Beast Familiarity Starts with Raising Cats

Bai Ye locked the doors and windows before going out, especially the kitchen window.

Previously, the residents stored a lot of food in their room, especially more than 100 kilograms of fruit.

Most of them are fruits picked before, and the rest are some other varieties of fruits.

There is also a notepad on the living room table.

The notepad recorded the share of each transaction, and Bai Ye suddenly realized that most of these fruits were obtained from transactions with other people in the building in the past two days.

And usually two kilograms of fruit are exchanged for one kilogram of other fruits, or one and a half kilograms are exchanged for one kilogram of other fruits.

It can't be for charity.

Bai Ye felt something was wrong.

After much thought, he felt that the only reasonable explanation was for nutritional balance.

Simply eating one type of food may lead to a lack of certain vitamins, which may lead to illness.

These two people would trade with other people.

For other people, they are all fruits, as long as they can fill their stomachs, and whether they taste good or not is secondary.

It is a joy to be able to exchange one pound of fruit for two pounds of other fruits.

But in addition to this person, Bai Ye also found that there were two other people's consumption expenditure statements in this small book.

Everyone needs to register what they eat every day.

Both of them eat basically the same amount of food every day.

Bai Ye was amazed, the relationship between the two people... was really strange.

Friends are not like friends, but more like partners.

But it doesn't matter anymore, now these things are cheap.

Just looking at such a rich harvest, Bai Ye couldn't help but say a sentence in his mind: murder and arson gold belt.

Looting is always the fastest way.

...

On the other side, 7-2.

Someone knocked on the door,

Peng Xiuying opened the door. In the darkness behind the door, a man was hidden. The man lowered his head and could not see his face clearly.

"shopping."

The man outside the door said.

"what do you want to buy?"

"Didn't you advertise in the corridor that day that there was rosin?" the man said.

"Yes, there is rosin, okay, wait a minute." Peng Xiuying was about to close the door and go get something.

But a hand pushed the door open.

"What are you going to do?" Peng Xiuying sensed something was wrong and said in a panic.

She wanted to close the door, but how could an untrained woman be as strong as a man?

"I want to come in and choose for myself." The man said as he pushed the door hard.

"Don't come in, I'll bring it to you and you can pick it yourself...wait a minute, I'll sell it to you cheaper." Peng Xiuying said anxiously.

If she is not stupid, how could she let a strange man enter her home?

"Mom." Hearing his mother's voice, the little boy who was playing with toys in the bedroom ran out.

"Oh, there are children." The man said with a smile, but this smile looked so ferocious to Peng Xiuying, like a devil laughing.

"It must not be easy for you to take care of the children alone, how about you let me take care of you." The man pushed the door hard, so the veins on his face popped out, and his smile was particularly ferocious.

"Get out!" Peng Xiuying was furious.

Orphans and widowed mothers are most likely to be bullied in this environment.

She has always been worried about this.

So she has been trying to be careful these days, staying at home as much as possible and not going out except when she has to collect materials near the building.

This home is her safe haven.

"If your man is dead, you must find another man." The man outside the door said, "I won't take advantage of you in vain. I will bring you food every time from now on to prevent you from going hungry."

Peng Xiuying suddenly shouted to the child behind her: "Xiaoyu, bring the knife on the table."

Although the little boy was only five years old, he could see that this man was bullying his mother.

He quickly picked up the fruit knife from the table and trotted to hand it to his mother.

Peng Xiuying took the knife and looked at the knife in the woman's hand. The man retreated.

Even if he is facing a woman who is weaker than him, she still has a knife in her hand. He is still mortal, so what if he gets stabbed a few times?

There are no medical facilities now, and it is difficult to treat injuries. We can only rely on our bodies to resist.

He let go of his hand, turned around and ran away. As he walked, he said harshly, "Wait for me. Why are you pretending to be noble? You are selling rosin. There are pine trees outside. Who comes here to buy it specifically? You have no idea."

Peng Xiuying held the knife and chased him out like crazy.

He chased and cursed at the same time, venting his inner fear and anger.

It was so noisy that her yelling and cursing could be heard on several floors.

Peng Xiuying stopped in front of the stairs of the emergency passage.

Because it's too dark inside.

I couldn't see anything, so I usually had to light a torch, brazier, etc., or fumble my way up the stairs.

The only sounds in the corridor were the footsteps of men running upstairs in panic.

After returning to her home, Peng Xiuying closed the door and sat down against the door.

"Your father left us orphans and widowed mothers. He was watching from the sky as we and my mother were bullied. He has no conscience and is a bastard." Peng Xiuying looked at her son standing in front of her and hugged her child.

She used to be introverted, but the reality these days was like a hammer, hitting her hard.

Women are soft by nature, but mothers are strong.

If she hadn't had children, and if the children hadn't been too young to take care of themselves, she might have given up.

At this time, there was another knock on the door behind her, and Peng Xiuying, who was leaning against the door, was startled.

She sat up, hid the child behind her, and shouted out the door in a stern tone: "You still dare to come, you really think I'm easy to bully."

"Little girl, you may have misunderstood. I am not the bad guy just now. I live next door to you." There was an old man's voice outside the door.

Only then did Peng Xiuying realize that she had admitted her mistake.

She knew that there was an old veteran living next door.

She has seen it too, but she hasn't had much contact with it.

But she opened the door anyway, because if even the veterans were not trustworthy, maybe there would be no one trustworthy in this building.

Zhong Chenliang looked at Peng Xiuying, whose eyes were a little red and swollen, and said softly: "I was taking a nap just now, and I came out when I heard your voice. What happened?"

Peng Xiuying told Zhong Chenliang what happened.

Zhong Chenliang sighed. He had experienced war and had a deeper understanding of human nature.

"If this happens again in the future, just shout loudly, I'm right next door! I can't help everyone, but my neighbors can still help."

Zhong Chenliang's voice was very soft but decisive.

What he despises the most is bullying orphans and widowed mothers.

"Grandpa Zhong." Peng Xiuying was very moved. She seemed to see the shadow of her own grandfather in the old man in front of her.

It's just that her grandfather has been gone for several years. When he was still alive, she was the one who hurt him the most.

At that time, the old man always said that he wanted to hold his great-grandson. The dying old man lay on his bed at home for a whole year. It was not until he saw the newly born Xiaoyu that he closed his eyes and passed away contentedly.

"Grandpa Zhong, can you help me check on Xiaoyu when I'm not at home?" Peng Xiuying said to Zhong Chenliang.

"You want to go out?" Zhong Chenliang was surprised.

Peng Xiuying nodded, "Well, I don't want to continue to stay in the building every day."

"If I fail to come back one day... Grandpa Zhong, can you help me take care of Xiaoyu?"

"Why bother." Zhong Chenliang said.

Peng Xiuying bit her lip with complicated eyes.

"I used to think that Xiaoyu and I could make a living by selling rosin and other products, but in the past two days there have been very few people buying things, or they may have ulterior motives."

"Now I can see clearly that food is inherently scarce, and this is not a scarce technical job. Anyone can do it, and I have no competitiveness."

Zhong Chenliang didn't quite understand this, but he still understood what Peng Xiuying meant.

"In the past, when everyone was poor, practicality was the best, and what could be saved was saved. Sometimes the father would wear a piece of clothing for the eldest brother, and sew and mend it for the second child. In the end, what was left to the third child was a beggar's outfit."

When resources are scarce, any resource is precious.

As for quality, there is no market for it when it comes to cheapness.

For everyone now, the quality of the product is not important, what they care about is cheapness and practicality.

Zhong Chenliang took Wang Yu back to his home.

Zhong Chenliang’s home is not very big, but also a small one.

The room was very dark and the curtains were closed.

He asked Wang Yu to go sit on the sofa first.

Then he walked back to the bedroom. There was an opened bottle of sleeping pills on the small table in the bedroom, and there was a bowl of water next to the sleeping pills.

Zhong Chenliang picked up the bottle cap, tightened it on the sleeping pill bottle, walked to the cabinet, opened the cabinet and placed it on the top floor.

The old man took out another old plastic bag from the cabinet.

Slowly open the knot, there is some rock sugar inside.

Carrying the bag, he walked up to Wang Yu and said, "Here, let's have some candy."

The reserved Wang Yu looked at the rock candy in Zhong Chenliang's bag and pursed his lips. He hadn't eaten candy for several days.

This is rock candy, he knows, it's sweet.

But usually his parents teach him not to accept things from strangers casually.

So Wang Yu shook his head and although he kept swallowing, he still didn't take it.

The old man smiled and didn't care. He just put the bag on the table and said, "If you want to eat, you can take it yourself. There is still water in the kettle on the table."

After Zhong Chenliang finished speaking, he walked back to the bedroom, where a photo frame hung on the wall of the bedroom.

He stared at his wife's kind photo in the frame and fell into nostalgia.

...

"You want to go out on an adventure with me?" Dou Juan did not expect that Peng Xiuying would come to find her.

This is the first woman to find him and say that he wants to form a team to explore outside.

"What about your child? Nothing will happen if the child is left alone at home."

"The neighbor took care of it for me first," Peng Xiuying said.

Dou Juan was surprised that there was someone raising a son for someone else at this time?

She looked at Peng Xiuying and suddenly thought of someone.

That veteran.

It was just that after participating in the first exploration the day before yesterday, the veteran went home and never came out again. She almost ignored this person.

But her memory has always been very good, and she remembered that the veteran probably lived next door to Peng Xiuying.

The neighbor she was talking about must be the veteran.

"Okay, we are going to go out later, you can come with us." Dou Juan said.

...

When Bai Ye and Tong Ji came to Dou Juan's house to gather together, they found that there were already five people in the house.

Dou Juan, Peng Xiuying, Zhou Daling, Zhou Xiaoshan, Li Yundong,

Plus Tong Ji and himself.

There are exactly seven people in total.

Seeing Bai Ye coming over, Dou Juan didn't have any strange expression.

It seems to have been expected.

Li Yundong was surprised at first, and then a little happy.

Peng Xiuying lifted her hair from her ears. Sitting in the corner, she glanced at Bai Ye and lowered her head.

However, the faces of father and son Zhou Daling and Zhou Xiaoshan were a little unnatural.

Apparently it was because of Bai Ye's murder incident in the morning.

Zhou Daling had not returned home at that time, but Zhou Xiaoshan heard the commotion and came out to see it, and informed his father about it after he returned home.

Bai Ye killed someone, and he killed two teammates who were exploring with them on the first day.

This made the two of them somewhat unacceptable.

However, the two of them didn't speak when they saw other people, and Bai Ye didn't usually conflict with them, so although he was dissatisfied, he didn't speak.