Chapter 147: Saving Grace
"Don't talk nonsense!"
At this time, an old lady came out of nowhere.
She should be the child's family, and after drinking the child, she showed a wry smile to the two of them, "The child is not sensible, I have disturbed the two of you, please don't tell the two bosses what happened just now." β
"Don't worry, we're not people who can talk nonsense, but the old woman ......"
Jiang Cha thought about the wording euphemistically, "This battalion commander...... Is drinking blood and eating raw meat just a rumor, or is it true? β
Hearing the battalion commander, the old lady's demeanor showed a little frightened.
She "shh β
Jiang Cha and Sheng Nanqi glanced at each other covetously when they heard this.
It doesn't seem to be a question and answer, but it seems to be answered.
No way, Jiang Cha straightened up and showed her a kind smile, "Thank you for reminding me, you can take your grandson and go first." β
"You're still going?" The old lady thought it was incredible.
Jiang Cha said with a smile, "We are not afraid, and we will protect ourselves." β
The old lady admired their boldness, said no more, and took her grandson's hand and left.
Without children to stop them, the two continued to move towards the tiger skin tent, fortunately, the camp was not very old, but after a while, they arrived at their destination.
The smell here is better than the surroundings, with the aroma of wormwood.
"I thought it would smell blood, but it didn't." Jiang Cha looked at Sheng Nanqi curiously.
Sheng Nanqi was bolder, walked to the tent, and directly wanted to open the curtain.
Before he could go inside, a man's low warning voice sounded not far away, "Who asked you to come!" β
Jiang Cha followed the prestige, the man was dressed in a tiger skin beast costume, his strong chest was half-naked, and he carried a bow and arrow on his back with a scimitar pinned to his waist, looking like a hunter.
"Dare to ask if it's the battalion commander?" Jiang Cha didn't dare to make a mistake, pulled Lasheng Nanqi, and whispered.
Sheng Nanqi seemed to be more familiar with the man in front of her than her.
He looked up and down and frowned, "It's you?" β
The man also seems to know Sheng Nanqi.
He first replied to Jiang Cha's words, "It's just a homeless man, I can't afford the word adult, and this battalion commander is not what I want to be." β
The tone is indifferent, with an attitude of rejection.
Immediately after looking at Sheng Nanqi, he hugged his fists, "See you again, Sheng Gongzi." β
The two are of the same size, but Sheng Nanqi is taller, although the battalion commander is running around and exercising all the year round, but after all, he is a homeless person, sleeping in the open every day, and he will definitely not be able to keep up in terms of nutrition.
"You two know each other?" Jiang Cha's gaze wandered between the two.
Sheng Nanqi shook his head, "It's not like I know each other, I've met once before." β
"It's not just once, last time it was thanks to Sheng Gongzi that I was rescued from the jackal's mouth." The battalion commander said, "Maybe Sheng Gongzi doesn't think it's anything, but for me, it's a life-saving grace." β
When Jiang Cha heard this, he seemed to understand whether he knew how to smile or not, "I see, that's quite fateful." β
After speaking, he touched Sheng Nanqi with his elbow and whispered, "This battalion commander seems to be quite easy to talk, why are the people in the camp afraid of him?" β
Although the voice of complaining was small, it was still captured by the battalion commander.
He said: "The girl doesn't need the battalion commander to call me, just call me Erlang." β
"This ...... Isn't it a little too presumptuous. Jiang Cha smiled.
"No, it's just a homeless guy who stutters everywhere."
Erlang pointed to the empty camp next to him, "It's not convenient to stand and talk, it's getting dark, I'll light the campfire in a while, let's sit and talk in detail." β
The other party unexpectedly did not reject them.
Jiang Cha was overjoyed in his heart, and he was also happy to be welcomed, so he pulled Sheng Nanqi out of the tent and walked to the two haystacks next to him and sat down.
Erlang first carried a basket of prey to the tent on his back, and then came out with his hands clapped and picked up a few sticks of firewood to light the stove.
The warm red fire lit up, and seeing that Erlang also sat down, Jiang Cha hurriedly asked the question he had been asking for a long time, "Battalion commander, is this entire homeless camp now under your management?" β
"Didn't you say that you don't want to be a battalion commander?"
Erlang was a little helpless, he rubbed the ashes on his hands, and his tanned face showed a little impatience, "If I wasn't afraid that after I left, these people would die on the road, and Lao Tzu would have left early." β
Seeing that he spoke so unkindly, Sheng Nanqi raised his eyebrows.
"Dead on the road? What you mean is that you whole outcasts are not wandering aimlessly, but organized and planned pigs going somewhere. β
Erlang nodded, "What Sheng Gongzi said is extremely true, our goal is the capital, and only by going to the capital can we get justice for all the dead relatives." β
"Get justice?" Jiang Cha was a little puzzled, "But doesn't it mean that because of the epidemic, you have to run out of your hometown?" β
"Hmph." Erlang snorted disdainfully, "It's true that there is a cause of the epidemic, but the reason why it was infected was because the people in the capital deliberately let people test the poison in the name of testing the medicine, and as a result, when they saw that the situation could not be controlled, these people immediately fled." β
Unexpectedly, there was this factor in the middle, Jiang Cha was slightly shocked, "How do you know that you are from the capital?" β
"Official uniform."
Erlang said, "I was still a miscellaneous boy who didn't know anything at that time, and although they were disguised on the outside, I still discovered them. β
Jiang Cha asked again, "What are they doing this for?" β
"That's what I want to know."
A clear trace of disgust crossed Jiro's face.
"Our town was supposed to live and work in peace, but they destroyed the mess and put a seal, they lied that the whole town was infected, and in the end I took a group of people who were okay to sneak away from the guards and swim out of the small river at the gate of the town."
"There's such a thing." Listening to this, Jiang Cha also became indignant.
"But when you get to the capital, it may not be possible to seek justice." Sheng Nanqi said calmly.
"I know." Jiro's tone began to become a little self-deprecating.
"When I came out, I was also full of enthusiasm, and I thought that I could bring the people in the town together to work together, and the result was ...... Oh, it's not so easy to control a group of people, it's too naΓ―ve to think about it. β
Some of the people brought out were old, weak, sick and disabled, and most of them were young people who were healthy and able to support themselves.
These young people either couldn't stand the pain of wandering, so they found a random village to settle in the middle.
Either they are lazy to do anything, unwilling to do anything, or even like to rob and plunder, and exchange violence for food every day.
Originally, at the beginning, Erlang wanted to be responsible for the people he brought out, and in the early days, he was often alone looking for food, hunting, finding food and drink for the homeless, making tents, and providing shelter.