Space at hand: Pick up a prince to farm

Chapter 463 Coastal Village
Cang Xiuxuan is busy dealing with these messy problems here, and Song Chen and Cong Hai are almost reaching their destination.

This time they are going to a village closest to the seaside, but it is a village. Almost no one lives in the village. After a typhoon, almost all the people who originally lived here moved away without losing their lives. .

Song Chen knew that in this era, to these people, a typhoon meant God was angry or the God of the Sea was angry.

After surviving the catastrophe, they all gave up their fishing life. They thought it was because their actions angered God that this disaster was brought down.

Song Chen and Cong Hai found a house in the village. An old man with white hair lived in the house. His rickety back showed the vicissitudes of life he had gone through.

He Conghai stood outside for a long time, but he didn't notice that there were two more of them. Song Chen frowned slightly. Could it be that this old man was already deaf and mute?

At that moment, Song Chen no longer waited here, walked forward with Cong Hai, and directly opened the dilapidated courtyard door.

This house is not much different from the untidy house they lived in when they were separated from the old Song family. It makes people feel a little sad to see it.

It wasn't until both of them walked in front of the old man that the old man noticed them.

Seeing a stranger breaking into his home, the old man frowned at first, but he soon felt relieved, "Young man, how did you get here? We have nothing here, and now there are only a few old people." The immortals live here, so you’d better leave as soon as possible.”

The old man's accent is very strong, but if you listen carefully, you can still clearly understand what he means.

Song Chen knew that the elders of this modern generation could only speak about the local area, so she was already prepared to guess, but she didn't expect that this old man could say something she could understand.

"Old man, I would like to ask if there are no young people here now?"

Although Song Chen already had the answer in her mind along the way, she still wanted to confirm with the old man that this location was the best one she had found nearby. If there were no young people here, those young people would not want to If she comes back, she will need to ask Cang Xiuxuan to help send people to do the work.

If before coming here, Song Chen was thinking about how to improve the saline-alkali land, then after coming here, Song Chen suddenly had other ideas.

The population size in this era is not very large, and it is not as easy as now, with more than one billion people. If we don't find a way on cultivated land, we simply can't satisfy the food problem of so many people.

But it's different here. The population density is small and the cultivated land area is large, but the food production is not high.

Song Chen felt that the problem that needed to be dealt with most now was really not the saline-alkali land.

Improving saline-alkali land requires investing a lot of manpower and financial resources, which is not so wise.

What she has to do now is how to improve the economic conditions here. As long as the economy of these surrounding places improves, or their economic power is in her hands, these people can help in a down-to-earth manner and play a common role in their new city. role of development.

The old man tried his best to get as close to Song Chen as possible, but he didn't want Song Chen to dislike him. In this way, he couldn't hear Song Chen's words very clearly.

"Sir, the old man didn't hear what you just said."

Song Chen took a deep breath and was about to say it again, but Conghai had put his head next to the old man's ear, "My young master asked you, are there only a few old people living in your village now? Young people are all Aren’t you coming back?”

These words touched upon the old man's sadness.

He shook his head sadly, with a trace of despair in his cloudy eyes. "No more young people will come here. This is a cursed place. God and Poseidon are angry. No one will come here anymore. When we die, this place will die too."

It’s not that they don’t want to leave, it’s that they really can’t walk anymore. What’s more, at their age, where can they go?I don’t even have a household registration, and I’m afraid that I might eventually die in a foreign land and not be able to return to my roots.

So they stayed, but they didn't expect to survive for so long.

Song Chen probably knew what he meant when the Poseidon was angry. Looking at the dilapidation of the village, she felt that it was most likely a typhoon.

They don't know the reason why typhoons occur. They just think that they have angered God because they rely on the ocean for life.

Compared with the power of nature, human power is too small, and Song Chen also understands their panic.

"Old man, I would like to ask if Li Zheng from your village is still here?"

The old man's gray eyes brightened slightly, but then darkened again, "I heard that a new city was built, and most of the people in the village went there. I don't know whether they are dead or alive now, and the same goes for Li Zheng. All gone."

This village is quite old. Their ancestors have lived here for generations, but now... it will be destroyed in their hands.

Song Chen didn't expect to get such an unexpected answer. If everyone in this village was in Xincheng, it would be a very easy thing to handle.

But as far as she knows, the conditions for entering the city are still quite strict now, and these people should not be able to enter the city.

Without household registration, these people must be living a very difficult life now.

"Sir, excuse me, this is your reward."

Song Chen didn't say any more unnecessary words. She found some scraps of silver from her body and gave them to the old man. It was useless to tell him her plan here.

This geographical location is her favorite, but currently none of her people have lived by the sea, which is very detrimental to long-term development.

"Send a message back from Haihai and ask Cang Xiuxuan to help me pay attention to the situation that the old man just mentioned. I must find those people."

Conghai started writing the letter without saying anything.

They have their own messaging methods and can contact each other at any time and under any circumstances.

While waiting for Cang Xiuxuan's reply, Song Chen discovered that the situation nearby had changed again. Not only this village, but also several other villages were the same. They were all those who had been hit by typhoons and stayed behind. They are all old, weak, sick and disabled.

Song Chen took a deep breath, feeling really uncomfortable looking at such an honest man struggling to survive.

But thinking about what she was going to do next, Song Chen felt relieved.

Next, she will use her actions to improve the material living conditions of the people here, hoping that this sadness will be less.

(End of this chapter)