Taiping Fake Record

Later, in the "Taiping Jilue" compiled by the government, there was only one sentence left in Beichuan County this year: >In the winter of the 16th year of Taiping, there was a small famine in Beichuan, and the official warehouse was used to provide relief to the people. This sentence is a lie. What's worse is that everyone is forced to admit that it is true. The history books did not record that the official warehouse account originally contained 30,000 shi of grain relief, but when the warehouse was opened, it was a full 30% less. It also did not write that the pot at the Nanmen Porridge Shack became clearer and emptier, and there were fewer and fewer people queuing up; some of the missing people were later called "moved away", some "died of illness", and some were called "following the chaos". Each statement has a date, a seal, and a person who handled it. Only they don't have their own names. Once a person's name is not in the book, it is as if he has never lived; once a person is labeled as a rioter, his death has a legal reason. The people in Beichuan County did not know at the time that they would be written on such a piece of paper. The woman waiting for porridge outside the city gate didn't know, the child with fever in the medicine shed didn't know, and even the clerk in the county government office who copied documents every day didn't know. His name is Shen Yan. That morning, it was still dark. Shen Yan sat at the far end of the accounting room, pressed his fingertips on the edge of the food relief book, and felt a little wet mark that shouldn't be there. The wet mark was very light, like fluff on old paper, like ink that wasn't fully dry. It's also like a lie just beginning to crack.