Chapter 58: Just Waiting to Die
He had seen Xiang Yu's eyes like this, it was like he was looking at a dead person. Xiang Yu thought he was a dead person.
Xiang Yi was a little annoyed for a moment, "You take care of yourself..." and then drove away in the snowmobile.
Xiang Yu watched the family leave from behind. Uncle Xiang, Zhang Cuiping, Xiang Ling, and her three children, but great-grandmother was not among them.
Looking towards the next yard, I saw my grandmother, leaning on a crutch, standing in front of the door in a daze, watching the team gradually going away.
Xiang Yu walked towards her and called her a few times, but the old woman seemed not to hear him and looked ahead with burning eyes.
It's not just grandma. Many elderly people in the village are like her.
Only when the last figure disappeared did the grandmother notice Xiang Yu standing beside her. "Xiao Yu, why didn't you go with us? Hurry up and catch up. You will miss it if you are late..."
The grandmother was furious. She pushed the cane in her hand towards Xiang Yu and urged him to leave quickly. "Didn't you hear them say that the heavy snow will continue for another three months?"
"There will be other dangers in three months. I'm already old and weak. What are you, a young man, doing here? Hurry up and catch up. Go quickly..."
Xiang Yu saw that she was very excited, "Grandma, calm down first. I stayed because I have other things to do..."
Xiang Yu looked at the wrinkles on her face. The old woman was almost eighty years old this year. Seeing that Xiang Yu didn't listen to her, the old woman was helpless for a while.
There are still a dozen or so elderly people left in the village, who are about the same age as the grandmother. The village is not big to begin with.
After this person left, the place became even quieter. In the past, you could hear children crying and playing every now and then.
There was no sound now.
These elderly people who have no one to take care of them are just waiting to die if they stay in the village.
Dinner was the most sumptuous meal I had in the past six months, with a bowl of pickled fish, a serving of spicy chicken, a roast goose, and a plate of refreshing stir-fried vegetables.
There was no one left in the village. Except for the great-grandmother who lived close to her, the rest of the elderly people lived far away from her.
Therefore, she was not afraid of being discovered even if the food had a strong smell.
Before going to bed at night, Xiang Yu went to the next door.
"Xiao Yu is here. Have you eaten? I cooked some porridge and will give you a bowl..." Grandma stood up from the stove and hurried over to Yu.
"I'm fine, I just came to see you," Xiang Yu said as he turned on the flashlight and skillfully found the coal room. He filled a small bucket with beaten coal and placed it next to the stove.
The old man was very confident in Xiang Yu and didn't care much about her behavior of entering the coal room without permission.
"I've already eaten. The coal is next to the bed. If you feel cold at night, add some. If anything happens, just call me..."
With that, Xiang Yu left. The coal in the coal room could last for half a year, but there was only half a bag of rice and some dried vegetables in the house.
The supplies left were pitifully few, and even if they were eaten sparingly, the rice would only last for two months.
After returning home, Xiang Yu went straight to bed. It was the most peaceful sleep she had had in a long time, because the bell hanging on the iron gate did not ring all night.
For many days and nights before, the bell hanging on the door would ring at regular intervals, and the sound of the bell would scare away people outside the door.
But after waking up in the middle of the night, she found it difficult to fall asleep again.
After breakfast in the morning, Xiang Yu rode his snowmobile out and went straight to the nearest gas station. After finding the oil tank, he discovered that the oil had been taken away.
They used professional tools, probably someone from the rescue team did it.
We drove on to the next gas station. The gas station in the town had also been taken away by the rescue team, so we had to go to the city to have a look.
The speed of a snowmobile is much faster than that of walking. After driving for more than half an hour, we finally arrived outside the city.
There happened to be a gas station within a kilometer of the highway exit. I parked the snowmobile and walked in, and what I saw was a mess.
In general gas stations, there is a place similar to a convenience store, and at this time the shelves inside have completely collapsed.
There was also a severely decomposed corpse on the ground, pressed under the shelf, and a pungent stench surrounded the nose.
Xiang Yu skillfully found the oil tank. Fortunately, not a drop of oil was taken away this time.
There was just a dusty express box behind the oil tank. Xiang Yu smelled it and didn't find any strange smell, so he squatted down and cut the box open with a dagger.
There were three rows of sealed canned fruits inside, with a layer of foam underneath each layer. It was packed very carefully.
The harvest was good. Xiang Yu put the canned fruits and the boxes into the space.
More than six hours had passed since he came out in the morning. Xiang Yu took out the ready-made meals he had made from the space.
I found an empty house and went in, took out two stoves, and after eating for a while, my body gradually warmed up.
After roasting the fire for a while, Xiang Yu drove the snowmobile back.
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