Senior Brother!

The child's face was the color of gold paper, her breathing faint and shallow, on the verge of vanishing altogether.

Pan Yun gently lifted her out. "She's starving!"

Tao Yanbai immediately pulled a medicine bottle from his sleeve. After opening it, he pried open the child's mouth and dripped a drop of medicinal liquid inside.

Pan Yun also took out the ginseng rootlet she had bitten into, snapped off a piece, and put it in the child's mouth.

Pan Yun picked her up. The child was light as a feather; beneath her clothes, there was nothing left but bones.

After feeling her pulse, Miao He thought of Fenshui Village, where not a single person remained, and could hardly believe it. "How could a single natural disaster have reduced Yushan County to this state?"

Pan Yun said gravely, "I'm afraid it wasn't just a natural disaster."

Pan Yun carried her into the courtyard so she could breathe the outside air, then drew spiritual energy around her and sent vital essence into her.

Tao Yanbai hurriedly ran outside. "I'll go buy some rice soup!"

That medicinal liquid replenished vital essence, and ginseng could restore qi and keep a life hanging by a thread, but it was still not enough.

When someone was starving to death, rice soup was the true treasure.

It could swiftly restore a person's vitality.

Cooking it fresh would take too long. It was better to buy some on the street.

The usually bustling streets of Yushan County were empty, with hardly anyone walking about.

Yet some shops were still open, and Tao Yanbai rushed into a restaurant.

The shopkeeper had just put on a smile when, before he could speak, Tao Yanbai immediately pulled out a handful of copper coins and asked, "Do you have rice soup? Thick