Chapter 148 - 0148: Miserable Brothers 4_1
Feng Qingxue fell silent right away.
She had seen such fragmented records in the reports, even rumors that one could cure swelling from malnutrition and starvation by consuming human flesh. Hence, she helped the Caohu team to gather a batch of food years ago.
Once she was passing through the Caohu team, she caught sight of someone looking at a child with a particularly horrifying gaze.
Feng Qingyun was warm and well-fed, plump and cute. This sort of gaze had been cast on him more than once.
That’s why, when she couldn’t take Feng Qingyun out with her, she entrusted him to a clan elder. Each time, she issued countless instructions before departing. She was anxious. She feared that in her absence, someone desperate with hunger would snatch away Feng Qingyun and eat him.
"A group of children living alone like you, haven’t you attracted unwanted attention?"
Children with parents to rely on were better off. But orphans without a backer were like delectable treats in the eyes of a pack of starving wolves.
"Yes! But what can we do? We’re just kids." Hopelessness flashed in Zhang Erya’s eyes, "Xiaoni and Goudan disappeared during winter. Some say they froze to death begging on the streets; some say they starved. But I know they might have been eaten. Since then, Guan Cheng had us stick together. We would scatter to beg from different homes and gather again to return. We managed to stave off starvation, at least."
Feng Qingxue didn’t know what to say. Any words she came up with would sound so feeble and pale in front of these innocent children.
"Eat one’s own children." These words had appeared in history books.