Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 114 Night Training
"I won!"

On the small path beside the field, a figure with a residual shadow was running from afar and approaching. When it was about to reach the bamboo pole erected at the gate of the Bai family, it suddenly braked.

With an incredible movement, it suddenly stopped.

Then he turned around and ran towards Xia Min, who raised her chin proudly, "Are you looking for trouble? You lose every time and you still don't accept it? To tell you the truth, I didn't try my best."

Before Bai Yang could finish his words, Xia Min stepped on his foot unexpectedly. He jumped on one foot in pain, baring his teeth and roaring, "Xia Min you..."

"What do you mean by you? What do you mean by not using your full strength? Are you looking down on me?"

As she said that, Xia Min raised her foot to kick again. Bai Yang was prepared this time, so how could he be kicked by her?
Even though she was standing on one leg, he easily dodged it and rushed behind her to grab her ponytail.

But his hand was stopped halfway. He looked up at the person who grabbed his wrist and was stunned for a moment, "Brother Da Zi, why are you grabbing me?"

Zhang Shaoda had a blank expression on his face. "What are you doing?"

Bai Yang was puzzled. Wasn't it obvious what he was doing? Why was he asking?

"I"

"Second Uncle asked you to help him move potatoes."

However, Zhang Shaoda didn't want him to answer. He let go of his hand and glanced at him blankly, "You don't do anything all day long, you just play around."

After saying that, he turned around and called Xia Min, "Don't you want to eat candied sweet potatoes tonight? Come on, go wash the sweet potatoes."

Xia Min's eyes lit up, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly, revealing a small dimple on her cheek, "Can you really do it?"

When Zhang Shaoda saw her smiling face, the discomfort in his heart just now disappeared, and his expression softened, but he still pretended to be unhappy and asked back, "Do you think I'm bragging?"

After settling down in Baiguoyuan, the Xia father and daughter certainly couldn't always eat at the Bai family. They now lived in Chen Dong's house, and their own house was still under construction, but it would be completed soon.

The place to live has been decided, and three meals a day are not a problem, but it's a bit difficult to eat.

The father and daughter don't have much talent in cooking. They can make simple rice soup and dumpling soup, and they can stir-fry vegetables, but that's just enough. If they want the dishes to be delicious and tasty, they can only dream about it.

By chance, Zhang Shaoda went to see Xia Yonghua and saw the father and daughter eating a plate of fried, slightly blackened potato sticks with steamed buns - they were too thick to be shredded, which was fine, but the key point was that the taste was weird.

It turned out that Xia Min wanted the food to taste better, so she added some of the seasonings on the stove, including cooking wine.

Zhang Shaoda found it unbelievable and intolerable to see the father and son eating so happily.

So he took two more potatoes, quickly cut them into shreds, added a green pepper, and soon fried a plate of real green pepper and potato shreds for the father and daughter.

From then on, he was pulled by Xia Yonghua to live with the father and daughter at his home and became a qualified cook.

Being able to cook is not something to be proud of. He grew up with his grandmother in the countryside. If he wants to make his grandmother's life easier, he must help with the housework, right?
Everyone's growth does not happen without reason.

Another possibility is that he has a talent for being a cook. He learns to cook very quickly. When I went to Bai Li’s home in Suzhou before, I made pineapple meat and chopped pepper fish head for them. They were delicious!

Bai Yang looked at the two people who were about to leave. He ignored the previous question and grabbed Zhang Shaoda's arm, and asked with the same sly eyes, "Brother Dazi, are you making candied sweet potatoes tonight?"

Zhang Shaoda now disliked everything about this boy, and glared at him and asked, "What for?"

"Those who listen will have a share."

"Didn't you say you don't like sweets?"

Bai Yang was stunned. When did he say this?

"Brother Dazi, did you remember it wrong?"

"No."

Zhang Shaoda shook off his hand and told Xia Min to leave.

Bai Yang looked at the backs of the two standing side by side, scratched his head, and said to himself, "Why do I feel like Brother Da Zi has a lot of complaints about me? Have I offended him?"

Zhang Shaoda, who had a keen sense of hearing, moved his ears, glanced at Xia Min calmly, and asked, "Do you like to compete with Bai Yang in speed?"

Xia Min spread her hands, "How can I improve if I don't compete? He and I are the only two of us with speed abilities. If not him, who should I compete with?"

Zhang Shaoda had nothing to say.

But, I still feel uncomfortable.

It's really because they are of similar age, and when they stand together, they give outsiders the feeling that they are a good match.

Once, the wife of a worker under Xia Yonghua said this and advised him to win over Bai Yang, the son-in-law, which made him angry.
What son-in-law?
Who is Uncle Xia’s son-in-law?
What do you mean people of similar age are a good match? Isn’t it true that one knows how to care for others when one is older?
What do these people know? They just match people up at random.

He thought about it and said to Xia Min, "It's not difficult to increase your speed. Next time I'll get a stopwatch and time you."

"You mean, you want to help me train?"

"If you want to speed up, I can help you make a schedule."

Although I am still very busy every day, I am also able to spare some time.

Zhang Shaoda felt that instead of letting her compete with that boy and having her self-confidence hit, it would be better for him to help her train him.

Yes, he helped her.

Zhang Shaoda patiently explained to her, "If you want to improve your speed and surpass Bai Yang, you must first have a solid foundation. Take Bai Yang for example, do you know why he is faster than you?"

"why?"

"Every morning my brother asks him to go running with us. In addition, he also does push-ups and sit-ups. In short, he will do any physical training he can. If you want, I can ask you to join us in the morning."

"What time in the morning?"

"Before, the sun rose later, so it was set at 6 o'clock. Now that it's hot, it's moved forward half an hour."

That's half past five.

Get up at 5:30. Xia Min hesitated for a long time and felt that she would not be able to get up.

She suddenly had an idea and asked Zhang Shaoda, "I can run at night, Brother Dazi, can you train with me at night?"

Training at night?
Zhang Shaoda wanted to say that electricity would be wasted at night, and Xia Min also thought of this problem. Although they have a generator here, it is not unlimited, so it is better to save as much as possible.

But she may not be able to get up in the morning.

After thinking for a while, he said, "How about not running, and you just help me train my physical fitness?"

Give her physical training at night?

Just the two of them!

Zhang Shaoda felt that if he didn't agree, he might be struck by lightning.

He readily agreed and made an appointment to start training in the evening.

The two returned to Chen Dong's yard, Xia Min happily washed the sweet potatoes, and Zhang Shaoda began to knead the dough to make hand-rolled noodles. Originally, hand-rolled noodles were best eaten with a spicy vegetarian dish, but Xia Min suddenly said with regret that she hadn't eaten candied sweet potatoes for a long time.

It just so happens that he knows how to cook. If you want to eat it, just make it. It doesn’t matter what you pair it with, as long as you enjoy the meal.

It was a not-so-big courtyard with a clean and tidy kitchen. A man and a woman were busy with their respective duties, occasionally talking to each other in low voices, giving people a sense of peace and tranquility.

Zhang Shaoda looked at Xia Min and sighed in his heart, thinking how nice it would be if it would always be like this.

Like his brother, he has always wanted to have a family of his own.

His brother was very lucky. Ten years ago, he went to Suzhou for vacation and met his sister-in-law who was studying in Suzhou and was about to graduate. The two were classmates in high school. It is said that his sister-in-law helped his brother out of trouble. After not seeing each other for several years, he did not expect to meet again in a different place.

Is it really a reunion in a different place?

Zhang Shaoda once suspected that his brother had planned to go to Sucheng, but he did not admit it and he had no evidence.

In just a few days in Suzhou, the two quickly confirmed their relationship, got married a year later, and had Qiqi a year later.
The key point is that it has been ten years since they confirmed their relationship, and they are still as loving as ever, which makes people envious and jealous.

Not only Zhang Shaoda envied them, but in fact the one who envied them the most was Deputy Captain Xu Bo. After all, his wife divorced him because they lived apart, and they had a very unhappy divorce.

I heard from my sister-in-law that she met Xu Bo on the way back. He found his daughter and brought her with him.

Since he brought his daughter with him, what about his ex-wife?

Did his ex-wife's family all die, or was his daughter abandoned?

“How big do you want it to be cut?”

Xia Min's words interrupted Zhang Shaoda's thoughts. He put down the dough he had kneaded and said while washing his hands, "I'll cut it. You wash the vegetables over there."

"it is good."

Half an hour later, a sweet fragrance wafted from the kitchen, which made the child who had just walked to the door swallow his saliva.

Qiqi rushed to the door and asked, "Uncle Dazi, are the candied sweet potatoes ready?"

"Ok?"

Bai Yang walked to the back and peeked into the kitchen with Qiqi.

You can't really blame them for being greedy. The main reason is that this dish cannot be left out and must be eaten while hot, otherwise it will become hard.

Xia Min greeted them with a smile, "It will be ready soon, please sit down first."

When Xia Yonghua returned home, the kitchen was bustling with activity.

When he heard the voices of his daughter and Da Zi, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

But then he turned serious again. What's wrong with this kid Dazi? He brought us to the Bai family orchard on his own initiative, but he didn't even tell his daughter.

At first glance, this boy seems quite smart, but now that we've been together for a long time, why is he not as smart as he seemed at first glance?
You're just pursuing a girl, can't you just be straightforward and make it clear?

Stop hesitating. It's the end of the world. Do you still plan to pursue her for a few years before confirming the relationship?

Xia Yonghua became worried when he thought of this. They were the women, so she couldn't take the initiative to make it clear to him, right?
That's too unreserved.

"Dad? You're back."

Seeing Xia Yonghua, Xia Min happily ran up to him and looked him up and down. Seeing that her father was safe and sound, she was relieved immediately, "Is everything going well?"

"Fortunately, Minglang and Lizhi can handle zombies and bats. I just didn't expect that there are more zombies in the county than in the city."

Speaking of the search for construction materials in the surrounding areas, Xia Yonghua sighed, "You don't know until you go out, you find that there are only a few survivors in the surrounding counties and towns. Just like the West County where we went this time, the suburbs were dead silent, and there was not even a single person to be found. I don't know if it was caused by the outbreak of the virus at the beginning, or if it was caused by the rain later. In short, it's unbearable to watch."

"Huh? Is it so serious?"

Xia Min thought of a classmate in high school who transferred from Xi County to the urban area. It used to be very prosperous there and was the most developed county among the four counties surrounding Pengcheng. Therefore, it had the largest population and the most factories.

But now, they are all dead?
Xia Yonghua didn't know whether all the people were dead or not. Anyway, when they were looking for cement factories there, they didn't see a single living person.

Not only that, because of the rising temperature, there were too many corpses on the streets of the county town, and the stench was so bad that people could hardly breathe.

So even if there are survivors there, they can't survive more than two months in this environment.

They were afraid that a corpse plague would break out in Xi County - I don't know if it's appropriate to say that, but there would definitely be problems if the corpses were left to stink for a long time, so Bai Li used vines to roll up the corpses together, and they burned most of them.

If they didn't have to deal with the bodies, they wouldn't have waited until now to come back.

“It’s not surprising that a county town becomes a dead county.”

Bai Yang thought about their school when the virus broke out. There were more than 5,000 students in the new campus, and it seemed that there were zombies everywhere they went. There were zombies everywhere, and only a few people survived.

This is the case even in universities where there are only young and middle-aged people, let alone in county towns.

This unexpected catastrophe claimed countless lives.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the workers who had been busy all day went home to rest. No matter whether it was the village entrance, Yunxi Village or Baiguoyuan, all the gates were locked.

There were still some lights flickering in Baiguoyuan, but Yunxi Village had fallen into darkness.

Jiang Minglang called everyone to a meeting in the Bai family's hall, including little Jiang Qi.

"Today, Lizhi and I met a car on the way back. I suspect they came to investigate our area. According to my feeling, these people are not from Pengcheng, but came from other cities."

Jiang Minglang said here with a serious face, "There is something I haven't told you before. Ning An and his friends came from Pingcheng. You all know this. However, the groundwater in Pingcheng is different from ours. Theirs is not drinkable.

Do you understand what I mean?"

Even though there are people with water-related abilities now, we can’t just rely on water to use water.

We cannot rely solely on the water system, but if we want to survive, we must find a safe source of edible water.

Apart from Pingcheng, they don't know much about other places.

Suppose that only Pingcheng or some individual cities in the country have groundwater that is not drinkable, this is a good thing.

What about the bad ones?
Will it be the case that only the water in Shenzhen or some other cities is drinkable, while the water in other places is not drinkable?
If it is the first case, they don't have to worry. They just need to live their own lives behind closed doors and wait quietly for the country to restore order.

But if it is the second one.
Jiang Minglang is worried about the second scenario.

Truth will come to light sooner or later, some powerful organizations will come to Pengcheng to divide up the territory.

For example, Ning An, Mu Song and their gang.

Although the two sides have been in a cooperative and mutually supportive relationship so far, the reason why Ning An and the others came here was to take advantage of the fact that they were close to the water and got the moon first. In addition, Mu Song was bitten at that time, so after weighing the pros and cons, they felt that it was safest to stay.

That's true for them, but what about the second group that came?

Although he didn't get close, Jiang Minglang was sure that those guys had moved to Pengcheng from other cities.

　good night!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)