"Tianci, are you still watching the news? Dinner is ready. Shouldn't you go eat?" Bai Fengying found Yue Hengyi in the study and asked.
Yue Hengyi, however, was staring intently at the screen and said, "Don't disturb me for now. I'm watching the distribution of locusts in the north. I've found that large numbers of locusts have appeared on both the east and west sides of the Taihang Mountains. These refugees fleeing into the mountains also confirm this situation!"
"Even if we know the situation outside, what does it matter? We've been living in the mountains anyway. We've lived in the mountains for six or seven years. Nothing has happened in such a long time, and we'll definitely be able to hide here forever." Bai Fengying said with a smile.
After hearing his wife's thoughts, Yue Hengyi shook his head helplessly and said, "It's impossible to hide in the mountains for a lifetime. You need to understand this. If a sudden crisis appears, we'll have no preparations and will definitely suffer."
After Yue Hengyi recovered his memory, he had a different view of his wife. The former Yue Hengyi thought his wife was quite gentle, but now Yue Hengyi no longer held this thought. He discovered that his wife, with whom he had been together for a long time, had a serious problem: shortsightedness.
Bai Fengying might have been in the mountains since the apocalypse began, so in her mind, no matter what happened outside, it had nothing to do with her in the mountains. Moreover, their son and daughter had developed the same views under this influence, which was particularly detrimental to the children's growth.
Therefore, Yue Hengyi could only constantly check the situation outside, hoping to make preparations in advance if anything special happened.
However, when Bai Fengying saw his behavior, she felt uneasy. Her greatest fear was that her husband might leave her. Although she had two children with her, if a man wanted to leave, it was useless even with a large brood of children. If he wanted to go, he could leave at any time.
Yue Hengyi was very helpless about his wife's thoughts because he was a responsible man. How could he just leave? However, his explanations were never believed.
Moreover, after Yue Hengyi brought back a cryogenic pod from outside, the matter became even more difficult to explain. Qin Keyue Wei, who was on the verge of death, was eventually frozen, waiting for advanced methods to save her.
He heard that there was already a person with the ability to differentiate cells in Yuzhou. If she grew up, Qin Keyue Wei would be saved then.
Yue Hengyi had also lost his life's goal. He didn't know what he could do with the rest of his life. So, when he had nothing to deal with, he would go to a secluded room, where no one else was allowed to enter, and only he had the right to enter.
Now, after seeing the latest news from the north, Yue Hengyi was filled with worry and frowned. The north was now full of locusts. If this disaster could not be controlled, it would surely spread to the mountains. Although the Taihang Mountains were places that ordinary people could not reach, to be honest, it was not a big problem for locusts to reach the mountains.
"Let's go, let's go eat!" Yue Hengyi shook his head and said.
When Yue Hengyi arrived at the dining table, the first thing he saw was his son, who was bruised and swollen. He looked listless, probably because he had gone out to fight and lost, otherwise, he wouldn't have looked like this.
Seeing his son's condition, Yue Hengyi couldn't help but ask, "Did you go fight with someone? It's okay even if you lost. You're still young, and there's room for improvement in the future, so don't be so dejected!"
However, after hearing his father say this, Yue Cangshan raised his head and said stubbornly, "It's not like that. I heard someone curse you, so I fought. I made him cry, but I couldn't convince him, so I'm unhappy!"
Yue Hengyi found this answer baffling. He couldn't understand what children were thinking. He had clearly won the fight, but he was still unhappy.
"I don't know what you're thinking now. You clearly won the fight, but you're still unhappy. What's the point?" Yue Hengyi said with a smile. He didn't object to his children fighting. After all, in this era, one had to be a little stronger to protect oneself. Letting children fight was a very excessive behavior in the past, but now it could temper their physical strength.
As long as the children didn't kill others or get hurt themselves, it was fine with Yue Hengyi.
Yue Cangshan then said, "I want to beat the other party until they are convinced. That's what a hero is. If I just subdue him, his mouth will still be unruly, and that's meaningless."
Yue Hengyi shrugged and said to his sulking son, "People in this world have their own ideas. They won't change their minds because of a few words from others, so don't think about changing others' opinions. Just be yourself."
Yue Cangshan stubbornly said, "But those bad kids outside, they all say you're a demon. Dad is clearly very good, a great person, who doesn't get angry, doesn't kill people casually. But in the mouths of these people, you're a bad guy. I won't allow them to speak ill of you!"
Yue Hengyi understood this. It turned out that his son fought with others all for his sake. Because his reputation was very bad in the eyes of many others, his son didn't want him to be scolded by others, so he fought.
"This is no longer important. If others call me a demon, then I'll be a demon. After all, I've already accidentally killed thousands of people before." Yue Hengyi had nothing to say about this.
Yue Hengyi was very aware of the sins he had committed. Although he had been hiding in the mountains for several years, he always felt a sense of guilt in his heart. This guilt often made him unable to breathe, because he knew that he had accidentally killed many innocent people, which constantly tormented his conscience. 138 Reading Network
But Yue Cangshan said seriously, "But Dad, you didn't do it at all. You were forced. I've seen a lot of news. They all say you were deceived by illusions, so you accidentally killed people. This is clearly someone else's fault, not yours."
Yue Hengyi said indifferently, "Only those close to you will believe this. For most people, they only look at the results and don't care about the process. So they only see that I killed many innocent people, but they don't know that I was controlled by others. In their hearts, I am indeed a demon, but it doesn't matter, because I no longer care what these people think of me."
Yue Cangshan was still a little unconvinced and then said seriously, "But I heard that Feng Shen once massacred a mountain in the south, but no one in this world condemns him. Isn't it because he is powerful, so the people below dare not say he is wrong!"
"You're talking about Brother Feng. On one hand, it's because he is indeed powerful and has millions of people under him, and now it should be tens of millions. On the other hand, it's because this is his counterattack. After all, his family has been taken away. The rules of the jianghu: family should not be harmed. The Tianya Alliance people were the first to be unreasonable, so no one dared to say anything when he massacred a mountain. This is why justice prevails everywhere, and injustice gets nowhere," Yue Hengyi explained.
But Yue Cangshan was still a little unconvinced. In the hearts of children, their father was always the greatest person, so they could not tolerate others saying anything bad about him.
Bai Fengying reminded, "Hurry up and eat. Why are you talking so much now? The past is the past, and there's no use talking about it!"
Then the family began to eat. Although Yue Hengyi was the leader of Guanyin Mountain Village, the delicious food that could be found on this mountain was limited to only a few types. The food on the table was not overly abundant, but compared to ordinary families, it was much better.
On the table, there was a plate of stewed wild boar meat and a plate of stir-fried venison. The rest were fresh vegetables, which were just picked. It was difficult for ordinary families to eat them. In addition, there were many steamed buns on the table. Eating vegetables with steamed buns tasted very good.
Yue Hengyi asked at the table, "The grain in the mountains is almost running out. We must find a way to continue expanding the planting area, but there are very few places to farm in the mountains. Even if we plant a lot of sorghum and corn, our yield still cannot increase, especially since more and more people are entering the mountains, and the population is constantly increasing."
Bai Fengying then said, "Isn't it simple to solve this problem? Just prohibit outsiders from entering the mountains. Anyway, the hundreds of thousands of people on our mountain can feed themselves, and we don't need more people."
Yue Hengyi shook his head and said, "It's not an easy thing to stop others from entering. Believe me, sometimes even if we close the city gates, people will find ways to climb over the city walls and enter the city."
Bai Fengying said no more. Anyway, important matters in the village were always decided by her husband, and she was just making a suggestion. Now that her suggestion was rejected, she would let her husband figure out a solution.
Yue Hengyi thought about leaving the mountains. Although the mountains were a paradise, if things changed in the future, hiding in the mountains would not be safe, especially since food production was a huge problem.
Now, near Guanyin Mountain, many mountains had already planted crops. In this mountainous terrain, most of the crops planted were high-yield crops like corn and sorghum, and they were not picky about the soil. After planting, they could harvest a lot of grain quickly. Therefore, the taste was much worse, but having sorghum rice and corn rice was much better than having no food at all.
However, the situation had been deteriorating, and Yue Hengyi had already discovered that the people below were almost unable to afford this sorghum rice.
So Yue Hengyi had other ideas. If it was really necessary, he would have to lead some people out to seize territory, at least to seize fertile land in the plains or river valleys, and then establish new cities here. This way, he could feed the people under his command.
However, this idea was difficult to implement and could not be achieved in a short period.
After dinner, Yue Hengyi went to a separate residence. There was a lot of dust on the ground, indicating that it had not been cleaned for a long time. Yue Hengyi opened the door and entered. Inside, there was a cryogenic pod. On top of the cryogenic pod, there was a small window, through which one could see the person's face inside.
Yue Hengyi looked at Qin Keyue Wei in the cryogenic pod, his mood very complicated. Then he slowly sat on a chair nearby and murmured, "I already have my own family, but you keep appearing at this time, always by my side. What should I do?"
Yue Hengyi had once deeply loved Qin Keyue Wei, but later his heart was broken, and he no longer cared. However, last year, when all the truth was revealed, Yue Hengyi didn't know what to say to Qin Keyue Wei. To say that he no longer liked her was a lie, but to say that he liked her was not to the same extent as before.
Every time he was in a bad mood, he would come to this room and tell the frozen person his thoughts, because although it was a kind of venting, he also knew that the other party could not hear his voice.