Chapter 1: Grabbing food [Escape]

"Gu Xiaoyu, stop for me!" Niu Dazhuang, holding a big stick, led several brothers in the family to surround Gu Xiaoyu, pointed at the sweet potatoes in her arms and said, "Hand over the sweet potatoes."

 Gu Xiaoyu hugged the sweet potato tightly and looked at the five brothers of the Niu family who were surrounding him, "No, this is the sweet potato I got for my work, not yours."

There has been a drought in the northwest of Dachu for two years. There has been no harvest and it has become difficult to drink water. The people really have no way to survive and can only flee the famine with their families. Gu Xiaoyu's family is one of the victims of the famine.

This sweet potato was a reward for helping Lin Houde's family in the neighboring village carry their child for a day, and it was left for her younger brother Cheng Ge'er to eat.

The Niu family brothers were notoriously dirty, and they robbed a lot of food from other people on their way to escape from the wasteland. When Niu Dazhuang saw that she refused to give it to her, his eyes turned fierce and he said angrily: "If you don't give it to me, brothers, grab it for me!"

Although Gu Xiaoyu was only ten years old, he also developed a fierce spirit on the way to escape. When he saw the Niu brothers coming to grab food, he bit Niu Erzhuang's outstretched hand, and then knocked away Niu Xiaozhuang who was surrounding him. , grab the sweet potato and run away.

Niu Dazhuang was completely irritated when he saw Gu Xiaoyu dare to run. His eyes flashed with cruel light. When he was about to catch up with Gu Xiaoyu, he hit Gu Xiaoyu with a big stick in his hand.

　　 Bang!

 Gu Xiaoyu was hit on the back of the head, blood flowed out, his vision went dark, and he fell to the ground.

Niu Dazhuang looked proud: "Let you run away, you are looking for death."

He opened Gu Xiaoyu's hand, took away the sweet potato, and finished one sweet potato in a few mouthfuls, making him choke until he rolled his eyes.

The remaining four Niu family brothers caught up and saw that the sweet potatoes were gone. They did not dare to hit Niu Dazhuang. They were so angry that they kicked Gu Xiaoyu who fell to the ground: "You lose money, you are a broom star. If you dare to run away, I will beat you to death."

After resolving their hatred, the five brothers walked away, leaving Gu Xiaoyu alone to die on the ground.

At dusk, a large number of victims stopped on their way and dragged their skinny bodies to look for something to eat at the foot of the mountain. When they saw Gu Xiaoyu knocked unconscious on the ground, they only glanced at him and then turned around and continued looking for food.

After more than three months of fleeing the famine, people often died on the road. The victims were already used to it.

Some people from Gujia Village were looking for food nearby. When they saw Gu Xiaoyu being knocked unconscious, they hurriedly went to inform Gu Xiaoyu's mother, Cui.

Mrs. Cui came with her eldest daughter Gu Jinxiu and carried Gu Xiaoyu back to the resting place at the foot of the mountain.

 Gu Xiaoyu was seriously injured and remained unconscious after being carried back. Gu Dashan had to go to Mrs. Gu to ask for food and save him.

"A loser, you still want the old woman to pay for the food and ask a doctor to treat her illness? What kind of treatment? There is nothing to treat the dead in this world. Digging a pit and burying her after death is already worthy of her."

Mrs. Gu pointed at Gu Dashan who was kneeling on the ground and cursed: "You still have the nerve to beg me for food. I haven't mentioned that **** yet. She is such a shameless thing. She doesn't want to honor her grandparents when she gets food." , I just think about Brother Cheng, a sweet potato, can Brother Cheng, a child under four years old, eat it? He is not afraid of choking to death."

 Gu Dashan was so scolded that he bowed his head, but he had to continue to beg Mrs. Gu: "Mom, please do a good job and give your son half a bowl of food. Half a bowl is enough. Xiaoyu really can't hold on any longer."

Xiaoyu was hit on the back of his head and is still unconscious. If he doesn't ask a doctor to take a look at Xiaoyu, he may never wake up again.

"Half a bowl of food!" Mrs. Gu clapped her thighs and howled: "Listen, folks, listen, is this human language? Half a bowl of food, what's the point now? You actually came to ask me for half a bowl of food. , this will cost the lives of everyone in my old Gu family."

The people of Gujia Village were fleeing the famine together and gathered together for the night. No one spoke when they heard Mrs. Gu's words and just pretended not to hear. Each family was busy lighting a fire to roast dry food.

Mrs. Gu's slightly crooked mouth curled up, and she knew that no matter how hard she tried to harass the boss's family on the way to escape, no one would criticize her. It would be difficult to survive, and no one would care about other people's business.

Mrs. Gu's youngest daughter said in a strange voice beside her: "No, food is very expensive now. If I give you half a bowl, what will our family eat? We won't starve to death."

"Little sister!" Gu Dashan's eyes were red: "This half bowl of food is life-saving food for the little fish. If you don't have food, call the doctor, the little fish won't be able to survive."  Gu Xiaomei sneered: "Look what the elder brother said, we are fleeing famine. This Didn't anyone die that day on the way to escape the famine? Your daughter's life is precious, and the whole family is attached to her alone. She is a junior, and she has to **** food from so many elders, and she is not afraid of losing her life. "

“How do you mean that the whole family is stuck with Xiaoyu alone? Our family is not without food. My sister, you and your brother-in-law have more than one bowl of food every day.” He just wanted half a bowl to save his life.

Gu Xiaomei has always been domineering. When she heard this, she couldn't give up. She immediately burst into tears: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"I know that my family dislikes us as a couple. Yes, I, a married woman, should not take my husband-in-law back to her parents' house and eat her parents' food. But there is no one in my husband's family. If we don't go back to my parents' house, will we starve to death?”

Mrs. Gu loved her youngest daughter so much that she did not forget to take her youngest daughter and son-in-law with her when she fled the famine. Food was also provided for their couple and Uncle Gu's family. Everyone would be hungry along the way, including Gu Xiaomei, his wife, and Uncle Gu's family. No.

Seeing Yaonv crying, Mrs. Gu was so angry that she stepped forward and beat Gu Dashan: "You heartless thing, you beast, she is your sister, and you want to starve her to death, are you still not a human being?"

Old Mrs. Gu turned to the old man Gu who was bowing his head in silence and said, "Old man, your elder son wants to starve his sister to death, do you care?"

Mr. Gu was in his mid-fifties, and after a day's journey, he couldn't stand it and was too lazy to care about it. For him, she was just a granddaughter, not a grandson, so she was dead.

Miss Gu saw that Mrs. Gu was supporting her. Mr. Gu remained silent and cried even more vigorously.

 Beside a fire not far away.

When Gu Jinan heard what Mrs. Gu said, his eyes turned red with anger: "This is killing Xiaoyu."

 Everything about not having food is just an excuse.

She is so protective of food. She knows how valuable food is, so she always hides a bag of food untouched. The sister-in-law and her husband, the aunt's family, the second uncle, the third uncle, and the fourth uncle's family each have a small bag of food hidden in their clothes. Each package is the size of a bowl, so why is there no food?

Hide so much food, but they are reluctant to take out half a bowl to save the small fish. Unfortunately, the father and son go out every day to find food and hand it over to the whole family.

Ms. Cui had a sad face, she was as thin as a skeleton due to hunger. She looked at the unconscious Gu Xiaoyu and wept silently.

Gu Jinxiu hugged Gu Jincheng, and both siblings were too scared to speak.

Gu Jinan looked at them, and then at Gu Dashan who was still kneeling in the distance. He knew he couldn't go on like this, so he said to Cui, "Mom, I'm going out for a while. You and the eldest sister will take good care of Xiaoyu."

 Before Cui could speak, the man had already run into the night.

Gu Jinan is young, but he is smart and capable. After asking several people with good connections, he finally borrowed half a bowl of food and found a doctor to treat Gu Xiaoyu.

The doctor's surname was Du. He often treated the victims on his way out of famine in exchange for a small amount of food or water.

He applied gold sore medicine to Gu Xiaoyu's wound, bandaged it, and inserted a few more needles. He put away the silver needle and said, "I don't have a pen or ink, so I won't write the prescription. I will come over every day to give Xiaoyu acupuncture." Remove the blood stasis and see again after three days."

Gu Jinan and others burst into tears of gratitude.

Doctor Du looked at their grateful faces and finally reminded him: "Xiaoyu hurt his head. It would be fine if he can wake up within three days. If not... you should know better."

Gu Jinan and others turned pale when they heard this.

Doctor Du couldn't bear to see them looking like this, so he picked up the medicine box and said goodbye.

 (End of this chapter)