"Shopkeeper, I want ten large pork buns!" Zhao Xiaogang shouted anxiously, "Please hurry up, I'm in a hurry."

"Okay, I'll give you one Wu Guo coin, or Utopia's RMB coin." The owner of the breakfast shop grinned and turned around to get the buns from the stacked steamer.

"Hey, why has the price increased again? Last year, this bun cost only two copper coins. Now, not only does the price of this bun increase to 10 coins, but it is also smaller."

"Just tell me whether you want it or not." The boss was not annoyed. He just stopped what he was doing and looked at Zhao Xiaogang with a smile. This was not the first time he heard the complaints from regular customers, but the price should be increased anyway. "You also

If you don’t look at the price of pork meat, which has doubled several times, my buns are a secret recipe passed down from our ancestors. If they were sold in the special zone, they would not be sold for twenty or thirty copper coins each."

"But this is not a special zone?" Zhao Xiaogang's words made the boss roll his eyes. Seeing that the boss was about to put the buns back in the steamer, Zhao Xiaogang said quickly, "I want it! Then you have to give me a bowl of bean juice."

Zhao Xiaogang took ten steamed buns and a bag of bean juice from the boss, said thank you and ran towards the library of the Special Administrative Region. The most important thing was to queue up at the entrance of the library. Since his little friend

After Li Tietou and his family all went to Utopia, he had to wait in line and grab a seat by himself.

The boss of the steamed stuffed bun shop was wrong when he said something. There is also a breakfast shop in the special zone that sells large steamed buns with pork meat, but the price is not twenty or thirty copper coins. He just went to see it yesterday morning, and the price has already increased to fifty copper coins. Zhao Xiaogang was shocked by this.

Trembling.

Damn it, things are really getting more and more expensive these days, but he is still a martial artist and he eats a lot!

This strange price increase made Zhao Xiaogang very confused and uncomfortable. He also heard a lot of reasons for the price increase. The two most mentioned reasons were that Utopia was purchasing large amounts of grain to support the war and peace in the north.

Civilian work has caused the price of food raw materials in Dingxicheng, which is closest to Utopia, to skyrocket. Secondly, the income of people working in Utopia and Dingxicheng Special Economic Zone is much higher than that of people in Wu State.

He couldn't help but think of the letter Li Tietou received from Utopia two days ago. The letter said that in Utopia, even ordinary people who only know how to mend can get at least one yuan stone a month's salary. If they are willing,

If you learn skills and go to the factories of Utopia, you can easily double your income as long as you are willing to endure hardships.

Even though he didn't want to admit it, after reading Li Tietou's letter, Zhao Xiaogang felt that sour feeling in his heart that still lingers even now when he thinks about it.

He and Li Tietou have known each other since childhood. Both of them are practitioners from ordinary families. They were supported by their families before they reluctantly entered Dingxicheng College. However, Li Tietou said in the letter that now he is concentrating on studying and practicing in Utopia.

The combined income of my parents and two sisters can get nearly 15 yuan stones every month.

15 yuan stones! 150,000 Wu Guo coins! 1.5 million pork buns!

Li Tietou had no reason to lie to himself in the letter, and the Special Administrative Region was so close. Zhao Xiaogang could ask anyone in any store and he would know that Utopia's income for ordinary people was so high.

But why?!

He knew all Li Tietou's family. Li Tietou's father was a carpenter, his mother was a cook, and his two sisters were helpers in other people's shops. Such a family in the Wu Kingdom couldn't be more ordinary...

Zhao Xiaogang was chewing on the big pork buns and thinking sourly, if he had known that he should have been tougher and let the whole family go to the immigration office together. He has one more brother in his family than Li Tietou's family!

However, Zhao Xiaogang himself knows that even if the time goes back a few months ago, he will not be as courageous as Li Tietou. Li Tietou is an enthusiastic fan of Mr. Yu Huan, and in order to have the opportunity to become Mr. Yu Huan's

Students can be desperate, but Zhao Xiaogang has no such motivation, not to mention that his family also opened a small clothing store in Dingxicheng.

It's too late to regret now. Since the war between Utopia and Yao Kingdom, Dingxicheng's requirements for accepting ordinary people from Wu Kingdom have also increased a lot. In the past, the rule that you can go to Utopia first and then study ideological courses has also changed. You must first

Only after taking ideological courses in Dingxicheng will you have a greater chance of passing the review.

Although the requirements for censorship have become higher, in fact, as the residents of Dingxicheng know more and more about Utopia and the special zone, more and more people want to leave Wu State and join Utopia. Zhao Xiaogang is far away

You can see a long queue in the distance, and that direction is obviously the Immigration Office of the SAR.

In fact, Zhao Xiaogang understands that whether it is him or Li Tietou in the past, although ordinary people in the Wu Kingdom have ordinary family backgrounds, they are already very good. Their families can at least do their best to support them to practice in the academy. Really

How could the poor ordinary people in the Wu Kingdom afford pork buns whose price had increased to ten copper coins each?

Just the increase in price of rice to more than ten copper coins per pound has made it unaffordable for ordinary people living in Dingxi City. In the past month or so when Utopia secretly made great efforts to purchase food, the people who suffered the most serious damage were

It is these people who cannot leave their homeland.

The income of the people in the Wu Kingdom outside the special zone has not skyrocketed, and they are not like the owners of the steamed bun shop who can slowly increase the price of steamed buns. Most of them are like Li Tietou's family in the past, selling to other shops or richer families.

Odd jobs.

Therefore, under such circumstances, their situation is even more miserable than that of monks and domestic slaves of powerful families. Although domestic slaves do not have personal freedom and dignity, they at least have a master who takes care of their food. The price of food has soared, but their income has not increased.

, the already poor life has become even worse.

"Damn you bitch, stop!" An angry voice brought Zhao Xiaogang back to reality. When he turned around, he saw a girl in shabby clothes and a frightened face rolling across the Utopia zone.

At the boundary line, the sinister man making an angry sound was obviously a monk, speeding over from the other side of the street.

"Sir, please stop. It is forbidden to fly freely in the Dingxi City Special Zone, and no harm is allowed." There are patrols guarding the border of the Utopia Zone every dozens of steps. The nearest guard quickly ran towards the girl, blowing

He whistled and warned loudly, while raising the vitality rifle in his hand.

Zhao Xiaogang lowered his head to gnaw the buns without interest. Such scenes often happened near the border of the special zone. He didn't know how many times he had seen it.

The first time he saw it, he was so excited that he almost missed his class at the college. Now he didn't even want to take another look, because the result was destined.

No one can forcibly snatch a person from Utopia. No matter whose slave he is, where he comes from, or even whom he is in debt to, Utopia will step in to stop those who want to forcibly take away the people within its territory, and then the forced status will not be equal.

The two sides sat down to mediate the conflict.

Personnel from the Utopia Public Security Department will talk to both parties to the conflict separately, and sometimes a professional worker called a "journalist" will also participate in such conflicting conversations. The results of the conflict mediation will often appear in the next day's newspaper.

Or on the radio.

Most of the stories that have been circulated are about tyrannical masters mistreating their slaves, and the slaves cannot bear it anymore and have to turn to Utopia to seek justice. Utopia will not be kind enough to hide the secrets for the Wu people, and will always point out certain sects or sects by name.

Someone from a certain family, so that these sects and families will become the talk of everyone after dinner and laugh at them.

In Zhao Xiaogang's view, although Utopia's treatment results are more biased towards ordinary people, they are generally fair.

Utopia does not recognize any slave relationship. If it is confirmed that there is abuse, Utopia will not let people take away the domestic slaves. Even if there is no abuse, if ordinary people seeking help want to get rid of their slave status, Utopia will negotiate with the other party and try their best to

In exchange for the seeker's freedom in the form of compensation.

There are also rare cases where a domestic slave steals something from his master and wants to escape to the Special Administrative Region to seek asylum. Utopia will not tolerate such people. After a long time of ideological education, the domestic slave understands the wrongness of the theft and asks the master for help.

After preaching the immorality of the slavery system, both parties would be sent out of the country as gifts.

Since the first case of escaping to Utopia and obtaining asylum occurred, and Utopia publicized it in newspapers and radios, such desperate escape incidents have often occurred in Dingxi City. Some lucky people like the little girl just now, although they are embarrassed

But escaping into the border is more than half of the success. There are also a few unlucky ones who are caught by their masters before they can escape to the street, and the end is naturally very tragic.

Zhao Xiaogang sometimes feels that he is very contradictory. On the one hand, his position as a member of the Wu Kingdom makes him feel that Utopia is too overbearing and too nosy. The master-servant relationship of the Wu Kingdom is because this slave ran into the special zone of Utopia.

It wants to intervene, and this special zone is not even the territory of Utopia.

On the other hand, his ordinary family background and the experience of his friend Li Tietou all told him that it was right to escape to Utopia. Ordinary people and ordinary families could live a completely different life in Utopia than in Wu Kingdom.

And no matter which angle he compared, he could not deceive himself or others and say that staying in Wu Kingdom was a better choice.

He thought of a book he had read in the library. He did not understand many of the principles in it, but he still remembered some of them. The book said that it is human nature to pursue a better life.

I will always vote with my feet and go to a safer, happier, and more suitable place for myself.

The shouts near the border quickly calmed down. The monk must have understood that he could not take away the maid without Utopia's interference. If he continued to entangle himself, he was afraid of damaging his sect, so he could only hatefully abandon her.

He said harsh words and left in embarrassment under the strange looks of passers-by.

Sure enough. Zhao Xiaogang thought silently in his heart, and he was very familiar with the next development. The girl who successfully escaped would kowtow with tears in her eyes, and the Utopian Sheriff would tell her in a loud voice that the hard days were over, and a new life would come.

Life has just begun. From now on, she no longer needs to kneel down to anyone, she will live for herself.

While he was thinking wildly, the door of the library suddenly opened. Zhao Xiaogang was startled and quickly took out the last two big buns. While walking quickly with the team, he devoured the buns into his stomach and drank all the bean juice.

Go down.

No food is allowed in the library. The time when there are no classes in the college to read books is extremely precious, and Zhao Xiaogang does not want to waste it at all.

The use of vitality is also not allowed in the library. Like the students in front of him, Zhao Xiaogang went straight to the practice area as soon as he entered the library. Zhao Xiaogang glanced at the bookshelf skillfully and grabbed a piece called

The Huang-level knife technique in "The Falling Leaf Knife Technique".

Finally, he got it. Zhao Xiaogang breathed a sigh of relief and smiled on his face, but then he thought about what Li Tietou said in his letter. The collection of books in the Utopia Library is far richer than that in Dingxi City. As long as he becomes a formal citizen,

After you accumulate enough contribution points, you can even borrow Xuanjie and even Earthly level exercises from the library for free!

Damn it, I will never buy pork buns from this store again. The meat is sour. You are a profiteer.

Zhao Xiaogang was thinking dully, and then he remembered what Li Tietou asked him in the letter, so he turned around with the "Falling Leaf Knife Technique" and went straight to Miss Wang, the librarian.

"Good morning, Miss Wang."

"Good morning Xiaogang, did you get the exercises you wanted today?" Miss Wang recognized Zhao Xiaogang and responded to his greeting with a smile.

"Thanks to you, I got it today." Zhao Xiaogang's face flushed with excitement when Miss Wang called out his name, "I have a friend named Li Tietou who often comes to the library with me. I wonder if you still have

Do you remember him?"

"Of course, he is a swordsman who admires Mr. Yu Huan very much."

Zhao Xiaogang was moved in his heart. He had vaguely heard that Miss Wang was a monk with the ideal realm, but she was always very kind to others. She even remembered an ordinary sword cultivator a few months ago. No wonder Li Tietou specifically asked for it in the letter.

He brought a message to her.

"He went to Utopia not long after he talked to you. He brought a letter back from Utopia two days ago and asked me to express his gratitude to you. Thanks to your advice and encouragement, he plucked up the courage to be with his family.

They all went to Utopia. Everything was fine for him in Utopia, and he even met Mr. Yu Huan’s disciple Mr. Lu Chuan from afar in an open class.

Now he is practicing hard and making up for the general courses, hoping that one day he can be admitted to Utopia University and officially become Mr. Yu Huan's student. All this is due to your kindness and guidance, and he will remember it in his heart for the rest of his life."

Miss Wang always had a gentle smile on her lips, "That's great. If you reply to him, please help me congratulate him and wish him success in his studies in Utopia and everything he wishes."

Zhao Xiaogang was about to respond when he heard Miss Wang continue, "I told Tietou when he discussed it with me that Utopia is a place that is very suitable for a family like his to live in. Not only can he himself get it,

With a better practice environment, his family can also enjoy a life completely different from that in Dingxi City.

They can learn literacy in Utopia, they can use their professional talents and expertise, they can gain the recognition and respect of their peers through their own efforts, and they can also have their own lives, not just Li Tietou's father, mother and sister.

.”

Zhao Xiaogang felt a little confused. After hearing Miss Wang's words, he immediately thought of the 15 Yuan Stones, and the sour feeling came back from the bottom of his heart.
Chapter completed!