Wake up（69）

 

69

 

Time gradually took away He Jiafu's youthful and frivolousness, and gradually let him settle down to be self-aware. There are thousands of prosperity, but the time flies; life is easy to grow old, and time is like an arrow. He Jiafu once thought that many things would be forgotten with the passage of time, but later found that it became clearer and clearer. During the three years of natural disasters, he was left in the vortex of time, wandering alone, having a nightmare.

When the years passed and everything disappeared, only the bloody smell lingering in the air during those days still lingered for a long time, making the past vivid.

During the three-year natural disaster, He Jiafu was expelled from the village by the local government because he was a disabled homeless man with missing legs. He was forced to leave Xinyang. He wandered around and went to various places in Anhui.

Studies have shown that the period of the Republic of China from the 1920s to the 1940s was a period of concentrated outbreaks of natural disasters in China for more than 700 years since the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Various droughts, floods, and locust plagues were extremely tragic. Quite a lot of people died of extreme poverty and starvation in the rural areas of China; and the first ten years after the founding of "New China" were extremely rare good years and good weather in more than 700 years, but unfortunately, the history of China and the world The most tragic man-made famine in the world.

Starvation is one of the most painful ways to die. In ancient China, there was a cruel execution by lingchi, which cut people to death with a single knife, that is, thousands of cuts. Starving to death is cutting the inside of the human body into pieces. This process is very cruel and painful. In the state of extreme hunger, the pain of hunger and the instinct of survival will drive him to search for all edible things by all means. At this time, animal nature overwhelms human nature, and all unimaginable fear phenomena occur.

In the Great Famine in ancient China, there is a record of "changing children and eating", but in the "cannibalism" of the Great Leap Forward, many of them ruthlessly killed their relatives to satisfy their hunger, and even smashed the bones and sucked the marrow to eat all the bone dregs. In some places, it is not uncommon for whole families to die and entire villages to die. Corpses that cannot be buried are scattered all over the wilderness fields. Full of bloody smell.

After He Jiafu escaped from Xinyang, he wandered to Bo County, Anhui Province.

He Jiafu said that the cruel phenomenon of "cannibalism" also occurred in Bo County, Anhui Province. Cannibalism in Bo County, Anhui Province includes "parents eating their children, sons eating their fathers, killing relatives and eating meat, and killing people and eating meat", etc., which are shocking.

At that time, a relative of Liang Zhiyuan, director of the Bo County Government Office, ate his dead son. As a result, two couples died, and five of the seven members of the family starved to death. According to Liang Zhiyuan, in Zhu Li’s family of Zhuzhai Village, Liu Jiang Brigade, Dayang Commune, Bo County, three of the four members of his family starved to death. He was so hungry that he gnawed a few pieces of meat on the dead daughter’s body, which caused diarrhea. Pull out a lot of rotten meat. The wife of Mr. Wang in Wanglou Village, southwest of the mud shop in Wuma Commune, Bo County, killed her teenage daughter and cooked it; Sun in Shaozhuang, southwest of Dingguo Temple, Dayang Commune, beat her own son to death and cooked her. There were 8 members of the family. Died successively. Two members of Zhang Han’s family in Zhangzhuang, Guantang Commune starved to death. There was only one emaciated daughter beside her. She beat her daughter to death and cooked her.

On March 3, 1960, Lu Mei, head of the life inspection team of the Boxian County Party Committee, reported to the higher authorities that 25 out of 40 households in Haozhuang Village, Weizhuang Commune, ate human flesh. Some eat other people's dead, some eat their own dead; some eat cooked, some eat raw; some eat dead bodies, and some kill and eat human flesh; of. Some farmers died at home, in order to prevent being picked up and eaten, they guarded the grave for many nights until the body rotted and stinks. Some died of starvation and were snatched before they could be buried. About 40% of people who eat human flesh die from diarrhea.

According to Liang Zhiyuan’s recollection, no one died of starvation in the rural areas of Bo County. Due to starvation and weakness, the dead could not be buried. Dead bodies could be seen everywhere on the roadside, in the fields, in the streets of market towns, at the entrance of cafeterias, and in school classrooms. In the spring of 1960, Xue Zhuyuan Village, Song Da Brigade, Shihe Commune, had no labor force to carry and bury the corpses, so they dragged the corpses to the ground with a truckload of corpses. The Gaofan production team of Shuanggou Commune threw many corpses into dry wells in the fields because they were unable to dig holes.

In October 1960, Liang Zhiyuan saw at the swelling "treatment point" in Yangzhuang, Jinan, Shibali Commune, there were 7 corpses buried shallowly on the river slope with their heads and feet exposed. Thousands of people in Bo County died of poisoning from eating weeds and mushrooms due to hunger. The family of Gao Sizeng, Dingshuangmiao Production Team of Wuma Commune, died of eating stinky hemp seeds. During the 1959 and 1960 harvest seasons, starving farmers were not uncommon for overeating and dying.

During 10 days from May 15th to 24th, 1960, in the Zaozhuang Production Team of the Beicao Brigade of Zhangji Commune, 10 people died from overeating green wheat and raw wheat.

In Wuwei County, Anhui Province, as soon as people heard that there was someone who had just died, people flocked to the new cemetery in groups, exhumed the corpses and ate them. In the wild, it is common to see corpses whose skin and flesh have been removed. Hu Dahai, who was the director of the county police station at the time, said: "The prisoners in the detention center, some women murdered their husbands, some sons murdered their fathers, some mothers murdered their sons, and all kinds of unethical things happened, but most of them were caused by hunger. .”

Wang Guanqun, the former director of the Public Security Bureau of Yingshang County, Anhui Province, recalled in an article that Gao Shiying, a female commune member of Honghaizi Village, Linguai Township, in the county, strangled her 6-year-old daughter to death in January 1960 and then boiled the meat. Sentenced to death for homicide. Shang Zhenhua, the former secretary of the Bo County Court, recalled a case of child-eating that he handled. Zhang, a farmer in Diaotai Village of Dayang Commune, ate her own dead child and then killed a neighbor’s child. She died after the incident. in prison.

"Thirty Years in the Countryside" records: In the spring of 1960 alone in Fengyang County, Anhui Province, there were "63 cruel incidents of cannibalism." One couple strangled their own 8-year-old boy Xiaoqing to death and cooked them.

According to Wang Tizhong, a retired cadre of the Agricultural Bank of Bo County, Anhui Province, recalled that in 1960, cannibalism became common in Wanglou Village, southwest of Nidian, Wuma Commune, his hometown. Once, Wang’s ex-wife in the village was caught by the cadres as soon as she put cooked human flesh into a basin. , Send people and human flesh together to the venue for criticism. The people who participated in the meeting rushed forward when they smelled the delicious smell of meat. They robbed each other and became a mess.

Yin Shusheng, the former executive deputy director of the Anhui Provincial Public Security Department, disclosed in a document that on April 23, 1961, the Provincial Public Security Department submitted a "Report on the Occurrence of Special Cases" to the Anhui Provincial Party Committee. The report stated: "Since 1959, , a total of 1,289 cases ("special cases" of cannibalism) occurred, including 302 cases in 9 counties of Fuyang Special Area, 721 cases in 15 counties of Bengbu Special Area, 55 cases in 3 counties of Wuhu Special Area... 3 counties in Hefei City 201. The time of occurrence was mostly in the winter of 1959 and the spring of 1960... In terms of the nature and circumstances of the crimes, according to the investigation of 1144 cases, 36 cases were sold to others for food, and the remaining 1108 cases were kept for their own use. food."

Some people say, don't sigh for the time that has passed away, but face the time that wants to slip away in a hurry. Use time when you have time, because time is fleeting. Black hair doesn't know how to study early, but Bai Shoufang regrets studying late. To save time means to make a person's limited life more effective, which means prolonging a person's life.

However, some people forget that in Chinese society, time cannot be controlled by oneself in many cases. The water flows eastward, the leaves fall one after another, and the passing years quietly and slowly fade away in the bloody time. Three years of famine, year after year, tossed this society.

He Jiafu's messy thoughts made Shi Hao, who couldn't catch it, mercilessly slip through the gap between his fingers. He struggled to escape from the death line during the years of wandering, but he didn't know where he was ahead?