On the other side, the man disguised as an old man successfully led Qingyin to the city gate leading out of the city.
The man mingled in the procession leaving the city. People around him looked at the old man carrying a boy lying on a donkey cart, his life hanging in the balance. They wondered what they were thinking and glanced at the boy with unusual pity before turning their gaze back to the man.
Several compassionate women asked the man with concern, "Old man, is this your child? What happened?"
The man looked distressed and didn't speak, but gestured with a silent expression.
Those around him began to imagine even more scenarios, and their gazes towards the man became even more pitying.
"Oh, it's pitiful, old man, you should go now."
As they spoke, the women who had been trying to talk to them all gave up their seats.
The man couldn't help but show his excitement and gratitude, bowing several times to the women.
His movements were completely natural and didn't seem out of place at all, just like a real old man.
Perhaps it is the satisfaction of helping a kind-hearted but pitiful old man.
In this way, the man quickly made his way to the gate where the guards checked people leaving the city.
The guards, as before, asked the people leaving the city their names and the reason for their incident.
The old man hurriedly gestured a few times and handed over two documents for leaving the city.
"Dumb?"
The guard frowned slightly, looking at the pitiful old man, then glancing at the thin, mud-covered boy in the old man's car.
This time, without the old man saying anything, the kind-hearted woman standing behind him began to explain.
"Sir, this old man is pitiful. His son is lying on the donkey cart. The child has probably been bullied by some heartless people. Look, his eyes are injured, and he might even be blind. This old man is sending his son away quickly, probably fleeing from disaster. Sir, please send them away as soon as possible."
The man driving the donkey cart and Qingyin, who was lying on the cart, could also hear the noise: "..."
Every era has its share of enthusiastic and imaginative older sisters.
But can this guard be trusted?
"Okay, you guys can get out of here now."
As he spoke, the guard turned sideways and, when no one could see him, took a few coins and stuffed them into the man's hand.
The guard whispered, "It's not much, sir, please accept it. In the future, you shouldn't mess with the child, so stay away from him."
Man and Qingyin: "?"
No, it actually works.
With the help of kind-hearted women and guards, the real kidnapper successfully escaped the city.
Qingyin: "..."
Sometimes, people shouldn't be so kind, okay?
The two had only been gone a short while when they were stopped by a group of soldiers at the city gate.
On the other side...
Not long after leaving the city, the man changed his demeanor; at least he didn't look like an old man. He picked Qingyin up and carried her away from the dilapidated donkey cart.
Qingyin was held tightly in someone's arms, breathing in the man's strong scent of fresh grass, and sighed, "Can you take off the white cloth covering my eyes now?"
The man ran along the narrow paths in the woods like a wild leopard. He was panting heavily. Hearing the sound, he glanced down at her and said gruffly, "You're not even looking where you're going. What are you doing taking it off? Trying to memorize your escape route?"
Qingyin: "..."
"I was just saying."
"Oh."
Although the man said that, it wasn't long before the white cloth over Qingyin's eyes was removed.
Qingyin finally saw the light of day again, only to find herself surrounded by darkness.
In fact, it's almost the same as her being blindfolded.
The key point is that men can still run incredibly fast and nimbly in the dark.
Qingyin guarantees: Men's night vision is absolutely amazing.
Qingyin sighed.
She swears that in the deep of night, she heard a disdainful sneer from the man—absolutely!
Is this mocking her or mocking her?
Qingyin??_?? Hmph!
Holding the man in the middle of the night, Qingyin didn't know how much time had passed until she heard her stomach rumbling.
Although she couldn't see it, she could feel the man's gaze on her stomach.
Qingyin blushed and explained softly, "I only ate a little bit tonight, and I'm starving after walking around for so long."
In the darkness, the man's lips curled into a slight smile. "It's not like I'm not going to feed you, why are you being so coquettish?"
Qingyin: "?"
Qingyin: Hmm, did she act cute? How come she didn't know?
Qingyin was puzzled, but the man had somehow found an abandoned cave belonging to some ferocious beast and placed her on the weeds laid out inside the cave.
The movements were much gentler than they had been in the evening.
Qingyin: "?"
The man silently took out the dry, crumpled biscuit from his clothes, forcefully pulled Qingyin's hand, and placed it in hers. His tone was somewhat dry, yet gentle to himself: "This is all the dry biscuit I have. Take it or leave it."
"oh."
It was pitch black in front of her, so Qingyin could only rub the flatbread in her hand, open the outer dry paper, take out the two large flatbreads inside, and take a bite.
The flatbread was very hard, and Qingyin chewed until her jaw ached, but she only managed to bite off a tiny bit.
After nibbling for a while, Qingyin, finally feeling less hungry, looked at the silent man beside her and cautiously asked, "Aren't you going to eat?"
man:"……"
"It's just a little bit, you can eat it yourself, why are you asking me, the kidnapper?"
The man said fiercely.
She has such a soft heart, completely different from that vicious woman Hailanzhu. No wonder she was so easily kidnapped.
If he were her husband, he would be worried sick every day, but then he would freeze when he remembered that he was the kidnapper who had abducted her.
However, in the darkness, Qingyin couldn't detect it either.
After listening for a while and not seeing the man take the flatbread, Qingyin finally spoke again: "I'm full, I can't eat the rest..."
Before she could finish speaking, the man forcefully took the pancake from her hand.
She deftly devoured the rest of the pancake, including the one that Qingyin had painstakingly gnawed halfway through.
"Hmph, picky about food."
Qingyin remained silent, too embarrassed to refute.
But where she couldn't see, the man's ears were bright red.
After barely managing to have dinner, the man squatted down in front of Qingyin again.
"Come on, I'll carry you on my back."
Qingyin hesitated for a moment, "Aren't you going to rest?"
The man assumed Qingyin was refusing, and his tone became fierce again, "Get up, or I'll leave you here for wild animals to eat..."
A soft, warm body leaned closer. It wasn't very noticeable when I was hugging her, but when I was carrying her on my back, the soft, delicate touch in a certain place became extremely obvious.
The man's body stiffened at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Without uttering any further warnings, the man awkwardly hoisted Qingyin onto his back and ran off in a familiar direction into the distance.
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