Female Master: Why doesn’t my wife love me yet?

Chapter 436: Drought in Jiangcheng

(Friendly reminder: This chapter is pretty dark.)

"Brother, they are all dead!"

Panmei transformed into a fox and happily circled around the two dead wolves.

Zhao Mei gestured for him to speak more quietly, and said helplessly: "Shh, keep your voice down, it would be bad if you attract other people."

Panmei quickly covered her mouth with her paws.

He got closer to sniff the two wolves and found that they were extremely emaciated from hunger.

Zhaomei lifted the fox-shaped Panmei away and said to him, "Drag them away first, we will deal with it."

A white light suddenly appeared, and Panmei turned into a human again.

They dragged the wolf's body behind a big tree effortlessly. The two men pulled out the arrow stuck in the wolf's head, took out the daggers they carried with them, and peeled off the wolf's skin completely.

And the wolf meat was eaten raw by them.

"Burp, I haven't eaten such tough meat in a long time."

Panmei said with some disgust.

When they followed the young master's sister in the past, they had never eaten such delicious meat.

It was unknown how long these two wolves had been hungry. After peeling off their skins, there was actually not much meat left.

And the taste is not very good.

"It's good to have something to eat. Haven't you noticed that there are almost no living things around here? Even the bark on the trees has been stripped. I guess the people who come here are starving."

After processing the wolf skin, the two of them crawled into the wolf skin in the form of foxes.

From the outside, they look like two wolves.

"Okay, don't forget what the young master's sister told us. Let's go quickly." Zhaomei urged him.

They hurried to Jiangcheng again.

But the situation in Jiangcheng was not optimistic at this time.

It was a barren land, with even the soil cracked into tofu-like blocks due to drought.

The whole city was in fear of famine.

There were many people kneeling in front of the temple praying to the gods, with their hands clasped together and their lips dry and pale.

"God, please be kind and give us some rain."

"We haven't seen rain for a year. God, please give us a heavy downpour."

But at this time the sky was clear and there was not even a shadow of dark clouds in the sky.

I knelt from morning to night, but there was no sign of rain.

A woman with a hunched back returned home and came to the well. Seeing a bowl of extremely turbid water, she asked, "Is this all the water you've drawn today?"

The woman angrily kicked the thin boy who was fetching water. The boy looked no more than seven or eight years old.

The boy who was kicked to the ground explained: "There was no water in the well. My father tied me with a rope and I went to the bottom of the well to draw this bowl of water."

The woman was already thirsty and picked up the muddy water on the ground and drank half a bowl in one gulp.

There was a smell of mud and sand in her mouth, but she couldn't care less.

Although the bowl of water was extremely dirty, she still drank it. But she also knew that the bowl of water was hard to come by, so she drank half of it and kept the other half.

The boy didn't dare to complain because he knew that in such a harsh environment, some families had already exchanged their children and started eating meat.

It's a blessing that he's still alive.

After the woman finished drinking the water, she took the bowl into the house.

She has two daughters and a husband at home.

She brought the muddy water to her two daughters' lips so that they could wet their lips, but the eldest daughter disliked the dirty water and refused to drink it.

The woman slapped her in the face.

"Drink! This is the water that little bastard has been fetching all day. If you don't drink it, you'll die of thirst."

She took a cautious sip.

The man next to her also wanted to drink, but the woman took the bowl away.

"Men? What kind of water do men drink?"

There is only half a bowl of water left.

And there is a layer of mud and sand underneath.

The eldest daughter rubbed her belly and said to the woman, "Mom, I'm so hungry."

The little daughter also said: "Yes, I'm so hungry. We have eaten so much dirt, why do I still feel hungry?"

The house was already out of food and ammunition. Everything edible was eaten, even the mice.

The woman suddenly thought of her son outside.

She called the child in in a gentle tone.

The boy walked in flattered and asked, "Mom, what's the matter?"

The woman looked at his cracked lips and mercifully let him drink a mouthful of muddy water.

"Second brother..."

Then she spoke earnestly.

The boy suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

From childhood to adulthood, when had his mother ever spoken to him in such a nice tone?

He looked at his mother tremblingly, his legs becoming weak uncontrollably.

The woman continued, "As a boy, our family has done the most we can by raising you. Now, it's your turn to contribute to this family."

The boy knelt on the ground with a plop and said, "I can do anything. Mom, elder sister, and younger sister are hungry, aren't they? I'll go find you something to eat outside..."

The woman frowned and scolded, "Why are you going outside? There's nothing to eat outside right now. It's been so dry for so long, even drinking water is hard to come by!"

The boy almost fell to the ground. He crawled in front of the man, pulled up his trouser legs and said, "Dad, save me!"

The man simply pried open his hand that was holding his trouser leg, one finger at a time.

The boy was filled with despair.

The woman asked her husband to hold the boy down, and she went to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife.

"what!"

The screams made people tremble in their hearts.

The boy soon stopped breathing.

The woman put a whole bowl of blood on his body.

Before he died, he still wanted to crawl out, but was held down by his own father and watched his mother kill him with her own eyes.

"Come and drink! Didn't you just complain that the water this little bastard fetched was dirty?"

The woman held the bowl filled with the boy's blood and asked the two daughters to come over.

"Great, we have meat to eat!"

There was no fear in the eyes of the two girls, but happiness instead.

Smoke rises from the small village, and the family is enjoying their meal together.

......

Zhaomei and Panmei arrived in Jiangcheng very quickly.

However, when they looked at Jiang Cheng, they found that it was worse than they had imagined.

There were vast expanses of dry and cracked land, bare trees, and everyone's face was filled with numbness and despair.

"Brother, they are too miserable."

Panmei couldn't help but say.

Everyone was so skinny that even the river water had almost dried up.

Zhao Mei looked serious and said, "Let's go check nearby."

The village chief's home.

Several fat and big-eared women sat together.

"Hic, it's time for them to sacrifice young boys and girls. Then we'll have a treat."

"They actually believed us when we said we'd offended the river god, but we ended up eating the meat anyway, didn't we?"

A few people smiled maliciously.

"Oh, by the way, I seemed to hear some noise coming from the Ma family last night, and then their second son disappeared."

"Of course he ate it, what's there to guess?"

Several people have long been accustomed to it.