The owners of Foguang Island, six big and one small, sat together. On the round table in front of them, there are a variety of melon and fruit dishes and moon cakes, and each of them is the fruit of their own labor.

"In a blink of an eye, it's been almost half a year since we went to the island." Duan Whale raised his glass, "Once again, I'm glad I met Su He and Doctor Du halfway through, thank you for bringing us to Foguang Island." ”

"Thank you." Lin Youqing put his arm around Duan Xingze with one hand, and also raised his glass, "I have gained a lot from my life in the past five months. ”

"Hey, I said it's good, what are you two doing so politely all of a sudden?"

Being praised by them like this, Su He was actually a little embarrassed.

"If it weren't for the presence of you two electromechanical geniuses, we wouldn't be living a primitive human life. Especially those two drones, they are simply artifacts. ”

Hearing him say this, Haichen also hurried up: "Brother, I found the drone with Xiaolan, and you also praised us." ”

Su He was about to glare at him: "What are you doing to praise you?" You're a vested interest. Do you know what it means to be cheap and sell well? That's what you say! ”

Haichen laughed twice and didn't speak, but Lu Rulan couldn't listen anymore.

"Brother, why are you talking about Haichen like that. If he hadn't been able to sail a boat and know so much seafood, wouldn't we be stuck on the island? ”

At this time, Su He simply glared at his cousin: "You little thing with your elbow turned out......"

"It's still Xiaolan who hurts me." Haichen hurriedly sandwiched a large piece of fish meat into Lu Rulan's bowl.

The three of them were making a fuss here, and Du Yunfei slowly poured himself a cup of herbal tea and clinked glasses with Duan Whale.

The sharp-eyed Duan Xingze shouted: "Uncle Du, why do you drink herbal tea like me?!" ”

"Uncle Du's alcohol consumption is not good." Su He replied with a smile, "The wine is even worse." ”

"What is wine?"

"......" Du Yunfei coughed dryly, "You are still young, you will know later." ”

A few more people laughed and raised their glasses again.

Crabs are hairy crabs that swim to the sea to breed, and they are fattened; The wine is a new wine made this summer, with a strong amber aroma. In the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, a full moon breaks through the clouds, sprinkling the bright light to the earth. Beautiful scenery, good flowers, and being able to stay with family, lovers, and friends, how to make people not intoxicated.

After three rounds of drinking, the satellite phone resting on the beauty next to the pavilion beeped.

It shouldn't be a bad thing – since this morning, the heads of the various settlements have been calling and exchanging holiday greetings.

Sure enough, the call came from Luojia, a resettlement site not far away. The great monk said that they were holding a transcendental puja for all the deceased tonight.

As he spoke, he listened to the Sanskrit singing in the background, the sound of the tide and the interweaving of bells and drums, as if he could see the moonlight falling on the Buddha statue facing the sea on the island. Countless good believers prostrate themselves devoutly, praying for the blessings of their departed relatives and friends.

Not only Luojia, but in fact, every resettlement site, including Qinghai, has arranged festival activities tonight. This may be due to the fact that when we encounter material difficulties, we will need spiritual comfort even more.

Haichen picked the crab meat in his hand, and asked Lu Rulan: "Didn't Yixin say that he would surprise us tonight?" ”

"yes." Lu Rulan muttered and nodded, "Why don't we call him now?" ”

It really said that Cao Cao Cao was coming, and Zhu Yixin's phone call came quickly. There was a lot of noise in the background, and I heard that it was also a moon-viewing bonfire party.

"The moon on this plateau is bigger, rounder and brighter than that of our hometown!"

"Big pig, what about the surprise?" Lu Rulan hurriedly reminded him, "Don't talk and don't talk." ”

"You wait!"

Zhu Yixin answered, walked a few steps, and handed the phone into the hands of others.

“…… Feed? An old man's voice rang out: "Is it the little owner?" ”

"Uncle Fu?!" Haichen immediately reacted and grabbed Lu Rulan's hand excitedly, "Uncle Fu, are you okay?" ”

"Okay, I'm fine!"

Uncle Fu's voice trembled with excitement. He told Haichen intermittently that he was living in a government-provided housing along with others who had been rescued at the same time. There were some fields near his residence, and he was responsible for some of the less intense manual labor. Everything is fine at the moment, so that Haichen does not have to worry.

After Uncle Fu, Zhu Yixin found Li Nijia and two other children rescued from the supermarket. The three children greeted their uncles and brothers in milky voices, while Li Nijia's parents thanked them for saving their lives.

Feeling a little embarrassed, the crowd hurriedly ended the call with them. The phone was handed back to Zhu Yixin.

"By the way, I also went to see Hu Siyu this morning. She looks pretty good, and I heard that the food in the institute is much better than outside, but she can't just run out and walk around. She was examined by a team of experts, blood and other samples were taken, and treatment options were being studied...... I heard that not only experts from our country, but also scientists from several foreign resettlement sites have also flown over recently, so I wonder if there is really a drama......

Zhu Yixin was talking with a match, and he could hear that he was still walking forward.

"And one last surprise, not what I found. It was they who came to me after hearing about your 'glorious deeds'. ”

"Who is it?" Lu Rulan was curious, "Don't sell it, hurry up." ”

"He said he was an old friend of yours, and many of you knew him. Okay, without further ado, the man is right next to me, so you can talk to him yourself. ”

Zhu Yixin's voice was interrupted, and everyone on Foguang Island looked at each other, all wondering who the person he was talking about would be.

However, the answer has already jumped out of the satellite phone on its own.

"Mr. Su, Mr. Duan, Dr. Du, hello!"

“……”

The three people named looked at each other, and the first person to react was Du Yunfei.

"Lao Cheng?!"

"Brother Cheng?!"

Su He followed with a shudder - this voice was indeed the person who wanted to match him with Du Yunfei, the bar owner Brother Cheng.

Duan Whale was also pleasantly surprised: "Ah Cheng, why are you in Qinghai?" ”

"It's hard to put into words. In short, my family and I have survived, and now we are working with people at the base to herd sheep and potatoes. Alas, I thought you were all bad, but I didn't expect to run to the island, it's quite clever, hahaha. ”

Infected by Brother Cheng's hearty laughter, whether they knew him or not, everyone couldn't help but be happy.

Su He quipped: "I knew that the two of you were so hard, I should have dragged you to the island together." ”

Brother Cheng hurriedly refused: "Don't!" I heard that you just had a fight with zombies a while ago, and I have a bad heart, old man, and I want to live for two more years. ”

Su He sneered: "What are you afraid of, don't we still have Dr. Du?" ”

This sentence reminded Brother Cheng, only to hear him cough falsely: "I said, are you two still not pleasing to each other." ”

"It's all about the age, it's already over!"

Su He denied it with a smile, and poked Du Yunfei with his elbow,

"We're fine now." Du Yunfei added in time: "Lao Cheng, thank you." ”

The other end of the phone was stunned for a second, and when Lao Cheng's voice rang again, there was obviously a hint of relief.

"Okay, okay, I knew you two would make it. Now we are one Nobel Prize short......"

Knowing what he was going to say next, Su He and Du Yunfei looked at each other and smiled, and threw the phone to Duan Whale.

Lao Cheng is like an enthusiastic uncle of the neighborhood committee, and he carefully cares about Duan Whale's recent situation, and expresses his satisfaction after learning that he and Youqing have finally "achieved positive results", and he has not even forgotten to tell Duan Xingze to study hard and improve every day.

Although he is occasionally interrogated a little helplessly, Lao Cheng's optimism and heartiness undoubtedly infect everyone.

Before they knew it, they had been chatting for nearly an hour. Lao Cheng was finally called away by his family, and Duan Whale also thanked Zhu Yixin for this special surprise on behalf of everyone, ending this unprecedentedly long call.

The stone pavilion soon fell silent, and I don't know who was the first to laugh, and soon several people sitting around the table laughed high and low.

"There is a confidant in the sea, and the end of the world is like a neighbor." I don't know who whispered with a smile.

Truly. The moon is born on the sea, and the end of the world is at this time - is there a better Mid-Autumn Festival mood than this?

The banquet on Foguang Island began in the evening and lasted leisurely for several hours. Until Lin Youqing's boiled water chestnut osmanthus soup was finished, the moon had gradually slanted from the midsky to the west.

It's time to go home.

Simply clean up the empty dishes and save them for tomorrow. Everyone walked in twos and threes, stepping on the moonlight on the path, and returned with pleasure.

Duan Xingze was already asleep, and Duan Whale carried him on his back steadily. Lin Youqing followed aside, gently supporting Xing Ze's back, and smiled at Duan Whale.

"It's really enviable...... It's a family. ”

Walking behind them, the drunken and slightly drunk Su He leaned on Du Yunfei and whispered.

Du Yunfei didn't drink, but his gaze was different from usual, becoming more gentle, even softer.

"You want a child too?"

"Can't you......"

Su He naughtily rubbed Du Yunfei's neck with his nose: "However, I only want your ...... You and mine. ”

"Yes." Du Yunfei smiled and hugged Su He's shoulder, "Let's try." ”

After a few more steps, there was a high, low, crooked singing voice behind them.

"Little White Dragon...... I'm so happy. ”

The drunk Lu Rulan was put in the back seat of the car by Haichen and pushed down the mountain, singing songs in his mouth for a while, and muttering nonsense for a while.

"Shall we go sail and sail? I'm going to the sea to see the moon. We lay on the deck, blowing the sea breeze, eating oysters, and wine...... Wine ......"

"Okay." Haichen deliberately teased him: "Then you point it out to me now, where is the moon?" ”

Lu Rulan raised her hand, her fingers trembling in the air, and swiped around: "There is a ...... here Hey? There's another ...... there It's a bit of a lot of moon tonight. ”

Haichen couldn't cry or laugh: "Let's go, let's go home and count the moon." ”

Feeling Haichen stepping onto the bicycle, Lu Rulan hugged his waist very consciously. Then I only felt a gust of breeze, and the fragrance of osmanthus rushed to my face, Lu Rulan couldn't help laughing, and the laughter slowly spread on the moonlit Foguang Island......

The day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it began to rain again on Foguang Island.

Unlike the rains of spring and summer, the autumn rain is like the last glass of practice wine before the fruit leaves the branches, and it is also a harbinger of nature - after each autumn rain, the temperature drops a little until the relatively dry winter officially arrives.

When planning this botanical garden, Su He had a more comprehensive investigation of the temperature changes on Foguang Island. Foguang Island is located near 30 degrees north latitude, the climate is warm and humid, due to the influence of the ocean, the winter temperature is a little higher than the inland areas of the same latitude.

December to mid-January is the coldest season on the island, but temperatures tend to hover around freezing. Snow is rare on the island, and if it does, it dissipates quickly after sunrise.

But all of these lessons may not apply this year.

According to the forecast from Qinghai, the global average temperature will drop by 3-4 degrees Celsius this year due to the eruption of Krakatoa. The temperature at higher latitudes can be much higher than that.

Sure enough, more than a week later, before even October, the news of snow in St. Petersburg, Russia, came over the radio. And in Alaska, in the United States, snowflakes accompanied by the unprecedented magnificence of the aurora borealis sound both exciting and unsettling.

Unfortunately, the cold winter brings more than just snowfall. The biggest problem is the freezing caused by low temperatures – when the temperature drops beyond a critical point, even the sea freezes. At that point, it will be possible for the zombies to reach the offshore islands through the thick ice.

Foguang Island, located in the subtropics, is not worried about the freezing of the sea, but they know that at least one of China's northern settlements will have to be relocated.

The mirage of the settlement site is located at the southern end of the Bohai Strait, on the Miaodao Islands. The closest point to the mainland is only 6 nautical miles. According to historical data, as early as 2010, there was a severe freezing disaster in Bohai Bay, when the maximum outer edge of the ice in the Laizhou Bay area reached 30 nautical miles. This year's disaster is even more severe than in 2010.

In the current crisis, even if there is no reluctance, only a strong man breaks his wrist. Soon instructions came from Qinghai, ordering more than 200 people from the mirage resettlement site to be transferred.

But where can you go when you leave your homeland?

Nearby placement seems to be the most appropriate option. However, the number of more than 70 people is not too much, but it is not too much, and it is not too much to say that it is not too small, and no matter which civilian resettlement site it is placed in, it is a big burden. There is only one place that seems to be the most suitable choice.

"The people of the mirage are moving to the South China Sea?"

At dinner that morning, everyone listened to Duan Whale talk about the news from Qinghai, and their eyes widened one by one.

"Isn't that the same as walking along China's coastline? It will take half a month, right? Lu Rulan was speechless.

"It is said that it will take at least ten days or so at sea."

Su He asked: "Why did you choose the South China Sea?" ”

"I asked the same question,"

Duan Whale gave the explanation he heard from Zhu Yixin: "Because it is the largest official settlement site on the sea. In the last decade or so, land reclamation projects have opened up large tracts of islands and reefs in the South China Sea, and a large amount of infrastructure has been built on the islands. Today, the island is not only home to a large freshwater purification plant, but also to fertile soil and fisheries. There are even projects for the supply of refined oil products. In the future, it will inevitably become the starting point for the revival of social order. ”

"It sounds like a very good look, blue sky and blue sea, clear water and young sand, who wouldn't want to go to that kind of vacation paradise." Haichen was actually a little tempted, but he also raised doubts: "After sailing at sea for ten days in one breath, are the supplies they prepared enough?" ”

"It shouldn't be a big problem. And they follow the coastline all the way south, passing many settlements along the way, and will stop at the shore to rest. ”

"Will that pass us?"

"It's possible, but not necessarily. You'll find out when the time comes. ”

There is news about the collective relocation of the mirage, which can be regarded as a temporary end. In the following days, Qinghai did not mention the relevant matters, and the people on Foguang Island did not deliberately inquire - when this round of autumn rain temporarily stopped, the long-lost sun finally showed its head. Taking advantage of the crisp autumn weather, everyone began the last large-scale harvest before the winter of this year.

The edible vegetables and fruits have basically been harvested, and now there are more than a dozen olive plants and large fields of camellia in the cash crop area, which contain a lot of golden energy from the sun.

Everyone worked together to beat the ripe olives off the trees with wooden poles and pile them up to dry in the open field with the hand-picked camellia fruits. After a few days, the initial evaporation of the water is collected again, and the oil containing juice is carefully collected by a simple and crude rammer in the construction field. The pulp residue is crushed into a cake shape and the juice is further extracted. Finally, all the juices are gathered together and then distilled and deacidified to obtain a golden cooking oil.

At the same time, the drop in temperature has also begun to affect the growth and oil yield of Prunus oil. When the last barrel of biodiesel has been carefully stored, this year's oil season has officially come to an end. Su He quickly turned his attention to another important item that was necessary for winter - cotton.

The golf course, which had been spurned by Su He for a long time, was transformed into a test field for mutant cotton. Almost overnight, it was snowing like goose feathers. The nearly three-meter-tall mutant cotton tree is covered with cracked bolls. The small one is close to a football, and the large one is even larger than the basin in diameter.

Under Su He's vigorous mobilization, everyone went into battle together to pick all these huge cotton bolls and dry them.

There was not enough open space in the yard, so they paved the construction site and the roads everywhere, piling up pits and valleys everywhere. When the drone was routinely lifted into the air for safety checks, what was seen was a strange scene of "Ruixue Trillion Year".

On 13 October, the third day of drying cotton, news came from Qinghai that the 235 survivors of the mirage had finally begun to sail south.

Although the trajectory of the sea ship could not be seen, the intelligence reports on the radio waves were never interrupted. As agreed in advance, the ships arrived at several large and small settlements along the way, rested and refueled, and continued to move forward.

Three days later, Mirage's ship arrived at Luojia and stayed there for the night. According to the advance notice, we will arrive at Foguang Island at 3 p.m. the next day.

In order to prepare for the next day's meeting, everyone made a lot of preparations overnight. In addition to some diesel fuel, fresh vegetables and fruits, a large amount of fresh water was prepared.

If these are normal preparations, then what follows seems a little funny.

The thought of meeting more than 70 people soon, everyone's hearts were more or less nervous. In the evening of that day, everyone took a shower carefully, and asked Lin Youqing, who had the best skills, to help with a haircut, except for Su He, who was determined to have long hair, all of them changed into a refreshing style. After getting up early the next morning, I put on the decent clothes that pressed the bottom of the box on weekdays.

At about one o'clock in the afternoon, Haichen and Lu Rulan drove the sailboat out to sea to prepare to pilot the big ship, and the rest of the people continued to stay by the dock and wait. However, until two o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Rulan suddenly came with news from the front, saying that the water depth near the pier of Foguang Island might not meet the requirements of the big ship to dock, so he could only temporarily change the plan and make a detour.

Season's sailing ship turned back to the dock halfway through, loaded with supplies, and went to join the ship. The others stayed on the dock and looked at each other, but soon had an idea.

The two drones slowly lifted into the air, turned around, and soon locked onto the sailboat that was slowly moving away.

The others who remained on the island followed the sailing ship eastward in this way. After about five minutes, a large ship suddenly appeared on the endless sea in front of me.

"Wow!"

Rao is Su He, who has "seen the world", and he can't help but be shocked-

As they got closer, they could see a large number of people standing on the huge deck of the ship. Dozens, no, there should even be more than a hundred. They were standing in twos and threes, perhaps talking and laughing with each other, or looking out at Foguang Island in the distance.

"It's like I've seen so many people for the first time in my life." Duan Whale sighed, reached out and touched his chest, "My heart is beating straight." ”

Su He sneered on the side: "Come on, you." We had more than that in our last big lesson. He paused again, "But it was so old that it seemed like a lifetime ago." ”

"Hometown timidity." Du Yunfei used this idiom as a metaphor, "If you stay away from the social system for too long, once you get close to or return, you will have the phenomenon of not adapting." The same has happened to the wintering team members of the Antarctic research station. It's okay, it'll get better slowly. ”

The drone hovered over the big ship. More and more people on deck looked up and waved at the camera.

There is no pain of loss or family ruin, under the sun, all the faces are full of hope, tenacious and optimistic expressions.

As if infected by them, Su He and the others were also happy.

"Look at that woman, the tall one, could it be Qin Zhen of the search and rescue team?"

"So young?"

"Don't you see there's a little girl next to her?"

"Haha, it's obviously a family of three!"

“……”

"Look, two ships have met!"

Under Lin Youqing's reminder, he saw that Haichen's sailboat had already approached the side of the big ship. After a few more minutes, several men descended the rope ladder on the side of the big ship to the sailboat. Haichen and Lu Rulan hugged and greeted them one by one. After greeting each other, they began to lift supplies from the ship.

In just a quarter of an hour, the sailboat began to sail away, and the big ship slowly restarted, carrying more than two hundred survivors, slowly moving towards the south, their new home.

The drone returns with the sailboat. As soon as she returned to the dock, Lu Rulan couldn't wait to jump off the boat, anxious to share what she had just seen and heard with everyone.

"Oh my God, there are so many people on that big ship...... They bowed their heads on the deck and greeted us, louder than the sound of the waves! ”

"That's right!" Haichen, who was standing at the stern of the ship, also described his feelings loudly: "I almost thought I was going to be deaf!" ”

"I'm feeling a little dizzy right now." Duan Whale rubbed his temples, "It's quite right not to bring Xiaoxing." ”

"I'm dizzy too." Lin Youqing leaned on his shoulder.

Before Su He could speak, Du Yunfei had already taken the initiative to touch his forehead.

"It doesn't matter. It's just that we've all been out of society for too long. Go back, listen to the sounds of nature, and in a little while. 166 Reading Network