Rising: Ten Thousand Years Chapter 382: : Lingpeng Village

Lingpeng Village.

One hundred miles to the west of the county town of Xiping County.

The entire village is about two square kilometers in size, and there are only twenty families living there. Twenty families all make a living by herding sheep.

When I got here, the local village security came out to greet me. It was the first time I saw cars coming from a big city, and so many cars came at once, so scared that the village security trembled and didn't know what to say.

The crowd surrounded the two young people like stars and the moon. Wherever the two young people went, the guards with live ammunition followed them.

But the village guard saw the princess of Xiping County and the magistrate of this county from the end of the crowd.

He vaguely knew the identities of these two people.

One should be Xun Shifei, the Prime Minister of the country.

The other is self-evident, and that is Li Zhen, the dean of the Kyushu Academy of Sciences.

Thinking of this, the village security took a deep breath, not even daring to take a breath.

A moment later, Li Zhen waved: "You come."

Cunbao's legs trembled like sifting chaff, and he almost fell down a few times. He walked up to Li Zhen and said, "Ah..."

Li Zhen smiled, pointed to Lingpeng Village and asked, "What industry does the village have?"

"Ah? What industry? Industry?"

The village security guard was bewildered.

At this time, Princess Qin of Xiping County quickly scolded: "Dean Li asked you, what do the people in Lingpeng Village do for a living? How do they make money?"

The village guard thought for a long time, and said, "I... this..."

Li Zhen frowned: "Is there anything inconvenient to say?"

"They, this...that. Herding sheep."

"Herding sheep?"

Li Zhen murmured, looked at the sun, then looked at the bare ground: "It's still early. Why didn't I see the flock of sheep along the way? There isn't even sheep droppings on the ground."

The village guard said, "It's a sheep herding, it's a sheep herding."

"No crops?"

"Planting... also planting, it is planted by my family."

Li Zhen saw that the village guard was hesitating, unable to make a point, and his tone became a little cold: "Call for someone who can speak clearly."

Hearing the words, Princess Qin trembled, and hurriedly scolded: "I call you to find someone who can speak sharply. Hurry up."

The village security guard trembled and almost cried: "I... I am agile. I am the village security guard, and I am agile. Others in the village are uneducated, let alone unsophisticated."

Li Zhen frowned: "Let me ask you, are there no crops grown in the village?"

"I planted it. I said that only my family planted it."

"Why is it that only your family grows it? Others can't support it?"

Li Zhen was a little angry and spoke ironically.

Unexpectedly, the village security nodded seriously: "Yes."

As soon as this remark was made, the surroundings were quiet enough, Xun Shifei quickly asked, "What's the situation with you? What do you mean that only your family grows?"

The village security looked at the group of officials with a worried face, and said with a guilty conscience: "I don't want to leave."

"What is this called? What is reluctance?"

"Rice seeds need money."

"What do you mean, how much does the rice seed cost?"

"In addition to rice seeds, cattle also need money. Plowing the land requires money. There is also pest control, drought and flood protection, all of which cost money."

Li Zhen was a little angry: "What kind of thinking are you thinking? Isn't farming the land against the dryness of the sky and the dryness of the earth? You have to overcome these things to grow crops. You need money for this, and money for that, right? Just throw the seed in the ground and just wait, it will grow?"

The village security guard quickly waved his hand: "No, no. I mean, there are many old people in the village. The resources in the whole village are only enough for my family to farm the land, and the others are herding sheep."

"What resources do you need for farming? Isn't your land unable to grow crops?"

The village security is full of grievances. He is not well-educated, and he can't speak well: "I can only plow two acres of land by myself."

Everyone frowned slightly, asking someone to plow the land? This is treating people like cattle. But it's normal. Some people don't have cattle, so they do rely on people to plow the land.

Li Zhen asked again: "What about the other family? You must be fifty years old, right? You can plow the land, but the other family can't?"

"No. There are many old people in our village. There are many children."

Li Zhen was stunned: "How many old people? How many are there?"

"All... all, except for the children, I am the youngest in our village. There are thirty-two old people in our village, four children, including me, there are thirty-seven people in the whole village."

"What about young people? What about labor?"

"Dead."

Murabao said calmly.

The expressions of the surrounding people froze, and the atmosphere turned cold in vain.

Li Zhen felt that the matter was not simple, and asked in a concentrated voice: "Why did you die? All the young people in the village died?"

The village security nodded: "It's dead."

"War?"

"No."

"How did you die if you didn't fight?"

There was a hint of indifference in the village security's eyes: "Life is better in the city, so one by one went out to make a living, leaving behind the children and the elderly and never came back. It has been many years. The year before last, someone I came back with a message, saying that some of them died. Then, we will all die."

"How did the person with the letter say he died?"

"Just say dead."

Li Zhen fell silent.

But everyone understood what the village guard said in their hearts. There was no trace of sadness, but indifference. Therefore, this kind of 'death' should not really be dead. It's that he will never come back again, and if he doesn't come back, he will die.

"Let's go around the village. If you are fine, stay where you are, and don't disturb others."

"Yes!"

Instantly, hundreds of people stayed in place.

Only three or five senior officials from Jincheng County and the Princess of Xiping County followed up. Including the guards, a total of ten or twenty people entered the village.

As soon as I entered Lingpeng Village, I clearly felt the difference between this village and other villages. Quiet, dead quiet.

This doesn't look like a village on the plain at all, it's like a ghost town.

On the yellow land in the distance, three children were dressed in shabby adult clothes, their faces covered with snot and saliva, catching bugs on the ground.

Seeing people coming from the village, the children were extremely indifferent, just watching calmly, with a look of expectation flashing in their eyes from time to time, or... a look of fear?

Very complicated eyes.

Xun Shifei waved at a six-year-old doll: "Come."

The doll took a look at Xun Shifei, got up and ran with a whimper~IndoMTL.com~Cunbao stepped forward and explained: "Erwazi is afraid of outsiders."

"Why are you afraid?"

"He thought it was people from outside to collect the sheep. They all had feelings for the sheep they raised, and they didn't understand the problems of life. So they were afraid that outsiders would come into the village and take the sheep away."

"Then why aren't these two afraid?"

"These are two brothers. The sheep in their family have been sold last year."

Li Zhen frowned again: "I sold it last year? I sold it last year, so what about this year?"

"Generally, one male and one female are kept for breeding, but last year the grandfather of the two brothers went to the mountain to set up rabbits at night, and was shot by someone who didn't know where hunting at night as a wild boar. After shooting an arrow, it was found that it was a person I ran away overnight. Then I invited a barefoot doctor from the county, treated his wounds, saved his life, and sold the sheep that were kept for breeding."

Xun Shifei was furious: "Did that man get caught? How can it be unreasonable to shoot an arrow at a man like a wild boar? What is this government doing? This is already breaking the law, why don't you arrest him?"

The village guard said with a bitter face: "I have reported to the official. But his grandfather was shot by an arrow and he didn't know where it was shot, so his mind was a little confused. He just remembered that after being shot by an arrow, he heard someone say, 'I thought it was Wild boar and ran away. I don’t know anything else, I don’t know what it looks like, so I can’t catch it.”

Xun Shifei sighed, touched from his bosom for a while, then turned around and asked, "Is there any sugar?"

Sugar...

The few officials behind touched their bodies and ran back. Running outside the village, he hurriedly shouted: "Sugar, sugar, who has sugar?"

A moment later, someone delivered the candy to Xun Shifei.

Xun Shifei walked up to the two brothers with candy, and said with a smile, "Want to eat?"

(End of this chapter)