Parents are busy farming

The two of them trembled when they heard Ye Zifen's words.

Their faces were as pale as paper and lifeless, as if they were soulless bodies, and they slowly and difficultly took steps towards the blazing fire.

As the distance got closer and closer, the fire gradually illuminated the surroundings. The two finally saw each other's faces clearly, and they couldn't help but secretly complain - they realized that the person they encountered this time was no ordinary person, but an extremely powerful and ruthless person. people.

Facing such a powerful enemy, the two people hurriedly used their brains to think hard about how to survive in a desperate situation.

Ye Zifen also saw the basic situation of the two men. They were two men in their thirties, but they were not very strong.

She guessed that they were bandits who had just occupied the top of the mountain.

In disasters, some people are forced to do so.

The two of them had just stood still when another woman suddenly appeared next to the fire.

After she nodded slightly behind them, her eyes fell on them.

Ye Ziwei asked: "Are there only these two people?"

Ye Zifen nodded and responded: "So far we have only found the two of them. They probably took advantage of the dark and windy night to come to investigate the reality of our caravan. Unfortunately, their whereabouts were revealed before any action was taken."

Ye Ziwei nodded in agreement with a serious expression, and suggested whether it was necessary to wake up other companions to deal with it together.

Ye Zifen thought for a while and then replied: "There is no need to alarm everyone for now, just let me do some questioning first."

Then, she swept her gaze across the two people in front of her and commented: "Looking at his expression and posture, he doesn't seem to have much foundation in martial arts."

Ye Ziwei also echoed after hearing this: "Because of this, there is no need to arouse others at the moment."

Then Ye Zifen bent down and picked up a few smooth and round stones from the ground, weighing them back and forth in the palm of his hand.

Then she suddenly exerted her strength and threw one of the stones in her hand into the distance. There was only a muffled sound of "bang", and the stone seemed to turn into a bolt of lightning, flying straight into the distance.

After hearing the sound, the two men who were standing upright were startled, and their bodies began to tremble involuntarily.

One of them reached out and touched his head and felt a big bulging bag.

He thought to himself: "It turns out that this girl was the one who attacked us just now! What an amazing skill!"

Seeing that the result she wanted had been achieved, Ye Zifen blinked with satisfaction.

She asked: "Hey, which mountaintop bandits are you from? When did you gather on this mountaintop? How many brothers are there in total? What is the name of the boss?"

The man whose hands were not tied by the rope quickly replied: "The girl misunderstood, we are not bandits, we are just villagers in the same village. I'm afraid the girl doesn't know something. This year, all the food in the village has been stolen by those greedy and shameless people." The Yamen officers forcibly looted the crops. Moreover, the harvest in the first half of the year was very bad. Now some families in the village have begun to sell their children in exchange for food. If this continues, it will not be long before everyone is faced with a shortage of food. It is now a severe cold winter... we... we really have no choice. "

At the end of the sentence, the man's voice became choked up.

Ye Zifen continued to ask: "So, when did you villagers know that we would pass by this road?"

The man whose hands and feet were still unbound responded: "About a year ago, there was a child in our village who couldn't be found, but everyone was so anxious that they looked around to find out where he was. At this time. , one person saw the light of fire here and vaguely saw the shadow of a person moving. He thought to himself that the child had lost his way and came here, so he planned to step forward to see what happened, but he never thought that he would get there just halfway. I heard that the child had been found, but the news later spread back to the village."

The man who had been silent and tied up suddenly interjected: "The people in our village are all honest farmers. They work diligently in the fields on weekdays. How can they have any thoughts of robbing and stealing money? ! You guys didn’t take it seriously at all. Life is really unbearable now, and we have no choice but to... we originally thought. Try your luck to see if you can make some money or something, but after waiting for more than ten days and not even seeing anyone, we still pretend that you have only come here once. "

Hearing this, Ye Zifen finally came to a realization.

Ye Ziwei never expected to hear such words, and she couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness and pity in her heart, so she turned her eyes to her sister Ye Zifen.

After Ye Zifen noticed the look from her sister, she shook her head slightly to tell her to calm down.

And continued to ask the two people in front of him: "How many households are there in your village? How many of them are already in trouble and cannot cook? In addition, how many men will be sent from your village every time they are drafted into the army? ?”

Before Ye Zifen could finish asking all the questions, tears were already welling up in the eyes of the two men.

The man who was tied up with the rope replied with a choked voice: "Our village is quite large, with more than 400 families! And now there are probably about ten families who are living in poverty and can't even eat. As for the conscription, almost half of the adult men in the village have been drafted... Hey! Who knows what the weather will be like next year? Even if the weather is good, the land in the village... ....Hey! It’s so difficult for us ordinary people to live!”

After hearing this, Ye Zifen's mood seemed to be suppressed by a huge stone, so heavy that she couldn't breathe.

However, when faced with force majeure such as natural disasters, human beings often appear so helpless.

She couldn't help but think to herself, if, if Zhang Gaoyi and others could find some kind of solution... maybe the people's lives would be a little easier.

Ye Zifen suddenly realized that she almost said something she shouldn't have said and quickly stopped the car.

After thinking for a moment, he said: "Let's do this! Anyone whose family cannot support themselves until the beginning of spring can come and sign an agreement with me. I will lead them to my hometown and leave them enough food to last until the end of the new year. In addition, Next year I will transport food through here. If any family is short of food, they can come and buy it, and I guarantee that the price of food will not increase. "

The man whose hands were not bound looked at Ye Zifen with horror on his face, and asked in a trembling voice: "Are you going to buy them? Aren't you taking advantage of the situation? There aren't many people in our village to begin with, and you still..."