The days passed uneventfully, and Cheng Suming and Si Nan's wounds gradually healed.
That morning, Si Nan took a pair of small scissors and harvested the nearly ten-centimeter-long garlic sprouts and water spinach planted in mineral water bottles.
The leeks and lettuces planted in pots are now edible, but the white radishes have just grown into small radishes the size of chopstick tips and cannot be eaten for the time being.
Due to the lack of sunlight, the color of these vegetables is not emerald green, but a light green with a yellowish tint.
Even so, Cheng Wei still said with envy: "Sister-in-law, where did you get the seeds and soil? The vegetables are growing so well."
"I went back to my hometown before the high temperature. If you want to plant some, I can give you some seeds." Si Nan washed the garlic sprouts and water spinach in a bucket of rain water on the balcony, picked a few lettuces, washed them together, and took them to the kitchen to cook.
"Okay, thank you, sister-in-law. I don't know how to grow vegetables, so I'll ask Wentao to plant them. I'm sure he can make them grow. If he can't, I'll come to you for help."
Cheng Wei held a kitchen knife in her hand and planned to help Si Nan cut garlic sprouts: "Sister-in-law, what delicious food are you going to make today?"
"Stir-fry some garlic sprouts and shredded potatoes, make some lettuce with oyster sauce, and cook some fish. Go and see how many fish Wen Tao and Yu Yong have caught."
Seeing that she couldn't even hold a knife steadily, Si Nan was afraid that she would cut her hand, so he sent her to the stairs on the eleventh floor to see how many fish Yang Wentao and his friend had caught.
In recent days, more and more people remaining in Building 14 have been fishing, and many of them have been fine after eating. She thought that her and Cheng Suming's wounds were almost healed, so they should catch some fish to test the poison. Yu Yong and the other two happened to have the same idea, so they decided to test the poison together.
Soon Cheng Wei and the other two came back. Yang Wentao was holding a bucket with two big fish weighing four or five kilograms and seven or eight small fish that were two fingers wide and the size of a palm. Without saying a word, Yang Wentao went to the balcony to kill the fish.
Yu Yongze walked in with his fishing rod collected and said, "I was lucky today. I caught so much in less than an hour. It's a pity that I saw a big fish weighing at least ten kilograms get off the hook before, otherwise I would definitely have competed with it."
"It's so rare that this unlucky guy can catch a fish today." Cheng Suming sat on the sofa, holding a magazine in his hand and teasing Yu Yong.
Yu Yong has been unlucky since he was a child. He is obviously a rich second-generation, with no worries about food and clothing, loving parents, and no brothers and sisters competing for his favor. He could live a very good life.
偏偏他自身带点作死霉运属性，总会发生乱七八糟的事情，比如出去吃个饭，能被人家当成情夫暴揍一顿。开个车，不是他撞人家，就是人家蹭他，走个路，都能遇上抢劫的。
The most unfortunate thing happened to him when he was in junior high school. Because he looked too sunny and had a pair of charming peach blossom eyes, a group of young girls who were just beginning to fall in love were fascinated by him and chased after him every day. He was beaten up by a group of jealous hooligans outside the school who wanted to disfigure him.
If Cheng Suming hadn't passed by and rescued him out of kindness, he would probably not know whether he is dead or alive now.
Yu Yong chuckled: "You know what, even though I only caught a small fish today, the others were caught by Brother Yang, but I was surprised to catch one. Does this mean that my luck is about to change?"
Cheng Suming snorted, and his meaning was obvious.
Si Nan saw that he had nothing to do, so he poked his head out of the kitchen and called to him, "Su Ming, your fish is delicious. You come to cook. I'll go get some pickled peppers, ginger, and sauerkraut. We can make sauerkraut fish with big fish and deep-fry small fish and dip them in chili powder."
"Okay." Cheng Suming put down the magazine in his hand and obediently went to the kitchen to prepare the fish.
Yu Yong had a look of astonishment as he watched Si Nan put an apron on him. He then naturally picked up the fish that Yang Wentao had killed and cleaned, and used a knife to slice it and marinate it.
Yang Wentao also wore a floral apron. After killing the big fish, he killed the small fish.
Two big men, who were over 1.85 meters tall, were busy in the kitchen. Cheng Wei and the other man were grabbing pickled peppers from the Si Nan pickle jar. After that, the two women went to the living room to chat and eat melon seeds, leaving the kitchen work entirely to Cheng Su Ming and the other man.
Yu Yong thought, it seems that finding a wife is not easy. The first thing a man in Xingcheng needs to learn is cooking to please his wife. He also learned cooking himself. I wonder if he can capture a confidant?
The meal was ready and Yu Yong helped to serve the dishes. On the table was a large bowl of pickled fish fillets with white and red, a small plate of crispy golden fried fish, a dish of red chili powder, a plate of stir-fried potato shreds with garlic sprouts, and a plate of tender green lettuce with oyster sauce. Just the smell was enough to make people swallow their saliva unconsciously.
Five people gathered around the dining table, staring at the large bowl of pickled fish in the middle of the table with hesitant expressions.
Cheng Suming was the first to pick up a large piece of slightly curled and tender white fish fillet and put it into his mouth to chew carefully. After a while, he commented: "The meat is tender and not fishy, sour and spicy, appetizing, not bad."
Yu Yong: "Don't brag about yourself."
He reached out and picked up a piece of fish and put it into his mouth. Just as Cheng Suming said, the sound suddenly stopped.
After both of them finished eating, Si Nan and the other two stopped talking and started eating. They finished the whole bowl of fish and vegetables without even eating the rice. After washing the dishes, they all walked around the living room burping to digest the food.
The five people waited in the room for more than an hour, and nothing went wrong.
Cheng Wei was very happy: "It seems that our bodies can adapt to the mutated food affected by these natural disasters. If we are short of food in the future, I won't have to worry about getting sick after eating the food in the wild."
Cheng Suming looked calm and said nothing.
In his previous life, Cheng Wei and the other three had always been by his side, and they had never shown any signs of being uncomfortable with the mutated environment or food. This was certainly the case in this life.
The fact that he was reborn was too absurd. Even his close friends and relatives might not believe him. Instead of explaining to them that they could adapt to mutant creatures, it would be better to let them experience it directly and save him the trouble of talking nonsense.
After confirming that there would be no problem eating the fish in the water, Yu Yong and the other two left.
Not long after, when Si Nan was preparing to boil water for a bath, he heard someone knocking on the iron door outside the passage.
After the power outage in Xingcheng, in order to save diesel, Sinan only turned on the diesel engine to generate electricity when charging or freezing meat in the refrigerator. As a result, the surveillance screen embedded in the entrance door became useless.
"Who would knock on the door at this hour?"
It was already dark, around nine o'clock in the evening. After the power outage in Xingcheng, for their own safety and to save lighting tools, most people would choose to close their doors and go to bed early after dark and would not walk around easily at night.
Si Nan was about to open the door. Cheng Su Ming picked up the scalpel and followed her: "Be careful."
The two walked to the iron gate of the passage. Because of the dim light, Si Nan could only see a blurry figure of a woman, who looked a little creepy.
She shone the flashlight on the door and found that it was Fang Huaimeng from room 1403.
Fang Huaimeng had disheveled hair, was skinny, and wore a dirty yellow autumn dress. She gave off an unpleasant, foul smell, and it was unknown how long it had been since she had taken a shower.
Si Nan inevitably took a step back and asked through the iron gate: "Sister Fang, what do you want?"
Ever since Fang Huaimeng and her husband gathered a group of people to rob a house more than a year ago, and the couple was put in jail by Cheng Suming for more than a month, Si Nan rarely saw her.
Si Nan thought that she had followed her husband to a temporary shelter, but he didn't expect that this person was still living in Building 14. It was a little unbelievable.
Given the bizarre level of domestic violence by Fang Huaimeng's husband, he only cares about himself when it comes to eating and drinking. I don't know where she got food from in the past year or so, and how she survived until today.
"Mrs. Cheng, Mr. Cheng, your family has made delicious food again." Fang Huaimeng said this inexplicably, and looked at Sinan with a bit of resentment in his eyes: "Are you happy to eat human blood steamed buns?"
"What's the meaning?"
"You know what I mean." Fang Huaimeng sneered, "That night I saw you and your wife go out with Wu En and the others, but you were the only ones who came back alive. You also found an excuse to go out and hide for a week, but you actually hid the gangsters' supplies somewhere that night, right? My purpose for coming here is very simple, give me half of the supplies, otherwise I will expose what you did and make you pay for it!"
"Oh, so you saw it." Si Nan glanced at her expressionlessly, "In that case, there's no need to keep you here."
As she spoke, she stepped aside. Cheng Suming, holding two scalpels, had a cold look in his eyes. He put the knife to Fang Huaimeng's neck and said, "I can kill fifteen people, so I don't mind killing one more of you."
The cold scalpel pressed against her skin, making Fang Huaimeng tremble all over and run away screaming.
Si Nan looked at her hurriedly leaving figure, turned to Cheng Su Ming and said: "How dare you blackmail us when you are so weak?"
Cheng Suming walked back into the house with her side by side: "Be prepared for her to 'report' us."
"Okay, I'm bored, I want to see what she can do."
The trick was that early the next morning, the families of the fifteen people came to the iron gate of passage 1501 and banged on the door and yelled frantically.
"Cheng and Si, you two murderous devils, return the lives of our husbands and brothers!"
When Si Nan heard the voice, he tried to get up sleepily, but was restrained in the arms by a slender and strong arm and could not move.
She helplessly stretched out her hand to push him away: "Let me go, others have come to ask for justice, I have to go out and deal with them."
After Cheng Su Ming's injury healed, Si Nan failed to return to her room. Instead, she rolled on the same bed with Cheng Su Ming. Sometimes she felt speechless when she thought about it. Why did she believe Cheng Su Ming's nonsense: "We just sleep in the same room. If something happens, we can save each other at the first time and no one will touch each other."
She was a little resistant at first, but gradually she followed her heart.
Cheng Su Ming was not a lustful person. When they were together, he didn't want it very often, but he wanted it every day. He also always held her tightly in his arms until he fell asleep, as if he was afraid that she would run away.
It only took her a month to get used to it after she went from being uncomfortable at first. Sometimes she thought that human beings' adaptability was truly terrifying. They could adjust well to any situation and were essentially not much different from other species that adapted to the environment.
"Don't worry about them." Cheng Suming didn't even open his eyes. He frowned and held her in his arms and kissed her, "Go back to sleep."
The two of them could hold it in, but Cheng Wei and her neighbor next door, Yu Yong downstairs, and even the rest of the people in the building were awakened and got up to check.
"What's going on? Why are you making a fuss at Dr. Cheng's door so early in the morning?"
"What else could we do? The Cheng couple committed ruthless acts and killed all of our family members!" Wu En's wife, led by Huang Shufen from the Huang family and Huang Heguang's wife, cried to everyone in front of the iron gate of 1501.
They said that they felt that the death of Wu En and the others was strange from the beginning. How could they fight with the bandits so desperately and end up with both sides suffering losses?
Afterwards, they went to the bandit base, but found no food except for the frozen meat in the refrigerator on the 14th floor. It was obvious that someone had killed them all and was robbing the bandits.
It is also said that Fang Huaimeng from Room 1403 saw Cheng Suming and his wife go out with Wu En and his friends that night, and the couple disappeared the next day and remained missing for a week. It was hard not to suspect that the couple had done something to kill Wu En and his group and hide the supplies, so everyone came to seek justice.
The other residents fell silent upon hearing this. On the one hand, they felt that as a doctor, Cheng Su Ming had been treating patients and was a "good man" in the eyes of everyone. It was impossible for him to do such a cruel thing.
On the one hand, she felt that the time when Cheng Suming and his wife were away was too strange. Although Cheng Wei explained at the time that they were going to visit Sinan's friends, in today's environment, even the closest friends would not stay in someone else's home for a week.
The longer you stay, the more other people's food you consume. Ordinary people wouldn't be so discerning, so this is obviously a problem.
Cheng Wei saw them planning to pry open the iron door of 1501 and take Cheng Suming and the others to the Public Security Bureau. She could no longer bear it and said, "You called the police at the beginning. The police went to the scene and examined the wounds. They said that Brother Wu and the others were shot to death by the gangsters! And the gangsters were poisoned to death by someone for a long time. My brother and sister-in-law are law-abiding citizens. How could they have guns!"
Wu En's wife's eyes flickered as she said, "Even if they don't have guns, who knows if they have colluded with the robbers and used us, Wu En, to create chaos, and then poisoned the robbers and them to death and took all the supplies for themselves."
"Use your brain and have some common sense, okay?" Yu Yong, who was squeezed in the crowd, sneered: "The forensic doctor brought by the police at that time said that the robbers died of poisoning for a long time. If Cheng Suming and his gang were really colluding with the robbers, how could they calculate the time of the robbers' poisoning death so accurately, and just happened to follow Wu En's men to rob the robbers and get rid of Wu En and his gang? Is he so amazing that he can even guess your Wu En's thoughts?"
"Maybe her family's Wu En colluded with the robbers?" Yang Wentao also had a cold face and hit the nail directly: "I heard that more than two months ago, a group of robbers came to our 14th building. It was too dark and raining heavily. Many people knocked on the door, but the gang said some inexplicable words and turned around and left. The next day I heard that Wu En's daughter came back covered in blood. Since then, Wu En has brought people to deliver supplies to our community, while other communities have always gone to the government-sent supply ships to get supplies. Don't you think there is a problem here?"
After he said this, others also came to their senses. Indeed, people in other communities had to go by themselves to get supplies, but in their community, Wu En had been bringing people to deliver goods door-to-door for the past two months. At that time, they thought that Wu En, as the community director, did a good job and knew how to consider those who had no water transportation to go out. Thinking about it now, they always felt that Wu En was too enthusiastic.
Besides, two months ago, Wu En's daughter was indeed covered in blood and was brought back by Wu En. When a kind-hearted person asked what happened, Wu En said she had fallen.
But after that, his daughter developed mental problems. She often hid at home, talking to herself and yelling. If a man approached her, she would scream and run away, but she would appear normal when facing others.
Seeing the crowd whispering and looking at her with suspicious eyes, Wu En's wife said angrily, "Don't listen to their nonsense! They are relatives and friends of Cheng Suming and his wife, so of course they are speaking for them! Huang Shufen lives close to them. She said that these two couples, and Yu Yong, are always cooking delicious food. We can often smell the fragrance of food wafting from their homes. If they haven't done anything bad, where do they get so much food and drink?! We will know once we break into their homes! They must have divided the spoils and hid the supplies that our husbands and brothers are trying so hard to take."
A group of women who had lost their husbands and brothers ran like crazy, holding hammers and kitchen knives they had prepared in advance, towards the house 1501/1503 where Yu Yong lived.
"Who dares to break in!" Yang Wentao grabbed Wu En's wife's wrist, twisted her backhand and pressed her against the wall, and said angrily: "If you want to be unreasonable, you should also look at who the other party is. Do you think you can break into my girlfriend's house just because you want to?"
Wu En's sisters and mother were all furious. They rushed over and pulled and bit Yang Wentao's arms.
Cheng Wei felt sorry for Yang Wentao and went over to pull them away, but was pinned to the ground and slapped in the face by Wu En's two sisters instead.
Yang Wentao didn't want to fight with the woman, he just tried to warn Wu En's wife. When he saw Cheng Wei being beaten, he was furious. The hideous scar on his face became more hideous because of his anger. He swung his strong arm and broke one of Wu En's wife's arms. He turned around and picked up Wu En's two sisters, one on each side, like chickens. He pinched their necks and said with gritted teeth: "How dare you bully my girlfriend?! You are looking for death!"
The other women who were making trouble were stunned by this scene, especially Huang Shufen and her sisters-in-law. Their family had a large population and consumed food quickly. Later, in order to covet supplies, they took in another family of eight named Gong. After receiving the housing fees from them, they agreed that they would eat their own food and let the Gong family leave when the time came.
Unexpectedly, that family was even more shameless than them. Not only did they eat and drink for free, they also refused to move out when the time came. They also shamelessly joined their family in searching for eatables in Xingcheng in a bathtub, and they shared the food together.
Because the Gong family has many male members, six out of the eight members are strong men between the ages of 18 and 40. They often threaten them that if they dare to drive them out or not give them things, they will kill them. They have no choice but to grit their teeth and live with them.
More than a month ago, Wu En convened a meeting of 14 buildings, saying that the robbers had robbed a lot of supplies at the robbers' stronghold and wanted to rob the robbers. Most families were unwilling to go, but the Gong family and the Huang family were tempted and stayed at Wu En's house.
Wu En said that he had been keeping an eye on the movements of the gang of robbers. He had learned how to develop homemade explosives, which were extremely powerful. He was 70% to 80% sure that they could kill the gang. He even demonstrated it to them in person, which made them eager to make a move. However, he did not expect that they would be completely wiped out.
In fact, Huang Shufen and other female relatives knew in their hearts that the death of Wu En and others had nothing to do with Cheng Suming and others. At most, they were just picking up bargains and hiding the supplies that originally belonged to them. Of course, they would not let it go.
The men who were the pillars of the family were all dead. In this world where the strong prey on the weak, they had to find ways to be self-reliant and stand up to survive. But the premise was that they would not starve to death before that.
Huang Shufen and the women from the Gong family hesitated for a moment and decided to deal with Yu Yong, who seemed easier to bully. Yang Wentao's big build and the tattoos on his body that they had seen in the summer told them that he was not someone to be trifled with, so they dared not to mess with him.
Yu Yong was no pushover either. He punched and kicked them and started fighting with them right at the door of 1501. The other women pounced on Yang Wentao in groups and bit him fearlessly.
Just when Yang Wentao was furious and wanted to kill these ignorant women, Cheng Suming and his wife opened the door. Si Nan walked to the iron gate and said lightly, "Stop fighting. What's there to fight about? Come into my house and see if my wife and I have hidden any supplies. We are upright and have nothing to fear."
Everyone was stunned for a moment. Yang Wentao wanted to say something but stopped. Seeing that Cheng Suming and the other man looked calm and composed, and did not look forced, he loosened his grip on the throats of Wu En's two sisters.
As soon as the two men landed on the ground, they crawled two steps to the side with terrified expressions, coughing and gasping for breath.
Si Nan opened the iron door from the inside, stepped aside, and said to the stunned crowd, "What are you all standing there for? Come in and take a look."
Her frank attitude made Wu En's wife and the other female relatives feel uneasy. They couldn't help but wonder if they were wrong. Maybe it wasn't them who took the robbers' supplies that night, or maybe Fang Huaimeng's husband had died and she was possessed by a demon, and knew that the couple had some food stored, so she deliberately instigated them to steal the couple's food?
But if they don't go in to confirm it, they will feel unwilling.
A group of female relatives, including other residents who came to watch the fun, entered the Cheng family's house out of curiosity.
Naturally, Si Nan had cleaned up the room in advance. All the meat and eye-catching food and drinks were thrown into the space, leaving only a small amount of old rice, flour and the like that only appeared during this period in the living room.
The two geese couldn't hide, but the vegetables she planted were still growing well in the pots, which could explain why half of the vegetables were planted for them to eat.
In addition, the family also specially prepared fishing rods, proving that they have been fishing in the water to feed the geese.
Not only were they not sick, they were also fat and strong. When they saw strangers coming in, they kept barking. The big white one even stretched out its long goose neck and pecked at people everywhere.
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