C22 Pan zi

After Chen Ming carried me home, he left with the rest to go eat dinner with Hu Yongqiang. In fact, it was just eating, and he could also get some extra supplies back along the way. It's said that Hu Yongqiang viewed him very highly after seeing his abilities today, and when Sun Miao and the rest came back with the things they had distributed, Chen Ming was left behind by Hu Yongqiang.

After packing our things, we each boiled water and washed our faces and feet briefly before returning to the second floor to rest. There was no electricity, and once the sky was dark, it was completely pitch-black.

There was no helping it, I couldn't sleep at all at this early hour. Xiaoyu could sleep soundly while lying in bed for ten minutes. In order to not disturb her, I decided to stay in the courtyard.

After sitting for about 10 minutes, I suddenly heard light footsteps coming from the living room. I turned around and saw Chou Chou walking towards me with a cup of water.

"Still not sleeping?" It was as if he did not expect me to be outside and suddenly let out a sound that startled Chou Chou.

Seeing that it was me, Chou Chou stroked his chest and replied, "Nope, I can't sleep. "It's still not even eight yet."

I leaned back in my chair and sighed. "But it's already as quiet as the night."

Chou Chou paused for a while, and then softly spoke after a while: "Silence, do you think it's good for us to be here?"

I was stunned. "Why are you suddenly asking this?"

"Nothing, I just suddenly wanted to hear what you had in mind."

After thinking for a while, he said, "I'm not sure what to say. After all, this is different from the past, as long as everyone lives on, everything will be fine."

Actually, what I was saying most of the time was to comfort Chou Chou, he went out today because he was terrified, he came back to tell us what had happened outside, and his voice was still trembling. If Sun Miao and Chen Ming wasn't closer to him, he would have been pushed down by the undead.

"It's going to be …" Chou Chou laughed bitterly: "You want to just go with your life?"

Just as I was about to continue speaking to Chou Chou, Chen Ming walked in from afar.

The moonlight at night was very bright. Taking advantage of the snow on the ground that hadn't melted completely, I was able to recognize him at a glance.

When we entered the courtyard and saw Chou Chou and I, Chen Ming was stunned for a moment, then asked: "What are you doing here?"

"I can't sleep, so I just came out to admire the moon." Chou Chou spoke very quickly, probably because he didn't want Chen Ming and I to speak up from the conversation he just had.

After staring at the two of us for a while, Chen Ming turned and walked into the house.

After chatting for a bit longer with Chou Chou, I returned back to my room.

"You're not here just to wait for him to come back, are you?" Chou Chou's muttering made me stumble as I walked up the stairs.

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The next day, it was still a busy day. In addition to washing clothes, our workload had even increased to the point of cleaning the houses of those who went out.

With so many of them, it was likely that they had never lived in such a good house before. At this time, they were not flattering about the bustling concept of having too many people. Instead, each of them lived on the opposite side.

While I was bent over and dragging one of the people down from the sky, Hu Yongqiang and the rest's ancestors were also dug out by me.

While I was cursing under my breath, light laughter suddenly came from behind me.

I froze on the spot almost immediately, and it took a long time before I dared to look back … Pan Zi held onto a plastic bag in his hand. He did not know what was inside.

"You … "When did you come back …"

Pan Zi thought for a while. "When you scolded Hu Yongqiang for having a son without a butt."

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After Pan Zi looked at me twice, he smiled and walked back into the house, and made a few glaring footprints on the floor that I had dragged clean. He stopped only when he was in front of me: "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone."

I twitched my stiff mouth. "Thank you …"

"You're welcome. Alright, there's no need to clean this place. You can sit down and rest for a while."

I didn't dare believe what I had just heard. It was only when Pan Zi repeated it a second time that I finally threw off the mop in my hand and laid myself down on the sofa.

Pan Zi held onto his face with one hand and asked me: "What's your name?"

Hearing this, I originally wanted to sit up and reply, but seeing that his expression didn't seem to mind, I decided to not move at all. "He Mo."

"River river?"

"What's the point of it?"

"Your parents really know how to name things."

Ye Zichen waved his hand. "Your name is not bad too. I remember that there was someone with the same name as you in the tomb robbing notes, right?"

After another two laughs, Pan Zi nodded and replied with a smile on his face: "Right … I know of that person as well.

"That's a novel. It's not up to the author to decide whether he's dead or not." "Don't worry, you'll definitely live for a hundred years."

Just like this, we chatted all the way till lunch. Pan Zi and the others were going to eat with Hu Yongqiang and the others, because with us laborers making the food, we couldn't possibly deliver it to them door-to-door.

When they got home, Xiaoyu, Qiqi, and the others had already gone back home. Each of them was like eggplants that had been frozen in ice. After eating, they went back to their own beds.

My dad's schedule is relatively easy. All he has to do is to clean up the trash and load it onto a trishaw in front of the gate every day, then dump it a little further away.

The days passed by peacefully and tirelessly. Aside from the occasional disputes between people due to some trivial matters, everything else in the courtyard went on very well.

Hu Yongqiang and the rest's ruling position had been completely consolidated.

Although everyone was unhappy, facing the safe living environment that he gave them, they could only endure all of their unhappiness to the bottom of their stomachs.

Those who joined gradually became more proficient at it as well. Finally, they decided to not only explore the surrounding area, but also look further into the heart of the city.

During this period, Chen Ming had been strongly roped in by Hu Yongqiang, to the point where no matter what decision he made, they would consult his opinion.

Once again, when almost all of them were out of the house, I had an indescribable feeling of depression as I watched their taillights recede into the distance.

It was only when Zhang Ping called for me to hang clothes that I snapped out of my trance.

Working every day was actually very boring, so chatting became our only way of entertainment, hands working, not delaying the conversation on the mouth.

With so many people around, it was rather interesting to hear him talk and talk.

Now I can finally understand why so many people like to gossip about other people's affairs. When life is dull, the new things I hear are the only source of blood for memory.

We chose to dry the clothes on the top floor of an unoccupied villa in the back.

With a few wires and ropes, the wind and sun are strong enough, and sometimes we'll even be lazy here when we hang up our clothes.

Hu Yongqiang arranged for an elder aunt to be our 'team leader'. We called her Aunt Long, but that aunt was actually Long Zi's real mother.

He was extremely vicious, seizing the opportunity to make a person's soul come out of his body and teach them a lesson.

Amongst the people who work together with us, I really like a girl named Ma Wen. He was around my age and his voice was soft, but he was extremely heroic.

After hanging up our clothes, Xiao Yu, Ma Wen and I leaned on the roof and looked at the world outside the wall from afar.

The road was filled with walking corpses. After looking for a while, Ma Wen sighed and said: "If only there really was a Moonlight Treasure Box in this world, then how nice would it be, let's go back to the previous world, and inform the relevant authorities to prepare for the spread of the virus early on. No matter what, they will not let the world become such a terrible place."

Xiao Yu laughed out, "That's easy to say. The relevant departments have to deal with you. They will probably treat you like a lunatic and send you to a doctor."

Ma Wen also seemed to think that what he had said was laughable, he laughed to himself and said, "I clearly knew that it is impossible to return, so I decided to make a guess."

During the conversation between Xiao Yu and Ma Wen, I suddenly noticed that the undeads seemed to be nearing the wall in front of us.

It was called a wall but it was actually an iron frame. It was about two meters high. There were shrubs growing on the outside which could be used as a barrier to the undeads as the shrubs had very hard poles.

However today the undeads seemed to be attracted by something and squeezed into the bushes.

The undeads squeezed to the wall of the shelf after staring for a while.

Just when my heart was filled with hope that they would be blocked by the iron wall. However, they pushed that shelf away!

My mind tightened, and I grabbed onto Xiaoyu's arm, "A zombie is coming in! There are undeads in the courtyard! "

Just as I was talking, a few more undeads wandered out from the other end of the tarmac. They were attracted by the undeads who entered the yard, and they also crossed the road and approached us.

This time, almost all of the people in the yard had gone out, leaving only 90% of the people in the courtyard who had not fought against the undead were old, weak, and handicapped.

The three of us scrambled downstairs, shouting loudly along the way: "The undead are coming into the yard!" The undead entered the yard! Everyone, quickly hide! "Hide!"

At the start, some people thought that we were joking, but when they saw the few crooked walking corpses coming out from the outermost villa, they immediately screamed louder than us.