Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 140: Stealing chicken but losing rice
Due to professional habit, Jiang Minglang is very sensitive to sight. Even under the gaze of many people, he can tell the difference.

With just a quick glance at the crowd, Jiang Laoer and Jiang Zhijie were easily spotted.

He looked away, his heart as calm as his eyes.

He had brought people to clean up the entire urban area of Pengcheng. How could he not know that the survivors of Fengqiao Village had gone to other villages to loot supplies and rob?

Later, they had an internal conflict and the Jiang family left Fengqiao Village, and he knew it. But he didn't pay attention to where they went after they left. Anyway, as long as they didn't bother him, it didn't matter to him where they went.

Although the two largest survivor bases in Pengcheng are either his or Li Nan's, there are also many scattered ones like Qiao Fei and his team. As long as they plan well and work hard, they can survive anywhere.

Jiang Zhijie had high aspirations. He thought he would not go to anyone, but he did not expect to come to Li Nan.

Li Nan wants to build an agricultural base, so naturally the more laborers the better, but he also welcomes old farmers in their fifties or even sixties.

This was Bai Xiangtian's advice to him, because in today's society, the ones who really know how to farm and have experience with the land are the older farmers. If you keep them, the value will be far greater than what you get.

Li Nan is good at this, he listens to advice.

So he not only took in the elderly, but also asked Kunzi to search the rural areas around Pengcheng City. Whenever he saw elderly people who were struggling to survive, he would persuade them to move here. It doesn't matter if they can't work, as long as they can give guidance.

He didn't mind keeping them like this.

The three local farmers, the Jiang brothers, obviously met his recruitment requirements. He probably didn't know their origins. Of course, such a small matter might not have passed through his hands at all. He probably didn't even know the Jiang family.

It doesn't matter.
"Captain Jiang, I want to go to the west to take a look. Do you want to come with me?"

Li Nan would feel uneasy if he didn't go and take a look.

Jiang Minglang nodded, "Let's go and take a look."

It's not that he is enthusiastic, it's just that this concerns Pengcheng, and he doesn't want any accidents to happen here.

Zhang Shaoda drove the car over, and Jiang Minglang was about to take the two children in the car. Li Nan said, "How about letting Qiqi and this kid stay here? You can let them stay at my place for a while, and pick them up when you come back."

Jiang Minglang was about to refuse when suddenly a woman was pushed out from the crowd. She stumbled and almost fell into Jiang Minglang's arms, but he dodged her.

There was a bang and the woman's head hit the car door.

The originally noisy scene suddenly became quiet. Everyone looked surprised, and for a moment they all looked at the woman with puzzled and complicated eyes.

What is this for?
You can't just throw yourself into Captain Jiang's arms because he's so wise and capable, right?
It was impossible for them to squeeze out. After all, although there were many people at the scene, it was not crowded.

Jiang Xinyi covered her head and barely stood up. Under the gazes of everyone, even if she didn't want to, she could only force out an awkward smile, and then greeted Jiang Minglang awkwardly, "Brother, it's me."

elder brother?
Captain Jiang is his brother?

Not only were the people at the scene shocked, but even Li Nan raised his eyebrows in surprise.

He actually took in Jiang Minglang's sister?
Is this a real sister, or...some kind?
After Li Nan saw Jiang Xinyi's appearance and temperament, he immediately dispelled the latter speculation.

It’s not like he hasn’t seen Bai Li before. As long as he is not blind, everyone knows how to choose.

So she's a real sister?

Jiang Minglang didn't say anything. He just frowned slightly and asked coldly, "What's the matter?"

He didn't expect Jiang Xinyi to be so shameless. He thought he had made it very clear during their chance encounter at Pingjiang Bridge, and they could treat each other as strangers when they met again.

Looking at Jiang Minglang's cold face, Jiang Xinyi was very angry. If possible, she would not go to him and say nice things. He was not her brother. She was embarrassed to go to Jiang Minglang, but he forced her to go forward.

When she was young, even her own parents refused to accept him, but they always suppressed her in school. She had good grades in elementary school, but because there was a student named Jiang Minglang who was one year older than her, no matter how hard she tried, her parents and relatives would only say to her, "Xinyi, your grades are not good. They are far behind Minglang. He is the first in the grade, and you are in the top ten in the class, but you are not even ranked in the grade. After all, you are a girl, and your brain is not as smart as boys."

How come she isn't as smart as him?

He is a child who is unwanted by everyone except his grandmother. So what if he is smarter than her?
It's not a big deal, but I just became the object that everyone tried to curry favor with.
No matter how unwilling she was, now that it had come to this, Jiang Xinyi had no choice but to bite the bullet and pretend to be affectionate, "Brother, it's been a long time since we last met. I just thought I was seeing things, and wanted to get closer to see if it was you, but I slipped on something under my feet."

She wanted to explain that she didn't pay attention to her steps and rushed over accidentally. But she was interrupted by Jiang Minglang impatiently, "We are in a hurry, please get out of the way."

He didn't want to have any contact with anyone from the Jiang family, no matter who they were.

However, Jiang Xinyi seemed not to understand what he said. She turned around and gave Qiqi a familiar smile that she thought was gentle. "Qiqi, I haven't seen you for a long time. Auntie misses you. Your dad has something important to do. You should be good and stay with your auntie until your dad finishes his work and comes to pick you up, okay?"

After saying that, without waiting for Qiqi's consent, he reached out and wanted to hug him.

"do not move!"

Qiqi drew out the short knife from his waist and held it across Jiang Xinyi's body. His small body also took a proper defensive posture, and he glared at her righteously with a tense face, "Please don't recognize relatives randomly. I don't know you at all, and you are not my aunt. Back off, please back off immediately, otherwise I won't be responsible if you get hurt."

When Qiqi said he didn't know her, Jiji beside him also drew his knife and pointed it at Jiang Xinyi.

Although the weapons the two children carried were called short knives, they were longer than ordinary daggers. Because they were sharp, the cold light flashing from the tip of the knife under the light was no weaker than that of adults' weapons.

For a moment, everyone watching was stunned.

Originally, because Jiang Xinyi called Captain Jiang "brother", and Captain Jiang did not seem to deny or explain, they thought he was really her brother. They could see that their relationship was not that good, but there should be some kind of blood relationship.

After all, she even asked Captain Jiang's son to call her aunt.

But I didn't expect the little guy to give such a reaction, and his expression didn't seem fake. That means the little guy really doesn't know Jiang Xinyi.

Of course Qiqi didn’t know Jiang Xinyi, he had never even seen her.

Just because he hasn't seen them doesn't mean he hasn't heard of the Jiang family.

Grandpa and mom were more careful and never mentioned it in front of him. But my great-grandfather and his family had no scruples and mentioned it in front of him several times.

Of course, this happened several years ago. When my great-grandfather found out about it, he got furious and no one said anything to him anymore.

But he has a good memory and still remembers it now.

The Jiang family in Fengqiao Village is not my father’s home. There are no good people there.

After glaring at Jiang Xinyi again, Qiqi put away his knife and jumped into the car, followed closely by Jiji. Then the car door was slammed shut.

Jiang Xinyi was stunned on the spot, and didn't react for a long time. Then she lowered her eyes to hide the gloom that flashed across her eyes.

This little bastard is as hateful as his parents. He is really not likable at all!

"Go back quickly. Be careful next time and don't recognize relatives so carelessly."

Children don't lie. If Qiqi says he hasn't seen him, then he really hasn't seen him. But this woman actually acted so familiar, as if the relationship between the aunt and nephew was very close. This made Li Nan have to wonder if this woman's relationship with Jiang Minglang was more than just very bad?
Otherwise, with Jiang Minglang's temperament, he wouldn't have given her a bad look.

Once tonight's matter is over, I'll have someone look into it carefully tomorrow when I'm free.

At the same time, Lao Sheng and Bai Yang, who were responsible for tracking eastward, also encountered trouble.

Since both of them were speed oriented, they simply followed the wheel tracks eastward at the beginning.

The east and west sides of Pengcheng are different. In addition to large tracts of fields and villages on the west side, there are four county towns belonging to Pengcheng further west, southwest and northwest.

But the east is completely different.

There are two mountains behind the Baiguo Garden. One of them was contracted to plant tea trees before the end of the world. Although the quality of the tea grown in Pengcheng's soil and water is quite average, it is very productive. Maybe the land on the mountain is also fertile, so the tea trees can grow lush and leafy without much care, and a lot of money can be made just by selling in large quantities.

There is another mountain to the north of the tea mountain. This mountain is almost entirely made of stone. It belongs to the public and no one has contracted it.

Only twenty miles east of the two mountains and the white fruit orchard is the national highway, and then the expressway. The other side of the expressway belongs to another city.

Flower City.

Lao Sheng and Bai Yang tracked the car all the way to the highway. Seeing the wheel marks entering Huacheng, the two did not continue chasing and instead returned to Yunxi Village.

But not long after they returned, about half an hour later, two cars suddenly arrived at the gate of Yunxi Village.

When Lao Sheng saw the two cars stopped at the village gate, his expression changed immediately.

Ren Bin scolded him, "You didn't even notice that someone was following you?"

Before the end of the world, he was in charge of reconnaissance. The scout failed to detect the situation and was instead followed. It's so embarrassing to even talk about it.

"I'll go take a look."

Old Sheng rushed to the gate with a dark face.

"Damn it, be steady and don't be impulsive!"

Ren Bin was afraid that he would get so angry that he would start fighting with others, so after giving him some advice, he quickly went to inform Du Qiyan.

At that time, in order to drink some good tea, Du Qiuyan was picking tea leaves with Bai Xiangtian, planning to fry them in the evening.

After hearing Ren Bin's report, he immediately put down what he was holding and stood up.

"I will go with you."

Bai Li immediately took a long-sleeved shirt from the clothesline in the yard and put it on as she walked.

"I'll go as well."

Cheng Siyun immediately ran back to the room to get her knife, and at the same time told Youyou to follow her, "Auntie will go out and beat the bad guys, Youyou will stay at home and be good with Grandpa and Grandma, okay?"

I thought I would have to give her some more advice, but after I said that, Youyou actually nodded immediately, then walked to Old Mrs. Bai and held her hand.

Bai Li and Cheng Siyun both showed a flash of surprise in their eyes. This child's performance was becoming more and more like that of a normal child. From now on, as long as he opened his mouth to speak, he would be almost recovered.

After the two followed Du Qiuyan out, Xia Min, Liu Er and others followed behind them soon.

Although Lao Sheng was furious, he did not open the door rashly. When the other party knocked on the door and said they were looking for the person in charge, he turned around and asked for their information.

"We came from Huacheng. We heard that you have food here, so we wanted to ask if we can exchange it. You can set the conditions. We will take as much food as you have."

The other party spoke gently and with a sincere tone, as if he really came here to purchase food.

"You should believe in our sincerity. The defense army is not far from here. You can say that this is the safest place. No one would be so blind as to have any evil intentions."

Lao Sheng sneered, "No bad intentions? Then why are you following me? And you're so sure we have surplus food!"

"Brother, are you the boss? If not, please ask your boss to come out. We are here to discuss business, not to quarrel."

"We have no business to discuss with you, leave now."

"Can you make the decision?"

Lao Sheng was just about to say "yes" when Du Qiyan, Bai Li and others came over.

He briefly described the situation, then lowered his voice to emphasize, "Although there were only two cars, there were fourteen people."

Seven people in one car?
Lao Sheng has his own way of judging the number of people, and Bai Li has no doubt about it.

The door opened, Bai Li and Du Qiuyan took Lao Sheng and Ren Bin out first, while the others stayed inside, waiting for instructions.

As soon as she stood at the door, Bai Li noticed that at least half of the people on the opposite side were looking at her.

She frowned slightly, somewhat displeased.

Only four people came out of the two cars, and the others were still staying in the cars, making it a one-to-one ratio with them.

But you all came to our door to provoke me, and I still want to fight you one on one?

What a joke!

So when the other party looked at her and Du Qiuyan and had no time to speak, several vines suddenly appeared beside the two cars, and with a few whooshes they tied the cars tightly from bottom to top, especially the doors, which were tied with several vines. Without her instructions, it would be difficult to open them.

The four people outside the car changed their expressions suddenly. They glared at Du Qiuyan, Bai Li and the other three, and were not sure who was using such wood-related abilities.

The man standing at the front quickly regained his composure and asked calmly, "Excuse me, what does this mean?"

Bai Li didn't say anything, while Du Qiyan pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose and said in a friendly manner, "That's what you mean. If you want to do business with us, you have to follow our rules."

"Your rules? What rules?"

"Please hand over your weapons first."

The other party laughed when he heard this. He looked at Du Qiyan and asked in a deep voice, "Brother, do you know that this is the end of the world?"

"of course."

"Since you know it's the end of the world, what's the difference between you confiscating our weapons and taking our lives?"

　good night!
　　(End of this chapter)