Chapter 297: The Pitiful Woman

Jiang Xiaoxiao was so nervous that her palms were sweating.

Their carriage was specially prepared by Prince Duan, built of solid wood, but if so many refugees snatched and rushed it hard, it couldn't be blocked.

Jiang Xuelien beside her held her hand comfortingly, signaling her not to be afraid.

Actually, this couldn't be blamed on Jiang Xiaoxiao for being afraid; she lived in a peaceful era in her previous life, protected by a strong motherland, and had never encountered such things from childhood to adulthood.

Coupled with the fact that she had transmigrated for more than half a year and had always been well protected by Jiang Wei, even though she barely knew some plot points from the original work, she still couldn't help but be shocked when she truly witnessed it.

But for Jiang Wei, such things were already common in the apocalypse.

She looked at the refugees gradually surrounding them and pulled out the steel knife she had prepared in advance from the bundle beside her without changing her expression.

The sharp blade reflected a fierce cold light, making people feel terrified.

The refugees who had originally approached fiercely, seeing this steel knife, retreated instantly.

They looked at each other for a few moments, then silently retreated, clearing the way.

Jiang Wei tightened the reins and was about to continue forward when a woman in rags suddenly rushed out and knelt in front of the carriage with a thud.

She was holding a swaddle in her arms, which seemed to be a baby born not long ago.

The woman knelt on the ground and cried loudly: "Kind Madam, please have pity on my child, give us some food, my child is about to starve to death..."

Jiang Xiaoxiao, watching this scene through the carriage curtain, didn't speak this time.

After the lessons of the previous two days, she didn't dare to take out food casually anymore.

Even if it was a child about to starve to death in front of her.

Seeing that no one in the carriage spoke, the woman gritted her teeth and knocked her head heavily on the ground.

She cried and begged with a red, swollen, and bleeding forehead: "Madam, please, I only need a little bit of food, please have mercy and save our orphans and widows..."

Jiang Wei watched her bleeding forehead, as if she had really been moved to compassion; she put down the steel knife in her hand and reached into the bundle beside her, preparing to take dry food.

However, just at this moment, a sudden change occurred!

The woman fiercely threw the swaddle in her arms over and rushed toward Jiang Wei viciously.

"Hurry, I've pinned her down!"

With this hoarse cry, the swaddle wrapped around the baby smashed into the carriage.

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked closely and saw that there was no baby in the swaddle at all, but a bundle of straw!

"Mother, she's a liar! Don't believe her!" She immediately shouted.

At the same time, Jiang Wei flicked the hand she had already reached into the bundle, and the sleeping powder splashed out like flower petals.

The woman who rushed over was covered in it and immediately softened her body, fainting on the ground.

The refugees who rushed over beside her also smelled the sleeping powder and fell to the ground one after another.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen refugees fell to the ground in this area.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when the carriage shook violently, and a refugee who was preparing to sneak an attack from behind the carriage suddenly sprang up, his hands clutching the carriage window tightly, trying hard to stretch his head inside, making a strange cackling sound in his mouth.

Jiang Xiaoxiao and Jiang Xuelien were both startled.

After reacting, Jiang Xuelien immediately picked up the teapot on the tea table and smashed it fiercely at the person's head.

Bang—

The teapot shattered all over the floor.

That person, with blood all over his face, stared at Jiang Xiaoxiao opposite him with a ferocious expression, as if looking at some delicious food, his eyes greedy and hungry.

Being watched by such eyes, Jiang Xiaoxiao was rarely calm; she decisively pulled out the anesthetic gun in her bosom and pulled the trigger at the person in front of her.

Whoosh—

The man who was trying hard to drill into the carriage window stiffened, and then fell to the ground softly.

The crisis was resolved, and the two in the carriage breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiang Xuelien glanced at the anesthetic gun in Jiang Xiaoxiao's hand and didn't ask anything, instead averting her gaze.

Jiang Xiaoxiao put away the anesthetic gun and looked at the swaddle in the carriage; it was indeed a quilt used to wrap a baby, but there were bloodstains on it, clearly the baby was no longer in the world.

How the baby died, no one knew.

"Throw it away." Jiang Wei only glanced at the swaddle and withdrew her gaze.

Jiang Xuelien obediently picked up the swaddle and threw it out of the carriage window.

Jiang Wei sat outside, scanning the refugees all over the ground, her brows tightly furrowed.

Although she wasn't a kind person, she felt helpless looking at so many displaced people, each one starving to the point of being skin and bones.

Forget it, they were also forced to this step.

Jiang Wei threw all the dry food in the bundle on the ground and then drove the carriage away.

Her sleeping powder wasn't fatal, but it would make them sleep for an hour or two.

By the time they woke up, they would have already gone far away.

The carriage soon drove out of this area, and outside was the uninhabited wilderness, and no more people could be seen.

And Jiang Xiaoxiao and Jiang Xuelien, seeing this scene, breathed a sigh of relief instead.

There were weeds and a few shallow water beaches on the side of the road in the wilderness.

Jiang Wei found a place to stop the carriage, letting the horses eat some grass, drink some water, and rest for a while.

They had been driving for several days without sleep to hurry on their way, and even if they were made of iron, they couldn't hold on and needed to rest for a while.

Jiang Xiaoxiao and Jiang Xuelien also jumped off the carriage to move their bodies nearby and eat something.

Jiang Xuelien was a person who couldn't stay idle, and ran to the nearby shallow water beach to pull some wild grass to feed the horses.

Jiang Xiaoxiao wasn't idle either; she secretly fed the horses a lot of ability water behind Jiang Xuelien's back.

The horses that drank the ability water became spirited instantly, rubbing against Jiang Xiaoxiao's hand continuously.

Jiang Xuelien exclaimed directly: "Xiaoxiao, this horse likes you so much."

Jiang Xiaoxiao laughed twice, and couldn't help but think of the tiger cub at home that was especially clingy to her.

She didn't know how that guy was doing in the mountains while she was away...

"Eh, Xiaoxiao, where is your mother?" Jiang Xuelien, who had finished feeding the horses, suddenly realized that Jiang Wei was not nearby.

Although there were no refugees here now, she was still a bit worried that Jiang Wei had suddenly disappeared.

Jiang Xiaoxiao, hearing this, also looked around, and then saw her mother's figure not far away.

Jiang Wei was holding a rabbit, walking toward the two unhurriedly.

Seeing the rabbit, Jiang Xuelien's eyes lit up instantly: "M-Madam, this rabbit is..."

Jiang Wei pointed to a dead tree stump in the distance and said: "I went to relieve myself over there just now, and a rabbit accidentally bumped into it and fainted directly; let's make a roasted rabbit to eat tonight."

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at the rabbit and fell silent.

Her mother didn't even make up a better excuse; even the ghost story of waiting for a rabbit by a tree stump came out...

Fortunately, Jiang Xuelien was also simple-minded and didn't doubt at all how there could be a wild rabbit in this wilderness, and it was a fat and big wild rabbit at that.

Her eyes curved into crescents, and she was excited: "T-then I'll go over there and pick up some firewood." (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 298 =====