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Half a month later, Zhonghe City.

It rained for more than half a month, and the whole city was covered by floods. The army led most of the citizens to evacuate two days ago.

The night before the evacuation, Zhao Mo brought people to Gu's house. At that time, Gu Jun had to be transferred from the hospital to his home due to the power outage in Zhonghe City.

At that time, Gu Jun's condition was very bad. It seemed that all the blood in his body had drained out, except that his heart was still beating slightly, and his vital signs were very weak.

The best hospitals and doctors in Zhonghe City tried their best to rescue and treat him.But he could only lie on the hospital bed unconsciously relying on various instruments after the operation.

Until one day, Zhonghe City had to cut off the city's power supply due to large-scale electric leakage and electric shock accidents due to problems such as water accumulation and bottom subsidence in the city.Immediately afterwards, the hospital also shut down all the instruments when its own generator ran out of fuel.

That day, the army sent in the best solar panels they could muster.However, Gu Jun, who had just been removed from various instruments a moment ago, had already been brought home by Gu Yi.

At that time, Zhonghe City almost became a city of water, and some of the ground water was two or three meters deep.Most people are unable to leave when they are trapped at home, and the army can only rely on kayaks, sailboats, etc. to distribute supplies.

The villages in the city were particularly affected by the disaster, and the low-rise bungalows were basically submerged by stagnant water.Gu Yi, however, was very stubborn and unwilling to leave. She took metal plates and wooden boards from nowhere, and together with Gu Tingshan, she built a second floor on the basis of the original house of Gu's house, high above the water.

But this is not the first idea of ​​their Gu family.Many original houses in urban villages were built by the villagers themselves. As long as enough materials can be found, it is not a problem to build a second floor.

In order to survive, people can always think of various ways.

So Zhao Mo led people into the village in the city by kayaking, and when he planned to send some instruments and solar power generation equipment to Gu's house, what he saw was one house after another.

Zhao Mo's kayak docked beside the water fence built by Gu's family. Seeing the giant red-spotted snake swimming on the water around Gu's house, Zhao Mo did not dare to act rashly.

Until Gu Yi came out from the house on the second floor, Zhao Mo was slightly taken aback when he saw the slightly protruding belly of the other party.

At this time, Gu Yi's body was clean and she had nothing on. She was only wearing a plain skirt, and the legs under the skirt were slender and straight.

Zhao Mo quickly looked away from the other party's stomach, and explained the purpose of coming, "The solar power generation equipment we collected is on board. Sorry, it was a step late."

Gu Yi just glanced at the things they sent, and then there was a very crude wooden boat next to the Gu's house, which slowly floated around the Gu's house alone.

There was no one on the boat, but through the turbid water surface, Zhao Mo still saw long creatures swimming underwater - obviously this boat was not unmanned.

After the boat approached, Zhao Mo ordered people to carry all the supplies including some food and daily necessities on board, and then the boat slowly left and disappeared from everyone's sight.

Just when Gu Yi turned around and wanted to go in, Zhao Mo said again: "There are new monsters in the city, and these things are more suitable for this water city than us. The upper management has decided to evacuate the people with us. A boat has been prepared with the necessary equipment to keep him alive. In two days, we will send someone to pick you up—”

Gu Yi heard the words, but just said "no need" lightly, then turned around and closed an iron door that was removed from nowhere.

Gu Yi's refusal actually did not surprise them.It was just before the army completely withdrew, Zhao Mo still came to Gu's house several times to persuade him.But even Zhang Shufang, who seemed to want to leave with them the most, still chose to stay in the end.

On the day when the whole city was evacuated, Zhao Mo, who hurried back to the camp, saw Bai Lang who stayed behind.

Bai Lang's lips moved. Seeing the empty boat they brought back, he finally couldn't help asking, "Are they still unwilling to leave?"

Zhao Mo shook his head helplessly, "Miss Gu has great hostility towards us."

Having said that, thinking of Gu Jun and Gu Yi's stomachs who were lying on the bed silently, Zhao Mo paused, and then continued: "Besides, it may indeed be inconvenient for their family to travel long distances now."

Bai Lang frowned slightly, but Zhao Mo didn't want to say more, he just stepped forward and patted the arms of his comrades-in-arms for many years, and said, "Let's go, it's time to close the team."

Then the two gathered the last mobile troops of the army, followed the large army and left the city they had guarded for a long time.

With the withdrawal of the troops, some people who still chose to stay stood on the high ground, watching the last armed force leave, their faces were full of anxiety about the decision they had made and the unknown future.

Many are skeptical of what the military describes as another, more hospitable land.Although the city they were holding on to had been submerged by floods, there were even man-eating monsters haunting it from time to time.

But at least here, there is an environment they are familiar with, a place where they can temporarily avoid danger, and food that can be found with hard work.

And outside, who knows, outside the city, on those exposed kayaks, when the black crows come again, whether this hopeful team will be completely eaten up.

When the figure of this team completely disappeared from people's eyes, the people who stayed behind turned their heads again, looked at this water city, and thought in their hearts, where should the next meal be?

There are more people who choose to stay in the villages in the city than in other places.

Luzi hugged a fish that was longer than his arm, lying on a wooden board and slid in one direction with his hands excitedly.Some young people on the road saw the fish in Luzi's hand, and some of them asked with bright eyes, "Luzi, where did you catch today's fish?"

"Just next to the previous ditch, I just swam a group of them, they are big and fat!" Lu Zi said with a smile, but his hands kept moving.

When the people squatting on the roof of the water house heard the news, they all quickly took the sampan or the big wooden basin at home and swam out.There were also a few who were specially left to guard the house, and could only swallow their saliva and look at the fish in Luzi's hand.

Several people saw the direction he was going, and said with some jealousy: "Luzi, are you sending fish to your brother Junzi's house again? You are so good at catching fish, why do you have to take advantage of other people's house? Find someone to have a baby with." How nice!"

Hearing this, Lu Zi couldn't help curling his lips, he didn't bother to talk to them, he hugged the fish tightly and paddled vigorously, and soon reached the edge of the fence built by Gu's family, and then greeted loudly: "Uncle Gu, I caught a big one today! "

When he saw Luzi, Gu Tingshan was sitting on the water platform that he built and extended from the floor of the house. He was peeling a piece of wood while waving at Luzi with a smile, "What a big fish, today we have It's a blessing."

Looking at the fence gate, I didn't know who was controlling it, so I opened it from the inside.Lu Zi didn't think much about it, so he paddled the floating board vigorously with his hands and feet and walked to the edge of the platform.

He struggled to hold the fish and threw it into the platform until he was sure that the fish would not be able to jump back into the water, then he grinned and said, "Uncle Gu, make me a bowl of fish soup. I eat so much roast that I get angry!"

"Okay!" Gu Tingshan put down the half-cut wood, walked to the edge of the platform and pulled Luzi up.

Then he plunged his knife into the body of the jumping fish, and quickly cut the fish open on the edge of the platform.He threw all the scraped fish scales and internal organs into the water, and swallowed them all in one gulp without looking at anything underwater.

Gu Tingshan stood up and went to the kitchen in the house, took a spoonful of filtered and boiled water, washed the fish carefully, chopped the ginger and garlic that Zhang Shufang planted under the eaves, and marinated for a while , Put it in the pot and fry it for a while, add water and boil it.

Lu Zi stood by the side the whole time, only swallowing his saliva, while salivating and boasting: "Uncle Gu, your house has a lot of things, and you have everything, so the fish soup you make is delicious!"

Gu Tingshan smiled when he heard the words, "If it weren't for the fact that you and Cheng Yi helped us put all the things in the house when we were not at home. Now we probably have nothing, and we have to rely on you for food and drink."

Lu Zi also showed a bit of embarrassment now, "I didn't have anything to eat, and I thought that Brother Junzi's house must have something, so I sneaked in to get something to eat first, but I didn't expect that your house was full of food, but almost flooded with water."

Lu Zi's full name is Tu Lu, and he is Gu Jun's childhood friend.But he lost his mother since he was a child, and his father was not reliable, so he grew up with his grandma.

Two years ago, his father passed out drunk in a small ditch on the side of the road one night, and was already stiff when he was found the next day.Not long after, his grandmother was old and lost her son, so she also closed her eyes.From then on, Tu Lu became a complete orphan.

His brain is not as smart as Gu Jun's, so it's like learning for nothing.Gu Jun first found him a few jobs, but he couldn't do them for long, so he kept hanging around in the village in the city.Gu Tingshan sees him as pitiful, and he is also his son's friend, so he always takes care of him.

So Tu Lu became more and more familiar with the Gu family.

Seeing that the fish soup was boiling, Lu Zi wiped the corners of his mouth, said to Gu Tingshan, "I'll go see Brother Jun Zi", and then turned and entered the largest room on the newly built second floor.

There are some instruments sent by Zhao Mo in this room. Gu Yi originally wanted to connect them to Gu Jun, but in the end she found that she couldn't use any of them.

And Gu Jun, who had been away from these devices for a long time, still lay there quietly, neither waking up pleasantly, nor belching completely.

So Gu Yi simply put those things aside, and didn't bother to worry about it.

After Luzi entered the room, he came to the bedside familiarly, and began to turn Gu Jun over to do muscle relaxation exercises.He used to take care of his grandma when she was lying in bed for half a year, and he was very familiar with this job.

But he hadn't been working long before the annoying people came.

You Fangshuo disbanded the team in his hands, asked everyone to bring the most supplies they could afford, and handed them over to Chen He.

As for the You family, many of them had already scattered and fled to places they thought were safe when they saw that the timing was wrong.Those who remained at the end were also sent by You Fangshuo to leave the fleet, leaving only the old man and a few old servants at home.

Everyone who was supposed to go was gone, and You Fangshuo felt at ease, and started running to Gu's house every day.

Putting the large pack of tissues and several sets of clean bedding that he had brought on the table in the house, You Fangshuo went to greet Gu Tingshan and Zhang Shufang first, then walked into Gu Jun's room, and started helping Gu Jun with Lu Zi Stretch your muscles.

Seeing this, Lu Zi didn't bother to talk to him.Although the other party brought good things - clean bedding and paper towels - in this water city, they are so rare and precious

It's just that Lu Zi just doesn't like this person. Although the other party is doing the same thing as him, Lu Zi just feels that this person is uneasy and kind to Brother Jun Zi, and the movements of his hands are not pleasing to the eye.

There is really no way for You Fangshuo to go.Although at this moment he definitely can't have evil thoughts towards Gu Jun, but the person lying under his hands is the person he misses so much, so there will be something revealed in his eyes and movements.

He really didn't understand why he was so careful in this seemingly carefree way.It made him do something aboveboard, but for some reason he felt like sneaking around.

Therefore, under the fierce eyes of the other party, he could only bury his head in his work and dare not look at the other party.

Gu Yi came back from the mountain and saw this scene through the window.

She didn't take it seriously at all, flicked the big bag of soil her mother asked for onto the platform with a light flick of the long tail, and ran to the kitchen to drink the first bowl of fragrant fish soup served by her father.

"Drink slowly, be careful not to burn it." Gu Tingshan looked at Gu Yi with gentle eyes and warned.

Gu Yi couldn't drink something that was too hot, so after tasting it, she stuck out her tongue and puffed.

Seeing this, Gu Tingshan smiled, but took out a bowl of freshly sliced ​​fish fillets from the side cover, and Gu Yi's eyes lit up instantly.

Gu Tingshan thought for a while but only picked up half of the fish fillets. He put some soy sauce and mustard on a small plate and handed it to Gu Yi, "It's better to eat less of this stuff, as there are many parasites."

Gu Yi nodded excitedly, but after taking it, she didn't even dip it in soy sauce, and quickly swallowed two pieces of fish.

Gu Tingshan could only smile and shake his head, but there was really nothing he could do about her.Just thinking that there was still a son lying in the room who was bleeding out and breathing alive, and thinking that the little parasite shouldn't be able to harm Gu Yi, so she let her eat it too.

After all, forcing a snake to eat hot cooked food every day seems a bit too cruel.

After swallowing two more fish fillets, Gu Yi asked as if finding her tongue, "Where's Mom?"

Gu Tingshan paused, and after a while, he said softly: "Your aunt has a younger brother who moved nearby, and your mother sent some things over."

Gu Yi slowed down her movements. After thinking about it, she quickly swallowed two more fish fillets and said vaguely: "Do you want me to help? The houses around here are not very good, they have enough materials Building a house?"

Gu Tingshan smiled and said: "That's enough. I picked some of the ones you brought in earlier, and I sent them a boat today. I was still cutting a few pieces for them just now, and it's almost enough to support the roof."

Now it is difficult to find shaped wood, and when materials are in short supply, most people build lower houses.Anyway, there is a roof that can keep out the wind and rain, and it is covered with a layer for the black crows that may appear in the low-end to attack again, that's almost the same.

The furniture at home is nothing more than going to find a house at the bottom of the water to fish some, and there is no shortage.It's just that the materials of these furniture are not suitable for building houses, because they have been soaked in water for a period of time, and there is no place to dry them, so they are easy to rot.

Just as she was talking, Zhang Shufang propped up a big wooden barrel and slid in through a gap on the side of the fence, but her face didn't look very good.

Gu Yi took the bowl and walked to the platform, watching her mother step onto the platform neatly while eating.

After standing still, Zhang Shufang gave her a sideways glance, and said with a sullen face, "I eat this kind of food again, and I don't even look at my current body. Just like your father, I don't know what I'm thinking about all day long, and I don't do anything at all." measure."

Gu Yi stuck out her tongue lightly, but was still reluctant to put down the bowl, she just quickly swallowed the remaining fish fillets in the bowl, and then said: "Dad also boiled fish soup, mom, steam some rice for me today Right. It’s been a long time since I’ve eaten, I’m dying of hunger.”

"Yes, yes, auntie, the sticky rice with peas you made is so glutinous and fragrant! I can eat three big bowls of fish soup." When Lu Zi heard that there was something delicious, he poked his head out of the window, Flattering graciously.

Zhang Shufang is not a good-tempered person, and she usually doesn't give her family a good look when she is upset.But surprisingly, it fits well with Lu Zi.

Hearing what the other party said, although her face did not soften, she still said: "There is so much glutinous rice to eat at this time of year, and white rice would be good. Then I will steam the rice and put it in for a while. Take glutinous rice, the taste is similar."

After entering the house, she realized that there was another guest in the house.Glancing at the things on the table, she didn't say anything, but added another bowl of rice while cooking.

She didn't exaggerate what she said just now. In this world, let alone white rice, eating two meals a day is already very rich.

The army took most of the citizens away, and the people who remained got something from each household. How long could they live with these dead things?

Fortunately, the flood that drove most people away brought them another source of food.As for the so-called cannibal monsters that appeared at the same time—are there still few cannibals in this world?

After steaming the rice, Zhang Shufang climbed up to the roof along the wooden ladder on the platform, and picked a few handfuls of small green vegetables that she had grown.After picking the vegetables, she straightened up and looked around, and found that they seemed to be in a lake. At first glance, the pavilions and pavilions on the lake seemed a bit too beautiful.

But in these dilapidated "pavilions", there are some surviving human beings.

Most of those houses are much older than theirs.Although Zhonghe City is located by the sea, the city center is two or three hours away from the sea by car. Most people live in the city for the rest of their lives, and only occasionally go to the seaside to play in the water or swim in the swimming pool in summer to relieve the heat. back and forth.

How many people like this are familiar with water and have the ability to dive to the bottom of three meters deep, but search for various materials?

Many people set their targets in those high-rise buildings in the city center, but many people went out and never came back.

After that, there were even fewer people in the village in the city who were hostile to Gu Yi because of his appearance.Many people have come to realize that they can live longer and safer in these waters than others, most likely due to the giant black and red snakes that can sometimes be seen in these waters.

Immediately afterwards, people also began to move into this water area—for example, Shi Yong's family, the younger brother of Gu Jun's mother, Shi Guiying.

Zhang Shufang just went to deliver some food to their home, but she was very angry with them.

Zhang Shufang admitted that she was just shameless, and she was Gu Tingshan who she tried so hard to seduce back then.But when she was young, if Shi Guiying hadn't played tricks and snatched Gu Tingshan away from her, she wouldn't have to suffer all the torture in the years to come just because she married a bastard.

Let go of it and say, whether she is sorry for Shi Guiying or Shi Guiying is sorry for her, it is also a matter between the two or three of them, and what does it have to do with Shi Yong's white-eyed wolf?

Although she secretly hated Shi Guiying all her life, she was not much more comfortable in Shi Guiying's life now.When she was young, Shi Guiying was the eldest sister. After her father passed away, she tried her best to support her younger brother and take care of her mother.

She will be strong all her life, and both her husband's family and her mother's family have worked hard.But more than [-] years ago, their family suffered a disaster, and everything was burned down with a torch, and even the only child was missing.

But at this time, her natal family took the money that Shi Guiying lent them before, sold all the things in the family, and bought a house of more than [-] square meters for her younger brother Shi Yong in the city. The house her mother built was also sold.

Gu Tingshan and Shi Guiying had nothing at that time, and they didn't have a place to shelter from the wind and rain. They wanted to go back to their mother's house for a few days.But in a few days, my mother's family went to the city, and didn't even give them a contact information, as if they were afraid of causing trouble for the two.

And they didn't know about the sale until the buyer came to evict them.

Shi Guiying finally got tough in front of her natal family for a while at that moment, and never went to them no matter how difficult it was.

So Shi Yong, that white-eyed wolf, what right does he have to vent his anger on his sister up to now, to be angry, pointing fingers and scolding Huai in front of her?

If it wasn't - Zhang Shufang walked down the ladder with a dark face, looked at Gu Jun lying in the room, her face changed again.

Yes, she, Zhang Shufang, owed their historians, and she paid it back.

So when the members of the Gu family finally sat down at the table and ate the rice they had been looking forward to for a few days, when a woman's sharp cry came from outside the fence, Zhang Shufang was the first to stand up to see the situation.

Shi Yong's wife, Ma Fen, also drew a wooden basin and stopped outside the fence. When she saw Zhang Shufang, she immediately laughed, "His sister, don't be angry. Ah Yong has that temper, so ignore him. No, mom is worried." You, let me hurry over and have a look!"

Gu Yi came out with a bowl in her hand, and looked at her mother's face full of shit with some puzzlement.

"Open the door soon." Zhang Shufang said angrily.

"Oh!" Gu Yi responded with a high voice, and then smiled at the woman, but the fence in front of the woman was quietly opened.

Ma Fen was slightly taken aback when she saw this, remembering that when she first moved in, several neighbors reminded her that there was a monster in the Gu family.

But looking at the bowl in Gu Yi's hand, Ma Fen swallowed, and mustered up the courage to row in.

She looked at the big house built by the Gu family and the big platform extending from the floor of the house, and couldn't help being envious.

You said what was the use of expensive houses in the city center?It's not as good as the broken house like now, with a small table, it looks much more comfortable than other people's short houses that can't stand up straight when entering the door!

There are also these fences standing in the water, which surround the house in groups, so there is no need to be afraid of monsters sneaking into the house from the water at night.

Mafen propped the water basin on the edge of the platform unskillfully, climbed up with difficulty, and then went straight into the house while talking.

"Mom asked me to see if you have eaten. If you haven't eaten, go to our house to eat. There is nothing good-hey, I said, his sister, you must not like it! Look, what you eat This fish, this white rice!"

As Ma Fen was talking, he picked up a bowl of someone's rice and stuck it to the tip of his nose, "Hey, this is glutinous rice! It's so delicious! Mom loves this rice. I used to eat two bowls per meal. Even if the situation is not good now, there is nothing to eat, and I still mutter about it—"

While talking, she rolled her eyes, looked at the people in the room, and found two people she didn't know, and immediately smiled at them, as if she didn't want to cause trouble.

You Fangshuo nodded to her, but Lu Zi wrinkled his nose, looking very disgusted, obviously very upset that the job he had just got into someone else's hand.

Hearing this, Gu Tingshan stood up, and said with some embarrassment: "Then bring some to Mom, and I'll fill it."

"Hey, goodbye!" Ma Fen looked a little embarrassed, "You have guests, what do you eat after I take it away! Or - let mom come over for a few bites, so that she can have a sip of soup?"

"Hey——look, Mom is worried about coming here!"

Gu Yi watched the woman's clumsy performance, turned her head to look outside, but saw two men swimming in the water, pulled a basin and stopped at the door of their house, and an old lady sat in the basin.

One of the older men grabbed the fence and yelled, "Why don't you open the door? Does this mean you don't welcome poor relatives? Gu Tingshan, you bastard, you married a mistress and walked in, and you left your original spouse's family behind." , are you sorry for my sister?"