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    Mo Lizheng and the others then walked towards the east city gate.  Seeing the city gate from a distance, Mori Zheng's eldest daughter-in-law glanced at the twenty kilograms of grain that Gu Yezhou was carrying on his back and asked them to hand over to Ning's father. She rolled her eyes and whispered to Mori Zheng: "  Father-in-law, do you really plan to give this food to his father-in-law? "Of course!" Mo Li was looking at the eldest daughter-in-law strangely, "What do you mean by that?" The second daughter-in-law understood the eldest daughter-in-law's thoughts best, and whispered.  She said: "What she wants to say is that Uncle Ning doesn't know about such a thing anyway, so why don't you give it to him?" "What?" Mo Lizheng's eyes widened, "How can you think so? This  It was something that Mr. Gu gave to his father-in-law. How could we swallow it up? Mr. Gu has been very kind to our family. He not only left Huaixiang and his daughter to take care of us, but also gave us so much fried rice. How could we do this?  Something about being ungrateful? "The eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law didn't dare to speak and looked at the third daughter-in-law furtively.  The third daughter-in-law was the most obedient. She picked up the youngest grandson, whom her father-in-law loved the most, kissed her and whispered, "Is the baby hungry?" The child nodded.  "Starting today, we will brave the snowstorm and walk a long way to the east coast to find food. This journey will take several months, and there will be no food along the way. We may starve to death.  "Are you afraid?" The child didn't know what it meant to starve to death, but when the adults asked him if he was afraid of walking such a long way, he was certainly afraid, so he nodded.  The third daughter-in-law said to Mo Li, "Whether we have food along the way depends entirely on grandpa. If grandpa gives the baby food, the baby will have food. If he doesn't, the baby will die."  I'm going to be hungry. Do you understand?" The child nodded again.  "Then go and ask grandpa for food." After that, he put the child on the ground.  The child staggered on the snow towards Mo Lizheng.  Open your little hands and ask grandpa to hold him.  Mori sighed deeply, knelt down, picked up the child, and kissed his pink little face.  The child said: "Grandpa, I'm hungry." Mori's face was full of kindness, and he said softly: "We don't have much food now. We can't eat it openly. We have to wait until dinner. Okay?" "Yeah!  "The child nodded again.  Arriving at the city gate, Ning¡¯s father, Morizheng¡¯s three sons, and a small group of villagers were waiting here.  Mo Lizheng saw Ning's father, his lips moved, and then he looked at the grandson in his arms, but he still didn't say anything.  On this side, Mrs. Long and a group of people came to the door of the escort agency in a chaotic manner, but saw that the door of the escort agency was closed tightly.  There is no figure of Gu Yezhou.  He quickly came to the door and knocked on it.  But the door did not open, and an escort poked out from the high courtyard wall with a loud voice.  It's none other than big guy Hong Weiqiang.  Hong Weiqiang said loudly: "What's the matter with you?" The villagers shouted in confusion: "We want to see Mr. Gu, please inform us. Let Mr. Gu come out." "Mr. Gu promised to give us each a bowl.  "Yes, if we don't see Mr. Gu, we won't leave" Hong Weiqiang waited for their voices to calm down a little, and then said loudly: "Mr. Gu is no longer in the escort agency. He has something urgent to do and leaves the city."  I don¡¯t know when he will come back. Before leaving, he said that he was very sorry to the villagers. He lied. In fact, he had already sold the food to others, so he could not give it to everyone.  "Yes, I'm sorry. It's true. Please go back."  Yelling and cursing.  Hong Weiqiang climbed down the high wall and ignored him.  The villagers outside the door were talking and shouting, but the door was closed tightly and would not open no matter how hard they banged.  This is an escort agency, and no one dares to climb over the wall or force the door to get in.  Later, everyone became dejected and stopped talking.  Mrs. Long discussed it with Ma Mazi. They had been waiting at the door for almost an hour. They both felt despondently that Gu Yezhou was really unwilling to sell food this time, and he was not willing to release food for disaster relief.  Just hit the road.  They took the villagers and slowly arrived at the gate of the east city.  Mr. Long and Ma Mazi did not have horses, so they asked the villagers to help pull their carriages eastward along the official road full of ice and snow. Although this journey would be longer than taking a shortcut, at least it would not  get lost.  The snowstorm is still very heavy now, the visibility is very low, and the mountains on both sides are hidden in the wind and snow.  At night, we arrived at a small abandoned village.  There are not many people left in this village. They have all fled or died in the disaster.  The beams, doors and windows of the house have all been removed.Burned or sold, leaving only the adobe walls, it was better than being exposed to the strong wind in the wilderness, so everyone found a place to hide from the wind and snow.  Mr. Long and his family found several connected houses to live in. Although they and Ma Mazi's family lived next to each other, they intentionally or unintentionally avoided them because of the issue of food.  Before setting off, Mr. Long endured the pain and took out some antiques and exchanged some dry food from the restaurant.  Let the daughter-in-law distribute it to everyone.  All the servants, including the old housekeeper and personal maids who had followed him for many years, were no longer able to support him and were let go, so he had to do everything by himself.  Because the dry food received in exchange was very small, each person only had a small lump like a quail egg in his hand, which was not even enough to fit between teeth. After eating, the grandchildren were still very hungry and pestered Mr. Long.  Mr. Long felt sad that he couldn't eat any more, so he gave his small pile of dry food to several children.  Mr. Long and Ma Mazi, several wealthy households, brought quite a lot of clothes and quilts, so at least they didn¡¯t have to worry about freezing, but the rest of the village was in trouble. It used to be that hiding in the Chenghuang Temple in the city could keep out the wind and cold, but now there is no roof but only  In the open-air ruins of the wall, the cold wind was raging, pouring directly into the people, making them shiver with cold.  Tian Ergui's daughter-in-law, Youcai, was barely able to keep warm by wearing clothes and pants taken from a dead person, but her mother-in-law was in trouble, as there was no one to take care of her. Tian Dagui took off the clothes of his dead brother Tian Ergui, so she also wore warm clothes, but  The old mother Tian Po was still wearing a thin dress, and her jacket had already been given to her grandson and calf.  She was already a bit stupid, but now that she was so frozen by the frost and snow, she rarely spoke.  She didn't move, she just lay quietly curled up in the corner. It wasn't even possible to see that she was afraid of the cold.  It was getting dark and the wind was getting more violent.  The last time Tian Dagui and his family were swept away by strong winds, the grain from the rice merchants in the city was scattered all over the city. Their family went to the streets to pick up grain, but they picked up a small bag of grain. However, after so many days, although they were very frugal,  It was almost eaten, and everyone only had a thumb-sized portion.  After eating, I couldn't feel anything in my stomach, so I stuffed the white snow on the ground into my mouth and ate it. After eating, my mouth was numb from the cold, and my whole body was about to freeze, but I couldn't care less, at least my stomach was cold.  On the contrary, I don't feel too hungry.  In the middle of the night, the calf was hungry and cold. It felt that it could not feel the warmth even if it was squeezed into its mother's arms, so it thought of its grandma.  Grandma has always loved her little grandson very much. Since the snow started, she would sleep with him in her arms every day and give him her jacket.  But there was something different this night. When grandma got here, she curled up in the corner of the room and didn't move. She stopped hugging him. She ate when he was given food. She didn't say she was hungry after eating, and just lay there.  So the calf had to sleep with its mother.  But his mother was not as good at taking care of people as his grandma. When he woke up from the cold, he thought of his grandma and struggled to get up. He went over to pull her clothes and said, "Grandma, I'm cold" He pulled a few times, but Tian Po  When there was no response, he increased his strength and pulled a few times. Tian Po's stiff body fell slumped into the snow.  The calf was startled, and it took several steps back, exclaiming: "Grandma! Grandma!" He rushed forward to pick up the grandma, but felt that her arms were so tight that she couldn't pull him up at all. He was anxious and scared.  started crying.  This time her mother woke up, and she quickly crawled over and asked, "What's wrong?" "Grandma stopped talking, wuwuwu" The noble wife hurriedly helped her mother-in-law up, and called out several times, but didn't listen.  To react, I touched her armpits, which were also cold.  Then he shouted anxiously.  Tian Dagui and the second noble daughter-in-law Youcai both woke up and gathered around them quickly.  Tian Dagui touched it and found that his mother's body was completely stiff and her breathing had stopped.  He snorted indifferently and said, "Dead!" Both the noble wife and Youca burst into tears.  Tian Dagui said angrily: "Why are you crying? If this continues, everyone will die sooner or later! What else is there to cry about? Go to sleep!" After he yelled like this, neither woman dared to cry anymore.  Tian Dagui sat back in his corner and said, "Tear off her clothes and give them to the calf!" Both women were shocked. She was his own mother.  Staring at him blankly.  Tian Dagui shouted: "What are you looking at? If I don't pick it off, others will still pick it off. She loves calves the most, she will be willing to do it. Hurry up!" The two women had no choice but to bite the bullet and take off the last piece of clothing from their mother-in-law.  Her thin and dry body was buried in the snow.  Put clothes on the calf, hold it in his arms and then sleep.  When setting out early the next morning, Mo Lizheng discovered that Tian Po was missing and quickly asked Tian Dagui.  Tian Dagui just said coldly: "I'll freeze to death!"?The seaside is a long way away, and I don¡¯t know how many people will die.  At noon, I found a sheltered place to rest and eat temporarily.  The first night, Mo Lizheng didn't dare to look at Ning's father, for fear of seeing him feeling guilty, so he took out the twenty kilograms of dry food and returned it to others.  Now, he couldn't help it, so he secretly glanced at Ning's father, only to see Ning's father nibbling on a cold steamed bun. He was very surprised, so he went over and asked, "Where did you get the steamed bun?" (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature.  , the novel is better and updated faster!
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