Chapter 18: News from the Gathering Place
Zeng Qiang had a new weapon, and the original shovel was handed over to Wang Xin.
"Phew, ha, huh." Wang Xin practiced slashing in the cave with a shovel, sweat continued to seep out of his forehead, leaving along his cheeks, the partridge eggs on his chest fell together, and his slender thighs were about to stand unsteadily.
"It's not going to work so soon, it's only been how long I've been practicing, and the lunch at noon has been halved." Zeng Qiang sat on the rice bag with Erlang's legs crossed, wearing toad glasses, and holding a cigarette in his mouth.
"Brother Qiang, you're so annoying, it's not good, I'm tired to death, I don't want to practice." Wang Xin pouted, threw the shovel to the ground, and the sleeping big yellow dog got up and fled far away.
"Don't practice? Do you know that with more ability, there is more possibility to live? Zeng Qiang stood up with a 'swoop', and his tone was very stern.
"Oh, isn't it because you have Brother Qiang to protect me, I'll just be your little woman behind my back, this kind of fighting and killing should be done by you men." Wang Xin dragged Zeng Qiang's arm and said coquettishly with an aggrieved face.
Zeng Qiang pulled out his arm, looked at Wang Xin seriously and said, "What if I'm not here?" I can't be there for you all the time. ”
"You...... Don't want me, woo woo ......" Wang Xin looked at Zeng Qiang in a daze, tears rolling in her eyes.
Looking at Wang Xin with an aggrieved face, Zeng Qiang was a little unbearable, but he couldn't help but be soft-hearted in the last days, she should have enjoyed the love of her parents at this age, or followed a group of post-90s to chase stars, like singing, and do some nonsensical things, ......but the damn end of the world made her lose all this.
"Okay, take a break, and continue practicing later." Zeng Qiang relieved himself and walked towards the outside of the cave alone.
"Oye, Brother Qiang, you're so good." Wang Xin's face instantly turned from cloudy to sunny.
This girl is too good at acting!
Zeng Qiang shook his head helplessly.
Outside the cave, the sun came out after the rain, and the light dispelled the darkness and the haze in Zeng Qiang's heart.
The warm sun shone on his body, Zeng Qiang breathed the smell of earth in the air, where should he go next, did he want to guard this girl to be a wild man in the cave?
......
At noon, the two had a delicious meal of bacon and roasted potatoes, Zeng Qiang and Wang Xin came to the cave to bask in the sun, the big yellow dog ran up and down the hillside, and after a while, a rabbit was brought out and Wang Xin screamed.
Zeng Qiang watched all this quietly, maybe this kind of life will be good in the future?
Suddenly, the big yellow dog ran back from a distance down the hillside, and Wang Xin also waved his hands and shouted happily: "{Brother Qiang, there are cars, people, and many people.} ”
Zeng Qiang was far away, didn't hear clearly, and thought that she was in some danger, so he immediately got up and went back to the cave and took out a corpse butcher knife to meet her.
"What's the matter, is there a zombie coming?" Zeng Qiang ran to Wang Xin and asked anxiously.
"Huhu~, it's not a zombie, just now I saw a few cars passing by at the bottom of the mountain, there are trucks, cars, and vans, the cars are full of people, and they are still scattering leaflets while walking."
"Are you sure you read that right?" Zeng Qiang was not as excited as Wang Xin, on the contrary, he had a faint worry, and experienced Yang San's betrayal, which made him fully realize that in the absence of anarchy and law, some people in the last days are no less dangerous than zombies.
"yes, I'm sure I'm right, there are a lot of people, I see what they're promoting, do you think they might be the government's rescue team?" Wang Xin didn't pay attention to Zeng Qiang's face, and excitedly took his hand and walked down the mountain.
Although Zeng Qiang had doubts in his heart, he still followed Wang Xin down the mountain.
After all, people are used to living in groups, if there is really a government rescue, everything has to be seen, no matter how strong a person is, it is not as good as a group of people, maybe it will be better to live with the army.
"Ah, how can they leave, it's all because I came back to you when I was excited, I knew I should have stopped them first." Wang Xin looked at the tires of the team's departure with some sadness.
The convoy was gone, but there were a lot of leaflets left on the ground, and Zeng Qiang picked up one on the ground and read it.
"We are the largest gathering place in the southwest region, we have enough supplies, we have a regular army, we can guarantee your safety, our address is in Yongchuan......"
Wang Xin also picked up the flyer on the ground and looked at it, and said to Zeng Qiang: "It turns out that there is such a big gathering place in Yongchuan, Brother Qiang, do you say we should go?" ”
"Is it really that good?" Zeng Qiang had doubts.
After the end of the world, everything becomes precious, especially food, this gathering place is not far away, only more than a hundred kilometers away from Shuangqing, if it is said that before the end of the world, it is only a few hours to drive, but now how easy is it to think about the past?
Zeng Qiang looked at Wang Xin's face and couldn't bear to refuse, people always have to have some hope, don't they?
"Let's get ready, let's leave early tomorrow morning."
"Great, let's pack our things quickly, maybe we have a chance to catch up with the convoy." Wang Xin didn't care about Zeng Qiang, and ran up the mountain happily.
"If the gathering place is not good, we will come back." Zeng Qiang said in his heart.
Back to the cave.
Wang Xin was busy packing up her things, hesitating about which clothes to bring and what cosmetics to pack.
And Zeng Qiang decided to cook a good dinner before leaving, who knows if there will be a chance to eat well later?
He washed some of the potatoes, made them into a gear shape with a tool, and soaked them in water enough to leach the starch.
Then take the oil from the pan, put in enough oil, add a little salt, drain the potatoes in the water and put them in the oil pan and fry them at high temperature;
When the skin in the pot becomes golden, take it out, and then put vinegar, light soy sauce, cooked oil and spicy seeds, cumin powder, Sichuan pepper powder, etc., and a large pot of fragrant silkworm potatoes is done.
Then Zeng Qiang cooked some sausages and bacon slices and put them on the plate, and then fried the cabbage he got yesterday with sweet and sour lotus white, and finally stuffed a pot of dry rice with sweet potatoes.
"Wow, it's so fragrant, today's dinner is so rich, Brother Qiang, you can even make natural potatoes, you don't know my favorite to eat this, hmm...... It's delicious. Wang Xin packed up his things and saw a large table full of dishes, and he screamed excitedly.
"Wangwang." The big yellow dog, which was earlier than Wang Xin, had already finished eating the food on the plate on the ground, and began to bark at Zeng Qiang again, reminding him to add more food to him.
"Khan, you two ......" Zeng Qiang was speechless.
After eating, Zeng Qiang cooked all the remaining potatoes and sweet potatoes and packed them on his back to prepare to eat on the road tomorrow, and then began to put some materials that were not easy to preserve on the innermost and outer layers of the cave, put some materials that were not easy to break, cover them with plastic film, and then covered them with a shovel of soil, and dug drainage ditches around him by the way......