The people around me wanted to see the excitement, but they were too hungry and didn't have the strength to get up, so they should bask in the sun and not be hungry when they fell asleep.

The old man took Qi Ke more and more away, and came to a chaotic poor area, the houses were low and dilapidated, and there were more people who were so hungry that they could only squat on the side of the road to bask in the sun.

Qi Ke followed the old man without squinting, and followed his footsteps into a house in an alley.

The street door of the house was semi-open, the old man pushed the door directly in, walked through the narrow front yard and entered the main house, and walked into the room on the left hand familiarly, Qi Ke followed up, and saw that it was the place where the jade carving master worked, the light was the best, and the surrounding walls were full of tools, but there were no jade carving samples.

The old man put the gourd he had carried all the way on a table, and he bent down and took out a jar with a missing mouth from between the legs of the table in the corner, which looked quite heavy but made no sound.

When the jar was placed on the table, the old man took out a handful of straw from the jar, Qi Ke heard a crisp jade impact sound in the jar, and then saw the old man take out a lot of small scraps one by one.

"This is the treasure I have saved for a lifetime, I am not willing to sell it in this catastrophe, originally I promised to take the funeral to the bottom to grind jewelry for my wife, but now I have changed my mind, if you can see it, take it." The old man no longer looked at the treasure he had accumulated, stepped aside, picked up the gourd, pulled the stopper, and took two sips of wine happily.

"So, the old man is a jade carving master?"

"It was, and now, don't mention it."

Qi Ke didn't ask why the old man lived alone in this small courtyard, since he used to have a wife, then did he have any children, in case he asked how embarrassing it was to ask about other people's sadness, she just came to buy jade, not to check people's household registration.

"Uncle, do you have any other jade carvers in this city besides you?"

"And my brother, he should have a little left in his hand, and he is reluctant to sell it for food like me." The old man was obviously trying to bargain like this.

Qi Ke put down the bag in his hand, opened the mouth of the bag, stretched out a hand and went in and pretended to count the number of nests, but in fact, under the cover of the bag, she took out two braised rabbit legs from the Qianhe Realm, and she put this braised flavor on the dining table in the villa, hooked her fingers and took it out directly, and added some nests.

"Uncle, do you think these jade materials can be exchanged for the hands of your brothers?" Qi Ke withdrew his hand and rolled the mouth of the bag to show the old man.

The bag was handed to the bottom of his nose, and the old man, who had not smelled the smell of meat for a long time, immediately smelled the fragrant fragrance, and looked at the attractive big fat legs in the bag, and his eyes were protruding.

The old man stayed for a while, covered the gourd stopper hard, held the gourd in one hand, took the cloth bag with the other hand and twisted it a few times and wrapped it tightly.

"Grab something, I'll take you there."

Qi Ke immediately spread a handkerchief on the table, poured out all the jade materials in the jar, wrapped it into a small bag with a handkerchief, and followed the old man to his brother's house.

Big Brother's home is not far away, just in the same alley, just walk through four or five houses.

The old man pushed open the courtyard door and went in directly, now every household has nothing to eat, and there is nothing valuable, it doesn't matter if the door is locked or not, even if someone gets a little food, it is the amount of a day or two, so there is still the strength to go out early and return to the outside to find work to earn dry food, and those who have no strength lie in the corner of the wall every day to bask in the sun and wait for death.

Of course, there are also people who don't want to die in a corner so undignified, and would rather wait for death at home.