Chapter 49 50. Rushing into the City
"It seems that there is really water in this city. These people are such bastards. They only care about their own enjoyment and don't care about the lives of these people."
"What's the big deal? They don't even let us go. They just want to trap us here. As long as we don't cross this line, how can the saint know that his people are suffering here?"
"So that's what they were planning. They just wanted to starve us to death or die of thirst here."
"But aren't they delivering water? It doesn't seem so bad!"
This statement immediately caused a group of people to attack, "With just this little water, I guess it's not enough for everyone to take a sip."
"We have stayed here for so many days. Apart from the few puddles we found earlier, have you ever seen this city gate open?"
"So are we still waiting here foolishly?"
"What if I don't wait? If I go back now, I'll be dead too.
Now we are just hanging on here, at least we can get some water occasionally to sustain ourselves.”
Gu Wenheng listened to the previous conversation silently, and a feeling of powerlessness rose in his heart.
His previous thoughts were too naive. If the deep mountains were really that easy to travel, these people would not have been stuck here.
At this moment, he suddenly understood why there were so many cases of outlaws and people rebelling against the government in the past.
If I hadn't received so many years of education, I would have wanted to rebel.
Just when we thought of this, news came from the team ahead that they had run out of water, and the whole crowd rioted.
Someone shouted, "Let's rush to the city. That's where we can survive."
“Run!”
Led by some people, everyone rushed forward.
The people behind were pushing and shoving each other, there was no way to control them, and they just followed the crowd and rushed towards the city gate.
Gu Wenheng held Jin Qianqian's hand tightly and could only squeeze forward passively with the flow of people.
When the yamen runner guarding the city gate saw that something was wrong, he turned around and wanted to close the city gate without caring about the servants sent by Young Master Bai.
But they were still a step too slow. All the refugees would not give them the chance at all. They poured into the city gate like water and then scattered in all directions.
Gu Wenheng naturally would not miss this opportunity. He took Jin Qianqian to choose an alley with few people and hid in it invisibly.
"This is a dead end." Jin Qianqian's face was full of nervousness.
Gu Wenheng was delighted. "Hurry up and find two sets of brighter-colored clothes from the ones we bought earlier. If we change out of this set, our targets won't be so obvious."
Jin Qianqian picked up two sets of satin dresses at random. These were bought from a store in the county town according to the sizes of the two people.
He handed him the robe and pants and turned his back.
Gu Wenheng turned his back to the wall, quickly took off his dirty clothes, and put them on quickly.
"It's your turn," Gu Wenheng rolled up the dirty clothes into a ball and casually put them aside, waiting to be cleared away and burned together.
Jin Qianqian also knew that now was not the time to be pretentious, and quickly followed Gu Wenheng's example and tidied herself up.
"What should I do with this hair?" He used a wet tissue to clean his face, but the clumps of hair were the biggest flaw.
Gu Wenheng knew that Jin Qianqian still had some water, but it was too late to clean it now, so he could only casually put the linen cloth he had used to wrap her clothes on her hair, "Hurry up and find someone to come out. We have to find a place to stay before these officers react."
Jin Qianqian followed him outside while wrapping her hair, "Isn't there an inn? Can we go there?"
Gu Wenheng touched Wendie in his arms and said, "Let's not talk about whether we can find an inn now. With the official pass of Wendie on us, the inn probably won't dare to accept us."
"Then where are we going?" When we walked to the main road outside, we saw people still running towards the city. It was now in complete chaos.
Gu Wenheng, "Let's go inside first. It seems that we can't stay in this city. Let's go to the nearby villages to take a look."
"But mother and the others haven't come in yet?" Jin Qianqian thought of Li Cuicui who was still there to look after Gu Dashi and the luggage, and gritted her teeth and refused to move forward.
"We can't care about so many things now. We have to stabilize ourselves first before we can bring people in." A trace of worry flashed in Gu Wenheng's eyes. This time, the only people left in the queue for water were Li Cuicui, the injured Gu Dashi and the children.
"But when the city gates are closed, what are we going to do?" Jin Qianqian even wanted to turn around and leave at this time. She had the space and could always survive with her family.
Gu Wenheng held her tightly, "Now is not the time to act on impulse. As long as we settle down, we can have another chance to survive.
If so many people were to stay outside the city, there would really be only one way out: death."
Jin Qianqian was silent, and followed Gu Wenheng silently as he ran forward.
"Our family will all survive." Gu Wenheng told Jin Qianqian while running, and at the same time he was telling himself.
Although they were not familiar with the city, they had both used binoculars to observe it on the top of the mountain before, so they could naturally determine which side was the path leading to the nearby village.
When they met someone on the road, they would pretend to be calm and slow down their pace, or find a hidden corner and wait until the person left before coming out.
Gradually, there were fewer and fewer people and the road became narrower and narrower, but the two were happy in their hearts, which meant that they had gone far away.
"We just passed a village, why don't we stop?" Jin Qianqian was a little curious. Fortunately, she had been walking every day during this period, otherwise she might not be able to persist.
Gu Wenheng shook his head. "This place is too close to the city. If we want to be more stable in the future, we have to go to a more remote place."
While we were hurrying along here in silence, the city and its surroundings were already in chaos.
In the prefectural government office, Xiao Yunhai was pointing at the Tongzhi and Tongpan in the court and cursing at them, "How did you do things? How could you let so many refugees in?
Now the entire city is full of refugees. How do you want me to explain this to my superiors?"
Judge Geng looked aggrieved, "Sir, Master Bai suddenly showed mercy and wanted to send water and porridge to the refugees outside. Who knew that the preparations were not sufficient, and those people rushed in because they wanted to survive."
Xiao Yunhai felt a bit of a headache when thinking of Bai Jinglie. He was the eldest son of Marquis Wu'an and the future heir. "Then are your people dead? Where are the soldiers guarding the city? They can't even stop so many refugees."
"It's not that we can't stop it. The people from Wu'an Marquis' Mansion were outside at the time, and the soldiers guarding the city wanted to rescue them into the city. Because of this delay, they missed the best opportunity. By the time they reacted, it was no longer under our control." Lu Tongzhi said helplessly.
(End of this chapter)
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