我家住在黄河滩头大堤上,因地势高且临河,排灌方便,土质是淤沙两合土,田里的庄稼既不怕旱也不怕涝,每年收成较好。而大堤之下方圆几十里却是盐碱地,种旱作物长势不好,收成自然不行。遇到灾年,颗粒无收是常事。每年青黄不接的春天,大堤下的衣衫褴褛、面黄肌瘦的男女老少胳膊上挎着篮子,或拎着布口袋,手拿一只碗或茶缸子,蜂拥而至来到我们的村庄讨饭。有些老人搀扶着孩子,有些老人拄着拐杖, My family lives in the Yellow River beach head embankment, because of the high terrain and Linhe, drainage and irrigation convenience, the soil is silty sand two crops, the fields of crops neither fear neither drought nor waterlogging, better harvest each year. The embankment under the radius of a few dozen but it is saline-alkali, poor crop growth is poor, naturally not harvest. Encounter disaster years, crop failure is common. Each year, young and old, the ragged, yellow-skinned men, women and children under the embankment are carrying their baskets on their arm and arm, carrying cloth pouches or holding a bowl or tea-cup in their hands and flocking to our village for rice. Some elderly people help children, some elderly people on crutches,