Chapter 1058: I Want to Swallow You
Thin and sallow-faced farmers, carrying their farming tools, left the city in small groups and then headed to the fields outside the city to cultivate the land. They were low-status farmers, the lowest in social standing, owning all their farmland outside the city.
The farmers who owned land within the city were high-status farmers; they only needed to worry about the weather and not about human disasters. Most of the time, this was the case, though sometimes there were exceptions.
Compared to the low-status farmers, the lives of high-status farmers were much better because their farming was safer and more stable, with fewer troubles.
Low-status farmers not only had to constantly worry about the weather but also about the impact of wars on their lives, and any negligence could cost them their lives.
This was a chaotic era of warring states, where the lives of commoners were as dispensable as grass, trampled at will, disregarded by others.