When they left the woods, Ji Yunshuang had already used her telekinesis to retrieve the milk bottle that the little tiger cub had drunk from.

She carried the tiger cub back home, and as she passed by Nie Shi, she slipped a small bag of wild hawthorns into her arms.

She moved so quickly that Mrs. Nie didn't have time to react.

After Ji Yunshuang had walked away, Nie carefully opened the cloth bag in her arms.

Looking at the bright red fruit in the bag, her eyes instantly welled up with tears.

Afraid of attracting attention, she forced back the tears in her eyes.

She stuffed a small bag of hawthorns into Old Madam Zhao's arms and whispered, "Mother, you really didn't misjudge her. That woman is truly a good person. Look, this is what she just gave me."

When Grandma Zhao saw the hawthorns in the bag, she couldn't help but shed tears.

Normally, these would have been just ordinary wild fruits for their family. But now, they had become a life-saving food that they couldn't necessarily buy even with money.

She gave the fruit to the two children and said, "If we make it to Jiangzhou alive... you must remember to repay her properly."

Both children nodded obediently.

However, the two did not eat the hawthorns from the bag, but instead fed them to Grandma Zhao, saying, "Grandma, eat this."

Grandma Zhao wanted to vomit, but Zhao Zheng pressed her mouth shut and said, "Grandma will get sick if she doesn't eat. Father told us to take care of you before he passed away. Grandma, don't get sick!"

Grandma Zhao hugged her two grandsons and wept bitterly, "My good grandsons! Grandma will eat, Grandma will definitely accompany you to Jiangzhou."

The sound of their cries spread, and the surrounding refugees, thinking of their own plight, also began to weep.

Lu Yanqi looked at Ji Yunshuang with a probing gaze.

Others might not have noticed Ji Yunshuang's actions just now. But he had been watching her closely, and he clearly saw her give something to that woman.

Moreover, that woman had come to see her before.

What kind of deal was made between the two?

Meeting his gaze, Ji Yunshuang took a handful of hawthorns from her pocket and handed them to him, saying, "I picked these casually when I went to the woods earlier, here, have some!"

Seeing that he didn't answer, she kept glancing towards the Zhao family's house.

She leaned closer and teased him, "I felt sorry for those two kids, so I gave them some too. You're not...jealous, are you?"

Lu Yanqi dodged her, his handsome face cold as he said, "I'm not jealous!"

The more he acted this way, the more Ji Yunshuang wanted to tease him, so she deliberately said, "Really not? I think it looks like it."

Lu Yanqi snatched the hawthorns from his hand, popped two into his mouth, and said with a cold expression, "Now do you believe me?"

He considered himself aloof, but little did he know that in Ji Yunshuang's eyes, he was like the little squirrel in Ice Age with a mouthful of nuts.

Ji Yunshuang laughed even harder.

Looking at her smiling face, Lu Yanqi felt a strange sense of joy in his heart.

He couldn't help but think that no matter how much she had wronged his father and sister in his past life, that was all in the past.

It has nothing to do with her in this life.

She has never done anything to wrong her father and sister in this life, and she has been very good to them. So... let's forgive her and let bygones be bygones for what happened in the past life.

Realizing he actually wanted to forgive that woman, his face darkened even more.

He crunched the hawthorn in his mouth, then turned and went to his father's side.

Lu Yinheng looked at his sulking son, his brows furrowing slightly, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Lu Yanqi shook his head and handed over the remaining hawthorns, saying, "Father, eat this!"

Lu Yinheng had already noticed that Ji Shi seemed to have exceptionally good luck after her rebirth, always managing to find wild vegetables and fruits that they couldn't. He wasn't surprised to see the hawthorns his son had brought out.

He shook his head and said, "You eat it yourself."

Lu Yanqi said somewhat awkwardly, "These hawthorns are especially delicious."

He had eaten fruits that were presented as tribute to the palace in his previous life, but he had never seen such delicious fruit.

In fact, a few days ago, Ji Yunshuang took out wild fruits from her space under various pretexts, which were already far superior to ordinary wild fruits.

However, those wild fruits don't grow for very long in the black soil. Although they taste better than ordinary wild fruits, the difference isn't very noticeable.

But this time, the wild hawthorns that Ji Yunshuang gave to Lu Yanqi were the ones that had grown the longest in the black soil, so they tasted better than before.

Lu Yinheng initially thought his son was exaggerating, but when the hawthorn berries entered his mouth, a deep glint flashed in his dark eyes.

He held a high position in his past life; what kind of fruit didn't he eat?

But the taste of this wild hawthorn is even better than the hawthorn that fruit farmers specially cultivate for tribute.

Could the Ji family have picked such good wild fruit while fleeing?

Ji Yunshuang had no idea that a handful of hawthorns had kept Lu Yinheng awake all night.

She couldn't be bothered to face his cold face, nor did she tell him about meeting Ma Lan; instead, she remained secretly on guard.

Nothing happened during the first half of the night.

In the middle of the night, it suddenly started to rain heavily.

The refugees resting in the wilderness instantly became chaotic.

Just then, a group of men suddenly rushed towards the Lu family.

Before they could even get close to the Lu family, Ji Yunshuang and Lu Yinheng rushed forward with knives in hand.

Lu Yinheng's knife was sharp and fast, and he felled a group of people in the blink of an eye. However, he only severed their tendons and ligaments, and did not kill them.

Ji Yunshuang, however, was like a demon from hell, reaping heads with a blank expression.

Lu Xuewen, leading a group of men, was so frightened that he wet his pants before he even got close.

Many refugees who wanted to take advantage of the chaos were also terrified by what they saw.

They had been keeping an eye on Lu Yinheng and the other men, planning to subdue them and rob them when the time came.

But he never thought of guarding against that beautiful woman.

Not to mention taking precautions, some people even had designs on it.

Such a beautiful woman, if sold to a good brothel, she could probably fetch a lot of money!

But who would have thought that this seemingly beautiful and harmless woman would turn into a demon when she takes action?

She was even more ruthless than that man.

At this moment, those who had previously harbored such thoughts were sweating bullets, secretly glad that they hadn't acted earlier; otherwise, they would be the ones losing their heads now.

Many people unconsciously took a few steps back, subconsciously keeping their distance from the Lu family.

The chaotic battle didn't last long; many people ran away in terror after seeing their comrades lose their heads.

Just as Ji Yunshuang was about to chase after him with her knife, Lu Yinheng grabbed her.

The cold rain lashed against her, soaking Ji Yunshuang completely, but her eyes were bloodshot.

Lu Yinheng met his eyes and felt a sudden tremor in his heart. He seemed to see a soldier on the battlefield, his eyes bloodshot with despair.

Without further hesitation, he pulled her into his arms and whispered, "Alright! You've successfully intimidated them. No one will dare to provoke us on the way."

The warm embrace and the medicinal scent emanating from him gradually brought Ji Yunshuang back to her senses.

The ten years of the apocalypse actually left her with very serious mental illnesses.

At first, she really just wanted to intimidate the refugees and make them afraid to provoke them again.

But the knife drew blood, and the noise of the crowd, along with the cold raindrops falling on my body...

She gradually lost her mind, feeling as if she had returned to the end times.

But his body temperature, his voice, and the smell of him reminded her that this was not the apocalypse.

She has transmigrated to a completely new world...

There are no zombies here...

Ji Yunshuang lost all her strength, her limbs went limp, and she fainted.

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