Lost and Spy

Chapter 2076
The situation in Zhengzhou is no longer good, and it has already been devastated by countless indiscriminate bombings by the Japanese army.

But after leaving Zhengzhou, I immediately felt the seriousness of the famine in Henan.

Zhengzhou is the center of Henan, but it still cannot escape the famine.

There were no crops to be seen in the fields, and the land was so dry and cracked that it was shocking that there had been no rain for a long time.

On both sides of the road, you can see trees that have been stripped of their bark, leaving only bare trunks.

No herbaceous plants to be seen at all.

Where have you been?
They were all eaten up.

After a few steps, you can see people selling their sons and daughters.

No money, just a few bites of food.

Adults can temporarily fill their stomachs, and children have the possibility of living.

Right now it's just selling kids.

If it continues, the human tragedy of changing children and eating them will happen.

Never accuse these adults of being cruel, never ask these adults why they can even trade their own children for others to eat.

When the adults are starved to death, the fate of the remaining children will be even more miserable.

Outside a dilapidated house, five children stared at the house eagerly.

After a while, my mother came out with food.

It was a kind of black and not slippery autumn. It looked like corn bread, but it didn't look exactly like it.

Each child is assigned only one point.

The youngest child ate it up in one bite.

Not long after eating, he clutched his stomach and cried, "Mom, my stomach is swollen and hurts."

The mother hugged the child and only shed tears to comfort her, but she couldn't do anything.

Although Steward Qiu is from Henan, he was born in Nanyang, and has always been in the Cai family, serving his wife all the time.

Ding Wenrui's family is rich and has never suffered. Neither of them knew what these children were eating.

Of course Che Shiwen knew what they were eating, but he didn't dare to say it.

"Avalokitesvara, that's Avalokitesvara." Although Meng Shaoyuan had never seen it before, he guessed it.

"Soil? Can soil be eaten?" In this regard, Butler Qiu finally revealed his naivety.

"Avalokitesvara soil contains a large amount of chemical ingredients, known as the 'universal stone'." Meng Shaoyuan said in a low tone: "After eating it, it can temporarily relieve hunger, but it cannot be digested and absorbed by the human body, making it difficult to defecate. A small amount is not fatal, although not You will be hungry, but if you don’t have any nutrition, you will eventually die. Staff Che, tell me, am I right?”

At this point, Che Shiwen could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb: "Yes, even these Guanyin soils were carried back by the villagers sixty miles back and forth. They are very full, and their stomachs will swell after eating just a little bit." The Avalokitesvara soil is stagnant in the stomach and cannot be pulled out at all, and the final result is that the stomach is swollen like a small watermelon, which is very hard when knocked and turned into a stone. At this time, it is time to die."

"Hey, they actually eat this?" Steward Qiu was dumbfounded: "Even though they knew they would die if they ate it, they still ate it, and even dragged their children to eat it? It's too cruel, too cruel."

"Cruel? You call this cruel?" Meng Shaoyuan didn't know what to say: "When you haven't eaten for a few days, when you are really hungry, no matter what you are given, you will eat it.

They don't like to take their children to eat together. They also want to give their children sesame seed cakes, big fat meat, and white rice, but where can they find them?If it continues like this, I'm afraid even Guanyin soil will be eaten up. "

Che Shiwen invited Meng Shaoyuan aside, and said in a low voice: "Sir, Henan has indeed encountered some difficulties, but we can overcome them completely, completely overcome them."

"It's done, Chief Che, don't lie to me again."

Meng Shaoyuan sighed softly: "You are not a local official, what good things can you say for them? You are a soldier, and the duty of a soldier is to protect the place. Now the place is like this, the officials are incompetent, and they conceal and do not report. Soldiers, how can they still fight with them? Collusion?"

Che Shiwen was a little ashamed, and also sighed: "Sir, let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart. The disaster in Henan has begun in spring, and it is gradually spreading and getting worse. Our officer said, soldiers, just fight. Don't worry about local affairs.

What we practice is collecting grain on the spot. Since it is collecting grain on the spot, we have to rely on those local officials to collect it.As for what local officials do, it has nothing to do with us, as long as we have enough to eat. "

Meng Shaoyuan did not refute, nor was he able to refute.

On the frontal battlefield, they faced more than [-] Japanese troops and hundreds of thousands of puppet troops.

The army has no time for him.

The problem lies with the officials.

Those officials who turned a blind eye to the disaster and tried to conceal it in many ways.

There is also Tang Enbo in Henan who still desperately blackmails Tang Enbo, who has enough food in the warehouse to feed 40 people for a year and a half.

At this time, Steward Qiu, Ding Wenrui, Su Junwen and another guard had already taken out all their food and gave it to the family.

The father and mother kneeled on the ground and kowtowed again and again, thanking them for saving their lives, and the children cheered happily.

Meng Shaoyuan glanced at Li Zhifeng: "Why don't you go?"

Li Zhifeng only answered silently: "How many people can be saved?"

Yes, how many people can be saved.

This family has been temporarily saved, what about the future?
No matter how much you eat, you will be eaten up.

What about the millions of people affected by the disaster?
How can we save them with just these few people?
Before Meng Shaoyuan left Chongqing, he asked the Qiu family to prepare a batch of grain to send to Henan.

But how can he and the Qiu family save Henan?That is simply wishful thinking.

This little food is not even a drop in the bucket.

He also had a huge check with him.

But when he arrived in Henan, he found that he was so childish and ridiculous.

Who is the check for?

To those local officials?

If one percent can be used on the victims, it is considered a loss.

"Leave all the food and drink on us." Meng Shaoyuan smiled wryly: "Li Zhifeng, do you know what is the most ridiculous thing about people? You know that doing this will not solve the fundamental problem, but you still want to do it.

It is said that there is no difficulty in this world that I cannot solve. Now I feel that this is the biggest irony to me. I watched helplessly, but I was helpless. "

He called Su Junwen and another guard over, and handed the check to Su Junwen: "Go back to Zhengzhou, find a bank, open an account to deposit it in, and get out a check book.

You go around and find ways to purchase food, no matter the price, you can buy as much as you can, and when you buy a batch, send a batch to Henan.Remember, no matter the quality is good or bad, as long as it can fill your stomach. "

"I'll do it right away."

"By the way, get me some Guanyin Soil."

Che Shiwen was a little worried, so he called out a member of the security squad, and told him to go back to Zhengzhou together, and send a few more soldiers, armed with weapons and a machine gun, to help Su Junwen buy food together.

When the drought comes, in addition to the upcoming locust plague, there will also be bandit disasters.

Those bandits dare to rob anything, no matter you are civilian or military!
(End of this chapter)