Chapter 305: Found it
"There's not enough food grown here in our fields, so most of our labor force has to find work in the county town. Not everyone can find work, though. Some have had to leave for distant places to earn money and haven't returned for three or five years. Their families worry about them constantly. Some have left and we haven't heard a word from them. We don't even know whether they are dead or alive."
The number of people in our village is decreasing, and many of our fields lie fallow. Life is becoming harder…"
As Miao Hongjin spoke, he himself let out a sigh.
In these never-ending days, where the end is nowhere in sight, and hope is absent, the situation can become excruciating for people. To the point of driving them to despair.
No wonder those workers we passed earlier looked so sullen and dazed."
"We must always consider alternatives and not be too quick to lose hope," Ding Gaochang comforted.