Chapter 76 Everything Will Be Alright
Not long after, the aroma of rice wafted out of the pot.
The survivors inside the house lined up in an orderly fashion, starting with the children, right in front of Zhang Hongmei and the rice cooker.
Zhao Lei and Bai Tang have already told Zhang Hongmei and the others that they don't need to cook for them.
Watching the survivors line up in an orderly fashion, Bai Tang and Gu Yanxu said:
"It seems they are at least superficially united, and at least they haven't started fighting over a bite to eat."
Gu Yanxu: "Yes, they have all had a tough time. As the saying goes, women hold up half the sky at home."
I think it should be said that women hold up most of the sky in the family.
Bai Tang: "Don't underestimate women."
While the two were talking, Zhang Hongmei and her group had already finished getting their food.
They each took their own bowls and gathered around the stove to eat.
Bai Tang and the others naturally took out compressed biscuits and hot water from their bags, preparing to have lunch.
Zhao Lei and his group continued to eat coarse grain buns and drink water.
At this point, Bai Tang stopped taking out any more canned food. After all, they were outside, and the more good stuff they took out, the more likely they would be coveted.
So everyone ate compressed biscuits and drank hot water.
While everyone was eating, Zhao Lei leaned over to Zhang Hongmei and the others and said:
"We'll rest here for the night and head to the base tomorrow morning."
There's a risk of attacks from mutated animals here, so let's set off as soon as possible to avoid any unforeseen complications.
Zhang Hongmei said, "Okay, we don't have much left anyway. What are we going to do with that half of the mutated wild boar? We don't have a vehicle to take it with us."
At this moment, Bai Tang said from the side, "We can cut that half of the wild boar in half and find something to wrap it up."
We can just put it in our off-road vehicle; this half of a mutant pig doesn't look small.
This way you can earn a lot of contribution points at the base, which you can then choose to rent or buy a house.
Zhang Hongmei exclaimed excitedly, "Really?"
Bai Tang: "Of course it's true. Why would I lie to you? You can ask Captain Zhao if you don't believe me."
Zhao Lei quickly said, "What Captain Bai said is true, and our base has been improved a lot now."
You can choose to rent or buy a house. How many people are there here right now?
Zhang Hongmei said with a dejected look, "We used to have more than 100 people, but now there are only 20 left. Among them, there are six elderly people, seven children, and seven women like me."
I'm currently in charge temporarily. My husband was originally in charge, but he was also attacked by a flock of mutated birds and died from the infection.
So the survivors temporarily put me in charge of these people, and I can't betray their trust."
Bai Tang saw that everyone around her was looking at Zhang Hongmei with trusting eyes, and she knew that their small base was relatively friendly.
Unlike the small base she encountered in her previous life, where everyone was a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Bai Tang said to Zhang Hongmei, "Once you get to the base, as long as you work hard, everything will be alright, everything will be alright."
Zhang Hongmei nodded emphatically: "Yes, everything will be alright."
In the afternoon, Bai Tang and his group, along with Zhao Lei and his team, were also busy.
Instead, they helped Zhang Hongmei and the others cut up and pack the half of the mutated wild boar.
Bai Tang asked Bai Jiyang, Lin Feng, Lin Fan, and Lin Zhou to help with the division.
She and Gu Yanxu went to the car to get a large, non-existent piece of plastic sheeting.
After getting into the car, Bai Tang took out a piece of plastic sheeting that she had prepared beforehand from her spatial storage.
Bai Tang didn't know what she was going to do with the plastic sheeting she hoarded when she was stockpiling things before; anyway, she wanted to hoard everything she saw back then.
This is just what I need.
Bai Tang and Gu Yanxu arrived quickly with plastic sheeting.
Zhao Lei and his team quickly finished butchering the half-mutated wild boar.
Because the weather outside was extremely cold, the blood on the mutated wild boar's body did not flow out; it was frozen solid.
After wrapping the wild boar meat in plastic sheeting, they worked together to lift the half-mutated wild boar into the trunk of Bai Tang's off-road vehicle.
The SUV's trunk was large enough to barely fit half a mutated wild boar's meat.
Then they packed up some of Zhang Hongmei's belongings and put them in the trunk of Zhao Lei's team's car.
Zhang Hongmei and the others only left behind bedding and a stove for the night, which they could pack up quickly when they left the next morning.
Zhao Lei and Bai Tang also decided which of the 20 people would ride back to the base in which car.
Bai Tang and his team took 5 of their 20 people in their two cars, while the remaining 15 squeezed into Zhao Lei's team's car.
Fortunately, Zhao Lei's team had a lot of people and vehicles; otherwise, they might not have been able to take these 20 people with them.
Although Bai Tang was very interested in the nearby mutated wild boar herd, she decided to give up for the sake of everyone's safety.
During their nighttime rest, Zhao Lei's team and Bai Tang's team took turns keeping watch to prevent attacks from mutated animals.
Fortunately, nothing happened that night.
The next morning, Zhao Lei provided Zhang Hongmei and the others with some compressed biscuits.
Let them have breakfast, then pack their things and prepare to head to the base.
They didn't plan to stop any further along the way, because if they stopped with so many people, it would be difficult to find a place for them to rest at night.
So Zhao Lei decided to drive straight back to the base, stopping only for lunch at most.
Bai Tang and the others ate something simple, and Zhang Hongmei and the others ate quickly and cleaned up their things just as quickly.
It was as if they didn't want to stay here for even a moment longer.
This small base is filled with sorrow for them, as their family members are buried here.
They quickly packed their things and got into the car to head back.
No one bothered them on the way; Bai Tang and his companion had five children in their two cars.
Two little girls and three little boys, who looked to be about five or six years old, sat obediently in their seats.
Bai Tang had two little girls in the car.
Bai Tang felt a pang of sympathy seeing how well-behaved they were, so she gave each of them two candies.
The two little girls in Bai Tang's car were flattered by Bai Tang's gesture.
The two little girls shyly extended their small, dark hands, and then quickly said, "Thank you, sister, thank you, sister."
The two little girls unwrapped the candy, ate only one candy, and hid the other one in their pocket.
A little girl looked at Bai Tang and said, "I want to take this one back for my mom to eat."
Another little girl said, "I'm going to take it back for my grandma to eat."
Seeing how sensible they were at such a young age, Bai Tang felt a pang of sadness.
If it weren't for the apocalypse, they would be at the most carefree age.
Then Bai Tang gave each of them two candies and said, "You're so good. I'm secretly giving you two candies. Eat them yourselves, okay? Don't tell anyone, or someone else will take them away."