Your Majesty, the princess is fleeing famine with her child!

Chapter 289 Waiting for Darkness

"You dare to stop me, do you want to rebel?"

The supervisor glared at Xiao Jingyi with his eyes wide open and shouted angrily.

When Xiao Jingyi heard the word "rebellion", his eyes instantly turned cold.

What kind of person is this? How can he be qualified to say these two words?

When the supervisor saw that Xiao Jingyi was unmoved, his expression became even more brutal.

He wanted to pull his hand free and whip Xiao Jingyi twice, but Xiao Jingyi's hand was like an iron clamp and he couldn't get free no matter how he struggled.

The supervisor's heart suddenly panicked, and he felt an indescribable fear.

But how could he show his cowardice in front of so many people? He said fiercely, "I'm warning you, let me go, or I will..."

Before he could finish his words, Xiao Jingyi suddenly let go of him.

The supervisor was not paying attention for a moment and fell backwards due to inertia.

He thought he was going to fall headlong, but halfway down, a big hand suddenly grabbed his collar and pulled him up.

The supervisor looked up and found that the person who grabbed him was Xiao Jingyi.

Xiao Jingyi raised his eyebrows and smiled at him: "Sir, please be careful!"

"Also, if this guy gets hurt, there will be one less person to do the work."

"This morning, the adults said that the higher-ups had sent down a message that we should speed up the work and open up all the wasteland and plant all the beauty flowers before the end of this month."

"If you beat someone up so badly that he can't do his job, that would delay the work."

"If the superiors blame us, I'm afraid I'll be punished as well!"

When the supervisor heard what Xiao Jingyi said, he thought it made sense.

The people who came a few days ago said that they wanted to increase the quantity of goods, so the boss ordered to plant more beauty flowers.

He even felt that there were not enough workers on the island and planned to find a way to get some more people over.

Moreover, there was a small disturbance on the island a few days ago, and a few people stole a boat and ran away.

When they discovered them and chased after them, they saw that the escaping people, along with their boat and people, were sucked into a huge whirlpool in the sea.

Anyone who is caught in the whirlpool will not survive.

They turned the boat around in time and avoided the whirlpool without being sucked in.

But this incident still made the boss very angry.

At this critical juncture, if he beat someone up again and delayed the work, and the news got to the boss's ears, he would definitely suffer the consequences.

After realizing this, the supervisor immediately gave up the idea of ​​teaching the old man a lesson.

But Xiao Jingyi stopped him in public, which made him feel very embarrassed.

If he doesn't vent this anger, he will not be able to sleep or eat.

He glanced at everyone and shouted, "Everyone, get back to work."

"If anyone dares to be lazy again, don't blame me for being merciless with my whip!"

Having said that, he suddenly whipped Xiao Jingyi on the arm.

The whip came so suddenly that no one expected it, and Xiao Jingyi couldn't avoid it even if he wanted to.

The supervisor glanced at Xiao Jingyi and sneered, "You will suffer if you meddle in other people's business!"

After he said this, he turned around and inspected other places.

Zuo Yan's expression changed when he saw this, and he looked like an angry leopard, ready to pounce and bite the enemy at any time.

Xiao Jingyi shook his head slightly at Zuo Yan, signaling him not to act rashly.

Although Zuo Yan looked unhappy, he could only swallow his anger seeing Xiao Jingyi like this.

Xiao Jingyi raised his eyes and looked at the supervisor, with a cold and murderous look in his eyes.

If someone who knew Xiao Jingyi was here and saw the look in his eyes, they would understand that the supervisor was not far from death.

Xiao Jingyi quickly retracted his gaze and helped the old man, who was beaten all over, up.

The old man hurriedly thanked Xiao Jingyi.

If Xiao Jingyi hadn't stopped him today, the old man would probably have been beaten to death.

After chatting for a few sentences, Xiao Jingyi learned that the old man was called Zou Haisheng and was originally a fisherman.

Although he is called an old man, he is actually less than 40 years old this year.

However, he looked increasingly old due to being exposed to the wind and sun at sea for many years, and doing hard labor all year round after arriving at Devil's Island, and being beaten and scolded at every turn.

After hearing what happened to the old man, Xiao Jingyi felt very upset.

These people were originally the people of Daqi, living and working in peace and contentment on the land of Daqi.

However, they were kidnapped and tricked into this island, where they not only had to do hard labor for free, but also had to go hungry and were often beaten and scolded.

And this poppy-growing island is probably just a link in the golden paste profit chain.

Xiao Jingyi gritted his teeth secretly, he was determined to eradicate all the forces behind this.

Rescue all the people on Devil's Island.

It was not until the sun set and the supervisor blew the whistle that the laborers ended their day's work, carried their tools back to their shacks, prepared to eat dinner and then go to bed.

After waking up, you will continue working tomorrow.

Day after day, it seems like there will never be an end.

Dinner was a steamed bun and a bowl of vegetable soup.

The steamed corn bread was too rough to be swallowed, and the vegetable soup was too watery and tasteless.

Xiao Jingyi ate it reluctantly.

Several years of training on the border allowed him to enjoy fine clothes and delicious food, as well as eat coarse grains and wild vegetables.

Zuo Yan moved to Xiao Jingyi's side with the bowl of soup.

Xiao Jingyi glanced at him and said in a voice so low that only the two of them could hear, "Wait until dark."

Why wait until dark?

The first is to explore Devil's Island.

This is what they would find ways to do almost every night after arriving at Devil's Island.

The second is to avenge the whip.

How could Xiao Jingyi, the kind of person who would take a whipping for nothing?

As night fell, the entire island seemed to fall into a deep sleep and became quiet.

The only sounds you can hear are insects chirping and the sound of waves hitting the rocks on the shore.

The people in the shacks had worked all day and were exhausted. They had all fallen asleep.

Almost no one would be stupid enough to stay up all night.

Everyone will just race against time to rest a little longer.

Because they will have to get up and work at dawn tomorrow.

Amid the snoring, two figures stood up silently and walked out of the shack.

Supplies are precious on the island and no one would waste lighting supplies like lamp oil and candles, so this side of the shack was completely dark.

Only the cold moonlight shines down, adding a touch of brightness to this world.

Xiao Jingyi and Zuo Yan walked out of the shack skillfully and headed towards the center of the island under the moonlight.

During the days on Devil's Island, Xiao Jingyi and Zuo Yan had already become familiar with the nearby terrain and knew how to get around almost with their eyes closed.

Not far from the shack is the first level of sentry post.

The main task of this sentry post is to guard the workers in the shacks.

To prevent someone from running away in the dark and windy night.

However, once you leave the island, there is the vast ocean. Without a boat and enough drinking water, it would be a pipe dream to leave alive.

Once they escape and are caught, cruel punishment awaits them.

Therefore, there are not many people who really have the courage to escape.

Occasionally there would be some noise at night, but it was mostly people getting up to urinate.