70: The Soldier King's Supernatural Wife, Three Babies in One Child

Li Qingzhou was fed up with their pestering and discussed with Si Zhengyan about sending them away, but Si Zhengyan refused.

"I can't send you away."

"Yes."

Li Qingzhou thought Si Zhengyan was worried that they would talk nonsense when they returned, but in fact Si Zhengyan suspected that there were also problems with those who were kidnapped.

Afterwards, he let Lu Chaoyan bask in the sun in the corner, and he led his men to continue to circle the periphery of the village, looking for traces of Luo Yu, Pei Huaijin, and No. 9.

Lu Chaoyan went into the house and moved out a table. She took out candies, melon seeds, roasted chestnuts, cakes, biscuits, braised food and other snacks from her bag and filled the table with them.

He waved to Chu Feng and Li Qingheng, "Come and eat together."

The two men came quickly. After Chu Feng sat down, he picked up the egg cake and ate it.

He did not advise Lu Chaoyan to have sympathy for the elderly, the weak, women and children.

Because he also noticed that the group of elderly, weak, women and children were very unusual.

Most normal people don't have enough food to eat or warm clothes to wear. In such cold weather, after freezing for a whole day and night without a drop of water or food, they would have fainted from hunger long ago.

Most of these people are pretending to be depressed.

And those children, although they were dressed in rags, they were strong and sturdy, and there were almost no skinny children.

He had been working in a small place for so long that he knew the bodies of rural children too well and he hardly saw any fat ones.

No matter how rich this village is, it is impossible to feed all the children so well.

And those pregnant women, apart from the dark spots on their skin, have rounder bodies than those women from better-off families in the city.

This is so incongruous.

Li Qingheng picked up a bag of milk candy, opened it, and when he poured it onto the table, he poured it too hard and it all spilled onto the floor.

He bent down again and picked them up slowly one by one.

Pei Qinyao and the other people who were kidnapped were very confused about the mentality of the three people.

They looked at the faces of the elderly, the weak, the women and the children not far away as they stared at Lu Chaoyan's pile of food, wondering if she had no guilt in her heart?

When Baili Yun saw the formation in the back mountain, he lost all sympathy for the people in the village.

Because that formation was not set up recently, but had been there for a long time.

So, these old people, the weak, women and children are lying.

He came up to Lu Chaoyan and said, "Dr. Lu, I have long heard of your great name. Can I sit down and ask for food?"

"That's really not possible. I can't be friends with the Baili family."

Lu Chaoyan expressed her thoughts very clearly.

Deep down in her heart, she suspected that Baili Bingbing was not the real Baili Bingbing, and she also suspected that the infectious disease was most likely a conspiracy led by the Baili family.

"Why? Is there any misunderstanding between us?"

Baili Yun couldn't figure it out. Their Baili family and Lu Chaoyan had never had any contact, so there was no possibility of any hatred between them.

"It's not a misunderstanding."

There was no warmth in Lu Chaoyan's eyes. "It's because I don't like the Baili family's formation."

"..."

Baili Yun was speechless. Why should our family's formation depend on whether you like it or not?

Being treated so badly, he didn't continue to make trouble. He turned around and left, calling the subordinates of the Baili family and wandering around the village.

Lu Chaoyan looked at Pei Qinyao, "Miss Wen, come and sit down."

Pei Qinyao looked puzzled, but still walked over and said, "You should call me Doctor Pei."

"What's so good about a surname as dirty as Pei? Wouldn't it be better to have your aunt's surname Wen?"

Lu Chaoyan handed over a bag of melon seeds, but Pei Qinyao didn't want it. She sat opposite Lu Chaoyan.

"If you have anything to say, just say it. Don't be sarcastic with me."

Li Qingheng grabbed a handful of candy and stuffed it into Pei Qinyao's hand, "Zhao Yan has no bad intentions."

"don't want!"

Pei Qinyao put it back on the table, as if she had bad intentions.

Lu Chaoyan was afraid that telling the truth would make Pei Qinyao so angry that she couldn't stay here, so she only told him a small story.

"Pei Huaijin switched the life-saving pills I gave to Sheng Haonan and nearly killed him, so I hate him, not you.

Have something to eat, we may have to stay in this village for a few days."

Pei Qinyao felt that she was lying, and she didn't like Pei Huaijin either, so she didn't care about Lu Chaoyan's attitude.

As for what she knew, she hesitated and decided to return to the imperial capital and see her mother first.

The hunger after days of hunger made her pick up a braised egg.

Glancing at those children, I inexplicably felt guilty.

The sun set and the cold night came. Finally, someone in the threshing floor couldn't bear it anymore and fainted.

Si Zhengyan had not returned yet, so Lu Chaoyan asked Li Qingzhou's men to lock up people of the same age group together, separating the men and women, and still not giving them food or water.

Although I entered the house, the kang inside was freezing cold, not much better than outside.

In every room, there were voices of complaints.

Lu Chaoyan led Chu Feng and Li Qingheng into the first room with food, where girls under the age of ten were kept.

They huddled together, shivering with cold, and their lips, which were so dry that the skin was peeling, could be heard chattering.

Lu Chaoyan took out a book of ancient poetry and handed it to them with a smile.

"Whoever can pronounce it in standard Mandarin will receive a candy as a reward."

The children looked at her with resistance and did not respond.

"Forget about it. I'll go to the next door. If they read better than you, I'll give them candies, milk powder, meat buns, and chicken legs as rewards."

As Lu Chaoyan spoke, she took out the food she mentioned and placed it beside the kang.

The children remained unmoved.

Lu Chaoyan left the book to Chu Feng and said, "Watch them and reward the one who speaks the best Chinese."

"Huh? Oh."

Chu Feng was puzzled as to the purpose of her action, but he still did as she said.

Lu Chaoyan went to the boys' room of the same size next door. They were also so cold that their faces were pale.

Lu Chaoyan took out the same snacks and said the same words, but the children were still unmoved, so she left Li Qingheng to watch over them.

She ran to the room next door where there were girls over ten years old.

The food taken out this time was all meat such as braised pork, chicken legs and roast duck.

Children of this age have big appetites. After being hungry for so long, their desire for food is almost beyond their tolerance.

But he still kept silent.

Lu Chaoyan sat down, took a chicken leg and started eating it.

"It doesn't matter. Someone will always read it. Your little brothers and sisters next door are very hungry and will definitely open their mouths. Then you can continue to starve."

After saying that, she packed up the food and went to the room where the boy who was ten years old and above was imprisoned and used the same method.

Soon, she ran out with a smile, "Two people come over here to heat the kang for them and cook for them."

Many soldiers didn't understand what she was doing, but for the sake of Si Zhengyan and Li Qingzhou, they immediately carried out her orders.

About half an hour later, she came to the room where Li Qingheng was guarding.

"The older brothers in that room were reading poems, so we took all the food over to them. These little kids were too stubborn, so we didn't give them any."