Bai Zhi told Jiang Ling that Zhang Tianzhao was her boyfriend! What does this mean? Why did she say this?
Zhang Tianzhao was stunned for a moment and said, "Can you retell to me the conversation between the two at that time?"
Zhou Xiaojin BLABLA recounted all the scenes and conversations at that time. He didn't even miss the fact that a pair of girls in Jiangling were very cold to each other but were very enthusiastic towards Bai Zhi.
"We are indeed in a relationship. But in the past few days, she has been angry with me. When I say she is my girlfriend in front of others, she gets angry with me." Zhang Tianzhao glanced at Bai Zhi sleeping in the corner and smiled slightly, "Thank you for telling me these words."
"You're welcome, I like her very much. She looks at you differently from others." Zhou Xiaojin took two steps back, jumped to the door and said, "I'll wait for Ah Zheng to come back." She walked out of the door and stood on the sunbathing field with her head raised. Look up at the sky.
Xiaoqi shrugged, lowered his head and played with his fingers, waiting for the third brother to deal with the fifth sister's ex-boyfriend. Hai Fengqiu turned his head to look at the quiet corner. Bai Zhi's sleep time was getting longer and longer these days.
"Does Jiang Ling look like Zhang Tianlie?" Gu Tianbai frowned, "How similar is he?"
Zhang Tianzhao said nothing, lowered his head and took out a photo album from the space and handed it to him. Gu Tianbai popped up the small fireball lighting and looked through the small photo album from the beginning. This photo album is more like the growth record of Zhang Tianlie and Zhang Tianzhao. The first one is a 100-day photo of Zhang Tianlie, then the one-year-old photo, and the standard photo next to the height ruler in spring and autumn, three photos per year. Zhang Tianlie's fourth birthday photo included Zhang Tianzhao as a baby. Every photo after that is of two people. The most recent photo is from half a year ago. In the photo, the two brothers are standing back to back on either side of the height ruler, turning their heads to look at the camera with very similar expressions, even the curvature of the corners of their mouths are similar.
In terms of facial features, Jiang Lingyi and Zhang Tianlie are exactly the same. But in terms of temperament, Zhang Tianzhao and Zhang Tianlie were exactly the same when they were young. It is not an exaggeration to say that the former is a replica of the latter.
Gu Tianbai returned the photo album to Zhang Tianzhao, sighed, turned to a certain page and handed it back to him, "What happened this year? He was thirteen and you were ten. The treatment you two received before should be exactly the same."
"Yes, I will be completely free after that year. Is there any problem?" Zhang Tianzhao asked.
"Bai Zhi returned to Shanghai when she was seven years old the year before. Even though we moved, she was still discovered by your aunt." Gu Tianbai smiled at Zhang Tianzhao, "Most of the time in our lives, we can't help ourselves. , so we are particularly eager for the hard-won freedom."
No one spoke anymore. The room became quiet, the north wind blew by, and the glass of the transom on top of the door frame creaked in the wind. Xiaoqi jumped up and poked her head out, calling Zhou Xiaojin. Zhou Xiaojin came in reluctantly, with a thin layer of snow on his head and shoulders.
It's snowing again and the road will be difficult to walk tomorrow.
More than an hour later, six companions came from Jiangling. Five of them took Zhou Xiaojin away without even entering. The person who stayed behind should be Jiang Lingyi's companion like Azheng. After he came in, he sat next to Jiang Lingyi and didn't say a word. He was very silent.
Jiangling smiled at Gu Tianbai and Zhang Tianzhao who were standing by the fire, and said, "Please do me a favor and tell me where Jiang Qingyue is."
Zhang Tianzhao said briefly, "When we left Shanghai, she was in District 5. She is very famous in District 5. We should be able to find out her whereabouts by going to District 5. We are from District 1 and have little contact with them. Do you know? many."
"Can I go to Shanghai with you? My friends and I," Jiang Ling pointed to his companions, "Atong."
"No." Gu Tianbai refused him, "Our man is seriously injured. We have to stay here until he recovers."
Haifengqiu, who had a broken arm and leg, really needed to recuperate. Jiang Ling nodded and said, "I was offended because of my poor consideration. Let's go to Shanghai now and see you in Shanghai if we have the chance."
"Goodbye." Gu Tianbai stood up to see the guests off. Not five minutes after Jiang Lingyi and his companions sat down, they were politely sent away by Gu Tianbai.
Somewhere dozens of kilometers away from them, Lin Yunlai leaned against a half-collapsed high wall, turned the dial of his watch to determine the direction, and finally faced northwest.
Angelica dahurica woke up to the fragrant smell of meat porridge. Hai Fengqiu sat by the fire, stirring the porridge with a spoon, and said, "Jiang Lingyi and Zhou Xiaojin have left. Your brother and the other three went to the valley to inquire about news. Did you sleep well?"
"Fortunately, what time is it?" Bai Zhi took out her watch from her backpack, "My watch won't start."
"You're not even leaving yet. It's almost nine o'clock? You've slept for at least ten hours." Hai Fengqiu jumped to the door and took out the RV. "The people next door have also left. I'll take out the RV. You can get in and wash your face." .”
Bai Zhi got in the car to take a shower, and by the way, she went to the property to pick a plate of peaches and wash them before getting off the car. Hai Fengqiu, who had been guarding the door, quickly put the RV away when she came out, and said with a smile: "You were asleep last night, and Brother Gu San had a discussion with us."
Bai Zhi looked at Haifengqiu, waiting for the next words.
"Brother Gu San will provide a safe residence with a maximum living space of 30,000 people for ten years. He will share 37.5% of the income of our small group of five people. What do you think?" Hai Fengqiu returned to the fire and sat down. , the movement is not very flexible.
"Although I am the leader of the gang, the gang belongs to the five of us." Bai Zhi smiled at him, "The interests of both sides have a close relationship with me. It is inappropriate for me to say anything, so just avoid it. After the four of you discuss it, talk to me directly Third brother, let’s talk.”
"That means you actually agree?" Haifengqiu also smiled, "Why didn't I know you were so cunning before?"
"You didn't give me a chance to express myself before." Bai Zhi picked a peach and threw it to Haifengqiu, then picked the second one and gnawed on it, "My third brother made this offer to you, didn't it?"
"Have you ever thought about why he offered me such conditions?" Haifengqiu bit a small mouth on the tip of the peach and slowly sucked the juice.
"He has always been very optimistic about you. You are the one with the most leadership ability among us. If all the power belongs to you, it will not be a good start." Bai Zhi bit the peach carelessly, "In fact, the power and interests can be further dispersed. But there are too few of us.”
"Area 1 is not mine." Haifengqiu smiled.
"It won't be yours in the future." Bai Zhi sat down cross-legged next to him. "It belongs to everyone, superpowers, ordinary survivors, everyone. But it will definitely not belong to just a few of us."
Hai Fengqiu thought for a while, nodded, and said, "I understand. Do you want a bowl of hot porridge?"
"It smells very good, but I don't want to eat it at all." Bai Zhi continued to nibble on the peach, "How is your injury?"
"It got better very quickly. Thank you very much. Where did this ability come from? Have you had it since you were a child?" Haifengqiu put the peach core into the fruit plate.
"Xiaobao should have given it to me." Bai Zhi blushed, "I should actually apologize to you for what happened that day. I'm sorry."
"I should apologize to you, I took the initiative." Haifengqiu lowered his head, "I thought it would be easy for you to accept me after you broke up. I was wrong, I'm sorry."
"You don't need to apologize for that, I'm talking about another thing." Bai Zhi bit her fingers in embarrassment.
Haifengqiu turned his head uncomfortably, "The... effect may not be as good as you thought. When you came out of the gang territory yesterday, the smell came back, but it was very different from before. I think that cube can repair your body. , and did something else. Don’t take all the responsibility on yourself. Your influence on us was imposed on you by others without your knowledge. Among us, you are the most innocent The one."
Bai Zhi was silent for a long time and said, "I can't smell you now, nor can I smell anyone else's." She lowered her head and looked at the bite marks on her fingers. The fine tooth marks disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye. The smell of pine needles mixed in when the firewood was burning was fragrant and pungent. In these days, in her perception, Haifengqiu was trustworthy. She had no intention of knocking him down.
"I'm a little tired, let's go lie down for a while." Haifengqiu's face showed an abnormal flush, and he went to lie down on the mattress in the corner. After a while, Bai Zhi went to see him. He was as burned as a ripe prawn, and his forehead was red from his forehead to his neck.
Bai Zhi didn't dare to give him random medicine. After careful consideration, she soaked the cube in a bucket of pure water for half an hour and gave him a few sips of the soaking liquid. After a while, Hai Fengqiu's fever subsided and fell asleep.
Haifengqiu woke up in the evening. He checked himself and found that the broken bones had grown back and he could move freely now.
Bai Zhi divided the remaining soaking liquid into five parts, gave one to him, and said, "It seems that the treatment effect is very good."
"It's really good." Hai Fengqiu put the water bottle into his backpack, "I'm going to take a shower. You clean up this place and see if you can contact Zhang Tianzhao. If we do, we'll go find them."
Bai Zhi opened the gang member panel, modified the notes, and asked where Zhang Tianzhao was.
After a few minutes, Zhang Tianzhao replied: On the way home.
Almost at the same time, Yue Dongting’s note changed to: When will you come back?
Haifengqiu answered him: the past two days.
Bai Zhi cooked several pots of rice in the RV and set up a grill on the fire to barbecue. The smell of fresh meat fat and cumin burning in the fire is very fragrant. The rice was already cooked when Haifengqiu came out. He packed several pots of rice into his backpack, packed up the RV, and cleaned up the traces of the parked RV in the yard.
If Zhang Tianzhao had tricked Zhou Xiaojin last night, there would have been at least thirty of them nearby. Jiang Lingyi was kind to them because of Bai Zhi's relationship, but others may not be. After Haifengqiu finished taking care of the yard, he carefully walked around the residential house where they were staying. Several mutated dogs smelled the scent of meat in the downwind and entered the town. Hai Fengqiu went up to them and killed them easily, packing the bodies into boxes and storing them in backpacks.
Zhang Tianzhao, Gu Tianzhao and Bai Xiaoqi were very excited when they came back. Xiao Qi rushed to Bai Zhi who was grilling meat, picked up a large skewer of meat, and shouted while gnawing: "Fifth sister, guess what we saw!"
"You won't touch someone else's lair, right?" Bai Zhi looked at Zhang Tianzhao, who was exuding strong vitality from top to bottom, "Are you a thief?"
"It doesn't matter, we are here to make soy sauce. This one just hit me on the head, so I accepted it." Zhang Tianzhao popped a seed towards Bai Zhi.
Bai Zhi grabbed it and spread her hands. There was an emerald green fruit lying in her palm, which looked like an acorn. "A mutated oak tree seed?"
"Yes. Fifth sister, hurry up and give you some space to find a flower pot to grow it. I don't know how much starch content the fruit will have after the mutation. It's a very useful tree species." Xiao Qi was so excited that she couldn't help herself, "I can't wait to see it grow. big."
"There must be trees in the valley. Xiao Qi, didn't you look at it?" Bai Zhi threw the fruit into the gang's territory.
"There was a fist-sized meteorite embedded in the body of that big tree. In order to grab the big tree, several groups of mutants and mutated animals fought lively. In the end, I don't know what happened, but the big tree was blown apart. Yes, this is the part that flew out and hit me after it exploded." Zhang Tianzhao took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves and washed his hands, "It seems to be the valuable part."
"How is it over there now?" Haifengqiu asked, "Are the 20,000 to 30,000 residents okay?"
"There is a group of people gathering the residents, and I saw Zhou Xiaojin in the crowd. Her defensive shield is a little smaller than Jiang Qingyue's." Zhang Tianzhao smiled, "They will take those people back to Shicheng."
"People who have been kept in captivity since the beginning of the apocalypse have never experienced hardship and have a relatively stable life without any effort. They will not have the consciousness of coexisting with the base. Are they going to be held back by taking them back?" Haifengqiu sneered.
"That's right. When the fighting started, the residents were running around and there was no organized resistance at all. To organize them, a few or dozens of people wouldn't work. I guess they couldn't take many people with them. Let's leave after eating." Maybe the original owner of this house will come back." Gu Tianbai took a big bite of rice.
Zhang Tianzhao unscrewed the cap of a bottle of liquor, poured some wine for everyone, and asked, "Did you encounter anything in the town?"
"Hai Fengqiu has a fever. I didn't wake up until the evening. I didn't go out." Bai Zhi scooped up the braised pork for Xiao Qi, "It was quite quiet from morning to evening. No one should be passing through the town."
"There are a few mutated dogs. I just went out and killed them." Haifengqiu shook the white wine in the glass, "Baizhi, you don't want to eat?"
"I don't really want to eat it. I just ate two peaches." Bai Zhi noticed that everyone was looking at her, smiled and said, "I'm really not hungry now."
"Then I won't eat." Zhang Tianzhao buried his head in eating.
Xiaoqi ate the fastest, grabbing the pot of rice that Bai Zhi had not touched, and gave everyone a portion fairly. After finishing the meal, she asked Bai Zhi to provide after-dinner fruit, and refused to eat peaches. Bai Zhi took out a box of canned pears. Xiao Qi's eyes turned red, and she rushed to strangle Bai Zhi and said, "Fifth sister, you are teasing me!"
"I only have peaches." Bai Zhi pressed his face and pushed him away. "If I don't eat them, I will only have canned food. I would be sorry if I didn't give you canned yellow peaches. You can choose not to eat them, or you can choose to watch others eat them."
"Is there any difference? I hate eating pears the most. I'd rather have peaches." Xiao Qi kicked the carton in frustration, "No canned yellow peaches."
Bai Zhi took out a large plate of peaches and put the cans back into her backpack. While everyone was eating fruit, she tidied up the house and restored the furnishings to their original state as much as possible. She also left a box of instant noodles in the clean kitchen cabinet.
"Would you like to write a note to say sorry for bothering me?" Gu Tianbai leaned against the wall of the corridor from the living room to the kitchen and smiled at his sister, "It is more likely that this family will not come back."
"Is Zhou Xiaojin okay?" Bai Zhi said worriedly: "She is quite cute. Jiang Ling has been hiding it from her for a while, so she doesn't know that Azheng is dead."
"I don't know. Do you see your shadow in her?" Gu Tianbai touched Bai Zhi's head, "She is an adult. Others cannot take care of her for the rest of her life. She has to take responsibility for herself."
"Azheng mutated too fast." Bai Zhi lowered her head, "I saw that the color of his wound did not change, so I thought he would be fine."
"Xiao Qi tried to feed him, but it was no use." Gu Tianbai smiled bitterly, "Your peaches are very nutritious, but they can't save people's lives."
"I still feel sad. Zhou Xiaojin and Ah Zheng are such a good couple." Bai Zhi was still very confused.
"If Zhou Xiaojin hadn't been so panicked when something happened, Azheng would have been fine." Zhang Tianzhao shook his head and said, "Take her out, spoil her, and let her die. If she doesn't die, Azheng will die on his own."
Bai Zhi looked at Zhang Tianzhao, "How is your shoulder?"
"It's okay. We can leave. I have something to tell you. Let's go together?" Zhang Tianzhao tilted his head and motioned for Bai Zhi to join him.
Bai Zhi nodded to him. After going out, the two of them fell at the back. Bai Zhi kept walking with her head down, while Zhang Tianzhao kept silent except when he helped her when crossing the ditch.
Xiao Qi, who led the way, bypassed the pine forest. After walking for two or three hours, they overtook a stream of fleeing valley residents. There were quite a few survivors in this group, most of whom were young and middle-aged. There were almost no old people, not even small children.
Bai Zhi's eyes wandered around the crowd, and she only saw a boy of thirteen or fourteen holding the hand of a girl of seven or eight, who looked like a brother and sister. My brother is not very tall, so it is already difficult to walk in the snow, and he also has to drag his sister with him, whose feet got stuck in the snow after just two steps and could not be freed. My sister got up when she fell, her back was stubborn and stubborn. Without adult help, it was very difficult for the two children to walk, and they walked slower and slower.
Bai Zhi couldn't help but walk in the direction of the brother and sister. Zhang Tianzhao accompanied her silently.
The boy once again pulled his sister out of the snow nest. When he looked up, he saw two people standing next to him and was startled.
Bai Zhi popped up the thunderball lighting. Under the purple light, her smile was extremely warm. She stretched out her hand to the little girl, "Let your brother rest for a while, okay? I'll hold you there, okay?"
The young man took a step back cautiously, trying to protect his sister behind him. The little girl handed her hand to Bai Zhi with trust and shouted: "Thank you, sister."
Bai Zhi took off her hat and put it on the little girl, saying, "Let's go." The little girl was not heavy, so Bai Zhi carried her easily. Bai Zhi didn't say anything along the way, but the little girl became more and more attached to her. The boy who was as nervous as a hedgehog put away his thorns and followed Bai Zhi silently.
At daybreak, they passed a town. An aunt in her early forties rushed towards the boy from the roadside, crying and shouting: "My son."
When the boy saw his mother, he was more numb than surprised. The expression on his face changed again and again, but in the end he remained silent and allowed his aunt to hold his shoulders and cry loudly.
The little girl clung to Bai Zhi tightly and had no intention of calling her mother. The aunt had cried enough and dragged her son towards a shop on the roadside without even looking at the little girl. The young man didn't want to be dragged away by his mother, so he turned to look at Bai Zhi, with a look of pleading in his eyes.
Zhang Tianzhao sighed and shouted: "Sister-in-law, there is another one here, isn't it from your family?"
The aunt glanced at the little girl and said, "That one is not from my family. Her parents don't care about her, and we can't care about her."
The little girl shrank even smaller, and the little hand held by Bai Zhi became cold.
"If I want to help you find your parents, you just keep silent. If you don't want us to help you find your parents, we can find anyone for you. Just speak up." Bai Zhi bent down to look at the little girl, "If you don't say anything, I can only find you." Give it back to your parents."
"I don't want anyone!" The little girl was small and had a loud voice. "My father and mother don't want me!" People resting nearby poked their heads to watch the excitement. The corner was quickly circled.
"Then what are you going to do?" Bai Zhi asked her.
"Sister, take me with you." The little girl looked up at Bai Zhi, "I can walk on my own, I eat very little, I can wash clothes and cook, and I'm not noisy at all."
"Take her with you. She is very hard-working." The boy's mother helped. "We have seniors and juniors, so we really don't dare to take her. It's better for you to take her and give her something to stutter than to follow us."
"I can take you with me temporarily. If your parents come to find you, I have to return you, you know?" Bai Zhi touched the top of the little girl's head, "Let's go, we have to move forward."
Gu Tianbai knelt down, smiled at the little girl, and said, "When this sister was your age, I was the one who carried her. Now I will carry you once."
Bai Zhi lifted the little girl onto Gu Tianbai's back and said with a smile, "The third brother also thinks of his childhood?"
Gu Tianbai stood up happily, supported the little girl with one hand, waved to the young man with the other hand, and said, "See you soon."
The boy took two steps forward and was dragged back by his mother. Gu Tianbai took a deep breath and said, "Little sister, if you follow us, you may never see him again."
"I'll go with you." The little girl said firmly, without even turning her head to look at the boy who was still struggling in her aunt's arms.
Gu Tianbai walked quickly carrying the little girl on his back. After leaving the town, the residential buildings along the highway became sparse and sparse, and there were fewer and fewer people on the road. Bai Zhi turned to look behind her several times and found that except for a few of them, there was no one in front of or behind her. The little girl put her head on Gu Tianbai's shoulder and fell asleep.
Bai Zhi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "There's no one around anymore, let's take a rest."
"This section of road is good, you can drive." Haifengqiu took out a minibus, "Let's drive for a while. You guys have a rest. I slept during the day yesterday, and I'm not sleepy now."
There are a lot of seats in the minibus, and it is very warm when the air conditioning is turned on. Gu Tianbai found a seat, put the little girl down and fastened her seat belt, and went to sleep in the last row with Xiao Qi.
Bai Zhi sat in the back seat, and Zhang Tianzhao sat down next to her. After being silent for a long time, he said, "Zhou Xiaojin told me that you told Jiang Ling that I was your boyfriend."
"I was shocked when I saw him." Bai Zhi was a little embarrassed. Zhou Xiaojin was too naive. She was just using Zhang Tianzhao as a shield. No one you look like is as powerful as your boyfriend's brother. You can block people's temptations from many directions, right?
"I know you said this to refuse his temptation." Zhang Tianzhao whispered: "It doesn't matter, I don't mind. If something similar happens again and you need your boyfriend to show up for a while, I can always do it. In exchange, I I need my girlfriend to show up temporarily, can you help?"
"Okay." Bai Zhi nodded.
"Thank you." Zhang Tianzhao stood up and walked to the front to sit down.
Gu Tianbai and Xiao Qi in the last row exchanged expressions. Gu Tianbai shook his head and Xiao Qi smiled bitterly.
The minibus drove on the road for more than an hour and finally stopped in front of a huge crack. Haifengqiu got out of the car and walked back along the crack for nearly a hundred meters and said, "There are cracks ahead. We are still about 60 kilometers away from Shanghai, not far away."
"Maybe we can get to Area 1 in the evening." Xiao Qi carried the little girl on his back and asked Bai Zhi to put the cloak on the little girl. The exhausted little girl slept soundly, and the cloak and the rope didn't wake her up.
"How about taking her back and letting her live with Xiaofei? The two of us have company." Haifengqiu looked at the little girl's stubborn face, then looked back at Bai Zhi's face. There was no stubborn expression on Bai Zhi's face, but the two faces were surprisingly similar.
"I was soft-hearted for a moment and caused trouble for your family." Bai Zhi smiled at him.
"Xiao Fei has troubled you a lot before." Hai Fengqiu smiled at her.
The closer you get to the urban area of Shanghai, the more signs of human activity you see. Although the earthquake destroyed most of the city's buildings. The panic in the days after the earthquake created a large number of zombies. There are not many survivors in Shanghai now. The long queue of cars that Bai Zhi saw last time entering the city is no longer the grand scene. The original checkpoint has collapsed. There are several moving figures in the ruins in the distance. It is unclear whether they are living people or zombies.
The snow and ice on the concrete road were frozen together, and the thin layer of snow could not cover the dirt. Human footsteps were mixed with the huge footprints of mutated animals.
Zhang Tianzhao and Haifengqiu calibrated their directions several times and crossed the river along the edge of District 16. Finally, at around four o'clock, they saw the bright red flag flying over the camp in District 1.
Yue Dongting stood outside the big tent where they lived to greet them, with a helpless smile. When Bai Zhi passed by him, he whispered to Bai Zhi: "Zhang Tianzhao's mother and aunt are waiting for you inside. They insist on seeing you."
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