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Zhang Jin answered and stopped those people. He said with a smile, "I'd like to ask you a way."

He had already left a mind, did not ask things as soon as he came up, but he was still regarded as a monster by those people. At first, a middle-aged man was holding the burden and shaking his head, "we don't know anything, you go to ask others." With that, they were about to leave. Of course, Zhang Jin would not let them leave. He said with a smile, "look, this elder brother should be a local. How can he not know the way? Don't worry. We are just passing by here. We don't know which way to look for. It's not malicious."

The middle-aged man looked nervous and looked back. He seemed to be afraid of something. "Where are you going?"

"To Lingyang." On hearing this, those faces changed. The middle-aged man hesitated for a long time and said, "I advise you not to go there."

"Why?"

"Don't ask so many questions. In a word, don't go there There's a lot of right and wrong. " With these words, Ren Zhang Jin asked. The middle-aged man refused to reveal a word, and left with his wife and children in a hurry, as if there was an invisible monster chasing behind.

After hearing Zhang Jin's reply, Dongfang Suo said in a deep voice: "it seems that Lingyang is really strange. Let's go."

After formally stepping into the boundary of Lingyang, there are more and more abandoned fields, and dongfangsu's face is more and more ugly, so gloomy that it almost drops into the water. After walking for nearly an hour, I finally saw a rickety figure in only a few unused fields.

Zhang Jin said knowingly: "I'll ask."

"No need." Dongfang Su called him and said in a cold voice, "I'll ask myself."

"Your Majesty, be careful." Mu Qianxue is also frowning, this Lingyang It's weird everywhere.

Dongfang Su nodded, jumped out of the carriage, stepped on the mud and walked towards the rickety figure. When he got closer, he could see that it was an old man with wrinkles on his old face, just like knife carving.

"Old man, why are you the only one harvesting wheat here, and other people?"

The old man raised his turbid eyes and looked at him, then lowered his head to harvest a stubble of wheat which was higher than others.

Seeing that he refused to speak, dongfangsu didn't ask. He picked up a sickle to help harvest wheat together. Although he was very expensive, he would take one day to plant rice seedlings and harvest wheat in the farmland outside Jinling every spring. So he was not unfamiliar with these things.

The two men reaped together, which was much faster. In less than half an hour, they cut the rest of the wheat.

The old man took a breath. He held his hand to his waist, showing the color of pain. Dongfang Su held him and said, "come on, sit down and have a rest."

With the friendship of harvesting wheat together just now, the old man's attitude is much more gentle. "When people are old, they just can't use it. In those days, let alone a mere acre, it doesn't matter if there are three or four times more."

Dongfang Suo said with a smile: "you also said that you were thinking about that year, but you can't compare it."

The old man looked at him and said, "look at your clothes. It should be a rich family. How did you come here?"

"To tell you the truth, I'm in the silk business. I'm planning to open a shop in Lingyang. But as soon as I came here, I saw that the good farmland was abandoned. And along the way, I could hardly see anyone. It is said that Lingyang is also a land of fish and rice. How can it get such a scene of ruin? "

"Silk business..." The old man shook his head, took the dry tobacco pole from one side and took two mouthfuls. The dark red spark flashed and flashed, showing a kind of wordless loneliness.

"I see you are a good man. I advise you to go back and open a shop in another place, Lingyang..." The old man shook his head. "This place is useless."

"Can you tell me more about it?" Afraid of his suspicions, Dongfang Su said with a smile, "when I came here, I heard that Lingyang is a good place. It is not only rich in natural resources, but also a gold and copper mine."

The old man snorted coldly, "still say, the bad is on this gold and copper mine." Then he sighed again and pointed to the overgrown field: "do you know why all the good fields are abandoned? Because there is no one to cultivate, the young and the strong have all left, and the rest are the people who can't walk here waiting to die. "

Dongfang Su pressed down his anger and said, "why do you want to go? Are the officials here setting heavy taxes privately, which makes your life difficult to continue?"

"If that's true, it's better." The old man looked around and said in a painful voice, "things in Lingyang are more complicated and more serious than you think. You and I can't manage them." Seeing that Dongfang Su wanted to ask again, he shook his head and said, "don't ask any more. Anyway, let's go, or we'll wait..." He seemed to have some fear. He stopped his words and said, "let's go. The farther we go, the better."

"Don't be afraid, old man. If there's anything, just say it. If it's the officials who corrupt the discipline, the self-discipline law and the emperor who decide for us."

The old man knocked on his ashes and said with a bitter smile, "have you ever heard of a saying that the sky is high and the emperor is far away. In Lingyang, those officials are heaven and earth. The emperor or the law can't control them at all. "

Listening to the old man's negative words, Dongfang Su was very unhappy. After a moment of silence, he said, "don't you want to go to Jinling to complain and expose their evil deeds?""Why not?" The old man looked at the smoke ring slowly dispersing in the air, and his eyes became very sad. "Two years ago, my eldest son asked someone to write a paper and went to Jinling City to complain. But before he stepped out of Lingyang, he died. The body was fished out of a small river, and he said that he was drowned. But my son played in the river since he was young, and he was proficient in water. How could he be drowned Ming was killed by them, and the paper on his body is gone. "

"Later, a few people were going to complain, but Ha ha, they are all dead, and there is no one left. Later, no one dares to move this idea. "

"There's no law in the world!" Dongfang Su was so angry that his lungs would explode. He never thought that there was such a dark place for officials in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

"Although the previous days were hard, they could barely survive until recently..." The old man wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes and said bitterly, "they're starting to make more progress. They can't live any longer. In order to survive, they have to run away. As a result, you can see, there's no human race in the field, and no one ploughs the land."

Dongfang Suo tried his best to calm his breath and sincerely said, "old man, please tell me what happened to Lingyang."

The old man shook his head and said, "it's not a good thing to know too much. Listen to my advice, go quickly, and then linger. I'm afraid you can't go if you want to."

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