Chapter 6: Hunger is Sick
On the other side of the mountain......
The village chief Laifu shouted and the large team moved forward with difficulty, climbed over the chestnut mountain, went down the hillside to find the official road, and then turned a corner to arrive.
But it is easier said than done, everyone is thirsty and hungry, children can't stand the pain and cry, adults try their best to move their steps, old men and old ladies really can't walk, and they may not be able to get up again if they sit on the ground.
But the scrawny villagers, everyone has a glimmer of hope in their empty eyes.
In the crowd, Ding Rong, who was the eldest brother, opened his dry and cracked lips slightly, looked back at the abrupt mountain, and saw no one.
He quickened his pace and walked to the second Ding De's side: "The second one, the third family didn't follow, it won't really die, right?" ”
Ding De didn't even bother to look at him, but continued to walk forward with the dog stick: "What's the matter, you are distressed, then go back and find it." ”
"What is this called, am I distressed? Don't you see that my family is hungry and thirsty? ”
"Oh, big brother, don't pretend, our three brothers are the richest in your family, and your family began to prepare grain storage when the drought just happened, look at you and your sister-in-law's basket is bulging, carrying a lot of cakes, right?"
"Third child, what are you talking about?"
Ding Rong hurriedly stopped and distanced himself from Ding De, and then looked vigilantly at the villagers passing by, fortunately, the big guys were hungry, and no one noticed what Ding De said.
In these days, you have to starve to death without food, but those who have food are very dangerous.
When these starving ghosts heard that his house still had food, no one dared to think about what they would do on impulse.
Ding Rong thief, his family has a total of three babies, the eldest son is seventeen, the second daughter is fourteen, and the youngest son is also ten years old.
But not a single grain of his family's grain will be given to outsiders.
Even when he saw that Ding Gui's family of three was almost trampled to death, Ding Rong didn't go over to look at it, for fear that the village chief would entrust the family to him to take care of.
Ding De, who was still walking in front, kicked off a small pebble fiercely, scolding in his mouth, he has two babies in his family, the eldest thirteen and the youngest nine-year-old are girls, and the eldest brother is not as prosperous as the eldest brother's family, and there is no more surplus food than the eldest brother's family.
Now he has that hatred in his heart, he worked hard for the Ding family, and in the end, he Ding Rong left them all away as soon as he wanted to split the family, and took away all the food and the best house in the family.
So much so that now, Lao Ding's family still can't turn over.
Fortunately, he also left early under the pretext of getting married, otherwise the third family would have become a drag on him sooner or later.
Sun Shi beside him raised his tired hand and pulled him: "What are you talking about with him, it's better to stay and wait to beg for food." ”
"Bastard, he knows that the old woman will definitely die this time, he doesn't want to care, and he has to pull me to pad her back, it's really not a thing." Ding De scolded viciously.
Sun said: "What does it matter to you that the old woman is dead, she is with the third family, so she has to be under the control of the third family, the eldest brother is afraid of thunder, and wants to pull you to suffer from the guilt in his heart!" ”
Ding De scolded: "Bah, the old woman's life and death can't be managed by me, and if she is struck by lightning, she will only split him and the third child, not me." ”
"Okay, okay, don't say a few words to save gas. Apricot can't walk, you can carry her. Sun pulled the youngest daughter in front of the man.
At this moment, Laifu, who was walking in the middle of the team, turned around and shouted at the top of the mountain: "Hey, Ding Gui, you work hard, it's good." ”
Hearing this call, everyone turned back in surprise......
I saw that on the hill with sudden light, the emaciated husband and wife were holding Wang Dafeng, an old woman who was also emaciated, and beside him, there was a little girl who could be blown down by the wind.
The family of four looked the same ragged, but their backs were straight, and in the light of the morning light, there was a different sense of firmness.
The villagers of Aozi Village were stunned: "......"
In fact, most of them thought that the family was going to die.
When they were in the village, their family was a rare difficult household, even so, when they first set out, they must have had no food in stock, and then starved on the road for a few days, and last night that kind of thing happened again and they didn't die, who would have thought that in the end they would be able to chase over this high mountain.
It's really cheaper and more tenacious!
Inexplicably, everyone's desperate faces faintly showed a fleeting smile, and they didn't say anything, turned their heads and continued to hurry.
But the two brothers, Ding Rong and Ding Gong, began to get anxious in their hearts.
Not dead? Will it be a burden for them in the end?
On the top of the mountain, the wind whistles past your ears.
Even before the sun is hot, the stuffiness in the air is already rising from the soles of your feet.
On the side, Ding Gui and his wife, who were holding Wang Dafeng, looked at each other with complicated expressions.
Looking at the foot of the mountain from the top of the mountain, there seems to be a big team of beggars in front of me, endlessly.
Ding Xiaodie's kitten-like voice sounded faintly, "Guess how many of these people want us not to follow?" ”
Yes, one less group of people, they can order more food, at this time, let's not talk about human nature, it is everyone's instinct to want to live, and people are separated from their stomachs, who knows?
Zhang Xiu's expression suddenly darkened a lot......
Then I heard Ding Xiaodie say: "So we have to live well, live wonderfully, and live a good life." ”
"Yes, yes, Boa is right." Ding Gui immediately responded with a smile.
Wang Dafeng looked at their family of three like a monster, isn't this something wrong with hunger? Still want to live a good life?
Just now, these people forced her to climb the mountain by herself, and she is now angry: "Don't stand here and fart, Ding Gui, I'll go quickly on my back, if I can't get food, I'll starve you to death tomorrow." ”
Ding Gui once promised her that as long as she was willing to climb to the top of the mountain by herself, he would carry her when she went downhill.
At this time, without saying a word, he picked up the old woman.
Zhang Xiu turned around and pulled Ding Xiaodie's little hand, the baby's little short legs, for fear that she would accidentally step on a stone and fall on her head.
In short, it is different if you have eaten rabbit meat, although it is less, but there is finally oil and water in the empty stomach.
If there is oil and water, there is strength, and the family of four went down the hillside in a hurry, not only catching up with the big team, but also directly surpassing Ding Rong and Ding Gongjia, and walking to the front of the team.
Looking at their backs, Ding Rong and Ding Gong were directly confused: "......"
Go so fast, starving ghost reincarnated, right?
What made them even more uncomfortable was that when Ding Gui overtook them with the old woman on his back, the old woman actually scolded: "Brute." ”
What do you mean, is this scolding them?
By the time the Sun family of the Ding De family and the Zhu family of the eldest Ding Rong family reacted that their mother-in-law was scolding them and wanted to jump up and scold them back, they had already gone away.