Xiao Qi pulled Gu Tianbai and shook her head firmly at him. Gu Tianbai snorted and sat back on the sofa. The cousin waited for a while, but Zhang Tianzhao did not come out. He stood up impatiently and said, "I won't wait for him. Yunlai, will you come back with me?"
"I won't go!" Lin Yunlai refused simply, "Aunt Shen is not here, so I won't go to your house."
"Okay. I'll go back and ask someone to bring something over. We will stay in Ningcheng for seven or eight days. Do you want to notify your family to pick you up?" asked the cousin.
Lin Yunlai shook his head, "I'll go back with them."
The cousin nodded to Gu Tianbai, opened the door and went out.
Bai Zhi woke up when Zhang Tianzhao closed the door. She huddled in the soft quilt and hugged his pillow. Zhang Tianzhao stared at her blankly for a long time before saying: "Did I wake you up?"
"No." Bai Zhi put down the pillow she was hugging tightly, "I'm sorry, I just wanted to lean on you for a while. I didn't expect to fall asleep on your bed."
"It's okay, I don't mind if you sleep in my bed." Zhang Tianzhao turned to the storage box and put away several boxes, "Give me two more storage boxes."
Bai Zhi jumped out of bed when he turned around, quickly put on the nightgown hanging on the bedside, and took out two storage boxes for him.
Zhang Tianzhao opened the suitcase. Inside the suitcase were stacks of file bags. Each file bag was very thick and seemed to contain a lot of information. He put the bundled documents into the storage box. Bai Zhi helped him.
The corners of some document bags are a little warped and gathering dust. The covers are all in Latin. They look old and the handwriting has become blurry. Wang Chengpeng studied Latin for a long time. At that time, her teacher was teaching her pre-Qin prose. Her knowledge of Latin was limited to the time when they went to the beach. Wang Chengpeng made a heart with sand and wrote two words in the middle. She asked him what it was, and he said it was the Latin name he gave them. He pulled her and stood in the sea, watching the waves come up again and again and flatten the pile of sand, until there was nothing on the beach. Leave.
The first two suitcases had enough documents to fill a storage box. Zhang Tianzhao closed the lid and put the box into his backpack. Bai Zhi shook her head and opened the third suitcase. She was surprised to find that there was a very familiar word on the cover of the top file bag.
"What is this?" Bai Zhi asked.
Zhang Tianzhao's fingers clasped the corner of the document bag, "A little information. It may be useful." He put the document bag, which was much thicker than other document bags, into the storage box, "Have you studied Latin?"
"No. I'm just a little curious." Bai Zhi pointed to the document bag, "Can you open it and take a look?"
"You can't understand." Zhang Tianzhao picked up the document bag, "It's an old thing from many years ago. My cousin heard that I was going to Shanghai tomorrow and asked me to bring it to my aunt." He grabbed it and it turned yellow. He gently bypassed the thread, pulled out several kraft paper folders, and handed the top one to Bai Zhi.
Bai Zhi opened the first page, which was full of handwritten Latin text. The long string of Chinese characters in the middle looked very familiar. It was the address of the Gu family's old residence. Bai Zhi smiled at Zhang Tianzhao who was staring at her and said, "I really can't understand. Do you understand?"
"When my aunt was teaching, Yun Lai and I always skipped classes and went out to play. We failed a few classes and couldn't keep up with my cousin. Forget about my aunt." Zhang Tianzhao said with a warm smile when he mentioned his childhood, "My aunt is a very good person. Yunlai was very aggressive when she was a child. She would even smash her laboratory when she lost her temper, but she wouldn't even get angry."
"So you and Lin Yunlai have known each other since childhood." Bai Zhi turned to the second page, her mood was indescribably complicated. She found a string of years, months and days written in pencil, slanted in one corner, which was her birth date. date. "Do you care about his feelings?" Bai Zhi raised her eyes and looked into Zhang Tianzhao's eyes.
Zhang Tianzhao nodded slowly, "My parents only have one child. Lin Yunlai lived in our family until he went to college. He and I are no different from brothers."
"So, you don't want to ask me, but you are going to give me to him?" Bai Zhi pushed the third page with her finger and asked what she had always wanted to ask.
Zhang Tianzhao turned his back to her. Bai Zhi immediately squatted down and put the entire file bag and the few folders she took out into her backpack. She grabbed a few light document bags from the suitcase and put them into the storage box. She quickly arranged them and picked up a few more to cover them.
"You like him." Zhang Tianzhao chuckled softly, "You didn't realize how much you relied on senior sister in the game. Don't go against your heart."
Bai Zhi stood up and kicked the two suitcases aside. "Sister, it has always been you, not him."
Zhang Tianzhao turned around, "You cried when you got off his car yesterday." He stretched out his hand to touch Bai Zhi's face, "I have known you for several years, this is the first time."
Bai Zhi gently pressed her face against his hand. His palm was warm and his fingers were slightly cold. "He mentioned my sister. I am sad because of this. It has nothing to do with him."
"Tell me about your sister." Zhang Tianzhao let out a long breath. Bai Zhi pushed him away, squatted down and threw the document bag into the storage box.
"Don't worry about that." Zhang Tianzhao knelt down and looked at Bai Zhi, "Tell me about you and your sister."
Bai Zhi sat on the carpet, leaning against his bed, "The story is a bit long."
"I want to hear it." Zhang Tianzhao kicked the storage box and suitcase away and sat down next to Bai Zhi.
"My father and my mother divorced when I was very young. I was only three or four years old at that time, and Bai Wei was already six years old. Bai Wei is my sister's name." Bai Zhi hugged her knees, "My mother After the divorce, she took us back to her hometown in the mountains and lived in a very remote town. She opened a small clinic and needed frequent visits. I fell ill as soon as I arrived in the town and had to take Chinese medicine every day, most of the time. I could only lie in bed. In addition to visiting doctors, my mother also went to the mountains to find herbal medicine for me when the weather was nice. Bai Wei stayed with me, turning me over, drying herbs, and cooking medicine. After two years of this, The teacher from the primary school in the town came to persuade my mother, saying that I was half dead and already like that. Bai Wei was smart and beautiful, and she would definitely pass the exam like my mother. It would be a pity not to let Bai Wei go to school. Both of them belong to her. Daughter, she couldn't sacrifice one for the other. My mother cried for several days, and finally one day she stopped going to the mountains to collect medicine, and sent Bai Wei to school. That day, my mother guarded me and didn't speak. I don’t even want to go. I know that my mother really has no choice. It’s not that she doesn’t want me, she can’t want me anymore.
Bai Wei skipped class on the first day of school. She begged several boys who were older than her to go into the mountains with her to find medicine. An uncle who cut moso bamboo found them and sent them back to school. She received a good beating from my mother at school, and she cooked some herbs she found for me to drink in the middle of the night. I will never forget that she had wounds on her face and her mouth was swollen by my mother, and she said to me: "Baizhi, you have to live, it's so good to live." 'She always skips school and goes into the mountains to find medicine for me. She heard that there are gods and goddesses somewhere who are particularly efficacious, so she goes with the adults and begs for some strange things to come back to me, such as incense, ash, talismans, water, insect shells, etc. It's all kinds of insects and fungi. My mother stopped her at first, but then she helped her do it. I want to live, for Bai Wei and my mother, and for myself. I will eat whatever Bai Wei gives me. "
Zhang Tianzhao put his hand on Bai Zhi's shoulder, "Are you so good?"
Bai Zhi nodded, "I have been doing this for about a year, and I am gradually able to get out of bed and walk. My mother took me to the state hospital for a physical examination and said I was normal."
My mother cried with joy that day and even made an excited phone call to go out of town. But while she recovered, her mother's health deteriorated and she became weaker day by day. Suddenly one morning she couldn't get out of bed or speak. They didn't know what to do, but luckily she still remembered the phone number her mother called. Bai Wei called and asked if they remembered who called them that day. The owner of that phone number, Aunt Chen, was the Gu family's old nanny, and they reconnected with the Gu family. When dad arrived, mom had closed her eyes forever. They returned to Shanghai and started a completely different new life.
Bai Wei never talks about the past, and neither does Bai Zhi. They kept silent about their past lives and worked hard to start a new life, moving in unison, simple and happy, until Wang Chengpeng suddenly broke into their lives.
"She stole your fiancé?" Zhang Tianzhao asked, "So you don't want to see her again, is that right?"
"I didn't steal it. I didn't want it first. It's not because of this that I don't want to see her," Bai Zhi smiled bitterly, "Although I'm sad that she is with my ex-fiancé just after we broke up, but it's mainly because she doesn't know how to love. Be more yourself. In order to get revenge on me for being with her, Wang Chengpeng didn't seriously start a new relationship with her. She knew it clearly, but she still did it... She obviously fell in love with Wang Chengpeng at the first sight, but she didn't even want to tell me. In the first two years, Wang Chengpeng and I played together a lot, and we hadn't started dating yet. Bai Wei had many opportunities to talk, but she kept hiding it from me. She didn't treat me as a sister. I was angry and sad at the time. , the Lord is because of this.”
"Maybe she just wants to give you what she thinks is best." Zhang Tianzhao breathed a sigh of relief. He put his arm around Bai Zhi's shoulders, "Yunlai, what happened to your sister to make you so sad?"
"I don't want to mention them." Bai Zhi leaned her head on his chest, "Don't mention them, okay?"
"Okay." Zhang Tianzhao lowered his head and sniffed, "You are getting more and more fragrant." His lips were close to her forehead, and his hot lips were rubbing back and forth, "You can't get too close to me, you know."
Bai Zhi's face slowly turned red. She pushed him away and stood up, saying, "You must have a cold. I'll get you a cup of hot water and some medicine."
Zhang Tianzhao hugged her legs and pushed her down on the bed. He pressed up and pressed her lips against Bai Zhi's, saying, "Give me the kiss you gave me on the road this morning. That's mine."
"You don't want it, it's gone." Bai Zhi's breath intertwined with his, warm and lingering, she turned her face, "Get up quickly. There is someone outside."
"They won't come in." Zhang Tianzhao laughed softly, "You don't have any worries in your heart, I'm so happy." He rubbed his nose against Bai Zhi's neck, "Next time you feel sad, you must tell me, you know?"
"Crazy." Bai Zhi gasped softly, "Get up quickly. Someone is coming."
Zhang Tianzhao jumped up from the bed, straightened his collar and went to open the door. Bai Zhi rolled out of bed at a rare speed and squatted next to the box to sort out the document bags. None of the remaining document bags in this suitcase are as thick as hers.
It was Lin Yunlai who came to knock on the door, and Zhang Tianzhao went to the guest bedroom opposite to talk to him. Bai Zhi turned her back to the door, randomly picked out a medium-thick document bag, and put the thinnest document bag into her backpack. She was very calm when doing these things, relying on intuition and not thinking about anything. During the years she was with Wang Chengpeng, she had always had questions about many things, and she could only find the answers on her own. She organized the box of information and opened the fourth suitcase. This box still contained document bags of varying thicknesses. Bai Zhi checked every document bag and found neither Wang Chengpeng's name nor hers. She neatly arranged the folders and put them in the storage box. Zhang Tianzhao and Lin Yunlai kept talking, their voices so low that she couldn't hear anything.
The door of the guest bedroom was open, and Bai Zhi's graceful back was always the focus of Zhang Tianzhao's sight.
Lin Yun came and asked, "Have you two made it clear?"
"Yes. Yunlai, I'm sorry," Zhang Tianzhao said, "I want her."
Lin Yunlai smiled, "I won't steal the girl you like once or twice. This one is up to you." He turned his face away from Bai Zhi, "But I want to remind you that her ex-fiancé has been looking for her."
"We've already broken up, what else does he want?" Zhang Tianzhao sneered.
"Wang Chengpeng is very proud. The biggest pain in his life is that Bai Zhi dumped him. He will definitely come back to fight you. You are in big trouble."
"If Bai Zhi were with you, would you be afraid of trouble?" Zhang Tianzhao asked very unkindly.
"Give it to me now, and I'll show you if I'm afraid of trouble." Lin Yunlai whistled softly at Bai Zhi's back, "I reserve the right to regret at any time."
"Don't even think about it." Zhang Tianzhao said, "When I return to Shanghai tomorrow, do you want to come with me to see my aunt?"
"Together." Lin Yunlai nodded, "I have something to ask her."
"Have you had an attack recently?" Zhang Tianzhao rolled his eyes at him, "It's okay. My aunt gave you some medicine last month, and I threw it on your bed and cabinet."
"Gu Tianbai, so did he. He controlled it very well after the attack." Lin Yunlai's voice was very soft. He went to the bedside table to find the medicine box and put it away, "How many rich people did Aunt Shen convince who wanted to have a son?"
Zhang Tianzhao remained silent, and his eyes turned to Bai Zhi again. Bai Zhi took a thick stack of document bags and put them into the storage box. She seemed to open her eyes behind her back, turned to look at him, smiled at him, and lowered her head to take care of the document bag. Zhang Tianzhao smiled unconsciously.
Two cars were parked downstairs, making a lot of noise. Zhang Tianzhao glanced at the window, and then went to open the door with Lin Yun. After a while, they came in carrying two buckets of pure water and some food. Several other people brought in a few large cardboard boxes and placed them in the living room. Then they left. When they left, they only drove away one car, leaving behind a seven-seater car.
Inside the carton are things like backpacks, clothes, shoes, hats, gloves, tents, gas bottles and stoves. The men were all about the same size, and each of them had a backpack stuffed into them. A smaller cardboard box contained women's backpacks and clothing. The person who opened the cardboard box was Gu Xiaoqi. He crumpled the clothes and stuff into a ball and stuffed them into the backpack. Zhang Tianzhao couldn't stand it anymore, so he took the backpack over, sorted and folded the clothes one by one and put them in. Gu Xiaoqi shook his head and saw that there was a small medicine box in the carton, so he picked it up and said, "Let me see what's there."
The medicine box contained a thermometer, a row of pregnancy test sticks, several boxes of ovulation test strips, and two large bottles of vitamins. Gu Xiaoqi's mouth was wide open and he didn't close it for a long time. He used his elbow to crimp his third brother.
When Gu Tianbai got this box of things, he was extremely confused. He covered the medicine box and stuffed it into his backpack, then took it out immediately, wanting to throw it back into the carton but he hesitated.
Zhang Tianzhao glanced at the medicine box, grabbed it, opened it, took a look, quickly closed it, and stuffed it into Bai Zhi's backpack even faster.
Gu Tianbai also found something new in the carton, four or five parenting books tied into a bundle with ropes, with a note on them. Gu Tianbai decisively opened the note under the gaze of Zhang Tianzhao, which read: A Zhao, come on! We will see our little niece during the Chinese New Year next year. There are four or five fancy signatures at the bottom.
"Necessary procedures cannot be omitted." Gu Tianbai flicked the note in his hand, "It is extremely irresponsible to jump directly to the last step. We will never allow it."
Zhang Tianzhao laughed, "My cousins are more direct. This is just their expectation." He grabbed the book and note and hugged him in his arms, "I will put them away myself." He quickly stuffed these two things into his arms. He took out his own backpack and took out the medicine box from Bai Zhi's backpack and put it in his bag.
Gu Tianbai didn't smile. He looked through the carton carefully and didn't stop until he found nothing out of the ordinary.
Dinner is cooked by Haifengqiu. Zhang Tianzhao took out several boxes of magazines and books from the storage room. He and Bai Zhi packed the books into the suitcase and transported the suitcase to the car parked downstairs.
Before it got completely dark, they had already had dinner and sat in the living room waiting for the ball of light. But the ball of light didn't come until late at night. Hai Fengqiu and Xiao Qi fell asleep early. Lin Yunlai yawned and went back to the guest bedroom to sleep. Although the bed in the guest bedroom was very big, no one wanted to share the bed with him.
The snow outside the window was crystal white, and the sound of Xiao Qi and Hai Fengqiu sleeping soundly could be heard in the dark living room. Gu Tianbai and Bai Zhi sat side by side on a sofa, and Zhang Tianzhao sat on the single sofa to the left of Bai Zhi. The three of them listened quietly to the sound of snow falling in the dark, and no one spoke.
After daybreak the snow stopped. The weather seems to be getting colder. Zhang Tianzhao found snow chains in the storage room and installed them on the car. Their car drove smoothly on the snowy and icy road, and there were almost no zombies moving on the road. After leaving the city of Ningcheng, the car turned onto a remote concrete road, bypassed the expressway out of the city, and walked along the provincial highway towards Shanghai. After driving for more than two hours, they caught up with a convoy of more than a dozen vehicles bearing city A license plates.
The leading car of the convoy seemed to be quite familiar with the road conditions, so Zhang Tianzhao simply followed the convoy. At noon, the motorcade stopped at a hotel outside a small town, blocking the entire road. Someone ran over, knocked on their car window, and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Six." Lin Yun said, "He's going to Shanghai. I'm coming with you."
The man leaned against the car window and looked in. When he saw another girl, he shook his head and said, "We also made a temporary arrangement. You can just follow us. Where is this girl's man? Keep an eye on your girl."
"I know. Thank you." Zhang Tianzhao leaned over to say thanks, "How long do you plan to rest?"
"In an hour and a half, we plan to go to the town to look around to see if we can get something hot to eat or drink. Are you going?" the man asked.
"We're not going." Lin Yunlai yawned at the right moment, "I was so scared that I couldn't sleep all night. I happened to take a nap while there was someone else."
"Let's go together. Whoever finds the thing will get it. The team won't take a commission." The man persuaded.
"We are all quite tired, so we won't go this time." Lin Yunlai's yawn came as soon as he could, and Xiao Qi was already snoring behind him. Bai Zhi shrank behind Gu Tianbai, and Gu Tianbai moved forward quietly, blocking Bai Zhi from behind.
"Okay. I'll see you again when I get back." The man smiled and said, "You guys can rest." He turned and left.
Lin Yun came to roll up the car window. Haifengqiu stood up and looked out the car window for a while, then whispered: "I'll get out of the car and walk around. Check the situation." He got out of the car and walked around the dozen or so cars. There were quite a few people getting off the bus, and a group of more than twenty young men went to the town with weapons. Another group of seven or eight men and a few women were waiting in the open space in front of the hotel. After a few men cleaned up the restaurant, the women went back to the car to get food and followed the men into the restaurant. People who stayed under the car gradually came down to use the restroom. Several men guarding the door were squatting on the steps smoking. Haifengqiu chatted with them for a while, dispersed a circle of smoke, and went to the corner with two of them to urinate. When he came back, he said: "This group of people It was indeed a group of people who got together on the road. A small group of about ten people is the core. Half of their people take people to the town to find food, and the other half are responsible for ensuring the safety of the convoy. Protection fees are charged per head, women are not counted, one person per day A pack of instant noodles.”
"It's quite fair." Lin Yunlai smiled. "Soon will women cease to be human beings?"
"We formed a team in the military division to go out to search. There are Bai Zhi and Zhu Cuicui in the team, but no one is willing to join us." Zhang Tianzhao turned around and smiled at Bai Zhi.
"The probability of women mutating in the apocalypse is several times higher than that of men." Gu Tianbai said: "There are fifty or sixty people outside, and there are only six women in total including the elder and the younger."
They didn't get out of the car. Use a gas bottle to boil water on a small stove and make bucket noodles for lunch. After lunch, they opened the car door to let out the smell, and then they got out of the car to do some activities. They saw the people who had gone to the town coming back. The leading strong man came over to greet them in a friendly manner, "You are welcome to come with us. We have nothing." The rules are that you have to send someone to keep watch at night. Also, you girl, she has to live with all the women in the team at night, and she cannot be with you."
Gu Tianbai said, "I can't abide by the second rule. Sorry, we won't go with you."
"We have no other intentions." The strong man said, "The main reason is that there are too few women. Men, you all know that at times like this, there are always people who can't control their little brothers. If they can't, it will also hurt the peace. Women. They sleep together and arrange a few people to keep watch outside. They are safe and everyone can worry about it, right?"
"Don't worry, I'll keep my sister by myself." Gu Tianbai shook his head firmly.
Bai Zhi quietly slipped back into the car when the strong man was carrying the woman, and they got in one after another. Zhang Tianzhao drove over the vegetable patch on the roadside and took a shortcut through the town. They followed the signs on the highway and avoided the factory area where there might be a large number of zombies. They drove around until around four o'clock in the afternoon, and unexpectedly bumped into the convoy again in a large square. Fortunately, there were more than twenty cars parked in the square, not just that one fleet. These two dozen cars were obviously organized. Several buses surrounded the small cars in the middle, and the doors of the cars in the outer circle opened toward the circle. Zhang Tianzhao parked his car on the road outside the square, and soon people from both convoys came over. The man who came from the convoy that he met at noon was still the same man. When he saw it was them, he smiled and left without saying a word.
The man coming from another convoy is their old acquaintance Captain Liu.
Captain Liu was stunned when he saw Zhang Tianzhao and said, "What a fate. It's not safe for your car to park here. Drive inside."
"Thank you." Zhang Tianzhao followed his guidance and drove the car to the inside of the square. Captain Liu did not let them enter the inner circle, and Zhang Tianzhao had no intention of entering. The square is obviously on a major traffic thoroughfare. Several cars, one or two, drove over one after another. Some people were accepted by the convoys on both sides, and some people were very cautious and drove their cars to places where they were not adjacent to their cars.
Bai Zhi got out of the car and saw the public toilet on the edge of the square and said she wanted to take a walk. Zhang Tianzhao stretched out his arm to her, and Bai Zhi gently put her hand into his arm. Zhang Tianzhao walked towards the public toilet consciously. There were not many women going to the public restrooms along the way, and most of them were accompanied by men. When the ladies go to the toilet, the men chat and exchange information nearby. When Bai Zhi came out, she saw men from other families gathering together to chat with other men. Only around Zhang Tianzhao, there were two little girls and a girl with wavy hair, asking questions. Zhang Tianzhao looked at the sky with a straight face and said nothing.
Bai Zhi laughed from afar. Zhang Tianzhao pushed the curly-haired girl's hand away from Bai Zhi and said, "I almost screamed for help, but you still smiled."
"It's such an honor to be so popular." Bai Zhi was overjoyed, "Oh, that's Jiang Qingyue! Hey, we'll know who lost the bet later."
Zhang Tianzhao lowered his voice and said, "It doesn't matter who loses. Anyway, I am the one doing the laundry."
When they saw Jiang Qingyue, Jiang Qingyue also saw them. She said a few words to the man next to her. The man walked over with her. Jiang Qingyue smiled at them and said, "Are you going to Shanghai too?"
