Traveling through 1942 with space

Because Hou Xiaoge had no memory of his original body, he thought that his family was the worst off. He didn't expect that during the famine years, every family had a bloody history.

Just think about it, children are the apple of their mother's eye. Although girls are not very valuable in this era, what mother can watch the baby she carried for ten months to die in her arms.

It is really difficult for others to understand the pain of losing a child. Even if they can, it is probably only people with the same kind who can empathize with it!

Looking at Second Aunt who was crying and cursing outside the door, Hou Xiaoge felt a little distressed for her.

"Sister-in-law, the person has left.

Xiao Hui Nier has a bad fate, so don't cry. Be careful not to hurt yourself, because Heidan and Heiniu will need your care when the time comes!" Seeing the second aunt still shouting, the aunt went up to comfort her.

When Second Aunt heard her two young sons, she gradually quieted down. After a few minutes, she smiled and served porridge to everyone as if nothing had happened.

Three pounds of wheat, half a pound of rat meat, plus a few pounds of bark powder and wild vegetables, made up half a pot of thick porridge.

The few grown men were the main laborers and everyone depended on them for survival, so each person had a large bowl of thick porridge with two pieces of meat.

Second Aunt, young aunt and Hou Xiaoge and other younger generations each had half a bowl of thick porridge with a piece of meat. Hou Xiaoge was given an extra half spoonful and a piece of meat as a reward because he found a rat hole.

Hou Xiaoge could still eat roasted rat, but he couldn't eat white rat meat.

Now that they have space for planting, the two brothers will not lack nutrition in the future, so they didn’t give it to their younger brother.

Looking at everyone busy eating, Hou Xiaoge took the last two pieces of meat and gave one to Heidan's younger brother Hei Niu, and the other to his aunt's three-year-old daughter Xiaolan.

The two children, one four years old and the other three years old, almost took their lives due to an illness some time ago.

He managed to survive, but he was panting heavily when he walked, and his body was very weak. He was very skinny and dark, like a little monkey, and it was heartbreaking to see him.

The two kids were lying on a small wooden stake to eat. Suddenly they saw a piece of meat in their bowls. They immediately smiled and excitedly put the meat into their mouths.

"Heiwa, why did you give the meat to the two kids? Is there something wrong with the meat I cooked?"

The second aunt was squatting beside her youngest son eating. When she saw Hou Xiaoge gave the meat to the two children, she was shocked and thought there was something wrong with the meat she cooked. On the other side, the younger sister-in-law and others also cast questioning expressions.

"Second Aunt, I ate a rat that weighed half a pound yesterday, and now my stomach is full!

Hei Niu and Xiao Lan had just recovered from a serious illness, and they needed oil and water. I could only satisfy my craving for meat by eating two pieces of meat, but they were different. Every extra piece of meat they ate could replenish some oil and water, and their bodies would get better faster.

"Good boy!"

"Heiwa has grown up and knows how to love his brothers and sisters."

"Heiwa is not a bad kid!"

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Everyone who was eating in the yard praised in surprise, which made Hou Xiaoge feel a little embarrassed. After all, it was just two pieces of rat meat.

After the episode, everyone was happy to finally have a full meal.

After a full meal, the child finally stopped lying there listlessly and started playing with energy again.

Seeing several people crawling and rolling on the ground, Hou Xiaoge grimaced. This was not playing a game, it was simply a vacuum cleaner.

The children were playing in the yard while the woman continued to crush the bark with the mortar, only with a little more strength than yesterday.

As for the adult men, the eldest uncle was seen leading Erda, the younger uncle-in-law and the eldest son Huanying out with two wooden buckets, apparently going to fetch water.

Hou Xiaoge was leaning against the wall, listening attentively to his cousin Erhuan telling stories about what had happened during the period of fleeing famine.

My cousin, who is already twelve years old, is already half an adult and knows a lot.

With Hou Xiaoge occasionally flattering him, his cousin Erhuan, who was feeling comfortable with the flattery, was simply pouring out all the truth, everything Hou Xiaoge wanted to hear and didn't want to hear.

As they talked, Hou Xiaoge finally determined where he was now and the entire situation of his home.

They are now in Luoning County, Zhongyuan Province, and their hometown is Nanjiagou Village in the northernmost part of Hedi Township.

According to my cousin Erhuan, Luoning County is located in a mountainous area, and eight or nine out of ten years are years of famine. It is said that there are disasters nine out of ten years.

This is not the first time that people have fled. It happens basically once every five or six years, but this time is the most serious.

Starting in 1940, there was a severe drought in the spring. There was no rain for two consecutive months, resulting in only one or two bushels of summer grain.

But God seemed to be playing tricks on people. In the autumn, floods occurred again. All the crops were soaked and the autumn harvest was almost a complete failure.

Although there was a disaster, the rent owed to the landlords had to be paid in full. After paying the rent, many families were left with only seeds and grain, which they dared not eat.

Hemp ropes are always short at the thinnest part, and unfortunately my younger brother Shuanniu happened to be ill and urgently needed money for medical treatment.

The Hou family had already reached the point where they had to eat coarse food. The ten yuan of legal currency they had saved in their chest had depreciated sharply and could only buy a few steamed buns. The family's fortune was almost completely gone, so how could they have money left to pay for their child's medical treatment?

What’s even more hateful is that when people were almost starving to death, the head of the village and the head of the police station actually brought their lackeys to collect grain taxes.

After scraping together the money from all over, the grain and seeds that were stored in the warehouse were still not enough, and the farmers were finally forced to sell their children to raise the grain tax.

Last autumn, in order to collect grain taxes and survive, Hou Xiaoge's two elder sisters were sold by their father to a wealthy family in the village as maids at the low price of 150 kilograms of wheat.

But when they were fleeing in the summer, they got the news that the maids that the rich man in the town had bought last winter had all been sold to Yichun Tower in the county.

After enduring a whole winter, we were hoping for a good harvest of winter wheat this summer, but God played a trick on us again and drought caused almost no summer grain harvest.

The villagers, who had endured the hardship for a whole year, could no longer survive and began to seek refuge with relatives and flee in all directions.

Last month, Hou Xiaoge had diarrhea after eating and was seriously ill. In order to keep her son alive, Hou Xiaoge's mother had no choice but to sell herself to a bachelor in the mountains of Xili Township for 30 kilograms of corn.

As for Hou Xiaoge's father, he shot a wild rabbit a few days ago and secretly went to the county town to exchange it for food. On the way, he met the conscripts, so he gave the vegetables to them and was conscripted as well.

As his cousin Erhuan talked more and more, Hou Xiaoge felt that his family's miserable situation was similar to that of the rich girls in TV dramas. The only good thing was that they might all still be alive.

What impressed Hou Xiaoge the most was the greatness of her parents. In order to keep their children alive, they were willing to sell themselves and risk their lives.

However, as a native of Qin Province in his previous life, Hou Xiaoge really didn't understand the Central Plains.

In his understanding, the Central Plains has always been the country's granary, but he did not expect that Luoning County where he was located would suffer from drought nine out of ten years. It was really tragic.

However, Hou Xiaoge felt relieved after thinking about it. After all, the water conservancy facilities were extremely poor those days and farmers basically relied on the weather for their livelihood.

The result of relying on God for your livelihood is that if God wants you to eat, you eat, and if God doesn't want you to eat, you will starve.

Luoning County, where he was located, was supposed to be a mountainous area, so it was normal for droughts to occur nine out of ten years.

"Brother Erhuan, we don't have much food left now. Do we have to stay in this village forever instead of fleeing famine?" After thinking it through, Hou Xiaoge asked his cousin tentatively.

"I don't know either. I asked my dad yesterday, and he said to wait until I can't live anymore before leaving." The cousin looked at the sky in the distance and said a little confusedly.