The crisis is a rare opportunity for carnivores like Scrooge and Morgan, but for the average fart, it's just a real disaster.

Neuer lost all his savings in the oil boom, and now the railway is also in a recession, and Neuer's income as a railway worker has plummeted, last year when it was still a boom, Neuer and his wife who worked in a textile factory could barely make their family eat more than half of their income, but now, well, his wife has been dismissed, and his salary has been reduced by a lot, although the price of various things on the market has been reduced, but his salary has dropped faster. As a result, Neuer and his wife are now living by mixing sawdust into bread flour.

But in general, among his peers, Neuer's situation is not bad. First of all, he was relatively honest and did not do anything to borrow money to buy oil during the oil boom, he just lost all his previous savings. Second, he and his wife had just gotten married and had no children, which saved him a lot of money. In this case, if there is an extra child, it is simply ...... Neuer didn't dare to imagine it anymore. In the end, although his wife had recently been dismissed, at least she was in good health, unlike some women who had worked in textile factories, who were not only unemployed, but also exhausted in the factory. For example, Sanna, who lives in the shabby shack not far from their home, was a co-worker of his wife, but later contracted pneumoconiosis and left the factory before his wife. Her husband, a miner, died in an accident a year ago, leaving Emily with two children who had not yet grown up. For a year, Sanna dragged her sick body, relied on doing some needlework for others, and the help of the neighbors, barely survived, and the two children were raised black and thin, like two small bean sprouts. Everyone is lamenting that these two children may not have grown up.

Neuer was on the night shift today, and had had dinner - a small piece of black bread full of sawdust, which tasted exactly like dog shit because of the number of additives. Moreover, compared to the tall Neuer, this piece of bread was too small, and after eating it, he felt even more hungry.

"Neuer, why don't I give you a little more here?" Emma said as she tore another half from her small piece of bread and handed it to Neuer.

"No, I'm already full." Neuer said that his wife's piece of bread was already much smaller than her own, and how could she hold on to it if she gave herself another piece.

"Alright, I'm going to work." Neuer didn't give his wife a chance to say more, so he got up and walked out.

After Neuer left, Emma also took advantage of the fact that it was not yet completely dark and began to do some needlework. Nowadays, it is no longer possible to light up at night.

Neuer had been gone for a long time, and Emma knew that Neuer would not be back until dawn tomorrow. So she closed the door and lay down on the bed, and if she remained motionless like this, she would be hungry more slowly, and that the long night would pass more easily. Slowly, tiredness overwhelmed hunger, and Emma finally fell asleep gradually.

……

In the middle of the night, Emma woke up from her dream. It was a sweet dream, and in the dream she saw a lot of delicious things, white bread, biscuits, and even, even a box of Spam luncheon meat. A year ago, when the economy was good, it was still a common food, and I could eat one meal a week, but now, those good days seem to think about it, and it seems like a century has passed since I was saved.

A strong wind was blowing outside, and there was a faint electric light flickering in the distant sky.

"It's going to rain too, I don't know how Neuer is doing." Emma thought, and somehow suddenly remembered Sanna. "Sanna's hut is leaking so much, it's going to rain heavily, she's not in good health, and she has two children, how can that be good? Otherwise, call them out to us to hide here. ”

Emma got up and lit a kerosene lamp and went out the door, Sanna's house was next to Emma's house, and after only a few steps, Emma came to the door of Sanna's house. She knocked on the door, tilting her ears to hear that no one answered.

"What a widow's life is so hard!" Emma stood in the doorway and thought, "There aren't many children—only two, but she's all alone, and she's a sick person!" ”

Emma knocked on the door again and again, but no one answered.

"Hey, Sanna!" Emma shouted again, a sense of foreboding, and she thought, could something be wrong? She pushed hard, and the door was unlocked, and it opened all at once.

The room was damp and cold. Emma held up the kerosene lamp to see where Sanna was. The first thing she saw was a bed facing the door, on which her female neighbor lay on her back. She was motionless, and only a dead person was like this. Sanna held the lantern closer, yes, it was Sanna. Her head was tilted back, her cold face showing a dead serenity, and a pale, stiff hand hung down from the straw as if to grasp something. Right next to the dead mother, two children were asleep, both curly-headed, round-faced, covered with old clothes, curled up, and two little heads with light yellow heads pressed tightly together. Apparently, when the mother was dying, she covered them with her own clothes and covered their little feet with an old headscarf. The children's breathing is even and calm, and they sleep soundly and sweetly.

Emma wrapped her coat around the sleeping children and carried them home. Her heart was beating so hard that she didn't know why she was doing it, but she felt that she had to do it. She came home, put the two sleeping children on her bed, pulled up the mosquito net, and sat on the edge of the bed.

"What will Neuer say when he returns? The family was already starving, and I brought back these two little ones, one who could just talk, and the other who could just crawl - all burdens that could not help much. Would Neuer be furious and order himself to send the two children back, or he would beat himself up...... Then let him be beaten," thought Emma, "and even if he is killed, I can't send these two children back." ”

Emma sat on the edge of the bed like this, thinking about her thoughts, and before she knew it, it was raining heavily, and before she knew it, the rain had passed, and before she knew it, it was lit up outside.

Neuer tiredly pushed open the door, his duty was to patrol the road at night, and last night's heavy rain made him even more exhausted from hunger. But now that I'm home, I can take a good rest. However, he now saw his wife sitting at the head of the bed, as if she was stupid.

"Emma! What happened to you? What's going on? Neuer asked.

"Ahh Emma was taken aback, and then her husband had returned.

"What's wrong?" Neuer asked.

Although she was ready to be beaten by her husband, Emma was still a little flustered when she really faced her husband's inquiry. Still, she managed to calm herself.

"Our neighbor Sanna died." Emma said.

"When? How do you know? Neuer asked.

"Last night when it was about to rain, I remembered that Sanna's house was leaking and uninhabitable, and she was sick again, so I wanted her and the children to come to our house for the night, so I went to her," said Emma. She died a terrible death! Both children were by her side, asleep. They're so small...... One can just talk, the other can just crawl ......" Emma was silent.

Neuer frowned, his face stern and worried. "Well, that's a problem!" He scratched the back of his head and said, "Well, what do you think?" How about carrying them over and staying with the dead! Oh we, we've got a way to get through it! Just go! Don't wait for them to wake up. ”

But Emma sat motionless.

"What's wrong with you? Don't want to? What's wrong with you, Emma? We can't die without help! Neuer accentuated.

"Look, they're here." Emma pulled the tent open.

……

Hillman saw off his son, and now he's sitting on the high shore by the dock, looking out over the sparkling Delaware River. It is a busy river, with countless boats coming and going here every day. Once upon a time, his fleet also brought him wealth and status on the river. For a while, on this dock, his fleet could be seen loading and unloading cargo every day, and when he walked by, people would smile at him and take the initiative to say hello......

However, this qiē has become a passing cloud. After the failure of oil speculation, his fleet, his house, and his qi ē have gone to someone else, and even he owes a large amount of debt. He gave his son the last 5ooo dollars, and let him quietly board a boat bound for the south in the middle of the night, and then returned to the place, and sat in a daze, all day, looking at the wealth and glory that had brought him him. He watched as the sun rose, and the glow reflected the river red; also watched the sun rise high in the sky, and the sun jumped on the crest of the waves; Now, he saw the sun set, and the river was as red as blood. He knew that the sun had gone down and would rise again tomorrow, but once the career of a person, especially someone like him, who was already getting old, collapsed, there was no chance to get up.

"It's time." Hillman struggled to his feet, then bent down, picked up the stone tied to his feet, looked around again, and finally shook off before falling straight into the river.

……

"Hey, Bill, you lost. I'll just say that guy is here to jump into the river, right? These days, nine out of ten people who walk around the river, who sit still, are self-killed. In the last few days, at least 100 people have died on this section of the river, and I have seen no less than 20 with my own eyes. One person said.

"So, you're just watching people commit suicide? Don't try to persuade either? ”

"Persuade what? Now, if there is still a little way, who will take this path? Besides, why persuade people to live and suffer, die early and suffer less. The man shook his head and said, "If one day I stand by the river, you must not pull me." ”

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