It was probably because he had gone hungry for so long, or perhaps because he had eaten all sorts of things, such as wild vegetable roots, tree bark, and leaves, which had ruined his stomach.
"Keep an eye on things outside for me."
Su Qiao was no stranger to hardship. Back then, hadn't she spent a full ten years living in a cave deep in the mountains?
She lay down on the crude `bed` that could barely be called a bed and closed her eyes.
444 dutifully kept watch over the surroundings, preventing anyone from suddenly coming to disturb them.
*
This was an extremely chaotic plane, with more than a dozen countries, large and small.
Moreover, most of the countries were in a state of turmoil. They were either suffering internal strife or fighting external wars.
She was currently in a country called Zhao Kingdom.
The ruler of Zhao Kingdom was brutal in his punishments, extravagant and debauched, obsessed with wine and women, prone to listening to slander, and fond of harsh penalties and heavy taxes.
He ignored natural disasters, invented all sorts of pretexts to impose exorbitant taxes and levies, and made the people bear heavy burdens while offering them only light relief. When remonstrating officials submitted advice and urged him to change, they were instead repeatedly executed.
Li Bingyi's father died because of this, and the entire family was dragged down with him. The men were exiled thousands of miles away, while the women were made government courtesans.
His mother, concubine-mothers, and younger sisters all refused to endure the humiliation and killed themselves. The men, meanwhile, suffered one ordeal after another and died on the way to their exile.
Only Li Bingyi escaped that fate.
A drought and natural disaster had left the fields barren, yet the