Soon after, among the hungry villagers, there were finally people who couldn't bear it anymore.

In the darkness, a pregnant woman who had been pregnant for several months escaped.

Although her belly was round, her whole face looked extremely thin, with a sallow complexion, deep-set eye sockets, and a look of hunger.

She looked at He Yi nervously, and at the same time directly dug a piece of venison from the fire rack with her bare hands, and she was not afraid of being hot, so she knelt beside the fire and stuffed it into her mouth with a big gulp, only swallowing without chewing.

She was so hungry.

He Yi didn't speak, just quietly watched her finish eating and being full.

After that, the pregnant woman sat on the ground in a trance, feeling the warmth of the flames and touching her bulging belly.

A flash of pity crossed her eyes, and then she began to sob.

The first one came out, and after a while, a second person ran out of the darkness and went straight to the meat rack, swallowing like a wolf.

Then the third, the fourth, the fifth......

The other villagers who were hidden in the night, seeing that He Yi really didn't seem to have malicious intent, ran out of the darkness one after another, about a dozen people.

What made He Yi strange was that these people were all women and children, and from beginning to end, no man came out.

They began to snatch the food, eating large pieces, as if possessed by hungry ghosts, and it was very miserable.

A woman with a child in her arms ran out, tore a piece of venison into small pieces, quickly stuffed a few slices into her mouth, and then put the rest of the meat into her child's mouth.

"Son, eat, come, open your mouth..."

She said indistinctly, but the child in her arms remained motionless.

The child's chest bulged slightly, and although he still had a trace of breath, he had been hungry for so long that he didn't even have the strength to open his mouth.

"Son, eat quickly. Eat it... Open your mouth, mother, feed you..."

After feeding for a long time, the child did not move, the woman thought that something had happened to the child, and panicked at the moment, holding the child and kneeling on the ground alone, choking with tears.

The snow that had been roasted by the flames had turned the cold earth into mud, and she knelt in the mud, her knees sinking deep.

"Eat quickly, eat quickly! It's my mother who is sorry for you.... Eat it!"

"It's my mother who is sorry for you, and my mother is sorry for you......"

"Woooooo Who's going to save my baby......"

......

He Yi pursed his lips tightly, feeling bad in his heart, he looked at it silently for a long time, sighed, took a few steps forward and said to the woman: "Sister, let me feed it." ”

The woman was startled, and hurriedly hugged the child tightly, curled up on the ground, and her frightened eyes completely turned into grief and anger at this time.

"Get out of here! Get out of here! Don't touch my kids, it's all you... It's all you, you!" The woman pointed at He Yi, her expression sad and crazy.

We?

He Yi glanced down, then looked at the place where the woman's finger was pointing, and immediately understood.

It's clothes.

The clothes He Yi was wearing now had been ripped from the corpse of a monk in the snowfield.

Crane feather coat.

He originally thought that it would be better than the prison uniform, at least not to scare the people outside, but he didn't expect that this clothing was worse than the prison uniform.

What did the cultivators do here? He Yi was puzzled, and remembered the female corpse that had hung beside the farmland before, and the small stone tablet erected underneath.

The one above: Death to the one who insults the immortal master. Even more strange.

"Believe me, I don't mean anything wrong, your child will starve to death if he doesn't feed it. He Yi said, took off the coat on his body, and threw it into the fire.

Not allowing the other party to refuse, He Yi directly snatched the child over, grabbed a handful of broken snow, stretched it out by the fire and melted it into water, and dotted it on the child's lips drop by drop.

When the child's mouth was moist, he chewed the venison and put it in the child's mouth with the snow water, and smoothed it down to his throat, and then swallowed it.

"It's like I fed it this way, I can't feed more at a time, he's too weak. ”

The child's sallow face made He Yi's heart fluctuate, and he wanted to figure out what was going on here.

He Yi returned the child, and the woman hurriedly took it, seeing that the other party was indeed saving her child, and her vigilance was not as strong as Fang Cai's, she began to learn from He Yi and feed her child.

"Thank you, thank you. With tears in her eyes, the woman said gratefully.

"What happened to you here? I see that the land near the field is not barren, and crops have already been planted, if you spend some time cultivating it, it will definitely be a good harvest, how can there be a famine?" Seeing that the woman was gradually calming down, He Yi took the opportunity to ask.

The woman tightened her grip on the child in her bosom and replied with a cry: "We will not be able to wait until then, for when the winter is over, and before the harvest is time, we will all starve to death...... Besides, even if it can survive the autumn harvest, the grain will be snatched away by those people. ”

"Those people?" said Ho Yi suspiciously.

"That's it, it's... A person who practices Qi Sect. The woman said, a flash of fear in her eyes.

He Yi looked at the surrounding villagers, and then whispered to the woman, "What about the men in your village?"

Strange to say, although this village is smaller, there are enough 80 or 90 families. Besides, there are nearly 100 acres of land outside, so it won't just rely on some women to farm, right?

"Man?" the woman said with a grumbling voice, as if she had resigned herself to her fate, and gently stroked the face of the child in her arms, unable to speak any longer.

The village was quiet again, except for the mournful chirping of insects in the shadows on the street corners.

......

"Benefactor, you don't know. A few days ago, many outsiders suddenly came to our border village, who claimed to be immortals of the Qi Sect and took all the men in the village away. After a few more days, the men all returned, but they did not know what kind of bewitchment they had suffered, and they kept saying that they wanted to become immortals, and as soon as they returned, they began to pack their belongings and swept away all the food and materials stored by each family. An older woman approached and patted the woman on the shoulder as if to reassure.

"How can people live without food? We're just weak women, and we can't get them back, so we have to reason with the men, guess what they say? They say ———— a hundred years from now, you'll all be a pile of bones, but we're still alive! Who cares about a pile of bones?"

"Among those who say this, there is still my husband!" said the woman, and tears could not hold back her tears.

The surrounding women and children gradually gathered around and sat together.

Most of them were silently wiping away tears, and the children also lowered their heads and did not dare to speak, as if they remembered that desperate day again.

"The mother-in-law of the Wang family, who lives on West Street, is as fierce as fire, and she went to practice the Qi Sect to ask for food, but the Qi Sect didn't give it, so she couldn't help but scold a few words. Because of this, the mother-in-law of the Wang family was beaten by them, dragged back, tied to a tree and hanged alive, and since then, we have never dared to go again. The emaciated pregnant woman whispered.

"For the so-called cultivation of immortals, I didn't even care about my wife and children......" He Yi listened with a sluggish face, and after a long time, he scolded:

"It's crazy!"

............

The night is like water.

He Yi half-knelt by a stream, poured cold water on his face, looked at the round of Yueyu Qionglou in the air, and sighed silently.

From the mouths of those women, He Yi learned that the world in recent years has almost completely changed.

To sum it up in one sentence:

The monks are regent, and the Quartet is in chaos.

The original concept of this world has been completely turned upside down.

Ever since the method of cultivating truth was introduced to the world, all mortals in the secular world, whether bureaucrats or commoners, wanted to cultivate the truth. They yearn for that method of cultivation, and they try their best to bribe the cultivators.

Just for two words: immortality.

They aspire to live forever, and through their cultivation, they aspire to achieve the goal of living with heaven and earth.

After all, even the current saints have begun to take the lead in cultivating the Immortal Law, so what reason do they have to refuse?

Mortals are like this, but the real cultivators began to covet officials and become regents.

It's just for two words: power desire.

These cultivators, when they survive on another Xiuzhen Continent, may have a despicable status, or they may have an unsatisfactory life, but since they came to the secular continent, they have been so sought after.

So, what reason do they have not to take on the wind?

But do they understand what the people need, how to govern the world?

With how easy it is to understand cultivators, these people will hardly know anything except cultivation, except for trying to get spiritual herbs and pills, except for trying to get treasures and exercises, and in addition to trying to get everything they want!

Those who know politics do not know how to govern, and those who do not know politics talk about social affairs in vain.

So much so that now the world is plagued by disasters in all directions......

"Plop!"

He Yi threw a bad stone into the water, looking at the splash, his heart was extremely heavy and melancholy.

Not to mention the general trend of the world, just talk about the women and children in the village in front of them, what should I do?

Even if you can provide them with a full meal, what will happen after that?

If they are not self-sufficient, they will starve to death sooner or later.

In order to plan for the present, it is necessary to either immediately open up the wasteland and farm, or migrate en masse and go to other towns to find a way to survive.

But there are no men in this village, only this group of orphans and widows are left, and no matter which path they choose to take, it is extremely difficult.

Difficult!

Difficult!

Difficult!

He Yi threw another stone into the stream, thinking about his thoughts in a daze.

In any case, live first, then think more and do more.

In the reflection in the water, it seemed that his father's face appeared again, and He Yi's ears also sounded his father's teachings.

"Since you can't think of a good way, let's do it in the stupidest way first. ”

He Yi quietly stared at the reflection torn by the ripples in the stream, and was silent.