Free Web NovelChapter 340: Chapter 271: Lower Realm Five Meridians! Bone Marrow Cleansing in Advance!
In the right front, a person with a hunched body, disheveled hair, and tattered robe staggered forward.
"Your mother, she’s gone." The person didn’t even glance at Chu Ming and went straight to the little girl, covering the woman with a mat, "Xiao Yu Zi, if you don’t want to die, hurry and eat the meat slice."
"Uncle Ji, my mother is right here, she hasn’t gone anywhere. This piece of meat is for my mother..." The little girl seemed not to understand what "gone" meant.
"Sigh..."
Ji Wujiang sighed softly, looked a few times, then helplessly sighed and left, not taking the little girl’s meat slice, nor looking at Chu Ming.
"Uncle Ji, wait, my mother said, if there is food, we should share some with Uncle Ji."
The little girl cupped the meat slice in her hands, ran up to Ji Wujiang, and carefully divided the meat slice in half, handing one part over.
"Really giving it to me?"
"Mm, didn’t Uncle Ji also give Xiao Yu Zi half a biscuit yesterday?"
"..." Ji Wujiang paused, took the half meat slice, then turned to look at Chu Ming, "Thank you."
It seemed he knew the meat slice came from Chu Ming to the little girl.
"Looking at the knight, it seems you’re new to Qin Capital? Who would have thought that outside the prosperous Qin Capital, there are people who can’t fill their stomachs or keep themselves warm?" Ji Wujiang directly stuffed the meat slice into his mouth.
Chu Ming looked at this person silently; the Sword Gourd Spirit’s earlier probe of the shantytown area was different, and it was this person.
Obviously in the Strong Bone Realm, yet for some reason disguised as a poor person.
The Strong Bone Realm isn’t exceptionally strong, but in Qin Capital, it’s more than enough to make a living.
Apart from the strength, this person also had a special aura, which can be described as noble air.
In other words, this hunchbacked person likely was an official before.
"The knight seems to have something to ask me; let’s talk over here." Ji Wujiang walked forward, hunched.
Chu Ming didn’t follow, instead surveying his surroundings.
In the shadows, someone approached.
"Knight, give them a chance." Ji Wujiang halted, his voice low.
Them?
Chu Ming’s brows furrowed slightly.
This person also seemed aware that many were coveting the half meat slice in the little girl’s hand.
"Since you’re kind, why not see if the outcome of kindness is good or evil?" Ji Wujiang added.
Chu Ming was taken aback, then followed and left, leaving the little girl calling softly at the woman’s ear.
The two walked past several shanties, then stopped, watching the little girl from afar without speaking.
In just a moment, five kids ran out from the other side, pouncing on the little girl like hungry wolves.
"What are you doing... That’s for my mom..."
"Give it back... give it back..."
The little girl cried weakly.
The five children seemed not to hear, and after grabbing the half meat slice, they fought over it among themselves.
Five hungry wolves fighting for food!
The little girl was knocked over, crying and shouting.
Soon, three emaciated figures emerged from the opposite shanty, holding rusty blade artifacts.
"Give it to me! Give it to me!"
One person, with a hoarse voice, waved a blade artifact at the children, while the other two blocked their way.
The five children ignored them, madly fighting over the piece until it disappeared into someone’s mouth.
"Damn it! Spit it out for me!"
One person swung a blade at a child, seemingly trying to tear the child’s mouth open to retrieve the meat piece.
"Old Three!"
Luckily, one of them had some conscience and stopped him in time.
"Big Brother, that little dog grabbed the meat..."
The five children fled without looking back.
"Forget it." The leader of the three looked at the little girl, his eyes glowing, "Let’s have that."
To be precise, staring at the little girl’s deceased mother’s body.
"Big Brother, I’ve been saying that’s tastier..." Two of them approached the little girl with knives.
"What are you going to do..." The little girl trembled all over.
"Get lost!" With a kick, the little girl was sent flying out of the shanty, "What do we do? We’re going to eat your mother, of course."
"Mom! Mom! Run!" The little girl cried out.
"Run? Kid, your mother is dead! Dead, understand?!"
"Dead? Mom’s dead?" The little girl froze in the cold wind, "My mom won’t die, please, don’t eat my mom..."
"If we don’t eat your mom, we’ll starve to death! Blame this damned world!" The three surrounded the cold body under the mat.
Not far away.
"You see, under the emperor’s rule, the world is this exposed." Ji Wujiang hunched over, "You can give Little Yu a piece of meat, but can you ensure everyone has a piece of meat?"
"No."
Chu Ming’s figure flickered, instantly arriving by the now-unconscious little girl.
The three saw Chu Ming and were immediately frightened, trembling, kneeling to plead, "Spare us, hero, spare us; we’re also forced..."
Chu Ming didn’t even look at the three, picked up the little girl, rolled up the mat with the woman’s body, and stepped out of the shantytown area.
On to the main road, drawing countless looks.
Simultaneously, Ji Wujiang followed, hunched over.
They walked along the main road, and three miles away was a forest, where Chu Ming entered, dug a hole, and buried the body.
Then, he took out food and water to feed the little girl.
Ji Wujiang, hunched over, watched from a distance.
"You don’t ask, but I still want to speak."
The two stood silently in the forest for half an hour before Ji Wujiang finally spoke.
"The people in the shantytown area used to have land and fields and were ordinary people under Qin Capital."
"Until half a year ago, the imperial city forcibly drafted laborers for the construction of the Celestial Longevity Platform around the Qin Capital."
"The obedient were taken to stone factories, timber mills, and construction sites, given a meal a day, while those who resisted lost their land and were demoted to the lowest class."
"Under the emperor’s rule, such things happen; do you find it ridiculous?"
