When the city was closed, it had already begun to buy grain on a large scale, and many profiteers began to hoard early, resulting in the grain in the granary being out of the warehouse very quickly. Most ordinary citizens in big cities are different from rural villages, they will not have a lot of food at home like in the countryside, but eat as much as they want, at most a month or two months, and then buy food when they run out, so before the lockdown, the people will not have much food in stock.

Nowadays, if citizens want to have food, there are three ways: one is to buy from the black market at a price several times or even more than ten times the price. In order to maintain law and order, the city defense battalion has cracked down on profiteers on the black market many times, but it is originally a nest of snakes and rats, and interests are troubled, plus the profiteers have big forces as backers, it is simply only windy and does not rain, and it has no effect at all; Another way is to be hired by the army to assist the army in city defense work and logistics work, you can eat and drink for nothing, and if you are lucky, you will also get a small amount of food, but this is difficult to support the family; The third way is to join a gang and rely on robbery to get food in your mouth.

People die for money, birds die for food, although this sentence is a wise saying, but people are forced to be anxious, and they will work hard for food. What starvation is a small thing, a big thing, and the person who can say such nonsense is actually a celebrity, obviously saying it for some purpose, or for the ruler to fool the people, or to deceive the world and steal his name! Aren't you a celebrity, haven't you never been hungry? Hungry for three days and five days, and then ask you if it's a big thing to eat or a big thing, you estimate that it's possible that your wife even sells a bowl of rice to eat, and you're still hungry, and you're a ghost!

For example, if you ask a farmer who cultivates land what is his highest ideal, that farmer will definitely say that if he has land to plant, he will be able to eat enough. If you ask a child of a family who is full of food and has nothing to do, or a Xiucai who is stupid in reading, what their highest ideal is, it must be varied, and the only ideal that there is not is a full meal, because it is too vulgar, too embarrassing, and will be laughed at. That's because they have never worried about eating, and they haven't touched people's bottom line. In any predicament, there is never a full meal, and knowing etiquette is the way to educate the people, and starving to death is a small loss of festival and a big thing, which is the way of fooling the people!

In a small temple in the south of the city of Crodinah, more than a dozen homeless people have been here for a long time, everyone is more familiar with each other, in the past, everyone can also work as a casual worker to sell some coolies to get some expenses and food, during this time, there are no hired workers, and there is no place to ask for food, often there is no meal, basically everyone is like this.

One of the big guys in the homeless world, a big man, has been talking about it here. When I got up in the morning, I said to all the homeless people: "It's too difficult to get something to eat now, and we can only get through it if we work together." From now on, everyone goes out to find food, not allowed to eat alone, they have to come back to the temple, we set up a cauldron, find something, we put it in the pot, and cook a pot in the evening, everyone eats together, eat more, don't eat more, don't eat less, don't eat nothing, everyone must be full together, hungry together, otherwise, some people will be full for several days in a row, and some people will be hungry for several days in a row, and if this continues, it will be all over! ”

Everyone agreed to the idea, and for the sake of justice, everyone supervised each other.

In the evening, there were not many things to come back, some of them didn't know where to grab half a flatbread, some stole two cabbages, some went to the barracks to get some brown rice, and some begged for some leftovers...... But most people, after a day out, come out empty-handed. No matter how much, everything is put into the cauldron, make a fire to boil porridge, a big pot of paste, clear enough to shine on the face of gruel, and then two cabbages are broken and put in, I don't know what the taste is, in short, although the smell is very strange, but everyone is very happy, feel very fragrant, especially the people who come back empty-handed, although they are ashamed, but they still have to eat, I don't know who to thank!

The porridge had been boiled, everyone took the bowls and basins in a circle, and Charles, the smallest and thinnest, was about to fill the spoon first, but heard the big man who had been lying in the corner of the temple all day get up, stretched, and said, "You want such a thing, are you embarrassed?" I haven't eaten yet, so you dare to move the spoon first? ”

After the big man finished speaking, he strode over and kicked Charles who was holding the spoon away, grabbed the spoon, and without using a bowl, he directly scooped up a large spoon with the spoon, and filtered out more than half of the water on it, leaving only some dry goods that sank to the bottom, and he didn't care about burning his mouth, so he sent it to his mouth.

This big man was used to running rampant in the temple, everyone swallowed their anger and dared not speak, they were all used to it, no one dared to say anything, and watched the big man eat dry goods one after another, and he was so hungry that he swallowed his saliva.

Charles, who was kicked away by the big man and fell heavily to the ground, got up for a long time, and when he saw the scene in front of him, he couldn't help but be angry, and the anger for a long time together with today's kick made him burst out of the huge energy, strode forward, and while the big man was not paying attention, he grabbed him by the neck and pressed his head into the pot of porridge that was still boiling.

The big man couldn't reach it, and both hands slipped into the pot at the same time, although the iron pot was very deep, but with the strength of the dying struggle, it was impossible to break free, but in fact, I don't know where Charles got the strength, the big man just couldn't struggle.

"I'll let you eat, let you eat, let you eat enough!" Charles blushed and lost his mind, and shouted.

All the people looked at this incredible scene, Charles, the skinniest in the temple, turned out to be the biggest, usually a powerful man, no one went up to relieve the siege of the big man, everyone was angry in their hearts, went out to look for food and couldn't find it, even the nest didn't move, just want to grab the porridge and water that was not much, who doesn't feel relieved?

The big man finally struggled out, and fell down beside the cauldron with Charles, the big man, who was already rolling on the ground without a human appearance, and one of his eyes fell out, and it was the skin on his face, which had basically slipped off, revealing pink flesh, which was extremely terrifying.

Although Charles fell, he quickly got up, and still did not understand his hatred, and pulled out the largest piece of burning wood from the bottom of the pot, and smashed it on the big man's head, and sparks splashed everywhere...... After smashing a few times in a row, the big man finally stopped struggling, only the breath out, and the breath that went in......

Everyone was stunned and killed someone for a few spoonfuls of food.

But Charles didn't care, picked up the wooden spoon on the ground, rubbed the dirt on the big man's body, and then returned to the pot, slowly picked out the hair of the big man in the pot, and then filled his basin with a full bowl of gruel, put the spoon back into the pot, and squatted to drink the porridge to the side......

The people in the temple were still stunned, they were not brave enough to eat next to a dead man, and although they were hungry, many wanted to vomit, seemingly completely unable to accept the reality in front of them.

"If you don't drink it, if you don't drink it, I'll drink it all!" Charles laughed, a pot of porridge has been drunk for the most part.

Looking at Charles's calm and relaxed appearance, the most courageous old man finally mustered up the courage, walked to the cauldron, and filled himself with a full pot......

If there is the first one, there will be a second one, and the last one is not left, and even the three people who vomited can't take care of much, so they will eat first...... For a while, the sound of drinking porridge was all around.

In this chaotic situation, human life is cheaper than grass, and the life that was fresh just now is basically no one to take it seriously. If a person is alive, someone will take you seriously, if a person dies, even if it is the closest person, it will not be long before they will basically forget, and only some of the deepest memories will be left, and the others will disappear with the passage of time, leaving no trace. Your non-existence, maybe others live more freely, don't think that without yourself, the planet will not turn.

"Anyway, there are only a few days of porridge to drink, Lao Tzu can't control it, whoever dares to touch Lao Tzu's porridge, Lao Tzu will fight with whom!" Charles laughed while drinking porridge, it was not the same thing to not be the death of that big man at all.

"Yes, now that the army is pressed, the officers and soldiers in the city have no choice but to wait for reinforcements!" One man chimed in.

"Reinforcements fart? Hey, where are the reinforcements? Charles asked with a sneer.

"I heard that there are still more than a million troops along the defense line along the river?" Another hurriedly said, "As long as the Karaka fortress can be opened and more than a million troops can be driven in, what are the more than 200,000 troops outside the city?" ”

"Yo, do you believe that?" Charles scoffed, "So, how long has it been, has it come in?" Those more than a million troops did exist before, but now they don't! ”

"None?"

"Why not?"

"Defeated?" Charles said proudly, "You think Catherine only has the Fifth Legion outside the city?" There are still millions of troops, and those who have entered the Guanzhong Plain are just the tip of the iceberg! Tut-tut, more than 1.3 million people, more than 300,000 killed, more than 300,000 missing, more than 600,000 surrendered, the entire Fender River, became the Red River, that corpse, and once blocked the river, there was a flood, a red flood, who of you has ever seen it? ”

"Cut, as if you saw it with your own eyes!" A man sneered, "Don't you also fool around with us here every day, chew your tongue here, and be careful that the people in the city defense camp will arrest you!" ”

"You think I'm lying to you?" Charles sneered, "As you know, I'm a small person with a small amount of food, and the chef in the barracks doesn't have to worry about me stealing food, so he often asks me to help with the cooking!" A few officers who had dinner that day were crying in the barracks, which startled me, and I didn't dare to go in when I served the food, so I stood outside the door, who knows, I heard the news! The city defense battalion will arrest me, don't kill me, kill me, they still have to take care of my food, kill me, and I will save myself from suffering this day without a day, without a meal! ”

"Really?"

"What do I mean by lying to you?" "You think we don't have anything to eat?" Even the barracks were short of food. Those officers used to be big fish and meat, but now not to mention fish, even those vegetable stalks that they usually don't eat and completely discard are now served as delicious! ”

"My God, those officers and soldiers still tell us all day long that they must be able to fight the thieves, hehe, it turns out that they are all fucking lies!"

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