When we came to the line 'yet the farmers still starve to death', everyone fell silent.
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The closing line of the first of 李绅's two 悯农 poems: 春种一粒粟，秋收万颗子。四海无闲田，农夫犹饿死。 'One grain sown in spring, ten thousand reaped in autumn; no field anywhere lies idle, yet the farmers still starve.' 犹 means 'still, even so'.
