Chapter 24 Riot
Jiang Qian secretly said that this was not good.
But I didn’t expect that the former “neighbors” were secretly discussing on the way back to the temple.
"Did you see clearly? Is there a lot of stuff in the car?"
"They kept the curtains drawn, so you couldn't see anything."
"It's been hidden for a long time, so there must be something good."
"I saw they cooked a pot of rice at noon. They haven't lost much weight in such a long time, so they should have enough food and drink."
"Then include their family in the equation. Everyone should talk it over at night and encourage each other. Whether or not we can eat more depends on everyone."
"good."
…
Dinner was clear soup noodles made by Jiang Qian. The thin dragon beard noodles were boiled in water, sprinkled with a handful of freshly picked wild vegetables, and each person had a poached egg.
After finishing, Jiang Qian asked Jiang Dong to carry the gas stove into the car.
Huang Liping saw this and said, "You guys are picky. Can't we just do it in the car? Why do we have to move it downstairs? Not only will it be tiring, but if someone sees our meal, it will cause another uproar."
Because they didn't know when rescue would arrive or when the water would come, even though there was enough food, their family was still counting their meals, and each meal was only about 60% to 70% full.
But even so, it is much better than the food in the temple.
Huang Liping is always worried about being seen and getting jealous, so no matter how hot it is, she always insists on cooking in the car. This morning, she had some symptoms of heatstroke.
"Don't worry," Jiang Dong put the things away and said, "We cook in the back of the car, in a blind spot, so no one can see us."
"And what about the fragrance?"
"How can noodles cooked in plain water smell good? I only added a little sesame oil after I brought the pot to the car." Jiang Qian said, "Mom, don't worry too much, we have the car."
Huang Liping didn't say anything after hearing this.
This car really gave them a lot of sense of security.
Looking down, Huang Liping saw the empty bucket in the car and said, "The water in the car is almost gone. Let's drive directly to the temple to fill it up!"
Anyway, with the car, safety is guaranteed, so I don't worry too much about others being jealous. Driving is always safer than two people carrying buckets. After all, if there is danger, you can hide in the car.
"Okay, then we'll drive there later."
Jiang Dong was overjoyed. He was a strong laborer and would definitely be needed to fetch water, so he was of course happy to save some effort.
Everyone at the temple had just finished their meal, and a group of people were lining up at the kitchen sink in the backyard, washing dishes. Seeing their car approach, everyone they knew stopped what they were doing and asked, "Are you here to fetch water again?"
Jiang Dong nodded after getting off the car. "Yes, it's hot in the summer and the water runs out quickly."
The temperature is high and I am always sweating. Not only do I have to take a shower, but I also have to wash my clothes. Even if I use water sparingly, five or six buckets of water will soon be used up.
"Indeed." Others also agreed.
There are many mosquitoes on the barren mountains. If you don’t take a shower, your body will not only smell bad, but you will also be bitten by mosquitoes constantly. Fortunately, there is a well in the temple, so if you are diligent, you can ensure personal hygiene.
These past two days, because no one wanted to stay in the main hall, the empty hall was used as a place for washing. Even when taking a bath, being watched by the Buddha statue always gave me a chilly feeling.
Jiang Dong didn't say anything more. Seeing that the person in front of him had already drawn water, he quickly took over.
The clear, cold well water filled the bucket little by little. Jiang Dong was about to carry the bucket into the car with his father when he heard panicked shouts coming from not far away.
"ah!"
The people still in the backyard panicked as if by reflex, "What happened?"
"What's going on?"
But before they could ask the answer, they had already seen it.
In the corner of the hall in the distance, monsters with their mouths wide open and covered in blood pounced on a man, biting the man's arm with their sharp teeth. As the man struggled, they tore off a piece of flesh and splattered blood.
Before they could react, many monsters covered in blood appeared in the corner blocked by the wall. They seemed to smell the breath of living people here, turned around and walked towards this side with a staggering step.
The people who were frozen in place finally came to their senses and stumbled around like headless flies.
"Run, the zombies are coming out!"
Some people who were quick to act hid in the last row of rooms and blocked the door. Some people were worried about their families in front, so they picked up the brooms and hoes beside them and rushed out.
It was the first time that Jiang Dong faced such a scene. He stood there in a daze, unable to move, until the bucket in his hand was snatched away.
Jiang Qian threw the bucket to the ground, not caring about the water spilling all over the floor. She pulled Jiang Dong's arm and shouted, "Why are you still standing there? Get in the car!"
Jiang Dong finally came back to his senses and quickly followed her.
It was not until the two of them got into the car and Jiang Weimin closed the door that they realized their legs were weak.
At the moment the accident happened, Jiang Weimin had just carried the first bucket of water into the car.
While everyone else was still stunned, Jiang Qian reacted immediately. She asked her father to start the car first, and then she got out of the car to find Jiang Dong who was still stunned.
Fortunately, the person was brought up safely.
"Dad, drive quickly." Jiang Qian said breathlessly.
"well."
Jiang Weimin looked at the bloody scene outside and turned the steering wheel tremblingly.
Outside, most people hid, and only a few rushed to the front yard, but were stopped by the crazy zombies.
Those who wanted to get out slapped the weapons in their hands forward, but they still couldn't stop the zombies from moving forward.
Those mad monsters seemed to feel no pain at all. Even though the tips of the hoes had already sunk into their bodies, they were still struggling forward.
At the same time, more and more zombies surrounded them from the front yard, but the few people who were still fighting with the zombies had no time to take care of them and were about to collapse.
Jiang Weimin turned the steering wheel and the car suddenly turned around. He looked at the scene in front of him and opened the driver's side window.
"Run, get out of the way, get behind the car."
The zombies attracted by the sound paused for a moment, and the people they were besieging took this opportunity to push the things in their hands forward, then turned around and ran.
After they left the front of the car, Jiang Weimin stepped on the accelerator.
With the roar of the engine, the bus rushed forward in an instant, like a giant beast released from a cage.
The zombies, who were slow to move and wouldn't dodge, crashed into the front of the bus and the windshield one after another, splashing up bursts of blood mist.
Jiang Qian and Jiang Dong stood in the back seat, watching their father rushing forward, killing anyone who stood in his way, and roaring as he drove out of the backyard.
The corpses of the zombies piled up in front of the car. As the car moved forward, they kept sliding to the ground due to gravity and were crushed by the wheels following closely behind, causing the car to shake.
Ren Ru sat in the back, burying her son's face tightly in her arms. Huang Liping looked at the scene outside with panic in her eyes, and she stood there in a daze, not daring to move.
The car arrived at the front yard.
But the scene in the front yard was obviously much more horrifying and bloody than that in the back yard.
At first glance, from the side hall where the patients were originally imprisoned and the entrance of the main hall, there were people lying on the ground at intervals, and the bloody scene showed what had just happened.
But what was even more terrifying was that those who had fallen down stood up again, revealing their hideous faces and broken limbs, and surrounded them.
The smell of blood and decay was getting closer and closer, and the fishy smell was nauseating.
Jiang Qian quickly closed all the open windows in the car and looked towards the front.
The mad monster had no ability to fight against the bus, and the bus rolled over it.
Soon, groups of zombies fell, leaving only a dozen or so scattered in the gaps between the cars in the parking lot. They surrounded several of the cars, constantly hitting and slapping the car bodies.
The screams of children and women kept coming from the car.
Jiang Weimin really wanted to drive over it like he did just now, but there was no room for him to do so.
The gap between the vehicles was too small. It was okay for a small car to drive in, but if a bus like his wanted to drive in, it would have to knock the other car away first.
The screams in the car continued, and the zombies' crashing movements became more and more violent.
Jiang Qian had already seen from afar that cracks seemed to be beginning to appear on the windows of those cars.
She clenched her fists tightly, her fingertips leaving red marks on her palms, but she still didn't take a step forward.
No one in the Jiang family spoke.
They can drive a car to kill most of the zombies when conditions permit, but they dare not get out of the car to fight the zombies alone.
Compared with the heroism and dedication of wanting to save others, they still value their own lives more.
Yes, it's that selfish.
Just as they were silent, a shout suddenly came from behind the car.
"You monsters, I'm going to kill you!"
Before Jiang Qian could turn around, she saw a figure rushing past the car, followed by the second and third.
The people who rushed forward were holding hoes and shovels in their hands, and they used the momentum to hit the zombies next to the car on the head.
Dark red blood splattered all around, and the zombie with a hole in its head staggered to the ground.
It was the person who was just told to hide behind the car.
The three people who rushed over attracted the attention of the other zombies. They abandoned the people in the car and staggered towards the three people.
Jiang Qian secretly said that this was not good.
There were only three of them, but there were more than a dozen zombies surrounding them. Two fists were no match for four hands, especially when the enemies were zombies.
Seeing the three people struggling to fend off the zombies attacking them, Jiang Qian suddenly thought of something. She rushed to the front and pressed hard on the center of the steering wheel.
The next second, continuous whistle sounds rang out in the temple.
Beep~beep~beep~
The piercing horn blared, assaulting the eardrums of everyone present. But the zombies' reaction to it was even more pronounced than that of the humans.
They seemed to have just noticed the bus next to them, and slowly turned around and rushed towards this side. Only a few were still fighting with the three men.
Seeing this, Jiang Qian breathed a sigh of relief, but her hands did not stop and continued to press the horn button.
She stepped aside only after the rest of the zombies were some distance away from the three men.
"Dad, drive and honk your horn to get those things further away."
After watching what happened, Jiang Weimin understood what his daughter meant and nodded repeatedly.
"Don't worry, leave it to me, you all sit tight."
The next second, the bus reversed and turned around, and the whole car turned a corner so skillfully.
The car drove out slowly, and at the same time, the sound of horns continued to sound.
The zombies that were originally disturbed by the sound had stopped moving when the sound disappeared, and only started moving again when they heard the sound.
They followed the car slowly. Jiang Qian and Jiang Dong looked at the zombies outside through the car window, and cleverly asked their father to adjust the angle of the car to lead them all to the back of the car.
"Dad, it's okay."
Jiang Weimin received the signal, glanced at the rearview mirror, and immediately changed gears and drove in reverse.
The car slowly moved backwards, and the zombies attracted by the sound became limbs under the wheels.
Jiang Qian suppressed the nausea that kept rising up in her and looked inside the parking lot.
Two of the five zombies surrounding the three people have fallen. The situation is much better than before, but everyone still holds their breath and dares not relax at all.
Suddenly, the tallest young man among the three took a half step back, then hit the head of the zombie opposite him with a hoe.
After the zombie fell completely, he ignored the two people who were still fighting with the zombie behind him and quickly walked to another car nearby.
"Duoduo, Duoduo, Xiaoya, Xiaoya, how are you? Are you okay?"
The window of the back seat of the car slowly lowered. The young woman was holding the child, her face full of fear. The first time she saw the person, tears came to her eyes.
"You're finally here, woooo, you scared me to death."
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," the man wanted to wipe his wife's tears, but seeing the blood on his hands, he put them away silently. "I'm sorry, I'm late. I shouldn't have left you here."
The man looked at his frightened daughter, feeling regretful and hateful. He wanted to say something else, but he saw his wife's face was instantly filled with fear.
Jiang Qian and Jiang Dong, who were in the car far away, also exclaimed in surprise when they saw the figure suddenly appear behind the man.
"careful!"
The man obviously noticed that his wife's expression was wrong. He turned around subconsciously and saw a hideous face close to him.
He wanted to pick up the hoe and attack, but the opponent was already right in front of him.
At the critical moment, the man leaned back, blocking the car window behind him and shouted, "Close the window quickly!"
He knew he might not be able to escape, so he prepared himself for death and swung the hoe in his hand.
But he found that before his hoe could touch the zombie in front of him, it suddenly fell down.
A blood flower bloomed in front of his eyes, making him close his eyes subconsciously.
When he opened his eyes again, all the zombies had fallen down, and he vaguely heard a roar coming from the sky.
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Getting rich by selling fried skewers in the 1990s
Zhuang Xiaohua is a true post-90s person, born in 1990 and grew up in the 1990s.
As the second child in the family with an older brother, she caused her father to lose his job before she was born, and also made the family pay a large amount of fines and social maintenance fees.
But she grew up in happiness. Even though her birth plunged the family's finances into crisis, she was raised well.
She did not encounter parents who favored boys over girls, and was not even asked to do housework before she became an adult.
Although the family conditions were not good, their parents still worked hard to provide them and their two siblings with the best educational environment they could, helping them change their destiny through learning.
Of course, her brother lived up to his parents' expectations and became the first college student in the village. She was not bad either. She was admitted to the university as she wished and found a good job.
She thought that graduation would be the beginning of her life taking off, but she didn't expect that it was not her life that took off first, but the unaffordable housing prices.
In stark contrast to the rising housing prices, the undergraduate degree that she had worked hard for half her life and thought was worth a fortune is now gone.
There are always young people in the talent market who are younger, more energetic, more creative and have lower salaries than her. As expected, she became unemployed when she was just over 30 years old and was at risk of defaulting on the house she had just paid the down payment for.
If you had known this earlier, what would you have done if you could go back to the past?
Zhuang Xiaohua gave his answer with his actions.
Since she is still unemployed and houseless after studying for ten years, she might as well create a job for herself in advance - sell fried skewers!
To sell fried skewers, you have to start from childhood!
[Mine Clearing] It's mainly a story. The author does not advocate the uselessness of knowledge and academic qualifications. The protagonist will still go to school.
Content tags: rebirth, food, urban life, period literature, counterattack, entrepreneurship
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