"Eat!" Xu Jie reached out and patted Qian Ran's head.
Qian Ran glanced back at his mother. Only after receiving her approval did he pick up the lunchbox and begin eating.
Xu Jie and Dugu Lu sat beside them, quietly watching Qian Qin and her son eat. Looking at little Qian Ran nearby, Xu Jie could not help sighing inwardly.
Alas!
If he and Huo Yuhao had suffered as children, it was still nothing compared to Qian Ran.
At least they had been able to fill their stomachs when they were young. Qian Ran was clearly malnourished. A child of four or five was not even ninety centimeters tall yet, while children that age should normally have been over a meter tall.
Shrek City was strange, too. With the continent's number one Shrek Academy right beside it, soul masters in Shrek City were practically worthless.
Throw a brick into a crowd, and nine out of ten people it hit would be soul masters with Soul Power.
Not to mention that the boy had a gambling-addict father.
But things were better now. His father was gone, and Dugu Lu had helped find his mother a job. With the prestige of Young Master Dugu Lu behind her, even though she was only sweeping floors at a merchant association, she earned three Gold Soul Coins a month, with food and lodging included.
Otherwise, were they supposed to live off the soul master subsidy from the Three Great Empires, which ordinary people could not receive?
Speaking of that damned soul master subsidy, Xu Jie got fucking angry. The sun had not been too harsh that day, the sky had been cloudless, and the weather had been perfect. Xu Jie had happily brought Huo Yuhao and their identification documents to the city's soul master subsidy