After the money and tickets at home were taken away, Cai Aliu became visibly thinner, having not eaten a full meal for several days. Instantly, she fell to her knees on the cold ground and began to cry loudly.
"Heartless thing, I am your real grandmother. Your mother crawled out of my belly, and that's how there came to be you little ones. Now you've done well, become an official, and you look down on us." Cai Aliu wailed.
"We are truly starving, and you all should be the ones taken to the public security bureau." Li Dabing's voice was weak from hunger, but his shaky figure made the people around him more sympathetic.
Li Hongguang stood behind the two elders without saying a word. Compared to those days, Li Hongguang was eating the most after all; being young meant the elders couldn't compete with him.
