Grandpa Gu Bei doesn't sleep much; he usually only takes a short nap before waking up.
But last night I did a lot of physical work and went to bed after only eating a few bites of food.
After eating and drinking her fill, Qiao An'an couldn't hold on any longer and went upstairs to sleep.
Chi Xiaoyu fed the little pig with noodle soup, then fed the chicken some corn, and went upstairs to sleep.
Gu Bei was afraid that Ya Ya would disturb the adults who were sleeping.
While clearing away the dishes, he coaxed Ya Ya, "Brother can't count them all, Ya Ya, can you help brother count how many chopsticks are on the table?"
Ya Ya genuinely thought Gu Bei couldn't count them. Children this age love helping others, so she quickly stepped forward and started counting earnestly: "One, two, three... seven? No, let's start again, one, two..."
Yaya can currently only count to the tens at most.
After Gu Bei finished washing all the dishes, Ya Ya was still counting the chopsticks on the table.
Gu Bei picked up the chopsticks and put them in the water to wash them.
After washing the chopsticks, Gu Bei took Ya Ya into the greenhouse to pick sweet potato leaves.
These leaves grow exceptionally fast.
As long as it's not completely pinched off, it will continue to grow.
So each time, they would pinch off some bits of food mixed with leftovers and feed them to the miniature pigs.
After picking sweet potato leaves for a while, Ya Ya became unhappy: "Brother Gu Bei, Ya Ya doesn't want to pick sweet potato leaves anymore. Ya Ya wants to play with you."
Seeing that there were already quite a few sweet potato leaves in the basket, Gu Bei took Ya Ya out.
As we walked, I asked, "What does Ya Ya want to play?"
Ya Ya shook her head: "I don't know."
The two are a few years apart in age, and Gu Bei can play games that Ya Ya can't. Moreover, Gu Bei doesn't know what a three-year-old girl likes to play.
After thinking for a while, he said, "Shall we go to the pond to catch fish?"
Ever since Qiao An'an deepened the fishpond, Ya Ya has not been allowed to play by the pond alone. Qiao An'an and the others have been busy with their lives and haven't had time to take Ya Ya to play.
When Ya Ya heard that Gu Bei was going to take her fishing, she danced with joy: "I want to catch a big one so Mom can make grilled fish!"
There are a total of fifteen or sixteen fish in the fishpond.
The largest one only weighed about half a pound. Qiao An'an treated it like a precious gem, so Gu Bei didn't dare to catch it to make grilled fish for Ya Ya. However, those fish swam very far away, and Ya Ya might not be able to catch them. So Gu Bei said to Ya Ya, "Okay, if you can catch them, we'll make grilled fish for you."
Ya Ya confidently took the fishing net and headed straight for the pool.
However, those were crucian carp, not ornamental fish. Even though they lived in a small pond, they were very wary. Ya Ya's net always got very close to the crucian carp, but she always missed.
Ya Ya was extremely anxious.
Seeing that Ya Ya had been playing in the small pond for over an hour, Gu Bei was worried that she would get her clothes wet and catch a cold, so he advised her, "Why don't you stop playing and let's learn some characters?"
Ya Ya shook her head vigorously: "Give me five more minutes, and I'm sure I can catch a fish!"
Seeing how determined Ya Ya was.
Gu Bei didn't know what else to say: "Five minutes, just five minutes!"
In order to catch the fish within five minutes, Ya Ya hurriedly stretched the net out as far as possible, even standing on tiptoe.
Gu Bei hadn't even had a chance to stop it before he was born.
Ya Ya fell into the pool with a splash.
The pool was only 60 centimeters deep before, and the bottom was hardened. Later, in order to grow vegetables on the roof, Qiao An'an dug the bottom of the pool down another 60 centimeters. Now the pool is only 1.2 meters deep, not including the depth of the cement silt.
After Ya Ya, who was less than a meter tall, fell in, the icy pool water immediately submerged her head.
After choking on two mouthfuls of water, Ya Ya burst into tears.
But before she could even cry out, water poured into her mouth again. She could only struggle desperately, unaware that the more she struggled in the water, the faster she sank.
This terrified Gu Bei, who was on the shore.
He couldn't actually swim, but at that moment he didn't care about that and jumped into the water to rescue Yaya.
It was already quite cold in the north at the end of November.
Gu Bei felt a chill when he went into the water. He was only about 1.6 meters tall, and with the pool being 1.2 meters deep and containing more than 10 centimeters of silt, only his nose and above floated on the surface.
I feel like I could collapse if I just took a single step.
Even so, he still struggled to reach Ya Ya and lifted her head out of the water.
However, the mud underfoot was too slippery. After Gu Bei lifted Ya Ya up, he couldn't maintain his balance at all. He swayed from side to side and barely managed to stand, unable to reach the shore.
Once Ya Ya was able to breathe normally again, she was completely terrified and forgot her mother's warning not to cry in the apocalypse. She burst into tears, crying, "Mommy, I want my mommy!!!"
Upon hearing the cries from inside the courtyard, the zombies outside the courtyard wall began frantically ramming against the iron gate of the small courtyard.
The iron gate rattled as it was struck.
If it weren't for the heavy objects piled up behind the iron gate, the zombies would probably have already smashed it open.
The crying and the sound of zombies banging on the door woke up Qiao An'an and the others who were sleeping upstairs.
The three of them rushed downstairs in twos and threes.
Qiao An'an rushed to the front, pulled Ya Ya out of the water, and then took off her thick coat to wrap the shivering Ya Ya in it: "Ya Ya, don't cry, Mommy's here, don't cry..."
Wrapped in her mother's warm coat, Ya Ya nestled into her mother's arms, feeling much more at ease. She stopped crying out of fear and just sobbed softly.
Chi Xiaoyu and Gu Bei's grandfather worked together to pull Gu Bei out of the mud.
The first thing Gu Bei did after leaving the fishpond was to use his body to block the iron gate.
Chi Xiaoyu and Grandpa Gu Bei also joined the ranks of those blocking the iron gate. Even Qiao An'an put Ya Ya next to Da Hei to block the gate, but there were too many zombies outside the gate. Even with a lot of heavy objects and the combined efforts of everyone, it was still very dangerous.
Just when everyone thought the door was about to be broken down by zombies and they would all perish, gunshots suddenly rang out from the opposite residential area.
Qiao An'an and the others peered through the crack in the iron gate and saw that Chen Zhou had somehow gotten onto the train at the entrance of the residential area and was firing at the zombies in their direction.
The zombies attacked the courtyard because they heard Yaya crying coming from inside.
Ya Ya has stopped crying now.
An even louder noise came from the opposite residential area.
The zombies that had been ramming the iron gate of the courtyard immediately changed their target and ran towards the residential area.
Before long, only a few scattered zombies remained in front of the iron gate.
Gu Bei said with lingering fear, "If it weren't for Brother Chenzhou, we would have been finished this time..."
Chi Xiaoyu glanced at Gu Bei. "You're calling him 'brother' so quickly?"
"This sunken ship is definitely a rare breath of fresh air in the apocalypse."
As Grandpa Gu Bei spoke, he glanced at Gu Bei and asked, "How did Ya Ya fall into the pool? What were you thinking about Ya Ya?"
Gu Bei knew it was his fault, and lowered his head to say to Qiao An'an, "Aunt An'an, I'm sorry. I took Ya Ya to the pond to play a fishing game, and then I didn't keep a close eye on her, which caused her to fall into the water and attract the zombies..."
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