PDLP Chapter 105: A Mixed Class of Disaster Victims
Chapter 105: A Mixed Class of Disaster Victims
"Jing'er." Xiao Li's voice was calm, but his eyes showed that he could not be questioned.
Little Ruijing is picky about food, but he is not incapable of eating. After Xiao Li called his name, he picked up the bread and took a bite, then looked at him, as if to say: What do you want me to do?
Xiao Li was amused by his "rebellious" appearance, and his eyes gradually softened. "Eat it obediently, and I'll take you to eat some cake later."
"Baby eats too!" As soon as her ears caught the words "little cake", Xiao Ruixue immediately raised her head and emphasized with a serious face, "Baby eats little cake too!"
Little Ruijing thought he had been deprived of his snacks again today, so he patted his hand and coaxed him, "I don't want to eat it. Give the cake to the baby."
"Baby has it all~" Little Ruixue tilted her head and smiled like a glutinous rice dumpling, "Brother, eat it all by yourself~"
Xiao Ruijing said "hmm" calmly, withdrew his hand and continued to eat his breakfast slowly.
When the father and his two sons had finished their breakfast, Lu Yuan appeared yawning.
After he finished his breakfast, the family of four changed their clothes and left the space.
Because they are leaving tomorrow, Xiao Li took her husband and children out to play today.
We said we were going out to play, but in fact we just ate and walked around. As for activities like hiking, we didn't do it because we had to travel later.
After playing outside for a day, when they returned to the inn, the two little guys fell asleep on Xiao Li's shoulders.
Lu Yuan was holding some snacks and toys she had never seen in Beijing. She looked at her two sons sleeping soundly with amusement and said, "It's a good thing I ate a lot today, otherwise I would have woken up hungry in the middle of the night."
Before, the two little guys would fall asleep directly after coming back tired from playing, and then they would not eat dinner. They would wake up in the middle of the night and cry with hunger.
They were still young at that time and were still drinking milk. In addition, they lived in a space at that time, so it was not a problem.
However, since that incident, they have tried their best to ensure that their children eat on time every meal to avoid repeating the same mistake.
Xiao Li sent the child back into the house, asked Lu Yuan to accompany them, and went to boil water for a bath.
After the water was boiled and they had a bath, Xiao Li let them enter the space and cleaned up the house before entering.
That night, the courtyard they lived in seemed no different from the night before, but if someone kept an eye on it, they would find that there was no sign that anyone had moved in Yu Qingshan's house all night.
Yu Qingshan appeared exhausted just before departure the next day, but everyone tacitly agreed not to ask any questions.
After joining forces with Chu Huaiqing's men, the group continued heading north.
The weather gets hotter the further north you go. Afraid that the children would get heatstroke, Xiao Li asked the father and his two sons to enter the space from the carriage, and then he drove the empty carriage himself. He only let them out when it was time for dinner to avoid arousing unnecessary suspicion from others.
Chu Huaiqing had a total of ten men under his command, all of whom looked like martial artists, and they all carried swords.
I think they received some information before they set off. Xiao Li was the main person on the road and nothing happened. They also took care of their own meals.
Therefore, Xiao Li did not have much objection to going on the journey with them.
The other team consisted of ten people, all riding horses, five in front and five behind, protecting the two carriages of Xiao Li and his companions.
Perhaps it was because they looked fat and strong, and were carrying weapons, so even if they encountered hundreds of disaster victims on the road, no one dared to rob them.
However, when they were eating, some people couldn't help but ask them for help when they saw that there were young couples and children in their group.
"Kind-hearted husband, please save my child!" A middle-aged woman holding a raft pulled the raft where her unconscious child was lying and knelt beside it, kowtowing towards Lu Yuan.
At the same time, the disaster victims not far away were watching the situation here with different expressions.
Obviously, they were all waiting for Lu Yuan's response, and then consider whether to ask for help or something else based on his response.
If it was before he had the child, Lu Yuan might have agreed in a fit of rage, but now when he saw that the person on the raft was unconscious, the first thing he did was to cover the child's mouth and nose. Xiao Li did the same thing as him.
The two looked at each other, and without any prior agreement, they took the children onto the carriage, then sent them into the space before getting out of the carriage again.
But they didn't go near there, they just sat in the carriage and watched from afar.
Since the other party was asking for help from Lu Yuan, Xiao Li did not interrupt, but just waited quietly for his husband's response.
Helping a person in trouble is no big deal for them, but the problem is that there is a large group of people nearby who are eyeing them covetously.
They had not yet arrived in Nan'an County and still had a long way to go. If they took this lead, there was no guarantee that some disaster victims would stop them and ask them for help, or cause trouble to prevent them from leaving.
Lu Yuan had not seen much of the world, but he had already learned from books that human hearts were treacherous.
What's more, before they set off, their grandparents, their third uncle, their third uncle, and their little dad all told them about some of the things they had experienced when they were fleeing famine, and asked them to be careful of others when they were out.
The child lying on the raft looked to be about four or five years old. He was a little boy with tanned skin and chapped lips from the sun, but this could not hide his obviously pale face.
As parents, and also having a son, Lu Yuan's heart softened the moment she saw the child. She tossed and turned the words of refusal several times before finally speaking with difficulty, "I'm not a doctor. I... can't save your child."
As he spoke, he couldn't help but glance at Yu Qingshan who was not far away.
Among their group, the only one who knows medicine and even has superb medical skills is Taoist Qingshan.
But Taoist Qingshan is Taoist Qingshan, and he is him. Even if his husband has a close relationship with the Taoist, they cannot be confused. He has no right to decide anything for the other party.
His gaze was very obscure, and apart from Xiao Li, only Yu Qingshan, the person involved, noticed it.
In fact, it’s not that Yu Qingshan doesn’t want to save people, but he has set the precedent, and there may be endless people coming later.
This wasn't the worst-hit area. If he stayed here for too long, more people would die. He...
He cannot give up the majority for the sake of the minority. He will never have another chance to do it again.
Yu Qingshan avoided his gaze and sighed silently.
Seeing this, Lu Yuan understood what he meant and unconsciously pursed her thin lips.
Xiao Li held his hand and squeezed it gently to comfort him.
The woman who was rejected sat down on the ground with a look of despair on her face. "Oh my God, my son is only nine years old. Can you let me die for him?"
Lu Yuan felt uncomfortable watching this, so she turned around and hugged Xiao Li, crying silently.
Xiao Li couldn't bear to see him cry the most, so he shouldn't have interfered. However, he sighed softly, used his healing ability to check the child, and found that the child could still be saved, so he treated him.
When the other party's eyelids moved, he retracted his supernatural power and winked at Shen Congzhou.
Shen Congzhou understood, nodded, and walked towards the woman and said something. She was about to kowtow to him, but he stopped her. "This is what my young master wanted. He doesn't like to be disturbed. You don't have to thank him in person."
After saying that, he carried the child onto his carriage. Yu Qingshan glanced at Xiao Li and said nothing. He also got on the carriage to check the child's pulse.
The woman stayed beside the carriage and thanked Shen Congzhou from time to time. He said it several times but it was no use, so in the end he just let her go.
After checking the child's pulse, Yu Qingshan got off the carriage and told the woman about the child's condition. "The child is fine. He's just been hungry and thirsty for too long and has fallen into a coma. Give him some water and rice soup and he'll recover slowly."
When the woman heard that her child was fine and just in a coma, she cried with joy. However, when she heard that he would be fed with water and rice soup, the joy on her face gradually disappeared and was replaced by embarrassment.
The mother and son had no water or food left. She looked down at her wrist, which was covered in blood and flesh. It was all caused by her feeding her son blood while he was unconscious.
Yu Qingshan saw the wound on her wrist and couldn't bear it. He found his bag and took out a bottle of homemade medicine. He gave it to her, "Sprinkle this medicine on the wound to make it heal faster. It's so hot in this weather. If the wound is not treated, it will rot easily. Then you may lose your whole hand."
The reason why the matter is made to sound so serious is to encourage the other party to take the medicine, so as to avoid such a situation where they are reluctant to take the medicine.
The woman was really reluctant to do so. She was just thinking about enduring it and saving the medicine just in case when she heard what he said. Her face immediately turned pale and she stammered, "I, I understand. I will apply the medicine properly."
The son is still so young. If she can’t keep her hand anymore, what will happen to her and her son in the future?
Their whole family fled the famine together. Some people collapsed on the way, and some died while trying to protect others. In the end, only the mother and son were left.
If they are gone, then the home is truly gone.
Seeing that she had listened to him, Yu Qingshan gave her some more instructions and then went to Xiao Li.
They were not far away, and Xiao Li and the others heard what they just said.
Even so, when he came over and found a small stool to sit down, Lu Yuan couldn't help but ask a few questions, "How is the child? And that sister-in-law, she seems to be feeling a little unwell."
In fact, it wasn't just the mother and son who were like this. Looking around, apart from them who looked no different than usual, who else looked pale and thin, and looked sick?
Yu Qingshan had seen hell on earth, so his reaction wasn't as severe as his. "Both mother and child are fine, don't worry, Brother Yuan."
"That's good." But how could Lu Yuan not be worried?
Looking at the disaster victims he met, he sometimes couldn't help but think of himself.
If she hadn't married Xiao Li, if her husband hadn't known about the drought, if her family hadn't agreed to relocate...
If there was any difference in any aspect during this period, their whole family might have been one of the victims.
But he had also heard from his husband that the current emperor had already ordered people to store water and prepare food. Even with the high-yield grain varieties provided by his husband, there would always be people who would not listen to advice.
It may not be that they refuse to listen to advice, but that their family conditions do not allow it, and they end up having to leave their hometown.
As he was thinking, Lu Yuan lost his appetite and could only eat two or three bites of the pancake in his hand.
Xiao Li took the biscuit from his hand and stuffed a piece of candy into his palm, "It's okay if you skip one meal, but you can't skip two meals in a row.
Yuan'er, you are not only yourself, but also my husband, Jing'er and Xue'er's little daddy."
If he wasn't worried about the three of them staying in the capital, he actually didn't want his husband and children to see such a scene.
But some things cannot be changed even if he doesn't want to. All he can do is accept them and make his husband and children live as comfortably as possible within his ability.
In Lu Yuan's hand was a large piece of white sugar candy, the kind that could take three or five bites even if he opened his mouth wide.
At the same time as the candy was stuffed into his palm, he lowered his head and turned his hand over, looking at the large white sugar and milk candy wrapped in oil paper, and said "hmm" softly.
After opening the oil paper, Lu Yuan took a small bite of the candy before looking up at him. There was no confusion in her eyes, but determination. "I know, husband, don't worry."
He has grown up and is now the father of two children. He is no longer the little child who needed him to worry about everything a few years ago.
"I believe Yuan'er." Xiao Li always knew that her husband was a strong and brave man, otherwise he would not have forced her to marry him just because he "saved her life" and asked her to repay the favor.
What's more, when he was in Yangliu Village, the father and son were isolated and helpless, but he was able to protect his handsome self well, which shows that he was smart.
Accustomed to his praise and encouragement, Lu Yuan actually didn't feel much most of the time. But under his focused and serious gaze, she suddenly felt a little hot.
He turned away his eyes, lowered his head slightly and took small bites of the candy, while Xiao Li looked at him while finishing the piece of cake he didn't want to eat.
Not far away, the disaster victims who were watching began to commotion when they saw the mother and son succeed.
One group of disaster victims, consisting entirely of the elderly, the weak, women and children, seemed to have seen hope again after their initial despair.
But none of them went forward to ask for help. They just looked at the children they were traveling with and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
It's not that we just watch them die without helping them. The old, weak, sick and disabled ones can die, but the children are still young. In this desperate moment, it's enough that they can survive.
On the contrary, there was another group of disaster victims who were all men. They gathered together and whispered something to Xiao Li and the others. One or two of them would cast lustful glances at Lu Yuan from time to time.
The young husband was lost in thought, so he didn't notice anyone looking at him strangely.
He didn't notice it, but Xiao Li noticed it, so after he finished eating the candy, Xiao Li let him get on the carriage and sent him into the space.
Before setting off again, Xiao Li glanced at the group of disaster victims who were all strong and muscular even though they were fleeing famine, and murderous intent flashed in his eyes.