Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong swept around, and the most impressive thing about the residents of Shuiwei Town was two points:
Everyone wears a variety of clothes, as if they come from different places, and there are many patches; The body is dirty, the hands are dirty, the face is dirty, the hair is dirty, and the clothes are dirty.
In addition to these two points, tiredness, thinness, and low height are relatively common things.
The townspeople glanced at the outsiders a few times, and when they saw that Tian Erhe was also there, they no longer paid attention and worried, and went back to their homes, or moved out of the stove, lit a fire to cook, or carefully took out a bowl of grain mixed with chaff and poured it into the pot...... The entire Shui Wai town gradually filled the smell of cooking smoke and food.
Tian Erhe noticed Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong's observation of the residents in the town, and asked with a smile:
"How is it? Did you see anything?"
Long Yuehong opened her mouth, feeling that it was not polite enough to express her impressions directly, so she closed her mouth again and considered her words.
Shang Jianyao withdrew his gaze and said calmly:
"It's not clean."
"Not clean...... Hey." Tian Erhe laughed lowly, "Compared with you, it must be unclean."
Although Shang Jianyao, Jiang Baimian and others had rolled over in the previous battle and had many mud marks and stains on their bodies, they all habitually wiped their faces clean when rehydrating on the way.
Without waiting for Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen to interject, Tian Erhe pointed to the middle of the square with his chin:
"Although we do not lack clean water in Shui Wai Town, charcoal still has to be saved. I read a book that excessive cutting down of trees will make the land unfertile, so if you don't let them cut down trees nearby, you have to go far away.
"Occasionally, you can get coal from smuggling caravans, it's like the Chinese New Year, you know, there is a lot of coal on the side of the 'White Knights'.
"Oh, it's okay in summer, you can wash it directly with cold water, in autumn, you can only endure it as much as possible, it's better to be dirty than sick, I can't stand it, so I boil a pot of water and wipe my body."
Speaking of this, Tian Erhe paused, his smile becoming complicated:
"Besides, they are busy from morning to night every day, and when they can rest, who still has that energy?"
Long Yuehong suddenly remembered the previous two months of training: he and Shang Jianyao were exhausted by Jiang Baimian's training every day, and when they returned home, they just wanted to lie in bed and do nothing.
But there is an employee canteen inside "Pangu Biotechnology", and he and Shang Jianyao can directly take the lunch box or not take it at all, and go to the canteen to eat ready-made food, without having to work hard.
"No wonder." He expressed his understanding.
Shang saw that Yao didn't say anything, and nodded silently.
Jiang Baimian glanced at him with a smile:
"I thought you would ask them why they don't wash in cold water in winter, which seems to effectively promote blood circulation and improve their own resistance."
"My physique is too poor." Shang Jianyao replied seriously.
At this time, a member of the town guard nicknamed "Gouzi" ran over holding Tian Erhe's stove, carrying a small bag of charcoal on his back.
He was very expressive and helped to start the fire, and then took the initiative to join the patrol team in charge of the surrounding area, unwilling to leave.
This is not that he longs to get some canned braised beef, but compared to most of the girls in the town, Bai Chen and Jiang Baimian, whose hair and face are neatly groomed, can attract the attention of young men, especially Jiang Baimian, who is tall and has long legs, and has been genetically modified since the embryo.
Even if you have only known each other for a few minutes, as long as you see the right eyes, you can roll the sheets, so those members of the town guard who patrol and guard around are holding their heads high and showing themselves to their heart's content.
Jiang Baimian glanced at it and was almost amused by them.
She ignored it, walked to the trunk of the jeep, and took out four more military cans.
"Do you want a pot? Do you want a pot? And bowls and chopsticks, do you want it?" Tian Erhe asked with bright eyes.
"Yes, this is much more convenient than us using lunch boxes." Jiang Baimian didn't dislike it at all.
"Puppy! Hurry up, go and bring my pots and chopsticks! Count how many people you have!" Tian Erhe immediately raised his voice.
The member of the town guard, nicknamed "Gouzi", agreed quickly, and it didn't take long for him to bring a black pot with five sets of bowls and chopsticks in it.
After helping to set up the pot, he stole a glance at Jiang Baimian and said to Tian Erhe in a very weak tone:
"Mayor, can you, can you stop calling my nickname? I'm twenty years old......"
"What's wrong? I grew up watching your father, and I still call him by his nickname!" Tian Erhe replied with a staring eye, and then waved his hand, "Go, go, don't affect our meal, no, chat."
Shang Jianyao kept staring at the pot and found that the bowl inside was pale blue with very delicate patterns, while the chopsticks were ivory white and had no flaws at all.
This is much better than the dishes and chopsticks of most employees of "Pangu Bio".
Tian Erhe glanced at him and laughed:
"What? Do you think this bowl is not big enough?"
"He thinks it's too good and exquisite." Jiang Baimian rushed to help Shang Jianyao answer the question, as if he was afraid that he would give some rude answer.
Shang Jianyao was not surprised, and nodded to say that this was his idea.
The next second, he looked at Jiang Baimian, closed his mouth tightly, and whined for a while.
Everyone was surprised and dazed, and he asked Jiang Baimian:
"Guess what I just wanted to say?"
「…… How can you guess this?" Jiang Baimian's expression was a little sluggish, barely keeping a smile.
"Didn't you guess very accurately just now?" Shang Jianyao was quite regretful.
Jiang Baimian took a breath and slowly exhaled:
"If it weren't for you, I would definitely think that I was angry about what happened just now."
When she spoke, she was not staring at Shang Jianyao's eyes, but at the top of his head, as if she wanted to come for a moment.
Tian Erhe looked at their interaction with a rather strange expression, and finally smiled:
"The atmosphere inside you seems to be very, relaxed, and lively."
"Mainly because his brain pumps occasionally, well, that's it." Jiang Baimian emphasized seriously, and Bai Chen nodded sadly.
Shang Jianyao immediately responded:
"How do you know I'm not deliberately livening up the atmosphere?"
「…… Try to keep it up." Jiang Baimian grinded his teeth.
Tian Erhe laughed twice, picked up a pair of dishes and chopsticks and said:
"These were all taken from the ruins of the old world city, where there are too many similar things and they are of little value on their own.
"The relic hunters have trekked over the mountains and rivers, who wants to carry a backpack and a cart of dishes and chopsticks back?"
Jiang Baimian listened very carefully and said with emotion:
"It's true that there are still many things buried in the ruins of cities in the old world. Hmm...... Just because you can't use it now doesn't mean it's worthless."
While speaking, Jiang Baimian poured five cans into the pot.
"Mayor, before heating up the can, can you tell us about the old world and what happened to you at the beginning?" Jiang Baimian casually threw the empty canned shell aside, and diligently handed the charred yellow and black leaf cigarette to Tian Erhe.
Tian Erhe took the leaf smoke and lit it with the charcoal fire in the stove.
After Meimei took a sip, Tian Erhe half-narrowed his eyes and said:
"My biggest wish now is to smoke three times a year, and this is the second time this year."
After sighing, he looked around, showing a reminiscing expression:
"When the old world was destroyed, I was only in my early 10s, and I was still a junior high school student."
"My mother is a teacher in a junior high school in the city, and my dad is an employee of a government unit, at that time, just after the winter vacation, the weather should be a little colder than now, maybe more than a little, I can't remember why, maybe the junior high school holiday is later, and my dad is getting busier the closer to the end of the year, and no one at home takes care of me, so they took advantage of the weekend to send me to my grandfather's house, in the village not far from Shuiwei Town.
"I remember very clearly that they said that they would wait another eight days to pick up me, my grandfather and grandmother, and take me back to the city for the New Year.
"Heh, at that time, I was running around the village, but I still felt homesick every night, I would look at the calendar, and if I counted how many days were left, my father and mother would come to pick me up.
"On the morning of the penultimate day, a few friends and I wanted to go fishing by the river, but we were blocked by adults and could only go to play near a very shallow creek.
"I was so frightened that I just wanted to go back to my grandfather's house and never go out again.
"The explosions came one after another, getting more and more violent, cough, cough, I even think it was accompanied by a high-magnitude earthquake."
Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong, Jiang Baimian and others were listening intently, Tian Erhe stretched out his hand to roast the fire and continued to recall:
"There was a section in the middle, I fainted for some reason, maybe I was photographed by the air waves generated by the explosion, anyway, I woke up without any injuries.
"After waking up, I continued to run back and saw my grandfather's house collapse...... They didn't have time to run out......
"At that time, my grandfather and grandmother were much younger than I am now, raising chickens, growing vegetables, and doing everything.
"Cough, don't talk about this. At that time, there were still many people alive in the village, and I followed those uncles, aunts, grandparents all the way to the town. There are still many intact houses in the town, but we didn't choose them, so we chose this one because there is open space, so you can temporarily live in a tent without worrying about the house collapsing.
"At that time, communication was also cut off, there was no signal, everyone was waiting here, waiting for rescue, waiting for help, but unfortunately, I didn't wait until ......."
Tian Erhe's voice gradually became lower, as if he still remembered the fear and despair at the beginning.
"A few uncles and aunts didn't want to wait like this anymore, so they went to the supermarket and some people's homes, collected some food, and tried to leave Shui Wai Town and go to the city. I, I also follow them, hoping to return to my parents and not laugh, this is a very instinctive choice of children.
"We drove for a while, climbed over the broken road, walked for a long time, and finally arrived in the city.
"Here, here, it's even more terrifying......"
Tian Erhe's eyes gradually lost focus.
He seemed to be trapped in a nightmare that he could never get rid of in his life.
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