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Before the disaster, Mo Xue's parents made up wicker baskets to earn a few dollars. After taking out a name, they drew that word on a piece of paper, and then spent a coin or two to make the literate recognize it and then memorize it.

So the only words Mo Xue knew to write were Mo, Xue and Liu. At that time, she was envied by the children in the village because she was the only one who knew these three words. Even Mo Yan, who was born with the title of Elementary Scholar status, only knew two words!

After walking for another hour, the six children finally arrived at the town. However, upon reaching the town, they were stupefied. The usually bustling streets were completely changed, with victims and beggars everywhere.

When they reached the street, a group of beggars lying on the street saw them coming, they opened their eyes for a moment and then closed them again. Daya glanced at one of the young beggars and was immediately scolded by the beggar, "You little beggars, what are you looking at? Be careful that your grandpa will dig out your eyeballs."

Daya's vicious appearance scared her to the point that her face turned pale. In those days, there weren't many people who would act rationally. Although the six of them were confident in defeating the young beggar, there were still many beggars next to him. Upon hearing the young man's words, all of them opened their eyes and looked at him strangely, as if they wanted to see a hole in them.

"Heh heh." One of the beggars opened his eyes and smiled sinisterly, "I haven't eaten meat in a long time. Why don't I kill these kids tonight and cook some?"

Daya and Cuihua immediately cried out in fear when they heard that. Mo Xue saw the look in their eyes as they spoke, and she felt scared. She followed closely behind Mo Yan, and was on guard against them.

"Let's go to the town quickly. We won't be afraid of them when we reach a place with a lot of people!" Da Niu loudly said. He wanted to make this group of beggars hesitate.

Hearing this, the young beggar became anxious and quickly crawled up from the ground to stand in front of them. "You're not allowed to go to the town!"

"Why not let us go to town!" As the strongest person in the team, Da Niu stood out to argue with them.

"Brothers, get up!" The young beggar shouted, "There isn't much charity left in the town. When they come, we won't even have a share. When they come, won't we all starve to death like Old Wang did a few days ago?"

As they talked, the beggars suddenly became restless. They all stood in front of them, blocking their way.

"We are not beggars." After all, she was only an eight-year-old little girl.

"Heh, you're not beggars?" The young beggar suddenly laughed, "Look at the broken bowl in your hands, and you still say that you are not a beggar? "I thought you said you weren't a beggar, but who would believe you?!"

"We really aren't beggars. We're just here to look for work." Cuihua and Iron Egg also said.

One of them, a middle-aged beggar with a disheveled beard, said, "At first, we all said that we were just looking for work, but now, you see, we can't even find a job, what can you all do after falling to being beggars?"

"That's right. Child, go back. There are no jobs here, and there aren't many people who would give alms to you." An elderly beggar advised them to go back. "And it's not safe at night. Kids like you shouldn't be sold, or eaten by some hungry people."

"It can't be?" Daya asked timidly.

The old beggar was somewhat unhappy, "Would I lie to you?"

At this time, Mo Yan stood out and said, "We have been chased out of our house and there is nothing to eat in the village. We can't even find a stalk of grass."

Actually, their parents said they wanted them to come out and train, but there was no difference between that and rushing out. Their family had their younger brother and sister, and when their parents asked them to come out, it was equivalent to giving up on them and protecting their younger brother and sister with all their might.

Even if they went back, they would not be able to get any food. They would also be scolded by their parents and have a strange look at the villagers. After all, the village had agreed that there would be people coming out from every house. Thus, before the Year of Disaster, even if they died, they would die on the outside.

When the old beggar saw that they insisted on entering the town, he did not insist and only said: "Since that's the case, I will not stop you. If something happens, do not blame us for not reminding you."

Hearing the old beggar's words, the six of them nodded their heads and said that they could not be blamed. Just as they were about to enter the town, the young beggar blocked their path and said, "Master, don't let them in!"

The old beggar waved his hand, gesturing for the young beggar to let them pass. "Child, life and death are decided by fate. Wealth and wealth exist in the heavens. We are not bandits, and we cannot cut off the path to survival."

When the young beggar heard these words, he glared at Mo Xue and the others. "Get in there right now! Get out, get out, I'm telling you, when the time comes I'll starve to death, and my vengeful spirit will seek the death of all of you little bastards!"

Mo Xue and the others were frightened by these words again. Then, the old beggar said, "Kid, what are you scaring them for? Save your strength." Saying so, he lay back down and closed his eyes. Seeing this situation, the young beggars paid no more attention to them. Seeing that there was nothing to watch, they all closed their eyes.

The sun above them had gone a little west, but it was still hot, and the strange atmosphere of the town had returned to the way it had been when they first arrived.

They continued their journey and finally met an aunt. After all, she was a child that had just come out of the village. They couldn't bring themselves to say "Please, please pass on a few words."

In fact, most of the children in the village were very simple and honest. When they were young, the adults would teach them not to casually take other people's things, including small gifts from their families, such as vegetables. As a result, neither of them was able to say anything. Thus, the first kind-looking benefactor had been missed.

After walking around for a while, he finally met the third person. As the oldest child between them, Mo Yan mustered up his courage and walked forward, but the moment he was about to open his mouth, he saw a group of people holding wooden sticks and chasing after more than a dozen beggars.

When they were almost here, Mo Yan suddenly started to tell everyone to run. When they arrived at the town entrance, the group of beggars that stopped them before also changed from their lazy look and immediately stood up to move out of the town.

"At least you guys ran fast." The leader of the men stood at the entrance of the town with a wooden stick and shouted, "I'm telling you bunch of stinking beggars that you're not allowed to come to our town again. If you want to beg, go to the county. We don't have much food in our town, and it was even made black by you beggars! "

Mo Xue and the others, who were standing far away, knew that they wouldn't be able to get to the town even if they heard those words.

"Yan, what do we do now?" Da Niu asked. Mo Xue, who was standing beside them, also had a look of worry on her face.

"Why don't we go to the county?" "I heard that big guy say he wanted to beg, so we went to the county. Plus, we can go with them now. I just heard that they want the county as well." Iron Egg pointed at the group of people in front of them.

"Alright, then I'll go to the county." Mo Yan nodded in agreement.

The group of children were very excited when they heard that they were going to the county. They had never been there before, so they had no idea what would happen if they went there.

Mo Xue was digging grass beside a road outside the county. She was in an even worse situation than before. At least she had a broken hoe when she was at home, but in this unfamiliar place, her hands could only hold a piece of rough tile that she had picked up from an unknown place.

Ah, she finally managed to dig one. Mo Xue smiled happily. Being in the countryside for such a long time, she was quite skilled at digging grass. This was the secret of how she hadn't starved to death yet.

"Come, Cuihua, eat." Mo Xue pushed the grass aside and put the roots of the grass into the mouth of the girl who was lying on the grass. She saw the girl lying on a flat patch of grass, blocked by a small tree on top of it. Cuihua felt her mouth become moist and her eyes turn red. In the end, she opened her mouth and bit into it with kacha kacha kacha.

In the past month, although Mo Xue was younger than her, Mo Xue had always been taking care of her. She felt very sorry and grateful to Mo Xue.

Although these roots were not full, and eating too much would make their stomachs feel uncomfortable, at least they had plenty of moisture to prevent them from starving to death. For the past half month, they had been staying here, relying on eating grass to survive.

Wasn't it said that they had all gone to the county city? Why was there someone else here? This was really a long story.

Previously, when the six of them had gone to the county city, the county city was still bustling with activity, but there was no job suitable for them. Thus, they were reduced to beggars. Although it was not a glorious day, there would occasionally be some rich people giving them some steamed buns. Those were the rare good days they had spent together.

However, the good times did not last long before they were discovered by a group of local beggars. The beggars there were extremely xenophobic, believing that their arrival had robbed them of their business. The beggars beat them up, chased them out, and even threatened to beat them up the next time they saw them.

If only that was the case, Mo Xue and the others could still endure it. However, there was a group of thugs here. Seeing that they were still young, they had the urge to become thieves. He said that if he didn't do as they said, he would break their legs.

Mo Xue might be young, but she knew that when a thief was caught, her hands and feet would be broken. No one would care even if she was beaten to death. Thus, she escaped that night. However, when they came out, they found out that Tie Wu was missing, so they went back to look. They did not expect that Tie Wu had voluntarily submitted to those thugs.