The heavy snow was still falling, Zuo Dengfeng and Thirteen braved the snow to move forward, although they could regulate their body temperature through the aura, but the soaked shoes and the snowflakes pouring in from the neck still made Zuo Dengfeng feel very hard.

At noon, Zuo Dengfeng finally came to Muping County, and last night he found more than a dozen oceans from the middle-aged monk, and he had money to live in a hotel today.

Zuo Dengfeng asked for a side room with a stove, as soon as he entered the house, he shook off the snow and jumped on the kang head, Zuo Dengfeng took off his soaked shoes and clothes and put them next to the stove to bake, and then took out the half bottle of liquor and poured himself a drink, he was not willing to order food, although there are more than a dozen oceans on his body now, but there are many places to spend money in the future, and he has to save money.

After the meal, Zuo Dengfeng slept for a while, the snow stopped in the evening, Zuo Dengfeng set off on the road, this time his luck was very good, he didn't go far to meet a team of mule carts to Jinan to deliver goods, and after giving a handful of copper to catch the car, he and Thirteen were able to take a ride.

The speed of the mule cart is not faster than the speed of Zuo Dengfeng, the reason why Zuo Dengfeng hitchhiked is actually for the sake of Thirteen, Thirteen is a feline, there are meat pads under his feet, and it can't bear to run long distances.

This is Zuo Dengfeng's first time going out, after leaving the Jiaodong Peninsula, what he saw and heard along the way shocked him extremely much, and he often saw a skeleton of starvation on the side of the road, most of these starvation were not complete, and many of them were skeletons with flesh and skin cut off.

After asking the driver who was driving the car, Zuo Dengfeng learned that the meat on the bodies of the hungry people had been cut and eaten by the victims. Last year, that is, in 1937, many parts of China were hit by disasters, the most serious were Henan, Sichuan, Gansu, Anhui and other places, people from these places came to Shandong to flee, but they did not know that most of Shandong was also affected last year, and many people went north to Kanto again in order to make a living.

The closer you get to Jinan, the more people on the road are outsiders who come from all directions, holding children and daughters, skinny as wood, and from time to time you can see the crippled starvation on the road, not far from the disaster victims are burning something around the fire, in addition, there are many children with straw sticks on their heads on both sides of the road. All this shocked Zuo Dengfeng, and he asked himself more than once in his heart if this was true, but the living facts reminded him that everything he saw was true.

"Uncle, why do they sell all boys?" Zuo Dengfeng asked the driver who was catching the car. Most of the children with straw signs on both sides of the road are boys.

"The little girls have been bought, and the boy is not easy to sell." The coachman travels back and forth between Jinan and Yantai all the year round, and it is no longer strange.

"Why are girls so good to sell?" Zuo Dengfeng asked suspiciously.

"The little girl has let people get into the southern kiln." The coachman replied calmly.

"How old are they, how can they pick up customers?" Zuo Dengfeng frowned and asked, people on the Jiaodong Peninsula say that girls over the age of fifteen or sixteen are big girls, and minors are little girls. The coachman said that the little girl said that none of the girls who were bought were minors.

"Rich people are willing to abuse their children. Who cares if they live or die? The coachman sighed.

The coachman sighed, Zuo Dengfeng didn't speak again, the ugliness of people's surnames in the troubled times was clear at a glance, everyone was trying their best to save their lives, Zuo Dengfeng had never understood why the two brothers-in-law wanted to hide their mother's death for the sake of the ocean every month, and now he finally understood that people are poor and short-minded, and they are not short-minded because they are not poor enough to that extent.

For the first half of the journey, Zuo Dengfeng has been enduring it, he thought that he could sit back and watch the devils slaughter the villagers and be indifferent to these refugees who were struggling on the death line, but in the end he couldn't hold back, those villagers had abandoned him, he sat back and ignored it, but these victims did not hurt him, Zuo Dengfeng couldn't watch them starve to death and care, so when he met the poor victims, Zuo Dengfeng would jump out of the car and give them a few coppers.

The copper is exchanged with the driver of the ocean and the team, and they will give Zuo Dengfeng a few less coppers when exchanging, Zuo Dengfeng did not say anything about this, there are only a few in the ocean, if you give the disaster victims Dayang, you can only give a dozen people, and you can help a few more by sending copper.

In the second half of the journey, Zuo Dengfeng began to regret it, because the people he met were more pitiful than those before, but at this time Zuo Dengfeng had no money left for them, and he only had two oceans left, these two oceans Zuo Dengfeng has not given away, even if he met a pitiful person, he didn't give it, because he had to ensure his survival, it didn't involve his survival, he could help others, and it was absolutely not okay when it was related to his safety, he lived to avenge Wu Xinyu, and it was Wu Xinyu who shed blood for him, not these victims.

The mule cart did not go slowly, six days later arrived in Jinan, after entering the city, Zuo Dengfeng immediately found a restaurant from the back kitchen to buy a faded live chicken and fed it to Thirteen, Thirteen did not hunt food at night for a few days, and there was no big mountain after leaving the Jiaodong Peninsula.

There are a lot of devils in Jinan City, a team patrols from the city, Jinan as the provincial capital, naturally more prosperous than the county seat, but this prosperity is only the prosperity of commerce and economy, in this kind of place rich people can live very well, shops and restaurants are all over the street, teahouse theaters can be seen everywhere, and the kiln bathhouse is also very prosperous. But for people who don't have money, it's hell here, because everything here costs money, and they just don't have money.

Zuo Dengfeng is currently in the east city of Jinan, Jinan City is very large, there are many troops stationed in Jinan, most of them are stationed in the city, Zuo Dengfeng can only pretend to be a beggar to look for them one by one, because the eyesight can reach three times that of ordinary people, Zuo Dengfeng can observe the situation of the army from a long distance, and his beggar outfit will not make the army suspicious. Thirteen had gone through the previous bumps, and was no longer as fat as before, and when Zuo Dengfeng sat in the corner of the wall to observe the army, it would usually lie on its stomach on the roof where Zuo Dengfeng could be seen.

The army stationed in Jinan did not drive away the victims who poured into Jinan, but instead did not drive them away, they set up relief points in several places in the city and distributed some food every evening. Naturally, this is also a means of buying people's hearts, because they distribute too little food, only a few boxes of steamed buns every day, and when the steamed buns are distributed, there are people from the newspaper who take pictures next to them to publicize the benevolent deeds of the devils.

Zuo Dengfeng didn't care about all this, he was currently facing great difficulties, because he could not enter the garrison of the army at will, he could only observe and wait outside, and he had to spend three days observing the people entering and leaving each of the army troops, and after three days, he would change to another place.

In the past few days, Zuo Dengfeng has not eaten properly, because there are victims passing by from time to time, and they will look at him with a blank eye after seeing Zuo Dengfeng eating, and in the end, Zuo Dengfeng can only give them food.

On the evening of the seventh day, Zuo Dengfeng didn't buy Wotou, because Wotou was sold out, so he had to buy two steamed buns.

Returning to the corner of the wall and looking at the steamed buns in his hand, Zuo Dengfeng remembered the scene when Wu Xinyu gave him dates, and at that time he thanked her with two steamed buns.

Just when Zuo Dengfeng was staring at the steamed bun in his hand, he felt that someone was staring at him, and when he looked up, he found a woman standing in front of him, the woman was very thin, in her thirties, medium height, wearing a shabby cotton jacket, with a blue cloth headscarf wrapped around her head, and the woman's gaze was wandering between Zuo Dengfeng's face and hands.

She looked at Zuo Dengfeng, and Zuo Dengfeng also looked at her, her face was helpless, longing, shy, and more hungry.

After staring at each other for a long time, Zuo Dengfeng handed her the two steamed buns in his hand, and the woman did not take the food and eat it and run away as quickly as the victims before, but kneaded her fingers and showed shame.

"I'm not hungry, you can eat." Zuo Dengfeng handed her the two steamed buns.

"Thank you." The woman took the steamed bun and bowed to Zuo Dengfeng to thank her. Zuo Dengfeng has never been far away, and he can only hear that the woman is not from Shandong, but he doesn't know where the accent is.

"This one is for you too." Zuo Dengfeng saw that she was so polite so he took out two coppers from his pocket and stuffed them into his hands, at this time the price of goods rose, and one copper could not buy a fritters, but he could still buy a steamed bun or two nests.

The woman looked at the copper in her hand in shock, and then looked up at Zuo Dengfeng, "What should you do?" ”

"I still have it." The woman's words moved Zuo Dengfeng very much, no one cared about him after Wu Xinyu's death, even if he was kind all the way, those victims only said thank you to him at most, and no one ever asked him who was also in rags, 'You gave me the money, what should you do?' ’

"Little brother, are you on your own?" The woman judged by Zuo Dengfeng's voice that he was not very old.

Zuo Dengfeng nodded silently when he heard this, although Thirteen is smart, it is not a human.

Seeing this, the woman did not speak, and after looking around, she picked up Zuo Dengfeng and walked towards an abandoned house at the end of the alley. Zuo Dengfeng didn't know why, so he went with her.

"Little brother, I don't ...... anything" After coming to the abandoned house, the woman put down the steamed bun and copper, and shyly lifted the padded jacket to untie the belt of her trousers.

"Big sister, you don't have to be like this." Seeing this, Zuo Dengfeng immediately guessed what she was going to do, and hurriedly took her hand.

Seeing this, the woman looked at Zuo Dengfeng suspiciously and shyly, not understanding why he stopped herself.

"Eldest sister, are you also alone?" Zuo Dengfeng took the steamed bun and copper next to him and put them back in the woman's hand, turned around and walked out.

"There is a mother-in-law and two daughters," the woman followed, "little brother, my little daughter has just been born, why don't we two go together?" ”

"Partner?" Zuo Dengfeng looked at the woman in front of him suspiciously.

"I'll eat a little more, you eat my ......," the woman said in a low voice.

Zuo Dengfeng frowned and pondered for a long time, and finally understood what the woman meant, in the era of food scarcity, people can think of any way to survive.

"Eldest sister, you listen to me, go to the southeast, there is no disaster there this year, maybe there is still a way to live." Zuo Dengfeng took out the only piece of ocean from his arms and handed it to the woman.

The woman was stunned by Zuo Dengfeng's actions, she turned around and ran away for a while, and it didn't take long for her to bring an elderly woman and a seven or eight-year-old child, she still held a child in her arms, and the family knelt down in front of Zuo Dengfeng to thank him.

Zuo Dengfeng didn't like this, and quickly sent the family away and left here, he had been guarding here for three days, and he was going to change to another place.

As night fell, Thirteen jumped off the roof and followed Zuo Dengfeng through the streets, Zuo Dengfeng had no money on him and could no longer live in a hotel. Fortunately, there is still a night pearl in my arms, and I will find a bigger pawnshop tomorrow at dawn to exchange some dishes.

Just as Zuo Dengfeng was thinking about where to make do with the night, gunshots came from the street in front of him, and a moment later, a man in his thirties ran out of the corner, dressed in black, with a pistol in his hand, and behind him was the footsteps and shouts of devils.

"Fuck you, I really ran into it." Zuo Dengfeng's eyes were bloodshot and turned red in an instant, and it was not the man in black who made him so excited, Zuo Dengfeng didn't know him at all.

The reason why Zuo Dengfeng suddenly appeared was because he heard the shouts of the devil behind him, and the voice that shouted 'ha, ya, ku' urging the soldiers to chase after him was exactly the same as the voice of the devil who pretended to be Fujisaki's coachman, and it was absolutely wrong!