Chapter 147: Isn’t the family god coming today?
After walking for a whole day, no one is not tired.
Tie Niu also felt tired. He was much more tired today than in the past few days, especially when he left the post station early in the morning. Because there were many government officials traveling on that road, the fugitives could not travel without shackles, and the officials in charge would be punished. So Tie Niu also felt tired when he set out in the morning.
Later, when they reached an uninhabited area, the adults wanted to move faster. After removing the shackles weighing twenty or thirty kilograms, he felt a lot lighter.
Among the group of more than one hundred convicts, he was the most inconspicuous one.
A person who is alone and without any ties, surrounded by a group of exiles who are organized into families, seems particularly miserable.
No matter how small your family is, there are at least one or two people you can talk to.
But he didn't.
He didn't even have anyone to talk to.
He doesn't need to speak either.
If the government gave him food, he would eat it. If the government didn't give him food, he would dig wild grass and eat raw fish for himself as long as he was allowed to move.
Living is not that difficult.
He has lived like this for many years.
He stayed in jail for more than half a year, and in the end he didn't know why he was exiled. He just had to bear whatever crime the officials sentenced him to. He had no choice but to follow the refugees fleeing famine into the capital, and he only snatched a bun from someone because he was starving.
The servants around the young master kicked him half to death in the street, and after he was thrown into prison, Tie Niu discovered that there was actually food in the prison in the capital?!
Although they were just scraps like pig food, they were enough to satisfy my hunger.
Tie Niu remembered his father's last words: "Niu, go to the capital. There are many nobles in the capital. If they give you some leftovers, you can still have enough to eat."
In the dark and damp prison, Tie Niu had seen many people angrily shouting at the jailers, "Let me out!"
Tie Niu never wants to go out!
There is no food outside.
One day the jailer came in and said, "Iron Ox, come out!"
He squatted in the corner, hesitating, and was finally dragged out by the jailer.
He saw that the jailer had taken the money, but it was of no use. Others tied his hands, put a shackle around his neck, and pushed him into the crowd. Only then did Tie Niu realize that he had been exiled.
Exiled to where?
He was so frightened that his face turned pale. He didn't know what exile meant, he only knew what fleeing from famine meant.
People can't survive outside.
Later, as they walked, Tie Niu's fear disappeared when the escorting officials had dinner on the first night.
On the way to exile, the officials will provide you with food!
Exile is great.
While others were cursing the heavens and the earth, Tie Niu, shackled, walked along, admiring the scenery along the way, wondering what the north was like. Others said that it would snow once they got outside the Great Wall.
Tieniu had seen snow before, the kind that was so fine and tiny that it disappeared before it even hit the ground.
What does snow look like in the north?
During the break, others were cursing, but Tie Niu was concentrating on eating and sleeping without distraction.
I have clothes to wear, even though they are tattered and have a big "PRISONER" word on them, but they can cover my body and keep me warm, which is better than being naked.
Tie Niu was like a quiet outlier among the crowd of prisoners, inconspicuous and ignored.
The amazing thing is that I am not often bullied by others.
Pang Jiming was not far from him. He had noticed this young convict several times, but had never heard him speak. With his dark skin and dull features, he looked like a drop of water falling into the sea among the crowd, disappearing in an instant.
He found that it was rare to find someone who could handle hardships as calmly as this little brother.
Pang Jiming was also tired. Liu Kan was talking nonsense in front of him with both kindness and force, but he just ignored it and didn't take it to heart.
After leaving the post station and heading north, the forest is denser than before.
The team walked and stopped, and Pang Jiming was good at terrain observation. Even though he didn't have paper and pen now, the road he walked from Jingwei to Qingzhou Prefecture and then further in, the mountains and rivers he saw were all unconsciously imprinted in his mind.
Because of Xie Zhen, Pang Jiming quietly and unintentionally became more aware of the Xie family's every move.
However, he no longer had any expectations for families like theirs.
The powerful will always be the powerful, even if they are exiled. The Xie family, the Chai family and others are different from the ordinary people like them.
"Husband, please eat, the soup will get cold soon." The wife reminded him.
Pang Jiming turned around and smiled at his wife, "Okay, okay, you and the child, eat quickly."
Pang Jiming and his wife have a son and a daughter. Both children have suffered with him. This is what Pang Jiming feels most guilty about. His daughter is already ten years old and is a little girl. She used to be clean and followed his wife to learn needlework and lived a carefree life. Now, his daughter has messy hair and a dirty little face as she eats voraciously, which makes Pang Jiming feel uncomfortable.
Break half of the pancake in your hand, divide it in half and place it in the two children's bowls.
"Don't worry, choke."
"Daddy, eat more." The children came back one after another.
Pang Jiming stopped him, "Dad is not hungry, you guys should eat more, it will help you grow."
Half a pancake could be eaten quickly. When most of the prisoners around had eaten and it was time for them to rest, Pang Jiming avoided others and quietly stuffed a few wild fruits into the hands of his wife and child.
"father!"
"Shh-"
Before the two children could exclaim, Pang Jiming shushed them and whispered in their ears, "I found it while walking through the forest."
Looking at the bright eyes of his children, Pang Jiming's eyes became hot.
The daughter held the pitted fruit in her hand, reluctant to eat it, and whispered, "Dad? Is this fruit edible?"
Pang Jiming gently touched his daughter's head. "Yes, there are pits on the fruit, which means it was gnawed by small animals or birds. We humans can eat such wild fruits."
He deliberately left a relatively intact fruit for his wife, "You have one too."
I don’t know if it was the subtle sound of the children chewing the fruit, or Tie Niu’s keen sense of smell, but Tie Niu, who was lying on his side to rest after eating, suddenly turned around and looked back following the fruit fragrance.
Pang Jiming was teased by his wife for a few times. When he looked up, he met Tie Niu's dark eyes in the dark dusk.
Pang Jiming was shocked!
His heart beat faster and blood rushed to his head. Pang Jiming didn't know what he was suddenly afraid of.
However, Tie Niu's reaction was beyond his expectations.
The other person just stared at him for a while, then looked at the two children behind him, without any reaction. There seemed to be an expression of sudden realization on his face, and then he turned around and continued to sleep.
"Husband?"
"Husband!"
Pang Jiming came back to his senses.
"What's wrong?"
Pang Jiming shook his head, "It's okay, go to bed early."
The wife didn't find out why her husband had such an unusual expression, but she didn't ask any more questions. She protected her two children and got some rest.
Pang Jiming came to his senses and cursed himself for being incompetent. Was he getting old or something?
After being an official for so many years, he was actually frightened by the calm eyes of a kid.
The last ray of sunlight in the sky faded away, and the night was coming.
Before long, people in the camp started to make fires to keep warm.
According to Xiong Jiushan's order, all the exiles will rest in the first half of the night and set out on a night journey at 3:30 am tomorrow.
After the Xie family had their meal, they all went to rest.
Xie Yuchuan peeled a candy and lay under the tree with his bag as a pillow.
It’s already very late. Isn’t the house god coming today?
Just as I was thinking, a familiar voice sounded in my ears: "Xie Yuchuan, don't think too much tonight, go to bed early, and I'll take you somewhere."
Xie Yuchuan's mind trembled, and he concentrated in his mind and said seriously:
"Xie Yuchuan: OK."
Lie on your side, close your eyes, and take a good rest to fall asleep.
In the villa on the other side, Tu Huan, who didn't read the small notes in the manual, finally collapsed on the sofa exhausted after wasting all the time on the transformation card.
"Phew—it's so exciting to be a jumping cat!"
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