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Chapter 1,719 Famine

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    At this moment, the servant running over from the door said: "Master, Master, Lao Zhangtou is here, saying he wants to see you."

    "Old Zhangtou? What is he doing here?" Zhang Yuanwai asked as he closed the lid of the teacup.

    "I don't know, but I guess they are here to borrow food. I saw their land and it's very dry." The servant said.

    Zhang Yuanwai twisted the beard at the corner of his mouth with his fingers, and said with a twinkle in his eyes: "It's easy to say, let him come over."

    Soon, Zhang Qin followed the servant and came to Zhang Yuanwai.

    Arriving in front of Zhang Yuanwai, Zhang Qin's somewhat rickety waist became even more rickety.

    "Zhang Yuanwai, I wonder if I can borrow some food. The year is not going well this year, as you can see. It's really hard to open the door to this family."

    Zhang Yuanwai smiled, and then said: "Old Zhangtou, your land next to the river is the best land in the village. There shouldn't be a drought!"

    When Zhang Qin heard this, he knew that Zhang Yuanwai was thinking about the pieces of land in his home.

    "Zhang Yuanwai, I will never sell those pieces of land to you." Zhang Qin tried his best to straighten his back.

    Hearing these words, Zhang Yuanwai smiled and nodded: "That's right, that's what you mean. Then let's wait until you think about it clearly."

    After saying that, he shouted to the servants outside the door: "Send off the guests!"

    Zhang Qin sighed and turned around to leave.

    When he walked out of Zhang Yuanwai's house, he looked up at the sky to the west.

    There was a black cloud there, flying towards them.

    He was a little surprised, because the sky was now clear and there was not even a single cloud in the sky.  Why is there a black cloud there?

    So Zhang Qin squinted his eyes and looked over again.

    At this time, he finally saw clearly what it was.

    Where are the black clouds? They are simply swarms of flying locusts.

    I saw this black cloud composed of locust swarms flying towards the village.

    Zhang Qin certainly knows what these locust swarms mean to crops.

    These blue-black locusts tend to reproduce at extremely fast speeds, and can reach hundreds of millions or even billions in a short period of time.

    Subsequently, after the reproduction is completed, the locust swarm will reproduce and migrate at the same time.  They will fly to any area where vegetation grows. Plants such as wheat and corn that have not yet begun to grow are among their diets.

    They will use their sharp teeth to eat up all the crops grown by these people.  Resulting in crop failure.

    If drought only reduces crop yields, farmers' lives will be tighter.  Then these locusts will eat even the last bit of food left for you.

    Zhang Qin was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground. It took him a while to realize what he was doing. He ran and shouted, "The locusts are coming! The locusts are coming!!"

    People in the whole village ran out after hearing the sound.

    But when they saw the locusts flying in the sky, they were all frightened.  Because they all know what these swarms of locusts flying over their heads mean.

    Even Zhang Yuanwai, who was leisurely drinking tea in the house, came out of the house holding a porcelain cup.

    Seeing the buzzing swarm of locusts, Zhang Yuanwai's palms trembled, and the porcelain cup in his hand fell to the ground with a "snap".

    The tea splashed from the cup to the ground, and a few locusts landed on the small pool of water in an instant, trying their best to absorb the water before the tea was completely absorbed by the land.

    At this time, drought has been continuing in Henan, Anhui, Hebei and other regions.

    The scorching sun is scorching the earth, but the southeast monsoon seems to have forgotten to visit this land. Spring is approaching, and summer is about to come, but there is still not a drop of rain falling.

    And locusts also flew from the south and swept into Henan, Hebei and other regions.

    These locusts have become the last straw for these people.  In addition, people whether in Kuomintang-controlled areas or Japanese-occupied areas need to pay grain to the government.

    This puts an even greater burden on the people.

    Large-scale famine began to break out in mid-May.  A large number of people in central and eastern Henan, as well as people in Anhui, Hebei, and even Jiangsu and other regions, have fallen into large-scale epidemics.?In the midst of famine.

    ¡°Originally, this famine would not have been so serious.  However, the Huayuankou embankment burst before, and the floods that broke out from the Yellow River bed turned many counties in Henan into yellow flood zones.

    That time, many people¡¯s crops failed, almost depleting their supply of food.

    Now there is another large-scale drought, which makes them even worse.

    But this is just the beginning, because what is even more disastrous is that no one can save them.

    People in the Kuomintang-controlled areas simply cannot get the food used for disaster relief.  The Japanese troops in the Japanese-occupied areas would not be so merciful as to distribute food to the people for disaster relief.

    It is precisely because of these reasons that in late May, people in the disaster-stricken areas of Henan began to flee on a large scale.

    They gnawed away the bark and turf of trees, used all wild animals living in the wilderness, even rats, as food, and even robbed landlords of their surplus grain.

    But none of these can solve their hunger. The landlords have a lot of food, but it is not enough to distribute to thousands of victims.

    After they ate up all the food from the landlord¡¯s family, they even began to ¡°exchange food for food¡±

    The so-called "eating by exchanging children" is actually very simple, that is, changing children to eat.  Give your children to others to eat, and eat other people's children yourself.

    Such things may sound like scaremongering in books, but now they are really happening in the Central Plains.

    Finally, the people who still had some strength began to migrate on a large scale, just like the wildebeest herds in Africa, traveling thousands of miles in search of land that could provide them with food.

    Some of these people moved to western Henan, Shanxi and other areas where the Kuomintang-controlled areas were located, while others moved to Japanese-occupied areas.

    For these people who have never left their hometown in their entire lives, this escape is too long a journey.  They may take a while to leave and then a lifetime to return.

    Zhang Qin looked at his old bones and felt that he still had some strength.  After picking up the last few bean cakes at home, he followed his daughter, son-in-law, and grandson, carrying pots, pans, and several valuable items from home, and followed the fleeing people toward western Henan.  Regional migration.

    They heard that there was no drought or locust plague in western Henan.  Moreover, Xia Yang, commander of the Fourth Army west of Luoyang, was a commander who loved the people very much.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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