The Prince Wants to Assassinate Me Every Day-Chapter 148 - 84 Trip to Yuzhou (5) The Suffering of the Common People

Chapter 148: Chapter 84 Trip to Yuzhou (5) The Suffering of the Common People

After determining their direction, Ye Qichi and Xiao Jinxing walked together through the jungle.

"You said someone was coming." Ye Qichi suddenly spoke up.

"Yeah." Clearly, in addition to the assassins’ group, there were other people in the jungle as well.

"Who could it be?" Ye Qichi frowned.

"Perhaps it’s Yuan Wenkang." Xiao Jinxing speculated, "After killing the assassin, he would come looking for us."

Ye Qichi nodded in agreement, thinking that the guess was very likely.

"Should we leave a secret sign for him to find us?" Ye Qichi asked.

"No need." Xiao Jinxing decisively said, "Leaving clues for him is like leaving clues for the assassins."

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Ye Qichi had no more to say.

The thought that someone might come to their aid still provided some comfort.

They walked for an entire day.

They only ate some wild berries on the way.

Finally emerging from the jungle, they then saw a village.

"Should we seek lodging?" Ye Qichi asked.

"You go find out more first." Xiao Jinxing commanded.

Ye Qichi rolled her eyes.

The damn Prince was still so disagreeable.

She approached the village.

It was now evening.

Smoke from cooking fires wafted through the village.

It was time to prepare dinner.

She entered a household.

At this moment, a little boy was squatting on the ground playing with mud, his round head and big eyes looking up in amazement, "Sister, who are you looking for?"

"Are your dad and mom here?"

"Dad’s not here, mom is. Dad has gone to war, he is a hero," the little boy proudly declared.

At the sound of the boy’s voice, a woman came out from the earth house.

The woman was also quite surprised to see Ye Qichi, "Miss, who are you looking for?"

"Big sister, I, I, I..." Ye Qichi couldn’t get the words out, and her eyes suddenly reddened.

"What’s wrong with you, miss?" The woman hurried over, warmly grasping her arm, "Speak slowly, there’s no need to cry."

"My beloved and I have been close since childhood, cherishing each other deeply. Little did I know, in order to please a wealthy man, my father is forcing me to marry him. The man is almost forty, and I would be nothing but his concubine if I agreed. So, my beloved and I eloped. But unluckily, we lost our money on the way and got lost, which has led us here unwittingly. We were originally heading to Yuzhou, where my elder sister lives, and I could seek refuge with her..." Ye Qichi said, pretending to be on the verge of tears again.

"Where is your beloved?" The woman quickly asked.

"My beloved has been injured, and is resting outside the village..."

"Don’t cry, miss. Bring your beloved to my house; stay for the night, and set off early tomorrow," the woman hurriedly offered, "It’s at least two more days’ journey to Yuzhou."

"Wouldn’t that be too much trouble for you..."

"What are you talking about?" The woman was both simple and kind-hearted, "I can’t just watch you young couple freeze to death at the entrance of the village; quickly bring in your beloved."

"Thank you, big sister," Ye Qichi said.

As she spoke, Ye Qichi wiped away her tears while going to call for Xiao Jinxing at the entrance of the village.

Xiao Jinxing was observing the surroundings.

"Let’s go, someone’s agreed to take us in," Ye Qichi said to Xiao Jinxing, her demeanor completely different from just before.

Xiao Jinxing frowned.

"By the way, I told them we’re elopers, so don’t give us away," Ye Qichi reminded.

Xiao Jinxing gave Ye Qichi a look.

Full of disdain.

Ye Qichi was speechless.

This man, still so arrogant and haughty to the extreme.

The two of them headed together toward the small house.

The woman met them at the door with enthusiasm, "Come in quickly, you’re just in time for dinner."

Xiao Jinxing seemed somewhat uncomfortable in the face of the woman’s excessive warmth.

"Thank you, thank you, big sister," Ye Qichi quickly said.

After saying this, she glared at Xiao Jinxing.

Naturally, Xiao Jinxing couldn’t bring himself to say "thank you," as in his world, anything done for him by others was taken for granted.

Ye Qichi and Xiao Jinxing sat down at a somewhat rundown little table.

The food in the countryside wasn’t great; there was no meat.

The rice they ate wasn’t the white, fine-grained kind, but rather a thin gruel mixed with corn kernels.

Ye Qichi could tell from Xiao Jinxing’s expression that he was disdaining it.

"Go ahead and eat," the woman warmly invited, "Our farm meals are quite simple, don’t mind it."

"We don’t mind at all," Ye Qichi said, hurriedly picking up her chopsticks and taking a bite of the vegetable.

Indeed, the taste was rather bland.

Far inferior to the meals in the Prince’s mansion.

But having been hungry for so long, no matter how unappetizing, it was still edible.

So Ye Qichi ate with relish.

Xiao Jinxing did not pick up his chopsticks for quite some time.