The Tight Embrace of the End Times

Xiao Xiami woke up, and the children had enough to eat and drink. Judging from the children's biological clock, it was indeed time to go to bed.

Shark hugged Xiao Xiami, and brought the other younger brothers to say goodbye to Gu Leng: "Brother, we should go back, thank you for saving Xiao Xiami, thank you for inviting us to dinner, if there is a chance in the future, we will return ten times."

Gu sneered and said, "You're welcome, Xiao Xiami is so cute, no one can bear not to save her! Where do you live? I'll take you back."

The shark nodded, Gu Leng reached out and picked up the salted fish, and walked forward first.

After walking a few steps, he found that apart from Xiao Qiao and the children, the other six people were following behind, Gu Leng cast a puzzled look.

Nian Xia took a step forward and said, "We are also worried about these children, so follow up and have a look."

Gu Leng nodded and continued.

It takes about forty minutes to walk from this Haikou to the Haikou where the children live.

On the largest hillside closest to Haikou, a cave at the foot of the hill is where the children live.

The hole was bare, without a door, without any barrier.A 14 or 5-year-old boy ran in first, lit a torch familiarly, and then fixed the torch to the cave wall.

The cave is about [-] to [-] square meters, and the ground is flat and empty. There are only a few broken straw mats on the ground. Other than that, nothing else.

The adults looked sad, Shark gently put the sleeping shrimp on a straw mat, and Gu Leng followed and placed the little salted fish side by side on the straw mat.

Gu Leng simply said: "Shark, let's eat with us every day from now on, children can't always eat seafood."

Nian Xia hurriedly echoed, "Yes, yes, I need to add some other nutrients."

Several other adults also nodded, everyone looked at the shark together, the shark thought for a while, then nodded: "I can't refuse food, let alone refuse food for my brothers and sisters, thank you."

The shark bowed deeply and reverently to everyone.

The reason why Gu Leng didn't let the children live with them was, firstly, the children had known them for less than a day, so it was too rash.The second point, Gu Leng and the others don't even have a cave, they just sleep on the ground next to the car.This is not as good as the place where the children live now.

The next day, everyone cooked all the existing food, corn, tortillas, pork, lotus root, yam and chestnut soup, all ready, waiting for the children to come over.

In the distance, the shark came with the children, but each one was carrying a small bucket and a small basin, what is this for?

Shark led his brothers and sisters to put down the things in their hands, wiped off their sweat, and said to everyone: "We can't eat and drink for free, this is our intention."

In the bucket, in the small basin, there are fresh small fish and shrimps. Looking at the quantity, I don’t know when these children got up.

Gu Hai took a step forward and grabbed the shark's shoulders and said, "If you want anything, come here, we have enough food for you, don't do it like this next time."

Shark nodded with nothing to do, and his expression told everyone that he would definitely continue to do this.

This child has his own persistence and pride.

After breakfast, Shark and they went back.

Gu Leng and the others were going to inject new seawater into the sun-dried salt pond, so they came back.Daytime temperatures are tolerable, but there is a risk of heat stroke.Everyone unanimously decided that it would be better to act sooner or later.

There is already a thin layer of white crystals on the wall of the sun-dried salt pond, which is undoubtedly coarse salt.Although the purpose of this trip was to dry the salt, everyone was very happy to see the salt.

After injecting new seawater into the sun-dried salt pond, the poisonous sunlight penetrated deeply into the inside of the human body, and everyone began to have dry mouth and tongue, sweat profusely, so they went back one after another.

After returning home, seeing the small fish and shrimps brought by the sharks piled up in a small pile, Gu Leng took Yuan Yushu to clean them, Gu Hai stayed aside and laughed muffledly, Yuan Yushu insisted on pulling him to clean the fish together Shrimp, Gu Hai had no choice but to roll up his sleeves and start cleaning.

There were too many small fish and shrimps, and it was impossible to finish them. Gu Leng put them in the hot sun until the last trace of moisture was dried, until they were so lightly pinched that they would crumble.

Grind these small fish and shrimp into powder and put them in bottles. This is a unique seasoning.

No matter what dish you cook, just sprinkle fish and shrimp powder on it to enhance the taste to another level.

In the evening, everyone came to the coast with fishing nets and water basins.

I have been here for several days, and I have only eaten some small fish and shrimps. Everyone has been thinking about the big fish and shrimps in the sea for a long time.

Everyone was in the shallow sea, throwing fishing nets into the sea, and after a lot of work, only a few sea mussels, a few palm-sized fish, and a few palm-sized shrimps came out of the net. This is completely different from what everyone imagined. .

Fortunately, at this time, the shark came with his younger brothers and sisters, stretched out his hand to grab the fishing net, and demonstrated how to cast and collect the net. Everyone nodded in admiration.

You know, sharks and the others are children who grew up by the sea, and they are good at the sea.

Sure enough, the net was cast again, and dozens of catties of fish and shrimps were caught in the net. Seeing the harvest, everyone was overjoyed.

Gu Leng walked with the shark, looking at the small fish and shrimp in the shark's bucket, they were still picked up in the silt washed by the sea water.

"Shark, there is really no need to send fish and shrimp in the future. As you can see, we caught a lot of big fish and shrimp tonight, enough to eat."

"No, this is our intention. We don't want to eat and drink for nothing."

"Who says you eat and drink for free? If it weren't for you tonight, we wouldn't be able to catch so many fish."

Shark pursed his lips. He actually knew that Gu Leng and the others were just inexperienced. After a few more attempts, they would find the trick, and they shouldn't take the credit for him. It was just that Gu Leng was helping him tactfully.

After two days of getting along, Shark knew that Gu Leng and his party were all good people.

Gu Leng touched the shark's head: "Be obedient, keep the fish and shrimp you picked up for yourself, it's always good to store more food."

Shark nodded silently.

Gu Leng asked curiously: "Shark, you are so good at fishing, why don't you go fishing? It's just picking up some small fish and shrimp. You know, the harvest of one fishing is more than the sum of the fish and shrimp you picked up for several days." More." After Gu Leng finished speaking, he thought for a while and added: "I have no other meaning."

The shark smiled and said: "I know, you don't need to explain. Among the seven of us, I am the oldest, but my hands are tied up when I do things. The sea is moody. I am worried that I will be accidentally taken away by the sea while fishing one day." Now, my younger brothers and sisters may not be able to survive anymore, so if I fish by myself, in a few years, when I am older, my younger brothers and sisters will also be older."

Gu Leng patted the shark on the shoulder.Sighed.

At the same time, an idea popped up in Gu Leng's mind, and he would say it when the time came.

The grilled fish for dinner and a pot of fish soup were also cooked, and everyone who ate it enjoyed it.

After the meal, send the sharks and the children back as usual, and treat it as an after-meal digest.

Now I have something to do during the day, which is to clean the fish caught in the net the night before, remove the scales and internal organs, and finally apply sea salt and put it in a ventilated place to dry.

Because the smell of fish is too strong, I wash it next to the car and don't sleep at night, so the fish is finally processed tens of meters away.

In the past few days, Gu Leng would occasionally be in a daze, Xiao Qiao saw it and remembered it.

This morning, Xiao Qiao and Gu Leng watched the sunrise as usual. The two walked on the beach holding hands. The sun slowly rose above the sea level. Xiao Qiao asked while walking, "What's on your mind?"

Gu Leng was stunned for a moment, then smiled.That's right, how could it be possible for people who pay attention to you all the time not to know about your slight abnormalities.

"When I was in college, I had a very good friend named Jiang Tao. He took good care of me. When I left, I gave him the address of Gujiacun. It's been a long time since he didn't come to see me. I was a little worried. he."

"Well, where is his house?"

"In Huaihai City."

"Huaihai City, not far from here, do you want to visit him?"

"Well, on the way here, I asked Old Wu, and Old Wu said that Huaihai City is only two days away by car."

"But the city is no longer suitable for living, and your friend probably doesn't live in the same place anymore."

"Yes, but I heard from Jiang Tao that his father's hometown is Huaishu Village next to Huaihai City..."

"Since you want to go and see it, let's go, the two of us together."

"But……"

"Don't worry, I know you have a lot of worries, but if you don't look at it, you will keep worrying and thinking about him. I don't want you to think about other people all the time."

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

"I'm just jealous, your good friend is jealous too."

"Haha, haha, Xiao Qiao, are you jealous? Why didn't you see it before?"

"you do not care about me……"

"Haha, haha, who doesn't care about you anymore, who knows what kind of jealousy you are..."

Then the two went back, told everyone about going to Huaihai City, and began to make preparations.

Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao simply dug another salt drying pond, dug out all the salt from the other two salt drying ponds they dug, and filled two full sacks of salt grains.Later, I entrusted the three salt drying ponds to other people, and only injected new seawater once a day.

In the evening, Xiao Qiao netted thousands of catties of sea fish. The two of them spent the next day processing the fish and drying them in the sun. The dried salted fish tastes good too.

Bringing salt and fish, the two set off alone one evening.