Su Qi's family ate most of their food. She wiped the bodies of the eldest and second children and changed them into clean clothes.
I took two pieces of candy and gave them to the two little ones, then I carried their dirty clothes and washed them in the rain.
The space was filled with soap nuts for washing clothes, similar in shape and color to those used in Dashun. She wasn't afraid that these unsophisticated people would figure out what she was doing.
After washing, I picked them up with branches and placed them at the entrance of the cave to dry. When I saw Gu Beijing washing wild vegetables, I realized that this girl had not changed her clothes.
Don’t you even have a change of clothes?
Su Qi grabbed a handful of melon seeds and squatted at the entrance of the cave to eat them. She approached Gu Beijing and whispered:
"Why didn't you change your clothes?"
Gu Beijing glanced behind her in embarrassment, twirling the wild vegetable roots in her hands. "No one from my aunt's family is coming over, so it's not our turn to take what Mother has." She lowered her head, trying to hide her inner resentment and disappointment.
A child without a mother is worse than grass.
"I'll give you a set of old clothes that have been worn by others. If you dislike them, just pretend I didn't say anything." Su Qi had a lot of clothes in his space, but he was afraid that the new clothes would be snatched away if he took them.
It would be better to give Gu Beijing some old clothes.
Gu Beijing looked up in surprise, biting her lip and shaking her head.
"Second sister-in-law. No matter how old the clothes are now, they are good. They are not as good as the ones I wore in the general's mansion before. But at least they are better than my wet and dirty clothes." She had worn this set of clothes for more than ten days, and the smell had long been irritating to her nose.
Only when I was staying with my aunts in the middle of the night did I dare to take off my outer clothes and wash them.
The next day, I put on my clothes without waiting for them to dry. I was not afraid because the weather was hot. But now the weather is getting colder, and I am afraid that if I continue to wear them like this, I will not be able to withstand the cold.
"Wait a moment." Su Qi stood up and put the melon seeds into her purse.
She walked back and took out the backpack she had placed in the corner.
She took her clothes, put on a straw raincoat, opened an umbrella, and left the cave with Gu Beijing, going to a cave next door that could only accommodate two people.
"You can change your clothes here."
Gu Beijing bit her lip, feeling warm inside. She tried hard not to let the tears fall, as she didn't want others to see her cowardly side.
He bowed deeply to Su Qi, "Second sister-in-law. Thank you."
On the road to exile.
Everyone fought to the death for a steamed bun and a piece of coarse cloth.
Seeing how Su Qi refused to give in to her elders, they were both envious and afraid.
Unexpectedly, the person who extended a helping hand was the person they envied and feared.
"Live well." Su Qi couldn't take on too much responsibility to help, so he could only lend a hand to the best of his ability.
It's also because they are nice people.
Bad character.
She excluded all those who had taken advantage of her misfortune in her previous life.
"Yes. I will live well." Hope ignited in Gu Beijing's heart. She had yet to repay Su Qi's family. How could she not strive to survive? In the future, even as a maidservant in Jinyang Mansion, she would repay Su Qi's kindness.
After changing their clothes, they walked back into the cave.
Su Qi took out soap nuts to wash clothes for her. This time, she took the soap nuts collected from the room next to the kitchen in the villa of Duke Ru's Mansion.
He also gave Gu Beijing two pills to prevent colds.
After doing all this, he leaned against the stone to rest.
No one dared to borrow the official's pot. Now only Gu Beijing and Gu Beiyao were cooking wild vegetable soup, a pot full of wild vegetable soup.
The wind outside is getting stronger.
The rain poured down like the water of the Nujiang River.
The old yellow man, who was holding the water bag and sipping wine, showed an irritable expression for the first time. He shrank closer to the fire and kicked the monkey next to him impatiently.
"Monkey, pull the horse back into the cave. The rain is so damn heavy."
Old Huang felt uneasy and quickly asked the monkey to take care of the horse.
"Okay. Dashan, come with me, and the two of us will guard the horse." The monkey pulled out a stick from the stove and poured some kerosene on it.
Dashan, who was leaning against the cave with his eyes closed, opened his eyes, took his straw raincoat and his sword without saying a word, and followed the monkey out.
The officials did not dare to put out the fire.
When camping outdoors in the mountains, the thing you fear most is wild beasts.
A fire can scare away many wild animals.
He assigned two young men from the Gu family to take turns guarding the fire and gave them half a steamed bun as a reward.
Gu Xiuming and Gu Da from the side branch were the first to raise their hands, and the two lucrative jobs fell on them.
Midnight.
The terrible howling of wolves could be heard in the distance.
Su Qi was awakened from her sleep. Gu Beiheng held her in his arms, tightened his arms and rested his chin on her head.
The sounds of rain and wind outside entangled with each other, roaring one after another.
Like a voice from the underworld.
Many people in the cave were awakened by the brutal roar of the wild beast, and listened anxiously to the furious sounds outside in the dark night.
This road of exile is not easy.
You never know when you might lose your life and become a lonely ghost in the wilderness.
The bearded man and Yao Wu and Yao Liu leaned against the cave wall, their dark eyes sweeping over everyone in the cave, finally landing on Gu Beiheng.
Gu Beiheng closed his eyes and pushed his treasured water bag to the bearded man with one hand.
Inside was the Shaodaozi liquor that Su Qi had stolen from the other courtyard. This liquor was spicy and irritating to the throat.
People of status in the capital don't like it, but people like the bearded man like it, better than pear blossoms and a thousand days of drunkenness.
The bearded man took it and took a sip, and the hot wine slid down his throat.
My whole body feels warm.
Several officers began to drink the wine from the water skins.
The next day dawned.
The rain still didn't stop.
We can't leave now. Old Huang has a toothache. It's rare to see rain like this in autumn. This weather is fucking weird.
If they arrive at Jinyang Prefecture later than scheduled, I'm afraid they will all be punished.
"Big Beard, Yao Wu and Yao Liu. Should we postpone for another day or hurry on our way?" Old Huang wanted to hear confirmation from someone else.
Although it's dawn.
But there is not much difference between this day and this night.
I'm afraid that if I get to the forest, I'll just be fed to wild beasts.
And the rain is no less than yesterday.
From time to time, lightning roared down from overhead.
Su Qi's heart tightened. She didn't want to be struck to death by lightning.
When there is thunder and lightning, these people are walking in the mountains and forests. Aren't they asking for trouble?
"Yellow Head. I'm afraid we can't leave. Let's wait for a day. Let's go when the rain is lighter. These rubbish can die if they die. I haven't even married a wife yet." There was no expression on the dark face of the bearded man.
What he said made the officials feel itchy.
The Gu family is dead and that’s it.
It doesn't matter.
They don't want to die, and Old Huang is no exception.
He pondered for a moment, his cloudy eyes gazing at the misty forest. "Well, let's just wait a day."
An official had already come over and set up a pot to wash the rice and cook porridge. However, since there was no solid food, the porridge tasted bland and tasted like bird food.
The Gu family in the cave will not be able to receive the distributed steamed bread today.
You can only think of a solution yourself.
Su Qi and Gu Beiheng didn't cook any more porridge, but just boiled some water to drink. They shared a few persimmons and had to hide some of the food.
It's not good to be too high-profile. You can't let Gu Beiheng beat all the relatives inside to death.
Su Qi gave milk to Dabao and Erbao.
She took out two more red bean paste buns and asked the two little ones to lie on their sides and eat them. Dabao and Erbao knew Su Qi's actions very well.
From Su Qi's single movement, she knew they had to eat the buns secretly.
Aunt Liu drank some brown sugar water, ate a few persimmons, and Su Qi stuffed half a steamed bun into her hand.
Su Qi and Gu Beiheng didn't skimp on their food; they drank a lot of millet porridge. Gu Beiheng ate a few meat buns; the advantage of being in a corner was that he could eat in secret.
They were nearing the cave entrance again.
They were separated from the others by a distance, and the noses of the officials who were close to them had been completely wiped out by the smell of Gu Beiheng's burning knife.
The group stayed in the cave for another day and night.
By the morning of the third day, the heavy rain turned into a drizzle.
The air was filled with a foul smell.
Everyone knew that they had to leave, otherwise they would starve to death in the mountains.
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