Chapter 108 Mother
The food distribution point in East District 3 was distributing supplies at this time, and almost all the living people in East District 3 came here.
Each person had less than one or two ounces of grain, and the thin porridge cooked from this one or two ounces of grain was so clear that you could see your reflection in it.
Even so, all the people in the entire East Third District, as long as they could still move, gathered here. For these people who were already starving, this little bit of food and this bowl of porridge was a life-saving thing.
Hunger had already caused a terrifying beast-like light to appear in everyone's eyes.
Some people even have weapons hidden on them, ready to use violence at any time.
Of course, what they wanted to rob was not the food in the big pot at the food distribution point, after all, there were still several fully armed soldiers guarding there with guns in hand. What they wanted to rob were the untouchables who were as hungry as themselves, but although these untouchables were equally hungry, they were much weaker than them.
It is also because of this that more weak people choose to swallow the food immediately after receiving it, regardless of how hot it is.
However, there are always exceptions.
Liu Ling held a bowl with a crack in her hand and stood trembling in the dark line. Her hair, which was originally black, had now turned mostly white. She looked like an old woman in her sixties or seventies. No one would believe that she was only in her forties. The university music professor no longer looked like the old lady he used to be.
She had been waiting in line for more than two hours and finally got to the front of the big pot at the food distribution point.
At this time, the porridge in the pot was almost empty, and because the rice used to make the porridge was of poor quality, there was a lot of sand at the bottom of the pot. However, the light fragrance of the food still made the people behind them salivate.
This is rice porridge! Real rice, chewy in the mouth and filling in the stomach.
Liu Ling trembled as she held out the broken bowl in her hand. The fat man who was in charge of the food distribution didn't even look at an old woman like her. He casually scooped half a spoonful of porridge into Liu Ling's bowl, smiled evilly at a young girl behind her, and said, "Next."
Liu Ling looked at the thin porridge in the bowl that was barely enough to fill the gaps between her teeth, and said cautiously to the fat man, "Sir... my old man can't walk anymore, so he didn't come. Can you give me some more..."
The fat man looked at her impatiently, waved his hand as if to shoo away a fly and said, "Go away, if he's not dead, come by yourself. If he's dead, you don't need to drink the porridge. Go away now."
Liu Ling's eyes turned slightly red. She gritted her teeth, turned around and walked towards her residence.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she walked a few steps away from the food distribution point, several sloppy men stood in front of her and tried to grab her bowl without saying a word!
These people are all ruffians in this untouchable area. They are afraid of death and lazy, so they don't join the army or the hunting team. They specialize in robbing other refugees' food in the outer area. In the past, Liu Ling's food had been robbed several times. Later, she and Mu Qi's father Mu Shubo ate the food immediately after receiving it, so they were no longer robbed. But this time Mu Shubo was seriously ill and was in a coma for several days. Liu Ling had to bring him food back, but she didn't expect to be targeted by these people immediately.
"What do you want to do! This is to save our old Mu's life!" Liu Ling shouted like crazy, and she didn't know where she got the strength from, desperately grabbed the bowl in her hand and tried to take it out of the other party's hand. All she thought about was that her husband had been in a coma several days and had not eaten a single grain of rice. If he continued like this, he would definitely die.
She turned her head and looked at the fat man near the food distribution point not far away, casting a look for help, but the other party just looked at her as if he was watching a show and did not try to stop the robbers at all.
"Give it to me, old woman!" The thin man who grabbed her bowl shouted with a ferocious look on his face, and at the same time, he suddenly increased the strength in his hands and kicked Liu Ling several times. Several people around him also punched her.
With a loud "pop", the worn-out porcelain bowl could not withstand the force of the two people and broke into several pieces in the middle. Liu Ling's hand was cut by the porcelain pieces, and the porridge in the bowl immediately spilled onto the ground.
"Qi Ah--" Seeing the last bit of porridge spilled on the ground and quickly seeped into the soil, leaving only a few grains of rice, Liu Ling suddenly knelt down as if her spine was pulled out, and let out a wild howl. What she shouted was the name of her missing son.
"Qi ah——" The humiliation and suffering she had endured during this period seemed to burst in an instant. At this moment, what she wanted to do most was to hug her son and cry. But she didn't know where her son was, and whether he was still alive...
"Damn old woman..." The thin man was injured and had a cut on his face. He spat and kicked Liu Ling in the head.
But before he kicked out, he heard a burst of urgent footsteps like beating drums behind his ears, and then he felt his neck tighten, and he had been lifted up!
He turned his head and just saw the other person's appearance clearly, he felt a sharp pain in his leg. He had been twisted from the ankle to the thigh and thrown aside like a rag! A terrifying scream came from the thin man's mouth, and he began to roll on the ground like a maggot.
"Plop." Li Feng knelt heavily in front of Liu Ling, holding the old woman's shoulders with both hands, and said, "Aunt, it's me, Xiao Feng, Mu Qi's classmate!"
Liu Ling had almost completely collapsed at this time, and did not notice what was happening around her at all. She suddenly raised her head when she heard Mu Qi's name. When she gradually recognized Li Feng's appearance, she immediately hugged Li Feng and cried loudly: "Xiao Feng! Xiao Feng!" Then, she suddenly woke up again, grabbed Li Feng's shoulders and shook him hard: "Where is Mu Qi? Where is Qi? Where is he? Where is he!?" Her strength was so great that Li Feng's body was shaken several times.
Li Feng felt sad, his eyes were slightly red, and he said to Liu Ling: "Aunt Liu, don't worry, Mu Qi is still alive, he is still alive!"
"Alive!? Alive! Good, good, as long as I'm alive, as long as I'm alive!" Liu Ling shouted a few times, and suddenly her eyes rolled back and she fainted instantly.
Seeing this, Li Feng immediately understood that she was too weak, too hungry, and too emotionally unstable, and her body could not bear it. He pinched Liu Ling's philtrum and saw that she was slowly waking up. Then he took out a box of milk from the storage space, opened it, and slowly fed it to Liu Ling.
Liu Ling finished drinking the milk in a daze and fainted again.
Li Feng let out a long sigh and picked up Liu Ling. Only then did he realize that Aunt Liu's body was unusually light.
He closed his eyes and tried not to let the tears flow out. Then he took out a piece of bread, held it high and asked the people around him: "Whoever can find the residence of this woman will get this piece of bread."
