After more than a month, the weather slowly began to get colder, and these 'grasshoppers' all over the mountains began to die gradually. The poor peasants wanted to cry without tears, and the winter wheat, corn, sorghum and other crops they had worked so hard to plant and had placed great hopes on had long since disappeared without a trace.

At the same time, all the leaves and wild vegetables that can be eaten all over the mountains and fields have been eaten by these gnawers, and not even a single wild grass is left. This blow finally became the last straw that pressed on all the peasants, and the number of people fleeing the famine in the various villages began to increase again. Slowly became the escape of the whole village and the whole villager. Those who did not flee formed bandit groups and began to rob large households everywhere.

As more and more people fled the famine, the Japanese army and the puppet government did not want to take on the responsibility of pacifying these victims, so they did not stop them from fleeing. It only prevents these victims from fleeing to the areas they occupy, and forces them to flee to the areas ruled by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. This is also a way to throw trouble on the other side. What's more, the three of them are now fighting to the death, creating some trouble for each other, so as to relieve their own pressure.

Both poor and wealthy households in the county town began to pack up their belongings and began to flee the famine. The poor have to leave because they have nothing to eat! The wealthy, on the other hand, are afraid of becoming fat in the eyes of the victims and being robbed and killed. Because during this period of time, the robbery of large households by the victims in the city happened every day, and now the Japanese troops and puppet soldiers stationed in this city have no way to stop this increasingly fierce robbery.

Xiao Ju Niang had already taken a pair of children to harvest the radishes and potatoes planted in the two fields in the yard, and Xiao Ju had already put all the things that could be eaten at home in a small space, and took out as much as she ate. Listening to the footsteps and cries that passed by outside the hospital every day, as well as the miserable cries and begs for mercy of the robbed people in the county, everyone in Xiaoju's family had a heavy and struggling on their faces.

On this day, after eating breakfast silently, Xiao Ju Niang said with a resolute face: "Xiao Ju, let's go too!" Although we have food, but now it's so messy, I'm worried that someone will find out about the abnormality in the family, and it's hard to say whether the three people in the family will survive by then! Your sister and brother are the heart and soul of your mother, and your mother will protect you no matter what! ”

"Mother, I want to leave too, but now where there is food is not far from us, we don't know at all! Where to escape? At this time, she only felt a headache, in her heart, she didn't want to run away at all, she just wanted to hide in this courtyard and survive this time.

Because she knew better than anyone else that there was no way out for them as escapees, not to mention that the rulers of various cities would not accept them, who would bring them all kinds of hidden dangers and troubles, even if they were willing to accept them, and they did not have the ability to settle these huge numbers of disaster victims. What's more, Henan is still a battlefield between the national army and the Japanese army, and artillery is flying everywhere, where can you escape?

But she also knows that what her mother said is very right, now the victims here have no hope of life, and the puppet government has no rescue and pacification measures, and then they are encouraged by people with intentions, they will only become more and more crazy, who knows what will happen next? It's also not safe for them to hide in the small courtyard!

Xiao Ju only felt that Lao Tzu was really going to force people to a dead end this day, and even she felt cornered, not to mention those victims who didn't have three meals a day?

Xiao Ju Niang listened to Xiao Ju's words and felt that it made sense, but she secretly went out to see it, and now everyone has fled, and in just a few days, most of the people in the county town are empty, so why is she not in a hurry? How can you have peace of mind?

"Xiaoju, it doesn't matter where he flees, then we will follow others!" Xiao Ju Niang saw Xiao Ju sitting at the kang table with a calm face, and she didn't come up with an idea for a long time, so she opened her mouth and said what she was planning to do.

"Follow someone else? Mother, look at the three of us, two of them are still children, and although you are an adult, you are a woman, and there is also a lot of chaos outside, can you protect it? Xiao Ju looked at her mother helplessly.

After listening to Xiao Ju's words, Xiao Ju Niang was dumbfounded, what can I do? Zhuang Zhuang saw that his mother and Sister A were both sad faces, and asked a little puzzled: "Mother, Sister, where are we going?" Isn't it good to stay in this small courtyard? ”

"It's good, but Sister wants to go to other places with you to see, when we are strong, we can not only study, but also have meat to eat every day!" Xiaoju didn't want to make Zhuangzhuang's disaster-stricken childhood, which had no color, even worse, so she laughed at Mimi's coaxing.

"Sister, don't treat me as a child, I already know what you and your mother are worried about! Aren't grandma, grandfather, and Uncle Liu Zhu very good to us? Can we go to them? The two round black eyes stared at Xiao Ju with some annoyance, and the little face was full of unhappy looks.

It was really a word to wake up the dreamer, Xiao Ju Niang and Xiao Ju looked at each other and smiled, and praised at the same time: "Zhuang Zhuang is so smart!" After receiving the praise, the unhappiness in his heart immediately dissipated, and his face was full of joy. Xiao Ju saw it, and said secretly in her heart: I also said that I am not a child, happy or unhappy, people can see it at a glance! Do you want people to be adults when you're an adult?

Xiao Juniang's sorrow for a few days was solved by Zhuangzhuang's sentence, and she was very happy, and the sadness on her face dissipated, and she began to pack up her baggage happily. But Xiaoju went to the kitchen to prepare to fry more vegetable cakes, everyone carried some on their backs, and put some in the space, so that they could make dry food on the road, and at the same time, as long as they avoided a little when eating, they could also avoid people's eyes.

Now there are more than ten jars of 'grasshopper' sauce in Xiaoju's small space, as well as several large baskets of 'grasshoppers' that are fried fragrantly, plus the grain and vegetables she has grown in the space in the past two years, even if you add the people from her grandmother's family, it should be no problem to last for a year!

Her age is still too young, and the three acres of land planted in a small space almost cost her life. It was her time to turn over the ground with a hoe every night, and then harvest it herself, and the hardships were really indescribable. This god, send her a space where she can't cheat, isn't this deliberately manipulating her? But thinking about the victims who had not been found for three meals, Xiaoju was happy and grateful in her heart.

Soon Xiao Ju Niang collected three packages, which were used to hide people's eyes and ears on her back, and there were a few changes of clothes inside. And Xiao Ju also got the pancakes to prepare. Wrap them separately and stuff them in separate packages. Then I took everything I could take away from home and received it into a small space miscellaneous room. The girl put the package on her back, locked the door, and hurried out of the city.