Chapter 21 The Thief
Various nutritional products, supplements, diapers and diaper pads, bed rails, guardrails, cleaning products, wheelchairs, smooth bed carts, complementary foods, complementary food consumption tools, bathing and personal care appliances, pressure sore prevention pads, oral care appliances, cleaning products, turning tools, and mattresses and mattress protectors for the elderly.
Jiang Rong bought more than ten sets of these online as backup.
Although her grandmother is still in good health, she will be 70 in a few days. Coupled with the harsh environment of natural disasters, it is not impossible that some bad situations may occur in the future.
Jiang Rong certainly didn't want that kind of situation to happen in the future, but she wouldn't act on impulse now.
Keep a clear mind and make all the best preparations for grandma and Jiang Suan. This is what she should do now.
So even though, as the old saying goes, buying these things may have a bad meaning, Jiang Rong will still buy them, and he will buy them all, without missing a single detail.
While selling, Jiang Rong suddenly realized that he seemed to have forgotten to buy pesticides at the flower market during the day.
The nutrient soil she bought probably contained a lot of weed seeds. If she planted a few, it would be fine, but if she planted a lot, it would be very difficult to pull them out.
Therefore, it is better to buy some and store them for use, which is also a preventive measure.
Pesticides generally have the function of killing insects. There are many kinds of pesticides on the market. Jiang Rong didn't know much about them, so he just bought a few at random, 100 bottles of each.
It also comes with equipment for spraying pesticides, and Jiang Rong also bought fifty of them.
Before Jiang Rong went to college, he often saw villagers in the village killing insects in the vast fields, carrying insecticides on their backs.
Jiang Rong's hometown is located in Qingshan Village, Xinan County, Luzhou City, J Province.
It is a small village, which is relatively remote and quite far from the county town. It takes about half an hour to get there by bus.
It’s not too close, but not too far either.
The village is backed by high mountains and is lush and green all year round. In front of and around the village is a relatively large and flat paddy field.
Farmers working in the fields can be seen almost every day, but most of them are elderly or middle-aged people.
The young people in the village either have jobs in the county town or have gone out to work.
The entire Qingshan Village has only one cement road connecting to the outside world. People from outside who want to drive in can only pass through here. As for other roads, they basically can only pass through the paddy fields.
Or take the water route.
But the small river that runs through Qingshan Village is actually quite narrow, and the entire waterway is winding and the height is very inconsistent, basically showing a step-by-step downward trend. It is easy for people living inside to go out, but it is very difficult for people outside to come in.
All in all, it is a very closed and comfortable small village.
Jiang Rong didn't stay there often when he was just born. It was not until his parents got into trouble and because he and his brother were really too young, that he had to come and live with his grandmother.
Fortunately, grandma loves them both very much.
Although, materially speaking, it is very simple...
But she could clearly feel her grandmother's love and care for her and Jiang Suan.
At that time, when she had just returned to the village with her grandmother, she was already in her teens, while Jiang Suan was just a little baby over one year old.
Basically, it can be said that I was brought up by my grandmother.
Grandma works very hard.
Plus, there are several children at home who make me worry, which makes life even harder...
At this moment, Jiang Rong thought of those people whom he had hated in his previous life, but now his heart was calm, at most a little speechless.
In her previous life, she knew nothing about the final outcome of her grandmother and Jiang Suan, nor about the fate of her former friends or enemies.
Maybe dead, maybe not.
Maybe you have already lived a stable life, or maybe you are still wandering.
As Jiang Rong was shopping, his eyes gradually became unfocused. He was dazed for a while, then he sighed softly and shook his head.
Don’t think about it anymore, those are all things of the past. The most important thing now is to live in the present and protect the people who are still here and whom I want to protect!
In addition to supplies for the elderly, Jiang Rong also stocked up on a batch of baby formula and diapers. There weren't many of these in the maternity and baby stores he visited before, so it was better to go directly to wholesale online.
About 10,000 bags of milk powder were bought, and the brand of milk powder was also a relatively good brand. If the diapers were wet, Jiang Rong also bought about 5,000 bags.
In her previous life, she had seen many, many, many children who died at a very young age. She had also seen many, many hungry children who were skin and bones and whose eyes were big, round, and sunken.
Every time one of them died, the whole family would cry loudly or suppress their tears.
But the most important thing is that in her previous life, when she was in the most difficult time, there was also a young woman with a child who took her in for a period of time.
She was injured at that time. When she went out to find food, she was accidentally knocked to the ground by a cunning mutant beast. During the fight between the two, the mutant beast died, and a bloody piece of flesh was torn off her leg.
By then she had almost nothing to eat.
Fortunately, there were some first aid kits prepared before the end of the world in the space, with some medicine and bandages left in them, otherwise I would have been dead that time.
Later, she dragged her injured leg back to the shelter outside the base, curled up in a very small space, had a high fever, and was left to fend for herself. Then, in a daze, she was taken care of for several days by the young mother who lived next door to her.
Just barely, I felt a little alive and finally made it through.
Before this, there was no communication between her and the young mother. Jiang Rong went out every day and never took the initiative to talk to anyone.
But she had seen him before, and she had seen the child in her shed.
It's a little girl, very young, I don't know how old she is. She has a very good personality and rarely cries.
Her eyes were big, round and bright, but her eye sockets were sunken. Her whole body was made of bones, almost a skeleton. It would not be an exaggeration to say that she was skinny.
Jiang Rong saw her once or twice, and she followed the young mother obediently. It seemed that she wanted to stick to her but didn't dare to.
She is so well-behaved and sensible that it is hard to bear.
Even though the mother and daughter were in such a situation at the time, they still took me in.
He even took some of their already meagre food for himself...
Jiang Rong felt that even if he were in the same situation, he might not be able to make the same decision as the young mother.
Because people's hearts are no longer the same after the end of the world, many people's innocent kindness ended up with the same result as the farmer and the snake, and ended up hurting themselves.
Such examples are truly everywhere in the end times.
So, it was really risky to do this! Especially since the woman had such a young child...
Later, Jiang Rong survived and was not dead, but he had a lame leg.
During that period, her relationship with the mother and daughter was still not very close. When they met, they just nodded to each other and there was no extra communication.
She and the young mother were just busy looking for food. They didn't have the energy to build and maintain a relationship that required emotional investment.
In such a harsh environment, it is difficult to survive every day.
However, every time Jiang Rong found food outside with great difficulty, he would share some with the little girl when he came back, no matter how much food there was.
As a result, the little girl was no longer as skinny as before.
The young mother did not refuse this. Her daughter was so thin due to hunger that even though she felt she was being too ungrateful, she could not ask her to stop sharing her food.
Of course, even if she said so, Jiang Rong wouldn't listen.
In this way, a delicate relationship was maintained between the two or three people. They were not close, but they were no longer strangers.
In addition, Jiang Rong could actually tell that the little girl must like him very much, because later on, as long as Jiang Rong was not out, she would come close to him.
He doesn't talk, he just likes to sit quietly beside me, and then watch me work seriously with his round eyes.
But her love may also be mixed with some fear, just like she wants to stick to her mother but doesn't dare.
Because Jiang Rong is just like her mother, she speaks very little, never smiles, has no expression most of the time, and is very serious, with her brows always tightly furrowed.
After that, the dark days passed one by one. With Jiang Rong's silent joining, the lives of the three of them became better than before.
Jiang Rong once thought that they would get better and better.
Because that's what she saw.
As a result, facts once again proved that she was too naive.
This protracted natural disaster is like a revenge on humanity, violently and unscrupulously playing with everyone's body and mind.
It puts the so-called humanity of human beings on a raging fire, frying and deep-frying it repeatedly, until it turns into ashes, leaving nothing behind.
In the end, the mother and daughter died.
Both the little girl and her young mother died at the hands of a thief.
Jiang Rong was not at the base that day.
If she was there, there was a high probability that she would have been killed by the thief like the mother and daughter, and then her arteries would have been cut, causing her to bleed to death.
When Jiang Rong returned that day, before he even got close to his residence, he saw a group of people surrounding them. These people pointed at the mother and daughter lying on the ground, said a few words, and then left one after another with numb expressions.
No one would bother to take the initiative to collect their bodies.
Including Jiang Rong.
With a cold expression, she disappeared quietly in the crowd that was leaving, but she did not leave completely. Instead, she carefully hid nearby.
She and the mother and daughter lived a little further away from the others and were not together.
She couldn't be sure whether the thief had really left, nor was she sure whether the thief had included her in his theft.
If so, going back now would be tantamount to seeking death.
But what if she was indifferent to the death of the mother and daughter?
That is also impossible.
Beneath her calm eyes was a strong murderous intent that seemed almost tangible.
If the thief was still there, she would definitely try her best to kill him!
This is both self-defense and revenge.
Jiang Rong stared with her tired, dark eyes fixed on the small door of her shed without moving.
After that, she hid nearby for a whole day and night, competing with the other party in patience.
Finally, in the evening of the second day, the door of her shed made a click and the tattered door was slowly opened.
Then she saw the true face of the thief.
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