Chapter 9: Kids

On the third day of the catastrophe, after Chen Ming got up in the morning and washed, he saw Li Jie coming out of her room at 10 o'clock, and it seemed that she didn't want to make her relationship with Zhang Chao public for the time being.

I don't know if it was affected by what I saw last night, Chen Ming looked at the way Li Jie and Zhang Chao got along, and always felt that the relationship between the two was much closer, and it was no longer an ordinary friend. Li Jie looked intimate in the face of Zhang Chaoshi, and she also showed a certain sense of pride and arrogance towards others.

After lunch, Zhang Chao locked all the rooms where the survival materials were stored, and announced that in order to ensure that everyone could wait for the rescue force, Li Jie controlled the key to the material room, and he personally controlled the key to the civil air defense facilities. From today onwards, food quotas will be distributed, and there must be a clear reason for entering and leaving the civil air defense facilities, and only after his consent can be obtained.

Chen Ming was about to leave this place soon, so he didn't express any opinion on this matter, and he didn't care what other people thought, everyone had their own lives.

Chen Ming returned to his room, sat on the bed, took out his mobile phone, and began to plan his route home. From Jiangxia Airport to Jiangzhou, the whole journey is more than 800 kilometers, and it takes more than 10 hours to drive the highway normally. Considering the possible lane congestion on the highway now, I still have to rest, so I have to walk for 2 days, and the estimated time will be 3 days.

Chen Ming thought about it, took out his notebook and wrote on it: food and fresh water for 3 days, 3 tanks of gasoline, and a handful of self-defense.

While thinking about it, Bai Lu knocked on her door and walked in, with a panicked look on her face at this time, as if something bad had happened. She quickly approached Chen Ming, pulled him and walked out of the house, making Chen Ming confused, not knowing what Bai Lu was crazy or what had happened, so she could only let him pull him out.

The two of them left Chen Ming's house and came to Bai Lu's house.

Deng Pan and Zhang Chao, the old men who were playing backgammon battles on the paper next to them, saw the intimate movements of the two, Deng Pan had a smile on his face that all men understand, while Zhang Chao was displeased, his eyes were rolling in his eyes, he should be thinking of some crooked idea.

Chen Ming entered the Bailu house, and he saw that Zhao Jie did not go to play unusually, but instead fell asleep on the bed in a daze, and his face was still a little abnormally flushed.

Chen Ming knew that something was wrong, he was also a person with a child, and he knew that the child was sick when he saw this situation. He went up and touched Zhao Jie's head, and suddenly his head was as big as a cow, and Zhao Jie's forehead was extremely hot: he had a fever.

With tears in her eyes, Bai Lu was almost about to cry, and her fingers trembled slightly and she took out her mobile phone and wrote, "What should I do?" The child has a fever, and usually my mother is taking the child, so I don't know what to do. ”

Chen Ming sighed in his heart, he didn't know how Bai Lu did his mother, although her mother was taking it, but she didn't even know how to deal with the fever. But this was not the time to blame Bai Lu, Chen Ming immediately returned: "Don't worry, go out and get two towels and use a basin to connect some warm water." ”

Bai Lu nodded, and soon came back with her things after going out. She placed the basin on the ground and handed the towel to Chen Ming. Behind Bai Lu, Li Jie and Wang Meng, who came to see the excitement, leaned against the door, looking at what was going on in the house with curious faces.

Chen Ming took the towel, wet the towel in the basin, wrung the towel out slightly, and began to wipe Zhao Jie's forehead, face, arms and other exposed skin, and then he motioned for Bai Lu to do the same. The two of them kept cooling Zhao Jie physically.

Li Jie and Wang Meng didn't see much excitement to see, and turned around and left Bai Lu's room.

Chen Ming and Bai Lu had been tossing in the house for half an hour, but Zhao Jie's body temperature was getting higher and higher.

Chen Ming shook his head and wrote to Bailu: "No, his temperature can't come down, and he must take medicine." You cool him down here, and I'll find medicine for Zhao Jie. ”

Bai Lu had completely lost her mind at this time, so she could only nod and wipe Zhao Jie's body mechanically.

Chen Ming came out to find Zhang Chao and wrote: "I want to go out." Zhao Jie has a fever, I have to go to the infirmary at the airport to find some medicine for him, otherwise he won't be able to hold on. ”

Zhang Chao turned his attention away from backgammon, he looked at Chen Ming with a skeptical face, and he wrote: "Isn't it okay to physically cool down?" You don't just want to go out and hang out. It's dangerous out there right now, do you want to bring it all to everyone? ”

Deng Pan also intervened and wrote: "That's right. It's dangerous to get out now. The child's illness can be endured and carried over with a carry. That's how I've been since I was a child. ”

Seeing the reaction of the two, Chen Ming couldn't help but feel a wave of anger in his heart, and he slapped his slap on the table where the two were playing chess, glaring at the two of them angrily.

Wang Meng and Li Jie, who were in their own room, were also frightened by this sound and hurriedly came out to see what was going on.

Zhang Chao saw that everyone was looking at this side, and he felt that his authority position was being challenged, so he shook his head more firmly and did not allow Chen Ming to go out.

Chen Ming took a few deep breaths to control his anger, and he wrote, "I've been physically cooling down for a while. It didn't work, and if I burned it again, it would burn the child's head, so I had to go out and find medicine. ”

Zhang Chao still did not agree to Chen Ming's request.

He got up casually, walked into Bai Lu's room with a flat expression, and pretended to check Zhao Jie's situation. After he came out, he said that Zhao Jie's situation was not as serious as Chen Ming said, and there was no need to take the risk to go out.

Zhang Chao said at length that now is the most critical time, and no mistakes can be made. According to the battle plan as he understood, it is now at the stage of clearing the ground by local ground forces. If you go out, you will encounter enemy soldiers at any time, and then everyone will die.

Chen Ming didn't care about this, he hurriedly wrote on the paper: "We are civilians, unarmed, even if we really encounter the enemy's troops, the other party will capture us at most, and they will not kill us!" ”

Zhang Chao pursed his lips disdainfully, and he wrote: "You believe that they will not kill us, so what are so many corpses outside now." Didn't they kill each other? Or are they all a bunch of dummies in your mind? Taking a step back, let's say what you say comes true, we are captured. The man is fine, at most he will be a little bitter. What about the woman? You can imagine what will happen to them. ”

When Li Jie saw the last sentence, she trembled, as if she imagined what happened to her captivity. She shook her head resolutely at Chen Ming, then walked behind Zhang Chao and stood against Zhang Chao, making it clear that she supported Zhang Chao's point of view.

Chen Ming's face was excited, he slapped one hand on the table again, and wanted to scold when he opened his mouth, but fortunately, Wang Meng on the side quickly covered Chen Ming's mouth, and Chen Ming also woke up in time, so he didn't make a sound.

Chen Ming nodded gratefully at Wang Meng, and then glared at Zhang Chao fiercely, and then reluctantly returned to Bai Lu's room and helped Bai Lu cool down Zhao Jie.

Bai Lu had been cooling Zhao Jie down and didn't have a chance to go out, but listening to the slap table outside just now, and seeing Chen Ming come back with an angry face, she also guessed that Chen Ming couldn't go out to find medicine for Zhao Jie. Looking at Zhao Jie's red little face, Bai Lu's heart was like a knife, and tears unconsciously flowed down like flowing water.

Chen Ming looked at the uncomfortable Zhao Jie, thought about it, and tore a small piece of clean towel to stuff it into his mouth. Bai Lu hurriedly grabbed Chen Ming's hand, not understanding what Chen Ming was going to do.

Chen Ming pulled Bai Lu's hand away, and he gaged Zhao Jie's mouth before explaining to Bai Lu: "Now he is too uncomfortable, I'm afraid he can't help but call out for a while, stuff him safely." ”

Bai Lu saw that Chen Ming was so careful as a big man, but he, a mother, didn't expect these things. There was a look of shame in her eyes. She used her mobile phone to ask, "Won't Zhang Chao let you out?" ”

Chen Ming nodded and replied: "Yes, he is worried that there are enemy people outside who will bring danger back. ”

Bai Lu nodded, she looked at Zhao Jie, she wrote: "You help me take care of Zhao Jie, I'll go find Zhang Chao." After reading it to Chen Ming, Bai Lu went out to find Zhang Chao on her own.

Chen Ming continued to cool down Zhao Jie in the house.

It took a while for Bai Lu to come back from outside, her eyes red as if she had cried. She walked over and handed Chen Ming a note that read, "You can go out, Zhang Chao agreed." ”

Chen Ming was very curious about how Bai Lu did it, and he hurriedly wrote: "How did you do it? ”

Bai Lu shook her head and squeezed out a smile and wrote, "You don't have to care, you can just go out." ”

Bai Lu smiled, and Chen Ming saw a black curvy hair left on his lips, and Chen Ming immediately knew what was going on. He slapped the bed hard, got up and was about to reason with Zhang Chao, how dare he spoil people so much, do he really think that he is the king of this place?

Bai Lu grabbed Chen Ming, she shook her head, pointed at Zhao Jie, and slowly wrote: "Brother Ming, thank you, but please save my son first." ”

Chen Ming stared at Bai Lu for a long time, and finally exhaled deeply, and went out of the house to find medicine.