We Live In Nanjing

  Chapter 8 The Power of Life

  Dandelion is both a food and a herbal medicine. It tastes a little bitter after being boiled into soup. The teacher said that dandelion is also called bedwetting and has a diuretic effect. If you have kidney stones, you can eat more dandelion.

The young leaves of dandelion are mainly used for porridge and soup. Yesterday, Pinellia picked a large bundle of dandelions from the community downstairs. These dandelions were left all night and the flowers were all wilted. So Pinellia took all the leaves and put them in. Cook in the pot.

  But you can’t just use dandelion, because it is as unsavory as Chinese medicine and lacks calories, so you have to pour in the peeled lotus seeds, add salt and oil, and boil them into a paste.

  The girl held a fan in one hand and put firewood in the hearth in the other, squatting on the floor.

  The fire was very hot and the kitchen was full of smoke. Pinellia felt that the vegetable soup was almost cooked. She got up and coughed and took out the last two pieces of salted fish from the cupboard, shredded them by hand, and added the chopped purslane salad.

  Cook for a few minutes on high heat, and the aroma will rise.

  "It's cooked..." Pinellia came out of the kitchen carrying the hot pot, "Dandelion and lotus seed porridge is ready! Portulaca salted fish shredded with cold garnish!"

  She excitedly put the iron pot on the coffee table, "Dad, Mom, come for breakfast!"

  She put the wild vegetables into the bowl one by one.

"Parents, the teacher is right. I actually contacted a living person last night! A living person! Do you know? Still a young man! God finally heard my plea and finally gave me someone who can help me carry wild vegetables. handsome guy!"

  As for the person contacted last night, Banxia did not know his identity, but this still surprised her. She had never contacted anyone before. Is it true that the teacher said?

  There is more than one person in this world?

  If there is a second person in this world, why hasn’t it been found before?

  But this city is so big and the world is so big, how small two people are, just like the only two fish in the sea. Can these two fish meet each other during their lifetime?

  Pan Xia slowly stir the wild vegetable paste in the porcelain bowl with a spoon, and think carefully about the experience of last night.

  But fortunately, she is not a fish, she has advanced communication tools, ICOM725 shortwave radio station!

Banxia didn’t know the source of this shortwave radio station. When she was picked up by her teacher and brought here when she was very young, the old radio station was in the room. The radio station she could use was all taught by the teacher, but She is not as good at shortwave communication as her teacher. According to the teacher's instruction, she insists on calling out every night, but she never thought that she could really contact other people.

  Teacher’s Doomsday Survival Code, the second one, insist on asking for help!

"I will try to contact him again tonight. His channel is at 14.255MHZ." Banxia scooped a spoonful of wild vegetable paste into his mouth, frowned, and stuck out his tongue, "Wow, it's bitter and salty. "

  Banxia licked her lips, then propped her head on the coffee table, moaning in her nose.

"But he turned off the radio immediately. Why? Am I so scary? I didn't have time to say a few words, oh...Where is he? How many people are there? Does he lack food? I don’t know, if it’s not for the fish to eat, I really want to stay at home and use the radio to shout for a day, but will he be on the channel? I don’t know."

  Banxia doesn’t know anything.

   "It's nice that he said he still has a mother... really enviable."

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  After breakfast, Pinellia got dressed, put on a light blue sweater, a pair of thick denim trousers, and then took the bow and arrow from the wall.

  The bow is self-made. The arm is cut into a bow with thin oak. After heat treatment, the bow is slightly bent. The bowstring is twisted with three fishing lines. When not in use, the bow arm and bowstring are stored separately.

  She drew a long arrow from her bow and quiver, faced the wall, took a deep breath, and separated her feet! Turn around! Take an arrow! With a slight "squeak", the power was transmitted from the waist and abdomen to the shoulders and arms, with the left hand at the front and the right hand at the back, standard Mediterranean fingering, and the bowstring was steadily pulled apart.

  Banxia's eyes suddenly became sharp at this moment, his aura was like the tip of a spear, and he couldn't look at it.

The girl gave a short "Let!" in her heart, her fingers let go, and the arrow of the free string grazed her cheeks, picking up a few strands of hair, and with a sound of breaking through the air, the wooden arrow was firmly nailed to the thick leather on the opposite wall. superior.

   With a "clang" sound, the arrow pierced into the cowhide nearly an inch.

  A set of actions are flowing and flowing, Pinellia puts down the longbow blankly, and the bowstring is still trembling at this time.

  The bow can still be used, the girl took a long breath, and the bow can last a few more months depending on the state.

  Banxia is a master archery player. She even surpassed the teacher in archery skills, but the teacher’s marksmanship is very accurate. Banxia often thinks that if she uses a bow and arrow to confront the teacher, then the gun is faster than ten steps.

  Within ten steps, the gun is still fast.

   "Parents, I am going to Xuanwu Bay today. I have eaten the fish at home and there is nothing to eat. I have to catch some more and pick it up. You will be back before the sun sets. You will wait for me at home."

Pinellia puts bows and quivers on her back. Bows and arrows can be used for hunting or self-defense. If you encounter red deer on the way, you can hunt with bows and arrows. If you encounter wild boars, you can use bows and arrows to drive away. When you encounter a brown bear, you can use a bow and arrow to show it a dying struggle.

   "Should you not run into a bear? I'm not so unlucky."

  Next, insert the dagger into the scabbard on the chest. Whenever, the knife must be carried with you.

  Take out an imitation 54-style pistol from the TV cabinet, exit the magazine, confirm the number of bullets in the magazine, a total of 17 rounds, a lot of pieces, and finally put the pistol into the holster on the thigh.

   Banxia asked why this gun is called imitation 54 style?

  The teacher said that all pistols are called imitation 54 styles.

  Knives, guns, bows and arrows are all ready, and finally Pinellia puts the shoulder bag on her body-the teacher’s doomsday survival code, third, whenever you go out, you must bring a bag!

  This is the iron rule.

  Even if you just go out and get gasoline... Banxia will regularly go to the gas station to get gasoline, you must bring your bag.

The bag is a first aid kit. There are always medicines, bandages, maps, firelighters, lights, and spare knives in the bag. No matter where Pinellia goes or how long you go, you must carry this bag at any time. In order for the teacher to develop this habit for Pinellia, it is a habit. With the boss's energy, the teacher once told her that in this world, no place is absolutely safe. Leaving the shelter means facing danger to life. If you step out of this door, you must be prepared to be swallowed by the world.

  I didn’t understand Pinellia at that time.

  Now Banxia understands.

  Everything is ready, Pinellia strongly embraces the parents on the sofa, and then puts on shoes at the entrance.

   "Dad! Mom! I'm out! I must be back before dark! I must wait for me!"

  The girl waved.

   "If I can't come back... well, I will definitely come back. I have to look for that handsome guy at night. I can't keep him waiting."

  After speaking, she closed the door, then rushed downstairs, down eight floors in one breath, and ran out of the door of the unit building.

   "I must be back before dark—!"

The girl yelled while running. She had this habit. She didn’t know who she was yelling to. It might be her parents upstairs, or she might be yelling to the community or the world, as if anyone could hear her. If so, she can return safely and on time as promised.

But before her eyes is a wild, green world, gray-black concrete is gradually covered by plants, knee-high weeds grow on the broken road, and all the tall buildings have become huge giants in green clothes. , As long as you step out of the door of the unit building, you will feel the viscous, suffocating vitality and wild nature. In the years when mankind disappeared, the vacated living space was crazily flooded by nature.

  The small pale blue figure of Pinellia burrowed into the grass and was quickly swallowed by the world.

  Nanjing is a long-dead corpse, and there are tall and leafy trees growing from the corpse.

  (End of this chapter)