Chapter 1758: Villagers Migrate, Eating from the Inside

When Su Mingzhe returned home, he learned from Alan that only Grandpa Gen was left of the Gensao family next door, and that the fishing village had been relocated out of Liangjie Mountain. He immediately said indifferently:

“It’s good that the fishing village is gone.”

"But...there are heavy taxes, corrupt officials, and evil spirits out there..."

Alan wanted to argue with the man by using the words his elders used to scare him when he was a child, and expressed that he was not happy about the fishing village being swallowed up by the Qinghe Kingdom.

Su Mingzhe waited for the woman to finish speaking before he smiled faintly and asked:

"Alan, the problems you mentioned do exist, but did we encounter them after we came out? And are the villagers really safe if they stay in the fishing village?"

"Ok?"

Alan looked at the man in confusion:

"Brother, we have only been out for a few days, after some time..."

Seeing that the woman was still stubborn, Su Mingzhe could only sigh and advise:

"Alan, you have to remember that the fishing village exists because its ancestors believed in a saying: The way of heaven is to take away the surplus and give to the deficiencies. The way of man is different. It takes away the deficiencies and gives to the surplus. How do you understand this saying?"

"This sentence tells us that the strong will always be strong, and the weak will always be weak!"

"The ancestors of the fishing village knew that they were being oppressed by the powerful and were powerless to resist, so they could only hide in the Liangjie Mountains in order to survive."

“And we are not fishing village ancestors, at least I am not.”

“And the fishing village today is no longer the fishing village it once was.”

“So, as current events change, it’s not necessarily a bad thing for everyone to leave the fishing village!”

……

Alan didn't understand what the man said, so he naturally didn't know how to refute him.

In desperation, she asked another question:
"Brother, when you heard about the Gensao family just now, you looked so cold. Aren't you sad at all?"

In Alan's view, her family and Gen's wife's family are neighbors, and the relationship between the two families has always been very good. She has also been taken care of by Gen's wife since she was a child.

Now, Mrs. Gen's family has been devoured by a river monster, with only Grandpa Gen left alive. In her opinion, such a tragic thing would make anyone sad and cry.

But her man was so cold and indifferent, without a trace of sadness on his face.

Facing the woman's accusations, Su Mingzhe directly refuted:
"Alan, how do you know that I'm not sad?"

……

To Su Mingzhe, Changsheng was a girl he had watched grow up since she was a child.

Perhaps he would not feel sad about the death of Changgen and his wife.

However, Su Mingzhe would definitely be sad about the death of the little girl Changsheng.

However, Changgen's parents committed a sin and unjustly killed Sha Seng in his previous life. They must pay with life for life, and no one can stop it.

After Changgen's parents died, if Changsheng was not dead, he would migrate to Qinghe State with the villagers.

When the villagers first arrived in Qinghe Kingdom, they might have taken care of Grandpa Gen and Grandpa Changsheng for the sake of their old neighborly relationship.

However, as time went by, everyone started to be busy with their own lives, and Grandpa Gen was getting old, and the fate of the little girl Changsheng was doomed.

According to the characteristics of this era, Changsheng, who has no father or mother, would most likely be sold to a wealthy or powerful family as a slave.

Of course, there is also the possibility that they were sold to brothels.

There is only a tiny possibility that she will marry a villager of equal status and become a young daughter-in-law without the support of her natal family and be bullied by her mother-in-law.

Su Mingzhe didn't want to tell Alando about what he might encounter in the future if he were immortal.

Because, at this moment, Alan still believes in the simple emotions between the villagers and does not believe that everyone will drift apart in the future.

This is because of different perspectives, different patterns, and different angles on issues, it is difficult for both parties to reach a consensus.

……

In movies and TV dramas, when the male and female protagonists have different opinions, they will frantically present facts and reason to make the other party accept their point of view.

Su Mingzhe handles this kind of problem in a much simpler and more rough way.

Let time speak for everything.

If a woman disagrees, then she can just disagree.

You can't just let a woman do whatever she wants just because she's in a bad mood, right?
Are you able to get by at home?
…The villagers were relocated very quickly.

The reason why Qinghe State was so eager to relocate its villagers was very simple: there was a severe drought in the country this year.

As ordinary people, they have no permanent property (houses, fields), and when they die, there is no place to bury them.

As the drought lasted longer and longer, ordinary people lost their jobs and had to become refugees and flee to other countries.

Under such circumstances, the King of Qinghe State suddenly learned that just a hundred miles away, there was a fishing village that had not paid taxes or grain for hundreds of years. This was a huge surprise for the king.

You know, Qinghe State has a small land area, with only a dozen cities in total and a total population of only 300,000.

Because it is located at the junction of the Eastern Region and the Western Region, local commerce is extremely developed.

To put it simply, the King of Qinghe State is not short of money, but of people.

At a time when there was a serious loss of ordinary people, the sudden increase of one thousand people under his rule was an unexpected surprise to the ruler of Qinghe State.

Soon, the entire fishing village was occupied by the navy sent by the king.

The fishing village's property was looted.

The villagers were relocated and left to work as tenants for the landlords.

The tragic fate of nearly a thousand fishermen in Taoyuan fishing village is a true portrayal of billions of people in this era.

Su Mingzhe had no intention of helping to change it.

……

this day.

It was not yet noon and there were not many customers in the restaurant.

Su Mingzhe was sitting on the second floor, bragging to a few old customers.

After a while, the waiter came up and whispered a few words.

When Su Mingzhe heard that it was another villager from the former fishing village who came to ask for help, he immediately frowned and said unkindly:

"I told you that if these villagers come again, just take some money from the counter and send them away."

……

More than 200 households, nearly a thousand people, were relocated to Qinghe State. Those who had family assets took advantage of the severe drought to buy some land and houses.

But there are also some villagers who are poor and have little assets, so they have to come to Su Mingzhe, the local tyrant, to ask for money.

Out of consideration for past friendship, Su Mingzhe would also give some money to support the villagers who came to him for help.

However, as the frequency increased, Su Mingzhe became too lazy to show up.

After being scolded, the waiter could only smile bitterly:
"Boss, there's an old man who says he's your father-in-law and he brought the person here."

"My father-in-law?"

Su Mingzhe expanded his spiritual sense and really saw Alan's father downstairs.

……

"Mingzhe, isn't the store busy yet?"

Alan's father smiled awkwardly when he saw Su Mingzhe coming down from the second floor.

Before this, he was bedridden due to hemiplegia, which delayed his daughter Alan's marriage.

Later, Su Mingzhe and Alan got married, and in order to take care of the old man more conveniently, they lived in his house.

As a result, the old man mistakenly thought that Su Mingzhe was a son-in-law who married into the wife's family.

Some time ago, Alan gave birth to a son, and the old man wanted the child to take his surname.

Faced with such an ignorant father-in-law, Su Mingzhe naturally would not tolerate him.

On weekdays, as long as he was not needed to show up, Su Mingzhe would press his sleeping points and let him sleep more.

Now that he has entered the city, the doctor at the clinic gave him acupuncture treatment and asked him to walk more, so Su Mingzhe allowed him to stay awake more during the day.

Unexpectedly, the old man was busy finding trouble for his son-in-law before his legs and feet had even recovered.

Su Mingzhe snorted in his heart and silently sentenced him to a "life sentence".