Chapter 70 Disaster Victims
I have to say, Mrs. Huo is really lucky.
There was a big bloody hole on his forehead but he didn't die.
But he didn't wake up again.
She lay on the bed like a living dead, unable to move a single part of her body, not even blinking.
However, it is said that when Huo Zhongnian came back, Old Mrs. Huo's eyelids twitched twice.
The old doctor said that this was because Huo Zhongnian was the pillar of support in Old Mrs. Huo's heart.
If Huo Zhongnian passed the imperial examination, maybe she would wake up out of joy.
At the beginning, some women and maids would visit him twice out of free time, but within half a month, no one came anymore.
Because it stinks!
You have to hold your breath as soon as you enter the house, flies are buzzing everywhere.
No one cleaned her up, no one gave her a bath, and Old Mrs. Huo was like a piece of garbage abandoned in a quagmire.
Even her most beloved Huo Xiaohu refused to step into her room.
Everyone says that living like this is worse than death.
But Yao and Ye Yanlan did not seem to want their mother-in-law to die. They diligently changed the dressings on her wounds every day, brought her food and drinks and fed them to her mouth, and forced her to drink them down even if she couldn't eat.
Everyone said that the two daughters-in-law of the Huo family were repaying evil with kindness. Old Mrs. Huo had not treated them as human beings before, so they were very filial to do this.
But some people also say that they are not repaying evil with kindness at all. Old Mrs. Huo is now in a state of being unable to live or die, and can only let her two daughters-in-law torture her. The two daughters-in-law are taking revenge.
However, who will delve into the truth?
All we can say is that justice will prevail and retribution will come. Old Mrs. Huo did many evil things and finally suffered the consequences.
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The granary in Heihe Village was full of grain, but the village head was so worried that he couldn't sleep.
Before, everyone was hungry, so there was nothing we could do. But now every household has food, so how can we bear to see our loved ones starve?
Therefore, in the past few days, many people have greeted the village head and are going out to deliver food to their relatives.
If someone wants to go out, you can't stop him from going out.
Although the village head had issued an order prohibiting people from outside the village from mentioning the harvest of Heihe Village, there is no wall that is impenetrable.
Just today, before daybreak, the woman guarding the city gate knocked on the door of the village head's house, "Head, something bad has happened! There are so many disaster victims gathered outside the city gate!"
The head of the village felt a pang in his heart. This day had finally come!
The crowd gathered around the village chief and climbed up the city wall. Wow! There were at least a thousand of them.
Men, women, young and old were all pale and thin. They were so hungry that they could not even stand and felt like they were about to collapse at any time.
The villagers' hearts suddenly became heavy.
The reason these people can survive until now is either because the well in the village has not dried up or because they have found a new water source. However, they have escaped the drought but not the locust plague. It is really tragic!
When those people saw the head of the village on the city wall, they knelt down exhausted.
"Zhuang Lizheng, help!"
"Please give me something to eat!"
The village head frowned and sighed, "Fellow villagers, I want to help you, but my ability is really limited!"
The victims cried loudly.
An old man came out tremblingly, "Zhuang Lizheng, I'm Liu Dacheng, your Brother Liu!"
The village head recognized him. Liu Dacheng was the former village head of Dahuai Village, and the village head always regarded him as a guiding light.
During Liu Dacheng's reign, he developed Dahuai Village into the largest and strongest village in the vicinity, and many outsiders wanted to settle in Dahuai Village.
When the village head was young, he went to ask Liu Dacheng for advice, hoping that he could give him some pointers. Liu Dacheng was a straightforward person who would tell him everything he knew.
Liu Dacheng taught him a lot of governance experience, which benefited him a lot. It was because of Liu Dacheng's guidance that Heihe Village developed from a small village with only two or three hundred people to the large village it is today.
Seeing his idol trembling with hunger while walking, the village head felt bitter in his heart.
"Zhuang Lizheng, I know there is no reason for me to come and bother you today, but... but I really have no other choice!" Liu Dacheng covered his face and cried bitterly.
A locust plague destroyed all the crops in the fields. The entire village of Dahuai Village had originally fled the famine together, but they turned back halfway.
Because the world is in complete chaos, some evil people kill anyone they see, snatch any baby they see, and throw it directly into a big pot on the roadside to cook and eat...
Since we are going to die anyway, it is better to die at home than to be exposed in the wilderness.
After returning from fleeing famine, the people of Dahuai Village were surprised to learn that Heihe Village had not suffered from a locust plague.
Thinking about the friendship he had built with the village head over the years, the old head decided to risk his reputation and ask for help.
Liu Dacheng's thin shoulders trembled violently. "Can you, can you give the baby a sip of porridge? We adults can starve to death, but the baby..."
Liu Dacheng's body suddenly went limp and he fell to the ground.
The villagers of Dahuai Village burst into tears and kowtowed repeatedly, "Village Chief, please save our old village chief! He hasn't eaten a grain of rice in several days. He is starving!"
The village head turned around and burst into tears, "He is a very good person and has done me a favor."
"Then let's save him!" said the villagers of Heihe Village.
The village head wiped his tears and said to the villagers outside the wall, "I can save him, but if I open the city gate and you all rush in, won't I be causing trouble for myself?"
"Don't worry, Village Chief!" This was the new village chief of Dahuai Village, a man in his thirties. "I promise that the villagers of Dahuai Village will stay where they are and won't move a single step!"
When we came today, the old headman had already made an agreement with the whole village that since we were here to ask for help, we should act like we were asking for help and show our full sincerity, and perhaps we could get a glimmer of hope.
Although he received the guarantee from Dahuai Village, the village head was still worried because people's hearts are hidden.
Ask someone to call Ye Yanping over, "Yanping, accompany me for a while."
The old doctor was also called over.
The village head ordered: "Go and bring another bowl of porridge."
Someone immediately brought a bowl of white porridge.
Ye Yanping was the first to open the city gate and turned around and said, "Village head, come out!"
The head of the village walked out with the porridge, and the old doctor followed behind.
The victims smelled the fragrance of the porridge and swallowed their saliva desperately, but no one moved.
The ignorant babies were held in the arms of their adults, whimpering like cats out of greed.
The village head secretly admired the villagers who were taught by Brother Liu. They deserved respect just for their composure.
The old doctor squatted down to feel the pulse and gave the village head a look.
He really fainted from hunger, he wasn't pretending.
The village head felt so guilty that he wanted to cry, but what could he do? During this special period, he had to be wary of people outside Heihe Village with a mean heart!
After feeding him half a bowl of porridge, Liu Dacheng woke up slowly. Seeing that Li was feeding him, he said with trembling lips, "Don't, don't waste food on me. Quick, give the Qin family's baby a few bites. The baby is dying..."
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