Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

When Zhou Yang woke up, before she could even get out of bed, Shen Zechuan dragged her into a rather long morning exercise session.

Fortunately, it was in space.

After the two finished washing up and changing their clothes, it was only a little past 5 a.m. outside.

Seeing that no one else had gotten up yet, Zhou Yang and Shen Zechuan tidied up the kitchen first, and then used the spring water from their space to cook a large pot of white porridge.

Afterwards, the two cleaned the living room and balcony, taking out the sofa, coffee table, planter, solar panels, solar generator, refrigerator, and other items.

The two were busy running around, and Pea and Yellow, finding it amusing, followed behind, almost getting stepped on several times before Zhou Yang chased them aside as punishment.

By the time we finished, it was already past 6 o'clock.

Knowing that the others would be waking up soon, the two sat down on the sofa to rest for a while.

Ten minutes later, Yu Jing was the first to open the door and come out. However, due to the aftereffects of climbing the stairs last night, she was still a little sore when walking. When she saw the house, which had obviously been cleaned, and the two people on the sofa, she was stunned.

"Oh my, why are you two up so early? You've even finished cleaning the house! Do you want to go back to sleep for a bit? I'll call you when I've made breakfast."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yang quickly waved his hand: "No need, we're not sleepy, and we've already cooked a pot of white porridge for breakfast. We can eat it with pickled vegetables, dried radish, steamed buns, and fried dough sticks in a little while."

"You've cooked plain congee? Then I'll make you a few plates of steamed buns and fry some youtiao (Chinese fried dough sticks) too."

"Auntie, I still have some of these in my storage space. You should rest today and make more when your leg has recovered."

"OK then."

While they were talking, Xu Zhiyi and He Shanshan also got up.

Xu Qingtang also emerged, yawning, her black hair disheveled, looking like a wandering soul.

"Why do you look like you haven't woken up yet?" Yu Jing looked at Xu Qingtang with a puzzled expression.

"Mom, you snored all night, and I didn't get to sleep until after 2 a.m."

"Nonsense, when did I snore?"

Xu Qingtang rubbed her face, looking utterly dejected: "It's because you were too tired yesterday. You snore when you're tired, don't you remember?"

"Hey, didn't you rush around yesterday and climb 18 floors? That won't happen again, okay? Just have breakfast and then go back to sleep, okay?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Qingtang sighed and nodded.

Seeing that everyone was up, Zhou Yang brought out the whole pot of porridge.

I also took out a few side dishes from my space, including pickled mustard greens, stir-fried pickled vegetables with dried tofu, and various kinds of dried radish and diced radish.

In addition, they brought out several steamers of xiaolongbao (soup dumplings) and shumai (steamed dumplings), as well as hot youtiao (fried dough sticks), dabing (flatbread), and soy milk.

Then, Zhou Yang asked Shen Zechuan to go and check across the street. If they were up, he should call them over to have breakfast together.

Before long, the other group of people followed Shen Zechuan over.

As soon as he entered, Lu Yanwen saw the haggard Xu Qingtang. He frowned and immediately asked with concern, "Qingtang, what happened? Didn't you get enough rest?"

"Sigh, my mom called me last night... um..."

Hearing the sound, Xu Qingtang looked up, but before she could say more than a few words, Yu Jing stuffed a steamed bun into her mouth.

With a steamed bun in her mouth, Xu Qingtang looked at her mother with a resentful expression.

Yu Jing ignored her and said, "Hey, this girl didn't sleep well last night. Let her go back to sleep in a bit. Don't worry about her. You all sit down and have breakfast."

Looking at her stubborn, perfect mother who never falters, Xu Qingtang could only silently endure it all, burying her head and stuffing the bun in her mouth.

Just then, she noticed someone sitting in the empty seat next to her. Without thinking much of it, she felt a little choked up and was about to get a cup of soy milk when she saw someone next to her already hand her a cup.

Looking up, she realized that Lu Yanwen was standing next to her.

"You choked, didn't you? Quickly drink some soy milk to calm down."

Xu Qingtang choked badly, so she quickly grabbed the soy milk and took a big gulp. After she recovered, she remembered that she hadn't thanked Lu Yanwen yet, so she hurriedly said with a blush.

"Thank you, Brother Lu!"

Lu Yanwen smiled and said, "It's okay, eat slowly, no rush." ​​As he spoke, he put a few more shumai on her plate.

"That's enough, that's enough, I can't eat this much..." Although she likes shumai, this is too much, a whole basket of them is in her bowl.

Seeing that several more shumai had suddenly appeared in the bowl, Xu Qingtang felt a bit overwhelmed and quickly stopped Lu Yanwen from bringing over more steamed buns.

Upon hearing this, Lu Yanwen paused for a moment, then touched his nose: "It's okay. If you can't finish it, or don't want to eat it, just give it to me. I'll eat it for you. It won't be a waste."

Xu Qingtang blinked, then decisively picked up half a shumai and put it into the other person's bowl: "Hehe, then I won't be polite!"

She wanted more congee than shumai today. She didn't know why, but the plain congee tasted especially good today, and she just couldn't stop eating it!

Lu Yanwen didn't mind and finished the shumai that Xu Qingtang had picked up in just a few bites.

Seeing that the other person had eaten two bowls of plain porridge and still felt it wasn't enough, and feeling embarrassed to ask for more, he gave her the bowl he hadn't finished eating.

"I haven't touched this bowl, you can eat it."

"Oh, so you're out of food? The pot's almost empty..."

"Then leave me a bite later, so I can have a taste?" Lu Yanwen smiled and said nonchalantly.

Xu Qingtang blushed again upon hearing this, afraid that she would finish it all in a moment, so she took a clean spoon and scooped a spoonful over: "Then you should take a bite first..."

Lu Yanwen's eyes lit up when he saw the spoon being handed to him, but he didn't take it. Instead, he ate the porridge directly from Xu Qingtang's hand.

"Hmm, it really is delicious." Lu Yanwen looked into Xu Qingtang's eyes and smiled gently. He didn't know if it was just his imagination, but he felt that this bowl of plain porridge was sweet enough to reach his heart.

Xu Qingtang stared blankly at Lu Yanwen's handsome smiling face for a moment, then quickly withdrew her hand, her face flushed as she tried to ease her embarrassment by eating porridge, completely unaware that she had forgotten to change the spoon.

By the time I remembered, half the porridge in the bowl was gone. Now I didn't know whether to replace it or not...

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The other people at the table barely noticed this little incident between the two, and even if they did, they probably didn't take it seriously.

The main reason is that Lu Yanwen is the oldest among Shen Zechuan and his peers, and he has always taken good care of them, especially Xu Qingtang, the only girl among them who is several years younger than them. He practically dotes on her.

In addition, everyone hadn't eaten for more than ten hours and was starving. They were all busy eating their breakfast and had no time to care about anything else.

Of all the people, only Yu Jing, who had been paying attention to everyone, and Zhou Yang, who had eaten about 70-80% of his fill, noticed the unusual intimacy between the two.

However, both of them were just watching the show and didn't say anything.

Yu Jing, the biological mother, was even more pleased to see it happen.

Finding a partner was difficult even before the apocalypse, let alone after.

It would be best to handle it internally, especially since they've known Lu Yanwen for many years and know him very well.

Zhou Yang glanced at Lu Yanwen and Xu Qingtang, then at Xu Zhiyi who was only focused on feeding his wife breakfast, and chuckled to himself.

Tsk, this guy is so carefree, he doesn't even realize his sister is about to be kidnapped...