Chapter 105: Eighteen Miles of Poor Village
All right! They finally figured it out.
Although this village and Linjia Village are separated by a mountain, the reason for the complete difference is that Linjia Village is close to the river, and the terrain there is gentle, and the land is more fertile, so the production is often a good harvest.
But this village across the mountain is called Eighteen Mile Pu.
Don't look at the fact that there is only a mountain apart, but the situation is worlds apart, and they don't just have very little flat land here. The water source is also very tight, and if they want to plant and water, in addition to relying on God to rain, they have to carry water from the mountain.
And most of their land here is very barren because it is mountainous. Not only is the production not abundant, but because of the lack of water and fertilizer, the land here will be reduced almost every year. They also want to go down to the gentle river and make their home.
But it is simply impossible, the Linjia Village has already occupied the best place, and if they also move to the gentle area by the river, there will only be some saline-alkali land left that no one wants, and they will not be able to grow a grain at all.
So their whole village can only survive here. Even in a good year, the food they produce here is not enough to eat.
So don't look at a place, a mountain, the encounter is very different.
Because poor! At this time, the summer harvest has not yet arrived! That's when they're not in good hands.
I can only wander the mountains to find food.
This time they found something to eat.
Wang Xiaoqing saw what they were so-called eating.
Han Chengkui was taken aback! Isn't this the Huaishan they eat?
But Huaishan, they haven't seen a dead person after eating for so long.
How come these people eat people to death instead!
Wang Xiaoqing explained Han Chengkui's doubts.
"These are not Huaishan, they are another crop called cassava, which is actually theoretically edible! However, these cassava themselves are poisonous, if you want to eat them! Peel ahead of time! Soak in water for at least a day and a night to remove toxins.
If you don't soak it, just eat it directly! They will be poisoned, and they will be poisoned because they eat too much cassava at one time. ”
It looks the same as Huaishan, but the toxicity is different.
Wang Xiaoqing watched as people eased up.
Dozens of people survived, and only sixteen survived.
Even modern medicine is not a one-size-fits-all solution.
It is also a time when there is nothing to be done.
Fortunately, they figured out that these people were not infectious diseases, and this was the best outcome.
But there are only sixteen people left in a village, and it is sad how it is.
It's not empathetic, but it's sad.
They're busy here! Over there, Han Dazhi also brought someone to find him.
There is no way, these people are gone.
Han Dazhi is not worried.
Looking at the tragic situation of this village, they are also related.
Sixteen people were better, so they insisted on burying the villagers, all of whom had lived together for decades, and many of them were even their own relatives.
I can watch them expose their corpses in the wilderness.
Han Dazhi and Han Chengkui have not passed the level in their hearts.
They are all ordinary people, and they have all experienced such experiences.
In the end, I couldn't bear it.
Help these sixteen people bury the villagers.
In fact, to put it bluntly, the sixteen people have not fully recovered yet, their hands and feet are weak, they are trembling, and it has always been Han Dazhi and them who have contributed to the work.
They didn't have the strength to bury them one by one, so they could only dig a big pit, bury them together, and then put up a sign on it.
This is already considered benevolence and righteousness.
The coffin or something doesn't exist.
Where to find a coffin in this place?
Sixteen men were grateful, and knelt down to them.
was helped up by Han Dazhi.
"Benefactor, I am the leader of this village, and now the village has become like this, our village is finished, but I just heard that several people are fleeing from other villages, since you have no place to stay, Xiangyang is still far away, at least a few months to go, this road is chaotic! You may encounter something to do.
I thought that if you just stay, settle down in our eighteen miles, although the eighteen miles of paving land are few and sparsely populated, but now there are only sixteen of us left, and no one can plant those lands now, you think about it.
Staying may not be enough to eat, but there is still a little harvest, and we planted in the field! Now that there are no more people, you can stay until the summer harvest! Maybe you'll have food to eat. ”
This Li Zheng's surname is Zhao, known as Zhao Laosan, and he speaks sincerely.
Han Dazhi and Han Chengkui's hearts warmed.
Yes, the people in the village are almost dead.
Although the harvest in the field may not be able to satisfy the stomach according to these people, but now that these people are gone, the harvest in the field is ready-made.
In addition to paying taxes, the rest can be said to have picked up cheap.
If this Zhao Laosan and Zhao Li didn't say it, sixteen people in the family could be greedy for these grains, and no one could say anything.
But when people say this, they just want to repay their kindness.
Compared with Old Man Lin, they are much worse all of a sudden.
It's the story of Mr. Dongguo and the wolf.
"Let's discuss, you rest first, your body hasn't recovered yet, we can only settle down here here tonight, if there is anything, let's talk about it tomorrow."
Han Dazhi didn't agree at once.
He's not the one who calls the shots.
He had to discuss the affairs of the two families with the old lady.
I don't know how to do kung fu, Mrs. Wang and their two families were brought by Han Chengkui.
They didn't enter the village, Wang Xiaoqing said! They cannot enter the village until it is thoroughly disinfected.
They set up camp in the threshing floor.
Make a fire for cooking.
The sixteen men were with them.
Huaishan porridge is no problem to eat a full stomach, it is still soft and sticky, Zhao Lizheng thought at first that these people also ate cassava, and almost didn't lift the pot.
As a result, I was persuaded by the big guy.
After eating it, I realized that it was indeed different.
The cassava they ate was astringent and bitter, and their mouths were numb until they ate it.
But the Huaishan is fragrant and sweet.
I was also sad in my heart, if only they could distinguish between Huaishan and cassava! Maybe you don't have to die so many people.
It's a human life.
I envy these people even more, but they have a reader.
And a little doctor.
At first glance, the father and son are people with great skills.
Sixteen people finally recovered, the big thing in their hearts was solved, and they fell asleep a long time ago.
They were on the side of the threshing floor.
Han Dazhi and Wang Peng lifted them on the other side.
It's still clear.
Han Dazhi and Mrs. Wang, as well as Wang Pengju, Wang Pengfei, Wang Pengwang, and Han Chengkui, sat on the edge of the fire.
Discuss it.
Mrs. Wang looked at the village.
The only problem with Eighteen Mile is that the land is mountainous, and it is not easy to reclaim.
In addition, the water source is not easy to solve.
Actually, this place would be a good place.
In fact, there are not many saline-alkali land, and the other land is mainly thin.
In addition, the climate is good, and there is no problem with two crops of rice a year.
To say that a full stomach is also in the person.
"What do you think? I suggest staying, it's not like we haven't seen what it's like on the road along the way, there are so many refugees, they are all going to Xiangyang, even if we can get to Xiangyang well, so many people can Xiangyang receive?
If we really have land to grow and food to eat here, we will be better than walking for a few more months, and we will not have much food, and I will not be able to go. ”
The old lady was right.