Bandits

"It's really the adults in their family who are to blame. Their children are out there alone, and they haven't even sent anyone out to look for them? Gosh, they sure are carefree!" The old woman said, picking up the selected vegetables and saying, " I'm going to cook. There's soup inside, just the thing to nourish the bodies of a few children." 

The next day, before dawn, several men were busy at the village entrance, piling bundles of firewood onto a donkey cart. Hao'er and the other two were watching from nearby, and one of the men laughed and said, "Village Chief, why do you want to go to the city with us? If there's something you want to buy, just let us know, and we can get it for you. You don't need to go back and forth like this."