Chapter 35 Disaster Victims on the Road
Our village is also 70 miles away from the nearest town, so it usually takes a whole day to get back to the town, and the time on the road is also very long, but I don't feel lonely for the first time I go out, there are so many new things on the road that I haven't seen before, and I don't feel bored.
"Wow, that village in front of me is golden and beautiful!" I exclaimed happily as I looked at the scene ahead.
"Where there is a golden village. Brother Rundong looked up and asked me suspiciously.
I stretched out my hand and pointed to the very eye-catching place in front of me, and pointed at Brother Rundong.
"Is that a good drought? The whole village is yellow. Brother Rundong gave me a fierce look and sighed.
"That's it!"
When I looked closer, I saw that all the leaves in the village were withered, and they looked very haggard, without any green or life, which made me a little depressed.
Along the way, I saw that the colors around me were almost all withered yellow, whether it was the surrounding farmland or the withered grass in the mountains. Most of the people I saw on the road were ragged, with yellow faces and thin muscles, and they all looked like disaster victims, which made me feel a little unhappy when I left the village for the first time.
After walking out of Yinzhao Mountain Village, I realized that the situation in our village was good, after all, our village is dependent on the mountains, and the hunters are relatively less affected by the disaster, while the disaster situation in the villages outside that only rely on growing grain to survive is definitely much more serious than the situation in our village, the crops in the fields have all turned into clusters of gray and yellow dead grass, and the ground of the fields is full of drought cracks, and there must be no harvest in such fields.
Just walked and watched in amazement, occasionally thinking about how those people would survive if they didn't have enough to eat.
About 40 miles from our village, a small forest appeared in front of us, and the road was winding, and our road passed through the small trees, and the heavy carriage followed the road towards the forest.
"After this wood, you can see the town by going around a hill. β
Brother Rundong has been to the town many times and is very familiar with this area, and when he saw that he was about to arrive at the place, his mood was much lighter, and he introduced me.
It was finally here, and my suppressed mood had a little more curiosity and excitement.
The wagons carrying heavy grain had slowly driven into the forest.
But who knows, our car had just entered the grove, and suddenly a large group of people came out of the depths of the grove, there were fifty or sixty people, and it was not surprising that there were occasional people in the grove who stopped to rest, but so many people gathered together, and the atmosphere in the grove immediately became tense and uneasy.
And, as if they had already locked on to their targets, they walked quickly towards our car.
"What are these people going to do?"
Runyuanwai saw that the eyes of those people were not good, and he suddenly felt bad in his heart, but now it is too late to turn around and leave, the car is very heavy, and it is too late to turn around, and Runyuanwai does not want to leave the food on the car, after thinking about it, he hurriedly whispered to my father: "Brother Lingqiang, if there is anything, you can help take care of it, and after returning to the village, I will give you three pounds of grain flour for nothing." β
The reason why such a shrewd person was willing to carry others to town was because he wanted someone to help take care of it, and the situation was more serious than he thought at the moment, so he would rather put in another three pounds of cereal flour.
Brother Rundong glanced at Rundong fiercely on the side, and it didn't seem kind to give things to others at this time.
And my father was also very embarrassed and said: "Runren is polite, I came by your car, and I naturally won't sit idly by if there is anything." β
But in the face of the face in front of him, in fact, my father has no bottom, there are fifty or sixty people on the other side, even if he has three heads and six arms, he is not the opponent of these people, and his own strength itself is not very strong, so the situation in front of him is not at all under his control, I just hope that these people are not directly robbing and hurting people.
At this moment, the fifty or sixty people had already walked to the front of the car, and a strong, dark-skinned man who walked in front of him shouted like thunder with a grim face: "Stop the car! Where are you going?"
With the shout of the big man, fifty or sixty people around him immediately surrounded our car violently.
I'm also stunned, damn, if these people want to kill people now, I'm afraid the four of us will die in vain, I'm only five years old, I'm only the fourth level of condensation, how could this happen?
Nervously, I took a closer look at the group of people in front of me, some of them were dressed like farmers, some of them looked like hunters, and some of them were simply beggars, in short, all of them had one thing in common, they were all poor!
After all, Runyuanwai is a person who often runs outside, and when he saw the other party's momentum, although he was also afraid, he immediately got out of the car with a smile on his face, and hugged his fist towards the strong man led by the other party: "Everyone, you are a farmer in Yinzhao Mountain Village, I will go to the town to do some private affairs today, please make it convenient." β
"Farmers?"
The strong man swept his eyes with a cold gaze at the cart full of grain outside Runyuan, and said hatefully: "Which peasant can have so much grain from you now, you are clearly a landlord, or a profiteer who speculates on grain, and now the price of grain is so expensive, you people are playing tricks, we are starving to death, and you are still making a lot of black money. β
As he spoke, the strong man was going to command the people to grab the grain.
"Slow!"
My dad immediately stood up and shouted, seeing that these people are not unreasonable, so my dad also has to stand up and help Runyuanwai to say a fair word: "This eldest brother, I can confirm that we are all from the same village, and the grain outside Runyuan is by no means fried food, these grains are grown in his own home, so please make it convenient for you." β
These people around him immediately looked at my father, these people can see that with my father's patched clothes and rough black face, you can be sure that my father is definitely not a landlord, even if my father stands in the crowd of the other party, his outfit does not look outstanding, so the strong man who is the leader immediately yelled at my father viciously: "Don't meddle in your affairs, otherwise you won't have any good fruit to eat." β
Dad frowned, and didn't continue to be tough, in fact, the wisest way now is to give food to the other party, otherwise it may be empty of people and money.
Of course he didn't think so, these grains were his hard-earned money, and he saved them little by little, of course he was distressed, so he was still rolling his eyes and trying his best to think of a way, and suddenly his wandering eyes suddenly locked on a person behind the other party, and when he saw that person, he immediately shouted happily: "Ah! Isn't that the Sun Zhuang brother of Yinzhu Village?"
Everyone's eyes immediately turned around, and gathered towards the person who said to Runyuanwai, who was a strong man with a thin face and a slightly yellow face, obviously, Runyuanwai often did business in nearby villages, knew many people from the village, and found an acquaintance at this moment, he should have hoped that the other party would let him go in the face of knowing people.
I also looked in the direction that Runyuanwai pointed, but when I saw the person, I was shocked in my heart, the person was very familiar, and then took a closer look, I immediately recognized it, he was the person I saw at the door of Peng's blacksmith yesterday, yesterday this person and Peng's blacksmith said that things were very intense, and they were still conspiring in a whisper, now I have some doubts, is it not Peng Blacksmith is also nearby, is it Peng Blacksmith told these people about Runrenwai's preparation to sell grain today, so that these people are waiting here to rob food, and these people should be people from the Brotherhoodγ
Thinking of this, my heart is cold, the way to find acquaintances to tell people about human favors seems to be smart, if the other party is willing to give you his affection, maybe he will help you out of the siege, but if the other party doesn't want you to recognize him, then will the other party kill us?
"Ahem!"
That Sun Zhuang stepped forward with a somewhat embarrassed expression, his eyes flashed and glanced at Runyuanwai, as if he thought about it quickly, and then he said ruthlessly: "Runyuanwai, there is no way, now everyone can't eat, we can only eat the east and eat the west now, or everyone can't survive." β
After Sun Zhuang said these words, his eyes already showed an iron-hearted gaze.
"Yes, we are the members of the Brotherhood, and today we will eat you as a rich family, what, don't you want to?" At this time, the strong man who led the other party suddenly reported his identity, obviously putting on a posture of tearing his face and never giving up.
Runyuan was immediately dumbfounded when he saw the strong man's attitude, and at this moment he already knew that food could not be guaranteed today, and their situation was also very dangerous.
Suddenly, at this moment, a slightly immature voice came from behind Runrenwai.
"Take the grain, and since you don't have enough to eat, take it back and give it to your family." β
This is, of course, the voice of Brother Rundong.
The scene was slightly quiet, and everyone was obviously caught off guard by this sudden gift, but after a while, when the group heard this, they suddenly smiled again, and they shouted loudly: "Since you are willing to give us food, then we are welcome, hahaha!"
Yes, others give them food and they rob it, these are completely two different concepts, so that they can get food, and they don't have to bear the name of robbery, of course they are happy, and at this moment these people have jumped into the car like wolves and began to carry food.
Runren was angry and frightened, he turned around and glared at Rundong fiercely, and then immediately said eagerly to the group of people: "Or, you take out half of the food, leave half for us, we also need to support our families." β
The people of the Brotherhood had long since ignored the pleadings outside the Runren, and they rushed up excitedly and noisily, and in a moment they carried all the food on the cart