Chapter 169
Ning's father stuffed the last piece into his mouth and said vaguely: "My son-in-law gave it to me."
"Mr. Gu?" Morrie was surprised, "When did he give it?"
Ning's father stared at him vigilantly.
Morrie was quickly saying, "Don't care, I asked casually. Hehe."
"When I went to say goodbye to my daughter and son-in-law, my son-in-law asked her to prepare it for me."
Mori felt relieved. Fortunately, Gu Yezhou prepared one more, otherwise, he would be really sorry to see Ning's father starving and eating his food. Now he felt a little better.
In the following days, there were blizzards raging, with no sign of decrease.
A few more old men were frozen to death on the road and just set off. In addition, I picked up some food a few days ago and had some food. I don’t have to worry about being hungry yet. But the food will be eaten up soon. What should I do at that time? Morrie had no idea at all. He could only urge everyone to speed up and strive to get to the beach as soon as possible. As long as I get to the beach and catch fish to eat, it will be easy.
Ten days after walking out, Old Master Long's family finally ate all the food.
Because he couldn't bear to leave the antiques, he only took out part of the food when he set off, leaving seven trucks of antiques, and invited seven villagers to help him. In addition to being responsible for the food of his family, he also had to give these seven villagers food. In this way, the food was consumed very quickly, and he barely ate until the tenth day, and finally the cooking was cut off.
He ate very little in the past ten days, and he traveled through the snow and frostbite, so he staggered to find Ma Damazizi and asked him if he had any food. He exchanged it with antiques.
Ma Damazi was about to cry and said weakly: "My family has been out of food for three days. For the past three days, I have been eating ice and snow to fill my stomach. The road is full of ice and snow, and I can't even see a tree. It's impossible to eat leaves and eat bark. I still hope you can help me, but my daughter said, you will be out of cooking soon, so I will not speak. Even if you open your mouth, we are afraid we will starve to death on the road!"
"Don't worry! We still have clothes, bedding, antiques, and land, so we can exchange them for a little food."
"I hope so."
As expected by Old Master Long, they finally persevered to the next county town.
The county is full of disaster victims and a market for french goods, but the things are sold at the same cheap price as Nanjia County. Old Master Long used a whole truck of antiques and then exchanged a small bag of steamed buns. He didn't dare to ask the villagers to help pull the cart, and the whole family was dragging it in person. Poor his newly married little family, Yumei, had never suffered such hardship, but he could only grit his teeth and pull the cart. Old Master Long himself also pulled one and walked forward in the snow with difficulty.
But Ma Damazi's land cannot be sold. Because his fields are all in Nanjia County, and the distance is too far, people are unwilling to change them. He thought that after he set off the road, he could find food at least on the road, or go to other places. The disaster was lighter and he could beg for food. But he miscalculated that the disaster was nationwide. Some of them went to new places, and some of them were even worse than the disaster in Nanjia County. The bodies of the fallen victims could always be seen on the roadside, slowly being covered by the wind and snow.
Ma Damazi could not exchange land for food, so she could only sell clothes, bedding and other popular things. When she set out again, Ma Damazi's family had only the cotton coats they wore, and all the bedding and spare clothes had been replaced with food.
Li Dongzi's injured leg was already lame, and he could only walk with a crutch. In the strong wind, the family picked up some food, which was all the rice that fell from the sky. They persisted until now. Finally, half a month after they set out on the road, the last grain of food was eaten up.
Li Dongzi and his family could only watch others eat and use ice and snow to impact it, but ice and snow could not eat enough. They were so hungry that they could not get up as soon as they lay down.
Many people in the village had no food and could not walk. However, Li Dongzi was careful to find that his former lover, Tian Ergui's wife Youcai and her son did not seem to have such difficult walking conditions and were in good spirits, so he paid attention.
That night, they couldn't find a village accommodation, so they could only sleep in the wild. Everyone squeezed together to keep warm. Li Dongzi deliberately squeezed beside Youcai and looked at her.
In the middle of the night, Li Dongzi found that Youcai had quietly taken something out of his arms, broke it in half, half giving it to his son Goudan, and half was about to stuff it into his mouth.
Li Dongzi rushed over and grabbed the thing. When he looked closely, he found half of the shepherd's purse cake! He couldn't help but feel over, and snatched it hard and stuffed it into his mouth.
Youcai was startled and rushed over to grab it, but Li Dongzi pushed it away.
Youcai cried and shouted, "Give it back to me! You are so shameless, rob me of what I eat!"
This voice woke everyone around him up, and Morrie was coming over quickly and shouting, "What's going on?"
You Cai cried and pointed at Li Dongzi: "He stole my baba!"
Li Dongzi chewed hard, while vaguely saying, "Your? You fucked me twenty-three bastards, and didn't return them to me. Come back quickly..."
As soon as he said this, he saw Tian Dagui coming towards him fiercely. He was so scared that he got up and ran away. Tian Dagui did not chase him. After he took these steps, he was already out of breath. The severe cold and hunger for several days had already made his body swollen. He looked strong, but in fact he was already strong outside and was almost out of reach.
Tian Dagui fell to Youcai, grabbed her collar, and gasped, "Where did Daddy come from?"
This shepherd's purse cake was the food that Youcai went up the mountain to chop firewood and sold to Gu Yezhou for food. She would always hide two cakes in the snow, so that it would accumulate little by little. By the time she set off, she already had a small bag of cakes. Every night she would quietly take out a cake and divide it into two halves for her son Goudan and herself to eat. Because it was midnight, Tian Dagui didn't know, but unexpectedly, Li Dongzi, the old lover, discovered the clue and forcibly snatched her cake, which attracted Tian Dagui's attention.
Youcai had already figured out what to do if she was discovered, so she cried and said, "I don't want to bear to eat it."
"If you don't eat it for me, where's dad?" Tian Dagui began to search Youcai.
Youcai cried even louder: "No more, only half of it was taken away by him..."
Tian Dagui searched Youcai, but he couldn't find any food. His eyes rolled and he grabbed his nephew Goudan and searched. After searching, he couldn't find any food. Then he pushed his nephew away and went back to sleep.
Youcai has already been on guard against this, so every time she stayed, she used excuses to hide the remaining shepherd's purse cakes in the snow. When she was about to set off, she used excuses to take out the cakes and carry them with her, so she did not search it by Tian Dagui.
Li Dongzi was frightened by Tian Dagui and did not dare to come over to harass Youcai. Only then did Youcai be able to sleep peacefully with her son in her arms. But she had no food in her stomach and she couldn't sleep well that night.
The next morning, Youcai quietly took out the remaining shepherd's purse cake and took it away. Now she had to take risks, otherwise she and her son would starve to death. Fortunately, Tian Dagui did not expect Youcai to have this trick, so he did not search her anymore. She always paid attention to Li Dongzi and did not let him get close, so Li Dongzi would not be able to find that she had eaten secretly with her son in the middle of the night.
After walking forward for another five days, more than a dozen villagers starved to death.
Seeing more and more villagers starving to death, Mori was really anxious. The ten kilograms of fried rice given to them by Gu Yezhou before leaving, and the twenty kilograms of fried rice they handed over to Ning's father, they all had almost eaten it and would soon stop cooking.
In the evening, they slept in the wild, and it was still a blizzard.
Ma Damazi's family has been out of stock for several days. Although the food they exchanged for bedding and cotton coats was very cheap to eat, they still ate them all. And they inquired, and there was at least ten days left before the next county town, according to the speed they are now marching in the blizzard.
Ma Damazi's mother was almost out of reach, and she was frozen and hungry. Along the way out of the city, Ma Damazi put her mother in the carriage and dragged her away. Their carriage was also empty, and the horse was killed and eaten when there was no food in the city. When he walked here, his mother was already dying.
Ma Damazi is a filial son. Seeing my mother like this, she has no choice. In this wilderness, there is no place to change her clothes and food.
He held a large stack of land deeds and found Morizheng, crying and said, "Lizheng, my mother is about to starve to death. I dare not expect you to help my family. I will get half of the land and exchange it for you for five kilograms of fried rice to eat for me. Is it okay?" After that, he handed the land deed half to Morizheng.
Morri was smiling bitterly: "I've almost eaten up now. I can eat it for two or three days at most. I'll have no food. If I give it to you, our family will starve to death."
Ma Damazi gritted his teeth and sent all the land to Mori Zheng: "Is all these land for you? Is it okay to exchange for five kilograms of grain here? Not only are your own land, but my family, and I have exchanged it for these days - I am fucking blind, and I should have starved to death with grain. But my mother is in her seventies or eighties, and it is not easy for me to raise me. I can't watch her starve to death!"
Morri was smiling bitterly: "Land? The most valuable thing now is land. Don't say that I don't have food to exchange for you, even if I have it, I won't exchange land for you."
"Then what do you want? I will exchange whatever you want!"
"Nothing is changed. Now, what is most important is what to eat. If a person starves to death, no matter how good the property is, it will be useless. It is only someone else's. - I can't help you, why don't you look for someone else?"
Chapter completed!