"Many of the beggars in Wanghai City are scoundrels who love to eat and are lazy. They are good at bullying the old, weak, women and children. I advise you to stay away from these people as much as possible."

Hearing Yang Ruoqing's words, a bitter smile appeared on the woman's face.

Erya looked aggrieved and said, "Bodhisattva Empress is right, those beggar uncles and beggar uncles are all cruel and evil."

"They pushed my mother and I away and hit my head with their elbows. My mother asked for two steamed buns in the morning, but they snatched them away again. It was so bad..."

The woman looked at Erya and smiled bitterly.

His eyes were filled with tears and guilt, but he could do nothing. He could only gently pull Erya into his arms and hug him.

Looking at the mother and daughter, Yang Ruoqing sighed: "Sister-in-law, is there anyone else in your family? Why do you two come out to beg in this cold weather?"

Before the woman had time to answer, Erya rushed to say again: "Yes, there is my father, my two uncles, and my uncle and aunt!"

Yang Ruoqing was even more surprised when she heard that there were so many relatives there. She looked at the woman with the intention of asking.

The woman sighed and said: "To be honest, our family all fled from other places. We couldn't survive in our hometown, so we had to come out to find a way out."

"My two uncles are sick. My husband's leg is too big and he fell when he went out to buy medicine for them on New Year's Eve. They couldn't come out to find food, so only Erya and I came out," the woman said.

"Why are you so miserable? Where do you live now?" Yang Ruoqing asked again.

The woman smiled awkwardly and said: "Under the overpass..."

Under the overpass?

There are indeed many bridge holes under the overpass in Wanghai County, where many beggars and homeless people gather, because the stone bridge overhead can provide shelter from wind and rain.

However, because there is a river next to it, the river has frozen over these nine days, so you can imagine how cold it is.

"Yes, under the overpass." The woman said sheepishly, "It will be fine after the first lunar month is over. After the first lunar month, my man's legs will be much better, and his two brothers' illnesses will also be better.

I must be acclimatized now."

"When my man's legs are healed and the two brothers-in-law are jumping around, and then including my brothers, the four men will go out to find work together. We, the big family, will definitely be able to make a living in Wanghai County.

A place to stay.”

After hearing what the woman said, Yang Ruoqing smiled awkwardly and said, "It's only the third day of the Lunar New Year. The opening of shops in the county will basically take place after the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, and some industries won't even open until the Lantern Festival."

"There are still more than ten days in between. How are you going to survive? Not to mention taking medicine, where will the food and drink for these few mouths every day come from? Do you have to rely on you and your daughter to beg?

?" she asked.

The woman said: "No, when we escaped from our hometown, we still brought some belongings with us, but the rest can't last more than a few days..."

"The main reason is that I spent too much on medicine for my two brothers-in-law. Erya's father injured his leg after falling. He just applies it with ice cubes every day and doesn't do much else..."

Hearing the words "use ice cubes", Yang Ruoqing couldn't help but shudder.

She took out two small white porcelain bottles from her body and gave them to the woman: "Of these two bottles, one is golden sore medicine, used to stop bleeding and reduce inflammation. The other bottle is Panax notoginseng powder, used to remove blood stasis and reduce swelling. You can put it

Take these two bottles of medicine back and let your man apply them. It will be effective within five days."

The woman held the small porcelain bottle in her hand with both hands, feeling so grateful that she didn't know what to say.

Although they met by chance, she could tell from Yang Ruoqing's face that she was not a bad person and had no intention of harming their mother and daughter.

Therefore, the woman boldly stuffed the medicine into her arms and kept it close to her clothes.

If you want to have enough food, clothing and warmth to gain a foothold in this foreign land, Erya's father is the key. As long as he can stand up, there is hope.

Yang Ruoqing originally wanted to pay the woman, but after looking at the beggars around her who hadn't left yet, she took her hand back.

The money should not be revealed. If the money were given to Erya and her daughter in front of so many people, not only would it not bring about a change in life for the mother and daughter, but it might also lead to disaster.

So, Yang Ruoqing raised her hand and touched Erya's head and said, "Erya, are you hungry?"

Erya nodded: "Hungry."

Yang Ruoqing asked again: "Didn't you eat the snacks I gave you yesterday?"

Erya said: "Mom only allowed me to eat two pieces. After taking it back, I gave each of my father and uncle a piece."

"The remaining pack is softer than the previous one. Mom said that my brother doesn't have much milk now, so he needs to eat some soft snacks to fill his stomach, otherwise he will starve to death..."

Yang Ruoqing understood.

She gently rubbed the top of Erya's soft hair and looked at the woman again.

The woman looked ashamed, but her eyes were red.

"We are incompetent as adults and let the children suffer," she murmured.

Yang Ruoqing shook her head. She didn't blame them as parents. People were fleeing everywhere these days.

There are natural disasters and man-made disasters. Think of the drought in Henan and then the locust epidemic. Not to mention a large family like this, even people from a village were fleeing the famine collectively.

Because if you don't escape, you will starve to death. Instead of sitting back and waiting to die, you might as well come out and give it a try.

If you give it a try, there may be a way out, a glimmer of hope.

But he was traveling far away from home, carrying two shabby quilts from home, old clothes, the last few kilograms of rice and only a little money left...

The whole family leaves the homeland where they were born and raised and goes to another place. People are very humble away from their hometown. They are inferior everywhere. Even when they come out to beg, they don’t dare to fight with the local beggars. Alas!

"Come on, come to the carriage." Yang Ruoqing greeted the woman, then took Erya's hand and walked towards the carriage.

"What are you doing in the carriage, Aunt Bodhisattva?" Erya asked curiously while walking with Yang Ruoqing.

Yang Ruoqing smiled and blinked, "You'll know when you get here."

Then, she turned around and nodded to the hesitant woman behind her, gesturing for her to follow her.

The woman gritted her teeth and followed Yang Ruoqing to the carriage.

Yang Ruoqing first carried Erya into the carriage, then got up on her own, and then dragged the woman up as well.

"Wow, this carriage is so warm and spacious. It's bigger than the carriage I used to have, mother, don't you think so?"

After getting on the carriage, Erya touched here and there excitedly, her little mouth chirping like a little sparrow.

"You kid, be quiet and be good. Don't rub yourself here and there and carefully soil this mat." The woman quickly stopped her.
Chapter completed!