She Rebuilt Her Fallen Country With Storage Space
Chapter 225: 225: Must Not Go to Bai City!

Chapter 225: Chapter 225: Must Not Go to Bai City!

Xiang Ying lifted her lashes and stared blankly at him.

Jie Chen, however, avoided her gaze, looking at the snowflakes falling nearby.

The surroundings were endlessly white, and the cold wind howled piercingly.

Since the last time she returned, Jie Chen had deliberately avoided contact between the two of them.

Hearing his words, Xiang Ying was momentarily distracted.

She paused before saying, “I understand, consider it me being nosy. Don’t worry, it won’t happen again.”

With that, she turned around and left.

When the Sixth Prince came back holding gold, he only saw Xiang Ying’s retreating figure hurrying away.

He frowned and raised his voice: “Why are you running away? You’re not thinking of denying it, are you, Xiang Ying? Come back here!”

“Stop shouting!” Jie Chen coldly sneered, causing the Sixth Prince to be momentarily stunned.

The Sixth Prince looked at Jie Chen in disbelief.

This kid dared to be fierce with him?

Wasn’t he the one who never resisted no matter how much he was bullied?

Jie Chen’s gaze was as sharp and chilly as a blade: “Keep causing trouble, and you’ll go to Bai City by yourself.”

With that, Jie Chen mounted his horse and left.

After a while, Qi Fengyi came carrying ten bundles of firewood, directly tossing them into the arms of the Sixth Prince.

And with a cold face, he took the gold bag from his hands and turned to leave.

The Sixth Prince almost couldn’t hold on, letting his guards come to help.

He called out to Qi Fengyi: “Wait!”

“What else?” Qi Fengyi stared at him with a hostile look.

Just now, after their elder princess returned, she looked unhappy; she must have been bullied by the Sixth Prince.

Naturally, Qi Fengyi wasn’t in a good mood towards him either.

The Sixth Prince frowned: “Didn’t Xiang Ying say to give it separately? Now that you’ve given it all at once, she won’t still ask for gold from me, will she?”

Qi Fengyi said impatiently: “The elder princess didn’t say anything; if you are willing to give, go find her yourself.”

With that, he turned and left.

The Sixth Prince kicked the snow on the ground in anger.

Everyone was like they had eaten gunpowder; Xiang Ying bullied him, Jie Chen bullied him, and now even a mere prisoner dared to give him cold looks.

What had he done to deserve this?

The Sixth Prince coldly packed the firewood onto the carriage, letting the guards start a fire. Soon, he felt a sense of warmth.

Since being told off by Jie Chen, Xiang Ying hadn’t left the carriage at all.

But every now and then, water bandits and exiled criminals would rotate coming to her carriage to warm up.

Each of them also got a bowl of hot ginger soup.

Xiang Ying was tucked in her space, farming. She had just harvested a batch of cherries and was now blissfully eating them.

The space was forever spring-like, with temperatures always suitable, especially in the planting layer where the temperature adjusted in real time based on the crop type.

Busy with tasks, Xiang Ying still remembered to reclassify everything.

After all this, she went to take a bath.

Given how Jie Chen treated her, it would be strange if she wasn’t heartbroken.

But Xiang Ying had moved on.

It was good that Jie Chen set clear boundaries; they were not people of the same path after all.

Xiang Ying decided to focus all her efforts on scavenging for resources.

She walked up to the position between the sixteenth and seventeenth floors to check the new floor’s unlocking condition.

Unexpectedly, the space demanded a whopping 200,000 Jade stones this time!

The screen displayed: [86192/200000]

That was the current total number of Jade stones in Xiang Ying’s space.

Given the pieces, that meant she’d need to stockpile way too many!

Fortunately, the next stop is Bai City, where she can see if she can scavenge anything.

Xiang Ying stepped out from the space and realized that the carriage had stopped moving.

A water bandit came up to warm up, rubbing his hands while roasting the fire and said, “The Vice General has picked up someone who froze and fainted up ahead, seems like they escaped from Bai City.”

Tao Xue wondered, “It’s icy and snowy outside, Bai City should be relatively safe, right? What happened that they had to escape?”

“We don’t know about that, the Vice General has already sent the person to the carriage and called a Military Doctor to examine them.”

Curious, Xiang Ying used a drone to go over and investigate the situation.

Her drone approached Jie Chen’s carriage and heard the Military Doctor’s panicked voice.

“This is the plague! Vice General, if the plague is rampant in Bai City, we absolutely cannot stop there!”

Acid Scholar was shocked, “This person is also infected with the plague? We must throw him out quickly!”

Just as he finished speaking, the Military Doctor suddenly exclaimed, “He’s out of breath!”

Jie Chen furrowed his brows, checked the pulse on the man’s neck, confirmed that he was dead, then said gravely, “Throw him out, find a place to bury him.”

The Military Doctor bowed, “This man only said one sentence, Bai City looks bleak, he would rather risk freezing to death to flee, indicating the city is already full of disease.”

“Vice General, you must change course.”

Jie Chen pulled out a map to study, his expression stern.

“The nearest town here is only Bai City, going beyond that, it would take over a fortnight to reach the next town, even hurrying might take about a week.”

“Now, with the cold freezing the ground, we hardly received enough supplies in Mei City, we hardly have any food left, if we don’t stop at Bai City, the entire team simply won’t survive the journey to the Capital.”

With so many exiled criminals, two have already frozen to death today, what about the days to come?

No one knows when this heavy snow will stop.

Everyone sighed anxiously.

Jie Chen thought for a while, called in reconnaissance soldiers, and ordered them to rush to Bai City to scout the situation.

And tonight, they had no choice but to take temporary shelter in a run-down abandoned station.

Calling it a station, it was nearly comparable to a thatched hut.

Since it had been abandoned for a long time, the repairs were inadequate.

The only advantage was that it could shield from the wind.

Jie Chen had all the exiled criminals squeeze inside, where they could only sit and sleep side by side.

Xiang Ying and the others had a carriage, so they didn’t need to squeeze in.

Knowing the situation was not optimistic, she took the initiative to prepare three large pots of mutton soup and called everyone to eat.

This time, the Sixth Prince also came with a bowl.

He obediently lined up in the cold wind, even if the surrounding criminals cast strange glances, he remained indifferent.

It was really because the smell of the mutton soup was too enticing!

Xiang Ying was very generous, not only putting several slices of meat in everyone’s bowls but also giving them two large sesame flatbreads to soak in the soup.

A bowl of this soup, and even the coldest snow would melt!

The Sixth Prince was lining up with Xiang Qianqian when the Seventh Princess passed by and suddenly stopped.

“Yo! Qianqian, you also want big sister to give you some mutton soup? You really are bold, forgetting how you treated us before?”

Xiang Qianqian bit her lip, “I came with the Sixth Prince, why are you concerned?”

The Sixth Prince looked back at her, glanced her up and down, and said, “You go back to the carriage.”

Xiang Qianqian was stunned, “Your Highness!”

Tears were about to emerge.

She initially wanted to follow the Sixth Prince for a bowl of mutton soup, why was the Sixth Prince now asking her to leave?

The Sixth Prince’s gaze was cold, “Go back, with you here, Xiang Ying most likely won’t give us anything to eat.”

Despite Xiang Qianqian’s reluctance, she could only stomp her foot and leave.

The Seventh Princess burst out laughing, “Serves you right, remember how you treated us?”

As Xiang Qianqian passed by Xiang Li, she suddenly stopped.

The Sixth Prince might be unreliable, but her Crown Prince brother was famously soft-hearted.

She immediately looked at Xiang Li with tearful eyes, “Crown Prince, can you share a bowl of soup with me?”