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After we were the only twenty or so survivors left, everyone seemed to be getting along like primitive people, and because of the lack of supplies, we all exchanged things for things.

There are no livestock to feed in our safe house, just seeds and some food.

The villagers raised chickens and ducks in their homes. These chickens and ducks almost didn't survive the second wave of zombie attacks. The villagers drove the chickens and ducks home and raised them for a few days, laying many eggs.

, duck eggs, and hatched chicks and ducklings.

The ducks like to swim in the water. When there is no water in the nearby river, they go to the ditch next to the wall to swim. As a result, they are eaten by the zombies wandering nearby, and there are not many left.

The villagers raised a lot of chickens, so we exchanged seeds for a lot of eggs with them.

Among the survivors was a single man named Lao Gao. He moved from who knows which village a few years ago. He was probably a distant relative of a family in Shangtian Village.

He gets up early every day and grows a lot of grain by himself. There is also a millstone at home to grind beans. On this day, we wanted to make some tofu ourselves, so a few of us went out to Lao Gao's house.

The weather was still very hot today, and the sun made people's skin extremely hot.

In the past, I was the only female in the village, so no one dared to let me go out alone. Now that Tian Li is here, the two of us often go out together, go up the mountain to pick bamboo shoots, and go to the fields in Shangtian Village to water and pull weeds.

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After getting along with each other for so long, the villagers have become familiar with us and often say hello to us.

We passed a villager on the way to Lao Gao's house and asked, "Where are we going?"

I replied: "Go to Lao Gao's house to grind beans!"

Looking at each other and smiling, I, Tian Li and Lin Kai continued walking to Lao Gao's house together.

When we were stocking up on supplies before, we stocked up on a lot of whole grains. This time we picked out most of the soybeans and made them into tofu to change the taste of the dishes.

My arm was injured, and Tian Li and Lin Kai refused to let me carry the basin of soaked soybeans. They each carried a plate, and there was still one plate left at home. Jia Yang and his father were preparing it in the backyard.

The big pot will be taken back to cook after we grind it.

Arriving at Lao Gao's house, Lin Kai shouted: "Lao Gao!" Lao Gao agreed.

"We'd like to borrow yours to grind some beans!"

"Okay! Okay! It's just a little dirty and needs water to rinse it." Lao Gao stood at the door.

"Okay, let's just come."

We fetched water to rinse the stone mill, and Lao Gao kept wandering at the door. The weather has been very hot recently, but Lao Gao kept standing at the door. I was a little strange, so I asked: "Lao Gao, what's wrong?"

Lao Gao rubbed his nose with his hand and said, "Hey, you used my things, so you need to exchange them with something..."

"Okay! What do you want to exchange when you see it?" I agreed readily. In the past, the things the villagers wanted to exchange were all things that were within our tolerance. Most of them wanted to improve the food or change the taste of the dishes.

After hearing this, Lao Gao laughed, turned around and went back to the house, and wiped his pants with his hands. I thought it was a little strange, but I didn't think much about it.

After we cleaned the stone mill, we started working.

I scooped up the soybeans and water, and Lin Kai grinded them. Tian Li brushed the soy milk from the stone mill with a bamboo sieve beside me.

After a while, we were so tired that we were sweating profusely, but we also prepared a pot of soy milk.

Lin Kai said that he would take the basin back first and let us wait here. Tian Li and I were a little tired, so we agreed to Lin Kai.

Lin Kai opened a basin of soy milk and carefully returned to the safe house.

At this time, Lao Gao came over and asked, "Are you thirsty?"

Tian Li quickly replied: "I'm really thirsty."

I was sweating all the time, and nodded to Lao Gao, "Me too, the weather is really hot!"

"I have some boiling water here. I'll pour it for you." Lao Gao turned around and walked toward the house.

Tian Li said: "Let me help you." He followed Lao Gao into the house.

I sat at the door waiting for Lin Kai to come back. I was worried about flies flying into the soybean water and chasing them away.

When Tian Li followed Lao Gao in, he could still hear the two of them talking, and there was laughter coming from the room.

Lao Gao asked Tian Li where she was from and how she got here, just like I asked Tian Li before. Tian Li answered them one by one.

Lao Gao also praised Tian Li for being diligent and not the kind of squeamish city girl. He said that all the city girls who came here to travel before looked down on him.

Listening to the content of their chat, I was also thinking back to the time when I first met Tian Li... But after a while, there was no sound.

I shouted a few words: "Pear! Pear! Is the water ready?"

"Lao Gao?! Aren't you pouring water?"

When I walked into the house, I didn't see Lao Gao and Tian Li.

I walked around the room, but there was no sign of a fight. The kettle and teacup were still on the table. Half of the water in the teacup was filled, and some water spilled out for some reason.

I hurriedly walked toward the back door, but I couldn't see the two of them. When I walked out, I saw Lin Kai coming with another basin of soybean water.

"Lin Kai, come quickly!"

Lin Kai was worried that the soybean water in the basin would spill out, so he was still walking slowly.

I quickly pulled Lin Kai over and asked him to put the soybean water on the ground first.

Lin Kai was still thinking about soybean water, "But the sun passed by and it was damaged."

I quickly pulled him into Lao Gao's house, and while searching, I described what had just happened.

"It's broken! There won't be zombies, right?!" Lin Kai guessed.

I started to beat my head, maybe there are zombies here too, so wouldn’t Shangtian Village be completely destroyed?! I haven’t seen any zombies in the past few days.

The continuous high temperature these days, and because of the last fire, all the zombies that were gathered near the wall moved outside. There were very few zombies in the village. I even thought that the zombies were going to be extinct.

"Probably not!" I recalled what I had just seen in Lao Gao's house. "There were no signs of fighting in the house. Were they taken away by someone?" I guessed.

There was only one family behind Lao Gao's house, so we hurried over and knocked on their door.

"Did you see Lao Gao and Tian Li just now?" Lin Kai asked anxiously.

The villagers' eyes were a little evasive at this time, and they did not dare to look directly into our eyes.

Does this person know something inside?!

We pressed the question several times, and the man turned his eyes to the back hill and said hesitantly: "You guys go to the back hill quickly, don't say it was me who said that..."

We couldn't care about anything else for the time being. The first priority now was to find Lao Gao and Tian Li. We didn't bother to notify Jia Yang and Dad, so we ran towards the back mountain.

We didn't go far when we heard Tian Li's cry. Along with crying, her voice was intermittent, as if someone was covering her mouth. She kept shouting "no" and "help".

We followed the direction of the sound and finally saw the two people on the ground.
Chapter completed!