After hearing Hu Xiaodong's explanation, the woman looked at him and then looked at Xu Renjie.
Lao Xu smiled bitterly and nodded, looking guilty.
"The manor is relatively large. I will take you to get familiar with it later." As she spoke, the woman knelt down, took out the chain lock, and locked the cover tightly.
Then he stood up and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to the bathroom first."
Wuzi leads the way.
When the woman opened her mouth, Hu Xiaodong and Xu Renjie couldn't say anything, so they could only follow her one after another.
"Haha, Auntie, your place is really big!" Hu Xiaodong said familiarly.
The woman nodded: "Yes. So before you get familiar with it, you'd better not run around, otherwise you will really get lost."
This was so funny that he got lost in the room. Hu Xiaodong would never have believed it in the past, but now, he definitely believed it.
"Haha, what I'm saying is that if we hadn't met you just now, we would have been really confused." Hu Xiaodong made timely excuses for his reckless behavior.
"Next time if you need anything, you can come to me directly, or ask the manor guards, and they will take you there."
"Oh, okay, okay." Hu Xiaodong nodded in response and tried his best to play the role of an honest person.
Forget it, he continued: "This is the first time I have seen a basement room. You are so brave. My brother and I still felt uncomfortable when we first went down."
The woman smiled and shook her head: "It's nothing. Don't do anything bad. Don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door. That's the supply storage room. I just went down to find daily necessities for you."
"Oh, I'm really troubling you."
"Yes, but the special toiletries are no longer in stock. I'll see how I can restock them for you later." The old woman let out a distressed breath.
Seeing this, Hu Xiaodong immediately shied away: "No, no, Auntie, you don't need to go to so much trouble. I'm very grateful that I can give you a place to stay and a hot meal to eat. We don't care about the rest."
"How can that be done?" the woman said solemnly: "Since we have come to the manor and we accept you, we must naturally arrange everything for you. Otherwise, what is the difference between letting you wander outside?"
Needless to say, the woman's words really warmed people's hearts when they heard them.
If it weren't for Hu Xiaodong, Xu Renjie would have his own team and his own home. At this moment, the woman's words would really make them cry.
This is no exaggeration. After all, it is very difficult to have a reliable and willing group of survivors in the apocalypse.
In order not to get too entangled in such a "touching" issue, Hu Xiaodong changed the subject: "Auntie, seeing that you are so devoted and familiar with this manor, you should be the owner of the manor, right?"
After hearing this, the woman stopped and waited for a few seconds before she slowly said, "I am the nanny here."
"Oh, then the "head of the family" is the master?" Hu Xiaodong continued to delve deeper.
"No, the owner of this manor was infected and died not long after the outbreak. Later, the "butler" led us to build this manor, and completed a little bit of construction to absorb outside survivors."
Something was beyond Hu Xiaodong's expectation. He didn't expect that the head of the family turned out to be the manor's butler.
But it makes sense if you think about it carefully. Otherwise, this ghost place is located in a remote place and it would be difficult for ordinary people to find it.
"It's not easy for you, it has developed like this." Lao Xu was sighing and interrupted at the right time: "I see you have a lot of containers outside, and it must have taken a lot of effort to transport those things back."
Hearing this, the woman unexpectedly waved her hands: "Well, it's really nothing. To be honest with you, the owner of this village has a rich background. He knows many people from above. At that time, the apocalypse had not yet begun, and the place was already being renovated. . By the time we came over, these containers and so on were all finished."
Sure enough, it was exactly what he had inferred. When Lao Xu saw these containers before, he concluded that the manor director had probably received some news in advance.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for ordinary people alone to obtain such a number of containers after the end of the world.
Not to mention anything else, even Lao Xu and the others were almost wiped out just to get a truck.
"No wonder, alas, these days it's the people who have the reputation, we ordinary people." Hu Xiaodong sighed softly, feeling a lot of emotion.
They say everyone is equal, but in fact, how can everyone be equal?
Throughout the entire history of human evolution, there has been no equality.
Not to mention the entire human race, no species on the planet has ever been equal.
But now I feel that these are meaningless. Regardless of rights and status, these are earned by people's ability.
While chatting like this, the woman took Hu Xiaodong and others to the bathroom.
"We're here, right here." The woman gestured, pointing to the door in front of her.
"Thank you, I'm sorry to trouble you." Hu Xiaodong was grateful.
"Don't be so polite. Just treat it as your own home here. Okay, I still have something to do. After you finish solving it, just go back to the house and rest. When I have time later, I will help you get familiar with the manor."
After saying that, the woman turned and left.
At this time, Xu Renjie suddenly called out to the woman to stop: "Wait a moment."
Hearing this, the woman turned her head and said, "Is there anything else?"
Xu Renjie's eyes fell on the woman's trousers, and then he pointed at them: "Those are your trousers."
Following the direction of Lao Xu's finger, the woman looked down sideways.
But the back of the trouser legs was stained red.
"Oh, maybe I accidentally bumped into the pool for bleeding pigs when I went down." The woman explained casually.
Hu and Xu looked at each other.
"Bleeding pigs?" Hu Xiaodong asked.
"The original owner of the manor knew that something was going on, so he not only purchased food supplies and vegetable garden seeds in the manor, but also raised chickens, ducks, pigs, fish and other live poultry. They were originally free-range outdoors, but because of the chirping of these animals, the manor was destroyed. Surrounded by zombies. The owner of the farm was also bitten and infected that time. Since then, we have gathered the animals in the basement. This not only prevents them from attracting zombies, but also makes it easier to store them at low temperatures in the cellar after slaughter."
The woman slowly said, "Hu Xiaodong," and Xu Renjie couldn't help but sigh again.
"Okay, don't you need to go to the toilet? Go quickly. I'm leaving."
"Oh, you're busy, you're busy." Hu Xiaodong, who had come back to his senses, quickly said goodbye.
After the woman left, Xu Renjie looked at the direction in which the woman left, his brows slowly frowning.
"Old Xu, Old Xu!" Hu Xiaodong called out as he poked Xu Renjie in a daze.
"Ah?" Mu Mu came to his senses, and Lao Xu met Hu Xiaodong's eyes: "What's the matter?"
Hu Xiaodong smiled helplessly: "I'm fine. I saw you were stunned. What's wrong?"
Lao Xu shook his head: "It's okay. This is not the place to talk. Let's go to the toilet first."
Shrugging his shoulders, since Xu Renjie said so, Hu Xiaodong didn't hesitate to ask more questions. He immediately opened the toilet door and walked in.
