Chapter 162 She is Wang Meiniang (She will cry, buy it if you can bear it)
Li's nightmare finally ended on this day.
She woke up as usual, but because of the long-term hunger, it was a little more difficult for her to wake up than usual. She finally regained consciousness, opened her eyes and glanced at the child on the couch. Something seemed to be wrong, and then she was startled and propped herself up.
There was one less child among the four sleeping on the inside!
In the early morning light, in the shanty towns near the county school, people who were immersed in their own sad, happy or drowsy dreams were suddenly awakened by a lung-wrenching and heart-wrenching cry.
Li went crazy, breaking into shacks one by one, crying and calling out "Tian Ya" over and over again. Behind her followed Shen San and Shen Jin, who was still crying but had enough energy to come out to look for someone.
Following the warning from officers and soldiers in the East Market, that morning, people in the slum area saw an even more cruel side of the city.
Qiyang County is not very big, but it is no easier to find a three-year-old child who is already fainting from hunger among five or six thousand people in densely packed shacks and houses with closed doors, especially when the person looking for him is so hungry that he has difficulty walking.
Wherever Li went, the villagers just hugged their children tighter. From that moment on, those with children at home might not even dare to sleep peacefully.
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In another shack, after being awakened from sleep by someone outside the shack in the middle of the night, the noise that had been going on for half the night finally quieted down when daylight came into the shack.
Lying on the messy floor, Wang Meiniang had disheveled hair and a pale face. If it weren't for the beating heart and chest, she wouldn't even look like a living person.
She felt so much pain all over her body, waist and abdomen that she wanted to curl up, but the pain was unbearable when she moved.
Wang Meiniang knew that she would not survive.
I don't want to live anymore.
Her eyelids were too heavy and she wanted to let her consciousness fall into a daze, but then she remembered Shen San who came in the middle of the night and she saw Tian Ya who was smothered and stuffed with a cloth because of her crying and struggling.
Sweet girl.
On the day she was sold, everyone in the village could only see the one and a half bags of grain, including her biological parents and brothers. Only when they met the Shen siblings on the road where she was being taken away, did Shen Jin muster up the courage to call her Wang Meiniang.
She is Wang Meiniang.
That was the last time she was still Wang Meiniang.
Sweet girl.
Wang Meiniang's heart beats more and more violently. She tilted her head. The eldest and the third brother had tormented her a lot in the first and second half of the night. Now they were snoring loudly and sleeping soundly. The second brother was guarding the city. The fourth brother was the last one to get off her. He was in a good mood, or maybe because he saw that she looked really bad, he went out to buy firewood, saying that he would exchange it for a handful of rice for her. He had just left the shack.
She was too honest and had been tortured too hard, so they no longer kept a close eye on her as they did at the beginning.
Wang Meiniang's fingertips began to tremble.
She clenched her fists and suppressed her trembling fingertips, as if only this could suppress the fear and trembling rising from the bottom of her heart.
Wang Meiniang gritted her teeth and slowly sat up. The tattered quilt covering her body slipped off. She crawled a distance, picked up an old dress from the corner of the bed and put it on, covering up the bruises on her body.
She held her breath and looked at the two people who were still sleeping. She endured the pain and dared not make a sound. She touched an upside-down basket in the corner of the shack.
After moving the basket away, Tian Ya just lay on the ground. She pulled out the cloth stuffed in Tian Ya's mouth with trembling hands, and used her hand to feel her breath. After a long while, she covered her mouth tightly to prevent her tears from spilling out.
She suppressed her tears and forced herself to pick up Tian Ya.
The thought of a three-year-old child was extremely heavy for her, who was already thirteen years old and in a very bad situation.
But she couldn't let Tian Yaer stay here.
cannot.
She had to go, even if she died, she wanted to die peacefully and comfortably.
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Lee is crazy.
The longer time passed, the more she collapsed. She broke into all the shacks around the county school and started to move to other places.
Shen San had an unclear expression and could only follow with his head down, listening to Li and Shen Jin calling out "Tian Ya" again and again, occasionally joining in the call.
Li searched the shacks in the West Market and the streets one by one.
Shen San's hands were trembling slightly, and he gradually couldn't bear the pressure in his heart. When he was struggling between his conscience and his conscience, he happened to go around to the main road and saw a man coming from the direction of East Market carrying a bundle of firewood. It was the fourth son of that family.
His heart trembled, and in an instant he lost all thoughts.
There were not many people on the street. Except for the clinic and the drugstore, most of the shops had their doors closed. The fourth son of that family naturally saw Shen San and Li and... Shen Jin, who were looking for someone like crazy a few steps ahead of Shen San.
He squinted and looked at Shen Jin.
Another group of wounded soldiers were carried down from the city wall. Those with minor injuries were treated under the city wall, while those with more serious injuries had to be sent to the infirmary. Several conscripted civilians carried three or four wounded soldiers and walked quickly over, shouting loudly to "make way" as they walked.
The man then withdrew his gaze and stepped aside with the firewood on his back.
Uncle Xu and another person were also carrying a seriously injured soldier, and passed by Li, who looked crazy and was calling "Tian Ya".
He couldn't help but turn his head and saw Shen Jin, whose face was full of tears and who also called out "Tian Ya". He also recognized Shen San, who was one step behind Shen Jin.
The people carrying the stretcher in front were running very fast, and Uncle Xu did not slow down, but there was a flash of deep thought in his eyes.
After the wounded were sent to the clinic, he should have immediately returned to the city wall to wait for orders. However, he walked out of the clinic, bit his lip, said hello to the civilians in the same group, and followed the voices of Li and Shen Jin into an alley.
Watching the mother and daughter going around various shacks looking for someone, they happened to see one of the families cooking, and as luck would have it, there was meat in the pot.
Li became completely crazy. When he couldn't find any suspicious traces, he saw the meat in the pottery pot and was so angry that he overturned the pottery pot with his bare hands.
"Eat meat, eat meat, what kind of meat are you eating now! Ah! What kind of meat!"
There are many men in this family, and they are not pushovers. The pottery cauldron was overturned, and the bowls were thrown, so they started fighting. Li was grabbed by the hair and slapped in the face. Shen Jin, who wanted to protect his mother, was also injured.
Of course, the one who was beaten the hardest was Shen San, who was a man.
Fortunately, the person nearby who had just been rushed in by Li to look for her child probably guessed that Li's child might have been stolen. It was rare that someone showed pity, and the men went up to help pull the child out. The family had eaten most of the pot of meat soup, and when the woman in the family heard that Li's child was stolen, she also pulled the men, and that was the end of the matter.
Shen San received a severe beating, and just in time he didn't have to deal with Li anymore, so he went back to his shack in a rage.
The words he said were particularly stern: "You can go crazy, I'll go back and look after Xiaoyin and Xiaotie, make sure you don't lose one more."
Uncle Xu tightened his hands at his sides.
He stood in the corner for a long time, his hands at his sides loosening and tightening, tightening and loosening again, and finally thought of the empty bags of rice at home, the tunnel that had not yet been dug, the increasingly chaotic situation in the city, and the increasing number of people being carried down from the city wall. He finally clenched his fists and turned and left.
Alang is also a clay Buddha, no one can save him.
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After seeing the pot of broth, Li seemed to have gone half crazy.
She was not afraid of being beaten. She just sat on the ground in front of the shack, staring at the meat and soup that were spilled on the ground, and cried, crying silently.
The woman in that family was panicking and went to help her: "Sister, we are a butcher in Luojiaji. This is the pork we saved that we didn't sell. We rubbed it with salt and dried it. This is the last piece we have. We were too hungry to bear it, so we cut it into froth and added a pot of water for the whole family to eat. It's not what you think. If your family has lost the child, you should go find him as soon as possible."
If it’s any later, it will be really hard to say.
Seeing Li sitting there weakly, trembling a little, and her breathing was not right, it was obvious from her appearance that she was very hungry. She couldn't share the broth as it was not enough for her family to survive. And it seemed that this family couldn't bear to see the broth at the moment. The woman brought a bowl of water and asked Shen Jin to give it to Li.
Li drank the water in a daze, without even saying thank you, and took Shen Jin to look for Tian Ya like a wandering soul.
Qiyang County was neither big nor small. She unconsciously walked along a road she had never walked before, gradually going off the track and getting closer to the city wall.
She called Tian Ya in a hoarse voice unconsciously. Among the calls, she suddenly heard someone calling her "Auntie".
Li was no longer very sensitive to external sounds, not to mention that the voice was weak and hoarse. However, Shen Jin heard it clearly and looked back in the direction of the sound.
Even though the person's hair was disheveled, Shen Jin recognized her immediately. It was Wang Meiniang.
Wang Meiniang was staggering in an extremely embarrassed state, but soon he no longer paid attention to Wang Meiniang because he saw the person that Wang Meiniang was holding in her arms with great effort.
Although it was just a silhouette from behind, he recognized her; it was his sister.
Shen Jin blurted out: "Tian Ya!"
Li finally came to her senses, turned around suddenly, and saw the person in Wang Meiniang's arms.
The mother and son ran towards Wang Meiniang one after the other, but what they saw was Wang Meiniang's face full of tears and sadness.
Wang Meiniang like this and Tian Yaer who had not moved at all scared Li who had just rushed to Wang Meiniang.
She reached out to pick up her daughter, calling out "Tian Ya'er" while going to take a look.
The child didn't react at all.
Li touched Tian Ya'er's face with trembling hands, but it was no longer warm. She sniffed her breath and touched her neck. Her whole body went limp. She hugged Tian Ya and sat on the ground, leaning on the child, crying silently and then wailing loudly.
Shen Jin was already stunned on the spot.
When Li burst into tears, he finally realized something. He began to sob and cry. He squatted down and wanted to touch his sister, but he didn't dare. He cried like a wounded little animal, wailing.
Wang Meiniang stared blankly, and suddenly thought that she might be close to death, and who would cry for her then?
Li cried so hard that her liver and intestines were about to break, but she knew that the most important question at this time was who killed her sweet girl. She raised her head and gasped for breath, and finally she was able to stop crying and speak. She stared at Wang Meiniang with a pair of eyes that had long been red and swollen like peaches and asked, "Who was it?"
Shen Jin also looked at her, wiping his tears.
Wang Meiniang opened her mouth and said in a very hoarse voice: "Tianya's father."
He roughly explained the whole story, and also mentioned that Tian Ya was personally sent there by Shen San last night. Finally, he looked at Shen Jin and said the last sentence.
"Be careful."
A father like that is no longer a human being.
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Wang Meiniang left without saying where she was going.
Li didn't know how long she sat holding Tian Ya. A new tomb appeared in a remote place near the city wall, a tomb that didn't even have a mound.
Li and Shen Jin could only remember this location. Only after they had gotten through this disaster and this cannibalistic world would they dare to place Tian Yaer in a good place.
On the way back, Li did not utter a word. She just walked silently step by step towards the county school where they were temporarily staying. When she got closer to the county school, she slowly stopped and said in a hoarse voice: "You don't know anything. We didn't find Tian Ya, nor did we see Wang Meiniang. Do you understand?"
His expression was numb, and even his eyes were out of focus.
Shen Jin's world had also collapsed, and he nodded numbly.
Li finally looked at him and said slowly, "You still don't understand. If you and Xiaoyin and Xiaotie want to survive, we can't let him know that we know everything. We can't reveal any clues, understand?"
Only by not revealing any clues can she kill Shen San.
Li burst into tears.
She was too stupid. She didn't even realize that the person beside her had turned into an evil ghost, and she lost her daughter's life in vain.
She thought of how Tian Ya was humming like a cat and crying for hunger last night. Even though she was so hungry, she didn't dare ask her to eat another piece of earth cake. She just told her to bear it, just to stay alive.
Who could have expected that in the end, she didn't die of hunger and lack of food, but was killed by her father. Tian Ya must have been very scared at that time.
Tears welled up in her eyes again, but she didn't try to wipe them away. She just let them flow and took Shen Jin's hand and continued walking towards her shack.
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