Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 90 Growing up
Jiang Minglang looked up at the sound and saw a head sticking out of the window on the second floor of the pharmacy next door. The hair was messy and greasy, and the face was pale and disheveled.

"It's me, Minglang. I'm Qirui, Yan Qirui. Don't you remember me?"

Yan Qirui saw that Jiang Minglang was looking at him without any reaction and thought that he didn't recognize him.

This is not surprising. Although they can be considered childhood friends, their relationship is average and they haven't seen each other for almost ten years. It is normal that they don't recognize each other at first sight.

He had been looking at him at the window for a long time before he recognized him.

I have to say, Jiang Minglang hasn't changed much after so many years, except that he has become more stable.

"Remember, what were you doing up there?"

Of course Jiang Minglang recognized his childhood friend. The reason why he didn't agree immediately was just his habit.

When faced with uncertain people and things, he is accustomed to examining them first and then making decisions.

"I hurt my leg, so I had no choice but to hide here."

Yan Qirui had a bitter face, but when he looked at Jiang Minglang, there was hope in his eyes, "Minglang, can you help me? I have been hiding here for more than ten days. If I continue hiding, I will starve to death."

Fortunately, he hid on the second floor of the pharmacy, because it happened to be a warehouse. He had no food, so he spent these days drinking various oral liquids here, especially cough syrup, which was sweet but full.

Are there any side effects?

He tried his best to find oral liquid for children, but he didn't feel anything.

But the question is, who can stand taking medicine all day long?

It would be fine if I had a bag of saline solution to change the taste, but I don't have any.

There is also an advantage. Drinking more of the medicine has an anti-inflammatory effect, and my legs are not as swollen anymore, but I still can't walk.

After hiding for so many days, he finally saw someone he knew today. If Jiang Minglang didn't help him, he would really be in despair.

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He knew that Jiang Minglang didn't want to go back to Fengqiao Village, so asking him to send him back was a bit unreasonable.

But he could no longer live in the residence in the urban area of Pengcheng, and he had nowhere to go except his hometown.

What's more, his wife and children are all in his hometown.

"Well, you take me to the village entrance and I'll find a way to get in by myself, okay?"

Bai Yang listened from the side and finally realized that the man was from the village of his brother-in-law's parents.

He frowned and whispered to Jiang Minglang, "It's better not to help, just in case..."

He thought how disgusting it would be if he ran into the Jiang family, a bunch of bastards, and they were dirty just to look at them.

Jiang Minglang also whispered, "He was the one who sent me a message to inform me when my grandma passed away."

It's ironic that the old lady wanted to see Jiang Minglang before she died, but no one in the Jiang family came to look for him.

As a result, the old lady died with her eyes open.

Although Yan Qirui informed her late, it was because he knew about it late. When he was on a business trip, he called his mother and heard that Grandma Jiang had passed away and was buried today, but Jiang Minglang was not there.

However, the Jiang family stated that they had informed Jiang Minglang, but he said he was busy and would not come back to attend his grandmother's funeral.

The villagers had no idea what the truth was, so they thought the old lady had raised an ungrateful boy, and they left without coming back to see her.

Yan Qirui felt something was wrong after hearing it from his mother. He felt that Jiang Minglang was not that kind of person.

He first called him, but no one answered, so he sent a text message, "Did you know that your grandma passed away?"

Jiang Minglang was shocked when he saw this message when he returned to the dormitory after training.

It was at that time that he completely broke off relations with the Jiang family.

After that, he and Yan Qirui were still ordinary childhood friends, but not very close.

But Jiang Minglang knew that he owed him a favor.

"dad"

Jiang Minglang turned around, and Bai Xiangtian waved his hand and said, "Go ahead. Xiao Yang and I will take him in when we get to Fengqiao Village. You wait outside."

Jiang Minglang really wanted to say no, because his severance of ties with the Jiang family didn’t mean he was afraid of seeing them.

But he knew that this was Bai Xiangtian's good intention. He didn't want him to meet those people because he didn't want him to recall the bad past.

Fine
Jiang Minglang went to the second floor and looked at Yan Qirui's legs. He had sharp eyes and could tell at a glance that he was beaten. Fortunately, the bandage was very professional and he even put on a splint himself. Then he remembered that he was studying medicine at the time, but it seemed to be a laboratory test major in a junior college.

It is precisely because he has been in the hospital for more than ten years that Yan Qirui is able to deal with his injuries very well.

Jiang Minglang carried him onto the truck, and just as he put him down, he saw Bai Yang carrying out a mountain bike from the pet shop they had just visited. It was black and looked very cool.

The important thing is that there is a seat at the back.

He smiled and said to Jiang Minglang, "Brother-in-law, I will use this to send your friend back to the village later. You and uncle will wait outside."

The bike is good, there is no sound when riding it.

"Qi Rui, we still have to go to the cement and steel factory before we can send you back."

Yan Qirui hurriedly said, "Minglang, you don't need to explain to me, just follow your own plan, and send me off when you go back."

He originally wanted to say that it was on the way, but just as he was about to say it, he remembered that Yunxi Village, where Jiang Minglang's father-in-law's home was located, was not on the same way as Fengqiao Village.

Walking from Pengcheng to the suburbs, a wide road separates the north and south ends, Yunxi Village is in the north and Fengqiao Village is in the south.

One is in the south and the other is in the north, which doesn't seem to be in the same place at all.

He was very embarrassed.

But there is nothing we can do.

If he missed Jiang Minglang today, he might be dead.

Bai Xiangtian knew the approximate location of the cement factory, but he had never been there.

When we built the house and cold storage at home, we contracted them out to someone else. The contractor was introduced by Xiang Qian. He was a real man and I could trust him.

I don’t know if he is still alive after the end of the world.

People might really be muttering to themselves. When Bai Xiangtian found the cement factory and just arrived at the gate, he saw more than a dozen zombies staggering inside the closed door. Among them was a short man with ragged clothes and a pale face. He was the contractor who helped him build the villa.

Ugh.
"Let's go, let's go back today."

Since he was driving the harvester, he couldn't drive the cement factory's truck to transport cement, so he could only come and take a look today and come back tomorrow to transport cement.

His own truck was almost full of diesel, and with a thresher and the bicycle that Bai Yang put on it, it was almost full too.

And he wanted to get some more gasoline.

Most gas stations were robbed, but there were always some that slipped through the net.

They planned to search one by one along the way.

"Minglang, I know a place that has gasoline. I'll take you there."

Yan Qirui then said, "The director of our hospital department and his brother-in-law have teamed up to form a fleet of large trucks that are specially used to transport dangerous goods. They also consume a lot of fuel. So every few months he would get a warehouse full of gasoline to store it, so that the large trucks don't have to spend extra money to go to the gas station to refuel.

I remember that he had just started to get gas three days before the end of the world." So under the leadership of Yan Qirui, they successfully found the director's fleet and the warehouse where the gasoline was stored.

Finally, Bai Xiangtian drove away a large truck inside and placed all his harvesters and gasoline in the warehouse on it.

The two trucks rumbled out of the city one after the other. When they reached the intersection leading to Yunxi Village, Jiang Minglang changed his mind.

"Qi Rui, come back with us first. I'll drop off the truck and use a car to take you."

"Sure, it's up to you."

There are so many things to pull that most people may not be very interested in what's in his car.

It’s just that trucks make too much noise, and it’s really inconvenient to drive around.

Yan Qirui naturally had no objection at all. As a freeloader, he just accepted whatever others did.

What's more, he also ate the two pancakes that Jiang Minglang put in the thermal box.

Oh, he never knew that a simple scallion pancake could be so delicious. It is simply a delicacy and a treasure in the world.

It should be the lunch prepared by his wife.

Yan Qirui had heard that Jiang Minglang's Yue family was very kind to him, and he was truly happy for him.

When Jiang Minglang was young, he became a bit dull and introverted due to his parents' favoritism and dislike for him, and he couldn't play with them.

Of course, he didn't have time to play.

When he was in elementary school, he would go to the fields after school to either help his grandmother or his mother.

Yan Qirui remembered that his mother criticized him when she came home, saying that he didn't have good grades like Jiang Minglang, nor was he as diligent and sensible as him.

It's just quite pitiful.

Because whenever he made the slightest mistake while helping his mother with her work, his mother would start swearing at him, and everyone in the entire field could hear it.

Do you expect a child who is not even ten years old to act like an adult?
It's good enough that you can help. Have you ever seen a child of this age working in the fields?
But it was obvious that Jiang Minglang's mother didn't think so.

She felt that Jiang Minglang should do his job well, and if he didn't, he should just get out. Why was he making trouble?

Some people in the village once suspected that Jiang Minglang was not his mother's biological son. Even Yan Qirui asked his mother, "He was picked up, right? Or was he born to a stepmother?"
But the facts prove that Jiang Minglang is his parents' biological son.

He is 30% like his mother, 50% like his father, and 20% like the best of both of them.

It is said that there is a reason why his parents treat him badly.

The two families lived not far from each other. Yan Qirui heard his mother mention it when he was young, but he was less than ten years old at that time and forgot it after hearing it.

When Jiang Minglang was in high school, his mother went to the school and asked him to drop out. Not only was the school shocked, but even the people in his village found it unbelievable.

Crazy?

People with poor academic performance still let their children persist until the college entrance examination. Even if you can't get into an undergraduate program, you can go to a junior college, or at worst a technical school. At least you can get a diploma so that it will be easier to find a job in the future, right?

Even if you don't look for a job outside, you still have to go out to study and gain some experience. Wouldn't it be different when you come back?

After all, farming now requires culture, unlike before when just brute strength was enough.

But Jiang Minglang is among the top three in the whole grade in the school?

He's already in his third year of high school, and you want him to drop out of school at this time?

If you don't have a serious illness, you wouldn't do such a thing.

The high school principal was so angry that he went to find the village party secretary of Fengqiao Village, and the village party secretary was so angry that he went to find Jiang Minglang's father.

But what's the use?

People say that I am just taking care of my own children. What does it have to do with you?

Finally, Jiang Minglang's grandmother took a bottle of pesticide to his parents' house and chased his father to force the pesticide into his mouth.

The old lady argued, "What's wrong with me killing my child? You came out of my belly, and if I don't want you to live, you have to die!"

At that time, the old lady was still in good health. She chased Jiang Minglang's father desperately. No one in the village tried to stop him. Not only did no one try to stop him, but someone even tripped him on purpose when he was running, and mocked him, "Didn't you say whoever gave birth to a child should take care of him? Why don't you accept that your mother is in charge of you? Why are you running? Aren't you your mother's biological child?"

Of course the pesticide wasn't actually poured in, but the old lady was still splashed all over.

Jiang Minglang's mother didn't dare to make trouble again, and the matter of dropping out of school was over.

Later, Jiang Minglang took the college entrance examination and was admitted to a military academy in advance.

Yan Qirui's parents were extremely envious.

Not only his parents, but all the parents in the village whose children are taking the college entrance examination are envious.

Yan Qirui was also envious, but he also knew that he didn't have the brains and was unwilling to work hard, so he was destined to never achieve the same success and achievements as others.

So I am envious, but not jealous.

After all, Jiang Minglang's life is so difficult. If he doesn't rely on himself to make a difference, what will he do in the future?
Like Yan Qirui, he studied in college for three years, and as soon as he graduated he went to work in the hospital that his father had found for him through his connections, and his father also bought him a small three-bedroom house in the city as a wedding house.

Most of these people have parents who take care of their future and marriage, but Jiang Minglang doesn't have that, so he can only rely on himself.

Later he asked his mother again, and was really speechless after hearing the reason.

It turned out that in the month when Jiang Minglang was born, his father got up early to deliver vegetables to the city and was hit by an off-road vehicle, breaking one of his ribs.

His mother went to the hospital to see his father before she finished her confinement and was beaten up by a group of people.

After beating the fat woman who was the leader of the group, she realized she had hit the wrong person. It was not her husband's mistress.

But they ran away without any apology or medical expenses.

His mother stayed in the hospital for five days before returning home.

That night after I got home, I was making milk powder for him without watching my feet, and I tripped over a stool and hit my head against the corner of the table, and fainted again.

I was injured twice and was hospitalized twice during the month of confinement.

After finally leaving the confinement period, his father also recovered and was discharged from the hospital. However, when he got home and was about to get off the tricycle, his hand that was holding the handle of the tricycle slipped, and he fell headfirst on the concrete floor in the yard.

I almost died that time.

So people who had just been discharged from the hospital returned to the hospital.

Jiang Minglang was taken care of by his grandmother during that month. His aunt felt sorry for her mother and, as she had nothing to do during that time, she took him to her home.

His aunt took care of him for a month, and when she saw that his second brother and his wife were well again, she decided to send Jiang Minglang back.

But his mother refused to answer.

"Sister, this child is incompatible with both of us. You see how much trouble has happened to our family since I gave birth to him? Your second brother and I have never been healthy, but as soon as you took him away, we both got better. Nothing has happened in the past month. We are finally safe. Otherwise, why don't you raise him? Anyway, your two children are grown up, so it doesn't matter if you raise one more.

If you really don’t want to keep him, just give him away.”

At that time, Jiang Minglang's parents firmly believed that this son was born to be unlucky for them, so they could not let him stay at home and had to send him away.

In the end, Jiang Minglang's grandmother refused and kept Jiang Minglang to be raised by her side.

　happy weekend!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)