Rebirth in the end times: The whole family keeps a low profile

It was 6 o'clock in the morning. The sun was blindingly bright outside and the heat wave rolled into the room from the window. Su Yun and Wang Jie were awakened by the heat. They pulled at their sticky pajamas, already guessing that it was extremely hot. They looked at the thermometer and found that it had risen by 3 degrees, which was within the acceptable range.

In order to get more wool from the Shiwanda Mountains, they planned to come back after getting enough wool. Anyway, they have a satellite phone and can contact their families by phone if there is any problem.

This time, the equipment was obviously more than last time. They wore tight stab-proof clothing inside and loose camouflage clothing outside. The joints of their hands and feet were wrapped with tape for more than ten times to prevent mosquitoes from crawling in. In addition to the necessities in the backpack, everyone prepared their own sleeping bags and dry food.

Wang Jie and Su Zhangming carried specially made machetes and crossbows, Zhang Lili and Su Yun carried medium-sized machetes, and the four of them looked particularly brave and capable.

Lan's father also used discarded wire mesh to make a mosquito coil plate for each person that can be hung on the belt. It was so thoughtful. Su Yun gave everyone a box of mosquito coils and a bottle of floral water. When they entered the mountains, they hung up the mosquito coils, and there was no need to worry about ordinary small mosquitoes.

Su Ma and Su Xiaogu not only have to take care of the children at home, but also have to supervise the two families on the 5th floor to start storing water. The temperature is rising, and water resources will be scarce in the future. Su Yun asked Su Ma to be responsible for storing water during the extreme heat. The water from the tap at home is too expensive, and even a family like theirs who has no shortage of points dare not use it casually, let alone Lanlan and little grandfather's family.

Fortunately, there are some wells scattered throughout the base. Su Yun has not observed them carefully, but when he walks around the base, he can see about seven or eight wells distributed in various corners of the base. Most of those wells are quite old and should have been preserved by the town a long time ago.

Usually, my grandfather and his family would walk to the well in the old alley not far away to fetch water. Many local people lived in the old alley. There were three ancient wells preserved under the big banyan tree at the entrance of the alley. People living in the northern district usually fetched water from the ancient wells. The water in these three wells was clear and sweet. For thousands of years, local people have been using this well water for cooking and brewing. Before the natural disaster, the local village committee built an ancient well pavilion next to the ancient well. There were several rows of cement benches and a cement round table under the octagonal pavilion with a yellow glazed roof. Sometimes when Su Xiaogu went to fetch water, she often saw people sitting there chatting.

The content of their conversations mostly revolved around household supplies, such as who had no salt, who had run out of rice, whose son-in-law came back with a bag of flour, which elderly and children were unfilial, which child had frozen to death in the extreme cold, and so on. Su Xiaogu was not a talkative person. Every day, she would take Zhibang's wife back home after getting a bowl of water.

We called the women from little grandfather's family and Lanlan to hold a small meeting in Room 601. The theme was that every household should find ways to store more water to cope with abnormal climate. Lanlan and Xiaonai had basically no sense of crisis. The water they fetched every day was only enough for two or three days. If they needed to take a shower or wash clothes, they would go directly to the well to wash and then come back.

I have to mention here that after the extreme cold passed, many people liked to take a bath by the well before dark, and wash their clothes before going back, saving a lot of effort in fetching water. The little grandfather was the same. He often took Su's father to the well to take a bath before dark at night, and brought back a bucket of water.

They found all the water containers that could be used at home. They wanted to take advantage of the fact that the wells were not yet officially controlled. Su Ma and Su Xiaogu took turns to look after the children at home. Every time, Su Dad would take one of them out to fetch water. The container they used most was a white plastic bucket, weighing ten kilograms each. It was bought online by Wang Jie when he was in Shenzhen. It was acid-resistant, alkali-resistant, and could not be broken when dropped. Lanlan has been reading a lot of medical books at home recently, and she has been doing massage on her legs. Recently, the pain is not as severe as before. Most of the time, when she is tired of reading, she deals with the mugwort at home. Last time, Lanlan's father brought back mugwort, half of it was exchanged for points, and the other half was left at home. Lanlan took it to the balcony to dry and preserve it. She only went to learn how to make moxa from the book. Today, when she heard Su's mother say that she wanted to store water, she took a 10-liter wine jug and planned to go with them. She was rejected by Su's mother, who took the wine barrel that was originally filled with white wine from her hand and said, "You'd better not go. Su Yun and the others have found a tricycle, and we will bring it back to you. When we are done, come up and ask us to make moxa."

Su's mother didn't really want to learn how to make moxa. Su Yun had stockpiled a lot of moxa sticks. She just didn't want Lan Lan to feel useless, so she was trying to get her involved in some handicrafts.

There are many people in the little grandfather's family. The little grandfather takes the little aunt and cousin to fetch water, and the little grandmother takes care of the children at home. There is strength in numbers, so Su Yun specially left them a human-powered pedal tricycle, which is in the shape of a bicycle in the front and 65 meters long and cm in the back. It is more than enough to go out to fetch water, and it does not have a battery, which is more in line with the current high electricity prices.

Nowadays, even if there are tricycles with batteries, people don't dare to use them. Charging is a big problem. You can live better than others, but if you live too well, you will easily be hated. It's better to let Grandpa and Su's father pedal a few more times every day, just as exercise.

Everything was arranged at home, and the people who went up the mountain set off to greet the sunrise.

Not long after leaving Lingyun Community, we met Liang Cancan and a group of people who were also going into the mountains. Most of them were carrying backpacks and carrying shoulder poles on their shoulders. There were several snakeskin bags tied on both sides of the shoulder poles. It seemed that they came prepared. I wonder if the base was also stockpiling a large amount of mountain products. Liang Cancan with more than a hundred people was definitely not an isolated case. Perhaps in a place they didn't know, Li Yimin had already sent a large number of teams into the mountains.

Wang Jie and Su Zhangming nodded and greeted him, and both groups walked towards the South Gate. At the South Gate, they met Brother Dao and seven or eight strong young men who were swiping their cards to go out.

Other teams began to go up the mountain around the South Gate. Their equipments were different. Some of them just took a snakeskin bag with some dry food in it and set off. Some like Liang Cancan and Wang Jie were considered well-equipped and had no problem staying in the mountains for three days.

After exiting the south gate, there were seven or eight forked roads. Su Yun chose the same mountain where he had picked mugwort before. This time they also brought a drone to survey the terrain. They didn't have to be inexperienced like the first time and the burden would be heavier if they carried more things. After showing everyone the supplies they brought, Su Yun quietly put the heavy drone and water bottle into the space. He only put some compressed biscuits and bread in the backpack. From the outside, the bulging backpack didn't make much difference.

Along the way, Wang Jie and his friends would ask Su Yun for food whenever they were thirsty or hungry, because their own backpacks were full of sleeping bags and spray that did not weigh much.

The path they cleared last time with a sickle was so dense that only some vague traces could be seen because the weeds grew too fast. This time, they sprayed pepper water on their bodies to clear the path again. In just one hour, they reached the flat ground where they cut mugwort last time. Unexpectedly, new sprouts were beginning to sprout here again. The wild plants were truly tenacious.

The half-man-high sea buckthorn tree still looks the same as it did last time the fruits were picked, with no changes at all.

Everyone took out mosquito coils, lit them and put them into the mosquito coil box they carried with them, and found a large rock nearby to rest and tidy up. The sun was getting higher and the sunlight was dazzling. In order to prevent mosquitoes, snakes and ants from crawling into their trouser legs, they tucked their trouser legs into their socks before setting off, and wrapped them with transparent tape several times. Su Yun felt very stuffy at this time, and his underwear and base shirt were all wet.

Without paying attention to details, Su Zhangming hurriedly replenished water and directed the drone to fly around the mountainside. There was a large dense forest on the mountainside. Unmanned aircraft approached and found that the dense forest was full of red and green flower snakes. During this period, someone had popularized the habits of this kind of snake on the community software in the base. These colorful snakes are tiger-spotted neck groove snakes. They have a clear neck groove on the back of their necks, a pair of thick black patches on both sides of their eyes, and the back is emerald green or grass green. There are a pair of thick black "eight"-shaped spots on both sides of the head, and the black and red spots on the front of the trunk are the same. They often appear in places with water plants and frogs and toads. They are active during the day and eat frogs and toads, as well as tadpoles and small fish.

I don't know why they reproduce so quickly. They caused a lot of trouble at the base some time ago. Fortunately, the venom of this venomous snake is relatively weak. It belongs to the category of posterior hook-fanged venomous snakes. Generally, after being bitten by a tiger-striped colubrid snake, there will be no serious symptoms of poisoning. Only those who are allergic to the venom of tiger-striped colubrid snakes will suffer from serious poisoning and even life-threatening.

Although they are weakly venomous snakes, they are still very scary when they are densely packed in the dense forest. No wonder they have to run into the base. With so many snakes on the mountain, all the food nearby must have been eaten by them.

After flying over the dense forest, the drone came to the other side of the mountainside. There were some bushes as tall as a person, with many small purple-black fruits on them. The drone approached the bushes and saw the fruits clearly. They turned out to be the myrtle that I often ate when I was a child. This wild fruit was especially common in the back mountain of Su Yun’s hometown. Every Qingming Festival, he could always bring a big bag home, but eating too much could easily cause constipation. The myrtle was continuous, and the weeds underneath were also very lush, half a person tall, which also posed a huge risk.

The Hundred Thousand Mountains are endless. Looking down from the sky, the mountains and forests here are very magnificent, and the conditions of each mountain are different. Some peaks are rich in mushrooms, some peaks have many streams, some peaks are venomous snakes and beasts like to gather together, and some peaks are only bare rocks, with little soil and vegetation. Su Yun and his companions could only climb the mountain by feeling their way up the rocks.

Experienced locals like Brother Dao are most familiar with the surrounding mountains and forests, so every time they go into the mountains, their team gets the most. When it is extremely cold, he leads the team to hunt in the mountains to feed a group of brothers. It is bad luck for the beasts in the mountains to meet Brother Dao. Brother Dao likes to eat meat and is sometimes good at catching snakes. The places where their team passes are basically safe, so there will be many small teams quietly following behind them to pick up leaks. Brother Dao doesn't mind. As long as it doesn't affect him, he basically turns a blind eye.

Most of the people in his team grew up in the mountains and were good hunters. During this period, they caught two wild boars, a dozen wild rabbits, eight bamboo rats, 8 bags of bamboo shoots, three bags of river fish and a dozen bags of wild vegetables.

So there are always people better than you. It is not just the base represented by Liang Cancan who are searching for supplies, but the people are also silently working hard to support their families.

Of course, there are many lazy people, and many people without connections. After all, everyone's fate is different. For example, in my previous life, I didn't have a mobile phone, so I couldn't access the base's social circle and other information. I worked hard to complete the tasks assigned by the base every day for a few bites of food. I wanted to go up the mountain, but without the protection of the team, I couldn't make any progress.