The Prince Wants to Assassinate Me Every Day-Chapter 152 - 85 Chongqing Trip (6) Arriving in Chongqing
Chapter 152: Chapter 85 Chongqing Trip (6) Arriving in Chongqing
The woman’s death, although it instilled a sliver of fear in the refugees, ultimately did not cause much of a stir.
To them, death was an all too commonplace matter, confronting them daily including the demise of their own relatives.
The sight of the woman’s gruesome corpse, sprawled out in the middle of the street, was bloody and cruel.
The official soldiers had completely withdrawn.
Xiao Jinxing released Ye Qichi’s lips.
Ye Qichu was eager to go out.
"Ye Qichi," Xiao Jinxing called her, "let’s go."
Meaning, they shouldn’t stick their necks out any longer; it was time to head for Yuzhou.
"I want to take a look."
"Ye Qichi!" Xiao Jinxing’s expression darkened, "She’s already dead."
"I know, I want to check on her child."
"She doesn’t have a child!" Xiao Jinxing enunciated firmly, "She was just seeking sympathy."
"But I feel like, she has a child!" Ye Qichi asserted resolutely.
Xiao Jinxing glared at her coldly.
The two locked in a standoff for a moment.
Ye Qichi had no intention of bickering with Xiao Jinxing; she directly made to move forward.
"Ye Qichi!" Xiao Jinxing grabbed her fiercely.
Clearly, Ye Qichi was now pushing his limits.
"Even if there is a child, what can we do with it? Given our current predicament, do you think we can still support a child! It will only be a burden to us!" Xiao Jinxing stated plainly.
So as far as Xiao Jinxing was concerned, whether the woman really had a child or not, he really didn’t care.
Ye Qichi said, "Bringing a child with us is actually more advantageous for our journey."
"Ye Qichi, now is not the time to overflow with compassion!" Xiao Jinxing’s face turned livid, "Even if you want to save someone, you have to save yourself first! We’re being pursued, we can’t even protect ourselves, how can you recklessly promise life to another?!"
Ye Qichi was indeed somewhat shaken by Xiao Jinxing’s words.
Xiao Jinxing was certainly a rational person, but rational people can be exceptionally callous.
To say whether he was wrong or not?!
He has a thousand reasons to tell you he’s not wrong.
But humans are emotional creatures; if they really lack emotions, are they still human.
Even in an apocalypse, the compassion between human beings remains unbreakable.
She gritted her teeth and told Xiao Jinxing earnestly, "We are currently wanted, with soldiers everywhere holding our portraits looking for us. Once they find us, I am sure to die, and can you guarantee that we can reach Yuzhou undiscovered now?! Nobody recognized us just now simply because they are too starved to even have the ability to observe other people’s faces and notice anything out of the ordinary. But what if we run into the soldiers, do you think we can escape their eyes?!"
"Which is why I oppose bringing others along!"
"That’s exactly why we should bring someone with us!" Ye Qichi said as calmly as she could, "If we disguise ourselves as peasants and bring along a child, with a bit of disguise we can easily fool the soldiers."
Xiao Jinxing’s eyes turned frosty.
The fact that he did not directly refuse meant that he was considering it.
"We still have one day’s travel to Yuzhou, and I can guarantee that as we get closer to Yuzhou, there will be more people looking for us. If we go just like this, what confidence do you have that we won’t be discovered by the soldiers?!" Ye Qichi pressed him, "None of our rescuers are with us now; Yuan Wenkang, Xiao Wu, where are they now? Can we meet up in Yuzhou?! No one knows! The only thing we can do is to protect ourselves to the utmost!"
Xiao Jinxing remained silent.
Typically, this meant agreement.
Ye Qichi didn’t waste words. She shook off Xiao Jinxing’s hand and walked out.
"Ye Qichi, don’t blame me for not reminding you, if that child becomes a burden, I definitely won’t be soft-hearted!" Xiao Jinxing made himself clear.
Ye Qichi pressed her lips together.
If it really came down to that, she wouldn’t persist foolishly either.
Ye Qichi quickly ran towards the street. She had noticed that when the woman was begging the soldiers for food, her gaze was towards the front left, meaning her child was very likely to be there.
She hurried over and among the group of refugees lying on the ground, she indeed found an infant in swaddling clothes.
Appearing to be no more than 7 or 8 months old.
The infant was pale, lips chapped, breathing but weak; her eyes were open, yet she was no longer crying.
