Tomb robber: Tuantuan, I am a national treasure!

On the other side, after sending Jinnian's Chenpi away, he carefully looked at the focus of Jinnian's sight just now - the woman.

He narrowed his eyes and glanced over with a cold gaze, focusing on the package on her chest. Even Chenpi thought there was a baby inside, very small, and seemed to have been born not long ago, which is why it was so completely wrapped up.

The woman's hair was messy like dead grass, her face was covered with dirt and tear marks, and her cracked lips opened and closed as she hummed a lullaby that had long been out of tune.

The swaddling clothes in her arms were stained with black cloth and gave off a faint stench.

Chenpi always felt something was wrong and stared at people with burning eyes.

Just when he thought that the baby was hungry and so small, the woman shrank back at his gaze, and the baby in her arms was exposed.

Even Chen Pi frowned when he saw the "baby" in the other's arms.

A corner of the black cloth was lifted, revealing the horrifying appearance of the baby that Jinnian was unable to see.

The child had obviously been dead for a long time. His skin had taken on a strange blue-black color, as if it had been eroded by darkness. Even his eye sockets were deeply sunken, and his eyeballs had long since shriveled up, leaving only two black eye sockets that seemed to be able to suck a person's soul into an endless abyss.

What was even more frightening was that his tiny face, which was not even the size of an adult's palm, was crawling with dense maggots. These disgusting worms twisted and crawled in the rotten flesh, constantly going in and out of the corners of his mouth and nostrils.

The small mouth was half open, revealing milk teeth that had not yet grown in. The gaps between the teeth were filled with wriggling maggots. The limbs were as thin as sticks, and the skin was cracked in many places, revealing the black and red muscles and white bones inside. There were still strands of rotten flesh hanging on the bones, which swayed slightly with the woman's movements.

But the woman was completely unaware of the horrifying sight. She gently shook her arms and looked tenderly at the dead baby in her arms, as if it was still the same cute little baby.

Sometimes she rubbed the child's forehead with her cheek, and sometimes she murmured to the child: "Be good, baby, don't cry, mommy is here." She completely ignored the atmosphere of despair around her and the fact that the child had already died.

Maybe her spirit had collapsed a long time ago, or maybe since the death of that little life, she had fallen into the illusory dream she had woven, clinging to this last "hope".

Perhaps it was famine or plague that took him away.

Perhaps from the moment he came into this world, all he experienced was the cruelty of the world. His mother, who loved him, was powerless to do anything and had to witness his death with her own eyes.

Chenpi looked down at people in silence, but at this moment he was a little glad that Jinnian didn't see it.

According to the other party's train of thought, he probably wanted to see the child just now? Maybe, in his little brain, he had already silently arranged a place for the mother and child, a place for them to live.

In a trance, Chen Pi twisted his fingertips. If he had not been taken home by Jin Nian, would he have become a member of this stiff body now? Or would he have been struggling to survive somewhere?

"Chenpi! Chenpi!"

Chenpi came back to his senses and looked at Xiaodong who was calling him by his full name without any respect. For the first time ever, he didn't care.

"doing what?"

"Well, hurry up and count the number of people? Then we can tell the Second Master that the Young Master is still waiting outside!"

Chen Pi glanced at him and said, "I know."

"There are fifteen people in total, plus the little guys outside, sixteen in total. Here." Chenpi said as he threw a cloth bag to Xiaodong.

"What's this?"

When Xiaodong opened it, he found some silver inside.

"Take this money and rent a yard near the city gate and keep them there temporarily."

"Ah? Send them all?"

"What else? If I don't send them all, should I send them to your house?"

Xiaodong smacked his lips and said, "What about the kid too?"

"nonsense."

Xiaodong glanced outside and it was a bit far away so he couldn't see the young master anymore. He saw that the young master liked the child very much and probably wanted to take him home.

"Especially that kid." Chen Pi narrowed his eyes, "Send him along, and don't let Jinnian get too close to him."

Chenpi's eyesight was much better than Xiaodong's, and he immediately noticed Jinnian who was kneeling on the ground and coaxing the child.

He opened his mouth and spoke silently.

"dirty."