For the parents of farmer Jia Zhu, solving the problem of food, clothing, housing and transportation is the biggest problem. They have no other way to make money, no business and no land. They can only earn wages in the landlord's house. At ordinary times, trying our best is just to maintain food and clothing.
Little Zhu Yuanzhang should be protected, but in order to survive, he herded cattle for the landlord Liu De a long time ago. Many great men in history have been determined since childhood, but Zhu Yuanzhang is different. Growing up, his only wish was to eat enough.
Yuan Shundi is four years old (1344) and Zhu Yuanzhang is sixteen, right? Have a good meal? At that time. This year made him feel famine and disaster.
Since the spring, drought and locust plague have ravaged Haozhou, Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown.
At that time, the society was corrupt, and the earthquake relief materials of the imperial court could not be sent to the local government. In less than half a month, Zhu Yuanzhang's father, brother, nephew and mother died one after another.
There are only Zhu Yuanzhang and his second brother at home. The family has no money to buy coffins and no land to bury their families.
Down and out, Zhu Yuanzhang needs to beg Liu De, the landlord, in the hope that Liu De can give his family a small cemetery.
Fortunately, the kind neighbor Liu Jizu gave them a cemetery. In this way, the two brothers found some rags to wrap the body and buried the grass and grass in the Liu family's field. The tragic disaster, the ruthlessness of the rich and the compassion of the poor all left a deep imprint on the young Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, making his young mind cold, and the seeds of hostility towards corrupt officials and the rich were deeply buried in his values.
Since then, in order to survive, Zhu Yuanzhang and his sister-in-law, second brother and nephew separated and started their own escape lives.
Zhu Yuanzhang worked as a monk in a temple in Huang Jue. At first, Zhu Yuanzhang thought that the monks in the temple were all kind-hearted people, but once they entered, they were no different from the landlord Liu De.
In order to make a living, Zhu Yuanzhang had to put up with all this. However, due to the severe famine, the food in the temple could not be eaten after a while. Zhu Yuanzhang has no dignity for Zhu Yuanzhang, but he must open the door with dignity from his instinct of pursuing life. Every door longs for food behind it.