Chapter 96: The coffin can't hold back
The young man said, "When I talk about food, I'm angry! My family has twenty ducts of millet fields. Even though I suffered from floods last year, I didn't receive twenty ducts of millet, but I still entrusted the blessing of the immortal master and saved fifteen ducts of millet by chance.
I thought that after paying the tax, the remaining millet would be frugal at home and eaten with leafy vegetables, fruits, etc., which would at least last for this year's summer harvest.
The result is good! Not to mention the summer harvest, the millet has not been in the winter even before it has been left in the granary. The mayor, the village chief, and the elders came to collect the grain, saying that they wanted to support the people suffering from disasters around them.
Well, although I gave the money at the beginning, it was also very low!
And if I had known that this year's season would be so bad that I could not collect a grain of millet in the fields, my family would not be willing to sell grains if I had given ten or a hundred times the money! It was really cheap to eat those millets for irrelevant people!"
Speaking of this matter, everyone in the town has land and food, who has not experienced this experience? I gave it all!
Those older people who have a good idea in their hearts will persuade them.
"Boy, don't blame me. The reason why the town mayor, the village chief and the elders did this is actually for the sake of our own good.
Think about it, just like that last year, our Taoyuan Town invited an immortal master and asked Yu Ting to escape the disaster. The millet and autumn grain in the fields were saved. But if you go to see other places, are there fewer disaster victims who are destroyed and displaced?
Yes, at that time, people were dead, and many people escaped from disasters and left behind, but if the remaining individuals were hungry, they would not be afraid of you wearing shoes and not be alive. Do you think our Taoyuan Town can live in peace?
Instead of waiting for someone to come to the door, nothing can be saved. It would be better to think clearly and give kindness in advance!
At least after the food is given, even if those people do not remember their kindness, they still know that we have no food in our hands.
So, boy, it’s a blessing for the mayor to be wise, otherwise you think we can all survive until today?”
The middle-aged man's words were reasonable, and many people in the crowd nodded after hearing this.
But everyone's recognition made the young man more and more dissatisfied. He yelled with his neck, "That's not what he said. I think it's better that our mayor is too old. If we had hidden more privately and provided less food at the beginning, outsiders wouldn't know that, we wouldn't be so difficult this year."
Speaking of difficulty... everyone shook their heads and sighed again.
The old man followed the conversation and sighed bitterly, "Oh, no one would have thought that the year of this year would be so bad. There would be such a drought after the flood! Speaking of which, it's just that the world is not good! Alas..."
As soon as these words were spoken, some people in the crowd sneered at them and were reluctant to listen.
"What does it mean to be a strange world? In my opinion, this is obviously an evil spirit from heaven and the sky is frightened, so it caused disaster."
"Evil, evil spirit? Real and fake? No?" Everyone subconsciously refuted and disbelief.
"Not? Haha!".
The man who spoke up to the point of view just now smiled, pointed at the Chongxi River beside the town, and shouted loudly.
"Everyone has a pair of eyes and a heart. You think, look at it yourself. We are rushing to the stream, and I, my father, my grandfather, and even my grandfather. For generations, everyone has only heard of flooding and never heard of drought. Has it been like this?
Think about it again, when did our area of dozens or even hundreds of miles begin? God will no longer fall a grain of snow or a drop of rain?
If not, why does even a land like us have a lot of mountains and rivers that have never had a drought in generations?
If not, we, the old well, will not last long?"
This was heartbreaking and true, and everyone couldn't help but nod.
Because I believe it, some people muttered subconsciously.
"Really, is it really evil spirits at work?"
"Yes, is it really an evil spirit that harms everyone? What kind of evil spirit is that evil spirit? What does it look like?" Everyone was curious.
People are curious and have a topic together. I don’t know if there are intentional people who are deliberately guided. The people in the crowd immediately followed the conversation and asked, “Who is that evil spirit? Tell me about it.”
As soon as these words were spoken, they immediately responded to people waiting to fetch water and listen to the excitement.
"Yes, yes, then you can talk, hurry up!".
"Let me say?".
"Yes, yes, yes, you say!".
The man's eyes flashed with satisfaction, but his mouth was full of words, and he looked like he knew very well, and he spoke to brainwash the people present.
"If you want me to tell me, this evil spirit is naturally a bad, strange, strange, and strange thing! Otherwise, you think about it, our ancestors have lived in Taoyuan Town for generations, and we are old acquaintances who look up and see each other. Maybe three generations ago were relatives, and we have lived in this area for generations, and we have never had any major disasters. The biggest disaster is just a mountain torrent and a mud cow turned over. We have never said that we had droughts, right?"
When the man said this, he deliberately stopped. Someone in the crowd immediately took the ladder and continued to ask, "Yes! Yes! What the man said is very true, what is that?"
"So? So, this inexplicable drought may be the anger of God's warning. It is because the sudden appearance of strange evil spirits in Taoyuan Town are harming everyone, which has led to drought and made us live a hard life!"
"Oh!" Everyone nodded and thought about it carefully, it seemed that the same was true.
"Then how can we know where the evil spirit is? How to distinguish it?", or to be precise, who is the evil spirit? This is the most important point, okay!
When the man heard this, he spread his hands and laughed.
"This is not simple. I just said that we are all acquaintances and relatives, and we have never had any major problems living here for generations. So, this evil spirit is so good. Think about it carefully and recall the memories. When did the stranger come from Taoyuan Town and when did the drought start to cause drought?"
Everyone thought silently.
A strange stranger?
Strange thing?
Hiss~ It seems, maybe, maybe, they remembered it!
If you want to talk about strange people and strange things, after thinking about them, it seems that there are only three immortal masters and disciples!
"No, it's impossible?" Someone in the crowd murmured in disbelief, but his tone was full of doubt and uncertainty.
The momentary chat successfully made everyone's hearts shadows, and a seed called doubt and fear was planted.
Everything is just waiting for the fermentation of time and people's hearts...
As the sun rose eastward, the team moved forward little by little, and finally, the dense crowd of people roaming water gradually dissipated.
The team was kind enough to let future generations fetch water first, until they were at the end of the team. The three old, middle-aged and young men who were also involved in the discussion just now also fetched the water needed for their homes today, delaying until the last person who fetched water next to the old well to carry the bucket and leave...
The three of them moved in a flash, regardless of the buckets placed by the well, rushed to the corner of the street when they came before, and wandered under a huge ancient camphor tree with weak vitality. The man with sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks surrounded the man behind the giant tree, and the three of them spoke together.
Chapter completed!