In ancient times, it has always been men who plough and women weave, which is also to consider the difference between men and women in physical strength, carry out a reasonable social division of labor, and optimize the use of labor, so as to increase the harvest of labor. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Of course, this is not an absolute division of labor. When the farm is busy, women and children will inevitably go to the fields to help, and when the farm is not working, the strong husband will occasionally help the petite and lovely wife to thread a needle and thread.

But they came to the outskirts of a town, working in the heavens and the earth, ploughing and hoeing...... But it's all women and children doing it, and there is not a single male in sight, not even a single male old man.

But even women and children, there are not many of them, and most of the fields are actually barren. Either the land has been reclaimed and cultivated far beyond the capacity of the inhabitants, or something has happened to the population, and there have been enough people to cultivate the land, but now only a tenth of the land has been cultivated, or even less.

Guessing is useless after all, they found two people in the stone, who looked like mother and son, but in fact they were not, and when they walked in and took a closer look, they found that although the woman was not small, her body was not fully developed. The age is estimated to be around thirteen or fourteen years old. It's just that people are dark and thin, and their skin is very bad. Lips are dry. It is difficult to tell her age without looking at her secondary sex characteristics.

The little boy was about ten years old, so hungry that he was reduced to bones, but he was still very clever, courageous, and talkative. The three of them went past the stone, and the little girl almost hid, and stood there dumbfounded, her body trembling. Instead, a younger boy came over to say hello.

"Little brother, where are your parents?" asked Xiaoxue softly, giving the little boy two red apples.

The little boy snatched the red apple, handed it to the little girl, and devoured it himself. Because she ate too fast, her original dark face turned purple, Xiaoxue quickly took out the kettle, let the little boy drink a few sips, and finally calmed down. The little boy spoke:

"Dad went to war, I don't know if he died in battle. My mother died of illness, and she died of hunger. She is my neighbor's sister Yin, and she doesn't have a father and mother. This is the land of the two of us, we grow food, and two-thirds of it goes to the country to support the fighters. The other third we can keep, as food, and the seeds that will be sown the following year. The little boy said.

"This land was cultivated by the two of you?" the stone roughly estimated, this land was five or six acres in size, and although it was overgrown with weeds, it was indeed planted with crops, but in most places, weeds grew more vigorously than crops.

"Yes, when my mother was still there, Sister Yin's parents were gone, and my mother brought her to our house. Later, my mother also left, and we were the only ones left. The little boy said, "Don't look at us small, the sun hasn't come out yet, we start working, and when the sun goes down, we're still there." The two of us paid more public food than other people's families. ”

"Pay the grain?" the stone asked.

"Yes, to the state, and the state gives food to the fighters who are fighting. The little boy said.

"Are there a lot of battles here?" asked Xiaoxue.

"I've been fighting, I've been fighting since I've been sensible, and I've heard that it started more than 20 years ago, but I wasn't born at that time. I will continue to fight, and when I grow up, I will also fight, and I am not yet old. But I'm ready. The little boy said, practicing a few times, it was the five-step punch he had learned to fight.

"Why are you fighting, and with whom?" Xiaoxue asked.

"I don't know why we want to fight, anyway, men have to fight when they grow up, and men are born to be warriors. We are at war with Dongcheng, the hateful Dongcheng, and when I grow up, I must destroy their city. The little boy said. Obviously, he had a lot of this kind of education.

"Why do you want to fight Dongcheng?" Xiaoxue asked again.

"Because the east city is full of bad guys, and they eat the bad guys of the people of the west city. The little boy said.

Stone glanced at the little girl as they were talking, and she was secretly looking this way, and shivered with fright when she met Shi's eyes. She tried to escape, but her feet couldn't move. Suddenly I burst into tears. The stone tried to come close to comfort her, but it scared her into madness.

Xiaoxue had no choice but to block the stone and push him far away. The stone must not have a mirror to see if it looks like a beast of prey. He saw the orangutan brother following Xiaoxue and gently comforting the little girl, and he felt even more uncomfortable, he thought to himself, "Am I not as good as the orangutan brother?" ”

Stone couldn't believe that Miss Meimei, the first beauty in the city of chaos, treated him as a lover and took him all over the streets. He himself wanted to go up and ask what was going on, but he was afraid of scaring the little girl out of her mind. I had to watch Xiaoxue and the little boy comfort the little girl sentence by sentence. He heard the words "planting period" and "sowing" from afar, and he was at a loss, not knowing what they could do to comfort the little girl by talking about the crops.

Xiaoxue gave the food and fruits on herself and the orangutan brother to the two little farmers, left them, and beckoned the stone to continue on her way.

Stone looked at the two of them blankly. Xiaoxue blushed and wanted to laugh again, but she just didn't speak. The orangutan brother had just finished crying and couldn't laugh, but waved his hand to indicate that he couldn't speak. After waving his hand, he forgot his sadness for a moment and almost laughed.

The two of them had already walked forward, and the stone was still standing there in a daze, and the stone caught up with them helplessly and asked, "What the hell is going on?"

Xiaoxue sneered and took a few more steps forward, letting the stone and the orangutan walk side by side. When she stopped, her smile stopped, and tears flowed down her face, just like the orangutan brother. The compassion for the two little children made her breathless.

The stone stopped, looking at the orangutan brother, with a posture that as long as you don't say it, I won't leave.

The orangutan brother looked around to make sure no one could hear him, and whispered to the stone.

It turned out that in this place, when men reached the age of fifteen, they had to go to the battlefield to fight, and the elderly, women and children stayed behind to cultivate and stock up on supplies for the battlefield. But this war lasted for 25 years, and the old people who stayed behind were either starved to death or died of disease. So, when they came to this place, not a single adult man could be seen, not even an old man. However, if women are unable to have children because of the lack of adult men, then the population will drop sharply, the warriors will not be replenished, and the strength of the army will soon decline, and City A will be defeated by City B and become a slave of City B.

In order to ensure that adult men can go to war, women can have children normally, and avoid a sharp population decline, the rulers set the first five days of each month as the "planting period", during which the soldiers take turns to return to the city and the village to "sow seeds".

Under this system, at night during the "planting period", ghosts and wolves howled everywhere, and the little girl could not sleep at this time every time, hiding in the quilt and crying.

This month, the little girl has reached the age of receiving "seeding", and when she sees the stone, she thinks that it is going to be someone for her, and she is too frightened to move.