Zhou Hexuan competed with Lao Jiang this time, and after the publication of "Ta Kung Pao" was suspended, he directly wrote articles and sent them to the "Non-Offensive" magazine.

The editor-in-chief of "Non-Offensive" has changed several times, and the current editor-in-chief is none other than the great writer Ba Jin.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Ba Jin served as an editorial board member of the "Salvation Daily", but was ordered by the government to suspend publication early last year. At the same time, he also edited "Beacon Fire" (formerly known as "Scream") with Mao Dun, which had a great influence in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War. However, due to the impact of the war, the headquarters of "Beacon" was moved from Shanghai to Guangzhou and then to Hong Kong, and was forced to suspend publication due to the fall of Hong Kong.

Since then, Ba Jin has traveled to various parts of the southwest, specializing in cultural propaganda work.

The editor-in-chief of "Non-Offensive" resigned due to illness last year, and Zhou Hexuan wrote a letter to invite Ba Jin to succeed him. In Ba Jin's hands, Fei Offensive began to publish articles by many leftist writers, including Mao Dun, Guo Moruo, Yu Dafu, Yang Shuo and others, challenging the limits of Lao Jiang's patience.

To be honest, "Non-Offensive" is not far from being discontinued.

"Editor-in-Chief Li, here's an article written by Mr. Zhou himself." Luo Binji knocked on the door and entered the editor-in-chief's room.

Luo Binji's real identity is the underground party, but due to the impact of the war, he has lost contact with the party organization for two years, and has been engaged in literary creation in various places since then. Even when he came to Chongqing, Luo Binji could not regain contact with the party organization, which shows how strict the Communist Party's secrecy work is.

Luo Binji was recruited by Ba Jin into the magazine "Non-Offensive" and is currently the editor-in-charge of the page.

Ba Jin smiled: "Mr. Zhou hasn't contributed to "Non-Attack" for a long time, show it to me." ”

"It's a novella, and it makes me creepy and chilly." Luo Binji said.

"Is it the kind of realistic magicalism of "The Goddess" again?" Barking asked.

Luo Binji shook his head and said, "Documentary." ”

Ba Jin opened the manuscript and saw that it was called "Human City".

The protagonist's family is a rich peasant with 30 acres of dry land, self-sufficient, and will hire long-term workers to help when the farm is busy.

At the beginning, the hero and heroine were complaining about the bad harvest, and then a group of requisition teams came. Six people, three mules, live in the protagonist's house, and have to eat white flour eggs, and even the rations of the protagonist and his wife are fed to the mules.

Due to last year's requisition task, the protagonist's family's grain stock has been emptied, and this year it has suffered drought and locust plagues in a row, and it is simply impossible to complete the requisition quota set by the county government.

In desperation, the protagonist can only go to his father-in-law's house in the neighboring township to borrow food. As a result, when I arrived at the local area, I found that my father-in-law had already sold his cattle and part of the land, and he had barely scraped together enough grain to send the grain collectors away. But my father-in-law's family had no food rations, and the rice shop was limited to daily sales because the price of grain was too low, and the price of rice in the black market was too high to afford it.

As a small landlord's father-in-law, he hanged himself because he had no rice.

The protagonist hastily buries his father-in-law's family, and when he goes back, he contacts the big landlord, sells the land to buy grain, and pays the requisition.

When the government levies the land tax, it only collects grain, but when it levies military rations, it only gives fiat currency, and it is paid according to the official price. The requisition money received by the protagonist is only enough for the family to eat for a few days, and it will not be enough for half a month to sell the land, because the big landlord is very low on the price and takes advantage of the fire to rob.

The protagonist's family begins to eat grass root bark, but the grass root bark in the township is quickly eaten. I heard that goose dung can satisfy hunger, so I picked goose dung everywhere to eat, and the youngest son died of illness while eating goose dung.

When the news of the youngest son's death broke, someone immediately came to the door to buy the body and bid for a small bag of wheat bran.

The protagonist resolutely refused to sell it, and quietly buried his son's body overnight, only to find out that it had been stolen and dug up the next day. He and his wife went crazy and searched everywhere, searched for no clues all day, and when they came home, they found that their little daughter was also missing.

The eldest son said dyingly: "My sister was taken away by Granny Zhang from the same village, and Granny Zhang wanted to give them meat. ”

The protagonist immediately rushes into Granny Zhang's house and finds the old woman cooking meat and eating it, and there are still pieces of his daughter's clothes on the ground. After a fight, the protagonist subdued the old woman, found that the old woman's bed was full of bones, and was shocked and angry and immediately turned to the police.

The protagonist begins to flee with his family, and the eldest son starves to death on the road. I finally took a train to the provincial border, but was driven back by the local garrison, and encountered human traffickers on the way.

The protagonist wants to sell his wife so that she doesn't starve to death. The wife also wanted to sell herself so that she could get some rations for her husband and eldest daughter.

At the time of the transaction, the wife said, "Your pants are rotten, wear mine." ”

The protagonist changes into his wife's pants, and the couple hugs and cries, and then says goodbye.

The protagonist continues to escape with his 11-year-old eldest daughter and arrives in a county town, where he feels someone pushing him in the middle of the night. He immediately opened his eyes and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"I'm not dead yet, let's go look elsewhere." The man said to his accomplices.

The protagonist vaguely saw those people carrying corpses under the moonlight, and was so frightened that he hugged his daughter and shivered.

The next morning, the protagonist takes his daughter to beg for food in the city, following a gentleman in a suit who eats steamed buns.

The gentleman suddenly stood up and yelled in horror: "Boss, how come there are nails in your bun?" ”

After a few more days, the eldest daughter was starved to death, and the protagonist was no longer able to dig a pit and bury it, so he could only drag it to a secret place with great difficulty. When he saw that there was still an elm tree that had not been peeled, he immediately hugged the trunk and munched on it, and finally had another uncomfortable day.

At night, the protagonist finds that someone is quietly moving the road to dump the corpse, he follows curiously, and asks the ghost: "How much can the corpse be sold?" ”

The other party replied: "Children are the most expensive, followed by the prime, the elderly don't want it, and don't want the ones that are not fresh." ”

As a result, the protagonist becomes a corpse mover. Every day, like a vulture, he stared at the dying people, and at night he dragged the corpses to the human market to change rations.

The darkest part is the description of the human market.

Everywhere else is dilapidated and depressed, and the land is full of hunger, but the human market is still prosperous. The people there were talking and laughing, full of energy, and all of them were friendly and kind, and even helped each other a little, as if they were in a paradise.

The protagonist also regains his complexion, his skin becomes ruddy, and he even picks up a hungry fleeing woman to be his wife.

At the end of the roar of laughter in the human market, the protagonist wears the obviously ill-fitting pants and carries Xiaomi to his new wife, who is waiting for him.

"Mingcheng is really ...... Dare to write. Ba Jin wiped his sweat and said.

Luo Binji smiled bitterly: "Once this article is published, "Non-Attack" should be suspended, should I find a job in advance?" ”

"It's time to look for a new job," Ba Jin shook his head helplessly, "This novella is about seventy or eighty thousand words, and one issue will definitely not be serialized." Anyway, it's the last issue, and I suggest increasing the number of pages of the magazine, and the "Human Market" must be all published. ”

"That's all there is to it." Luo Binji said.

Ba Jin turned the manuscript again and repeatedly read the description of the human market in the second half. It is like a paradise-like human market, so prosperous, so noisy, so joyful, so kind and loving, so ...... Creeps.

Ba Jin felt like he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.

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