Chapter 18
Real or Fake Confusion
“She’s not going to make it. Quick, now!”
Qing Feng picked up the knife. Her breathing was rapid, and the moment she raised her hand, it hung weakly.
She was too badly hurt, like a wolf in its death throes.
The refugees had finally waited for this moment. They raised their weapons high and smiled victoriously.
Qing Feng lowered her eyes and gave up on counterattacking. She used her entire body to envelop Stinky in her arms.
“Ah pu… Ah pu…” Stinky was crying and shouting at the same time.
For some reason, at this moment, she suddenly recalled the days when she was fighting against her companions in the Dark Guards Team when she was young.
It was even crueler than it was now, but she had survived alone.
She glanced again at Stinky, whose eyes were swollen from crying. There was a hint of regret in her dark eyes.
“Go to hell!”
The moment Qing Feng closed her eyes.
Chu Tianbao jumped into the air. The sword light was dazzling, like thousands of raindrops attacking.
The refugees stopped in their tracks and looked down mechanically. Their bodies were covered in bloody holes. Before they could say anything, they collapsed unwillingly.
The completely wounded Qing Feng relaxed and quietly looked at Stinky in her arms. Her dark eyes were filled with gentleness.
In an instant, Bai Wutong seemed to be watching a scene of a tiger sniffing the roses.
Qing Feng was a woman. She hadn’t noticed before.
It was also possible that Qing Feng was too handsome and made people forget his gender.
She suddenly felt sorry for her.
Bai Wutong picked up Stinky and said to Lin Yue, who wanted to kill Qing Feng with a sword, “Forget it. She’s about to die.”
Hearing Bai Wutong’s words, Lin Yue put away his sword and looked at her coldly.
Qing Feng closed her eyes dismissively.
Lin Yue gritted his teeth and snorted. He hurriedly chased after Bai Wutong and Chu Tianbao.
Stinky’s face was covered in mottled blood. Bai Wutong wiped him with a warm towel and realized that his forehead was a little hot.
After being tormented for so many days and having suffered such a huge shock just now, it would be strange if he didn’t fall sick.
The troublesome thing was that children could not use medicine when they were sick.
Bai Wutong changed him into clean clothes and cooled him down with a cold towel.
She remembered that there was still a fever patch in the RV space. After sending Lin Yue to scout the way, she quickly took it out of the RV space and stuck it under Stinky’s armpit.
When Lin Yue returned, they quickly continued on their way. On the way, Bai Wutong kept changing Stinky’s cold towel.
His body temperature rose and dropped continuously. When she applied the cold towel, the temperature quickly decreased then rose again.
Lin Yue was extremely anxious. He wished he could reach Beiyun City immediately.
However, without horses, it would take at least five days to walk.
Children could not withstand a long journey.
However, when it was almost dark, a storm started brewing.
Bai Wutong wrapped Stinky tightly. There were straw raincoats, bamboo hats, and umbrellas in the space, but she did not dare to take them out. She could only say, “Let’s find a place to hide from the rain first!”
Lin Yue thought of the farm where he bought the goats and hurriedly said, “There’s a farm up ahead. Let’s stay there for the night!”
There was no place to shelter from the wind and rain.
Bai Wutong nodded. “Okay, let’s walk faster.” It would be best to find a place to stay.
They quickened their pace in the rain and soon arrived at Zhao’s Farm.
The farm was on very high ground. In order to prevent refugees and bandits from entering, a high fence had been built and there were people guarding it.
As soon as Bai Wutong and the others approached, someone warned loudly, “Get lost!”
Lin Yue, having had experience, took out a silver ingot. “Warrior, let us stay the night! The young child is sick. Please make things easy for us!”
The burly man guarding the door saw that Bai Wutong was indeed carrying a child in her arms, so he said, “Wait, I’ll ask my father!”
Village Chief Zhao appeared after a while. After observing for a while, he recognized Lin Yue as the person who had spent a lot of money to buy the milk goat. He said, “Let them in.”
Zhao Pengfei immediately walked down from the viewing platform and easily lifted the two boulders blocking the door.
The two boulders weighed at least a few hundred kilograms.
Not to mention Bai Wutong, even Lin Yue and Chu Tianbao widened their eyes.
“How impressive…”
Zhao Pengfei smiled heartily. “It’s nothing, it’s nothing.”
Bai Wutong glanced at him. This meant that it was not his limit?
Village Chief Zhao said to Bai Wutong and the others, “Just make do at my place tonight.”
Lin Yue cupped his fists in gratitude and placed ten taels of silver into Village Chief Zhao’s hand.
The smile on Village Chief Zhao’s face deepened. “Follow me.” Then he instructed Zhao Pengfei, “My eyelids have been twitching today. You must guard the door well tonight.”
“Got it, Dad!”
Village Chief Zhao’s family was relatively wealthy. Their house was made of large limestone, and the main room was made of green tiles. Other people’s houses were basically made of straw.
In addition to Zhao Pengfei, the youngest son, Village Chief Zhao had two other sons. The eldest son, Zhao Yuan, and the second son, Zhao Sheng, were both very burly.
This was also the reason why Village Chief Zhao dared to bring them home.
Village Chief Zhao gave them a room and asked his wife, Madam Yang, to bring them some simple food.
There were three bowls of porridge so little that grains of rice could be seen, a plate of stir-fried eggs with chives, and three pieces of fermented bean curd.
Madam Yang said in embarrassment, “We only have these things at home. Please don’t mind.”
Bai Wutong shook her head. “Thank you for your kindness, Auntie. We’re already very satisfied to have this food.”
The Zhao family only had slightly more food left. The commoners from the other families only dared to eat a simple porridge.
Madam Yang smiled. “Then I won’t disturb your rest.”
Lin Yue suddenly stopped Madam Yang and asked, “Auntie, does anyone have milk goats?”
There was still goat milk in Bai Wutong’s space, but Lin Yue thought that there was none.
Madam Yang turned around and looked at Bai Wutong, as if she was feeling regretful that Bai Wutong did not have any milk despite her good figure.
Fortunately, Lin Yue and Chu Tianbao did not understand the meaning in the Madam Yang’s eyes.
Only then did Bai Wutong not feel that awkward.
Madam Yang thought for a moment and said, “There are no more milk goats. But my dog has laid a litter of babies, and its milk is quite good.”
The villagers often scolded the dogs bitches. Madam Yang was afraid that they would despise the dogs.
There was nothing to pick on at this point.
Lin Yue’s eyes were filled with joy as he took out a banknote. “Then I’ll have to trouble Auntie to squeeze some milk.”
Madam Yang had never seen banknotes before, so she was stunned when she received them.
After a while, she realized that these were notes that could be exchanged for money!
Her face flushed. “How much silver is this?” she asked. She could not read.
Lin Yue said, “Fifty taels.”
Madam Yang nearly fainted from joy.
A little dog milk actually made more money than she had ever seen in her life.
She quickly said excitedly, “Wait for me. I’ll go and milk the dog now!”
Bai Wutong was quite surprised that Lin Yue could still take out banknotes after giving her so many.
Of course, Lin Yue wouldn’t let her know.
Their master had already hidden banknotes at every designated location in the Yan Kingdom. If he lacked money on the way, he could secretly dig them up and use them.
Soon, Madam Yang came over with a large bowl of dog milk.
In addition, she had brought a change of clothes for the three of them. She said warmly, “These are my son and daughter-in-law’s clothes. Hurry up and change into them before you catch a cold.”
Thinking of something, she glanced at Bai Wutong and patted her head. “Look at how muddle-headed my husband is. I’ll arrange another room for you.”
Everyone knew what was really going on, but no one exposed it.