Si Nan cooked food for half a month, which made her back and waist sore. She felt that the food should be enough for her and Cheng Su Ming to eat for two or three years, so she stopped and decided to rest at home for two days.
As the days passed, it was soon the third month after the temperature rose, and a drug that could effectively treat the N79 infectious disease was finally developed.
It is said that taking one N79 pill and one anthelmintic pill every day can cure the disease in three days.
However, the process after taking the medicine is very difficult to endure. One has to go through pain in the internal organs, body cramps, high fever, etc. People with poor health may not be able to endure it and die.
The first batch of this drug was developed for the treatment of critically ill patients in hospitals and some people with money and connections. Ordinary people could not get the drug and had to wait for the second batch of the drug to be produced.
People die every day in the old houses and alleys on both sides of the stream. Some of them cannot survive the N79 infectious disease and die at home before they can get medicine.
Some people commit suicide due to repeated torture of infectious diseases, which leads to despair, fear, anxiety, depression and other emotions.
There are also many conflicts between husband and wife, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and parents. They get along with each other every day and quarrel and fight over trivial matters, which eventually lead to deaths...
Si Nan had become accustomed to the noisy neighbors and the restless days. When she saw Cheng Wei gossiping about someone's death in the family and friends chat group she had created, she calmly replied with an "oh".
Cheng Wei:......
My sister-in-law is so cold.
She continued to send messages: "Sister-in-law, are you going to cook today? If you cook, I will climb over the wall and you can give me something to eat."
Si Nan: "Sorry, I won't cook today. If you want to eat, cook for yourself."
Cheng Wei: "Oh, I don't want to do it."
Sinan: Smiling emoticon pack.
Mao Pingzhen: "Xiaonan, we have no water to drink at home."
Sinan: "I'll ask Yang Wentao to bring you a bucket of water later."
Yang Wentao and Sheng Youqing are from the patrol team, which is under the government's jurisdiction. Since the base was sealed off and isolated, the two of them have been wearing protective clothing and doing patrols outside, delivering supplies, and keeping an eye on the families of critically ill patients so they cannot go out, etc.
Neither Liu Dalin's family nor Si Yufang's family has a well. The global drought has lasted for three months, without a drop of rain, and all water sources near the stone mountain have basically dried up.
The well dug at Sinan's home can only produce two buckets of water a day. Every other day, she draws water and puts it into buckets, which she hands over to Yang Wentao and his partner to deliver to Liu Dalin and his two families to ensure their daily food and drink.
Liu Dalin couldn't help asking when he saw what Mao Pingzhen said, "No water to drink again? Are you giving your three grandchildren a bath again?"
Mao Pingzhen said nothing.
Liu Dalin was furious: "How many times have I told you that water is hard to come by now? Xiaonan herself is reluctant to use more water. How can you be so ungrateful and waste the water Xiaonan gave you!"
On the day when the disease was contained and isolated, Liu Dalin and a group of staff from the plantation were isolated in the agricultural park, planting medicinal herbs needed to treat various infectious diseases for the Shishan base.
Because there were so many medicinal herbs to be planted, even the land that had been contracted out privately was taken back. Half of the land was used to grow crops and the other half to grow medicinal herbs. Liu Dalin stayed there for three months and was unable to go home. He could only contact his family through his mobile phone every day.
Liu Dalin is very disappointed. The drought has lasted for so long that not only Shishan is short of water, but the whole country and the world are short of water!
The Shishan military has been searching for water sources everywhere over the past two months. They have also dug thousands of wells of various sizes in the base and frantically extracted groundwater in order to supply the water needed by the isolated people and the vegetation in the plantation area.
Every drop of water is precious nowadays, and this spendthrift woman actually used water to bathe her child. Liu Dalin was so angry.
Mao Pingzhen was not convinced and said, "The weather is so hot, and children are very active. Adults can survive without a bath for a month or two, but children will feel very uncomfortable if they don't take a bath for ten days or half a month. I didn't waste their bath time. The three of us took a little water each, wiped the sweat off our bodies, and poured the rest into the flower pots where green onions and cabbages were planted. How did I waste it?!"
Liu Dalin said: "Do you know that there is less and less groundwater now? The water distributed by the base is also getting less and less. If you don't save water, if the groundwater can't be pumped out, I want to see what you will do!"
Mao Pingzhen said angrily: "If you can't draw it out, then you can't draw it out. At worst, our family will die of thirst. Anyway, this damn God is torturing us. It's suffering to live!"
Sinan said, "Alright, uncle and aunt, stop arguing. I still say the same thing. I have water in the well, and I will try my best to get it for you and aunt to use. The weather is so dry, and I don't know when it will rain. The groundwater may really dry up one day, so we should save it when necessary."
This was how the matter passed. Si Nan drew up the water near the bottom of the well bit by bit and put it into a large basin for sedimentation. He then put the water into two large drinking water buckets and placed them at the gate of the yard, waiting for Yang Wentao and others to come and get water.
About ten minutes later, Yang Wentao and Sheng Youqing came over in protective suits and knocked on the door. Si Nan opened the gate and subconsciously looked behind them: "Isn't Su Ming with you?"
Last month, Cheng Suming was persuaded by Yan Hongyi to go to Shishan Military Hospital to do drug research. Although he did not leave home early and come back late, he only worked for a period of time in the middle. The rest of the time was just like at home. He could move freely in protective clothing and see patients and collect food for nearby neighbors.
However, she hadn't seen Cheng Suming for half a day today, and she was a little worried about him.
"There is a patient in a household on East Street who is in a bad condition. He has been asking our government staff to find a doctor to take a look. I asked him to go over." Yang Wentao said as he put the bucket on the cart.
Sheng Youqing said to Sinan, "The compensation for the privately contracted land that was occupied by the base has been paid. They said they will give you 300 kilograms of flour, and a few boxes of canned food, compressed biscuits, dried meat and other foods. They will probably be delivered to you this afternoon."
Si Nan said "oh" and said nothing.
The epidemic was sealed off too suddenly at that time, and she and Sheng's mother had no way to go out. They could only ask Yan Hongyi to find a few soldiers to help her harvest all the fruits and vegetables grown inside, take half home to give away, and store the other half in the space.
She also gave many kinds of herb rhizomes and seeds to Yan Hongyi for free, asking them to give them to people in the agricultural park to grow the herbs.
The weather is unpredictable now, so she has no intention of contracting land for planting anymore. She also gave up her original plan to hatch chicks after the severe cold. Although she is not satisfied with the compensation given by the base, it is better than nothing.
After Yang Wentao and the others left, Si Nan was alone at home and too lazy to get angry, so he took out a bowl of curry chicken rice that he had packed before the end of the world from the space and went out to eat.
The food was hot, the chicken and potato cubes were stewed until very soft, mixed with the rich flavor of curry, and she was very satisfied with the bowl of rice.
After dinner, she sent a message to Cheng Suming, asking him: "When will you be back? Have you eaten yet?"
About a minute later, Cheng Suming sent her a voice message back: "There is a patient with appendicitis who needs surgery. She is an old lady, quite old, and she knows me and only trusts me, so she wants me to operate on her. I am now going with her to the military hospital in the base ambulance for her surgery, and will probably be back in the evening. You don't have to worry about whether I have eaten or not, I will take good care of myself. If you take a nap at noon, remember to lock the doors and windows."
During the two months of being confined at home, Si Nan had nothing to do every day so she would take a nap with Cheng Su Ming. It has become a habit now. She feels tired if she doesn't take a nap for a day, so she sent Cheng Su Ming a relieved expression and went upstairs to take a nap.
It is already late autumn, November, and the temperature has dropped to around 20 degrees during the day, which is the normal season to wear thin long autumn clothes.
As the saying goes, people feel sleepy in spring and tired in autumn. The autumn season is mostly sunny and neither too cold nor too hot, which makes people feel sleepy easily.
Si Nan fell asleep soon after lying on the bed. She didn't know how much time had passed. When she was sleeping comfortably, she suddenly heard a knock on the door downstairs, accompanied by the cries of a black and white dog and a goose, who were extremely alert.
Si Nan was awakened and picked up her cell phone from the bedside table to check the time. It was around two o'clock in the afternoon and she had only slept for less than an hour.
She stood up, leaned over the window and shouted toward the courtyard gate: "Who is it?"
"We are here to deliver supplies." A woman's voice came from outside.
Si Nan remembered what Sheng Youqing had said to her in the morning. It seemed that the government officials had come to deliver compensation to her. She tidied up her messy hair, called Dahei and Dabai, who always liked to be by her side, to follow her downstairs and open the gate.
There were four people in protective suits standing at the gate of the yard. Sinan didn't see any food behind them and was feeling strange. Suddenly, he saw Dahei sniffing at the four people. He soon bared his teeth and let out a few low growls from his throat.
Si Nan was startled and instinctively felt that something was wrong, but it was too late. The four men rushed up together, holding several sprays in their hands, and sprayed her and Dahei and Dabai.
She smelled a familiar smell of drugs and fainted, thinking, Damn, who is trying to pick on her again and using such an old-fashioned kidnapping trick? The key is that she can't defend herself!
She didn't know how long it had been before she woke up again. She barely opened her eyes, but her hands and feet were too weak to move.
Before she could see clearly where she was, she felt two hands touching her face and breasts. A wretched man beside her whispered in her ear: "Tsk tsk, women who are well fed and well cared for by men with food are different. Look at this pretty face, delicate skin, plump breasts and long legs. They are completely different from those skinny and hungry women who sell themselves out."
Si Nan was startled and felt the man pulling her clothes. She immediately closed her eyes without making any sound.
She didn't know who kidnapped her or what they wanted to do, but the voice of the woman who said she was delivering supplies before she fell into a coma seemed familiar to her, but she couldn't remember who she was.
She felt that the long autumn coat and black skinny trousers she was wearing were still on her body, proving that she had not been violated.
Although she was panicking, she forced herself to calm down, tried her best to stay conscious, and focused her attention on her right hand, ready to expose the space at any time, move her hand out, put the gun in her hand, and shoot to protect herself.
A woman said, "This place is very secretive. No one would think we hid her in the cellar. If you want to play, just play quickly. Why are you so whiny? Are you still men?"
The man said, "Why are you in such a hurry? She's still unconscious. What's the point of doing this to such a beautiful woman? She's as unresponsive as a corpse. It would be interesting to wait for her to wake up and listen to her crying and making a fuss."
The woman said impatiently: "This woman is very fierce. When she wakes up, none of you three will be her match."
Another man said: "What are you afraid of? We tied her up tightly, how could we be afraid that she would run away?"
After the man finished speaking, Sinan felt like someone was tying his hands.
Si Nan felt a chill on his back, and recognized the woman's voice as Jiang Feifei.
Jiang Feifei watched as the three men surrounded Si Nan and tied up her limbs with ropes. Even though Si Nan was unconscious, her face was still delicate with features and her skin was fair and clean. She was so beautiful that she both hated and envied her.
Jiang Feifei murmured to herself, "Don't blame me. Who made you live better than me? Zou Shichu is obsessed with you. I gave so much for him, but he kicked me away and wanted to get back with you. You are married, but he still thinks about you. In this case, I will destroy you and avenge my hatred!"
Si Nan tried hard to gather all his strength and cursed in his heart, this stupid woman Jiang Feifei. He didn't bother with her about her hooking up with that scumbag Zou Shichu back then, but she was so stupid that she came to torment him again after all these years. In that case, he shouldn't blame her for being cruel.
She suddenly opened her eyes, with cold murderous intent in her eyes. She moved the gun stored in the space to her hand and was about to shoot when she suddenly heard a loud bang from outside. The door of where she was was blown open from the outside, and a group of people with weapons appeared at the door, shouting, "Put your hands up, don't move!"
Si Nan was secretly surprised when he saw a familiar figure appear among the crowd.
It was Zou Shichu! How could he be here? He didn't even wear protective clothing, and it seemed like he had hurried here with someone.
This situation was really strange. Si Nan thought about it and took advantage of the dim light in the room when no one was paying attention to her to move the □□ in her hand back into the space, close her eyes and continue to pretend to be dizzy.
Jiang Feifei probably didn't expect Zou Shichu to appear here. Her face changed slightly, but she soon understood what was going on. She sneered, "You sent someone to follow me?"
Zou Shichu was wearing a black suit. He was already 31 years old this year, and his appearance had not changed much. He was still as handsome as he was five years ago at the end of the world.
If we have to say what has changed, it is that he has a more mature and indifferent aura that comes from having gone through hardships, which attracts more women's attention.
He looked at Si Nan with panic and distress on his face, but when he turned to look at Jiang Feifei, his expression was very cold, with a flame in his eyes, and his voice was as cold as an ice cellar: "Jiang Feifei, didn't I warn you not to touch Si Nan? We should solve the matter between us privately. You dare to touch her, are you looking for death!"
Jiang Feifei looked at the man in front of her who made her heart beat fast. She had always given everything for him without regrets, and was even willing to use her body to sleep with those old men who were useful to him, such as the leaders of the base government and the military, just to make his future bright and get the rights he wanted. However, in return, she was betrayed and kicked away by him.
She laughed out loud, her smile was indescribably painful and desolate. "Why, is it very uncomfortable and painful to see your sweetheart being slept with by others? When you asked me to sleep with those old, ugly and greasy old men, did you ever feel sorry for me? I never asked you to be good to me. As long as you remember what I have done for you and take good care of me and my mother, I am willing to do anything you ask me to do. But my mother was infected with the N79 infectious disease. You obviously have the ability to get the first batch of new drugs for her to take, but you found many excuses and refused to find medicine for her, causing her to die of diarrhea and bloody stools! You also asked people to throw her body out of the base to feed the wolves, and you didn't even want to burn her and give her a complete corpse! You think I don't know what you have done, I tell you, you can place spies around me, and so can I! Hahahaha, you are a step late after all. Your white moonlight has been slept with by others, and three men take turns sleeping with her. Are you heartbroken and uncomfortable? This is much dirtier than her husband sleeping with her alone. Would you still want such a woman?"
"Jiang Feifei, you are looking for death!"
Zou Shichu's face showed a strong murderous look. He took out a gun from his waist, loaded the gun, and pointed it at Jiang Feifei.
Jiang Feifei was frightened by the expression on his face. A chill rose from her coccyx to her forehead. She forced herself to remain calm and said, "I have followed you for so many years, especially in the past three years at the Stone Mountain Base. You know how much I have paid to consolidate your power and position! I have no credit but I have worked hard. Are you going to kill me for that bitch Si Nan?"
"You are not worthy to mention her name!" Zou Shichu said coldly and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
Bang—at the moment of the gunshot, Jiang Feifei was shot in the middle of the head with an expression of disbelief, bleeding profusely, and fell straight to the ground.
Zou Shichu was very close to her and shot her at close range, causing some of the blood from her head to spray onto his face. He wiped the blood off his face with disgust, turned around and signaled his men to move the three men who raised their hands in surrender aside, and he pointed the gun at them.
The three men knelt on the ground in fear, begging for mercy loudly: "Director Zou, spare us! It was that woman Jiang Feifei who led us to kidnap Miss Si. She had an affair with a government official in Jushi Town who was delivering supplies. She knew that they were going to deliver supplies to Miss Si's home this afternoon, so she led us over to get drugs and knock her out. We only brought her here for less than ten minutes, so we didn't have the time to do anything to her, Director Zou, you must understand!"
"If you dare to touch her, you must be prepared to die." Zou Shichu looked down at them and shot without hesitation.
After three gunshots, the three men screamed before death and fell in a pool of blood.
Zou Shichu ordered his men: "Dispose of the bodies of these four people."
A dozen men with guns carried out the bodies of Jiang Feifei and the other three without saying a word.
Zou Shichu walked straight to Si Nan and saw her leaning against the wall with her eyes closed. Many emotions surged in his heart. He wanted to reach out and touch her face, but he finally restrained himself and whispered, "I know you are awake, don't pretend to be asleep."
Si Nan slowly opened his eyes, a weak smile appeared on his face, "You found out all this, long time no see Zou Shichu, thank you for saving me, I don't have the strength to stand up now, can you help me make a phone call and ask my husband to pick me up and take me home?"
"Husband? Go home?" Zou Shichu chewed over her words, with a strange smile on his face, "Where do you think you can go if you fall into my hands?"
Si Nan's eyelids jumped: "What do you mean?"
Zou Shichu squatted in front of her, staring at her beautiful eyes, with a trace of sadness in his eyes, and whispered: "Xiaonan, I know I have let you down before, and I know I was wrong. In the past few years since you left me, when I woke up in the middle of the night, the only person I thought of was you. In the past few years in the base, I have climbed step by step from an unknown person to the director of the base's food supply department. In the base now, everyone needs to curry favor with me, and I can give you a better life. If you insist on going back to that man, you have seen that with my current ability, I can kill him at any time."
Si Nan had also heard rumors about Zou Shichu from others. In order to get promoted, he persuaded Jiang Feifei to sell her body to consolidate his network and status. In order to get promoted, he even attached himself to Commander Ye's wife and became Mrs. Ye's gigolo.
At that time, everyone was laughing at Commander Ye for being cuckolded countless times and speculating on what would happen to one of the cuckolded men, Zou Shichu. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Ye suddenly died.
The Ye family behind Mrs. Ye has a lot of influence in the capital. One of their leaders is the head of a certain army in the capital. He sent people to Shishan to demand an explanation and to remove Commander Ye from his post.
Commander Ye directly threw out a set of high-definition nude photos of Mrs. Ye and others having various affairs in bed, as well as several high-definition videos, explaining that Mrs. Ye's death was due to being too excited in bed, taking some kind of drug that caused hallucinations, and being overly excited, she strangled herself with a rope, and it had nothing to do with him.
Mrs. Ye's autopsy did find some kind of stimulant drugs, and the Ye family also knew how promiscuous Mrs. Ye was and how many men she kept behind Master Ye's back.
Commander Ye was originally a poor boy with no power. After marrying Mrs. Ye, he was able to achieve his current status thanks to the support of the Ye family.
But because of this, Madam Ye was extremely powerful, always suppressing Master Ye and using the power of the Ye family to threaten him to do things he didn't want to do.
As time went by, the couple became estranged, and Mrs. Ye began to indulge herself. Master Ye had been at odds with her for more than ten years.
Once the nude video in Commander Ye's hand is sent out, not only Commander Ye will be affected, but also the Ye family in the capital.
The Ye family knew that Mrs. Ye's death was a trap set by Commander Ye, but they could not find any evidence. They could only execute all the men who appeared in the video playing with Mrs. Ye to vent their anger, and returned to the capital in hatred.
Without the interference of the Ye family, the Shishan base has since been truly controlled by Commander Ye, and he has the final say.
Zou Shichu was one of Mrs. Ye's most favored male lovers. After this incident, he was not punished by Commander Ye but was promoted to an important position. Many people speculated that Mrs. Ye's death was related to Zou Shichu.
After all, given how much he is favored and how much Madam Ye trusts him, he is one of the few among Madam Ye's many lovers who can freely enter and leave Madam Ye's residence. It would be easy for him to take nude photos and videos to use as leverage.
Today, as Zou Shichu himself said, many people are trying to curry favor with him. After all, his position is related to the food distribution issue of the entire base.
He was still able to use guns and kill people and destroy bodies without hesitation in the base. Si Nan understood that now was not the time to anger Zou Shichu.
This man has become two different people from before. It can be seen from the fact that he killed Jiang Feifei without hesitation just now. If Si Nan shows resistance to escape and angers Zou Shichu, he will most likely rape her immediately and bring people to kill Cheng Suming.
What she had to do now was to comfort Zou Shichu and wait for Cheng Suming to come and rescue her.
With Cheng Suming's own strength and his friendship with Yan Hongyi, formerly Regiment Commander Zhou and now Brigade Commander Zhou, he can be said to be evenly matched or even better than Zou Shichu if he wants to compete with him.
Si Nan took a few deep breaths to calm himself down, and said softly, "Zou Shichu, let's talk about other things later. I feel very uncomfortable now and need to rest and recover my strength."
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