Chapter 16: New Sorrows
Li Ru has now started to clean up the residents in the community, he also thought a lot after dinner last night, mainly for the future, he plans to put it aside for the time being, at least wait for Han Chunmei to give birth to the child, it just so happens that there are relatively few monsters in this neighborhood, Li Ru decided to use this place as a base for the time being, check door to door, kill monsters, in order to prevent any accidents when he is not around, he will try his best to let Li Wei and them stay in the house and not go out.
After some cleanup, Li Ru killed a lot of monsters trapped in the house, most of them were old people and children before they died, Li Ru was very uncomfortable when he did it, no matter how self-suggestive, but they all carried the shadow of a human on them.
The clean-up work is very troublesome, Li Ru will call Li Wei and Li Qiulan to help every time he clears out an area, he really can't do it alone, it is not easy to get all the monsters stabbed to death out of the room, and cleaning is a headache, fortunately, the two of them work hard, and Li Ru is relatively easy.
People's adaptability is really amazing, just like Li Wei and the two girls, they were scared at the beginning when they asked them to help move the corpses, and they were unwilling.
Fear seems to fade over time, and people will gradually feel paralyzed by a certain constant fear, and finally even feel nothing.
It took Li Ru and the two daughters a week to just clean up the building where they were located, and they really wanted to clean up the entire community, but they didn't know when it would be, Li Ru now understands the importance of human resources, if he is given a few young adults now, the situation may be much better, at least several times more efficient.
"If you want to do it well, you have to do this... And then...", Han Chunmei leaned on the sofa and was teaching the two girls experience. After getting along for a while, Li Ru, the four-person team, has a lot of harmonious relationship with each other, especially Han Chunmei's state is much better, although she can't help in specific things with her big belly, but after all, she is an older woman who is married and has children, Li Ru calls her Sister Chunmei in terms of age, and new problems will follow after no longer rushing, and after settling down, new life problems have also appeared, whether it is cooking or washing clothes, Li Wei and Li Qiulan are the lives of the eldest lady, and they just think too much, Fortunately, there is such a person as Han Chunmei to teach them, otherwise Li Ruke will be really sad, and the difference between women and girls may be in these simple things.
In the past, I didn't have much sense of life, but this time Li Ru really sighed that it is really difficult for people to live well, all aspects, big and small things, even trivial things may affect life, life is inseparable from food, clothing, housing and transportation, there is no shortage of clothes or more, as for whether it fits well, it is impossible to be more serious now, if you live, the whole building is their domain, and there is no need for a few people to squeeze together, for this, Li Ru is both happy and sad, happy that there is no need to suffer from physical suffering, It's sad to suffer mentally, he's a normal man, he doesn't believe it if he doesn't want a woman, as for the line, Li Ru doesn't plan to leave for the time being, so there is no problem in this regard, and the final food problem is more troublesome, although they are not short of food now, but they always eat dry food and rice or something, Li Ru and a few young people can still hold on, but Han Chunmei is a pregnant woman, and now is the time to supplement nutrition, Li Ru is a little worried about this, All he can think of is to find a few chickens to stew soup for him to make up for him, but it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, he has nothing to do now, the eggs he found during this period of time are left to her, although Li Ru is also very greedy, but after discussing with the two girls, he still decided to leave it to Sister Chunmei and the child in her belly, Li Ru began to be glad that he saved these two girls who were a little simple and kind, if he saved a few men back, maybe there would be a conflict for this matter, but he had some hard work.
Li Ru is not naïve enough to think that just a few eggs can help her get through the next few months, at least in terms of quantity alone, so Li Ru will go out alone every once in a while, and now he is also a master of the arts, and he is a little numb to kill monsters during this time, and even now when he sees monsters, as long as there are not many of them, his first reaction is not to run away but to go up and poke a few holes in it, Li Ru doesn't know if he is a little crazy, but this feeling is still quite good.
"Xiaowei, find something good!" Li Ru put some black things on the table, and said a little proudly.
Li Wei looked at it, it seemed to be jerky, no, to be precise, it was air-dried bacon, but even the bacon seemed to be a little too shriveled, most likely because no one cared about it, but it was also a good thing, so she happily cleaned it up.
These days, Li Ru will occasionally bring back some things when he goes out, some interesting books and even candy, and Li Ru has been with him for a long time before he begins to gradually understand him, although he always maintains a mature and steady appearance, maybe this seems reliable, but she knows that he is just a big child, but the burden of survival is on him, this has become what he is now, so every time he comes back, she will happily praise him, maybe he didn't find it himself, what he wants is just a praise or affirmation.
"That's... What about Li Qiulan? Li Ru didn't see the other girl when he came back, and asked a little strangely, he also brought her some gifts, although she always ignored her love, but he didn't care.
"She's reading in her room!" Li Wei replied, since the last time Li Ru came back and brought back a lot of miscellaneous books, Li Qiulan often reads books alone to pass the time, everyone has their own hobbies, Li Wei also thinks that there is nothing to do with her, now everyone has their own room, so there will be no inconvenience, but the relationship between Li Qiulan and Li Ru has always been in a state of not far away, after getting close, Li Ru began to call her Xiaowei, Sister Han Chunmei, but Li Qiulan has always been commensurate with her name, in fact, this is also to blame. Recalling that when Li Ru brought her back, he felt a little strange in his heart, and now he thinks about it, maybe he is jealous, he can't help blushing when he thinks of this, he should like him, at that time, he had an idea, while Li Ru was still sleeping, he gave full play to his thick-skinned and self-cooked advantages, and soon got along with her, and then made up some stories about Li Ru, demonizing Li Ru's image in her heart, otherwise the girl is always easy to fall into saving her prince, she doesn't want to see this situation, At the end of the story, she felt a little outrageous, and the most outrageous thing was that she really believed it completely, Li Wei felt guilty, but that's all.
In this case, Li Ru is not thick-skinned enough to be courteous, and handed over the gift to Li Qiulan to Li Wei to hand over on his behalf, and the gift to Sister Chunmei was personally sent over, although according to the plan, the pregnancy in October, the child will not be born until a few months, but under the current conditions, premature birth is not impossible, or there is a considerable possibility, Li Wei and Li Qiulan will not deliver the baby, but they always know something, when the time comes, it will mainly be health problems and postpartum confinement problems, Li Ru is also trying his best to prepare for this, The gifts she brought back today were toddler clothes and milk powder of various sizes, which she should love.
Li Ru has done a lot of things, unlike before when he was alone only for himself, he now gives priority to everyone, if others see him like this, they may laugh at him for being stupid, from the perspective of interests, Li Ru seems to pay and benefit is not proportional, if it is replaced by others, at least they have to pay for it.
But these have never been Li Ru's considerations, everyone has desires, but people who are driven by desire are pathetic, bow to desire, and give up their qualifications as a person, and Li Ru doesn't feel that he is losing, at least he has two younger sisters and an older sister, this is what it feels like to be at home.
Since the disaster, he has hardly mentioned home, even if he took Li Wei on the way home, he has not talked about home, maybe it may be cruel, but Li Ruda knows in his heart that his home is very likely to be gone, kind parents, and his eight-year-old little sister may have been... He didn't say it on his lips, but he still understood it in his heart.
Meow~
After distributing the things brought back today, Li Ru sat on the sofa to rest, don't worry about dinner, now Li Wei and Li Qiulan take turns to do it, Li Wei is now in the kitchen to prepare everyone's dinner, and at this time there was a cat meow on the side, a black cat, Li Ru doesn't understand cats, and he doesn't know what breed, anyway, it's very common, when I was a child, every household raised it like this, it should be a local cat, right? This cat was found and brought back by Li Wei not long ago, and then became her pet.
The cat is only close to Li Wei, and it is difficult for others to touch it, Li Ru has tried to use ham sausage to win it over, and now the cat is staring at himself with bulging eyes, and he doesn't know what to look at.
The eggs are almost finished, and the bacon is not suitable for Sister Chunmei's body, what should I do, I can't match cabbage with rice every day in the future, right? Li Wei began to talk to Li Ru about her worries in the interval between cooking, and now she will discuss anything with him, after all, Li Ru is her backbone.
"It's difficult, if you can find a few hens now, not to mention the stew, it would be good to use them to lay eggs." Li Ru listened to Li Wei's worries and said helplessly.
"It's good to stew some chicken, duck, fish and so on!" Maybe it was her own topic that aroused her appetite, Li Wei turned around and looked at Li Ru, and said with a greedy face, even if you can't do it, it's not bad to think about it.
Stewed chicken, duck and fish? Feeling that thinking about these things is so extravagant now, Li Ru subconsciously stared at the hemp cat that was still staring at him, immersed in the good memories of the big fish and big meat in the past.
"I'm telling you, don't hit it!" Li Wei said to herself, and suddenly found that Li Ru was staring at her Xiao Hei, looking like she was about to drool, and then thinking of the topic just now, she couldn't help but feel nervous, and hurriedly ran over to hold Xiao Hei in her arms and warned Li Ru.
"Huh? What the! Li Ru came back to his senses at this time, and asked a little at a loss, he was distracted just now, and he didn't know the situation very well.
"I mean, don't try to stew my little black." Li Wei didn't know if Li Ru was pretending to be stupid, and emphasized again that Xiao Hei was already her pet, even if it was Li Ru, she wouldn't allow him to beat it.
"No, no, how could I move it?" Li Ru understood, knew that Li Wei had misunderstood himself, and hurriedly explained, his words were not false, he really hadn't thought about stewing cats, and now the situation has not deteriorated to that extent, the cat has skin and bones, and there are not a few taels of meat after skinning, and the most important thing is that it is a pet, at least in Li Ru's opinion, its significance is extraordinary, at least in a spiritual sense, it belongs to spiritual sustenance, a good comfort in this collapsed world, even if people like Li Ru who have not had many pets want to touch it, although they can't touch it.