(PS: Regarding Wang Geng's arrest, some friends said that they went to discuss the war with the military attache in China, instead of visiting his ex-wife Lu Xiaoman.) Lao Wang couldn't figure out which statement was true, but no matter what the truth was, Wang Geng should not have carried military materials into the public concession with him, he was simply dizzy. ）

The road from Zhou's house to the city is still under construction, and Zhou Hexuan and his family basically rely on boats to go out.

In the golden autumn of October, the drought continues.

In the morning, the Xiaojiang boat departs from the private pier and sails down the river to Chaotianmen Pier.

Zhou Lingjun and Zhou Weilie, sisters and brothers, stood at the bow of the boat with a small schoolbag on their backs, enjoying the coolness brought by the river breeze.

At this time, there were no very good primary schools in Chongqing, so Zhou Hexuan could only send them to the first public primary school, at least it was more formal, and the teachers' salaries were directly allocated from the sugar tax in Chongqing.

"Daddy, look!" Xiao Lingjun pointed to the river in the distance.

Zhou Hexuan raised his eyes and saw dozens or hundreds of victims floating in the river upstream. Dressed in rags, with sunken faces and protruding cheekbones, the victims drifted down the river with wooden planks and other vehicles.

In fact, the extent of the disaster in Chongqing is not large, and the reason why people starve to death every day is because too many people from other places have come to escape.

At this time, it was slightly better, but in winter it was even worse, with thousands of hungry people sleeping on both sides of the Yangtze River and Jialing River every day, and passing ships did not dare to dock at will.

At the end of 1936, there was a news report detailing the process of the hungry people robbing the boat. It was a small river ship transporting turnips, and hundreds of hungry people, dressed in single clothes, jumped into the icy water, swam to the center of the river and surrounded the freighter. The crew and the escorts did not dare to stop them at all, so they jumped off the ship and fled, and the hungry people climbed onto the boat and grabbed the radishes and ate them raw, and actually gnawed all the radishes on the ship on the spot. The bodies of the deceased were floating everywhere in the river.

Xiao Lingjun looked at it for a while and asked curiously, "Dad, are they practicing swimming?" ”

Zhou Hexuan gently patted his daughter's head and sighed: "They have nothing to eat, and they have no money to take a boat, so they can only venture to Chongqing to beg for a living." ”

"Then why didn't they eat?" Little Verlie was puzzled by this.

Zhou Hexuan patiently explained: "Because their hometown has suffered a disaster, God has not rained, and the grain in the field has not been harvested, so there is no food." ”

Xiao Lingjun pouted and complained: "God is so bad." ”

Little Verlie asked, "Dad, how can we keep everyone from going hungry?" ”

Zhou Hexuan said: "There are two ways, one is that the country does not fight, the society is stable and prosperous, and the government has the energy to provide disaster relief. Second, it is necessary to develop science and technology, build water conservancy projects, and increase grain output without looking at God's face. Do you want to see everyone live a good life and everyone eat? ”

"Yes!" The siblings nodded in unison.

Zhou Hexuan taught: "Then you should study hard, master knowledge skills, and only when you grow up can you help more people." ”

"Oh." Little Veret sighed, then quieted down and continued to observe the victims.

Xiao Lingjun looked like an adult, nodded solemnly and said, "Dad, I know, I will definitely study hard!" ”

In a blink of an eye, we arrived at Chaotianmen Wharf, which was heavily guarded and garrisoned at any time. This is to ensure the safety of the wharf, otherwise the merchant ships would not dare to dock at all, and the hungry people who are crazy are really terrible.

"Bang!"

A guard shot into the air, and his partner nervously shouted: "Don't come, if you dare to go to the pier, you will be shot!" It's just a few of you, don't come here, go quickly! ”

Some of the hungry people left in disappointment, while others lingered.

"Master Jun, you have pity on me, I haven't eaten for four days, and the baby is hungry and faint. Please enjoy a bite of food, I can eat it if I don't eat it, save my baby. A woman knelt and kowtowed, and beside her lay a child of four or five years old. The child's eyes were closed, his breathing was weak, and he was afraid that he was already very lucky.

In normal times, the guards might still have sympathy, but now they don't dare to care at all, and they don't dare to give alms if they have money or food. Otherwise, once the news spreads, it will inevitably attract more hungry people to the docks, and the consequences are unimaginable.

"Daddy......" Little Verlie tugged at his father's clothes, obviously trying to help.

Zhou Hexuan and those guards have the same opinion, they must not save people at Chaotianmen Wharf. He beckoned to one of the guards: "Come here!" ”

"Mr. Zhou, what's the matter?" The guards came running respectfully.

Zhou Hexuan commanded in a low voice: "Guard the Chaotianmen Wharf, you can't just rely on driving away." You go back and report to Commander Li, and ask him to prepare a boat to transport all the hungry people from Chaotianmen to Liujiatai, and I will urge the next batch of relief food to be delivered as soon as possible. ”

"Okay, I'll report it right away!" The guards stood up and saluted, and ran quickly to report the news.

Liujiatai is also a small wharf, and the city government has set up a soup kitchen there, and by the way, the first crematorium in Chongqing.

The relief grain purchased from the United States is still floating in the Pacific Ocean at this time, while the grain purchased from Lianghu and Jiangxi has already arrived in Chongqing in three batches with a total of 280 tons. But in the face of more and more hungry people, this food is a drop in the bucket, and it is impossible to even make all the victims die.

The affected people in the counties of eastern Sichuan are rushing to Chongqing in droves, and the roads and rivers along the road are littered with corpses. The most frightening thing is that the corpses are often mutilated and almost all of them have been gnawed by living people - the wild dogs have long been extinct.

Chongqing Mayor Li Hongkun was anxious all day long, and he no longer had the luxury of making any political achievements, but only hoped that Chongqing would not be made a big mess.

Zhou Hexuan, with his children and bodyguards, slowly walked up the stone road of the wharf, and the porters along the way greeted them one after another.

"Mr. Zhou, did you have breakfast?"

"Fairy Zhou, your old man personally sent the baby to study?"

"Immortal Zhou, how long will it take to get the next batch of grain?"

“……”

Obviously, Zhou Hexuan has become a big celebrity in Chongqing, and even the people in the market and the pawns of the peddlers can recognize him.

Even in the teahouses in Chongqing, there are people who add oil and vinegar to tell stories every day, and the painting style is often like this:

"Hey, you don't know. At three o'clock that night, Qin Fenlu, the captain of the anti-smuggling team, took Pan Donggua, a dog-legged dog, and without saying a word, he detained Zhou Shenxian's grain ship at Jiangtou. Which one is Zhou Shenxian? People are the emperor of Donghua......"

"What kind of immortal is Emperor Donghua?"

"Hey, you melon baby, even Emperor Donghua doesn't know. Which one of Liu Shenxian always knows? Liu Shenxian is a white crane immortal, and when he sees Zhou Shenxian, he has to shout uncle! Do you say Mr. Zhou is fierce? ”

"It's so fierce."

"Don't interrupt, listen to me slowly. In other words, Zhou Shenxian was sleeping with his mother-in-law in his arms at the head of the house, and suddenly he pinched his fingers and counted, and immediately calculated what was going on. I saw that Zhou Shenxian sacrificed a crane made of rune paper and blew at the paper crane, and the paper crane immediately flapped its wings to report to the garrison commander. Zhou Shenxian himself, waved his hand to summon an auspicious cloud, and arrived at Chaotianmen Pier in the blink of an eye! ”

"Immortal Zhou is amazing, why don't you let it rain on the Dragon King?"

"That's the matter of the immortals, I heard that the Dragon Lord is angry with the Jade Emperor, and there is no way to persuade him."

"What kind of anger is the Dragon King, if it doesn't rain on a good day, the Jade Emperor should remove him!"

"It has nothing to do with Mr. Zhou, huh...... Where did I just go? ”

"You said that Mr. Zhou set up auspicious clouds and arrived at Chaotianmen Wharf."

"That's right, when Zhou Shenxian arrived at Chaotianmen Wharf, he raised his hand and cast a fixing spell, and those anti-smuggling teams were immediately fixed. Zhou Shenxian shouted loudly, chanted a spell to beat the opposite side back to its original form, Qin Fenlu turned into a pig, and Pan Donggua became a dog. Zhou Shenxian said, Qin Fenlu, you are a melon batch, the pig demon has cultivated into a fine and came to Chongqing to harm the people, see that Lao Tzu will not accept you! With a bang, Zhou Shenxian hit a palm thunder, blowing Qin Fenlu's pig braincase to pieces! ”

"It's fierce, it's better than a machine gun."

"What is a machine gun? Zhou Shenxian's palm thunder planes can be blown up, and his old man bombed more than a dozen Japanese planes in Shanghai. ”

"Then why didn't he stay in the north to resist the Japanese?"

"There are experts in Japan, too. You must not have read the newspapers, last year Zhou Shenxian was invited by the British emperor to cast a spell, and Japan sent dozens of big monsters to kill Zhou Shenxian in Britain. The capital of England seems to be called London, when Mr. Zhou set up an altar in London to cast spells, and dozens of Japanese monsters flew over from the sea. It's thunder again, it's lightning again, and there are monsters that will breathe fire, surrounding Zhou Shenxian and attacking in groups. Zhou Shenxian's face did not change, and a palm thunder blasted over, directly blasting more than a dozen Japanese monsters into scum. Zhou Shenxian only made three moves, and dozens of Japanese monsters died, and the corpses of the monsters fell down and killed many British people. ”

“……”