This world of practice is not normal

"Shopkeeper, I want ten big pork buns!" Zhao Xiaogang shouted in a hurry, "Please hurry up, I'm in a hurry."

"Okay, I'll accept a Wuguo coin, and Utopia's Renminbi will do as well." The owner of the breakfast shop grinned, and turned around to get the steamed buns from the stacked steamer.

"Hey, why has the price increased again? Last year, the buns were only worth two copper coins, but now the buns are not only worth 10 coins, but also smaller."

"You just say whether you want it or not." The boss was not annoyed, but stopped his hands and looked at Zhao Xiaogang and smiled. It was not the first time he had heard complaints from regular customers, but the price increase still had to be raised, "You also Don’t look at the price of pork meat has doubled, my family’s steamed stuffed bun is a secret recipe handed down from the ancestors, if it is sold in the Special Economic Zone, it will cost twenty or thirty copper coins a piece.”

"But this is not a special zone, is it?" Zhao Xiaogang's words aroused the boss's eyes. Seeing that the boss really wanted to put the buns back in the steamer, Zhao Xiaogang said quickly, "I want it! Then you have to give me a bowl of bean juice."

Zhao Xiaogang took ten steamed buns and a bag of bean juice from the boss, thanked him, and ran towards the library of the Special Economic Zone. The most important thing is to get in line at the entrance of the library. Since his little friend After Li Tietou's family went to Utopia, he could only line up and grab seats by himself.

The owner of the steamed stuffed bun shop made a mistake. There is also a breakfast shop in the Special Economic Zone that sells big pork buns, but the price is not twenty or thirty copper coins. He just went to see it yesterday morning, and the price has increased to fifty copper coins each. Trembling.

Damn, the prices are really getting more and more expensive these days, but he is still a martial artist and eats a lot!

Zhao Xiaogang couldn't understand and adapt to this weird price increase. He also heard a lot about the reasons for the price increase. Among them, the two most mentioned reasons are that Utopia is purchasing a large amount of grain to support the war and comfort in the north. The prices of food and raw materials in Dingxi City, which is the closest to Utopia, have skyrocketed. The second is that the income of people working in Utopia and Dingxi City Special Zone is much higher than that of people in Wu Country.

He couldn't help thinking of the letter he received from Utopia two days ago from Li Tietou, which said that in Utopia, even ordinary people who only know how to sew and tinker can get at least one yuan stone for a month's salary. If you learn technology and go to the factory in Utopia, you can easily double your income as long as you are willing to endure hardships.

Even though he didn't want to admit it, after reading Li Tietou's letter, Zhao Xiaogang felt the sour feeling in his heart until now when he thinks about it.

He and Li Tietou have known each other since they were young. Both of them are practitioners from ordinary families. They were forced to enter Dingxi City College only after being supported by the whole family. However, Li Tietou said in his letter that now he is concentrating on studying and practicing in Utopia. The income of the parents and the two older sisters add up, and they can get nearly 15 yuan stones every month.

15 primordial stones! 15 Wu Guo coins! 150 million pork buns!
Li Tietou had no reason to lie to himself in the letter, and since the special zone was so close, Zhao Xiaogang would go to any store and ask someone, and he would know that Utopia's income for ordinary people was so high.

But why? !
He knew all of Li Tietou's family. Li Tietou's father was a carpenter, his mother was a cook, and his two older sisters were helpers in other people's shops. Such a family could not be more common in Wu Kingdom...

Zhao Xiaogang was gnawing on a big pork bun while thinking sourly, he should have known that he should have been tougher and let the whole family go to the immigration office together. His family has one more brother than Li Tietou's family!

However, Zhao Xiaogang knew in his heart that even if the time went back a few months, he would not be as courageous as Li Tietou. Li Tietou was an enthusiastic fan of Mr. Yu Huan. Students can be desperate, but Zhao Xiaogang has no such motivation, not to mention that his family still owns a small tailor shop in Dingxi City.

It’s too late to regret it now. Since the war between Utopia and Yaoguo, Dingxi City’s requirements for accepting ordinary people from Wuguo have also increased a lot. After studying the ideological course in Dingxi City, there is a greater chance of passing the review.

Although the review requirements have become higher, in fact, as the residents of Dingxi City know more about Utopia and the special zone, more and more people want to leave Wuguo and join Utopia. You can see a long queue in the distance, and that direction is obviously the immigration office of the special zone.

In fact, Zhao Xiaogang understands that whether it is him or the former Li Tietou, although the family background of ordinary people in Wu Kingdom is ordinary, they are already very good. Their families can at least do their best to support them to practice in the academy. How could the impoverished ordinary people of the Wu Kingdom be able to afford pork buns whose price had risen to ten copper coins each?

Just the increase in the price of rice grains to more than ten copper coins per catty has already made it unaffordable for ordinary people living in Dingxi City. During the more than a month when Utopia has worked hard to buy grains, it has suffered the most. It is these people who cannot leave their homeland.

The income of people in Wu Kingdom outside the special zone has not skyrocketed, and they are not like the owner of a steamed stuffed bun shop who can slowly increase the price of steamed stuffed buns. odd jobs.

Therefore, under such circumstances, their situation is even worse than that of monks and domestic slaves of powerful families. Although domestic slaves do not have personal freedom and dignity, at least there are masters who take care of their food. The price of food has skyrocketed and their income has not increased. , the already impoverished life is even worse.

"Damn you bitch, stop!" A furious voice brought Zhao Xiaogang back to reality, and when he turned his head, he saw a girl in shabby clothes with a frightened face rolling across the Utopia zone. On the boundary line, the shady man who made a furious sound was obviously a monk, and he was galloping over from the other side of the street.

"Sir, please stop. It is forbidden to fly randomly in the Dingxi City Special Zone, and it is not allowed to hurt people." There are guard patrols every few dozen steps on the border of the Utopia Special Zone. The nearest guard quickly ran to the girl, blowing Whistling a loud warning, while raising the vitality rifle in his hand.

Zhao Xiaogang lowered his head and gnawed on the steamed buns without much interest. This kind of scene happened from time to time near the border of the special zone, and he had seen it countless times.

When he saw it for the first time, he ate melon excitedly and almost missed the college class. Now he doesn't even want to take a second look, because the result is doomed. …

No one can forcibly snatch people from Utopia, no matter whose slave he is, where he comes from, or who he owes, Utopia will come forward to stop those who want to forcibly take away the people in the territory, and then force people whose identities are not equal The two parties sat down to mediate the conflict.

The staff of the Utopia Public Security Department will talk to both sides of the conflict separately, and sometimes there will be a worker called a "journalist" who will also participate in such conflict conversations, and the results of conflict mediation will often appear in the next day's newspaper Or on the radio.

Most of the stories that have been circulated are about the tyrannical master who abused the slaves, and the slaves couldn't bear it and had to ask Utopia to uphold justice. The so-and-so of the XX family, so that these sects and families will become the talk of everyone after dinner, and laugh at it.

In Zhao Xiaogang's view, although the results of Utopia's treatment are more biased towards ordinary people, they are generally fair.

Utopia does not recognize any slave relationship. If it is confirmed that there is abuse, Utopia will not allow people to take away domestic slaves. Even if there is no abuse, if ordinary people who seek help want to get rid of slavery, Utopia will negotiate with the other party and try to In exchange for the freedom of the help-seeker in the form of compensation.

There are also very few cases where domestic slaves steal from their masters and want to escape to the special zone to seek asylum. Utopia will not tolerate such people. After publicizing the immorality of slavery, both parties will be sent out of the country.

Ever since the first case of escaping to Utopia to obtain asylum occurred, and Utopia publicized it in newspapers and radio, such desperate escapes have often occurred in Dingxi City. There are lucky people like the little girl just now, although they are embarrassed But escaping into the border line is more than half of the success. There are also a few unlucky ones who are captured by their masters before they can escape to the street, and their fate is naturally very tragic.

Zhao Xiaogang sometimes feels that he is very contradictory. On the one hand, his position as a Wutopian makes him feel that Utopia is too domineering and too nosy. It's about to step in, and this zone isn't even utopian territory.

On the other hand, his background in an ordinary family and the experience of his good friend Li Tietou are telling him that it is right to flee to Utopia. Ordinary people and their families can live a completely different life in Utopia than in Wu. And no matter from which angle he compared it, he couldn't deceive himself that staying in Wu Country was a better choice.

He remembered a book he had read in the library. He didn't understand many of the truths in it, but he still remembered some of them. The book said that pursuing a better life is the nature of human beings. I will always vote with my feet to go to a place that is safer, happier and more suitable for me.

The shouting near the border quickly calmed down. The monk must have understood that he could not take away the maid without Utopia's interference. With a harsh word, he left in embarrassment under the strange eyes of passers-by. …

Sure enough.Zhao Xiaogang thought silently in his heart, and he was familiar with the next development. The girl who escaped successfully kowtowed her head in tears, and the Utopian sheriff would tell her in a very loud voice that her hard days were over and her new life had just begun. From now on, she doesn't have to bow down to anyone, she will live for herself.

While thinking wildly, the door of the library suddenly opened, Zhao Xiaogang was startled, and hurriedly took out the last two big buns, followed the team forward, gobbled down the buns, and poured the soy milk along with it. down.

It is not allowed to bring any food in the library, and the time in the college to read books without classes is extremely precious, and Zhao Xiaogang does not want to waste it at all.

The use of vitality is also not allowed in the library. Zhao Xiaogang, like the students in front of him, went straight to the practice area as soon as he entered the library. The Huang Jie knife technique in "Falling Leaf Knife Technique".

Finally got it.Zhao Xiaogang breathed a sigh of relief, with a smile on his face, but then he remembered what Li Tietou said in his letter. The collection of books in the Utopia library is far richer than that in Dingxi City. As long as you become an official citizen and accumulate enough contribution points , You can even borrow Xuanji and even Dijiqi exercises from the library for free!
Damn it, I will never go to this store to buy big pork buns again, the meat is sour, profiteer.

Zhao Xiaogang thought dully, and then remembered what Li Tietou asked him to do in the letter, so he turned around with "Falling Leaf Knife Technique", and went straight to the library administrator, Ms. Wang.

"Good morning, Miss Wang."

"Good morning Xiaogang, did you get the exercises you wanted today?" Ms. Wang recognized Zhao Xiaogang and responded to his greeting with a smile.

"Thanks to you, I got it today." Zhao Xiaogang blushed with excitement when Miss Wang called out his name, "I have a friend named Li Tietou who often comes to the library with me. Do you remember him?"

"Of course, he is a swordsman who admires Mr. Yu Huan very much."

Zhao Xiaogang was moved for a while. He vaguely heard that Ms. Wang was a Ruyijing cultivator, but she was always very kind to others. She even remembered an ordinary sword cultivator several months ago. No wonder Li Tietou specifically asked He brought her a message.

"He went to Utopia not long after chatting with you. He brought a letter back from Utopia two days ago and asked me to express his gratitude to you. Thanks to your advice and encouragement, he mustered up the courage and his family They all went to Utopia. Everything was fine in Utopia, and he even met Mr. Yu Huan's disciple Mr. Lu Chuan from a distance in an open class.

Now he is working hard to practice and make up for general education, and hopes that one day he can be admitted to Utopia University and officially become a student of Mr. Yu Huan. All this is due to your kindness and guidance, and he will always remember it in his heart. "

Ms. Wang always had a gentle smile on her lips, "That's really great. If you write back to him, please help me to congratulate him. I wish him success in his studies in Utopia and his wishes come true."

Zhao Xiaogang was about to respond, but heard Ms. Wang continue, "I told him when Tietou was discussing with me that Utopia is a very suitable place for a family like him to live, not only for himself. With a better practice environment, his family can also enjoy a completely different life from that in Dingxi City.

They can learn to read and write in Utopia, they can give full play to their professional talents, they can gain the recognition and respect of their peers through their own efforts, and they can also have their own lives, not just Li Tietou's father, mother and sister . "

Zhao Xiaogang was a little confused, after hearing Miss Wang's words, he immediately thought of 15 primordial stones, and that sour feeling surged up from the bottom of his heart again.

"Xiao Gang, if you also plan to go to Utopia with your family, but you haven't thought it through clearly, you are welcome to come and talk to me."