Traveling through ancient times, storing supplies and not fleeing famine

There is a round bright moon hanging in the sky outside, and occasionally clouds float by, casting a mysterious veil over the moon.

Xia Shengsheng and a few children fell asleep in the bright moonlight.

In the dream, she was fishing barefoot in the rice fields with a few children.

The sunlight slanted down onto the sparkling rice fields, as if countless golden gems were sparkling on the water.

In the rice fields, green rice leaves sway in the wind, as if telling the joy of the harvest.

The bright smiles of several children were imprinted in Xia Shengsheng's eyes.

This made Xia Shengsheng laugh happily.

Suddenly, there was a strong wind, blowing sand in the wind, making it difficult for people to open their eyes.

The sky was dark and the rice fields beneath my feet suddenly took on a completely different look.

The water in the rice fields dried up instantly and the ground became cracked.

The rice seedlings that were swaying in the wind just now were now outlined, and the rice ears on them instantly shrivelled up.

The fish in Xia Shengsheng's and several children's hands had long disappeared.

Several children also showed panic expressions.

It seemed as if it was just a dream.

The next second, the scene changes!

Xia Shengsheng suddenly distanced herself from the scene in front of her.

She could clearly see her in the distance, carrying a few children and bags, as if she was trying to escape from here.

The air around was unusually hot, and the once lush forests were now dry.

All you can see from the trees are large patches of burnt yellow leaves.

Xia Shengsheng seemed to have some sense that she was in a dream and wanted to wake up quickly. This dream made her feel particularly uneasy.

But the more I want to wake up, the harder it is to wake up.

The more I think about her, the more real she seems.

She saw many villagers from the mountain village, their lips were chapped and their faces were dull, and some of them were walking out of the village with their families.

Some people cling to their mountain villages.

But without exception, there was no sign of life on their faces!

The once bustling streets are now empty, with only the occasional refugee passing by. They are dressed in rags, have haggard faces, and stagger forward.

It turned out that this was a mountain village that had experienced drought.

Kaoshan Village, the Ning'an Prefecture to which it belongs, and several nearby prefectures.

Drought began in the autumn of the second year after Xia Shengsheng arrived.

The drought lasted for three years, and three years of harvest failure was a devastating blow to everyone.

Coupled with the fact that rivers have long dried up and wells are drying up, the problem we face is not just food shortage.

Every household is tightening their belts to make ends meet.

But after enduring year after year, no one sees any hope in life.

Even the relief grain from the imperial court has not been distributed yet.

The prices at grain shops outside are getting higher and higher.

From double and triple at the beginning to dozens of times in the end, the people were miserable.

Many people died in this natural disaster.

The same is true for Kaoshan Village.

Village chief Ma starved to death in order to save food for his children.

In order to give his father and Jin an extra sip of water to drink, Boss Li went up the mountain to look for water but was eaten by a wild beast.

In order to protect his family's food from being snatched by the victims, Ma Kui was beaten to death.

There are countless other unexpected events.

Xia Shengsheng was still okay in the dream, at least she had space, food and water.

However, because she did not prepare for the worst before, there was not much balance in her card.

If she spends frugally, it can barely provide food for her family for a few years.

During the years of drought, except for the most ferocious beasts, most of the wild animals in the mountains disappeared.

Even wild vegetables and medicinal herbs are very scarce.

So, she couldn't make good use of her space.

She and her children did not die of starvation or thirst.

However, most of the people in the same village met with accidents, and she became a cash cow in the eyes of others.

The thing that cannot be tested the most in the face of disaster is human nature.

After fending off wave after wave of attacks from the disaster victims, Xia Shengsheng was betrayed by Li Dajia, with whom he had always been on good terms.

Now that Li Da is gone, the Li family has started to worry about Xia Shengsheng's family, an orphan and a widow, in order to provide food for their children.

When Xia Shengsheng let his guard down, the youngest Liu Ercheng was injured and a bag of food was stolen.

And he sold the news that the Xia family had stored grain to the victims!

Xia Shengsheng was so disheartened that she took a few children and fled south to escape the famine!

Many villagers also fled south to escape the famine.

But how could it be so easy to escape from famine?

The sun was scorching the earth and the air was dry and dull.

Some collapsed from dehydration and hunger and never stood up again;

Some people chose to commit suicide out of despair, and their lives came to an end in this disaster.

As time went on, the number of deaths increased.

Their bodies were dumped carelessly on roadsides or in fields, with no one having the energy to bury them.

Among those who wanted to survive, there was even a tragic scene of cannibalism.

There are also some people who do not want to eat human flesh but have lost their conscience.

They sold their children to get a little food to survive.

But the children they sold were eaten by another group of people.

There were also many cases where people beat others to death just to grab a bite of food.

When Xia Shengsheng saw this, he felt the pain of rejection and lamented the ugliness of human nature.

In the dream, Xia Shengsheng took a few children, away from the crowd, and sought a remote route, just to safely reach a place where they could survive.

But she overestimated her abilities.

If she were to flee by herself, with her skills, it would be no problem for her to reach her destination alive.

But she thought she could protect several children.

But they lost one after another on the way to escape famine.

In the melee, the youngest Sicheng died.

One night, Xia Shengsheng, who had not slept for several days and nights, only rested for a few minutes. When he woke up, Yiyi was missing. When he found Yiyi again, only a skeleton was left.

After experiencing repeated blows, Xia Shengsheng became a little mentally disturbed.

With the remaining two children, she didn't know what to do.

The camera turned.

Another two months later.

Xia Shengsheng didn't know where Xia Shengsheng and the two children in the dream had gone.

But her sight returned to her original Kaoshan Village.

There are only a few villagers left in Kaoshan Village.

But she saw that Zheng Guoqu, who was the first to escape famine, was walking back to the village little by little, leaning on a crutch.

An old man in the village saw this and couldn't help but ask a question.

How come he was the only one who came back when his whole family went to escape famine?

Zheng Guoqu squatted on the ground with his head in his hands and cried bitterly.

I cried for a long time.

After crying, she slowly spoke.

It turned out that their family was the first to escape the famine with sufficient food and water.

When we started leaving, there weren't so many people fleeing famine.

The road is also relatively safe.

Later, disasters struck everywhere, and the number of displaced persons, disaster victims, and refugees increased.

Their family was robbed several times.

I thought it was good enough that I could save my life.

Unexpectedly, the two youngest children in the family were lost first.

The old mother died of anger at that moment.

He and his two brothers took their wives and children and walked along the way searching for them, but they didn't find the child.

Encountered a group of desperadoes.

His wife, sister-in-law and his engaged niece were also raped by that shameless guy!

The mother and daughter were too ashamed to live in this world, so they committed suicide together.

His eldest brother went crazy at that time, and started hacking people with a knife, but he was chopped into pieces by those blood-sucking demons, and not even a complete body was left.

He broke a leg and managed to escape.

Begging and crawling all the way back to the village.

He had already lost his wife and children and didn't want to live.

But he just wanted to burn one last stick of incense for his father before he died.

In the end, his body returned to his hometown and was buried forever in Kaoshan Village!

When Zheng Guoqu finished his last sentence, he collapsed before he even had the chance to offer his father the incense.

This is the sadness of troubled times.

The horror of natural disasters.