Chapter 383: Escape from Famine in the Ancient World 4
Chapter 383: Escape from Famine in the Ancient World 4
Seeing this scene, the four people in the corner, whose faces were originally burning with anger, turned pale in an instant. They knelt on the ground tremblingly and begged for mercy.
"Daya, we were wrong. We shouldn't have treated you like that before. Please forgive us!"
"Daughter-in-law, we are your parents-in-law after all! After all, we have been friends for more than a year. You are not as good as me, so please don't hold it against us!"
"Sister-in-law, please spare my life..."
Yuyan ignored their pleas for mercy and just put all the money in their homes into her own arms.
Then he carried the small bags of food that he had looted from Zhou's house and went to the makeshift stove they had built not far away, and shouted to the few people without turning his head.
"Come and work."
Before the natural disaster, the Zhou family was the richest family in Zhoujia Village. In addition, Zhou Ahua was frugal, so his family always had a lot of surplus grain every year.
So even if a natural disaster strikes, even if some of their family’s stored food is washed away by the flood, overall the family’s stored food can still feed their family for a while.
At this time, Yuyan was sitting leisurely on the broken wall, directing the four members of the Zhou family to cook all their stored food into cooked food.
Multi-grain pancakes, white flour pancakes, rice balls, all of which were easy to carry. In the end, Yuyan successfully ate up all of the Zhou family's stored food.
In the end, she even asked Zhou Ahua to cook a big pot of porridge, and then took away both the pot and the porridge.
The four members of the Zhou family were simply stunned. They had been busy for half the night and didn't even have a bite to eat.
He was even beaten up again by Yu Yan during the subsequent food protection operation.
In the end, Zhou Tianfu broke an arm, Zhou Wen lost half of his teeth, and Zhou Ahua and Zhou Jing were beaten evenly all over their bodies.
At that time, the four of them continued to work while screaming. In the end, they watched Yuyan pack up and eat all the food in the house, and they were so heartbroken that they were bleeding.
However, faced with Yu Yan, who was extremely cruel and wanted to kill people if they disagreed with her, they dared not say anything. They could only stay in the corner and watch Yu Yan's figure quickly disappear in the hazy sky light.
With Yuyan's departure, the Zhou family's house, which was originally relatively intact and could barely shelter from the wind and rain, was instantly torn into pieces and finally became a ruin.
When the sky was bright, Yuyan had returned to the place where she and Xie Ying had stayed before.
At this time, Xie Ying had already woken up and was looking for her everywhere.
Seeing her suddenly appear, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and said with concern.
"Are you okay, miss!"
"It's okay, I just went to the toilet. Brother Xie, now that you're awake, let's go!"
Not long after the two of them set out on their journey, heavy snow suddenly began to fall from the sky. The sultry temperature half an hour ago suddenly turned into a biting cold wind.
Almost in the blink of an eye, a thick layer of snow fell on Yuyan's head, and the tattered linen clothes on her body were whistling in the cold wind, and the exposed skin was frozen purple.
Seeing this, Xie Ying hurriedly took out the only brown bear coat from his bag and put it on Yuyan.
Then he took her to quickly find a dilapidated temple with only broken walls left to stay, and the two planned to wait until the snow stopped before leaving.
At this time, there were already several refugees taking shelter from the snow in the corridor of the dilapidated temple. When they saw Yuyan and the other person coming over, they just glanced at them indifferently and continued their previous conversation.
"Are you serious? Are there really Bodhisattvas in this world?" A skinny man among the refugees asked the man next to him half-doubtingly.
The man next to him became excited at the sight of such doubts and immediately began to speak with an excited look on his face.
"How could it be false? I came here at night and met several groups of people with their children and mothers. They not only had cakes to eat, but also rice porridge to drink. And I heard them say that they were sleeping and were suddenly woken up by a gust of wind, and then they found that a bowl of porridge and cakes suddenly appeared beside them without any sound."
The thin man next to him swallowed, silently wrapped his tattered clothes tightly, and then raised his question again.
"Then no one is fighting for it? Now we can't even have a bowl of hot porridge and a pancake!"
"Of course there are! But those who wanted to steal the food had their fingers broken for no reason. Isn't that strange? So everyone said that this was Guanyin Bodhisattva helping the elderly, the weak, women and children."
"You say this Bodhisattva is biased? If he wants to help, then help everyone together. Why is he picking and choosing people? I haven't eaten for two days. I'm miserable too!" The man touched his rumbling stomach and couldn't help but complain.
The man next to him interrupted him quickly and sternly, then put his hands together and bowed to the sky.
"Shut up and stop blaspheming the gods. If the Bodhisattva hears you, he won't save you next time."
"...Please don't blame me, Bodhisattva, please don't blame me..." The man was shocked and quickly put his hands together and prayed towards the sky.
Yuyan and Xie Ying chose a corner away from other people and sat down.
Yuyan sat on the steps under the corridor and raised her hand to gather her coat.
Turning her head to look at Xie Ying, she saw that even though he was wearing a thin robe, he still stood straight in front of her to protect her from the cold wind. Her eyes couldn't help but become softer.
Xie Ying is such a good person!
Yuyan pondered for two seconds, then picked up a branch from the side and drew on the cold and hard ground while chatting with Xie Ying.
"Brother Xie, do you have any important business to go to Shengjing? It's snowing now, and I don't know when it will stop. Besides, after the natural disaster, the weather is very bad every day. Will it delay your business?"
Xie Ying glanced at her sideways, smiled faintly, and replied to her.
"This is the situation, there's nothing we can do about it. What are you doing?"
Xie Ying looked down and saw her writing on the ground.
The handwriting was vigorous and powerful, dignified and majestic, and it was obvious that it was the result of years of hard practice. I couldn't help but be surprised.
"You can draw and you can read?"
Yuyan didn't even raise her head, and continued to write and draw on the ground, making up stories.
"My ancestors were once a wealthy family, but later on they fell into poverty and ended up living in the countryside. My ancestors collected many secret books, and this is a book on the inner strength of Qinggong. Brother Xie, you have outstanding talent, would you like to try to practice it?"
"No, it's a family tradition, how can I learn it?"
Although Xie Ying refused, Yu Yan still persuaded him with reason and evidence.
"It's not a family tradition, it's just a collection from my ancestors. I don't have any talent for martial arts, so I don't want to waste it. Brother Xie saved me. Without Brother Xie, there wouldn't be me and it. This method is a token of my gratitude to Brother Xie. If Brother Xie learns this method, he will be able to protect me better in the future."
After she finished speaking, she invited Xie Ying to look at the mantra of the mental method that she had completely copied on the ground, and she was very considerate.
"Brother Xie, take a look. If there is anything you don't understand, I will explain it to you."
"Okay, then I would like to thank you, young lady. But no matter whether I finish my studies or not, I will definitely escort you to Shengjing safely and find a way for you to survive." Xie Ying thanked Yuyan and solemnly promised.
"okay."
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