Chapter 49

Chen Xi has always been a person who appears tough on the outside but is soft on the inside. When he saw Sun Qing like this, he suddenly didn't know what to do.

Chen Cong's face turned cold.

She took a step forward, pulled Sun Qing up from the ground, and said to her, "Either you wipe your tears and we sit here and have a good talk, or you go out and cry.

I ask myself if our family has done anything wrong to you.

You wanted to charge, so we helped you. You used electricity to exchange for money without our permission and did not consider our thoughts at all, so we did not blame you.

Why are you crying?

What would the neighbors who passed by think if you cried like this in our yard? They would definitely think we bullied you. Sun Qing, did we bully you?

Sun Qing shook her head vigorously and rubbed her face hard with her hands, leaving red marks on her face.

She covered her mouth with her hands, trying hard to hold back her tears. Her face turned red and she hiccuped uncontrollably. She looked miserable and miserable.

Seeing her like this, Chen Xi sighed, turned back to the house, took out a pack of tissues and handed them to her.

Sun Qing shook her head and took out a small pack of napkins with only two sheets left from her bag. She took one out carefully and wiped her face with it.

Seeing the little girl like this, both of them were speechless.

She is really a very polite and considerate child.

Supplies are in short supply now, and napkins are a good thing. Even though she cried like that, she still knew not to use other people's things.

But she - when she gets confused, her brain is really confused!

After Sun Qing calmed down completely, the three of them sat down again in the backyard.

Chen Cong asked again: "Why did your boyfriend suddenly leave? Was it because of what we talked about him yesterday?"

Sun Qing shook her head: "No."

She was afraid that Chen Cong would not believe her, so she quickly added, “He said he was leaving a long time ago. He said so when our food was almost gone. He said the environment in Beining was too bad and he wanted me to go to the capital with him.

Xu Bin said that Beijing is the capital, and no matter how bad the situation outside is, the capital will always be the most stable place. And my parents are still there, if I can find them, I will go to them.

But my parents are at my sister and brother-in-law's house. My sister just gave birth to a child, so they don't know what's going on yet, and I can't contact them. If we go now, won't that make it difficult for my parents?

Besides, knowing what happened in Beining, if mom and dad could come back, they would definitely come back. They would not abandon me.

I'm afraid what if we go there and they come back and get lost on the way?

Instead of going through all this trouble, I might as well stay at home and wait for my parents to come back.

At the beginning, Xu Bin agreed, but now there is less and less to eat, and the community keeps asking everyone to go out and find work, and even if they don't go out they have to pay for food, so he is not happy.

It was he who insisted that I come to borrow electricity yesterday."

The more Sun Qing spoke, the lower her voice became. It was obvious that she felt something was wrong as she spoke.

Shen Cong and Shen Xi both understood.

Xu Bin was fed up with staying in the community, and seeing that his family had no food left, and money being worthless, Sun Qing could no longer squeeze any money out of him, so he turned his attention to the girl's parents.

But this time the girl was more clear-headed and did not want to shift the blame to others, so she refused to go to the capital with him.

He was impatient to begin with, and had several arguments with Sun Qing. He finally persuaded her to come over to charge and call her parents, but ended up being humiliated at the Shen family.

Not only was he humiliated, but he also couldn't get through on the phone and Sun Qing still didn't want to leave. He was so angry that he simply left her and left.

At this moment, the Shen sisters couldn't tell whether they felt lucky or pitiful for the girl.

"He just left you like that? He didn't even leave you anything to eat? Did he go to the capital by himself? Will he be back in two days?"

Chen Xi asked a few more questions worriedly.

Sun Qing shook her head: "I don't know."

"So what are your plans for next?"

Chen Cong glanced towards the door and said, "Are you planning to keep reselling our electricity?"

Sun Qing's face turned red all of a sudden.

She was so panicked that she waved her hands repeatedly and explained, "No, I just want to make ends meet. Sister, please let me use it for a few more days. I will go to the town to sell things tomorrow. I just need a few days of food to be prepared."

"What are you going to sell?" Chen Xi asked.

"My dad's wine cabinet collapsed, and I want to sell the cabinet board."

Chen Xi sighed, "I still have to sell the things at home."

Sun Qing's face turned even redder and her head drooped even lower.

He explained in a low voice: "I also got some land from the community, and I learned how to till the land. But I haven't got the rapeseed yet, and I'm still waiting for the community to distribute the seeds."

At least I'm not that stupid.

When they heard her say that she had already started learning to farm, the two sisters finally felt a little relieved.

Actually, Sun Qing had nothing to do with them. They didn't even know her before yesterday.

Maybe it was because they knew a little about the follow-up, so they couldn't help but worry about this girl.

Otherwise, they would not be so harsh on someone they are not familiar with.

As a second-generation rich girl, and the kind who is obviously spoiled and whose parents prepare enough snacks for two people for three months when they go out, (normal food would have gone bad long ago due to lack of electricity), Sun Qing is actually doing pretty well.

Even if she doesn't know how to judge people, at least she hasn't caused any trouble to outsiders so far.

Even if the Shen family's electricity was resold, they still paid for it.

In addition, the evildoer was gone now, so when the two sisters heard Sun Qing's request to use their electricity for a few more days, they agreed.

After using it for two hours, Sun Qing, just like yesterday, proactively unplugged the charging device, returned the items and left.

But not long after he left, he ran back again.

This time she brought a velvet jewelry bag, which was bulging with all kinds of jewelry.

The moment she poured the jewelry onto the table, the dazzling light was almost blinding.

Even Chen Xi subconsciously blocked it with his hand.

"Are you crazy? You took all your mother's jewelry?!"

Chen Xi didn't even know what to say to this little girl, his jaw was almost dropped.

Sun Qing pushed those things forward and asked, "Sister Xixi, are these enough to power me for half a month? I only use it for two hours a day."

Chen Xi didn't know how to answer, and Chen Cong was also quite speechless by this little girl.

She did not answer Sun Qing's question, but asked: "You took out so many jewelry from home, don't you need your parents' consent? You also said that they should be back soon."

Sun Qing shook her hand, her expression unusually serious.

She said, "Sister Xixi, Sister Congcong, I know you are doing this for my own good, and you are worried that I will be deceived. Actually, I am not that stupid."

When she said this, there was a hint of embarrassment in her expression.

The little girl's eyes were still swollen and she looked a little embarrassed.

But he was very serious and tried hard to explain himself again and again.

She said: "Xu Bin and I have known each other for a short time, and this is the first time he has come home with me. It is not a case of one of us cheating on the other, at most it is a matter of mutual consent.

It was because I was injured and couldn't move, so I needed someone to take care of me. I was also scared to live in such a big house by myself.

So he was willing to stay with me, and I was willing to provide food, so we each got what we needed.

I just didn't expect that he would turn his back on me so quickly. He left as soon as the family ran out of food."

She bit her lips hard, leaving a deep white mark on her lower lip.

This is enough to prove that she was just pretending to be strong, and she was definitely not as calm as she appeared at the moment.

But no matter what, at least it shows that she has thought the matter through in her mind.

Sun Qing lowered her head and calmed down for a while before continuing, "Sister, to be honest, these things are all mine. I saved them over the years, and my parents don't care how I use them.

For me, being alive is more important than these. These stones are just for looking good, but I can't eat them when I'm hungry. They are of no use to me now.

You guys are helping me by accepting them, and I’m grateful. I really appreciate it, because I know that even if I go to the city now, no one will accept them.”

Sun Qing has already said this, what else can the two sisters say?

Chen Cong looked at his sister, and Chen Xi could only reply: "In that case, let's do as you say, fifteen days, two hours a day. You can charge whatever you like for low-power, but you need to ask for high-power."

A smile appeared on the little girl's face again.

Sun Qing agreed loudly, then as if afraid that the two would go back on their word, she said goodbye and turned away.

He walks in a hopping manner.

Looking at the pile of jewels on the table and then at the little girl jumping high, the two sisters looked at each other and shook their heads, seeing speechlessness in each other's eyes.

I don’t know how to comment on this girl and this world.

The next day Sun Qing came early again.

This time she did not disturb the Shen family any more. Cheng Ru opened the door for her. After plugging in the power, the girl sat obediently at the door and did not come in again.

Shen Cong glanced out the window.

She still used a cardboard box to hold the extension cord as before, but instead of various mobile phones being plugged into it, there were three exquisite and beautiful power banks.

You can tell at first glance that this is a style that girls like.

Are you embarrassed to sell electricity at your doorstep, so you want to charge it and then go home to sell it?

Chen Cong just thought it was funny and felt that the girl was really interesting.

Once something is spoken out, people will definitely change it. Not only that, they can also think of more appropriate replacement methods.

However, no matter how interesting Sun Qing's story is, it is just a small episode in the life of the Shen family.

The excitement will soon pass and you still have to live your life.

Today is actually a very happy day for the Shen family.

Because this morning, while the family had nothing to do, Chen Cong took out all the vegetables that had been harvested during this period and stored in the space and weighed them. He then discovered that the weight of these vegetables exceeded 150 kilograms!

This is a number that no one expected.

Because sowing seeds indoors was something no one had ever done before and we had no experience.

In order not to waste seeds, the planting was done on an experimental basis and not many seeds were planted.

In addition, Jiashu was there later, so in order to prevent him from noticing anything unusual, Grandpa Gu removed the formation he had set up, lest the vegetables grow too fast and it be difficult to explain.

Due to various reasons, these vegetables do not grow very quickly.

It took a month from the time we first started harvesting to now when the trees are almost grown and can basically be harvested.

Except for some that were eaten at the beginning, all the remaining food was placed in the gurgling space.

The person who collected it didn’t feel it, and the person who put it down didn’t feel it either. It was only after weighing it that they realized that they had harvested a lot!

You have to know that this was just a small trial in the room on the third floor, and the vegetables grown were green leafy vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, water spinach, and radish.

This dish actually doesn't weigh much.

If the varieties planted were changed to loofah, cucumber, eggplant, etc., wouldn’t the harvest be doubled? !

Thinking of such a prospect, the whole family was naturally overjoyed.

"Don't move or sell these vegetables. Let's keep them for ourselves.

But Xiaokai, you should still go to the market and see what vegetables the government is collecting, how they are priced, and which vegetables sell best?

Also, you can go and find out what the grain market is like, so that we can have a better idea later.

If the price of vegetables is normal, we will plant these seedlings in the backyard after we grow them, but don’t plant too many. We can use the rooftop to plant corn and peanuts.”

Shen Jianyi suggested.

"Okay, I'll go right away." Gu Kai agreed.

Most of the heavy work at home has been done these days, so there is no need for everyone to stay at home.

Although no one in the family wanted him to go out and do hard labor, as the only full-time laborer in the family, he had to go out for a walk even if it was just for the sake of formality.

"I brought all the waste materials from home and sold everything that could be sold. They were useless just sitting there," said Gu Kai.

"The tricycle is not at home. Let's sell it in a few days. There is no rush." ​​Chen Cong stopped him.

It was such a hot day, and she didn't want her husband to ride a bike for such a long distance carrying such heavy things.

"It's okay, I'll take less and take it in batches. I still have to sell it early, otherwise it will become less valuable as time goes by.

There have been several battles in the ruins of that shopping mall in the past few days, and it is estimated that everything inside has been dug out.

We don’t know if the purchasing station in town can buy all the goods, so the price will definitely get lower and lower.” Gu Kai explained.

He himself did not take it seriously and downplayed it.

Everyone in the family was shocked by his words.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at him.

Even Chen Cong became curious and asked, "How many fights have there been? When, who fought with whom? Why didn't I hear you say that?"

Gu Kai then realized that what he said caused a shock. He was also surprised: "You don't know? Those people who go out to pick up garbage in the community haven't been there for the past two days. Didn't you see it?"

“……”No one really noticed.

There are so many things going on at home these days.

They have to move the newly grown seedlings on the third floor upstairs, and also help Mr. Gu to grow his Chinese herbal medicine seedlings.

I still have to continue cutting the unfinished steel frames into materials, and I also have to attend the community meeting...

No one in the family is idle, so who would care about what is happening outside?

Seeing that no one really knew, Gu Kai had to explain a few more things to his family.

It turned out that the ruins were immediately noticed after people in the community occupied them.

However, the leaders of the community had been prepared for this. When they went there, they gathered all the strong laborers in the community and brought so many people with them to get all the things back at once.

Even if some people are jealous and want to take a piece of the pie, under that situation, considering the overall strength, they have to give up.

After the residents of the community evacuated, the remaining supplies became the object of scramble among the people.

Like the broken plastic models that Cao Hongmin didn't allow residents to take back because he thought it was too much trouble, and some window frames, door frames, broken wooden boards, and wall lamps that hadn't been dismantled in time...

These things may seem trivial, but if they are collected together they can be exchanged for a lot of food.

There are many people who are eyeing these things, and compared with the people in the community, these people are a little insignificant.

They are all people from Yingshui Village who are reclaiming wasteland here, or small teams from other small gathering places looking for work.

When these people meet, it is inevitable that they will fight for things and territory.

Cao Hongmin originally promised that if people in the community returned the items and then picked them up again, the community would not take a commission.

Although most people have come back to rest, there are still some who are not afraid of hard work.

But when these people rushed over again, they all encountered this scene of a huge battle.

After everyone discussed it, they withdrew.

Therefore, in the subsequent fight, the people in the community did not participate and were not injured.

On the contrary, people who go to the town to find work often see people wrapped in gauze dragging waste to sell these days. Looking at the things on the car, you can tell that they were all picked up from the ruins.

So people in the community have been talking about it these days, saying that they are worried that the people at the scrap collection station won’t be able to handle so much stuff, and will either lower the price or close down.

Everyone was talking about how the job of selling scrap would not last long, and they all subconsciously sped up their actions, hoping to make more trips, sell more, and accumulate some food before the end.

After hearing Gu Kai's words, the whole family took it seriously.

Chen Xi was the first to speak up: "Xiao Kai, let me go with you today. Let's ride bikes and try to bring more things. If that doesn't work, we can make more trips. If we can sell them all, we can just sell them all today."

Gu Kai thought about it and agreed.

Because those steel racks still need to be sorted out, the cutting machine can only be operated by Father Shen, and he definitely can’t go out.

The steel frame is in Shen Cong's space, and it is taken in and out. No one else can do this job.

Not to mention Mr. Gu, he has no idea how long he will have to work on his pile of Chinese medicinal seedlings. It's good that he doesn't ask for help, because he can't help others.

You can't let my mother-in-law go on this trip, right?

Therefore, the only one who can help at this time is my sister-in-law Chen Xi.

Gu Kai and Shen Xi actually ran twice. They came back in the middle, each of them ate a bowl of jelly and a roujiamo, and then left in a hurry again.

In their words, the time spent on the road would not be too long, but the queue in front of the purchasing station was really too long!

If you go late, you may not even be able to queue up until it closes at night.

Seeing the two people in a hurry, Father Shen knew that asking his son-in-law to check the market would definitely not be possible today, so he simply didn't even mention it again.

Because they were worried about the two, from four or five o'clock in the afternoon, someone from the Shen family would run to the fourth-floor platform from time to time to take a look, hoping to be the first to see the two people return.

Chen Cong also went up several times.

But she didn't see her husband and sister first, but saw Sun Qing first.

Sun Qing came back around six in the afternoon.

The girl must have been out for a day, her big T-shirt was soaked with sweat, and the clothes were sticking to her body on the entire back.

She had two plastic ropes on her back like a backpack, and under the ropes were two skateboards tied together.

Even from such a distance, you can tell that the skateboard is of good quality. It is obviously of competition level and must be expensive.

The skateboard, which was so expensive, was being dragged by her on the gravel-covered ground without any hesitation. It was dirty and covered with various scratches.

Needless to say, the girl used these two things as flatbed carts.

It is estimated that what was tied on it was her father's wine cabinet that Sun Qing mentioned before.

Seeing that this girl really took action as she said and started working hard to survive, Chen Cong couldn't help but look up to her.

I am willing to talk to her too.

She stood on the platform and shouted, "Sun Qing, have you seen my sister and Gu Kai?"

When Sun Qing heard her name being called, she looked up quickly.

Seeing that it was Chen Cong, he waved to her happily and shouted loudly: "I saw it! When I left, Sister Xixi and her husband were still queuing at the purchasing station. They rode their bikes and should be back soon."

Hearing her say this, Shen Cong nodded and waved at her.

Then he watched the little girl turn into the three-row villa area.

She lives at the very end of that row.

There are four villas, including the half-collapsed one on the outermost side. Apart from the one she lives in, the other three are occupied by high-ranking people.

Moreover, there are quite a lot of people living in each apartment, probably at least 10 to 20 people.

But this liveliness only highlights the loneliness of Sun Qing living alone.

Chen Cong suddenly understood what the little girl said. Why did she say that she supported Xu Bin with food out of mutual consent?

After all, she is still a girl under 20 years old. It is normal for her to be afraid in such dangerous times.

It was already dark when Gu Kai and Shen Xi came back. They were both extremely tired. After taking a shower, they didn't even want to eat. They each held half a melon and ate without looking up.

Only after he had eaten nearly half a football-sized watermelon did Chen Xi let out a long, satisfied sigh and say, "I'm finally alive!"

This one sentence made the whole family laugh.

Now that he was alive, Shen Xi regained his energy.

There is also leisure to talk about gossip.

She leaned over and touched her sister's arm, and asked her mysteriously, "Do you know who we met in town?"

"Sun Qing." Shen Cong answered without even raising his head.

"How do you know?" Chen Xi was a little frustrated that the guanzi was not sold, and pushed his sister again in frustration.

"Because she came back earlier than you, and she told me that she saw you guys still queuing when she came back."

"Huh? She saw us lining up? When did she see it, and why didn't we see her?"

Shen Xi was very surprised.

She was confused by her sister's words. She looked at her brother-in-law uncertainly and asked, "Xiao Kai, when we went back this afternoon, didn't we see Sun Qing setting up a stall in the passage? When did she go to the scrap yard? Did you see her?"

Gu Kai shook his head and replied concisely: "No."

Chen Cong became curious: "Set up a stall, what stall? What does she have to sell?"

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