What the baker had done in his eyes were vent his anger on another 'deserving' poor child. However, what he was truly doing was finding an innocent target he could abuse. He knew and she knew that no one would come after him later to question his actions. With that logic, his rationale became - 'since no one cared about these children, doing these sort of things was fine no?'
He did not know that at this time, what he had done was push a child into darkness and sealed his fate till the end. For Ying Yue, she was already physically tired and was just resting before she began her search again. Her method of finding resources was idealistic and although long, never brought harm to others. She never begged nor did she ever rob another child's food, she did her own thing and ate what she could.
