The next morning, we packed our bags and set off.

Before leaving, the old man in white came to see us off, and while waiting for the car to turn around, the old man in white stood beside me and asked, "The girl is Xiaotian's daughter-in-law?" ”

I was stunned for a moment, turned my head to look at the old man in white, and hurriedly responded, "Yes... Hello. ”

He laughed twice, stared at the lock sky that turned the car around in the distance, and said to me: "Listen to Xiaotian, there is a child, right?" ”

I nodded: "Yes, it's been more than four months old. ”

The old man in white laughed when he heard this, and looked at Suo Tian with rare love in his eyes: "If you have a chance, bring the child over to have a look before I die." ”

After nodding, he didn't know how to answer, so he thought for a while and asked, "Listen to Suotian, you brought him into Team C?" ”

Hearing this, the old man glanced at me and said, "Xiao Tian told you?" ”

I was stunned for a moment: "Well, he told me that you brought him into Team C, and you are also the former captain of Team C." ”

The old man's face changed, and then he responded with a smile: "It should be said that it is the captain of the former C team, this time is different from the past, we old guys have long since retired, and we are almost dead, and only a few of our old bones are still scattered all over the place, and it is estimated that we will not be seen until we die." ”

Speaking of this, although the old man in white was still smiling, there was obviously a deep helplessness and loneliness in his eyes and tone.

They had everything ready, and they honked their horns and waved to the old man in white to leave.

The old man in white smiled and waved his hand at Suotian.

I turned to say goodbye to him and got ready to get in the car and go.

But just as I took a step, the old man in white put away his smile and called out to me: "Miss Chen." ”

I was stunned for a moment and looked back at him, "What's wrong?" Do you have anything to do? ”

The old man in white looked at Suotian's eyes flashed, and he slowed down for a while before he spoke: "Be kind to Xiaotian, he's a poor child." After finishing speaking, he smiled self-deprecatingly: "It's not quite right to call a child." ”

I was stunned: "What are you talking about?" ”

The old man in white waved his hand: "It's nothing, treat him well, live a good life, some things, as time goes by, if he doesn't say it, you will gradually find out." ”

Although it was still strange, he didn't ask any more questions, nodded to the old man in white, and ran towards the car that locked the sky.

In the co-pilot, Suo Tian glanced at me, as if he wanted to say something, but he never spoke.

After the car started, it slowly exited the gate.

Through the rearview mirror, I glanced at the old man standing in place.

The lonely figure is a little dazzling.

It wasn't until I turned a corner and the figure of the old man disappeared from the rearview mirror that I turned my face to look at Suo Tian: "If you have a chance, let's come over with the little lock to see him." ”

Suotian didn't answer, just nodded.

I don't know what to do next, since the lock is there, these are not in my consideration, but the whole journey will take more than a day, during which I sit in my position and keep looking at the video in my phone.

During this period, Qingming was also attracted to attention, took the phone over and looked at it, and the beard also followed his head to see, originally a fierce face, when he saw the small lock in the video, he was suddenly much gentler, and discussed with Qingming that the lock is more like me, or more like the lock.

In the end, the two almost unanimously agreed that their son looked more like his father.

I pretended not to hear it in front of me, and my face seemed to be darkened.

He glanced sideways at Suo Tian and found that he was pursing the corners of his mouth in a good mood because of the results of their discussion with the bearded man.

I pouted hatefully, what's the big deal! And then follow his father, it also came out of my belly!

The car stopped in an empty service area in the afternoon, and while they were refueling the car and checking it, Qingming and I seized the opportunity to get out of the car and move around.

Xiaohu and Xue Yun ran wildly in the clearing where the man in black had cleared the walking corpses.

I stretched and stood side by side with Qingming, and he looked into the distance for a long time and said to me: "Chen Yang." ”

"Huh?" I glanced back at him.

"What do you think life is?"

I was stunned when I heard this, and then patted him on the shoulder for a while and said with a smile: "What's the matter?" Suddenly ask such a literary question? ”

Qingming also smiled gently, and asked again: "I know this question is silly, but to be honest, what do you think life is?" ”

Glancing at him and knowing that he wasn't joking, I thought for a while and then said, "It's hard to say. ”

"Say whatever you want."

As he looked into the distance, I said, "Wasn't there a famous phrase before?" Life, life, and living are nothing more than living and living. ”

"It's as simple as that?" Qingming was still looking at me.

"No, before the chaos of the world, my life was to go to work hard, supervise Yangyang's academic performance, carefully cook every meal, wash every bowl, clean every day on the weekend, buy a week's worth of ingredients and stuff the refrigerator on Friday night, and then wait for the days to pass, maybe there will be some small accidents in life, but it doesn't hurt, I will meet a man who is okay to get married, have children, and then continue to make every meal every day and wash every bowl." After saying these words, I turned my head to look at Qingming and couldn't help laughing: "Is it the mind of a very unproductive person?" ”

Qingming also smiled: "To be honest, the lifestyle you said doesn't quite match your own personality and neatness in doing things. ”

I waved my hand: "Yes, if you don't say anything, the world is impermanent, when I thought my life would be so peaceful and wave-free, the world suddenly turned upside down, everything changed in the blink of an eye, from the first day I found out the problem, from the downstairs I heard the movement and ran downstairs to see the walking corpse gnawing on the corpse of the woman downstairs, everything has changed direction in the dark, and then my life is constantly turning between the magnificent and the calm and waveless. ”

At this point, I paused, and many people came to mind.

Xiaoxue, Zhang Hongsheng, Yin Shangtang, Rong Rong, Song Meijing, Chen Pu, and many, many others who have disappeared from this world and drowned in the torrent of history.

My heart suddenly became bitter.

Turned his face to look at Qingming: "So, if you really ask me what life is, I really can't say it, these two words contain too much." ”

Qingming did not answer.

The car on the other side had already been refueled, honked the horn to inform us that we could get in the car and continue to set off, and I shouted from afar to stop Yun and Xiaohu to hurry back.

At the same time, he replied to Qingming: "What we want now is nothing more than stability, and life is stability in the final analysis." ”

This time, Qingming looked up at me: "Just like we did a few days ago, is it considered stable?" ”

Xiaohu and Zhiyun ran towards us from a distance, and I was stunned for a moment and replied to Qingming: "Count, it's very stable, but it's not what I want, maybe it's the stability you like." ”

"What do you want?"

"Settle down with my husband, children, younger brother, relatives and friends."

He smiled bitterly: "Then it's no wonder, if I have no relatives and friends like this, I am destined to have only one person's stability." ”

Shaking my head, I squatted down and wiped the sweat on Xiaohu and Zhuyunran's heads, I looked up and said to him: "You can have relatives and friends, go back with us, return to a relatively normal life, you will meet the girl you like, have children, and make different friends." ”

Qingming smiled and took the hands of the two children: "Okay, let's go back to the car." ”

Looking at Qingming's back, I sighed slightly, and when I go back, I must introduce such a good young man to someone.

The convoy set off again.

We had a bite to eat in the car, and when we got to the night lockdown, the rest of us fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, he seemed to have met up with a few teams of walking dead.

After passing by, the bearded man said to Suo Tian in the back row: "Boss, fortunately, there is still some distance between these walking corpse teams, otherwise they will gather in a group and be met by us, it will be a big problem." ”

So early the next morning, as soon as I woke up, I was told that I was about to arrive.

The car has gotten off the highway, and both sides of the road look very remote, and the road is repaired quite well, and it is not bumpy to walk.

Leaning on the back of the chair and looking out the window, thinking that they would be able to see Yangyang for a while, they couldn't help but be excited in their hearts.

The video recording of the mobile phone was no longer enough for me, and my heart had flown back to the shelter in advance, beside the little lock.

When I saw the walls of the shelter from afar, I was excited and happy in my heart, and at the same time, I glanced back at Qingming, who was quietly looking at the towering walls, although there was surprise in his eyes, but there was no special expression on his face.

This time I went in, the inspection of the vehicle was very strict, and the bearded man said that since I and Xueyun Xiaohu were taken away because of negligence in entering and exiting the checkpoint, the inspection of the shelter has been very strict.

Song Meijing and the rest of their party have been completely wiped out in the shelter.

The bearded man got out of the car on the way and went to report with the man in black behind him.

Suotian took us straight back in the direction of home.

When I entered the community and looked at the familiar scenery around me, I once again felt hypocritical in my heart.

It's back... I, Chen Hansan, are back again!!

Qingming looked at the crowd of people coming and going, the clean street community, and looked more and more surprised after coming in.

When a few of us walked into the elevator, he finally couldn't help but say to me: "Chen Yang, I understand now, why do you want to come back here." ”

I squeezed my eyes at him and said, "When you meet your family, you will understand better." ”