Chapter 27: The Weight of Life
"I didn't see any bugs around, and I didn't see any people. The car in front of us was damaged a lot, but the ones that were close to us were not damaged. Is it that the insects eat two bites and find that they are not delicious, so they will not eat it?" Zheng Bei opened a hole in the "roof", and Zhang Lichuan was looking around on the roof outside the hole. Zheng Bei wanted to climb up and do this by himself, but was stopped. They said, "How dangerous!". But Zheng Bei knew that at least there were no insects within ten meters of him as the center. Moreover, Xiao Zhang does not have a copper head and iron arm, and it is just as dangerous for him to go up! The value of life is not calculated in this way.
It was already three o'clock in the afternoon imperial capital time, and the sun was about to set. You don't have to think about today's camping site, it's this garage. Zheng Bei opened a door for everyone to let everyone go out conveniently. Zheng Bei wanted to take this opportunity to widen the house and leave some rich space for the people who squeezed in later to rest. But after thinking about it, I decided to lengthen it, if my humble house is widened, I am afraid that the roof will collapse, and I am afraid that I will block the opposite road, and I will be scolded and woken up in the middle of the night.
Thankfully, Zheng Bei and the others found some survivors, most of whom survived by burrowing under cars or similar small spaces. This also makes everyone feel more comfortable, on the one hand, there is no way to take care of everyone at that emergency moment, and in that case, hiding his group in a hurry in the "garage", it will inevitably seem that he will not save strangers, and more importantly, the survival of these people can say something, or the IQ of the insect is very average, or the insect is not as keen on killing and eating people as people think.
Zheng Bei lazily lay in the bus to rest, waiting for the call from the other side at any time. The guys over there are holding a debate tournament, and the players want to light a bonfire, because the weather is very cold now, and the campfire can be used to warm up and have a barbecue party. The opposing player believes that many bugs are phototaxis, and making a fire may attract bugs. Zheng Bei didn't understand phototaxis or anything, but he knew that if he made a bonfire, he would have to clean up a place again.
In the end, the view of "the aftermath of the catastrophe" was accepted by everyone, after all, it is indeed a catastrophe, and no one knows how much is left in the rest of the life. Zheng Bei cleared a field in the direction of the front of the car, after all, sooner or later he would have to clean up this direction. Others went to collect some messy combustibles. There were bare branches and trunks on the side of the road, and someone rolled back a bundle of straw.
A group of people gathered around the campfire, each holding a simple meat skewer in their hands. Zheng Bei also tasted the barbecue sent by Shen Yi, the taste. There was a lack of seasoning, and they only had beef, and the dry grilled food was not delicious at all. However, seeing that everyone was very happy, Zheng Bei felt that this busy meal was worth it. The tired Zheng Beiqiang did not sleep, and he still had an important "closed" job to do.
Lin Lili ran back to the car with a can of beer, her face was flushed, and she didn't know whether it was roasted by fire or drunk. "Cheers!" Zheng Bei looked at Lin Lili's sparkling eyes, smiled, and rubbed out a can of beer and touched her. "It's been a long time since I've been so happy. It's just that the meat is a little hard, and we should find some mutton in the future, and the mutton has oil. Pork is fine, we can build a pig farm here, raise a lot of pigs, and eat meat if you want. Zheng Bei followed Lin Lili's finger and looked, it was the left side of the road, and the outside should be the farmland after harvesting, but now that direction is just a wall. "Here, we grow rice, and we can also grow vegetables. Lin Lili pointed to the window on Zheng Bei's side again. Zheng Bei didn't turn his head to look at it this time, and Lin Lili didn't look at it at all. This girl seems to have drunk too much, Zheng Bei remembered the wine last time they were separated, and a smile uncontrollably hung on the corner of his mouth.
"You can also build houses, let's design some beautiful houses......" Lin Lili said with a crying voice. Zheng Bei was at a loss now, he had no experience in dealing with girls' tears. What's more, Lin Lili's tears came too suddenly. Lin Lili cried in a low voice, Zheng Bei was racking his brains to think about what to say, Zheng Bei felt that he was really a waste. "Do you know? How could I get food with everyone at that time?" Zheng Bei could understand that Lin Lili, the "eldest sister", must have suffered a lot in order to take care of that group of women and children. "Long Yiyue, that bastard actually asked me to sleep with him, so I still called him brother. This sentence shattered the little words of comfort that Zheng Bei had painstakingly organized before, and he felt that he could not say anything that could comfort Lin Lili on his own.
"I don't feel like I'm being cheap. Lin Lili looked at Zheng Bei with red eyes. Zheng Bei turned his head to face Lin Lili, stretched out his hands to hold her face, "I know, don't be cranky, you've done a good job." Zheng Bei stared at Lin Lili's eyes very seriously, he hoped that Lin Lili could feel his sincerity. Zheng Bei didn't want Lin Lili to define him as a superficial person, and he didn't want Lin Lili's spiritual world to be shaken and deny the efforts he had made. "I'll help you, we can find pork in the future, and we can eat as much as we want. We take care of the kids together, you've done a good job before, and we'll do better together in the future, okay?"
Lin Lili threw herself into Zheng Bei's arms and was still crying: "Chubby's father is also surnamed Zheng and is a food delivery person. To protect our food was killed by robbers. There were originally two capable people in our team, but they were poached by that bastard of Long Yiyue. That bastard gave us less and less things later......" Zheng Bei listened to Lin Lili's crying, and he felt very uncomfortable. He seemed to be able to feel the hardships and pressures that Lin Lili had endured during this time. He also admired Lin Lili very much, Zheng Bei also had a pure heart when he was young, thinking that if he was poor, he would be good alone, and if he was good, he would help the world. But with the washing of society, he washed away his unrealistic illusions, and finally became a fly and a dog, day after day...... And Lin Lili, the daughter of a rich family who has no worries about food and clothing, can actually do so much in order to help others. Maybe it's because she doesn't have to worry about trivial things such as rent, water, electricity, etc., which makes her more generous and fraternal, or maybe Lin Lili's soul is clearer and nobler than herself.
Zheng Bei, who had not slept deeply, opened his eyes with the movements of the people around him. Lin Lili rubbed her neck and shoulders and frowned. "Ah, my head hurts, and my neck hurts. Lin Lili looked at Zheng Bei: "You helped me back yesterday......?" Damn it, I accidentally drank too much. "Ahh God, don't play with people like that.
In the morning, after the busyness of Zhengbei, the convoy was finally able to continue to set off. Only this time the line was much smaller, and there were only five cars left behind the bus. Because of the addition of newcomers, Liu Qiming was temporarily relieved from his job as a driver. Lin Lili lay in the last row to catch up on sleep. Zheng Bei also fell asleep in front. Zheng Bei only cleaned the right half of the road in front of him in the morning, and didn't care about the rest, but just took away their "turtle shells" with him.
Because everyone has experience with traffic jams and camping, the rest of the journey is much smoother. Zheng Bei is still his master, just because everyone's mood has improved a lot, and it also makes Zheng Bei sleep a little more soundly, after all, he doesn't always have to face emergencies. Finally, on the fifth day, they arrived at their destination. But what came into their sight amazed them.