You are a farmer who works all day in the field, and if you leave your village without a way, you will be directly assigned to the army, and your family has no money for you to study, and there is no teacher in the village, not to mention that the court stipulates that farmers are not qualified to take the Xiucai exam, so arable land is your only way to live, and it is also a fate that you are destined from birth.

What can you do if you are down-to-earth and capable and willing to work hard? Being practical and capable here is the basic condition for survival, not any advantage, and if you can't even plant land, you can only starve to death.

You start working in the fields before you are ten years old, and when you reach maturity in your teens, you can marry a wife, and the surplus food that the whole family has saved for a few years is used up just to marry you a daughter-in-law, and even have to take on foreign debts, so you marry a daughter-in-law for a few years, and the family's economic situation is extremely fragile.

If you make a slight mistake, the whole family may become a serf of the rich man's family, so you have to work in the field during the day, and you have to go to the rich man's house to work after your crops are busy, and when you get home at night, you have to hurry up with your daughter-in-law to have a good fertility.

In this era, women have a very short reproductive period, generally they can't conceive at the age of 30, men are used as cattle in this era, and women are used as men, often not long after giving birth, they have to work in the field, and it is normal to fall into various strange diseases that cannot give birth to children, and even more so that they are a little older and can't even walk.

In the seasons of spring, summer and autumn, you are reluctant to waste any trace of light during the day, and every day, you have to grope for work in the dark until the sun sets in the afternoon, and you will have a meal in the field in the middle, and three meals a day is something you never dreamed of.

And this meal is also very light, salt and iron official camp, the salt eaten by the common people has not been cheap, only the farm work in the field is heavy, when you sweat too much, your daughter-in-law picks the rope, add a little salt to your meal, otherwise the salt can not be replenished, and there will be no strength to work in the afternoon.

During the day, you face the loess with your back to the sky, the scorching sun is scorching and sweating, and occasionally you will take a break in the shade, boldly fantasizing, what kind of life does the emperor live? You have seen the rich man at the head of your village, and what kind of life he lived, so you will definitely not come to such a stupid conclusion that the emperor used a gold hoe to go to the ground.

But when you think about it, you can only think of the conclusion that the emperor's house is more than that of the rich man in your village, and the sea bowl of meat is bigger than the rich man's house. You pondered this question for a long time, and finally it suddenly dawned on you, and the emperor would definitely reward the servants with torn clothes.

As for who the emperor is? You have no idea what he does, what kind of life he and the people around him live. All you know is that you and the other farmers may not be people, but a herd of cattle and sheep thriving on the land.

The only function of your existence is for them to enjoy, otherwise how can those big officials call them state pastors, which means that they are the owners of a state pasture, and even the emperor calls himself the Son of Heaven as a herdsman, what else can you be if you are not cattle and sheep?

Winter is coming, the field is idle, and the official family will send people to levy labor, as for whether this conscription will kill you, every time is unknown, the food at home is not delicious, but at least you can live, as for the food eaten during the conscription, whether you can support yourself, it depends on the official family.

If the official family wants to make some money, then you will have to starve for a while, and if the official family wants to make more money, then a considerable number of you will have to starve to death. If you want to count on the virtue of a scholar, you might as well count on finding a good girl in the Qinglou.

Ordinary people look like people, full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and spoil the people, all of them are living Hades. Like a cow or sheep who live to the age of 30 without getting seriously ill, and half of the children born can survive, then you can be regarded as an ancestor who has accumulated virtue.

Sometimes you get sick, I don't know why a piece of Ejiao can cure your disease, you and many people around you regard Ejiao as a panacea, but the shopkeeper Liu of the pharmacy tells you that in fact, the efficacy of this thing is not as mysterious as the legend, you get all kinds of messy strange diseases, in fact, the main cause is malnutrition, and Ejiao, which is rich in a lot of nutrients, can be half cured by a strange disease, and most diseases are actually poor diseases.

Every year, the grain grown in the field is collected by the government by various means, and only your grain is left, just enough for your family to barely survive. So you reach the age of forty, your children are growing up, and your family is thriving, but this year suddenly the year is bad and you are in a famine, and not only have your efforts of the past decades been in vain, but most of your family has not survived this famine.

Eat!

Try your best to eat everything in your vision, you have to swallow what you can eat and can't eat, and when you finish eating, you have to sell your sons and daughters, first you sell your daughter, and then you sell your wife after selling it, but she is pitiful for marrying and working hard for your family all her life, not to mention the blessings, and now she is sold into the rich man's house as a slave.

Because of too much manual labor, your daughter-in-law has long been limping, and now she has to be led away from the house with a rope, but behind the door is the son that you and your wife have given birth to for more than ten years.

But the money promised by the rich man has not been given to you for a long time, and I heard that your wife's current body cannot withstand the high-intensity labor, and she will die of exhaustion within a few days of being dragged away, and she will come to a dead end, and your son is really reluctant to sell, what should I do? Then you can only eat Guanyin soil, you wander like a walking corpse to the dirt slope outside the village, surrounded by hungry villagers like you, no one has been lazy all these years, but they have all fallen to this point.

You take a bag and carry a bag of white clay on your back, drag it back with great effort, sift it into fine soil with the last bit of strength, pour water on it and spread it into a cake and then steam it in a pot, and under the eyes of your sons, a pot of cake is made.

You know that you can't eat more of this thing, so you only let them eat a little at a time, this thing can indeed fill the stomach, but there is no nutrition, the more you eat, the more your stomach rises, the more panicked, the younger son is disobedient, secretly eats a whole cake alone at night, and dies on the kang early the next morning.

The more you eat, the more you can't pull it out, and after a few days, you will have to help each other pull each other out, otherwise you will really be suffocated to death, but after all, you will die, after all, this thing has no nutrition at all, and several sons are holding a hard belly, and they have died on the kang one after another.

But you don't have the strength to bury them for a long time, so you can only lie on the kang, your stomach swollen and painful, waiting for death to come. Everything in the past has become a cloud of the past, you have worked hard all your life, but in the end it has become an absurd joke, and your family is ruined in an instant.

When you were dying, the shopkeeper Liu of the pharmacy came, he once went up the mountain to collect medicine and fell down the mountain, and you found that he carried him all the way home, which saved his life, and now he also saved your life, but you know that you can't stand the famine this year, and Shopkeeper Liu can save you for a while, but you can't save your life.

Alone, you ran to the house of the rich king, whom you hated the most, and knelt at the door of his house, begging him to take you as a slave and give him the power of life and death to the rich man. Of course you know that you're not doing it to live, it's about revenge. If he had given you the money you had paid for the sale of your wife, perhaps you would have at least been able to keep a son.

Of course, it may still be the current situation, but you just can't help but hate him, you know that the culprit of everything is the imperial court, but you can't see the emperor, you can't kill the officials, you can only lie dormant and find an opportunity to kill this rich man.

After listening to the servant's story, Lin Fan couldn't come back to his senses for a long time, and after a long time, he brought himself out of the story immersion, he quietly walked to the pharmacy shopkeeper Liu, and asked in a low voice: "The arsenic used by the murderer to kill people. Cream, the dosage must not be small, buy a lot of arsenic. Frost man, you can't not remember, you knew about this from the beginning, why didn't you stop him? ”

Shopkeeper Liu glanced at Lin Fan coldly and said sarcastically: "What? If you find the murderer, you are still unwilling, and you still have to drag the old man into the water? As he spoke, he looked at Lin Fan again, and said disdainfully: "Phew! What a hero, what a chivalrous man, but just a group of hooligans in the market, the common people can't see you when they are in trouble, and when the common people are embarrassed by the tiger, they always come out to pierce their eyes, and the government sends out a reward, and takes out some reward silver, and then they come up like a dog, hum. With that, he brushed his sleeves and left.

Lin Fan was surprised to find that he had solved the murder case, but no one around him applauded him, but they were all looking at him with cold eyes, which made his spine chill.

The official came over and took out five taels of silver from his arms, saying that it was a reward given to him by the government, Lin Fan took it numbly, and before he could say thanks, a figure suddenly came out of the crowd, ran to the butler and grabbed his collar, as if talking to him about something. And he was followed by a dozen or so entourages, and the official told Lin Fan that it was Wang Tianming, the son of the rich man, and Lin Fan's heart tightened, knowing that the main lord was back.

"Butler, so my father died? After that, did I use the money at home casually? Wang Tianming didn't see a trace of sadness, and asked proudly.

"This.... That's right, young master, no..... Master. The housekeeper said helplessly.

"Hahaha, that's good, you will still be the housekeeper of our family in the future, follow me to eat and drink spicy food for you, but my father is dead, I have to express it, come on, press that servant for me." Wang Tianming said with a shout.

Then several attendants carried the servant to Wang Tianming's side, only to see Wang Tianming pick up a stick and smash it on his head, and suddenly the servant's eyeballs protruded and the blood flowed, and then Wang Tianming threw the stick, as if his hand was hurt, and he shook his hand and said, "You guys, hit me!" Beat until meat sauce! ”