save the bachelors

Chapter 3111 3113 [Blame yourself]

On the first day of the first lunar month in [-], a disaster happened in Bailuyuan.

Bai Xiaowen killed the little widow with a kitchen knife during Chinese New Year.

As the saying goes, "A traitor lives and kills, a gambling life steals", which is absolutely true.

Bai Xiaowen was still teaching in the school before, so he could take a little bit of training.

In addition to the two acres of paddy fields, it can also harvest several hundred catties of grain, so it is enough to support him and the little widow.

But now that there is a famine, people can't get enough to eat, and who wants to go to school again.

Coupled with the famine and the soaring food prices, the little money Bai Xiaowen earned from selling land and houses was really not enough to spend.

In less than a month, Bai Xiaowen spent all the money from selling the house and land.

And after he spent all his money, the little widow immediately turned her face and refused to recognize anyone.

It turned out that after Bai Xiaowen sold his house, he moved in with the little widow.

The little widow knew that he was rich, so naturally she was happy to serve him.

Eat, drink and have fun with him every day, happy and happy.

But when all his money was spent, and he couldn't get food in the village, and he still had to eat the food that the little widow got, he would naturally quit.

Wealth and wealth are easy, and adversity is common.

When the little widow hooked up with him, it was all at Lu Zilin's instigation, for the sake of profit.

Intersect with each other, and when the benefits are exhausted, they will disperse.

Now Bai Xiaowen has nothing, the land and real estate are all sold out, even Bai Jiaxuan doesn't recognize his son, so he can be said to have nothing.

Under such circumstances, the little widow was naturally unwilling to serve her, so she drove him out in the winter.

At this time, Bai Xiaowen saw the true face of the little widow, and was naturally extremely angry.

Plus he had already spent all his money on the little widow, and now he has nothing in his pocket.But now it's freezing cold outside, he has no clothes on his body, no food in his stomach, and he will be frozen to death within two days after going out.

So he was angry from the heart, evil to the gall, and in a fit of anger, he raised the kitchen knife and chopped up the little widow.

……

And Bai Xiaowen just finished killing the little widow, just in time to catch up with Sang Laoba to deliver food to her.

Seeing the little widow lying on the ground with a bloody stab, Bai Xiaowen held the kitchen knife with a fierce face, and squatted there crazily chopping. Sang Laoba was so frightened that he peed on the spot, and ran out madly. He ran and yelled to kill.

Bai Xiaowen just woke up when he heard the shouting, then dropped the kitchen knife and fled the village in a hurry.

When Bai Jiaxuan led his clansmen out of the village to search, he finally saw Bai Xiaowen's body hollowed out by wild wolves.

It turns out that wild wolves have been rampant on the plain since last year. If the villagers go out, they will be in groups of three or four, and they have to carry a stick in their hands.

And now that it's freezing cold and there's nothing to eat, those wild wolves have long been hungry.

Seeing Bai Xiaowen leaving the village alone, he immediately surrounded him.

Bai Xiaowen is a weak scholar, usually too lazy to do farm work, he has no energy at all, so how can he deal with a hungry wolf.

So without struggling a few times, the wolf bit off his neck, and then even pulled out his intestines.

Bai Xiaowen's death was so tragic that all the old and young men in the village sighed.

Xiang Nan also sighed.

In fact, Bai Xiaowen originally had a good life.The family is well-off, and the daughter-in-law is capable and well-educated.He himself is not only the teacher in the school, but also the official patriarch of Bailu Village, with reputation and status.

But he just didn't control his lust, and allowed himself to degenerate into a rogue, a gangster, lost his wealth, lost his reputation, lost his dignity, lost himself, and became a beast who only knows how to enjoy himself.

Now being buried in the mouth of a wolf is considered retribution.

Bai Xiaowen's body was buried hastily afterwards, without even holding a funeral ceremony, and even without buying a coffin, it was directly wrapped in a straw mat and buried in a wasteland, and was not buried in the Bai family's cemetery.

According to Bai Jiaxuan, he had expelled Bai Xiaowen from the Bai family. Without his son, Bai Xiaowen would naturally have no right to be buried in the Bai family cemetery.

But the little widow was still buried in her husband's grave, so she was born in the same quilt and died in the same hole.

……

The death of Bai Xiaowen and the little widow did not cause too many ripples in Yuanshang.

In this famine year, many people die every day, and the dead are no longer news.

What's more, the living people also have empty stomachs and have no energy to discuss these topics at all.

Everyone is just waiting to see when they will die.

Time flies, and in May, the imperial court finally began to provide disaster relief. They opened porridge sheds in various security centers and gave porridge every day.

But I heard people come back and say that there are not a few grains of rice in the porridge, so clear that you can almost find people.

Even so, each person can only receive one bowl per day, so they are not hungry at all.

Moreover, the drought continues, with no end in sight.

"When will this kind of day count?"

"My God, don't you pity the poor?"

"What kind of evil did this do, how many people have to die to stop?"

People said helplessly that they had no confidence in the future.

……

However, compared with the victims who were starving for food, the officials and wealthy businessmen in the city were in collusion, taking advantage of the famine to make a fortune.

They kept all the relief food in their hands, and instead of distributing it to the people, they sold it at a high price.A bucket of rice costs ten yuan, draining the last life-saving money of the common people.

In order to survive, ordinary people can only sell their wealth.Fields, houses, livestock, and even selling children and daughters.

Those profiteers took the opportunity to make a fortune and earned millions of dollars from human trafficking alone.

As recorded in Edgar Snow's "Westward Journey", "The loess plateau, which has been drought and rainless for a long time, is dead silent, the leaves have been picked, and the bark has been stripped clean.

Famine-stricken and starving girls, half naked, were loaded onto cattle trucks and transported to brothels in Hujiang.The corpses on the side of the road were all skinny, and those with a little flesh were immediately devoured by other animals. "

The beastly deeds of these corrupt officials and profiteers were finally disclosed by the newspapers, which caused an uproar in the society.

Xiang Nan knew that a large part of this was due to Bai Ling.

Although she is still studying in the normal school in the provincial capital on the surface, she has secretly followed Lu Zhaopeng to join the underground party.It was she who organized the students to take to the streets and contacted the news media to report these scandals.

The exposure of the scandal put a lot of pressure on the imperial court. They finally announced that they would increase disaster relief efforts, severely punish corrupt officials, and put an end to human trafficking and so on.

The porridge in the porridge shed no longer fools people so much, and several people traffickers were arrested.The profiteers who hoarded food and the officials who withheld food for disaster relief were punished several times.Everything seems to be going well.

But Xiang Nan knew that this was all perfunctory.

The few profiteers caught were just small people, and the total amount of food hoarded was only a few stones.The real big grain merchants, they didn't move at all.

And those few officials are just small characters with no background and no status, and the amount of grain they withheld is only a few buckets.There is no comparison with those big corrupt officials who have embezzled hundreds of shi and thousands of shi for disaster relief food.

It can be seen that the so-called change is nothing more than a play.

(End of this chapter)