When people get old, they must have the awareness of death. The opportunity to survive cannot be greedily occupied! The old man began to refuse to eat any food. At first he drank a sip of water, but in the next few days he stopped even drinking water!
The time was almost here, almost there. The old man looked out the window and had hallucinations. He even felt that everyone in Sunjiazhuang had already lit the fire and started cooking.
"Haha... I'm so stupid... Sunjiazhuang is poorer than ours, how can they survive us!"
"My grandparents didn't lie to me. When it's time to leave this world, people will have hallucinations and see all kinds of bizarre things..."
"Haha... How can there be food in Sunjiazhuang? Who can survive it except Sun Laocai?"
"Even if one or two families have some old food for cooking, it's impossible for every household to have light? How can the whole village survive..."
"I really have to leave, I really have to leave..."
The old man thought he was talking, but in fact, in the eyes of his children and grandchildren, the old man just closed his eyes slightly and kept his lips trembling. The son who cried out in tears knew that his father was dying.
Take out the shroud prepared three years ago, maybe tonight is the farewell!
"Grandpa...grandma...you...why are you here!" The old man who looked back suddenly spoke, with a hint of blush on his face.
The world in front of me has completely changed, as if I have suddenly returned to my childhood sixty or seventy years ago!
The house is still the same house, but it is much brand new than now. The big willow tree outside the yard is rustling in the wind, and the midsummer sun is dazzling and warm!
There were chickens and ducks raised in the yard, and lunch was placed on the table, including huge white-faced steamed buns, stewed meat dishes, and two halves of oily salted duck eggs.
There are huge watermelons in the well water, and the side rooms are full of grain! All the golden ones were piled on the roof!
His grandparents didn't say anything, they just waved to him in the yard, as if asking him to come for dinner. At this moment, time returned to the summer of his childhood, and he suddenly felt so hot all over his body!
"Master...milk...wait for me...wait for me to come before we start dinner...I'm hungry...leave me a big steamed bun..."
"Grandpa...milk..."
The room suddenly panicked. The children and grandchildren looked at the grandfather on the bed and suddenly started talking nonsense, what about summer, what about steamed buns, and even called grandpa!
They gathered together and cried bitterly, but the old man could no longer recognize anything and just stared blankly at the lights of Sunjiazhuang!
"Ah... it's so good... finally... I don't have to suffer anymore..." Suddenly the old man said the last words of his life. His head tilted and fell into his son's arms, and his body suddenly went limp.
There was a cry in the room, the children and grandchildren knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and the eldest son changed the old man's shroud. Although they were all mentally prepared, this moment still hit them hard!
A heavier blow was yet to come. Just after changing the shroud and not knowing how to send messages to relatives, I heard the sound of a gong clanging outside.
It's already dark. It's past seven o'clock on the foreigner's clock. How come someone is beating the gong?
Dang Dang Dang... Bang Dang Dang...
"The imperial court has a decree... Let the landlords and gentry provide grain... Ten thousand shi of grain for one person?"
"Sun Laocai from Sunjiazhuang has already begun to release... You Liuzhuang should also hurry up! Release grain in exchange for raising people..."
ah……
The people in the house screamed in despair. The old man died before dawn and left ten minutes before the imperial decree arrived.
The grieving children cried loudly, "Grandpa...Dad...you gave your life to your grandson...if you eat something, you will survive..."
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Every house in Liuzhuang opened the door. They were so hungry that they were shaking as they walked. They rubbed their eyes and looked at the lights of Sunjiazhuang in the distance. Only now did they know that all this was not an illusion!
Tragedies like Liuzhuang's are not isolated. In the process of delivering disaster relief news, there will always be some people who cannot survive the darkness before dawn. Human tragedies have never disappeared!
No matter how difficult the disaster is, no matter how miserable the people are, in all fairness, Zaichun, the senior official of the imperial court, still responded very appropriately!
The decree was issued on the first day, and in just half a day, one-fifth of the disaster areas received the news, and the disaster relief work had already begun!
By the next day, these maintenance postmen were not the only ones delivering the news in the disaster area. Many people who had had enough to eat also joined in and walked to the villages in all directions that had not received the news!
There were also people on the mountain roads that were cut off from traffic, and long ruts of dog-pulled sledges appeared on the snowy fields. All the villages that got the news shouted long live, and more and more villages joined in the rescue effort.
In just four days, 90% of the people in the disaster area heard the good news, leaving only the remote villages in the Taihang Mountains!
This is also a helpless thing. Even in the winter without natural disasters, people in the north of the Qing Dynasty were still freezing to death, let alone such a major disaster this year. Some deaths are really unavoidable.
The feedback received by Emperor Tongzhi of Yangxin Hall in the past few days is all good news. The identity of this juren is really a treasure, and it will really make these landlords fight to take it out!
Ten thousand shi of food can be exchanged for the status of a civil servant. This opportunity is rare in a century, so I have to do it no matter how distressed I am!
The developed telegraph network allowed news to be transmitted as quickly as possible. On the fifth day, all the imperial notices printed by the Qing Times had been sent and began to be posted in the disaster areas.
With the announcement from the court and the propaganda from the local county government, these landowners and squires knew that no one was lying to them, and that everything these maintenance postmen said was true.
What else can the landowners and squires say who have put aside their doubts? The imperial court asked them to ensure that the people around them would not starve to death, so just do it.
Warehouse after warehouse of food was distributed, and the people now found a way to survive!
The disaster is really under control. After entering February, the weather began to warm up. It was sunny every day, and the snow began to melt before our eyes.
If we keep this pace, every village in the plains will be basically passable in mid-February, and even the mountain roads in the Taihang Mountains will be passable in early March!
As soon as the snow melts, the earth will turn green immediately. By then, the people who can go out will find ten thousand ways to make a living. By the early summer and winter wheat harvest, this disaster will be completely over.
"Hahaha... As expected, God has blessed me in the Qing Dynasty, and my luck has not declined yet! Hahaha..."
Zai Chun laughed heartily at the court meeting. Which of these court officials were not enjoying themselves? The flattery is coming like a rolling tide!
"Your Majesty, the Holy Emperor! The Holy Emperor will help you!"
"There's good news! Because of the heavy snow a few days ago... the stock market fell by 30%! But today, stimulated by many good news, it has risen again!"
Chengzhi danced excitedly in the Yangxin Hall, but Emperor Tongzhi didn't mean to scold him today, but instead smiled and nodded.
"As long as the disaster is over, investor confidence will of course be restored! We will hit new highs in the future! Hahaha... I will give you a prosperous Qing Dynasty!"
At this moment, a young eunuch suddenly ran out and knelt on the ground, "Your Majesty... the head of state of the Chinese nation is calling!"
