Chapter 24: Chinese New Year
Then everyone finally settled down gradually, and they gathered together in twos and threes, whispering about how frightened they had just been.
I tilted my head and leaned on the sofa in a distraction, and my mind kept thinking about Zhang Ping's appearance lying outside the door, her intestines and internal organs hanging on her body.
Xiaoyu comforted Qiqi on the side, although Lin Wei was also frightened, but in general, she was much calmer than Qiqi.
After an unknown amount of time, the sound of a car engine was finally heard outside.
The people in the house were in a commotion almost immediately when they heard the sound, and in the distance I heard the stinky and confused voice: "Why is there no one in the yard?" ”
As soon as the words fell, I heard Sun Miao shouting: "Smelly and get out of the way, there are walking corpses!! ”
My heart jerked, and then I heard Smelly Yu shout in shock, "How can there be walking corpses here?!" Damn, it scared the hell out of me! ”
"Big brother! There's still one over there! "It was the dragon who said this.
Hearing her son's voice, Aunt Long's face obviously floated a trace of relief, and I looked at her who was gradually wearing pride and smugness at the corners of her mouth, and I looked away.
There was a commotion outside for a while, and I wanted to rush out with a knife to help, but I was dragged by my father and Lin Wei, and I was not allowed to go out.
"They can deal with it, so don't go out and join in the fun." Lin Wei's voice is very calm, except for the first time I met her, she made me feel very relieved and reliable.
Finally, after the outside was completely quiet, we tried to open the door of the living room and walked out into the courtyard, but as soon as we opened the door, we ran into Chen Wei staring at the corpse in the courtyard.
Seeing us coming out of the house, he raised his eyebrows and looked at me, and after we opened the door without a squeak, he glanced at Sister Zhang's body on the ground twice, and said lightly: "Bao Ming is dead." ”
This sentence was like a thunderbolt from the sky, and all of us were stunned in place.
It's been too long since we've faced the departure of someone next to us, and today, in one day, the couple is both gone.
They also have two children that young.
This is also the most unacceptable to me.
Because the family is the youngest every day, I know how irreplaceable the significance of parents to the growth of children is.
Thinking of this, I can't help but smile bitterly, without my parents, do the two children who are so young have a chance to continue to grow up?
Two and a half hours after they came back, the yard was cleaned again, and after it was confirmed that it was safe, we gathered people one after another, and after statistics, a total of 7 people died in the courtyard.
And the group of people who went out, only one died.
Or maybe God didn't want this little couple to be separated from heaven and man, and arranged for them to dissipate in this world on the same day.
All of us cleaned up all the walking corpses in the yard, and washed all the blood stains that could be washed, the wall in the back was our big mistake, that place was actually a small door, just because the shape was the same as those iron shelves, so we thought they were exactly the same, and more importantly, the door was not locked at all, yesterday those walking corpses didn't know what they were attracted to, they didn't realize it, they just happened to push the door open.
What happens in this world is always surrounded by all kinds of coincidences.
On the night of that incident, it was estimated that no one in the compound could fall asleep.
Sister Zhang Ping's two children were temporarily taken back by Aunt Long.
I ran to the hanging chair in the courtyard and wrapped myself in a blanket in a daze, constantly recalling the images of the day and the past, the excitement and serenity of the past and the terrifying silence in front of me intersecting in my mind.
In the next few days, Hu Yongqiang and his team apparently began to focus on strengthening the security facilities of the compound.
We are no longer in a hurry to go out and stock up, although these resources are not renewable, we can only hurry up as much as possible to store them before others take more things, but in comparison, the safety of the compound is the most important thing at present.
All the walls are twisted with thin wires, so that in case the walking corpses come around one day in the future, and so that a gap does not fall and open the door for the walking corpses, each connected is much more stable.
We're still tired and half-dead every day, and we've got a lot of work to do, and it's been snowing in the last few days.
The snow is heavy.
When I was a child, I looked forward to this kind of goose feather snow, and I always felt that even if I didn't have a boyfriend, it would be very romantic to walk around in the snow by myself.
The mood given by nature is always incomparable to human beings.
But now we have to fight to leave an open field in the snow so that we can place the washing basin.
If it was before, it is estimated that such snow will have to be blocked on the highway again, and the relevant departments will have to issue an orange warning.
The car could not drive on the road with thick snow, and a group of people nested in the house every day not knowing what to discuss, and Chen Wei was always called by them.
Anyway, there are already us servants, and they don't have to do anything.
In recent days, Hu Yongqiang and others have not been able to go out, and there are a lot less changes of clothes, and one day we can be idle from early in the morning, and the ground cannot be cultivated at all, and all the people in the compound are finally idle.
I originally planned to be paralyzed in the house for a day, but I overheard a conversation between my mother and grandmother, saying that today is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve.
The food we received from each family was also significantly richer.
A few big pigs brought back before were also slaughtered the day before yesterday, Hu Yongqiang's people have a stunned head called Jinjun, it is said that the family used to kill pigs to make a living, our pigs were slaughtered by him, except for leaving two to keep raising, the rest were all slaughtered and distributed to each household for the New Year.
We emptied a villa and kept pigs inside.
Treating the villa as a pigsty, we are really extravagant.
After the New Year, I will be twenty-two years old.
I couldn't sleep anyway after knowing what day it was.
He simply got up and pulled out the new clothes he had taken out from the mall from the closet, new inside and out, including shoes.
Finally, he was wrapped in a bright red cotton coat with a big white velvet hat on it, and the clothes were very cute.
I ran downstairs and drank two sips of hot soy milk, and shouted to my parents and grandmother, "I'll go out for a walk." And he ran out of the door.
The Chinese culture, which has been inherited for hundreds of years, cannot be dissipated at once even if it is the end of the world.
People from all over the yard also ran out to have snowball fights and build snowmen.
Without TV and the Internet, borrowing what nature has given me, this post-apocalyptic year actually makes me feel a strong New Year's flavor.
Outside the door, Lin Wei, Qiqi and Xiaoyu took a few people to chirp and have a snowball fight in the open space of the park every day, Sun Miao and Xu Yiwen, stinky and standing aside, occasionally snow fell on a few of them, and they would immediately join the battle.
Looking at Sun Miao's stiff limbs that even had a snowball fight, I pursed my lips, what a machine.
"Silently! Let's have fun. Xiaoyu, who caught the gap in the game, spotted me sharply and shouted at me from afar.
"You guys play first, I'll walk around the yard." After answering her loudly, I put my hands in my pockets and walked off the road.
The cotton boots I wore creaked on the snow, and the low mood of the past few days was instantly washed clean against the white and flawless snow.
Humming a little tune, I walked deeper into the community.
The overall layout of the community is a square, wide on the left and right, and long at the front and back.
If you walk around the circle, it will take at least dozens of minutes.
There was still a light snow in the sky, much smaller than the previous days, and when I almost came to the end of the road, I suddenly found that the door of a courtyard diagonally was open, and there was a sofa in the yard that should have been installed by the previous owner for afternoon tea, and a very bourgeois parasol was propped up above.
Chen Wei sat quietly on the sofa alone, and the parasol blocked the snowflakes for him. There was a thermos cup on the table in front of him, still steaming.
Standing on the snow-covered road like this, letting the snowflakes fall on his head and shoulders, he watched the good-looking Chen Wei sitting there from a distance.
A qiē is as beautiful as a painting.
At this time, the door of the living room in the courtyard where Chen Wei was was suddenly opened from the inside, I was stunned for a moment, and then I saw Aunt Long walking out of it menacingly.
Then he yelled at Chen Wei loudly: "Is there something wrong with you?" Why don't you leave? What do I have to do with those two kids? Eat your stuff? Less nosy in this reads;! ”
Chen Wei's voice was relatively low, and I didn't hear what he said, but after he said it, Aunt Long's originally menacing posture was significantly lowered.
I didn't hear much of the conversation between the two of them, but at the end, Aunt Long smiled and said, "Then you can take it away, anyway, I will be annoyed to see them." ”
Chen Wei nodded slightly after a pause.
After a while, Aunt Long went back to the house and took out the two children from inside
A man and a woman, Nuno and Nuonuo!!
Even from so far away, I could see the bruises on the faces of the two children.
Chen Wei squatted down and said something to the two children, and they nodded timidly.
Finally, with Aunt Long's satisfied smile, Chen Wei twisted up the thermos cup and stuffed it into his pocket, and led the two children out of the door.
The moment they came out, Aunt Long slammed the door shut.
Chen Wei ignored her, lowered his head and whispered something to look at him with his neck up.
When they turned to the road, Nono saw me standing in the snow and shouted, "Aunt Mo!" ”
Hearing this, Chen Wei looked up at me.
I dare to swear, the moment Chen Wei looked up, I felt that no one looked better than him, whether in the previous world or in the current world.
Smiling at Chen Wei, I stepped forward and hugged Nuo Nuo, stared at my face twice, and then asked Chen Wei, "The injuries on my face are all from Aunt Long?" ”
Without waiting for Chen Wei to answer, Nuo Nuo grabbed the words and spoke: "Grandma beats my sister, I don't let it, she also beats me!"
It seems that knowing that the two of us are around, Nono has the confidence to sue.
Chen Wei also hugged Nuo Nuo and said to me: "Go back first, it's cold outside." ”