Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 146 Rat Tide (End)

After the rat swarm receded, the people retreated from the wall wearily. No matter what, they had to rest and fill their stomachs.

Qiao Miwei and Qin Zhiyuan returned to Qiao's home exhausted. Qiao's father and Qiao's mother were getting old, and Qin Zhiyuan didn't let them go out. When they saw the two of them coming back, Qiao's mother handed them the hot water that was warming on the stove. The two said, "Go and wash, and go to sleep after washing."

Qin Zhiyuan took the kettle, "Thank you Mom, have you had breakfast yet?"

Father Qiao nodded, "After eating, you can rest assured to sleep, we will go out and watch for you later, everyone has to sleep this morning, nothing can go wrong."

"Hey, I have dad to show me what worries me." Qin Zhiyuan dragged Qiao Miwei into the hut, and the two entered Taoyuan immediately.

Qin Zhiyuan put hot water in Qiao Miwei's house, then went to the river to fetch her a bucket of cold water, and ran into the river by himself.

Qiao Miwei mixed the cold and hot water in the hut, took a simple shower, then changed into clean clothes and went out. Qin Zhiyuan took a shower faster, and at this time he had already gone to the field with a hoe to weed. "Aren't you tired?"

Qin Zhiyuan smiled sullenly, "Why are you tired? It's common for us to stay awake for three days and three nights in our special training and keep staring at the target. By the way, I'm not tired, but I'm hungry."

Hearing that he was hungry, Qiao Miwei rubbed his stomach, "I'm hungry too, I'll make something to eat later." They only had one meal from yesterday to now, because the rat swarm came so suddenly, and those who waited and After the mice met, no one even thought about getting up to eat.

Qiao Miwei pondered for a while before deciding what to do. She found a machete and called Dahei and went up the mountain.

The mountain is busy at this time, and many fruit trees are bearing fruit. If there is time, Qiao Miwei would like to take a stroll. Unfortunately, they have been so busy this year that they have no time to go up the mountain. Her destination this time is to go to The bamboo forest I passed by.

After cutting a bamboo, she planned to go down the mountain, but as soon as she walked out of the bamboo forest, she met an old friend, and this old friend greeted him in a very special way. Something smashed it, she looked back, and found a squirrel standing on the tree trunk squeaking and barking at her.

Qiao Mi smiled, and raised her hand to say hello, "Long time no see, do you want to take a stroll down the mountain with me?"

The squirrel didn't understand Qiao Miwei's words at all, but it seemed to understand the meaning of waving. It stood on the tree trunk and tilted its head to look at Qiao Miwei, then slowly climbed down along the tree trunk, away from Qiao Miwei. Mi Wei stood far away.

Qiao Miwei was very hungry, so she stopped teasing the squirrel, and went down the mountain with bamboo, and found a lot of mushrooms in the bushes, including common oyster mushrooms, yellow mushrooms, and mushrooms she didn't know.

When I got down the mountain, I saw Qin Zhiyuan lying on a pile of logs, poking his head, she asked with a smile, "What are you doing?"

Qin Zhiyuan straightened up, and showed Qiao Mi the things in his hand, "These trees have not been standing for long, look, fungus has grown."

Qiao Mi took a closer look, that's right, those little black ears are just fungus, she handed Qin Zhiyuan a basin, "You pick it first, I'll be right over, don't pick it all up, save some for later can grow."

"Understood." Qin Zhiyuan was busy picking fungus, and replied without raising his head.

Qiao Mi grabbed a handful of rice, then dug out jujubes, mushrooms, red beans and other beans, washed them and put them in bamboo tubes, then set up a fire and put the bamboo tubes on the fire, threw two sweet potatoes into the fire, and started She picked various vegetables and caught two more fish. That's right, she decided to eat barbecue. Although this way of eating is unhealthy, it tastes good, and it's just a good time to catch up on sleep after eating.

Qin Zhiyuan found quite a lot of fungus. After picking them off, he packed them into two baskets, and Qiao Miwei scattered them on the drying field. After they were dried, he tried to take them outside. Now the food in the base has been exhausted. They have eaten too much, and the crops outside will take some days to harvest, and the supplementary supplies in the indoor planting room are not enough, so as long as they are harvested in Taoyuan recently, they will think about it if they can take it out. Way to get to the base.

A few days later, a group of people came from outside, saying that they wanted to join the base. Qin Zhiyuan carefully questioned the details of these people, found that they were all honest people, and accepted them. From these people, they knew that , the life outside has become extremely bad. If you don’t eat or drink, you don’t talk about it. What’s more dangerous is people’s hearts. When you’re hungry, cannibalism becomes common. become someone else's food.

This group was originally neighbors in the same community, and they usually get along well, so they escaped together, but although there was no cannibalism between them, they encountered a rat wave, and just a few days ago, Obviously, the rat swarm that these people encountered was the rats that besieged the base at the beginning. Fortunately, before the rat swarm arrived, a person avoided and relieved and encountered those rats first. shouted, "Climb the tree!"

It was this sentence that saved these people. Rats can’t climb trees, but after climbing a tree, people don’t have to face countless rats at the same time. Everyone quickly lit the torches and survived the rat tide.

But just like this, they lost nearly one-third of their people. When they thought there was no hope of living at all, the huge building of Wujia Village came into everyone's sight. They were excited. No matter whether they were accepted or not, They've got to give everything they can, because they lost everything when they went through the rat swarm, and if they don't join here, they'll starve to death eventually.

The newly joined people were assigned by Qin Zhiyuan to open the passage between Qiao's house and the base in the cellar. Qiao Miwei had long wanted to open up the connection between his home and the base. Now she has to ask about the progress every day, hoping that the two sides can open up soon. up.

In August, most of the crops in Taoyuan will enter the harvest period, but although the crops outside are growing well, they have not seen results for a long time. The corn that was planted before has now grown to a height of more than two meters. But there wasn't a single corncob, which made everyone in the base very anxious. If the crops didn't bear fruit, what difference did they have from weeds!
Moreover, the weather has been getting hotter and hotter recently. At noon, the temperature can reach 46-[-] degrees. The water in such high-temperature fields loses quickly, and people have to water the fields diligently every day. Recently, the water in the wells The water level has also dropped drastically, not only the water in the well, but also the water in the river. If it doesn't rain again, the river with plenty of water will stop flowing.

People can live for seven or eight days without food, but without water, they may not be able to survive even half a month.

Fortunately, they still have the Taoyuan in their hands, and they can use the water in the Taoyuan when necessary. These days, Qin Zhiyuan has been thinking about how to share the Taoyuan with the people in the base without being exposed.

Qiao Miwei didn't expect that he would fall in love with the words she said at the beginning, but after thinking about it, it was really not easy, so she stopped digging into the horns.

This afternoon, the passage between the base and Qiao’s house was finally opened, and Qiao Miwei offered to expand the size of the room for the old uncle’s family. The room they lived in was indeed too small, and the three of them lived close together. Qiao Ming agreed, but Qiao Ming and his family had to go back to the base during the period of building the house.

In the evening, the whole family helped them move, and the three of Qiao Ming lived there directly. When they were sleeping, Qiao's mother asked Qiao Miwei, "Weiwei, did you deliberately let your uncle and the others live there? went?"

Qiao Miwei thought for a while and said, "It's indeed a bit inconvenient..."

Mother Qiao sighed, "Okay, I'll know if you don't tell me, but it's your elder anyway, you have to respect it no matter what?"

Qiao Miwei quickly agreed, and then said, "Mom and Dad, Zhiyuan, the food in our base is almost finished, and the crops outside will not grow. I always have a bad feeling, so I think I should take care of it." Take advantage of Taoyuan."

Father Qiao turned to look at Qiao Miwei and asked, "How to use it?"

Qin Zhiyuan answered, "Let someone go in?"

Qiao Mi shook his head slightly, "I think this is too difficult, but we can use a more open method to transport things out."

aboveboard?For a while, the other three people began to think about how to be aboveboard. Qiao Miwei didn't want to sell the lawsuit, so he said, "Think about it, the reason why we can't take out the things in Taoyuan is that it's hard to explain these things. The source of these things, then we can find a way to assign a source to these things, we can say that these things belong to An Jinyu's side."

"Yes!" Hearing this, Qin Zhiyuan clapped his hands, "Wu Dongwei brings several mules and carts with him every time he comes back. If we find a way to bring the food back together, no one will doubt it." It's much easier to take things around outside and then transport them back to the base than to get people to work in Taoyuan without anyone noticing.

Mother Qiao thought for a while and said, "Then Wu Dongwei can't go anymore, this candidate can only be one of the four of us." In fact, the most suitable candidate is Qin Zhiyuan, but as the manager of the base, Qin Zhiyuan cannot leave the base Yes, and Qiao Miwei was worried when he went out, let alone Qiao's father and mother, even Qin Zhiyuan.

Qiao Miwei didn't think it was a problem, she said, "Mom and Dad, I don't think it's difficult, I can pretend to lead the team out, and then bring the team into Taoyuan, stay there for a few days and then come out after filling up the car, but This requires a few people to cover me together."

It's not as simple as just a few people, at least ten people are needed, but these ten people are precisely lacking now, and all four of them pondered for a while and stopped talking.

Qin Zhiyuan asked tentatively, "Can I let my brother and sister-in-law know about Taoyuan?"

Qiao Miwei looked at Qiao's father and Qiao's mother. The three of them had discussed this issue before. Now that another year has passed, Qiao Miwei doesn't know if their parents have changed their attitude.

(End of this chapter)