It has been more than half a month since I left Hujiazhuang, and Liu Zhu's family at this time is already full of refugees, and they are all gray, and the four of them have not washed properly since they came out of Hujiazhuang for more than half a month. Because Liu Jian and Liu Hong were too young, they didn't travel fast all the way, coupled with the difficulty of the mountain road, and they had to be careful of the wolves, it took nearly five days just to cross the back mountain of Hujiazhuang.

"Dad! Mother! Where are we going? Liu Jian took He Xiaofeng's hand tightly and asked with a tired face. As for Liu Hong, she had already climbed on Liu Zhu's back at this time, drowsy in the hot summer sun. She was too young and hungry to walk all day except for the necessary rest and food.

"Ask your dad!" He Xiaofeng, who has always been a husband and a wife, was also a little angry with Liu Zhu, and the food he brought out was eaten up a week ago, and he almost relied on begging to get to the current place where there was no village and no store before. As for whether this was the direction to Kyoto, she didn't know at all.

"Jian'er, you've done a good job this way! Like a man! Liu Zhu glanced at his dark and thin son, and a hint of relief flashed in his eyes, Liu Jian's perseverance and not complaining all the way made him unable to be moved as a father, so he praised Liu Jian first, and then continued, "We are heading in the direction of Kyoto!" ”

"Dad, how long do we have to go?" When Liu Jian heard this, he only felt that his tired feet had strength again, Kyoto was a very beautiful place in his memory, where he could not only eat and dress warmly, but also have a beautiful house to live in. There are friends to play, and there is school. Since leaving Kyoto, all the qiē has also left their home.

"I don't know!" Liu Zhu's voice was muffled, along the way, what he saw and heard along the way made his heartache terrible, a man who didn't shed tears when he saw blood. Along the way, not only was there a severe drought everywhere, but the wheat in the field grew sparsely, even the villagers were yellow and thin, and many villages were like Hujiazhuang. Controls have been imposed. Villagers are not allowed to leave the village without permission, and in villages where control is not exercised, many villagers drag their families to other places to find a way to survive. In other places, people are already starving to death.

Liu Zhu believes that the leaders of Kyoto do not know about these actual situations at the grassroots level, and now they are full of false reports of singing and reciting virtues, and the shape is very good. At this time, Liu Zhu really hoped that he had the equipment in the hands of the war correspondents in the army. So that I can take pictures of the people I saw along the way. When the time comes, we should report these scenes truthfully. In this way, those who talk empty words and do not do practical things can be dealt with as soon as possible, so that socialist construction can be put on the right track as soon as possible.

When Liu Zhu's family stepped on the land near Kyoto, they had been away from Hujiazhuang for more than half a year. At this time, they are no longer refugees. It's a complete beggar! However, in the past six months, their family of four originally relied on begging all the way and sleeping in the open to get to the vicinity of Kyoto, and in the eyes of others, they are beggars.

"Dad, Dad, look! Isn't that the castle wall of Kyoto? We've arrived in Kyoto! Liu Jian, who was moving his steps at the corner of He Xiaofeng's clothes, saw a high city wall from a distance, and couldn't help but shout happily. In his heart, when he arrives in Kyoto, he will get better.

"Brother, brother, we're going home!" Liu Hong climbed on Liu Zhu's back and screamed excitedly. In her little heart, when she arrives in Kyoto, she will go home, and Kyoto will be her home.

Liu Zhu and He Xiaofeng listened to the words of a pair of children, and couldn't help but look at each other and smile bitterly, "Home"! As early as Liu Zhu was branded as a 'rightist' element and sent to Hujiazhuang for reconstruction, the house in the compound of the military region had already been taken back by the military region, and the general building where Rosen lived had already been moved in by others. In Kyoto, they have long since lost their home. But the reason for this is not good to tell Liu Jian and Liu Hong that they are still young and cannot understand the current political situation.

"Xiaofeng, let's find a place to clean it first, and change into the clean clothes we left, otherwise we won't be able to enter the city like this!" Liu Jian looked at the image of the family and said with a wry smile.

"It's good that everyone left a decent set of clothes, otherwise it would be a real headache!" He Xiaofeng looked at the people who were walking back and were dressed as shabby and dirty as their family, and at a glance, he knew that they were non-Kyoto people who had traveled a long way. Along the way, Liu Zhu and his team met countless people who had left their homeland to find survival in other places, and there were also people like him who were branded as 'rightists' and secretly left the places where they were decentralised and reformed, but these people were a little different from him, they wanted to go to Kyoto to avenge their grievances, hoping that the higher-level leaders could help them rehabilitate and correct their wrongly convicted "rightists." Take off the "rightist" hat on their heads that has completely changed their lives.

Liu Zhu and the others searched for a village nearby as usual, and soon found a village called 'Zhoujiazhuang'. This village is not small, and it seems that the villagers of this village are living well, not like the villages they have seen along the way, most of the villagers have no food to eat, and there are no entry and exit checkpoints at the entrance of the village, which makes Liu Jian feel a little strange.

Liu Zhu's family entered this Zhoujiazhuang and found that many outsiders like their family had entered this village, and the villagers in this village were very kind, as long as they came to the door to eat, they would give more or less. He Xiaofeng took Liu Hong's hand and stood in front of the courtyard of a green brick house, while Liu Zhu and Liu Jian stood behind, this is the experience of their family wandering outside for half a year and begging, women and children are the easiest to let down their guard, and they are also the easiest to make people feel pity.

Liu Hong is very obedient and reaches out to knock on the door, she has knocked on the door for half a year, and knows how to knock so that the owner can hear the sound without being upset and bored.

"Who?" Not long after Liu Hongcai knocked on the door, the courtyard door opened, accompanied by the questioning voice of a kind middle-aged woman.

"Auntie, I'm so hungry!" Liu Hong looked pitifully at the forty-year-old Lingli woman who came out of the courtyard gate with a round bun on her head and a sturdy body dressed in an old but very clean garment, and said softly, while He Xiaofeng just held Liu Hong's little hand, stood with her head down, and said nothing. Although she has been begging for half a year, she still has a sense of shame in her heart.

"This aunt, our hometown has suffered a disaster, there is no way, in order to survive!" Liu Zhu's emaciated face showed a smile, matching his daughter's words. Although he was also a little embarrassed about begging, because it was an expedient measure, not to mention that survival was more important than face, he was not as resistant as He Xiaofeng.

"Alas, I know! Many places have been hit this year! During this time, people in our village will come to the door every day to ask for food! You don't have to worry, it's a new society now, and the state won't leave you alone! This sister-in-law is a cheerful and enthusiastic person, she opened the courtyard door wide and let Liu Zhu's family enter the door, while saying comforting words in her mouth.

"The country is not easy, we have come all the way, and there are so many places that have been affected!" Liu Zhu was half-truthful and half-truthful. You must know that along the way, Liu Zhu knows that there has been a severe drought in many places this year, which has greatly reduced grain production, but another reason for making everyone hungry is that local officials have made 'false reports' and 'high reports' in disregard of the facts for the sake of political achievements, so that Kyoto does not have enough understanding of the dangers of the drought, which has led to the fact that the affected areas not only do not receive rescue, but also have to pay a large amount of grain.

"Alas! Eldest nephew, you are right, the country is not easy! The sister-in-law of Zhoujiazhuang didn't seem to be an ordinary peasant woman, and Liu Zhu's words at this time just matched her thoughts, and her face couldn't help but show a sense of worry.

"Big sister, I think your village is not bad!" After Liu Zhu entered the yard, he looked around, this yard is not small, there are more than one acre of land, there are a few vegetable fields on the left, at this time the vegetable field is full of green vegetables, and on the right in addition to a chicken nest, there are also two jujube trees, at this time the jujubes on the tree have long been picked up, only the green leaves of the tree are left. And there is also a well between the two date trees.

"Alas, compared to other villages, our village is pretty good!" The sister-in-law of Zhoujiazhuang listened to Liu Zhu's words, as if she remembered something bad, and her face was gloomy.

"Big sister, can we borrow your well water to clean it!" At this time, Liu Zhu didn't notice the gloom on the face of the owner of the house, and his attention was focused on the well.

"It's okay! Use it! I'll get you some food!" The sister-in-law from Zhoujiazhuang waved her hand and asked Liu Zhu to take care of herself, while she turned around and went into the kitchen at home, and came out with a plate of corn nests after a while.

After Liu Zhu's family cleaned up with well water, at the warm invitation of the sister-in-law in Zhoujiazhuang, they sat on a few benches placed in the yard of the house, and began to eat corn nests with the well water that had just been hit.

"Big sister, we ate so many nests of you, we won't make your family hungry, right?" After running around for so long, Liu Zhu naturally knows the importance of eating now to any family.

"Hungry won't! It's just a few bites less! What's more, there are only three people in my family! After all, Liu Hong and Liu Jian were born after liberation, and Liu Zhu at that time was no longer the peasant boy in Liujiazhuang back then, and he could be regarded as a class with a certain amount of power in China. Naturally, I have received a good education since birth, and although I am depressed at this time, it is difficult to change the habits I have developed since childhood, so although I am very hungry, I still chew and swallow slowly when I eat, which is very Sven. (To be continued......)

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