Chapter 140: No Negotiation "Mother will never abandon Honghui...
"Mother will never abandon Honghui." Qi Buchen comforted his son and noticed that the shaking was gradually getting lighter.
After waiting for a while, the shaking completely stopped. Although the restaurant showed no signs of collapse, Qi Buchen still made a quick decision and said, "Let's go! To the street!"
Baozhu and the others were relatively calm. After all, they had experienced this before. When they heard the order, they immediately got out of the table and reached out to take Honghui: "Fujin, please give the prince to us."
"No need!" Qi Buchen carried Honghui out, bent down and held him tightly in his arms. "Don't delay, let's go!"
She bent down, with Qi Qiao and others protecting her in front and behind, and rushed straight out. She didn't care about her manners at this moment, and ran as fast as she could.
Just as they were getting down the stairs, the ground started shaking again. Qi Buchen said in a deep voice, "Don't stop! Speed up!"
Fortunately, the stairs were not far from the door, and the group ran out in a few breaths. The street was in chaos, with people everywhere hurriedly hiding. Qi Buchen looked around quickly and said, "Go to the middle of the road, towards the palace!"
The road becomes wider as you get closer to the palace, with fewer buildings and fewer people, making it safer.
But the journey was not smooth. This was a relatively prosperous street in Texas, with a lot of people. Most people were not as calm as Qi Buchen and his group. They just covered their heads and ran around. Qi Buchen couldn't push everyone away like a bully, so he could only try his best to avoid them.
"boom!"
"ah!"
It was a sound coming from behind. Qi Buchen turned around reflexively to look. It was a garment store. It was estimated that the beams on the first floor were broken and the entire second floor collapsed. Many people who were nearby were hit by the flying wood. I don't know if there are people buried inside.
Qi Buchen is now focused on protecting his son and has not considered the possibility of saving others.
"Get out of the way!" Several tall and strong men rushed towards them, pushing away whoever they met. Many people were pushed to the ground and stepped on by the people behind them who were not in a hurry to hide.
Qi Buchen's face darkened: "Qi Qiao! Take some people and go with the two guards to take care of them."
It wasn't that she had to meddle in other people's affairs right now, but these people were about to rush over to them. If she didn't deal with them first, she would be the one in trouble. After all, she only brought two guards with her, and only Qi Qiao and a few others had any skills. How could the rest of them, who had barely done any heavy work, stand up to those people?
Qi Qiao and two guards went to meet a few men, but they only relied on their strong bodies. How could they defeat those who had received proper training? They were kicked aside in no time and lay on the ground groaning.
No one cared about the surroundings at all. In fact, because Qi Qiao and the others showed off their skills, people on the street quietly avoided Qi Buchen and his group, which made their progress much smoother.
Finally walking out of the most crowded street, Qi Buchen breathed a sigh of relief. Although a few houses collapsed on the road, the number was not large, which meant that the magnitude of the earthquake was not so large that it was irresistible. Moreover, although there were continuous aftershocks along the way, the intervals between them were getting longer and the shaking was getting smaller. This earthquake was probably about to end.
Qi Buchen did not relax because of the speculation, and continued tensely: "Li Xing, go find a carriage. If you find one that can go, go towards the palace. If it can't go, find a safe place to stay. Don't come to us."
Li Xing walked swiftly, and Qi Buchen did not stop: "Let's go too." She did not plan to take a carriage. With the shaking situation, it would be safer to walk than to take a carriage.
With fewer people around, Qi Buchen finally had time to care for her son. She patted Honghui, who was hugging her tightly, and said, "Honghui, is there any pain anywhere?"
Honghui still buried his face tightly in her arms, his voice muffled: "No, mother, is hide-and-seek over?"
Qi Buchen couldn't help but smile and said, "No, Honghui, continue to hide and don't make any noise."
Feeling the person in her arms nod, she suppressed her smile and continued on her way.
It was another new wave of aftershocks. Qi Buchen had become accustomed to this kind of shaking and continued to move forward at the same speed.
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"
They were walking to a crossroads when anxious and hurried voices suddenly came from the left. Qi Buchen looked in the direction of the sound, her pupils shrank, and in her eyes, the carriage was getting bigger and bigger.
"Fujin!"
"careful!"
Qi Buchen wanted to dodge, but her reaction was no match for the frightened and crazy horse. She could only watch the carriage rushing towards her.
Fortunately, there were Qiqiao and others. When she was about to be bumped, Qiqiao finally pushed her to the side.
Qi Buchen remained calm and rolled a few times on the ground, away from the frightened carriage. Although he had scrapes and bruises on his body, it was better than being hit by the carriage.
The others were not so lucky. They were either knocked or thrown over and fell to the ground, unable to get up. The most unlucky one was Ruixiang, who was hit head-on. She was lying on the ground without making a sound and no one knew whether she was dead or alive.
"Wow, mom, wow, it hurts~" Honghui, who had always been well-behaved, suddenly burst into tears.
Qi Buchen didn't bother to curse the madly moving carriage. He quickly sat up and pulled Honghui out of his arms: "Where does it hurt? Where does it hurt? Tell mother quickly."
In the situation just now, she couldn't protect Honghui at all. Honghui must have been hit when he rolled on the ground.
"My head hurts so much." Honghui's eyes were filled with tears. He pointed at the back of his head and cried with his mouth wide open.
Qi Buchen's heart was broken with distress. She quickly grabbed Honghui's head and looked at it. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw no blood. She reached out to touch him, but Honghui cried even louder. She didn't dare to touch him anymore and blew on the back of his head: "It's okay, it's okay. Mommy will blow on it. It doesn't hurt. It doesn't hurt."
Qi Qiao got up from the ground and came over to help her: "Fujin, get up quickly, are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Qi Buchen stood up holding Honghui. "Honghui hit his head. Go check on them. Pull up those who can move and lie down there in case another crazy horse comes."
Qi Qiao went to help, and Qi Buchen found a safe place to stand and coaxed Honghui carefully, finally coaxing Honghui from crying loudly to sobbing.
"Mother, I want my father." Honghui hugged her neck, tears streaming down his face as he sobbed.
Qi Buchen's eyes were sore. At this moment, she also wanted to see Yinzhen: "Be good, father will be here soon, Honghui will be able to see him in a while."
“Gee! Gee!”
Damn it, isn't one idiot enough? And another one comes riding a horse at a time like this?
Qi Buchen couldn't help but curse in his heart. He turned his head to look at the source of the sound and prepared to dodge quickly.
When I looked up, I saw a familiar figure.
Qi Buchen's tears instantly burst out.
"Yinzhen!"
Yinzhen was extremely anxious and searched everywhere with his eyes. He did not move fast, on the one hand to avoid people on the road, and on the other hand he was afraid of missing the person he was looking for.
"Yinzhen!"
A sound that accompanied him day and night was faintly heard in the wind. Yinzhen was startled and his eyes, like an eagle, roamed around for a moment before locking onto the source of the sound.
As the distance shortened and he saw clearly the situation of the mother and son, his breathing took a sharp breath.
Fu Jin was standing by the roadside holding Hong Hui. The mother and daughter's clothes were wrinkled and covered with dust, and not a single spot was clean.
Fu Jin's hair was loose and messy, and the hair accessories on it had fallen away somewhere long ago. There were a few dirty marks on her fair cheeks, and a hint of red could be seen on her forehead.
Honghui hugged Fu Jin's neck and looked in his direction together with Fu Jin. There were tears in both of their eyes, and they looked so pitiful.
Yinzhen was extremely heartbroken and no longer cared about anything else. He ran towards the two of them as fast as he could.
"Whew."
The horse's hooves were raised high, and Yinzhen rolled over in a panic. He threw away the reins and staggered to Qi Buchen in two steps. Regardless of the fact that they were still on the street, he hugged the mother and son tightly in his arms.
But after hugging her for a while, he quickly let go and asked anxiously, "Are you okay? Are you hurt?"
Before Qi Buchen could say anything, Honghui had already burst into tears: "Ama, it hurts!"
"Where does it hurt? Tell your father!" Yinzhen took the person over and looked around. He didn't see any obvious injuries, so he asked his wife anxiously, "What about you? Where are you hurt?"
Qi Buchen suppressed the grievance that had just risen in vain and replied, "No, I'm not hurt. Honghui hit his head."
Yinzhen checked his son's head and confirmed, "Is he really not injured?"
"No." Qi Buchen answered affirmatively. Although there were definitely scratches and bruises, they were not serious, just a little painful. She was not Honghui, so how could she cry at the top of her lungs in the street?
When his son felt a bump on the back of his head, causing him to cry even louder, Yinzhen quickly soothed him, "Don't cry, Honghui, it's okay. Honghui is a man, it won't hurt."
He reached out and touched the redness and swelling on Qi Buchen's forehead, and said distressedly: "Where are those servants? How did they protect you? It's swollen, doesn't it hurt?"
If he hadn't said it, Qi Buchen really didn't feel that his forehead had been hit. When he was hit, he immediately shrank back: "Hiss~"
"You said it was okay!" Yinzhen said angrily, "Where else did you get hit?"
Qi Buchen pointed back and said, "They're all there. We just ran into someone who had no brains. He insisted on driving a carriage at this time. The horse got spooked, and we didn't have time to avoid it, so we got hit." After saying this, seeing Yinzhen's anxious look, he hurriedly added, "Qi Qiao pushed Qi Honghui and I out of the way. We weren't hit, but we rolled a few times on the ground."
Yinzhen's eyes turned red after hearing this. Before he could say anything, Qi Buchen started to calculate: "Why are you riding a horse? Why are you showing off? What if the horse is scared? Don't you want to live?" As he said this, he hit him on the chest several times.
Yinzhen grabbed her hand, and with red eyes wanted to say something, but was interrupted again.
"Fourth Prince." A fully armed general came running over with a large army. "This subordinate is late."
Qi Buchen withdrew his hand, took Honghui from Yinzhen, and walked aside.
Yinzhen calmed himself down before turning around and saying, "General, please send teams to maintain order along the roads. If anyone is buried, rescue those who can be saved first. Count those who are difficult to save and send them to the government office. The government office will then bring tools and go to the rescue."
"As you command." The man called his subordinates together and began to assign tasks.
Yinzhen turned and went to find his wife. "I'll have Jinbao take you back to the palace first. Remember to see the imperial physician as soon as you get back."
"What about you?" Qi Buchen asked him while holding the child.
Yinzhen pursed his lips and said, "The Emperor has ordered me to assist with disaster relief. This earthquake is quite large, so I might be very busy. You and Honghui should just follow the Emperor. Don't worry about me."
Qi Buchen agreed with red eyes, knowing that this matter could not be negotiated.
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