The area where he was today was unspeakably quiet.
They lived in a townhouse with neighbors on both sides. At this time, the team on the right would drink after returning from a mission, and play cards at home when not on a mission. They would grumble and make suggestions every day and would not restrain themselves. There was no property management to coordinate. It seemed that they fell asleep early today.
The villa on the left is home to a large family of three generations living together. The crying child and the talkative aunt who likes to work in the yard seem to have never existed. The three villas next to each other are all lit with warm and peaceful lights, but there is no one walking around in the house.
As a veteran fighter, Song Kaiji should have turned around and left. But at this moment, thinking of his mother and friends at home, he stood at the door of the villa and clenched his hands.
Feng Hao was also very upset. He had just learned in the morning that Qu Weiwei's former captain Shen Qing was the person he met on the day he first arrived at Hongcheng Base who would not be attacked by zombies. Before he could figure out what to do about this, he got the news that Shen Qing had left Hongcheng Base.
"Run away?" Feng Hao stood up from his chair.
The subordinate in front of him hesitated for a moment and said uncertainly: "Maybe he was just on a normal mission. After all, the news has not leaked, and even the fact that we are keeping an eye on him, only a few people know, he has no reason to run away. Their team used to go out of the base frequently to carry out missions... When we found him, he had already left the base." The implication was that we didn't even follow where he went.
"At this time, which team would go out to do the mission!" Feng Hao turned around in worry. Was it a leak or a coincidence? Chen Jiaqian's face flashed through his mind.
But he had no evidence. Chen Jiaqian's position was not low, how could he accuse Chen Jiaqian without any evidence? Coincidence... He didn't dare to bet.
Feng Hao gritted his teeth and said, "Report to the superiors. The person I mentioned who will not be attacked by zombies has finally been found. The situation is special. I am applying to temporarily control his team members and family members!"
At this moment, Shen Qing has already returned to Lantang Village.
As the sun sets, people working in the fields and workshops are heading home in groups of two or three. Two torches are lit in the village, which are rare, standing like street lamps in the center of the village and near the workshops.
When they saw Shen Qing, the villagers who used to greet him warmly were now a little shy of him. Only a few aunts who were close to Shen Qing and had taken good care of him in the past spoke a few words to him.
Shen Qing was in no mood to care about the villagers' attitudes at the moment. He was very annoyed, so he chatted for a few minutes and went home.
After he left, several villagers started to discuss in low voices: "We used to see Qing Ge'er quite often, but never like now. We dare not say a word."
"You are a coward! He is not a wolf, he can't take you away!" Another person said: "You don't have to do anything wrong, what's there to be afraid of! Even if you did, it's not his fault, what can he do to you?"
"That's not the case. When I saw him with a sullen face, my heart started beating fast..."
"Don't talk about wolves, they're creepy."
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"Qing'er? Why are you back at this time? Have you eaten? Do you want me to give you something to eat?" Before Shen Qing even entered the house, the two puppies dutifully barked. But because they knew Shen Qing was a family member, they only barked two or three times and then stopped, wagging their tails and sitting in the yard waiting for Miao.
Miao rolled up her sleeves. Recently, Lian Ou and Lian Rong always ate at his house. Although Shen Qing had asked her to do so, Second Aunt Lian felt a little embarrassed. Knowing that Shen Qing's family had everything they needed, she sent some mountain products over for a fresh meal.
Fungus, mushrooms, walnuts, chestnuts... Today I cooked a dish of chestnut stewed chicken. Miao and her two companions, the lotus root and the pureed rice, only ate half of it and sealed the other half in a clay pot to eat tomorrow.
Shen Qing waved his hand: "Don't bother, mother. I've eaten." He was worried about something and felt exhausted all over. He didn't say much to Miao and went straight back to his room and lay down on the bed.
What happened today weighed on his heart like a huge rock, but there was nothing he could do about it. He could only hope that Song Kaiji could really kill Feng Hao successfully. He was completely powerless to do anything else.
Shen Qing lay on the bed for a while, and felt that the bed board was too hard. After sleeping on modern thick mattresses for a long time, he was not used to it and felt uncomfortable all over. He turned over several times, but still felt uncomfortable, so he just sat up.
There was a large and wide table in his room. During the days when he was away, Lian Ou practiced weaving ropes in this room according to the drawings, and now she has done it quite well. If you compare it with the knots made by a mature embroiderer sold in the county town, it is naturally a little worse, mainly because the ropes are evenly distributed. When weaving this thing, you can't just tighten the rope blindly. The knots must be relaxed and tight to be beautiful. Ou Ge'er has not yet grasped the essence and is still in the stage of groping.
But it's still very beautiful when viewed alone.
Shen Qing was very pleased. With the current quality of lotus roots, if they were sold in Cuihua's shop, they might be picked up by customers from the city, but if they were made into hairbands and put in the big market in Miaoqian Village, they would still be very good and would probably be in great demand.
He was admiring Lian Ou's work when Miao came in with a bowl of chestnuts: "Try it. Your Second Aunt Lian just sent it. Once you eat this batch, it will be gone."
Nowadays, they don’t like eating chicken or meat anymore. Instead, they like to eat wild game and other fresh food.
In previous years, Shen Qing would go up the mountain to pick chestnuts. There were two chestnut trees not far from Lantang Village, but if you wanted to eat them, you had to rob them. There was a place deep in the mountains where six or seven chestnut trees stood side by side, and no one dared to go in and pick them. There were so many chestnut trees and the fruits were so big, that in previous years Shen Qing would share them with a few squirrels.
Shen Qing had eaten the dinner made by Tang's mother in the evening, and his stomach was full. But now seeing the golden color of the chestnuts, sweet and soft, his appetite was aroused. He tasted two, and found that they were soft and sweet inside, and had a bit of salty taste of stewed chicken outside, which was very well balanced. He then said, "I'll go up the mountain to pick them later. It's on the way."
The chestnut tree is not far from the entrance of the cave, and you can get to it by just walking around it.
Miao's expression was a little strange. She hesitated for a moment before asking, "You came back late at night this time. Did you hear any noise on the mountain?"
Shen Qing was a little confused: "What's going on?"
"Wolf!" Miao's face wrinkled into a ball. "But I don't know if it's true or not. It's been spreading in the village recently, and not just in our village. Now I don't dare to let Ou Ge'er go back too late, for fear that something might happen."
Their yard was at the foot of the mountain. Fortunately, they had two dogs. Even if they couldn't fight against wolves, they could at least give them a heads-up if something happened. The wall of their yard was high, and the workshop and patrol team were nearby. Miao was not too scared at home, but she was afraid that something might happen on the way to Lianou.
The cause was that an eight or nine-year-old child from Xiahe Village was lost while playing in the mountains. He disappeared, and only one shoe was found, with some bloodstains nearby. The old people in the village took a look and said that the child was taken away by a wolf, and most likely he was gone. The child's parents cried bitterly at the time.
Because of her own experience, Miao hated to hear such stories: "It's not just Xiahe Village. Your uncle's family also said that they heard wolves howling near the village in the middle of the night. It didn't happen often, just one or two times, but it was scary enough. But we haven't heard it in our village."
The nearby villages were often harassed by wild boars in the past, but they had never had to fight against wolves. People tend to be more afraid of things they have never experienced, and although wild boars are also quite powerful, wolves sound more terrifying: "Families with children in the nearby villages dare not let them out to roam freely, and even adults dare not go up the mountain easily. They must go with seven or eight men. These chestnuts were obtained by your second aunt before. Who will dare to pick them in the future? No one would risk their lives for this bite of food."
It's just idle talk, not real food.
Shen Qing suddenly understood. No wonder the village was so generous this time and lit two torches. He suddenly remembered that after the wild boars were killed, he went up the mountain at night and heard the howling of wolves. He thought at that time, could it be that after the wild boars were killed, this area became empty, and other wild animals migrated here? But the howling was a bit far away at that time, and Shen Qing never heard it again, so he forgot about it.
Are there really wolves coming near the village? Shen Qing's heart sank. How could all these troubles pile up at the same time? The apocalypse was still unresolved, and the village had new troubles.
Now I have no appetite at all. The originally sweet chestnuts now feel like they have been stewed with the chicken, and they are so greasy that they make me lose my appetite.
Shen Qing frowned and put down his chopsticks. "I'm afraid I am still somewhat responsible for this. I shouldn't have killed all the wild boars. I should have left two cubs and cleaned them up regularly every few years." After all, he was just stealing skills from the old hunter. He half-imitated some hunting techniques, and with a little guidance from the old hunter, he learned them. But no one had ever systematically taught him about the territory and habits of these animals.
However, he asked the Golden Tooth people to find craftsmen to build a village and repair roads near the entrance of the Dongshan Cave, and cleared a large area of forest. With people coming and going, the wolves probably did not dare to come here and could only roam around Shiqu Village and Xiahe Village, which saved Lantang Village.
"How can you be blamed?" Miao disagreed. "There is no man in the village who can stand up, so they just rely on you. So no matter what happens, who has the nerve to blame you?" Miao complained for a while, then said, "But Liu the Hunter came a few days ago, and you were not there, so he went back and didn't say anything."
Miao guessed that maybe Hunter Liu was looking for help. Shen Qing was so famous for killing wild boars before that the news spread all over the place. The victims were the children of Xiahe Village. Hunter Liu, who moved to Xiahe Village, was naturally anxious. He was planning to gather hunters from several nearby villages to go up the mountain together to eliminate or drive away the wolves.
Shen Qing paused. Of course, he was not afraid of wolves now. He had a lot of weapons in his space now, and he had the strength to flatten the entire mountain. Why was he afraid of wolves? Even if Liu the Hunter came to find him, it would be difficult to use him with others. After thinking for a while, Shen Qing said, "If he comes to find me again, we'll talk about it later."
Who would have thought that the next day when Shen Qing went to find Lin Ning, he actually heard news of the wolf pack in Anping County. It turned out that the wolf pack was not only wandering around the following villages, but also in Miaoqian Village and the suburbs of the county.
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