Chapter 69: A panic in my heart

The pedestrians gradually dispersed, although the government would distribute porridge every day, but the population of You County was here, and those two buckets of rice porridge were not an exaggeration for them.

Those who were hungry yesterday are still hungry today, and they can only hold on to their lives and wait for tomorrow's rice porridge.

If you are lucky, you may be able to get a bowl, but if you are unlucky, you will only starve to death.

Pei Yungui saw at a glance that they were all people wearing rag clothes, skinny, and sallow-faced, like walking corpses, deprived of their souls, and only a shell remained.

There is no rice porridge, and there is no need to stop.

Everyone hurried to the hospital with heavy steps.

They are all still sick, although they believe the words of the county lord and are sure that there is divine water in the rice porridge to ward off plague and ward off evil spirits, but the habit of seeing a doctor and healing still cannot be broken.

So the exhausted patients all supported each other and rushed to the only hospital in You County.

In the bustling crowd, a suppressed cry suddenly came.

Pei Yungui's heart jumped.

After last night's incident, she was already very sensitive to crying, so she hurriedly pushed through the crowd to find the source of the cry.

In front of a closed shop, a thin woman sat on her knees, holding a drowsy child in her arms.

The child was dying, and the woman tirelessly asked for help from the passers-by, her eyes full of helplessness and hope.

But everyone is a patient whose brain is tied to the waistband of his pants, and he can't take care of his own life, so what strength does he have to take care of others? can only turn a blind eye, leaving a cold back.

Pei Yungui strode up, thinking that the child was sick, and asked in a panic, "Auntie, the child is sick, do you need help to send it to the hospital?"

When the woman heard Pei Yungui's inquiry, she hurriedly raised her head, with undried tears on her cheeks, but her face was resurrected, as if she saw a life-saving straw.

The stranger turned a blind eye to her pleas, and this girl was the only one who answered her.

"I don't know if there is any food left over from the girl, my son ......" The woman bit her lip, ashamed to do this begging thing, but her eyes fell on her son's dying face, so she could only be heartbroken, cheekily gritted her teeth, and said, "My son has not eaten for three days, and he is about to die, if the girl still has surplus food in her pocket, please be kind and save him......

Pei Yungui didn't say a word, took out a cake from his bag and stuffed it into the woman's hand.

Fortunately, there was still a piece of oil cake left in the dry food she was rushing to, and she didn't care about leaving anything for herself, and she only had the word "save people" in her heart.

She had already seen a life fall, this sad and miserable image, and she didn't want to see it a second time.

"Hurry up and feed the child, this thing is dry, do you need water?" Pei Yungui turned around and said, "Husband, give me some water, I'm afraid this child won't be able to eat."

Gu Rin had been firmly behind Pei Yungui, and forced back those passers-by who were eyeing him with his eyes, and suddenly heard a "husband", and was stunned for a while, and realized Pei Yungui's gaze on him, and then he realized that he was calling himself.

He took off the kettle from his waist, handed it to Pei Yungui, squatted down while he was free, took the child's hand, and put it on his pulse.

Pei Yungui held the child's head and fed him a little water first.

The child's chapped lips touched a little wetness, and like a fish in the exhausted river returning to the river, the instinct for survival was rekindled, and he sucked eagerly at the mouth of the pot.

Pei Yungui was feeding the child water, and at the same time glancing at Gu Rin, who was taking the child's pulse, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

She thought that Gu Rin only knew how to fight and kill, and strategize with the court, but she never knew that he would take the pulse.

Gu Rin let go of the child's little hand, touched his head, and said to the woman, "Your son is fine, but he hasn't eaten anything, and his body is weak."

The pulse was normal, and except for the weakness of long-term hunger, there were no symptoms of illness among other people in You County.

Gu Rinfeng's eyes narrowed slightly.

The mother and son were lucky.

The woman felt again and again

excited, while wiping tears, while sighing that the sky has eyes, let himself meet a pair of nobles.

After a while, the child woke up slowly, his eyes were gloomy, but he was still dumb and shouted in a low voice. The woman hurriedly lifted the child's body, and Pei Yungui asked her to open the oil-wrapped paper and feed the child something.

The moment the oil-wrapped paper is opened, the fragrance of the flatbread spreads densely.

The smell of grease was barely left by the monstrous stench, but it still reached everyone's nostrils.

The hurriers listened to the steps, turned around, and their hungry eyes fell steadily on the big pie.

Some of them had eaten bland rice porridge for more than ten days, and some had not eaten for two days, when they suddenly saw a cake bubbling with oil, which was like walking down the street and seeing a piece of gold. qs

Although vomiting and diarrhea have exhausted the body's energy, the temptation of flavored food is undoubtedly great for them, this temptation can temporarily offset the exhaustion of the body and awaken the desire to survive in the depths of people's minds.

I don't know who rushed out first, and the next moment, one after another, as if they had lost their minds, rushed to Pei Yungui's side regardless of it, as if they were being swept away by the huge waves of the wind, layer after layer, tirelessly slapping on the embankment.

There was no room for anything else in their eyes, only the piece of bread in their eyes.

As long as you grab it, you can fill your empty and sore belly, and you can live one more day.

Pei Yungui's eyelids jumped, and when he raised his head, he met the eyes of those vicious wolves, and his eyes suddenly trembled.

But it was too late, and people from all sides formed a barrier and surrounded them.

The woman's hands trembled, and she quickly tore off the corner of the flatbread and stuffed it into the child's mouth, looking at Pei Yungui at a loss.

"Hide your things, don't run around!"

Gu Rin's legs swept away the nearest day, and the phoenix's eyes narrowed into a sharp arc.

No one expected this sudden turn of events.

The crowd at the front had already rushed over, stretching out their hands and pushing each other, trying to reach the woman's clothes.

Pei Yungui got up and blocked the woman behind him, and said sharply, "Stop, stop, don't come!"

A scolding of the crowd would have little effect.

In the face of death and hunger, all benevolence and morality are reduced to a joke.

They push and shove eagerly, and their longing gaze seems to drown people out.

Pei Yungui met such a look, and his heart trembled fiercely.

Suddenly, someone grabbed Pei Yungui's hair and led her into the crowd, as if to devour her in the crowd.

Her scalp ached, and she slapped the steel-like hand with great effort, but in vain, like a cat pinched by the back of the neck, at the mercy of others, powerless to resist.

The body was uncontrollably stripped into the tide.

Her face was squeezed out of shape, and the hand that was imprisoned in her hair grew stronger and stronger, as if it was about to remove her scalp from her head.

A steady stream of pain disturbed his thoughts, and a messy stench rushed to the tip of his nose.

A trace of despair flashed in Pei Yungui's eyes.

I can't escape.

In the afterglow, she vaguely glimpsed Gu Rin protecting the mother and son, avoiding the endless crowd. There is still a trace of luck in my heart.

Fortunately, it was himself who was arrested, not the mother and daughter.

In any case, she can't die, but the mother and son are not.

Although Gu Rin is strong in martial arts, facing so many people, he lacks skills after all.

What's more, the crowd that stirred was not gangsters, not assassins, but unarmed civilians.

Not only did he have to protect the mother and son, but he also couldn't hurt the people before and after, and for a while, he gradually showed his exhaustion.

Gu Rin slapped away the person who stepped forward with his palm irritably, and suddenly found that at some point, Pei Yungui had already broken up with them.

In vain, the heart leaked a beat, under the eyes

Consciously looking for that familiar figure in the black head.

The two of them looked at each other unexpectedly as they crossed the layers of the crowd.

Gu Rin saw Pei Yungui.

The hand that was entangled in Pei Yungui's hair was very strong, she was pulled, and the whole person showed a backward posture, her facial features were twisted together, and because she was squeezed by layers of people, she couldn't breathe, showing her embarrassment.

She couldn't speak, so the moment she saw Gu Rin, she tried her best to open her mouth and said with her mouth, "You guys go first!"

Pei Yun can't die after all, but the life of the child in the woman's arms arouses fragility.

Gu Rin's eyes shrank, and while leading the woman to evade the capture of the crowd, he stared at her stubbornly.

Pei Yungui's face has been squeezed into blue and purple by the crowd, even if it is covered by layers of makeup, you can get a glimpse of the emptiness on her face.

She asked them to go first, but Gu Rin couldn't take a step to escape no matter what.

Seeing the slender figure that was gradually about to be devoured, for some reason, his heart suddenly emptied, and a trace of panic and helplessness suddenly flashed.

That feeling of panic is very similar to a person who has fallen from a building, trying to grab something in a hurry, reaching out to catch it, but falling short.

Pei Yungui saw that Gu Rin was still in place, and he was anxious, thinking that he didn't see the shape of his mouth, so he grew his mouth and spit out word by word: "You go first, I can't die!"

Gu Rin exhaled a deep breath of turbidity, his heart sank, and he asked the woman to hold her child tightly, and then scooped up the woman with one hand, carried light skills, and spun up.

Pei Yungui caught a glimpse of Gu Rin's movements in the crowd, and the stone in his heart fell to the ground.

Fortunately, General Gu is a smart man, and he finally understood his words, and now he only needs to think about how he can break through the shackles of this group of people.

But who knew that in the blink of an eye, and when she looked up again, Pei Yungui saw General Gu, who had just been praised by her, stepping on the shoulders of the crowd and flying towards her.

Pei Yungui: ......

You're alright, you're alright!

I'm asking you to pack up and run away by yourself, not to let you turn back and send me to death!