Qiu Chibao clutched the child in her arms, gulping down saliva over and over, her eyes filled with longing as she stared at the red-robed Taoist gnawing on dry rations. Her voice nearly pleading: "Have mercy, master, could you give me a little to eat? I haven't eaten in three days, I'm starving."
Watching the pitiful woman beside him, Li Huowang pulled another mantou from his coat. When he saw it was completely soaked through with blood, turning into a bloody mantou, he tossed it aside without a second thought.
Qiu Chibao's eyes instantly lit up, and, like a ravenous beast, she lunged for it, trying desperately to grab that bloody mantou and shove it into her mouth.
But her efforts were all in vain. The bloody mantou on the ground passed through her palms again and again, she just couldn't pick it up.
