Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 91 Good idea

Bai Xiangtian was stopped on the way home.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun had not yet set, and the orange-red glow filled the entire orchard. From afar, white, pink and red flowers appeared and disappeared in the sea of green, full of vitality.

Bai Xiangyuan and two middle-aged men from the village stood under a sign with the three big characters "Baiguoyuan" and stared at the sea of flowers in a trance.

When Bai Xiangtian came back from military service that year and said he wanted to contract the orchard, he was not optimistic. But at that time, their relationship was still good, and he still supported his decision as before.

Anyway, on the surface, he is just his best cousin.

So he accompanied him to go through the procedures for leasing the land. Seeing Bai Xiangtian spending all his retirement pay on the orchard, he felt a little bit sorry for him and wanted to persuade him to keep some so that he wouldn't lose everything and be left with nothing.

Yes, he didn't think highly of him.

Although my second uncle's family lives in Yunxi Village, they are not actually registered in the countryside and they don't have any land. The two acres of land at home still belong to their grandparents, and they grow vegetables there.

So he didn't think Bai Xiangtian knew how to farm. Helping to tend the vegetable garden when he was a child was nothing.

But I didn't expect that he would actually succeed.

After several years of hard work and huge investment, all expenses were later supported by Bai Xiangqian's salary.

But he made his money back in the first year of bearing fruit.

Hard work always pays off. He insists on being purely natural and uses pesticides to kill insects in the early stages, but not after the fruits are harvested.

Therefore, Bai Xiangtian’s fruits sold very well. After he became famous, people from Pengcheng drove here to pick them.

That's why he put up a "White Orchard" sign here to prevent people from the city from getting lost.

Bai Wei persuaded him to invest.

How to enter?
The initial investment has been completed and the fruit trees have grown. He couldn't do such a shameless thing, so he didn't mention it.

Bai Wei also wanted him to tell Bai Xiangtian that he would help him deliver the goods, and if anyone called to order fruit, he would deliver it for them.

It's always better to have your own people do this kind of work rather than having outsiders do it.

At that time, he had not yet opened a flour mill for his son. In fact, it was not just a small workshop.

So he was tempted. When he went to find Bai Xiangtian, he was on the phone and his second uncle happened to be there. He knew that as long as he mentioned it to his second uncle, he would definitely agree.

This is true.

Bai Xiangtian also agreed.

But who could have thought that this son was so disappointing that he was fired by Bai Xiangtian after only working for half a month.

The reason was that when delivering fruits to customers, he withheld a few boxes and sold them privately, and told the customers that there were not enough today and they would be replenished in a few days. But when he returned, he told Bai Xiangtian that the customers found some rotten fruits inside after opening them, so he gave them two more boxes as compensation.

Bai Xiangtian paid someone to pick the fruits and put them into boxes. Some of the fruits might not look bad when they were first picked, but the badness might show up half a day later.

So the first time Bai Xiangtian didn't doubt it and believed what he said.

But unexpectedly, Bai Wei was too greedy. After seeing Bai Xiangtian never doubting him once or twice, he deducted more and more from him, until one time he said there were ten boxes of rotten fruits.

Bai Xiangtian glanced at him at that time, and then called the client in front of him.

In just half a month, he secretly sold thirty boxes.

They paid him his salary and fired him immediately.

Bai Xiangyuan didn't say anything, but his wife He Hua went to his second uncle's house and made a scene, complaining that Bai Xiangtian was not polite. What was wrong with her nephew taking a few boxes of fruit?
It’s such a big orchard, and you’re not allowed to eat there, right?

So stingy?

Bai Xiangyuan actually regretted it a long time ago. He knew he should have stopped it, instead of letting his wife and son go to his uncle and aunt for every little thing and make a scene when they were dissatisfied.

As a result, the relationship between the two families became increasingly distant.

By now, I feel like I'm completely disconnected.

If Bai Xiangtian completely delegated power to Bai Li now, he had no doubt that this girl would do so.

The rumbling sound of the truck came closer and pulled Bai Xiangyuan back from his memories.

He turned his gaze from the orchard to the road and saw that Bai Xiangtian had gotten an extra-large truck from somewhere. The truck was covered with canvas and he didn't know what was inside.

He waved his hand to let Bai Xiangtian stop the car, and asked seriously, "Bai Li erected the earth wall beside the big pit. Did you ask her to do that?"

When he heard Chen Feng and others talking about it at noon, he thought they were talking nonsense. But when he got there in the afternoon, he was shocked and angry.

I am shocked because is there really someone in this world who can erect a wall with just a flip of his hand?

He didn't even have time to think about what this ability was, and then he was filled with boundless rage.

They are a village, a whole, but what does Bai Xiangtian mean by doing this? What does he want to do?
I wanted to go in and scold Bai Li, but there was a mud wall on the south side and I couldn't get in. There were fields on the west side, so I had to go a long way to get through the fields to his house.
This is the most convenient place to get in and out, and you can also pick some cherries from his cherry orchard.

If he remembered correctly, the cherries should be ripe now.

We have rice, flour, grain, oil, and vegetables at home, but there are no fruits.

But for some reason, a few broken vines and green leaves were blocking the way, preventing him from entering.

This is bullshit!

At the same time, he was also terrified, as he always felt that the world had become more and more bizarre and incredible since the end of the world.

He couldn't figure it out, but the wall problem still had to be solved.

Since I couldn’t go in to find litchi, I had no choice but to call two helpers from the village to wait for Bai Xiangtian here together.

In fact, they were also scared while waiting. The village next door was not like theirs. They had Bai Xiangtian to help clean up the zombies, which was quick and safe.

The other survivors in the village had little trouble.

Other villages started cleaning up a little later than them, and often more than a dozen people would fight one zombie, and then they would quickly run away before other zombies caught up with them.

Not only is the speed slow, but some people are afraid of being bitten because they run too slowly, so there will be some casualties in dealing with the zombies.

So don’t think that out of the more than 700 people in their village, only 180 were left in the end, as quite a lot of them died.

But if you knew that some villages have no one left, either dead or turned into zombies, and the entire village is extinct, then you would not think that many people died in their village.

For example, Yuehe Village across the road, although there is a piece of land separating it from their village, the intersection leading to this side was blocked by Bai Xiangtian using an iron gate that he had dismantled from somewhere and stones.

But standing on the road, they could still vaguely see the zombies dangling behind the iron gate. The hoarse sound and the bang bang sound of hitting the iron gate made Bai Xiangyuan and the other two nervous and a little scared.

They didn't have empty hands, they all had knives in their hands.

But even so, I couldn't relax.

While whispering about the vines blocking the road, they were anxiously waiting for Bai Xiangtian.

Finally, I'm back.

“I asked you to put it up.”

"Uncle Bai."

Bai Xiangtian wanted to say something else when he saw a familiar figure running out from the intersection and waving to greet him.

He called out, "Dazi, drive the car in."

Bai Xiangtian got out of the car and asked Zhang Shaoda to drive the truck away.

Then Bai Xiangyuan watched Jiang Minglang's comrade-in-arms reverently take one end of the vine blocking the intersection from the wire mesh on one side, and then carefully hang it on the other side.

After that, he stroked the leaves, which were bigger than his palms, twice, just like petting a dog.

He seemed to be mumbling something, but I couldn't hear it clearly because of the distance.

Then the foul-mouthed guy strode over and quickly drove away in his truck.

Jiang Minglang, who was in a truck behind him, came up to him and greeted him, but he ignored him.

Then he heard Bai Yang yelling, "Uncle, is there something wrong with your ears? Didn't you hear my brother-in-law calling you? If that's the case, I won't have to stop and say hello to you in the future."

Bai Xiangyuanqi's face turned pale.

Bai Xiangqian didn't respect his cousin very much, and Bai Yang, as his son, was even more so. Perhaps to distinguish him from his own uncle, the kid had been called "cousin" since he was ten years old.

He was afraid that others didn't know that he was a cousin, not a relative.

Not as good as Baili.

"Xiang Qian is a teacher, but he taught his own son to be like this?"

After both trucks passed, several people standing on the side of the road were sprayed in the face by the exhaust fumes.

Bai Xiangyuan's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He didn't know if it was because of anger or the exhaust gas, but it looked extremely ugly.

"Why are you arguing with a child?"

Bai Xiangyuan choked and inexplicably remembered that he had said this to his cousin because of Bai Wei before.

What I mean is, how can you, as an adult, get so serious with a child?
When he said this for the last time, Bai Wei seemed to be twenty-three years old, older than Bai Yang is now.

"Let me tell you about the wall,"

Bai Xiangtian didn't want to waste time, he said briefly, "I have a lot of land, I must protect my things. So I will put up walls in front, behind, left and right. As for how the village is, that's your business. You also have land and orchards, it's not impossible to build walls, it depends on how you plan. But you should know that I didn't have much sense of belonging to Yunxi Village before, and I don't have it now, so don't tell me that we are one.

You have time to come to me, why don't you plan how to surround the village and how to ensure your own safety to the greatest extent. You can't always rely on others. The only person you can always rely on in this world is yourself."

When they heard Bai Xiangtian say that he had no sense of belonging to the village, the three of them looked unhappy.

Yes, the Bai family had been harassed by the villagers before, and even their old house had been smashed. But wasn't that caused by the times? How could we blame the villagers?

It also affects future generations
But didn’t you, the Bai family, become the village party secretary?
Can't we just turn the page on this?
"Xiangtian, we are all from the same village, and most of the land you have contracted belongs to our village, so how can this be..."

A middle-aged man who was with Bai Xiangyuan forced a smile and talked to the thigh he wanted to hug in a gentle voice, "You have a lot of land, and I completely understand that you want to protect us in this way, but... can you change the position of the wall? There are less than 100 people left in our village. If you surround the whole village, everyone can help those who need help in the orchard and vegetable garden in the back, right? Otherwise, it will be difficult for you to find people when the time comes."

"That's right, Xiang Tian, we all grew up together, especially Xiang Yuan, who is your cousin and the village chief. You used to support his work so much, but now there are only a few people left in the village, and everyone follows him as the leader. If you protect the village, you are also protecting him. Besides, it's just building a wall, so it doesn't matter where you build it, right?"

The other person quickly continued his companion's words and said, "The world is in such a mess right now. Although you are powerful and capable, you have a small family after all. When your orchard is harvested, if someone comes to rob it, won't we be able to increase our strength with more people?"

"That's right. You can also form a team from young people and train them specially. They can also help you out when the time comes. This is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone. Right?"

The three men were indeed village cadres who had worked for many years. In such a short time, they came up with several tempting suggestions.

Okay, you have a flexible mind.

Bai Xiangtian smiled and nodded, "Okay."

"Hey, that's right, let's..."

"I used to worry about your disunity. A hundred or so people isn't a lot, but it's not a small number either. If you continue to live like a pile of loose sand, you'll either turn into zombies or starve to death. Now it seems that my worries were completely unnecessary. You have your own ideas, and you can do whatever you want."

He looked at the three of them with approval. It was clearly a compliment, but the three of them always felt their scalps tingling. And he meant...was he refusing to go with them?

It should be, right?
Bai Xiangyuan was about to ask something, but Bai Xiangtian continued:

"I have a suggestion. You can use the bricks from the abandoned houses to build a wall around the village, and then leave a gate at the southern intersection. It doesn't matter if the land and orchard are outside. You can go together to clean up the land during the day when it is safe. Harvest when it is time to harvest, and plant when it is time to plant. In any case, self-sufficiency can be achieved.

Oh, and Bai Xiangyuan, don't you have a flour mill? Move the machines in it to the village, so that as long as there is wheat, you won't have to worry about flour. And then, as Chen Jian said, form a team from the young people, so that you won't be afraid of someone coming to rob you in the future.

As neighbors, we can also exchange supplies and try to survive in this chaotic world!"

After Bai Xiangtian finished speaking, he patted the shoulders of the three of them one by one, then turned and left.

When Bai Xiangtian disappeared from their sight, the three of them came to their senses and looked at each other.

"Well, he wants us to build the wall ourselves?"

"Isn't it obvious? He never agreed to be with us. He still wants to leave us alone and become independent. Xiang Yuan, do you want to go find your second uncle?"

"What are you looking for?"

Bai Xiangyuan was different from the other two. He was moved by what Bai Xiangtian said.

The village is surrounded and becomes a self-contained entity.
The key point is that in this way, he is still the leader and boss of the village.

But if he is with Bai Xiangtian, he will definitely be inferior to him.

During this period, although everyone still habitually went to him when they had something to do, they would always add at the end, "Why don't you ask your cousin? See what he thinks."

So it is a good idea for them to form a group and simply be neighbors with Bai Xiangtian and his friends.
　That’s the end of today, see you all tomorrow!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)