How can I survive?
Owner Hu of the Yong'an County tailor shop looked at the falling snow and uttered a sad sigh.
"There's been a severe drought, a locust plague, and now it's snowing heavily. God is trying to kill me!"
Originally he ran a small business selling clothes and lived a decent life. But now people can't even afford rice, so who would buy clothes?
He has not opened his business for two months and has very little food left at home. He found a job as a porter at the dock a few days ago, but now it is snowing so heavily, there is no way he can go.
Boss Hu thought of his newly-born wife, his elderly parents, and his growing baby. His heart felt as anxious as if it was being cooked in a frying pan. His brows were tightly furrowed, and he wished he could rush out and tear this white world apart!
At this moment, he glanced inadvertently and suddenly saw the Wang family from the shop opposite, secretly loading things onto a cart!
Pots and pans, wooden cupboards for clothes, even the wooden bucket for the well, the hoe, and even the firewood were all taken away?
Is this moving?
At this critical moment, the snow is so heavy that you can't see anything. Where can they move to?
At this time, Manager Wang and his family had already boarded the cart, which was being pulled by a donkey in front, and were about to set off.
Shopkeeper Hu's eyes widened, his lips clenched, but he finally pulled his skin out, rushed over to stop him, and asked in a friendly manner: "Brother Wang, what are you doing? It's hard to walk in such heavy snow."
Shopkeepers Wang and Hu were both in the garment business, and their shops happened to be opposite each other. They had been fighting for almost their entire lives, but their fight did develop a revolutionary friendship of happy enemies.
Shopkeeper Wang sighed, leaned close to his ear, and whispered, "Brother, we have known each other for so many years. I won't hide it from you. I am moving to the neighboring Sinan County! I have a cousin in Sinan County who distributes rice and grain, sees the doctor for free, and the children can go to school for free! I'm going to try my luck in Yong'an. It's snowing heavily now, and it's hard to survive!"
Shopkeeper Hu was stunned and handed over a piece of silver. "Tell me, is this news reliable?"
Shopkeeper Wang was not pretentious and accepted it generously. He continued, "My cousin was so thin three months ago that he looked half human. But a few days ago, he came wearing thick clothes and eating well. Then he took out several bags of rice for us and recited a few poems from time to time! He was illiterate originally!
Brother, I won't say any more to you. It's up to you whether you want to go or not. I'm leaving first!"
After Manager Wang finished speaking, he quickly drove the donkey away.
Shopkeeper Hu felt as if he had been hit on the head with a stick and went home dizzy.
Seeing the crying child, the pale and thin parents, and the parents lying in bed terminally ill, he gritted his teeth and made the decision.
Damn it, move!
Just believe Wang San once!
There are many people like Shopkeeper Wang and Shopkeeper Hu.
Unknowingly, many people from Lingshan County, Yong'an County, and Yongning Military Settlement in Lingnan have migrated to Sinan.
By the time Cen Rensheng noticed this, Yong'an County under his jurisdiction and Lingshan County, where his relatives lived, had already lost most of their people. He was furious but helpless.
But that’s another story.
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The snow has been falling for two days straight with no sign of stopping.
Xie Ling felt that this was not a solution and that production had to be resumed as soon as possible, so she decided to use salt to melt the snow, as there was still plenty of crude salt in the salt field.
As soon as we arrived at the county government office, a soldier came hurriedly to report.
"Sir, people from other places have come to Sinan again."
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