inside the cave,
Congratulations and congratulations are endless.
Lao Miao picked up the wine glass, her face flushed from drinking, but she still welcomed and dropped off frequently, thanking the villagers for their support.
But behind this joy, Yang Dong heard soft sobs.
There is indeed a hidden secret in this matter!
Yang Dong's heart skipped a beat, and he used the excuse of going to the toilet to follow the location of the crying sound.
Soon, he was surprised to find that the place where the crying came from was actually Lao Miao's home.
Yang Dong climbed up to the roof with a tap of his toes.
He pushed aside the thatch with his hands, and with the faint light of the torch, he saw an eleven or twelve-year-old boy lying on the bed in the thatched house, crying loudly.
Beside him stood a woman with her head coiled, persuading him in a low voice.
"Son, don't cry anymore!"
"It's a blessing for our family that your father was selected. Why are you so disobedient?"
"You've been crying like a woman. If your father sees it, he will definitely deal with you!"
The child was lying on the bed, crying even more painfully when he heard the woman's words.
"Mom, what a blessing this is!"
"A few days ago, Li Erwa's father was also selected by those people. But later, his father never came back!"
"People say that whoever is chosen will lose his life. Such a thing is not a blessing!"
"You are presumptuous!"
The woman suddenly shouted angrily, then raised her palm high and slapped the boy hard on the cheek.
It was obvious that the woman had no intention of holding back.
Because in just a moment, a bright red slap mark appeared on the boy's face.
"Mom, are you hitting me?"
The boy's voice was filled with tears, but in exchange, it was the woman's cold voice.
"You bastard, if you dare to talk nonsense again, I will beat you to death today!"
"These blessings that no one else could ask for in the past have finally happened to your father, and you still say that?"
"What will our family do if someone else finds out about it and your father's qualification to participate in the experiment is disqualified because of the report?"
The boy scratched his neck stubbornly, his childish face full of dissatisfaction.
With tears in his eyes, he craned his neck and looked at the woman, as if he wanted to get a reasonable explanation.
The woman looked at her son with a slight pain in her heart.
After a moment, she sighed deeply and slowly said:
"You are already a grown-up, why are you so ignorant?"
"Xiao Miaozi, I have a question for you. Do you still remember how our village spent the winter last year?"
"last year……"
There was a look of thought on the boy's cheek.
But after a moment, the thoughts on his face were replaced by deep sadness.
"Last year, there was a blizzard. The snow was so heavy that it blocked all the roads in our village."
"Dad can't go up the mountain to cut firewood, so he has to dismantle the firewood used to build our house."
"My best friend Goudanzi froze to death because there was no firewood at home."
"I still remember that his face was blue at that time..."
"So, let's compare it to now. Did anyone freeze to death in our village this winter?"
The woman's words silenced the boy.
Because everything is as the woman said, this year, no one has ever been heard of freezing or starving to death in the village.
But in the boy's memory, almost every winter, many villagers died in the village due to cold and hunger.
Especially the elderly and children, almost a dozen people die every year.
When the woman saw that the boy was silent, she sighed again.
"Son, mother knows that you can't let go of your father. But to be fair, how can mother let go?"
"But you don't know the current situation of our family."
"Without the help of these kind-hearted people, our family might not be able to survive this winter!"
Speaking of this, a flash of fanaticism flashed across the woman's cheeks.
"Besides, do you remember how these kind people made promises to everyone?"
"As long as anyone is selected, he will subsidize his family with five taels of silver! That's five taels of silver, enough for our family to eat and drink for several years!"
"Besides, they will give our family regular subsidies, so we don't have to worry about food in the future."
"Tell me about this kind of good thing, who wouldn't rush to squeeze it out of their heads?"
"But, but!"
The boy gritted his teeth again, although he understood what the woman said.
He also knew very well that his father's choice would make his family live a good life.
But he always felt that things shouldn't be like this.
That’s right, it shouldn’t be like this!
"Mom, why don't we get out of here?"
"Didn't the village chief say that these people won't stop us? Let's go home and return to the village."
"Now that I have grown up, I can go hunting in the mountains with my father. We may not starve to death this winter!"
"And...I don't want dad to leave our house."
The woman's eyes were slightly moist as she looked at her son's serious look.
If she had a choice, she wouldn't want to do this.
But the problem is that now her husband has been chosen by those big shots.
Those big shots may not care about running away now, but the village chief and others will definitely not agree.
Moreover, even if they escaped, their family might not be able to survive this winter.
So, the woman quickly put an end to this idea, and then said coldly:
"Son, don't think about whether these things are available or not."
"If living is as easy as you think, then why do so many people freeze to death in our village every winter?"
"Stay here, live well, don't have to worry about food and clothing, isn't this a fairy-like life?"
"Besides, Mom also heard that those kind people are planning to open a school in our village!"
"When the time comes, you will be able to go to school like those children from wealthy families?"
"Haven't you always wanted to study and gain fame in the future?"
Hearing this, the boy fell into silence again.
He was confused and didn't know what was wrong with this matter.
However, should he really agree to let his father die for no reason?
At this moment, Yang Dong was hiding on the roof, also falling into silence.
It has to be said that this wave of operations by the Blood Jade Alliance is indeed irresistible.
They seem to have created a paradise on earth, but secretly, they are conducting cruel experiments.
However, these people living in the Peach Blossom Land have fallen into numbness.
Maybe they are not numb, but life is too hard, so they instinctively choose to escape.
At this moment, Yang Dong suddenly had a feeling,
Behind this Blood Jade Alliance, there must be a master who is good at manipulating people's hearts!
