The little child stared absentmindedly at the Red Headband, then looked up, her gaze dazed as she glanced at her mother and then at her younger brother. She seemed to understand something.
The other girl who escaped with her met with an accident last night.
It was the reason their mother took her and her brother away—because if their mother hadn't, they wouldn't have survived.
The words "Now everyone is very hungry, we are too small, we cannot follow them." originally meant this.
If too small, would they be at others' mercy?
Little Taotie raised her hand lightly: "I."
Her mother quickly pushed down her hand, desperately shaking her head: "No!"
Becoming a maid meant being enslaved.
This lifetime would be ruined!
"Taotao, you must not; your father bravely fought enemies on the battlefield, earning military merits, to change our family's fate, to fight for a future. You cannot become a maid!"
