Although his parents later abused him and paid the price with their lives, in any case, when Niu was a young man, he still experienced a good time of being loved by his parents.

That time was also the best memory of Niu Eighteen's life.

But when he escaped from the cattle farm in disarray, and wandered around, he had to endure not only wind and rain, starvation, but also robbers and wild beasts.

He had seen the world as it really was, and it turned out that the place outside the cow village was so chaotic and dangerous.

He didn't know before that Niu Zhuang had been protected by the Ten Constant Attendants Jian Shuo, so he had not been harassed by the robbers.

Although the world was not in turmoil at that time, the common people were tormented by excessive taxes and famine, and the people became miserable.

In order to survive, many people are forced to fall into the grass and engage in robbery.

Bandits of a small scale will at most rob passers-by in remote places, while robbers who have formed a scale will be the one to the disaster, plundering villages or towns, and even more so, even county towns and towns dare to attack.

The local government, capable of it, only cares about collecting the people's money, but turns a blind eye to local security and does nothing.

And those who are incapable are even more powerless to quell the chaos, but the work of collecting money and wealth will not be pulled down at all.

Therefore, at that time, people could not count on the local government, and could only pray for the powerful to protect their safety.

And these so-called powerful are the clans mentioned earlier.

Their influence is even more prominent in this chaotic situation.

Because of the inaction of the local government, the law and order in various places is extremely poor, bandits and bandits are becoming more and more rampant, and the unarmed common people are simply unable to protect themselves, and they work hard for a year's harvest, in addition to paying a large part of the various taxes and miscellaneous taxes to the government, they have to live in fear all day long, fearing that one day the robbers will attack their homes, and even this surplus will be robbed, then they will only have to wait for death.

In this way, there are only two ways left for the poor people, either sit and wait for death, or choose to take refuge in the local clans.

Although defecting to a local clan also had to pay heavy taxes and rents, it was compared to that of the magistrate

The government took the money but never protected their people, and the clans had their own family armies, and their combat power was even stronger than the inactive government army, but the most important thing was that these clans, when they encountered robber attacks, would actively send family armies to drive away those robbers, so many people would rather be under the protection of the clan than seek the protection of the government.

Therefore, the power of the clan grew stronger and stronger, until the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, and the prestige of the Han Empire was already in name only, and the local clans took the opportunity to rise, and the best of them would become the representatives of the family and participate in the struggle for hegemony in the world.

The Yuan family in Runan and the Cao family in Qian County are all like this.

But once you leave the protection of the clan, the outside world will be a different scene.

The desolate land and the bones everywhere are the most realistic portrayal of these places.

When Niu Eighteen finally found a place to live, he found that it had been abandoned for a long time, and all that was left was a dilapidated house and rotting corpses.

Just when Niu Eighteen was hungry and thirsty and was about to die, a girl who was scavenging found him.

This girl, who was also yellow and thin because of hunger, faced the dying Niu Eighteen, instead of falling into the well and not saving him when she saw death, she kindly found water to feed him to drink, so that his only half life was renewed.

Then, the girl used the wild vegetables she had found with great difficulty to cook into soup for Niu Eighteen to eat.

This little wild vegetable was found by her with great difficulty, even if she ate it alone, it was not enough to fill her stomach, and now she did not hesitate to share it with Niu Eighteen to eat, which shows how kind this girl is in her heart.

Especially in this era of unscrupulous means in order to survive, there are still people who are willing to contribute their only food to a stranger without such a care, even if they are a good person, in such a hungry situation, out of instinct, they will not contribute their own food to save people, because in that case, they may starve to death.

Maybe only a true saint would care about his life and death to save a stranger he didn't know, right?

But Niu Eighteen happened to meet such a person.

Although she was skinny and yellow, her eyes were scattered

Glows with an unusual glow.

This light is optimistic about life and trust in human nature.

It was the first time that Niu Eighteen had seen that someone's eyes could exude such brilliance, and the people he had seen had only dull eyes for the tiredness of life in his eyes, as well as cunning eyes that would do anything for the sake of profit, but only this girl's simple and kind eyes were something he had never seen and could not imagine.

Because in his opinion, people have to fight for their own survival, how can they give up the only food they have for a stranger they don't know?

Therefore, Niu Eighteen once doubted that he had met a god?

Because only immortals can have such good deeds to save the world, and normal people, in this environment, will only kill each other for food.

And he Niu Eighteen is such a person.

Seeing that the girl had cooked wild vegetable soup for him and brought it over, Niu Eighteen couldn't help but say something, so he ate it in a big gulp.

He was already hungry, and no matter how hot the soup was or how bitter the wild vegetables were, as long as they were edible, he put them in his mouth.

Until a can of wild vegetable soup was eaten by him, Niu Eighteen still did not fill his stomach, which is no wonder, after all, the wilderness is full of dead trees and weeds, let alone food, and even animals can't see one.

The places where the land is fertile and there are many birds and beasts have long been occupied by the clan heroes, and the rest of the places are either rampant bandits or barren and desolate, and they are not suitable for people to live in.

The girl worked hard to find some edible bitter vegetables, and originally expected to be able to eat them to satisfy her hunger, but she didn't expect to let Niu 18 swallow it alone, and she didn't even leave a mouthful of soup.

Not only that, but when Niu Eighteen ate all the wild vegetable soup, he was still not satisfied, and after he had something to eat, he felt even more hungry.

"Give me some more food!"

After eating up the wild vegetable soup given by the girl, the insatiable Niu Eighteen stretched out the jar in front of the girl and commanded loudly.

It seems that in his opinion, it is natural for the girl to give him food, and it is a great crime to not feed him.

Niu Eighteen is such a bastard.