Chapter 19 Chapter Nineteen

When the long and sweltering autumn finally exhausted the heat of the sun and the cold wind began to sweep across the sky, the hideous teeth of the hungry monster began to be exposed.At first, it was just a report from a few brigades of Liuzhen Commune that the food stock in the public canteen was running out, and I hoped the superiors would solve it.At this time, although Huaibao was a little flustered, he knew that the consequences of high expropriation began to be exposed after exaggeration, but he was not in a hurry. After all, the area was small and the number of people was not large. More than 30,000 catties of wheat and corn were transferred.But not long after the first heavy snow buried the ground, the situation became serious. All the canteens in the entire Liuzhen Commune were out of food, and emergency calls came one after another.At this time, it was already very difficult to allocate grain from other communes in the county, because although the grain output of other communes in summer and autumn was not as large as that of Liuzhen Commune, they were also exaggerated. many.what to do?Reach out to your superiors for food?How to open your mouth?There is no food to eat in the year of great harvest, how to justify it?Open the treasury for relief?Who has the guts?

Huaibao, who is the head of a county, really panicked at this moment!On the one hand, he ordered other communes that still had a small amount of food to distribute food for emergency, and on the other hand, he notified his subordinates by phone, trying his best to find something to eat.Grinding elm bark can be used to make paste soup; grinding wheat bran can be used to make steamed buns; cowhide and pig skin can be eaten after being dehaired and boiled in boiling water... All conceivable methods were notified to the bottom by phone. When the sun began to heat up after a winter's rest, and green grass appeared in disorder on the ground, the hungry monster revealed its terrifying figure, and the food shortage throughout the county began.All the canteens in the county had run out of food, and people relied on bark and wild vegetables to survive. A large number of people began to swell, and some elderly men in some production teams in Liuzhen Commune began to die of starvation.

At this time, Huaibao has a heavy burden to know the county magistrate, what should I do?He couldn't sleep, couldn't eat, and felt a panic of not knowing what to do.Only by reporting the situation to the superiors, and then concealing it, the consequences will be even more disastrous.He found out the relationship between the name and reality of the county party secretary, concepts or names, and facts and realities.Confucius went into politics, and the two sighed and discussed, and finally decided to report the famine situation to the prefecture, and asked the superiors to allocate relief food.But when the call to the prefectural administrative office was hung up, Huaibao rubbed his hot face and was about to speak when the secretary-general of the administrative office who did not answer the phone spoke first: County Magistrate Liao, I was just looking for you. Seven counties in the whole region have experienced a food shortage. We are going to transfer 100,000 catties of grain from your county to help them... Oh my god... Huaibao groaned before he finished listening to the other party. After hesitating, he told the situation of the county in one breath. After speaking, there was a long silence on the other end of the phone. After a long time, the other party said: "Okay, I will report to the leader immediately, but let me tell you first. Don't have too much hope for the grain allocation from other places, this food shortage is nationwide...

National?How can it be national?He returned home in a daze, and saw his wife, Jin Berry, picking freshly steamed snow-white steamed buns from the basket to the bamboo sieve. Fortunately, there was no shortage of food at home, thanks to the office director of the county government. One day not long after the beginning of winter, someone delivered ten bags of flour. At that time, Huaibao thought it would be troublesome to keep so much flour. Unexpectedly, this was a kind of foresight.Come and try it!Jin Berry handed him a sieve full of snow-white things due to her belly of several months of pregnancy. He glanced outside the door in panic, then took the sieve and walked quickly to the inner room. After entering the inner room, he turned to face Jinberry confessed.From now on, all meals will be in the bedroom, don't take them outside, understand?Jin Berry was taken aback for a moment, then nodded...

In the middle of the night that night, the special area called to inform: there is no way to allocate a large amount of relief food, you can first transfer 200,000 catties of food from the county's national treasury to relieve the emergency.At the same time, warn: strengthen the defense of the national grain depot, and strictly prevent the occurrence of grain grabbing incidents! Two hundred thousand catties of grain is a drop in the bucket for a county with a population of 550,000. What can it do?However, seven days later, various communes called one after another to report that people had started to die, and most of the dead were men in their prime.A positive critique after half a month, not a political economy or historicism.In Hungary, the head of the Liuzhen Commune called his office. As soon as he picked up the receiver, the panicked voice fell on the table: County Magistrate Liao, this morning, on the four streets of Liuzhen, we found Eleven male corpses and five female corpses died of starvation. What should we do if we die in such a way?Come up with a solution! ...

Huaibao pinched the words for a long time, until the other party had no voice and continued to pinch.His gaze passed through the opposite wall and saw Liuzhen clearly, he saw the streets of Liuzhen he was familiar with, and he saw corpses lying horizontally one after another. A large amount of water mist filled his eyes, and the water mist quickly condensed. Beaded...