The elder smiled bitterly: "The one who injured Zhao Daliang was the person from Xujiazhai opposite. They said that Zhao Daliang carrying the coffin from their land was too unlucky, and it would damage the feng shui of the Xu family, so they asked him to take two taels of silver out to redeem it. Where can I get the orphans and widows of the Daliang family?"

Bai Ling raised her eyebrows and said disdainfully: "That's a nice thing, what kind of redemption, don't you want him to keep the money to buy the road?"

"Yes, it's the money to buy the road. It's just an excuse to ask for money. The elder scratched his head, "I still have to go ahead and ask everyone to make some money for him, otherwise it won't be the same if the body is parked in the village." ”

Bai Ling felt disdainful: "The other side is too dirty." ”

"In fact, the relationship between the two villages has always been bad. The elder coughed lightly: "After so many years of fighting for land and water, I have long been fighting for generations. Ten years ago, the fields in Xujia Village were flooded and they couldn't get food, so they asked us for help. Of course, the village chief refused to give it, but they actually entered our village at night to grab food. That night, Zhao Daliang's father also killed a member of the Xu family. ”

Bai Ling was stunned, not knowing what to say.

Retribution for injustice is not just an empty phrase in words.

Yan Saburo thought thoughtfully: "In this way, the horse rejection pile outside the village gate is used to block Xujia Village?"

"Well, sometimes there are other homeless people, and they are also guarded against. When the elder said this, he sighed deeply, "When the ancestors first arrived in Taoyuan, they were brothers and brothers, and neighbors were harmonious, but I don't know how it has become like this now. Alas, the world is declining, and people's hearts are not ancient. ”

What should be known, Yan Saburo knows, what should not be known, they still don't know.

At this time, Zhao Dazhao also came over, and the four of them stood up and prepared to go to Hebi. The elder pointed to the leader and said, "This is my grandson, and I will be your guide." He knew what to do next. ”

Zhao Dazhao is similar in age to Yan Sanlang, a little shy, especially afraid to look at Bai Ling. Every time this pretty girl looked at him, he blushed.

Just as he was about to take a step, Yan Saburo suddenly turned back and asked the elder, "By the way, have you ever heard of 'dying'?"

"What's that?" the elder was stunned, "old and stupid, I haven't heard of it." ”

"Good. Yan Saburo said, and the other three followed Zhao Dazhao out of the village.

There is a bamboo forest in front of it, so dense that no one can get into it, and there is only a path in the forest to walk through.

Bai Ling rode a horse and walked on the path, but felt that the green bamboos on both sides were lush, the cool breeze was blowing, and the scenery was picturesque, so she couldn't help but sigh: "In such a beautiful place, those villagers always have to fight, which is really a wrinkled scenery." ”

Yan Saburo said lightly: "If you don't fight, you won't have anything to eat." She thinks about the view, but the mountain people who live here think about filling their bellies.

"No food?" Bai Ling's eyes widened, "The water and soil here are good and there is no war, as long as people are diligent, how can they have no food?"

"It's not that simple. ”

"It's not that simple. "Master Wu Cheng, "Little Brother Yan saw something?" Jin Yu walked beside him, silent.

His face was not very good.

"Don't eat it in your stomach. The young man explained to the white cat before he turned to say, "Although Taoyuan is good, this is a dead place." Surrounded by mountains, arable land is limited. But the number of people is increasing day by day. ”

After a pause, he concluded: "A piece of bread is so big, and there are more people who divide the bread, and each person can get less." ”

This is also easy to understand. The ancestors had just arrived in the Taoyuan Realm, and the large area of land here was waiting to be developed, wouldn't it be a paradise on earth? However, as human beings multiplied and multiplied here, the number became larger and larger, but the area of Taoyuan was limited after all. The more people it carries, the fewer resources it can share per capita.

Lack of resources inevitably leads to contradictions, and if this is combined with unequal distribution, it leads to war.

City Lord Wu applauded lightly, his eyes were strange: "Well said, it's like seeing it in person." ”

He has a lot of insights in Taoyuan over the years, and in the final analysis, it is the power of time;

Therefore, what Zhaojiacun and Xujiacun are fighting for is essentially the power to survive and live well. Bai Ling thought for a while: "Can't you cooperate, everyone has something to eat, although they eat less." ”

"Cooperation?" the young man smiled slightly, "If you want to cooperate, you have to talk about integrity." Miss Bai is also from a big family, who is the person you usually trust the most?"

He was mostly expressionless, and this time he laughed unexpectedly good. Bai Ling was stunned for a moment, and then thought carefully: "Father, Uncle Li, and the bottle......" Her face darkened, "It's a pity that the bottle has gone." ”

"The most trusted person is your loved one. Yan Saburo summed it up to her, "Usually, people who are close in blood are the closest. So what you're seeing is what we're looking at. ”

For mountain people, with blood as the link and family as the unit, they have the strength and the capital to eat and clothe.

Miss Bai let out a long sigh when she heard this: "These people are quite pitiful, they are in prison but they can't get out. ”

Yan Saburo didn't sigh: "They will have a way." ”

Bai Lingqi said: "What way?"

Yan Saburo shrugged: "War." "Aside from plague and war, he couldn't think of a third way to depopulate the population on a massive scale.

Bai Ling was surprised: "Is there no other way?"

"That's none of our business. "It's a problem for Taoyuan people, and he won't bother to think about it. Life can always find its own way out, so why should he worry about it?

Jin Yu, who had been silent along the way, suddenly pointed to the side of the road: "The red road starts here." ”

There were scattered stones on the side of the road, red with a hint of brown, like coagulated blood.

The further you go, the more red rocks and gravel there are.

After more than ten zhang, there is no road in front of it, only high and low, large and small red stones.

Yan Saburo casually grabbed the red rock from the ground and looked at it: "The product left by the collapse." ”

It was clear that the mountain had cracked due to a violent collapse, and the rocks that had fallen from it had impacted the ground, leaving no vegetation in the area where the redstone had passed.

This detail also corresponds to the legend of the closure of the peach source that Elder Zhao told the four people.

Bai Ling raised her head, looked ahead and muttered, "This is Hebi?"

Directly in front of him was a cliff, almost as smooth as a knife, rising from the ground and reaching into the sky. The four of them looked up, but they couldn't see the top of the mountain.

Perhaps, it's in the depths of the clouds, right?

The elder said that the "Hebi" was where the passage was located in the past, and when the two of them walked here, they naturally understood why no one could escape from the Taoyuan Realm.

Legend has it that cranes can't fly over this mountain, and it's even more impossible for people to climb over it.

City Lord Wu was also looking up, and after a while, he said, "We've been here." I wanted to find a way to go. ”