The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1258: Two-pronged approach
Chapter 1258 Two-pronged Approach
Some people tore at their luggage, and some people fiercely tore at the clothes of the whole family, trying to see if they had any dry food hidden on them. The women screamed and the children cried hysterically.
Bai Jinse, who had gone there and returned, looked at the scene in the dilapidated temple at the door, searching for the boy. Sure enough… she saw the boy holding a dry food cake in his mouth, crawling out from under the crowd using his hands and feet, and running towards Bai Jinse.
Seeing that the boy had come out in the chaos, Bai Jinse turned and left. The boy trotted after Bai Jinse, tore the extremely solid dry food biscuit into two halves, and stuffed the extra half to Bai Jinse.
Bai Jinse lowered her eyes and looked at the little boy who was looking up at her with bright eyes. Seeing that Bai Jinse did not take the dry food, the little boy stuffed it into Bai Jinse’s hand.
“Eat…” said the boy.
The boy risked his life to snatch this dry food back. Bai Jinse didn’t want to eat it at first, as it should belong to the boy. However, Bai Jinse had not eaten for a long time and needed the strength to escape, so she had to eat.
She didn’t care about the boy’s dirty hands, or that the food might be stained with his saliva. She took the food, thanked him, and ate while walking.
Suddenly something entered her stomach, and Bai Jinse seemed to come alive. She restrained herself from swallowing big mouthfuls of food and chewed it in small bites. She did not forget Dr. Hong’s advice that after being hungry for too long, she needed to drink porridge to allow her internal organs to adapt. But now there was no porridge or water, so she could only chew the dry food more carefully.
Bai Jinse and the boy were walking and eating in the direction of the north…
The moon hangs high in the sky, dotted with stars.
The bright light shone on the dead trees that had not yet sprouted. Bai Jinse and the boy walked under the dark and hideous shadows of the trees, not letting their figures be exposed in the moonlight, lest they be seen by bad guys who might see them, a weak kid, having any evil thoughts.
If Bai Jinse walked this road alone today, she might be afraid, but with someone accompanying her, even if it was just a child… Bai Jinse seemed to have gained some courage.
This was probably why those starving people from Xiliang had to huddle together and move forward, and why… that family, who clearly had dry food on them, did not move alone, but instead followed these refugees.
Fortunately, Bai Jinse was born in the Bai family, so she had the opportunity to learn a lot of knowledge, so she used the Big Dipper in the sky to keep herself from going astray.
They didn’t dare to take the pipeline, for fear of being caught by refugees with ulterior motives and becoming someone else’s meal. They could only take the path with tall trees and dense bushes.
Bai Jinse is now extremely grateful to the merchant Cui Fengnian who made the people of Xiliang go hunting and almost kill all the wild animals. At least they don’t have to worry about vicious wild animals jumping out from the invisible shadows and killing them.
The two of them did not stop until the sky brightened. Bai Jinse was already out of breath. She turned around and saw the little boy following her closely, his chest also heaving violently.
“Let’s rest here!” Bai Jinse said to the boy.
The boy seemed to be confused and stared at Bai Jinse with his bright black eyes. Bai Jinse then changed to Xiliang dialect and said in Mandarin: “Let’s rest here for a while!”
The boy nodded, and when he saw Bai Jinse sit down, he sat down too, but his eyes were looking around, trying to find something to eat.
But…where those hungry people passed, there was no edible food left. Even the tree bark…had been stripped clean.
“You are not a commoner!” Bai Jinse judged that the boy was not a commoner because he could understand Mandarin. “You can’t understand Xiliang language. Are you from the Great Zhou?”
The boy didn’t say anything, and Bai Jinse didn’t force him. They met by chance and were just passing through each other’s lives. It was natural to distrust others at a time like this. Even if the boy asked about her identity, she would not tell him. It was the same principle.
There is no Big Dipper to guide them during the day like at night, so Bai Jinse can only take the boy to the official road and walk along the mountain road on one side of the pipeline, using the pipeline as a reference for their progress. Although the road is a little more difficult to walk on, it can avoid encountering danger again.
Sometimes they would encounter a road block, with a cliff of thirteen or fourteen feet in front. Bai Jinse had learned some kung fu from the Bai family army, so she was able to climb down. The boy looked thin, but his hands and feet were nimble, and he climbed faster than Bai Jinse. He looked up at Bai Jinse who was trying to find a foothold, and when Bai Jinse came down, the two of them continued to move forward together.
The little boy didn’t know where to go, but he followed Bai Jinse wherever she went. Perhaps it was because when he was in desperate situation, it was Bai Jinse who helped him cut the rope, and it was Bai Jinse who did not abandon him. At the critical moment, she shouted that there was dry food in the bag and saved him again, so the little boy kept following Bai Jinse.
Neither of them is a talkative person, they just walked together along the way.
At night, the two of them lit a fire, huddled together for a short nap, and then got up to continue their journey.
The little boy suddenly pulled Bai Jinse, took out a crumpled cake from his chest, tore it into two halves and handed one half to Bai Jinse.
Bai Jinse didn’t expect that the little boy had hidden some dry food. She thought about it, took the dry food and divided it into several portions. Bai Jinse ate all the dry food the boy gave her when she escaped before, because if she didn’t eat, she would have no strength and her speed would be slow and she would be easily caught up!
Now they have to think about the future. If they can’t find anything to eat along the way, their only food will be this cake!
The boy, who was originally wolfing down his food, stopped when he saw Bai Jinse dividing the dry food into several portions. He also followed her example and divided the dry food into several portions and put them away.
Noticing the boy’s movements, Bai Jinse couldn’t help but touch the boy’s head: “Let’s go!”
The little boy stood up, put out the fire, and followed Bai Jinse all the way.
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Yunjing.
Old General Cui Shanzhong just examined Bai Qingyu, and the imperial physician said… Bai Qingyu’s disordered pulse has improved, and he should be able to wake up in the next few days.
The old general Cui Shanzhong finally felt relieved.
“General Cui, what do you think… should we wait for the Great Zhou Emperor Bai Qingyan to come, tell her that the Queen Mother of Yan betrayed us the news of the Great Zhou, send Bai Qingyu back to her as a gift, and then pledge our loyalty in order to save the country! Or… cooperate with Yan?” Li Tianjiao and General Cui Shanzhong walked slowly along the red-lit corridor.
“It just so happens that I also want to talk to Your Majesty about this matter…” General Cui Shanzhong said slowly, “I think we can do it in two ways!”
Li Tianjiao became interested and turned to look at General Cui Shanzhong: “General, tell me what you have to say.”
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