Soon, a refreshing fragrance began to waft through the air. The people busy in the yard couldn't help but stretch their necks and breathe in the air. The smell was so fragrant, without the strange smell of mutated plants, but just the refreshing and delicious aroma of green vegetables, which was very tempting.
On the big stone table in the yard, plate after plate of dishes were slowly placed, including fried lettuce with garlic, cabbage with vermicelli, scrambled eggs with cucumber, vegetable soup, tomato soup, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stir-fried lettuce, cold lettuce, cold cucumber, cucumber egg soup, etc.
Because time was too tight to kill chickens and ducks, and considering the sumptuous meal last night, Li Xue almost exclusively cooked stir-fried vegetables for lunch.
"Ruoruo, you're looking for me..." Zhou Zhiguo just walked to the gate of the fence and smelled the fragrance in the air. He couldn't help swallowing his saliva.
"Yeah..." Chen Ruoruo stood up when she saw Zhou Zhiguo coming back with Tao Wei and others.
"What's the matter?" Zhou Zhiguo looked at Chen Ruoruo and asked seriously.
"Come with me..." Chen Ruoruo said and led the group towards the small bungalow.
Afterwards, Zhou Zhiguo and his companions saw that the room was filled with all kinds of food, including a few chickens and ducks. There were also a few fish in one of the storage boxes. They widened their eyes when they saw the vegetables and fruits in the room.
"Help me take these things outside..." Chen Ruoruo pointed to a pile of things placed on the bed.
"Okay..." Zhou Zhiguo and his companions did not hesitate at all, and then quickly moved all the things that Chen Ruoruo specified in the room to outside the small bungalow.
Han Xiao, Qi Jiang and others looked at the things they moved out and were also a little curious. After finishing their own work, they gathered around in groups of three or four.
Chen Ruoruo looked at the group of people in front of her. They were all standing quietly by, with no other expressions on their faces except curiosity and confusion.
Chen Ruoruo asked Qi Jiang to call Li Xue, Xia Xiaoying and others over. After everyone arrived, she compared the paper Zhou Zhiguo gave her yesterday with the sizes on it, and distributed the clothes and shoes that had just been moved out to the group of people in front of her with the help of Zhou Zhiguo and others.
"These? Are they for us?" Ma Qian looked down at the things in his arms, then looked up at Chen Ruoruo with a look of surprise and joy.
"Yeah..." Chen Ruoruo looked at Ma Qian and nodded in confirmation.
This time, Chen Ruoruo gave each of them three sets of clothes and three pairs of shoes: one set of sportswear, one set of casual clothes, one set of combat uniform, and two pairs of leather boots and one pair of sneakers.
The main reason was that the clothes they were wearing were so worn that Chen Ruoruo couldn't bear to look at them. Although they didn't look like a big deal, to someone who could wear new clothes almost every day, the clothes they wore were really worn out.
She originally thought that the clothes and shoes she had provided for this mission would allow them to get rid of the ones they were wearing, but now it seemed that Zhou Zhiguo and the others might have new arrangements, so she could only give them some new clothes individually.
"Okay... let's go eat..." After distributing the food, Chen Ruoruo looked at the group of people in front of her and said.
Everyone held the things in their arms tightly and looked at Chen Ruoruo with different expressions. Among them, Zhou Zhiguo, Han Xiao, and Qi Jiang's expressions became more and more solemn.
There was no trace of joy on the faces of the others. No one was happy about getting new clothes. Instead, they lowered their heads with gloomy expressions. For a moment, the atmosphere in the air became extremely solemn.
Even without the warnings from Zhou Zhiguo and the other captains, many people noticed something was amiss. Even if they were dull, they could tell something was amiss.
Chen Ruoruo's reaction was really abnormal. She was extraordinarily nice to them, inviting them to dinner again and again, and promising to guide them in improving their abilities. Now she was giving them so many things. It was abnormal, really too abnormal.
All this happened within the past two days, yesterday and today. It really doesn't seem like something Chen Ruoruo would do.
This made them feel a strong sense of unease, and many people even had the illusion of being executed. Although they had obtained so many things, they still had a sense of loss.
"Let's go... Aren't you hungry?" Chen Ruoruo said puzzledly as she looked at the group of people standing motionless in front of her.
"Sister Ruoruo, don't you want us anymore?" Tao Dan's voice sounded softly. Children are always more sensitive to their surroundings than adults, so when she said this, everyone was shocked and immediately understood the source of their uneasiness.
"What?" Chen Ruoruo looked at the little girl standing not far away, holding a large bag and looking at her with a bitter face. The little girl looked even smaller among a group of adults.
"I don't want these anymore. Can you not leave?" Tao Dan put the things in his hand on the table next to Chen Ruoruo and said to her.
"Ruoruo, do you really want to leave?" Xia Xiaoying looked at Chen Ruoruo with a sad face.
"When I was a child, my mother had to work far away. Before she left, she would buy me a lot of delicious food and beautiful new clothes. Then she would leave quietly, but I only wanted my mother..." Tao Dan seemed to have remembered something sad. Her eyes were red, and she looked at Chen Ruoruo pitifully with her watery eyes.
"Ruoruo... is it because of this mission? We won't go to that kind of place again next time, believe me..." Zhou Zhiguo looked at Chen Ruoruo and said seriously and sincerely.
"Ruoruo, we don't want these things, please don't leave, okay?"
"Didn't you promise to guide us yesterday?"
"Yes, you can't go back on your word..."
"Supplies, yes, the supplies we have for these few times. We will use them sparingly, so you don't have to worry..."
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