Traveling through famine: The space peasant girl

They really didn't dare to leave the child behind right now. If they did, he would basically be gone, because the refugees down there were also looking for boys between eight and ten years old, hoping to use this child in exchange for a spot to enter the city.

After entering the city, they can get houses, water and food. If they work harder, they can directly work in the garrison reserve of Jianmen Pass, which allows them to live a few more days.

They won't have to sleep in the open and go hungry. To be honest, this condition is very tempting. If they weren't taking care of the child now, they would probably want to find a job like this, which would not only support the whole family but also allow them to settle down. Then the child could be settled directly in Jianmen Pass and wait for the Zhang family to pick him up.

Wang Shiyu looked back at the place where they rested. Because it was a corner, she couldn't see the situation inside. The child was definitely looking in their direction nervously, but he didn't dare to move forward. After all, his life was now in the hands of the Wang family. Unlike before, nothing happened and he could even study the secret.

"Grandpa, can we put this child down? Will we have to carry him on the road? Or, we simply can't put this child down. We can't take him to Qiong Island, right?"

The old man followed Wang Shiyu's line of sight and saw a yellow earth wall blocking the view over there.

He was not sure what to do about this problem. After today, those injured in the explosion would definitely wake up, and their portraits would be posted everywhere at the city gates. There would be no other way. He had to go down the mountain openly to find out the situation. Even if he was in disguise, he would still attract attention. Those gossiping people below were no ordinary people. Their eyes were always on the lone people. As for what they were doing, he didn't know, so he ran away when the guards at the city gates changed.

Unless they find a way to arrive at the city gate with a large number of refugees, they will not be discovered and noticed by these people. However, there are no large numbers of refugees heading this way now. Almost all of them have rushed to Qianmen Town to seek survival, so this place will not attract the attention of others.

Those refugees who followed were all familiar with each other. The inexplicable appearance of a few unfamiliar people in the team would attract their attention, and they did not dare to take the risk.

However, they had managed to get here by hiding all the way from the front gate, and it was absolutely impossible for them to go back to Qianmen Town, especially since the Zhang family's team was about to arrive here. According to their schedule, it would only be within the next two days. They could only find a way to wait here, or think of other ways to leave here directly.

So the family had no choice but to hide in the mountains created by the earthquake, seeking a glimmer of hope and praying that those people would not find them. Plus, there were people chasing them from behind, ambushing them from all sides, and if they were not careful they would lose their lives.

Wang Shi was really convinced. What kind of unlucky person is Zhou Qingyun? Why does everyone want to stab him? And he has been running for so long without any problem, but the people around him are suffering. No, won’t their lives be lost to him in a while?

They didn't have any other choice. Even if they wanted to enter the city, they couldn't. After all, they had already alerted the enemy. Their portraits should be hung on the city wall by now. They felt very annoyed just thinking about it. How could they be so unlucky? If they had known earlier, they would not have gone to see the dead and would have left early.

As for how to hand this brat over to the Zhang family, that would be discussed later. What they were thinking about now was how to ensure their own safety. As for those officers, soldiers and guards who went to look for them, they probably guessed that they had returned to Jianmen Pass, because no one had gone out of the city to look for them in the past two days. Instead, they were talking under the city wall, looking towards the mountains where they were hiding. On the second day, they saw these people coming into the mountains with scrolls in their hands.

The Wang family had no choice. If it weren't for Wang Shiyu and Zhou Qingyun, two children who met the requirements, they could have simply gone down the mountain and transformed. They would have been inconspicuous among the refugees, but the two children were too young, and he had no way of letting them hide in the mountains alone. They went down the mountain to investigate the situation, and now the family could only carefully hide from those who came into the mountain to search.

There were even a few times when they saw someone coming up the mountain, but they didn't check their location, allowing them to escape. This made them doubt whether they could continue hiding in the mountain. What if they were caught again? They didn't have the ability to protect Zhou Qingyun, and they might even lose their granddaughter.

So the nine of them sat together in a circle, wanting to discuss what to do. Now there are groups of people going up the mountain to search, and it is obvious that they are not together. You can't just hope that God will keep them from being found, that's nonsense. Now there are so many people praying to God to survive, but no Buddha has appeared to let them survive.

"Yun'er, you should know that the people who went up the mountain to look for you these past two days were all sent to look for you, right? What do you think we should do?"

The old man would never stifle a child's idea. On the contrary, he respected children's ideas very much. Just like Wang Shiyu said before, when he realized that they might be in mortal danger, he decisively chose to sell the house and land, moved to the town, and began to stockpile various supplies. Seeing that there was really a meteorite shower in the sky, they also decisively packed their bags and left their hometown, which saved them from disaster. So for Zhou Qingyun, he also wanted to hear his thoughts and see if he had any suggestions. After all, they were in different positions and naturally had different ideas.

Wang Yixian and the others shifted their gazes to Zhou Qingyun at the same time. They also wanted to know what Zhou Qingyun was thinking. After all, they had been walking with this child for so long, and they didn't want the child to die here while saving his life. Even if they had some opinions about him before, they had been walking together for so long, so naturally they also had some concerns.

Zhou Qingyun was watching the old man thinking about what to do. To be honest, he didn't know how to deal with this matter. It was not realistic for him to keep hiding here. His heartbeat had started to become abnormal in the past two days, especially when those officers came up, he was scared to death.

"My great-grandfather, there are two options now. One is that you hand me over to Liu Yong and the others, and they will not trouble you anymore. I may not be able to bear the punishment and give you away. You know, I have never suffered any hardship and have not received any training, so I definitely can't bear it.

The second method is for us to contact the city lord of Jianmen Pass. Although the city lord of Jianmen Pass is just a weak scholar, he is upright and responsible, and is a good person to rely on. After I enter the city, it depends on how many days the city lord can protect me. "

However, no matter how upright and responsible he was, he could not resist the conspiracy of those people. If his great-grandfather had entrusted himself to the city lord of Jianmen Pass, it would probably be the end of his life. He did not resent his great-grandfather's family. After all, for them, this was their greatest effort. His great-grandfather's family was just an ordinary family now. They had allowed him to survive for so long by protecting him.

Wang Yizu frowned in disapproval. Even though they did not pass the imperial examinations, they had read all the books they should have read, and they naturally knew the principles they should know. They knew what was right and what was wrong.

"This is not right. If we hand Yun'er over to the Lord of Jianmen Pass, what's the difference between that and handing him over to Liu Yong? It's just that Yun'er has moved from the dark to the light. There's no good ending. Once he enters Jianmen Pass, it's no different from handing him over directly to Liu Yong. According to our investigation after going down the mountain, Liu Yong is a vindictive person. We blew up his people, so he will definitely not have a good ending. Why bother to die there?"

Wang Yixian also nodded. It was true that they could not just walk into the trap. A child of this age was just the right age for those people to surround and kill him. If he appeared in Jianmen Pass or its surroundings, Liu Yong would know his whereabouts in just a cup of tea. It would not be easy to hand Zhou Qingyun over to the city lord of Jianmen Pass.

Wang Shiyu silently stuffed a piece of ice into her mouth. She felt that she was already burning with anger and needed a piece of ice to calm down her inner anger. Who could have thought that these people would dare to blatantly hunt down the prince of the royal family after such small favors?