Sun Qian knelt outside the Tranquility Gate in a posture of not being able to kneel for a long time, and when Master Xile heard about it, he pulled Du Xiaoxi and came up.

Seeing that the eldest apprentice didn't have the slightest intention of letting people in, Master Xile thought about what he saw in Sun Qian's memory, and said meaningfully: "Quiet apprentice, Master Sun will let you have unimaginable gains." ”

"Let him in!"

Sun Qian dragged his legs into the door, knelt straight on the ground, and kowtowed repeatedly.

"Please let Your Highness be the master of the small people!" Standard opening statement with grievances.

Sun Qian lowered his head and told his grievances.

"Xiaomin is a native of Zhouxiang Plain Village in Wuzhou, and our village has a large area of fertile land between two mountains, which is the best living village nearby. Before the earth movement, there were often rich families who wanted to buy our land, but some of our clan's ancestral fields could only be sold to the same clan, and the fields were absolutely not allowed to flow out.

A few days after the ground moved, someone wanted to buy land, and Sun Qian choked up when he said this, his bloodshot eyes were full of hatred.

"We refused, the grain has just been harvested, even if the relief grain from the imperial court does not reach us, we can still last until the next season's grain is ripe. But a few days later, at night, a large number of people came to the village, and they broke into the village with large knives. The dog in the village suddenly barked, and my father told me to come out and have a look, and when he heard the shouting outside, my father was startled and pushed me directly onto the plane tree in the yard. Then the men barged in.

They dragged all the people to the middle of the yard, and the people at the head of the house forced me to ask where the money was and where the title deeds were. They searched in the makeshift shacks, and one of them found the title deed of my house, and the rest of the people killed everyone despite my father's plea for mercy! Sun Qian's clenched hands were soaked in blood, and his parents, brothers and sisters were all killed. His father never looked at the tree where he was hiding, and his family never revealed that there was no one missing from the house.

Wails rang out from all corners of the village. They are killing.

There were so many screams, so many cries for help, and finally they all disappeared into a fire.

Sun Qian did not move as his father said, and waited in the tree for two days and two nights, during which he saw two small figures running out of the fire, and before they left the village, they were beheaded and thrown back to the fire by the people waiting outside. On the night of the third day, he couldn't hold on any longer, so Sun Qian came down from the tree and planned to go to the old lady's house for help. I didn't expect there to be someone guarding outside. He was discovered. He was pierced in the leg by the thrown javelin, and finally saw that there was really no way out, and jumped directly into the river outside the village, and floated down the water all night. was picked up on the ship of the current prince.

Sun Qian said in the end, he was already hysterical: "Those people are not beards at all!" They just want our land! Want our land! They are from the county! I know one of them! They are from the county! They are not beards! They are for our land! ”

Sun Qian roared over and over again.

The crowd was silent.

According to Sun Qian's meaning, someone wanted their land, robbed them of the title deed, and killed all the people in their village.

Tranquility has never encountered such a country thing, so naturally she can't believe it.

Du Xiaoxi couldn't imagine that a village would be killed.

Master Joy looked at the blank and shocked faces of the two and sighed.

"Master Sun, let's rest first."

Tranquility heard what the master said, and knew that he had something to say to them, and he was busy asking Qian De to send Sun Qian out.

"It's probably true," said the Joy Master, "that some people wanted them to murder a village of people with their beards. In the final analysis, it is still the contradiction between urban and rural areas. ”

Urban-rural contradictions?

Du Xiaoxi and Tranquility looked at each other.

"Yes, it is the contradiction between urban and rural areas." Seeing that the two of them couldn't understand. Master Joy slowly explained: "There are many big merchants and few places, and it is not enough for food, clothing, housing, and transportation to be expensive. I don't know if you found that the relationship between the county and the surrounding people is not good? ”

The two shook their heads in unison.

Du Xiaoxi thought that every time she went to the county seat, the two sides were very friendly!

As if he knew what Du Xiaoxi was thinking, Master Xile glanced at Du Xiaoxi with disdain: "Your Shanshui County is an exception, most of the people in the county are people from ten miles and eight villages, how many bad things can there be!" ”

"In many places, girls from the village don't marry into the city. The girls in the city will not be wanted in the village. That's right, you're right, many of the farmers in the village don't look down on the people in the town.

Every household adds Ding to import. When the son grows up, he wants to marry a daughter-in-law, but the county seat is so big. Many families are crammed into one room for generations, and there are so many people that there is not even a place to stand at home.

Not having a house to live in is one thing, and there is food and drink, all of which they have to pay a high price for, and even the firewood burned at home has to be bought from the farmers. Don't think that the people in the county town can cut down the trees on the mountains outside the county seat at will, those mountains are all things from nearby villages, and if the people in the county town rush to cut them down and be beaten to death, it will be in vain. As for picking mushrooms and leafy vegetables, don't think about it, unless you go to the ownerless mountain in the deep mountains, there are thieves around the county! ”

The people in the village dislike the people in the city?

Du Xiaoxi was also drunk.

But what Master said makes sense.

I don't know anything else, but Du Xiaoxi knows that the firewood in the village can't be cut casually.

Except for a few hills in Dujia Village that have been reclaimed for farming, the rest belong to the public property of the clan, and usually no one says anything to their children to find wild vegetables and mushrooms. But there are a lot of rules for moving large items. Usually, you can't cut too much firewood for cooking, and you can only cut branches for firewood, not the whole tree. In winter, the amount of firewood stored at home for the winter is also roughly determined according to the number of people. Whoever wants to cut firewood and sell it in the county town must also give the village a sum of silver as the capital of firewood.

They are so harsh to the people of their village, let alone the people who come to grab their firewood.

Du Xiaoxi savored it carefully, and suddenly realized that there were still too many people and too few things. The only solution is to have fewer children and more trees.

Master Xile saw that Du Xiaoxi agreed a little, and Ning Jing, a person who has been living at a high level, couldn't understand it at all, so he continued.

I don't know if you've heard a sentence, "Three lives are unfortunate, and the county is attached to Guo; Three lives do evil, attached to Guofu City; The evil is full of evil, attached to Guo Jingcheng. ”

Tranquility nodded, it was just a complaint from a low-level petty official.

"A county magistrate and the boss who manages him feel that he is not lucky in three lifetimes, and he feels that he has been so unlucky because he has done evil things in three lifetimes when he works around the city, and he feels that he has ruined the entire universe in his previous life when he is serving in the vicinity of the capital. This sentence is from the standpoint of the small county order, and it is also the voice of the people.

The richer the place, the more fierce the fighting, and for the poor, the small and remote county town was not necessarily worse than Kyoto. If their ancestors have had a bad life in the county for generations, if someone tells them that they can have land in the future, they can have food and clothing, and many people are still willing to take risks. “

(To be continued.) )