The peasant girl who escaped the desert: she cried when she found the cruel prince

Chapter 48 Meeting an Acquaintance
Someone had secretly moved this meat. The bandits wouldn't have touched it even a little bit. If they wanted to take it, they would have to put it in bags. Then there must be someone hiding in this place. Could it be someone from the woods last night?
Jingli felt wary. There were many old people outside. Would a fight hurt these old people?
She moved slightly and walked towards the corner. Just when she was about to take action, a person stood up under the bag in the corner, and she was an acquaintance.

"Haitang?" Jing Li looked at the person in front of her in shock, still not putting down the dagger in her hand.

The Begonia in front of her lost half of her former charm in Wangyue Tower, and her whole body was dirty and smelly. If it weren't for the salted fish put here, I would have probably smelled her as soon as she came in.

The eyes on her thin face were even bigger, but there was no hope in them as before. When she saw Jingli, she also looked at Jingli with joy, and looked at Jingli with tears in her eyes: "Miss Jing!"

Seeing that she was indeed not in any danger, Jing Li quietly put away the dagger: "Why are you here?"

Haitang sat on the pile of salted fish and told Jingli what had happened these days.

Haitang was originally a lady from an official family. Because of her grandfather's book writing, someone plotted against her and she was imprisoned and her family was confiscated. The men were killed and the women were put into the Jiaofangsi. After traveling around the country, she finally became the oiran of Wangyue Tower.

When the city of Qingzhou was destroyed, a distant cousin of hers found her, and the two of them escaped desperately. Unexpectedly, when passing by Wuzui Mountain, her cousin fell ill, and she went to look for water. When she came back, her cousin had been killed. The bandits took the mountain.

As a weak woman, she did not dare to confront the bandits, so she could only hide quietly in the cave behind, and feed her cousin some water and food every night during the free time.

The bandits usually don't enter the cave except for grabbing food and putting it inside, so Haitang has been hiding inside for the past few days and no one has noticed her.

Today I saw someone coming, so I hid in a hurry, but I heard someone talking about Jingli, and later I heard Jingli's voice again before I dared to come out.

Jingli thought to herself: Could it be that the person who spied on last night was Haitang?But Haitang shouldn't be in such danger!

Haitang hurriedly knelt down after saying this: "Girl, I know you are extremely powerful, and I ask you to help me and look at my brother."

Jing Li nodded and took Haitang to the scholar's room. The man's face looked much better than before. Haitang hurriedly stepped forward to check.

Jing Li said from the side: "I just went up the mountain last night. I was too busy settling in and couldn't take care of him. I just gave him some water. He looks much better than yesterday. There shouldn't be any big problem."

"I don't think the bandits have beaten him. Your cousin is still ill. What kind of disease is this?"

Haitang looked embarrassed and said nothing, and Jingli stopped asking. At this time, the scholar seemed to sense something and slowly woke up.

Haitang excitedly helped him up: "Brother, what do you think? But what's wrong with it?"

The man looked at Jing Li weakly and smiled slightly: "Thank you girl for saving my life!"

Jing Li was a little dazzled for a moment. This person must have been too good-looking. With such a frail appearance, if she were a woman, she would be as beautiful as holding a peach in her heart.

Jing Li came back to her senses and said a little: "It's okay, we are all acquaintances. Besides, I can't help you much. It's just a convenient matter."

Then she asked Haitang what her next plan was, but Haitang glanced at her cousin inadvertently. Her cousin said weakly: "If the girl doesn't give up, please take us two siblings with you. It's a bit troublesome. I don’t know if it will disrupt the girl’s plan?”

Those eyes looked at Jingli pitifully, as clear and innocent as a deer looking back in the morning mist.Xiao Su, who was called over to deliver the meal, couldn't bear it: "Captain, why don't we take the siblings with us? The war is in chaos. This girl and the young master are both so beautiful. What will happen if we encounter bad guys again?"

The scholar followed up and said weakly: "I will definitely not be held back by eating the girl's rations. I also learned some martial arts when I was young. When I am in good health, I can hunt some game to repay the girl."

Haitang looked at Jingli with tears in her eyes: "I know this is embarrassing for the girl. When I escaped, I brought some gold leaves with me. I know that the girl doesn't value these mundane things, but now our siblings have nothing to do but entrust the girl to her. We have a long way to go, so please have some mercy, girl."

Jing Li looked at Xiao Su who was about to cry and felt a little irritated: "Okay, okay, just follow, let's make a deal first, we don't have enough people to serve the young master!"

She really doesn’t want to take anyone else with her!Especially with such a sick man, what if he is going to die halfway!
Haitang cried with joy: "It is designated that no one else can take care of it. Don't worry, girl, we will definitely not delay the girl's schedule!"

The scholar stared at Jingli with bright eyes: "Thank you for your help, girl!"

Xiao Su hurriedly handed over the porridge: "Hurry up and feed your brother some while it's hot. It's so pitiful that he didn't take good care of himself when he was sick."

Haitang gratefully took the porridge, blew it carefully before slowly scooping it up and feeding it to her. Xiao Su couldn't stand it, "Oh my god!"It's been so long, how can I still be as particular about feeding him as I am about serving the young master?

It was not until noon that the men finished moving the grain and meat in the cave, and then pulled out several livestock carts on the mountain and loaded the grain into the carts.

The women were not idle either. They searched all over the mountain for bedsheets, bedding and clothing, and transformed the gangsters' clothing into gloves or children's clothing for the men. They also took some time off to make shoes for the men. It was too expensive to wear shoes while walking. During the past few days of repairs, I quickly made two pairs to prepare.

The girls were in a hurry to sew the sheets into bags. There were too many things to be packed along the way, including dried meat and dry food. They had to be packed so that no one could see them.

The old ladies were busy making some dry food and dried meat. They still had to walk for several days. If the journey was inconvenient, they would have to make do with the food.

The old people quickly checked the wheelbarrow's wheels, repaired those that could be repaired, and replaced those that were too worn.

Dalang and the others took out all their weapons, and the blacksmith taught them how to sharpen the rolled blades, and then oiled and maintained them.

Zhao Orion and An took the people to make some more arrowheads, but unfortunately they didn't have a stove, otherwise they would have turned the hoes into farm tools and let the blacksmith make some arrowheads.

Fortunately, this mountain king was a soldier, so he found a lot of arrowheads on the mountain, and the blacksmith took people to polish them.

Jingli was discussing with the blacksmith how to make arrowheads sharper. Xiaosu came to her and said that there were several women who wanted to go with them, and some women didn't want to leave. They just asked if they could leave some food for them. .

Jing Li frowned slightly: "Go and tell them that the food can be kept with them for two months. If you want to leave with us, you can bring it to the foot of the mountain at most. We won't take anyone away."

Jing Li walked up to Mr. Jing who was busy registering food: "Master, please let someone leave some food rations for those women!"

(End of this chapter)