Chapter 20: Blood outside the mall
Xiang Yu successfully hit the rabbit's right leg with a slingshot and caught it alive, a pregnant female rabbit.
Xiang Cheng and the other two looked at the slingshot in Xiang Yu's hand. The slingshot was just an ordinary one in their hands, but in Xiang Yu's hand, it could actually hit a rabbit.
In the following time, Xiang Yu taught them some methods of using slingshots. When dividing the rabbits, Xiang Yu took the pregnant rabbit away.
They were given three points for the two they had hit earlier, and Xiang Cheng and the other two had no objection.
On the afternoon of the fourth day, Xiang Cheng brought his parents to Xiang Yu's place. Two days ago, Xiang Cheng brought back a rabbit.
They were both extremely surprised. After hearing that it was Xiang Yu who helped catch the rabbit, they made a hat with the rabbit skin and sent it to Xiang Yu.
"My son told me that you live here alone and don't grow any crops. The vegetables in the fields are almost frozen because you can't finish them. We brought you some greens."
There was a layer of ice on the green vegetable leaves in the woman's hand. Afraid that Xiang Yu would not accept them, they placed them directly behind Xiang Yu's iron gate.
Xiang Yu had no choice but to accept it. She had been providing the rabbit in the space with good food and drink recently, and it would probably give birth to cubs soon.
Ever since Xiang Yu taught them the portable method of using a slingshot, the three of them practiced in the woods every afternoon.
On Monday, Uncle Xiang and his family decided to go to town to have a look. "I won't go, Uncle Xiang. I'll eat alone. What I bought before will be enough for me to eat for a while."
Xiang Yu refused to go to the town with them because the village had not cleared the snow and the roads were blocked by heavy snow.
They wanted to go to town, but the car was no longer usable, so they had to walk.
Xiang Yu looked at the three figures walking in the snow. This time, they were followed by Uncle Xiang's daughters Xiang Ling and Xiang Yi.
It seemed that Zhao Xingshan had not been seen for a long time.
Without internet, her cell phone was of little use except for the movies she had downloaded previously.
Xiang Yu took out a rocking chair from the space, lay on it and looked at the heavy snow outside the window.
After waking up from a nap in the afternoon, Xiang Yu took a shovel and cleared the snow in front of and behind the house. She stored all the cleared snow into the space.
Snowflakes fell on her eyelashes. Xiang Yu blinked and looked up at the snowy sky. Thinking of Chang Ming who was in the academy at this time, the corners of her mouth curled up.
Currently, there is not only Chang Ming in City A, but also her good cousin Xiang Wan, and her uncle's family who opened a shop near the college.
Calculating the time, the college probably can’t even supply steamed buns and pickles now, and the aunties in the cafeteria have also run away with the remaining food.
Knock knock knock, there was a knock on the iron gate. "Is anyone here? If you have nothing to do, go to the west end of the village and help out," a man's voice came into my ears.
Xiang Yu looked at the iron gate without saying anything. The person outside the door waited for a while and then left.
At about ten o'clock in the evening, Xiang Yu was awakened by the crying of a child next door, mixed with the voice of his great-grandmother.
"Don't cry, don't cry, grandma will give you some candy, and mom will be back soon," Xiang Yu turned over in bed. The supermarket in town only serves food on Mondays.
It is estimated that the shopping mall today is more dangerous than before. The people gathered there have been hungry for at least two weeks.
There was a strong wind at night and the sound of suona was heard from the west end of the village. Xiang Yu couldn't sleep, so he got up and added some coal to the stove.
The sound of suona continued until the second half of the night.
In the morning, Xiang Yu ran around the village twice as usual. When passing by his great-grandmother's yard, Xiang Yu was stopped by the old woman.
"Xiao Yu, can you do grandma a favor?" The old man was leaning on a cane, and there was a layer of snow on his hat. It was obvious that he had been standing here for a long time.
Xiang Yu did not agree immediately. The three children stood behind their grandmother and looked at Xiang Yu timidly.
"Grandma, please come into the house and talk first. The snow is too heavy." Xiang Yu looked at the old woman's elderly body and thought about her care over the years. In the end, he did not refuse her at the first time.
The furnishings in the room were still the same as before, with two sofas and an old stove in the middle, with the coal burning vigorously inside.
"You went to town with your uncle and his family yesterday and never came back. I'm going to look for them and was wondering if you could help take care of the three children first..."
After the three children came into the room, they sat quietly on the sofa, staring at Xiang Yu with several pairs of eyes.
There is no doubt that after experiencing the apocalypse for several years, Xiang Yu's previously cheerful personality has now become selfish.
Helping others in the apocalypse is cruel to yourself. If you meet someone who is too shameless, she will keep pestering you after you help her once.
Xiang Yu had encountered all these in his previous life.
His eyes were heavy as he thought, and the grandmother sat by the stove in silence.
"Grandma, you stay home and look after the kids. I'll go find Uncle Xiang and the others for you."
"By the way, where is Brother Zhao? Why haven't I seen him recently?" Xiang Yu asked casually. Zhao Xingshan is the father of three children.
How could he abandon three children in the current situation?
"Didn't you guys go to town and buy a lot of food last time? There are two elderly people at Xingshan's house. He went to pick them up. They are in J City. The roads here are also closed recently. It will probably take him two days to come back."
Xiang Yu chatted with her for a few more words, "Grandma, I'm going to pack some things and go to town to take a look."
After leaving great-grandma's house, Xiang Yu felt the cold wind blowing on his neck, and his mind became much clearer.
Whether before or now, her grandmother has always taken good care of her, and she also has a bottom line in her heart.
After returning to the room, Xiang Yu pulled the curtains. There was a dagger tied to his arm, but it was completely invisible after he put on his clothes.
I sharpened the axe and placed it in the space so that I can take it out anytime I want.
Carrying the compound bow on his back, Xiang Yu went out. "Xiao Yu, thank you. Be careful on the road..." There was worry in the grandmother's cloudy eyes.
She worries about her three children and Xiang Yu. She is now in her eighties and understands many things better than the younger generations.
Xiang Yu was walking on the country path, but she was not the only one on the path at this time, there were other people in the village as well.
Their purpose was the same as Xiang Yu's, to go to the town to find their husbands and children who had not returned home the night before.
Heavy snow blocked the road, making it difficult to travel. More than a dozen people advanced in the wind and snow.
It was two hours later when they arrived at the town's shopping mall. The scene before them shocked everyone. The square outside the mall was littered with snow piles stained red with blood.
"Dad, Dad..." Two children, only thirteen or fourteen years old, knelt beside a corpse and cried loudly.
The people in Xiangjia Village had tears in their eyes when they saw this. They used their hands to scrape away the snow covering the corpses. They breathed a sigh of relief when they found out that they were not their relatives.
"Husband, husband, wake up..." A woman who came with Xiang Yu and the others started crying while hugging a corpse on the ground.
"What's going on, husband? How could things turn out like this? Oh, right, call the police, I want to call the police," the woman took out her cell phone and dialed the police on the spot.
But soon, the phone sounded busy, the woman's body trembled violently, and the phone slipped from her hand to the ground.
A surge of strength seemed to surge in the woman's body. She picked up the frozen man and held him close to her cheek.
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