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"Come to find me?"

Yu Wanwan was shocked.

Let alone now, even before the famine, given the original owner's reputation as a crazy young lady, no one would normally come to her door.

At this time, someone actually came to her door looking for her?

"Bring the person in quickly."

She needed to quickly find out who this person was who had come to see her at this time.

The gatekeeper went out and then quickly returned.

Yu Wanwan and the children curiously peeked behind the gatehouse.

"What about people?"

The doorman looked puzzled.

"Reporting to Madam, there was no one at the door when I went out."

"It seems he's left?"

"gone?"

Yu Wanwan became even more curious about this person.

They came to her door, but left before they even saw her?

Do you recognize who this person is?

The doorman thought for a moment, then shook his head.

“He had smeared his face black, and people have generally become thinner from starvation in the past two years, so he looks very different from before, and the servant didn’t recognize him.”

Yu Wanwan waved her hand: "Okay, you can go now."

If this person really wants to see her, he will definitely come again. If he doesn't come, it means he probably doesn't really want to see her that much.

In that case, it's better not to see this person again.

After this little incident, Yu Wanwan had to take her grandchildren out to do serious business again.

We can't go back to that place yesterday. If Zhou Nan picks something up there again, people will think he's just lucky.

If Zhou Nan keeps finding things there every day, people will find it strange and start watching him, and then they will start watching the General's Mansion.

She has limited food supplies and doesn't want to attract too much attention for the time being.

They're going to change locations today.

“Grandma, today we can go find my second brother’s good brother. I saw him secretly hide the braised eggs while we were eating breakfast.”

The second brother definitely wanted to leave it to his good brother.

The speaker was the fifth son, a precocious little fellow.

Yu Wanwan was surprised: "Oh, even the second child sometimes saves food and doesn't eat it?"

In the few days since she transmigrated, no matter what food she takes out, the second son is always the first to put it in his mouth.

She thought he was just a carefree foodie.

"Yes, my second brother has a good friend who used to bring us food often, but he hasn't come for the past two months."

I saw it all. My second brother always likes to sit under the eaves, lost in thought. He must be worried about him.

"Grandma, shall we go find him?"

The fifth brother came over and adorably grabbed Yu Wanwan's arm, swaying it from side to side.

Yu Wanwan naturally had no objections.

Her only goal was to collect points from the children.

As long as it's a child, it doesn't matter where they go.

***

In the alley outside the General's Mansion, Yu Chengcheng was kicking her feet and twisting her body wildly.

"Let me go, let me go, I want to go find my sister."

"Young master, please come back with me. Madam said you are not allowed to come here."

Yu Chengcheng usually ate very little and was very young, so she was no match for the guards and was quickly taken back to the residence of the Minister of Rites.

When Madam Yu arrived after hearing the news, she slapped him across the face: "Can't you understand human language?"

"I told you not to go see her! What are you doing now? If you really see her and she finds out we still have grain, and then she comes back to bother us, can you bear that responsibility?"

They went through so much trouble to get rid of this problem, they can't afford to lose it all at the last minute.

Accompanying Madam Yu was her niece, Yu Qingqing. She had not become thin during the famine; her face looked relatively clean, and her clothes were much neater than those of the others.

She took Madam Yu's arm and said with a smile, "Auntie, don't be angry. Since your brother can save food for your sister, he must not be hungry. Why don't we lock him up and not let him eat for three days?"

When Madam Yu saw Yu Qingqing, her anger subsided considerably.

She patted Yu Qingqing's hand and said, "You're right, Auntie will listen to you."

"And this is what this brat saved up to give to that madman. Here you go too. If you think it's too hard, ask the butler for some water to soften it before you eat it."

Yu Qingqing looked at Madam Yu with a sweet smile: "Thank you, Auntie. You're the best to me."

While the two women were chatting and laughing, the servants pulled Yu Chengcheng into the room and locked the door.

Before the door was finally closed, Yu Chengcheng saw Madam Yu tuck the wind-blown hair from Yu Qingqing's forehead behind her ear.

Her expression was one of tenderness she had never shown when facing him and her sister.

Yu Wanwan originally thought that her trip today would go smoothly.

Just like yesterday.

I successfully found my second brother's good friend, and also fed a bunch of unfamiliar kids. If there are enough kids, I might be able to level up again today.

However, the truth is that they didn't even know where the second brother's good friend lived.

After leaving the general's mansion, the second and fifth brothers led them to wander around outside, like headless flies.

"Second brother, didn't you say that guy was your good brother? How come you don't even know where your good brother lives?"

The second brother scratched the back of his head, looking somewhat innocent: "He's my good brother, but we met on the street. I've never been to his house. He's always the one who comes to the General's Mansion to find me."

Yu Wanwan: "...Why didn't you say so sooner?"

If she had told them earlier, she wouldn't have been fooled by them and gone down so many wrong paths.

Now the second son was perfectly justified: "Grandmother didn't ask at first."

Yu Wanwan: "..."

I want to teach my grandson a lesson.

The group had somehow ended up in the slums of the southern part of the capital.

A foul stench emanated from the alley.

The stench was like that of a rotting dead rat.

Yu Wanwan immediately gave up on the idea of ​​educating her grandson.

She was drawn in by the stench.

Famine? A stench like rotting corpses?

Her mind immediately conjured up images of piles of corpses.

Massive corpses, plague!

She was so frightened that she immediately covered her nose.

And he made all his grandsons cover their noses.

At this point, there were still 91 hours and 56 minutes left before she returned to the modern world.

She would be helpless if she encountered a plague now.

She may very well die of illness before returning to the modern world.

"go!"

She turned to leave with the children.

Out of the corner of their eye, they saw several children peeking out from the houses in the alley and watching them.

Some of these children were wearing clothes with several large holes in them, while others were not wearing any clothes at all.

They were all so thin they were just skin and bones, much thinner than her grandsons. Their bodies were just skin covering bones, with not a single bit of extra flesh.

When their big eyes looked at them, they contained so much.

The most frequent responses were cries for help and expressions of hope.

It's like a little dog that has been wandering for a very long time and has suffered all kinds of hardships, finally meeting a passerby who is willing to stop and look at it a few more times. It is pleading for help with its wet eyes.

They were hoping he could bring it back to life.

Yu Wanwan was stunned by that look in her eyes.

Their steps seemed to freeze.

When she stopped and looked at it more closely, her heart felt like it was being gripped.

Because of the children's noise, everyone else in the house came out.

They all stood in the middle of the dimly lit alley.

They were covered in dust and dirt, emaciated to the point of being deformed, and their clothes were tattered and hung on their bodies like pieces of black cloth. At first glance, they looked like a group of zombies, but in fact, they were all living people.

Or perhaps it's a group of people who are alive one second but could very well die the next.

Unlike children who still have hope, adults know more, and thus become more numb.

Looking at them, she felt she could go back and write a Les Misérables novel right away.

She had thought that people outside the capital must be living much worse lives than her grandsons, but she never imagined that there were people in the capital who were suffering so much more than her grandsons.

When Zhou Nan and his guards saw so many people coming out, they were worried that they might harm Yu Wanwan and the others.

They quickly and defensively stood in front of Yu Wanwan and the others.

But they were overthinking it.

The people in the alley were so weak that they had difficulty even walking.

Watching them walk is like watching robots, stiffly lifting their feet and then stiffly putting them down.

At this moment, even if Yu Wanwan rushed over to snatch their purses, they probably wouldn't have the strength to chase after her.

They stood in the middle of the alley for a while, then laboriously moved their feet back home.

She didn't forget to call the children back too, her voice weak and hoarse: "Go home and lie down, you won't be hungry if you lie down."

Yu Wanwan was moved to tears, and she called Zhou Nan over.