Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 164: Carriage, Not Enlightened

The cabin is obviously a house for raising horses. Not far in front of the house there is a replica of an ancient horse-drawn carriage, which is obviously used to attract passengers.

"I've taken that carriage before. It costs eighty dollars for ten minutes. It's really expensive."

Hearing this, Bai Li couldn't help but laugh.

When their family of three came to play, the ticket to Longbei Mountain was 60 yuan. Jiang Minglang and Qiqi were exempt from the charge, but she was the only one who bought a ticket. In the end, she spent 80 yuan for a ten-minute carriage ride at the foot of the mountain.

She didn't think there was anything wrong with it. It was like that at all tourist attractions. Which of the attractions was cheap?
But the little one was particularly impressed. Riding a horse carriage is more expensive than going up the mountain. Is that reasonable?

The two horses were used to pull the carriage. Qiqi stared at the carriage and blinked. Then, imitating his uncle, he touched Xiaopang's chin and said, "It would be great if we could take both the horse and the carriage away. Then we can drive the carriage when we go out, and we don't have to waste gasoline."

"That makes sense. So are you sure you can get it? Uncle will go with you."

Bai Yang has a mysterious confidence in his nephew's ability to conquer animals.

Although the little rascal is always very naughty, he has a kind nature and treats animals almost the same as people, so cats and dogs are so close to him.

Spiritual animals can sense whether humans are truly nice to them or not. Bai Yang believes that these two horses are probably the same.

"Mom, among the food we brought, is there anything that horses like to eat?"

What do horses like to eat?
Grass and barley, grain?
They didn't have these three things, but they had corn and carrots. Old Mrs. Bai was afraid that the children would lack vitamins, so she took some from the cold storage and gave them to take with them.

Bai Li took out the two things, put four of each in a bag, handed them to Qiqi, and warned, "Be careful, if they resist too fiercely, forget it."

When Jiang Minglang and his team came to clean up the town a few days ago, they did not see these two horses, which means that they were hiding at the time and must be very sensitive to strangers.

As for why they didn't hide today, Bai Li thought that it might be because they were with several children, dogs and birds, which might not pose such a big threat to the horses.

Otherwise, the horse halfway up the mountain wouldn't be staring at them.

Except for the driver Cheng Siyun, everyone got out of the car. However, only Bai Yang and Qiqi slowly approached the horse in the cabin. Bai Li and Xi Shuang stood in front of the RV with Jiji, observing quietly.

The mutated horse was at least half a meter taller than an ordinary horse. Qiqi had to look up at the horse's face before he even got close. Bai Yang didn't bring a knife, but he was on guard, ready to take his nephew away at any time if the horse suddenly jumped up.

"This is a carrot, do you want to eat it?"

Qiqi stopped about three meters away from the mutant horse. Seeing that the horse showed no sign of retreating or attacking, he took out a carrot from the bag. As he handed it to the horse, a thin stream of water flowed out from his fingers, wrapping the carrot in front of the horse's mouth.

Bai Yang, who was standing next to him, wanted to grit his teeth just by looking at the trickle. The little troublemaker had practiced this trick to play a trick on him, either by wrapping a bug in it and stuffing it behind his neck, or by flicking a string of water droplets onto his crotch, making people mistakenly think that he had wet his pants.

The clear water brought the carrot to the horse's mouth, but the horse ignored the carrot and instead licked the water with its tongue.

Seeing that it liked water, Qiqi did not take away the carrot, but made the water flow a little thicker.

When the horse saw this, it started drinking in big gulps. After it was full, it opened its mouth, bit the carrot, and swallowed it in two crunches.

After eating, he looked at Qiqi again, and his eyes seemed to say: It’s too little, give me some more.

Qiqi fed it another corn. Seeing that it was happier eating corn than carrots, he said, "My food is not for free. If you want to continue eating, you have to follow me."

He didn't know if the horse understood or not. Its face was expressionless, and its eyes were calm as it looked at him. For a moment, Bai Yang thought that the person looking at them was not a horse, but a person.

This is fucked, this horse mutated and also turned its brain into a human’s?
About a minute later, the maned horse in front of him suddenly turned his head to look at Longbei Mountain, then raised its head and let out a "hui" cry towards the mountain.

The chestnut horse, which had been standing on a huge rock halfway up the mountain and watching them, heard the cry and first stepped twice on the rock with its front hooves, then turned around and leaped down the mountain.

Although the weather has changed a lot in the past few months, the soil of Longbei Mountain is probably special. Although the mountain is not lush and green, there are still many pines and cypresses. The bay horse jumped into the trees and disappeared quickly, but according to the shaking of the branches and the startled birds, it can be seen that it is running down.

Not long after, a chestnut horse that was slightly taller than the maned horse came up.

Seeing his companion coming down, the maned horse immediately turned his head to look at Qiqi, and his eyes seemed to say: Give me another portion of what you just had!
Qiqi followed the same method and wrapped a carrot in water and passed it to the chestnut horse's mouth. Just like the mane horse, the chestnut horse drank the water first and then ate the carrot.

Then Qiqi rolled another corn over, but before the corn reached the chestnut horse's mouth, it was intercepted by the mane horse. It opened its mouth wide and took the whole corn in its mouth, then chewed it quickly a few times and swallowed it.

Qiqi and Baiyang were both stunned, as was the red horse. They obviously hadn't expected that this guy could do this.

But after being stunned for a moment, the chestnut horse turned its gaze to Qiqi again. It was obvious that it still wanted it.

Qiqi was so angry that he raised his fat hand and pointed at the maned horse, "Why don't you beat it?"

Of course the bay horse couldn't answer him.

Qiqi rolled his eyes, and he wrapped two corns in water and hung them in the air, making it impossible for the two horses to reach them.

Then he said, "Let my uncle harness the wagon for you, and you can follow me. If you follow me, the corn will be yours."

Although Bai Yang had never harnessed a carriage before, he was good at hands-on work, and he had all the necessary equipment. After looking at it once and making some comparisons, he roughly knew what to do.

The two horses were focused on the corn in mid-air. Also, Qiqi's water was so sweet that they would lick it from time to time. When they finally came to their senses, they found themselves wearing saddles and carrying cart shafts.

Perhaps they were used to being trapped before, so after noticing it, the two horses did not resist much. They just tilted their heads in dissatisfaction, but then they were attracted by the corn falling from the air, and they opened their big mouths and bit the whole corn.

Kiki happily jumped onto the carriage, and together with Gigi and his uncle, they cleaned the carriage inside and out, leaving it spotless.

Youyou, who was standing by the car, wanted to help, but was stopped by Bai Yang. The little girl was wearing a pink down jacket today and was dressed like a little princess by Sister Siyun. How could she do any work?
"Wait, come up and sit down after the room is cleaned up."

Because they had food and water, the two horses did not mind the people approaching. After all, whether it was water or carrots and corn, they were better than the hay they had to chew on the ground in the mountains.

Besides, the child has no bad intentions, so it’s not impossible to follow him.

"Mom, we'll follow you in the carriage, okay?"

Because it is a horse-drawn carriage for tourists to use for sightseeing, it has a roof and fences on both sides of the seats, and is ventilated on all sides.

If you drive a carriage like this in such cold weather, you will catch a cold in no time.

But the children were all in high spirits at the moment, and Bai Li would not discourage their enthusiasm. Moreover, this was a carriage, and she wanted to ride it, too. So she, Bai Yang and Xi Shuang searched around for a piece of thick canvas, and found a few pieces of wood to make baffles, nailed the back and sides together, and connected them to the top. Then they found two new quilts from the bedroom closet of a neighboring family, spread them out and nailed them inside the carriage.

Finally, hang the canvas from the roof, open two small windows on both sides that can be opened and closed, and cut the two sides of the front to use as curtains.

Three adults and three children tinkered with it for more than an hour. The color of the canvas made the carriage look gray and a bit ugly, but it was no longer cold.

Even when the car is running, the wind cannot blow in, and the walls inside the car are covered with thick quilts, so it is warm just by looking at it.

It would be perfect if there was a small charcoal stove inside.

The only ones who will feel cold are those who are driving outside.

Fortunately, Bai Yang is young and can bear it.

But Bai Li still put the locomotive hat she brought with her on his head just in case, and with the addition of a mask and a scarf, his protective measures were pretty good.

The little ones got on the carriage happily. Bai Li sat with them for a while and then went back to the RV to accompany Cheng Siyun.

The carriage was left to the young people and children.

Bai Yang sat outside the carriage and drove the carriage. Actually, he didn't need to drive much. He just held the whip in his hand and waved it in the air. The two big horses would move when they heard the sound.

Qiqi reminded him again, "Follow the RV in front, and we'll give you corn to eat when we get there."

So he didn't need to whip the horse during the whole process. He just had to sit on it with his hands behind his back and keep his eyes on the direction.

Because he was outside, Xi Shuang stayed inside to accompany the three children.

In the RV in front, Cheng Siyun was chatting with Bai Li while driving, "You said Xiao Yang usually looks quite smart, why is he so stupid in this kind of thing? I've created so many opportunities for him, but he still hasn't reacted."

"As dumb as a pig." Bai Li was extremely disgusted with her brother for this. "Look at Xi Shuang, she's pretty and a top student. The key is that she has a good personality. She speaks when she should and doesn't say a word when she shouldn't. How nice."

Cheng Siyun couldn't help but burst out laughing. "This girl's social phobia is only an advantage in our eyes, but to others, she might be criticized as useless. Don't many boys' mothers often say things like 'not sweet at all' and 'no sense'? Fortunately, Second Aunt is not like that."

The reason why Bai Li fell in love with Xi Shuang was because her second aunt liked her.

Coincidentally, she also liked it.

After the mother and daughter discussed it, Bai Li later instructed Bai Yang to send things to Xi Shuang every now and then.

Unfortunately, her brother is a blockhead. Even though she did it so obviously, he was completely unaware. Once, he even complained about the girl eating durian.

What is this? "She actually said she likes to eat durian. She really likes it. I like it too."

Last time I asked her to deliver milk tea, her eyes lit up even though it was such a bad-tasting thing.

This bastard.
Cheng Siyun smiled and said, "Why don't you just be frank with Xiao Yang and ask him if he likes Xi Shuang. If he does, then pursue him. If not, then forget it."

"Do you think I don't want to make it clear to him? The boy's rebellious period came a little late. Now the more you want him to do something, the more he goes against you, especially when it comes to such an important matter in life. So I thought about letting them interact more and see if they can develop feelings for each other. If they can, that's the best, but if not, there's nothing we can do about it."

"By the way, I haven't seen Yan Zhu much recently. Has she given up on Bai Yang?"

Yan Zhu is Yan Qirui's cousin. The Yan family came to Yunxi Village a long time ago. Yan Zhu was in the same grade as Bai Yang in high school. Although they were not in the same class, they knew each other. Out of consideration for his classmate, when Yan Zhu came to him with problems at the beginning, he would help her solve any problem he could.

After a few interactions, Yan Zhu seemed to fall in love with Bai Yang.

But this guy was really stupid. The girl later frequently approached him and gave him many hints, but he didn't understand what she meant. He even said that Yan Zhu was a little stupid. She couldn't remember what he had told her twice and kept asking. Finally, he asked someone to prepare a notebook and write it down.

Cheng Siyun almost died of laughter when Yan Qirui talked about it, because he sometimes patrolled with the people from Yunxi Village.

Fortunately, the Yan family did not insist on confirming Bai Yang's feelings. Although they all knew about it, they did not take it too seriously. After all, if the two young people could get along, then they could, and if not, it didn't matter.

Bai Li had no feelings for Yan Zhu. How could she explain it? She felt that Yan Zhu was not her brother's type based on his taste.

Of course, this is not to say that Yan Zhu is not good-looking. On the contrary, the girl has a pretty face and is very beautiful.

But when people are attracted to each other, it’s not just about being good-looking; they also have to be pleasing to the eye and fit their own aesthetic taste.

For example, Xi Shuang, she grew up with her own aesthetic taste.

Of course, it’s useless even if she likes him. The key is that the brat has to wake up.

The two were very disappointed with Bai Yang in the car. In the carriage behind, Bai Yang shouted, "Little rascal, bring the thermos cup to your uncle."

After a moment, the canvas curtain that blocked the wind was lifted a little, and a thermos cup was handed to him.

Bai Yang grabbed it and also grabbed the hand on the thermos. It was cool and slippery, completely different from his nephew's chubby little hand which was always warm.

He was startled and looked down. He saw those slender white fingers. Is there any need to guess whose they belonged to?

"let go."

A cold and desolate voice was heard, and Bai Yang loosened his hand. He calmly opened the lid of the cup and drank a sip of hot water.

After thinking for a while, he turned around, lifted the curtain and asked, "Why are your hands so cold? They are even colder than mine sitting outside. Are you cold? If you are cold, go back to the car. Don't worry about the three of them. I can take care of them."

"I'm not cold."

"Then why are your hands so cold?"

"Because my constitution is a bit cold, my hands and feet don't get warm easily in winter."

The two of them asked and answered each other, and both the questions and answers were quite formal, without any awkwardness of young men and women touching hands.

It seems like that.

good night!