Chapter 90
Jiashu arrived on the morning of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Everyone had just gotten up when he arrived.
The whole family was very happy to see him come back. Cheng Ru even complained distressedly: "You have been away from home for several months, and you don't even come back to visit?
Look how thin you are. There is no flesh on your arms and legs! If you lose any more weight, you will be unrecognizable.”
Jiashu glanced at his own reflection in the window glass, and he couldn't imagine what he, who was over 1.8 meters tall, would look like if he was so thin that he couldn't be seen anymore.
However, he felt very comforted by the old man's complaints. The feeling of being cared for made his heart warm.
He didn't explain and just responded to everything Cheng Ru said with a smile.
Only when she had almost finished speaking did he interrupt: "Aunt, we have been rushing back since last night and stayed in the town in the middle of the night.
In order to hurry, I haven't eaten for nearly 20 hours."
After saying this, Cheng Ru stopped complaining. She was so angry that she slapped Jia Shu on the shoulder and cursed, "What a sin! You've ruined your stomach!"
Then he turned and left without even bothering to ask him what he wanted to eat.
Looking at the old lady's hurried back, Jiashu touched his shoulder and laughed, until he accidentally made eye contact with his uncle who was sitting on the sofa, and his laughter stopped abruptly.
"Come here and sit down." Old Master Gu took off his reading glasses and knocked on the coffee table.
Jiashu immediately walked over and sat on the small stool obediently.
Then he stretched out his arm honestly.
"Didn't I just take his pulse two days ago?" he muttered softly.
The old man raised his eyelids, and immediately closed his mouth with a serious expression.
After grabbing both of his hands and checking his pulse, and making sure that the boy was fine, the old man waved his hand at him impatiently: "Go away quickly. I can smell the sweat on your body. It's making my flowers stink."
After saying that, he moved the blooming jasmine on the coffee table closer to himself, and his expression was one of disgust.
Jiashu ran to take a shower, but Father Shen couldn't help but look out the door again.
Chen Cong asked beside him: "When did Wei Yan say he would be back today?"
“He didn’t say anything, just today,” Father Shen replied.
"Since he said today, he will definitely come back. Dad, you don't have to look for him. He's grown up now, can he still find his way home?"
Father Shen responded, but he still stood in the front yard, circling around the newly grown cabbages and wood ear vegetables.
Although he said he was going to look at the dishes, he actually wanted to wait for Wei Yan.
The older people are, the more they care about this kind of festival. They still remember clearly some farming seasons that young people may have forgotten long ago.
Not to mention days like Mid-Autumn Festival when families get together.
This is the first Mid-Autumn Festival that the whole family has spent together since the natural disaster.
The previous one was the most difficult time and no one was in the mood to bother with it.
Therefore, Mr. and Mrs. Shen paid more attention to this time and hoped that the whole family could be together.
However, their hopes were dashed.
I waited until twelve o'clock at noon, but Wei Yan still didn't come back.
"Forget it, don't wait, let's eat first. I left some food for him in the kitchen, let him eat it himself when he comes back."
Cheng Ru couldn't bear to watch it anymore and said.
"That's right, let's eat. Wei Yan must have been delayed somewhere. As a soldier, he often has no choice." Chen Xi also chimed in.
Since his wife and daughter had already said so, and there were more than ten people at home waiting for dinner, Shen Jianyi naturally couldn't insist.
He had no choice but to nod, then raised the beer in front of him and said to everyone, "Okay, no more waiting, let's get started!"
Although everyone felt a little disappointed that Wei Yan did not come back, the meal was generally very enjoyable.
In order to prepare this reunion dinner, Cheng Ru started thinking about the menu several days ago.
Although the dishes are very limited, the old lady still hopes to do her best to ensure that the whole family eats well, is full and happy.
Maybe because there were too many people at home, the children were a little too excited. After dinner, no one wanted to go to bed and they all wanted to go to the roof to play.
If it were any other time, the adults would definitely not agree. The sun at one or two o'clock can give people heatstroke in a matter of minutes.
But this time it's a little different.
Because Gu Kai and Shen Cong were there, not only was there a barbed wire fence on the top floor, but there was also a dense layer of vines climbing on the net.
In this way, the scorching sun is completely blocked and there is no problem of sunburn.
Besides, the top floor is more ventilated than the downstairs.
The community is not like Fulin. Living on the top floor, there are no other neighbors nearby, and no one will say anything even if you turn on the air conditioner.
After all, there are a lot of people here, and the old couple always like to keep a low profile.
There are more than a dozen people sitting in such a small room, it would be suffocating to death.
If you really want to chat, it’s better to go upstairs.
So this time, no one in the family stopped the children from making the suggestion.
On the contrary, they followed one by one, carrying their own water cups and benches.
The rooftop has a large space and is full of green plants. It is the children's favorite place.
Now that they have adults to accompany them, the three children are more energetic.
They chased each other and laughed all the time.
The adults followed them and chatted while shelling peanuts, chewing corn, and laughing.
Jiashu is talking about his life in the well-drilling team.
The hard and boring days became lively and interesting after he told them. The faces of the elderly smiled and the worries in their eyes were lessened.
Just as everyone was chatting and laughing, the children's laughter suddenly stopped.
When the adults reacted and turned to look for them, they heard Tongtong's trembling voice saying, "Bugs! Bugs are coming!"
Then, Shanshan screamed and burst into tears, turned around and ran over and threw herself into Chenxi's arms.
Everyone's expression changed!
Everyone subconsciously looked up at the same time, and when they saw a large "dark cloud" moving rapidly across the sky, their hearts sank to the bottom in an instant.
The "dark clouds" covered the sky, the sun became dim in front of them, and the sky suddenly became gray.
They moved so fast that there was no time for people to react.
In the blink of an eye, the swarm of insects that was originally far away in the sky had flown to the front, accompanied by the sound of buzzing wings.
And the terrifying crunching sound of chewing.
"Ah!" Someone in the yard screamed loudly.
What followed was countless screams, curses, cries, and the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.
It was like someone suddenly pressed the play button and the whole neighborhood exploded!
The suffocating silence from before was gone, leaving only panic.
Although I had heard Chen Cong talk about insects countless times beforehand, and I had also thought of countless contingency plans in my mind.
But when these countless beetles appeared so densely before their eyes, all the mental preparations were useless, and everyone felt deep fear from the bottom of their hearts.
That fear is innate and cannot be overcome.
The three children were the first to give in.
At first they were hiding in the adults' arms, but because everyone was sitting around the railing, that position was very close to the iron net.
And now, the dense iron net is full of black insects, one layer upon another.
They were desperate to get into the net, as the various vegetables in the net had a fatal attraction to them.
But the gaps in the net were too small for them to get in. Moreover, the vines entwined on the net gave off a smell that disgusted them.
At first, the first batch of insects rushed over and hovered near the net, hesitating for a moment, but more and more rushed over later...
They didn't care about anything else and all rushed to the vines and started chewing.
The vines are dense and covered with thorns.
The first insects that pounced on the vines either struggled to fly away or were stabbed to death on the vines.
However densely packed they are or how many thorns they have, they cannot match the madness and numbers of insects.
Batch after batch of insects fell down, and the entire top floor of the fourth floor seemed to have turned into a cage covered with insects.
It was so dark inside that there was no sunlight at all.
The Shen family also had those vegetables, which now seemed like delicious food protected in a cage.
Faced with such a scene, not to mention the children, even the adults would be horrified!
The children were crying and shaking all over. They broke free from their loved ones' arms and ran desperately to a place away from the railings and insects.
Shanshan is the youngest and is now a little hysterical with fear.
She lay on the ground, covered her head with her hands, curled up her body, closed her eyes and cried until she was hoarse!
Tongtong, on the other hand, maintained the demeanor of a brother. He was trembling with fear, but he still tried his best to hug his sister tightly and lie on top of her.
"Go back to the house! Everyone go back to the house!" Shen Cong shouted loudly.
She grabbed her husband who was trying to plant more vines, then squeezed Tongtong, who was closest to her, under her armpit and rushed to the stairs first.
When the insects came in my previous life, there were not many people left in the community, and because of the drought, there was not much food to grow.
So even though the swarming swarm of insects looked terrifying, they didn't actually stay here for long because they had no food. It could be said that they just whizzed past.
Chen Cong had never seen a scene like this, where insects stopped on the iron net and ate vines, and the entire building was covered with insects.
She was also terrified.
But she knew that it was meaningless to resist or stop it now.
In the face of disasters created by nature, humans are always the weakest and most powerless.
Gu Kai ran over and picked up Shanshan from the ground, while Shi Chen hugged Cancan tightly in his arms.
Jiashu supported Cheng Ru, and the others hurriedly followed.
The family didn't care about their weak legs and feet, and they didn't have the energy to rescue the vegetables that were close to the railing and were being eaten by the insects that got close to them. They all walked downstairs, one step deep and one step shallow.
When he was almost walking down the stairs, he heard a man outside the courtyard wall yelling loudly: "You bastards! You bugs, I'll fuck your ancestors!"
The voice was filled with grief and indignation, and the split ending tone was filled with deep despair.
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