My Promotion Story Through Time Travel

Chapter 20 Rescue (2)

The following day, the entire town of Qingyang was placed under martial law, with checkpoints set up at all intersections, and the county government's police station sent officers to conduct door-to-door checks.

Granny Liao and the others also carried out the search as Lin Zhong had instructed.

Lin Ziping and the others knew nothing about the search and rescue efforts of others. The thirteen children huddled in the cave, shivering.

Ji Xun must have been beaten by those human traffickers; there was some bleeding from the corner of his mouth, his face was swollen, and his face was noticeably asymmetrical.

Lin Ziping helped him up and found a dry place for him to sit down.

Lin Ziping felt his pockets and found that the chestnuts that Granny Liao had packed were still there, along with a tinderbox. Having no experience in escaping from the wilderness, Lin Ziping was at a loss as to how to get out of here.

The child whose palm had been pierced by Master Ba turned from wailing to sobbing, and no one else dared to approach.

Lin Ziping pondered for a long time. Years of education could not prevent him from ignoring an injured child, so he decided to go and check on his injuries.

I wanted to walk forward, but I felt my clothes being pulled back; it was Ji Xun.

"What are you doing?" Ji Xun looked up at Lin Ziping.

Lin Ziping pointed to the spot where Eighth Master had pierced the child's palm and said, "I'll go take a look."

"Don't go." Ji Xun lowered his head and unconsciously dug at the dirt on the ground with his hands.

Lin Ziping looked at him with a puzzled expression.

“No one else went, and you don’t have the medicine, so you can’t help him,” Ji Xun explained, looking up at Lin Ziping.

Lin Ziping fell silent, because Ji Xun was right. In the current environment, everyone was struggling to survive, but an adult couldn't just stand by and watch a child lying injured on the ground.

"I'll go check on him. Lying on the ground with typhoid fever will affect us." Lin Ziping pulled away from Ji Xun's hand and walked towards the child.

"Are you alright?" Lin Ziping squatted down to check the child's injuries.

Blood was still gushing out, the child's face was pale, and his eyes were lifeless.

Without alcohol or gauze, how can I stop the bleeding? Lin Ziping panicked and began to regret not having acquired more medical knowledge before.

After a moment's thought, I remembered the tourniquet I used before. I tore a strip of cloth from my inner garment and tied it tightly around the wrist of the child's injured hand. I cleaned the debris from the edges of the wound, took out a handkerchief to press it down, and slightly raised the arm.

Desperate measures, I secretly prayed that it would work.

Fortunately, the bleeding stopped after a while. Lin Ziping breathed a sigh of relief, took off the cloth strip and bandaged the wound. But then he started to worry again: what if it got infected without being disinfected?

The child was unconscious. Lin Ziping noticed that the place where he was lying was a bit damp and tried to move him to another location, but he overestimated his strength and failed several times.

Let's go together.

A voice came from behind him. Lin Ziping turned around and saw Ji Xun. Lin Ziping nodded without being polite.

To avoid touching the wound, they had to be very careful, which made it impossible for either of them to move.

Ji Xun shouted at the other children, "Aren't you coming to help? Do you want him to die?"

After a while, a rustling sound came from the other side, and three children around ten years old came over to help. Together, they finally managed to move the child.

Others also gathered together; besides himself, there were twelve children, five girls and seven boys, the youngest being only three years old and the oldest no more than eleven.

"Sister, I'm hungry." The three-year-old child cried out to the little girl who was holding his hand.

The little girl quickly covered the child's mouth, looked at the children around her, and lowered her head.

Several of the younger children started crying at this moment. Lin Ziping was at a loss. He wanted to take out the chestnuts from his pocket, but he felt that it would be a drop in the ocean and he didn't know what would happen next, so he suppressed the idea of ​​taking out the chestnuts.

Ji Xun walked toward the bucket that Da Shan had kicked over, and Lin Ziping followed him there.

It was a thin porridge with only a few grains of rice, which had now spilled all over the ground. Ji Xun quickly picked up the bucket, and fortunately, some rice was still left inside.

Ji Xun took a spoonful from the broken wooden spoon in the bucket, scooped it up and drank it in big gulps. He then scooped up another spoonful and handed it to Lin Ziping, gesturing for him to drink it.

Lin Ziping took a sip, tsk, what does it taste like? He paused for a moment, then finished his drink in a big gulp.

The other children rushed over, trying to snatch the broken wooden spoon from Lin Ziping's hand and the bucket in front of him.

Upon seeing this, Ji Xun stood in front of Lin Ziping and pushed away the children who were rushing towards him.

"What are you trying to do?" Ji Xun shouted.

Lin Ziping gripped the wooden spoon tightly and stood beside Ji Xun, protecting the wooden bucket.

"We want to eat too, why can't you let us?" the eldest child shouted, standing in front of Ji Xun.

“We’re not stopping you from eating, but we need to distribute it now,” Ji Xun said to the child.

"Why should we?" The others continued to push and shove.

Lin Ziping pretended to kick over the wooden bucket: "If you don't listen to us, then nobody will eat."

The others glared at the two men with resentment.

Ji Xun and his companion remained unmoved and refused to yield an inch.

The atmosphere between the two sides was deadlocked.

After a while, the other children started to line up, and Lin Ziping distributed the food to each child with a spoon, as Ji Xun had instructed.

Upon seeing this, Ji Xun said, "My father is the magistrate of Qingyang County. I believe he will definitely come to find me."

Lin Ziping nodded in agreement.

The other children looked at each other without saying a word, as if they had tacitly agreed with Ji Xun's statement.

Lin Ziping pulled Ji Xun into the shadows and showed him the chestnuts and tinder in his pocket.

Ji Xun looked at the things Lin Ziping had pulled out, his eyes a little strange: "Why are you showing me this?"

"We still have this food." Lin Ziping put the chestnuts and tinder back into his pocket and patted them.

"Okay, then put it away carefully and don't tell anyone else."

"I only told you," Lin Ziping said to Ji Xun with a smile.

Ji Xun patted Lin Ziping's head, and Lin Ziping glared at him and dodged away: "What?"

Ji Xun shook his head and left: "Don't trust others so much in the future."

Lin Ziping...

He realized that he had been taught a lesson by a child who was not even ten years old, and that Ji Xun's gaze just now was the same as the way he used to look at his cousin's nephew!

Recalling his actions just now, Lin Ziping suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

How could he have acted so childishly just now? In such a short time, he had taken Ji Xun as someone he trusted, forgetting that Ji Xun was also one of those who harmed the original owner of this body. Just because Ji Xun and he were now in the same environment, had the common goal of escaping from here, and fought against the other children together, he subconsciously ignored the era they were in and subconsciously thought that Ji Xun was a kind person, losing his guard? Thinking of this, Lin Ziping gasped.

Composing himself, Lin Ziping emerged from the shadows.

The injured child had woken up, and a child was feeding him with a broken wooden spoon. Lin Ziping looked away.

Ji Xun was seen leading a few older children around the cave, while Lin Ziping did not join them. To conserve energy, they found a dry spot to sit down and began to calmly analyze the current situation, considering ways to escape.