When the drought caused by the lack of rain reached its first month, wells began drying up in succession, and conflicts over water sources frequently broke out.
People were no longer fighting for water to irrigate the fields, as the crops had long since dried up and died. The earth split into a network of ravines, resembling the hopeless wrinkles on the face of an old farmer.
At this time, the common people still had some surplus grain left in their hands, but it wasn't much, as the autumn harvest was about to arrive.
Because of the minor drought of the previous year, the common people didn't have much surplus grain to begin with. The stored grain was carefully calculated to last until after the autumn harvest.
Many households had even mixed rice husks and wild vegetables into their grain to barely make it through to the autumn harvest.
