Holding the pastry in his hand, Gu Qingsheng took a bite, but it was not as sweet as the one he had eaten on the road.
After thinking about it, she put down the cake and shouted to the driver to stop.
The horse neighed loudly and stopped, stirring up a cloud of dry dust on the cracked ground.
"Kiyomori, what are you going to do?"
Asked in confusion, Xie looked at Gu Qingsheng with a gentle look in her eyes, but saw that little hand picked up two cakes from the table and got out of the car carefully.
Prince Duan frowned and looked a little anxious. Prince Duan frowned and looked a little anxious. He raised his head to Gu Fengnan. Gu Fengnan immediately understood and followed Gu Qingsheng down with his not-so-long legs.
Maybe I didn't feel the bitter heat of the setting sun when I was in the carriage, but after stepping out of the carriage and stepping on the ground, the overwhelming heat hit my skin, and the feeling of dry mouth and tongue came over me all of a sudden.
She wiped the sweat off her forehead and faced two children sitting in the corner. The two boys were thin and small. The older one was holding a very small baby in his arms. The baby was in swaddling clothes and his cries were so weak that there was no sign of life.
It was really too hot that day. In front of the two people, Gu Qingsheng forgot how to speak for a moment. He just looked at their cracked lips and hid the dry snacks in his hand behind his body.
There was a dead silence in the air, and groans were heard all around. The two boys were very young, much younger than Gu Qingsheng.
They just looked at each other in silence.
"Are you going to give us that thing?"
When the older boy saw the cake in Gu Qingsheng's hand, his eyes widened and he stared at the cake hidden in Gu Qingsheng's sleeve.
"What is that thing?"
From the moment they met, the boy had been ignoring her. His eyes were lifeless without a trace of light, but at this moment, they were full of light, and he was sobbing very loudly.
"It's osmanthus cake..."
Feeling a little scared by those hungry eyes, Gu Qingsheng took a step back. Gu Fengnan stood in front of Gu Qingsheng and looked at the boy opposite with hostility.
Ignoring Gu Fengnan's hostility, the young man still looked at Gu Qingsheng, who was secretly revealing his eyes. The sound coming out of his throat was dry.
"Is it...is it given to us..."
After slowly taking out the osmanthus cake, Gu Qingsheng walked out from behind Gu Fengnan, but took his hand and showed his palm in front of the boy.
"You eat..."
Before Gu Qingsheng could ask any more questions, the osmanthus cake was snatched away by the boy in front of him. He held it in his palm like a treasure and looked at Gu Qingsheng nervously as if he was afraid that she would snatch it away.
However, after getting the osmanthus cake, the boy did not rush to eat it. Instead, he looked at the osmanthus cake, swallowed his saliva, then turned around and ran into the house.
Only then did they see clearly that there was a skinny woman lying in the dark room. She was unable to move, with deep sunken eye sockets and thin cheeks.
The boy ran in, shouting
"Mom! Mom! We have food! You can feed your brother now!"
The woman lay motionless, and only her occasional movement of her eyes and drooping eyelids revealed that she was still alive.
Accustomed to this situation, the boy put the osmanthus cake in his hand to the woman's mouth, opened her mouth and stuffed the cake in. The woman rolled her eyes, chewed it for a while, and showed a terrifying smile that was neither a smile nor a smile.
She might have wanted to reach out and touch the boy's head, but she was too weak to lift her hand.
"Kiyomori, let's go."
Holding Gu Qingsheng's hand tightly, Gu Fengnan felt sad.
When I see this woman in front of me, I think of my mother for no reason.
I immediately had the urge to escape.
Perhaps Gu Qingsheng was still young at the time, so he didn't know what death was. He just looked at the woman thoughtfully, and then followed Gu Fengnan away.
The boy's eyes flashed as he looked at their backs. He leaned towards the threshold and looked at the two precious people.
From a distance, I could still hear the childish conversation between the two people.
"Brother, has this place always been so desolate..."
"No... this was once a beautiful place."
"Beautiful? How beautiful? Is it the same as in the capital? Is there a moon? Are there stars? Will they all shine down? Will they all be as green as the grass in the capital?"
"Will it make those leaves green again? Will it make this land happy again?"
She held Gu Fengnan's hand and did not look up at the two boys, but the boy who was watching them from behind took her words to heart.
The boy ran back to the withered woman, his eyes shining. Although he didn't understand those flowery words, he remembered two things.
The moon and the stars are both beautiful.
"Mom! Mom! I've made up my mind!"
"From now on, your brother will be called Ah Yue! And I will be called Ah Xing!"
The two of them were born during a drought and lost their father when they were just born. In that era, they were lucky to be alive, so why would they care about their names?
I have always been called the eldest by my mother.
Now the mother is so hungry that she can't move, and even the eldest son has no one to call.
Looking at his brother's thin and weak face, Ah Xing poked him happily, licked the cake crumbs in his hand greedily, and smiled with curved eyebrows.
"From now on, you will be called Ah Yue, and your brother will be called Ah Xing..."
"Axing... hehe..."
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The further we walked, the more severe the drought became. There were no more people here.
The driver stopped the carriage and scratched his head.
"Your Highness, we may not be able to go the rest of the way. The horse is unwilling to go any further. The carriage can only stop here."
Seeing that the horse seemed to be unwilling to give up, Prince Duan and his companions had no choice but to get off the carriage.
Under the scorching sun, Prince Duan grabbed the water bottle at his waist and drank two sips of water. When he just put the water bottle to his mouth, a figure suddenly rushed out from the mud house in front of him!
The speed was so fast that it was almost invisible. In an instant, the kettle in Prince Duan's hand was pulled away, and Prince Duan was also dragged away.
"Hey you!"
He shouted and only saw the corner of the man's robe. He must have practiced some kind of kung fu to move his legs so fast.
I heard Xie scream suddenly
"Kyomori!"
The scream was heart-wrenching, and Prince Duan's heart sank. Sure enough, there was no figure where Gu Qingsheng was just now. There was a small figure clamped on the man's arm, but because the speed was too fast, he couldn't see it clearly.
Because he lost his martial arts skills while saving the emperor when he was young, he now doesn't even have the most basic vigilance and actually let his daughter be kidnapped in front of him.
His face turned pale and Prince Duan roared
"Are you all a bunch of losers? The princess was kidnapped right before your eyes, and none of you made a move! Go after them now!"
"yes!"
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