"My name is Zhang Qing, a native of Daokou Village, Tongshan County, and I am 17 years old this year.

My family is a tenant farmer for Master Zhou, my ancestors have been like this for generations, and when I was a child, I heard my grandfather say that it seems to have been hundreds of years.

Tenant farmers, tenant farmers, are people who do not own their own land and rent land from the landlord's family.

How did my family have no land, and my grandfather didn't know what to say, so he should be the same as Zhao Laoshi in the east of the village.

Zhao is an honest man, and his family used to have four acres of land.

At the beginning of spring the year before last, Zhao Laoshi's daughter-in-law fell ill, and four acres of land were stuffed into a medicine jar, and the land was also mortgaged to Master Zhou.

Most of the tenant farmers in the village have no land.

The poor cannot afford to be sick or alive, and if they encounter natural disasters, they will be displaced.

In my thoughts, in the future, I may be like my father, honestly working for Master Zhou.

Three or five years later, he married a peasant woman with big shoulders and a round waist and a horse in her hands.

There's nothing wrong with that, life is the most important thing, as long as people live, there is hope, isn't it?

Unfortunately, in that late autumn when the leaves were falling, that all changed.

This year's harvest is not good, the harvest in the field is only seven or eight percent of previous years, Daokou Village is a small village, there is no Xiucai old man to shelter, over the years most afraid of natural disasters.

The grain urging officer from the county said that there was a severe drought in the north this year, and the south should also share the worries of the saints, and the grain handed over would be 20 percent more than in previous years.

Twenty percent is not a small number, we, the tenant farmers, rent the land of the landlord, and have to hand over thirty percent of the yield per mu, and also pay two percent of the imperial grain, and we can only leave fifty percent of the grain, and the family can barely live.

This year is a disaster year, and if the grain output is reduced, and if you pay two more percent, you will really not be able to survive.

My family has six people, and only three of them can support the food in the family until the beginning of spring.

The night before yesterday, my father went to Mr. Zhou's house to borrow grain, and he went with a broken bag, and he also came back with a broken bag, and when he came back, he sat at the door in a daze.

At dinner in the evening, I was called outside.

My father said to me that there was not enough food at home to feed me, so I was told to go east, where there was a way to live.

My younger siblings looked at me ignorantly, and I didn't say anything, just nodded indifferently.

So I went, taking six pieces of bread, to the place where there was a way to live.

The prophet of Chunjiang plumbing duck, who has been digging and eating in the soil for generations, has his own way to deal with natural disasters.

I was one of the first people in the village to leave, but my father told me that I would not be the last and that he would come to me if things were bad, and we agreed to meet at Jinshan Mansion.

I left with a family of three, a middle-aged man, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, and a splash in the village.

A family of three, an old couple, with an eldest sister in her thirties.

Among the old couple, the man's name is Xu Laohan, a farmer, looking seventy or eighty, in fact, he is only fifty-eight, and he is also a tenant farmer of Master Zhou like my family.

The old woman has no name, everyone calls him Mrs. Xu, their daughter is sick, she will wheezing when she works, she feels distressed at every turn, and she is not married in her thirties, so she lives with the old couple.

The middle-aged man was a beggar, about the same age as my father.

He came twenty years ago, where he came from and why, no one knows, and he doesn't say anything when asked, just laughs and shakes his head.

The middle-aged man lives by begging all day long, stealing from the field when he has nothing to eat, and never stealing from our village, so the village can accommodate him.

The middle-aged man is not bad-hearted, and when he was a child, the playmates in the village liked to go to the broken temple where he lived to play.

He would make traps, and occasionally catch hares, pheasants, and the like, and the village was poor, and he couldn't afford to eat meat, and he couldn't see oil or water, and he didn't rush when we went, but happily gave us meat to eat, and he ate more meat in him than at home.

Thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, called Xiuniang, my father told me that her father was a bad gambler, and her mother was a broken shoe.

The embroidery lady is very sensible and often helps the family, so I asked her why she was leaving.

She told me that there was not much food at home, and her father discussed with her mother that he would marry her to Master Zhou's stupid son in exchange for 300 catties of grain, and then she ran away.

I was speechless, the embroidery girl was very beautiful, and I had also fantasized that I could marry a woman like her as a wife.

But I know that I can't do it, her father and mother are both snobs, and they can't look down on the stupid son of Master Zhou, and they can't look down on me as a normal person.

I don't know why a fool can be born rich.

And I, with sound hands and feet, have to be displaced and go to Yangzhou to escape the famine.

I wanted to ask again, but Xiuniang didn't want to say it, she didn't think it was worth being happy, but was worried about how her father and mother would spend this winter after she left.

But she won't go back, from the moment her father and mother wanted to sell her to Master Zhou, her heart left and left the small village.

The embroidery lady told me that their family of three is actually the same, they are all selfish.

I don't understand, isn't it selfish to resign yourself to fate, marry a fool, and get food rations for your parents?

Over the years, Master Zhou has found four daughters-in-law for his stupid son, two of whom are pregnant.

People in the village said that the child belonged to Master Zhou, and the fool didn't even know how to live in a cave room, and my mother told me that it was a fire pit, and it was all brutes who married her daughter.

The last one was Pippy, who was five years older than me, who spent his days loitering, and I heard that he had met a boss in the town.

However, Splash Skin's courage is very small, once the boss went out to fight, saw blood, Splash was scared away, and then was driven back.

After being driven back, he still didn't change his nature, he didn't do anything, he went to help whoever had something to do, and when he was done, he stayed to eat, and he just dealt with it.

But I think Splashy is a smart person, he has a lot of ideas, and secretly told me that in fact, he has long wanted to leave, but he is reluctant to everyone.

This time, when I encountered a natural disaster, I had to go if I didn't go, so I just went outside to break through a career.

I asked him what his career was, and he didn't say, just smiled at me, looking very confident.

In this way, I, a family of three, middle-aged, embroidery, splashed skin, went to Yangzhou.

After walking for three days, we walked a total of 200 miles, and we walked very fast, because Old Man Xu said that the first batch of people who rushed to Yangzhou had food, and the people behind were not sure.

In fact, I can still walk faster, but the embroidery girl and Mrs. Xu can't go fast, and I am reluctant to embroider the girl.

On the fifth day, we arrived at a town where the damage was not severe, but the people in the town were fierce.

At the entrance of the town, there was a group of people who were wielding knives and sticks, and they drove us away from us and prevented us from entering the town.

Splashy was not afraid of things this time, went up to reason with them, and was beaten with a stick by the leader and hit him in the left leg.

We fled in a hurry, not daring to stay in town.

That night, the skinny leg was swollen, and the middle-aged man looked at Xu Laohan and said that he might have injured his bones.

Splashy smiled and said that it was okay, he had suffered more serious injuries than this when he was messing around the town.

I knew he was lying, Splashy hadn't fought at all, the only time he was scared away, and then he came back.

We spent the night in the woods, it was cold at night, and we gathered together and kept warm next to each other.

The next morning, Xu Laohan made a crutch for Splash Skin, and the middle-aged man found a stick to tie Splash Skin to his legs, so that his legs could use less force.

On this day, the sixth day after leaving the village, we had eaten all the food we had with us.

Next, we not only have to hurry, but also look for food.

There are wild fruit trees in the woods, and if you are lucky, you can find dried wild fruits on the ground.

Xu Laohan said, this is our luck, if we are not the first batch of people to come out, don't think about finding these good things.

We ate dried wild fruits together, fantasized about the prosperity of Yangzhou, and each other's spirits were very high.

That night, before going to bed, I plucked up the courage to say to the embroidery girl: "If you don't have a place to go, you can follow me when you arrive in Yangzhou, and I will work to support you." ”

Xiuniang didn't speak, but squeezed to Mrs. Xu's side, which caused Mrs. Xu's daughter to be very dissatisfied.

I can't describe how I feel, it's the boldest thing I've ever done in my life.

Lost, unwilling, self-deprecating, maybe they all have it.

On the eighth day, our speed slowed down, and we could only walk fifty miles a day.

Splash's injury was worsening, and his left leg was swollen several times thicker than his right.

But he was very optimistic and told me that everyone had already walked 500 miles, and another 1,000 miles would be the boundary of Yangzhou.

I asked him if he could hold on, and he said yes, he still had to go to Yangzhou to do a big career, how could he not hold on.

The middle-aged man's trap last night caught a hare, and everyone decided to eat the hare on the way.

When cooking, the middle-aged man looked sullen, and I thought that the middle-aged man thought that he had caught the hare and didn't want everyone to eat.

The middle-aged man told me that he might not be able to hold on, his wounds were deteriorating, his legs were full of pus, or he would not be able to walk in a few days, and he would have to stay.

The hare is very fragrant, mixed with wild vegetables, even if there is no condiment, everyone eats with a mouth full of oil.

But I didn't eat it very well, if I stayed, would he be able to survive this winter alone?

Will he be able to face the victims behind him?

I didn't know, and I didn't dare to think about it, so I just silently stuffed my rabbit meat into the hands of the splasher.

Splashy looked at me, smiled, and gave the meat to Mrs. Xu, who in turn gave the meat to her daughter.

The big girl in her thirties, pouting, muttering something in a low voice, happily ate the rabbit meat, and I vaguely heard her seem to say SB...

Am I stupid?

I'm not stupid, I just hate separation, my father said, some people walk and walk and then disperse.