I, the ghost hunter, chase my wife thousands of miles away! [Rebirth]

Even if there is less than a bucket of food left in the family, and the family members can't eat enough, but my father has always followed the wind, how can he give up this opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune?

So he ignored Haitang's reminder, nodded and bent over, "Yes, yes! It's just that it's the time of famine, and there is not much food in stock. I will make a meal for you later, please take care of me!"

Li Zheng stared at the surroundings on his drooping eyelids, "Since there are not many, then I will go to another house. Anyway, there are too many people who want to curry favor with me, and your family is not bad."

"Don't, don't, don't!" His father quickly stopped him, "Many! There are too many! I was just joking with the young master."

As he said that, he quickly winked at Haitang and asked her to cook the remaining rice in the warehouse.

Just like that, Li Zheng, who came out of nowhere, entered Haitang's house in a grand manner, and ate and drank heavily relying on his status as the son of a general.

But there was only so much food. When Li Zheng ate rice, they could only eat sweet potato roots. Later, the sweet potato roots were gone, so they went to peel the bark.I still have one meal every two days, and I am struggling.But even if it's bark, Li Zheng still eats the tenderest and softest part. What's in the begonia's mouth is basically the old skin with dirt in it.

That day, she was beaten again.

The reason was that she had reminded her father that this Li Zheng was of unknown origin and dressed in rags. He didn't look like the son of a general, but a liar who had nowhere to go because of the famine.

But my father didn't believe it. He said, "He's not the son of a general. Could it be that you are? I've been poor all my life, and I finally had a chance to turn around. Don't disturb me!"

Furious, he picked up the shovel in his hand and threw it at Haitang.It's just that his eyes were dizzy from hunger, and he lost his strength after two blows.So, Haitang knocked on the door of Ah Zhong's house and asked him to help him fix the dislocated wrist bone.Except for this one, everything else was unharmed.

But when she saw Ah Zhong, she unexpectedly discovered that Ah Zhong, who had always been loved by his family, had bruised and purple scars on his face.

"Ah Zhong, what's going on?"

The young man smiled fearlessly, "It's the same as you, now we are 'the same people who have fallen into the world'."

Haitang thumped him angrily, "What time are you still joking! Was it your father who beat you? Didn't he never beat you?"

Ah Zhong licked the corner of his swollen mouth, "He has nothing to eat now, so he must be in a bad mood."

"Then I can't vent my anger by beating you!"

After saying that, she thought of herself who had suffered even worse, and shut up embarrassingly.

Ah Zhong knew what she was thinking, went over to rub her hair, and asked, "Are you hungry?"

Haitang nodded aggrievedly, this was the emotion she would only show in front of Ah Zhong, "Of course I'm hungry, I've been eating bark for three days..."

Ah Zhong seemed to know the answer a long time ago, carefully took out a cloth bag from his arms, opened the outer veil, and revealed the golden things inside.

"This is... baked sweet potato?!"

Haitang couldn't believe her eyes.

Ah Zhong put his index finger on his lips, "Keep your voice down, or you won't be able to eat if others hear you."

Haitang cautiously held the egg-sized ball of sweet potatoes, "But you gave it to me, what are you eating!"

Ah Zhong poured a glass of water for her, and said: "Silly girl, I have already eaten, so I guess you are coming to find me, this is specially reserved for you."

"What about tomorrow? What will you eat tomorrow?"

"I don't know either. Let's eat whatever we find, tree roots and bark. It can last for a while."

"Then I won't eat the sweet potato, I will leave it to you."

"Stupid, this is baked, it will be broken tomorrow."

"What about after that? The bark will be stripped off, but the famine will last for a long time."

Ah Zhong felt a little dizzy after standing for a long time, so he sat down against the wall and comforted her: "There will be. My father said that after a while, the elder will take us out to another place to escape."

"Escape? Everyone?"

"Yes, everyone." Ah Zhong looked out the window, his eyes were full of light, as if he saw a large field of sweet potatoes, "Father said, Wanjiang's field is going to be eaten up, and I can't wait any longer Food. If you go out, even if you don’t eat, you still have fresh bark to chew on.”

Haitang thinks this is reasonable, if she goes out, she will quietly find wild vegetables and bark, and don't share them with Mr. Li.

"Begonia." Ah Zhong suddenly called her.

"what?"

"If you are hungry in the future, just come to me, I will cover you."

That night, the moonlight was very bright and beautiful, and the young man lowered his eyes under the bright moonlight, making Haitang dumbfounded.

She thought that the facts were just like what Ah Zhong said, their family had a lot of food, and there was still enough food for her.So she went to look for Ah Zhong almost every day, no matter how much, Ah Zhong would give her some food.Sometimes it is sweet potato root, sometimes it is wild vegetable, even the bark is the softest and most tender part.

She looked at Ah Zhong's sunken face and asked, "Ah Zhong, your family has so much food, why are you still so thin?"

Ah Zhong just smiled and said, "I'm too fat to work, isn't that good?"

After a long time, Haitang realized that the boy's house was empty.The two mouthfuls she ate every day were all mixed out by the young man from his own bowl.If it was a sweet potato, the teenager would only eat half of it.Of course, this sweet potato is only the size of my daughter's fist.

Knowing the truth, it was the day when she passed by according to the agreed time, and before she opened the door to the backyard, she heard fierce beating and scolding in the house.

"You son of a bitch! White-eyed wolf! Your mother is sick from hunger, and you don't give her anything to eat, instead you hide it!"

"White-eyed wolf! Something that is inferior to pigs and dogs!"

"I just said that you went out to search for a whole day, why is there only so little! It turns out that it was left to make up for dinner at night! I only eat one meal a day, you bastard, and you still make up for it! Nizi!"

In the end, only Ah Zhong was weak and powerless to plead: "This is my share, I only ate one bite and left it... I didn't touch your and mother's share..."

Of course, in exchange for more severe whipping.

Haitang huddled outside the fence in the backyard, hugging her knees, trembling all over. She knew the sound of the rattan very well, but it was never as piercing as it was tonight.

She cried for a long time, calling the boy a big liar.

Ah Zhong said, "Don't cry, Haitang, how many sweet potatoes will it take to make up for your crying..."

The boy will cover her and use his own life.

But there was one thing, Ah Zhong really didn't lie to her - the Wanjiang people were really going to flee.

On that day, Elder Wan Jiang suggested that they should not sit still and wait for death. The court did not distribute food, so they had to go out to find food.So under the call of the elders, all the remaining residents of Wanjiang packed up their bags and saluted, and started the long road to escape.

But food is the most important thing for the people, and the Wanjiang people don't have much food left, so they walk very slowly under many difficulties.Someone fell and died, and the family members cried and buried the person in the ground.When I went to see it the next day, the tomb had already been dug out, leaving only a pile of bones and a smoldering stove next to it.

Wherever they passed, thousands of miles away, all the trees lost their bark, and all the wild vegetables and weeds were hollowed out.But even so, even if the dead eat, they still can't fill their stomachs.

Under the painful hunger, people's nerves are always fragile, and they can do anything for a morsel of food.

So that day, Haitang learned the last idiom in her life - Yi Zixiangshi.

Easy, exchange.

child, child.

Some families were so hungry that they fainted and lost their minds, so they exchanged their children to eat.Because I eat my own children, I can't do it.It can be seen that they are not completely devoid of conscience, but still have a bit of ridiculous humanity.

Whenever he saw a child being forced to exchange, crying and being dismembered, Ah Zhong would cover her eyes and say:

"Haitang, don't look. Their parents don't have a conscience, but our parents do."

Haitang hugged his arm tightly, she was too frightened to speak, she just opened her mouth wide and wept silently.

But this scene did not last long, as it turned out, they did not escape the disaster.

Four days later, someone from the fleeing team looked for Hai Tang's father.Coincidentally, it was Ah Zhong's parents.What they want to exchange is Li Zheng, who was recently taken in by the Haitang family and whose origin is unknown.

Before that day, Haitang thought that Ah Zhong was very loved at home. After all, he worked hard and was kind, and no one in the street didn't like him.Even if he was beaten occasionally, after the beating, his parents would regret it and get up in the middle of the night to help him take medicine.

But that famine wiped out the last of humanity.

Tiger poison does not eat its children, so they exchanged to eat.

Ah Zhong hadn't eaten for three days, and there was only a layer of skin left over his body, and his knees were as thick as willow roots.He was dying, and when he was sent, his hands and feet were tied.

"Hungry...so hungry..."

He looked at Haitang distractedly, and seemed to be looking behind her.The eyeballs were motionless, and the whole person was in a trance.Obviously, after his parents decided to change their son, they never gave him anything to eat.

"Ah Zhong..." Haitang has also been hungry for many days, but she is better than Ah Zhong, "Look at me, I am Haitang... What's wrong with you, aren't you Are you saying you want to cover me? You still have to teach me how to read!"

"Mom...I want to drink fish soup, didn't you say there is fish soup...so hungry..."

"A Zhong, wake up!"

"Mother lied to me... I went to find food for her every day, why did she lie to me..."

Haitang was crying beside him, breathing weakly, "Ah Zhong, I will save you, I will not let father and the others kill you!"

Ah Zhong was so hungry that his eyes were dizzy, and he was murdered by his biological parents, his blood stasis, and he could no longer hear Haitang's words, so he just leaned against the woodpile in a strange posture, with his head tilted on his neck, and murmured in a low voice. murmur.

"I find food every day, if I don't eat it myself, I give it to them...Why do they treat me like this...Why are my parents so cruel..."

The formerly bright boy turned into dead wood, as if it would shatter at the touch of a finger.

Haitang felt like a knife was twisting in her heart, she was gasping for breath in pain, she stumbled to her feet, wiped away the tears on her face, and said firmly: "Ah Zhong, I will save you, I will definitely save you! "