After the matter was agreed upon, Shen Qing didn't want to stay any longer with a group of men who disliked him, so he drank a bowl of hot water poured by Aunt Guixiang and went back home in the wind and snow.
The village chief also felt embarrassed. He had asked Shen Qing to come and discuss the matter because he thought he had experience in killing wild boars. He didn't expect Shen Qing to hear such words and get angry. He turned around and glared at Wang Liuzi unhappily.
But he didn't know what to say. As a man himself, the village chief knew what Wang Liuzi and the others were thinking: What man would like to be stepped on by a boy and a woman? It was normal for them to feel unhappy.
When the couple talked about this at night, Aunt Guixiang almost kicked him under the kang: "What are you talking about? What do you mean Qingge'er stepped on them? Who did Qingge'er step on? Qingge'er is just capable! If they don't want to be overshadowed by Qingge'er, they can also go up the mountain to kill wild boars. Who can stop him?"
"He has no ability or courage, but he holds on to others and insists that they should be as unmotivated as him? It's just like what Qing Ge'er said, a coward!" Aunt Guixiang said indignantly.
The village chief was scolded by his wife. His face turned red and he lowered his head. He couldn't utter a word for a long time.
"Besides, if he's unhappy, he can just stay at home and be unhappy. No one is stopping him from being unhappy." Emotions are something that people can't control, and they're not very reasonable. To say that people are not even allowed to be unhappy or dislike something is a bit too harsh. But it's okay to keep your unhappiness to yourself, which doesn't mean you can go looking for trouble with others at will: "But he insisted on making up that untenable story, blaming Qing Ge'er for the wild boar going down the mountain. What does that mean? Isn't it just because he saw Qing Ge'er sold the wild boar, and he wanted Qing Ge'er to take out the money, just to make him jealous! Do you think this is reasonable? You're even understanding him!"
"Does Qing Ge'er have to be unable to display his abilities just to make them feel comfortable? Why?" Aunt Guixiang turned over angrily and rolled away all the quilts. She has seen that Qing Ge'er is a very capable person. If those boys in the village are not happy now, they will suffer in the future: "If you indulge them like this, sooner or later, something will happen in the future!"
The village chief thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure out a solution. He could only lie down with a sigh and tugged at Aunt Guixiang: "Hey, please leave some quilt for me."
"Aren't you men capable? Why are you still covering yourself with a blanket?!"
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At Shen Qing's house, Miao was also very angry: "How could this man be so bad!" It's not that their family can't afford the few taels of silver to hire a hunter, but that's because Shen Qing had a strange encounter and got unexpected wealth! If it weren't for this strange encounter, they would still be living in poverty, and they would want to spend every penny. There is no powerful weapon in another world that can kill wild boars. Isn't this pushing them to a dead end!
Shen Qing had gotten used to it: "They have been like that since they were young, but it's okay this way." Shen Qing proposed to kill the wild boars himself. There was an element of anger in his proposal, but more importantly, he wanted to use this to establish his authority and gain a firm foothold in the village.
Why did Wang Liuzi never give up disgusting himself and always jump around even though he couldn't beat him? It was because in Wang Liuzi's heart, the gap between him and Shen Qing was not that big - although he had never beaten Shen Qing, he felt that his "noble" status as a man could make up for it, so overall he was not worse than Shen Qing, and was even a little bit better.
But if he met the son of an official, or even the son of an emperor, Wang Liuzi would only kneel down and kowtow, not even daring to fart! How dare he think that the son is inferior to men, and he can barely compare with him?
A beggar will not be jealous of a person riding in a sedan chair, but will be jealous of those who beg for more food than him! In the end, he has not been able to completely widen the gap with them. Shen Qing planned to take advantage of this wild boar hunting to establish his prestige in the village, so that there will be no clowns who think he is easy to bully. He is not afraid of trouble, but it is annoying to have such people bump into him all the time!
Besides, a wild boar could be sold for two or three taels of silver. Whether he did business in the future or bought some things for his family, with this group of wild boars, others would not doubt the source of their money.
Song Kaiji set up his stall early in the morning and squatted at the foot of the south wall waiting for Shen Qing. He rarely went out on missions now: Shen Qing would come to see him almost every other day, and each time he would bring a basket full of food. For the first time, Song Kaiji felt the joy of being "kept".
He only needed to go to other stalls to buy some gold and silver at a low price when Shen Qing was not around: Before he met Shen Qing, Song Kaiji had saved up a lot of unpalatable coarse grain cakes produced by the base, which he used to pay for the purchase. By doing this, he now made a small profit.
Unless there was a mission that happened to allow him to collect some gold, silver, and jewelry, Song Kaiji would not accept other things. However, he exchanged the most recent basket of food for other things: "Tofu, five-spice dried tofu, tofu skewers, grilled gluten, sauce-flavored cakes, starch sausages..." Song Kaiji flipped through the pages of paper in his hand. These were all Shen Qing's favorite foods. "Should that be enough?"
Although he decided not to ask too much about Shen Qing's secrets, the more Song Kaiji interacted with Shen Qing, the more questions he had in his mind: These business bases already have them, what does Shen Qing buy these secret recipes for? You know, everyone is very poor now, there are only so many people who can afford to spend, the market has long been saturated, and a new store that has just learned how to make food tastes better than the old hands?
Or is Shen Qing going to open a shop in another base? Song Kaiji fell into deep thought. Is there no one in other bases who can make these foods... He still doesn't know where Shen Qing lives after leaving. Before, Shen Qing invited him to live somewhere else, and he subconsciously thought it was another base, but the distance between bases is so far that it takes two days to go back and forth?
Could it be that Shen Qing has an unofficial personal base nearby... ?
It's so complicated, I need to use my brain. Song Kaiji scratched his itchy scalp.
He was squatting there, thinking about random things, when suddenly a man came running towards him from the base, shouting, "Song Kaiji? Is Song Kaiji here? Who is Song Kaiji?"
Song Kaiji was stunned. Could it be that there was news about his relatives? He quickly stood up and waved excitedly: "It's me! I am Song Kaiji!"
He quickly put away the things on the stall and ran to the man: "Is there any news about my family?"
"What family? I'm not from the family search department, I'm from the third farm. Do you know Qu Weiwei?" The man looked at Song Kaiji with pity: "She was injured by the rioting mutant plants while performing her mission, and she is now in a coma. You are the emergency contact person at her base. Look at what's going on now. Do you want to go over and take a look? Save her or not?"
Although Qu Weiwei filled in the emergency contact information when she joined the company, the apocalypse is the most challenging thing for humanity. This person had already notified several companies before notifying Song Kaiji, and some chose to save him or not, which was understandable.
Song Kaiji felt as if someone had poured a bucket of cold water over his head. He had just been full of hope to find his relatives, but now he felt like he was falling into an ice cellar. It took Song Kaiji a long time to find his voice: "Where is she? How is she?"
I didn't expect that he was such a kind person. The man looked at Song Kaiji twice more and said, "The base hospital, follow me. If you want to save him, I'll tell you first, the food and crystal cores must be prepared."
So, when Shen Qing came to the south wall carrying a basket of grain, he did not see Song Kaiji setting up a stall for the first time.
"Have you gone on a mission?" Shen Qing looked around.
There were people around who were familiar with Song Kaiji, and some who had long coveted Shen Qing, the big customer, and took advantage of Song Kaiji's absence to come up and chat with him: "He had something to do and went back to the base. Handsome guy, if you want to buy something, I have it here. Why don't you come and take a look at my place? I guarantee it's not more expensive than what Xiao Song sells!"
The stranger's overly enthusiastic attitude made Shen Qing subconsciously take a half step back. The end of the world was different from Anping County. It was not an environment that he was familiar with. Shen Qing still didn't dare to contact anyone other than Song Kaiji. Even when he went to the base to buy food, he followed behind Song Kaiji.
He nervously grasped the shoulder straps of the backpack and gave the person next to him a forced smile: "No need, I'll just go find Song Kaiji... Can I ask where he went? Should I wait here, or will it be faster to go find him?"
How could others be willing to give up this good opportunity to steal someone's girlfriend? They just enthusiastically invited him to come to their stalls and didn't say anything. Shen Qing stood there, feeling that everyone around him seemed to be looking at him. This feeling of being looked at and spied on made him very uncomfortable, and he slowly realized that in this world, he was so dependent on Song Kaiji.
Shen Qing hesitated for a while, took out a steamed bun, broke off half of it and handed it to a skinny woman next to him who had sunken eyes but looked friendly: "Do you know where Song Kaiji is?"
The woman was very surprised. Although she failed to pry Shen Qing into her client, it was good to get some food for free. She immediately stuffed the steamed bun into her mouth. The warm and fluffy taste almost made her cry. The woman's eyes swept back and forth across the backpack on Shen Qing's back, and it took a long time before she retracted her eyes: "Someone just called him. It seems that his friend had an accident and is in the base hospital. If you wait here, I'm afraid you won't be able to wait for a while."
Shen Qing nodded, and quickly walked towards the base avoiding people.
He knew the location of the base hospital, although he had never been inside. However, Song Kaiji had introduced these iconic buildings when he took him to visit the Hongcheng base before.
Hospitals today are different from those in the last days. The extreme shortage of medical equipment and medicine makes it difficult for a hospital to operate normally. Therefore, in most cases, healing people are used as medical staff. Hospitals are more of a venue, and the constraints on these healing people are not strong.
Because there are relatively few people with healing abilities, and treating illnesses and injuries consumes a lot of abilities, the cost of treatment is quite expensive. Fortunately, Qu Weiwei was injured while working on a semi-official farm, otherwise, just entering the hospital would cost a large amount of crystal cores or food.
Shen Qing hesitated at the hospital entrance. He wanted to go in to find Song Kaiji, but he didn't know where his friend was. He was hesitating whether to ask.
In the research building next to the hospital, two figures were leaning against the window smoking and discussing the next research direction: "I still think that your idea, Engineer Feng, is a bit fanciful. Even if we can develop a vaccine, the best we can do is to prevent people from being infected with the zombie virus and turning into zombies after being bitten or scratched by zombies. This is already difficult. How can we develop a vaccine that prevents zombies from attacking humans?"
Feng Hao remained silent. Was it a fantasy? But he had really seen such a person before! If that person could not be attacked by zombies, it meant that zombies must have a blind spot in some aspect. As long as we find this point and add it to the vaccine...
He was lost in thought as he glanced downstairs and suddenly felt that someone looked very familiar: or rather the hand-woven basket that person was carrying on his back immediately reminded him of the person who was dressed strangely that day and was not attacked by zombies!
"Engineer Feng? Engineer Feng? Are you listening to me?" the researcher next to him complained dissatisfiedly.
Feng Hao came back to his senses and looked towards the window again. Was there anyone there?
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