Taming beasts starts with raising cats

Before leaving, Bai Ye locked the doors and windows, especially the kitchen windows.

The couple had stored a lot of food in the room before, especially more than 100 kilograms of fruit.

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

There was also a notebook on the table in the living room.

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

And generally two kilograms of fruit were exchanged for one kilogram of other varieties of fruit, or one and a half kilograms were exchanged for one kilogram of other fruits.

It can't be charity.

Bai Ye felt something was wrong.

After thinking about it, he felt that the only reasonable explanation was for balanced nutrition.

Eating only one kind of food may lead to a lack of certain vitamins, which may cause illness.

The two traded with others.

For others, they were all fruits, as long as they could fill their stomachs, it was fine, and whether they tasted good was secondary.

It was natural to be happy to be able to exchange one kilogram of fruit for two kilograms of other fruits.

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

Whatever anyone eats every day needs to be registered.

The amount of food that the two people eat every day is basically the same.

Bai Ye was amazed. The relationship between the two people... is really a bit strange.

Friends are not like friends, but more like partners.

It's just that now these things are cheap for me.

......

On the other side, 7-2.

Someone knocked on the door.

Peng Xiuying opened the door and saw a man standing behind the door.

"Buy something."

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 doing." Peng Xiuying said in a panic.

She wanted to close the door, but how could an untrained woman be stronger than a man.

"I want to come in and choose for myself." The man said while pushing the door hard.

"Don't come in, I'll bring it to you and you can choose it yourself... I'll sell it to you at a lower price." Peng Xiuying said anxiously.

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 hideous to Peng Xiuying.

"It must be difficult for you to take care of the children alone, how about letting me take care of you." The man pushed the door hard, so the veins on his face bulged, and his smile was particularly hideous.

"Get out!" Peng Xiuying was furious.

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

She has always been worried about this.

So she has been as careful as possible these days. Except for going out when she must collect materials near the building, she tries to stay at home and not go out.

This home is her safe haven.

"Your man is dead, you have to find another man." The man outside the door said, "I won't take advantage of you for nothing. I will bring you food every time in the future so that you won't go 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 the man was bullying his mother.

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

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

Even if the woman opposite was weaker than him, he had a knife in his hand. He was a mortal. What if he got stabbed a few times?

There are no medical facilities now. It is difficult to treat injuries. You can only rely on your body to resist.

Let go of his hand, turned around and ran away, and said fiercely as he walked, "You wait for me, why are you pretending to be noble? Selling pine resin, there are pine trees outside. Who comes to buy from you on purpose? Don't you know what's going on?"

Peng Xiuying held the knife and chased out like crazy.

She scolded while chasing, venting her inner fear and anger.

Her shouting and cursing were so loud that people on the floors could hear her.

When she reached the stairs of the safety passage, Peng Xiuying stopped.

Because it was too dark inside.

You couldn't see anything. You usually had to light torches or braziers to go upstairs, or grope your way upstairs.

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

"Your father left us orphans and widows, and he is watching us being bullied in heaven." Peng Xiuying looked at her son standing in front of her and hugged her child.

She used to be an introvert, but the reality of the past few days was like a hammer, hitting her hard.

If she didn't have a child, if the child was not young and unable to take care of himself, 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 at the door in a stern voice: "How dare you come? Do you really think I'm easy to bully?"

"Little girl, you may have misunderstood. I'm not the bad guy just now. I live next door to you." An old man's voice came from outside the door.

Peng Xiuying realized that she had made a mistake.

The person living next door was a very old veteran.

She opened the door, because if even the veterans were not trustworthy, then there was no one else in this building who was trustworthy.

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 because 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 next door! I can't help everyone, but the neighbors can still help."

Zhong Chenliang's voice was very soft, but it was firm.

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

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

At that time, the old man always said that he wanted to hold his great-grandson. The old man lay in bed at home for a whole year, and only after seeing Xiaoyu, who had just been born, did he close his eyes and die contentedly.

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

"You're going out?" Zhong Chenliang was surprised.

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

"If I can't come back one day... Grandpa Zhong, can you help me take care of Xiaoyu?"

"Why bother?" Zhong Chenliang said.

Peng Xiuying bit her lip, her eyes complicated.

"I used to think that selling rosin could support Xiaoyu and me, but there are very few people who come to buy things these two days, or they have other intentions."

"Now I understand that food is scarce, and this is not a scarce technical job. Anyone can do it, and I don't have much competitiveness."

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

"When everyone was poor in the past, practicality was indeed the best, and we could save as much as we could. Sometimes a piece of clothing was worn by my father and given to the eldest child, and it was mended and given to the second child, and the third child wore beggar clothes."

When resources are scarce, any resource is precious.

As for quality, there is no market for cheap products.

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, and it is also a small apartment.

The room is very dark, and the curtains are drawn.

He asked Wang Yu to sit on the sofa first.

Then he went back to the bedroom. On the small table in the bedroom was a bottle of sleeping pills that had been opened, and there was a bowl of water next to the sleeping pills.

Zhong Chenliang picked up the bottle cap, put it on the bottle of sleeping pills and tightened it again, walked to the cabinet, opened the cabinet and put it on the top layer.

The old man took out a somewhat old plastic bag from the cabinet.

Slowly opened the knot, and there was some rock sugar inside.

He walked to Wang Yu with the bag, "Come, have some candy."

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

This is rock sugar, he knows, sweet.

But his parents usually taught him not to take things from strangers casually.

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

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

...

"You want to go out on an adventure with me?" Dou Juan didn't expect Peng Xiuying to come to her.

This is the first woman who found her and said that she wanted to team up with her to go out to explore.

"What about your child at home? Will it be a problem 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 were people who raised sons for others at this time?

She looked at Peng Xiuying and suddenly thought of someone.

The retired veteran.

It's 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. She remembered that the veteran should live next door to Peng Xiuying.

The neighbor she was talking about should be the veteran.

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

......

"Two more people."

When Bai Ye and Tong Ji came to Dou Juan's house to gather, 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 were exactly seven people in total.

When she saw Bai Ye coming, Dou Juan didn't have any strange expression.

It seemed that she had expected it.

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

Peng Xiuying lifted the hair by her ears. She sat in the corner and glanced at Bai Ye, then lowered her head.

Zhou Daling and Zhou Xiaoshan, the father and son, looked a little unnatural.

It was obviously because of Bai Ye's murder in the morning.

Zhou Daling hadn't returned home at that time, but Zhou Xiaoshan heard the noise and came out to see it, and told his father about it after he returned home.

Bai Ye killed people, and the ones he killed were the two teammates who had explored with them on the first day.

This made the two people feel a little unacceptable.

However, the two saw that no one else spoke, and Bai Ye didn't have any conflicts with them, so although they were dissatisfied, they didn't speak.