She walked through the market and unexpectedly saw quite a few families putting grass marks in the hair of their three- or four-year-old children and bringing them out for sale. Two children combined were sold for only sixty copper coins.
What does sixty copper coins mean? It's the cost of a roast duck in Chiming City!
Outside the city, at the burial ground, lay many pale, slender skeletons. These were from mortals who, in order to survive, had no choice but to "exchange children for food" with neighbors, swapping and killing each other's children to eat.
