Qiao Xuejun picked up two dried mugworts from the yard, hung them around his waist and shoulders, opened the big iron gate and went out.
There were plenty of stones on these country roads. Qiao Xuejun came out with a bag of potatoes. She looked around and saw that there was no one around, so she started picking up stones from the ground.
She threw it into the bag, and the system moved it to a small corner of the shelter, working in perfect harmony. The bag was like a bottomless pit, filling up all the nearby stones.
After thinking that he had picked up enough trash, Qiao Xuejun finished his work and went back home.
In the shelter, the three people were still doing their own things. Kuang Qianli dug down into the soil, but had only dug half a meter.
Kuang Qianli dug down with his hoe: "This soil is quite firm."
He was out of breath and working hard.
Qiao Xuejun also went to help. The three of them worked together, two people digging and one person carrying mud, and a well gradually appeared.
After two days of digging, a well was formed, and water began to seep out from the bottom of the well.
Qiao Xuejun sat down to rest, took out her cell phone and called the community again, thinking that she should keep an eye on changes in the situation and get first-hand information.
Kuang Qianli beside him also sat down to rest, holding the hoe in his arms: "There is no signal, it doesn't matter if you can get through to your safe house. Every call I made before was connected."
Qiao Xuejun: “Try more.”
Before Qiao Xuejun finished speaking, the phone began to beep, indicating a call was being answered.
Kuang Qianli was startled. Could it really be connected?
"This is the community rescue center. How can I help you?" The person on the phone spoke hurriedly, and you could hear that she was panicking and nervous.
Qiao Xuejun said, "I am a resident of the second village of Xiaokai Town. May I ask what the current situation is? Will the vegetables be delivered tomorrow?"
The person on the phone suddenly choked up and cried, "Hello, fellow residents of the Second Village. Currently, part of Xiaokai Town has been captured by the rebels. Please protect your own safety. Do not go out during the day and try not to go out at night. Be sure to avoid being hunted by the rebels! They have guns!"
Qiao Xuejun's phone was on speakerphone, so everyone in the room could hear it. When these words came out, they all looked at each other, their faces becoming serious and tense.
There's a gun!
Qiao Xuejun frowned: "Okay, then our second village, will they come?"
The person on the phone restrained his emotions and said, "I don't know... We have chosen to evacuate temporarily. If you have the opportunity and ability, evacuate as well. Go to the neighboring Tiantun Town, where there are local defense troops guarding it! By the way, be careful - zizi - zizi -"
Suddenly the signal became bad again and I couldn't hear what the other party was saying. After a while, the call was hung up and there was no more.
Qiao Xuejun wanted to take a rest. She stood up and said to the three people, "Friends, we can't rest now. We have to add another layer of wall outside."
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A few days later, just after nightfall and when the sky was getting light, a team of forty or fifty people appeared outside Xiaokai Town, walked towards the town, and set up camp on the spot.
After setting up camp, two of them temporarily left the camp and headed deeper into the town.
They walked all the way to the town, and knocked on the door of the Qiao family's small villa: "Yaozu, Qiao Yaozu!"
Both of them were wearing the same black uniform and holding riot batons.
After a while, Qiao Yaozu came out of the small villa, opened the door, and saw the two of them with a happy face: "Brother, when did you come?"
One of them, with a full beard, said, "Hey, didn't we contact you before? We were told that we had to stay here for a while because of an order from above. However, the main force went to the next town, so we lined up two teams to come to your town. We applied to come here on our own initiative."
Qiao Yaozu said: "Thank you for coming to see me, let's go home!"
He led the two men into the house, looked them up and down and asked, "Don't you have guns?"
Another tall and thin man said, "That thing is in short supply now. Normally, we can still get it for use, but now the situation is tense and every gun has an owner, so we can't get it. Those who have guns have gone to important places."
The bearded man patted Qiao Yaozu and said, "Brother, you have lost a lot of weight."
Qiao Yaozu immediately looked gloomy: "Don't mention it! Didn't I tell you? My sister took away all my things, a whole warehouse of food, and left nothing behind."
The bearded man patted his shoulder again and consoled him, "Don't worry, isn't that why we're here? Don't worry, we'll definitely get it back for you!"
Qiao Yaozu chuckled and said, "Thank you, brothers. We'll split the things we grab 50-50!"
The bearded man laughed and patted Qiao Yaozu on the shoulder, saying, "You're being stingy. It's fifty-fifty. There are three of us, so we should split it equally. We're one family and we shouldn't have different opinions."
Qiao Yaozu's face changed because of his strength. This slap was different from the previous two slaps. It was very heavy and almost knocked Qiao Yaozu to the ground. Qiao Yaozu's face turned pale. This was not a negotiation, but a threat.
He suddenly felt a chill down his spine, as if he had let a wolf into the house.
Maybe I shouldn't have listened to my grandparents and called these two friends over.
But... Qiao Yaozu gritted his teeth. The community hadn't come to deliver anything for the past two days, and their family was really out of food. Grandpa and grandma went to look for Qiao Xuejun again, but Qiao Xuejun didn't even show up. Their iron gate was installed very well, but it wouldn't open no matter what they did.
I could have climbed over the low walls, which were only two meters high. But after climbing up and looking down, I saw circles of bamboo thorns sticking out of the ground.
That's not all. There's a circle of earth wall inside the bamboo thorns! It looks about two meters high. I don't know when Qiao Xuejun did it. Didn't she just take in a little girl? How could the two of them be so powerful?
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