I'm the fourth calamity, but they call me a saint

The biggest difference between Zhulan and Sun is that the administrative division of this city is not strictly divided into two isolated areas.

Rather, it is a city district and village at the upper and lower levels.

The entire city district is not large, about the same size as Yaoguang, and the population is not dense. Every resident here lives a very rich and happy life.

After leaving the station, Levi found a small park near the station and bought Zhulan's newspapers for the past half month from the newsstand in the park.

Although he also bought some newspapers from Zhulan in Sun before leaving, the information in those newspapers was lagging, and it was okay to use them to simply understand the local customs. It takes five days for the train to travel between the two cities, except for cross-city communication, otherwise there will be a considerable information gap.

Sure enough, after finding a bench in the park, Levi spread out the thick stack of newspapers, and looked back from the previous date, he realized that when Sun was turned upside down by him, Zhulan was not at all peaceful during this period.

The government of this city is called [Lanting Grand Council Hall], which is formed by a total of 72 large landowner families in the city. The seats are inherited from generation to generation, and the leader who coordinates the entire council hall and manages the entire Zhulan is called the chairman or general councilor.

The position of the chairman is also inherited from generation to generation by a family surnamed Qi.

And just a few days after Li Wei and Fengzi sneaked from Yuguang to Yaoguang, the current chairman of Zhulan had a heart attack and died at home.

His only daughter was sent to the academy to study at the age of 5. She rarely returned to her hometown in these years and never showed up in public.

On the contrary, his nephew who stayed in Zhulan to manage government affairs for him was eyeing this position after his uncle's death. At the same time, a large part of the Lanting Grand Council Hall wanted to take this opportunity to abolish the hereditary chairmanship and change it to a four-year election system.

So the confidant of the former chairman saw that the situation was not right, and immediately informed the "princess" who should have inherited the throne to immediately take a leave of absence from the academy and return.

Things were already messy enough at this point, and Zhulan's government affairs had been affected these days. As a result, a bigger mess happened two days ago.

The train carriage that Zhulan's "princess", the daughter of the former chairman who was scheduled to return to her hometown today, was riding in accidentally derailed!

An entire carriage, she herself, the servants and the security guards were all missing!

Missing is just a nice way of saying it. Everyone knows that in the intercity tunnel, the carriage was separated from the main body of the train, and it was definitely dead!

According to the gossip in the newspaper, it is said that after learning about this, the former chairman's nephew held a private party to celebrate that night. When questioned by reporters the next day, he cursed and said that his sister's death had already hit him hard, but now he had to endure such a wronged slander.

At the same time, early this morning, he was full of sadness, crying and almost fainting in front of the station, ready to represent Zhulan and hold the train management and operation party accountable!

Yes, that's right, this nephew is the yellow-haired guy that Levi met when he got off the bus.

After reading about the intrigues and dirty things that happened in Zhulan's upper echelons recently, Levi smacked his lips and sighed that the newspapers in this city are full of factions, and they are all dogs raised by each family.

The previous daily newspaper was still scolding the nephew of the former director for murdering the "princess", and the next morning newspaper began to rant about the Lanting Grand Council Hall. There are a group of scums who forget their ancestors and want to make the Qi family extinct!

In between, there are naturally some major events that happened in the sun recently, especially mocking the neighboring city for being tossed around by an artificial biological person, even the parliament and the tokens named after the city were all taken away.

After learning about the recent situation of the city's top leaders, Levi lost interest in these things. He went straight to the owner of the newsstand, bought ten different magazines and newspapers, and then asked in a roundabout way.

"Uncle, were our villages short of manpower four years ago?"

"Four years ago? When was there no shortage of manpower in our villages? All those local farmers who planted fruit trees ran away. We have been relying on selling people from other cities to survive these years."

"All the people bought from other cities were assigned to plant fruit trees?"

"Almost. If you really mean four years ago, the masters of the Great Council did a big deal with the people of the Sun. The newspapers reported this at the time, saying it was a great political achievement. All the people were resettled in the Hongzi Village below. But the contract was only signed for three years. Those people probably went home a long time ago."

The old man at the newsstand waved his fan and looked up at Li Wei.

"Why are you asking about this?"

Levi smiled and put back all the newspapers and magazines he had just bought.

"Those Sun workers haven't returned home yet. My family is very worried, so I came to ask them when they can go back."

"They haven't gone back yet? They must be enjoying themselves here and don't want to leave. Look at what has happened to your Sun these days. It must be hard for a man-made thing to be messed up like this, right?"

"Yes, they must be staying here to enjoy themselves."

Levi said softly, no longer paying attention to the smug old man who kept complaining about how bad the Sun was and how good Zhulan was, and turned around and left.

After having lunch at a random place, Levi rented a car from a car rental company. He drove out of the city according to the Zhulan map he bought, and found Hongzi Village among the densely packed villages in the countryside.

This is the western part of Zhulan, and most of the land is used to grow fruit trees. After driving into the country road, you can clearly feel that there are many more people here than in the city.

But their mental outlook is very poor. Compared with Yu Guang's laborers, they are thinner and darker. Most of them are working in the vast fields. Occasionally, one or two people sit on the side of the road to rest, and they are also silent and numb in their eyes.

When those people saw Levi driving a car, their eyes were obviously mixed with shrinking and cowardice.

Levi drove for a whole afternoon, and finally arrived at Hongzi Village near dusk before it got dark.

This place is more like a shantytown than a village. The ground is full of mud and there is no so-called infrastructure. There is not even a piece of cement or a piece of bricks and tiles.

Li Wei dumped the rented car directly on the roadside at the entrance of the village and walked into the village on foot through the mud.

It was not dark yet, and most of the young and strong people in the village were still busy in the fields. Only a middle-aged man who seemed to be going home to get farm tools was stopped by Li Wei and handed a cigarette.

"Brother, please ask, is Liu Bao in this village?"

The middle-aged farmer who was stopped by Li Wei was obviously a little terrified. He obviously saw how Li Wei came here, and he didn't even dare to take the cigarette he handed over.

"Master, are you looking for Liu Bao? I know where he is buried. How about I take you there now?"

"Is he dead?"

"He has been dead for two years. He died of exhaustion in the field."

"What about Yu Haichao? Do you know this person?"

"He was the previous village chief. He died a year ago."

"What about Yao Jiang, Chu Dafu, Wu Zhouping, and Zhao Sheng?"

"I don't know Zhao Sheng and Wu Zhouping, but they should have died a year ago. They are all buried together."

Levi was silent for a while, took a deep breath, and then spoke calmly again.

"Four years ago, are there still those hundreds of people who were sold here from Taiyang?"

"People from four years ago? There is also a child, but he is crazy and has been living in the old forest in the cemetery."