The heroine of Kuai Chuan Zhi's family only farms

Chapter 764 [763] Famine Age 4 (2 more)
It can be said that in order to survive, they may not have an easier life than the outsiders. The only thing that can survive is that they have at least a stutter.

Even in the twelfth lunar month of winter in the village, some bandits who did not give up came to have a look. It wasn't that they were overly cautious, but reality forced them to do so.

In addition to the bandits, there are also some idle soldiers. Therefore, if the conditions are very difficult, she will secretly transfer the water in the space watering can, not much, at least to ensure that they will not die of thirst.

The food is consumed day by day, and she will grab some from the space to replenish it from time to time.

Old people and children would eat those relatively fine foods. Because Ye Huan occasionally ate a tomato, cucumber or something, he asked for coarse grains on his own initiative.

Save sweet potato noodles, potato noodles, and corn noodles for grandparents, younger brothers and sisters to eat.

For this reason, uncles, aunts, uncles and aunts feel sorry for her, but there are too few fine grains, and sometimes grandparents insist not to eat them, and only accept an occasional meal. Everyone is making sacrifices for the child, and let The cohesion of their family is even higher.

"This winter is the hardest time I have ever endured since I grew up. Although it is not the first time I have experienced a famine, if there is no Huanhuan this time, we may die on the way to flee the famine,"

In the war years, traveling through enemy-occupied areas is scary when you think about it, but the famine in the past few years was at least in a peaceful era. There was no war, and there was no layer after layer of exploitation and oppression. , but this famine year, is it impossible to survive?

There are only two meals a day for their twenty people, and one meal consumes one or two catties, which is three or four catties a day. Not much food was consumed, and the remaining food, as well as Ye Huan's transfer from time to time, could last until the new year at most, and I hope they can last until the wild vegetables are grown.

Sometimes Ye Huan would go to the river to fetch water at night, and taking advantage of this opportunity, she would occasionally dig out a potato or a sweet potato.

Ye Huan also knew that this little trick of hers could not fool their adults. After getting along with her for more than half a year, the adults could no longer treat her like a real child, and they had already treated her differently when it came to predicting the famine. They looked at each other, so she made potatoes and sweet potatoes from time to time. They knew it was impossible and knew the secret hidden in her, but they pretended to be surprised to accept her gift. After all, without these foods, They really can't get over it.

One potato can boil a pot of soup, let children and the elderly beat their teeth, what's the point of pretending to be deaf and dumb?

In this way, one of them deliberately cheated, and the other deliberately pretended to be stupid, and they finally survived the cold winter.

When the earth gradually warmed up, I thought it would rain, but I didn't expect that the drought continued, God was so stingy that there was no drop of water, and there were two pitiful snowfalls in winter, but the earth warmed up, but the rain did not come. Her initial judgment was different.

In the end, Ye Huan concluded: "Maybe she was sold at that time and lived in a different place, so I don't know the weather in our hometown in Henan, right?"

This result is acceptable to everyone, because there is no room for refutation.

The well water is dry, and the water by the river has dried up a lot, but there are some weeds and vegetables growing near the river.

Relying on the potatoes and sweet potatoes that Ye Huan dug out from time to time, they made use of the remaining grain to survive until April.

That is to say, as of April, all the food they have painstakingly saved in the past few years has been eaten.

The reason why they can still survive is because they go to the river to dig wild vegetables and weeds. In addition, some fields will pop up from time to time, but they are very few and need to be found. Fortunately, after nearly a year After a lot of tossing, no one came here anymore, even if they saw someone, they would hide in time.

They hid in the village, and naturally they didn't know how far the prices outside had been driven up this year. The food was fired to hundreds of yuan a catty (Republic of China currency), and many commercial firms did not accept large amounts of the Republic of China currency, and had to be exchanged. Only small amounts can be sold.

Of course, these things all existed in Ye Huan's memory in his previous life. Now that they are in the village, it is naturally impossible for them to know what happened outside.

She wouldn't tell her if the family didn't ask, as no one from the village came back, she could tell how dire the situation outside had become.

Because their village has completely become an 'uninhabited village', it also gave them the possibility to survive.

The previous grain reserves were gone, so it didn't matter, so the whole family went out to look for food in the ditches in the fields.

Hearing the data of Liangtian, Ye Huan only felt shocking, because the scary thing is that the exact number is still a mystery.

However, after the scorching summer came, those weeds and vegetables disappeared. The sun was too poisonous and there was no water. Even they found it hard to live, let alone those who lived outside.

Because there is no grass growing anywhere except the river, and even many trees are dead, so they have no choice but to go down the river to catch fish and shrimp, but they must also beware of things like apple snails, which cannot be eaten.

In summer, she makes wild strawberries, wild tomatoes, radishes, cucumbers and so on from the space to quench everyone's thirst and hunger.

The family has learned to be silent about things that only she can find, not to ask, but to accept.

As long as they can survive, they don't care what secrets Ye Huan hides, because everything she does is for the safety of her family.

The family didn't ask her, which made Ye Huan very grateful. Of course, she didn't do too much, and she would only show it when the family couldn't hold on.

She didn't let them think that she was inexhaustible, after all, the only thing she could help was her own family.

Being able to live healthy and healthy in a famine year is already a great gift for the family members, and they dare not even think about anything else.

Finally, in September 1943, it rained heavily. God knows what it was like when the whole family stood in the rain, weeping and jumping wildly?
And Ye Huan also knew that this time, they really made it through.Next time, it will be the early 60s.

Someone once said, isn't it starving to death?What's the big deal?After 20 years, he is still a hero.

The hardest and most difficult people are probably those who have experienced these two ages at the same time, right?
It rained, but there were no seeds, and the seeds in her space could not be planted.

She used to save wild vegetables and vegetable seeds, such as grain seeds, and I'm afraid she would have to go to the government.

They planted the radishes and cabbages that could be planted first, and then their grandfathers, uncles, uncles, and fathers began to travel to and from towns and counties.

Their family is currently the only one left in Tupo Village, so not only did they receive relief food, they also received winter wheat seeds.

For these relief food and seeds, they tossed and tossed for more than a month, and this month, people who fled famine began to gradually return.

Their family planted wheat first, because the government only gave them four acres of grain seeds. As more and more people came back, the land naturally grew more and more.

By the end of the year, this number had increased to 100, and after the end of the New Year, there was no further increase. These days, everyone is relying on the government's relief food to survive, because the relief food is limited, and when they are hungry, they rely on leaves Huan supports them, so the situation of their family is really much better than other families.

As for women, those who can be sold will end up with girls.

So now there are more men than women in Tupo Village, and the situation of young and old is basically the same as that of people in other counties and cities.

No matter what, the hardest years of 42 and 43 have already passed, and Ye Huan has grown into a big girl. She is 14 years old. According to the customs of this era, she is about to get married when she is about fifteen or sixteen years old, but how could Ye Huan do that? She allowed herself to marry early, so she got a promise from her grandparents that she would decide her own marriage and insisted on not marrying early.

The elders of Ye's family have now regarded Ye Huan as the lucky star of the family, and naturally they will respond to her requests.

In the 40s, there was no economy at all, because the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, the end of World War II, and the establishment of the United Nations.

The whole world is tending to a period of turmoil, not to mention the place where she lives in a dilapidated town and countryside, so living itself is a luxury, not to mention others.

But in the countryside in 1944, what people saw in their eyes and hearts was the land that bred them. Farming and harvesting grain became their only obsession.

　Supplementary knowledge:
　　In the spring of [-], there was drought and no rain, and the summer grain harvest was scarce.

　　The spring drought continued to develop, and the drought spread to more than a dozen counties. In many places, the autumn crops could not be planted, resulting in little harvest in the autumn.

　　In [-] the disaster was even more serious.

　　First came the drought, which lasted eight months without rain from spring to autumn.

　　Many wells have dried up, rivers have stopped flowing, and even drinking water for humans and animals has become a problem.

　　In addition to drought and floods, we also have hail and insect plagues.

　　Hailstones are as big as eggs, which is really rare.

　　It is also rare that there are so many locusts that cover the sky and the sun.

　　When the locusts flew over, it was as if the sky was overcast and the sun could not be seen.

　　This is not an exaggeration.

　　A large locust swarm has a radius of several miles, and once it lands, it will eat up several acres, tens of acres, or even hundreds of acres of crops in an instant.

　　Wherever the locusts go, not a blade of grass remains.

　　According to the counties of Nangong, Julu and Longping, the crops of 524 villages were completely eaten by locusts.

　　The people in southern Hebei suffered from many disasters and diseases, and suffered unspeakably.

　　In many places, it is almost like 'new graves are added every family, and there is crying in every village'.

　　In order to make ends meet, some ordinary people demolished their houses and took wood to Hebei, Shandong, Henan and central Hebei to exchange for food.

　　That area is better than southern Hebei.

　　There are still many people who have to leave their homes and flee to other places in order to survive, and some villages have become "unmanned villages". "

　　The above is excerpted from "Memoirs of Song Renqiong"

　　
　
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