Chapter 49: Three and a Half Pounds
The little boy's name is Qi Xuan, and when the end has just come, his mother died in the first wave of meteoric ice, and his father took him several times and fled here. At the beginning www.biquge.info, there was still work to repair the city wall in the safety zone, and with his father's hard work on the construction site, the father and son barely survived. But in another accident, his father fell from the city wall and limped. That day, his father came back with a cane. They got a lot of compensation for that.
As the materials ran out, Qi Xuan's father became one of the many workers who were dismissed. Since he really couldn't find a job, Qi Xuan's father couldn't go out to find food because he was lame. The father, who gradually fell into despair, began to find a way out for his son.
Just now, Qi Xuan called Ji Hao and their parents, it was Qi Xuan's father who taught him. His father had brought five or six people to the tent to see Qi Xuan, and Qi Xuan had also called their father five or six times. But the people who came one after another disliked Qi Xuan for being too thin or too small, or too "thin" (this thinness has a deep meaning), and did not adopt him.
As the food he had saved on the construction site ran out little by little, one day, his desperate father came back with two canes and five flatbreads. His left leg had disappeared for unknown reasons.
"These flatbreads are enough for Qi Xuan to eat for five or six days." Father thought so. So he called Qi Xuan and said to him, "Dad is sick, and now I need a man like you to support my father." Take these five loaves of bread. Go find a godfather or godmother, and try to find a younger one. Sell yourself to them and bring it back to Daddy for some food. ”
Qi Xuan's father told him that his father wanted to sleep and that he could go to that beautiful place to find his mother after waking up. At that time, Mom and Dad built a very big house for Qi Xuan in that beautiful place, and waited for Qi Xuan to pick them up to live together.
But Qi Xuan knew that his mother was actually dead. His father, too, weakened a little bit, and died within three days. Qi Xuan once fed the flatbread to his father, chewed the flatbread and fed it into his father's mouth.
But his father was so stubborn that he spit out all the food that was fed to his mouth, and a big living man put the food in his mouth and refused to eat it, and finally starved himself to death.
And Dr. Zhao, who was opposite Qi Xuan's house, told Qi Xuan after seeing it. Your father is saved. As long as he was given three and a half pounds of rice, he would be able to save his father.
Xia Lulu had already hugged Qi Xuan. Perhaps women are born with gentle embraces, and as soon as Qi Xuan hugged Xia Lulu's arms, he couldn't help but cry. On the other side of the tent, the fat man and the glasses had already buried Qi Xuan's father on the spot. After listening to Qi Xuan intermittently talk about his experience, everyone hung their heads, not knowing what they were thinking.
This is the story of a helpless father. This father may not be great, but here in Qi Xuan, he is a hero! After there was no way out in life, his first thought was to let his children find a safe place and someone who was willing to take him in. How much effort his father made, Ji Hao didn't know. But to make a father so desperate that he paid the price of a leg in order to get five cakes, Ji Hao seemed to feel the struggle and helplessness of this father in the face of the gradually approaching death. Even in this last period, his father still resolutely gave all the food to his children, hoping that he would have a longer time and a greater chance to meet a group of people who were willing to adopt him.
In the end, this father left the world after leaving his child a popular and delicate fairy tale.
However, everything that has passed will eventually be irretrievable, and Qi Xuan met Ji Hao, a team of newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers. Only such an immature team would dare to adopt a useless Qi Xuan. Ji Hao put away Qi Xuan's tent, and the fat man carried Qi Xuan, who had already fallen asleep. Everyone set off again, heading towards the business district of the safety zone.
As everyone advanced, everyone gradually approached the trading area. The surroundings gradually became lively.
The people who walked by on the road were in a hurry, most of them in groups of three or five, and each group was very guarded against each other, and no one would deliberately come to the other team's side. Some teams even dozens of people with large and small pockets on their backs rushed from the trade area to the station.
Along the way, there are also various slogans.
"Trading area, centralized management, safe and convenient."
"What you want to find, it's all in the trading area."
There is also a road sign on the side of the road, which says a big "trading area", and the arrow points to the direction of Ji Hao's progress. Near the trading area, there are no tents in sight, but instead there are trap houses. The distance between the traphouses is slightly wider, perhaps reserved for other things. Wooden planks hung on the trap room, and strange names such as "XX Society", "XX Gang", and "XX Alliance" were written. There are even some brick houses dotted among them. There are large idle trucks parked in front of the door. These brick houses are undoubtedly the "rich and handsome" here, and they proclaim their strength in the most prosperous areas of the common people.
Unlike the tent area, where you can't see a single living person for half a day, you can see wandering idlers everywhere here. Most of these people gathered together, a bunch of heads together, and the voice from the small circle could be faintly heard, "Will!" ”
Several people sat on the stools at the door in a daze, their eyes empty. Perhaps at this time, they are fantasizing about themselves in and out of the corpses, killing all sides.
Listening to Xiaomi, most of these people are the second ancestors of the family of people with a little bit of power. Their parents didn't let them do the heavy lifting, and they didn't let them go out and work hard, so they stayed here and recruited the new survivors. But judging from the fact that Ji Hao and his party walked all the way and no one took the initiative to recruit them, their work attitude didn't seem to be very active.
Follow the arrows on the side of the road, and the closer you get to the trading area, the nearby houses gradually disappear. The ground is still dirt, but the main roads are solid. The trade area is surrounded by a large iron fence, and there is an exit in front of Ji Hao, and there are no barricades at the exit, and the four guards are wearing security uniforms, sitting lazily on the side of the gate, and they are also indifferent to the survivors who come and go.
There is a row of brick houses on the edge of the iron fence. Xiaomi will introduce to you: there are exchange points opened by the management and stores run by several large organizations.
Except for the row of brick houses, the rest of the trading area is all open space, and the ground is painted with lime powder with white lines and white frames, crisscrossing into a grid. Those who want to exchange things put their goods on the ground. A large number of survivors walked through it, repeatedly comparing where things were cheaper.
Unlike the laziness of the guards, in the trade area, teams of capable soldiers carry long black straight rifles on their backs, constantly patrolling the trade area. The trade zone was able to operate normally, instead of being bought and sold by a gang of ruffians and hooligans, and these soldiers had a great share of the credit.