Summer wraps autumn, water keeps wind

The cold wind blew people's faces a bit bitter, and the bare land dangled in front of people's eyes.Liu Fu wrapped himself in the rags thrown by the fireman, hid in the waterwheel and sneaked out of the city.

The personal attendant pretended to be a water truck driver to cover Liu Fu and get out of the car, and Liu Fu left the water convoy alone.Liu Fu and Jian Ge made an appointment to meet at the entrance of Huangya Village, which is only one or two miles away from Huangya Village. Liu Fu walked along the official road and it was not difficult to find, and he quickly found the village.

Sure enough, after Liufu entered the city, he received a lot of courtesy. The prefect only said some innocuous words, most of which were minor disasters. He hoped that the court would reduce taxes and send some food money. Passed, is the dereliction of duty at the local level.

It's not surprising that Liu Fu, in this case, he has long thought that cheating and slippery is a common practice in the local area.They thought that it would be easy for Liu Fu's youth to go out of Beijing for the first time, so they prepared a few cars early and waited for Liu Fu to ask.Unexpectedly, Liu Fu didn't ask them any sensitive topics, just asked about the disaster as usual.Liu Fu also said that the chariots and horses were tired and needed to rest, so he sent them off early.Those officials became even more proud, feeling that everything was as expected.

But this Liufu is not an ordinary prince, he has a hundred tricks in his daily life, and even dares to play tricks on him, if it is not for the rules, Liufu might be the one who wants to go up the mountain and become a king.

Liu Fu was thoroughly blown by the wind, and his body was greasy and sticky wrapped in rags. He shuddered thinking that he was in such a situation today, and felt a little strange and a little excited.He shook his head, thinking that he obviously came out to investigate the people's sentiments, so why did he come up with such useless thoughts.

He squatted at the entrance of the village and looked into the village. There were a few fences crooked at the entrance of the village. No one was wandering around, and no animals were barking. It was eerily quiet.Liu Fu approached a fence, thinking that this village is really strange, so quiet, is there no one living there?But Huangya Village is the closest village to the city, even if they are fleeing from famine, there shouldn't be any old, young, women or children.

When Liu Fu was wondering, there was a rustling sound behind him, he thought it was Xiao Kai finally coming, he whispered: "Come here quickly." Suddenly a rough little hand grabbed his ankle, and Liu Fu Fu was startled, jumped three steps away, and fell to the ground with a cry of surprise.

Liu Fu was already a little nervous, but when he was frightened by this person, he panicked.But Liufu reacted very quickly, he turned over and lay down on the ground, stealthily looked at that person, his four eyes met, he saw a black and dirty child with no shape.Liu Fu let out a long breath, got up from the ground, patted the soil, squatted in front of the child and said, "Whose child are you from? It's getting late, you have to go home for dinner."

The child opened a pair of dull eyes, and after watching Liu Fu make a series of movements, he didn't react at all.Liu Fu took another step forward and waved his hand, the child grabbed the corner of Liu Fu's rag and stuffed it into his mouth and began to suck.Liu Fu hurriedly grabbed the rag and said, "Dirty, don't eat it, brother will take you home for dinner, okay?"

The child had seen the "food" being taken away, and he instinctively hugged his head, as if he was about to be hit by someone.Liu Fu stepped forward and patted his head, then asked him another side.The child slowly let go of his hand, and peeked at Liu Fu. He was stunned, and finally uttered a few words: "The grasshopper has eaten."

"what?"

"hungry."

Only then did Liu Fu see clearly that the boy was also dressed in rags, and the thin ribs could be seen from the big hole on the side, which were clearly dazzling.Liu Fu frowned, and asked softly, "Have you guys been out of food for a long time?" The boy nodded and looked at him stupidly.

Liu Fu thought it was true, the disaster situation was not as simple as the officials said.The land was so bare all the way he came, it must have been gnawed by locusts.He took the child's hand and pulled him up. Standing up, the child was only half a head shorter than Liu Fu, not as thin as he looked when squatting.

Liu Fu saw that the sky was getting dark, and before Xiao Kai arrived, he thought to send the boy home first, and ask about the disaster situation in the village by the way, and then come to him when Xiao Kai arrives.So he made a mark on the ground and led the boy into the village.

Liu Fu asked what his name was, and he held Liu Fu tightly, but he only said softly, "Migou."

Seeing that he still seemed very nervous, Liu Fu joked, "You actually called him a dog?"

Mi Gou shook his head and said, "It's in the mud."

Liu Fu turned his head to think that it might be a dialect, but he didn't care, so he asked him what he had been eating recently, how long he had been out of food, and so on.Mi Gou didn't pay attention to Liu Fu, but just dragged him away, and the two of them went to the trail beside the village and walked far away.Liu Fu wondered why he didn't go home, Mi Gou just walked with his head down, and finally Mi Gou stopped in front of several small mounds.

Mi Gou squatted down with difficulty, and stretched out his fingers to dig the soil.Only then did Liu Fu realize that Mi Gou's left hand has no little finger, and the cut surface is uneven, not cut off, but something bitten off.Liu Fu stepped forward and squatted beside Mi Gou, and said with some distress: "What's wrong with your hand?"

Mi Gou was stunned for a moment, but still didn't speak. He was digging faster and faster, and his bulging belly was exposed from the ragged clothes while his body was heaving.Liu Fu is very strange, this rice dog is thin and thin, only this belly is swollen and swollen, like a pregnant woman.

Half a piece of bone was broken and the ground was exposed. Migou finally stopped his hands. He made a strange noise in his throat, then he crazily buried it back with soil, and finally lay down on the piece of soil and screamed strangely. stand up.Mi Gou slapped the ground frantically with all his strength, until he was completely exhausted, he lay down on the ground and cried.

"I don't blame Nun, no!"

Liu Fu felt an indescribable sense of weirdness and horror creeping up from his back. What is buried in this ground?Is it a starving person?Liu Fu thought of the worst and worst outcome.Liu Fu secretly denied it, it's impossible, if it was a human being, it's only been a few days since the disaster happened, and it's impossible for him to rot until all the flesh and blood are gone.

Resisting his nausea and fear, Liu Fu walked to a nearby small mound, he dug open the mound, and several bones were revealed in front of his eyes.He can be sure that this is a simple cemetery.Liu Fu stood up and walked around. Several mounds of soil had been removed, probably the bones had been taken away by animals.

Too strange.Since some of the graves have been dug up, it means that there are animals eating scavengers, but it is too strange that the corpses in these graves are all rotting away, but they are not taken away.Liu Fu wanted to see what was abnormal about those bones just now, he recited the Buddha's name silently, and wanted to find a branch to pick the bones.

Liu Fu searched around but did not find any branches. Finally, he saw the tree and found that not only the leaves and branches were gone, but even the bark had been peeled off, leaving only the bare trunk.Liu turned back and saw Mi Gou muttering something.

"Festival Six, Yagou, no Karma..."

Liu Fu stroked his back and asked, "What's the matter?"

Mi Gou pointed to the mound in front of him and said: "Jie [-]." He pointed to other mounds and said a few words.Liu Fu cautiously asked: "Are they all your friends?" Mi Gou stared wide-eyed, as if irritating him, let out a few strange barks, and rushed out, he fell to the ground without paying attention, lying on his stomach Shaking and sobbing on the ground.

Liu Fu had never seen such a scene before, he didn't know what happened to Mi Gou that caused him to collapse like this.Liu Fu suddenly had a frightening idea, maybe this was not a simple disaster, maybe it was the man-eating locusts that gnawed Migou's friend into bones, and the officials dared not say that they dared not catch them for fear of offending the locusts.

Liu Fu picked up Mi Gou and asked, "Are locusts eating people?"

I don't know which word stimulated Mi Gou, Mi Gou bounced off the ground with an "ow" and ran wildly into the distance.Liu Fu's kung fu is amazing, that Mi Gou's footwork is not Liu Fu's opponent at all, Liu Fu can catch up to Mi Gou with just a few steps.

Liu Fu grabbed Mi Gou by the shoulder and shook him to wake him up. Mi Gou gradually calmed down after being shaken. He watched Liu Fu's breathing slowly calm down. He grabbed Liu Fu's rag again and stuffed it into his mouth to suck greedily. stand up.It was only then that Liu Fu discovered that the rags on his body were soaked in grease and swill in the kitchen. He felt sticky and disgusting, but Mi Gou liked it.

Liu Fu patted Mi Gou on the shoulder distressedly, and helped him go forward.It was completely dark, Mi Gou grabbed Liu Fu, or attached to Liu Fu, and the two finally walked back to the village.

Mi Gou stopped at the door of a house, he hesitated for a long time and finally knocked on the door.There was a sound of hitting something inside the door, and a group of hurried footsteps approached.The door opened, and a pale woman poked her head out. When he saw Mi Gou, his eyes were excited first, then flustered, and finally angry.

The woman opened the door completely, and regardless of Liu Fu's side, she raised her hand and wanted to hit Mi Gou, but it seemed that the woman who was seriously ill had no strength at all, so she just slapped Mi Gou on the head.It was Liu Fu who discovered that this woman did not have a left arm.

"I'm going to die, I'm going to die!" The woman yelled a few words, twisted Mi Gou's ear with one hand and entered the room, Liu Fu was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to speak.The woman looked at Liu Fu, and seeing Mi Gou dragging Liu Fu, she sighed and beckoned Liu Fu to enter the house.

The woman looked at Liu Fu vigilantly, and Liu Fu quickly prepared his own explanation, saying that he fled from the famine in the next state to seek refuge with relatives, but found that it was also very difficult here, and now he has not found his relatives, and said that his relatives are Xu.Seeing that Liu Fu was speaking in official Chinese, the woman also asked some details in an awkward tone, with vigilant eyes as if she was afraid of what Liu Fu might do to her.

After several conversations between the two, the woman finally let go of her guard against Liu Fu.She brought a bowl of muddy water to Liu Fu, and Liu Fu avoided the gap and took a sip to quench his thirst.The earthy smell almost made Liufu spit water out of his nose, it was the most disgusting thing he had ever drunk in his life, it was more difficult for Liufu to accept than enduring greasy rags.

Liu Fu put down the broken bowl, and asked how it happened here.

The woman spat a mouthful of phlegm on the ground, and said: "God will not give you a way to survive. The grasshoppers ate the food at night, and we ate the grasshoppers today. Tomorrow, only Guanyin soil will eat."

It turns out that the Yizhou area was only drought at the beginning, and the drought was prone to locust plagues.When the locust plague first broke out, the parents and officials were afraid that it would affect their political achievements, so they concealed the report from the court and did not allow the common people to catch it.Landlords and gentry followed the words of their parents and officials, saying that there was no disaster, and the tenants had to harvest according to the previous year. If the tenants could not pay the grain, the thugs went to the house to rob it, and even robbed all the grain.

Gradually, there was no food in the village, and the chickens, ducks and dogs in the family were killed and eaten, and then they dug wild vegetables and gnawed bark, and finally had to eat Guanyin soil.Liu Fu asked her why she didn't run away from famine, she said that without documents, she couldn't pass the checkpoint at all, if she bypassed the checkpoint and had to climb mountains and mountains, what would ordinary people do?What's more, they are all native-born locals who have never left here, and they don't know where to go if they escape.Moreover, the young and middle-aged people who fled abroad recently found that the official road was blocked, and the refugees were not allowed to leave.Only a few fortresses were blocked, and some young and strong escaped from the path, but the old, weak, sick and disabled could not leave the village.