Save the Bachelor of Heaven

On the first day of the first lunar month in the year 28, a disaster happened in Bailuyuan.

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

As the saying goes, "Adultery breeds murder, gambling breeds thieves." It is absolutely true.

Bai Xiaowen was still teaching in the school, so he could do some training.

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

But now that there is a famine and people don't have enough to eat, who would want to go to school anymore.

In addition, due to the famine, food prices soared, and 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 his house and land.

After all his money was spent, the little widow immediately turned her back on him.

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

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

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

But when he spent all his money, couldn't get food in the village, and had to eat the food distributed by the little widow, he naturally stopped working.

We share wealth and prosperity, and we share hardships.

The little widow hooked up with him in the first place, all because of Lu Zilin's instructions, just for profit.

Use benefits to make friends, and when benefits are exhausted, they will scatter.

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

Under such circumstances, the little widow naturally did not want to serve him, so she drove him out in the winter.

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

In addition, he had spent all his money on the little widow, and now he had no money in his pocket. It was freezing outside now. He had no clothes on his body and no food in his belly. He would freeze to death within two days of going out.

Therefore, his anger arose in his heart and his hatred grew in his courage. In a fit of anger, he raised his kitchen knife and chopped the little widow into pieces.

…

Bai Xiaowen had just finished killing the little widow and happened to catch up with Sang Laoba to deliver food to her.

Seeing the little widow lying on the ground with a bloody sound, Bai Xiaowen held a kitchen knife with a fierce look on his face and squatted there to chop it wildly. Sang Laoba was so frightened that he peed on the spot and ran out frantically. While running, he shouted "kill me".

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 clan members out of the village to search, they finally saw Bai Xiaowen's body that had been hollowed out by wild wolves.

It turns out that wild wolves have been overpopulating the plains since last year. If the villagers go out, they always do so in small groups, and they have to carry a stick in their hand.

But now that it's freezing cold and there's nothing to eat, those wild wolves have long gone crazy with hunger.

When they saw Bai Xiaowen leaving the village alone, they immediately surrounded him.

Bai Xiaowen was a weak scholar. He was too lazy to do farm work and had no strength at all. How could he deal with a hungry and anxious wolf?

Therefore, after a few struggles, the wolf bit off his neck and then even took out his intestines.

Bai Xiaowen died so tragically that all the young and old men in the village were in mourning.

Xiang Nan also sighed.

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

But he failed to control his desire and allowed himself to degenerate into a rogue and a gangster. He lost his wealth, reputation, dignity, and self, and became a beast who only knows about pleasure.

Now being buried in a wolf's mouth can be regarded as retribution.

Bai Xiaowen's body was then hastily buried. No funeral was held, and a coffin was not even purchased. It was wrapped in a straw mat and buried in a wasteland. It was not buried in the Bai family cemetery.

According to Bai Jiaxuan, he had expelled Bai Xiaowen from the Bai family. Without him as his son, Bai Xiaowen would not have the right to be buried in the Bai family cemetery.

On the other hand, the little widow was still buried in her husband's grave. She was born in the same quilt and died in the same hole.

…

The deaths of Bai Xiaowen and the little widow did not cause too many ripples in the original world.

In these famine years, many people die every day, and dead people are no longer news.

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

Everyone is just waiting to see when they die.

Time passed by, and in May, the imperial court finally began to provide disaster relief. Porridge sheds were opened in various support stations, and porridge was distributed every day.

However, I heard from people who came back that the rice porridge was so clean that you could almost see people.

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

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

"When will this day come to an end?"

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

"What evil has this done? How many deaths will it take to stop?"

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

…

But compared with the victims who were waiting for food, the officials and wealthy businessmen in the city worked together to make a fortune from the famine.

They kept all the disaster relief food in their hands and did not distribute it to the people. Instead, they sold it at a high price. A bucket of rice costs ten yuan, squeezing out the last life-saving money from the people.

In order to survive, ordinary people had no choice but to sell their property. Fields, houses, livestock, and even sons, daughters, and wives were sold.

Those profiteers took advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune, earning millions from human trafficking alone.

It is recorded in Edgar Snow's "A Journey to the West" that "the Loess Plateau, which has been dry and rainless for a long time, is completely silent. The leaves have been picked off and the bark of the trees has been stripped clean.

Half-naked girls who were suffering from famine and lacked food and clothing were loaded into livestock trucks and transported to brothels in Hujiang. The corpses on the roadside were all skinny and skinny, and those with a little bit of flesh were immediately devoured by other animals. "

The beastly deeds of these corrupt officials and profiteers were eventually exposed by newspapers, causing an uproar in society.

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

Although she was still studying at a normal school in the provincial capital, she had secretly followed Lu Zhaopeng and joined the underground party. It was she who organized students to take to the streets and contacted the news media to report these scandals.

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

The porridge in the porridge shed is no longer so misleading, and several human traffickers have been caught. Several profiteers who hoarded grain and officials who withheld relief grain were punished. Everything seems to be going for the better.

But Xiang Nan knew that this was just perfunctory.

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

And those officials were just small characters with no background and no status, and the amount of grain they withheld was only a few bushels of grain. There is no comparison with those corrupt officials who embezzled hundreds or thousands of disaster relief grains.

It can be seen from this that the so-called changes are just a show.