Zhang Leyi said in a serious tone: "But I heard that the Northeast is very cold, and the temperature at night in summer is also very low. What if we go out at night?"
"Buy it when it's cold, we have money." Zhou Hexuan joked.
"Not serious." Zhang Leyi rolled her eyes at him and put her windbreaker back on.
It is now early August, and they are about to leave for Fengtian to attend the opening ceremony of Fengyong University.
Zhang Leyi was wearing a floral dress. Her eyebrows were as dark as black, her eyes were like autumn water, and her hair was pulled back. She had a ladylike temperament. She walked into the station carrying a handbag and immediately attracted the attention of many men.
There is no way, Zhang Leyi's breasts are bigger than Meng Xiaodong's.
Nowadays, women in the north do not open their breasts. Wherever Zhang Leyi goes, she stands out from the crowd, shocking the men in Tianjin to the point where their eyes bulge.
"It's unsightly, it's unsightly!" An old scholar on crutches shook his head repeatedly.
Zhang Leyi was surrounded by people and couldn't help but blush, and asked in a low voice: "Should I tie my chest too?"
"What are you tying? Let them see." Zhou Hexuan didn't care.
Zhang Leyi smiled and said: "Hehe, I was worried that you would be jealous."
The two took the Sun brothers into the carriage. They bought first-class tickets and even had a separate toilet. They could eat in the high-end dining car or have food delivered to their door by the flight attendants.
"Dirty~"
The train gradually left the station, and after traveling for about a few hundred meters, a large crowd of people suddenly appeared on both sides of the railway.
Those people were in ragged clothes, unkempt, and all of them were hungry and emaciated. But at this moment, they turned into athletes and ran towards the train desperately.
"San'er, come up quickly!"
"Mother, mother, where are you?"
"Ah, my legs!"
"Don't pull, let go!"
"My son, you died miserably!"
"..."
There were random shouts from all around. The young and strong climbed onto the train quickly, but the old, weak, sick and disabled were helpless. Some people were squeezed out after climbing halfway. Those who were lucky only suffered injuries from falling, while those who were unlucky were directly run over by the wheels.
broken.
There were also those who had been separated from their relatives, squatting in twos and threes beside the road, wailing and crying helplessly.
"ah!"
Zhang Leyi exclaimed.
However, someone climbed up outside their car window and climbed up in an extremely dangerous manner. Soon the person's upper body climbed to the roof of the car, and only two feet could be seen kicking around at the window.
One person climbed up, and then the next. Occasionally, people who climbed on the roof would reach out to help, and within a short time, the top of the train was packed with people.
Zhang Leyi asked in panic: "How come there are so many people climbing on the train?"
Zhou Hexuan said with a solemn expression: "They are all victims of the disaster in Guandong."
Heavy rains caused disasters in Shandong at the beginning of the year, followed by severe drought in the summer, followed by locust swarms, interspersed with various wind disasters and rain disasters. The summer wheat and autumn crops were undoubtedly wiped out, and the number of victims reached more than 10 million. The hardest-hit areas had no harvests and starved to death.
Along the way, in places with more serious disasters, "the grass roots have been eaten away and the human habitation has been cut off."
Zhou Hexuan still remembers the report of "Ta Kung Pao": "Farmers in the Shandong disaster area ate more rags, cotton, and leather, or committed suicide and starved to death. Five copper coins can buy a girl."
Five copper coins can buy a woman, five copper coins!
Even if it is a large copper coin of 20 cents, five copper coins are only more than 3 cents, which is only enough to buy a newspaper.
They say life is cheap in troubled times, but now that a disaster has struck, human life is only worth the price of a newspaper.
Nowadays, major newspapers in the north are reporting on the disaster situation in Shandong and Hebei, with Shandong being the most miserable.
Even foreign newspapers joined in, reporting as follows: "The number of refugees awaiting rescue in Shandong Province is comparable to that of refugees in Europe after the war. According to a rough survey, the number of the most needy victims in Shandong totals more than 10 million.
They account for about a quarter of the population in the province... If large-scale relief is not available, there will inevitably be two to three million people who will starve to death."
A foreign reporter went deep into the disaster area and described the famine like this: "The suffering of the victims is shocking. People in the refugee camps are commonly infected with diseases, such as measles, chickenpox, pneumonia, and scarlet fever. Many people died in the streets and alleys, and their bodies were found everywhere.
Even after being exposed for many days, there was no way to cover it up..."
And what about Zhang Zongchang, the governor of Shandong?
He had no intention of providing disaster relief.
When Zhang Zongchang returned to Shandong from the front line, New York Times reporter Hallet Abban, who had lived in China for more than 20 years, immediately visited him, hoping to discuss disaster relief matters.
Zhang Zongchang entertained Hallett with good wine and good food. Hallett described the dinner like this: “The dinner was filled with priceless delicacies from mountains and seas, plus French champagne and high-end brandy. It was so rich that it was sinful... He (Zhang Zongchang) showed off to me with great ambition.
A set of Western tableware custom-made from Belgium can accommodate forty people dining at the same time. Each piece of tableware, including the coffee cup, is made of cut glass. He boasted that the price of the complete set of tableware is $55,000."
Hallett wrote in a report to the New York Times headquarters: "The problem in Shandong is corruption and is directly caused by the plundering of Shandong governor Zhang Zongchang. Using American money to relieve the famine in Shandong is tantamount to funding this
Villain. If the disaster is not saved, the people of Shandong will probably rise up and drive him away."
The New York Times originally planned to raise millions of dollars in donations to help Shandong disaster relief, but after Hallett's report was sent back, the United States immediately gave up its fundraising plan.
As Hallett said, "If the disaster is not saved, the people of Shandong are likely to rise up and drive him (Zhang Zongchang) away." Since the famine, Red Spear Clubs all over Shandong have revolted, not only resisting rent and donations, but also
Attack the government and evil gentry.
Naturally, our party is among them. Our party took advantage of the famine to develop many early-stage armed forces in Shandong. Some troops even survived until the Anti-Japanese War and became the backbone of the anti-Japanese force behind enemy lines. Except for the Northeast, Shandong's anti-Japanese war behind enemy lines was the most brutal.
There were not only uprisings in Shandong, but also countless bandits who robbed homes and homes. Some places even became a world of bandits, and wealthy people took refuge in Qingdao.
Zhang Zongchang didn't care about this, and continued to impose heavy taxes, and even transferred troops from the front line to suppress the uprising. Some soldiers became jealous and simply turned into bandits. They even robbed the rations of ordinary victims, making the situation even more serious.
Zhou Hexuan was originally excited to go to the Northeast, but now he lost all interest and fell asleep on his bunk all day long.
When she woke up in the morning, Zhang Leyi opened the curtains of her car and said, "We're almost there... Oh my God! Brother Zhou, look quickly."
Zhou Hexuan lay behind the window and looked out, only to see several corpses lying on the road from time to time along the railway. These people all came to Guandong, but they died of illness and starvation on the way, and some were not even dead.
Struggling hard on the ground, staring helplessly at the sky with wide eyes.
"Fuck Zhang Zongchang!" Zhou Hexuan couldn't help but swear.