My brother Ying Zheng, who dares to kill me?.

Chapter 861 How could I possibly do something so unprofitable! A chance for life in a deadly place!
The girl didn't know why Zhou Qingchen asked her to call her parents.

But she knew that Zhou Qingchen was a noble man who understood many principles, so she obediently shouted loudly towards the ruins: "Aunt! Mother!"

"Uncle is here to save you! Grandpa and mom, please don't fall asleep!"

Cai'er shouted again and again, and Zhou Qingchen raised his hoe again and again.

Zhou Qingchen, who always worked hard in front of his superiors, had unknowingly dug a large depression in the ruins.

When he saw the beam buried deep in the rammed earth structure, Zhou Qingchen subconsciously hoeed away all the rammed earth on the side along the beam, and then shouted: "That kid, get out of the way!"

When Cai'er hurriedly dodged a little, Zhou Qingchen hugged the beam with his arms, his muscles bulging, and shouted: "Get up!"

Then, the beams remained motionless!
Zhou Qingchen's face turned slightly red, and he glanced at Cai'er secretly with the corner of his eyes. Seeing that Cai'er was not looking at him, he quickly changed the direction of his force, dragged the beam with both hands, twisted his hips, and pulled the beam out without any image or etiquette.

"Whoo~"

Taking a deep breath, Zhou Qingchen looked down at the leather armor that he had spent a lot of money to make but was already a little tattered and dirty. He murmured in confusion, "What kind of magic has befallen me?"

"Why would I do such a worthless thing?"

There were no superiors or important people watching nearby. There was just a little girl waiting for him to save her parents.

Even if he succeeded in helping her rescue her parents, he would only have saved the lives of two lowly people, which would be of no use to him.

How could he do such an unprofitable thing!
While thinking, Zhou Qingchen picked up the hoe again and hoeed hard.

But this time, the feeling that the iron hoe gave Zhou Qingchen was somewhat different!

Zhou Qingchen's hands froze, his eyes suddenly fixed, and his thoughts were instantly cut off. He leaned over and crawled on the place where he had just hoeed, and used his hands to dig up the rammed earth in front of him.

Seeing this, Cai'er seemed to realize something. She staggered to Zhou Qingchen's side and stretched out her tender but dirty hands to dig at the pile of earth in front of Zhou Qingchen.

Then, Cai'er's hand was slapped away by Zhou Qingchen.

"Don't get in the way!" After glaring at Cai'er, Zhou Qingchen dug the soil faster and soon dug out an arm from under the soil.

Seeing the limp arm, Zhou Qingchen's heart twitched unconsciously. Pursing his lips slightly, Zhou Qingchen increased the speed of his hands again and quickly dug out half of the head from the rammed earth!

Cai'er's originally confused eyes trembled suddenly the moment she saw this half head, and she cried out in grief: "Ah Weng!!!"

Cai Er no longer cared about Zhou Qingchen's fierce gaze. She lay flat on the ruins, tearing up the soil with her hands, crying: "Uncle! Uncle, please don't be scared! Uncle!!!"

As Cai'er moved, the neck and limbs connected to the half head gradually appeared in front of Cai'er.

After hesitating for a while, Zhou Qingchen did not stop Cai'er, but changed the angle and dug under the corpse.

Soon, another cold arm touched Zhou Qingchen's fingers.

Zhou Qingchen's right hand trembled unconsciously, and then he dug forward even harder.

"Mother?"

Cai'er, who had just dug out half of her father, turned around and saw her mother, whose limbs were relatively intact but who had also passed away!
For a moment, Cai'er stayed where she was, looking left at her father who had just been dug out halfway, and right at her mother who had not yet been dug out.

She didn't know what to do.

She only knew that her sky had collapsed!

There was no expression on Cai'er's face, only two lines of hot tears mixed with dust on her face slowly flowing down, making her look even uglier.

Zhou Qingchen's face also turned ugly. He completely ignored his cut hands and continued to dig the rammed earth with all his strength.

Suddenly, Zhou Qingchen felt a touch of warmth on his palm.

Zhou Qingchen quickly slowed down his movements and carefully dug out the soil and debris, finally digging a hole under Cai'er's parents' bodies.

After breaking off Cai'er's father's right hand and prying open Cai'er's mother's left hand, Zhou Qingchen slowly and carefully took out something from the hole, as if he was holding a soup to be given to Ying Zheng.

Cai'er's eyes turned, and her almost dull eyes finally regained some light: "Brother?!"

What Zhou Qingchen pulled out of the cave was a baby boy who looked to be just over a hundred days old!

Cai'er subconsciously wanted to hug her brother, but as soon as she stood up, her face turned pale again. She looked at Zhou Qingchen with nervous eyes and said, "Uncle! Uncle! Um, my brother, is he..."

It's no wonder Cai'er is like this. The baby boy has been silent and motionless since he was dug out, making it hard not to suspect that he has followed his parents.

Zhou Qingchen scolded: "Don't get in the way!"

Then he hugged the baby boy tightly in his arms and rushed towards Su Jiao, shouting: "Minister Su! I found a baby, it seems to be dying, please help me!"

Su Jiao threw a wooden beam on the ground and asked repeatedly, panting: "Where is the baby?"

Zhou Qingchen hurriedly handed the baby boy to Su Jiao, and then subconsciously touched the baby's face with his hand: "I just dug him out from the ruins, but he didn't make a sound or move. I suspect he might..."

When his fingers slid to the baby boy's nostrils, Zhou Qingchen's fingers suddenly froze, and then he subconsciously looked at Cai'er in panic.

It was because he couldn't even detect any breath from the baby's nostrils!
For a moment, Zhou Qingchen had no idea how he should face those eyes that were full of expectations and gratitude for him!
Fortunately, Su Jiao did not give Zhou Qingchen time to think carefully.

After also checking the baby boy's breath, Su Jiao hurriedly lifted the baby boy's feet and slapped his butt hard.

After hitting the baby boy more than ten times without any effect, Su Jiao held the baby boy in front of his chest, wrapped his arms around the baby boy's chest, and then clenched his right fist, covered his left hand with his left hand, and pressed the baby boy's abdomen with his right fist. After several times, the baby boy's body suddenly began to spasm, and a large piece of granary mixed with blood and milk was vomited out by the baby boy!
"Wow~~~~~"

The loud cry of the baby echoed throughout Dongxiaoli.

Whether it was the common people in Dongxiaoli or the guards, able-bodied men and ministers who came to help, they all subconsciously looked in the direction where the crying broke out.

Then he saw Su Jiao and Zhou Qingchen standing under the red flag, and the baby held tightly in Su Jiao's arms!

"That's the silkworm farmer's baby, right?"

"Didn't the silkworm husband's house collapse a long time ago? How could the silkworm husband's baby be rescued? How did the baby hold on for so long?!"

"Brother Canfu, he... Well, Brother Canfu at least left behind a descendant!"

A baby's crying can be quite annoying in many cases.

But in Dongxiaoli, which is full of death and desolation, the crying of the baby represents the future and hope!
Although most of the able-bodied men in Dongxiaoli have died, as long as the children are still around, Dongxiaoli will still have a future!
There were no more exciting cheers.

The already exhausted people mixed the energy of cheering with the strength they squeezed from their limbs and bones, and swung the hoes in their hands again.

Only Zhou Qingchen fell to the ground as if he had completed a difficult task. He gasped desperately after realizing it belatedly, raised his trembling hands, looked at the wounds and blood on his hands, and sighed bitterly: "What a loss!"

Cai'er stumbled over the ruins, hugged the baby boy's calf with her tiny arms, and cried bitterly, "Brother!"

Su Jiao took the opportunity to pass the baby to Cai'er's arms and asked in a low voice: "Where are her parents? How can they let a child run around in such a dangerous place!"

Zhou Qingchen's eyes were still on his hands, but his voice had unconsciously become low: "Her parents are both dead, and now she and her brother are the only ones left in the family to depend on each other."

After a few silent breaths, Su Jiao said in a deep voice: "So I have to wait a little longer!"

Zhou Qingchen didn't move.

He still hasn't figured out why he would do such a thankless task.

Let him continue to save people? Impossible!

The most he would do is pretend to be trying his best to save people in front of Su Jiao to win Su Jiao's favor.

Su Jiao continued, "Even if we rescue these two children, they may not live to adulthood without adults to take care of them."

"We need to rescue more Dongxiaoli villagers before we can rescue their elders and give them some support."

"Dong Xiaoli is now the same as the two siblings. Most of the people left are women, children, the elderly and the weak. If we can't rescue more adults, even if we cross mountains and rivers and risk our lives to rescue Dong Xiaoli, their future life will definitely be difficult, and they may not even survive!"

Zhou Qingchen's gaze unconsciously turned to Cai'er.

Looking at Cai'er who was hugging her brother tightly in her arms, Zhou Qingchen pursed his lips slightly, stood up in a daze, and said in a deep voice: "Minister Su is right!"

"I will go and rescue more victims right away!"

Su Jiao reached out to stop Zhou Qingchen: "Wait!"

"Chou Fu, you carry the flag and follow Minister Zhou!"

Zhou Qingchen was greatly surprised and said quickly: "No!"

"Chang'an Jun designated Minister Su as the leader, and Silk Man is the flag bearer."

"Mr. Chou should follow Minister Su, how can he follow me?"

Su Jiao said seriously: "You and I have rescued many victims, many of whom were injured and sick."

"Although I am not as proficient in medicine as the doctors, I have been rated as an A in the military medical department. I am the only one in my army who knows how to treat injuries."

"I will set up a tent in a safe area to rescue the injured."

"Minister Zhou, please take care of the rescue work for the victims!"

With his right hand on Zhou Qingchen's shoulder, Su Jiao said with a little more sincerity: "I have seen everything that Minister Zhou has done."

"Compared to the other three ministers, Minister Zhou is the one who truly takes the emperor's orders to heart and devotes all his energy to rescuing the victims!"

"Only if you hand over the rescue work to Minister Zhou can I feel at ease!"

Zhou Qingchen felt it was a bit absurd.

When has he ever devoted all his energy to rescuing the victims?

Are those lowly creatures worthy of a noble man like him risking his life for?
But Zhou Qingchen would never let the opportunity to make merit and improve his favorability slip away.

Standing up straight, Zhou Qingchen bowed solemnly: "I will not let Minister Su down!"

Looking up at the red flag that was already fluttering behind him, Zhou Qingchen suddenly looked at Cai'er and asked, "Where are your grandparents and uncles?"

"Point it to me!"

(End of this chapter)