Quick Wear: The Wronged One Becomes Rebellious

Chapter 453: Reconstruction of the Family on the Road to Escape

He Yun looked at Gu Li in front of him, who was raising her neck and barking her little mouth, and pressed the half-finished steamed bun stuffed in her sleeve pocket.

At this moment, there was no trace of provocation in his eyes, only peace and composure.

Tao Chunhua lived close to her son. After a few days, she witnessed Gu Li's intelligence and no longer viewed her as a skinny child who was a burden.

She has been worried about the road ahead, even more than her father.

Tao Chunhua thought that her precocious son was a source of pride for her, but she did not expect that the little girl Gu Li seemed to have even more ideas than her son.

"Ayun, let's live a good life with your uncle Mancang from now on, okay?"

He Yunwang lowered his eyes, hiding the struggling emotions in his eyes, and said calmly: "It's up to mother's wishes!"

In the face of life and death, the things that I used to care about too much seem to be not that important anymore.

"Then Ayun, can you please stop trying to go against Xiao Li'er?" Tao Chunhua coaxed, "Ayun, you are her brother, please give in, okay!"

He Yunwang answered quickly this time: "I know what's going on!"

Relying on the water from the three bamboo tubes, the Gu family and their group walked west for another four days.

Gu Li drank all the water and felt dizzy from the heat. Even though she didn't like He Yunwang, she didn't have the energy to pay attention to him.

At noon, when the sun was at its hottest, Gu Mancang found a shady place under the riverbank and prepared to eat something.

The steamed buns on his body had been eaten long ago, and only two palms of yam were left in the bag. As soon as Gu Li's buttocks hit the ground, she collapsed.

Ever since she lost the cart, Gu Li never asked He Yunwang to carry her on her back again. She insisted on walking by herself every day and was exhausted.

He Xingqing was put down. He straightened his clothes, took off the bamboo tube from his waist and handed it to Gu Li, "Xiao Li'er, here!"

Gu Li half raised her eyelids and did not take the bamboo tube from He Xingqing.

Before setting off again, Gu Mancang divided the water in the three bamboo tubes equally among everyone, for fear that they would be snatched away on the way and not a drop would be left.

Gu Li’s water was finished yesterday, and Gu Mancang’s water was also finished this morning.

He Xingqing pulled out the stopper from the bamboo tube and stuffed it into Gu Li's hand. "I still have water here. I'm not thirsty."

It’s not that he wasn’t thirsty, but he felt that he still had to rely on others, so he tried his best to save all the water he had and then quietly shared it with others.

It would be a lie to say that he wasn't thirsty. His voice had become hoarse and raspy from not having had water for a long time.

"Uncle, drink it."

"Xiao Li'er drank it, I'll drink it too."

Gu Li couldn't stand other people being so sincere to her, so she took the bamboo tube, took a small sip, and returned it.

He Xingqing didn't drink it. He put the cork in the bamboo tube and hung it around Gu Li's waist.

Gu Li: ------

He Xingqing's eyes were a little dazed, and he turned his head very slowly. Gu Li was worried that something might happen to him, so she took the bamboo tube and wanted to return it to him.

He Yunwang, who was standing by, snatched the bamboo tube away.

"What are you doing?" Gu Li roared.

She knew that He Yunwang was not a good person, but she didn't know that he was so bad that he even wanted to steal his uncle's water.

He Yunwang glanced at Gu Li, raised his head and took a sip of water, then put the bamboo tube to He Xingqing's mouth, "Open your mouth, don't waste the remaining water!"

He Xingqing paused in his attempt to dodge, but was instead fed a large gulp by He Yunwang.

The last bamboo tube was also empty!

Gu Li found a clod of earth and threw it at He Yunwang.

He Yunwang didn't even look at Gu Li, but pointed to the distance and said, "Look what's that?"

what?

Gu Li stretched his neck to look into the distance. Under the heat-distorted air was a plain that stretched as far as the eye could see. Many ragged people were dragging their feet under the oven-like scorching sun, looking for a place where they could survive.

Gu Li picked up another clod of earth and threw it at him. Did he want to eat human flesh?

The dirt fell onto the ground along He Yunwang's robe and was scattered by his foot. Seeing that no one noticed, he said, "Didn't you notice that there is a light green layer on the ground?"

Gu Li was startled and rubbed her eyes.

The barren ground, the withered grass, and the cracks in the dry ground seem to have a thin layer of green.

"If we go further west, there should be water soon!" said He Yunwang.

Gu Li, whose legs were already broken, sat up in shock from his dying illness, dragged his swollen legs, and climbed up again using his hands.

I actually saw some grass sprouting in a crack.

Gu Li plucked a small bud that was not much bigger than her eye mucus, held it in front of her eyes, and said happily: "Dad, look, grass has grown!"

As he spoke, he twisted his waist and rolled over on the ground, without any strength in his legs.

The way she moved made it seem like her legs were even more disabled than He Xingqing's.

He Yunwang couldn't bear to watch, just like a three-year-old child rolling on the ground. "Mom, uncle, you guys take a rest first, I'll go to the front to see if I can find something to eat!"

Gu Li nodded frantically, "Go quickly, go quickly, before others grab all of them!" After eating yam for several days in a row, she felt sour at the sight of yam now.

Gu Mancang was refusing the water that Tao Chunhua offered him, but he stood up immediately after hearing this and said, "I'll go with you."

"Uncle, you should stay and rest. You have been carrying me on your back, you must be exhausted. I just drank some water, I will do it!"

He Yunwang didn't wait for Gu Mancang to say anything, picked up the hatchet and left.

Tao Chunhua rarely stopped her son from going out alone. She pulled Gu Mancang to sit down and said, "Boss, Ayun is right. You are the one who works the hardest. Have a drink of water and take a rest first."

Since the refugees learned that they had a formal place to go, they wanted to get to Uphon as quickly as possible, and there were fewer troublemakers on the road.

As long as there is hope in life, why would so many people be willing to take risks?

Gu Li, who was lying on her back, turned over soon and lay on her stomach, with her limbs pressed against the ground, enjoying the cool air.

But before the heat from her body dissipated, a shadow fell on her head.

He Yunwang grabbed a handful of weeds and pushed them in front of Gu Li. "There's a forest ahead with a lot of wild vegetables growing in it. I don't know where to eat them!"

Probably because of running back and forth, in the time it took He Yunwang to finish a sentence, beads of sweat rolled down his forehead, and one drop just fell on the back of Gu Li's hand that was pressed against the ground.

It was so hot that she pulled her hand away immediately.

Gu Li rolled her eyes, thinking that the water she had just drunk wasted.

"I don't recognize any of these you picked." Gu Li said unhappily.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, He Yunwang dropped the weeds in his hand, put his hands on Gu Li's armpits and lifted her up.

"Hey, hey, what are you doing!" How could this man treat her like this.

"Come with me." He Yunwang pulled Gu Li and ran up, "If we go too late, others will grab them all!"

Gu Li's words of refusal were stuck in her throat. How could she let others take it away?

After being dragged by He Yunwang for just two steps, she was thrown onto his back again, "You're walking too slowly, I'll carry you!"

Gu Li:-----

The dangling calves hanging on both sides of He Yunwang kicked someone intentionally or unintentionally.

Humph, she doesn’t have short legs at all. Judging from her body proportions, she will definitely have long legs when she grows up!