After entering the year, the amount of food each person consumed daily began to gradually decrease. By summer harvest, it was all gone. After autumn harvest until the end of the year, the crops were still growing in the fields. But the autumn harvest was reduced to nothing, leaving no follow-up, could anyone not go hungry?
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Every day in the hospital, there were babies born that the parents couldn't afford to keep and either abandoned or directly sold or given away. It was a common sight.
Ye Huan didn't expect that even the obstetrics department at their hospital saw several cases like this. People took back the adults after childbirth but left the babies.
The reason was simple: going back meant certain death. It was better to see if someone could adopt them, at least giving a chance for survival.
If they had known they would be giving birth during a famine, they certainly wouldn't have conceived.
