The Wind Flame Kingdom is a permanently neutral kingdom with a population of 17 million, located in the center of the continent, although the country is not strong, but as a buffer zone between various powers, its status is naturally crucial.

The country is very poor, more than 95 percent of the land in the country is desert, crops and the like cannot be cultivated at all, and the country's biggest source of tax revenue is naturally the customs duties paid by merchants from the East and the West when they pass through it.

The old and weak county, located in the east of the Fenglie Kingdom, is not a big county, and it is estimated that there are more than 1,000 people, all of whom are old and weak women and children, and the county cannot find ten old men who are in the prime of life.

Three-year-old Wang Yan was lying on the roof, and at this time he only felt that his back seemed to be attached to the fire kang in the northeast, and after a while, he was so hot and sticky, and his whole body was so unhappy from the inside out.

There was a sound of wind all around, with the sun on his head, looking at the clear sky in the sky.

Suddenly, Wang Yan only felt that he was suddenly shocked and palpitated, looking at his expression as if he had experienced something terrifying, his face was red with sweat, his eyes were round, his body shrank suddenly, and it took a while to ease up.

It seems that it is too much sun.

As early as the morning, Wang Yan saw clouds drifting in the distance, and it seemed that the rain in the clouds was not small, so he lay on the roof and waited for the rain. In the old and weak village, where birds don't shit, Wang Yan is really going to be killed.

In the three years since I came here, I have seen rain or snow once or twice.

It doesn't snow in winter, which is simply intolerable for a child in the Northeast, and it's obviously the same cold.

After determining the direction of the wind, the cloud was indeed coming towards him, so he climbed up to the roof and lay down and waited for the rain, but who would have thought that the direction of the wind in the desert was so unpredictable, and that the rain cloud was cut off by an evil wind.

And Wang Yan was lying on the roof, and he was almost sunburned on this sunny day.

Due to the special climate and environment, the old and weak villages have always stayed at home during the day to sleep and come out to work a little later at night. Anyway, being idle is idle, and there are old men at home who have nothing to do with children in the daytime.

"Wang Yan, it's time to eat!! "Wang Yan's mother shouted to Wang Yan in the house.

Wang Yan has been an extremely food-loving person since his previous life, whether it is flying in the sky, running in the ground, or swimming in the water...... He can't swim in the water, he can't eat. But when it comes to making delicious food, he never picks his mouth, he just ......

"Mom made you your favorite roasted cactus and cactus soup......

Looking at the dishes that his mother made for him in front of him, Wang Yan had a smile on his face, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"Three years, three years!! from not being weaned to now, three meals a day and a cactus every day!"

Wang Yan's family is poor, and he depends on his mother for his life, not to mention the family, even in the entire old and weak county, there are few families who have a regular livelihood, and basically every household is a cactus in various ways.

Of course, there are also foods similar to flour, and the raw materials are not common crops such as wheat in previous lives, but the products of ground grass seeds similar to those found in dog's tail grass.

Wang Yan was fortunate enough to eat this kind of flatbread made of dog's tail grass flour once, it was really bitter and astringent, it was called an unpalatable.

I reluctantly ate a few bites of the mat, the taste is better than this cactus.

Reaching out and picking up the cactus, "clicking" is a big mouthful. There is no way, if you don't eat, you will starve to death.

Wang Yan's house is two floors, the upper and lower floors have a bed, sleep in the lower room during the day, and move to the upper room at night, adding up to a total of 200 square meters, if you can have a 200 square meters of single-family house in the previous life, it is also a very rich family.

There was a regular meeting in the town in the afternoon, on the shore of the small lake next to the old and weak village.

This small lake is called the holy lake by the locals, and the daily living water of the residents of the entire county is taken from this small lake.

Oases are a very precious resource for the entire Wind Flame Kingdom, and almost every oasis will have one or several small county towns and tribes next to it.

For the protection of oasis resources, the Wind Flame Kingdom has enacted countless laws for this purpose.

For example, domestic sewage is strictly forbidden to be discharged into the oasis lake, and even children urinating on the lake will be punished.

Under the strict protection of the law, the water of this small lake is still clear despite many years.

After eating, he lay down for a while, and when the time came, he went to the lake with his mother.

At this time, there were already a lot of people gathered by the lake, and there were old men and old ladies as far as the eye could see, or they were like their own homes, mothers with children.

At this time, the county magistrate stood on a high platform by the lake, which was nearly two meters high.

People say that they want to see how poor this old and weak county is, just look at the county magistrate, and this county magistrate is a beggar gang leader.

Wang Yan is sure that in his previous life, the clothes of those who asked for food were much better than those of the county elders, at least those who asked for food did not show their buttocks.

followed the crowd to pray decently, and watched the county magistrate jumping on the platform like a god, Wang Yan was afraid that this person would fall off the platform.

"Why doesn't this county magistrate even wear pants......" Looking at the county magistrate who was bouncing, Wang Yan couldn't help but complain in his heart.

The sacrificial ritual is very fast, only twenty minutes, and this kind of ritual happens almost every month, sometimes long and sometimes short, and the length of this ritual depends entirely on whether the county magistrate has sufficient physical strength. Like the weather after winter, the county magistrate can still jump more, if the sun is as strong as today, it is estimated that the county magistrate will not be able to jump for long.

The meeting will soon be adjourned today.

Mother and the women with whom she was usually close friends got together to study what to do with the cactus later, while the others were going to do what they were supposed to do.

Only a few old women knelt down by the lake, still praying silently.

The scorching sun was scorching, watching these old women kneeling on the ground, the whole person lying on the sand, and beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on their foreheads and smashed on the sand dunes.

Wang Yan looked at it and was really a little unbearable.

Graciously stepped forward and reached out and took the small wooden barrels that the women had tied around their waists.

The bucket was not very large, but it was estimated that it could have a capacity of nearly one liter, and one by one it was taken to the lake, fetched water, and then rested in front of the old woman.

The old woman trembled and picked up the wooden barrel and drank a few sips, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

These ladies are not very old, and the highest is only sixty years old, but looking at the old Longzhong, it seems that they are eighty or ninety years old, and the skin on their faces is shriveled and wrinkled.

"Thank you, kid. ”

"You're welcome, just a little bit. ”

The old woman nodded secretly.

"You are the only one in our county who is so young...... I want to ...... in the first place."

The old man just likes to talk about the past.

Wang Yan, the child, is very fond of the old ladies, she is good-looking, sensible and polite, and very smart.

Every time you find an opportunity, you have to talk to this kid well, after all, no one except Wang Yan wants to listen to these old women who are about to bury their eyebrows.

This group of old women was the first to come to the old and weak counties, and they were the first to come from other city-states.

The end of the oasis civilization is always very miserable, they also want to be industrious, sunrise and sunset, but without that condition, there are really no other plants in this desert except cacti to survive.

Their last tribe existed for a long time, a full 200 years old, and the population could always remain more than 10,000 people.

However, with the high evaporation in the arid areas of the desert, the scarcity of precipitation, and the increase in the amount of water used by local people for life and production, etc.

Originally, there was not one of the inhabitants of the city-state, and the remaining inhabitants began to flee in all directions, and at that time they were divided into ten teams to go out in search of a new oasis, but so far, the other nine teams have not heard from them.

The old ladies were only seventeen that year, and now they are in their sixties.

Listening to the story told by these old ladies, it not only reminded Wang Yan of the ancient city of Loulan in his previous life, but also sighed.

The ancient city of Loulan was only about 1,500 households and more than 14,000 inhabitants in its heyday, and the earliest can even be traced back to more than 2,000 years ago, as an independent civilization, which was established for 800 years, but suddenly disappeared mysteriously in 630 AD after the development of civilization for more than 2,000 years.

One can imagine the magnificence of the city where the old woman was located.