Therefore, when you pass by Rui in the back, you will find out why this city is so empty, because you lost too many people at that time, and it has not recovered until that time.

Xiang Rui mentioned these past events, with a sad look on his face, and the others had palpitations and did not dare to speak.

That's when it happened.

"You are outsiders who have fled, aren't you?"

With this somewhat serious and heavy atmosphere, the out-of-place voice interrupted the big guy's musings.

A middle-aged man dressed in several patches was carrying a backpack and didn't know where to come from, looking as if he was about to go back to the city.

After seeing these people, he asked in a somewhat accented tone.

After getting their nods of affirmation, the middle-aged man's face showed a little strangeness, and it took a while before he hesitated, "Then I advise you to leave early!" We're not a good place either! ”

"Well, uncle, what do you mean by that?"

Shen Jun was the first to react and stepped forward to talk to the other party.

The middle-aged man looked at the little girl who was tidy up, and when he saw it, it made people feel a little more good, and he was more willing to explain a sentence or two.

"Well, I'll tell you straight." The middle-aged man said, "Although we are not as short of water as outside, it is not easy to drink water, and water is really more expensive than gold!" ”

The middle-aged man explained to Shen Jun carefully.

In fact, their county town is also experiencing drought, otherwise the river outside would not have dried up into this trickle.

Even a few wells in the county town have been wiped out.

The only remaining well had a lot of water at the bottom of the well, but that well was the well of a powerful landowner in their county.

The old lady of the big landlord's family is willing to share the water, but since last year, the water in other wells in the county has become less and less, but the water in the wells in this family has not decreased.

At the same time, the philanthropic old lady fell seriously ill, and the power of the family was handed over to his sons.

From that time on, the sons of the big landlord's family suddenly turned their faces.

If you want to go to their house to fetch water, you can do it, but if you want to drink water, you have to pay for the water.

And as the drought lasts longer, so does the cost of buying water.

At first, there were not many people who bought it, and the well water was indeed relatively clean, but the river at the entrance of their county town could still make do.

After all, the weather is dry, and it is good to have saliva to drink, where can they be picky and picky.

Who knew that the son of the big landlord was simply a brute who came out of Zhou's skin.

actually sent someone to throw the corpses of the dead people in the county into the river, and not only that, but also found the person in charge of collecting night incense in the county, and joined forces with the other party to pour that thing into it.

The purpose of doing this is to force the people in the county to choose to buy water from their families.

Other people in the county must have been very dissatisfied with this kind of behavior, and they also went to the door to make trouble.

But there were dozens of powerful thugs in the other party's family, and the people who went up to seek justice at the beginning not only did not get justice, but were beaten half to death.

Since then, many people have mentioned it in their hearts, and few people dare to come to the door to ask for an explanation.

In addition to using force to deter, the person in charge of collecting night incense also participated, and if he dared to go to the door to make trouble, the other party went to the door of the person's house to splash those excrements.

How dirty those things are, plus there is no water to rinse them, and they are splashed at the door, and they don't know what to do.

When the two parties join forces, who would dare to make trouble again?

And their water purchase fee is no more, no less, just the boundary line of the patience of this group of people.

Many people tell themselves that it is not a big deal to spend a little money to buy some water.

I have endured it like this, and I have endured it for more than half a year.

After listening to the middle-aged man's words, these people showed surprise in their eyes.

Xiang Rui was the first to hold back, he asked bluntly, "One person may not be able to fight when he comes to the door to seek justice, and he will rush up with the entire county seat, are you still afraid of those dozens of thugs?" ”

The middle-aged man seemed to be stunned for a moment, and only after a while did he say a little hesitantly, "Who wants to run to the front and be beaten, besides, those people's martial arts are better than ours, we are just a farmer and vegetable seller, how can we have the strength to fight with others?" ”

Excuse.

These words are not just excuses.

Xiang Rui looked at him with a little hatred.

If this kind of person dared to live in his county town, he Xiang Rui would have rushed up with people and smashed their homes.

Compared with Xiang Rui, who looked at Xiang Rui, who was quite angry, Shen Jun seemed a lot calmer.

For many people, if no one starts up, they tend to be more patient.

And this kind of patience does have a bottom line, but the bottom line can be lowered again and again.

Only when they are really forced to the point that they can't survive will this group of people really pick up knives and sticks to resist.

But as long as they can live, they will comfort themselves and deceive themselves.

will tell yourself that everyone is so miserable, and there are others who are worse than yourself, and you can endure it any longer.

They will also comfort themselves that if they endure the famine any longer, the famine will be over, and then their days will be restored to peace.

It's not worth it to run to fight each other now.

What if the other party kills themselves or a family member?

As everyone knows, it is precisely because of this patience that the other party will kick his nose more and more, become more and more contemptuous, and do not take these people in his eyes.

It was precisely because Shen Jun understood this that she was not as angry as Xiang Rui, and she asked another question very calmly, "Haven't you thought about digging another well?" ”

Since the drought here is not so severe, the wells of the so-called big landlords are not short of water.

If the people in the county look for it again, they may be able to dig a well with water.

The man was blushing from being asked by Xiang Rui, and he immediately breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Shen Jun's question.

"We didn't think about it anywhere." The middle-aged man sighed, and then said in a complaining tone, "But the well was either stopped by them halfway through, or it was finally dug without any water." ”

In this complaining tone, there seems to be a little bit of reasonableness, and the middle-aged man seems to be inadvertently revealing a piece of news.

It's not that they don't want to work hard, it's that they can't do anything about it.

These ordinary people can't fight those who are rich.

Shen Jun raised her eyebrows, but she didn't speak.

Xiang Rui and Ning Chongchen on the side unconsciously had a little indifference in their eyes when they saw this middle-aged man.

The sympathy for them had now vanished.

This kind of major event related to life can still endure again and again and convince yourself to accept it.