Chapter 158: The Old Man and the Child of Longteng
"Miss Yun, look, this is our Longteng base."
Zhong Qiu came up to Yun Qimu with enthusiasm, pointed to the front and introduced it to her proudly, happily ignoring Wu Xingyu, who was much better than him, as if he were nothing.
Pei Yu really admired this pretty boy. He had a very high psychological quality.
Yun Qimu looked in the direction Zhong Qiu pointed. Longteng’s base looked very large and empty.
It is not as prosperous as imagined.
Walking through the old but sturdy heavy door, there is an empty square inside. The square is deserted and has no decorations. It is just a gray concrete floor, which looks particularly lonely under the scorching sun.
But it looks very clean, without even a fallen leaf or small garbage, which is also an advantage.
The square is surrounded by houses in the shape of quadrangle courtyards. The lime on the walls has fallen off in pieces, making it look like an ancient and dilapidated house.
Compared to the beautiful and sturdy houses in Chaos City that were built with new materials, mixed with some steel and new-tech aluminum alloy materials, this place was too dilapidated and did not look like the base of a big force at all.
Zhong Qiu followed her gaze and saw the house of Manniu, where a big hole was accidentally punched by Manniu, and the entire wall was almost collapsed.
His handsome, fair face flushed red as he explained in a muffled voice, "Well, well, we like retro things. These are the houses left behind by the indigenous people."
Yun Qimu smiled, and instead of exposing him, he continued, "Well, it does look very contemporary and worth studying."
Especially the courtyard house type reminded her of games.
When she first played the holographic online game of this game, there was a group of very expensive courtyard houses inside, which looked very similar to these courtyard houses.
This made her even more certain that the game and this exiled planet were inextricably linked.
Zhong Qiu's face flushed, and she felt uneasy and panicked.
Hu Yi patted his shoulder and said with a smile that he understood his unwillingness to embarrass himself in front of the goddess. As a good brother, he still had to help.
Then he turned to Manniu and said, "The people in our base should have finished farming and returned by now. Call them out to share the candy."
Manniu nodded happily and roared, "Dad, uncles, aunts, and children, come out and share the candy——"
The first noise was heard from the courtyard with a hole in it. A gentle, elegant and handsome face poked out from the hole, still with a sleepy look on his face. "Where did the candy come from? Are you dreaming, Manniu?"
Manniu grinned and shook his head at him cheerfully, "No, no, how could I be dreaming in broad daylight? Only you, Dad, like to sleep during the day."
The handsome uncle wiped his face and cursed with a smile, "I was busy with official business at night, so I slept until this time."
In any case, there is no way Mr. Wei Hai would admit that he slept in.
Manniu turned his face away and snorted, "I don't believe it."
After all these years, he would never be fooled by his father's gentle and kind face again.
Wei Hai chuckled and said nothing more. He just glanced at the five unfamiliar faces of Yun Qimu, Wu Xingyu, etc. His dark blue eyes moved slightly, and then he retracted his head.
He didn't go back to sleep, but changed into a blue robe, tidied himself up, and then slowly shook his sleeves and walked out of the house with his hands behind his waist.
"Brother Manniu, Brother Manniu, where is the sugar?"
As the chirping of young voices rang out, the originally empty and lonely square immediately became lively.
The children were the first to trot out of the house, followed by a few young and middle-aged people, and then the elderly.
There are a lot of elderly people here, it seems like there are about a hundred of them.
In addition, there are many children, dozens of them.
Yun Qimu was shocked by what he saw. Children and old people were rare in the interstellar space these days. He didn't expect that there were so many of them living in the Longteng base.
She seemed to understand why Longteng Tangtang, one of the three major forces in Chaos City, lived in such shabby houses and its members were so poor.
The elderly and children have little labor force, and the expenses of raising them are naturally far greater than the income. If this continues, Longteng is likely to be dragged down.
A gleam of light flashed in Yun Qimu's eyes, and his eyeballs rolled around, and he had already made up his mind.
Hu Yi smiled and said to the children, "The candies are in my hands and in your brother Manniu's. Line up and take one each to try. We can buy more energy coins later when we have them."
"Wow, that's great."
The children jumped three feet high with excitement and screamed, but they still lined up skillfully and in an orderly manner.
The skinny, weak, tiny and dainty little dumplings, the youngest of three or four years old, stumbled over and ran over, the oldest of eleven or twelve years old, blinking their eyes, leading their younger brothers and sisters, without fighting for the candy, and consciously asked the shorter ones to line up in front, while they lined up at the back, staring eagerly at Hu Yi and the others who were distributing the candy.
The little kid in the front opened his dirty little hands. Hu Yi took out the handkerchief he carried with him and wiped them, then smiled and put a piece of tangdanmu candy on his little hand.
The child squeezed the candy obediently and said softly to Hu Yi, "Thank you, Brother Yi."
"You're welcome, be good and go eat." Hu Yi's handsome face was filled with tenderness as he stretched out his hand to rub his little head.
But thinking that I still had to give out candy, I held back.
The little kid opened his little mouth, showing his small teeth, and ran away happily.
A little kid at the back took two small steps forward, and after he stood firmly, he tilted his head back and looked at Hu Yi eagerly, "Brother Yi, candy."
"Okay, it's yours."
Hu Yi was very patient and passed the things to the children one by one.
The old people over there also lined up.
Manniu distributed the items together with several other friends. Zhong Qiu happily left Yunqimu and went to help.
Although the faces of the elderly bear the traces of time, full of wrinkles and vicissitudes, their expressions are peaceful. Even those with prominent cheekbones who look like sour old ladies or mean old men have smiles on their faces and their eyes are full of love.
It can be seen how well Long Teng takes care of these elderly people.
After receiving the candy, the elderly people also showed concern for the injury on Zhong Qiu's face.
"Xiao Qiu is back. Ouch, what's with the dark circles under your eyes? Did someone bully you?"
A rather thin old lady with prominent cheekbones looked at Zhong Qiu with concern, as if she were looking at her own grandson. She wanted to pick up a big broom and go find the person who bullied Zhong Qiu and kill him.
Zhong Qiu chuckled foolishly and stopped her, saying, "It's okay, Grandma Cuihua. The person who beat me was even worse off than me. I hit him with a stone and his head was bleeding. His face was covered in blood. He definitely can't get up unless he stays in bed for ten days or eight days."
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com