Chapter 3 Shameless
Soon, Chi Yuanshan and Song Yinghe came over with flashlights.
After repeatedly confirming that Chi Wan was fine, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
Song Yinghe also poked Chi Wan's forehead and scolded: "I told you that you are a girl, why do you live in the mountains? You scare me to death!"
Chi Wan held Song Yinghe's hand and shook it flatteringly: "I'm fine, right? I'm your daughter, but I'm very smart, otherwise I wouldn't have discovered the bad things they did. Let's go to the orchard first to see what's going on."
The sun rises early in the summer. Although it is only half past five, the sky is gradually getting brighter. The family of three walks to the orchard together.
The orchard is indeed very large, covering nearly thirty acres, and it takes a lot of time just to walk around it.
But the fruits hanging on the trees seem to give people a full sense of hope. Although they are not fully ripe yet, one can already foresee the joy of the harvest.
After looking around, he didn't find anything unusual about the fruit trees, but Chi Yuanshan didn't doubt Chi Wan's words. He sighed, "Wan Wan is the only one in our family who understands plants, but she's still in school... It seems that we still need to hire someone special to look after the orchard."
Chi Wan is studying botany in college and is only a freshman now.
Song Yinghe also had a headache: "I think Liu Dali and his team are the ones who know this best in this area. But who would dare to hire them to do work if they are like this?"
Chi Yuanshan comforted him, "It's okay, it's okay. I'll go to the city today and at least hire someone to look after the garden."
Chi Wan listened to the two people's discussion, then squatted down to observe the soil under the tree and found that it seemed to have been turned over by someone.
She thought about it, took out a pair of gloves from the space and put them on, then took out the small shovel she carried with her and started digging down.
Chi Yuanshan and Song Yinghe stopped talking as they watched Chi Wan's actions. They wanted to help her dig, but Chi Wan refused: "You don't have gloves, so don't move. I'm afraid they've poured something in there."
As he was talking, as the soil was dug up, a pungent smell slowly dissipated with Chi Wan's movements.
I saw that the color of the soil under the surface had become much darker and was a little damp.
Chi Wan didn't dare to be careless. She held her breath, frowned, filled a small bag with soil, tied the bag, and handed it to Chi Yuanshan: "Dad, please go and identify this."
Chi Yuanshan stared at the bag of soil, not knowing what he was thinking about, and did not speak for a long time.
Song Yinghe guessed what he was thinking and sighed: "Think positively, people will always change."
Chi Wan probably also knew that Chi Yuanshan had contracted the garden to Liu Dali out of some friendship they had in the past.
It’s just that these sentiments have been tainted with other things in the profits generated by the orchard.
After not sleeping all night, Chi Wan couldn't bear it anymore and yawned.
Chi Yuanshan came back to his senses and pulled her down the mountain: "Wanwan has really grown up and is now able to help mom and dad so much. Go back and get some sleep, and leave the rest to mom and dad."
Chi Wan didn't refuse, she was indeed sleepy.
Before going to bed, she left a note in the space and then fell asleep.
*
Li Xingye returned to his team with the snacks and water.
The base was almost out of ammunition and food. He left the remaining supplies behind and took the other three brothers out to find food. In fact, he was already prepared to die outside.
But Chi Wan's appearance gave him full of hope.
Returning to the building where the others were temporarily stationed, it was very quiet outside, without even a gatekeeper.
Fortunately, Li Xingye cleared out the zombies nearby before going out, otherwise they would not even know that danger was right in front of them.
Thinking of the state of his brothers before he made a desperate effort to find food, Li Xingye's heart sank, and he directly controlled the vines to send himself to the fourth floor.
There were three equally skinny people lying in the room, with sallow faces, dry lips, and half-closed eyes. They were breathing in less than out.
One of the bearded men saw Li Xingye and tried to open his eyes a little, with a hint of hope in his eyes.
Li Xingye didn't care about anything else and hurried forward to feed each person a bottle of sugar water.
He made this sugar water using the sugar in Chi Wan's space. After all, he couldn't get glucose for the time being.
Fortunately, these people are originally supernatural beings, and their physical fitness is much better than that of ordinary people. What they can't stand more than hunger is dehydration.
After drinking a bottle of sugar water, they were able to stand up with difficulty.
When the bearded man was halfway through drinking, he subconsciously grabbed the water bottle and drank it all in one gulp. Then he took a deep breath, his face full of relief for having survived death: "Brother, am I dreaming?"
Li Xingye didn't say anything, and gave them another can of eight-treasure porridge.
Now no one cared about anything else. God knows that Eight Treasure Porridge had become extinct seven or eight years ago. If it were taken out now, all the survivors would fight for it desperately.
The bearded man finished his porridge with red eyes, then cut the jar open with a knife and licked even the bits of liquid stuck to the wall clean.
The same goes for the other three.
After struggling for so many years in the apocalypse, no one knows better than them how precious food is.
After filling their stomachs, the three of them finally had the mood to ask Li Xingye, who was obviously excited: "Boss, where did you find these things?"
The bearded man slapped his forehead and said, "It's over. I should have saved some! We are really living on one meal and not the next."
"If there's no next meal, then there's no next meal. Even if I'm going to die, I'll be content to have a meal like this before I die." The tall and thin man rubbed his stomach and sighed.
In fact, we hadn’t eaten for a long time, and everyone’s stomachs felt a little uncomfortable after eating so much all of a sudden. But everyone had only one thought in their mind at this moment: Even if I want to vomit, I have to grit my teeth and swallow it!
These three were brothers who had been through thick and thin with Li Xingye for so many years. Seeing that everyone's condition had visibly improved, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He couldn't suppress the joy in his heart and said, "In the future... maybe no one will have to go hungry anymore!"
*
Chi Wan slept until noon.
When she woke up in a daze, there was already a chaotic scene in front of her old house.
The village chief and a group of villagers were blocking the door. Liu Dali and his gang seemed to be in a standoff with Chi Yuanshan and his wife. Behind the couple stood two academic-looking people, one old and one young, who were talking about something.
When Chi Wan walked out, he heard Liu Dali shouting fearlessly.
"Village chief, you have to make the decision for me! As soon as Chi Yuanshan came back, he asked me to return the orchard to them. I returned it, and he didn't even want this year's fruits. But they just want to slander me! What, are the city people used to blackmailing us farmers?
"I'm telling you, don't think you can bully others just because we don't understand you! If you don't apologize and compensate, this matter today will not be over!"
Chi Wan was stunned. He didn't expect that there would be such a shameless person.
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