When Xiao Xuanye regained consciousness again, he felt himself swaying. He reluctantly opened his eyes and saw the dim sky.
It was already dawn, but it was very dark.
Turning his eyes, he saw disaster victims in ragged clothes and numb expressions next to him.
After Xiao Xuanye fainted, Sheng Nuan carried him to the road, and then met a wave of victims.
Seeing her carrying someone on her back, one of the victims asked Sheng Nuan to put the person on his cart... There were some pots, bowls, bedding and a sleepy child on the man's cart, and next to him
wife.
They were obviously in a difficult situation, but seeing that Sheng Nuan was carrying someone on his back, they still offered help.
Sheng Nuan thanked her and put Xiao Xuanye on the cart. When the victims stopped to rest, she asked the couple to help look after Xiao Xuanye. She turned around and walked into the woods to find something to eat.
A lot of bark has been stripped off the trees in the forest, and most of the edible ones have been taken away and eaten. It looks very desolate.
Sheng Nuan knew that the reason why it turned out like this was not only natural disasters, but also man-made disasters.
Not long after the invasion of the Southern Barbarians, disaster struck again. However, the Tang Emperor was deceived by treacherous ministers and only wanted peace in the world. He increased taxes and built palaces, making it even more difficult for the people who were already suffering from disasters to survive.
If the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty had not been stupid, it would not have been so easy for Xie Yuchen to take advantage of the riot and uprising to force the palace to rebel against terrorism...
After walking around in the woods, she took out a few potatoes from the space and then returned to the place where the victims rested.
Most of the victims had given up looking for food and just sat on the roadside to recover their strength. When they saw Sheng Nuan coming back with several huge potatoes, those people were shocked.
Returning to the family of three and Xiao Xuanye, Sheng Nuan took out a porcelain bottle from his arms and handed it to the woman with a sad face: "Young Master must have caught wind and cold. I saw that he has already had a fever. This concoction is from a doctor."
It is specially formulated to treat wind and cold. You feed it to him in three batches."
The woman was stunned and her eyes lit up.
Mothers are naturally worried when their children are sick, but they can't even find food, so where can they get medical treatment for their children?
The woman didn't have the slightest doubt or hesitation. She took the porcelain bottle with great gratitude, carefully poured some into the child's mouth, and then carefully put the porcelain bottle away.
"It's going to rain heavily soon. You should rest for a while and hurry up. Let's not leave here." Sheng Nuan put the handful of potatoes on the cart of the family of three, and then carried Xiao Xuanye on his back.
The woman was stunned and worried: "How can a girl be alone with a patient? If you don't mind, you can come with us."
Sheng Nuan wanted to let the injury on her leg rest for a while, but now that the heavy rain was coming, she decided to leave.
After all, she wasn't really running away, and she didn't have time to move forward slowly and leisurely.
Those potatoes and medicine were just gifts of thanks, and she couldn't give them anything better... On the way to escape, everyone was facing the test of life and death, so giving too much might not necessarily be a good thing.
After thanking him, Sheng Nuan took the lead and left with Xiao Xuanye on his back.
The woman paused, turned around and said to her man: "Master, the girl said it's going to rain heavily, otherwise we'd better leave quickly."
Someone next to me sneered: "She is the Rain Goddess. Does it rain when she says it will rain?"
The sky has been gray for several days, and there is no sign of rain.
The woman paused and didn't know how to react. When she saw that her man was obviously exhausted and needed a rest, she didn't say anything more. She stopped to light a fire, took out an iron pot, added water, took out three potatoes, and used a handful of rust to
Cut it open with a small knife and throw it in to cook.
The family hasn't eaten anything all day long.
Sheng Nuan walked forward quickly with Xiao Xuanye on her back. Not long after, heavy rain suddenly came.
On her back, Xiao Xuanye slowly opened his eyes...
He could feel the cold heavy rain falling on his body. Xiao Xuanye lay on Sheng Nuan's back and saw half of her shoulders and her legs in the mud.
There was blood oozing out from one place on the leg, and then it was washed away by the rain and became smudged.
She had injuries on her legs, but she carried him like this for who knows how long...
Xiao Xuanye's eyelashes trembled, and then he whispered: "Sheng Nuan."
He said: "Put me down, I'll wake up..."
Sheng Nuan heard his voice and knew that he had not really recovered.
"There is the City God's Temple in front of us, let's go in and take shelter from the rain."
After saying that, she gritted her teeth and speeded up, then rushed into the dilapidated City God's Temple with Xiao Xuanye on her back.
Although it is dilapidated, because of people's respect for ghosts and gods, the roof is very strong and does not leak. Therefore, the temple is still dry and there is still a lot of hay on the ground.
There was no one else in the Chenghuang Temple for the time being, so Sheng Nuan put Xiao Xuanye on the hay, walked around behind the statue, and then took out a wooden box.
"I found something..."
Although Xiao Xuanye had his eyes open, his consciousness was not fully awake. Sheng Nuan's explanation of the things taken out of the space was also perfunctory and casual.
She turned the tattered tables and chairs next to them into firewood. She moved a small open space to light a fire, and then squatted in front of Xiao Xuanye: "Your clothes are soaked and easy to catch the wind and cold. I will take off your coat for you to dry it."
…If you agree, just blink.”
Xiao Xuanye stared blankly at Sheng Nuan who was very close at hand.
Her hair was wet, her face was a little pale because of the rain, and her eyes looked even darker... She was actually more transparent than he had ever noticed.
Xiao Xuanye blinked, and then he saw Sheng Nuan take off his coat three times, his expression was calm and calm.
Hang Xiao Xuanye's coat on a broken chair and put it on the other side of the fire, just to block the cold wind blowing from the temple entrance.
Afterwards, Sheng Nuan set up an iron pot on the fire and started cooking porridge...
Xiao Xuanye was confused for a moment: Where did she find the ingredients for the pots and bowls?
But then she vaguely remembered that she just said she found it from behind the statue... She was quite lucky.
While Sheng Nuan was cooking the porridge, she turned Xiao Xuanye's clothes around and continued to bake.
It’s not that I’m really considerate, I just want him to get well soon… but I can’t abandon him, and I can’t let him be sick forever and have to be carried.
Behind him, Xiao Xuanye saw Sheng Nuan making food and baking clothes for him, but his own clothes were wet and he ignored her.
His eyelashes trembled and lowered...
At this moment, there was a loud noise at the entrance of the temple. A moment later, a group of victims rushed in, and they were all soaked in the rain.
The originally quiet ruined temple became chaotic and noisy. Fortunately, Sheng Nuan chose the innermost place near the wall from the beginning, where the hay was thicker and further away from the door.
After a while, the victims finally settled down and started to light a fire to dry their clothes. Some people didn't even have a fire source, so they took hay and lit it from someone else's fire.
But the firewood was limited, and they couldn't demolish the house. In the end, there were only three fires left by the victims.
You can hear someone's teeth chattering from the cold.
It was also at this time that the warm lean meat porridge was cooked, and the aroma began to fill the temple.
More and more eyes were looking towards her, and some of them were swallowing their saliva... Others saw Sheng Nuan alone as a "weak woman", with only a patient lying beside her, and their eyes began to turn evil.
At this time, a woman bit her lip and walked up to Sheng Nuan with a face filled with anxiety and shame.
Before she could speak, Sheng Nuan said coldly: "If there is no extra food, we will not share it with others."
There were so many victims that it was impossible to tell them apart. As long as they knew they could get food from her, those people would come one after another...
The woman was about to cry. She pulled out the last hairpin from her head and said, "Girl, please do it. We adults don't have to eat. The child hasn't eaten for almost two days... Please do it."
Sheng Nuan raised her eyes and saw an old lady hugging a little boy behind the woman. The little boy was very thin and had big eyes.
Sheng Nuan paused for a moment, then silently took out the remaining porridge and handed it to the woman: "My share will be given to your children. There will be no more."
She motioned to the empty pot.
The woman couldn't help thanking her profusely and insisted on keeping her hairpin, and returned to the child with the bowl of porridge: "Xiaobao, there is something to eat, there is something to eat..."
Sheng Nuan picked up the porridge for Xiao Xuanye and stirred it while blowing it. At this moment, a sharp sound sounded.
"Oh, there are still living Bodhisattvas like this in the world. They don't eat for others to eat. I'm afraid there's still plenty of food in the box, but they refuse to take it out to save people..."
