Chapter 47: Why would you care about other people's life if you are just trying to survive?



Ji Changying is also a person with a bad temper. If someone gives her the cold shoulder for no reason, she naturally won't try to please them.

After cooking, Mrs. Hu asked her to deliver Mr. Huang's bowl, and she handed it to Ji Mingxuan and asked him to do it.

"Did you have another fight with the old doctor?" Ji Mingxuan asked helplessly.

The two of them would quarrel from time to time, and the whole family was used to it.

"Why should I argue with him? He's just a bad-tempered and weird person. I won't argue with him and I don't want to bother with him."

After saying this, Ji Changying ran to eat without looking back.

Ji Mingxuan: “…”

The two of them combined are probably not as big as Ogawa...

The open space was filled with the delicious aroma of stewed meat. Ji Qingyu brought a bowl of her own mushroom stewed chicken for Ji Changying and the others as a snack.

While we were enjoying our meal, a group of ragged people gathered in twos and threes on the side of the official road.

They wandered around here, walking back and forth and glancing here all the time.

Perhaps because they saw that the yamen runners around them were carrying knives, they did not dare to step forward.

Ji Fengyi's heart sank when he saw these people: "Let's eat quickly!"

As usual, Zhou first sat her parents-in-law in the right place, and after offering incense, she took her own bowl and slurped the meat and soup.

The deliciousness of the mushrooms combined with the aroma of the meat made the whole family very satisfied.

I don’t know when the number of people on the official road increased, and now there are more than dozens of people.

Seeing that something was wrong, the yamen runners hurried to the post station to inform Zhang Ziwei.

"The situation is not good. It's obvious that these people are fleeing..." the patriarch muttered as he looked at the group of people.

After eating, Ji Fengshou collapsed on the ground comfortably and didn't want to move.

Ji Changying walked over and poked him: "Dad, the old man told me to prepare more water, otherwise when we enter the Lijiang area, the water there will be undrinkable."

Ji Fengshou was shocked: "What do you mean? Now is the time when there is no shortage of water!"

"Just because there's no water shortage doesn't mean the water is drinkable! The entire upper and middle reaches of the Li River are flooded. The corpses and feces floating in the water are not only disgusting, but drinking it would make you sick, right?"

Unable to explain what bacteria are, Ji Changying had to explain it to Ji Fengshou in the most understandable terms.

Smart people really understood quickly. Ji Fengshou stood up with a start: "Yes, after a great disaster there will be a great epidemic..."

Ji Fengshou gasped and his face turned green.

He no longer had the desire to lie down, and quickly pulled Ji Fengyi to find the patriarch.

After a while, the clan leader solemnly went to invite Mr. Huang, and called on the people of Lotus Village to gather together. Families in Beijing who were willing could also come together.

With such a large group of people sitting together, under normal circumstances the yamen runners would have come over with whips, but now no one was in the mood to pay attention to them.

These yamen runners were busy investigating where the group of people came from.

Everyone sat together and discussed what to do next without stopping the work in their hands.

Ji Hu was sharpening a wooden stick with a small knife in his hand.

A group of old ladies were busy weaving straw sandals.

Some people surrounded Ji Changying and asked her to teach them how to weave baskets.

"It's not safe outside right now. We can't rely entirely on these yamen runners. If something really happens, no one can help anyone else. We'd better prepare some weapons and take as much water as we can."

Ji Fengshou glanced at the people lurking around with ill intentions, and his heart was filled with worry.

"No problem, I can make these simple bows and arrows. I'll make more!" Ji Hu nodded and responded quickly.

"We can't all sleep at night. We have to arrange for someone to keep watch. The next few days will not be peaceful."

"That makes sense. We won't sleep tonight!"

"From now on, I hope everyone will be more vigilant and not take anything lightly!"

"From now on, we'll just keep looking for food as we did today, and then we'll slowly figure out a solution. In short, staying alive is more important than anything else right now, so let's put everything else aside for now."

"Brother, if someone here gets sick, could you please take a look at us?" The patriarch looked at Mr. Huang beside him with anticipation.

"Your habit of randomly recognizing relatives is not good. Just call me Doctor Huang. As for whether I can treat you or not..."

Mr. Huang glanced at Ji Changying, who was earnestly teaching others how to weave baskets: "It depends on my mood!"

"Okay, okay." The patriarch didn't say anything else.

After all, as long as we follow them, we will always be able to find a solution, right? Now we can say hello in advance.

"Aying! Look at this basket I woven, isn't it well-made?" Liu handed the basket in her hand to her with an excited look on her face.

Ji Changying took a look and laughed: "Not bad, you can start your apprenticeship soon."

Liu was so happy that she danced with joy. The other ladies beside her also laughed: "It's not enough to only know how to weave baskets. Shoes are more expensive than this. Why don't you try weaving straw sandals later?"

"Yes, sister, let me tell you, weaving straw sandals is very particular..."

Watching them enthusiastically discussing which material of straw sandals was more durable and which was more lightweight, Ji Changying ran to the corner to meditate.

Speaking of which, Tian Dan had a warm feeling last time. I wonder if that was internal force?

Let’s feel it again!

The patriarch arranged for someone to keep watch at night, and we spent the night peacefully.

In the morning, Zhang Ziwei looked at everyone with a serious face: "We received news yesterday that the entire upper, middle and lower reaches of the Li River have burst their banks. There has been a serious flood. Those people have all escaped."

"But we still have to keep going. We have to reach Liangzhou on time. Otherwise, you'll all become wanted criminals, and no one will have an easy life! So I decided! We'll take a detour!"

"Let's go now!"

This is the decision we made after discussing it yesterday.

There are mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead, but they have to bite the bullet and get through it.

Before leaving, Ji Hu took his men to the woods again and took away all the prey and sharpened sticks in yesterday's trap.

People along the official road watched them enter the woods and followed them in to find food.

Others looked at their bags with greed in their eyes and followed them on the road.

Old Huang looked at these people with disgust in his eyes.

When he saw Xie Siheng grinding medicine powder in the car, he couldn't stand his leisurely attitude. "Aren't you a royal family member? When you see these disaster victims, don't you want to help them?"

Xie Siheng focused on the movements of his hands: "I am trying to survive myself, why would I care about other people's lives?"

A mocking smile played on his face.

I don’t know whether I’m mocking myself or others.

Not long after they started walking, they followed Zhang Ziwei and turned into a small road.

There were woods on both sides of the road. When the black dog got here, it couldn't sit still and twisted around on Ji Changying's shoulders.

"If you don't want to sit, get off!"

Ji Changying picked it up and threw it onto a tree on the side. The black dog squeaked and jumped between the branches with nimble hands and feet.

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