Xi Lilong glanced at Chunzao and nodded: "Okay, come back safely. People may do very crazy things when they are extremely desperate. You should be soft-hearted when you should be, and never be soft-hearted when you shouldn't be."

She had seen the horror of refugees, and was afraid that Lin Jin would be too kind to those crazy people.

"Don't worry, I understand." Lin Jin also knew that she believed that human nature was inherently good, but she also knew that people's personalities would change due to the social environment. She could be generous with her kindness, but she would not gamble her life on the kindness of others.

Lin Jin looked at the people in front of her. She had been here for such a long time, but she didn’t make many friends. However, it was enough for her.

"I'm leaving now. Goodbye." After saying that, Lin Jin patted Qiong Yu and shouted to the others, "Let's go!"

Just after Lin Jin had walked for a quarter of an hour, a man in white riding a white horse hurriedly passed by Xi Lilong and his companions. Fang Yuzhu turned back to take a look out of habit: "That man..."

It seems familiar.

"Lin Jin!"

When Lin Jin heard the voice, she quickly pulled the reins and saw Tu Huaining riding a white horse chasing after her. The horse under Tu Huaining seemed to be riding the wind and soon arrived in front of her.

"Huaining, why are you here?" Lin Jin was a little surprised. After the Qiqiao Festival, Tu Huaining left Tingyu Tower early in the morning and they never met again. She didn't know how to find Tu Huaining.

Tu Huaining's breathing was a little unstable. She just stared at Lin Jin: "Don't you have anything to say to me?"

Lin Jin scratched her head. She really didn't know what to say: "Then, then when I come back, you won't be angry with me anymore?"

"No more?" Tu Huaining continued to stare at her, as if he was dissatisfied with Lin Jin's words, "Besides asking me not to be angry, is there nothing else?"

Lin Jin couldn't handle this kind of farewell atmosphere. She spread her hands helplessly: "That's not the way to say it. I just feel that we are not parting forever. There is really no need to say this. We still have a long time to talk about the rest."

"What if we really never meet again after this meeting?"

Lin Jin was stunned, and suddenly remembered that Tu Huaining actually had a twisted temper and was a bit stubborn. She rode to Tu Huaining and hugged her: "Don't say such things, it will make me very sad if you do so."

"Huaining, wait for me to come back, I will still be your sister in the future." Lin Jin let her go and touched Tu Huaining's head again, "Actually you are not angry anymore, right? It's just that I kept asking, so you are upset."

She should have thought of it earlier. Both Tu Huaining and she were stubborn people. Always asking if she was angry was not a way to give her a way out. It would only make her more reluctant to come down.

"Wait for me to come back. I... well, it's over. I don't know what I can give you." Lin Jin said as she ran away, as if she was afraid that Tu Huaining would hit her. "Anyway, just wait for me to come back. If you are free, help me deal with the affairs of the Women's Academy."

No one caught up with Lin Jin this time. The sun became hotter and hotter as they got closer to Taiyuan Prefecture. The vegetation on the road also changed significantly. When they were still dozens of miles away from Taiyuan Prefecture, the trees and grass were either dried up or dug up and eaten.

"Has it become so serious?" Lin Jin felt a dull pain in his chest as he looked at the man. He finally saw the man and found that he was in tattered clothes and had a pale face and thin body.

"Girl." Xing'er rode her horse to the other side of Lin Jin, blocking the sight of those people. They brought enough guards, so these people didn't dare to scatter. If there were only the two of them, these people would probably come to steal the horses.

Suddenly a woman knelt down in front of them, holding the child high in her arms, and said in a hoarse but tearful voice: "Sir, please save my child."

Lin Jin looked at her and thought she was too thin. He then glanced at the refugees who were watching her closely and said, "There are officials from the imperial court providing disaster relief in Taiyuan Prefecture. Why are you here?"

"Taiyuan Prefecture?" The woman cried softly, but because of her dehydrated eyes, she couldn't even shed tears. "I really want to go to Taiyuan Prefecture, but where can I go?"

She rolled up her sleeves and trouser legs, almost cutting off the flesh on them, and said, "Sir, I can't survive. I only ask you to save my child."

Lin Jin was speechless, she had not expected that she had to cut meat to fill her stomach. She looked at the refugees next to her and took a closer look. In fact, their situation was not much better than that of this woman.

Those eyes were full of greed, but they also contained other complicated emotions: "The relief grain from the imperial court has already arrived, why are you still at this point?"

"Sir, please save him, he is not even half a year old." The woman tried to bend her body lower, but still held the child in her hands.

Lin Jin nodded to Xing'er, and Xing'er rode out on her horse: "Put the child on the ground, and then you leave here."

The woman quickly put the child down, endured the pain and hid away, fearing that if she was slow, Lin Jin and the others would be unwilling to save her child.

Lin Jin took the child over. Although the child was thin, his breathing was steady and his pulse was still strong: "Your child is not destined to die."

She calculated the distance and realized that they could reach Taiyuan Prefecture today, so she told them to leave the extra water and dry food for these people: "We will still have food and drink when we get to Taiyuan Prefecture, give these to them."

She knew that in their current condition, it would be difficult for these people to survive even if they had food and drink, and they might even suffer for a few more days, but she left the choice to these people.

Maybe, just maybe these people can survive?

Perhaps if it were just because of her food, these people would have survived?

Naturally, everyone listened to Lin Jin's words and threw the extra dry food and water to the refugees.

"Let's go."

Qiongyu was the most stable horse among all the horses, so even if the guards asked Lin Jin to hand the child over to them, she still chose to take care of the child herself: "No, it's already a hardship for her to follow us on the journey, so let's not torment the child."

"Girl, you knew they couldn't survive, why..." Xing'er sighed as she thought of the appearance of those refugees.

"I don't know. I only saw them eating their own flesh and never thought of touching the child." Lin Jin didn't know whether he was right or wrong. Who would know until the end? "What if, what if one of them survives?"

Xing'er looked at the child tied in Lin Jin's arms and was speechless.

Lin Jin understood what Xi Lilong meant by not being soft-hearted when you shouldn't be. Except for those refugees who had lost their minds, the same was true for everyone else. Before arriving in Taiyuan Prefecture, she met many refugees. Some of them wanted to steal their food, some just watched silently, and some begged like the woman before.

What Xi Lilong wanted to say was probably the latter situation, as it is impossible to save all such people.

Lin Jin hardened her heart and ignored all other requests except taking the children away. They could only take the children away now. She could not delay on the road. She had to go to Taiyuan Prefecture to farm as soon as possible.

Only in this way can we truly save these people.

When Lin Jin arrived at Taiyuan Prefecture, there were already more than a dozen children in the team. She asked people to place the children according to the rules.

Taiyuan Prefecture now has relief grain from the imperial court, so it is not as if there are no dead bodies everywhere and the situation is still relatively well organized.

"Ajin, why are you here?" Liu Zhengqing didn't expect Lin Jin to come, holding a child in her arms, "Where did this come from?"

He almost thought it was Lin Jin's, but when he thought about it carefully, it was completely impossible.

The child in Lin Jin's arms is the youngest. The others are probably five or six years old, so they can go and get porridge and vegetables by themselves.

"I saved them on the way." Lin Jin smiled bitterly, "I'm here to farm. As long as I farm, I'll have water."

If there is water, the people will be saved.

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