Chapter 28 Childish

At night, the team rested outside the city gate.

In the evening, Su Ying took out the bought sesame cakes from her bag and asked everyone to eat them with water. Another person took a piece of dried tiger meat. Everyone was injured today. They hadn't slept well since Xiao Jin and Su Ying fell off the cliff. Now that they were back safely, they could finally take a good nap.

But in the middle of the night, it started raining again.

Su Ying, who was leaning against the carriage, opened her eyes and saw someone walking towards her in the dark rain.

Because of the rain, the team members woke up one after another.

"Hey, look over there, why are there so many people coming over here?" A prisoner pointed in the direction of the official road outside the city gate.

When the others heard his voice, they all looked towards the official road, and indeed saw a large group of people walking towards them.

In the darkness of the night, those black figures gradually appeared in the grayish-white moonlight.

They looked pale and haggard, and came to the city gate like zombies. Seeing that the city gate was not open yet, they found a place to sit on the ground. They looked even more miserable than the exiled prisoners.

Su Ying stood up and frowned as she looked at those people.

Because those people made quite a lot of noise, many people in the team were awakened.

"They are people fleeing famine." He Shouyi looked at those people and spoke. As he spoke, he had already come to the side of the carriage and his expression became alert.

Su Ying thought about it and said, "I'll go and ask what's going on."

She walked among the people and stopped an old man who was walking towards the city gate. The old man stared at her warily without saying a word.

Su Ying took out a piece of dry food from her pocket and quickly stuffed it into the old man's hand and whispered, "Uncle, what's going on with you? Why are you all coming to Yunshui City so late at night?"

The old man took a look at the dry food in his hand, hid it quickly and said, "There was a flood in our area, and we fled from the village. It rained heavily for several days, and the dam upstream of the Wujiang River has cracked. Our village was submerged, and we had to go north." After saying that, the old man no longer paid attention to Su Ying, and found a place closest to the city gate to sit down, so that he could be the first to get in when the city gate opened in the morning.

Su Ying returned to the carriage. At this time, everyone had woken up except the three children who were sleeping soundly in the carriage.

Su Ying told them what the old man said.

Xiao Jin's face darkened. "Crossing the Wujiang River is the only way to get to the Northern Wilderness."

He Shouyi's face also looked grim. "If the dam upstream of the Wujiang River collapses, we may not be able to get across."

According to the itinerary, they had to cross the Wujiang River first, arrive at Yuecheng, and then head northwest.

But if they couldn't cross the Wujiang River, their way would be blocked and they would have no way to go around it.

This realization made several people silent. If they couldn't leave, where could their team of several hundred people go? After the disaster, there might be another disaster. Could they escape?

The thought of this makes my scalp tingle.

The arrival of the disaster victims cast an even heavier atmosphere over the originally silent team.

The officers also sensed that something was wrong, and immediately selected a few relatively strong prisoners and asked them to guard the supply cart. They also had the cart pulled to the side of Su Ying's carriage and ride alongside it.

Li Da had encountered such a situation once before. These disaster victims who were homeless and had nothing to eat would not care whether you were a member of the imperial court or not if they really got angry. They would eat you if you had nothing to eat!

Seeing more and more victims, Li Da immediately ordered his men to form a team and prepare to set off and stay away from these people.

But as we walked along the way, we could always see a steady stream of disaster victims heading towards Yunshui City. They all wanted to enter the city to escape the disaster, but there were too many people, and the government officials would not let them in in order to ensure the safety of the people in the city.

"ah!"

Zhang Cuiniang suddenly screamed, and Su Ying looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a corpse that had been soaked by rain not far from the team.

Su Ying frowned and told Zhang Cuiniang not to look around and just focus on the road ahead.

At this time, the official who was walking in front to explore the way came over on horseback, ran to Li Da and quickly jumped off the horse, "Boss, the wharf for crossing the Wujiang River is flooded, it would be a wasted trip for us to go there now."

Li Da spat, "This year is really bad luck. I have encountered all the good jobs."

The dock is flooded, so there is no point in crossing the river. But now it is raining heavily, so where can they find a place to stay?

"Boss, let's go back. There is an abandoned temple outside Yunshui City. It's big there." An official suggested.

Since they couldn't cross the river, and it was impossible to let everyone follow them in the rain, they could only find a place to stay. Li Da nodded and led his men back to the direction of the ruined temple.

However, they were not the only ones who thought of resting in the dilapidated temple. When they arrived at the temple, many refugees were already staying there.

When the victims saw so many people coming in all of a sudden, they stared at them warily.

In order to facilitate management, Li Da asked the officials to place the victims in the side hall nearby, and the prisoners in the team were concentrated in the main hall, which could accommodate hundreds of people at the same time.

Su Ying drove the carriage to the yard and stopped. She took Dabao, Erbao and the others down from the carriage and also took down the things on the carriage.

Jiang Yang took Xiao Jin and chose a relatively secluded and inconspicuous place to land.

When Su Ying walked in carrying the two little babies, she smelled a foul odor that made her eyes swell.

Although the hall was large enough, it was packed with hundreds of people.

Su Ying put the two children down and said, "There are too many disaster victims outside, so let's eat simply these days." What she meant was that we shouldn't light a fire and cook for the next few days to avoid attracting attention.

Su Ying's idea was always agreed by everyone.

Su Ying took out some medicine from her pocket and handed it to Dabao, "Ji'er, come here, this is the medicine you need to take today. Although your injuries have improved a lot, they are not healed yet. You need to continue taking the medicine until you are better."

Dabao looked at her with a pair of eyes that were exactly the same as Xiao Jin's. He thought Su Ying was a bad guy, but this bad guy saved him. Now Dabao's mood was very complicated. He wanted to continue to hate Su Ying, but he felt that this was not right.

As a result, the little face was almost wrinkled like a dehydrated cucumber.

Su Ying saw his tangled look and wanted to tease him, "If you don't take the medicine, your injury won't heal. If it doesn't heal, you can't protect your father and Ling'er. Aren't you afraid that they will be captured by bad guys?"

When Dabao heard her words, his eyes widened, "I will definitely protect Daddy and Ling'er! Humph!"

As he said that, he grabbed the medicine Su Ying gave him, opened his little mouth and swallowed it in one gulp.

"Ugh!" After the sugar coating of the pill melted, it was so bitter that the little baby's brows were twisted into a frown.

"Hahahaha." Su Ying was amused by his cute appearance and laughed out loud.

Dabao was in a bad mood and turned around and snuggled into Xiao Jin's arms.

Xiao Jin glanced at Su Ying coldly, "Childish."

Su Ying kept her smile on her face and raised her eyebrows provocatively, "That's also for the child."

Xiao Jin took the water bag and fed Dabao water without even giving her an eye.

Su Ying raised her lips in amusement. The father and son were really alike. Of course, Dabao was still much cuter than Xiao Jin.

"Sir, please give us something to eat. We haven't eaten for three days."

"Get out of here, there is no dry food here, get out of here."

Su Ying turned around and saw that the police officer was stopped outside the door by a group of disaster victims.

(End of this chapter)