"Benefactor!"
The old man was pulled up from the ground by Xiaodong, who had sharp eyes and quick hands, but he never forgot to shout the word "Benefactor" in his mouth, and two lines of muddy old tears fell from his face.
"No need to be so polite, old man. It's just a meal of plain porridge, not a life-saving favor."
Seeing that an old man was in such embarrassment just for a meal, Xiao Han felt a little upset.
He could also see at this time that although the old man in front of him was more tattered and dirty, his every move could still be seen to be somewhat dignified, especially the jade ring that he refused to want. It was definitely not With a small door and a small household, you can take advantage of it.
If even a wealthy family has fallen to this level, how miserable and lonely must those poor families in front of them be? !
"For us, this is the grace of survival!"
The old man was supported by Xiaodong, and he stretched out his hand tremblingly, pointed at the companions behind him who also looked sad, and said: "If we hadn't met you, our whole family would have starved to death on this road. Got it!"
"Oh? Dad, this is a family?"
Although he had vaguely guessed something in his heart, Xiao Han couldn't help but be secretly surprised when the old man mentioned that these people were his family members.
There are so many people in front of him, including old, weak, women and children. How many people should there be in his original family?
His eyes swept over the people around him, Xiao Han frowned slightly and asked: "Then where are all the young men in my father-in-law's family? Why don't I see them?"
"My children and grandchildren..."
Unexpectedly, it was okay for Xiao Han not to ask this question. As soon as he asked this question, the old man's tears began to flow out again, and the woman who was silent just now also began to sob quietly!
"My children and grandchildren should all be dead!"
After a long time, as if he had exhausted his last bit of strength, the old man murmured in a low voice: "Now in this world, we are the only immortal old bones left alive!"
"What? Young people, are they all dead?"
Hearing this, even Liu Hongji, who had always been careless, felt something was wrong and asked, "How did they die?!"
"them……"
Obviously, this incident caused too much psychological trauma to the old man. He was trembling and wanted to speak, but his throat was so choked that he couldn't say anything!
Upon seeing this, Old Man Hua took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, poured out a pill and asked Xiaodong and water to feed it to the old man. Then the old man gasped and reluctantly said: "They all died in Huazhou!"
When Xiao Han heard the word Huazhou, his heart suddenly moved, and he blurted out: "Huazhou? Where the river bursts? Is my father-in-law's family located in Huazhou?"
The old man shook his head slowly and replied feebly: "No! My home is in Bianzhou, which is upstream of the river."
Xiao Han frowned again: "Since my father-in-law's home is not in Huazhou, how could my nephew go to Huazhou and happen to encounter a big river burst?"
"Didn't my nephew happen to encounter the Dahe River breach!" For some reason, the old man's mood suddenly became excited. He coughed and said to Xiao Han and others: "All the nephews and nephews in my family are good! When they heard about the Huazhou breach, they immediately In response to the government's mobilization, Xingye set off to Huazhou to provide disaster relief!"
"Then since this is disaster relief, why do I say they are all dead?"
"Because, because some people say!" the old man coughed and said, "They said that the flood was caused by the emperor's lack of virtue, which caused the wrath of God and brought disaster! If you dare to go to disaster relief, you are disobeying God and will lead to greater disasters. Disaster! He also said that those who went to rescue the disaster were all washed away by the flood and drowned!"
After struggling to say this sentence, the old man seemed to have collapsed, and he sat weakly on the ground, with tears streaming down his face!
"Fucking fart!"
Hearing this, Liu Hongji couldn't bear it any longer. He flew up and kicked a stone as big as a human head nearby deep into the forest!
"You old man is so confused! This is obviously a traitor spreading rumors! Let's not talk about whether the emperor is virtuous or not. Even if the emperor is ungrateful, it should be the emperor who is punished! What's the point of using force on the heads of ordinary people?
Refuse to provide disaster relief! If we don’t allow disaster relief, don’t we just want people to die? What kind of god dares to do this! Try standing in front of me! I didn't fucking chop it up! "
Liu Hongji was really angry this time!
It was only then that he understood what Xiao Lizi meant!
Natural disasters are not terrible! The human heart is the scariest thing!
People like this who use natural disasters to deceive people's hearts will simply die a hundred times, a thousand times is not an exaggeration!
"Do you believe what they said?" On the other side, Xiao Han also suppressed the anger in his heart and asked in a deep voice.
"Do not believe?"
The old man looked blankly at the angry Liu Hongji, then at Xiao Han, and finally smiled bitterly: "I don't believe it, and I don't want to believe it! But soon, refugees one after another came to us. That little county town!
From their mouths, we learned that there was another breach in Huazhou, and it was even more powerful than the previous one! The entire Huazhou City turned into a vast ocean, and all the people who went to provide disaster relief were drowned! The corpses were so densely packed on the water that you couldn't even see the end! "
"Then you believed it?" Xiao Han's face was uncertain, and he asked after a while.
The old man shook his head feebly and nodded again: "At first, a few people said, we don't believe it! Then dozens of people said, we still don't believe it, but later, hundreds and thousands of people said the same thing, so we have no choice but to disbelieve it! Then we have no choice but to believe it!" In addition, no one who left the county, including the yamen team leader, came back, so what else can I say?"
"Okay, we don't know the specific situation, so let's not talk about it for now!" Xiao Han took a deep breath and asked again: "Then what? Listen to what I mean, your place was not washed away by the flood, right? Then what do you do? Living like this?"
"It's the refugees who did this too!"
Seeing that the old man had said so many words, coupled with the grief, he was exhausted. A little old man who looked a little younger in the group of victims stood up and said angrily:
"At that time, our county magistrate could not bear to see the suffering of the refugees, so he ordered people to open warehouses to provide porridge, and we, the common people, also gave food to them! But who would have thought..."
At this point, the little old man suddenly stopped talking and looked up at Xiao Han and the others, hesitant to speak.
"Who would have thought of anything!" Liu Hongji was the most impatient. When the little old man stopped talking, he just wanted to lift him and pour out everything in his stomach.
