Chapter 1: Wild Vegetable Dumplings
"Hmm..." Qin Qing's swollen head forced her to wake up. Then, not only did she feel pain in her head, but she also felt soreness and weakness in all her limbs. She felt very confused. Could it be that she was paralyzed after the fall?
If she had known, she would not have stayed up late to finish her thesis. Falling down the stairs was no joke. It was all her fault that she was not thinking clearly. She was thinking about her son and missed a step.
"Mother, please eat..." A vicissitudes and hoarse voice suddenly sounded in my ears.
What the hell???
"Why are you still eating? With this burden around, the three of us will starve to death sooner or later. It's just a matter of sooner or later." The female voice was sharp and angry, piercing people's ears.
This strange sound made Qin Qing feel uneasy. She tried her best to open her eyes, but was hurt by the sudden bright light. She quickly put out her hands to block them, but uncomfortable tears still flowed from the corners of her eyes.
The sunlight was so bright that people couldn't open their eyes. She could only look through her fingers. Wait, this hand as thin as a chicken claw was covered with unwashed dirt, and there were suspicious black objects between her fingers. Is this still her hand? What the hell is going on?
The noise coming from below made her feel as if she was in a car. She turned sideways and looked up. Damn it, she had no idea where these human traffickers had kidnapped these children from. They had starved themselves to death, with dry and sparse hair and tattered disguises. Qin Qing hurriedly put her hand to her nose, and fortunately, there was still breath.
The little girl was awakened by Qin Qing's movement. Her face was only the size of a palm, but it had a pair of big eyes like black grapes. Because of her thinness, her pupils looked wide and pitiful. She asked in an impatient tone, "Sister, what are you doing?"
This, this, this...
What terrified Qin Qing was not the little girl's call of "sister", but the appearance of herself that Qin Qing saw in her eyes: a perfect skeleton, sunken cheeks, and a bony body. They matched perfectly, and she could even feel the bones through the thin skin. Then she looked down at the pair of little chicken claws, and knew that this was not her.
"I..." Qin Qing felt like his throat was blocked by a bunch of weeds, and he didn't know where to start.
The little girl rolled her eyes at her and didn't want to pay any attention to Qin Qing. She slowly turned over and lay down with her head held high. This action seemed to have taken up most of her strength. After a pause, she said in a soft voice, "Mom..."
The car suddenly stopped. Qin Qing raised her head with great effort but could only vaguely see a dark shadow. She also wanted to turn over to see what was going on, but she found that her broken body did not even have the strength to do so.
Gradually, someone came into Qin Qing's sight. The woman was thin and slender, wearing patched blue cloth clothes, but she had the charm of a beauty when walking. She had an almond face and black eyes. Her excessive thinness made her look particularly lovable, not as scary as himself. The aura around her made Qin Qing's eyes light up.
Is this the little girl's mother, and also the mother of this body? He watched as she gently lifted the girl's upper body and held it in her arms. She raised her eyebrows warily and glanced around, her eyes casually glancing at Qin Qing before quickly pulling a dark object from her sleeve and stuffing it into the child's mouth.
Although it didn't look like something delicious, the fragrance still made Qin Qing swallow his saliva. The chewing sound of the little girl and the satisfied expression on her face made his body feel even more uncomfortable.
The woman gently put the child down, patted her head lovingly, and said softly, "Go to sleep. You won't be so hungry when you're asleep."
"Give the big girl some too." A hoarse but deep male voice sounded from behind.
The beautiful woman met Qin Qing's confused and ignorant eyes, and her gaze became distant.
"They are all life-saving things, why waste them on her?" The voice was a little higher, a little similar to the female voice just now.
"Wan'er, she is after all..." The man hesitated to speak.
"So you want to watch us mother and daughter starve to death, right?!" The beautiful woman suddenly became hysterical, her eyes filled with tears. The little girl was awakened and was so scared that she grabbed the beautiful woman's trouser legs tightly.
The beautiful woman leaned over and hugged her child, crying bitterly, her eyes red as she said angrily, "What day do you think this is? What day is this!!!"
"Escape from the famine! Every bite she eats is one less bite for us!" The beautiful woman hugged her child tightly and broke down. "She's a fool. She should have been drowned at birth. Isn't it enough that we've raised her until she's ten years old? Li Jianguo, what are you hesitating about!!!"
At the end, there was a sense of grief and indignation at the failure of someone else's ability to live up to his expectations.
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