doomed [last days]

The summer in the north is hot and dry, especially in the inland where the shadow of the sea cannot be seen, and there is no rain for a long time.However, it is more comfortable in the mountains. The altitude is high and there are many trees, and it is even a little cold at night.

During the day, apart from taking care of some corn and soybeans in the field, weeding and watering, there is nothing to do on weekdays.The materials in the forest ranger station are already sufficient. Whether it is staple food or vegetables and fruits, hidden in the mountains full of treasures, you can get some unexpected harvest at any time.

In October, the corn and soybeans planted before are mature.

When the pods just grew, Lin Shen picked some pods, boiled a small plate of edamame with salt water to taste, and the rest was just waiting to be harvested now.

The green stalks have begun to turn brown and yellow, and when you shake the pods, you can hear the collision of soybeans and pods inside.They chose a sunny day, cut off this small piece of soybean connecting rod in the morning, and dried the unexploded pods for two days before starting to threshing by hand.Fortunately, the pods exploded as soon as they were dried, exposing the plump soybeans inside, which made it easier for them to thresh.

However, the corn did not grow so well.It may be a seed problem. On the corn cobs, the corn kernels are sparse, and you will not feel full after eating one.But anyway, it grew out. After breaking off the corn, I chose two plump corn to dry and save the seeds, and the rest were ready to be cooked and eaten.

On this day, the sun was not so strong, and several people sat together in the small courtyard, threshing the pods that had been sun-dried before.There is a bowl in front of each person, and the soybeans jumping out of the pods jingle into the bowl, and a thin layer will accumulate in a short time.

"Now we can definitely survive the winter," Anlu said while peeling the pods faster than anyone else, "When the time comes, we will use the stove in the house, and it will definitely be very warm."

There was originally a stove in the main house of the ranger station, which should be used for heating in winter, but there was no coal in the ranger station.So they thought about it, and imitated what they had seen on TV before, and used mud to paste a "charcoal basin" directly attached to the ground between the main house and the kitchen room.

"Let's go to the mountains tomorrow," Lin Shen said, "See if we can pick up some wood, or cut down a tree, and come back and burn it into charcoal, and keep it for winter."

Charcoal is easy to make, but they probably need to prepare more.

"Should I dry my winter clothes?" Shi Yiran asked.

Lin Shen and Anlu went to the shopping mall in Hongchi to find a lot of clothes, year-round, close-fitting, and outerwear. They brought back all the clothes they could find. Wash and dry when you are full.

Lin Shen nodded, her shoulder-length hair was tied behind her head, refreshing and unrestrained.She threw aside the pods without soybeans in her hand, and said, "I'll see if I can strengthen the gate of the lower courtyard later. It's winter, and it's time for the beasts to come out."

It's winter, and the food outside is slowly disappearing. Some wild animals are likely to come to the forest ranger station to try their luck.

She glanced sideways at the chickens that were foraging in the yard, with some worry in her eyes.

An Lu followed her gaze and asked, "Did the weasel be attracted here?"

"Probably not," Lin Shen looked away, smiled, and said, "Weasels mainly eat rodents, such as mice. Although we usually say 'weasels give chickens New Year's greetings', people don't eat chickens very much."

And, among other things, weasels are kinda cute.

Shi Yiran and Meng Shurong have been sitting quietly and listening, occasionally responding, and after a while, all the harvested pods have been threshed.

Meng Shurong stood up and was about to go to the kitchen to get a sturdy bag to store the soybeans. Unexpectedly, as soon as he stood up, he saw several figures not far away, and froze in place for an instant.

A few months have passed. Although she still doesn't talk much, she has become much more cheerful.But when she saw a sneaky person again, the fear welling up from the bottom of her heart bound her feet like vines, making her unable to move.

"Sister Shurong?" An Lu was still chatting with Lin Shen with a smile at first, but when he saw Meng Shurong's movements, his heart skipped a beat and he followed her gaze. Among the few people not far from the iron gate, stood Who else would the person at the front be the original Gangzi?

She turned around and was about to say something when she heard Lin Shen said in a suppressed voice, "Go to the main house."

After finishing speaking, Lin Shen stood up and pulled Shi Yiran who was still sitting. After Anlu realized it, he immediately dragged Meng Shurong who was frozen in place to the main room.

After Lin Shen watched the three people go in, he went to the kitchen to get the Molotov cocktail that had been left in the corner of the wall, and then went into the main house and locked the door.

Fortunately, they have always had the habit of locking the iron door tightly, so they don't have to take the risk of closing the door at this time.

For a while, there were only three or four chickens turning back and forth in the small courtyard that was originally full of laughter.

The people in the room were tense, and Lin Shen instructed: "Don't lean against the doors and windows, people outside should have guns in their hands."

The moment she caught a glimpse, she realized that the two people behind Gangzi were wearing nothing but the military uniform she was familiar with!

Outside the courtyard, a few people who were already observing here, looked at the closed courtyard door and stood where they were.Among them, the slightly taller woman with short hair asked Gangzi, "Hey, did you do something to them before, why did you hide when you saw you?"

Her voice was neutral and a little hoarse. Gangzi glanced at the gun belt around her waist and swallowed.He limped and took a step to the side before saying, "I'm wronged, sir! Back then, they broke my legs!"

At the beginning, on the way down the mountain, he and Liu Wu met Lin Shen and An Lu, and each of them got a stick.With a broken leg, he also met a lone wolf that came out to look for food. If Liu Wu hadn't fallen under the wolf's claws, he probably wouldn't have been able to take the opportunity to escape.

"Then why do you think they beat you?" Another shorter woman asked, regardless of her hairstyle, she looked somewhat similar to the short-haired woman next to her.

Gangzi hesitated and couldn't speak, after all, the other party was still in the yard.

He regretted that when he fled to the east, he shouldn't have said so much after meeting the government army.Perhaps because he saw the hope of the future, he was so excited that he cried out what he had seen and heard before like pouring beans.Why did he see that woman with a gun, why was he beaten several times when he went down the mountain, and told how miserable he was.

Unexpectedly, the chief of the army came over after a while and said that he wanted to find out more details from him.

Thinking about it now, I really want to cry but have no tears, and I regret it.If he didn't say so much, he should have been sent to that base city by now.

"Sister, stop talking nonsense with him," the short-haired woman said impatiently, "I'm looking at him, why don't you go and negotiate with the people inside?"

"Well," Mu Nuan responded, and instructed: "Xiao Han, don't let him run away, we still have to protect him."

Her voice sounded like a smile but not a smile, Gangzi shrank his neck, not daring to say anything, he could only watch Mu Nuan walking forward step by step.

"How are you?"

Mu Han is not good at negotiating with others, and when things happen, they either quarrel or fight, but when no one responds to the negotiation after speaking, Mu Nuan feels embarrassment written all over his body.

No one responded, and Mu Nuan continued his efforts: "There should be a powerful person inside, right? Don't be afraid, we are also powerful people. We were sent to Bai'an before, and later joined the army. We heard that there are still survivors here, so we came here Yes, I'm here to save you!"

Mu Nuan seldom shouted at the top of her voice. She rested for a while, and just about to continue shouting, she heard the people in the room reply.

Lin Shen stood by the window, observing the outside through the gap not covered by newspapers.The moment she saw Mu Nuan, she knew that what she said should be true.After all, only those in power and the government know about these deployments.

However, she shouted: "Who knows if you just found a military uniform in the store and put it on to deceive us? The man you brought here, do you know what he did? You brought a robber , still want someone to open the door for you?"

When Mu Nuan outside the iron gate heard it, sure enough, the man behind him didn't do anything good.But she doesn't need to do anything, Mu Han who is beside Gangzi has already used Gangzi's eyes that are about to kill him thousands of times.

"This person is just leading the way," Mu Nuan explained, "As for whether he lied to you or not, it's easy to prove that I can show you the card issued by the previous training camp, or if you still don't believe me, I still have a gun to come As a proof, ordinary people can’t get real guns! Even if they do, it’s not necessarily the special guns issued by the government!”

Her words were well-founded, and by the way, she also revealed that she had a gun.After a while, she saw the wooden door of the main house opened a crack.

Originally thought that the matter was going to be resolved, but before Mu Nuan had time to be happy, she saw a half-figure walking out from the crack of the door, holding a glass bottle in her hand, and the cloth strip on the bottle mouth was burning with flames, emitting black smoke.

The voice of the people in the room became clearer: "I don't know if your gun is real, but this burning | burning | bottle is real."

"We have a good life here, we don't need your help, you go!"

The other party didn't have any attitude of negotiating, as if they were about to throw the burning | burning | bottle over in the next second.Mu Nuan only stood outside the iron gate for a while, then walked back to Mu Han and Gangzi.

The conversation just now was all at the top of my voice, and Mu Han heard it clearly here. She looked at her sister's expression and asked, "Sister, what should I do now?"

Never break through.

"Xiaohan, you stay here and guard," Mu Nuan thought for a while, then pulled Gangzi over, grabbed his clothes like he was pulling the wings of a chick, and said, "I'll take him down the mountain, By the way, ask what the boss means."