This prince is going to heaven

Chapter 568 Chess Pieces
Outside Sanhe Town.

Liujia Village.

There were originally hundreds of families in the village, but because of this man-made disaster, there are now less than a dozen families left, and the rest have long since fled the famine.And the rest are mostly old people, women and children. It's not that they don't want to go, but they just don't have the strength to go.

And what they depend on for their daily survival is the only bran food left at home, but even if it is this unbearable bran, they are reluctant to eat too much in a meal, and they can only eat it with those hard-to-eat bark or grass roots. , barely making ends meet.

But even so, there will be a day when the mountain is empty, and when that time comes.
On this day, three old women in their sixties with thinning white hair came down from the mountain with baskets for digging grass roots. They walked very hard, and their wrinkled foreheads were covered with sweat. , Breathing is also very short of breath.

"Sister-in-law Wang, how much food do you have at home?" An old woman asked the woman in the middle panting.

The sister-in-law of the Wang family shook her head and sighed, "It's not much, I guess there's still five or six catties left, and it's probably only enough for ten days and a half a month."

Hearing what she said, the other woman also sighed and said, "It's almost the same, there are not many left in my family."

"What do you think we'll do when we're done eating? The roots of the weeds on the mountain have almost been dug up. If we stay here for a while, I'm afraid we'll starve to death."

"Let's take one step at a time. When it really comes to that time, there's nothing we can do about it. Besides, the three of us have lived for so long, so it's enough for us."

"Why do you think those big officials in Jingzhou City don't care about us?"

The sister-in-law of the Wang family snorted immediately, and said: "If they don't get greedy, they are burning incense, and they still care about us."

"I don't care about Jingzhou, what about the capital? Our place has become like this, don't those high-ranking officials in the capital know?"

"Don't count on it. It's better to rely on yourself than to ask for help. If you can live a day, count it as a day."

The three of them were chatting as they walked with difficulty, but after the three of them had walked a long way again, they saw a woman suddenly squinting her eyes and looking into the distance, "Look, two sisters-in-law, what is that?" Is there someone lying on the side of the road?"

One person sighed and said, "It's probably another one who died of starvation."

"This is outside our village, that person should be from our village."

"Go, go over and have a look. If it's really someone from our village, I'd better find a way to bury it. If it's a fellow villager, we can't just let her be exposed in the wilderness like this."

At this time, dead people have become commonplace. Since the Chinese New Year, countless people have starved to death. If you see a lot, you will naturally become numb.

It was only after the three old women walked over that they were stunned.

"It turned out to be a young girl. I haven't seen this appearance before. Have you seen it?"

The other two also shook their heads.

The sister-in-law of the Wang family bent down, took a careful look at the girl lying on the ground, then got up suddenly and was shocked: "She's not dead yet, she's still alive."

After saying this, she quickly squatted down again, patted the girl's cheek lightly, and kept shouting: "Girl, wake up, wake up."

The girl's hair was messy, and her sallow face was slightly mottled. If one looked closely, the girl's appearance was quite striking. The sallow complexion and spots all over her face could not completely cover her face. The sister-in-law of the Wang family yelled for a long time before slowly opening her eyes.

And when she opened her eyes, a pair of agile pupils suddenly shone brightly.

"She's really alive." Wang's sister-in-law exclaimed in surprise.

Seeing that she had opened her eyes, the other two women hurriedly put down the basket in their hands, bent down together and helped the girl up from the ground.

"Girl, which village are you from? Why did you faint here?" Wang's sister-in-law asked with concern.

But the girl didn't seem to hear their question. After being lifted up from the ground by them, her eyes immediately looked around.

Everything around is strange, strange people, strange environment, at a certain moment she even feels that she is a stranger.

Seeing her in a daze, the sister-in-law of the Wang family couldn't help but put out her hand a few times in front of her, and asked again: "Girl, which village are you from?"

The girl turned her head indifferently, and said blankly: "I don't know."

The three old women were taken aback for a moment.

"You don't know which village you are from? Then what's your name?"

The girl still shook her head blankly and said, "I don't know."

The three old women looked at each other immediately.

As soon as she heard a woman secretly poking the sister-in-law of the Wang family, she pointed to her head, leaned over and whispered to the sister-in-law of the Wang family, "Is there something wrong with this girl?"

Wang's sister-in-law was startled for a moment, then looked at the girl again and asked, "You really don't know anything?"

The girl was stunned for a long time, and then she nodded.

The woman asked softly again: "Sister-in-law, what should we do now?"

Wang's sister-in-law took a deep look at the girl, then sighed: "What a handsome girl, it's so pitiful, take her back."

The woman immediately stopped her: "Sister-in-law, you don't have much food in your family. You don't have enough food for yourself. If you take her back, how can you live?"

Wang's sister-in-law sighed: "Then you can't throw her here, she doesn't know anything, if you really want to leave her alone, she will definitely starve to death within two days."

"But."

"It's nothing, just listen to me."

After saying this, Wang's sister-in-law turned to look at the girl and said, "Girl, why don't you go home with me first?"

Seeing the kind expression on the face of the old man in front of her, the girl couldn't feel any vigilance at all, so she nodded at that time.

After the four of them left here, two men slowly walked out from a small hill in the distance.

One old, one young.

Seeing the backs of the four people leaving, the young man immediately spoke, but his voice sounded a little strange: "Godfather, did we really leave her here?"

The old man coughed a few times, and then said: "This is all that person's arrangement, we just obey."

"But why?"

The old man took another deep look at the girl's back, and then said: "If you want to deceive others, you must first deceive yourself. If you can't deceive yourself, then whatever you do is acting, and acting will always be Leaving gaps."

Hearing his inexplicable words, the young man was stunned.

"I don't understand what you mean. You picked her up personally back then, and you watched her grow up. Are you really willing?"

The old man shook his head helplessly: "So what if you don't want to? In front of this world, all living beings are just pawns."

(End of this chapter)