After being a widow for half my life, I found out that my husband was not dead.

Liu Yunxiang and the others also followed, bought enough medicine at the medicine hall, then entered an alley and ran all the way to the front of a collapsed house.

The courtyard walls collapsed and the courtyard door was locked. They stepped over the ruins and walked in. It was dark inside and there was no movement at all.

The child who found Xi'er earlier was named Fang Su, which was a rare serious name.

As if he were a thief, he looked around and found nothing strange, then whispered inside: "Children, come out, sister Xi'er is back."

As soon as he finished speaking, a dozen little figures came from all directions in the yard, some were tall and some were short, some were boys and some were girls, but they were all young, the older was no more than seven or eight years old, and the younger was three or four years old.

They surrounded Liu Yunxiang and the others, looking at them with wide eyes, a little timid, but more of a surprise.

"Their faces are so white and their clothes are so clean."

"They don't stink."

"That sister is so beautiful, and so is my brother."

These children were born in Shan Nian Camp. They have never seen anyone or the scenery outside, and they think that the whole world is just a corner of Shan Nian Camp.

These children were all skinny and thinly dressed in the winter, making them look very frail.

Liu Yunxiang saw a little girl, who was probably too hungry. She kept swallowing her saliva while looking at her. She was wearing a thin gown, holding her shoulders shiveringly, but she had no shoes on her feet. She was stepping on the snow. It's all frostbite.

At this time, screams came from the room, and Xi'er and Zhou Lihuai quickly ran inside.

Half of the house collapsed and there was air leakage everywhere. The child was lying on the withered grass, screaming in pain and twitching all over.

Zhou Lihuai asked Xi'er to quickly light the fire, check the child's pulse first, then look at his complexion, and urgently prepared a pack of medicine. Fortunately, there was a broken pot here, so he boiled it first.

While boiling the medicine, Zhou Lihuai gave the child an acupuncture. After the needle went in, the child no longer hurt so much after a while.

After drinking another bowl of medicine, the symptoms were immediately relieved a lot.

"You must have eaten something dirty, right?" Zhou Lihuai looked at Xi'er.

Xi'er said helplessly: "As long as it is edible, no matter whether it is dirty or clean, they will eat it."

Zhou Lihuai nodded, "Maybe other children also have this symptom?"

Fang Su hurriedly said: "Two children also have stomachaches today."

"Didn't you boil a pot of the medicine? Give each of them a bowl." As he said that, he looked around again. He smelled the stench and couldn't help but cover his nose. "We can't live in this place anymore, it's too dirty." It’s too wet.”

Xi'er sighed, "The officials are searching for people everywhere. I can't take them out of the city at all. And there is nowhere for them to hide in the city."

Liu Yunxiang said: "I have a house."

Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, Liu Yunxiang and the others brought these children to her house in Diejiao Hutong.

Xue Changfeng thought carefully. He first bought two bags of rice and asked his family to send more than a dozen quilts.

When leaving the broken courtyard, Zhou Lihuai thought of his dog son. Fang Su took him to the wing. The wing was half collapsed, and Xiaoyue, the silly dog, was sleeping on the ground, snoring loudly.

"We didn't starve it. We only gave it the few pieces of pancake left to eat." Fang Su said.

Zhou Lihuai didn't know what to say for a moment, so he just said: "Thank you very much, but you are hungry yourself, why do you give it the only food left?"

"Sister Xi'er said you can't starve it. If it's hungry, it won't have much meat left."

Zhou Lihuai's mouth twitched, and then he looked at his dog son who was sleeping soundly, and said hurriedly: "It's just meat, I'll give it back to you."

Liu Yunxiang counted them carefully, including Fang Su and the child with stomachache, there were sixteen children in total.

Each of these children seemed to be covered in a layer of mud. After asking Xi'er, I found out that they dug a hole in the ground to escape.

It had just snowed, and the ground was frozen. They first lit a fire until the ground thawed, and then dug little by little while the officers and soldiers guarding outside were not paying attention. It took them two days to dig outside the wall.

"The adults and older children had to follow the people from the Ministry of Works to build straw huts. Only the younger ones escaped because the officers and soldiers didn't pay attention." Xi'er explained.

Liu Yunxiang asked Zhang Qi to bring a few men and women over to boil water for the children to bathe.

There's no way, they're too dirty and they'll get sick too.

I gave them a bath, put on clean clothes, ate rice porridge, and then slept on the heated kang one by one. After a while, all the children fell asleep.

Liu Yunxiang called Xi'er to the hall. Yan Mu, Xue Changfeng and Zhou Lihuai were also there.

"How do you know these kids?"

Xi'er sighed and said: "A few days ago, wasn't my money stolen by a group of children from the Shan Nian Camp? These children were brought by Fang Su. They stole the money because a child was seriously ill. They wanted to take the seriously ill child to see a doctor, but they had no money. After stealing the money, these children thought they were saved, so they naively took the seriously ill child to see a doctor. As a result, the doctor not only failed to see them, but also informed the government that they were arrested. I arrested them. At that time, I was still tracking these children. I happened to see Fang Su running away from the officials like crazy when he saw me. He ran to me, returned the money to me, and begged me to follow him. The official told me to put in a good word and help the seriously ill child."

Xi'er's eyes turned red when she said this, "I begged the official. The official was not hard-hearted, so I asked the doctor to take a look, but... it was too late. The child had already vomited blood. Fang Su and I were helpless. Watch him die."

Hearing this, the two grown men Zhou Lihuai and Xue Changfeng also cried with tears, and Liu Yunxiang shed tears. Yan Mu, on the other hand, was leaning on the chair with no expression on his face. He was not hard-hearted, but he seemed not to be listening to Xi'er at all.

"I, I asked for the ten taels of silver back, but I did not return it to my sister. I know that my sister is not short of these ten taels of silver, but if there is a chance, I can use these ten taels of silver to save a few lives. Of course I know how to think like this It's also wrong." Xi'er lowered her head in embarrassment as she spoke.

Liu Yunxiang shook his head, "You forgot, I said you don't owe me any money, these ten taels are your own."

When Xi'er heard this, a smile appeared on her face, "My mother often told me that there must be a steelyard in my heart, and this scale must be flat. With the words of my sister, the steelyard in my heart will be even."

Liu Yunxiang smiled, "Your mother taught you very well."

"I went to Xicheng for a walk whenever I had time. The day before yesterday, I actually met Fang Su and the others. They had just crawled out of the hole in the camp of Shan Nian and were caught by a group of officials before they had gone far."

"Those officers were about to escort them back to Shannian camp. I went over to beg them and gave them the ten taels of silver. They thought it was troublesome, so they asked me to take Fang Su and the others away."

"They have been hungry for three days. I put them in the shabby yard and went to think of ways to get food, but little Shuanzi couldn't wait any longer, so he sneaked out to find food and bumped into that bastard."