Chapter 29 Do You Want to Become My Lover?

An old lady, who was soaked all over and had an old face, knelt in front of the officials, kowtowed to them continuously, praying for something to eat.

A young and kind-hearted officer couldn't stand this scene, so he took out a piece of dry food from his pocket and prepared to hand it to the old lady. However, before he could stretch out his hand, he was grabbed by Li Da.

The young officer looked up in surprise and saw Li Da glaring at him fiercely. He gritted his teeth and whispered, "Idiot, you want to kill us. Put the things away quickly, or you won't be able to eat on the way!"

The young officer was frightened by his behavior and quickly put the dry food back into his sleeve pocket.

Li Da looked at the people coldly. It was not that he had no compassion, but there were so many victims. If they took out their things and had bad intentions, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"We have hundreds of mouths waiting to be fed. We don't have any food for ourselves, so how can we give it to you? If you still have the strength, hurry to Yunshui City. The government will definitely open the city gates and set up porridge stalls to accommodate you."

After Li Da finished shouting, he quickly asked the officers to move all the things in the car into the car, and then he followed them into the lobby and closed the dilapidated door.

Su Ying took in the whole scene. They couldn't leave here in a short period of time, but more and more disaster victims would come here, and something would happen sooner or later.

The cloudy night came especially quickly. At night, Su Ying took out the pancakes and dried tiger meat she had bought in the county town from her bag and shared them with everyone.

At night, Su Ying planned to take turns with Jiang Yang to guard just in case.

Su Ying hummed a melodious tune softly and coaxed Erbao to sleep. She turned around and saw Dabao looking at her with his big eyes. After meeting her gaze, he immediately looked away.

Dabao rested his little head on Xiao Jin's shoulder, and glanced in the direction of Su Ying out of the corner of his eye.

"Daddy."

"Hmm?" Xiao Jin responded indifferently.

"Daddy, Ji'er won't like that bad woman." After saying that, he clenched his fist as if to make a promise. Stupid Ling'er, you actually let the bad woman hold you while sleeping, aren't you afraid of being eaten by the bad woman! Humph!

Xiao Jin was silent for a long while before he said, "If you don't like her, then don't like her." If Su Ying had the ability, Ji'er would naturally accept her, "But, she did save Daddy, and she also saved you."

Dabao opened his eyes wide, "Then, then Daddy, should we pledge ourselves to you?"

Xiao Jin: “…”

Jiang Yang listened at the side and turned his face away silently. He promised that next time he would never tell random stories to the young master and the others. The stories in those vernacular books were really true. Something about someone saving one's life should be repaid with one's own body was just a random memory he made and the young master kept it in mind.

At night, Su Ying sat cross-legged against the wall, her sharp gaze in the darkness sweeping over the prisoners lying in all directions.

It was raining again outside, and the raindrops were so big that the only sound was the fine rain.

Su Ying took a deep breath and sank the breath into her dantian. Just as she was preparing to practice Qigong, Xiao Jin's low voice suddenly came to her ears, "Some people are coming this way. There are quite a few people. It's a large group."

Su Ying raised her eyes and looked at him. She listened carefully and indeed heard the sound of footsteps mixed in with the sound of rain.

Su Ying suddenly became alert.

After a while, the sound of the door of the dilapidated temple being pushed open was heard outside. Through the broken windows, in the faint moonlight, one could see many people walking into the yard.

Su Ying stood up and walked to the window to look out. Those people were all wearing straw raincoats, and their faces were covered by wide hats, so it was impossible to see their appearance clearly.

After those people entered the yard, they glanced at Su Ying's carriage parked outside, and greed flashed across their eyes. However, when they saw that there were officials guarding outside the main hall gate, they did not approach, but went behind the ruined temple.

The guarding officers let out a sigh of relief when they saw those people going to the backyard. These people looked a little different from the ordinary people fleeing the disaster. If they wanted to steal dry food, all these officers combined might not be their match.

As for the prisoners, no one cares whether they live or die.

Su Ying leaned against the window until she took over shifts with Jiang Yang, and the newcomers didn't make any movement.

When Su Ying opened her eyes again, it was already light outside, but the rain was still falling, with no sign of stopping.

"Boss, there are more and more disaster victims coming here outside. Yunshui City didn't open the city gates today. They must be worried that the disaster victims entering the city will cause unrest, so they simply closed the city gates." Early in the morning, the official who went to investigate the situation came back.

After hearing what he said, Li Da's face turned even uglier.

Originally, he was thinking about whether he could go into the city and ask the officials of Yunshui City for help in finding a solution. But now it seems that they are in a difficult situation themselves, so how can they have the time to care about them?

"How long can our dry food last?"

"Two days at most." For hundreds of mouths, even if they only had one meal a day and each meal contained only a fist-sized amount of dry food, it would still be a huge number when added together. Even their broken little car could only carry five days' worth of dry food at most.

Two days at most, which means they will have nothing to eat after two days. This is the situation in Yunshui City now. The people at the supply point may not have dry food to give them. According to regulations, they can only be supplied once at each place, no more.

"What about the boat to cross the river? Haven't you found it yet?"

"With such heavy water, the official ships have all been driven away by those bastards from the county government. There are no ships left for us."

It was not a good idea to leave, nor was it a good idea to stay. Li Da was in a dilemma.

Li Da subconsciously looked up at Su Ying, but soon he felt like he was crazy. He actually thought that Su Ying might have an idea!

Behind the ruined temple, in an empty hall, dozens of big men were sitting cross-legged on the ground. The leader was looking at the few dry food on the ground, and the scar on his face looked even more hideous.

Not long after, the door of the side hall was pushed open, and a man with shifty eyes walked in.

"Boss, I have heard everything. Those people in front are the team escorting the exiled prisoners. They have food!"

"I see that the hall is full of people. If a fight really breaks out, we may not be able to defeat the larger force with a smaller one." A big man spoke in a muffled voice.

"Hey, you still don't believe me when I say you're stupid. Those people are all going to get out of Chu State and go to the Northern Wilderness. Do they care about the lives of those officials? As long as we encourage them to escape when we take action, they will thank us. Why would they turn around and fight us?"

"Tietou is right. Our dry food is almost gone. With so many people, they must have a lot of dry food. They will grab it no matter what!"

Tietou looked at the big man in the lead, "Boss, what do you think?"

The scarred man's eyes narrowed, "Fuck!"

(End of this chapter)