Qiqi stretched out his hand and wanted to help her wipe away the tears on her face, but no matter how hard she tried, her little hands couldn't reach it.

"Nier, you want to talk to your mother, don't you?" The woman put her face on Qiqi's little face, and tears wet Qiqi's cheeks.

Qiqi felt so hungry, really hungry. It's been more than a day since she came into this world, she has only drunk water a few times, and now, her little belly is growling with hunger.

But Qiqi knew that there was no food at home. She can't cry, she can't let the woman in front of her who loves her with all her heart ache. But hunger is like the devil, ever-present.

Qiqi stuck out his tongue and licked the tears that the woman had dripped from his mouth.

"Mother's Nill is hungry." The woman cried again, and then she put Qiqi on the bed, and slowly got out of bed herself, and felt to a corner of the room.

When she returned, she had an extra bamboo knife with spikes in her hand.

"Don't be afraid, mother, I'll feed you." As she spoke, the woman stretched out her left index finger and raised the spike high in her right hand.

"Don't!" Seven seven shouted. But in the ears of the woman, it was the cry of hunger.

The spike stabbed into the woman's finger, and the woman shook it, and then pinched the finger that had been pricked by the spike with her hand, and large drops of blood gushed out.

The woman hurriedly put her finger to Qiqi's mouth.

"Nier, eat, eat."

Salty and fishy blood flowed into Qiqi's mouth, Qiqi cried, looking at this thin woman who fed herself with blood.

"Mother." She wanted to scream, she wanted to learn what they called her mother.

"Eat, eat, eat well, and sleep well when you're full." The woman squeezed her fingers and looked at Qiqi lovingly.

Qiqi fell asleep, and she didn't know that the red of the thumb-sized plum blossom print on the back of her neck had increased a few points.

When I woke up again, the sky had already brightened a lot, and the air in the room was filled with the smell of meat, and Qiqi greedily sniffed his little nose.

The hunchbacked man came over again with the missing half of the gourd, his hand trembling a little, and handed it to the woman holding Qiqi.

The woman took a few deep breaths, but did not take them.

"My mother hasn't come back yet, I'll drink together when my mother comes back." The woman said.

The hunchbacked man's eyes were red, as if he had cried. After being silent for a long time, he said sullenly: "My mother won't come back." ”

The woman's body began to shake violently, and she watched as the hunchbacked man's hand was steaming, and the scented half of the gourd was slugging.

The man placed the gourd on the broken table beside the bed, turned around, and slowly walked to a corner of the room, where he squatted down again, like a stone statue, motionless.

In the distance, there was the neighing of horses in the snow, and soon there was a heavy knock on the broken wooden door.

The man stood up and went to open the door.

Outside the door stood two men in tunics and thick hats, holding long knives in their hands, looking like soldiers.

"Do you have a Nizi Bo at home?" A man spoke.

The hunchbacked man glanced back at Qiqi, who was lying on the bed, wrapped in rags.

"How many days?"

"Four...... Five days ......," the hunchbacked man said nonsense.

"What time is it?"

"Five...... Five days. ”

"It's been five days, I'm afraid not. Then take it to the pig garden. One man said to another.

So one of them turned around, took a cloth bag and a coarse cloth from his horse, and threw them in front of the man.

"Take it, a piece of corn, a piece of cloth!"

"No, please, don't take my Niel." The woman held Qiqi firmly on her chest and cried out mournfully.

"Blessed is it for Ni to go with them." The hunchbacked man came over, grabbed the woman's hand strongly, and touched the wound on the woman's finger, which made the woman feel cold, but she just didn't want to let go.

"That's it, the new emperor is kind to you pariahs, in the past, a girl only needed two buckets of corn, but now it is enough to add a pound of corn, don't be satisfied!"

"We can't feed her." Said the hunchbacked man.

But ......" the woman burst into tears.

"It's all her life, if she's lucky, she can at least live to be ten years old, and with us, maybe tomorrow she'll starve to death......," the hunchbacked man continued.

The woman's hand loosened, but then she tightly hugged Qiqi into her arms, lowered her head, and kissed her on the face indiscriminately.

"Hurry up! If you miss the emperor's major event, you can't cut off ten heads! The soldier urged viciously at the door.

The hunchbacked man dug Qiqi out of the woman's hand, turned around and hugged him to the door.

Qiqi didn't know what fate awaited her, she only heard a hoarse cry behind her.

The hunchbacked man handed her over to the soldier, who carried the rags around her like a chick without pity.

"Nier-mile...... Mother's Nier......" The soldier carried her and threw her onto a carriage in the snow. The mournful, desperate cry shook and shattered as the carriage shook, and as soon as the north wind blew, it disappeared.

In the palace, Hei Che is throwing a tantrum. He was terrified of the fact that the sky in Suzhou was out of phase and the red plum blossoms bloomed overnight. However, the people below searched and reported it, but they did not find the baby girl born within those three days.

"Die, all have to die!" Heche was now convinced of what the armillary sphere had said, and if he couldn't find her, she would be a weapon that others would use against him.

Everyone in the hall knelt and trembled, not knowing what kind of temper the new monarch was extruding again.

"With the widow's will, expand the scope of the search, except for Suzhou, together with the surrounding Anran County, Lingfang County, and Yiqi Prefecture, all the babies born in the winter moon will be killed!"

"Your Majesty, you have just ascended the throne, which will cause resentment among the people, please think twice about it." Shang Shu Zhuohuan said.

Hei Che looked at him, and then turned his head to look at the Taoist who was standing on the side of the hall: "Yiyang Immortal, do you still need a medicine primer for the widow's jade return pill?" ”

Zhuo Heng's face suddenly changed drastically, and he shouted loudly: "The emperor spares his life, the emperor spares his life." ”

"If you go back to the emperor, the medicine of the jade pill must be prepared, and a ten-year-old girl, you can't do it for one more day, and you can't do it for one less day, it takes chance. The emperor's birthday is the twentieth day of the winter month, if you can find a girl who was also born on the twentieth day of the winter month, the effect of the jade pill made is several times stronger than the ordinary. The Taoist who was called a fairy by Hei Che, dressed in a blue Taoist robe, lean as a mouse, touched the three strands of yellow goatee under his chin, and replied.

Zhuo Heng lay on the ground and didn't dare to raise his head, he heard Yiyang Daoist speak, and slowly calmed down, the flesh on his face shook back and forth, as if he was embarrassed.