Author: Yueting A Cup of Wine

"What's the problem?" Lu Yanyan was confused and looked at Sanmei and Hua Fu. Sanmei's expression did not fluctuate much, as if she was talking about a trivial matter, but Hua Fu's face was pale and his brows were furrowed.

Standing, in a trance.

The expressions of the two were so different that Lu Yanyan couldn't figure out what happened, so he had to follow them obediently. He walked through the felt blanket hanging at the door and walked into the first year's room.

As soon as he lifted up the felt blanket, a strong smell of baby's odor hit his face. Lu Yanyan couldn't help but hold his breath. After getting used to the dim light in the room, he finally saw the furnishings of the first-year room clearly.

There were not beds placed here as he imagined, but many layers of bamboo frames stacked together, the highest almost reaching the roof. There were only narrow gaps between the bamboo frames, so narrow that the mother's body could not even reach it after birth.

One-year-old babies could only kneel and crawl around in the gaps. The babies were hidden in the darkness of the bamboo frame, and Lu Yanyan could not see their number clearly.

There is a semicircular open pipe at the outermost edge of each bed, and the right end is connected to a fully sealed vertical pipe and a strange drainer. Just place the wooden bucket filled with rice cereal under the vertical pipe, and then pull the drain

The drainer will take the rice cereal and send it into the pipes on different levels for the babies to eat.

Apart from the wooden frame and pipes, there was only a wooden ladder leaning against the wall, a bucket and a brush in the whole room. These three items were used to check the children on each floor and clean the pipes of food residue.

Everything seemed normal. Lu Yanyan looked down at his third sister in confusion: "What happened?"

The third sister stepped forward and stood on tiptoes beside the pipe. After groping in the darkness for a while, she seemed to catch something and pulled it out. It was a baby that looked to be five or six months old.

At this time, even if Sanmei and Hua Fu didn't reply, Lu Yanyan immediately realized that something was wrong. When the baby was dragged out by Sanmei, he made no move to resist. Lu Yanyan stepped forward and grabbed the baby.

He couldn't feel any pulse in his arm. He was dead.

Only then did the third sister speak: "Just now, the fourth sister and I came to check their situation, and it turned out that three babies died on this floor alone. We set up a ladder and checked the three floors, and there were three or four babies on each floor.

.The number of dead is much higher than usual. There are still a few floors above that I haven’t seen yet.”

"The second-year apartment is the same. After Hua Fu saw it, he was anxious to find you."

Hua Fu also calmed down and nodded vigorously: "The third sister said that they might have been infected by the epidemic or frozen to death, but I don't think so. They look like they starved to death."

After careful inspection, Lu Yanyan did not find any traces of disease or purple bruises from the cold on the baby. It was most likely that he had starved to death. But in the past, babies also starved to death every day because there was only so much food in the pipes.

, only a certain number of babies can grab food every day, which is also a permissible means of elimination.

"But there are too many dead today!" Hua Fu said anxiously, "I asked the third sister, and the third sister said that in the past, it was about one every few days, because no matter how bad the children were, they could always get a few mouthfuls of food in two days."

The third sister nodded silently and said that what Hua Fu said was right.

Lu Yanyan was not an ignorant fool. He immediately reacted: "Are you saying that there was less rice cereal distributed to them today? Impossible. I saw it with my own eyes. What was packed into buckets and sent to these two rooms was indeed half the amount.

.unless……"

Lu Yanyan's eyes fell on the thick felt blanket covering the doorway. After the children brought the buckets of rice cereal into the room, he really couldn't see what they were doing inside.

However, this is food for these younger brothers and sisters who cannot even speak. Lu Yanyan took a step forward and carefully rubbed the bottom of the pipe with his fingers. There was only a shallow layer of rough particles on the inside of the pipe that had not yet been cleaned.

feel.

Lu Yanyan put away his hands from the pipe and pursed his lips. Is it because he didn't supervise them?

Seemingly reading Lu Yanyan's thoughts, Third Sister dragged out several dead babies and said, "It's Xiaowu and the others who were too arrogant and ate too much. In the past, the boss only dared to eat some pipes when he looked at them.

The residue left in it, now I’m too greedy.”

Hua Fu added from the side: "Just now, Xiao Wu, Xiao Jiu and Fourteen wanted to come over to clean the pipes, but I stopped them from coming in. The pipes next door should have been cleaned."

Seeing each child lifeless, being dragged out by Third Sister as if handling debris and thrown on the ground. There was not even a sound of heavy objects hitting the ground, but a soft "thunk" sound. Lu Yanyan couldn't help but clenched his fists.

A burst of anger rose to the top of his head.

It was his fault, he shouldn't have let himself be so indulged in not fulfilling his duty as a supervisory brother, which led to the deaths of his younger brothers and sisters.

"Where are Xiaowu and the others now?" Lu Yanyan asked suppressing his anger.

"It's in the second-year room next door." Third sister replied casually, suddenly remembering something, she turned around and felt a little happy, "Does this count as reporting three people?"

Lu Yanyan couldn't answer her. He rushed out of the first-year room, turned around and knocked open the carpet at the door of the second-year room, startling the three people who were squatting on the ground talking quietly about something.

"Big brother." After looking at each other for a while, Yiwu, the oldest of the three, stood up first, with a timid and probing expression on his face, "What's wrong?"

"Snapped!"

Lu Yanyan slapped Yi Wu directly on the face and yelled in a low voice: "What's wrong? See for yourselves!"

He grasped it with his palm, lifted Yi Wu to the edge of the pipe, and pressed it down, just facing the sole of a baby's foot.

The little foot was motionless, and its pale skin was tinged with cyan. At this time, most babies were awake because of hunger, so it was obvious that he was dead.

"How much rice cereal have you eaten today? Look at how many people have starved to death just because of your greed!"

Yi Wu was frightened by Lu Yanyan's momentum. He defended with erratic eyes: "Brother, we didn't eat secretly. Starving to death is common... ugh!"

Lu Yanyan slapped him condescendingly, and Yi Wu stopped arguing. Lu Yanyan looked like a real big brother at this moment, and he said coldly: "I didn't want to hand you over to my father's body."

"Wait, big brother!" Yi Wu and the others panicked, but Lu Yanyan hated his carelessness before. The three of them were quite thin, and Lu Yanyan was able to drag them three at a time, directly to the door of his father's body.

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The third sister came over at some point and stood in the shadows looking over. Lu Yanyan noticed the gaze of the third sister and looked at the three faces on the ground crying desperately but not daring to make a sound. He recalled those who died.

baby, take a deep breath.

It was he who did not abide by the rules of this yard. If the punishment fell on himself, he would have brought it upon himself, but his carelessness led to the death of his younger brothers and sisters.

Now that he has become the boss, he must take on corresponding responsibilities.

"Master Father!"

Lu Yanyan, no, Boss Yi shouted into his father's room, and the three people on the ground looked desperate.

Third update~Lu Yanyan is integrated into the story~
Chapter completed!