Chapter 15:
Lin Ling pushed the tricycle and walked forward a few steps. Hearing a slight movement behind him, he looked around the corner with eyes full of wariness: "Come out!"
No one responded, only her voice echoed in the empty street. Lin Ling squeezed the stick she picked up just now, and walked a few steps towards the corner: "Don't hide, I've seen you."
There was still no movement at the corner, and it was so quiet that Lin Ling thought he had really heard the fault. When he walked to the corner, he saw a panicked little dirty face.
The child didn't expect Lin Ling to come over, so he quickly lowered his head in fright.
Although he only glanced at him, Lin Ling still recognized him. It was the child he rescued from two homeless people last night. Lin Ling looked at the little broken hat on the child's head, which was dirty and worn out. It was worn crookedly on his head.
Lin Ling frowned: "Why are you?"
The child lowered his head in embarrassment, holding a dirty old cloth bag tightly with his dark hands, as if he was very scared.
"What are you following me for?" Lin Ling is not a crazy villain, and he has no malice towards children, and of course he doesn't have much kindness, "Don't follow me."
The child didn't make a sound, still lowered his head and stared at his dirty shoes that were so worn out that his toes could be seen.
Lin Ling was not that kind, and didn't want to take a child on the road, so he said coldly: "Before it's still early, go back and find someone you know."
Speaking of this, Lin Ling thought of the homeless person last night, and warned again: "There are cannibals everywhere in this world, you stay away and don't get caught again."
A faint light flashed in the child's gloomy eyes, but he kept his head down, and Lin Ling didn't notice it.
After Lin Ling finished speaking, she turned around and walked back to the tricycle, pushing the tricycle forward.
Maybe it was discovered, and the child was no longer afraid, and stopped hiding, and just walked out with his shoes.
Lin Ling frowned and looked at the child, "Don't follow me."
The child lowered his head and said nothing.
"Are you dumb?" Lin Ling said with a sullen face, "Stop following me."
Lin Ling continued to walk forward, and the child followed her again. As soon as she stopped, the child also stopped, and she looked at the child very annoyed: "What exactly do you want? Do you still want to rely on me? ?”
The child is silent.
"I saved you, don't take revenge." Lin Ling lost patience with the child, glanced at a lamppost on the side of the road, and threatened the child: "If you follow me again, I will tie you up and hang you On a lamppost."
The intimidation worked, and the children didn't dare to keep up.
Lin Ling secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but seeing the child drooping his head as if frightened, he suddenly felt that he was a little too much?
He looked young, maybe about the same age as his younger brother at home. Thinking of his family members who were gone long ago, Lin Ling felt a pain in his heart, sighed softly, and took out the two leftover cooked The potato stuffed to the child: "Take it."
The kid didn't want it, but his stomach rumbled at the smell of potatoes.
"Take it." Lin Lingsai gave it to the child, "You save some food and go back to find someone you know well. If you don't have one, go to the safe zone. A child as young as you will be taken there."
"Get away from people, don't run out foolishly like today, and don't stay in the wild at night, try to find a house to hide, do you understand?" Lin Ling took one last look at the child: "Don't be here. Follow me!"
After Lin Ling finished explaining, she pushed the tricycle and walked forward. The child didn't follow, and disappeared into the street with two potatoes in her arms.
Little Green shook the leaves: He tricked you into taking away your potatoes.
Lin Ling looked back at the empty street: "I don't know."
Xiaolu poked Lin Ling's arm in disgust, idiot.
Lin Ling pursed her lips and said nothing. She pushed the tricycle and continued to search the remaining houses.
With the experience of finding seeds just now, Lin Ling went into the house and looked in the direction of the latrine at the back of the house. According to this rule, she really found a lot of cabbage seeds.
"Why are they all vegetable seeds? It would be great if there were grain seeds." Lin Ling said so, but she didn't dislike these vegetables at all. She put them all in her backpack and felt at ease when she carried them close to her body.
Little Green arched forward: keep looking.
"Okay." Lin Ling continued to walk along the street, and found a bicycle in a corner of a house. Except for the rust, everything else was intact.
Bicycles are a good means of transportation. Before the end of the world, colorful shared bicycles could be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys, but now they are almost invisible in the city. I don’t know if everyone thinks that driving is too congested, so they all run around on bicycles.
Lin Ling thought of his 300,000 mu of land, it would take time to go around it, and it is very convenient to have a bicycle, and the most important thing is that there is no need to use oil and electricity!
Lin Ling tied the bicycle to the tricycle, and the tricycle could no longer hold other large items. She looked at the time, and the sun was already in the west. She slowly pushed the bicycle and continued to walk outside the city. Heiqian rushed to the first place where he stayed overnight.
Afterwards, there was no further delay, and I rushed over the way I used to travel directly, and when it was dark, I arrived at the small broken house where I had stayed overnight.
The familiar people lit a fire, and then threw the raw potatoes into the fire, roasted for half an hour, and then the fragrance gradually wafted out.
Lin Ling pulled the potato out of the fire with a wooden stick. As soon as he reached out to pick it up, the potato scalded him and shook his hand.
Xiaolu leaned forward and backward laughing beside her: How stupid!
"You're stupid." Lin Ling blew a few more times, and after the pain was gone, she stretched out her hand towards the potato again.
This time she picked it up with a stick, gently blew on the plant ash on it, peeled off the charred outer shell, and the smell of roasted and slightly burnt potatoes spread on the surface, which made her stomach that could bear it any longer suddenly suddenly Gulu Gulu cried out.
"It's delicious." Lin Ling took a bite of the peeled part. It was delicious, soft and hot, so hot that she opened her mouth wide to **** in the cold air, and waited for the potatoes in her mouth to cool down before chewing and swallowing them.
Lin Ling continued to peel the shells, and said while eating: "This baked potato will be more fragrant with a little cumin powder and chili seedlings."
Little Green arched the backpack next to him, meaning that you can add it.
"It's easy to spill out after tearing it apart, so I don't want to tear it apart." Lin Ling didn't want to open the whole package of seasoning just because he was greedy for a moment. There are still a lot of potatoes at home, so it's not too late to go back and cook slowly.
Little Green shook the leaves indifferently: Whatever you want.
After eating the warm potatoes, Lin Ling felt warm all over, and then began to lean against the wall and close his eyes to rest his mind. There was a fire tonight, so it was better than last night.
After waking up the next day, Lin Ling extinguished the fire and continued on his way. On the way, he passed a river. The river had stopped flowing, but there were still green areas beside the river.
When Lin Ling came here, she planned to pull out some grass roots and plant them back, so when she got here, she stopped and dug up a bunch of grass roots, and picked up some tea tree fruits on the nearby hillside.
All the surrounding mountains are planted with tea trees, but due to the long drought and no rain, and no one to take care of them, the tea trees on the hillside are all withered and yellow. Fortunately, the fire 160 kilometers away did not burn, otherwise these places It will also turn black.
If possible, Lin Ling would like to change the land here, at least it has not been burned. The only disadvantage is that it is surrounded by mountains and the fields are scattered. Unlike the land allocated to her by the country, the fields are relatively small. It is concentrated and flat, and the surrounding mountains are just small hills, unlike the mountains nearby which are more difficult to climb.
Comparing these shortcomings with the land allotted to him by the country, Lin Ling instantly felt that his own land was quite good, and when the vegetation grew, it would definitely be better than here.
Thinking of this, Lin Ling was full of energy, and found a lot of fruits in the tea forest with the bag. In addition, he was afraid that the tea tree fruits would not germinate, so he dug some tea tree roots back.
After Lin Ling picked up the tea fruit, he started to walk back. There were a few small farm yards not far in front of him. Lin Ling saw that it was still early, so he went to have a look, just like a bandit entering a village, not letting go of any corners. .
Food must not be counted on. I can only see if there are other varieties of branches and seeds. After searching around, I picked up some unknown fruits. No matter what it is, I will take it back and plant it first.
Finally, I walked into a small courtyard with stone walls. It looked very simple from the outer wall, and it was also a relatively well-preserved small courtyard around.
After entering the small courtyard, he found that there were some flowers and plants planted in the corner of the yard, but due to the lack of water, there was only a pile of withered grass left. After taking a look, Lin Ling went directly into the house and found some flower seeds in the house.
In the apocalypse, everyone fights every day for a bite to eat, who has the leisure to grow flowers and enjoy them? Lin Ling twitched the corners of her lips, and threw the seeds into her bag, and when she had time to relax, she would plant a few flowers to have a look.
Lin Ling entered the house, and saw two skeletons in a room with pictures of old people hanging on them. There was an iron bolt inserted into the bones, which should have been dealt with after they turned into zombies.
The room was empty and there was nothing there, so she went to another room, which was a study room, and there were many photos hanging in it, as well as some outstanding teachers' certificates.
Lin Ling quickly guessed that the bones lying on the floor of the next room should be a couple of teachers. The study room was turned into a mess. She didn't have much hope at first, but in the end she found it from the drawer of the solid wooden table by the window. A lot of good stuff.
There is a radio in a drawer, which should be used by the elderly living in this house to listen to the news every day. Lin Ling pressed a few times casually, and a groove popped out of the radio, with a cassette inside.
"What is this?" Lin Ling was not very old before the end of the world. At that time, she was already exposed to digital copyright music, and she rarely saw such things as CDs and tapes.
Lin Ling rummaged through the drawer again, and found dozens of boxes in another drawer. On the surface of the boxes were written the playlists of Side A and Side B. There were more than 20 songs in total, some of which she had heard.
"So it's music on it." Lin Ling saw the tape for the first time, and felt a little strange, "I don't know if it can still be played."
Lin Ling checked the radio and found that it could be plugged in and put batteries in. It happened that she had a lot of batteries, so she could take them back and try them out.
So Lin Ling packed up the radio and all the tapes and moved them away.
Thinking that there will be music to listen to when going home, Lin Ling is in a good mood along the way. In this way, at noon on the ninth day she went out, she arrived at the land she was familiar with, but before entering the village, she had to get rid of a little tail: "You followed me all the way, why don't you come out?"