Shu Yu left the Qi Family's place; it was already late.
She didn't intend to continue wandering outside. After preparing a bit when she returned, the next morning, Song Xin's graveyard would begin construction, and by then, she would leave the capital directly to go back.
Thus Shu Yu took Ying Xi directly back to the courtyard in the south of the city.
Who knew that as soon as they entered the alley, the two of them saw a woman about forty or fifty years old standing at their courtyard door. She wore a coarse gray-black cloth outfit, and her face was covered in sweat, her hair was disheveled.
In her hand, she was holding a small, frail child, who appeared to be about two years old.
The child's clothes were much too large, sagging unevenly on the body, revealing thin shoulders that seemed to be all bone.
The woman and child lingered at the courtyard gate. Several times the woman raised her hand to knock but hesitated repeatedly, putting her hand down, looking uncertain.
