Chapter 602: Chapter 586 First Year of Daqian

What Wang Qizheng had said, though somewhat speculative, was unlikely to be far off the mark given his experience.

Indeed, as the garrison soldiers went from street to alley, things turned out just as he had expected.

In every household of Qingyun City, there were actions of sending children who had died young to the Orphan Forrest, and even those families lacking money, unable to sustain life, would send their extra children to serve as servants in wealthy households.

They said it was to sell their service, to be raised as house servants or slaves, but as soon as they were sent off, they were quickly dispatched to the Orphan Forrest, all in the hope that their own children could all survive.

This trade of children was always justified by the pretext of the difficulty of raising them. As for whether it truly was difficult, only heaven knew...