The night in August was humid, and when the cool wind blew, Xu Jing couldn't help shivering a little, and wrapped his thin clothes tightly.

He went out of the house and walked westward.The production base in Renyuan Living Area is on the east side, and the base is equipped with anti-W-ray devices to ensure the safety of the food produced.

That is the most important thing in the entire living area. There are people on duty all year round. If someone is caught stealing food, it is not trivial to smuggle it to the police station. Most of them will be beaten up.In such a time of lack of medical treatment and medicine, it is common to be injured, become disabled or even die.

The purpose of Xu Jing's trip is not to steal food, he intends to find some food in the wild.

For decades, human beings have shrunk into large and small safe areas, wild plants have grown wildly, and the number of animals is also quite large. Without W-rays, human beings will never be short of food.

After Jiang Gui walked out of the living area, he walked along the path to the field.

These days, when people come out, they mainly go to the mountains to cut firewood, and rarely go to the wild.Most of the area that was originally fertile land is covered with lush weeds and shrubs, and ordinary people can't get their feet there.

Before walking into the field, Xu Jing stroked a few leaves of mugwort, crushed them with stones, and applied them on bare legs, arms, neck and face to prevent mosquito bites.

"Watch, turn on the second-level alert mode, and warn dangerous objects within three meters." There are many snakes and insects in the wild, and being bitten is not fun.

"Okay, Level [-] alert mode is on."

Xu Jing pressed down with his knees, broke off a twig, used it as a walking stick, and walked slowly into the wilderness.

Before the meteorite hit the earth, this area had been planted for 3000 years, and every inch of fertile fields had been domesticated for a long time. Even if it is now occupied by weeds, there are many edible vegetables and fruits growing in it.

Xu Jing walked and searched for about two hours. He found two handfuls of leeks, three pumpkins, four green onions, five taro, thirteen eggplants and 26 peppers. Scanned by Watchman, the W-ray content Only one green onion, one pumpkin, three eggplants, three yams and eight peppers are below the safe value, and other vegetables cannot be eaten.

The proportion of edible fruits and vegetables collected in the wild is too small. If there is no accurate and cheap measurement method, it is too dangerous to eat directly.Decades have passed since the catastrophe of the meteorite hitting the earth, and human beings have rarely obtained food directly from the wild.

The three vegetables are not big in size, especially the pumpkin, which is only the size of an adult man's fist. When Xu Jing pinched it, the skin was hard and thick, and his nails couldn't get in at all.

Xu Jing pulled up his clothes, pocketed some vegetables, and rushed to the river with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

The river is close to the water source, which is convenient for cleaning food and fire fighting.Thinking of the mysterious man who saved him, Xu Jing didn't know if he could find him again when he went to the river this time.

After reaching the river, Xu Jing simply cleaned the ingredients, found a place with less thatch and cleared it away, clearing out a place where a fire could be made.He turned around and went to find a lot of dead branches and leaves, and brought back a whole banana leaf.

Just now he saw a bamboo forest along the river, but unfortunately the bamboo forest has not been taken care of for many years, it grows thick and dense, and there are countless snakes and insects hidden in it, as soon as Xu Whale approached, the Watchman issued a warning sound, so he had to give up digging bamboo shoots idea.

In fact, bamboo shoots were not easy to dig, without tools, and with his size of just over one meter, he couldn't get bamboo shoots to eat at all.

After starting a fire, Xu Jing put the pumpkin and taro into the fire to simmer, and turned them over from time to time so as not to burn them too much.

The fires beeped softly in the quiet of the night, and the Watchman suddenly sounded the alarm.

Xu Jing stood up vigilantly, thinking that someone was coming, and was about to put out the fire, when he turned his head and swept, a person appeared quietly on the surface of the water.

"It's you." Xu Jing raised his brows and eyes. Not only was he not frightened, but he was quite happy in his heart. He invited, "Good evening, do you want to come over for something to eat?"

The man watched Xu Jing for a while, then slowly walked over from the water.

Xu Jing noticed that when he walked, he had no effect on the water flow at all. Not only did he not hinder the water flow, but the calm river surface did not even have the slightest ripple.

This man just doesn't look like a human being, he feels insubstantial, not like a spirit, but like a ghost.

Xu Jing quickly realized that something was wrong. If the man was really a ghost, why was the man holding him and lifting him out of the water that day?

The man came wading through the water, his clothes were still dry, and there was no trace of water when he went ashore.He is tall, and Xu Jing, who is only over one meter old, cannot judge his exact height. It should be more than 1.8 meters or even 1.9 meters by visual inspection.

"Sit?" Xu Jing moved a stone for the man, and the man sat on the small stone silently.

The firelight reflected his handsome face, Xu Jing looked at him, and asked: "My name is Xu Jing, promise Xu, whale's whale, big brother, what's your name?"

The man didn't answer.

Xu Jing sat face to face with him quietly, and the sound of insects sounded around him. After waiting for a while, Xu Jing thought that the man would not answer, but he suddenly said, "Qi Yunzhi."

His voice is nice, not too deep and not too clear, just right, with a bit of masculine strength but without the vicissitudes of a man.

Xu Jing was taken aback, this was the first time he heard a man speak.

The two were silent for a while, Xu Jing carefully asked: "Brother Qi, do you live in the river?"

This time Qi Yunzhi didn't answer again, Xu Jing didn't mind either, the two sat quietly in front of the fire and waited for the food to be cooked.

When Qi Yunzhi arrived, Xu Jing also put the remaining three eggplants on it to roast. The three eggplants were not very big, but they were the first to be roasted when they were placed last.

Xu Jing used a stick to pull the eggplant onto the banana leaf, broke off four new sticks, washed them in the river water, cut the eggplant, crushed shallots and salt and sprinkled it on.The eggplant is still steaming, and when the salt and chopped green onions are sprinkled on it, it immediately stimulates a burst of aroma.

He was already hungry, smelling the scent, his stomach growled.

Ignoring his stomach, Xu Jing put one of the sliced ​​eggplants on a thickly folded banana leaf and handed it to Qi Yunzhi, and then handed him the simple chopsticks, "Brother Qi, try it."

Xu Jing had no hope at first, but he did not expect that he actually touched Qi Yunzhi's cool and slender hands, and Qi Yunzhi also steadily caught the food he handed over, and tentatively picked up the eggplant inside. The sac flesh, stuffed directly into the mouth.

"!" Xu Jing quickly stopped him, "Wait a minute! You have to blow on it before eating, otherwise you will burn your mouth."

After speaking, he picked up a piece himself, and demonstrated a piece of eggplant meat, put it to his mouth and blew it for a while before putting it in his mouth.

Qi Yunzhi did as he did, blowing the cold eggplant meat and delivering it to his mouth, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

After removing the charred eggplant skin, there wasn't much meat.

Xu Jingpao pulled out the almost simmered pumpkin, and ate the pumpkin with Qi Yunzhi.

Xu Whale had a small appetite and only ate a small half.This pumpkin is small in size, but it tastes very good, pink and sweet, very delicious.

After eating pumpkin, eat taro, taro is also good, with a special fragrance, after eating, the whole person will be warmed up.

After eating, Xu Jing washed his hands and face in the river, rinsed his mouth again, and looked back at Qi Yunzhi.Qi Yunzhi was earnestly eating the taro that Xu Jing had peeled for him. He seemed to be hungry too, and he ate very carefully. Most of the food that Xu Jing had found today went into his stomach.

Xu Jing summoned the Watchman and looked at the time on it. It was already past three o'clock in the morning, and it began to dawn around five o'clock, when people in the Renyuan living area would get up to work.If Xu Jing didn't go back, he might be bumped into by someone.

"Brother Qi, I'm going back, see you tomorrow night."

Qi Yunzhi gnawed on the taro, reacted for a while before nodding.

Xu Jing poured water to put out the fire, and hid the dry firewood. Eggplant skins, taro skins, pumpkin skins, etc. were thrown into the water. These things would be eaten by fish or sink to the bottom, so they were not afraid of being discovered.

With the starlight above his head, Xu Jing slowed down for a while before seeing the road again. He waved to Qi Yunzhi, turned around and walked back along the way he came.

It went smoothly when he went back, and no one noticed after he climbed into bed.The Liang family didn't care much about him. Even if they found out, when he was asked, he only had to answer to go to the bathroom, and the Liang family probably wouldn't ask.

Sleeping at night was too short, so Xu Jin woke up in the morning when Guo Ermei called him.

Guo Ermei's black and yellow face stretched out, Xu Jin ignored her, got up slowly, got dressed and went out to have breakfast.

Not long after the sun came out, it was still cool in the morning, and when the wind blew, Xu Jing felt refreshed.For the first time since he was sober, he woke up with a full stomach and a very good mood.

When he came to the table, Liang Guotao and the others were already having breakfast, and Xu Jin's breakfast was served in advance as usual.He didn't care either, he picked up the bowl and ate while listening to the conversation of several people on the table.

Halfway through breakfast at Liang Guotao's house, a man walked from a distance on the path outside and walked directly to Liang's house.

Li Yinxiu narrowed her eyes, "What is Guoqing doing here?" Confused, she greeted the middle-aged man who came from a long way away, "Guoqing, have you eaten? Have some here?"

Liang Guoqing was short and dark, with a row of bones protruding from the bottom of her neck, and her face was full of sorrow.

He didn't come close to Liang Guotao's family. He stood on the grain drying ground, waved his hands away several meters away, and said, "I won't eat, my mother left this morning. There is a funeral at home. Aunt Yinxiu, if you are free, please come and help me. "

"Gone?!" Li Yinxiu's eyes widened, her face full of surprise, "What's going on? Didn't you go well two days ago?"

Liang Guoqing's eyes suddenly turned red, "It's because I'm incompetent. There's not enough food at home, so my mother ate some food from outside. I didn't expect it to be so soon...it won't work."

"Ah, this is really—" Li Yinxiu put down his chopsticks and stood up, "I'll go over now and have a look."

"Thank you, I'll inform the others."

"I'll go." Liang Guotao took over the conversation, put down the bowl and chopsticks and stood up, "Now you have to decide everything, and you can't do it without an adult in your family."

Liang Guoqing wiped his eyes with his hand, Liang Guotao stepped forward and patted Afraid on his shoulder, the two split up, Li Yinxiu followed behind Liang Guoqing with strides.

Xiaobao put down his bowl and stood up, trying to follow Li Yinxiu, but Guo Yingzhen gave him a warning look, and he sat down to eat again.

When the three of them walked away, Guo Yingzhen said, "Hurry up and eat, the second sister Dashi will go to work with me today. Xiaobao and Xiaohe, you stay at home, wait for grandma to come back and follow her, don't run around, and don't eat outside. s things."

"Understood." Xiaobao and the others agreed together.

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