Chapter 499

"Each of you will be punished with five big boards."

After hearing these words.

When seeing this scene, Ying Mo narrowed his eyes.

From this scene, one could see.

The local situation was indeed this bad.

Ying Mo had actually thought about how bad it was before coming, but he did not expect it to be bad to this extent.

The other party's people did not treat these people as human beings at all, bullying them wantonly.

And they also forcibly took away so much money.

After that group of people left, the father and son knelt on the ground.

The expressions of the two of them were very ugly; it was very clear that they were a family.

After those government soldiers left, several residents nearby walked over.

Ying Mo also walked over at this moment, only hearing those residents speak.

"This Magistrate doesn't know what kind of madness he is having; it is simply too terrifying; our family's grain is simply not enough this year; I really don't know what to do when the time comes."

"Your family at least has something to eat now; my family's grain for tomorrow doesn't know where it will come from; I can only go and dig some grass roots and tree bark."

"I also don't know what to do; the wild vegetables outside have all been picked clean; I will go to the big mountain behind tomorrow."

"You must not go; there are many wolves in that big mountain."

"But what can be done? Without food, our whole family can only starve to death."

"This Magistrate collected once and then collected again; it is simply hateful to the extreme."

"You must keep your voice down when saying this; don't let them hear you; if they hear you, everyone will be in trouble."

At this moment, these residents constantly began to discuss.

Their words carried sufficient fear and sufficient complaints.

It could be said that they were full of grievances.

When Ying Mo saw this scene, he felt incomparably angry for a while.

At this moment.

That group of government soldiers began to head forward again, constantly searching.

Ying Mo was following along the way.

The situation was actually much the same.

But the living conditions of the local people were really not very good.

Among several hundred households, there were only one or two families that could take out enough grain and money.

Other families almost took out their own rations.

This scene truly made people sad to hear and tearful to see.

Ying Mo saw another family completely emptied, and this family had a total of five people.

The leader was a middle-aged man.

After his grain was robbed, he could not help but sit on the ground and cry loudly.

It is said that men have gold under their knees.

But this man had just knelt until he bled, and he still could not protect his grain.

When Ying Mo saw this scene, he felt his heart ache somewhat.

He did not expect that the atmosphere in the local Heihu County had already become this bad.

The living quality of the local people was so poor, then the local management must have had serious problems.

Ying Mo knew at this moment that he had seen enough.

He prepared to understand in detail.

He walked to the front of this family.

The male owner who had just lost his grain revealed a full face of difficulty.

He spoke to the stranger, Ying Mo, who was passing by: "This little brother, I tell you, this Magistrate is simply too hateful."

"It simply deserves to be condemned by heaven."

After Ying Mo heard this, he sat on the stone next to him and began to listen to the male owner complain.

Ying Mo came here this time just to investigate the situation.

So, hearing that the male owner wanted to complain to him, he was naturally willing to accept it.

"You get up first."

"I will give you this grain."

After saying this, Ying Mo directly divided half a bag of grain from the bag he was carrying on his back.

Ying Mo was carrying grain and walking around this time in order to disguise himself more like a farmer.

Although this grain did not look like much, if they ate sparingly, it could also last for ten days or half a month.

Especially for this family of only two people, that was completely enough.

When seeing this scene, the man was instantly somewhat surprised and revealed a full face of pleasant surprise.

"This little brother, there is no need to hoard grain; you keep it yourself; our environment here is not very good."

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"You should eat the grain yourselves; you don't need to leave it for us."

"We can still go and think of other ways."

This family knew that they would be starving tonight.

But their own character was still quite good, so naturally, they were unwilling to let Ying Mo leave the grain for them.

But at this moment, Ying Mo spoke: "I have grain here; it is completely enough for me to eat alone, and I have a horse team outside."

"When the time comes, I still have enough grain over there."

After hearing this sentence, the man's complexion changed instantly, revealing full surprise.

At this moment, he seemed to have started to suspect Ying Mo's identity.

Ying Mo also discovered this point, then said: "You don't need to ask too much; this matter is indeed very special."

"You still come in with me and talk about it."

Ying Mo gave him half a bag of grain, and the man finally accepted it, and a smile appeared on his face.

He naturally wanted the grain, just afraid that Ying Mo would have nothing to eat.

But after hearing Ying Mo say that he still had some, he respectfully accepted the grain.

Ying Mo, in order to prevent many people from being mixed here, prepared to take this group of people into the house.

At the beginning, he originally just wanted to carry out a patrol, which was to wander around the streets and alleys himself, and then see how the situation around was.

But now Ying Mo believed that he had wandered enough.

He prepared to understand what the local situation was like from these local residents.

After the man came in, he poured a bowl of water for Ying Mo, and then instructed his son to bring a stool over from the side.

Ying Mo went in and saw that the house was completely empty, with no furniture at all.

At this moment, the man's complexion became somewhat polite.

He put the grain aside, then said: "This little brother, I won't hide it from you, our environment is indeed a bit poor."

"This house is still the ancestral property of the previous generation, so it can still give us a place to stay."

"Otherwise, we would probably have to live outside."

After hearing these words, Ying Mo smiled.

However, Ying Mo did not pull too much with the other party about this aspect, but asked straight to the point.

"I come from another family and am not from this place, so you might not have heard of my name."

"But it doesn't matter; this time I mainly want to ask you some things; that grain is the reward I give you."

"I want to know what kind of person the Heihu County Magistrate is, and what the living conditions of the local people are like?"

"I also walked all the way here; I know you are also a relatively honest person; you might as well tell me in detail."

Ying Mo picked up the water on the table at this moment.

He made a gesture of drinking, but he did not drink it down.