did his niece ask these at such a young age? The nephews in the Xiang family are older than Xiaoju, but they only fight for food and nonsense every day, but she thinks more than adults. Judging from today's situation, the second sister seems to be in charge of this little child who is less than eight years old, and it is hard to believe it.