During the team's break, laborers and soldiers from another group came over to ask Liu Ji's group for help.
Thinking that everyone was in the same boat, suffering under forced labor, and with fellow townsfolk among them, it was hard to refuse as the saying goes, "When fellow villagers see each other, tears well up in their eyes."
Seeing that his companions were soft-hearted and wanted to go, Liu Ji quickly called the five of them to stop, urging them not to meddle in others' affairs.
He had a constant bad feeling, and the grain carts before him were their lifeline; he just wanted to stay by them without moving an inch.
Otherwise, if anything went wrong with the military rations, surviving would still mean death.
So why waste any effort worrying about others?
