"Hero! Please spare his life! I will agree to any demand you make today! I know I was wrong! I only beg you to spare my family. My crimes deserve death, but what have my family done?" Qin Yang wept, kowtowing on the ground to beg the young man to spare his relatives.
"Hahaha! Now you know you have a family? I, Wang Lang, had a family too, but unfortunately, she starved to death yesterday! Your family are human beings—is my seventy-year-old mother not human? At her advanced age, because you drove up grain prices, I couldn't afford food, and she was starved to death! To tell you the truth, I, Wang Lang, haven't eaten for days either, and I've been hanging on to this life with just water!"
The young man was under thirty, unmarried, and lived with his elderly mother as his only companion. His mother had starved to death yesterday.
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