Don't mess with that dragon

Chapter 665 Disaster and Human Heart

The scorching sun hangs high above the sky, like a huge furnace, shining in all directions, spreading extremely hot heat.

Under the high temperature, the withered yellow spreading on the soil slope is raging.

"It hasn't rained for more than three months."

Holding the wooden hoe with callused hands, Bill sat on the edge of the field, looked at the withered and yellow land around him, and sighed heavily.

In the field, on the cracked and dry soil, the seedlings of the crops have withered.

Even if water is carried again, this year's harvest will be at least halved.

There is a rumbling sound in the stomach,

hungry.

Originally, the harvest was not good due to the drought, and the food intake at home was halved, and we had to go to the fields to irrigate the crops. This kind of heavy work was the most physically demanding, and even Bill's young and strong body couldn't bear it.

How will you live the next day?
Bill's face suddenly became worried.

In the past few years, the weather has been erratic, which has caused poor harvests in the fields, and there is not much food in the family. Now there will be another three months of severe drought, which will kill the bottom farmers like them!

Bill picked up the hoe and walked towards the village with his dark bare feet.

We must find a way. In the past two years, those poor families have been forced to flee as refugees by the ever-changing natural disasters. Even if the lord has slightly lowered the land rent in these years, from [-]% to [-]%, it is fundamental It's useless.

For example, now, the drought has made the slightly better-off Bill family unable to live happily.

"I'm afraid I can't make up the land rent this year. Are we going to borrow usury?"

Bill thought as he walked down the road.

But the thought of the consequences of those loan sharks made him shudder.

Under the worry, even the hunger in the stomach seemed to be forgotten.

After a while, Bill had arrived home.

In a dilapidated wooden house that is not very big, his wife is already busy on the simple stove outside the door, washing the wild vegetables dug from the forest casually, and pouring them into the pot with millet to boil.

The youngest son outside the door was jumping up and down, running back and forth on the stove, staring longingly at the smoky pot.

"Come back, the weather is too dry, wild vegetables outside the forest are rare, everyone is having a hard time, and all the edible things on the hillside have been picked, but fortunately today I went a little deeper and found a piece Ge Gen, you should be able to last a few meals."

Seeing Bill coming back, his wife said in a rambling manner.

"Did you go there again? That forest is very dangerous, even the old hunter Abel in the village dare not go deep, you are flawed"

When Bill heard the words, he was about to say that the forest was dangerous and told her not to take any more risks.

But when he thought of the situation at home, he closed his mouth and sat on the stone pier in a muffled voice.

Speechless for a while.

The food storage at home has already bottomed out, and the crops in the field are not growing very well. I don't know if this year's harvest will be okay or not, so there is nothing to blame.

A lunch was extremely depressing.

Even Bill, who was six or seven years old, felt the oppressive atmosphere, silently dared not make a sound, and sent the green and mushy food into his mouth.

These mixed with kudzu root, wild vegetables, and unopened millet are boiled together,

The taste is really not very tasty.

At this time, Bill even missed the smell of dry, hard, black bread mixed with sawdust.

It's just that at this time, it is already a gift from God to have food to fill your stomach.

Can't handle that much.

In the silence, the green paste in the pot was quickly wiped out.

Bill licked the battered wooden bowl clean, but his stomach was only half full.

Even, the hunger in the stomach has not dissipated.

Can't go on like this!
I can't survive this dry year at all!

Seeing his wife tidy up the dishes on the table, Bill made up his mind, stood up and walked out.

"Where are you going?"

Seeing this, the wife in the house asked quickly.

"I can't go on like this. I'm going to ask old Abel about the situation. If there is really no other way, I can only go out and escape. You wait for me to come back."

At this time, it is said that a group of orcs in the south occupied the Great Wall of the Frontier and defeated the king's army.

Actually,
Bill didn't know where the Great Frontier Wall was, or which king's army was the defeated king's army.

He did know about the orcs. According to what the old man said decades ago, those orcs crossed the Great Wall and wreaked havoc everywhere. When they saw humans, they slaughtered them and took them back to dry for food.

In the past, when children were naughty and disobedient, the old people would always threaten them like this.

However, I heard that this group of orcs is very different. It is said that they are subordinates of a great Blue Dragon Highness. If you have a lot of strength, you can find guys there to fill your stomach.

These days, there are also many fleeing people passing by the village, and they are all in small groups to seek refuge with the orc forces over there.

In recent years, disasters have occurred frequently, and the harvest has not been very good.

Those peasants who were barely able to sustain themselves couldn't bear it anymore. They couldn't pay the land rent and taxes, so they had to become refugees, some became thieves on the mountain, and more people fell on the side of the road in their aimless wandering. Wild dogs and beasts eat it.

Since it was rumored that there was a way out in the south, those desperate refugees naturally gathered in the south.

Bill still had some doubts about the brutal orcs in his past memory who suddenly became the hope of the savior.

So he's going to ask.

Ask the old hunter Abel in the village. As the only hunter in the village, the old Abel will often go to the town to sell the precious prey after hunting. He can be regarded as a "well-informed" in the village. old man.

It might be better to ask old Abel for his opinion.

Today, the weather is dry,

The crops in the field have lost hope.

The food in the family was almost exhausted, and Bill had to find a way out for his family.

In the south of Middle-earth, close to the border Great Wall, scenes like Bill's family appeared one after another.

But compared to Bill's conservative,

Some families who had already run out of food fled directly to the Great Wall on the southern border, looking for the ray of life.

The erratic natural disasters have made more and more people at the bottom go bankrupt, and because of the threat of the Blue Dragon Kingdom, the southern countries have to gather troops. While affecting production, in order to raise military expenses, not only did they fail to provide assistance, but instead they spread all over the country. The internal tax increase further made the grassroots rotten and sluggish, and a large number of low-level civilians fled.

As for those refugees who escaped, the Blue Dragon Kingdom side accepted them all, and arranged food aid and work organization.

(End of this chapter)