Kapitel 49: Chapter 49: Dead Bodies All Along the Way

This time, everyone was generous with the seasoning, applying the last bit of wine and soy sauce evenly before placing it on the stove to roast.

Soon, the aroma spread through the dense forest, and those ravenous people swallowed their saliva frantically, but no one dared to enter the forest to snatch the food.

The Qiu family, though kind-hearted, was not saintly; even if they couldn't eat all the food, they did not soften their hearts to share it with others but packed everything up.

After all, there were countless refugees. If you could help one, you couldn't necessarily help the second, and they too were uncertain about the future, with not so much benevolence to squander.

It was not until the moon was high in the sky that the Qiu family finally set off toward the direction outside the city.