NFBE Chapter 126 It’s time
Chapter 126 It’s time
early morning.
The sunlight early in the morning makes people irritable.
Without the shelter of trees, the empty Cloud City was now completely exposed to the scorching air.
Over time.
The heavy doors of the houses in the streets and alleys were opened one by one, and people came out of their homes one after another and gathered in the streets in a daze.
Some lying down, some sitting, all facing the direction of the city gate, waiting woodenly for the slim hope.
I can't get out of the city gate.
There were people guarding inside, and anyone who forced their way into the city was killed. I don't know where the guards came from, but they didn't obey the orders of the county magistrate and killed people without blinking an eye.
They stood on the high city wall, and their cold words were like frost embedded in the bones of the people who were suffering from heat.
It's no use even if you go out.
The news has spread everywhere. Everyone in Yuncheng has been infected with the plague. If you go out, you will be like a rat crossing the street and will be shot to death by arrows...
The city’s food reserves have run out, and the relief grain from the imperial court has not yet arrived.
Yesterday the last well in the city ran dry.
I haven't received any notification to get water today.
They were so disheartened that they didn't even notice that everyone was in better condition today than the day before.
……
In the center of Yuncheng, the gate of the large but old County Governor's Mansion was slowly opened from the inside, and empty ox carts came out one after another.
The yamen runners walked in twos and threes, with their heads lowered, through the streets.
The bodies of the victims exposed on the roadside were picked up and thrown onto ox carts.
As the yamen runners coordinated their rising and falling rhythms, corpses were thrown onto the "corpse mountain", piling up higher and higher.
There was the sound of rutting wheels.
A fully loaded ox cart left heavily, and another empty ox cart slowly came.
……
Suddenly, a heart-wrenching cry of a girl was heard.
Li Jiaojiao and Xie Xiao stopped at the same time.
On the roadside not far away, a skinny girl was throwing herself on a woman leaning against the wall. She hugged the woman's body tightly with both hands to prevent her from falling, crying loudly: "Mother, mother, mother, wake up, mother, don't leave me, mother..."
The cries were heartbreaking.
However, everyone around looked at what was happening in front of them indifferently, and no one stepped forward.
Even the ox carts and yamen runners that were going away in the distance did not look back.
This isn't the only trip they receive in a day, there will be other ox carts coming up.
The girl hugged the woman's body tightly, shaking and crying.
She was crying so hard that she was gasping for breath and was about to faint.
Li Jiaojiao glanced at the people around her and was about to walk over.
Suddenly, a hand stopped her.
Li Jiaojiao turned her head and saw Xie Xiao also looking not far away, then gently shook his head at her.
Li Jiaojiao: ...Fuck you.
It would be fine if she couldn't see it, but if she did see it she would definitely have to do something about it, otherwise why would she have come through time?
What's more, she had used her special powers to secretly check and found that the woman still had a breath.
Li Jiaojiao stretched out her hand and knocked away the big hand in front of her, and disappeared in front of Xie Xiao in an instant.
Xie Xiao's eyes widened in disbelief. In his mind, women were not the kind of people who acted on their own accord without considering the overall situation and showed mercy indiscriminately.
There are only two of them now, with no water or food, so it is really not a good time to meddle in other people's affairs.
Seeing that the woman's figure was about to float to the girl's side in three or two steps, he didn't have time to think about it and hurried over.
If there is no other choice, even if it means hurting the surrounding victims, we must get her away from here safely.
You must know that although the victims now look numb and listless, it is all because they have no goals. If they had something to eat, they would be a group of hungry wolves.
Xie Xiao prepared his hands, ready to take action at any time, following the woman's steps and staring at the people around him vigilantly.
"Mom, mom, wuwuwu, mom, you're awake, mom..." The girl's voice came again, with surprise and joy, and she threw herself on the woman, shaking her thin body.
Xie Xiao turned his head suddenly and saw the woman still half leaning against the wall, a weak and gentle smile appeared at the corner of her lips. She slowly raised one hand and placed it on the top of the girl's head in her arms.
The girl cried even louder: "Mom..."
It was as if the woman had fainted from hunger and now woke up again.
The expression in Xie Xiao's eyes kept changing. The woman and the girl were hugging each other, and there was no sign of the person he wanted to protect next to them.
"bump……"
A small stone fell to the ground.
Xie Xiao raised his eyes and looked towards the roof in the distance...
……
The tallest building in the south of Yuncheng, in the pavilion on the first floor backyard.
At a small table, a man and a woman sat opposite each other.
The man was untying the bundle on the small table.
The woman holds her chin with her hand, and at her feet is a huge white wolf.
"Eat something to fill your stomach." Xie Xiao took out a bag of dried meat and put it on the small table, pushing it in front of Li Jiaojiao.
Li Jiaojiao lowered her eyes, picked up a piece with her free hand, put it in her mouth and chewed it slowly.
It is too dried, which makes it easier to preserve, but it is difficult to chew and the taste is just average.
Seeing this, Xie Xiao smiled and poured two cups of water from the water bag and put them aside.
Li Jiaojiao continued to chew the dried meat slowly, with no extra expression on her face.
Xie Xiao chuckled, then spoke slowly, his tone casual: "I thought we were going to take action against the disaster victims today. The imperial envoys who were responsible for disaster relief have not even started their relief work, but they have already beaten up the victims. It's quite exciting to think about it."
Li Jiaojiao glanced at him, swallowed the dried meat for a while, and drank a sip of water, "Master Xie, do you like excitement? I should have let you stay there if I had known."
She tried to combine her martial arts skills with her special abilities, quickly got to the woman, stuffed a pill in her mouth, and left immediately.
The action was too fast, and the surrounding victims were distracted and didn't react at all.
The pill melted in her mouth, and when the woman woke up the little girl was only concerned with the joy of having recovered what she had lost.
By the time the mother and daughter came to their senses, she had no idea where she had run off to, so there was no need to think too much about the consequences.
But if the young master just stood there, it would be a different story.
Xie Xiao choked, then burst out laughing. He was short-sighted. He had no idea that saving someone could be done in the blink of an eye.
still is……
"Don't flatter me, that woman is not dead." Li Jiaojiao seemed to know what Xie Xiao was thinking and interrupted him in advance.
I'm still alive.
She has always known how to protect herself and will not touch anything she is not sure of.
She had been careful and cautious before, only because her mind was unstable at that time and her supernatural powers had not fully recovered.
But it is different now.
After being transformed by the spiritual spring water, she has completely mastered this body and has even learned the trajectory of the circulation of true energy in this era.
If anyone poses a threat to her, just kill him.
Xie Xiao looked at the woman, the smile in his eyes slowly faded away, he lowered his eyes and picked up the water cup on the table.
He was the one who taught her the Qinggong skill, so he knew better how difficult some things were to do even though they looked simple.
He asked himself, he couldn't do it.
"I'm so sleepy. Let me find a place to sleep for a while and then work at night." The woman said lazily.
The wind blew, Xie Xiao looked up, and the seat opposite him was empty.
Xie Xiao looked at the empty place, a smile slowly reappeared in his eyes, and he curled the corners of his lips.
At least, she didn't hide it from him deliberately.
Along the way, he was shocked every time as he traveled, killed enemies, and saved people, but he could not show the slightest bit of abnormality.
He was afraid that if he discovered a secret that shouldn't be discovered, people would be on guard, vigilant, and stay away from him...
Fortunately, no...
He stood up and left.
The Xie family has been a military family for generations, and they are in charge of hundreds of thousands of troops in Daqing. How could they allow Prince Xie to go to a disaster area ravaged by the plague alone?
Now, it's time to meet them.