As Zhang He and Yue Zhong continued talking, more details of the life of the lower members of society began to emerge. The people in the worst situations were the lower members of society in SY County. Although the upper brass had given the order for some emergency rations to be handed out to preserve these survivors’ lives, as there was greed, countless rations were siphoned by greedy officials, and many of these survivors did not obtain their rightful ration. There were countless women selling their bodies for just a bun. There were even people willing to sell their children at various survivor camps.
Under Zhang He’s guidance, Yue Zhong’s party came to an alley near a sewer, where the buildings were dilapidated, and stinking human waste everywhere.
On the street, there were various survivors sitting down numbly by the road, their bodies giving off an odor, while a large number of mosquitoes and flies were currently circling them.
There was a woman with tattered clothes, dark eyebags, sunken face, and emitting a sour smell from her body grabbing a little girl’s hands kneeling on the floor in front of Yue Zhong pleading profusely: “This master!! Please, buy my daughter!! Just a box of instant noodles, as long as you pay a box of instant noodles, I’ll sell her to you!! She knows how to do everything, bring her with you, and she can help you do anything!!”
The little girl of roughly 11-12 years, whose hair was in a ponytail, and had starved to the point where she looked like a little beansprout, was also kneeling and begging: “Master, please buy me. I’m willing to do anything!”
Tong Xiaoyun saw this and she could not help but ask, “Auntie! Isn’t she your own daughter? How can you bear to sell her away??”
Wen Peishan saw the scene in front of her and could not believe her eyes. It was her first time coming to this sort of place, and in her thinking, selling one’s son or daughter was something that happened only in books or the societies of old. The SY County that her father was governing over definitely would not have something like that.