Chapter 1090: Hoarding Meat and Grain
When I returned to the room and told my friends about it, everyone was a little embarrassed, so they discussed taking Grandpa Jia and the two children with them, don't stay in this wild village to suffer, there are still vacant seats in the car, and three people are more than enough.
When Grandpa Jia heard that we were going to bring them back to Chengdu, he resolutely disagreed, which surprised us and thought he would be very surprised.
"No matter how hard you work here, you can survive, how many years can I live as an old man? Who will send me home for burial? Fallen leaves return to their roots! My family's ancestral graves are all miles behind here, how can I leave? Don't go, don't go. If the two children are willing to go with you, I won't stop you, you look like good people, but you have to make sure that the children are safe and sound when they enter the city, and if nothing happens, it is better to stay in this quiet place and live. "Grandpa Jia is an old man, his thoughts are naturally different from ours, many elderly people in the countryside pay attention to not leaving their homeland, he is old, and thinking about what is behind him is better than what is in front of him.
The old man is stubborn, we can't persuade him, and besides, it's not that people can't survive here, it's just that it's more bitter, in the end, it's indeed much safer here than in the city, and it's less likely to pass by a large group of corpses to sweep away.
"So, ask the two children, shall we? If they are willing to leave, the food of the two families will be enough for Grandpa Jia to eat. Nian Nian said helplessly.
The two children said that they were Grandpa Jia's neighbors, and there was a distance of more than a mile between their house and Grandpa Jia's house.
After Grandpa Jia explained our identity to the two children, he persuaded them to go with us, but the two little boys were very reluctant, and one by one wanted to stay to watch the house, and the fifteen-year-old brother was still pulling Grandpa Jia's clothes, crying and saying, "Grandpa, do you think the two of us are a drag?" If we don't leave, we will have to send our grandfather to the end of our filial piety in the future. ”
I don't know if it's unlucky to say this in front of an old man, but Grandpa Jia was very moved, and hugged them vigorously and comforted them, don't go, don't go, let's rely on each other.
Is this? We are a good heart, but we also made people live and die, we quickly said, it's okay, if you don't want to go, you won't leave, uncles and aunts won't force you.
Then we checked the food stocks of the two children's families, not much more than Grandpa Jia's family, it seems that Grandpa Jia is old, his ability to take care of the fields is limited, and the production in the fields is very pitiful.
Back at Grandpa Jia's house, Grandpa Jia cooked sweet potatoes for us, we didn't stop it, we didn't want to hurt the enthusiasm of the old man, and we also had some plans.
Do you leave all the cans in the car for Grandpa Jia and the two children? No, it's okay to leave one or two boxes, we have to go back, the food needs to be convenient and sufficient, and besides, these canned food are not enough for three people to eat for too long, and the symptoms are not cured.
We thought about it, and felt that it was better to find some food for Grandpa Jia and the three children to bring back and hoard it to eat slowly, and then catch some wild things, and dry them into jerky like Jianming, the weather is getting colder and colder, and the meat can be stored for a long time.
We remember that on the way here, we passed by several wild rice fields, but we didn't get out of the car to pick, after all, we were attacked by zombies in the rice fields, once we were bitten by snakes, and we were afraid of the well rope for ten years, and we would rather not eat than take that risk again, but now it is different, we have to harvest.
That night we discussed for a long time, before falling asleep in a daze, the next morning got up, and didn't bother to eat a bite of food, so we got on the car and rode on the horse, and said to Grandpa Jia, we will come back in the afternoon, but we didn't say what to do.
After walking a long way back, I finally found the first piece of rice field, everyone was ready for battle, knives and guns were added, and carefully probed, to make sure that there were only mature rice sticks in this rice field, and there were no disgusting thieves and zombies, so they rushed into the field and frantically broke up the rice.
No one sprays pesticides on the leaves of wild rice, wriggling many caterpillars, rice is nutritious, humans love to eat, insects also love to eat, those caterpillars look so numb, breaking the rice will accidentally pinch a few soft worms, damn they still bite! Miss Xiaoman and Amy, uh, plus me, from time to time let out a terrifying scream of catching a caterpillar, only the stars don't care, and they also pull the caterpillar to scare others, alas, the starting point is much worse!
"That's what green additive-free vegetables are." Luo Han held a large pile of rice and stuffed it into the trunk of the car, he didn't take those fat caterpillars seriously at all, and there were a few crawling on his body that were bounced away by his big fingers, and he scolded with a smile, "Little naughty, hurry up and become a butterfly!" ”
The trunks of several cars were quickly filled, but these were far from enough for the three of us to hoard for Grandpa Jia, so a few people drove back first, leaving the others to continue to break the rice sticks and pile them on the road first.
In addition to the rice, we also found a pumpkin patch, although the wild pumpkins were uneven, and some were smashed by some unknown boar or some animals, but the ones that were not injured were still picked up!
The kitchen and empty room of Grandpa Jia's house and the two children's house were piled up with rice and pumpkins that we brought back.
Then there was hunting, which was the most expert in this matter, he had been trained, and survival in the wild was an extremely important lesson in his juvenile education.
Luohan didn't let us all follow into the mountain, in his words, the animals are very fine, if the people who enter the mountain are noisy, they will be scared away from afar, he only pulled Tang Xiao and left, Zhu Hong and Qi Jin were entrusted to protect us, really, when we are made of paper shells?
On the first day of Luo Han and Tang Xiao's entry into the mountain, they only brought back five hares, all of which were hit by his crossbow.
He was very dissatisfied with this result, so he entered the mountain the next day, and when it was almost dark, he and Tang Xiao dragged a wild boar back.
The boar was very large, with plenty of flesh, and had been completely dead, with several crossbows on its body, but what really killed it was a knife wound to the head, which Rohat took for a zombie and shot it in the head through the boar's eyes.
Luohan proudly showed us his prey, Tang Xiao secretly pointed at Luohan's back, we took advantage of Luohan's turn to look at it, damn, why did Luohan's pants rot like this?
"The pig almost blew the chrysanthemum for Luohan with its fangs, and Luohan was angry and shot it in the head." Tang Xiao held back a smile and finished speaking, flashing.
"The taste of wild boars is so unique, Luohan, I didn't expect you to be so charming!" Zhu Hong hugged her arms and smiled, and we were already leaning forward and backwards.
Luo Han snorted at the wild boar, "Stinky bastard, if you want to hurt your grandfather, you have to cultivate for a thousand years." ”
The men helped Grandpa Jia skin and bleed the wild boar, and the pig was stewed in a big iron pot by Grandpa Jia when it went into the water, and the rest of the internal organs and net meat were chopped into large pieces and hung under the house with iron hooks, and then preserved after freezing.
The two children were called over to eat the pig-killing dish, well, I don't know how to call it in Liangguang, in the northeast, the pig-killing pig was cooked, and it was called the pig-killing dish.
"This pig is enough for the three of you to eat until the beginning of spring next year, and when the weather is warm, your life will be better, I said two little brothers, you have to grow up quickly, and when you can go into the mountains to hunt, you can be filial to Old Man Jia, you know?" Luo Han kept sandwiching meat between the two boys, seemingly casually.
"Thank you, uncle." Although the two children are from a mountain family, they also know how to be polite and quite likeable.
"Also, what does it mean that Huaibi is guilty? We came all the way and found that there are a lot of neighbors around you, and it seems that the old man Jia is the only one who takes care of you, which means that those people are not generous birds, okay! Be selfish, be selfish, it's okay to take care of yourself these days, but you have to guard against them. Luo Han continued, "These pork, and those grains, find a hidden place to hide and eat secretly, and the meat and bones that have been gnawed are better buried and not to make trouble for yourself." ”
"Huh?" The two children opened their mouths wide, a little puzzled, they were too young after all.
"You're fifteen, aren't you? There are some things that your brother doesn't understand, but you have to understand, this is called self-protection! Luo Han stroked the big boy's messy hair, "I can't eat meat, and I suddenly found that you have oil on your mouth, that's to bring trouble to yourself, in case any of you are so greedy that you forget that you are a person, and come to your house to steal and rob, you little brothers are just giving it for nothing, because it is not worth it to take your life with some pork." ”
"And the old man, these pork are kept in your house, and they must not be known! So I first told these two little ones, you, you can't fight those who are strong, don't look at the people who met before the end of the world and nodded their heads, after the end of the world, there is no government and no police, some people dare to do anything, they don't want their faces, what do they care? Luo Han turned to Grandpa Jia, who was listening carefully.
"Child, you have a point, you don't mention this awakening, I really didn't think about it, I will freeze for a night tonight, and I will have to pick off all the frozen meat early tomorrow." Grandpa Jia nodded again and again, people in their seventies are not living in vain, they can be seen through a little.
After eating and drinking, Qi Jin and Tang Xiao sent the two children home again, and I suggested to Grandpa Jia, since the two children have no adults at home, why not move in with Grandpa Jia and take care of each other? But Grandpa Jia said that the two children took their home very seriously, and felt that as long as they were still living in their own house, their parents' spirits in the sky would be comforted.
It is also two filial and stubborn children.
Everyone slept soundly this night, thinking that after settling down Grandpa Jia and the three of them, they could continue to set off tomorrow.
Who knew that the next day before we got up, we heard movement outside, at first we thought that Grandpa Jia got up early to collect meat, but there was a voice in Grandpa Jia's room, "Who is so early outside?" "We just thought it was bad, so we quickly put on our shoes and grabbed our weapons and ran out.
Fortunately, it was not a zombie, there were two villagers standing outside the gate of the courtyard, black and thin, dressed in tatters, staring at the row of frozen meat under the eaves with a surprised face.