"Second brother, wake up! Did you buy all the coarse grains, cabbage, and taro that I asked you to stock up on?" Zhong Yan rubbed her temples helplessly.
We don't know what will happen this winter, so it's better to stock up on food.
Zhongheng was fast asleep and didn't hear a thing.
Zhong Yan: "..."
Forget it, she should go and find out herself and buy more things.
After going outside for a walk and learning that the scholar had been invited by the magistrate of Qingcheng County, she felt even more uneasy.
If the magistrate of this city had been competent, so many horrific massacres wouldn't have happened. What exactly is this magistrate trying to do?
Or rather, what exactly does that being in the shadows want to do?
While holding an umbrella, Zhong Yan pondered the events of the past few days.
A master who swaps fates, several massacres that the government turns a blind eye to, a notorious magistrate, a suddenly opened school, a scholar invited by the magistrate, a neighbor eager to send his child to school, and...
And the child who escaped the massacre of his entire family...
Zhong Yan suddenly turned her head and looked at the boy next to the steamed bun shop.
"Hahaha, hahaha, that's hilarious! He eats everything!"
"He even eats dog bones with such relish, you'd think he'd eat poop!"
"Boss, you're right, let's make Fugui eat the shit he pooped out!"
"Hey, stop gnawing on bones there. I have some warm poop here, want to have a couple of bites?"
"What?! You actually ate it?! Are you crazy?"
"What are you doing?" Zhong Yan rushed over, and the group of children ran away in an instant.
She took out her handkerchief and wiped the filth off the boy's face, a surge of inexplicable anger rising within her.
"Come on, I'll take you back."
She tugged twice, but the boy didn't move, still staring at the lump on the ground.
"Sweetie, I'll buy you some meat buns. Let's go now!"
Zhong Yan took out some copper coins and bought three large baskets of steamed buns before taking the boy away.
"Child, what's your name?"
"Don't rush, you can eat when we get to my house. It's freezing cold on the way, and the buns will get cold by the time we take them out."
"Where do you usually sleep? Doesn't anyone else take you in?"
Zhong Yan talked for a long time, but the boy didn't answer a single word. He just numbly let her pull him along, gradually walking towards the direction of the mansion.
She looked into the boy's eyes and finally understood the strangeness about him.
This child witnessed the death of his entire family, and the shock was so intense that he has gone insane.
So, what exactly happened to those people that led to their entire families being wiped out? And how much does this child know?
"Sister, why did you bring a child back?" Zhongheng had finally had a good sleep, but as soon as he answered, he saw a boy wolfing down three or four buns in the blink of an eye.
"Second brother, it's like this..." Zhong Yan said out her speculations.
Since she had no choice but to stay in Chongzhou, and Qingcheng was the closest place to the provincial capital, she naturally had to find out what was happening in Qingcheng, otherwise she wouldn't even know how she died.
Zhongheng had also put a steamed bun in his mouth, but after hearing his sister's guess, he suddenly felt that the steamed bun in his mouth didn't taste good anymore.
Was his luck really that bad? On his way from Qingzhou, he encountered wave after wave of bandits. When he returned home, his family didn't welcome him and subtly drove him away. Later, in Qingcheng, he encountered evil spirits colluding with the government.
As he pondered this, he suddenly knelt down. "Mountain Goddess, please grant me courage and strength so that I may vanquish all these demons!"
Zhong Yan: "..."
When faced with a problem, is it okay to kneel down and pray to the gods?
"Don't kill my mother! Don't kill my mother! I'll exchange! I'll exchange!" Just as the two were staring at each other, the boy who was eating a steamed bun suddenly jumped up and screamed.
Zhong Yan and Zhong Heng turned their heads instantly.
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