Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

It was another ordinary day in recovery, Fu Yunlan closed the old magazine from 20 years ago, sat on the bed and looked out of the bedroom door, Celeste turned his back to him, and was repairing an electric meter at the table.

Hearing the sound of Fu Yunlan getting off the bed, Celeste immediately dropped what he was doing and walked over: "Do you want to go to the bathroom?"

"No, I just lay down for too long, and I want to get up and sit for a while." Fu Yunlan stood up on the head of the bed, and Celeste took his arms and slowly moved him to the corner of the living room. On the sofa, he took out the quilt and covered him again.

"Go ahead and leave me alone." Fu Yunlan looked curiously at the living room full of parts and waste electrical appliances. It was the first time since he was injured that he left the bedroom, "You are really good at repairing things, I should have known Your ability is so good, I don't need to send you to the hydropower station as an apprentice."

Celeste didn't know how to respond to this sentence, so he simply pretended that he didn't hear it. He neatly carried the books beside the bed and put them next to the sofa where Fu Yunlan could reach them: "Read all the books. Is it over? I'll collect some more."

"Don't waste money on this kind of thing." Fu Yunlan, who had never been taken care of to this level, was a little uncomfortable.

"But you'd be bored."

"It's just boring, it's nothing." Fu Yunlan looked around and found a familiar little thing in the corner of the cabinet. He said in surprise, "That's..."

Celeste brought over the model of the helicopter: "Someone found this in the ruins of the mercenary group building. I heard it was yours, so I sent it over."

It was a model made of scrap metal, something useless for survival. Fu Yunlan used to like to make small handmade models like this when he was free. After becoming the new mercenary captain, he I don't have that leisure anymore.

Seeing this again now, Fu Yunlan's mood was also mixed. He fiddled with the wings of the helicopter model. The wings had been deformed, but they could still rotate.

He smiled: "Thank you."

"You're happy." Thurliste looked at him with inquiring blue eyes. "Does seeing a model airplane make you happy?"

"Yes." Fu Yunlan saw Celeste's thoughtful look, and quickly added, "Don't just find me a model because of this, you have worked hard, don't spend money on these gadgets gone."

"But you gave me a box of sweets," said Thelister, "just to make me happy."

"I just happened to find a box of candy in the camp of the gangsters we killed." Fu Yunlan said, "You have worked hard, and I don't want to add to your burden."

"I didn't work very hard." Celeste stated bluntly.

Because when repairing things, the time for checking faults and detours is completely saved, and he works seriously for less than two hours a day, which is nothing compared to the general overworked people nowadays.

But in Fu Yunlan's eyes, things are not like this: "You still say it's not hard, you take care of me day and night like this, and you haven't gone out for many days."

"It's so cold outside, there's no need for me to go out." Celeste said, "Anyway, whatever I need, someone will come to my door."

While talking, Fu Yunlan heard someone knock on the door.

Celeste glanced in the direction of the door, but didn't intend to get up to open the door.

"Celester?" Fu Yunlan asked in confusion, he seemed to see Celeste frowning just now.

"Probably beggars, don't worry about him."

Fu Yunlan looked at him suspiciously: "You're not good at lying, what's wrong?"

"...It's the mayor." Celeste said unhappily, "He keeps pestering me and wants me to fix things for him."

"If you don't want to, then don't go." Fu Yunlan said, "But at least open the door and tell him clearly, it's not a solution to let him keep knocking like this."

The knock on the door has been ringing very persistently since just now, and it hasn't stopped for a while, so Celeste had no choice but to go to open the door, but before he reached the door, the knocking stopped.

Celeste thought he had finally given up and went back to the table to continue working, but Li Jiesi did not give up. He climbed up to the flower bed without flowers, looked in through the window, and saw Fu Yunlan hugging Sitting on the sofa under the quilt, he was stunned for a moment, then smiled awkwardly, knocked on the glass window and gestured for him to open the door.

"Let him in." Fu Yunlan felt that there must be some reason for Li Jiesi's persistence.

Celeste went to open the door without saying a word.

"Lan, are you feeling better?" Li Jiesi smiled awkwardly. After all, he was the one who fooled Fu Yunlan to take over this mess, and he was the one who ignored Fu Yunlan after he was injured.

"Yeah, thanks to Celeste's care, I have saved my life."

"That's great, great." Li Jies said with a sneer, "You can help me persuade Celeste, the town has been without power for five days, if you don't fix the generator, you will be in big trouble."

"Is there a power outage?" Fu Yunlan looked at Celeste in surprise. It was obvious that Celeste was still working with a soldering iron just now, and the lights had never stopped turning on every night. "Why didn't we have a power outage here?"

"A junkman sold me a used military battery pack, and I repaired it, and there was enough power left in it to last us for a year."

"But others may not even survive this winter." Lijes said, "Old Hunter has tried everything he can think of, but he still can't get the generator to work again, Thurlist once said He can fix the generator, but he doesn't want to fix it."

"Why not?" Fu Yunlan looked at Celeste in confusion.

"I can't leave you at home alone," said Thelister.

Fu Yunlan knew what Celeste was worried about. The homeless man who broke into the house that day seemed to frighten the child a lot: "Don't worry about me, I'm much better now, you can see that I can stand up by myself."

Fu Yunlan's wound is slowly healing. Although he is still very weak, as long as he pays attention to recuperation and persists in taking medicine, there is little possibility of recurring infection. But Celeste doesn't want to take it lightly, he whispered He muttered quietly: "If I'm not here, who knows what others will do to you."

Fu Yunlan sighed: "Listen, Celeste, what happened that day was just a very small probability event, and there are really not many people with such courage."

"That's right." Li Jiesi added, "And I will also send people from the garrison to guard your house, so you can rest assured."

"I don't trust them," Thurlist said stubbornly.

"You can't be so selfish. Do you know what's going on outside?" Li Jiesi said, "Without electricity, the mushroom factory can't heat and humidify. It has completely stopped production. The night before yesterday, someone cut the power grid of the farm. , pulled out all the pumpkin seedlings in the greenhouse and ate them. In the spring, the whole town may not grow any food. The day before yesterday, a worker of a hydropower station committed suicide at home, which caused rumors to spread all over the sky. Everyone said that the hydropower station had died It can’t be repaired. Those who are able to walk have already left or are about to leave. Those who are unable to walk have lost hope of living. Just a few hours ago, a farmer killed all his chickens. Let the family eat a few good meals and die together. Fortunately, someone found out in time and stopped him, but we can’t keep watching him. If the hydropower station can’t be repaired, this town will soon be over.”

"Is it already this serious?" Fu Yunlan frowned, and he looked at Celeste with a questioning look, but Celeste said indifferently: "You know that Lan is kind enough to say these things on purpose. I said a month ago, give me the reward I deserve, and I will help you fix the generator. At that time, none of you were willing to give up the benefits at hand, and you kept procrastinating and refusing to agree until the generator was really finished. Knowing to come to me. I didn't promise that I would be on call, and I won't go anywhere until Lan's injury recovers."

"It's okay to talk about gold bars, but you want 20.00% of the shares. I can't decide this alone..." Li Jiesi tried to explain, but Celeste said, "I don't want to talk to you anymore."

As he said he walked into the kitchen to prepare lunch, Li Jiesi had no choice but to look at Fu Yunlan for help.

Fu Yunlan probably understood what was going on: "You go back first, I will persuade him again."

Li Jiesi has already seen Celeste's stubbornness, and now he can only deal with Yunlan and say with a smile: "Then I'll leave it to you."

After Li Jiesi left, Fu Yunlan said to Celeste who was still in the kitchen: "Are you not willing to go because you are worried about my safety?"

"Yeah." Celeste's voice came from the kitchen, "It's very troublesome, and it will take a long time to fix it, so I don't worry."

"I'm not a person who can't resist." Fu Yunlan said.

Celeste took out the cutlery and put it on the coffee table, sat down and looked at Fu Yunlan expressionlessly: "I know you have the ability to resist, but if you resist again and break your wound, you will really die .”

"Well, even if I can't move now, the mayor also said that the defense team will come to guard, so you don't need to worry so much."

"The defense team is also unreliable, who knows what they are thinking secretly."

Fu Yunlan said helplessly: "There are so many bad people in the town. Didn't I be fine in the previous days?"

"It's just that they didn't find the opportunity. As long as there is an opportunity, people can do all kinds of bad things." Celeste remembered many things-the officer who pushed him out of the car when the Merced garrison retreated, the hydropower station The apprentices who bullied him to exclude him, the workers who wanted to steal his prey, and the young man who was obviously a weak crybag but became a gangster, he concluded: "Everyone can pretend to be a fool when there is no chance. A harmless appearance, once there is a chance to benefit, it will reveal its nature, that's how people are."