Chapter 69: There are always people who want to scam people
The group parked the car a little further away and looked in the direction of the villa area.
The villa area seems to be managed in a similar way to the residential area where Lu Weiyi originally lived. Both are based on residential areas and spread out to the surrounding areas. The difference is that the surrounding walls have been reinforced and raised, and the collapsed areas have been repaired. From a distance, in addition to the people queuing at the entrance, there are also quite a few sheds outside the high walls.
"So many people are queuing up to enter?" Gu Qingyue looked over there, "I wonder what the requirements are for entering."
“Only some of them are allowed to go in.” Xu Sa took down the telescope, his face not looking very good. “No one is qualified to go in the shed.” He had seen that the shed area over there was full of people, men, women, old and young, gathered together. Everyone had disheveled hair, a gloomy look on their faces, and ragged clothes on their bodies, worse than the beggars before the end of the world. It had only been less than twenty days, and they had already become like this…
Li Zhuang also saw the situation clearly at this time. He handed the telescope to Antonio beside him. Antonio took a look and said nothing. He passed it to Gu Qingji beside him. The group passed it around and looked at Lu Weiyi again, "Are you sure you want to go?"
"Go!" Lu Weiyi said without hesitation. Zhuang Mingxu and Zhuang Aiyi both needed a safe place to rest.
Although Zhuang Mingxu didn't say a word during the bumpy ride, Lu Weiyi was sensitive enough to notice that he was enduring it. Not knowing what the wound looked like, he wanted someone to check it for him as soon as possible. Moreover, they have no shortage of military supplies and are not afraid of gifts or forceful attacks.
"Qingyue, you and Ningyuan Lin Yimu go over and find out some news," Li Zhuang said.
"Okay," Lin Yimu responded, holding the sleeping Zhuang Aiyi in his arms and looking around, hesitating whether he should give him to Lu Weiyi. After all, everyone could see that he was not very close to this child. In fact, Lu Weiyi had already turned around to talk to Zhuang Mingxu in the car and didn't notice the child's problem at all.
Just as Xu Sa was about to hug her newly-anointed godson, Li Zhuang had already taken him and said with a smile, "Let me try. I've never held a child before."
Lin Yimu handed it over reluctantly and carefully. Li Zhuang took it lightly, with a sincere smile on his face and his voice a little lower, "It's really small, and it still smells of milk."
"Is there something wrong with your nose?" Although Xu Sa agreed that it was a little small and the black color couldn't hide its beauty, he indeed didn't smell any milky fragrance.
Li Zhuang ignored him, carefully holding the child in his arms, using his arms to shield him from the crisp morning wind, and looked at the others, "How many days will we stay here?"
Everyone here was going to the Qingyuan safe zone to seek shelter. To put it bluntly, they were all refugees. Except that Lu Weiyi's home was right there, so naturally they had no time to waste. They could only look at Lu Weiyi, "Me?" Lu Weiyi glanced at Zhuang Mingxu, "He has a fever. I have to wait until he gets better before leaving."
If he stays, Lin Yimu and Ning Yuan will definitely follow him. Once Xu Sa agrees to stay, Liu Rui will definitely follow. As for the others, in fact, they all want to find a safe place wherever they are. Instead of going to the unfamiliar Qingyuan alone, it is better to follow together. Then there will be acquaintances who can take care of each other.
"Then let's do it all together," Li Zhuang made the unified decision.
Not long after, the three people who went to gather information came back, and Gu Qingyue said, "You need to hand over food to enter the base. We will accept anything edible, including rice, flour, and instant noodles."
"What's the standard?" It's impossible that all quantities are the same.
"Each person gets 20 kilograms of rice and flour, 30 packs of instant noodles, and bread is sold by kilogram, 25 kilograms per person," said Gu Qingyue.
"It's a lot per person, and with so many of us it would be several hundred kilograms, which is not cheap," said Xiong Jie.
"If you hand over water, it's cheaper. Each person only needs five bottles of mineral water. Gasoline is even cheaper." But they couldn't hand over gasoline, so Gu Qingyue didn't mention it. "Those without supplies gathered in a safe place in the shed outside. It's a temporary place."
"Well," Lin Yimu continued, "this place was established by a police chief in Yongping City. Now, in addition to the police chief Zhang Xun who controls the police force and has more say, there is also a wealthy businessman Lin Jun who has a large amount of supplies, and a security company head Liu Qiang who has a group of security personnel under him. The three parties are now in a three-way confrontation and all want to overwhelm the two outside parties, but they don't have the opportunity. It's relatively stable at the moment."
Lu Weiyi didn't care about these things at the moment. Zhuang Mingxu was already showing signs of falling asleep. He waved his hand and took out a dozen bags of rice flour and said to the others, "Come in."
Li Zhuang shook his head and said helplessly, "Take out two more bottles of mineral water" and added another bottle. He looked at Xiong Jie, "Brother Xiong, take another 100 kilograms of flour and 80 kilograms of rice and put them together. Then ask the kids if they can order less."
"Do you have any cigarettes?" Li Zhuang turned and asked Lu Weiyi.
Lu Weiyi directly threw out several of them.
"There's no need for so many." Li Zhuang picked it up with a smile, and unceremoniously opened one first, then lit one for himself, and threw a box to each of the old smokers whose eyes obviously brightened up. He kept two packs and threw one to Gu Qingyue and Ning Yuan respectively. "Keep it for gathering information and put the rest away."
"Put a generator in the back of the car, put pots and pans, and leave some food, such as rice, flour, grain, oil and snacks, to make sure that people passing by can see that we have supplies, but not so much that people will get jealous..." Li Zhuang gave the instructions one by one, and Lu Weiyi quickly replaced the supplies in the trunk. When they were almost done, the group drove towards the entrance.
Before he got close, a group of children came up and blocked the front of the car. If Li Zhuang had not stepped on the brakes in time, he would have been hit. Although the speed was not fast, who knew what would happen if there was a child.
"Aiyi?" A sudden jump woke up the sleeping Zhuang Aiyi. He was startled at first and looked up immediately. Lin Yimu called him. He slowly recognized who it was and whispered, "Uncle Damu".
After the voice fell, he looked around quietly. When he saw Zhuang Mingxu sleeping in the back seat, his eyes lit up and he shouted, "Big Daddy!"
"Shh, don't make noise." Lu Weiyi didn't know whether Zhuang Mingxu was unconscious or asleep, so he was naturally in no mood to deal with the child. He glanced at him and spoke in a low voice.
"Little daddy" Zhuang Aiyi called out cautiously in a low voice, as if he had done something wrong.
"Yeah," Lu Weiyi responded nonchalantly, and glanced out the window. A group of children were kneeling in a row around their car, shouting, "Kind people, please give us something to eat." Not far away were some men and women who were watching the fun, staring at them as if they wanted to come over and take a bite.
There are people in every base who cannot afford to buy supplies into the city. Most of them will gather in groups like they are doing now, forming a settlement outside the base, staring at every person who comes later, thinking of ways to tear a bite from them.
The most common type is this one, using children as an excuse to ask for things.
"Don't worry about it, just go." Lu Weiyi was in a hurry to go in and check on Zhuang Mingxu and had no mood to stay.
"Well," Li Zhuang opened the car window and looked out. His face, which always seemed to be smiling, was now tense and quite intimidating. He looked at the men and women who were staring at this side not far away and said, "Half a minute, let them get out, otherwise they will die under the car."
The group of people who had been observing them were whispering to each other. Some of them immediately shouted a few times. A few children kneeling on the ground heard the voices and ran away immediately. There were still a few who kept shouting to give them some things. After half a minute, Li Zhuang stepped on the accelerator, the car rushed forward suddenly, and then suddenly stopped again. In this rush and stop, the children who were originally kneeling on the ground suddenly scattered completely, and Li Zhuang started the car again and drove away.
He made it through, but the people behind him were not so lucky, especially Xiong Jie in the last car. In their car sat the brothers Xi Shi and Gu Qingyue. Xi Shi was timid and soft-hearted, especially when facing a group of children.
"Shall we give them something to eat?" Xi Shi asked the Gu Qingyue brothers for their opinions.
Gu Qingyue used to be a doctor, so naturally he couldn't stand it. He nodded immediately when someone spoke up, and Xiong Jie's words of resistance were on the tip of his tongue. The two of them immediately took out all the bread and biscuits from the four people's backpacks and threw them out of the window.
A dozen children immediately scrambled for the things, divided them up in an instant and ran away without even saying thank you. What was even more infuriating was that before Xiong Jie's car started again, a group of elderly people immediately rushed out from the refugees, stopped in front of the vehicle, and yelled at the "kind-hearted people" to give them some things.
"This..." Xi Shi didn't know what to do for a moment, and turned to look at Xiong Jie who was driving for help.
"Go ahead." Xiong Jie didn't say anything, but Gu Qingyue took the initiative to say it. He had just been watching those children and saw with his own eyes that after they got the food, it was snatched away by the onlookers around them. Some of them even gave it to the adult men and women. I guess it was the same for these elderly people...
We are all adults, and no one has to be more lucky than the other. They have worked so hard to find food, and it's okay if it's just a poor child, but if other adults take it away, that's a bit unreasonable.
"If you give us more, we won't have to go there," said Xiong Jie.
Xi Shi is a weak and nice guy, but he has a problem that can't be said to be good or bad, that is, he listens to Xiong Jie. Regardless of the bottom line of principles, he will not refute Xiong Jie's opinions. Seeing that Xiong Jie also disagreed, he immediately sat down and said nothing more.
They haven't been together for more than ten years. Whenever Xi Shi shows a little trust and dependence on him, Xiong Jie will be happy for a long time. At this time, he immediately comforted Xi Shi and said, "The world is already like this. It's okay for you to feel sorry for the child, but as for others, we don't have the ability to do so."
Xi Shi knew his own strengths and weaknesses very clearly. He had relied on Xiong Jie to survive all the way. If he gave things to too many people now, it would be embarrassing for Xiong Jie. Although he felt sorry for others, he would not cause trouble for Xiong Jie, so he immediately nodded to indicate that he understood.
Xiong Jie smiled at him and was about to learn from Li Zhuang who was in the front. He opened the car window, took a look and shouted, "If you don't get out of the way, I'll run you over."
Just after the shout, before the car even started moving, an old man was lying in front of the car, shouting, "Someone's been hit, someone's been killed... Everyone, come and have a look, they're hitting someone with their car..."
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