From crossing the Yangtze River to the present, Zhou Shuren felt that his heart was being beaten every moment, and he began to suspect that his investigation was meaningless, and he kept silently asking, why didn't he send troops?

Dead bodies can be seen everywhere on the roadside and in the fields, and wild dogs are gnawing at dead bodies everywhere. Zhou Shuren took photographs of many wild dogs digging out of sand mounds to eat, and in some of the villages he visited, he learned from the victims that cannibalism is not uncommon, and the question is whether to eat the dead or the living.

After the initial shock, Zhou Shuren tried to collect statistics from the bottom from the technical point of view, but the ruling order here has long collapsed, in the Xinyang area, the first stop of the investigation, out of the county and state capital, there are no officials, capable landlords and large households through the grain in previous years to survive the crisis, small and medium-sized landlords due to weak strength, many hungry victims attacked the house, the grain looted out.

The grassroots ruling order no longer existed, and the Manchu officials shrank in the city and refused to come out, plus this was the front line of the north-south confrontation, and the upper-level officials who hoped to save their lives had already tried to find a way to be transferred, and no one wanted to be officials here, resulting in no one in charge of the government. In order to survive, the officials colluded with bandits to take advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos, disaster victims, bandits, and great droughts, which is a good scene of the end times.

The situation in Xinyang and Nanyang is better than in the north, where refugees can flee to the south, and the drought is worse than in the north. After Xuchang, the situation was even more miserable, the carriage in which Zhou Shuren and others were riding was snatched away by the refugees, and the horses became food for the stomach, if it weren't for the five guards who took out their guns to intimidate, maybe Zhou Shuren would have been eaten by the refugees with bright eyes.

"Editor-in-Chief Zhou, are we still going north? I just asked a refugee who can't go north. I ate grass roots and leaves, ate tree bark and Guanyin soil, and now I have already started to eat living people, so I can't say anything. Fat and fat like us are the object of their chase, and it is estimated that there are no bones left in the north! "On the periphery of Xuchang. Liaison Xiao Xu said to Zhou Shuren.

In the past few days, Xiao Xu and several guards have persuaded themselves, in fact, the situation is really bad, the group has been interrupted since this morning, the carefully hidden food has finally been eaten, and the rest of the reserves are in the carriage, and now it is estimated that it is in the stomach of the refugees. Without supplies, it is difficult to move an inch, and coupled with the deterioration of the local situation, it is indeed difficult to move forward.

From the beginning to the present. Zhou Shuren has already sent back ten manuscripts, which will be received by the investigation bureau's local intelligence officers, and then find a way to send them back to Wuhan. I heard that Zhenguo Bao had published a third report on the disaster area, which caused a wide response in China, and the enthusiasm for fighting the flood was once again aroused, many people crossed the Yangtze River to pick up refugees by their own means, and many people set up food relief points on the south bank of the Yangtze River to distribute food to the victims who had fled.

Zhou Shuren's delicate brushstrokes, abundant feelings, and detailed descriptions. Let the disaster in Henan be presented in front of the eyes of the Chinese people like a picture scroll, and people will be moved at the same time. I also remember this writer who went deep into the danger report. It's a pity that Zhou Shuren is not proud of this, in fact, he now has a feeling that his heart is torn, torn and painful, and his straight hair before is now drooping down one by one, like a warrior who has lost a battle.

In every document. Zhou Shuren will add a sentence at the end: Please send troops to the north as soon as possible to relieve the people of fire and water! He vaguely felt the sinister purpose of the president, and perhaps his manuscript was the reason for China to send troops, in this way to cover up the crimes brought about by the civil war and incite the people to support the president more.

It doesn't matter if it's used. It doesn't matter what the purpose is, Zhou Shuren now just wants to see the victims no longer suffer from the disaster, have enough to eat, and return to the track of civilization from the chaotic primitive.

"Xiao Xu, you ask for instructions from the country and tell me about the current situation, we can't continue to go north." Zhou Shuren said, everyone suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, they were afraid that this resolute deputy editor-in-chief would break in regardless of it, and everyone was afraid of death, not afraid of dying on the battlefield, but burying themselves in the mouths of the victims.

The decision to return relaxed for the time being, but a new problem arose, the need to wait for instructions here before the order was sent back from headquarters, and the embarrassing thing was that the group had run out of supplies and had to return as soon as possible.

"Team leader, should we find a place to rest first and replenish supplies, otherwise we won't be able to return to Huaguo." Xiao Liu, the leader of the five guards, said that unlike Xiao Xu, he called Zhou Shuren the team leader.

Speaking of writing, worrying about the country and the people, and articles, Zhou Shuren can be regarded as the top figure in China, but in terms of life and work, ten Zhou Shuren are not as good as Xiao Liu, that is, the world calls "the eye master is low", this is a common problem of literati, and there is a specialization in the art industry, so the trivial matters along the way are decided by Xiao Liu, and Zhou Shuren only needs to observe and write articles.

While Zhou Shuren and Xiao Xu were sad about the situation of the victims, Xiao Liu and other guards were already worried about the situation of the group. The situation is not optimistic, and perhaps it can be described as more pessimistic, because after the looting of supplies, the team also fell into the same predicament as the victims - lack of food.

From the Xuchang area back to the north bank of the Yangtze River, if you walk, you can't finish it in ten days and a half months, and you must get in touch with the local organization of the Investigation Bureau as soon as possible to see if there is any way to take everyone back from the rear.

According to the contact method that was established in advance, the nearest liaison officer of the Investigation Bureau was in Xuchang City, and the team was now in Linying County, south of Xuchang, so if you want to return to the south, you can only go north for the time being.

Hungry to walk for two hours, there is still half a day away from Xuchang City, Zhou Shuren and Xiao Xu's physical strength is average, the rest time has delayed the progress, seeing that the sky is about to get dark, can only find a place to spend the night first, and then leave tomorrow.

Evening is approaching, there is silence in the Fan family's soil fort, Hua Zhi sneaked into the grain depot, she is the wife of Xia Lu, a long-term worker who works for the Fan family, today Xia Lu is on duty in the soil fort, secretly left a crack in the door for his wife, and the two of them partnered to pry the corner of the owner's house.

This is also a forced and helpless thing, there is no harvest in the field, there is no food at home, even the grass roots outside are gone, there are no green and yellow, there are two and a half children and an old woman, so everyone is waiting to fill their stomachs, within a radius of dozens of miles, only the landlord's grain hoard has grain.

People are forced to do anything in a hurry, Hua Zhi opened a sack, grabbed a handful of millet and smashed it into his mouth, like a mouse stealing things. However, there was a cat ready to play with mice outside the grain hoard, and its eyes glowed green in the dark sky.

"Bang!" As soon as the young owner pushed open the door, rushed in and hugged Huazhi. Speaking of which, this Xia Lu's wife is really a flower in ten miles and eight towns, even if she gives birth to two children, she is still so beautiful, **** and big, how did you say that Xia Lu, a cheap thing, got her?

"Huazhi, Huazhi, let me go, I'll let you take a bucket of rice and let me play again!" Shao Dong holding the flower branch up and down his hand, mouth is still tempting the hungry flower branch, he has a fancy to the flower branch is not a day or two, recently the young lady is pregnant with a child, but the young owner is suffocated, today finally found a chance to have a good time. Although this flower branch looks thin and weak, tearing off the torn cotton jacket and looking at the **** inside is much smaller, but the bottom is there, and it will make the young owner excited for a while.

"Shaodong, spare me, spare me!" Speaking of which, Huazhi does a lot of farm work on weekdays, and his strength is not necessarily worse than that of the Shao Dong, but now he is so hungry that he still has the strength to resist, but he just shirks and doesn't want the Shao Dong to praise himself. She knew very well in her heart that if she wanted to eat a full meal and feed her two children, this time she really let the young owner succeed. Under the contradiction, hunger prevailed, and the young owner lay on the flower branch, and the resistance from below became smaller and smaller.

was excitedly tearing off his trouser belt, a strong force came from the waist of the young owner, the old owner Fan Dianyuan held the oil lamp, kicked the young owner to the ground, and kept swearing words in his mouth.

"Get out of here! Grass*...... amp; amp; *amp; amp; , little slut, dare to seduce my son, see that I don't beat you and Xia Lu to death! Fan Dian originally kicked out the Shaodong family, and then scolded Hua Zhi angrily. The scolding gradually woke up the people in the big house, and several guards came out, then looked at it and turned back.

Xia Lu's wife, Huazhi, must have been discovered by the old owner when he was sitting with the young owner, hey, they are all poor people, no one is easy, if Huazhi is not forced to do so, it will not be cheap The grandson of the young owner!

Just when everyone had just returned to the house, leaving only Fan Dianyuan kicking the flower branches, there was a knocking sound outside the door, and then Xia Lu bent down and ran out of the gatehouse, regardless of his wife, walked to the door first and asked, "Who?" ”

"Passing by to do business, I can't go to the village in front of me, I can't go to the store behind, and I want to spend the night in the treasure land." It's not Henan dialect, it sounds weird, Xia Lu muttered bullshit cultural people, and then a courtyard climbed the earthen wall and looked down, bowed his head and reported loudly to the old owner who walked out of the grain hoard: "The owner, seven people, didn't take the guy, and there is no one else outside, it seems to be true." ”

"Tell them to stay for five taels of silver a night, and if you agree, let them in, you show me, don't be an undercover agent sent by bandits." Fan Dianyuan responded, how could he let go of this kind of thing of making money for nothing? Besides, there are only seven people, but there are twenty people in his earthen fort and five spears! These are the reasons why I was able to keep my family business in this great famine. (To be continued.) )