Survival [End Times]

At the end of winter in the third year of the end of the world, Xianglan died of illness, and Han Dongshu died of illness four days later. In the spring of the fourth year of the end of the world, the fourth batch of large troops moved into Xiangya Town, which once again plunged Xiangya Town, which had received two groups of victims, into a saturated and crowded situation.

"Are you from the Snowy Area of ​​Jiangtian City?" Yu Heng was a little excited when he heard the news. I don't know if it was obvious or not!

"Mom, I'm going to find out right now!"

Soon Zhou Qingrong came back with news: "They are not from Jiangtian City. There are people from several cities. They came together, but they did pass through Jiangtian City. I couldn't find the list, and the people had dispersed to various villages. He comforted Yu Heng: "You know the address of our home. If he comes too, he will definitely come."

Yu Heng nodded, that was all he could do.

During dinner, there was another noise outside. The Yu Heng family continued to eat without changing their expressions, treating the obscene words as background music. Life is not easy, which gives rise to many conflicts, especially during meals. Zhou Qinghu likes to quarrel with her husband at this time. Xianglan used to persuade her, but when Xianglan died of illness, Zhou Jianye didn't bother to take care of it anymore.

The camera zooms in on the entire Laokang Village. It can be clearly seen that there are many more buildings in the village than before, and they are all densely packed with houses. Some of the houses are obviously newly built and built higher to accommodate more people. Many of them have thirteen floors, making them the tallest buildings in the village.

The current situation in Laokang Village is a microcosm of Xiangya Town. In the third month after the cold wave, shortly after the Xiangya Cemetery was completed, a new batch of victims entered Xiangya Town. Then came the second and third batches. There are not many survivors who have survived the cold wave, but they are definitely the most resilient people. The first three groups of people were all from this province and the neighboring provinces. The majority were from this province, and there were relatively few from other provinces. It is said that many people died on the road.

These people are even more difficult to deal with than the group of people when the Legion moved in before. Fortunately, Xiangya Town also has weapons. The items in the town's school weapons depot are scattered to different people in different places, and they are not easy to mess with. After several conflicts, the new victims either obtained the right to live in a family's house in exchange for materials, or built their own houses and settled down in Xiangya Town one after another.

Learning from the lessons of the last cold wave, they also built a large number of underground shelters. Sometimes they even built rough construction projects directly on top of the underground shelters to cope with the situation, and slept underground at night. It can be said that once you are bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of the rope for ten years.

Building materials such as stone, sand, cement, etc. have been exhausted, and the mountains in Xiangya Town have also been heavily mined. The bald forests that have just sprouted have disappeared piece by piece, and the felling lines continue to move upward.

These are unstoppable trends. More than 5,000 people have moved into Laokang Village, making the village packed to the brim. As usual, Yu Heng's family did not accept rent to move in new people, and their life was as quiet as before. After dinner, Yu Heng and Zhou Qingrong took their children for a walk outside and went to the grain drying field.

Among other things, the arrival of new victims brought more vitality to the village, and Yu Heng could also get more news about the outside world. When they arrived, they heard a mezzo-soprano telling a story with a northern accent. The others gathered around the fire and listened with great interest.

"Come here and sit!" Zhou Qingfeng waved to them to sit in the open space next to him. People in Laokang Village, no, it should be said that the people in Xiangya Town are very curious about the outside world. People from the north are the most popular, and they also like to hear the northern stories they tell. There is nothing to do now, except to listen to stories.

Yu Heng took out a handful of fried peanuts and ate them while listening slowly. The woman standing talking came from the north. It is said that their family had some foresight. When the cold winter in the north continued three years ago, they decisively sold their shops and houses, took the money and headed south. I was trapped by wind and snow several times on the way but refused to give in and insisted on heading south. Finally settled in a southern province. In her opinion, the south can be called warm! When she was in her hometown in the north, the electricity and water were cut off every three days. Living in the city almost made her die. Her hair was oily after not washing it for a long time. The weather was cold and the oil on her hair froze when she opened the door and was blown by the wind. It was extremely uncomfortable. .

The woman used body movements and exaggerated expressions to recreate the scene at that time. The villagers in Shaiguchang were amused by her interesting story, and the woman herself also laughed. She sighed: "At that time, I heard that there was no snow in Xiangya Town, so my husband and I wanted to come to you. Unfortunately, the road was not easy to walk at that time. Oh, if I had known, it would be even harder in the future. At that time, we would have to walk. We walked here, early in the morning and late in the evening. It wasn’t as cold as it is now.”

The conversation slowly turned to other places, and another victim also talked about the relocation process of his family. The excitement lasted until about eight o'clock, when it got even colder outside, and I couldn't stand the fire, so we each left.

"Okay, let's all go to bed. We'll go to class tomorrow morning." Among the previous batch of victims, two elementary school teachers lived in Laokang Village. Yu Heng gave them some rice and noodles for tuition and stuffed Zhou Haojun into class.

"I understand." Zhou Haojun was still looking forward to the long-lost class. He asked, "Will Xiaofu go?"

"Xiao Fu is not going, I will go when he is older."

The next day, Zhou Qingrong took his son to school, which was in the ancestral hall. It is impossible to give up the ancestral hall to accommodate the disaster victims, but it is easier to persuade the villagers to use the ancestral hall as a school. There was a knock on his door at about eleven o'clock. Zheng Han wiped his hands and opened the door, then shouted in surprise: "Obviously!"

Yu Heng was killing snakes in the kitchen. He was the only one in the family who dared to do it. Hearing this, he quickly washed his hands and went out. He saw Zheng Han coming in to welcome a man. The man was tall and thin and wore a hat. Zheng Han stood beside him and was not only shorter but also taller. Fatty.

"Xiao Ming!"

Ming Ming looked over, and his smile spread with his slightly narrowed eyes. He strode over and stretched out his arms to hug Yu Heng: "Mother Shufen!"

Relatives and friends are passing away one after another these days, and those who are still alive are all the more precious. Mingming’s arrival makes the Zhou family very happy. They have not seen each other for more than three years. Since they lost contact with him on the eve of the cold wave a year ago, Yu Heng thought that something unexpected happened to Mingming too. . This time he heard that some of the victims coming were from Jiangtian City, so he didn't hold out much hope that they would be among them.

After some discussion, Yu Heng was most worried about Mingming's body: "Why are you wearing so little?" He pinched Mingming's sleeves and told him to wear at most two pieces! One piece of underwear and one sweater. You must know that it is minus 30 below zero outside, and no matter how strong a young man is, he still has to wear more than six pieces of clothing inside and outside.

Ming Ming sneered: "I'm not very afraid of the cold."

Yu Heng felt something was wrong and asked him in a low voice: "How did you escape the cold wave in Jiangtian City? We don't have anyone hiding in the cellar here, almost none of us survived."

"...Auntie, I'm not afraid of the cold now." Ming Ming also whispered, "We were in the snow shelter area in the city, and I was the only one who survived. I fainted, and when I woke up, I was the only one left. From that day on I became less afraid of the cold.”

Zheng Han next to him took a breath: "What's going on?"

"I don't know either." Ming Ming smiled bitterly. "Later, a large army passed by the snow shelter area. They transported all the supplies to the snow shelter area, and I followed them. There were also doctors on the way to check my body. I forgot what they said. It seemed that they were inspired by something. What factor? Anyway, my body is less afraid of cold now."

It must be that in order to withstand the cold winter, the body has mutated. Yu Heng had reason to suspect that this mutation was related to taking genetic medicine. He was the only one alive in the entire snow shelter area, so he had to think so. However, it is a good thing for people to live, and even the original person will obviously take it to heart. He patted Mingming's hand and asked, "You haven't seen Xiaofu yet, have you? Come give you a hug."

The soft little niece was held in her arms, obviously happy and nervous, looking at her eyebrows and smiling: "She looks like a sister-in-law, she will definitely be a great beauty in the future."

"Where do you live now? Come and live at home. There are many rooms in the house. Only Qingrong, his wife and I, as well as your niece and nephew, live here."

"Okay." Ming Ming grinned, "I will definitely stay here this time. If I hadn't been too worried about work and... I should have come long ago. I miss you so much."

When Zhou Qingrong picked up Zhou Haojun when he came back from school, the two brothers hugged and punched each other's chests in excitement, and their eyes were red. Zhou Qingrong hurried to borrow a car and immediately took Mingming to the temporary resettlement station to pick up his luggage. Mingming settled in immediately and ate snake soup that night. Seeing how he devoured it, he must have suffered a lot. After dinner, we gathered around the Kang and talked, learning about each other’s lives over the years.

There is nothing much to say about the life of the Zhou family. The biggest change was the birth of Xiaofu, followed by the previous food requisition order, the Great Cold Wave, Xiangya Cemetery, etc. Mingming's life experience is relatively rich. Only then did Yu Heng and the others realize that it was not only the company that refused to let him go, but also his partner who had never come to Laokang Village to avoid disasters.

"I originally wanted to ask Qingrong to rent me a house in your hometown, and then take Nanxiang and my family to take refuge. But Nanxiang was unwilling. She said that she would bring her sister-in-law and her family over after her brother got married. "

Zhou Qingrong frowned: "What kind of house are you renting? You will definitely stay at my house when you come. But I have also found a house for you. If her relatives come, she will live with her relatives." Yu Heng really doesn't know about this. It seems that it is A secret between two men.

Mingming sighed: "Then I waited and waited, and finally I couldn't leave. Later, I was trapped at home and lost contact with her. After that, I went to the Snowy Area of ​​Jiangtian City, and I met her there. She was married, and her husband He's a soldier in the garrison, and he's doing well. Hey, what's your expression? It's okay! But Mom Shufen, please don't introduce girls to me later. I don't plan to get married in the future. "My physique always feels a bit strange. I don't dare to get married, so don't be too busy." He bumped into Zhou Haojun and said with a smile amidst Zhou Haojun's cheerful laughter: "I will treat Brother Qingrong's children as my own." , I also have a son and a daughter now!”

Under the candlelight, a moist trace slid down Ming Ming's side face.

Yu Heng took Xiao Fu in Zheng Han's arms and gave it to him: "Yes, our Xiao Ming also has a son and a daughter."

In this way, Mingming settled down at Zhou's house. After taking him to adapt to the village for two days, Zhou Qingrong also took him to the mountains once. Although there was nothing gained, he was obviously happy. He said: "I like the environment in the mountains, the air is so good."

They only found a basketful of wild bamboo shoots, but no meat.

"There are more people going up the mountain now, and we can no longer catch prey unless we go deeper and higher into the mountain." Zhou Qingrong asked Yu Heng while peeling bamboo shoots, "Mom, I heard that Brother Sen planned to go deeper and organized a lot of people. ! Shall we go?”

Yu Heng thought for a while and shook his head: "We won't go for now. We will go after they have been there."

"Oh, okay, let me tell Qingshui and the others." This approach is also very common. Although there is no way to be the first to eat the crab, the prey may be caught when they go again, but it is better to be safe, which is a lot That's what people do.

In the afternoon, Yu Heng went to the fields again. His family's fields had been taken back a long time ago and he used them to experiment with new rice seeds. He used genetic drugs to soak the seeds and cultivate the seedlings, but the progress has not been good for more than three years. He could only barely raise the taller ones among the short ones, and continue to cultivate those with slightly better cold resistance, cover them with plastic film and use fire to keep the temperature. The cost is relatively high, but there is nothing he can do. Mingming also came here under the guidance of Zhou Haojun. With his help, today's work was completed faster.

Finally, the three people squatted by the field to rest. Mingming looked at the sky and sighed: "The sky here is more beautiful. Although it seems gray, you can't raise your head outside. The snow will hit your face, your eyelashes will freeze, and you can't see anything." Then he restrained his emotions, smiled and said loudly: "It will be better in the future. It's the fourth year now. The snow cover in Kyoto should also have made progress."

"Yes, everything will be fine." Yu Heng looked at the field, and the green under the plastic film was faintly visible.

There is vitality and the future is promising.