Chapter 223

Wrapped in tight cotton padded clothes, ye Wuchen trotted to the trading area. He felt that the temperature seemed to pick up again in the past two days. In addition, perhaps because his food has improved a lot, his physical strength has become stronger and stronger.

"Ghost weather." with a low spit, his steps were faster and faster.

They live not far from the trading area. Ye Wuchen can see the bustling crowd from a distance in only half an hour.

Although it is winter, there are still many people selling things in the streets of northern forces. Although they can see the irrecoverable fatigue on their faces, they also glitter with the brilliance of hope.

The people in the first and second districts in the north and the first district in the south are very happy in the end of the world. Most of them can get the work arranged above. As long as they make enough efforts, they can ensure that they will not starve to death.

However, some children suffer more. They often can't finish the task indicators assigned above with all their strength. They will always starve without adult care.

Inadvertently noticed a girl on the roadside carrying heavy wood. She struggled to move forward. Suddenly, the soles of her feet slipped and staggered to the ground. The wood on his back broke free from the tied rope and scattered on the ground.

Ye Wuchen twisted his eyebrows and ran to hold the girl. At a glance, he found that the palm of the girl's hand had worn through a layer of skin because it rubbed on the ground.

"Are you all right?" he whispered.

The girl looked about eight or nine years old, with frostbite on her face and hands.

"Well, thank you." the girl simply thanked and turned to carry the wood. When she noticed that the wood was scattered all over the ground, her eyes couldn't help but turn red, but she still clenched her teeth and bent down to hold the wood back one by one and put it together.

Seeing that ye Wuchen didn't say a word, he also began to help her pick up wood and tie it together with her.

Seeing that the wood was tied together again, the girl couldn't help thanking again, but this time the thanking sound sounded a lot more sincere, "thank you."

"It's all right." ye Wuchen quickly waved his hand to say no thanks. When he saw that the girl was going to carry the wood on her back, he frowned and directly picked up the wood and carried it on his body.

"I'll just carry this!" the girl was worried at the sight. The gratitude she had just had at the bottom of her eyes dissipated in an instant. She pulled ye Wuchen's cape and shouted sharply.

"Don't worry, I know what you're worried about." ye Wuchen sighed, "don't worry, I used to do these chores like you. You don't have to worry that I'll carry your things on my back, or I'll ask for credit instead of you. I'll help you carry a distance and return it to you when you get to your destination."

Perhaps ye Wuchen said exactly what the girl cared about. She pursed her lips and still had some suspicious color on her face.

"You don't have to think about it. My sister is about your age. I just think of her when I see you." ye Wuchen took the girl's hand, handed over a pair of hands in his pocket, and said gently, "warm your hands first, otherwise the bruised place will be very painful when you go back."

After receiving the gloves handed over by Ye Wuchen, the girl took a careful look at ye Wuchen. She didn't wear the gloves until she saw that he really meant no harm.

She couldn't help rubbing her face with furry gloves, and a smile floated uncontrollably on her face.

It's so warm.

"Where are you going now?" he adjusted the position of the rope on his shoulder. Ye Wuchen looked at the bustling crowd not far away and asked, "I'll take you there."

"Trading area." the girl's voice was crisp and clear, like a silver bell ringing in the wind, "I'll show you the way."

"That's just right. I'm going to the trading area, too." ye Wuchen nodded and walked on the girl's side.

Since there was company on the road, there was a topic. Ye Wuchen looked at the girl's red face and asked, "what's your name?"

"My name is Huo Yuzhi." the girl raised her eyes and asked back, "what about you, brother?"

"Ye Wuchen." ye Wuchen smiled.

Knowing ye Wuchen's name, Huo Yuzhi lowered his eyes and said cautiously after a while:

"Brother ye... Can I call you that?"

"Yes." hearing Huo Yuzhi calling his brother ye Wuchen, he thought of nine familiar with them, and couldn't help worrying.

For such a long time, I don't know how they are now. Has Qin Feng taken good care of them.

"Brother ye, you are a good man." after getting ye Wuchen's consent, the girl looked a little more relaxed and said, "no one has ever helped me before."

"You remind me of my sister nine masters." looking at Huo Yuzhi's eyes, ye Wuchen said with a gentle smile, "she looks almost as old as you. She is eleven years old this year."

"I'm eleven years old this year." attracted by Ye Wuchen's gentle eyes, Huo Yuzhi suddenly envied the girl named Jiugan.

Mingming is as old as her, but she has such a good brother to take care of, unlike she has always been alone.

"Really?" I don't know what Huo Yuzhi is thinking. Ye Wuchen looks surprised. "I thought you were only eight or nine years old."

"Maybe it's malnutrition." Huo Yuzhi smiled and said very pitiful words, but with a kind of stubbornness and more distressing.

I couldn't help reaching out and touching Huo Yuzhi's head. When he saw Huo Yuzhi looking at him, he took back his hand, "I'm sorry, but I hope you can refuel. As long as we can live, we will get out of this life."

When the warm hand on her head moved away, Huo Yuzhi only felt tight in her heart. She subconsciously held ye Wuchen's hand and soon carried it behind her.

"Why do you want to apologize?" ye Wuchen was stunned. "I should be abrupt."

"No." Huo Yuzhi shook his head, his head drooping low, almost buried in her not thick collar.

They didn't talk again all the way, and the atmosphere between them was a little awkward.

The trading area is not crowded with people, but the environment is very noisy.

Just then Huo Yuzhi suddenly stopped and pulled ye Wuchen's arm with both hands.

"What's the matter?" ye Wuchen stopped and asked.

Huo Yuzhi pursed her lips without making a sound. When ye Wuchen planned to ask again, she stammered, "can you, can you touch my head again?"

Unexpectedly, she would make such a request. Ye Wuchen was stunned and smiled. He reached out and gently touched Huo Yuzhi's dirty head, and there was no dislike in the bottom of his eyes.

"Is that so?" he asked with a smile.