Empress of Longsha

Chapter 17
After walking intermittently all morning, Fu Yu sat down on a weeping willow in a river, opened the bundle and tossed it for a while, but found that there was no dry food, and the copper coins she had saved were only three pennies.She looked down at the three Wen coins, and hesitated in her heart whether to buy a steamed stuffed bun.Suddenly, a small black hand stretched out in front of her concubine: "Miss sister, please do me a favor, give me a few pennies, we are about to starve to death!"

Fu Yu raised her head, and found three ragged children kneeling in front of her at some point, all of whom seemed to be younger than her, and there was a little girl among them.

"I only have these three copper coins, and I gave them to you, what should I do? And I have to go a long way!" Fu Yu looked at the only three copper coins in her hand, and said to the three children.It's not that my sister doesn't help you, but I'm almost starving to death!
"Miss sister, can you give us a penny? Just a penny?" One of the older boys in brown clothes crawled to Fu Yu's feet and begged.

"One penny?" Fu Yu thought for a while, picked out a penny from her hand and handed it to the little boy in brown clothes, and said, "But, you can't buy a bun with this one! Or, like this, you come with me—" After finishing speaking, Fu Yu took the three children outside a steamed stuffed bun shop.

"Boss, bring me three buns!" Fu Yu tiptoed to the bun shop owner.

"You don't have enough money!" The bun shop owner looked at the three Wen coins in Fu Yu's hand and said.

"Boss, look at my brothers and sisters are so hungry, please give me one more!" Fu Yu begged the owner of the steamed stuffed bun shop.

"All right, all right, take it!" The owner of the steamed stuffed bun shop looked at Fu Yu and the other four children, and felt pity in his heart. He filled three buns with lotus leaves and handed them to Fu Yun.

"Thank you boss!" Fu Yu bowed gratefully to the owner of the bun shop, and led the other three children back to the weeping willow.

Fu Yu picked out a bun from the lotus leaf bag, and handed the rest to the little boy, saying, "Here you are!"

The little boy took the lotus leaf bag carefully, knelt down on the ground with a "plop", kowtowed three times to Fu Yu, and then hurried away with his younger siblings.

Fu Yu looked at the big white and fat bun in her hand, couldn't help sighing, and then filled the only bun into her stomach in small mouthfuls.After eating, Fu Yu patted her belly and cheered herself up: "Come on! No matter how hard it is, I will go to Mount Qiqi to get Zi Jue back!"

Fu Yu walked along the river for a long time, and finally saw a blue-tiled compound next to the covered bridge at the end of the river.Fu Yu originally wanted to ask for directions, but when she thought of the lesson from Cuiping Town, she became timid: What if I meet a bad guy like Brother Xiang again?Forget it, I'll find my own way!However, just as she was about to move away, Fu Yu hesitated again: If I hadn't asked for directions, the direction I was walking would have gone further and further away from Simon's Wonderland, and I wouldn't have been wronged!
Fu Yu hesitated for a moment, but still felt that she should knock on the door to ask for directions.So, she raised her hand and knocked on the courtyard door——

"Bang bang!!!" The courtyard door was suddenly knocked open.

Seeing this, Fu Yu hurriedly avoided to avoid being hit by the suddenly opened and closed courtyard door.

"What's going on?" Fu Yu muttered.She looked towards the door, and saw a group of people chasing and chasing a little girl out of the yard, making a lot of noise, as if something happened.The little girl was inattentive, tripped over the hollow under her feet, and fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)