Chapter 1: The Beginning of Hope

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The dry and messy branches, after a winter of dormancy, moistened by the spring rain, I don't know when the tender green leaves emerge from the branches, swaying in the breeze, making the barren land become vibrant.

After the fresh rains in the empty mountains, the soil became moist, and the weeds in the crops sprang out overnight, and the empty and loose land came to life.

The chirping of birds is a pleasure to listen to, and swallows are free to glide through the sky, as if to herald some good news.

Under the clear sky, even though the plainly dressed people were skinny and sallow, they still had joyful expressions on their faces.

"Aunt Zhao, go to town?" On the avenue, a tall, but sharply protruding cheekbones, thin woman like a paper man asked the people around her with a smile.

The man was as skinny as she was, severely malnourished, and out of breath after two steps, but her face was also not sad, and she was smiling.

She was looking at the weeds and nodding her head, and she couldn't stop saying, "Okay, that's good!" ”

Hearing someone talking to her, she withdrew her gaze and said with a little excitement: "Yes, you also go to the town." ”

"But no, it's spring, and the heads of the fields have been turned over several times, just waiting to plant the seeds, and as soon as we heard that the seeds of the grain station have come down, we hurried over."

Jia Liangjia couldn't help but want to laugh, "There is hope for the future, it will get better and better, and I don't have to go hungry anymore." ”

The look is a yearning that can't stop coming.

The poor harvest of the bankers for many years, and the various reasons that caused the people who were not rich in grain to be in stock have been starving for almost three years, and they are almost starving to the bones.

Sometimes they think that if they continue, they may not last long, either starving to death, or driven crazy by this hopeless life with no future, not knowing what terrible things they will do.

After all, when people are at the end of their rope, there is nothing they can't do, and in order to survive, no matter how crazy they are, they can give up everything.

Fortunately, God's mercy gave them hope when they were about to hold on, and all the demons that emerged in their hearts when they were desperate were suppressed.

Aunt Zhao couldn't agree more with the words of the good family, and couldn't close her mouth with a smile, "Yes, yes, yes, the old saying says that Ruixue is a good year, and the spring rain is as expensive as oil, and this year must not be bad, so there was a spring rain, let's definitely be able to eat every day in the future, and we will never have to eat rotten tree roots again." ”

Thinking about the days when her hungry eyes were flowering and she could only gnaw on the roots of the tree, Aunt Zhao still had palpitations.

"Auntie, why do you still need to run errands to buy grain seeds, just ask my army brothers to get them back for you, how good it is for you to wait at home." Jia Liang's family looked at the army of carts pushing carts beside Aunt Zhao.

The tall but only better than her situation is a little better than the army smiled innocently, "My mother wants to go, if I have any way, I can't stop it." ”

Aunt Zhao then said: "No, if I don't follow and see it with my own eyes, my heart will be as uncomfortable as a worm, and I can't catch up with it." ”

looked at the thin man next to Jialiang's house, "Aren't all big guys the same?" ”

The two made eye contact, and what the other party was thinking at a glance, couldn't help but laugh heartily.

One after another, many people joined the team with carts, and the closer they got to the town, the more people came, and the whole road was full of people.

By the time they arrived in town, there was already a long queue at the grain station, and the long line didn't know how long it would take, but everyone was not impatient, and the smile never fell.

And when these people were rushing to the town, in the courtyard of a farmhouse, the atmosphere was a little not good.

The family was also tidying up the cart, but the two young daughters-in-law did not look good.

"Mother, it's not me who said, the second sister is too ignorant, she knows that she is going to the grain station to pull grain seeds today, why is she still riding a horse and running out, for fear that her brother will not be tired or how to drop." Older, looking at the daughter-in-law who is about thirty years old, said with dissatisfaction.

Although their family looks like they are also tired, they are not as thin as others, and they look in good spirits, at least they are not so weak that they are tired and panicked.

The elder who was feeding his two-year-old grandson Feng Yuqing on the side looked up and glanced at the eldest daughter-in-law who was talking, and then looked at the second daughter-in-law who didn't seem to think so, Feng's mother, who was just forty-three years old but was already old, snorted coldly, and didn't say anything to her, just looked at the eldest son: "Without your sister's help, can you die of exhaustion?" ”

Although she values her son, her daughter is not a weed in the field, she also takes it to heart, and a daughter-in-law dares to provoke the feelings of her children!

The little guy in his arms swallowed the mush in his mouth, waited for a while and didn't wait for the next bite, and called his grandmother inarticulately, urging her to hurry up.

Mother Feng lowered her head and wiped the saliva from the corner of the little guy's mouth, looking at her grandson, who was not chubby for nothing but very healthy, and became more and more dissatisfied with what her eldest daughter-in-law said.

"Eat slowly, grandma's Yuqing, when you grow up, you have to remember the second aunt's good, and you have to honor her, do you know?"

"If it weren't for your second aunt, it would be a question of whether our Yuqing could be born or not, let alone grow up so well, the children of ten miles and eight villages would not have the luck of you."

Xiao Yuqing said very appropriately, with a smile on her face, as if she had agreed, and made Feng's mother happy, "We Yuqing still have a conscience." ”

Saying this, Feng's mother's eyes also glanced at her eldest daughter-in-law.

"Mother, how can you, don't listen to Yuqing's mother's nonsense." The tall man rubbed his hands, very ashamed, and glared at his daughter-in-law dissatisfied, "Don't make your mother angry, isn't it just to buy grain seeds, my second brother and I will get it back, why bother Huaying." ”

In the past two years in the family, if it weren't for the second sister, it really wouldn't be able to go on.

With such a large family, it is a trivial matter whether the pot can be opened or not, and it is possible to starve to death, I didn't see how many families in the village have died, some are old, some are young, and there are children.

Not to mention the newborn baby in the past two years, it would be good to be born, and it was a miracle that his youngest son could be born, not to mention that he has been raised until now, and he still looks very healthy.

When the child was born, he didn't dare to let people know, so his family was on the edge of the village, and the people in the same village were hungry, no one came out to walk around, and no one knew that the child cried twice, even if it was heard, it was all pushed to the youngest child in the family, Yuxia, saying that he was hungry and couldn't stand it, so he kept it a secret until now.

In the village, everyone is hungry and inhuman, but their family can eat every day, all of them rely on the second sister, and now his daughter-in-law complains about the second sister, Feng Huazu is simply faceless.

But he is her man, and if she does something wrong, he will bear it for her.

The eldest daughter-in-law, Ding Hongfang, glared at her man fiercely, she thought about him, but she didn't expect this dead man to dismantle her stage!

Who is she for?

Thinking about the horse that the second sister bought, she hurts!

Buying a useless horse during a famine year, and wasting food if you can't eat it, people are dying of hunger!

Isn't that sick!

bought a horse, it's okay that the big guy can use it, but she used it to play alone, and the more Ding Hongfang thought about it, the bigger the fire in her heart.

It's a pity that her anger, the boss Feng Huazu didn't receive it, which made her even more angry, but she didn't dare to say anything in front of her mother-in-law, and waited to go back to their own house at night!

"Mother, don't be angry, such a little thing, my eldest brother and I will finish it, and when Huaying gets married, how can there be such a light time." Feng Huajian, who came out of the door in clothes, answered.

His appearance is one or two points similar to the boss Feng Huazu, the boss is sturdy, with a Chinese face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and their father is more similar, he is slender, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, Si Swenwen's appearance, more like their mother when she was young.

The gentle second daughter-in-law, who was arranging the sack next to her, pursed her lips and lowered her eyes to hide her eyes, making people not know what they were thinking.

Mother Feng's expression eased when she heard this, and she was obviously happy to listen to the second brother's words, "It's still her second brother who treats her well, unlike some people who eat the food that others get, and they still complain, who are they!" ”

Although no one named him, no one knows who he is talking about.

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