43. Chapter 43: Planting grudges

Author: biting dog

Chapter 43: Grudge

"There's something going on." After feeling the movement of the mission items, Li Shou immediately became energetic.

Before going to Tongkang County, it was one of his plans to try "how the mission is carried out" first.

After all, there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in Tongkang County. There are many martial arts masters in the outer city, and the inner city is even more powerful. Before going there to cause trouble, you should make all the preparations first and see if the ratio of benefits to expenditures is worthwhile.

As it should be.

He can still handle it if he causes trouble outside, but he may not be able to handle it if he causes trouble within Tongkang County.

The difficulty of the second mission must not be underestimated.

"Lao Li, I feel the trembling of the seeds. We have many seeds, why don't we try it first?" Juehuang also came over at this time.

"I thought of going together. In this way, we first ask about the situation in the village and see who has the greatest grievance, and then we make a decision..."

"Um."

"Be polite. After all, using seeds has to be done voluntarily."

"Clearly."

After Emperor Jue nodded, he went to inquire about the news.

At the same time, students were also asked to help ask about the villagers' conditions.

But these years are not peaceful, and these villagers are very vigilant and will not reveal too much information at all.

The same thing happened when Li Shou went to ask. On the surface, they were respectful, but in fact they kept a distance. When some saw Li Shou approaching, they would subconsciously take a few steps back to keep their distance.

After a while, Li Shou understood.

They have a kind of deep-seated awe for warriors, and this awe is mostly "fear".

Because of fear, I hid.

"It's hard to handle..." Seeing that there was no harvest for a long time, Ma Nanzheng came again.

"Brother Li, Brother Li."

"Um?"

"It's not okay for them to inquire about things like this. The common people in this world seem to be worse off than in our ancient times, and in our ancient times no one dared to talk about the government in front of strangers." Ma Nanzheng reminded: "

Moreover, there is a problem with the way students ask questions, and it’s the students’ rhetoric that simply doesn’t work.”

"Yeah." Li Shou looked at the others and found that the way he handled things and spoke was indeed very stiff, so he felt that the emperor's side was better because there were still people chatting with him.

The village management ignores other people.

"Leave it to me, Brother Li. I learned to communicate with my dad since I was a child, and I'm very good at it."

"Can you handle it?"

"I've been doing business since elementary school. I can't understand the mentality of the poor. How can I make money from them? Don't worry, leave it to me."

"Okay, you make the arrangements."

Under Li Shou's instruction, Ma Nanzheng temporarily asked his classmates to leave their places and go to a place several kilometers away where the villagers could not see them.

Then he took Juehuang and the two of them away for about two hours.

Two hours later, the two of them got some food such as corn noodles from nowhere, and then entered the village again.

"Where did they get the food?" King Urine came over.

"Where can I get it? I guess I got it from the town." The big guy also came over and said, "Two of them are very capable and have a certain amount of force. It won't be difficult to get some food, right?"

Watching the two people enter the village, King Urine wondered: "What is this for? Is the community sending warmth? Can this trick work?"

King Urine's doubts were soon answered.

Half an hour later, Juehuang walked out of the village alone.

"It's rewarding! I went to a villager's house and found out about the situation of the family. That guy Ma Nanzheng is really good at pretending to be a grandson. He got all the information. Brother Li, do you want to go over?"

"OK."

"I want to go too." King Urine said.

"Just don't go. There are too many people for fear of scaring the villagers."

After saying this, Emperor Jue took Li Shou back to the village.

"This village is called Tianfu Village. There are about 210 families living in it. In terms of population, I heard that there used to be thousands, but now there are only more than 200 left. Some families have become extinct."

On the way to the village, Juehuang told Li Shou the information he had obtained.

"In recent years, there have been successive disasters, coupled with the government's forced expropriation, many villagers have been unable to survive. Fortunately, the crop yields in this world are much higher than those on our planet, otherwise these people would have starved to death."

"So many people died, so according to that, there should be a lot of people who were wronged, right?"

"Many, but one family is the worst. Now there is only one female dependent left. The woman lost her husband early and gave birth to a total of three sons and one daughter. The youngest boy died of starvation the year before last, and the two older ones were taken away to serve.

Both the corvees were exhausted..."

"Exhausted?"

"Alas, poor food, heavy manual labor, and contamination by wind and evil. The mortality rate of ancient corvee laborers on earth was very high, and it is even higher here. Excessive fatigue, malnutrition, and even the slightest bit of wind and cold will kill you."

"There is another girl." Li Shou probably guessed something, "Is the girl dead too?"

"The girl was taken away by a hunter in the village for a year. When the hunter got tired of playing with her, he sold her to a landlord in the town. It is said that the landlord had some perverted habits and eventually killed her..."

"What is Orion's background?"

"It's just a rich family in the village. Because he is somewhat distantly related to the village officials, he can escape from the corvee. He is also strong and has practiced hunting with bows and crossbows for several years. He has many brothers. This kind of person bullies the male domination in the village.

Women are commonplace. Let alone this world, we also have such people."

"Understood, let's go take a look first..."

The two quickened their pace and quickly entered the village.

Not far after arriving in the village, Juehuang took Li Shou to a dilapidated courtyard.

The yard was full of weeds and looked like it had not been taken care of for a long time. The windows of the house were also dilapidated and no longer protected against wind, rain and mosquitoes.

As soon as Li Shou entered the room, he smelled an unpleasant smell of rotting flesh. When he came to the bedside, he saw a haggard, skeleton-like figure lying on the bed.

Li Shou walked over and saw that the man was not only haggard, but also covered with bedsores, and there were insects crawling on his skin. He was hanging with only one breath.

This kind of injury cannot be saved even in modern times, let alone ancient society.

"A person is dying. If he hadn't had a relative taking care of him, he would have died a long time ago." Ma Nan was in the room at this time, explaining the situation to Li Shou: "When all the children died, they got seriously ill, and then the person died.

No way. The relative in that room is also a poor family from the same village and doesn’t have the conditions to take care of her..."

"I understand." Li Shou nodded. Even though he had already experienced the end of the world, the scene in front of him still made him a little unbearable.

Walking to the woman's bedside, he looked at the woman's cloudy eyes and asked, "Can you still speak?"

"Hate..." One word came out of the woman's mouth.

The sound is as dry and unpleasant as rubbing with sandpaper.

The woman's eyes seemed to be invisible, and she was just talking to herself.

"I hate that I am a woman..."

"I hate that I'm weak..."

"I hate that I can't do anything..."

"It's my mother's fault, I'm sorry Yao'er..."

"I'm sorry Fuwa..."

"I hate it..."

Feeling the woman's overwhelming hatred, the "wronged soul seed" in Li Shou's hand was beating violently.

"If there was an opportunity for you to turn into an evil spirit and take revenge, would you be willing?"

"I would like to..."

"I do!"

"I do!"

"My life is not worth a cent!"

"I want them all dead!"

The woman seemed to have a comeback, and after saying "I do" several times, she finally died.

At this moment, a seed of wronged soul jumped onto her body. The black energy on the seed absorbed the resentment and turned blood red.

And the "corpse" that was lying down just now suddenly sat up, with its arms facing forward, and its hands like hooks...
Chapter completed!