Chapter 172

Yin Guangbo didn't need to see it, but also knew how difficult the people's life should be.

However, since Xiao Zimu had spoken, he could only respond and got up and walked to the residential area.

Most of the people's homes are open, and there are no walls inside.

Most of the people who stayed in the house were old and weak women and children, one by one, thin and bony.

Xiao Zimu and Yin Guangbo went up to talk to each other, but few people talked to each other.

It was not until Xinya took out a ingot of silver and gave it to a child that it came out of his mouth. Those young and strong people went to dig wild vegetables a little farther away.

Yin Guangbo saw the child open his mouth, so he went over and wanted to continue to set his words.

But the child refused to say anything.

Seeing this, Xiao Zimu ordered Xin Ya to buy some sets of clothes for ordinary people.

Xinya answered 'yes' and disappeared into a farmer's house.

After a while, he came back with three sets of short brown clothes.

Xiao Zimu called Yin Guangbo, who was still talking tirelessly. The three found a place, exchanged short brown for their brocade robes, and walked towards the far suburbs.

Slowly I saw a crowd of people in twos and threes, planing wild vegetables in the suburbs.

Yin Guangbo looked at Xin Ya, who was dressed in short brown and still wearing a sword at his waist, and said, "don't go there. It doesn't look like it anyway."

Xiao Zimu felt the mud on the ground when he heard the speech. Xin Ya and Yin Guangbo didn't know what he was going to do, so they saw him wipe it off his face and clothes.

The whole person suddenly looked dirty, and it was too late for them to stop it.

"You wait here." Xiao Zimu also ordered Xin Ya.

Xinya can only answer yes.

Yin Guangbo didn't expect that the mud was wiped by Xiao Zimu. He was not hypocritical at all, and a trace of unspeakable emotion sprang up in his heart.

He picked two sharp stones from the ground and handed one to Xiao Zimu.

Xiao Zimu didn't know why, so he frowned and looked at him.

"Used to dig wild vegetables." Yin Guangbo smiled.

Xiao Zimu nodded, and they walked towards the slightly denser crowd.

"Brother, I have to live like this every year. When will it be the end?" Xiao Zimu frowned and looked bitter. He followed a skinny man nearby to talk.

At first, he saw Yin Guangbo's skill in digging, and spent a long time planning his appearance while learning.

As a result, Yin Guangbo dug out three or four, and he didn't dig out any.

The reason why Yin Guangbo dug so skillfully was due to his time living in the Guanyin temple outside the northern suburb.

Xiao Zimu couldn't dig it out, so he threw a stone and followed him, raising a short skirt to pocket the wild vegetables dug by Yin Guangbo.

At present, he has six or seven wild vegetables in his arms.

The clothes are ragged and mud stains are spotted, which is quite like a down-to-earth peasant.

"Oh, where is the end of the day? I hope the summer will pass early and the autumn harvest will be better."

"Elder brother, we just settled in this ancient Anhui this year. How can we expect such a situation? We just rely on this wild vegetable to endure the autumn harvest?" Yin Guangbo's brain also became active.

He planed with his hands and feet and talked at the same time.

"The people in our city can't get out. It's good for you to come and suffer by yourself." The elder brother sighed with emotion.

"We came to look for relatives, but we didn't find them. We ran out of money, so we stayed." Yin Guangbo lied.

"Can't people in ancient Anhui get out of the city now?" Xiao Zimu added a timely sentence.

"If the young man doesn't settle down, he should leave quickly. It's better to go anywhere than here. Our local people are not allowed to leave the city, otherwise the young man would have finished running long ago."

"How can the government have such regulations?" Xiao Zimu picked a bigger wild vegetable and threw it into his brother's basket.

"Young people, don't take this thing seriously. In a few days, you won't be able to dig it. You can only eat bark and Guanyin soil." Brother kindly reminded me.

Xiao Zimu was stunned when he heard the speech. Eating bark, he could imagine what guanyintu was?

He turned his eyes to Yin Guangbo.

Yin Guangbo's face was cold, frowned and asked, "if you eat guanyintu, even if you don't starve to death, you will die in the end. This is simply drinking doves to quench your thirst."

"At first, the big guy didn't know, but later he knew there was nothing he could do. When people are hungry to a certain extent, there are all those who change their children and eat, not to mention guanyintu." Big brother's eyes are red and his face is full of grief.

Eat at a trade-off

Even Yin Guangbo was silly this time.

His hometown is in the rich south of the Yangtze River, and there has never been a famine.

Guanyintu just listens to others. As a conversation after dinner, he accidentally learns that he can't even think of changing his son to eat.

"The people are hungry like this. The government has set the price of rice so high that the conscience has been eaten by the dog!" Yin Guangbo looked angry, and his righteous anger was hard to calm.

"It's because of the small harvest that they collect the grain every year. When they sell it at a high price in summer, they don't care how many people will starve before the autumn harvest." Big brother has long been used to it. There are no ups and downs on his face.

"Are you afraid that the government won't let you out of the city?" Xiao Zimu looked at the sad expression of the two people. As the name suggests, he probably knew the meaning of changing children to eat.

"In the first year, many people went to the capital, but none of them came back. Even if they were afraid, we would have died. The government didn't let us go out because we had to farm in the coming year." The eldest brother hissed and laughed at himself.

That smile is more ugly than crying.

Xiao Zimu put all the wild vegetables in his arms into his brother's basket and pulled Yan Guangbo up. He said to his eldest brother, "where can we live like this? Let's go to the government now."

"Little brother, don't go. If you are lucky enough to be beaten out, you have to explain your life there." The elder brother saw that they were motivated, turned and left, and shouted at their background.

They looked at each other, and their faces were extremely ugly.

It seems that this ancient Anhui city is not only collusive with officials and businessmen to restrict freedom, but also dare to take human lives.

Xinya saw that they came back and followed up. The three walked in the direction of the government.

"What is guanyintu? You just said you would die if you ate it?" Xiao Zimu's jade like face was also black at this time.

"I just heard from my classmates that there was a famine in their hometown. When they were hungry, people there would eat a kind of white kaolin. The soil was fine and there was not so much sand and gravel impurities. It was no big deal to eat less, so most villagers called it Guanyin soil."

"Is there really edible soil?" Xiao Zimu thought it was ordinary soil at first.

Yin Guangbo saw that Xiao Zimu misunderstood the meaning, and then explained: "although eating a small amount of guanyintu is not an obstacle, eating too much will dry your mouth, and once you drink water, it will expand a lot. After the expansion of guanyintu, you can't digest or excrete it at all. In the end, those who eat earth are all supported to death."