Meng Changqing: "In this way, the key to this matter lies in the people of that village? ”

Cao Hongxing nodded, "Although there is some small friction between you and me, it is your and mine's business and has nothing to do with the people, as long as they can live a good life, I am naturally willing to let them go."

The documents for the relocation of the village have already been sent, and if you can move them, you can take them away immediately, and I will not stop them. ”

"Lord Cao's righteousness!" Meng Changqing said, "With your words, I am bound to persuade those people, and please send a servant who is familiar with the surrounding terrain to take me over." ”

"You want to go over?" Cao Hongxing asked.

"Yes, since you came to Weishan County, I naturally want to take a look."

Cao Hongxing said, "If you go to see it yourself, then I will show you the way." ”

"There is labor."

Cao Hongxing mounted his horse and led them all the way west.

After walking for most of the hour, the group finally reached the vicinity of the village.

The closer you get here, the more dust there is in the air, the fewer trees there are, and the dirt on the ground looks drier.

"It's up ahead." Cao Hongxing pointed the way, "That large area, three hundred and fifty-seven households. Fourteen hundred people were fed by the land next to the village. But you see that field is full of sand.

As soon as the wind blows, the red sand in the ground accumulates another layer. After serving half a year's rice, the harvest is difficult to make ends meet. ”

Meng Changqing dismounted and walked towards the field, squatting down again to test the depth of the red sand.

The fields as deep as a knuckle of her index finger and buried in red sand are obviously no longer fertile fields.

Naturally, the food grown in such fields is pitiful.

Ever since Meng Changqing heard about Hongsha's death when he was a child, he had been wondering what kind of place it was.

Taifu only said that the place was on the edge of Liangzhou, although it helped Liangzhou reduce the land adjacent to Jiemaru to reduce the impact of Liangzhou, but the Hongsha Death Land itself was a fierce beast lying on the edge of Liangzhou.

It was a barren place, and it was full of red sand, and whatever went into it had to die.

If this is not terrible, just tell the people not to go in, but the Red Sand Dead Land is gradually expanding outward.

I don't know how far it will expand, whether it will be finished after swallowing Liangzhou, or if it will swallow the entire beam.

Of course, Taifu also said that the expansion of the Red Sand Dead Land is very slow.

So far, only the villages that originally lived next to the Red Sands Dead Land have been affected.

When Meng Changqing heard about this place in his early years, he always thought that it was an ordinary desert, but it was just a fuss from people in this era who gave it the name of the place where the red sand died.

But now, with the red sand in her hand, she no longer has the confidence she had before.

Indeed, this is a grain of red sand.

The color of the sand grains is strange and eerie.

"Lord Meng." The eight directions behind her called her, "Look, someone from the village has come out." ”

Meng Changqing stood up, and when he turned around, he saw many people coming out of the village.

Walking in the front was an old man who was supported by two men in his prime.

These people knew Cao Hongxing, even though he was wearing civilian clothes, the old man still led the villagers to kneel down and kowtow, calling him Lord Cao.

"Get up." Cao Hongxing's tone of voice to these people was much better than that of Meng Changqing.

"Master Cao, you're here again." The old man took a half step forward, "Come to my house and drink a bowl of water." ”

Cao Hongxing turned his head sideways and introduced to Meng Changqing, "He is the village chief of this village, and he is also the patriarch of these people, surnamed Luo." ”

The old man looked at Meng Changqing, and seeing that he had no resemblance to Cao Hongxing, he asked tentatively, "Who is this?" ”

"It's the county lord of Beishan County!" Someone in the crowd recognized Meng Changqing.

Meng Changqing looked at the person who spoke, and saw that the person was a little familiar, probably the servant who was transferred to Beishan County.

"Meet Master Meng." The old man took a group of people to kowtow to Meng Changqing again.

"Old man, please get up." Meng Changqing stepped forward and helped the person up.

The group followed the old man to his house.

The younger juniors had already wiped down the tables and chairs in the yard and prepared tea.

After inviting Meng Changqing and Cao Hongxing to take a seat, the old man sat with him at the bottom, and the others watched from a distance.

"I'm here today to move the village." Cao Hongxing said, "Master Meng is also here today, you can ask Lord Meng to give a guarantee, and when you go to Beishan County, you will ensure that you have land to plant." ”

"Lord Cao." The old man said, "I'm a person who can't live for a few days at my age, I mean, the young people in the village who want to go to Beishan County will let them go, but people like me, who are about to enter the earth, will not be moved." ”

"It's hard to leave your homeland." Meng Changqing continued: "Old man, I know your thoughts, no matter how bad this place is, in the end, it is the place where you have lived since you were a child, and your ancestors are buried under this land. You won't be at ease with letting you get out of here. ”

The old man was surprised that Meng Changqing would say such a thing, but this word really hit his heart.

"Thank you, sir, for thinking of me as a bad old man. Since the adults have come to our village, it can be seen that the adults attach great importance to the people of our village, so I will ask the young juniors in the village to pack up their things and let them go with you immediately. ”

"It doesn't have to be this way." Meng Changqing said, "I heard Lord Cao say that your entire village is a clan? ”

"Exactly." The old man replied: "Our village is all descendants of the surname Luo. ”

"Since it is a clan, there must be relatives between each other, you let the young generations go, leaving only the old people, and those who are left are the young people's grandfathers, fathers, and uncles, you are still reluctant to bury the ancestors in the ground, how can they be willing to leave their elders?"

"Then ......," the old man looked at Meng Changqing uncertainly, "What do you mean?" ”

"I mean, if you don't worry about your ancestors, you can move over with your ancestors, anyway, I have a lot of open space in Beishan County." When Meng Changqing said this, Cao Hongxing's eyes almost popped out, he deserved to be an official of Ye Luzi, this idea was really wild enough.

"This ......," the old man subconsciously looked in the direction of the cemetery, "There are so many ancestors, and besides, the ancestors have been in the ground for many years, so it's not good to be suddenly alarmed." ”

"In this case, then your village will not be able to move." Meng Changqing said, "The older generation is reluctant to pass away from the ancestors, and the younger generation is reluctant to the older generation, I can be considered to know why I have waited for so many days, but none of them have gone to Beishan County."

Old man, Beishan County and Weishan County are adjacent to each other, and the distance is not far, you can ask the people who go to serve how long it will take to walk back to your village from Beishan County. ”

"County master, I have walked this road." In the distance, a young man came out and said, "We have been walking for nearly ten hours. ”

"Ten hours, if there were a donkey cart or a horse-drawn cart, it would have been faster, and it would have been a day." Meng Changqing said, "If you want to worship your ancestors, you can get there in one day, old man, do you want to let the younger generations die on this land for this day's journey?" ”