The two of them worked until 3 p.m. before finishing. They had a quick lunch and drank several bottles of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water (a traditional Chinese medicine for heatstroke). The dogs were also exhausted, so they were given a lot of water.
It's not that collecting things is difficult, but rather that getting from one place to another is time-consuming, and the torrential rain and extreme temperatures have damaged the roads.
The two were exhausted in the car. They put the dogs into their space, fed them water and dog food, and then went into their space to find rooms to take a shower.
Lately, things have been like this. Traveling is too tiring, so the two of them take a shower in their space every day, but they dare not use any bath products for fear of being detected by others. Even with such caution, they almost got caught for something amiss.
After showering and eating boxed lunches, the two of them left the space. Xu Lin drove them back, letting Zhou Pin rest first, as they would rely on Zhou Pin to drive when they set off that evening.
"Why did you take so long? Did you encounter any danger?" Dr. Dai asked.
"We didn't encounter any danger. We just took a stroll around the area. I'd never been to Bin City before, so we treated it as a vacation."
"You have such a good attitude, you can even treat fleeing famine as a vacation. But in this hot weather, you've been out for so long and you don't even smell of sweat. Do you two have some kind of secret weapon?" Zheng Ming said, moving closer to Xu Lin and Zhou Pin, only to be slapped away by Zhou Pin.
"Are you a dog?" Xu Lin quickly moved away. Luckily, she separated from Zheng Ming soon after, otherwise she would have been discovered sooner or later.
"We're treating everyone to dinner tonight. We're about to part ways, so let's have a reunion dinner," Wang Jing said as she took pots and pans out of their car.
"Here you go. You've almost finished the bottled water you collected earlier, haven't you?" Xu Lin handed four buckets of water to Wang Jing.
"This is too precious, just give us a bucket."
"Take these if you want. I found a few buckets when I went out for a walk. I'll take two buckets back with the doctor later." Xu Lin wasn't lying; she had indeed found several buckets of bottled water at the coal mine.
"Then we won't stand on ceremony!" Wang Jing happily put it in their car.
"Thank you!" said Dr. Dai.
Although it was a family reunion dinner, the ingredients and space were limited, so Wang Jing prepared two dishes of pickled vegetables, a can of luncheon meat, two dishes of salted fish, and noodles as the staple food.
Xu Lin kindly provided 6 salted duck eggs, and the doctor provided hot pot base. Xiang Qing took out two wrinkled apples to share among the group later.
"Qingqingzi, your apples are my favorite. I've almost forgotten what an apple tastes like this year." Zheng Ming stared at the two apples, drooling.
"I never used to like eating fruit. If it weren't for supplementing my vitamin C intake, I think I could go my whole life without eating fruit. But after just one year, I really want to eat fruit." Dr. Dai, who is usually quiet, rarely expressed her inner thoughts like this.
"The noodles are ready, let's dig in! Let's get this quick, I can see everyone around us is drooling." Xu Lin broke the somber atmosphere at the right moment.
A pot of noodles cooked in hot pot broth, along with six side dishes, was the most sumptuous reunion dinner the group had eaten in the year since the apocalypse. Oh, and there was also the New Year's Eve dinner.
After finishing their meal, Xu Lin suddenly said, "Dr. Dai, I'd like to send Jingjingzi and the others to the base in Nanshi before heading to Beijing. I might not be able to travel with you from there."
Wang Jing, Zheng Ming, and the doctor were all shocked.
"Xu Lin, what are you saying? Did I hear that right?" Wang Jing asked in surprise.
Have you thought it through?
"Sister, are you going to abandon me?"
Does this mean I can continue to lie low?
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