"Hey~ Xiaoxiao, you're awake!"
Xiao Li looked up and saw that the boy was only twelve or thirteen years old. However, his arm was injured, so he was pale and looked weak.
"I am not Song Xiaoxiao, you have mistaken me for someone else."
Hearing this, Han Shitou was stunned. He looked her over carefully and realized that this was indeed his neighbor, Song Xiaoxiao.
Han Changhe, who was in front, also turned around. He frowned, as if he was thinking about what to do.
In these famine years, raising one child is difficult enough, let alone two.
"Then who are you? Why are you crying there all by yourself?"
Xiao Li's expression darkened. "My mother is dead, my wet nurse is dead, and now I'm all alone."
Han Shitou and his father exchanged a glance, neither knowing what to do.
Finally, Han Changhe silently pulled the oxcart and walked forward.
He couldn't bear to leave the little girl behind, so he resigned himself to raising her.
Han Shitou looked at Xiao Li curiously, "Are you related to Song Xiaoxiao? Why do you look so alike?"
Xiao Li generously allowed him to look her over.
"Actually, I am the seventh princess. My wet nurse was just murdered, and now I am all alone. But one day I will return to the palace."
"Thump..."
Xiao Li turned her head and saw Han Changhe fall flat on his face.
Han Shitou also looked at her in shock.
"You...you...are you...truthful?"
Xiao Li nodded, "Of course it's true, look."
Xiao Li opened the small bundle she was holding, which was filled with gold and silver jewelry, as well as a small identity tag with the number seven written on it.
When the original owner woke up, she was also holding the bundle, but she didn't open it; instead, she kept it safe.
The reason Song Xiaoxiao was so afraid when she later saw Long Xiaoxiao was because she was afraid that her identity would be exposed.
Han Shitou immediately tumbled off the oxcart, and he and Han Changhe lay on the ground, too afraid to get up.
"This humble subject did not know you were a princess..."
Watching the two of them, Xiao Li sighed inwardly at how lucky the original owner was to have met these two honest and kind people.
No wonder she was unwilling to accept being sent back to the palace by the reborn Song Xiaoxiao.
"Get up, just call me Xiaoxiao. I'm just a princess in distress, and I still need your protection."
"Get up quickly, we still have a long way to go."
Han Changhe then helped his son get up.
This time, Han Shitou dared not ride in the oxcart; he walked slowly alongside it.
However, he kept stealing glances at Xiaoli, filled with curiosity about her.
“I have met the Song Xiaoxiao you mentioned. We did travel together yesterday, but we got separated after my wet nurse died.”
Han Shitou quickly chimed in after hearing this.
"So that's how it is. No wonder I mistook them for real. It turns out the people I saw yesterday were indeed them."
Xiao Li looked at Han Shitou and said, "She and Aunt Li should have escaped."
Han Shitou nodded, "Then we can rest assured."
After walking for another two hours, the road was desolate, with not a trace of green, and even the grass roots had been dug up and eaten.
Han Changhe stopped, blocking the oxcart outside the cave and letting the two children hide inside. He took out a hard flatbread from his bundle.
This pancake can no longer be called a pancake; it's made from ground corn cobs mixed with a little bit of dark flour. It looks bad and tastes bad.
Xiao Li frowned; she didn't want to eat this.
Han Changhe could tell, and he frowned, speaking in a low voice.
"Xiaoxiao, there's nothing else to eat. You eat something first, and I'll go look for something else."
Xiao Li shook her head and took out an even smaller bundle from her bundle, which contained a packet of osmanthus cakes.
This is obviously a form of space smuggling. At this point, there's nowhere to find food, let alone osmanthus cake.
Han Changhe's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. He quickly wrapped up the small bundle and looked around furtively like a thief.
"Are you out of your mind? Hurry up and go inside, eat it secretly."
He let his son come out and protected Xiaoli inside.
Xiao Li had already used her divine sense to check within a ten-mile radius and found no one else.
"Uncle Han, come and eat with us, it'll spoil if we leave it any longer."
Han Changhe swallowed hard. Even if it was spoiled, it was still a top-quality pastry.
Finally, Xiaoli forced the two of them to swallow the osmanthus cake, and the three of them shared the whole bag.
In this famine year, water was even harder to find, so Han Changhe handed the water bag he was carrying to Xiaoli.
"Xiaoxiao, don't mind, there's still a little water left, you can drink it."
His lips were chapped, as were Han Shitou's, but he still chose to save the water for Xiaoli.
Xiao Li took it, poured some spirit river water into it, and then returned it.
She shook the water bag that the original owner had always carried.
"There's still water inside."
In fact, the original owner's water bag had long been empty; it was the Spirit River water that Xiao Li secretly filled in.
Han Changhe smiled with delight, "That's wonderful."
He let Han Shitou drink a few sips, and he also took a small sip himself.
Suddenly I felt a surge of energy throughout my body.
Looking at the sky, it seemed quite bright.
"I'll go see if there's anything to eat. You two wait here for me."
Upon hearing this, Xiaoli quickly stood up and indicated that she wanted to go too.
Han Changhe had no choice but to take his two children with him on the journey.
There was a grove of trees not far away, where there might be some small animals or fungi, so the three of them set off towards the grove.
Xiao Li secretly threw a pheasant out.
"Puff puff puff..."
Han Shitou exclaimed softly, "Dad, hurry, there's a pheasant here!"
Han Changhe ignored him and said, "Don't shout, there's a wild rabbit here."
The two of them pounced together and quickly caught the two prey.
"Today is such a lucky day."
Both of them were overjoyed. Xiao Li asked Huan Ling to find a water source in a shady place, and she found one.
Another wild rabbit ran by, and this time, Han Changhe couldn't catch it no matter how hard he tried.
After several twists and turns, they discovered a spring, with a shallow layer of water already in the small pit.
"Princess, we have water now."
Han Changhe was so excited that even the princess appeared.
The three of them killed a chicken and a rabbit by the spring, and filled their water bags as they did so.
They cooked a big pot of soup, and the three of them ate their fill. After washing up, they returned to the cave to rest.
Han Changhe sat by the fire, dried the remaining meat over the fire, made it into jerky, wrapped it in a clean cloth, and then went to sleep contentedly.
Now that he had enough to eat and drink for the next few days, Han Changhe felt hopeful and thought things would get better once he reached the southwest.
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Song Xiaoxiao also woke up from her dream with a start, and she could still feel the pain of suffocation.
"How terrifying!"
She touched her neck; she had been strangled to death by the concubine of Prince An.
The Crown Prince of An successfully ascended the throne, but the concubine's family was very powerful. She could not tolerate the princess's children being superior to her, which led to Song Xiaoxiao's death.
She could already foresee what would happen to her children after her death.
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