Chapter 216: Saving the Year of Famine (5)
Jiang Xiaoman finally knew that the old lady of the original owner was named Xu Cui'e.
The surname of this family is Zhang.
So she should be called Mrs. Zhang.
When Xu Zhang was 20 years old, her husband fell ill.
She was left with three sons.
Originally, it was not difficult for him to pull his three sons as a widow, mainly when her husband died. She left her a lot of family wealth, at least 30 acres of land there, plus five houses.
Although it can't be said that it is the local owner's old wealth, but the family is full, and it is no problem for the children to grow up.
The old lady is also a person with affection and righteousness. I didn't think about remarrying, but thought about pulling my three sons to grow up.
In ancient times, a widow pulled her three sons to grow up, but it was not so easy, and it could be regarded as the old lady who chose the most difficult path to take.
However, the roof leak happened to rain overnight.
She has only been living a good life for two years, and she didn't think that her father-in-law and mother-in-law were sick, and the second uncle and third uncle were not yet adults.
Before her in-laws died, she took her only daughter-in-law's hand and handed over her son to her daughter-in-law, connecting the family's 20 acres of land.
She had no choice but to agree to her parents-in-law, and as soon as she agreed here, her father-in-law and mother-in-law over there swallowed their breath, so the two uncles, who were only eleven or twelve years old, were living with their widowed sisters-in-law.
Originally, she had 50 acres of land in her hands, how could she live a good life, but Mrs. Zhang didn't want the villagers to say that she was mean as a sister-in-law, so she wanted to study for her brother-in-law.
In ancient times, there was a scholar in the family, which was absolutely amazing, and Mrs. Zhang was biased by this thought, so the two little uncles were sent to the private school, and these two were not reading materials at all.
The money was also spent, and I studied in a private school for four or five years, but I didn't have any skills.
Not to mention Xiucai, even the children have not been admitted.
For fear that the people in the village would say about her, for a good reputation, the little uncle basically did not work at home, and all the household work was done by her three sons and Mrs. Zhang herself.
Seeing that the little brother-in-law was already an adult, he couldn't read this book, so he had to start a family quickly, so her sister-in-law helped them to arrange family affairs, and both of them got married.
This marriage has to ask for silver inside and out, plus the two little uncles are older, she can't squeeze in this house, so she has to sell 10 acres of land, help the little brother-in-law, build a house and become a parent.
It stands to reason that if you build a house and become a parent, you can also be regarded as starting a family, so you don't have to worry about the two little brothers-in-law.
Mrs. Zhang can also live a good life.
It's a pity that the two brothers-in-law are still leading their daughters-in-law as before, running to their sister-in-law at every turn, just making love.
The sister-in-law is long and the sister-in-law is short, but she doesn't want to work, nor does she want to find a livelihood by herself, but she gnaws on her sister-in-law here.
The problem is that her sister-in-law is willing.
The second and third two little uncles also gave birth to children, there are too many places to use money at home, and the three sons can't earn so much money no matter how they do, and there is no way for Mrs. Zhang to sell another 10 acres of land, and one of the main uncles has given birth to a child, and one has given birth to 5 children.
But seeing that she couldn't support so many people by herself, she had no choice but to discuss it with the two little uncles, and one of them gave them 10 acres of land, so that they could go to make a living by themselves.
It's a pity that these two little uncles have 10 acres of land, and they don't want to get food back in the field to support their families.
Originally, this day is okay, and it can go on like this, although it is said that the three sons of Mrs. Zhang's family have been wronged and poor, but at least they can survive.
The problem is that God doesn't allow it, it's not that their village has suffered from drought for two years in a row, and after this drought, there is no harvest in the village, even if there are 100 acres of land at home, it is useless, and not a grain of grain can be beaten.
There was no way, the old and young people in the village began to go out to escape the famine and ask for food.
Mrs. Zhang and her family have to go out, otherwise they will starve to death in the village.
The problem is that if you run away from the famine, you can escape the famine, how can you bring the two little uncles' family with you, this is good, along the way, their three families have a large population, and the three families are mighty, the problem is that they have suffered disasters here, and other places have not seen much better.
I didn't have much to eat, and I was hungry all the way.
In this way, the old lady still took care of the second and third families, and asked the two sons to send the food to the second and third uncles at every turn, and finally starved herself to death.
Jiang Xiaoman doesn't have to guess the ending later.
Needless to say, it must be that there is really no food to eat in the end on this road to escape. As a result, the old lady starved herself and her son's family to death, and she couldn't say that the second and third uncles would still be alive and well.
Although she didn't know what the old lady's mission was, she could guess.
Relive a life, if the old lady still feels for the second uncle and the third uncle like in her previous life, I am afraid that her son's family will still have to walk on the road of the previous life.
She couldn't escape starvation.
Normal people don't choose that.
She estimated that the old lady would probably hope that she could be better to her sons in this life, and she hoped that her children and grandchildren would survive.
Anyway, if it were her, of course, I hope that her children and grandchildren can live a well-fed and prosperous life, at least not to starve to death as a family like in the previous life.
However, she came back a little late, and if she came back early, she would have been able to predict the disaster situation, and she would have been able to make some preparations in advance, at least in the village.
It's too late now.
has fled to the second half of the famine, to put it bluntly, this famine year is only the second year, and next year will still be three years.
It's just that next year will not be a drought, and this drought will be followed by a plague of locusts. To put it bluntly, this grain will not be able to be beaten down next year, and how many people will starve to death in the three-year disaster?
In other words, they didn't wait for next year's locust plague, and they would starve to death this year, but it can be seen that their family is living in a ruined temple.
There are a lot of wings in this ruined temple, but now they are all people who have fled the famine.
The ruined temple has long been gone.
The monk had to starve to death if he didn't have incense.
The second uncle and the third uncle's family are also in this temple, but they don't crowd together with them, their family is crammed into a small house, and the backdrop is also the most remote piece, the main family is not powerful, and they don't want to cause trouble.
The main thing is that the old lady is lying down and has no fighting power.
The three sons were raised by the old lady, and all of them were good-tempered.
is also bullied.
Now it seems that it is a big deal to let this family live first.
Looking at the grandchildren who were hungry like bean sprouts, Jiang Xiaoman was really speechless to the old lady.