Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 102 Want it all

Jiang Minglang and his companion drove from the north and entered the village from the back.

Not far from the village to the south, there is a big road leading to Pingjiang Bridge.

That night they came down from Pingjiang Bridge and walked along that main road.

When I said goodbye to Zhou Hui, the village was pitch black, but fortunately there were no zombies. I could also see that many courtyard doors were closed and the curtains of the two-story buildings were drawn tightly.

Good.

It was late at night, so I didn't go to Zhou Lei's house.

But if he comes back, Zhou Hui will definitely tell him.

Now, only two days have passed and Jiang Minglang has not moved forward. He doesn't know that a wooden fence and barbed wire have been erected in the southernmost row of their village.

"clear."

Zhou Lei quickly ran down from the second floor, opened the door at the gate of the courtyard, and looked at his old friend with excitement.

All I could do was give him a hug.

"You just got home?"

Jiang Minglang smelled a foul odor coming from his friend. It was not only because he hadn't taken a shower for a long time, but also because of the solidified black blood on his body and other messy things.

In short, the taste is very complex.

He frowned, "With your skills, why did you come back only now? What were you doing?"

When Zhou Lei was in high school, he wanted to go to the military academy with him, or the police academy. Unfortunately, he had some health problems during the physical examination and failed.

However, after graduating from university, he met two police friends in the city where he worked. He would go with them for training when he had nothing to do, and his physical fitness was much better than that of ordinary people.

Although the whole country was in chaos after the end of the world, he was alone and in good health. It should have been no problem for him to protect himself, and he should have returned long ago.

"Oh, it's hard to explain in a few words. I'll tell you in detail when I have time."

Zhou Lei wiped his face with a haggard look and greeted Bai Li in the car.

At this point, his emotions had stabilized, and he asked the two, "Did you come here specifically to see me?"

"Look at your big face?"

"It's not big now, so what are you doing?"

“Do you still have sheep in your village?”

Jiang Minglang thought that the animals caught in the car were a male and a female, and they would definitely not be killed for the sake of reproduction, so it would be better to find two more.

Zhou Lei was stunned for a moment after hearing this. He looked at his friend with a complicated expression and sighed, "Others are having a hard time getting a meal, and you're actually looking for sheep all over the place?"

But there is nothing we can do, they don’t have the ability to do that.

Not only can he protect his wife and children, but he can also provide them with delicious food and drink.

Thinking back to when the two were dating, he advised Jiang Minglang to give up, not because Bai Li was not good enough, but because the Jiang family was not human.

So it would be better for Jiang Minglang to find someone from another place, far away from here.

But there was no other way, Bai Li picked up Jiang Minglang and brought him home, and he also recognized her.

Damn it, why didn't he get such a good chance? Why didn't anyone pick him up?

"Wait a minute, I'll ask my dad."

Zhou Lei turned around and saw his father walking out of the house.

"Uncle, I'm Minglang."

"You kid, I still can't recognize you as Minglang."

Father Zhou forced a smile and looked at the tall Jiang Minglang with admiration.

Bai Li got out of the car and handed over a bag of fruit. "These are from my orchard. Please try some."

Zhou Lei was surprised and asked, "Is your orchard still there?"

Without waiting for Bai Li to say anything, Jiang Minglang looked disdainful and said, "Since you are back, can you take a good look around? There is a small peach orchard to the east on the way we came here. The peaches in it are ripe, but no one is picking them."

It is already June, and although the temperature is still a bit abnormal, fruit crops are still growing quietly according to the season.

There is an impact, but not a big one.

Zhou Lei scratched his head embarrassedly, "I got home at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, and fell asleep as soon as I lay down on the bed. I just woke up when you came over."

Otherwise, he wouldn't have come out to meet them with such a bad smell.

Jiang Minglang stopped laughing at him and said seriously, "Zhou Hui has returned. You two can discuss the next step later. We are building a wall to enclose the entire village, and we have almost harvested the crops in the fields, but you guys don't seem to have made any moves."

When he said this, for some reason, even Zhou's father was stunned.

How can you still have the mood to harvest wheat when you don’t know what will happen in the future?
Jiang Minglang was helpless. Actually, he couldn't blame them. After all, most people thought the same way.

No one knows what will happen next, what to do, whether anyone will come out to take charge of the situation, and whether they can still live here.

Everything is unknown and everyone is at a loss.

In this situation, let alone not daring to go out, even if someone dares to go out, who would have the mood to go to the fields to harvest crops?

Bai Li thought, what can I do if I don't dare? It won't change anything.

What's more, for small people like us, if we want to survive, we can only rely on ourselves. No matter what, the key is to manage our own land and store food.

Otherwise, in the end you will have nothing to eat, how can you still expect others to provide you with food?

Or will the country restore the status quo and provide you with retirement benefits?
It doesn’t take much thought to know, is this possible under the current circumstances?
In fact, she still admired her father very much. Even when she and Qiqi didn't come back, he was so worried that he couldn't sleep all night, but it didn't stop him from harvesting grain, vegetables and fruits.

While investigating the situation, do what you need to do.

It seemed like a long time had passed, but in fact, only six or seven minutes had passed from the time the car drove over to the time Zhou Lei came out to talk.

Next door is Zhou Hui's house, which is a two-story building like Zhou Lei's.

Bai Li vaguely heard a child's voice, "Mom, I saw Aunt Bai."

It seems to be Xiaoyu.

Bai Li turned her head and met Zeng Sujie's eyes, who had opened the car window and was looking over here.

A hint of surprise flashed across the other person's face. He waved his hand, but didn't dare to shout loudly. He just called her name softly.

After a while, Zeng Sujie came running over from their house with Jinfeng and Jinyu.

"Bai Li."

"Aunt Bai."

The two children shouted in unison, and then asked, "Where's Qiqi?"

"Qiqi is at home." Bai Li touched the two little heads, took out a bag of fruit from the car, looked at their surprised eyes, and smiled.

Jiang Minglang had already gone to the family with the sheep with Zhou Lei's father. He did not let Zhou Lei follow them and told him to go wash up quickly because the smell was really unbearable.

"How's your life at home?"

"Fortunately, my father-in-law and mother-in-law were not seriously injured."

Zeng Sujie sighed and said, "Luckily I met you on the road, otherwise our family might not be able to come back. When we got home, my parents-in-law were so anxious that if the Pingjiang Bridge hadn't been blocked, they would have wanted to go out to look for us."

"My dad is the same. What about your family? Have you been back to check?"

Zeng Sujie's parents' home is also in Pengcheng, which is a county below, a bit far from here.

She shook her head, her tone a little indifferent, "No, Zhou Hui's leg is not healed yet. I plan to wait until he recovers."

She is the middle of three sisters in her family. Before she got married, she was the one who was often ignored at home, not to mention after she got married. Even if she didn't call her parents for half a year, they would not remember to call her, or they remembered that they hadn't contacted her for a long time, but were too lazy to call.

After giving birth to the children, she treated the siblings Jinfeng and Jinyu differently from her older sister's and younger sister's children.

She felt sad, but she just thought that after all, they were her parents. Even though they neglected her, they still raised her, didn't they?

She was actually quite worried about her parents at first after the apocalypse, but after returning to her husband's house a few days ago, she felt relieved when she saw her mother-in-law crying while hugging her, then crying while hugging the children.

Because she thought that no matter whether she went away to college or worked after graduation, no matter how long she returned home, her parents would always be indifferent to her. They would never make their beds early, buy their favorite dishes, and make them comfortable and eat what they had been craving for no matter when they got home.

Life is short. Why waste time and energy thinking about people who don't care about you?
So it doesn't matter, she doesn't want to see them anymore, no matter what they do.

The two chatted casually for a while, and Zeng Sujie suddenly said, "Bai Li, how about I go and take over those lands that have no owners?"

Bai Li looked at her in surprise. Zeng Sujie said embarrassedly, "Isn't this inspired by your digging of shepherd's purse? It would be a pity if no one harvested it and it rotted in the field."

"That's right," Bai Li nodded. "If there's no one in charge of your village and no one is looking after the land, I think you can just harvest all the crops that are ripe, including wheat."

Zeng Sujie's eyes lit up, "Is that right? I said my idea is feasible, but Zhou Hui is worried about the danger and wants to wait until his leg is healed before taking it. A broken bone takes a hundred days to heal, so how long should I wait?"

"What do you mean by wait until when?"

As the two were talking, Zhou Hui came out of the yard on crutches. He looked around and didn't see Jiang Minglang. He asked curiously, "Where's Brother Lang? I heard his voice just now."

"I went to my third uncle's house with my uncle to look after the sheep."

Half of the families in Zhoujiazhuang have the surname Zhou. Even if some of them are beyond the fifth degree of kinship, they are still from the same clan.

The family raising sheep is his third uncle, who is five generations away from his ancestors.

After walking together for the whole journey, Zhou Hui had gotten to know Bai Li's personality better. Considering the abilities of both her and Jiang Minglang, it was not surprising that they wanted to eat mutton.

It’s just a pity that his father told him that there are not many sheep left in his uncle’s house, and almost all of them are lambs, because when the end of the world came, all the adult sheep ran away.

Ran?

Bai Li thought of the two big sheep caught in the car, and opened the car door to show Zhou Hui and his wife, "We caught these in the fields. Are they from your third uncle's family?"

"Who cares if it's yours? Once you catch them, they're yours."

Zhou Hui waved his hand, motioning her to close the car door, and whispered, "My third uncle and his third aunt are the only two people in his family. They can't protect the sheep at home at this time. I hope you can take all his lambs away."

Keeping this sheep will be a disaster, maybe even fatal.

He asked Bai Li, "Have you managed to collect all the lambs? There should be seven or eight lambs."

Bai Li nodded, "Okay."

Just seven or eight, they can afford it.

It was a good opportunity to assign some work to Qiqi. Cutting grass and feeding the sheep would be his job.

Zhou Hui said hurriedly, "Then I'll go call my dad and ask him to tell my third uncle that they really can't keep this sheep."

Zhoujiazhuang's location was the best before the end of the world. It was located between the urban area of Pengcheng and the Pingjiang Bridge. It was convenient to go everywhere, with main roads in front and behind and well connected.

But after the end of the world, the opposite is true.

Not to mention the survivors in their village, even people passing by Pengcheng and Pingjiang Bridge, if they heard sheep bleating in the village, it would be okay if they met someone with bottom line, but if they didn't, it was entirely possible that the sheep would be snatched away and the people would be killed.

Zhou Hui was not idle in the past two days since he came back. From time to time, he would go out for a walk with his crutches to see the people, zombies and animals passing by on the North-South Highway.

People are easy to talk to, as they are all in a hurry. Some looked at their village from afar, but probably because they found that there were many people in the village, they did not get closer.

The zombies basically came from the south, probably from Pingjiang Bridge.

So the villagers worked together to build a row of fences and barbed wire in the south of the village, which was barely enough to keep out the zombies coming here.

But the good thing is that because it is close to the highway, people or cars pass by on the road from time to time, and the zombies are lured away again.

The reason why there are so many survivors in their village is related to its location.

His father said that except for those who turned into zombies at home, many of those outside ran away because there were too many cars passing by on the road and the noise was too loud, which attracted the zombies away.

So in the end, there were only about 140 households left in their Zhoujia Village.

But the village party secretary and others are all gone, which means that the village has no one in charge and is in disarray.

Zhou Hui actually wanted to move his family to Yunxi Village. His brother just happened to be back, and given his relationship with Brother Lang, he believed that he would want to go too.

Unfortunately, his parents and uncle were reluctant to leave their home and did not want to leave unless it was absolutely necessary.

Well, let's get his leg healed first.

Twenty minutes later Jiang Minglang came back. He asked Bai Li to get in the car and drove straight to the home of Uncle Zhou San, the sheep farmer.

"We have already made an agreement with him. We will take all of his seven lambs and two adult sheep, one male and one female."

"What does he want?"

"Fifty kilograms of rice and fifty kilograms of flour, plus five bags of salt and two barrels of salad oil. I agree."

I haven’t started bartering yet, so it’s hard to say whether it’s cost-effective or not.

It doesn’t matter actually. As long as you get what you want and also have what others want, that’s enough.

Of course, they didn't bring these things with them today, but because Zhou's father and his two brothers guaranteed it, Zhou Sanshu allowed them to take the sheep away first.

The van was not small, but with these nine sheep, no, including the two that were caught earlier, there were eleven in total, which filled the van to the brim.

It seems that Bai Yang and her father will have to sit in the back seat with the sheep.

Having agreed to come and deliver the things tomorrow, Jiang Minglang and his friends said goodbye to Zhou Lei and Zhou Hui's families and drove away from Zhoujiazhuang.

When we got outside the village, Bai Xiangtian and Bai Yang were already waiting on the roadside. The father and son were counting ants on the ground out of boredom.

Seeing the car coming, Bai Yang patted his butt and asked Bai Li, "Why did you take so long?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and opened the back door.
"Mea~~"

A little white sheep without a rope cried out and rushed out the moment the door opened, and it happened to dive into Bai Yang's arms and was held by him.
　see you tomorrow!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)