Si Nan, an office worker, unknowingly does a good deed by saving a girl who is severely injured and hospitalized. During her coma, she experiences recurring nightmares of struggling to survive in v...
Si Yufang finally decided not to let Si Chengye live in their home.
The main reason was that she didn't want to become enemies with Si Nan.
She expected Si Chengye to make a scene, so she discussed it with her family, took out 20 kilograms of rice, went to the West District, gave the rice to Si Chengye and said, "Brother, it's not that I don't want to take you to live with me, but the house that Xiaonan rented for me is not big, and it's crowded for our family to live in. Don't be angry with me, you and Zhu Chunyan have hands and feet, Jiayu and Jiaxue are both girls in their twenties, and Jiayu's husband is also a young man. You can find a job for yourselves, work for a month, and use your points to rent a house, which is better than anything else. Don't go to Xiaonan to make trouble and hurt the harmony between you and your daughter."
After she left, Si Chengye threw the bag of 20 kilograms of rice to the ground and said angrily, "This is like sending away a beggar! Why did you ask me not to go find that ungrateful bastard, but I live in a good house and have food to eat?!"
Their family followed Si Yufang's family all the way and it took them almost a month to reach the Shishan base. He knew very well how much food Si Yufang had.
The total food for that family was only ten kilograms, but they gave him twenty kilograms of rice at once. It must have been given to them by that ungrateful bastard.
Si Chengye was very angry. Si Nan was his child after all, but she didn't care about his life or death, but instead cared about those people who had nothing to do with him. It would be strange if he didn't make a fuss.
Seeing that he was very angry, Zhu Chunyan ran over to grab the rice he had thrown away when a group of ragged survivors hurriedly tried to pick up the rice. She glared at the ignorant people fiercely and then turned around to add fuel to the fire, saying, "I think that damn girl doesn't even take you as her father seriously! She is just like her mother, with no manners or manners at all. She treats you like air all the time! If she doesn't care about you, you go and make trouble, rob, and live in her house. What else can she do to you? After all, you are her father. No one will care if you make a fuss!"
"Mom is right, let's go and make a scene together and see what she can do!" Zhu Chunyan's eldest daughter Si Jiayu, who was wiping her daughter's butt, agreed when she heard this.
The shantytown is too shabby. There are only five foam toilets in an area where hundreds of thousands of people live. They are dirty and smelly, with feces and urine everywhere and no one cleaning them. Many people are squeezing and scrambling to use the toilet.
Si Jiayu's daughter is four years old. Due to the natural disasters in the past two years, her stomach has become weak and disordered, and she always suffers from diarrhea.
Yesterday, Si Jiayu took her daughter to the toilet and was almost suffocated by the stench inside.
Because there were too many people using the toilet, she was waiting in line with her daughter in her arms, and several ruffian criminals openly touched her buttocks and breasts.
She yelled at them, but all she got in return was the shameless laughter of the criminals, the indifference of the other people in the queue, and Jiayu's father tried to argue with the criminals, but ended up beating them up.
The soldiers who were patrolling the shanties in the west district just gave the criminals a symbolic beating and did not ask them to apologize or give compensation to the couple. They just told them to be careful and then left.
She had no choice but to place a broken basin under their bed today to use as a toilet bowl for her daughter.
The foul smell of her daughter's feces lingered between her nostrils, making her feel extremely nauseous.
She couldn't stay in a place like this for even a day, she had to ask her father to ask that woman for some benefits!
Si Jiaxue, who had just turned 18, was opposed to this and persuaded Si Chengye and the other two, "Dad, Mom, don't be impulsive. Our eldest sister and we are irreconcilable. If you go to her to make trouble, it will only make your father-daughter relationship worse. Why bother?"
"Jiaxue, shut up!" Zhu Chunyan threw the rice in her hand fiercely into her hand and said, "That ungrateful woman is your father's daughter. Your father is old now, and she should support him. Your father is just going to get back what belongs to him. If you don't want to go, just stay here and guard our things until we come back."
"But......"
Si Jiaxue wanted to say something, but Si Jiayu pinched her arm hard and whispered in her ear: "Why are you talking so much nonsense? You know our father's personality. He is chauvinistic and arrogant. He doesn't listen to others' advice. He is also lazy to death. He doesn't want to do any work and just wants to eat and drink well. He either goes to that ungrateful wolf to support him, or we have to support him. It is very difficult to find a job in the current environment. I heard from other survivors yesterday that most of the jobs in the Shishan base are full. There are no vacancies for others to do. Those who have no work can only rely on the military's relief food of a steamed bun and a bowl of porridge every day to survive. If we can't support him, he might just find a man to marry you and extort you for dowry and food, just like I did back then."
Si Jiayu's husband ran an oil press in Zizhu Town before the end of the world, and they lived a pretty good life. However, her man was short and fat, and was nothing like the person she liked.
At first, she cried, made a fuss, and even threatened to commit suicide, but Si Chengye married her off regardless of her life or death just for the sake of the 200,000 yuan dowry.
After marriage, her husband treated her well, but she was never happy because she did not choose her husband.
Later, her parents-in-law died in a natural disaster, and her husband had no other brothers or sisters. She wanted to abandon them, but in the end, she couldn't bear to leave her daughter, and the man who had always been so sincere to her, so she took him to live with her parents.
Si Jiaxue is her biological sister. She is a beautiful young lady who inherited her mother's beauty, as well as her father's high nose bridge and big double eyelids. She attracts men's attention wherever she goes. She doesn't want her sister to be used as a bargaining chip by her father, so she tries hard to persuade him.
Si Jiaxue certainly knew what kind of person Si Chengye was. After hesitating for a long time, she stopped objecting.
When Si Chengye, his daughter and Si Jiayu's husband were heading towards the stream stone house alley in Jushi Town in a menacing manner, a soldier guarding the west district gate whispered a few words to his classmates, and then quickly ran to Shishan Hospital.
Shishan Hospital was originally called Jushi Town Hospital. It was the only hospital in Jushi Town before the end of the world. After the earthquake, except for some old wards that collapsed, other outpatient clinics, inpatient buildings, and operating buildings were still in good condition. The Shishan military carried out simple repairs on the hospital, dispatched half of the army's military doctors to work with the original medical staff, and also recruited some experienced doctors and medical staff from outside to form a new Shishan Hospital.
This hospital has only seven main floors and two auxiliary buildings, both of which are very low. The front and back squares and parking lots of the hospital are also very small. There are only a few parked vehicles, but there are huge crowds of patients coming to see the doctor.
After the end of the world, the weather is unpredictable and the environmental conditions are harsh. Many people will have health problems. Some people will get injured while working or chopping wood outside and need to go to the hospital for treatment.
The small Shishan Hospital is packed with people every day, and the doctors and nurses in various departments inside are extremely busy.
The soldier went to the hospital outpatient clinic gate, gave his name, and said to the nurse in charge of receiving consultations, "Please help me connect with the surgeon, Dr. Cheng Suming."
"Okay, please wait." There are quite a lot of soldiers coming to the hospital set up by the military for treatment. They receive free treatment and medicine, but ordinary people, except for the free consultation fee, have to pay for the rest, such as examination fees, medical expenses, etc., by themselves, using points or food.
The nurse at the door had a very good impression of the soldiers. Without any neglect, she immediately called the hospital's internal phone and explained the situation.
A soft female voice came from the other end of the surgical room phone: "Doctor Cheng is in the operating room performing surgery. Let's talk later if you have anything to say."
"But the soldier said it was urgent!"
The nurse signaled the soldier with her eyes, and the soldier immediately said, "Dr. Cheng and I have some friendship. He asked me to keep an eye on a family in the west district. Now that family is heading towards his house. I'm worried that something might happen, so I came here to tell him."
The nurse relayed the message, and the female voice on the other end said, "Okay, I'll tell Dr. Cheng when he finishes the surgery."
After hanging up the phone, the nurse muttered, "Why is Liao Manman answering the phone again?"
"Who is Liao Manman?" The soldier heard something and asked curiously.
“Who else could it be?” The young nurse looked around and made sure no one noticed them. She came up to the soldier and gossiped in a low voice, “She’s the pretentious nurse in the surgical department who has the best figure, walks the most coquettishly, and likes to seduce married men the most. I heard that she has stolen a lot of guys and hooked up with a lot of married men before. Recently, I don’t know why, but she has become obsessed with Doctor Cheng and has been trying every way to seduce him, but Doctor Cheng doesn’t even look at her. She is not discouraged either. She has used some means to deal with the nurses from other departments who have feelings for Doctor Cheng. She is the only one who hangs around Doctor Cheng all day, wearing revealing clothes and posing all day long. It has spread all over our hospital! I heard that Doctor Cheng is married. I wonder what his wife looks like and whether she knows about Liao Manman...”
Soldier:......
He seemed to have heard some incredible gossip. Should he share it with Sister Si?
This person is an armed police officer. He is Yin Xin, the cousin of Yin Peng, the armed police squad leader who came to Shishan with Si Nan and his friends.
After they came to Stone Mountain, they kept guarding and monitoring the criminals in the West District.
During the first month, they had many disputes and conflicts with the criminals and suffered many injuries. They were sent to the hospital and it was Cheng Suming who treated them.
Occasionally, when they were seriously injured and the hospital didn’t have the medicine they wanted, Cheng Su Ming would let them get the medicine privately from Si Nan and never asked for anything in exchange for the medicine.
After a while, everyone became familiar with each other. Yin Xin was grateful for their kindness. He would always tell them any benefits or latest news in the army as soon as possible.
Occasionally, I would visit their homes, take some canned food distributed by the army, and secretly leave it in their homes as a token of my gratitude.
This morning, Cheng Suming rode his bicycle to see him and briefly told him about the feud between that family and Si Nan, and asked him to pay attention to the movements of Si Chengye's family.
If any situation occurs, tell Cheng Su Ming immediately so that he can go home and handle it. If you really can't find him, you can go to the Seventh Patrol Team in the town center to ask Captain Yang Wentao for help.
Yin Xin felt that he had better go there in person. Judging from the behavior of Si Chengye's family, he was afraid that some trouble might arise.
At this moment in the Cheng family, Si Nan was spreading earth ash in the two greenhouses at home.
Three days had passed since she last fertilized all the soil. Fearing that the soil was not fertile enough, she took out a large bag of ash from the piles of wood ash shoveled from the bottom of the pot that she had built in front of the kitchen stove. She sprinkled a thin layer of ash on all the soil in the two greenhouses to allow the soil to absorb nutrients again.
After spreading the ashes, she washed her hands, took out hundreds of disposable plastic cups from the space, used an electric welder to burn several evenly distributed small holes on the bottom of all the plastic cups, and then cut two vertical marks on the cup bodies and filled them with nutrient soil that had been prepared in advance.
In this way, when transplanting seedlings, you can water them, and the water will not accumulate in the soil, causing the roots of the transplanted seedlings to rot.
Then she took out the seeds that germinated quickly and were more drought-resistant, such as the winter vegetables, Swiss chard, red and white radishes, winter peas, winter lettuce, baby cabbage, cabbage, cauliflower, kohlrabi, Chinese cabbage, round-leaf cabbage, pakchoi, rapeseed, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and watercress that were more cold-resistant in winter. She took out all the seeds that she had put in her pockets for seedling cultivation three days ago.
Most of the seeds have only sprouted a few green buds and are not suitable for transplanting. A small number, such as the ze'er roots, do not need to be transplanted into cups for seedling cultivation. Just take out a handful of stored old roots from the space, put them in the soil of several large pots in the aisle of the greenhouse on the roof, give them a little water, weed and fertilize regularly, and they will grow roots and sprout in a short time and grow well.
For root crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, they should be soaked in water in advance, but not the entire crop. Instead, a little water should be added to the tail to allow the water to promote germination.
Now the ten potatoes and ten sweet potatoes she soaked have all sprouted green sprouts. She took out a utility knife that she had washed with clean water, and cut the potatoes and sweet potatoes into large rhizome pieces along the place where they sprouted. She then wrapped the cut parts with a layer of wood ash, put them in the soil in a plastic water cup, buried the rhizomes in the soil, and exposed the sprouts. This can prevent the rhizomes from becoming diseased and rotten, and the sprouts can grow healthily.
She had just transplanted the sprouted potatoes and sweet potatoes and placed them in the aisle of the greenhouse on the roof when she heard a loud noise from downstairs, accompanied by the banging of her yard door. Dabai and Xiaobai stretched their necks at the same time and made shrill loud cries. The two geese, with their big webbed feet, rushed downstairs to see who was coming.
Whether Si Nan is at home or not, the gate of the hospital is usually locked. If there are patients who want to see Cheng Su Ming for medical treatment or buy medicine, they have to wait until Cheng Su Ming gets off work and goes home at around 6 or 7 o'clock, and then they can go to the gate and knock on the door and call out politely.
In order to avoid a mess in the house, and to prevent outsiders from coming into the house and becoming jealous and having inappropriate thoughts when seeing things in the house, Si Nan and Cheng Su Ming usually stop patients at the gate of the hospital to see a doctor.
The patients who came to see the doctor were already used to it. Who was so rude and unreasonable to smash the gate of her house?
Si Nan stood at one of the four windows built in the greenhouse on the roof, in front of the window close to the yard, and looked downstairs.
He found that it was Si Chengye, his mistress, eldest daughter and son-in-law who were banging on the door, and there was a young soldier talking next to them. His face suddenly turned cold, and he walked downstairs with a utility knife in his hand.
Downstairs, Si Chengye and Zhu Chunyan were banging on the door frantically. Si Chengye kicked the door and shouted, "Sinan, get out here! I know you're at home, don't play dead with me!"
"Sinan, you are an ungrateful bastard! Your father gave birth to you, but you married a man who eats well and lives well, and you completely ignore your father's life or death. Are you even a human being?" Zhu Chunyan cursed.
Si Jiayu fanned the flames: "Everyone come out and take a look. There lives an ungrateful person here! Her father came all the way to seek refuge with her, but she ignored him and let him live in the shantytown full of criminals in the West District. She left him to fend for himself. Everyone come out and judge!"
The neighbors nearby heard the noise and came out to see what was going on.
Yin Xin said to them with a sullen face: "I advise you to leave here quickly. Sister Si is not someone you can easily mess with. If you don't listen to me, you will be in trouble when Sister Si comes out."
"What can she do to us?" Si Jiayu glared at him and said, "Stop meddling in other people's business and get out of here!"
Yin Xin opened his mouth and was about to speak when the gate opened and Si Nan appeared at the gate.
When Yin Xin saw her, his face relaxed and he opened his mouth to explain, but Si Nan nodded and said, "I already know."
She looked at Si Chengye and the other two, her pretty face full of sarcasm: "Hey, where did this stray dog come from? It's barking at my door!"
"You rebellious girl! How dare you scold your father?!" Si Chengye was furious and raised his hand to slap Si Nan's face.
Si Nan quickly dodged his arm and slapped Si Chengye hard in the face. He said coldly, "Who do you think you are? How dare you fight me!"
She used all her strength in that slap, which was mixed with years of resentment and anger. It was so crisp and loud that it immediately swollen the left half of Si Chengye's face.
"You dare to hit me?" Si Chengye covered his face with a look of disbelief.
The face that always washed clean and combed hair meticulously no matter when and where, no longer had the vigorous, handsome and gentle look of his youth. The whole face became extremely distorted under extreme resentment, the greasy hair became messy, and his eyes were sinister. He stared at Si Nan, as if he wanted to eat her alive.
"You little ungrateful bastard, are you crazy?" Zhu Chunyan screamed and pushed Sinan: "He is your father! How dare you, as a daughter, hit him? You are a traitor!"
Si Jiayu couldn't believe it either. She quickly came to her senses and looked at the neighbors who were watching the fun and shouted, "Everyone, come and see! Si Nan, that stinky girl, actually dared to hit her dad. She is simply a wolf and a dog. She is worse than pigs and dogs!"
The neighbors who came over to join in the fun, including Sheng's mother who heard the noise, were all stunned for a moment. However, they had been neighbors with Sinan and his wife for more than three months and knew Sinan's character fairly well. They remained silent and wanted to hear what Sinan had to say.
Si Nan avoided Zhu Chunyan's hand with disgust, and slapped her in the face again. "A rubbish mistress who was born as a prostitute and destroyed other people's families, you have the right to shout in front of me! When I was still in elementary school, you were in love with my dad, no, Si Chengye, that scumbag. You came to my sick mom with a big belly, cursed my mom to death, and forced my mom to divorce. Wasn't it arrogant! My mom died within two years just as you wished. For so many years, that scumbag ignored me and didn't give me a penny of child support, leaving me to fend for myself. How come you, a scumbag and a bitch, remembered my existence when you are in trouble today? You want me to support you, bah! Who the hell do you think you are! I give you one minute to disappear from my sight, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless!"
The onlookers suddenly realized what was going on and started talking about it: "I was wondering why Mrs. Cheng, who has such a good temper, would hit someone for no reason. It turns out that someone is being shameless and is using his father's status to blackmail others. How shameless!"
"That's right. When he was young, he only cared about living a carefree life, cheating on his wife and daughter. Now that he's old and useless, he still has the nerve to make a scene here. How shameless!"
"That old woman was a prostitute? Oh, we have to stay away from her. Don't let her catch any disease. If we can't cure it, it will be a waste of time."
......
The voices of people's discussions were like sharp blades, piercing the hearts of Zhu Chunyan and the other three.
Zhu Chunyan and her daughter, who had been so arrogant just now, suddenly stopped fighting. Si Jiayu's husband's face turned red and he couldn't utter a word.
"You ungrateful little bitch! You deserve to die just like your mother!" Si Chengye's eyes were red with anger. He rushed over and strangled Si Nan's neck: "I will strangle you to death, you rebellious girl, and I will pretend that I never gave birth to you!"
Si Nan took two steps back with disdain and kicked Si Chengye on the kneecap. Si Chengye let out a muffled groan and knelt in front of her with a plop.
She was an adult who jogged for fitness and practiced martial arts. This kick left Si Chengye, who was already very weak, without any strength to resist and he fell straight to his knees in front of her.
The moment Si Chengye knelt down, Si Nan put the utility knife in his hand to his neck, cut a bloody mark and said, "Remember this, you and I have nothing to do with each other. If my mother hadn't been obsessed with you and didn't let me change my last name, I wouldn't even want your last name!"
"Murder!" Zhu Chunyan beside him screamed again, and rushed over fearlessly to block Si Chengye: "He is your father after all, how could you have the heart to do this! If you have the guts, come at me, I'm not afraid of you!"
"Oh? Are you really not afraid?" Si Nan raised his eyebrows: "It's true that the love between the scumbag and the bitch is as deep as the sea, so I will help you guys."
She thrust the knife fiercely in front of Zhu Chunyan, who was so frightened that she dodged to the side immediately, cursing Sinan in the most vicious language while dodging: "You black-hearted bitch, you will not have a good death. You dare to lay a hand on me, I curse your whole family to die, and you will not be able to give birth to a son..."
Si Nan laughed angrily and looked down at her: "It's been a minute. It's time to kill a pig and stew it."
As she spoke, she raised the knife in her hand and walked towards Zhu Chunyan step by step.
The murderous intent in her eyes didn't seem fake, and the onlookers and the soldier had no intention of helping to stop her.
Zhu Chunyan could no longer hold it in. She cursed at her useless daughter and son-in-law, dragged them to their knees on the ground, covering their wounds. It was unknown whether she was frightened or could not accept the fact that she was beaten and hit by her daughter. Si Chengye, who was stunned there, crawled away.
Before leaving, Si Jiayu looked back at Si Nan, with an inexplicable emotion in her eyes, and said, "He won't let you go like this!"
He, naturally, refers to Si Chengye.
Si Nan raised his lips and said in a very good mood: "My patience is limited, but it won't happen again. If you make trouble again, you will bear the consequences!"
Her smile was bright, but Si Jiayu felt that it was a little abnormal. She even dared to attack her own father over a disagreement and even tried to kill him with a knife. Such a woman was much more terrifying than those criminals in the West District!
Si Jiayu shuddered, said no more, supported Si Chengye, and left in a hurry.