Zhao Xiaoxiu's excitement was palpable.
Mo Shigui arranged for the two new families to get into the car. Zhao Xiaoxiu immediately climbed into the back seat, patted the seat next to her, and looked at Liu Chuan expectantly, saying, "Sister can sit here."
Liu Chuan glanced at his wife, Jiang Ning, who gave Zhao Xiaoxiu an apologetic smile and explained:
“My sister isn’t feeling well; she has a cold and I’m worried she might infect you. I’ll let her sit in the back of the truck with Dad. Once she’s better, Auntie will let her play with you.”
He then asked Qiu Bai and Wang Xiang, the couple from Territory No. 2, to get into the car, saying that his family of four would sit in the back of the truck.
The two families walked together from the city. On the way, Qiu Bai and Wang Xiang saw that Jiang Ning's family had both elderly and young members, and took the initiative to take care of them.
The same thing happened again. The couple refused Jiang Ning's suggestion, helped Grandpa Jiang into the car, pushed Jiang Ning and her daughter in, and then called Liu Chuan to jump into the truck bed.
Jiang Ning felt embarrassed, as Qiu Bai and his wife had already taken great care of them along the way. She wanted to get off the bus with her daughter so that she and her husband could come in, but she kept saying, "Children are prone to catching diseases from each other, so I'll take Miaomiao to the back."
Zhao Xiaoxiu said loudly, "Auntie, I'm not afraid of getting infected. I'm very healthy! Please let my sister sit in the car."
The little girl's round eyes sparkled with anticipation, making one's heart melt.
Wrapped in a thin blanket and held in her mother's arms, Liu Miaomiao looked at Zhao Xiaoxiu with bright eyes, but when she noticed Zhao Xiaoxiu smiling at her, she immediately turned her face to her mother, only revealing half an eye to curiously examine her.
Zhao Xiaoxiu made a funny face, and Liu Miaomiao was stunned for a moment before blushing and laughing.
"This young lady is so shy," Zhao Xiaoxiu thought to herself.
Mo Shigui said, "Let's sit here and set off."
Zhao Xiaoxiu silently cheered in her heart: Oh yeah!
With the stationmaster's decision finalized, Jiang Ning stopped mentioning taking his daughter to the back seat, as doing so would seem pretentious and deliberate.
She looked at the people in front of her with gratitude, feeling that her decision to bring her whole family to the planting area was absolutely the right one!
The people here are much, much better than she imagined.
The word "human touch" was so far removed from her before, but now it's so close to her.
Grandpa Jiang pulled a raw chestnut out of his tattered cotton-padded coat and kindly handed it to Zhao Xiaoxiu. "Good girl, Grandpa has something delicious for you. It's a slightly mutated raw chestnut. It's sweet and crunchy. You can have it."
Seeing Liu Miaomiao's surprised reaction, Zhao Xiaoxiu guessed that this small chestnut was a very precious thing to their family.
But she did not refuse Grandpa Jiang's kindness, thanked him generously, and accepted it.
With a quick pry of her little hands, she easily separated the shell from the flesh, and then split the flesh in two. She ate one half herself and gave the other half to Liu Miaomiao.
Liu Miaomiao glanced at her mother, and seeing no objection from her, she stretched out a thin, red hand from under the thin blanket, took the chestnut, and put it in her mouth.
"Is it sweet?" Zhao Xiaoxiu asked softly.
Liu Miaomiao nodded, taking small bites of the half chestnut to prolong the sweetness.
Like a snail cautiously peeking out its antennae, she looked enviously at Zhao Xiaoxiu, who had devoured a chestnut in one bite with a blissful expression, and said, "You're so strong."
She couldn't even break open the hard shell of the mutated chestnut by hand; she had to use her teeth to bite it open.
Sometimes, when something is too hard, even teeth can't crack it, and Grandpa has to use a hammer to break it open.
Zhao Xiaoxiu chuckled and encouraged her, "If you eat more, you'll become stronger and recover from illnesses faster."
Unexpectedly, as soon as she finished speaking, the snail that had just extended its tentacles to the outside world immediately retracted them back into its shell.
Liu Miaomiao lowered her eyes and said softly, "The nutrient solution is very expensive. We can only drink half a bottle a day, and it costs a lot of points to eat our fill. It will be very hard on Mom and Dad, and I don't want them to suffer..."
Afterwards, perhaps due to illness and lack of energy, Liu Miaomiao quickly fell into a deep sleep as the car bumped along.
Zhao Xiaoxiu faced the window, pouting at the little girl reflected in the glass, looking a bit depressed.
The new girl looks so weak. I hope she gets better soon.
However, the cub is still full of anticipation at the thought of having another little playmate in the future.
We set off at 9 a.m. to pick up people, and didn't get back to Area B until after 3 p.m.
Mo Shigui dropped the couple off at the entrance of Territory No. 13, told them to listen to the landlord, and then sped away.
The two families, who had just arrived in the territory, were clearly not used to the desolate feeling and had no sense of security.
Zhao Xiaoxiu, like a little adult, explained the situation of her family's territory to the new tenants, and together with her father, led them to a row of houses that looked like dilapidated houses, but were actually dilapidated houses.
“You can choose any of these houses,” Zhao Xiaoxiu said confidently, hands on her hips.
Wang Xiang from Territory Two asked in shock, "There are no walls here at all. Won't any mutated species suddenly break in?"
Zhao Gang: "The patrol station carries out cleanup missions near the isolation zone every day, and under normal circumstances, there will be no mutants of level B or above."
"ah!"
No sooner had Zhao Gang finished speaking than Qiu Bai suddenly let out a sharp bang, raised his gun, pointed it at the people behind him, and shouted, "A mutated species has appeared!"
Two angry roars rang out, startling everyone.
The Jiang family immediately adopted a defensive stance, and Liu Chuan stepped forward to stand in front of them, raising his weapon.
Zhao Xiaoxiu slapped her forehead, her tone helpless, "Don't be afraid, that's my friend Sister Monkey."
The monkey sister, who was once again mistaken for a mutant, jumped out angrily, pounding her chest and stomping her feet, stirring up a large patch of white snow, which froze Liu Miaomiao, who had just woken up from her dream.
Zhao Xiaoxiu rushed forward in annoyance and gave Monkey Sister a light punch, saying, "I told you not to suddenly appear, you'll scare the kids."
Monkey Sister threw a light punch at Zhao Xiaoxiu, because the moment she raised her fist, Zhao Gang's sharp gaze swept over her.
"Squeak squeak squeak!" Sister Monkey expressed her grievance, as she was startled by this group of people.
Zhao Xiaoxiu: "Okay, okay, it's my fault for not telling you in advance that we were having new guests. Don't be angry."
Monkey Sister: "Squeak!" That's more like it.
It pulled Zhao Xiaoxiu close to its chest and strode over to the Qiu and Bai families in Jiangning. It bared its teeth in a friendly manner, which frightened the two families so much that their faces turned pale.
Zhao Gang explained expressionlessly, "This is an evolved macaque. Don't call it a mutant, or it will get angry."
Sister Monkey glanced at Zhao Gang with emotion, thinking, "That's right, that's right, it's the cub's father who understands it best."
Zhao Gang continued, "As long as you are within my territory, you will not be harmed by the mutated species."
"There's a pond not far from the house, but it's covered in snow. To avoid falling in and getting eaten by my little Peter Pan, you'd better go through the main road to get water."
“The poplar grove to the east also belongs to my family. I happen to need some wood to make furniture. If you help me cut down the trees, I can give you the branches as firewood.”
"Also, that area by the entrance is a vegetable garden, please don't damage it..."
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