The next day, the last meal.

Since everyone didn't replenish their energy the day before, on this day, everyone didn't make it to twelve o'clock.

The sun had not yet reached the zenith, and everyone was hungry.

In order to make up this meal, Zheng Jieming took everyone to start peeling the bark in the morning. They took the bark back, pounded it into powder, and mixed it together as they cooked, barely adding some food.

"There should be cellars in the countryside!" Ming Qi said.

Zhuang Yi recalled that when he was in love with Lei Yang and was not married, the two of them once went to live in a farmhouse together. At that time, the boss entered through a small square mouth in the courtyard, and in it, a large amount of cabbage, rice and noodles and other foods were stored.

There were houses and cellars in the village, but apparently the village had been "swept away" and there was nothing left except the rotten fruit.

"I guess it has something to do with the season when the zombies broke out, when the crops and fruits were not yet ripe in large quantities, and there was nothing in the cellar. Even if there were, it would have been eaten for so long, if there were survivors. Hua Bong said.

No one has ever eaten the bark powder chowder soup porridge, and no one knows what the consequences will be after eating the bark. But they've all heard of natural disasters when people live off tree bark.

To be on the safe side, this pot of bark they boiled for a long time.

When everyone lifted the lid of the pot, a large layer of brown-black foam floated on the surface of this pot of soup porridge, and the smell in the pot was also overwhelming.

It smelled strange, and it seemed to have a fishy smell.

Everyone was hungry, but no one took the lead in bringing the bowl.

"Can you really eat it? What should I do if I have diarrhea after eating? Isn't it a waste of all the food that has been mixed in? Huo Gong said. He never dared to try such an unreliable thing.

"It's already powdered, even if it can't be digested, it shouldn't be too much of a burden on the stomach, just make up for some vitamins!" Zhuang Yi replied.

Huo Gong shook his head, he smelled this strange smell, and pulled the foam floating on it with a spoon, but he still couldn't accept it, and walked away with a frown.

Seeing that everyone was hesitant, Zheng Jieming took the bowl first and filled a full spoonful from it.

In order to prove that this thing can be eaten, he specially scooped up a pile of bark foam from the surface.

Then, he took a big sip, but he didn't have time to taste it, and swallowed it directly into his stomach.

Everyone will look at him suspiciously, waiting for his reaction.

Zheng Jieming looked at everyone, wiped his mouth, hiccuped, and then hehe.

"It's not as bad as you thought, why don't you try it? Not everyone has the opportunity to eat tree bark! ”

If there is the first one who eats the crab, there is the second one who is hungry.

Jiang Cai was actually the second, he didn't regard himself as an outsider at all, copied the bowl, rushed to the front of the cauldron, and scooped a big bowl with a spoon.

Then he stepped aside with the bowl and began to eat slowly.

People are very hungry, not to mention that there is rice in the bark porridge, that is, they have to gnaw on the belt!

Everyone saw that even Jiang Cai, who had always been harsh, didn't complain anything, and they all rushed to the pot with a hula.

"Don't grab it, there's a lot of it today, everyone has a chance to eat!!" Zhuang Yi stood behind the pot with difficulty to organize order, for fear that someone would knock the pot down.

It's not the delicacies of the mountains and the sea, but everyone grabs it, but it is more intense than grabbing the delicacies of the mountains and the sea.

Hang Ming was worried that Zhuang Yi would be burned, and he also helped her organize order together.

Geng Zhi walked next to Zheng Jieming.

"I've already eaten a bowl, why don't you hurry up and take a bowl and try it?" Zheng Jieming endured his hunger and said.

"Your bowl is full of foam, I can see it." Geng Zhi said, "Let's go when they are done robbing!" ”

"Stand in line! Queue up, it's all there! Let Leng Yuhan and Lei Xiao children be in front! Hang Ming shouted.

Hua Feng can only organize the order first, but no one seems to want to stand at the end of the line, especially those uncles and aunts.

Although the others did not argue, looking at the way they stared at the pot eagerly, it was obvious that everyone wanted to serve it early and catch a little rice grain.

Jiang just finished the bowl and immediately lined up.

Yin Zhihua looked back at him and immediately expressed his dissatisfaction, "Didn't you eat it all?" Why the are you still standing in line!? The rest of us haven't eaten yet! ”

Xue Ting glanced at Hua Feng and stopped Yin Zhihua.

"You wait a while, you wait for everyone else to get it, and you come back." Hua Feng walked over and said to Jiang Cai, "There will definitely be something left in a while." ”

"This situation is very bad" Zheng Jieming looked at the scene that was almost out of order, and said with great anxiety, "Sure enough, everyone is hungry, there will be no humility, and now the bark porridge is like this, if you still can't find something to eat tomorrow, it's unimaginable"

"Yes, there is no reason why you can't find food anywhere, no matter how bad you are, it's okay to shoot sparrows," Geng Zhi said, walking towards the crowd, "I'm going to ask everyone, who has ever beaten sparrows?" ”

As a result, when I asked, it was Ming Qi who was doing this kind of thing.

"At that time, when we were children, it was a disservice to do this, and we used a fucking cut off the net of grandchildren, and we went to the net of birds in the sky for less than two years, and there were no birds in our village," Ming Qi replied while eating.

"What do you mean by cutting off children and grandchildren?" Wang Xinrui asked.

"It's the bird in the sky of the net that cuts off the offspring, that kind of net, the bird can't run away if it sticks on, regardless of the big bird and the small bird, if it is caught, it will die, so it is called the cut off offspring and grandchild; However, in our village, several people who did this later lost their children and grandchildren, do you say that the image is not imaged? Ming Qi replied.

"I think there are a lot of sparrows flying all over the sky now, let's find a way to get some sparrows!" Geng Zhi heard Ming Qi say this, and felt that there was a door.

"Then I'll try to find the materials"

On the other hand, while eating bark porridge, everyone was also discussing how to solve the food problem.

Lu Xiaoyu said, "Will you be able to find some mushrooms or something like this in this forest?" It's not like there's nothing, is it? All of us may have poor survival skills in the wild, and we feel unbearable when we are out of the city's products, but we can't find anything! ”

"Yes! What about this, the so-called mushrooms in winter, do you dare to eat them? "Wei Zilong went to the forest in the morning and found some mushrooms from a tree hole, but they looked colorful and probably poisonous.

"Mushrooms don't usually grow in winter, he found them in a tree hollow, maybe it's a little hotter there? But this mushroom must be poisonous! I asked him to throw it, but he was reluctant. Liang Shui said.

"You said that Bei Ye on TV, how can you eat anything? Bugs, spiders, is there a way for us to do the same? Xie Zuosen came over and interjected, and the group of them was not far away.

Huang Gang glanced at him very dissatisfied, but did not speak, but stood up and went to fill another bowl of soup.

"He has a problem eating, and there is a program team to help and experts to help judge what can be eaten and what cannot be eaten. We know a bunch of! To eat to death is to eat to death. Xie Wuzi, who is also surnamed Xie, said.

Everyone discussed again and again, and believed that the biggest problem was that it was a cold winter, and after years of economic development in Zhongzhou, there were no relatively primitive forests or woods for a long time. Especially in the northern province, where wildlife is hard to find and birds have been cut off, it is even more difficult to find food sources for non-crops.

Barely filled, they had no choice but to continue on their way, trying to reach another village before dark, hoping to find some more supplies from there.

The only thing that makes Zheng Jieming feel relieved is that when everyone knew that the food was only left with tree bark, people did not fry the pot, but chose to accept this fact rationally, and even discussed how to solve this dilemma.

Even Shunqiang, who worried him the most before, didn't make any trouble.

"Fortunately, everyone can still understand, I think as long as we can find food as soon as possible, there will be no problems." Zheng Jieming said as he drove.

"I don't think so, Lao Zheng." Geng Zhi reminded him not to be too optimistic, "One meal and two meals, if everyone is really hungry, God knows what will happen?" Even if we eat the bark all at once, we can't digest it. We don't complain, we endure it, once something happens, we can't afford it. ”

"I know, so we're not looking for it now?"

The two drove in silence for a while.

"Next step, tomorrow we won't be able to find food and we'll have to kill the dogs. I have to kill it secretly, I'm afraid that many people don't eat dog meat, so I have to let those people supplement their nutrition. Geng said straightly.

Zheng Jieming nodded.

When the dog saw him, he threw himself into his arms like a child, and he was reluctant to kill the dog from the bottom of his heart

But it seems that there is no way to go on like this.

The group finally arrived at three or four o'clock in the afternoon and found the next village.

It's a pity that this turned out to be another dead village

The economic conditions of this village seem to be even worse than the two I encountered earlier, and even the walls of the houses are made of adobe bricks and mud, and it looks as if they will fall down with a slight push.

Even the zombies are yellow fluttering! The skin looks full of furrows.

"It is said that some villages in Northern Province are very poor, and I can be regarded as an eye-opener now," Zheng Jieming looked at the dilapidated houses in the village and said, "Is it necessary to go down and search?" Keep going! ”

Geng Zhi agreed with Zheng Jieming's judgment.

There is no need for them to waste their time in a place where there is certainly no hope.

But in the dilapidated village house, there were hungry and crazy eyes staring at the cars.