Dongli drinks wine after dusk

Chapter 79 Survival is Difficult
The little boy shivered and knelt on the ground without even daring to lift his head. Obviously, he was seriously frightened by the official intimidation released by Jiang Wenyuan.

However, he still insisted that he did not lie: "My lord knows, my little sister was really taken away by those gangsters, and her life and death are unknown. Please forgive me, my lord!"

He has no possessions, and he can't do these people any good, only his own life.

"I beg you to be merciful, the little one is willing to be a cow and a horse for you!" A ten-year-old child can already do a lot of things, even though he knows that the Jiang family is full of people to take care of him.

"Let's start from the beginning, if there is even a half-truth, I will never forgive you because you are young and ignorant, do you understand?"

"My lord has learned from you, if the little ones say something false, let your lord deal with it!"

It's a long story to tell the truth.

The little boy's surname is Sun. He was originally a child of a poor family. His parents gave him the humble name Shuanzi. He also has a younger sister, Sun Hehua, who is one year younger than him.

When Sun Shuanzi was seven years old, his parents contracted a seasonal epidemic, and when they passed away, the siblings became orphans.Because the family was poor and had no permanent property, the uncle's family couldn't take care of themselves and couldn't afford to support their brothers and sisters. Finally, the clan came forward, contacted the government, and sent the two of them to Jishantang.

Jishantang has an excellent reputation among the people. After all, poor people are really likely to die of cold and starvation. At Jishantang, there is at least a bowl of rice to eat and a place to sleep.

For underage children, a place where they can live safely is already an excellent place to go.

Sun Shuanzi and his younger sister entered the Jishan Hall with a little apprehension and excitement.

The early days were not difficult. It may be that Anqing Mansion has been in good weather for many years. There are occasional minor natural disasters and man-made disasters. There are not many old people and children who have no one to support. There are only about [-] people in Jishantang.

Two dilapidated huts are crowded enough.A pot of blackened thick noodles is enough to eat sparingly.

As long as he stays here for a few years, when Sun Shuanzi is a teenager and has the strength, at least he can go to the pier to carry a backpack to earn a few copper coins, so that he and his sister will not be able to support himself and his sister in the future.

There are only a few ways out for the children in Jishantang.

Girls who are good-looking and pleasing to the eye will be picked up to be child brides, and other girls will make a living by themselves when they are old, or marry, or work part-time, no matter how bad they are, they can sell themselves into slavery and earn a living.

Boys who are too young to remember anything and have no physical problems will be adopted as sons, change their names and surnames, and inherit other clans. Those who are older and unwilling to change their surnames will probably go out to find part-time jobs when they are teenagers. Or as an apprentice to learn a craft, a very small number of them sell themselves.

In short, at Sun Shuanzi's age, no one would choose him as his heir, and Sun Hehua also escaped the fate of being picked as a child bride because of his older brother standing in front of him. The siblings lived a comfortable life for several years.

But the good times don't last long, the old people around them keep dying, and the children keep disappearing, what's more, even the people who take care of them are changing very frequently.

The steward of Jishantang is a black and thin old man. He is paid by the government and still has cash in hand. He lives a good life. He doesn't show up twice a year. Every specific matter is handled by a day laborer.

Due to the low salary of the part-time workers hired, only the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled are willing to work. There is no need for such slow-moving people elsewhere, but Jishantang does not matter, as long as they can cook the food well.

Therefore, in the first few years when Sun Shuanzi came to Jishantang, the servant was always an old mother surnamed Qi.

Qi's mother was born in a pitiful life, widowed in middle age, and her only son couldn't bear the poverty of the family. He went to the frontier to join the army in an attempt to earn a family business. After 20 years of no news, he might have died on the battlefield long ago, and even his bones were turned into ashes. .

The clan didn't feel sorry for her as a lonely old man, living a difficult life, took back the family's fields, and didn't even return her dowry, drove her away naked, and left her to fend for herself.

When I was old enough, I could still find some laundry jobs. When I was older, my hands hurt, my back hurt, and I couldn't wash my clothes anymore, so I had to come to Jishantang to work. I thought that when I was old, I would live here and wait to die. A place to collect corpses.

So her sudden departure was beyond everyone's expectation.But Jishantang was old and young, and no one had the ability to find her. The manager didn't explain, and after a while, a helper was changed, and life continued as usual.

This was the first one to leave Jishantang. In the following year, Jishantang changed like a revolving door, changing more than a dozen helpers, and even the flow of old people and children was much faster than before.

For many elderly people, entering the Jishantang means waiting for death. Although there is no interest in life, it is better to have a stable life, which is much better than being precarious with no one to support them outside.

Those who can come in will basically not think about going out unless they die. There is no family property outside, no relatives, and no worries.

Every year someone dies of old age, Jishantang doesn't know how to organize the funeral, a mat of grass is swept away, and sent to Yizhuang, who is responsible for the burial, and there will be no such person in the world since then.

Sun Shuanzi's intermittent narration was pointless, and the three of Jiang's father and son were in a daze. Isn't this the daily life of Jishantang?
Poverty is the original sin. It is a false proposition for the elderly in poor families to want to enjoy their old age comfortably. The children themselves are exhausted, so how can they have the time, energy and money to care for the elderly? The Jishantang did not let the elderly die of cold and hunger. What is the crime? ?
Could it be that Sun Shuanzi thinks that everyone in this world should live forever?Orphans are so childish!
No, no.Sun Shuanzi knew that none of the three believed him, so he thought he was talking nonsense.

How can we explain the problem?
The old man who has the closest relationship with Sun Shuanzi is Old Sun Tou.

Because of the same surname, it is impossible to look up the genealogy. 500 years ago, it was considered a family. The old Suntou showed more love to Sun Shuanzi's brothers and sisters. An adult, but accidentally drowned in the Jun River.

His family has two acres of Susukida, so he can live frugally by himself, and he has a nephew, so he can take care of his old age, so he won't be reduced to Jishantang.

But man's calculation is not as good as heaven's calculation, when he is getting old and unable to farm, the two acres of Susukina are occupied by his nephew, but he will not give him a ration of rations.

Unable to survive, he simply tore his face, sold the land, and took the money to live in Jishantang.

He was one of the elders who was financially well-to-do, and he bought some fine grains from time to time to improve everyone's food, and Sun Shuan'er benefited a lot from this.

The grandfather and grandson really have a sense of sympathy for each other, and they have lived a warm life for two years.

In the middle of March this year, Old Sun passed away after suffering the first bout of wind and cold. Sun Shuanzi cried heartbreakingly and sent away the person who was most like his own grandfather.

He secretly took his younger sister out to offer sacrifices, he had already inquired about where the old grandson would be buried, and when he got there, he almost died of fright on the spot!

(End of this chapter)