The arrogant Li Jiayu would not be so cute

With a slight smile in the corner of Xiao Wanqing's eyes, she gently held Bai Jiayu's hand that was stretched out in front of her, and continued:

"You were by my side almost all the time you were Bai Jiayu. I was a little worried that you would love everyone unconditionally, even at the expense of yourself. Frankly speaking, I also have selfish intentions. In the post-apocalyptic world Among the ruins, one of my most important people is you... So, no matter what, I don't want you to be hurt because of your tenderness."

"I thought you would object, Sister Wan Qing... Don't worry, I have seen far more darkness than you can imagine with your best efforts. I have witnessed and experienced countless kinds of suffering. How could it be possible to capsize in the gutter."

Bai Jiayu was very surprised. To be honest, Xiao Wanqing had always looked like the image of a saint in novels to her, the kind who had no selfish desires and was dedicated to the people. Whether it was the previous life or this life, this impression was obtained. Good proof.

But she didn't expect that Xiao Wanqing made the change because she cared about herself.

"I've suffered in the past too... Don't think of you, Miss Wan Qing, as a woman who was born in a big family and knows nothing about the outside world. After I returned to Yongcheng and learned that all my previous family members had passed away, I made up my mind to watch you grow step by step, and see the day when you become the savior of everyone."

"So, I'm very happy that you can have this kind of awareness..."

When Xiao Wanqing said about the death of those relatives in her family, she didn't show any sadness. Instead, she was a little excited because she showed her heart in front of Li Jiayu for the first time, and her fair face was flushed in a different way.

"That's the savior, sister Wan Qing, you have too high expectations of me, it will put me under a lot of pressure..."

"No, I believe you have potential, and I will always help you... However, it doesn't matter if you fail, as long as you are safe."

"Huh? Sister Wanqing, what do you mean by this? Do you promise to stay by my side forever? Don't lie to me... Let's pull the hook, shall we?"

Although Xiao Wanqing really wanted to say that Bai Jiayu was intentionally misinterpreting her intentions, she swallowed this sentence after thinking about it. After all, the difference is actually not that big, and more importantly, Bai Jiayu just needs to be happy.

"Sister Wanqing, pull the hook!"

Seeing Bai Jiayu sticking out her jade-like little finger and shaking it vigorously in front of her eyes, Xiao Wanqing couldn't bear her pleading, showing a little girlish innocence:

"Okay, then don't leave me for the rest of your life, you have to remember~"

Saying that, Xiao Wanqing also stretched out her little finger, and they were tightly bound with Bai Jiayu, which seemed unbreakable.

"100 years, no change!"

"..."

After a long silence, Xiao Wanqing seemed to be aware of what she had done after finishing this kind of ritual that only happened in childhood. Although the speed of processing the documents did not change, Bai Jiayu turned her head and could still see her hands moving slightly. trembling.

Looking up along her white lotus-like arms, you can still see her head lowered, her lips move slightly, and the blush on her face seems to be more obvious because of Bai Jiayu's gaze.

"Obviously I agreed to watch her grow up as an elder, why can't I control myself and make such ambiguous vows with Jiayu..."

Noticing Bai Jiayu's suspicious gaze, she quickly stopped her mental activities, her slightly moving lips were also tightly closed, and she assumed the same posture of sitting upright as before, but the blush that was hard to dissipate for a short time could not prove her strength, and betrayed her mercilessly.

"Jiayu misunderstood me, what should I do? If Bai Jiayu, a good boy, is taken care of badly by me, how can I explain to others?" '

Unable to bear the wild thoughts after the excitement, all kinds of thoughts in Xiao Wanqing's mind whirled and turned into balls of wool.

"Hey~ hey! Sister Wanqing, don't think about it. Anyway, with me here, you don't want to remarry, or the person who remarries is me, so the vow just now is not that important..."

"You said it!"

She had been stared at by Bai Jiayu all the time, and her shyness and embarrassment increased. Xiao Wanqing became angry from embarrassment, and looked at Bai Jiayu angrily.

"Ah, anyway, Miss Wanqing can't be a villain who doesn't keep her word..."

Bai Jiayu slammed into Xiao Wanqing's arms with a smile and raised her head to look up Xiao Wanqing's chin, just happened to see Xiao Wanqing's embarrassment and anger...

Chapter 9

Xiao Yan, pretending to be a pig ()

"Little brother, I'm sorry..."

The leader is a middle-aged man with sunken eyes, a Chinese character face, and a rough outline. He is wearing a dark green old guard coat. Judging from his accent and face, he does not seem to be from Tiannan Province, but rather from Northeast China. .

"Forgive us for not being able to accommodate you. This old house is only about 100 square meters, but there are more than 50 people living in it. It has already been overloaded, and it can't be more crowded..."

The middle-aged man explained tactfully.

Seeing Xiao Yan's miserable face, wearing the shabby clothes he picked up from the dead refugees, he subconsciously thought that Xiao Yan was also a poor homeless person, looking for a place to live in, and deliberately wanted to live in this old house.

For this kind of homeless person, the middle-aged person has seen too much. Although the homeless person may be frozen to death in the cold night, the middle-aged person must harden his heart and refuse... After all, he I am also poor and destitute, in a difficult situation, and have no ability to help others.

By accident, Xiao Yan joined Ran Hongxia's command. Now that he has a second-level high-level strength, he has become a veritable colonel.

After receiving the task of investigation, in order to find out the truth, he came up with an idea, that is to pretend to be the poorest homeless and mix in the crowd, to experience the suffering they went through.

"Okay then... you guys have worked hard, I'd better find another source." Xiao Yan smiled shyly and nodded to the cold-faced middle-aged man.

"Young man, I think you are strong and strong. It is absolutely no problem to find a job in the army. At that time, you will not have to worry about your livelihood."

The middle-aged man persuaded Xiao Yan, and then he took a step forward, leading a dozen or so men behind him to do business.

"I did do a little work in the army. Among other things, sweet potatoes can at least fill me up..."

Hearing that Xiao Yan had joined the army, the middle-aged man suddenly paused, and looked Xiao Yan up and down again, which made him wonder if there was something wrong with his disguise. He hurriedly continued:

"Where are you going? Such a cold weather..."

"Go for food."

"Foraging? Ah, no, isn't the army sending out food every day? Although it is very small, it can at least ensure that millions of people will not starve to death..."

"Oh, you don't understand the darkness..." The middle-aged man shook his head, his thick and dark eyebrows frowned, and said with a sneer:

"The magic crops developed by Mrs. Li Jiayu can produce a large amount of food, but if you want to produce food, you must consume the monster's corpse, flesh, and insect crystal magic core, so as to quickly produce and ripen the energy. However, as the speed of the suppression is getting faster and faster, the number of those monsters is getting smaller and smaller, and the flesh of the corpse is also decreasing, and the food produced is naturally much less..."

The middle-aged man glanced at Xiao Yan complicatedly, and suddenly changed the topic:

"What's more, the distribution of food is in the hands of the army. There are a lot of tricks in it. The officers who distribute the food are also selfish. It's good to deduct a little, but it's not uncommon to deduct more than half of it...

Everyone wants to be full, and no one wants to starve and hang their poor lives with sweet potatoes. Those military officers who have pocketed their own pockets will resell the embezzled food and make a profit..."

"This, how is this possible? The officers I met were all very good people..." Xiao Yan had expected it, but he still feigned surprise and tried to come up with more words.

"What a fart!"

The middle-aged man snorted, the muscles around his cheeks twitched, he clenched his teeth, and said fiercely:

"A few days ago, the army distributed two or three steamed buns to each of us every day, but in the past two or three days, the officers in charge of this area stopped distributing food directly. Depending on the situation, they didn't care about us at all. I I received gossip that those soldiers sold all the food that should have been given to us on the black market!"

"Ah, this... If those officers are really so cruel, you can expose their crimes and let the more senior officers uphold justice, not to mention that Major General Li Jiayu will definitely help us..."

"...to uphold justice?" The middle-aged man laughed disdainfully as if he had heard some joke, and sarcastically said:

"What age is this? Is there such a word as justice? Those officers are not ordinary people. They are inheritors, and they are useful to Yongcheng. We dispensable waste wood are just a burden to Yongcheng. Our life and death are nothing more than mere numbers in the eyes of many big men..."

"As for Mrs. Li Jiayu you mentioned, who doesn't know that she saved us, but how could we possibly meet her, I'm afraid we will be captured by those villains before we reach her, and beaten to death in an unknown corner .”

A brother next to the middle-aged man couldn't help taking a step forward, and shouted angrily at Xiao Yan:

"That's right, yesterday a few brothers who lived next door ran to the headquarters of the military region to appeal. Just as they were about to kneel in front of the steps, they were all chased away by the soldiers. Finally, on the way back, they were met by the crowd The revenge of the privately owned military officer was beaten to a bruised nose, swollen face, limbs and limbs, and two brothers were beaten to death on the spot..."

"..."

Xiao Yan clenched his fists tightly, he wished he could rush over and beat those wicked people to pieces, but facing the miserable people in front of him, he couldn't express it like a lump in his throat, and after a long while, he said dryly:

"Killing people will pay for their lives, let alone in broad daylight, they wouldn't be so courageous..."

"The most worthless thing in the last days is the lives of ordinary people like us. At least a thousand people die in Yongcheng every day. Isn't it easy for those inheritor officers to kill a few people quietly?

Don't talk about yesterday's incident, let's talk about the collusion between officials and bandits. There are hooligans and hooligans in this poor village who come to force protection fees every day. Isn't it just the tacit approval of those officers? "

The middle-aged man had obviously been suppressed for a long time, and once stimulated, he even vomited bitterness and said to Xiao Yan with curses and curses.

Perhaps, what he said was a little extreme...

But the actual situation is like this. There are as many as [-] officers in Yongcheng, and everyone has a different heart. There are good and bad, and the quality is also uneven.

Some people are eager to help others, some are selfish, and naturally there are also some who are selfish. Although there are not many such black-hearted officers, they are not without them.

Chapter 10

black market

Although it is caused by human nature, the root cause is still a problem of resources.

There is only so little food in Yongcheng, and it can barely support 900 million people to survive. Everyone can eat [-]% to [-]% full at most. However, who would be willing to endure the torture of hunger every day?

Even though it is not a problem for the soldiers in Yongcheng to have enough to eat, they are much better off than the ordinary people outside, but as inheritors, they naturally don't think it is a blessing to have enough to eat.

Not to mention that as darlings who have gained power, some of them naturally feel that they are superior and should enjoy better treatment.

In this case, enriching one's own pockets in order to obtain better living conditions has become more and more common.

With this reason, there is naturally unfairness, and the steamed buns distributed by the army cannot be evenly distributed to every starving refugee...

"Wait, what are you talking about about the black market? When I joined the army, I secretly left behind a few worm crystals. I don't know if I can exchange them for food..."

Xiao Yan gritted his teeth, and in front of the middle-aged man, he showed some pain in his pocket and took something out of his pocket.

The eyes of the middle-aged man seemed to light up for a moment, and then quickly retracted. He hesitated for a while, and then said:

"Little brother, you see it's not easy for us. The travel expenses must be worth more than a dozen catties of food..."

"No, you're thinking wrong, I want to give you all the food I got in exchange...but, in return, I want to join you, how about it?"

As he said, Xiao Yan carefully pulled out a few ordinary first-level high-level insect crystals from his arms, and showed them half-hidden and half-exposed on the edge of his clothes.

At the beginning, Xiao Yan couldn't hold back his desire to help them at all, and impulsively said all the words he gave them. However, he immediately realized that this was completely incompatible with his disguised identity, so he hurriedly added.

"Brother, are you serious?!"

The middle-aged man said excitedly, as if he saw a great savior.

"Old Zhang, I remember you have been to the black market, go and take this brother for a walk..."

The middle-aged man hurriedly greeted a relatively well-dressed person in the team, patted his shoulder and said to Xiao Yan:

"Brother, let Lao Zhang take you there, we still have work to do...

"Wait, you are all so hungry that your feet are stilted, let's wait for us to exchange food and come back..." Xiao Yan said worriedly, he could see that most of these men were weak, if they accidentally fell down, it was very likely I can't wake up again.

Moreover, it is estimated that it is completely impossible for other weak people to carry him back...

"Little brother, sometimes, there are certain things that you have to do..."

At this moment, a woman's scream came from the old house, followed by a loud noise...

The middle-aged man's eyebrows moved, and his Adam's apple was rolling.

"Brother, sister-in-law is about to give birth..." The companion's expression was extremely complicated, and he looked at the middle-aged man and said, "Why don't you take care of sister-in-law in the house first, and leave it to us to find food..."

"No need!"

The middle-aged man shook his head resolutely, and said, "Let's go, let's find food together... This time, I will give everyone a surprise before the child is born!"

The middle-aged man smiled wryly, waved his hand, and turned his head to lead the team to move on.

This is the fate of scavengers.

For the sake of their families and the only homeland they have left, they must use up their last strength to die.

Xiao Yan looked at their distant figures, a little dazed.

"Brother, come back to your senses. Speaking of which, I don't know your name yet, brother."

A withered arm tugged at Xiao Yan, causing him to come back to his senses and look at the man called "Old Zhang" beside him.

"My name is Xiao Yan...Speaking of which, does that elder brother go out every day?"

"Yes, Brother Dadong is the most experienced scavenger here. Under his leadership, we can always find some grass roots and bark that can fill our stomachs. If we are lucky, we can..."

As Lao Zhang led Xiao Yan forward, he talked endlessly about the middle-aged man's deeds, and at the same time he approached a dark corner hidden under the city step by step.

black market.

Although it is called black, it does not represent inevitable chaos. At least on the surface, the transactions are fairly orderly, paying attention to paying for the goods and delivering the goods. Here, the hard currency is worm crystals and grains.

Xiao Yan has never been to this kind of place before, and the military museum is enough to meet his needs, so these transactions that happen all the time are still very novel to him.

"Brother Xiao, don't look around, let's just go and exchange food honestly, and don't make any trouble."

Seeing Xiao Yan looking left and right, Lao Zhang had no choice but to remind him aloud that he was afraid that something big would happen if the young man was young and energetic.

"well……"

Xiao Yan quickly agreed, but his excellent memory had already recorded every picture he had seen, and walked silently with his head bowed.

After stepping into a fairly formal storefront, Lao Zhang chatted with the people in it, and Xiao Yan could feel that the people sitting in it were at least second-level middle-level.