"I got these all!" Xiaochao puffed up his chest and looked at Lin Tao with a proud face. Lin Tao smiled and nodded and said, "Not bad! He is a man, and you are their squad leader?"
"No, I'm their boss!" Xiaochao snorted arrogantly, but his eyes were always fixed on the pistol on Lin Tao's waist. After wiping his nose again, he asked eagerly: "Uncle... your pistol?
How about I exchange two...no, three cartons of cigarettes for you? I have one from Greater China!"
"Okay! But let's talk if you can raise the gun!" Lin Tao smiled and pulled out the pistol, ejected the bullet in the chamber with a "click", then locked the safety and handed it to Xiao Chao.
"Wow! This gun is so big!" Xiaochao held the gun with excitement, but soon found that not only could he not lift the heavy pistol, he could not even hold the handle of the gun, and his fingers could not touch the trigger.
, he returned the gun to Lin Tao with a frustrated face, scratched his head and said: "This gun is wrong. I once found a gun on a living corpse. Its gun was very small, but it was rusty and could not be used.
!”
"You should be talking about police pistols, these are for military use!" Lin Tao put away the gun and rubbed Xiao Chao's head. Seeing the annoyance on Xiao Chao's face, he smiled and said: "Don't worry! I'll wait for you.
In a few years, when you grow up, you will be able to use these guns. Everyone is your age!"
"Okay!" Xiaochao nodded helplessly, and then asked: "Uncle! I see you smoke, can I trade cigarettes with you for food? Xiaoling, bring me all my cigarettes!"
"Hey!" The girl with braids agreed crisply, turned around and ran to the bed closest to the door, flipped out a cardboard box, then took out four or five cartons of cigarettes and handed them to her.
Into Xiaochao's hands.
"How's it going? They're all good things. I'm not willing to trade them for those people in the gathering place. I just want to wait until I grow up to smoke them. But since you are the People's Liberation Army, I will give you an advantage!"
The super old man put the cigarettes on the table, and the few cigarettes of Zhonghua were indeed high-end cigarettes.
"How do you want to change it?" Lin Tao picked up a cigarette and looked at it with a playful smile on his lips.
"Well..." Xiaochao hesitated for a moment, then raised his hand and said cautiously: "For fifty pounds of rice or flour, how about I give you three cartons of cigarettes? It's very cheap!"
"Xiao Chao..." The female teacher frowned slightly when she heard this, as if she was dissatisfied with his robbing behavior, but Xiao Chao turned around and said displeasedly: "When men speak, women don't interrupt. This is between men and men."
conversation between us!”
"Haha~ That's right, but this is not the way you should talk to a teacher!" Lin Tao put down his cigarette and looked at Xiao Chao, who pretended to be mature, but Xiao Chao waved his hand and said: "What teacher? Qingqing is my younger brother.
teacher, but she is my wife!"
"Well……"
Lin Tao and Luo Rong were both stunned, looking at Xiao Chao in disbelief. Even the female teacher beside her blushed and shouted anxiously: "Xiao Chao, what are you talking about? You...you
Not even an adult yet!”
"I'm fourteen, won't I be an adult in four years? You promised me that you would marry me as soon as I come of age. Now you can be considered a fiancee!" Xiaochao said proudly.
Turning his head to look at Lin Tao, Luo Rong pushed him with a teasing look on his face and said narrowly: "The little guy is very like you back then, and he is also looking for a teacher to be his wife!"
"Stop talking nonsense! Since my wife has an objection, you can take all the fifty kilograms of rice and five cartons of cigarettes!" Xiaochao waved his hand generously, then kicked the liquor carton at his feet and said, "These liquors
If you are interested, you can exchange it and the price will be favorable!”
"Haha~ Xiaochao!" Lin Tao said, tearing apart a cigarette from a Chinese cigarette, lighting one and holding it in his mouth. He said with a smile, "Do you know how much these cigarettes cost in our city?"
"Twenty pounds?" Xiaochao asked with a wink.
"The price you just gave me is only enough to buy a pack of cigarettes here, and it's still priced but not available, regardless of whether it's true or false!" Lin Tao narrowly winked at Xiao Chao. Xiao Chao and the female teacher were immediately stunned, and
Xiao Chao suddenly took a deep breath and stammered: "Are you...all the people in your city crazy? One cigarette costs... fifty kilograms of rice?"
"That's right! People who have food cannot afford to smoke cigarettes!" Lin Tao smiled proudly, and then said: "But you also need to know how big the population base of our city is. There are two large gathering places where we live.
, the population of our city alone is close to two
One hundred thousand. Qingshan County, not far from us, has now exceeded 300,000 people. So think about it, nearly half of them are men. If everyone smokes every day, how much supply and demand will be needed? Cigarettes are in our
That’s a real treasure!”
"What? You...there are so many people there?" The female teacher suddenly stood up and looked at Lin Tao with surprise and fear, while Luo Rong smiled and patted her arm.
Said: "Don't get excited, tell us your situation first!"
"Okay...okay!"
The female teacher bit her lower lip and nodded, sat down and began to speak slowly: "My name is Yang Qingqing. I am not actually a teacher in this art school. I opened a dance studio on the second floor. After the disaster, I was the principal here.
He has been leading us, but...but a year ago, he and another female teacher went to the gathering place to
He was beaten to death while exchanging supplies, so the children were led by me. As you may have guessed, we have been searching for supplies in the city through the sewers, because the sewers in our city are very narrow, and only children can pass through them, even me.
It’s quite difficult to get in, so this is an advantage that no one else has!”
"This is indeed an advantage, but I'm afraid you can't go to many places, right?" Lin Tao asked.
"Yes!" Yang Qingqing nodded and said: "Xiaochao is very brave, but his age is here after all, and in the past two years, we have almost never had enough to eat, so his size is also
It’s not that long, and we can’t go to places where there are a little more living corpses, but it’s better than the worst. Thanks to Xiaochao taking people out to search for supplies, we have survived until now. Compared with those living corpses in the gathering place.
People who starve to death, we are pretty good!"
"It's a good thing you haven't grown taller, otherwise you wouldn't be able to enter the sewer!" Lin Tao touched Xiao Chao's head and asked: "Where is your gathering place? What's the situation?"
"The gathering place is not far from us. It's in the development zone. They occupy a large factory and have walls built around it. There must be more than 20,000 people there!" Yang Qingqing's eyes flashed.
Complex, sighed and said: "But there are no good people there. If we want to go in and exchange supplies, we must pay regular protection to a gang."
Only by paying the protection fee can we ensure our safety. When Xiao Chao took me there for the first time, I... I was almost insulted. I escaped only after paying the protection fee. From then on, only Xiao Chao took the boys.
We went to exchange supplies, and the gang saw that we could pay the protection fees regularly, so they didn’t bother them. It’s just that we always suffered some losses when exchanging supplies!”
"Hmph~ They have guns, what's the big deal?" Xiaochao snorted angrily and said: "I still dare to look for food in the city, and I dare to run to many places without sewers, but
They don't even dare to enter the city limits, they just wander around the countryside all day long, they really grew so big in vain!"
"Isn't it possible? On the road where you stole my gun, I don't think there are many living corpses!" Lin Tao asked in surprise.
"The gathering place is not over there. They are in the opposite direction of that road. There are many living corpses. And do you know why there are so few living corpses on that road? This is my credit!" Xiaochao stood up proudly again.
He puffed up his chest, but Yang Qingqing's little face turned red unnaturally, and then heard Xiaochao say: "This is a method I just thought of last month. I use that
Uh... sanitary napkins, the kind with blood on them, led groups of living corpses to other places, leading a lot of them away. But Qingqing and Xiaoling only bleed once a month. It took me a long time.
It took time to lure the living corpses away little by little. I wanted to go again today, but who knew I would find you guys coming on a motorcycle, so... I just took your gun!"
"Ha! You are very smart. Why are there so many living corpses in such a long street?" Lin Tao looked at Xiao Chao with admiration, while Yang Qingqing also had a gentle look in his eyes and said with a smile.
: "Xiaochao is very smart. If he hadn't been working hard, we might have starved to death!"
"What nonsense are you talking about? As long as I, Li Chao, live for one day, I will never let you starve to death!" Xiao Chao confidently patted his chest, looking very manly, and Lin Tao also smiled and said: "
That’s right! As a man, you must be responsible, so that your teacher can be willing to marry you!"
"No...no, I just said that to encourage Xiao Chao!" Yang Qingqing blushed like a monkey butt. She never thought that this matter would be exposed in front of two adults. The little fart here
Children don’t understand anything, so Xiaochao always lives with his wife.
Yelling, she never refuted it, and Xiao Chao has always played the role of a real man here. If a mature man like Lin Tao hadn't suddenly appeared in contrast, in Yang Qingqing's mind, Xiao Chao would have been regarded as a real man.
Not a mature man anymore.
"Haha~ It doesn't matter. One of my wives used to be my class teacher!" Lin Tao waved his hands very clearly, and then asked: "By the way, Xiaochao, a truckload of supplies was stolen from our team last night. Is it you?"
Did you do it? The other party also came in from the sewer!"
"No! We usually don't dare to go out at night, we can't see at all!" Xiaochao shook his head hastily, but suddenly slapped his head, turned to look at Yang Qingqing in panic and said: "Qingqing, could it be Qiangqiang?
They? The only one who can get into the sewers at the gathering place is Qiang Qiang them. Those bastards must have forced them to find supplies!"
"Who is Qiangqiang?" Lin Tao asked with a frown.
"Qiangqiang is one of my little brothers!" Xiao Chao turned his head and swallowed, and said: "We originally had six boys here. Qiangqiang and Wang Wei have always been my right-hand men, and there is also a little clever one for us.
They started to do it, but when I took them to the gathering place to exchange supplies last week, they wanted to go to the bar to see the world, so I took them there, and ended up meeting a bunch of bad guys..."
When Xiaochao said this, he paused, looked at Yang Qingqing with some annoyance, and then said: "They know that we often come here to exchange supplies, and they are curious about where we get the supplies. Qiangqiang drank...drink that night
If there were too many, we would brag to others. After we finished drinking, we were arrested as soon as we went out.
Yes, I stabbed someone before I escaped. Later, I found the gang boss who paid the protection fee. Their boss helped me, but the power of the gang was not small, and they wanted me to exchange supplies for the gang.
One hundred kilograms of rice and grain each, so I had no choice but to agree to them, and after a month of negotiation, I would collect the grain and hand it over to them!"