How did you, a prisoner on death row, become an important weapon of the country? Yecheng Gao Weiming

"Second question...who are you?"

Ye Cheng asked the biggest confusion in his heart.

Where did this time traveler, this guy who developed his brain to the extreme, come from?

"Who am I?"

Once this question was asked, my brain trembled a little.

After a long silence, Li Xin's voice sounded again.

"Haha, my friend! You are indeed smart. You must have developed your brain capacity, right? Otherwise, you would not have come here smoothly and become my successor..."

"However, it may take me some time to answer your question. I wonder if you can patiently listen to it?"

Ye Cheng smiled: "Please, don't create illusions like dreaming for hundreds of years!"

Li Xin also laughed: "Haha... no. My remaining energy is not enough to play the first half of my life like a movie."

"I can only tell you a story and explain all the doubts in your mind in as much detail as possible..."

"Thanks, I'm all ears."

Ye Cheng simply sat down in the soft brain space and closed his eyes.

After another moment of silence, it seemed that Li Xin had finally organized his words, sighed softly, and began his story.

"My name is Li Xin. Although I have said it many times, I still want to say, Muzi Li, thank you for your hard work."

"I was born in the 1950s... As far back as I can remember, my family has been composed of my grandfather, grandmother, parents, and a young sister. All six members of the family have lived together."

"I went through the most difficult period after the founding of the Dragon Kingdom. It was not easy at that time..."

"There have been natural disasters for many years, and people are hungry. In addition, many countries outside do not want the Dragon Kingdom to go on smoothly, and deliberately blockade it. In those years, the whole country was very difficult."

"The most miserable year was when I was eight years old. There was no food distribution in the village, and the county, city, and province all had a very difficult time. People could only drink thin soup to survive."

"Maybe you don't understand what drinking thin soup means. Let me explain it to you."

"That is, when there is no food, people go to the elm trees to cut off the bark, go to the wasteland to find soft ground, grind it into powder and fry it into noodles, and mix it with water to make soup."

"You should have seen elm bark before. It's sweet and delicious. Ground soft bark is also good. It's also called nodosa and ground fungus. It's easier for people to digest after eating it."

"But gradually, the fried noodle soup made from elm bark and ground rhubarb became unpalatable."

"How can we feed a few villages if we dig all over the mountains and plains?"

"Without these things, we can only eat bran, platycodon, and anything that can be ground into powder."

"After frying them, mix them in water and boil them, then swallow them into a thin paste."

"This thing is indigestible. If you eat too much, you will make balls of sheep feces, which can bloat you to death."

"But there was nothing we could do. Those years were difficult from top to bottom, very difficult. People could only try their best to survive."

"Gradually, our whole family lost strength. How can a living person have strength after eating those things all day long?"

"So during the day, my mother, grandmother, and sister and I lay on the kang in a daze. My father and I went out to look for food."

"After we found them, my grandma and my mother climbed down from the hot kang, ground those things into powder and fried them. We could have a bowl of hot soup before dark, and then continued to lie on the kang."

"But I still... don't have the strength!"

"In just half a month, my father and I couldn't walk anymore. We had to crawl out to look for things. If we encountered a piece of wood, we had to go around it. If we encountered a stone blocking the road, we simply had to take a nap first. , Let’s talk when you have enough strength.”

"In those days, any man in the whole village who could crawl out was considered capable. When they met, they smiled at each other and didn't even say much."

"Because talking also takes a lot of energy, it's better to take a few more steps and quickly find something to eat and go home."

"Thinking about it now, people's moral standards were very high at that time. There was no stealing or robbing. There was no such thing as the ancient practice of exchanging food for food."

"It seems that people would rather starve to death than do such unscrupulous things."

"One day, my father crawled back and looked very bad. Everyone asked what was going on."

"My dad said that grandpa is gone! When the two of them climbed into the grass, they encountered a viper, which is a venomous snake whose scientific name is the short-tailed viper."

"Grandpa is also hungry and anxious. He insists on catching it and bringing it back to the family to eat. Who would have thought that a person without strength could fight a snake?"

"Grandpa was bitten, but he still held on tightly and wouldn't let go. My dad hurried up to help and was bitten too."

"The snake bit two people before it died. My father died outside after all."

"After Dad regained consciousness, he knew that he wouldn't live long. He could only crawl back home quickly and throw the dead snake to my mother and my mother. He said that he had no future and still couldn't feed you. He died soon after, and he didn’t even die on the kang because he couldn’t climb up.”

"My mother and grandma wanted to cry, but they couldn't even shed tears. At that time, people were numb and had nerve problems. If you die, you will die. What will happen if you can't survive the disaster?"

"However, my mother and I still let my mother and I skin the snake and make a large pot of soup for our whole family to drink for three days."

"Three days later, when my mother gained some strength, she decided to bury my father. We can't just lie on the floor of the house forever, right?"

"If you don't say that the dead are great, they will stink if they lie at home."

"My grandma asked my mother to go outside and find some men to come back and help carry dad outside."

"As for my father? I couldn't care less. In those days, there were dead people everywhere. They just found a random place and threw them away. Anyway, after the winter and the summer passed, there were only some rotten bones left."

"It's a pity that my mother still can't find anyone."

"She crawled around and came back and told me in horror that she had breast milk."

"The door to the neighbor's house was open, but there was no sound at all. When she went in, she saw six or seven people lying on the kang, lifeless."

"When you encounter a crawling man by chance, no one can help you. You have to save your energy to find some food and go home."

"After hearing this, my grandma sighed and said that's it. Let's wait until the captain of the village brigade comes to find a way."

"But mother said that someone in the captain's family also died. The captain didn't care and crawled to the county town to find food to save the whole village. He might not be able to crawl back."

"My grandma didn't say anything for a long time. No one mentioned this matter again after that."

"Yes, no one mentioned burying my father anymore, so we found a sheet to cover him, and the family continued to lie on the kang."

"So there were only three people left in my family. My mother crawled out every day to find food, and my mother and I lay on the kang and waited. Gradually, we couldn't get off the kang because we might not have the strength to get up."

"My mother can only come back and grind her own noodles, fry them, and boil them into a paste to drink. Sometimes she has to go to the river to fetch water and transport it home bit by bit in a broken earthen jar."

"I also want to help, but at the age of eight I weigh less than 20 pounds and my arms are not much thicker than chopsticks. I really can't help..."

"As for my sister... she's gone long ago. I will always remember her lying in the corner of the bed like a broken sack... I would always bump into her by accident when I was sleeping..."

When Li Xin said this, he seemed unable to continue, and there was another silence in his mind.

This made Ye Cheng, who was all ears, extremely moved.

He understood the hardships of people in those days, but he never imagined that it would be like this.

People in cities may still be able to get relief, but people in remote villages can only bear the burden.

If you can't bear it, you will die. Such a simple thing, but when Li Xin said it, it was as heavy as a stone.

But he doesn't have any emotion, which makes people even more sad.

"and after?"

Seeing the silence in his mind, Ye Cheng couldn't help but ask softly.

"later……"

Li Xincai continued: "Later, my milk was gone, and my mother was gone, and I was the only one left."