Chapter 57: A Bottle of Water and a Line of Tears
Ye Bing smiled, quietly looked at Ji Xiaoxiao, who was speechless for a while, suddenly stretched out his hand and touched her head, and said, "Let's go, let's go home." ”
Hearing the word home, Ji Xiaoxiao's face darkened, and he shook his head and said, "I'm ...... now Can't go back yet. The family has been without water and food for almost five days, and I have basically eaten everything I can eat, except for a few handfuls of rice left for my father, and my mother has been hungry for several days, so I must go out quickly to find food and come back. ”
Ye Bing's heart sank, although he had long been accustomed to seeing the lives of ordinary people after the cataclysm, he was still very sad when he actually heard Ji Xiaoxiao's description. Fortunately, he did not come unprepared this time. If you look closely, you can see that in addition to the military mountaineering bag he was carrying before, there are four or five extra satchels, each of which is stuffed with bulging bags.
"Hehe, then there's no need, since my brother is here, can I still make you hungry? Look here. He smiled and patted his large and small bags.
Ji Xiaoxiao noticed Ye Bing's strange dress at this time, and she couldn't help but open her mouth slightly in shock, and muttered, "These...... Shouldn't it all be eaten? ”
Ye Bing smiled and said, "Of course not, but it's about the same, haha...... Anyway, let's hurry up and meet my uncle and aunt. ”
"Oh my God! That's great! Don't delay, let's go! ”
As soon as she heard that most of it was eaten, Ji Xiaoxiao was almost drooling. She had said that her mother had been hungry for a few days, but in fact she herself was the same, and if she was hungry for a few more days, she would probably be starving.
There are still many people at the gate of the community who have not left, some of them are standing here fantasizing about the army coming to the rescue, and some are waiting for their relatives to go out. However, when the sky was so dark and there was not a single street lamp in the community, no one could see Ye Bing's face clearly, and no one would think about why Ji Xiaoxiao came back so quickly after going out.
Ye Bing is already familiar with Ji Xiaoxiao's home, and he can touch it back even if he closes his eyes. So it didn't take long for the two to come to the door of Ji's house in the dark.
Knock knock, knock knock!
Inside the house, not long after Li Shuyue came back, she heard a knock on the door for a while, and she couldn't help but be shocked, thinking that something happened to her daughter? So he raised his butt and hurriedly beckoned to the door.
Squeak......
The dilapidated wooden door was pushed open all at once, and through the dark winter night, Li Shuyue could only vaguely see two figures, one tall and one short. Before she could ask, there was already a crisp and tactful laugh like a yellow bird outside the door:
"Mom! I'm back! Haha, you see I've brought you back! ”
"Auntie, I'm back."
Another familiar voice also came into her ears, and Li Shuyue's expression suddenly fell into a sluggish state, but it didn't take a few seconds to react quickly!
"You are, Xiaoice!"
She excitedly came over and grabbed Ye Bing's hand, and asked urgently: "Xiaoice, where did you run some time ago, you disappeared after a phone call, and I and your Uncle Ji were anxious to die, our family laughed and nagged you every day, just waiting for you to come back!" ”
"Mom, what are you talking about!" Ji Xiaoxiao said angrily, fortunately, the light was dark enough, and no one could see her little face become red and hot.
"After this, I'm slowly telling you, Auntie, let me go and see Uncle Ji first." Ye Bing said with a smile.
Li Shuyue hurriedly stepped out of the way and said, "Oh, okay, but it's weird ...... in this room."
"It's okay, I brought this." Ye Bing said as he touched his backpack, and after a while, he actually took out four or five flashlights from it one after another!
Looking at such an exaggerated scene, Ji Xiaoxiao couldn't help but cry out in shock:
"Hey, where did you get so many flashlights!"
"Oh, this one, there are a lot of abandoned grocery stores on the side of the road, and I thought I could use them in the future, so I brought them along the way."
As he spoke, he clicked the switch on, and the whole room was lit up by a series of flashlights!
"Hey, Xiaoice, don't drive so much, save the battery!" Li Shuyue said with some distress.
"Haha, it's okay, there are so many batteries left in the whole city, it will be ours in the future!" While laughing, he gave the flashlight to Ji Xiaoxiao's mother and daughter, and he walked into the bedroom with a large bag and a small bag.
Inside the house, Ji Yun, who was sleeping, was awakened by the sound of footsteps coming from the door. Without waiting for him to speak, Ye Bing called out first:
"Uncle Ji!"
As soon as he heard this longing voice, Ji Yun was full of cleverness, and then struggled hard to sit up from the bed!
"Uncle Ji, don't worry, I'll help you up!"
Ye Bing immediately put his backpack on the ground, and he hurriedly ran over to support Ji Yun, but Rao was like this, and the latter still began to cough violently due to excitement.
"Ahem, ahem, ahem!"
Ji Yun's cough is different from the kind of ordinary people's cold, but a kind of heart-piercing cough, as if he wants to cough out his heart and lungs together, and those who can listen to it are panicked.
Ye Bing hurriedly tore off a few pieces of tissue paper from the bedside table, took them for Ji Yun, and when he finished coughing and took them out, he could see pieces of reddish-brown bloody phlegm!
"Uncle, are you feeling better?" Ye Bing patted Ji Yun's back on the back, and with the other hand, he quickly took out a bottle of mineral water from his backpack and opened it and sent it to Ji Yun's lips.
At this time, Ji Yun's lips had already dried up and cracked, although there was still a small bottle of mineral water left at home, but it was the amount that three people had to divide for three days, which was not enough at all, so he was already thirsty.
However, he had just subconsciously put his lips up, but suddenly pushed the mineral water away again, shook his head weakly, and said:
"Keep it, you drink ......"
As soon as these words were spoken, Ji Xiaoxiao's mother and daughter who were present, and even Ye Bing almost burst into tears on the spot!
Ji Xiaoxiao's nose was sour, he squatted down and took the mineral water in Ye Bing's hand, and said sourly: "Dad, don't feel sorry for the water, Ye Bing is back, he brought back to our family endless food and water, we don't have to worry about hunger and thirst anymore!" ”
As soon as Ji Xiaoxiao finished speaking, Ye Bing took out four large bottles of mineral water directly from his backpack in one go, put them all on the side of Ji Yun's bed, and said, "Uncle, look, Xiaoxiao didn't lie to you, with me in the future, you don't have to worry about it anymore!" ”
As soon as he saw the mineral water full of beds, Ji Yun's originally cloudy and empty eyes suddenly showed an unbelievable expression!
He trembled and took the mineral water in Ji Xiaoxiao's hand, looked at Ye Bing who was smiling and nodding, suddenly aimed the mouth of the bottle to his lips, raised his head and poured down the small half bottle in one go!
When he put the mineral water bottle down again, he filled his thirsty taste buds, but a line of tears could not help but flow from the corners of his eyes.
It was not only a tear of satisfaction, but also a tear of joy, and a tear of relief!