Alia hurriedly patted Guang Ziyu's back gently to help him calm down, and her eyes did not leave him for a moment. The more the rest of the people listened to the conversation between him and his wife, the more confused they became, and Hua Thirteen stared and asked, "What is there about the Water Well Tower that is invisible?" Why do you make such a trivial matter as the opening of the tower and the division of water so important? ”

"You know! The tower is almost out of water! A long-pent-up roar erupted from the depths of her heart.

"Sister, what did you say?" Isha rubbed her steps forward in surprise and said in disbelief, "There are more than ten wells in the whole town that are enclosed in the well towers, and even if they don't save money, they can supply the whole village for decades, how can there be no water?" Did you really sell all the water to others, as the villagers had rumored? ”

Guang Ziyu raised his eyes and glanced at Alia and Isha lovingly, signaling her two sisters to be calm, he eased his breath, glanced at the "Thousand Mu Fertile Land Map" hanging on the wall, moved his throat, and said as if with great difficulty: "In the well tower, there was not much water three years ago. In those years, Fengbo Town was surrounded by fertile fields, and I took the whole town to plant things that should not be planted, and after a few years, the land was not as good as a year, until finally all the fertile fields were deserted, and the only trace of greenery on the edge of the desert was lost in my hands......"

"Something that shouldn't be planted?" Painting Thirteen and Eleven wondered, "What is something that shouldn't be planted?" ”

"It's a medicinal herb." Isha was young at the time, but she vividly remembers the scene of families going in and out together.

Hua Thirteen's eyebrows deepened, he looked at Guang Ziyu and Alia inquiringly, they nodded deeply, he glanced at Jingmo, who was also confused, and continued to ask, "Why do you use so much land to grow medicinal herbs?" ”

"You also know that the location of our Fengbo Town is located at the junction of the two countries, and they all say that we rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and in the past, we only planted some sorghum cotton and went out to sell for money, sometimes with the caravan, sometimes we slipped to Dayin, and changed some necessary clothes and medicinal materials." Alia couldn't look back and recalled, "But in those years, the price of your medicine in Da Yin grew like a weed on fire, and even many Han people couldn't afford to buy medicinal materials, let alone us." So, we just count on ourselves, anyway, there is so much land......"

"But later, you found out that planting medicinal herbs can not only solve your own needs, but also get Da Yin to sell them for a good price, so you are crazy about planting medicinal herbs uncontrollably?" Jingmo recalled that when she had just come to Fengbo Town through the stone cave, she had noticed that the yellow sand under her feet was strange, and now it seemed that it was indeed overcultivation that wasted the fertile land.

"Pharmacist girl, I know a few words and read a few idle books, but I don't know the truth that it is enough to stop and go too far." Guang Ziyu frowned and sighed.

Jingmo knows better than anyone else about the situation of the soaring price of traditional Chinese medicine in Beijing in recent years, and knows that some traders take the opportunity to hoard goods and raise prices, treating the lives of patients as if they were a mustard, and only talking about the price, let alone the various kinds of human lives. She half-believed and half-questioned: "Since you know what will happen in the long run, how can you still lead everyone to cultivate and cultivate indiscriminately year after year?" ”

"I'm afraid that Mr. Ziyu was already in the dilemma of 'water can carry a boat and also capsize a boat' at that time." Hua Thirteen's gaze looked at Guang Ziyu meaningfully.

Guang Ziyu was stunned at first, and there seemed to be a faint sense of uneasiness in his peaceful expression: "Not bad." At that time, even if I wanted to stop the villagers from continuing to grow medicinal herbs, I was already powerless. I reasoned over and over again, and they would only think it was alarmist, and I held up books about planting in front of them, and they turned a blind eye. After all, they only saw that the medicinal herbs that were advancing into the gold were really growing out of the ground one after another. Once the desire is opened, the reason for being reasonable cannot be contained. ”

Alia sighed and took over: "The husband didn't understand it at the time, the homeless people in the desert are like scattered sand, who is willing to let go of the benefits in his hands?" Later, there was less and less land that could be cultivated, and there were more and more people fighting for land in the town, but what they didn't know was that as the yellow sand covered Fengbo Town inch by inch, the water in the well was also drying up, and a lot of water had been consumed for irrigation in the past few years of planting medicinal herbs, and there was really not much water left. ”

Painting thirteen eyebrows jumped, and suddenly realized: "Could it be that the female leader rumored by the villagers to monopolize the water source for profit, is just Alia's trick?" ”

Alia glanced at Isa, who was already dazed, and explained, "I know the virtues of the villagers in the town. No one would take me seriously on the basis of the name of the leader alone, and if they knew that there was not much water in the well tower, then the dispute would change from a land grab. If the land is gone, at most it will cut off the financial route, but if the water source is gone, everyone may die, and the scramble at that time will be uncontrollable. ”

"But every day in the town there are people dying of thirst!" Isha wiped tears from her face and cried.

"Dead girl, what do you know? If not, the dead will not be one or two, but in groups! Alia had clear veins on her forehead, she thought for a moment and continued, "This is 'the mouth of the son, the hand of the bite', I have no other choice." ”

"It's 'the spear of the son, the shield of the attacker.'" Let the villagers suppress each other, and use it better than let them kill each other. A wry smile appeared on Guang Ziyu's pale lips, and he tightened Alia's hand, "I admit that I have done something wrong in my life, and I am not destroying thousands of acres of fertile land." Instead, I made an appointment with you to go to Huangquan together, but I still couldn't bear to leave you alone in the world to take care of the mess I left behind. I'm sorry, Aria. ”

Painting thirteen's eyes were solemn and complicated, he couldn't help but take Jingmo's hand, and said slowly to Alia and his wife: "Actually, Mr. Ziyu's forbearance is not unbearable. ”

"Mr. Ziyu, heh, these four words are really long gone." Guang Ziyu slightly raised the affection and melancholy in his eyes, he slowly turned his head and stared at the painting for a long time, "You are also from the capital?" ”

Painting 13 was noncommittal, and said slowly: "In the early years, I heard that there was a Han scholar in the people who won the first place in the imperial examination, but he refused to enter the court as an official, and was willing to travel around to study, make friends with people with lofty ideals, sit and talk about the Tao, and laugh and talk about the world. In later life, he was called 'Mr. Ziyu', but he never knew his surname. ”

"Oh?" Guang Ziyu suddenly burst into a burst of happy laughter, "Sure enough, everything in the world is like the wind, and it has been blown into the desert." ”

"I don't know if Mr. Ziyu minds if he asks you a word for the people of the world?" Painting thirteen gradually turned to be courteous and courteous.

"I know what you're asking." Guang Ziyu's smile gradually faded, "I don't want to be an official, the reason is very simple, and you have already said it just now." I am a humble man, and I don't have a silver reward to pass on the decree, how can I become an official? ”

Hua Thirteen was stunned thoughtfully, and then suddenly smiled and said, "Mr. Self-denial is comparable to that of Confucianism." ”

"I've read a few more useless books, but they're just ordinary people, what great Confucian sages, as Alia said, are all bullshit." Guang Ziyu said that his face was much more ruddy, "A little official who passed the decree asked for ten taels of silver as soon as he opened his mouth, and if I climbed the stairs, there were still one hundred and twenty thousand taels waiting for me." What I avoided was not a sum of money, but the endless desires in the depths of the human heart. I feel that even if it is not worth these ten taels of silver in the eyes of the imperial court, it is not easy for me. ”

Alia and Isha were stunned and amazed when they heard such words in a remote corner. After pondering for a long time, he asked, "In Mr. Ziyu's mind, is the literati's spirit as heavy as Mount Tai?" So much so that Mr. gave up his family's surname 'Zhou' and changed his surname to 'Guang'. ”

Guang Ziyu's eyes froze, he stood up from the chair suddenly, walked in front of Hua Thirteen with a sick body, and said intently: "The literati are always as light as a feather!" What I really value is the people of the country! It is high above the temple and cannot see the people's suffering, and the ears cannot hear the four dialects. ”

"So, have the people with lofty ideals in Guangling Academy done what Mr. valued?" Painting thirteen eyes calmly, asked quietly.

Guang Ziyu staggered back into his chair, his stunned eyes were empty, and he smiled bitterly: "If they did it, how could I be separated from my homeland by a gorge and a moat." Now, there is just a surname with the prefix 'Guang'. ”

Jing Mo listened to the conversation between the two in surprise, and spent a lot of effort recalling the relevant rumors: "I heard that the Guangling Academy, which was once very prosperous inside and outside the capital, has long disappeared, and if there are any more people who talk about it publicly, the end will be bleak. ”

"Husband, you are here, I will never allow anyone to touch you!" Alia held his hand tightly.

When Guang Ziyu looked at her, his eyes were infinitely gentle and soft: "My silly woman." I'm already a person who has died once, and there is nothing to be afraid of? At this moment, I can feel that the five internal organs and heart veins are breaking inch by inch...... I'm sorry Aria, but I made you the way you are...... Turn Storm Town into what it is now......"

Alia gritted her teeth and held back tears, so that the veins on her forehead burst out. Jingmo gently patted Alia on the shoulder, and after thinking for a moment, she said, "Actually, there is no way to save the water from drying up. ”

Everyone's eyes suddenly lit up, and they all waited for Jing Mo to continue: "I am a little pharmacist, and I used to work with them to develop strange flowers and plants when I was in the apricot forest-when I was at the master's house. Among them, there is a plant called 'gum fruit', which is specially used to grow in the wilderness, the root system can conserve water, and the fruit opens its hard shell to form clear water like a mountain spring. ”

Isha suddenly pounced on Jingmo, her eyes overflowing with flickering light: "Sister Pharmacist! Is what you say true! Is there really such a miracle in the world? ”

Hua Thirteen also looked at Jingmo in surprise, he saw Jingmo nodded, his hanging heart fell to the ground, and he couldn't help but joke with a smile: "This pharmacist has great powers, not only can he develop all kinds of novel drugs, but even some deadly explosives can be prepared at will." ”

"Dynamite?" Isha pouted at the cherry and repeated inexplicably.

As soon as Jing Mo heard this, she remembered that Hua Thirteen was making fun of the accidental small explosion that occurred when she first met to prepare orthotic medicine for him, which she had long been waiting to ignore in her eyes.

But Guang Ziyu's pupils suddenly shrank, his fingers trembled slightly unconsciously, and he blurted out and asked Jingmo: "Dynamite?" Who are you helping with explosives? ”