Chapter 83 Natural Disaster
The middle-aged farmer took Li Wei to the old forest behind the village.
There are densely packed tombs here, but none of them have an inscription on them. Even if someone wants to pay homage, they can't find whose tomb is whose.
“La la la, la la la, there is meat to eat again today! This is chicken, this is duck, this is pork, this is fish, they are all delicious meat!”
A dirty boy wearing only a pair of tattered trousers was singing and jumping in the forest with a lump of mud in his hand.
He looked to be eight or nine years old at most, his body was extremely dirty, and his dark skin was supported by his ribs, like a skinny monkey with no hair.
The boy noticed someone coming, and he ran to Levi holding the mud with a smile.
“I’ll treat you to meat!”
This frightened the middle-aged farmer on the side so much that his whole body trembled, and he pulled the boy aside. Because of the strength, the boy was dragged down. The mud on the ground and hands fell off.
After falling, he seemed to be stunned, staring straight at the mud, mumbling to himself stupidly.
"The meat is gone, mom, the meat is gone."
"Master! Don't give this crazy kid a chance! He has stained your eyes! I will definitely teach him a lesson later!"
The middle-aged farmer's face was full of pleading. He was afraid of the noble man in front of him who was obviously from the city. In a rage, he couldn't even save the last seed left by the third generation village four years ago!
Levi ignored his plea for mercy and just stared at the boy.
“How did he go crazy?”
"It's all his parents' fault! It's his fault that the farmers in the village were unwilling to endure hardship! They didn't know how to work hard, and they can only blame themselves for starving to death! It's their own fault!"
Middle-aged farmers were killed by Li Wei The question frightened him, and he was terrified. He was afraid that if he said a wrong word, it would bring disaster to the whole village!
"What I'm asking is, why did he go crazy!"
Li Wei took a heavy breath and asked again in a cold voice.
The middle-aged farmer was so frightened that he kept sweating on his forehead. He already regretted it to the extreme. If he had known earlier, he should not have brought this old man to this place.
He didn't know if this question was a trap, because there had been too many cases like this before, but they had already been pressed to this level, and he didn't think that the man from the city really didn't know what happened back then.
So, he was determined and decided to tell the truth.
“The natural disaster that year left his family unable to eat even a single meal. His mother couldn’t bear it anymore, so she discussed with his father that she would take medicine and let them and their son take it while she could survive. His father agreed. , lied to him that the meat was chicken, duck, pork, and fish, but even so he couldn't hold on, so his father forced him to kill himself, and told him that the meat he had eaten before was actually his mother, and let him eat it I have to survive."
"He survived, but he also went crazy."
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After a long silence, Levi's originally cold voice now calmed down, so calm that it was a bit scary.
"Natural disaster? The weather in the underground city is controlled by humans. How could there be a natural disaster?" The middle-aged farmer was shaking like chaff on the spot. He knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing to Li Wei!
"Yes, yes, I am confused! It's my stupid mouth! It's not a natural disaster! There is no natural disaster at all, it's the farmers who are lazy! When they should be harvesting, they don't work in time! In That’s why all the gentlemen were involved that year, and they were kind enough to give us tax breaks! Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir!”
Li Wei forcibly pulled him up from the ground. , staring into those eyes full of fear and panic.
"Don't call me master, and don't kneel and kowtow to me! I'm not the landlord of Zhulan, I'm from the sun. According to the contracts you mentioned that the masters signed with the workers in the sun, they should have been able to do it a year ago. They went home with money, but now there is only one crazy kid left! I just want to know how they died and who died!"
Middle-aged farmers were forced to have sex with Li Wei! The eyes looked at each other, and the originally timid eyes became a little confused and at a loss after hearing his words.
Zhulan bought people from other cities, not just once or twice, but for a year or two. So many people died in the meantime. I don’t know how many people can’t return to their hometown, but they never did. Which city person came here specifically for this matter.
He didn't know whether Li Wei's words were true or false, but he also understood that the young man in front of him was definitely not sent by the old man to tell lies, and he also knew whether it was time for him to tell the real truth.
"The weather is controlled by people, that is, because it is controlled by people. One, more than a year ago, it was said that an old man in the city wanted to see snow to celebrate his birthday! Let those who control it The weather masters controlled it, and it snowed heavily for a week! ”
"The farmers in the village did not receive any notice at that time, so they could only try their best to harvest harvestable crops when it started to snow, but most of them froze to death in the fields! As a result, the land tax for that year still had to be paid according to the original Pay the amount!”
“It’s okay for the farmers, it’s just a change of season, and they can still survive after paying the local tax, but the tax collector in the village has nothing. Their family robbed everything they could eat, not even a grain of rice was left. In that year, many people died, and many people who grew fruit trees died. People like me who originally farmed The middle-aged farmer finally finished speaking, and Li Wei let him go, and then slowly walked into the chaos. In the grave, a worn-out sickle was found in the soil.
"Do you know the name of the old man who wants to see the snow?" he asked softly.
The farmers kept shaking their heads.
"No, we don't know. We only know that he is a relative of the tax collector in charge of dozens of villages in ours!"
"Then what is your tax collector's name? Where does he live?"
"Our tax collector's surname is Zhu. He lives in an apartment in the far west of the city with two big willow trees at the door. I went there to hand over grain before."
Li Wei carried the The broken sickle turned around silently and walked out of the cemetery, left the village, and returned to the car.
Then he lit the car, turned around, and drove towards the west of the city with a clear goal.
At the same time, not far from Hongzi Village, there was also a village in charge of fruit trees.
The girl with a peaked cap on her head and black hair in a high ponytail. Even if she changed into tattered and dirty clothes like those of the farmers around her, her temperament could not be concealed. She stared blankly in front of her. The empty and dilapidated shack finally fell to its knees helplessly.
After a long time, she stood up again, found a rusty kitchen knife from the empty shack, turned around and walked out of the village.
I stayed up late to write two chapters, changed my schedule, and tried to update at noon every day
(End of this chapter)