Lingpeng Village.

Xiping County is a hundred miles west of the county seat.

The village is about two square kilometers in size, and only 20 families live there. All 20 families live by herding sheep.

When I arrived here, the local village security officer greeted him, and for the first time he saw a car from a big city, and so many at once, the village security was so scared that he didn't know what to say.

The crowd circled around the two young men like stars and moons, and wherever the two young men went, the guards with real guns followed.

However, the village guard also saw the county lord of Xiping County and the county guard of the county from the end of the crowd.

He vaguely knew the identities of these two people.

One should be the country's prime minister Xun Shifei.

And the other self-evident is Li Zhen, the president of the Kyushu Academy of Sciences.

Thinking of this, the whole person of the village guard took a breath, and he didn't dare to take a breath.

After a while, Li Zhen beckoned: "You come." ”

The village guard's legs trembled like chaff, and he almost fell down several times, and walked up to Li Zhen: "Ah......"

Li Zhen smiled, pointed to this Lingpeng Village and asked, "What kind of industry is there in the village?" ”

"Huh? What industry? Industry? ”

Murato's face was blank.

At this time, the county lord of Xiping County hurriedly scolded: "Dean Li asked you, what do the people of Lingpeng Village live on?" What do you make money on? ”

Mura Bao thought for a long time, and said, "I...... This ......"

Li Zhen frowned: "What's inconvenient to say?" ”

"They, this ...... That one. Sheep. ”

"Herding sheep?"

Li Zhen muttered, looked at the sun, and then looked at the bare ground: "It's still early." Why didn't I see the sheep all the way? There weren't even sheep and eggs on the ground. ”

The village guard said: "It's sheep herding, it's sheep herding." ”

"Didn't grow crops?"

"Seed ...... It is also planted, and it is planted by my family. ”

Li Zhen saw that the village guard was talking hesitantly, and he couldn't say the main point, and his tone was a little cold: "Call someone who can speak clearly." ”

Hearing this, Lord Qin's body trembled, and he hurriedly scolded: "Tell you to find someone who speaks neatly." Hurry up. ”

Mura Bao was trembling and almost cried in fright: "I...... I, Lisso. I'm a village protector, and I'm doing it. Others in the village are uneducated, and they are not good at it. ”

Li Zhen frowned: "Let me ask you, isn't there any crops in the village?" ”

"Planted. It's said that only my family planted it. ”

"Why is it only your family that grows it? Other families can't support themselves, right? ”

Li Zhen was a little angry and said the opposite.

Unexpectedly, Mura Bao nodded solemnly: "Yes." ”

As soon as these words came out, the surroundings were quiet, and Xun Shifei hurriedly asked, "What is the situation with you?" What do you mean that only your family has planted? ”

The village guard had a bitter face, looked at this group of officials with a worried face, and said with a little weakness: "Don't be reluctant." ”

"What's that called? What is reluctance? ”

"Rice seeds, ask for money."

"What you said, how much money can you pay for rice seeds?"

"In addition to rice seeds, cattle also need money. Ploughing costs money. It also costs money to prevent pests and droughts and floods. ”

Li Zhen was a little angry: "What kind of thought are you?" Isn't farming just about fighting against the dryness of the sky? It is to overcome these in order to grow crops, and you also need money, and that also needs money. Do you just throw the seed into the ground and just wait for it to grow? ”

Mura Bao hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no, no." I mean, the village ...... There are many old people. The resources of the whole village are only enough for my family to farm, and the other families are herding sheep. ”

"What kind of resources do you need for farming? Is it not that your land is incapable of growing crops? ”

The village guard was full of grievances, his education level was not high, and he couldn't speak well: "I can only plow out two acres of land by myself." ”

Everyone frowned slightly, let people plow the ground? This is treating people like oxen and slaves. However, it is also normal that some people do not have cattle and do rely on people to plow the land.

Li Zhen asked again: "What about the other family?" You've got to be fifty, aren't you? You can plow the land, but no one else can plow? ”

"No, you can't. There are many elderly people in our village. There are many children. ”

Li Zhen was stunned: "There are many old people? How many? ”

"All...... All of them, except for the children, I am the youngest in our village. There are thirty-two old people and four children in our village, and with me, there are thirty-seven people in the whole village. ”

"What about young people? What about labor? ”

"Dead."

Murabao said calmly.

The expressions of the people around him froze, and the atmosphere turned cold in vain.

Li Zhen felt that things were not simple, and asked in a condensing voice, "Why did you die?" The young people of the whole village are dead? ”

Murabao nodded: "It's dead." ”

"War?"

"It's not."

"How did you die if you didn't fight a war?"

There was a hint of indifference in the eyes of the village protector: "Life in the city can be better, so one by one I went out to make a living, leaving behind the children and the old man and never came back." It's been many years. The year before last, someone came back with a message saying that some of them had died. Then we are all considered dead. ”

"How did the person with the letter say he died?"

"Just say it's dead."

Li Zhen fell silent.

But everyone understood what Mura Bao said in their hearts, there was no trace of sadness, and some were just indifferent. Therefore, this kind of 'dead' should not really be dead. But it will never come back, and if it doesn't come back, it's dead.

"Go around the village. Anyone who is okay should stay where they are and don't disturb others. ”

"Yes!"

Immediately, hundreds of people stayed where they were.

Only the three or five senior officials of Jincheng County, as well as the county lord of Xiping County, and others followed. Together with the guards, a total of a dozen or twenty people entered the village.

As soon as I entered Lingpeng Village, I clearly felt the difference between this and other villages. Quiet, dead quiet.

It's not like a village on the plains at all, it's almost like a ghost town.

In the distance, on the yellow earth, three children dressed in shabby adult clothes, their faces covered with snot and saliva scratching insects on the ground.

Seeing that someone was coming from the village, a few children were extremely indifferent, just watching calmly, and a touch of expectation flashed in their eyes from time to time, or...... A scared look?

Very complicated eyes.

Xun Shifei beckoned to a doll about six years old: "Come on." ”

The doll glanced at Xun Shifei, got up and ran with a whoosh.

Murabao stepped forward and explained: "The second baby is afraid of outsiders. ”

"Why are you afraid?"

He thought it was a man who had come from outside to collect the sheep. They all have feelings for the sheep they raise, and they don't know what to do with life. So I was afraid that outsiders would come into the village and take the sheep away. ”

"Then why aren't these two afraid?"

"These are two brothers, and their sheep were sold last year."

Li Zhen frowned again: "Sold last year?" It was sold last year, but what about this year? ”

"Usually one male and one female are left for breeding, but last year, the grandfather of the two brothers went to the mountains at night to set rabbits, and was shot as a wild boar by someone who hunted at night and didn't know where. I shot an arrow and found that it was a person who ran away overnight. Then I brought in a barefoot doctor from the county, treated his wounds, extended his life, and sold the sheep that I kept for breeding. ”

Xun Shifei was furious: "Did that person catch it?" How can this be justified to shoot an arrow at a man as a wild boar? What does this government do for food? This is already a crime, why don't you catch it? ”

The village guard said with a bitter face: "I reported to the official." But his grandfather was shot by an arrow and didn't know where to shoot, so his mind was a little confused, but he remembered that after being shot with an arrow, he heard someone say, 'I thought it was a wild boar' and ran away. I don't know anything else, I don't know what I look like, I can't catch it. ”

Xun Shifei sighed, touched it from his arms for a moment, and turned back and said, "Is there any sugar?" ”

Sugar......

A few officials behind him touched their bodies, pulled their legs and ran back. Ran outside the village and hurriedly shouted: "Sugar, sugar, who has sugar?" ”

A moment later, someone sent the sugar to Xun Shifei.

Xun Shifei walked up to the two brothers with the candy and said with a smile: "Do you want to eat?" ”