Liu Yunxiang and the others also followed, bought enough medicine in the medicine hall, and then entered an alley, all the way to the front of a collapsed house.

The walls of the courtyard had fallen, and the gate was locked, and they stepped over the ruins and walked in, and it was pitch black and there was no movement at all.

The child who found Xi'er before was called Fang Su, and it was rare to have a serious name.

Like a thief, he looked left and right, and found nothing unusual, so he whispered inside: "Children, come out, Sister Xi'er is back." ”

As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen small figures poured in from all directions of the courtyard, some tall and some short, some boys and some girls, but they were all not very old, the older ones were only seven or eight years old, and the younger ones were three or four years old.

They surrounded Liu Yunxiang and them, staring at them with wide eyes, a little cowardice in their eyes, but more of surprise.

"Their faces are so white, and their clothes are so clean."

"They don't stink."

"That sister is so beautiful, and my brother is also good-looking."

These children were born in the Zen Camp, and they have never seen people outside, nor have they seen the scenery outside, thinking that the whole world is the corner of the Zen Camp.

These children are skinny, thinly dressed in winter, and look very weak.

Liu Yunxiang saw a little girl, probably too hungry, looking at her who kept swallowing saliva, wearing a thin gown, hugging her shoulders with a shrunken shoulder, and there were no shoes on her feet, stepping on the snow, and her feet were full of chilblains.

At this time, there was a scream in the house, and Xi'er hurriedly ran inside with Zhou Lihuai.

Half of the house collapsed, and there were air leaks everywhere. The child lay on the dead grass, screaming in pain and convulsing all over.

Zhou Lihuai asked Xi'er to quickly light the fire, first check the child's pulse, and then look at his complexion, and urgently prepared a pack of medicine, fortunately, there was a broken pot here, and boiled a pot first.

While boiling the medicine, Zhou Lihuai gave the child an acupuncture, and after a while, the child was not so painful.

After drinking another bowl of medicine, the symptoms were immediately relieved.

"I guess I ate something dirty, right?" Zhou Lihuai looked at Xi'er.

Xi'er said helplessly: "As long as it can be eaten, whether it is dirty or clean, they will eat it." ”

Zhou Lihuai nodded, "Other children may also have this symptom?" ”

Fang Su hurriedly said: "There are two children who also have stomach aches today. ”

"Didn't you boil a pot of that medicine, and give each of them a bowl to drink." Saying that, he looked around again, smelled the stench, and couldn't help covering his nose, "This place can't live anymore, it's too dirty and damp." ”

Xi'er sighed, "The officials are searching people everywhere, I can't take them out of the city at all, and in the city, how can there be a hiding place for them." ”

Liu Yunxiang said: "I have a house. ”

Taking advantage of the late night, Liu Yunxiang took the children to her house in the diagonal alley.

Xue Changfeng was thoughtful, he first went to buy two bags of rice, and asked his family to send more than a dozen quilts.

When leaving from the broken courtyard, Zhou Lihuai remembered his dog son, Fang Su took him to the wing room, which also collapsed in half, and Xiaoyue, the stupid dog, was sleeping on the ground, purring loudly.

"We weren't hungry for it, except for a few pieces of bread left for it." Fangsu Road.

Zhou Lihuai didn't know what to say for a while, but said: "Then thank you very much, but you are all hungry, why do you still give it the only remaining food?" ”

"Sister Xi'er said that you can't starve it, and if you lose weight from hunger, you won't have a few taels of meat."

The corners of Zhou Lihuai's mouth twitched, and then he looked at the dog son who was sleeping very soundly, and said busily: "Isn't it just meat, I will pay you back." ”

Liu Yunxiang counted it carefully, including Fang Su and the child with a stomachache, a total of sixteen children.

These children were covered in a layer of mud, and after asking Xi'er, they found out that they had dug a hole in the ground to escape.

They first burned a fire until the ground thawed, and then dug little by little while the officers and men guarding the outside were not paying attention, and dug for two days before digging outside the wall.

"The adults and the older children had to follow the people of the Ministry of Industry to build straw huts, and only these younger ones, those officers and soldiers, did not pay attention, and they escaped." Xi'er explained.

Liu Yunxiang asked Zhang Qi to bring a few men over, men and women, to boil water to bathe these children.

No way, they're so dirty, they'll get sick too.

They were bathed, dressed in clean clothes, ate rice porridge, and then slept on the hot kang one by one, and in a short time the children were asleep.

Liu Yunxiang called Xi'er to the hall, and Yan Dui, Xue Changfeng and Zhou Lihuai were also there.

"How do you know these kids?"

Xi'er sighed and said, "A few days ago, wasn't I stolen money by a group of children from the Shannian Camp, these children are them, and Fang Su took them." They stole money because a child was seriously ill and wanted to take him to the doctor, but they didn't have the money. After stealing the money, the children felt that they could be saved, and naively took the seriously ill child to see the doctor, but the doctor not only did not show them but also notified the government, and they were arrested. At that time, I was still tracking these children, and I happened to see that Fang Su saw me, ran away from the official messenger like crazy, ran to me, returned the silver to me, and begged me to say good things to the official messenger to save the seriously sick child. ”

Xi'er said this, her eyes were red, "I asked the official errand, but the official errand is not hard-hearted, let the doctor show it, but ...... But it was too late, the kid had already vomited blood, and Fang Su and I watched him die. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Lihuai and Xue Changfeng, the two big men, also sighed and reddened, and Liu Yunxiang's tears fell. Yan Du leaned back in the chair, with no expression on his face, not hard-hearted, but as if he wasn't listening to Xi'er at all.

"I, I got the ten taels of silver back, but I didn't go to pay my sister. I know that my sister is not short of these ten taels of silver, but if I have the opportunity, I can use these ten taels of silver to save a few lives, of course, I know that this is not right. Xi'er lowered her head embarrassedly.

Liu Yunxiang shook his head, "You forgot, I said that you don't owe me silver, and these ten taels are your own." ”

When Xi'er heard this, a smile appeared on her face, "My mother often tells me that there must be a scale in my heart, and this scale must be flat. ”

Liu Yunxiang smiled, "Your mother taught you very well." ”

"Later, as long as I had time, I went to Xicheng for a walk, and the day before yesterday I really met Fang Su and them, that is, they just crawled out of the cave of Shannian Camp, and they were caught by a group of officials before they ran far."

"Those officials were about to escort them back to the Shannian camp, I went over to beg them, and gave them the ten taels of silver, and they were also troublesome, so they let me take them away."

"They had been hungry for three days, and I settled them in the broken yard and tried to find something to eat, but the little bolt couldn't wait, and ran out to find something to eat, and ran into the bastard."