After the system ran, I took off with my family

"Sister, can you bring the extra buns back to Little Table for me to eat? He's sick and didn't come out with us."

The leading boy glanced at the two extra buns in Qingsheng's hand, then looked at Lin Shuyue with a slightly pleading look.

The youngest, Xiaodiaozi, flattened his lips and cried, "Sister, Xiaodiaozi is so pitiful. He can't speak and has no strength. He couldn't snatch it from the people in the East Temple and he got his head broken by them..."

The other children also looked at Lin Shuyue and others eagerly.

Lin Shuyue's heart softened and she signaled Qingsheng to give them the remaining steamed buns.

The boy put the steamed bun and the cloth bag into his arms, and then began to eat the steamed bun in his hand.

After they finished eating a steamed bun, Lin Shuyue continued to ask: "Do you know which restaurant has the best business?"

"Sister, I know! Xuanmenlou on Nanjin Street has the best business. There are many carriages parked in front of their house every day..."

"No, it's Shiweizhai that has the best business. I heard from Sister Huaying that her customers all like to go to Shiweizhai."

"What you said is wrong! Honghelou has the best business! Aunt Man said before that she has to wash a lot of dishes in the kitchen every day, so their business is the best."

Several children were talking about which restaurant they thought was doing the best business.

At this time, the six-year-old Xiao Dengzi suddenly burst into tears: "Wow... I miss Aunt Man. Xiao Dengzi will never be able to eat the delicious steamed buns Aunt Man gave me again... Wow... It's all the fault of those bad guys! They killed Aunt Man!"

"Stool!"

The other children's faces suddenly changed and they screamed in unison. The boy in the lead even pulled the small stool over and quickly covered his mouth with one hand.

"Woooo..."

The little stool seemed to be frightened by them. It didn't struggle, but just sobbed, with big tears falling down.

The leading boy covered Xiaodengzi's mouth, looked at Lin Shuyue nervously, and explained with some stammering: "You... don't listen to Xiaodengzi's nonsense. Xiaodengzi's brain was confused some time ago. I remembered it wrongly. Aunt Man went back to her hometown..."

The other children quickly echoed, "Yes, the stool must have been burned and confused, so I remembered it wrong..."

Lin Shuyue's eyes flickered slightly. Seeing the children looking at her nervously, she smiled and said softly, "Then you have to explain it clearly to Xiao Dengzi. Don't say it like that next time. If others take it seriously, Xiao Dengzi will be in danger."

"Well, I'll tell him."

The boy glanced at the listless stool, nodded vigorously, and his stiff body slowly relaxed.

Afterwards, she asked about the situation in other shops in the outer city. These children walked the streets every day and knew much more than ordinary people. Even the youngest one, Xiaodengzi, could tell a thing or two.

These children know exactly which store's buns are the most delicious, which store owner is kind, which store owner is cunning, and what happened recently in the outer city.

The conversation lasted for more than an hour. She not only learned about the situation in the outer city, but also learned about the situation of these children.

The tallest boy who leads the group and has a blue birthmark at the corner of his eye is called Tiansheng. He is twelve years old and is the leader of these children. It is said that he chose this name himself.

The other four children were the small cabinet, the small teapot, the small steamed bun and the small stool. Oh, and the small table that didn’t come out with the dilapidated temple. Except for the small stool which was only six years old, the other children looked about nine or ten years old.

These children were either abandoned by their families or their parents had died. They were driven out by the elders in the clan who seized their family property. Their life stories were all very pitiful.

Tiansheng's situation was more complicated. He was from the south and was originally the only son in the family. Although he had a scary birthmark on his face, his parents did not despise him and still loved him.

But the villagers were so ignorant that they thought that they were punished by God and were unlucky people. They even instigated the village chief to drive them out of the village.

Although the village chief was a greedy person who would not do anything without profit, he was not a bad person. He only drove the family to the foot of the mountain and told them not to enter the village unless necessary.

Eventually, the natural parents were forced to move to the foot of the mountain for the sake of their children.

However, both the couple were hard-working people, and they managed to live a decent life as a family of three living in harmony.

However, things don’t always go as planned. In the winter when Tiansheng was eight years old, his mother accidentally caught a cold and fell ill in bed.

It is said that poor people are most afraid of getting sick. As a result of her illness, most of the money that the family had saved with great difficulty was gone.

In order to earn more money to buy medicine for his wife, Tiansheng's father went to the county dock every day to carry bags and did not return home until dark.

Watching his father gritting his teeth to clean the wound on his shoulder every night and his father's increasingly thin body, Tiansheng, who was only eight years old, seemed to have grown up all of a sudden.

I get up early every morning and stand on a stool to cook breakfast. I take my clothes to the river and wash them clumsily. I also go to the back mountain to collect firewood. Sometimes I can even pick up a hibernating snake and bring it home.

Just as Tiansheng's mother's health seemed to be improving, who would have thought that Tiansheng's father had another accident. The manager at the dock said that Tiansheng's father lost his concentration while carrying a bag, missed a step and fell into the river.

By the time everyone fished the person out from downstream, he was already dead.

Afterwards, the heartbroken Tiansheng's mother dragged her sick body to deal with her husband's funeral affairs, and then cheered herself up to manage the family.

Perhaps he did not recover from that illness, for when Tiansheng was ten years old, he fell ill again. The illness was more severe and he died in less than half a month.

What's funny is that the villagers who usually avoided their family jumped out at this time, no longer afraid of being an unlucky person, and relied on their status as elders in the clan to directly occupy his house and three acres of good farmland.

Tiansheng, who had no parents, had no home to live in and could only live in a firewood shed behind the house. Later, human traffickers from nowhere sneaked into the village, knocked Tiansheng unconscious while he was sleeping at night, and carried him away. When it was dawn, he found himself on a boat.

However, Tiansheng told Lin Shuyue with certainty that he believed that it must be someone in the village who sold him to human traffickers.

Because after dawn, the human trafficker saw the birthmark on his face and became very angry. He kept saying that he had been cheated and was cursing.

Because of the scary birthmark on his face, he could never be sold for a good price. The ashamed and angry human traffickers took out their anger by beating him every day. Until later, when the boat arrived at Pingshun Wharf, he took advantage of the night and jumped directly into the water from the window when everyone on the boat was asleep.

Fortunately, he used to have no companion in the village, so he often went to the pool at the foot of the mountain to play in the water, and over time he learned to swim.

After jumping into the water, he used his clumsy swimming skills to swim desperately towards the shore. After finally getting ashore, he was out of breath but did not dare to rest for long. He got up and ran to the mountain next to the pier. After spending a night in the mountains, he dared not show up until he was sure that the human traffickers' boat had left.

After finding out where he was, he walked towards the capital step by step.