末世 二三 事

In the evening of summer, the Golden Crow has gone west, and the temperature is not as high as in the daytime.At the intersection of the highway where the provincial capital enters the county seat, a long human-shaped team is slowly approaching from a distance. There are men and women in this team, old and young. They are thin, their faces are covered with wind and frost, and their sunken faces are full of sunburn , the color is deep and light, many people's lips are chapped and peeled off.

On the periphery of these people, there are rows of soldiers wearing summer camouflage training uniforms. Compared with those people, they don't look much better, but the clothes on their bodies are still neat, their eyes are firm, and their spirits are relatively good.

And behind this team, there are actually two cars moving slowly, one is a military truck and the other is a modified off-road vehicle.In this world full of abandoned vehicles and overgrown grass, it is really strange.

Shi Lei walked in the front with a few brothers from his family. They looked at their hometown, which was so close at hand, and finally showed a relaxed look on their faces that were also covered with sunburn and exhausted.He wiped the sweat off his face, turned around and walked up to a soldier in his thirties, and asked, "Captain Qu, do you think we should find a nearby place to rest first, or go directly to the city?"

The man called Captain Qu looked at the small town in front of him, and there was nostalgia in his eyes. He suppressed the excitement in his heart and said, "Which base is the closest to the county?"

"It's Fangbei Base." Shi Lei said, "It will take another hour to get there."

Captain Qu said, "I'll go ask first."

Shi Lei hurriedly said, "Oh, yes."

Captain Qu turned around and returned to the line, went directly to the back of the line, walked to the side of the off-road vehicle, and stood still at the rear door.At this time, the off-road vehicle had also stopped due to the team's stay, and the windows were closed, so he couldn't see what was going on inside. Before he raised his hand to knock on the window, the window automatically lowered, revealing the Inside was the face of a young man about twenty years old.

The young man's appearance was plain, but he had a smile on his mouth and gentle eyes. He was different from Captain Qu and others who were tired and embarrassed. The young man sitting in the car was obviously pampered and had an unusual status.

At this time, he took the initiative to ask: "Captain Qu, is this almost here?"

Captain Qu said with a hint of respect, "Yes, Master Wei. We will be able to reach a small base in the county seat in an hour's walk."

Suddenly, a middle-aged man mocked from inside the car: "If you hadn't been dragged back for more than two months by trying to save these mortals all the way, we would have arrived long ago."

Captain Qu's eyes darkened, but he concealed his expression very well. He said without any change in his attitude: "Master Zhu, please be patient for another hour. After an hour, we will be able to settle down."

Master Zhu said disdainfully, "How can this broken place be settled?"

Captain Qu didn't speak.

Master Wei still had a smile at the corner of his mouth, but there was no warmth in his smile. He tilted his head slightly, and said in an unpleasant tone: "Zhu Ren!"

Zhu Ren also immediately warned: "Wei Zhen, my master told you to take care of me, not for you to yell at me and control things. Don't put on airs at me in front of outsiders all day long."

Wei Zhen's complexion changed, and finally he said helplessly: "They are just ordinary people. We went out to practice this time to help them. Why do you need to be angry?"

Zhu Ren sneered and said, "My master asked me to come out to practice myself, not to spend more than two months escorting these worthless mortals."

"You!" Wei Zhen said angrily, but thinking of Zhu Ren's temperament and his backing, he finally endured it.

Finally, Master Wei said to Captain Qu: "Take your people and continue on your way."

"Okay." Captain Qu replied, his expression remained unchanged from the beginning to the end, and then he turned and returned to his team.

Some people were closer to the car and could hear the arguments inside clearly. Some people showed resentment on their faces, some were more cautious, and some looked at the car with reverence and longing.

Seeing that Captain Qu came back, Shi Lei saw that his expression didn't change, so he hurriedly asked, "What do the two masters say?"

Captain Qu said, "Continue on your way."

Shi Lei felt even more relieved. Seeing that they had arrived home, they really didn't want to stay any longer. Moreover, he really didn't want to settle the people in that car to his base. How superior to others, Shi Lei felt that he really couldn't afford to serve him.

After a brief pause, the team began to walk towards the Fangbei base in the south of the city.

At this time, Jing Lin and Yan Fei were separating the insulated leaves and fruits they picked from the mountains during the day, while Zhao Zhiwen and Yan Lu were washing and eating beside them.

"Are you going?" Zhao Zhiwen asked Jing Lin and the two, "I saw the ones they caught, and they didn't change from the previous ones, and they tasted very good."

Yan Fei said: "It's not safe in the mountains at night, why do they dare to go in after dark?"

Yan Lu said: "Man dies for money, but birds die for food."

Now they are talking about the villagers' slander about going into the mountain to catch the cicada monkey.The cicada monkeys are also the pupae of the cicadas. This year they came out earlier than in previous years, and now there are cicadas that start to cry during the day.People here never eat this kind of food, and it is the daughter-in-law Sun Lili from other places. Their family has the habit of eating this. Two days ago, she went out for a walk in the evening and found a bunch of cicada monkeys on the osmanthus tree of Ma Renshan's house. She took them back and deep-fried them. up.These days, it is good to have something to eat, and everyone is not picky about food. For the cicada monkey, the Ma family has no psychological pressure to accept it, and they all love it very much.The adults and children in the family are all greedy for meat. The men of the Ma family took advantage of the evening when it was getting dark and wandered around the side of the mountain. Joined, and slowly, more and more people in the village knew about it, and there was a wave of catching cicada monkeys in the evening.

Because Jing Lin and Yan Fei have lived without shame these few days, and Zhao Zhiwen and Yan Lu have been busy dating all day long, and they only found out about it yesterday.Zhao Zhiwen is not greedy for that kind of thing. Like Tang Hao's family, his family has never been short of meat. It's not that he can't go with other people in the village. The reason why Jing Lin and the others are encouraged to go is because they want to be more lively and fun. .

Jing Lin looked at the heat-insulating leaves around him, and said, "Then go, and quickly pick up the rest."

Lele listened to it and said, "Uncle, can I go?"

"Yes." Jing Lindao, Lele is not active, the daily entertainment activities are either reading or reading, it is indeed a bit boring.

Several people moved faster, and after a while, they picked off the remaining fruits and tidied up the leaves. Jing Lin asked the other members of the family if they wanted to go out to play. Seeing the little fox next to him looking at it eagerly with two eyes, he agreed.

Jing Lin and the others each took a bamboo basket and an oil lamp, and you led me and I pulled yours out the door.I met other people on the road, and they all greeted each other, just like Jing Lin, they all held things in their hands.

People in the village learned how to catch cicadas from Sun Lili. Before coming here every evening, they would wander around the tree during the daytime to listen to where the cicadas were singing the loudest, and then memorize the location. Wrap a circle of tape around the trunk, so that the cicada monkeys will not be able to climb up the tree when they go out of the hole in the evening, and they will not be unable to catch the cicada monkeys because they climb too high.

Zong Zong dug the hole with his paws, and then wanted to eat the found Cicada Monkey raw without thinking there was too much mud, but was hit by Su Zhen’s tail on the mouth, and Cicada Monkey fell to the ground immediately, and was caught by the Cicada Monkey Lele picked it up and put it in a basket, and said to Zong Zong by the way: "Stupid Zong Zong, there is mud, wait until you go back and wash it and cook it before eating."

Having been with Suzhen and Zongzong for so long, Jing Lin knew that Suzhen's mouth was hard and her heart was soft. It was probably for her own good that she refused to let Zongzong eat raw food. But what Suzhen forbids it to do, it has always been obedient.

"Zongzong probably regards Suzhen as her mother." Yan Fei said to Jing Lin once.

Now that the ecological environment has improved, there seem to be more cicadas than before. You can catch half a basket of cicada monkeys under a giant tree. Jing Lin and the others caught them on the side of the mountain with an oil lamp for more than an hour. Go back with a basket.

When almost everyone in the village was caught, everyone dispersed together, and Jing Lin and the others also returned home.Lele went out to play tonight, and he was very excited when he came back. When Jing Lin was burning the bath water, he was still humming the nursery rhymes he learned in the kindergarten before, dragging the ducks and dancing around, it is rare to see him so lively when.

Because the cicada monkeys caught too many, they soaked all the cicada monkeys in salt water, and when they cleaned them out tomorrow morning, before entering the room, Jing Lin pointed to Zong Zong and told it: "Don't steal it, or you will be a vegetarian." Sister Zhen hit you again."

Brown palm answered listlessly.

Lele has already entered the room to sleep with Yaya. After a few days of adaptation, now Lele doesn't need Jinglin to guard him before going to bed, and he can sleep on his own obediently, and he won't be troubled by various situations anymore.

As soon as Jing Lin went to bed at night, Yan Fei came over, and Jing Lin hurriedly said, "Be more honest tonight."

Yan Fei grabbed his hand and touched his little brother, with an innocent face: "Be honest."

Jing Lin was about to grab him hard, but he still couldn't bear it, so he closed his eyes and went to sleep with a black face.

After eating in the morning, Jing Lin and Yan Fei began to deal with the cicada monkeys. Sun Lili, who asked all the methods, and the three baskets of cicada monkeys were soaked in mud all night, but they still washed them very carefully to avoid When I got it, it tasted like a toothache, and it took more than two hours to wash these, and then boiled them in boiling water, leaving a part for frying, and put the rest in the refrigerator to freeze.

Jing Lin and Yan Fei, who ate Cicada Monkey for the first time, felt that the taste was similar to the fried worms they ate back then, full of meaty flavor.Even Suzhen, who was a picky eater in their eyes, ate several of them, not to mention the little glutton, a big bowl was not enough for a meal.It hasn't been long since I arrived at Jing Lin's house, the little guy is no longer the skinny and pitiful look before, his body has grown more fleshy, and the hair that was cut off before has almost grown back, and he has grown cute just by looking at it.