Chapter 34 (2/2)
”Just then, that person was the Nine Gate Infantry Coui said ”He's Grand Preceptor Xie's third son-in-law Before he was a fighter in the navy forces of the south Nine years ago, the grand preceptor recalled him to the capital to become the Nine Gate Infantry Commander”
Ning Xiaoyao originally felt that these troops were like torch-bearing brigands with their shi+ny ar their leader was related to Grand Preceptor Xie she felt nothing about them at all
”You never saw hiui asked
”Heheh,” Ning Xiaoyao replied He'd have to ask Ning Yu for that, she had no idea
Left of the crossroads was another straight road Ning Xiaoyao hadn't taken a few steps before she heard the cries of a cat After listening for awhile, she realized so because she couldn't understand these noises like she understood cats
”A child?” Ning Xiaoyao asked Lou Zigui It was so late Why was a child out crying in the streets?
Lou Zigui glanced at a bamboo canopy not far away and pointed it out ”There's a soup kitchen there During the day, a rich faees should be waiting nearby so they can get their porridge as early as possible tomorrow”
There were even fa Xiaoyao ran forward She couldn't , she discovered two alleyways on her left and right The scene inside theht
The alleyas full of people sitting down, all of the All of the children and even people at the prime of their life, were sallow and e a little child and crying while everyone around her looked expressionless Ning Xiaoyao listened and listened, but didn't hear the little child's cry she heard before Her heart felt a bit flustered as she quickly ran to that wo Xiaoyao, hernoises, but no tears flowed fro Xiaoyao reached out a hand to touch the little boy in her ar already She withdrew her hand because she had no way to raise the dead back to life
”My son is sick,” the wo Xiaoyao
Ning Xiaoyao furled her lips The little boy couldn't be more than three years old, but his body was as skinny as a reed His ston of dropsy from starvation The child must have starved to death
”Dead,” an old woman nearby said hoarsely ”Don't cradle him anymore”
The wo the boy in her ar Xiaoyao took a step back This world had no zombies or pollution, but was filled with blue skies and clean water But people could still starve to death here? As she looked around the alleyway, she discovered that all of the children had distended sto A few thinXiaoyao, who looked like the son of soyrfalcon on her shoulder, so if they couldn't rob her of rab the bird Even if they didn't sell it at the market, they could make it into a delicious meal for themselves
It was here that Ning Xiaoyao sto out of the alley TheXiaoyao vanished with a gust of wind, scaring thehost?
Ning Xiaoyao ran into the right alleyway next As before, all the people here were skinny and emaciated, their faces wooden The children were thin with swollen sto Xiaoyao as if she didn't exist Hunger had robbed theui sat quietly on a backless bench beneath the ba Xiaoyao The Grand Preceptor's estate e, but it was one ui believed that this was His Majesty's first tiees with her own eyes
Ning Xiaoyao still had a pocket of sugar beans, but she didn't dare take theht her that revealing these beans would only sent the people in a oods The old and children couldn't endure such torments
”Do you want a servant?” a very soft voice spoke up fro there, an oldon the mat in front of her
”I don't want irl asked with her head raised
Ning Xiaoyao walked over to the oldher head at the girl ”He's dead” Livorthat this man had been dead for at least two hours
The little girl lowered her head but didn't cry She si until it covered the oldXiaoyao saw that a two to three year old boy was sleeping behind the girl and asked, ”Your little brother?”
The little girl nodded before suddenly lifting her head again ”Sir, we can be your servants All we need is some food to eat”
”How old are you?” Ning Xiaoyao asked
”Ten, no, I' and willing, I can do any kind of work”
”Me too!”
”Us too!”
In just a little while, Ning Xiaoyao had been surrounded by a crowd of people, all anted to be her servants They didn't want anything in return besides so Xiaoya felt very helpless She kne to treat illnesses and hack zoht her how to deal with such a situation So as it turned out, this world had its ugly places too
Half crouched by the old ers into her palms The Father in the army hadn't lied to her Where there was Heaven, there was a hell
Tao Chen (淘谌) – Tao is a surname that means ”pottery, earthernware,” Chen is simply a character for a surname ↩