The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1257: alert
Chapter 1257: Alert
Bai Jinse looked with her bright black eyes at the bundle under the man’s head. There was some dry food in the bundle, which the man prepared for his five or six-year-old son. Both he and his wife seldom ate it.
After Bai Jinse’s observation, she found that the two of them no longer ate dry food, and the dry food given to the child was reduced from twice a day to once… The size was also reduced, which meant that their dry food was running low.
If they finish their dry food and there is no grass left to go forward, I’m afraid it will be her turn.
But she can’t die!
If she died, her mother, elder sister, and brothers and sisters would be so sad.
Fifth brother, in particular, will probably blame himself for the rest of his life. After all, it was he who brought her to the battlefield. If she died and even her body could not be found, how could Fifth Brother bear it!
To live! Must live!
Even if not for myself, it is for the Bai family and all the relatives of the Bai family!
Too many people have died in the Bai family. My eldest sister said… no one else can get into trouble in the Bai family!
She calculated in her mind how far away from Yunjing she was after walking for so many days, and also wondered whether the Great Zhou or the Yan State had already taken over Yunjing by now.
We can’t go any further. If we continue like this, we’ll be further away from Yunjing, and further away from the Great Zhou military camp.
Bai Jinse looked up and saw a thin boy not far away who was tied up tightly like her. He looked only seven or eight years old, and like her… the boy had been hungry for a long time.
As if he was aware that someone was looking at him, his dark pupils flickered in the red light of the dying fire, and his ruthlessness was revealed silently, as if he was ready to fight to the death with someone at any time, and his eyes were filled with the deepest vigilance.
Bai Jinse moved her eyes away and accidentally saw a broken bowl half covered by straw in the haystack of the ruined temple. She glanced at the length of the rope on her body, moved towards the straw pile, turned around, and touched the broken porcelain pieces with her hand that could still move behind her back, and her hand was also cut a small way.
She took the broken porcelain bowl and started to cut the rope with it without delay. As she had not eaten properly for many days, her whole body was weak and powerless. Her hands holding the porcelain pieces were shaking, and her wrists were already covered with scars and blood before the rope was even cut.
She held her breath and clenched her teeth tightly. It was a matter of life and death… Bai Jinse could endure all the pain.
Perhaps it was because she had not eaten for too long that even her pain sensitivity decreased. The porcelain pieces scratched her delicate wrist skin again and again, but she did not feel any pain.
After a while, Bai Jinse hadn’t even worn the rope apart yet, but she was already sweating all over.
As she was cutting the rope, she was thinking in her mind that it should be late at night, when people were sleeping soundly. If she could escape quietly now, even if she was weak, at least she could save her life!
During this time, Bai Jinse saw the child with eyes like a wolf cub staring at her.
Thinking that the child was tied up and was probably prepared as food by the Xiliang people, she felt compassion at an inappropriate time even though she was clearly a weakling. She convinced herself… the child was awake, and if she ran away without the child, he would howl and she would not be able to escape.
Bai Jinse knew it succeeded when she felt her wrist loosen. She didn’t bother to wipe the sweat off her face. She loosened the ropes around herself and made a “hush” gesture to the child. Her whole body felt limp and she supported herself against the wall. She walked behind the boy, holding the porcelain piece in her hand.
The boy seemed to know that Bai Jinzhi wanted to save him, so he was very well behaved and didn’t say anything.
Soon, Bai Jinse cut the rope on the boy.
Even though he had been hungry for so long, the boy rushed out as nimbly as a wolf, and Bai Jinse didn’t even have time to react.
The boy stared at the dry food bag under the man’s head with his sharp eyes, and carefully pulled the bag out bit by bit…
Bai Jinse looked at the boy’s dim eyes and her heart rose to her throat unconsciously. She had already saved the person, but he didn’t take this opportunity to escape, but instead stole other people’s dry food. He would suffer the consequences of his own actions. Bai Jinse no longer hesitated and walked quietly out of the ruined temple.
As she reached the gate of the dilapidated temple, the man with the dry food on his pillow suddenly opened his eyes, grabbed the boy’s slender wrist, and shouted angrily, “What are you doing!”
This shout woke up most of the people in the dilapidated temple.
Bai Jinse, who had already walked out of the ruined temple, held onto the wall and gasped. Everyone was awake and she couldn’t delay any longer and had to leave quickly…
Inside the dilapidated temple, the boy hugged the bundle tightly and bit the man’s hand.
The man stood up suddenly, pushed the boy away, snatched the bag of dry food from the boy’s hand, stepped hard on the boy’s thin body, and crushed the boy’s chest. These dry food were his son’s hope of survival, how could they be taken away by this little beast who came from nowhere!
“There is white flour and dry food in the bag!”
The girl’s not very standard Xiliang dialect rang out in the dilapidated temple. The eyes of the dishevelled and sallow-faced Xiliang people in the temple immediately fell on the bag in the boy’s arms.
In this dilapidated temple, how many people can’t even get a bite of white flour or dry food? They have to steal the tree bark to get a bite. If anyone still has dry food at this time, he will be guilty of possessing a treasure.
The man who stepped on the boy’s chest was startled. His wife had already stood up and hid behind him, holding her son. She looked terrified: “His father…”
“Who is making a fuss here? Our family followed everyone here all the way. Everyone has seen us eating tree bark and chewing grass roots. If we really had dry food, why would we suffer this?” the man shouted.
“Really? Open the bag and let us see!”
“That’s right. If you don’t have any dry food, why don’t you open your bag and let us have a look!”
As he said this, all the men in the ruined temple stood up and moved towards the man. The man loosened his foot that was stepping on the boy’s chest. Tai Shou protected the bag and his wife and children and pushed them back, but there was a wall behind him and he had nowhere to retreat.
Suddenly, the boy rushed towards the man’s bag with all his strength. The bag was torn open, and the dry food wrapped in clothes fell to the ground…
“It’s dry food!”
“Dry food!”
“Grab it!”
The ruined temple suddenly became a mess. The dishevelled people of Xiliang desperately snatched the dry food on the ground. Some people had already attacked the man and tore up the luggage and bags of his family. The man pulled out a thick wooden stick from somewhere and swung it around to protect his wife, children and luggage.
Seeing the man’s posture, the already starving Xiliang people saw that they had dry food. In addition, some people had already gone to grab the dry food, so those who had been standing still also joined in…