Volume 1 The Search for a Thousand Years Chapter 50 The Hardships of the People

Qu Yuan left Zhaofu and originally planned to speed up the pace, but found that the customs and customs of the people along the road were really unexpected.

There are two completely different states of mind when you come and when you return, even if you have Bixia by your side, you still feel very heavy, and you are sad for your future half, and when you return to Yingdu, you are more worried about the future of Chu.

Qu Yuan set off along the direction of the downstream of Xiangxi, it was the wind and the beautiful picturesque scene saw a dazzling scene, but the road met a beautiful woman but wandered on the side of the road stupidly, no one knew where she came from.

After asking others what had happened to the woman from their mouths, they bought some food for the woman, and asked her what was going on with her, and realized that she was not stupid.

It turned out that she was devastated by the border soldiers, the man was taken away by conscription, the children starved to death in the war and famine, and even the in-laws of the family were also collected by the fiefdom nobles for collecting taxes, and the fields and houses were confiscated. Then he was taken captive by the Qin people, lived in Qin for eight years, and then was driven away, and he had nowhere to go before he arrived in his hometown......

Listen to the woman's story: When I was born, the world was peaceful, and when I grew up, the fortunes of the country declined sharply. The heavens are unkind to bring calamity, and the earth has no mercy, so that I will be in troubled times. The war is endless, and it is extremely difficult to survive in this world;

Her story is much more than that, the fate of her family and country determines the fate of the people. The people of Lebanon are displaced, and the pain is unbearable! The Qin soldiers burned and looted, and the people in power did not resist these border harassments and let our people do not care.

However, we who were taken captive could only live secretly against our original intentions, and we were ashamed to lose our discipline and righteousness! To whom should I complain of all the humiliation? It's just full of grief and resentment, no one knows!

The Qin soldiers in the border city often crossed the border and entered the city, and their homes were broken and innocent. It was heart-pounding and chilling, the wind was howling, and the camp gate was blocked. The sadness and regret are endless, and when will the grief and hatred accumulated in the heart be calmed?

When the wild goose flew south, he wanted it to help me carry out my longing for my hometown, and when I returned to the north, it brought me a reply letter. The geese flew away and gradually disappeared; What can be done if the liver and intestines are broken, I can only think silently. frowned, and the sorrow accumulated in his heart deepened.

The wind is blowing at dusk, and I don't know who to say to the sorrow in my heart! The wilderness scene is depressed, and the defensive posts set up are spread all over the country.

At night, I heard the sound of the river whimpering and complaining, and I got up in the morning and looked at the earthen city wall in the distance, when will I return! Looking back on how difficult and miserable the journey to the north was

If God has eyes, why can't he see me wandering alone? If the gods are really effective, why do I make the heavens and the seas and the north miserable? I have never lived up to the sky, so why did I match me with a husband of an alien race? I have never failed the gods, why did they punish me for falling into the deserted state?

The sky is boundless, and the sorrow in my heart does not end. Life is as short as a white horse, but I am in my prime, but I am full of sorrow and not happy at all. Resentment is so desperate that I want to ask the sky, and there is no way to climb the sky. Looking up at the sky, only the clouds and smoke remain, full of affection, but to whom can it be transmitted?

The beacon fire at the head of the city has not been extinguished, when will the cruel chaos stop? The city gate was murderous every day, and the howling cold could always be heard every night. The news of his hometown was completely blocked, and the silent crying was about to end. The bitterness and sorrow of a lifetime come from this endless separation, deep hatred, and tears like weeping blood

I am not greedy for life and afraid of death to survive so far, I can't sacrifice my life for the country because I have expectations. If you are alive, you still hope to return to your hometown, and you can only have peace of mind when you are buried in your homeland after death.

There was concern in my heart, and all my happiness turned into deeper sorrow, and the selflessness of the sun and moon was so unfair to me. The separation of mother and child makes it difficult for me to bear it, and I will be separated forever under the same sky, and I don't know where to find each other in life and death.

Just when the woman finished telling the story of her short life, the long and miserable experience was already sad, and the people who heard it were sad, and the people who heard it wept.

Passing through the area of Ezhu, it is different from the prosperity of Yingdu and the comfort and tranquility of Hanzhong, where the conservative aristocratic hereditary people are dumped, and the people are hungry and cold

During this period, he also witnessed the fact that the nobles ruled the territory, they wantonly plundered the property of slaves in their own territory, and because they could not pay the amount and tax, their daughters were also used as taxes. The daughter was hoarse in fear and despair, and the old father could do nothing but watch his daughter being taken away.

The nobles of the family trampled on horseback and trampled on the fertile land, and the fields and crops after the horses' hooves trampled were scattered and turned up, and there was not a single good plant found on the ground. The people dared not speak out of their anger.

When a woman was working in the fields, she was forcibly dragged away by a handful of subordinates, brutally carried and thrown on horseback, and rode away directly.

Walking to the street, the vendors and stalls did not dare to sell unscrupulously, and they hid a few squire bullies along the way, for fear that they would be noticed and loot their belongings and goods, or that the stalls would be completely overturned.

Ask the vendors or passers-by here, saying that there are three bullies here who often get together, and come to collect money every three or five times, as long as someone does not pay the money, it is inevitable to add a fist and kick, and then they will be robbed of the goods to pay off the debt, if the goods can not arrive, the stall will be overturned, it is simply lawless.

Just when Qu Yuan asked, can no one make decisions for them? The local county office, or county guard.

Who knew that the hawkers were even more angry, the county officials confiscated these benefits and ignored them, and the county guards did nothing but lived a life of fine clothes and food, and there was no need to care about food and clothing.

When I walked in front of a few restaurants and inns, I saw that there were only rich merchants or aristocratic sons in them, and the prices were expensive, but they discouraged ordinary people.

The people starved to death and froze to death on the streets, but the children of the nobles enjoyed delicious food in the restaurants or their own mansions, the people lived in dilapidated houses that leaked rain, and the mansions of the children of the official families occupied half a street, and the rockery ponds, pavilions, and houses in the house were varied.

Passing through this place, I couldn't help but sigh "Changtai rests to hide his tears, and mourns how difficult the people's livelihood is"

When I was a child, I only knew that my hometown was on the border of Qin and Chu, and I was often harassed by some soldiers, but fortunately, I still had a few brothers who relied on some tricks to resist them.

When I grew up, I went to Yingdu and found that Yingdu was too prosperous.

But ignoring other areas governed by various nobles, today I saw such a sigh of sighing.

In the invisible corner of the Chu State of Nuoda, there are people living in such misery.

Therefore, Qu Yuan slowed down his pace here in Ezhu and wanted to observe more of the people's feelings, if J has the opportunity to change the law in the future, he must let the people here benefit first.

(Qu Yuan relieved the suffering of the people more deeply this time, and only then did he work harder to improve his ability in Lantai, and he talked to the prince about things outside the palace every day, which strengthened the prince's heart to change the law.) )