Paper horse incense shop

Chapter 432 The Confusion of Retention
“She loved this land.”

"She is the heroine who changed Longhu's endless depravity in the abyss."

"She has a lot of energy about her."

Chen Dongchun's eyes were mixed with some emotions that I couldn't understand, and it seemed to be a smile:
"Like the rising sun, like the first snow, like you now."

Like us?
It's rare to hear this kind of comment, and it opened my eyes.

Originally I thought everything was dead.

Unexpectedly, Chen Dongchun actually said that I still have a chance to improve.

Chen Dongchun pursed his lips that were obviously dry and cracked, and continued:
"She and the young man considered various situations and came up with a method that was not really a method."

"make trouble."

Chen Dongchun met our eyes calmly:
"It's just making trouble, which can also be said to be 'pretending to be a ghost'."

"To use an easy-to-understand metaphor, there is a place that distributes free eggs. Everyone knows that they can get eggs without paying, so they naturally ask for them without any scruples and queue up. They wish they could get them every day. Eat these two eggs to feed yourself."

"But that's not right."

"Even though the egg distribution time has been very fixed for a long time, giving everyone the illusion that 'this place where eggs are distributed will exist forever,' this itself is a lie and a trap."

"Nothing can be called eternal, not only humans, eggs, and everything else."

"Besides, eggs are never truly free. The time spent waiting for eggs is an invisible price. People will be lazy and the land will be barren."

Chen Dongchun looked directly at me and Gong Shuji:

"What we have to do is to let everyone understand this and the 'price' of getting eggs."

Only when everyone knows that there is a price, will everyone give up collecting eggs.

Only when everyone understands that the things given by the 'immortal' have drawbacks, will they give up this endless madness.

So as not to end up with the old man getting old and the kid having nothing.

correct.

But how can we give up the immediate benefits and listen to the opinions of two young boys?

I wrote down the questions quickly. Chen Dongchun is indeed a teacher. When he saw my question, he knew that someone was listening carefully, and he felt a little relieved on his face:
"It's not that easy to believe. After all, the exchange of meat for gold has been going on for a long time, and everyone has already reaped the benefits."

"So, the girl and the young man in the story made many attempts, setting up village schools, introducing scientific ideas, secretly printing and distributing certain propaganda publications, and asking for help from the outside world."

"But all these failed without exception. The children in the village school were too young to become the main force in the resistance. The publications were completely incomparable to real gold. Even seeking help from the outside world failed for some reason."

Chen Dongchun sighed, and I understood something in my heart——

Just like women being trafficked in Wanyao, without a protective umbrella, they would have been taken away long ago.

Chen Dongchun was silent for a moment, but just like countless times before, he quickly cheered up:
"However, they still found two breakthrough points from the difficulties."

"Breaking point one: the retention of gold."

"You came to Longhu Village just after you knew about the son-in-law named Bai. When you entered the village, did you have any doubts, that is - 'It is clear that children under the age of twelve can be exchanged for gold here, why are there so many people in the village? So dilapidated? '"

Of course!
My spirit was shaken, and the doubts in my heart surged up again.

Logically speaking, those frantic villagers should have exchanged a lot of gold over the years, but where is the gold?

The houses in Longhu Village are all old and crumbling, with no signs of repair.

This is quite unusual for flower growers who must "return to their hometown" and "renovate their old house" once they have money.

They have money, no doubt about it.

But they didn't repair the house, so at least it proves that after they get the money, they will soon be out of money, and they won't even have time to repair the place where they live.

"They can't keep that gold."

Chen Dongchun stretched out his hand and began to carefully break it apart one by one:
"The gold obtained in exchange for flesh and blood will be spent in various ways in the near future."

"For example, one family, after exchanging gold, was hit by a tricycle and suffered multiple fractures the next year. The medical expenses they spent were equivalent to the gold they received from a sacrifice."

"There was a family who knew it was wrong to kill their children, but they still did it because of greed. They were afraid of the revenge of their children's ghosts, so they bought a house in the city and planned to exchange it for gold and move out. But not long after they moved out, The developer ran away and the money is still missing.”

"After some people got the gold, they went to the casino to 'donate' and lost their children."

"Some people invest gold with others, let alone gold, and they even jump off the building."

"There are also people who took gold and were deceived by the owner of the gold collection shop with fake banknotes. Then they were stolen again when they went out."

Chen Dongchun counted all the fingers on both hands until there were no more fingers to use as an example, then he let out a long sigh:

"There are many such things, which is why festivals are held continuously, but the people in the village never have much money."

"When we later sorted out the situation of each household, we found that the time when these things happened was usually not very close to the time when the festival was held, and some even lasted for nearly ten years. It was completely unimaginable that the meeting with Kaneko would happen. what is the relationship."

"Everyone just thinks that they are unlucky. With the idea of ​​'try again, try again, have another child, maybe this is the chance to make a comeback?', they hold festivals again and again, and they are stuck here, and they have to say "It's all a coincidence."

Chen Dongchun sighed:

"But, with so many examples in front of us, how could it be a coincidence?"

"Like I said, eggs come with a price, and the price was already paid when they got the eggs."

My heart trembled, I was a little silent, and I didn’t know how to judge.

The price of this free product is far more expensive than the same weight of gold.

Who would have thought that this was actually a show with nothing to show for it?

There is no gold.

From beginning to end, the gold didn’t even reach the hands of the villagers!
The 'immortal' in the lake just 'showed' the gold to the villagers, and then obviously took it back by unknown means, so that he could obtain a steady stream of flesh and blood.

Isn't this a big joke?
I felt sarcastic in my heart, and Chen Dongchun couldn't hide his sadness:
"This breakthrough point is actually quite right. The two young people also publicized this point, but except for the children in the village school, no one believed them."