Beauty has a disease

Chapter 100 Refugees
Pushing forward a few hundred years in history, Jiangnan is indeed a remote place, but since the first dynasty of the Great Enlightenment, the area of ​​Jiangnan has been reclaimed. After dozens of generations of hard work, Jiangnan has returned With a natural climate, it has developed into a prosperous zone.

Jiangnan is located in the south, with abundant rainfall and abundant mountains and rivers. Because of the developed waterways, it is convenient for merchants to ship goods. Therefore, there are more merchants and rich merchants in Jiangnan, and people's lives are also prosperous.

There are two sides to the matter. The superior climate and abundant rain, rivers, lakes and streams in the south of the Yangtze River have created a rich place in the south of the Yangtze River, but it also brought disasters—flood disasters.

The south of the Yangtze River has always been plagued by floods. Although water conservancy projects are being built, the water conservancy projects are not foolproof. Once completed, the people will be protected for thousands of years. The floods in the south of the Yangtze River cannot be said to occur every year. Usually, occasionally problems are mostly solved by themselves, but every three to five years A bigger one is about to come, just like this flood, which is a very serious flood that is rarely encountered in decades.

The river broke its embankment, and the low-lying croplands and farmers' houses were already submerged. Tens of thousands of people in the south of the Yangtze River lost their homes overnight and had to leave their homes and wander around.

Ember and Wang Xingzhi walked side by side on the streets of Jiangnan. The usually bustling streets are now very desolate. Walking along the way, there are not many shops on both sides of the road that are still open, and even if they are open, there are almost no customers. The shopkeeper sighed, and the clerk was frowning when he was free.

If you want to ask the guy why?
"It's hard to live. Ever since the Dayan River broke its embankment, the price of rice in this rice store has been rising day by day. Now it has reached an outrageous price, and I can't afford it."

If you can't afford it, survival becomes a problem.

"I hope the flood will pass soon, and the price of rice will come back quickly. The whole family will survive."

Survival, the appeal is simple, but there are thousands of resistance.

Ember and Wang Xingzhi walked all the way to the gate of the city, at the porridge shed set up by the Wang family, and stood still.

Inside the city gate, there are few people and deserted, a desolate and desolate scene, but outside the city gate, there are a large number of refugees, their clothes are shabby and dirty, their eyes are either numb or complaining, or mourning, self-pity, or... …expect.

Only a few have hope.

The refugees wailed, paralyzed, and thanked the soup cook...

Ember and Wang Xingzhi stood at the gate of the city, like a dividing line.

Live in the city, survive outside the city.

A door, a line, like a moat.

Wang Xingzhi looked at Ember, who was looking at the refugees.

The various faces and figures of the refugees were reflected in her eyes, and they were clearly in her eyes, but they couldn't make any waves. She just watched, and had nothing but to see.

"Have you seen the refugees?" Wang Xingzhi withdrew his gaze, and looked at the refugees outside the city with Yu Jin, "You don't seem surprised."

Ember looked surprised when she heard the words, but she was surprised by Wang Xingzhi, "I was surprised when you said it was so ordinary. I thought you had never seen a refugee before."

"I saw it when I was young, but there were not as many refugees back then." Wang Xingzhi explained a few words, and then asked, "What about you?"

"Me?" Ember was silent for a moment, then snorted, not knowing what it meant, she said, "I was a refugee."

Wang Xingzhi was surprised this time, his surprise was not like Ember's feigned gesture, but genuine emotion, "Have you ever been a refugee?"

Ember didn't shy away from being a refugee. She nodded and said, "I was about four or five years old at the time. There was a natural disaster in the Northland, and I followed my mother as a refugee for a few months."

"Then... what happened next?"

"Later," Ember thought for a while, and continued, "Later, when my mother left, I became an orphan and was adopted by a beggar, so I became a beggar again from a refugee."

When Ember talked about her past experiences, her tone was ordinary, her mind clear and calm, without nostalgia or self-pity, she just narrated in a flat manner, as if she was an outsider.

Wang Xingzhi was silent for a moment, and then said softly: "... When I first met you, you were very knowledgeable. I thought your background..."

Ember continued: "You think that I have an extraordinary background, that I should come from a wealthy family, and that no matter how poor I am, I will not have to worry about food and clothing."

Wang Xingzhi nodded yes.

Although Ember is out of tune, and her behavior and words are sometimes vulgar, but she is more of an extraordinary opinion and conversation. She reads a lot and speaks fluently, which cannot be achieved by traveling thousands of miles alone.

Although it is said that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles, but to be able to do so like embers, you must have read the books, and you have read a lot.

Books are precious, not something a homeless beggar can have.

"My background..." Ember rubbed her chin, as if she was choosing her words carefully, "Birth can be called extraordinary or ordinary, but I can only say that I have experienced more twists and turns than you, and I have seen more than you."

"Like these, I have seen and experienced, so I am normal."

"I'm indifferent because I know that I can't change them, I can't change natural disasters, and I don't have the ability to provide them with any help, so I just treat it as normal."

"You still persuade me to become an official." He used the rhetoric of seeking his own government in his position, encouraging him to change the status quo of people's livelihood.

"This is not a conflict." Ember said, "You are you and I am me. We are two individuals and cannot use the same set of ideas."

"You gave up the imperial examination because you saw injustice and doubted the official and the way to be an official. You are just escaping, not like me."

Ember said and pointed her finger back at herself, "You are not like me, you are indifferent."

Wang Xingzhi was touched, so he thought about it and doubted it, but she has been watching with cold eyes.

"That's why I listened to your parents to persuade you, because you will think it through sooner or later. If you are like me, I will not persuade you."

Wang Xingzhi didn't know how to react after listening to Ember finish speaking, listening to her narrate his experience, and listening to her analyze his heart.

He looked at Ember with complicated eyes.

"Why, do you think what I said is wrong?" Ember raised her eyebrows and looked back.

"No." Wang Xingzhi said.

"Oh?" Ember tilted her head, "What's wrong, you should talk about it."

"If you really think this is normal, you won't adopt Teng Yanyun."

Teng Yanyun was also a beggar, and was picked up by Ember, Wang Xingzhi knew.

"Brother, I suddenly feel that you are not suitable for officialdom." Ember stepped forward and patted Wang Xingzhi's shoulder, sighing: "With your ability to analyze people's hearts, you may only be tricked into officialdom in the future .”

The atmosphere suddenly shattered, Wang Xingzhi's face darkened, he slapped off Ember's hand, "You're not right."

His analysis was wrong, and the evaluation just now was wrong!

"Fickle!"

For a while, he was advised to take the imperial examination to become an official, and for a while, he was said that he was not suitable for the ups and downs of the officialdom.

Ember stared at Wang Xingzhi as he walked into the porridge shed.

Who is fickle?

(End of this chapter)