Due to the difficult road, they only traveled more than ten kilometers in an hour. By the afternoon, the team had not left Lancheng.
There were noises from time to time in the queue walking behind, and there were endless farcees of people getting hurt in order to snatch a piece of hard pancake. Wenwen sat on Ye Fu's legs, holding the window with her hands and looking outside.
At six o'clock in the afternoon, the motorcade suddenly stopped. Everyone got off the car and went to the toilet in the abandoned building next to it. There were also some unscrupulous people who squatted on the roadside and wanted to deal with it. They were whipped by a few big men who collected protection fees. I can only beg for mercy and leave.
"Dong dong dong..." The car window was slapped by a dirty hand. Ye Fu looked over and saw that the person tapping the window was an aunt in her forties or fifties.
"Give me something to eat. I'm so hungry that I can't stand it anymore. I'm old. Take pity on me. Give me a bite to eat." At the cars in front and behind, there were walking refugees rushing to beg for food.
There were only Ye Fu and Wenwen in the car. Everyone else had gone to the toilet. Naturally, she ignored them. She took out the pocket watch hanging around her neck and looked at the time. It was half past six. Qi Yuan and the others went to the toilet. It actually took half an hour.
As the window-patting continued, Ye Fu took a ball of tissue and stuffed it into Wenwen's ears, while he closed his eyes and began to rest.
All kinds of smells in the car were noisy together. Although the temperature had dropped, it was not very cool at 30 degrees. The smell of sweat, the smell of feet... was simply sour.
A few minutes later, Qi Yuan and the others came back. As soon as they opened the car door, they smelled the stench coming from inside, and their expressions were distorted.
"Open the window and let the smell out."
"No, if you open the window, someone will rush to beg for something and even grab something. Just be patient with it and open the window again while driving."
Officer Song handed the knife to Ye Fu and pointed to a building on the right.
"You go ahead. That building should be cleaner. I'll protect you from behind."
Ye Fu hugged Wenwen and quickly walked to the building on the right with his head lowered.
Some people were looking at the two of them along the way. Ye Fu showed the knife in his hand, and the other person looked away.
After finding a relatively clean room, Ye Fu leaned against the door and asked Wenwen to go to the toilet first. She took out a bottle of water from the space and took a big sip, which made her throat feel better.
Wenwen was very sensible. She didn't cry or fuss along the way, and she did whatever she was asked to do. After she came out, Ye Fu gave her two candies and asked her to eat them quickly, and put a board against the door. Feel free to go to the toilet in the back.
"Wenwen, is there any sound outside?" After settling the matter, Ye Fu pointed outside and asked Wenwen in a low voice.
She nodded immediately and held up two fingers.
"The sound of two people talking, right?"
She nodded again, and Ye Fu carried her behind him, took out the knife and held it in his hand. As soon as he opened the door, two men standing outside immediately surrounded him.
"Keep this child here and spare your life." They held machetes in their hands and slowly approached Ye Fu.
"Fuck you." Ye Fu couldn't bear the looks they were looking at Wenwen, and kicked the man in front of him. The moment he bent over in pain, the knife in his hand quickly slashed his throat. .
The man in the back, whose accomplice was dead, was about to cut him with a knife, but he was stabbed in the back and fell down with his eyes wide open.
Ye Fu and Officer Song looked at each other, picked up their machetes, dragged them to the room and left quickly.
Back in the car, Qi Yuan realized something was wrong.
"In trouble?"
Ye Fu nodded, she put Wenwen in Qi Yuan's arms, and she took out a piece of cloth and carefully wiped the blood off the knife.
"What's going on with the convoy? It's not even seven o'clock yet, don't you plan to continue walking?"
"Let's eat something first. If you are going to stay here overnight, everyone should be more alert tonight and be careful of things on the roof of the car, as well as tires and gasoline."
Everyone took out the food prepared in their backpacks and put some food in their stomachs. Officer Song, Qi Yuan, and Ye Fu took turns driving the car. At eight o'clock, the convoy suddenly moved, and everyone could only keep up their spirits and continue.
On the way.
"Some people just dragged a woman away." He Rui whispered.
"And the old lady who just begged for food was hit with a stick and dragged behind."
The atmosphere in the car was heavy. We encountered various difficulties when we set out for the first time, and everyone was in a bad mood.
"Don't eat outside. Even if you meet the poorest people, don't give out food. Everyone should go together when doing anything. Remember not to act alone, including me and Qi Yuan." Officer Song warned again.
Everyone.
The person driving the car now is Qi Yuan. Ye Fu asked him to smell Fengyoujing. He is now in high spirits.
Longtan Base is about 30 to 40 kilometers away from Lancheng, but the direct road was washed away by floods, so everyone had to take a detour, and the detour would take hundreds of kilometers.
The detour requires passing through a prefecture-level city, two county towns, and some towns.
This was the news that Officer Song got back with a pack of cigarettes. This route was left by the team searching for supplies before. The people in the first few cars probably had some connections in Longtan Base, so they were particularly arrogant.
"During our break, we can dig wild vegetables on the roadside. I took a look and found that the wild vegetables on the road are growing very well."
"Okay, let's divide them into two teams, with three people in each team. When one team goes out to dig wild vegetables, the other team stays to look after the supplies. What I'm most worried about now is gasoline. If some cars run out of gas, they may come to rob them.
"
At two o'clock in the morning, the motorcade stopped. The big man collecting the protection fee took a basin in his hand and knocked it hard, and everyone fell silent.
"Rest where you are for three hours, then continue on your way for three hours."
As soon as he finished speaking, someone got out of the car in front and behind him.
A team of Ye Fu, Qi Yuan, and He Rui got out of the car and went to solve the physical crisis first. Then they took shovels and started digging wild vegetables. Seeing this, many others joined in.
At two o'clock in the morning, it was already getting light. Ye Fu lowered his head and quickly scooped up a wild vegetable and stuffed it into the cloth bag hanging in front of him. After bending down for a long time, he felt a little dizzy when he stood up straight. She suspected that she was a little dizzy.
I had low blood sugar, so I took out a piece of candy and put it in my mouth. It felt a little sweet and I felt dizzy before I suppressed it.
After digging a full bag, Ye Fu got back to the car and changed the guard to let Officer Song, Wenwen and Zhang Yuan go to the toilet and dig wild vegetables.
She was alone in the car and quickly picked all the wild vegetables, leaving only a small handful and putting the rest into the space.
She didn't use water to clean it, just wiped it with everyone and then ate it, and she wasn't pretentious.
Qi Yuan and He Rui dug more than she did. Maybe it was because of the cooling. After leaving Lancheng, the wild vegetables they saw on the road were growing very fat.
"Just now, an aunt actually wanted to steal my wild vegetables. I was so angry that I gave her a kick. Is it easy for me, who is short-sighted, to dig wild vegetables in the dark? And I came to rob her."
"Where are your night vision goggles?"
Qi Yuan shook his head, "I dare not take it out for fear of being robbed."
This chapter has been completed!