crush the rich

Yin Lian and Yue Ke didn't plan to go deep into Chuzhou from the beginning, because no matter from the newspaper information they read in the past or the internal political structure of Chuzhou known so far, this is not a good idea.Chuzhou is often more like a place outside the law. Only those who are attached to the aristocratic family can be protected. The common people who are not attached to the aristocratic family are almost like rootless duckweeds, and even the government will not protect them.

Xia Guo has long established the illegality of slavery, but Chuzhou is in a disguised slavery society.They don't have the name of slaves, but they have the essence of slaves.

The history of Chuzhou is basically a history of family struggles.

It is said that in Chuzhou, every state citizen has affiliation, and different affiliations lead to their different positions.Therefore, there are very few foreigners in Chuzhou because they are bullied.

The civilians were enslaved by the aristocratic families, and the locals bullied and oppressed the foreign settlers. This progressively led to the extremely conservative and xenophobic customs of Chuzhou.

But even in the case of being attached to the family, Yue Ke can still perceive the hardships of these common people.The counties and villages they passed by belonged to the border area of ​​Chuzhou and Huizhou, and the atmosphere itself should not be so exclusive, but Yue Ke had already seen several incidents of weapon fighting.

A group of adult men were hungry and had a fight with the men from the neighboring village that was divided into Huizhou, because the other party's children went fishing beyond the predetermined limit by two feet.A widow was sick and was about to starve to death. She didn't dare to eat the cake thrown by passers-by, because she was worried that the other party was from the opposite village, and she was afraid that her fellow villagers would beat her to death if she ate the cake.A group of men stood guard on the side of the road, it is said that they were catching children who came to steal food from the opposite side, claiming that if they caught them, they would kill one or two and throw them to the entrance of the opposite village.

Of course, most of the time, they are still hungry and powerless people and animals.

The old woman wandered around the fields, trying to find a cluster or two of fish that slipped through the net. The children gathered by the river, fishing or checking the reels. There is nothing to do when we get together, or we go up and down the river to fiddle with food.

Compared with the countryside, the situation in the towns is more serious.

It is obviously not a catastrophe year, but only a few places have failed harvests. If the government manages properly, it should be easy to deal with the past, but this time it is a scene of a drought year.

There were several starving beggars lying on the corner of the city wall, and some government servants wanted to drag them to bury them.Someone struggled a few times, and the dragger hesitated a little, and shouted: "This person is still alive..."

As a result, another person said: "Sooner or later, you will die! Tomorrow, you will have to procrastinate one more time and spend another time. Are you willing to cause such trouble?"

Hearing this, the man thought it was true, so he dragged the half-dead man onto the cart as well.

Although she didn't know why she was dragging it away, Yue Ke's heart still trembled.

It's fine if you just plan to throw it away outside the city, but if you plan to bury it, it's buried alive, and it's too cruel.

Yue Ke couldn't help shouting to Yin Lian: "Erya!"

In fact, Yin Lian had noticed the movement on the road long ago, but she was more hard-hearted, even if she saw it, she would be relatively indifferent - she is not Guanshiyin Bodhisattva, can she still save Cangsheng?And these people are not something she can save by throwing a box of lunch and a few pieces of snacks.

Just like what the yamen servant said, if he can be saved for a while, he will still die tomorrow.

But Yue Ke couldn't bear it.

She yelled to stop, and Yin Lian also stopped.

Yue Ke asked Yin Lian: "Are they going to drag that man along with his body to bury him?"

Yin Lian replied: "Maybe."

"But he's still alive!"

Yin Lian said: "Although we are alive, we are not far from death. Ke Ke, if we continue to move forward, we will only see more dead people... We cannot save everyone."

"I know, I know." Yue Ke looked at the beggar who was being dragged onto the cart, occasionally twitching a few times, making a weak struggle, and muttered to himself.

She wanted to get out of the car to stop it, but hesitated because she couldn't tell the right from wrong. After a while, she asked Yin Lian: "Is there nothing we can do? He is... still Alive."

"He's still alive now, maybe he'll die tomorrow."

"But maybe... tomorrow he can find some turning point?"

Seeing her hesitant and struggling, Yin Lian fell silent immediately, and after a while, said: "It's not true that you can't do anything." After thinking about it, she took out a handful of copper coins, put them in front of Yue Ke, and said, "Do you want to do anything?" If you want to stop it, just stop it, but don’t negotiate any conditions with the other party, and don’t say anything about saving people, just argue with the other party, saying that you can’t understand how they treat human lives so recklessly, the more righteous indignation the better. They want to keep people together in order to avoid trouble If you bury it, you will let him go temporarily to avoid trouble. Then you touch a few copper coins, go to the stall over there to buy the cheapest rough cake, and watch him eat it."

Yue Ke grabbed three or five copper coins, and Yin Lian reminded:

"Even coarse cakes are probably not cheap. At this time, the price of food must have risen sharply. You take ten copper coins. If the other party wants more, you say you don't have it and don't buy it."

Yue Ke froze for a moment, then asked in surprise, "So expensive?"

During this period of time, she was eating the dry food provided by Yin Lian, so she didn't know the prices outside.

After thinking about it, she lowered her head to look for it: "I still have some unfinished snacks..."

In the end, Yin Lian stopped her and said, "Don't give me dim sum, just buy coarse cakes, listen to me!"

Yue Ke had just touched the paper bag containing the dim sum, and when she heard Yin Lian's words, she hesitated for a moment, let go of the paper bag, reached out to grab a handful of copper coins, counted out ten, and was about to get off the car.

As a result, before she got out of the car, she heard someone shouting from the opposite street: "Stop!"

Yue Ke was taken aback, and found that someone had already stopped her, so she didn't get out of the car for the time being.

But I saw a person carrying a package running over from the other end. From the voice and body shape, I could barely tell it was a woman, but her physique looked very intimidating.

She scolded angrily: "If you are still alive, you will drag him to bury him. Are you sorry!?"

The yamen servant seemed to recognize her, and complained: "Why is it you again!? I said Sister Yu, you are going back now, can you stop meddling in your own business before leaving!?"

The woman then said: "I don't mind my own business, do I still expect you to realize it yourself? Little Shovel, let me tell you that you have to have a conscience. You lost your heart today and dragged people to be buried alive. Next year It may not be retribution, but it will be buried instead!"

"Why are you cursing people!?"

The two sides quarreled, and then someone came to persuade them.Compared to when the beggar was dragged away before, everyone pretended to be deaf and dumb when they were dragged away. After the quarrel between the two sides, the nearby shops seemed to have suddenly come to life. I was persuaded.

The yamen servants looked at the half corpse lying on the cart struggling on top of the pile of corpses, and they still felt unlucky, so they threw him down again.

When Sister Yu saw her, she leaned forward, helped him up, took out the water bag and dry cakes from her bosom, fed them both water and cakes, and finally received a difficult thank you from the other party.

Someone next to me saw it and said, "It's alright, alright, it's just because of your kindness, big sister. Your dry food is given by the master, right? Is there enough food for the road? It's still wasted on this kind of beggar."

Feeling that there was nothing to do with them, Yue Ke sat back in the car and said, "Fortunately, there are kind-hearted people."

Yin Lian thought about it, and felt that it would be better to not block, so she found a chance to let Yue Ke buy a bunch of the cheapest coarse grain biscuits, and then when she met someone who was dying, she threw it away as if she just dropped something. paper bag.

As long as you move fast enough and pretend enough, a piece of rough cake won't cause any trouble.

Of course, in fact, a piece of rough cake is of no use at all. The top is to let people live for a few more days. It is impossible for one person in a hundred people to survive because of this dry cake, let alone be against the sky. Change your life.

All this is in vain after all.

But it can soothe Yue Ke's guilt to a certain extent.

When the carriage drove halfway, Yin Lian saw a deserted meadow, so she stopped the car, let the horse go to the grassland to graze for a while, and took a rest with Yue Ke, and pulled out a The small stove cooked a handful of noodles.

Afterwards, she was delayed for a while because she went the wrong way—this was not the first time she drove the wrong way. At this time, there was no satellite map, and the traffic maps she bought often had various errors and omissions. It is a more reliable version, and it still cannot guarantee 100% accuracy. This is why Yin Lian has no shortage of dry food or water, but still has to stay in towns and villages all the way, because the coordinates must be determined regularly—and then Yin Lian Lian and the eldest sister ran into each other again in a ruined temple.

It was almost dusk at this time, Yin Lian parked the car next to the ruined temple, and found an open stone slab to burn the stove, but when she turned around, she found Sister Yu poking her head beside the carriage.

If it was an ordinary man, Yin Lian would have stopped drinking a long time ago, but today she saw the behavior of eldest sister Yu in the town and knew that she was a good person, Yin Lian's tone was much better, and she just asked: "This eldest sister, Is there a problem?"

Sister Yu was also startled, and turned her head to look at Yin Lian, and found that it was a young and thin young man. She immediately felt relieved and said, "Hello, brother, I just want to see something strange. Such a magnificent carriage, I am here I haven't seen it a few times in the capital."

Yin Lian said: "Eldest sister is from the capital? Are you going back to Beijing this time? You must have been away from home for a long time. Now the capital is full of carriages like this. It's not unusual."

She was a little surprised when she heard this, and asked: "Really? It seems that the capital has changed a lot in the past few years since I haven't been back." But she was a little bit embarrassed.

Yin Lian took a deep look at her and felt that everyone alive in this world has a story.