The man was so frightened that he knelt down on the ground and kept begging for mercy:

"General, spare my life! Don't listen to this vile girl's nonsense. When we were switching people to eat, she ate more than anyone else!"

The little girl turned pale with fright.

"You're lying! You secretly replaced Mother while she was sick!"

"Your mother worked so hard for this family that she coughed up blood, and you sold her! You're such a bad person, such a bad person!"

Upon hearing the girl's words, the man jumped up in anger and raised his hand to slap her.

Chen Wan'er immediately placed a long sword against his neck.

Fresh blood oozed down his neck, icy cold.

His voice trembled: "General, I was wrong! But I really just want to live, I just want my son to live! Please spare my life."

"I will never sell my children again, and I promise to raise them well."

People like him are bullies who prey on the weak and fear the strong; they're incorrigible. If we let him go today, he'll sell the girl again tonight.

Qin Yue Zhao stepped out of the shadows and coldly looked at the man on the ground.

"I despise people who favor sons over daughters more than anything in my life! What's wrong with women? Can't women fight on the battlefield and serve their country? Can't women achieve great things and make a name for themselves?"

"I am a woman, my maternal grandmother was a female general, and my mother was a woman. Which one of them is not as strong as you, a beast?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she immediately said to another female general, "Take him to the army camp to serve as a soldier and do the dirtiest and hardest work. Send someone to keep an eye on him, and if he dares to make any move, kill him without mercy!"

"Ah, Your Highness, no!"

The man let out a thunderous scream and frantically kowtowed.

He could still bully the weak and survive outside, but once he entered the military camp, he would face soldiers with knives who would whip and beat him at the drop of a hat. Even if he didn't die, he would be crippled!

He cursed the child, cursed Qin Yuezhao, and cursed the entire Huo family army.

But ultimately, he could not change his own fate.

The lieutenant dragged the man away like a dead dog.

Qin Yue Zhao looked at the children crying and embracing each other on the ground, and said to Chen Wan'er, "Give them your half of the steamed bun."

Chen Wan'er was slightly taken aback, but still did as instructed.

The two children, holding the warm steamed buns, stared in disbelief, their mouths agape, and frantically kowtowed to the backs of the two figures.

After walking about a mile, Chen Wan'er choked up and said, "Your Highness, the people are suffering so much. If only we could ask the gods to give us more food."

Qin Yue Zhao stopped in her tracks, looked up at the vast and boundless starry sky, and silently suppressed the tears welling up in her eyes.

Yes, I really hope that after receiving the treasure, the gods will send some more food.

Otherwise, when the harsh winter arrives, the people and soldiers of Liangcheng will really not be able to withstand it!

"Let's go back and ask God for help!"

Chu Xiao threw the food from his home into a copper basin and was about to rest when a silk scroll as thin as a cicada's wing floated out of the basin.

The silk scroll is as thin as paper, with ancient characters the size of flies written on it.

Chu Xiao took out his phone, took a picture of it, and used software to translate the words on it:

Gods above: Princess Da Gan prays here that the Huo family army, which has been guarding the border for three years, was besieged by the northern barbarians. Of the more than 200,000 troops, more than half were killed in battle, and less than 50,000 were left as survivors.

One hundred thousand people living on the border were starving, and cannibalism was becoming a common occurrence in the city.

Qin Yue Zhao thanked the gods for providing food and water, but the food was still not enough for the people to share.

Princess Daqianzhao hopes that the gods will grant her more food and water, and she is willing to serve them with her own body.

Chu Xiao read the text line by line.

Besides begging for food, the text also mentions a woman on the border who had just given birth, feeding her baby with her own blood to keep the child alive, and a father who wanted to kill his daughter and exchange children with others to eat.

miserable!

It's absolutely a terrible sight!