Chapter 292 I’m really envious and jealous
“Not yet.”
Zhang Dayi glanced at the people on the ground with some worry.
After Xie Wenjie came in, other people also came in one after another. The guards who stayed in the room were busy pouring water for everyone to quench their thirst and replenish their strength.
Xie Wenjie walked up to Sixth Brother and was shocked when he saw Xie Yuchuan's face was red.
“What’s going on?!”
He reached out and touched his forehead, it was so hot.
The guard who was carrying a water bag to pour water for everyone turned around and explained to Zhang Dayi: "Xiong Jiushan came in, sir, it was a deception trick."
Xie Wenjie looked up at Zhang Dayi, his eyes uncovered. Answer: "How did you do it, sir?"
Xiong Jiushan caught him and questioned him, and then came here to check people. It only took a short time, but he could do this?
Zhang Dayi stretched out his hand and spread it.
He held a ball in his palm, and now he felt a lot of heat from it.
Everyone was startled, then started laughing.
"Sir, that's wonderful!"
Zhang Dayi didn't take any credit, he smiled lightly and said: "It's a good thing given by the gods of the Xie family. It was a desperate move, but I'm lucky to be able to fool him, too. Due to the current chaos, Xiong Jiushan had no intention of hiding it. Unfortunately, this move cannot be repeated, and Xiong Jiushan is not stupid."
Everyone in the Xie family nodded.
The lights were lit in the room, and the room was full of light.
Outside, the lights in other thatched huts and tents have also been turned on. I am afraid that no one will be able to sleep again tonight.
Except for those who were accidentally injured and needed to rest, all the escorted officers had their rest canceled and all were on duty!
Following the order of Xiong Jiushan, Cheng Ye brought his manpower and borrowed several villagers from the fort who were familiar with the terrain outside to inspect the surroundings outside the fort to see if there were any traces.
Xiong Jiushan was invited by the Tian family to the main hall to discuss matters.
The prisoners were frightened late at night and no longer dared to sleep. The smell of blood was everywhere in the air around them. Even though the Tian family and the people in the fort had simply cleaned it, many people, especially those who were weak, The faces of all the people, no matter men, women or children, were pale.
They don't care at all how the adults negotiate with each other.
The prisoners just want to live.
I don’t want to die in a place like this for no reason.
Many people were sitting in the middle of the room with their knees folded, not even daring to lean against the wall, for fear that something scary would slip in through some unnoticed gap.
After being bitten by a snake and fearing well ropes for ten years, most of them are no longer sleepy. There are only a few prisoners who don't care about it.
Tie Niu, who stayed in a thatched house with Pang Jiming's family, was one of them.
I went out to work for a long time and came back safe and sound. I didn’t even drink water. When I heard the sound of the officer outside saying that everything was okay, I turned around and curled up to go back to sleep.
As if the thrilling scene just now was no big deal.
Slept very peacefully.
After all, Pang Jiming was getting older and his physical strength was not as strong as his youth. In order to protect his wife and children, he was bitten on the ankle in a panic, and unfortunately was bitten on the shoulder when he fell.
At that moment, Pang Jiming’s face suddenly turned pale!
I thought my destiny was over, but when I thought about the long road ahead if I didn't succeed, how my wife and children who had no ability to protect themselves would suffer. The fear of annihilation struck instantly.
He can't even remember the annoyance and regret he felt at that moment.
Fortunately, a noble person came to help and saved him from death. He came back with a frightened life and saw his wife and child hugging him so hard that he couldn't say a word for a long time.
There are many people like Pang Jiming.
Even though later people from the Tian family came to reassure everyone, saying that most of the snakes were non-venomous and only a small number of dangerous ones had been treated one by one. There were no casualties yet, but everyone still opened their eyes with lingering fear and waited for daybreak. .
“When shall we set off? I would rather starve on the exile road than accidentally feed a snake here.”
"It's the season, they are very hungry. They have eaten enough to survive the winter, and who knows what god damn bastard actually let them out!"
Someone was holding their knees and rocking back and forth, and the room was full of prisoners. They were complaining and had no sleep at all.
Those who are frightened are physically exhausted after the fright, but their spirits are also very tense and they cannot relax at all.
At this time, someone discovered that Tieniu, the prisoner next to Pang Jiming's family, was not only asleep, but was also snoring.
Everyone is really envious and jealous.
Pang Jiming’s wife cleaned her husband’s wounds with red eyes. The two children were also frightened. One left and the other leaned closely against their father without saying a word. This made Pang Jiming feel a little nervous. Feeling uncomfortable, he hugged his two children and persuaded his wife: "The wound has been treated. It will be fine. Don't worry. There is still an hour before dawn. You and the children can sleep for a while."
Pang His wife wiped the sweat from the corners of her eyes and forehead, shook her head and said, "I can't sleep, so take a nap for a while."
"I can't sleep either," Pang Jiming said.
The couple was speechless for a while, silently stroking the heads of their two children. After the exile, the lives of the family of four were like stepping on the tip of a knife, and they would die without knowing when.
Pang's wife was very attentive and carefully cleaned the relatively casual wound on Pang Jiming's leg before applying medicine and bandaging it again.
"Wounds are not a trivial matter. In the past, many people died by not taking good care of their wounds by the river."
As his wife was nagging, Pang Jiming did not refute, and just listened honestly.
In the thatched hut, everyone was talking and communicating with each other. The prisoners, who were usually too tired to even take a breath, had more things to say in common this time. I wonder if it was because they were fighting for survival and controlling snakes together. .
The noisy talk was occasionally mixed with the snoring of the Iron Bull brothers.
Hearing it one after another, it was surprisingly reassuring. Tieniu's snoring had a magical power that made people slowly calm down, as if the fight just now was no big deal.
At this time, no one noticed that Tieniu’s arms were bulging.
After Pang Jiming took care of the wound, he leaned against the wall and closed his eyes to listen to everyone talking. The other prisoners were talking about who the big Toda family of Wulibao had offended.
Chatting back and forth, we talked about bandits.
Ordinary prisoners who are not very well-informed have no idea what is going on outside. They just guess that Xiong Jiushan led the official to take them and stayed here for a few days. Will something big happen?
Some people say that the officials are all talking about asking the Tian family to prepare something for convenience later. Some were talking about the bandits coming down from the mountain in a serious manner, while others were wondering what jobs the officials would ask them to do if they didn't leave tomorrow.
They talked about everything until someone in the crowd thanked his family.
Pang Jiming slowly opened his eyes and looked over. He was a taciturn man.
"If the Xie family hadn't discovered it first this time and reminded everyone, we might not have had the chance to talk here now."
Hearing this, the others nodded.
(End of this chapter)