Chapter 110: Spring Festival
Because it was a holiday, Gu Yu didn't take up too much time for everyone, and the meeting ended in half an hour, anyway, we will not set off until the fifteenth day of the first month, and many things need to be discussed in detail, so there is no need to discuss them today.
Just after four o'clock in the afternoon, I was pasting window flowers with my mother, and Bai Junyang and Mr. Xiang's car returned to the camp with a full load of supplies, and their car was also loaded with a lot of New Year's goods, including sealed packaging of peanuts, melon seeds and all kinds of candy.
Bai Junyang said that Teacher Xiang was careful, checked the calendar on the way, and knew that today was Chinese New Year's Eve, so they decided to delay more time to collect New Year's goods.
As the sky darkened, we lit all the lanterns, and all that caught our eyes was a joyful red, rendering the desolate winter night, and the red flowers on the windows and the couplets on the lintels seemed to bring us into a new world without deceit and blood.
The children chased and played in front of the house with the white rabbit lantern pasted by Teacher Xiang in their hands, and Nini also got a fluffy bear doll and held it in her arms and did not let go.
Someone started a bonfire, and set up a large pot of boiling water next to it to prepare to cook dumplings, I set up a long table with Hu Tao and them, and the cut cooked food was served on a plate, and soon spread all over the table, there were roast chicken, canned fish, vacuum-packed sauce beef, although there were no vegetables, but it was definitely hearty.
There are also several large pots of canned fruit, which are children's favorites, Bai Junyang also collected a group of home theaters, two 105-inch LCD TVs, plus a game console, eighty percent of them looted an electrical appliance mall.
In the past, when there was a Spring Festival Gala every year, I felt that there were no programs I wanted to watch, but now when I watch the special effects blockbuster on TV at dinner, I feel a little unaccustomed.
Because there is no Internet and cable, the TV can only put movies stored in the USB flash drive, but this is already a palace-level enjoyment for today's survivors.
A long table, on both sides of which are full of companions who have built a new home together, delicious food, wine, laughter, I hold Nini sitting next to Gu Yu, my father and mother sit opposite us, recalling every Chinese New Year's Eve of half a lifetime together, the bonfire reflects their youthful faces, and their happiness is never afraid of the verification of time.
I held Gu Yu's hand under the bed, although the two of us didn't eat, but sitting in this group of people, at least I could feel some warmth and tranquility.
There is no time limit for dinner, and those who want to play cards, play games, or have a singing party after eating all leave the table to form a team freely.
If you are willing to drink and chat slowly, you will pull the like-minded push cup and change the lamp, Mr. Han has slept in the afternoon, and has some energy at night, and has a reunion dinner with everyone, I arranged for him to sit next to me, afraid that he would be restrained, and from time to time he would pick up vegetables.
Mom and Dad talked for a while and then pulled Mr. Han to chat, Ah Ying, who was watching animation with the child, came over and patted me on the shoulder, signaling that she had something to say to me.
I handed Nini to Gu Yu and followed Ah Ying to the greenhouse, all the herbs in the greenhouse were cleared, and my mother said that they had sown the vegetable seeds and were just waiting for them to sprout, and she and a few survivors lined up and took turns to take care of the vegetables.
I don't know about the greenhouse, I only know that there is a coal-burning hot blast stove in it, my mother asked us to remember to find more electric heaters next time, coal is a non-renewable resource, and now the mining farm is suspended, and there will be no coal to burn in the future.
I thought about some things in my head, and I actually knew the purpose of Ah Ying looking for me to come out alone, the relationship between me and Gu Yu, no one in the Pure Land didn't know, Ah Ying should have known earlier, after all, Gu Yu betrayed the safe zone for me, Long Tao and Ah Ying must be the first to know.
I've been through too many things recently, and Ah Ying only has a chance to talk to me now, she can survive the third mutation tide, and she is also a lucky girl.
When I entered the greenhouse, I found two chairs and sat opposite Ah Ying, I was silent, and I wanted to wait for her to speak first.
But Ah Ying lowered her head since she sat down, seriously broke her fingers and didn't speak, I looked at my watch, the two of us couldn't sit dry and survive the Chinese New Year's Eve, and then sighed and simply spoke:
"If you don't have anything to say, I'll go back and show my affection."
The so-called easy not to speak, opening will be effective, Ah Ying really looked up at me after hearing this, she was still anxious, it can be seen that I was smiling, she turned from anger to anger, puffed up her childish face, and asked in an obviously weak tone:
"IāI can... Have you been following you? ā
"I can't." I replied decisively, Ah Ying's eyes darkened, she looked very disappointed, and she was about to cry when she saw it, so I hurriedly said the second half of the sentence: "We have to take you with us, wherever you go, without you, our family is not complete." ā
Ah Ying didn't know whether to cry or laugh, or be angry, and I was also helpless about this, who let me carry forward the spirit of impropriety all the time.
"So, you're going to build a paradise here?"
"It's hard to say, this can't be decided now, you look at this small plain, if you stuff a few hundred more people, there will be no place to build a house, so if you want to expand the team in the future, you have to choose another place."
"I heard that you are going to New Paradise, I will go with you, I am cured, and I, I don't like him anymore."
After going around for a long time, she finally said the main point of this conversation, and she asked me to talk alone, not to demonstrate to her rival, but to end a relationship.
In other words, she wanted to reassure me and make her stand clear, but I never saw her as a 'threat', I just felt sorry for her.
"That's not possible, you have to like him, we're a family~"
Ah Ying was teased by me, stuck out her tongue at me, and grimaced, "I don't like that big piece of wood, this fairy is reluctant to live with you!" ā
We hid in the greenhouse and chatted for half an hour, Ah Ying's worries were eliminated by me one by one, and the anxiety and nervousness when I first talked to me were long gone.
A 12-year-old child who wants nothing more than a stable life and a family to be able to accompany her, because of her own experience, she is especially concerned about the children who have lost their parents and loved ones in the last days.
Before our whispers were finished, Long Tao broke in and pulled us to participate in the competition, which is similar in nature to a reality show, where men and women draw lots to form teams, divided into six groups, and complete the prescribed game to get a prize - a game console!
There are 12 people on the field in a round of competition, Ah Ying's partner is Gu Yu, Long Tao and I took the same sign and gave each other a white eye, Bai Junyang and Xiang Yiyi drew a group, a few pairs can't be named, but the last group is Zhou Li and Hu Tao's male and male combination, in terms of size, their team is the most advantageous, Zhou Li is slender and agile, and his strength is greater than that of girls, Hu Tao is tall and strong, even if the partner is Zhou Li, whether it is back or hugging, he is completely competent.
Gu Yu took care of Ah Ying, the first game of two people and three feet across the tire, the two of them easily cleared the level, and they were the first place, to the group of me and Long Tao, before they started to cross the tire, he gave me a stumbling block!
So the result can be imagined, the two of us were hurting each other throughout the game, he jumped up and bit the marshmallow, I grabbed the marshmallow with an air fetch and threw it to Zhou Li, and when I picked up the balloon, I found that the bullets were secretly unloaded by him, but of course this little trick was not difficult for me, I grabbed Hu Tao's gun and continued to shoot, Hu Tao had to grab the bullet that Long Tao hid in his pocket, and finally turned into a fighting match.
There was no suspense in the result, Gu Yu and A Ying won the first place in the official competition, and Long Tao and I were the last to last, but we contracted all the laughs.
Everyone was crazy until 12 midnight, and they began to cook dumplings, this Chinese New Year's Eve, especially lively, Nini was still grinning after falling asleep.
After the peaceful days reached the eighth day of the first lunar month, Gu Yu began to prepare for the operation of the new Taoyuan, Bai Junyang was very interested in the 'immortals' of the new Taoyuan, he decided to participate in the action, and he wanted to have a few battles with the human powerhouses.
Gu Yu talked to Bai Junyang alone, and no one knew what the content of their conversation was, but everyone had their own ideas about it.
Bai Junyang's purpose is to unify the corpse world, so what about after unification? How will zombies and humans get along, and will Bai Jun's great power bring a greater threat to mankind?
Gu Yu, who cares about the common people and is cautious, it is impossible not to think of these problems, I am not entangled by their conversations, whether they talk or collapse, my goal has always been very clear.
Revenge to the safe zone, the same is revenge for myself, and help mankind, this is my original intention, if more, I can only say sorry, I am not God, the rest of the light and heat, can only be given to the people I care about.
Just like this trip to a new paradise, if it weren't for the fact that the camp needed Qian Xiaohui's ability, and Han Qiang and his wife were extremely cruel to Grandpa Han and Nini, I wouldn't be nosy.
It's just that before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month arrived, Long Tao sent back a new message, he saw a military jeep coming towards the camp in the outpost village, and immediately reported to the Pure Land.
At half past eight in the morning, I was called out of the warehouse by Ah Ying, and found that there was basically no one in the camp, and there was no one on the other side of my mother's greenhouse.
Ah Ying told me that Long Tao had discovered the enemy's situation, and I learned that a group of people drove a military jeep across the outpost village towards the Pure Land.
We entered Gu Yu's temporary office and saw that Bai Junyang and Hu Tao had arrived.
Gu Yu repeated the message sent back by Long Tao to us, including the number of people on the other side, how many cars there were, whether it was possible to carry heavy weapons, and so on.
Long Tao said that the car is a car in the safety zone, but the people in the car are all fresh faces, the pure land is remote, and there is no large-scale city or mining area nearby.
As soon as Gu Yu received the news, he arranged for the secret posts outside the valley and the surrounding mountains to prepare for battle, and the women and children were all escorted by Zhou Li to the shelter in the back mountain.
There is a very secret cave in the back mountain, narrow on the outside and wide on the inside, which can store a lot of materials, when necessary, it can be used as an air-raid shelter, which was found by several militiamen when they patrolled the mountain, Gu Yu asked him to repair the entrance of the hole, as long as the camouflage door painted with white paint is closed, people who don't know the way can't find it at all.
Those who stayed in the Pure Land were all armed men, Gu Yu arranged posts for everyone, Zhou Li led a few people to the second floor of the dormitory to do sniping, and Hu Tao led people to hide in various corners to ambush.
Long Tao had already set up an ambush to ensure that none of the people who entered the mountain could escape the same way, and Gu Yu asked Yan Bixing, Zheng Chao and Li Huaiqing to protect the survivors who hid in the back mountain.
There are not many people in our camp, Gu Yu tried to use the least number of people, laid the tightest line of defense, Bai Junyang originally planned to let Teacher Xiang and other women and children go to the back mountain, but Teacher Xiang resolutely did not go, these days she has learned to shoot, and her marksmanship is particularly accurate, Yan Bixing praises her for her talent, but I, Gu Yu, and Bai Junyang know in our hearts that she has the blessing of 'forbidden medicine', and her functions in all aspects have improved by more than one level.
The preparations were all done, and the convoy in the safety zone also arrived at the entrance of the valley, Gu Yu and I drove out, Yan Bixing and Teacher Xiang had no special abilities after all, so they couldn't let people into the camp unless they had to, and Bai Junyang was responsible for guarding behind the 'gate' of the camp.