They walked along the river for more than ten minutes. There were dry riverbeds and aquatic plants on both sides. Sometimes when they stepped on the aquatic plants, they made a crackling sound.
Some people also dig silt on the riverbed. When they dig out some moist silt, they will continue digging down.
If you work hard, you will get something in return. A few people dug up river clams, which are edible.
At that moment, everyone on the riverbed became excited and started digging with whatever they could find.
Li Qiaolan looked around and saw nothing on either side. She suggested, "Why don't we go dig too?"
Lin Cuicui and the other two did not refute. Chen Li didn't want to dig in the mud, so she pointed ahead and said, "I'll go a little further and come back soon."
"Okay, Ali, be careful."
"Uh-huh."
Although Lin Cuicui already knew that Chen Li was not weak, she would always give Chen Li some advice every time she went out alone, and Chen Li herself also benefited from it.
Chen Li walked along the river for another quarter of an hour. There were fewer people here and the trees were more lush. At least the leaves were still green and had not been plucked.
The riverbed has not changed, it is still dry and cracked, with many pits dug everywhere.
After walking a little further, I saw a few half-grown children digging something in front of me.
"Brother, it's a river clam!"
The girl's voice was excited, and she quickly hid the clams in her hand into her clothes, not caring that they were still covered in mud.
Her voice was very low, but it was still heard.
Three half-grown teenagers walked towards the brother and sister. One of them pointed at them and said, "Lu Jing, you two, hand over the clams."
"Yes, Lu Jing, quickly ask your sister to hand over the river clam, otherwise we will show no mercy later."
When the little girl behind Lu Jing heard these words, her originally sallow face turned even paler, and she tugged at her brother's sleeve anxiously.
Lu Jing looked at them with a sinister and cold look in his eyes, “Oh, if you want it, go dig it yourself!”
Seeing this, the three teenagers clenched their fists in anger and surrounded the brother and sister.
Lu Jing gently pushed the girl behind him away and said, "Nannan, please move away. Brother is fine."
With tears in her big eyes, Lu Nian turned and ran into the woods. She couldn't stay here and hold her brother back.
When Chen Li heard Lu Jing's name, he stopped and looked over there. The young man with his back to him kept his thin back straight even in the current environment.
Soon, the four of them started fighting each other. The young man was extremely cruel, and his hands and feet targeted the most vulnerable parts of the people.
His seemingly desperate fighting style quickly frightened the three young men who were stronger than him.
Chen Li could see clearly that although he beat back the three teenagers, he was also injured, and his originally handsome face was swollen.
The three half-grown boys were frightened by his beating. They stood up from the ground and pointed at Lu Jing: "Just wait, you'll have something to worry about when you get back."
Lu Jing got up from the ground, patted the dirt on his clothes, sneered, and looked at the three people with sarcastic eyes:
"So you three haven't been weaned yet!"
The three teenagers obviously understood the meaning of his words, and their faces suddenly turned red.
"You're not weaned!"
After saying these harsh words, the three teenagers hurriedly walked around him and left.
Lu Nian ran to his brother and asked, "Brother, where are you hurt?"
"Nannan, brother is fine."
Tears fell silently from the little girl's eyes. "Brother lied to me. The corners of his mouth are bleeding."
…
Lu Jing seems to be a character in the book. The brother and sister in front of him are most likely the children of the richest man in Northern Qi.
The richest man lost his mother at a young age and was away from home all year round. In order to take better care of them, he married a second wife.
As a result, the stepmother had two children in three years, so the two little boys born to the original wife became thorns in her eyes.
While the richest man was away from home, the brother and sister were sold to human traffickers by their vicious stepmother, and were taken south from the prosperous Jiangnan all the way to Yizhou.
Fortunately, the brother and sister were smart and took advantage of the chaos in Yizhou to escape. They mixed in with the refugee group and wanted to walk back to Jiangnan.
Originally, the brother and sister planned to go to Wuyuan City because there was a money house owned by the Lu family in Wuyuan City, and he wanted to contact his father.
But they couldn't enter Wuyuan City later, and Lu Jing was afraid that his stepmother would know about their presence there, so he didn't plan to contact anyone else and just walked back to Jiangnan with his sister.
Unexpectedly, his sister still couldn't successfully escape the famine, and he himself was on the verge of death several times, but was finally accidentally saved by the heroine Shen Jiaojiao. Since then, Shen Jiaojiao has gained an admirer and a purse.
Chen Li looked at the thin brother and sister in front of her. No, such people cannot be left to Chen Jiaojiao. If they gain power one day, they will definitely try their best to suppress their family.
Chen Li planned to go to Suzhou, which was very close to Jiangnan. If he sent them back, he could get a generous reward. He could not only snatch the heroine's opportunity, but also get money. It was the best of both worlds!
The corners of her mouth rose slightly, then, this time, it would be up to her, Shen Li, to save the children of the richest man.
Looking at the limping Lu Jing, what reason could I have to approach these brother and sister?
Chen Li was just thinking about it, but the next second, the little girl suddenly fell to the ground without any warning.
Lu Jing hurriedly hugged his sister in his arms, and when he noticed her unusual body temperature, his heart sank.
"Nannan, what's wrong with you?"
"Don't scare my brother!"
What should he do? His sister has a high fever. They have no water, no food, and no medicine. What should he do?
The little person in his arms had his eyes tightly closed, and his sallow face was unusually flushed.
Chen Li frowned. Could it be that this girl's disaster was about to come?
Tears soon filled Lu Jing's eyes. He stood up holding his sister. Only then did he notice Chen Li standing not far away.
The girl was wearing cotton clothes, had fair skin and a rosy complexion, and it was obvious that she was someone who had no shortage of food and drink.
Lu Jing held his sister in his arms and knelt in front of Shen Li, "Please, girl, save my sister!"
Although it is said that a man's knees are made of gold and he will not kneel down easily, he does not know what to do if he loses his sister.
Lu Jing looked at the indifference in her eyes. He wondered if she would lend a helping hand to save her sister.
But he had no other choice now, he had no medicine and no food.
Looking at the half-grown boy in front of him, Chen Li sighed slowly and handed over her water bag. "Your sister's lips are dry and cracked. Give her some water first."
Chen Li squatted down and touched the little girl's forehead with the back of her hand, frowning slightly. She had a high fever, no wonder she couldn't make it.
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