Chapter 289 Return with a Full Load

In addition to power supplies and generators, the two found a lot of medicines in the remaining vehicles.

There were a lot of empty pill packages scattered around a skeleton, so many that it looked like someone had taken the pills as meals.

There were clearly still a lot of expired food in the car that had not been eaten, so it was definitely not that there was nothing to eat and only medicine could be taken. Zhao Yeqing guessed that it was someone who knew that he was infected and tried to take various medicines before going berserk to see if he could be cured.

The result speaks for itself.

This trip was very rewarding.

Medicines, daily necessities, generators, power supplies, and high-quality tents and awnings can all be taken back and used as sunshades, as well as some car repair tools and pots and pans, such as gas stoves and small gas tanks.

Even if there are boxes of canned drinks, if they are expired, just throw away the drinks and keep the cans.

Zhao Yeqing did not let any of them go and packed them all up and took them away.

At that time, the cans can be directly melted and made into aluminum products.

The car that arrived could no longer hold all the stuff. After all, in addition to these things, there were also spare gasoline barrels stored in the original vehicles and oil pumped from the fuel tanks of all the cars.

Zhao Yeqing found a car that was in the best and cleanest condition among several cars and moved half of the stuff into it. Both cars were filled to the brim.

The roof, trunk, front and rear seats are all harvested.

Even so, there are still many things that have not been taken away, but gasoline and generators are the top priorities, and the limited space is used to store these things first.

Fortunately, there were still enough gasoline barrels. When Mu Xi saw that the gasoline barrels were almost used up, he drove to the tourist area again and brought back all the empty gasoline barrels he had seen before.

Some people in the tourist area who wanted to make some dirty money would buy oil drums, fill them with gasoline, and sell them at high prices in the tourist area. The two guessed this when they found a family with a large number of oil drums at home.

However, most of these oil drums were empty. I don’t know whether they were sold out or taken away by this group of people.

In the end, five large gasoline barrels of 70 or 80 liters were filled, and the remaining smaller gasoline barrels of 30 to 40 liters or 40 to 50 liters were also filled and piled up in the car.

Some tarpaulins that looked of high quality could not fit in the space and had to be abandoned.

People are never satisfied. They can never let go of things that are in front of them and want to take everything with them. But if they had not seen these things, they could still live their lives.

Zhao Yeqing had already figured out the difference between necessity and desire when he decided to resign and return to the mountains. Although he felt it was a pity, he wasn't that reluctant to leave.

You can come back to get it later, but you will have to waste a lot of gasoline going back and forth, which is really not cost-effective.

In other words, his knowledge is not broad enough. If he had learned physics and chemistry well and obtained a degree in mechanical engineering in college, he would have been able to modify countless machines from the engines of off-road vehicles worth hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.

Even these car frames are made of good material.

Zhao Yeqing couldn't help but sigh: Alas...I still suffer from the lack of education.

The return trip changed from one car to two cars.

Zhao Yeqing drove the original car, and Mu Xi drove the car he had just found. Thinking that there might be other problems with the car on the road, he did not let Zhao Yeqing drive this car.

The new car I drove home was much bigger than the previous one, but it still got stuck when passing the big rock.

The two men moved the jack down and pushed the big rock to the side of the road.

It was early in the morning when Zhao Yeqing left home, and he originally estimated that he would be able to get home by the evening.

Unexpectedly, this trip was much more exciting than expected. It was already dark when we got home.

The livestock at home were howling with hunger, and it had been more than two hours since the usual feeding time.

Mu Xi moved the things out of the car, and Zhao Yeqing hurried to cook food for the pigs.

After the pig food is cooked, it needs to be cooled. During the cooking process, grass is added to the cattle, sheep, chickens and horses.

The wild boars were the hungriest, and the whole yard was filled with their cries. Zhao Yeqing could only cut a handful of sweet potato vines for them to eat and let them wait patiently for the pig food in the pot to cool down.

Mu Xi placed the generator outside the original owner's house, thinking that it would be quieter if placed in the basement. However, he was a little worried that if there was another earthquake with a larger amplitude, it would be even more troublesome if the basement collapsed.

In addition, the gasoline inside will not burn completely when generating electricity and produce carbon monoxide. It is safer to place it on the ground and move it outdoors when needed.

The power generator is placed under the eaves behind the main house. It is separated from the bedroom by a toilet, bathroom and a newly built brick wall, so the noise when generating electricity is not too loud.

After all the things were unloaded, the original owner's house, which had finally gained some space due to the reconstruction of the tool room, was now filled to the brim again.

Mu Xi tried to connect the power supply and the generator, then filled it with fuel and started the generator for testing.

The decibel level of the sound from this generator is about the same as that of a running washing machine, which is smaller than expected. Even if someone is sleeping in the room, they should not be woken up when it starts.

Mu Xi watched the power value on the power supply continue to rise, and confirmed that the generator was operating normally. He then connected the power supply to the inverter to switch the power supply to the lighting facilities in the home.

After testing everything, I was relieved to find that they all worked properly.

With this generator, they shouldn't have a hard time this winter.

There were a lot of gains today. Zhao Yeqing was busy feeding the livestock and then started to cook dinner. He was so happy that he didn't feel tired at all.

After testing the generator, Mu Xi went into the kitchen to wash off the smell of gasoline on his hands, and then took the kitchen knife for cutting green onions from Zhao Yeqing.

After Zhao Yeqing handed the task of cutting vegetables to him, he put the pot on the stove and started to boil water. He would not cook tonight, but planned to make two bowls of noodles and go to bed after eating.

We have to get up early tomorrow morning to harvest sweet potatoes.

The weather was visibly getting cooler. Their house was close to the woods, and the wind blew yellow fallen leaves from time to time.

The fallen leaves in the sky were swirling and falling to the ground in the autumn wind. After getting up, Zhao Yeqing held a cup of hot scented tea in his left hand and a persimmon cake covered with white frost in his right hand. He sat in the yard, looking at the white clouds in the sky and eating slowly.

She originally wanted to drink a glass of goat's milk, but she also wanted to eat persimmon cake. Persimmons and high-protein foods cannot be eaten together as they can easily cause indigestion, so she changed to scented tea.

The white frost on the outside of persimmon cake is mainly composed of glucose, which is called persimmon frost in traditional Chinese medicine. It can cure sore throat and chronic bronchitis. It feels slightly cool when you put it in your mouth. Mu Xi collected a lot of white frost on the persimmon cakes and kept them for medicinal purposes.

The cool breeze blew into his collar, and Zhao Yeqing couldn't help shivering even though he was drinking hot tea.

Mu Xi took a scarf and put it on her. "Come into the kitchen to eat. Don't eat outside. You will catch a cold."

Zhao Yeqing followed his instructions and walked to the kitchen, not forgetting to ask, "What's the temperature today?"