Chapter 21: The Bottle
Seeing that the two brothers were taken away, Liu Chang and the others returned to their own area, leaving the family of three on the side standing there stunned - they didn't come out to say a word from beginning to end.
And Liu Chang and the three of them went back to their beds, and after making their things up, they sat on a bed in the lower bunk and talked.
"Isn't it a bit indecent for us to do that?" Liu Chang glanced at the family of three in the distance and whispered, "That old couple looks like they are not young, and they are estimated to be sick when they sleep on the ground." β
"The bed is divided by another family, and it is not shared by us, so what's not authentic." The fat man sat next to him and said, "Don't think about being a good person, we still have one less bed here, let's talk about how we divide the beds first." β
"Two girls have one bed per person, and the three of us men take turns sleeping on those two, do you think it's okay?" Li Qingshui turned his inquiring eyes to the other three.
"That's reasonable." Liu Chang nodded, "It just so happens that the three of us men can take turns to keep vigil, don't be too heavy when sleeping on the ground, pay attention to the surrounding situation, in this place where there are many people, it's best to be careful." β
"Agreed." The fat man nodded as well.
Zhu Lin didn't speak, which was a tacit acquiescence. But to everyone's surprise, the last opposition voice turned out to be from the little girl.
"I want to sleep with Liu Chang." After the little girl said this, she glanced at Liu Chang's expression and whispered, "I don't know, can I?" β
"Done." Liu Chang nodded, "The bed is just enough, the vigilance is still in turn, and I don't have to sleep on the ground." β
"Now that the beds are divided, let's all come over and eat something, it's been a whole day, and it's already dark outside!" As Li Qingshui spoke, he opened his backpack, took out a few vacuum-packed bread bags, and then unpacked them.
A musty smell also came with the pavement.
"Damn, this is hairy!" The fat man looked at the bread in the vacuum package and scolded, "Damn, my God. The sealed packaging of the court is definitely not qualified, if the vacuum is more thorough, even in this environment, it can be stored for two or three days. β
"Don't complain, at least you can eat." Liu Chang took the bread, and after removing a layer of green hair on the bread crust, he took a bite, frowned and said, "It's the real him. It's damn unpalatable! β
The moldy bread chewed in the mouth has a tangled and stale taste, which is like a quilt that has been left in the warehouse for many years and has not been dried for many years, making people chew wax.
"Eat it all, eat more." Li Qingshui took out all the food in his backpack, "I want to eat these hairy things tomorrow, but I don't have them." β
"Yes." Liu Chang took another bite of bread and said vaguely: "If you want to eat it tomorrow, there will only be Maomao, no bread!" β
"Ugh." When the fat man heard this, he sighed, opened a bag, tore off the fur and took a bite, and said with a wry smile: "Eat." According to the general theorem of the end, we are eating unpalatable now, but if we can live to ten days later, maybe we can eat another bite of this kind of thing, and we will feel extremely delicious. β
"Really?" Liu Chang suddenly laughed out loud after hearing this, although he tasted the moldy bread in his mouth finely, and showed a surprised expression: "Eh, it's really, you can taste some grass if you taste it carefully!" β
After saying this, he tore open a bag, handed one to the little girl, and said with a smile: "You try!" β
"Hmm." Taking the bread handed over by Liu Chang, the little girl nodded heavily, then tore off the mold and nibbled on it.
A meal for a group of people ended in a strange atmosphere, and it seemed that everyone understood the importance of "happiness in suffering" in this environment, and everyone was creating a beautiful world woven with lies.
"It seems that things like news broadcasts are not completely useless!" After a group of people laughed for a while, they each found their own beds and lay down.
"At least I can comfort myself!"
Because Liu Chang wanted to sleep with the little girl, he was afraid that it would be inconvenient for her to get in and out of bed, so he chose a lower bunk.
After lying on the bed, Liu Chang hugged the thin girl who looked like she was only seven or eight years old, but felt her trembling all over. And what this trembling represents, he couldn't be clearer.
"Are you afraid?" Looking down at the deep and long scar on the girl's face up close, Liu Chang noticed how strong this girl was - she had been holding back her fears, a little girl, with no relatives, was left alone in such a terrifying world, unable to reach the world or the ground, not only to face monsters, but also to be hijacked, and such a deep bloody scar was drawn on her face.
Liu Chang suddenly thought that the girl had followed him all the way, and she didn't even cry out in pain, nor did she say a word of fear, let alone drag the team a little bit. It occurred to him that if it weren't for feeling the girl's trembling body, he himself wouldn't even know how scared the girl was.
How strong this girl must be!
"Afraid?" Liu Chang hugged the girl and asked again.
"A little bit just now, not now." After the girl said this, her body slowly stopped trembling and closed her eyes.
Seeing this, Liu Chang also closed his eyes and prepared to sleep.
Tonight is the fat man's vigil, and he can sleep peacefully.
Close your eyes, fatigue hits. There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, when it was just dawn outside, Liu Chang got up. And with this small movement of his, the eyes of a room of people opened almost at the same time.
It can be seen that everyone is on the alert for something, like a soldier who is waiting for him, and is always alert to his surroundings.
Liu Chang sat up, and the little girl in his arms also got up, and Liu Chang immediately reached out and touched her forehead - there was no fever, which made him feel a lot more relieved.
When he got up and went to the ground, Liu Chang saw three people who were laying on the ground last night - two were the father and daughter of the family of three, and one was one of the two brothers in the family of four.
Seeing Liu Chang get up and go to the ground, the father and daughter looked at him and turned their heads away, but the man stared at Liu Chang's face for a long time, not hiding the dissatisfaction in his eyes at all.
However, Liu Chang ignored him, but smiled at him friendly, then put on his shoes and turned around and walked out of the house.
"Where are you going?" The girl shouted loudly behind him.
"Go to the toilet!" Liu Chang waved his hand behind him with a smile, and then strode out of the room.
The soldiers' dormitory where they lived did not have a reading toilet, and Liu Chang walked through the corridor of the dormitory three dormitories before discovering a toilet -- the kind of large toilet that supplied the soldiers on the first floor.
But standing in front of the toilet door, he suddenly thought of something, and then turned back to the house where he lived.
"Do you still have the bottle of mineral water you drank yesterday?" Liu Chang pushed open the door and shouted at the fat man.
"Yes." The fat man nodded, took out a mineral water bottle with little water left in his bag, and threw it to him in the air.
Liu Chang took the bottle, drank the rest of the water in one gulp, and went out of the room again with the bottle.
And this time he came out with another manβthe man who had slept all night on the floor.
"Hey, I said brother, you still have a bottle in the toilet?" As the man spoke, he took two steps forward and hugged Liu Chang's neck, with a lot of force, and his voice was even louder: "What, the bladder pressure is not enough, I'm afraid of dripping on my feet?" β
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