Palatine listened with fascination, secretly envious of Roland's colorful adventurous life, and even more envious of his unfettered freedom to do what he liked.

Unconsciously coming to the small square of the commune, Roland saw the door of the village office on the opposite side open and the familiar sound of conversation, so he said to Palatina: "Let's go to the village office for a walk, and quietly keep quiet." ”

Palatina suddenly felt very excited, she and Roland were like two thieves, and nodded with a smile.

Walking through the gate of the village office, Roland introduced Palatina to the two commune officials who were talking to the villagers in a "telepathic way".

"The uncle dressed as a gentleman is Malik, the director of the commune, and the one-armed young man beside Malik is named Nikolai, the sheriff of the village of the Valley, and they are all old friends of mine."

"Would you like to go over and say hello?" Palatina asked him with a "telepathic connection".

"Forget it, I came out of thin air without saying hello in advance, I'm afraid of frightening them, and besides, I can't explain how there is a big beauty around me."

"Don't make the oil slippery!" Palatina glared at him fiercely.

Malik and Nikolai were completely unaware that His Royal Highness was lurking beside him, talking to two young farmers. The other party is a pair of cousins, the eldest named Lev and the younger two years old named Ivan, both of whom are homesteaders in the village of the Valley.

Lev and Ivan are both in their twenties, and their ancestors have been farming in the valley village for generations. The brothers used to live a simple country life like their father's generation, but since the railway was connected to the valley village, they have the opportunity to take a ride into the city during the farming slack.

If you don't go out, you don't know that the world is so big, so wonderful, and there are countless delicious and fun! The brothers were deeply shocked by the bustling scene in the city, and they still remembered it when they returned home, compared to the colorful life in the city, the country life was too dull and boring to bear.

The brothers' minds quietly changed, and in their spare time they ran to the city, gradually losing interest in the field work, and when they found time, they picked up the pictorial magazines they brought back from the city and read endlessly, imagining that they could also live the life of city people. In this way, the work performance of the brothers is very unsatisfactory, they get less salary than others, and they are ridiculed by the old people in the village for "not working well and daydreaming all day long".

Feeling increasingly alien to their dreams, the brothers decided to mortgage their shares in the farm to raise money to start their journey into the city.

Today, the development momentum of the valley village commune is booming, with the continuous development of wasteland, the income of the members has also increased year-on-year, and the more strong labor required for the pioneering, the better, Malik, as the director of the commune, does not want the young members to leave their posts, but repeated persuasion could not make Lev and Ivan give up the dream of going to the city, so they had to find Nikolai to handle the equity mortgage procedures for the brothers.

After all, Nikolai was an officer from the capital, had seen the world, and could understand the mentality of young people yearning for city life, and patiently explained to Lev and Ivan that it was too risky to live in the field, and persuaded them to mortgage for a year first, and if they could gain a foothold in the city after a year, they would continue to mortgage; On the other hand, if life in the city is not as good as they expected, they may as well return to their hometown next year.

Young Ivan took his advice. Lev, however, felt that such a forward-looking concern would be detrimental to manhood, and insisted on a five-year mortgage so that he could get more cash and be more confident when he entered the city.

Nikolai bitterly persuaded him to leave a way back, five years is too long, God knows what will happen. To put it mildly, in the end, Lev reluctantly accepted the mortgage for three years.

The two brothers signed the equity mortgage paperwork and went out happily with the money.

Nikolai looked at the backs of the brothers, and his eyes could not hide his worry. He was only two years older than Lev, but he had a lot more to experience. Born into a wealthy merchant family, he received a good education, but when he was a teenager, his parents died in the middle of the road, and he was forced to move to the slums with his younger brother, taking on the responsibilities of the family prematurely. After joining the army as an adult, he followed His Majesty Rudolph's birth and death to fight in the north and south, experienced countless bloody storms, was forced to retire due to a disabled arm, and ushered in a turning point in the darkest time of his life, and was successfully selected as the first batch of village sheriffs in the Far East, and came to the valley village to start a new life...... Ninety-year-old has developed a calm character, always preparing for the worst before making decisions, and is quite unimpressed by the overly optimistic ideas of Lev and Ivan, fearing that they will be hit by the cruel reality after entering the city.

Malik sat down at his desk to sort out the accounts, sensed Nikolai's worries, and smiled disapprovingly.

"Brother Nikolai, I can't worry about those two idle guys, I wish they went out to beg for a living, so as not to bring the young men in the village badly, it is better to buy out their shares, and from now on it has nothing to do with our valley village, and don't come back if they don't mix well."

"I think Lev really has the idea of selling his shares, but it was just his impulse, and he will regret it afterwards, and I am uneasy to take advantage of this advantage......," Nikolai sighed softly, "Actually, not only Lev and Ivan, but also the young people in the village run to the town when they have time, and I am worried that the situation of mortgaging the equity of the farm and going to the city to work will become more and more common, which is not a good phenomenon." ”

Malik smiled open-mindedly: "Some people leave and some people come, there's nothing to worry about!" Didn't His Royal Highness Roland say that people are the most valuable resources, and having children is also a contribution to the country, the fertility rate in the valley village has skyrocketed in the past two years, coupled with medical security, the phenomenon of infant death is becoming more and more rare, and the total population growth momentum is very strong, and it is not a big deal to get rid of a few little children whose hearts are higher than the sky! But then again, you're not too young, it's time to consider marrying a daughter-in-law to inherit the lineage, this time is different from the past, the more children you have, the more subsidies the commune will give, don't be afraid of not being able to afford it. ”

"Don't talk about this, I won't think about it for the time being......" Nikolai couldn't resist it, and his face turned red.

Roland smiled meaningfully at Palatina, took her hand and quietly left the village hall.

Palatina guessed what he was up to, and deliberately pretended to be serious.

"The scene we see today is not uncommon in the countryside of the Far East, but in fact the empire has the same problem: once convenient transportation between the city and the countryside is established, books and newspapers can flow from the towns to the villages, and the rural youth are exposed to new ideas and fashions, the traditional model of rural self-government will irretrievably collapse, and the rural youth will not be able to calm the restlessness in their hearts to go out of their hometowns and go to the cities, and the population will flow from the countryside to the cities, with the result that fewer and fewer people will work in agriculture and more and more crowded in the big cities. The dark corners of the city have been transformed into squalid slums and gangster-run crime. ”