Bai Zhong followed Jing Yu and wandered the streets of Geyang.

Jing Yu led the way, while introducing Geyang's customs to Bai Zhong, when he was about to go, he also needed to supervise the purchase of supplies, separate from Bai Zhong and the two, and agree to meet at the dock on the shore after an hour.

"Is there anything you'd like to buy?"

Bai Zhong looked at the street of Geyang for a while, although it is not as prosperous as Xianyang, it has everything, and many things can be bought.

Ying Shu shook her head slightly and said, "I don't have what I want, can you take a walk with me?" ”

"Absolutely."

Baek Joong took Young-sook's hand and walked slowly.

After several days on the ship, they were really bored, and it was quite pleasant that they could finally move around.

Ying Shuqiao's face was flushed, but she found that the pedestrians around her didn't care about this, so she took Bai Zhong's hand and followed her, in fact, what was on the street, she didn't care at all, her whole heart was on Bai Zhong's body.

At this moment, a thin figure rushed out of the street next to them and bumped into them.

"Don't let her run!"

There were two men behind him, and they chased after him fiercely.

After the figure bumped into Bai Zhong, she fell backwards and fell, still grabbing two hot steamed cakes in her hands, she was still a little girl of three or four years old, her clothes were tattered, her hair was messy, and her face was dirty, looking very pitiful.

The two men who caught up saw it, grabbed the little girl, and wanted to hit someone.

"Wait, what are you going to do?"

Bai Zhong immediately stopped it.

It's just that his Guanzhong accent can't communicate with the Chu dialect here, and the other party can't understand his words, and vice versa.

Seeing the two steamed cakes in the little girl's hand, as well as the two angry men, Bai Zhong quickly understood what was happening, it should be this girl who stole something and was discovered, and then they chased it out, so it happened that the little girl bumped into Bai Zhong's body.

Ying Shu snatched the little girl over, protected her behind her, couldn't see the steamed cakes, and didn't think much about Bai Zhong, and asked, "Why are you chasing her?" ”

One of the men asked, "What are you talking about?" ”

The two sides did not understand the language, and they still could not communicate.

When the two men saw Bai Zhong's clothes, they shouldn't be ordinary people, and they didn't dare to mess around, they just stared at the little girl fiercely.

The movement here will soon be seen by others, and nearby pedestrians will come to watch.

Bai Zhong was feeling a headache, how to find a translator, Jing Yu happened to pass by here, and found that Bai Zhong was still the protagonist of this street bustle, and walked in helplessly.

"What happened?"

Jing Yu, as an envoy of the Chu State, was of course proficient in many Chinese, so a brief understanding of the situation was just as Bai Zhong thought.

"The troublesome boy helped me tell him that I gave the money for the two steamed cakes."

Bai Zhong wanted to give money, but found that Qin Chu's currency was different, so he said helplessly: "Childe lend me a little money." ”

Jing Yu smiled: "General Bai is kind-hearted, but two steamed cakes are not worth much, I gave them." ”

He took out the money and gave it to the two men, and the onlookers dispersed.

When the little girl learned that she was safe, she pulled the corners of Bai Zhong and Ying Shu's clothes, knelt down and bowed deeply, and then grabbed the steamed cakes and trotted away, as if there was something urgent.

Yingshu looked at the little girl's back with some concern.

Bai Zhong understood her thoughts and said, "Childe, let's go get busy first, let's go and take a look." ”

The two of them said goodbye to Jing Yu and followed behind the little girl.

Leaving Geyang City, he came outside under a big tree.

A ragged woman, half-leaning against a tree trunk, with her eyes closed and pale, did not look well.

She is the mother of the little girl, and both mother and daughter are refugees from the vicinity of Geyang.

"Mother!"

The little girl whispered, "I have something to eat, so I don't have to starve!" ”

She took her mother's hand, shook it gently for a while, and found that the woman did not wake up, and after a while, she seemed to understand what was happening, threw the steamed cake on the ground, hugged her mother and cried bitterly, crying: "Mother, you can't leave me ......"

Although Bai Zhong and Ying Shu couldn't understand what she said, they could feel her sadness, and this little girl was very pitiful.

"The corpses are cold!"

Bai Zhong stepped forward to check for a moment, the woman had no vital signs, if there was still a trace of breath, he could still use the Nine Flowers Jade Dew Pill to continue his life, and now he was powerless.

Looking at the characteristics on her body, she should have been tortured by a serious illness before her death, and she died of illness.

Sensing that someone was coming, the little girl timidly raised her head, looked at the two of them very vigilantly, and hugged her mother's arm tightly.

Ying Shu squatted down, took her hand, and said gently: "Don't be afraid, we are not bad people, will we take her away?" ”

Her last half sentence was said to Bai Zhong.

The little girl's mother died, and she didn't know how to survive in the future, maybe she would starve to death in the wild, and she was not a bad child, she would steal steamed cakes, and it was also for her seriously ill mother.

"Good!"

Bai Zhong agreed, and said, "Mother is no longer here, you will go back with us in the future, okay?" ”

The little girl didn't understand, but looked at them with tears in her eyes, and then hugged her mother's body and cried bitterly.

Yingshu picked her up and comforted: "Don't cry, don't cry." ”

She cried even more heartbreakingly.

When Bai Zhong saw Ying Sook comforting the girl, he dug a pit and buried the body.

During this period, the little girl still hugged Bai Zhong's leg and did not let him fill the soil, but Ying Shu picked up the person, and finally completed this simple funeral.

"I'll take you away, okay?"

Yingshu is as gentle as she can.

Although the little girl did not understand, she was very clever and clever, and understood what they were going to do, so she knelt down first, kowtowed heavily to her mother, and then got up to wipe the tears from her face and nodded gently.

"That's good!"

Ying Shu picked her up distressedly and went back to the dock together.

As soon as he returned to the boat, Bai Zhong saw that Jing Yu had also returned.

"General Bai, what happened in the end?"

Jing Yu asked.

Bai Zhong briefly told the little girl about it.

"Come on, go to a nearby house and help the child buy two sets of clean clothes and come back." Jing Yu ordered.

In this era, there are no ready-made clothes, they are all bought fabrics and sewn according to the size, or they weave and sew their own fabrics.

Money can do a lot of things, and after a while, the clothes were delivered.

Ying Shu treated the little girl as her own daughter, carried her back to the boat, asked her subordinates to prepare hot water, and bathed her personally.

"It's pathetic!"

Jing Yu sighed: "At the beginning of spring, there was a torrential rain in the upper reaches of the Huai River, and the river swelled, destroying many people's homes. ”

After a few days of communication, Bai Zhong felt that Jing Yu was not bad, and he might be able to become a friend, and said, "Fortunately, there is a son, otherwise I don't know what to do." ”

Jing Yu waved his hand and said, "Don't say too much, I'm ready to go, probably the day after tomorrow, I can reach Shouchun." ”

So they got on board together.

The fleet set sail again and went south along the Huai River.