The group found the eldest sister and revealed their identities. The eldest sister knew she couldn't afford to offend her, so she pointed ahead and said, "It's right there."
"We'll have to trouble you to take us there." Tao Xiaoxi said with a smile.
The eldest sister also smiled, but her smile was ugly, and she led them forward tremblingly, cutting through the thorns.
There has never been a village where weeds can run rampant like this. Civilization has stopped here and the village has been turned into a wilderness. There is not a single decent path in the village. They clawed at the weeds and moved forward. Finally, under a huge persimmon tree, they saw a house made of a mixture of thatch and earth.
"That's the one." The eldest sister pointed and ran away.
Tao Xiaoxi's heart tightened. The house looked unstable. If the wind and rain were strong enough, even the roof could be blown off. The sister-in-law clutched her clothes at her chest and walked with heavy steps.
The door was ajar. The captain of the rescue team pushed it open. Immediately, a beam of light shone into the dim room, like the sun rising in the darkness, and everything in the room came into view.
A woman with very short hair looked at them indifferently. She was holding a baby in her arms. The baby looked very small, less than one year old. Behind her were three children, all half-naked. The oldest one was no more than seven or eight years old, and the youngest one was no more than two or three years old. They had disheveled hair and were dirty, and their gender could not be identified.
Without beds, they slept on straw. Without tables, the water ladles and food bowls were placed on the ground.
Tao Xiaoxi walked in and saw clearly that the pair of indifferent eyes that looked down on everyone was undoubtedly Mo Yatou!
But Miss Mo did not seem to welcome their arrival and was not happy. When her sister-in-law called her nickname, she just twitched her lips and continued to lower her head to feed the baby in her arms.
The baby cried out in hunger and sucked for a long time but got no milk.
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