Chapter 146: Chapter 0146: Miserable Brothers 2_1 Chapter 146: Chapter 0146: Miserable Brothers 2_1 Even with the food that Feng Qingxue secretly brought, Feng Shuanzhu didn’t dare to let the common people in the team eat freely. Until now, it was only when a family was truly unable to survive that he would generously distribute so coarse grains to help them through their difficulties.>
The food wasn’t given for free, the recipients were kept on record, with labor credits used as paynt in the end.
As secretary, Feng Shuanzhu’s family was also struggling. Hence, Feng Shuanzhu’s wife imdiately accepted with a beaming smile, “Feng Qingxue, we will accept your generous offer. Rest assured that we will take care of Xiaoyun and will not let anyone harm her. Feng Qingyun, being such a small child, how many pieces could he possibly eat? What’s ultimately left is for our family.”
Feng Qingxue returned ho and set off very early the next day.
It was such a long distance. If she wanted to return the sa day, she had to be on the road by four or five o’clock.
On the way, she walked the mountainous paths, cycled the flat ones when no one was around, and had her breakfast on the go. She reached into her space and took out warm porridge and buns, then hurried along, finally reaching her destination around ten o’clock.
Throughout her journey, she realized there was a sizable number of orphans.
She didn’t dare to look too closely, fearing her heart would soften at the sight of the pitiful, emaciated children.
After repeatedly inquiring, she found the dilapidated temple that Chen Ming had ntioned and saw many children of various ages. There were about a dozen children, the oldest around their early teens and the youngest about five or six. Most of them were girls, all dressed in rags and looking unkempt.
When a woman in a plaid coat suddenly appeared in front of the temple, all the children fixed their sparkling eyes on her.
Feng Qingxue felt heartbroken and almost shed tears. She turned around, opened her backpack, and reached in to actually fetch from her space a dozen coarse grain buns. She didn’t dare to take many good ones for fear of arousing suspicion. She then motioned for them and said, “Co here, I have food for you. Can you tell where Guan Cheng and Guan Yu are?”
Upon seeing the food, the children sward around her like mad, their faces turned upwards, glancing eagerly at the buns she took out.
“First, tell where Guan Cheng and Guan Yu are.”
A slightly older girl pointed to a pile of straw in the corner of the broken temple, “Guan Cheng is there, he’s sick with a high fever. His brother went out to find soone to save him, but he hasn’t returned yet!”.
The other children nodded in agreent, “Guan Yu went to plead his mother, but we don’t know if that was of any use.”
“It’s definitely no use!” The older girl claid, “Which day doesn’t Guan Yu’s mother beat and scold Guan Cheng and him? She calls them bastards of a rotten ninth-class family! She’d rather they be dead! She has two other kids now and doesn’t care about them at all!”
“Yes, yes, yes!”
After hearing the affirmation from the others, Feng Qingxue felt terrible. She quickly distributed the buns, then rushed over to the straw pile. There, she saw a child, looking pathetic and thin, with a bright red face. Visibly, he was not much better than Feng Qingyun when she first saw him, not the appearance of a child his age at all.
Upon touching his forehead, Feng Qingxue found it to be burning hot and she beca busy imdiately. She fetched so child-specific antipyretic dicine from her backpack, or rather, from her space, and then took out a military water bottle that Lu Jiang had sent her. She picked up the child who was deliriously feverish, feeling feather-light in her arms, and quickly gave him the dicine and a few mouthfuls of water.
With experience in caring for children, Feng Qingxue held his chin and let him look upwards. Probably being severely thirsty, the child swallowed the water mixed with dicine and even licked his dry lips after swallowing. Feng Qingxue then fed him more water.
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