Qin Yue Zhao walked to the fork in the road, and the woman who had been holding the baby last time rushed out from the corner again.
"Your Highness, you've finally arrived! Please save my child! I have no breast milk, and my baby is so hungry he can't even cry anymore. He's about to die! Please, save his life!"
"If you don't save him, after he dies, his father will take him and eat him, Your Highness—"
Chen Wan'er was startled and instinctively drew her sword to stop the person who came.
The woman cried even louder.
"Your Highness, I have given birth to three children. The eldest is only six years old, and the second is three. But his father has already traded them for food! This is the last one, and he is surviving on my breast milk. His father is still waiting for him to die!"
"Please save my child! I'll do anything for you, even give my life for him!"
Qin Yue Zhao looked at the densely packed knife marks on the woman's stick-like wrists and couldn't help but feel her eyes redden.
She was a princess of the royal family, and during the prosperous times, she was supported by the people. Now, seeing these poor people living such lives, even though she knew that the greater good was more important, she really couldn't bring herself to be cruel.
She crouched down, secretly took half a steamed bun from her bosom, stuffed it into her hand, and whispered, "This is my last ration. Eat it secretly and don't let anyone find out."
The woman almost cried out in despair when she saw the soft, white steamed buns made from refined flour.
Qin Yue Zhao covered her mouth and said sternly, "If you don't want others to steal it from you, hide and eat it!"
The woman bit her lip, kowtowed heavily to her several times, kicked the steamed bun, and ran into a secluded corner.
This half-fist-sized steamed bun is enough to last her for two days!
Just then, a heart-wrenching scream suddenly echoed from the other alleyway: "Father! Father! Don't kill me! I want to live!"
A girl of about fifteen or sixteen years old was dragged out of the alley by a tall, thin man with a fierce expression.
The little girl clung tightly to the man's leg, her cries echoing through the sky.
"Father, I will never eat again! I will dig up grass roots and peel tree bark, and I can even dig up clay to feed you. Please don't replace me, I want to live, Father!"
Another boy rushed out of the alley and clung tightly to the man's other leg, refusing to let his father take the little girl away.
"Father, Grandpa and Grandma are dead, and Mother is dead too. You can't take my sister with you anymore. Please, please let my sister go!"
"Let the sister go?" The man kicked the little boy to the ground, roaring viciously, "I'm starving to death, if you let him go, I'll die!"
But the little boy clung tightly to his leg, shouting with all his might, "Dad, I'd rather starve to death than let my sister die!"
Seeing this, another man standing at the foot of the wall immediately became impatient: "Yang Dazhu, are you going to change or not? If not, don't waste my time, I'm going to the next one!"
Qin Yue Zhao then noticed that the man in the corner was carrying a emaciated woman on his shoulder. The woman's hands hung limply in the air, as if she were dead.
She immediately gave Chen Wan'er a wink.
Chen Wan'er leaped up and kicked the first big man in the chest, sending him flying three meters away and crashing into the dilapidated wooden cart.
"roll!"
When the man saw the approaching figure holding a knife, he was so frightened that he carried the corpse and ran away.
The little girl was startled and quickly rushed over to hug her younger brother.
"younger brother!"
The younger brother hugged his older sister tightly, tears and snot streaming down his face.
"Don't be afraid, sister. Kang'er will definitely protect you and won't let Father sell you!"
The older sister broke down emotionally and cried uncontrollably.
"I'm sorry, little brother, it's my fault for dragging you into this."
The man tumbled off the wooden cart, yelling in pain, "Damn it, which son of a bitch dared to kick me?"
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