Chapter 25 Extremely hot, sunny day

Jiang Linhai hesitated, glanced at the father and daughter, whose lips were cracked, and said, "Wait a moment."

"Sisi, Lu Zhifeng wants to change the water. Should we give it to him?"

Jiang Si thought for a moment and said, "I can give him some, but water is precious. Let's see what he has to offer in exchange."

Just because most people around you have died doesn't mean there are no potential dangers.

Those who can survive at this time are all tough guys.

They have to be more careful to hide the amount of their supplies.

Jiang Linhai moved Lu Zhifeng's previous things out to him first, then said, "Our family doesn't have enough to drink. If you want to exchange water, what do you want to exchange?"

Lu Zhifeng took out bullets from his bag and said, "Twenty bullets in total, in exchange for two buckets of water."

Jiang Linhai frowned, "No, only one bucket of water, and twenty more bullets."

"Now that everyone is dead, the bullets can only be used to hunt game, and there's no guarantee there will be game. Forget it if I don't want to exchange them."

Lu Zhifeng hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and took out another twenty bullets from his bag, "Okay, let's switch!"

Jiang Linhai got the bullets and it took him a while to get a bucket of water out.

Lu Zhifeng and Niu Niu's eyes suddenly became hot, and they hurriedly squatted down, leaning over like cattle and horses to drink water in big gulps, for fear of wasting a drop of this hard-earned bucket of water.

They didn't dare drink enough, and when they felt they were no longer thirsty, they quickly stood up.

Lu Zhifeng asked: "Is there a sealed container that can hold water?"

Jiang Linhai went back into the house and found two large plastic buckets for them, and brought a scoop for scooping water. Lu Zhifeng took it with gratitude, and he and Niuniu carefully filled the buckets with water, with hopeful smiles on their faces.

Jiang Linhai was also a father and admired Lu Zhifeng very much, so he casually asked, "Are you going to find water?"

Lu Zhifeng's face paused, and he spoke again embarrassedly, "Of course I have to go. Could you please help me take care of Niuniu when I go?"

Before the end of the world comes, there are many unknown dangers in the forest, and Lu Zhifeng doesn't want to take Niu Niu on an adventure.

Before Jiang Linhai could speak, Niuniu hurriedly grabbed Lu Zhifeng's thigh and rushed to say, "I want to be with Daddy. Wherever Daddy is, I'll be there. I can use a gun, and I will protect Daddy!"

Lu Zhifeng met Niuniu's tearful eyes and finally couldn't bear to leave her to be taken care of by others. He touched her head and said, "Well, then you can go with Dad."

Niuniu burst into laughter, and Lu Zhifeng turned to look at Jiang Linhai again, "Niuniu and I will go find some water tomorrow night. If you want to go with me, I'll come find you."

Jiang Linhai didn't know what Jiang Si was planning. After all, they didn't need water for the time being.

Suddenly, Big Black and Little Black bared their teeth and started screaming wildly, trembling all over.

Jiang Si pulled Jiang Linhai and the others into the house, quickly locked the outer door, raised his pistol, and listened attentively.

Except for Dahai Xiaohei's cry, everyone held their breath.

"Are you there?"

Suddenly, a familiar voice was heard.

Dahei and Xiaohei tucked their tails between their legs and hid under Jiang Linhai's crotch, trembling.

They weren't so scared even when swarms of rats and mosquitoes came.

Jiang Si's family recognized that the person coming was Qin Shen from next door.

Jiang Si leaned against the door and looked at him through the peephole. He was wearing a vest and pants woven from hay, with a dozen bamboo tubes slung over his back. He asked coldly, "What are you doing here?"

Qin Shen held up a bamboo tube and asked, "Would you like to change the water?"

He actually has water!

Everyone's eyes lit up.

Niuniu excitedly grabbed Lu Zhifeng's arm and shook it, "Dad, he has water too!"

They now have one more person to change the water for.

Jiang Si was wary of a trick, so he opened the outer door and held out a bowl through the fence: "Pour out the water and let me see."

Qin Shen pulled out the stopper on top of the bamboo tube and poured out water, which soon filled the bowl.

Jiang Si looked carefully and found that it was clean water.

Judging from his savage attire, he must have gotten it from somewhere, and it’s not the water he had stored before.

She knew the location of the underground water source, and the fastest round trip would take six hours.

Qin Shen couldn't be so fast. Could there be groundwater nearby and he discovered it?

Jiang Si's eyes lit up with joy, and he said to him, "We'll exchange the water. Can you also give us the address where we can get the water?"

Lu Zhifeng also clenched his fists excitedly.

Qin Shen said seriously, "It's very dangerous there."

Having no water to drink is the real danger.

Lu Zhifeng said impatiently: "It doesn't matter, we can go!"

Qin Shen seemed to be thinking, then he said, "There are seven of you, plus two dogs. You want to know the location of the water source. What do you want in exchange?"

Lu Zhifeng rushed to say: "I can give you clothes and shoes."

Qin Shen shook his head directly: "I want food, weapons and medicine."

Putting a gun in the hands of someone whose character is not guaranteed is a more dangerous decision than being deprived of water.

What's more, Qin Shen is a strong man.

Anyone who can survive to this day must be no ordinary person.

Having a gun made him even more powerful, and Lu Zhifeng was in a dilemma.

But he didn't hesitate for long, and Lu Zhifeng said, "I'll give you a hunting rifle and two boxes of bullets."

The original purpose of hiding these weapons was to allow Niu Niu to survive.

He was afraid that he would regret it later if he missed the opportunity to find the water source.

"But you must lead me to the water source yourself, and I will give you the bullets when we come back."

Qin Shen said simply: "Okay."

The only things Jiang Si could exchange for Qin Shen were food and medicine.

"Five hundred kilograms of rice."

Five hundred kilograms of rice is enough for Qin Shen to eat for a long time.

Although she deliberately lowered the price.

But at this time it was good enough that someone was willing to give him food.

Qin Shen looked at her with deep eyes, which made her involuntarily think of the scene that happened today.

Jiang Si suddenly felt a little guilty and raised the price, "How about a few more sets of clothes? We really can't have more food. There are so many people in our family."

Qin Shen withdrew his gaze with satisfaction and said, "Okay." He then said to everyone, "I'll wait for you here tomorrow night." He then took off all the bamboo tubes on his back and handed them to Jiang Si, "Can I change to a pot?"

Lu Zhifeng wanted to say that he wanted to change, but then he thought that he could get water tomorrow, so he held it back.

It was just a pot. Jiang Si asked his mother to get a pot for cooking noodles, opened the fence and bartered with him.

More than a dozen bamboo tubes filled with water were too heavy for Jiang Si to carry. Qin Shen knew that everyone was still wary of him, so he simply put them for her at the gate of the yard, picked up the pot and turned to leave.

His straightforward personality seems quite charming.

After Qin Shen left, Lu Zhifeng went back and forth twice to move the things, and finally took Niu Niu away.

Jiang Si poured the water in the bamboo tube into the water tank and threw it aside to use as firewood.

Jiang Linhai squatted down curiously, suddenly picked up a bamboo and said to Jiang Sijing, "Sisi, look, the claw marks on this bamboo are so big!"

Jiang Si moved closer and saw claw marks on the bamboos that were bigger than bear paws where they were cut, and on every bamboo.

Jiang Linhai speculated, "Qin Shen said it was dangerous. Is there a ferocious beast guarding the water source?"