Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

Liao Yunyun took off her coat as soon as she entered the house. The temperature in her room was still warm, so there was no need to wear too thick clothes for the time being.

Gu Tongwan sat on the windowsill, took off his gloves and reached out to warm himself by the fire.

"Let me see what you brought me." Liao Yunyun couldn't wait to see what was in the box. As soon as she opened it, she was shocked by the full amount of food. She turned her head and couldn't help but complained: "Hey, sister, you didn't bring me things from your store, did you?"

"I did want to, but there were too many things to organize, so I just took some that were easy to store." Gu Tongwan poured himself a cup of hot water, and seeing a can of brown sugar in the fireplace, he added some in. He had been feeling a little uncomfortable in his lower abdomen recently, and he calculated that it was almost time for his menstrual period this month.

"What's wrong? Are you having your period?" Liao Yunyun guessed it was almost right after seeing her holding the brown sugar.

"Well, come in a day or two." Gu Tongwan replied casually.

Liao Yunyun nodded and said, "Then take care of yourself. I remember you felt pain when you came before. Go back tomorrow morning. I'm worried about you driving back so late."

"I see. I was planning to go back tomorrow morning. But do you have enough quilts here?" Gu Tongwan asked with a deliberate smile.

Liao Yunyun sneered and said unhappily, "Don't worry, we have everything we need." After that, she took out the things in the box and saw a lot of charcoal underneath. She asked, "I still have some charcoal at home. Why don't you keep it for yourself? Didn't I tell you last time not to send me charcoal? Charcoal is so expensive now."

Gu Tongwan glanced at the snakeskin bag in the corner of the kitchen. It was the bag that Liao Yunyun used to store charcoal. It looked like it was only half a bag, probably no more than 20 to 30 kilograms.

"Your charcoal will only last a few days. What are you going to do then?"

"We'll talk about it when the time comes. I've joined a lot of communication groups. I'll see if I have anything at home that I can exchange with the other party," Liao Yunyun sighed. In fact, she had no idea and could only take it one step at a time.

"So I brought some for you. I just bought them. There's a black shop over there in the farmer's market. There are some sources of goods there, and I tried to get some here." Gu Tongwan changed his posture and lay comfortably on the bed.

Liao Yunyun quickly removed the cabbage, potatoes, sweet potatoes and other vegetables on the top, and then she saw that there was indeed a large bag of charcoal at the bottom, weighing at least forty or fifty kilograms.

No wonder the two of them were so exhausted moving the box just now. The things in the box weigh at least more than 100 kilograms.

"So much charcoal? How much did it cost?" Liao Yunyun looked up, her eyes filled with astonishment. Gu Tongwan had sent her charcoal once before when the price of charcoal went up, and he sent her charcoal again this time. Liao Yunyun knew that the current market for charcoal was already out of stock. One reason was that the base had already monopolized the supply of charcoal, and charcoal was controlled by capitalists and dignitaries. After the snowstorm stopped, the supply of charcoal would resume, but the price would probably be even higher.

"Anyway, don't worry so much. Since I can come to you, it means I have a way to get it for you. If you really care about the money, I won't give it to you."

The two bickered for a while, and Gu Tongwan happened to be hungry, so he took out the last pack of instant noodles from his backpack and planned to make some noodles.

"Do you want to eat instant noodles?" Liao Yunyun suddenly leaned in and asked in a low voice.

Gu Tongwan saw Liao Yunyun suddenly stand up and close the half-open window, and then said, "If you want to eat, you have to move faster."

"Why are you so secretive?"

Liao Yunyun sighed before she started to complain, "You don't know that a weird family moved in next door. They keep asking about other people's private affairs, and what they care about most every day is what other people eat and use, just like they are investigating. Once they know that someone has a private kitchen or eats meat, they would like to squat at their door to borrow things. Today they would borrow half a pound of flour, tomorrow they would borrow a pound of rice, and the day after tomorrow they would borrow two pounds of charcoal. If someone is not willing to lend, they would curse in the corridor like a loud speaker, and even go to other floors to spread rumors that other people's homes are rich and have a lot of supplies, and they also encourage others to borrow things from that family. They are like a bandit's den, and the whole family has the virtue of mean people."

It turned out that Liao Yunyun's next-door neighbor had a new tenant some time ago. The previous tenant moved to another place because he was unable to pay the quarterly rent. This time, she originally thought that the new tenant had nothing to do with her, but the first day this family moved in shattered Liao Yunyun's three views.

This family of five consists of a young couple in their thirties, a child, an old man, and a young girl, who is said to be the wife's sister. The five of them live in a 30-square-meter room. On the first day they arrived, they started to make noises in the room, as if they had redesigned the layout of the room. The noise finally died down at night, and then someone came knocking on her door. Outside the door was a little boy about six or seven years old, accompanied by an old woman in her sixties. The old woman was smiling and holding an apple in her hand. After asking about Liao Yunyun's well-being, she explained her purpose, saying that the family had moved in a hurry and had not prepared many things. In addition, they were not familiar with the nearby supply and marketing cooperative, so they borrowed half a pound of flour from Liao Yunyun.

Originally, Liao Yunyun had no intention of lending it, but she thought about the neighbors nearby, who she would see every day in the future. In addition, the previous experience of the massacre in the community had made Liao Yunyun feel sad that so few neighbors survived, so she gave the other party half a pound of flour without thinking too much.

But unexpectedly, this was just the beginning. After lending out half a pound of flour, the other party began to lend out all kinds of seasonings, scissors and even dishcloths. The other party would ask about anything that could be borrowed. In the end, if Liao Yunyun refused to lend, the other party would start harassing her, crying in the corridor or cursing at the door, and even banging on the door. Later, the community management staff came to warn her, and after Liao Yunyun and other neighbors told the police that they would call the police, the family restrained themselves a little. But every time Liao Yunyun went out to take out the garbage and met that family, they would deliberately say some weird words.

This family's biggest interest is to pry into other people's privacy. They are the weirdest of the weird, so Liao Yunyun is so cautious.

"Didn't the community property management receive the complaint but fail to handle it?" Gu Tongwan asked.

Because of the low temperature, there was no way to make instant noodles for the time being, so we could only set up a layer of wire mesh on Huolu Mountain and put a small boiler on it to cook the noodles.

"We can't handle it. The whole community is in a semi-paralyzed state. Our community is relatively good, but the community two streets away is said to be sealed off. It seems that they are afraid that people will take advantage of the chaos to break into the community and commit crimes. You don't know, but there are many home robberies in the inner circle, and the perpetrators are all from the same community. It's all caused by lack of supplies. But think about it, with such a big snowstorm, it would be difficult to rescue even if we want to. At least when it's extremely hot, we can use helicopters to drop supplies, and when it's acid raining, everyone can endure it. But if there is no charcoal in the extreme cold, people will freeze to death in the house."

Because she had charcoal, Liao Yunyun didn't add it piece by piece this time. Instead, she put five or six pieces in a row and sighed, "Anyway, I don't know if I can have a good New Year this year."

"Is there no news from the Weather Bureau? When will the snowstorm end?"

The water in the boiler boiled with a "gurgling" sound, and the room was extremely quiet, forming a sharp contrast with the biting wind outside.

"The weather is a mess now, and the Meteorological Bureau can't predict what the weather will be like next. However, there are signs of warming up in the north, but it's only from minus 70 degrees to minus 60 degrees. And I heard that there is a large-scale animal migration over there, and I don't know if it will affect us." Liao Yunyun was squatting on the ground fiddling with the charcoal in the stove. Just as she was about to continue speaking, her face suddenly changed. She stood up and walked to the door, then heard a burst of footsteps.

Just as Gu Tongwan was about to ask what was going on, he heard a knock on the door.

"Ms. Liao, are you cooking at home?" The voice outside was obviously from an older woman, and there was a hint of indescribable subtlety in it.

Liao Yunyun's mouth twitched, and disgust filled her eyes, "You're wrong, it's almost ten o'clock, who has time to eat?" No matter who heard it, this tone sounded like an order to leave, and Liao Yunyun's tone was a bit harsh. A normal person would have left long ago, but the person outside the door turned a deaf ear to it.

"But why do I smell something like instant noodles? It's coming from your house." The person outside the door said as he leaned forward slightly toward the window.

Although Gu Tongwan's room is a single room, there is a window next to the door facing the corridor. However, most people will install curtains and close the window for fear of personal privacy leakage.

Liao Yunyun not only installed curtains, but also replaced the window glass with frosted ones when she simply renovated the house. This way, even if you forget to draw the curtains, the room will not be exposed, but when someone passes by outside, they can see their shadow from the house.

So when she saw the black shadow appearing outside the window, Liao Yunyun exploded all of a sudden and yelled, "Your family is fucking sick. You keep coming to my house to look for helmets. Is everyone in your family dead or did you have a bad reincarnation in your previous life? If you come to my house again, I will call the police immediately!"

Gu Tongwan immediately came to Liao Yunyun's side, and saw out of the corner of his eye that his friend's shoulders were trembling slightly, and it seemed that he was very angry.

"I just passed by your house and looked at it a few more times. Is it necessary to be so angry? And you have the nerve to say that when you eat alone? You, a little girl, live by yourself and enjoy such a good life every day, and you don't care about our family with elderly and children at all. You are really born with a black heart!" There was still cursing outside. Maybe it was because the sound insulation here was too poor. The old woman's cursing outside once spread throughout the corridor.

The girl in the couple in the next room couldn't help but frown: "This crazy woman is cursing again. Last time she came to borrow a spatula from me, but we only had one at home, so of course I didn't lend it to her. As a result, she deliberately threw garbage outside our house the next day. Do you think this kind of person is immoral?"

The girl wrapped herself tightly in the quilt and turned over. The man sat on the sofa. He had a cigarette in his mouth, but he lost the mood to smoke when he heard the cursing outside. He smiled bitterly and said, "You reminded me. Last time, I smoked half a cigarette at the stairs. The man of that house was like an old cat that smelled fishy. He chased the whole corridor and knocked on every door to ask if they had cigarettes. He also said he could bring something in exchange. I don't know what this man's nose is made of."

"Then you'd better stop smoking. Last time I fried an egg at home, his wife came and knocked on the door to confirm, as if the eggs were hers." The girl suddenly sat up and said seriously.

"When will this day end? Do you think they are perverts? Why do they stare at other people's families all day long? I heard that the man has a job and his income is not low. Why does he always think of taking advantage of others?" The man seemed a little depressed because he couldn't smoke, so he simply crossed his legs and stared at the door.

The girl sneered disapprovingly: "So what if she has a job? Look at that family, old and young, it's not easy for one person to support four people, especially that sister-in-law doesn't have a job yet, she eats and drinks for free at home all day long. Last time I saw her shopping with his wife downstairs to buy clothes. The way they spend money, no matter how much salary they earn in a month, it's not enough to spend them."

"The girl in Room 504 is pretty miserable too. She's always been targeted by that family. It seems like they only like to make things difficult for her. They have to care about her eating, drinking, defecating and urinating." The man had no cigarettes to smoke, so he simply picked up a piece of the hard candy that the woman on the table had bought as a snack and ate it. The candy tasted so sour that it made his teeth ache.

The girl breathed a sigh of relief and felt quite sympathetic towards them, but as long as it didn't happen to her, everything was fine.

Liao Yunyun was so angry that she was about to open the door and rush in to argue with the other party, but was pulled back by Gu Tongwan.

"I'll go out and take a look. You help me watch the instant noodles." Gu Tongwan wanted to know what kind of weird thing it was.

"You'd better be careful. That family is not a good group of people. Be careful not to get blackmailed." Liao Yunyun reminded with some concern.

Who knew that Gu Tongwan would joke with her instead: "What a coincidence, I'm not a good man or a believer, I want to see who is more evil."

The old woman outside the door cursed enough and couldn't help but sniff the faint smell of instant noodles in the air. She wanted to move closer to the crack in the door to smell it carefully. After all, her family only ate compressed biscuit porridge with pickled vegetables tonight, and they had been eating it for a week. Ever since her son's unit took a long holiday due to the bad weather, his salary has been only a few hundred yuan a month, and their family didn't stock up on supplies before the extreme cold, resulting in the family almost having no money to eat, so they can only find ways to "borrow" from their neighbors.

Just when the old woman was about to lower her head and get closer to the crack in the door, the person inside opened the door and she almost fell in.