Chapter 110
Song Jia was obviously also a person who only cared about eating, drinking and having fun. Mu Nan really couldn't play cards. At most, he could play Landlord. He was good at recognizing all the cards in Mahjong. As for the cards, he had no idea how to play them. But Song Jia was very good at it. When he was editing videos for others to make money, he often ate and played cards with his friends. Although he was not addicted, he played several games a month at least, and sometimes even stayed up all night. So when Jian Chuyi mentioned this, he was also tempted. It was too boring at home. Every day you looked at me and I looked at you. Their family was okay because they had a girl. He spent all his time training her every day. At least he had something to do. But if he could play cards, then time would probably pass much faster.
Mu Nan was folding the clothes that were drying, and said, "Compared to them, my spare time is too boring. How many young people nowadays don't know how to play cards?"
Qin Huai leaned aside and looked at the book and said, "I don't know how either."
Mu Nan snorted: "You're lying. You learned it before you left the country."
Qin Huai: "I'm not lying, I really can't. Before, Uncle Mu went to the bathroom and caught me occupying space, and I just played randomly." Although he was lucky every time and could get good cards after discarding useless cards, he really couldn't play. If he wanted to learn, it would surely be fast. Originally, this kind of popular entertainment shouldn't be that difficult, but maybe he didn't have the mind to do it, and he never thought about learning it at all.
Hearing Qin Huai mention his father, Mu Nan couldn't help but laugh and said, "If my father were still alive, he would probably want to take root in the Huang family by now. Oh no, if my father was still alive, the card player would take root in our family. The supplies prepared before the end of the world must be cigarettes, alcohol and cards. If you lack any of them, he will be anxious with you. You can skip meals, but you absolutely cannot be without cigarettes and alcohol."
Qin Huai also laughed when he heard this. This was indeed something that Mu Nan's father could do. However, if Mu Nan's parents or even his grandmother were still alive, their family of five would be so happy. But he didn't know if Uncle Mu would beat him to death since he abducted Uncle Mu's son.
With Song Jia as his companion, Jian Chu went to Huang's house to play. The Huang family's card table was placed in the garage, and they also brought in a few quilts to keep warm. They also set up a few braziers, which were propped up a little higher with a wooden frame to prevent them from being kicked over by mistake when placed on the ground. A half-person-high frame was placed next to them to provide both warmth and lighting.
Of course, this card table and stove are not for you to play for free. In the past, you had to pay a venue fee to play cards, let alone now. However, the points have been converted into Singapore dollars. They have no internet and cannot transfer money online, so they use food to pay for the venue fee. Half a catty of rice and half a catty of noodles will be enough. As for the wins and losses at the card table, they are paid with soybeans. Soybeans are counted in grains, and one soybean is equivalent to ten cents in the past. If you win a dollar or two in a game, you will win ten or twenty soybeans. After a game of mahjong, the winners may have won nearly half a catty. If you lose, you will only lose a few soybeans, which are not something you can eat every day. Anyone with a little means can afford to lose. So this card venue was set up like this.
The Huang family provided the venue, braziers and hot water, but the entrance fee per person was half a catty of rice. There were four people at one card table, so that was two catties, and two card tables meant four catties. They also contributed some firewood, and one game was enough to feed a family for two or three days, so it was quite a profit.
Only those who lived around them could go to the Huang family's house to play cards, but it was a rare occasion for people to have such an entertainment project together, so people living in buildings a little further away soon learned the news through brief exchanges while sweeping the snow. Even though they were separated by several buildings and it took several minutes to walk, they could not stop their desire to play cards. Soon the Huang family's two tables grew to three, but the conditions did not allow them to expand again. They did have a venue, but unfortunately there were only three sets of mahjong, and that was because they were originally residents of the area, and although their home collapsed, it was a bungalow, which was much easier to search than a high-rise building, so they basically searched out all their belongings and moved them here, which is why they had three sets of mahjong, otherwise you might not even be able to find mahjong in a shopping mall.
The Huang family has neither too many people nor too few. There are two brothers in the Huang family, two sons of the eldest family and one daughter of the second family. The two brothers used to live close to each other, and even if they live in the same building now, they have a very good relationship. Compared with the Qi family who lived behind them before, they are considered to be quite harmonious. Those who live in the building next door to the Huang family are also their relatives. If they had not lived together for generations, the relationship would be a bit distant. It should be said that they have the same great-grandfather, and their grandfathers are cousins. By their father's generation, the relationship was even more distant. Now in the generation of the Huang brothers, even the surnames are different. The neighbor's surname is Chen. Although they know that they have the same ancestor as the Huang brothers, they are separated by several generations. The relationship is at most closer than that of ordinary neighbors, but far less than that of brothers who help each other.
The two families chose to live together because they usually get along well. In this peaceful period, everyone's conditions are similar. Those with poor conditions are not much worse, and those with good conditions are not too rich, otherwise they would have left this desolate area of the third and fourth ring roads long ago. Originally, these difficult days came, and with such a thin layer of kinship, they were better than strangers. But if there was a troublemaker, there would be no peace in the family.
The shit stirrer is called Gan Wei. She is pretty and her family is well off. She has an older brother who studies abroad. Her grades and abilities are average, but she has a family that is well-fed and well-clothed, and a face that is slightly better than average. She can't be said to be very pretty, otherwise Gan Wei would have been a star long ago. She is at most pretty, and because of her good looks, she has been praised since she was a child. She has been praised too much, and she has become overconfident and arrogant. But she has no ability and poor academic performance. She didn't even get into high school. She studied at a technical secondary school for aviation. She probably thinks she is pretty and wants to be a flight attendant in the future.
But being a flight attendant requires more than just a pretty face. Anyway, she graduated from a junior college, had no connections, no means, and no ability. She failed the entrance exams for airlines every time. She couldn't just stay at home forever if she couldn't pass. Some online self-media happened to be becoming popular, so Gan Wei became a host and an internet celebrity. Unfortunately, that face might attract more attention in ordinary life, but it is not outstanding on the Internet, let alone in the entertainment industry. Even in the internet celebrity circle, there are still people watching it. After years of operation, she has hundreds of thousands of fans. She doesn't make much money, with a monthly income of tens of thousands, and sometimes she gets more than hundreds of thousands in tips.
But in order to be outstanding, she often went to high-end restaurants and shopping malls, bought brand-name clothes and bags one after another, and asked her family for money when she didn't make enough money. She even often flew abroad to find her brother and record a vlog of going abroad, or went to some restaurants abroad to live broadcast and pretend to be white, rich, beautiful and petty bourgeois. Over time, Gan Wei, who was already overconfident, became more and more vain. No matter how good her family conditions were, they were not rich and wealthy. How could they afford to buy a bag worth tens of thousands of yuan? She asked her brother to buy her luxury goods regardless of the hard work of her brother who was working and studying abroad, because some luxury goods in China were not cheap abroad, but they were not expensive either. Her brother also loved his sister, and gave her whatever he could afford, which made Gan Wei more vain and willful.
Even when it was so hot that the country had to issue subsidies, Gan Wei did not accept the reality and refused to believe that the days would just pass like this. She was even still doing live broadcasts at that time. She had to put on makeup and keep her hair clean and fresh for live broadcasts. Most of the water in the house was used by her to wash her hair and face. It was okay to eat instant noodles occasionally, but eating them every day was unacceptable. She used to skip meals to lose weight, but when she had no food and was hungry, it had nothing to do with losing weight. She wanted to eat meat every day.
At that time, her brother was still abroad, and there was chaos abroad. Her parents were worried every day, but it was too hot, and none of the three routes, land, sea or air, could be taken. Her daughter was still ignorant, and she either sang and danced in the room all day or asked for this and that.
On the night of the earthquake, Gan Wei stole the little money left at home and went out to buy instant meal packages, the kind of microwave rice with meat and vegetables in it, but each box was not cheap. The Zihaipot that Mu Nan and his friends bought cost five hundred yuan a box. The meat slices in this meal were not the same as those in the Zihaipot. For example, the beef brisket pot had large pieces of meat, so it was naturally more expensive. A lot of people were scrambling to buy it at one thousand yuan a box.
Gan Wei was not willing to squeeze with a group of people who didn't even take a shower to grab the items, but she felt she would not be able to buy them if she didn't grab them. Just when she was struggling with her conscience, an earthquake occurred.
Her family was well off, living in an upscale residential area with a fairly high floor, but the entire building collapsed. The more than 30-story building collapsed into a huge mountain. Gan Wei was stunned at that moment, and she didn't even want to think about the days that followed.
A girl in her twenties like her was not eligible for relief food after the earthquake. If she wanted to eat, she had to dig through the ruins. But there were so many dead bodies that no matter where she dug, she would find corpses. How could a pampered young lady bear this? She had no clothes to change, no bath to take, no food to eat, and she had to sleep on the floor every day in a hot and stinking environment.
Gradually, she couldn't bear it anymore and finally followed others to clean up the rubble. She got a steamed bun, but her hands were black from having touched the corpses, so she couldn't eat the bun. Before she could eat it, the bun in her hand was snatched away by a little boy, who ran away immediately.
Gan Wei broke down and cried at that moment, but her parents were gone, and her brother was overseas and her life or death was unknown. No one cared about her anymore, and no matter how hard she cried, no one even gave her a glance.
Gan Wei couldn't stand this kind of life, it was too horrible. She should have lived a glamorous life, not such a dirty one. Even when she saw the children being protected by their parents, she inexplicably felt a trace of resentment in her heart. She hated her parents for their short lives, and hated why her brother had to go abroad, leaving her to endure all this alone.
Soon the epidemic began to break out. She wanted to hide from people every day, but she was so hungry that she saw dirty dirt a few times and thought she had picked up food, but when she put it in her mouth, it was just dirt. She felt that if she continued like this, she would definitely die of starvation, and at this time, it began to rain.
It had been a long time since she had a good drink of water or a good bath. Taking advantage of the heavy rain, Gan Wei washed herself thoroughly. However, the price of being clean was to become a plaything for some men.
He was a gangster from their area. He was very ugly and had body odor. The heat and sweat odor were unbearable, and with the addition of the body odor, it made people want to faint.
Gan Wei certainly didn't want to have sex with such a person. She struggled madly and called for help desperately, but no one helped her. Some people who passed by even ran away quickly for fear of being implicated. Her struggle was met with a beating. Then she was locked up. If she wanted to eat, she had to kneel on the ground and crawl to beg him. In this way, all of Gan Wei's self-esteem was worn away bit by bit.
In less than a month, Gan Wei could smile and cater to others without changing her expression, and even competed with other women with the same tragic fate. In order to get more food, she used all her cleverness. It was too easy for her to deal with a gangster who was frustrated before the end of the world. She was beautiful, dressed up deliberately, and was willing to be pretentious. She soon coaxed the man, which made Gan Wei have a good life. Then the army came, and Gan Wei knew that she couldn't go on like this. Every minute and every second with the man made her want to vomit, so she rushed out to ask for help, saying that she was detained and raped. Even though she became voluntary for food later, she was indeed forced at the beginning. In order to prove what she said, Gan Wei also pointed out that there are still many women in the house. The man's eyes were red with hatred. He thought Gan Wei was going to live a good life with him. Since Gan Wei was obedient, he never forced Gan Wei to do anything. Even sometimes when Gan Wei was unwilling, he respected Gan Wei's wishes. He was willing to pamper such a beautiful woman as long as she was obedient. Unexpectedly, the woman who was still saying sweet words to him last night could speak badly to him today.
It was true that a bunch of women were found in the house, some of them were not even adults. The earthquake destroyed not only the civilization of society, but also people's moral bottom line. Regardless of whether the man was sincere to Gan Wei, it was an indisputable fact that he took people to lock up some women to do flesh trade. For such people, the higher-ups would never tolerate them, and took them all away to do hard labor without leaving any one behind.
Some women had just been arrested and had no idea of the situation. They were even grateful to Gan Wei for rescuing them. However, some women had been locked up for a while and had seen Gan Wei snuggling up to the man more than once. They watched the group of people abuse them for fun and sneered at Gan Wei's so-called rescue. Especially among them was a pair of sisters. Although they were not twins, they looked somewhat alike and were quite pretty. Gan Wei had once suggested that they could be sold as a threesome. If it weren't for the elder sister who desperately protected them, she would not let go even if she was beaten to death. Even if she had been hungry for several days, she would bite anyone who approached her and would not give in at all. If they were not so stubborn, she and her sister would probably have been sold by now.
Fortunately they made it through. Although they were able to get out safely because of Gan Wei, the sisters did not show the slightest sign of gratitude. If the soldiers had not arrived in time, they would have been sent to have a threesome in two days because of this woman's suggestion.
In any case, Gan Wei was able to temporarily get rid of those demons, but after following the army back to the settlement, the good days she had imagined did not happen. However, this was only for her. Except for the suffering of being hungry for a while at the beginning, Gan Wei lived a pretty good life later. She had food and drink and did not have to do anything every day. She only needed to wear beautiful clothes and dress herself up and pinch her nose to coax men. Now that she has come to the residential area, she needs to earn points to support herself. What can a woman do? The easy jobs have long been taken up by people with connections. There is no share even for sweeping the streets. She can only do disgusting things like picking up manure for fertilizer or cleaning public toilets.
Unable to bear it any longer, Gan Wei suddenly remembered that she had a cousin who lived in this area. However, she had looked down on that cousin before because she was average looking, got married and had children at the age of 20, and married a country boy. To Gan Wei, all those who lived in the third and fourth ring roads were country boys, the kind of people who she would even complain about soiling their sofas when they visited her home during the holidays.
Now, I remembered that there was such a relative. In fact, Gan Wei didn't have much hope when she looked for him. She even thought that if her cousin's family was having a hard time, she must not let them get involved. Rural people have a strong preference for boys over girls, and she must not let them suck her blood profitably.
Unexpectedly, after searching without any expectation, she found the person she had met. Her cousin married the son of the Chen family, who lived next door to the Huang family.
Gan Wei's cousin's family is also simple. Only one person from the previous generation of the Chen family stayed here, and the others chose to work in other cities. However, the Chen family has two sons in this generation. The eldest son married Gan Wei's cousin, and the youngest son is 26 years old, but still single. After the earthquake, Gan Wei's cousin Li Xing's house also collapsed, and her father was gone. Only her mother, Gan Wei's aunt, who was outside enjoying the cool and chatting, was left. Li Xing was not the kind of unfilial person, and the Chen family was not the kind of unkind family. Only her mother-in-law was left, so of course she was taken in together. Li Xing gave birth to a son and a daughter for the Chen family, and they lived in harmony. Her mother-in-law was not the kind of demon, and they got along well. Because of the large population and the fact that they were more or less related to the Huang family, they thought about living closer so that they could take care of each other if anything happened.
Moreover, there are many people in the Chen family, and the most important thing is that they have two sons, so they simply rented a building, thinking that if they continue to live here in the future, when life settles down and the youngest son gets married, they will separate the second and third floors so that they can live close to each other but not without privacy.
When Gan Wei came, the Chen family accepted her. How much could a girl eat? Besides, she might be able to help with some housework on weekdays. The Chen family's grandson was only five years old, and the granddaughter was only three years old. They were at the age of being naughty and playful, and having more people to help them would just mean a meal.
If it was Gan Wei at the beginning, even if she was living under someone else's roof, she would probably be arrogant, but after a period of hardship, she knew how hard life was outside. Now she could keep a fire pot with her aunt to keep warm, and she could have a bed to sleep in, which was better than suffering outside. But Gan Wei was not a grateful person, and even felt that they did not deserve this kind of life, a group of mud legs, the world has changed, but life has become better. In the past, they were afraid to go into the city, and they couldn't move their hands and feet to eat in a big hotel. Now they even live in a small villa, and Gan Wei felt more and more unbalanced.
But she was not stupid, she knew that she could live in Chen's house because of her cousin and aunt, so even if she was just pretending, she would not act so willful and capricious, and even rushed to do some housework. But her aunt loved her and knew that she had been pampered since she was a child and could not do those things, so Gan Wei's aunt helped her do many things.
On weekdays, when she has nothing to do, she will help take care of her little nephews and nieces. Although she has long been fed up with these two naughty kids, she still has to show her love for them on the surface. She is good-looking, and the previous hard times made her thinner and hungry. She couldn't go out during the day when it was hot, and now that the weather is cold, she can't go out even more. She originally had fair skin, and she has become even whiter. The skinny and weak little white flower, this is her.
Her aunt knew very well what Gan Wei's temper was like before. Now that she saw that her niece had changed, she was only frightened by the disaster at that time, and lost her parents. She grew up all of a sudden, and she loved her even more in her heart. Naturally, she had to plan more for her. According to Gan Wei's aunt's idea, it would be best for Gan Wei to marry the youngest son of the Chen family. The youngest son of the Chen family was 26 years old and also a college graduate. Although he was a little dark, he had regular facial features, and the key was that he had good character. The people in the Chen family all had good character. They were not the kind of people who would torture their daughter-in-law when the world changed. If it were the previous Gan Wei, her aunt would definitely not dare to think so. Few people could stand her previous temper. Now Gan Wei has changed. She is obedient and sensible. If she can find a good in-law family, even if life is a little hard in the future, the family will help each other and they will be able to get by.
But Gan Wei was not willing to do so. She had seen the youngest son of the Chen family before. At that time, he had just entered college. At her cousin's wedding, he looked like he had never eaten meat. He took a big bone and ate it without caring about his image, and his mouth was full of oil. After the banquet, the waiter brought a basin of lemon petal water. He even asked if it was sweet tea after the meal. At that time, she couldn't help rolling her eyes. She had heard others say that there were bumpkins who drank lemon water for washing hands as water. She laughed. It was just a joke. She didn't expect that this would really happen to her.
So even after so many years, she still looked down on the second son of the Chen family from the bottom of her heart. Even though this man was better than the man with body odor, at least he didn't have body odor, but since she had the conditions, why should she put herself in a difficult position?
And the conditions that Gan Wei felt were exactly the two people who were slightly more outstanding in appearance among the bunch of ugly guys in the Huang family's card field. One was Song Jia and the other was Jian Chu.
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