Lu Xin stood up and looked behind the door. There was a large black vat containing half a vat of clean water.
He showed a satisfied smile and set up his portable small aluminum pot in this small room.
I walked outside and took a look. There was a row of tattered wooden fences outside the house. They no longer provided any blocking or protection. It was better to use them as waste. I removed a small bundle of wooden sticks from them, stepped on them one by one, and then carried them back into the room.
I lit the firewood with my zippo lighter, poured a large bottle of water into the small aluminum pot, and slowly burned it.
After doing this, he took off the simple filter from the car, poured the old lady's water into it, and used a bottle to catch it underneath.
Although she is a newbie, Lu Xin certainly won't cook directly with the other person's water.
What if I get poisoned?
You can only drink water filtered by a filter produced in Qinggang.
To be honest, no matter whether the water is clean or not, even if it is really poisonous, it will be purified by the filter you carry.
The special filters produced in Qinggang are beyond what a small gathering place can imagine.
The technological levels of both sides are not on the same level.
"Gudududu..."
The wood burned quietly, and soon three or five pimples appeared on the water.
Lu Xin tore open the sealed plastic bag, threw a pancake in, looked at the old lady and the weird kid, and threw in another piece.
This kind of compressed dough is so filling that one piece of dough can fill half the pot.
I took the chopsticks I brought with me and stirred it up. The dough quickly turned into soft noodles.
Then Lu Xin took out another box of cans and poured them all into the pot.
The aroma of the instant noodles being cooked, coupled with the aroma of the canned beef being heated, is very rich and attractive.
The strange child had been huddled on the bed, staring directly at the aluminum pot.
When Lu Xin stirred it with chopsticks and the aroma came out in a more violent way, he couldn't bear it anymore.
Suddenly he jumped out of bed again, bringing with him a heavy wind.
As if in the blink of an eye, he arrived in front of the pot, then reached out and grabbed it into the pot.
But this time, he failed to reach into the pot. Lu Xin grabbed his wrist and held it steady.
The strange kid had a sinister look on his face and bared his teeth at Lu Xin.
Jagged teeth, shrunken pupils, curled and misshapen palms with black and sharp nails.
At such a close distance, his expression was scary and grotesque.
"Brother, he is so annoying, why don't we put him..."
The sister on the side, her eyes glowing in the darkness, whispered.
But Lu Xin did not agree to his sister, nor did he let the child go. He just looked into his eyes and his face slowly darkened.
Facing his gaze, the strange child suddenly felt a little scared, and the ferocious expression on his face disappeared, as if he was a little scared.
Lu Xin then slowly spoke and said, "Go get the bowl."
As he spoke, he let go of the child's wrist, and the other child immediately stepped back in fear.
It was then discovered that his legs and feet were also deformed. One side was long and the other was short. It was not natural, but the short part was bent into a weird shape, and his waist was also naturally crooked. It was the same as those outside, only more serious.
Under the gaze of Lu Xin, the strange child retreated to the bed, then fumbled around and took out a large bowl.
Lu Xin frowned and said, "Take two."
When he said this, he glanced at the old lady.
Under his gaze, the strange child seemed to take a while to understand what he meant.
He reached out again and took out a bowl from the table.
Lu Xin waved his hand and asked him to pass the bowl over, and then started to pick it up with chopsticks, filling the two bowls with noodles and beef.
"Does it smell good?"
While serving it, he looked at the weird kid who was drooling so greedily, with a smile on his face and said:
"It tastes delicious when cooked this way, but it's still a little hot now. You can't eat it the way you did just now... Here, give this bowl to your grandma first. If you want to eat it, eat it together... You two can use bowls, and I'll just use this small pot..."
"Don't just use your hands. You still need to use chopsticks to eat noodles. They are a pair..."
"..."
The strange kid actually looked a little embarrassed in Lu Xin's smile. There was no fierceness or violence on his face, only some confusion.
After the noodles were divided, Lu Xin poured some soup for each of them and prepared to eat the rest himself.
At this moment, a somewhat difficult voice suddenly sounded, "Let's go..."
Lu Xin, who had just picked the noodles to his mouth, was stunned for a moment and looked up.
The old lady on the bedside was holding a face in her hands, but her eyes were looking at Lu Xin. The light was uneven, and her face was a little uncertain.
"Stay here, you go."
As if she thought Lu Xin didn't hear clearly, she said it again.
"Why?"
Lu Xin put down the pot and said in confusion, "I already invited you to eat noodles, but you let me go?"
When the old lady faced Lu Xin's accusation, she didn't feel any guilt at all on her face.
"You go."
Her face was gloomy, illuminated uncertainly by the light, and her voice was a little weird:
"If you don't leave, you won't be able to leave."
"..."
Lu Xin moved slowly for a moment, then picked up the pot again and said with a smile, "It's time to go."
After finishing speaking, he started to eat seriously. When he turned around and saw his sister hanging boredly on the beam next to him, he motioned to her. She looked at the sparse noodles in his pot and curled her lips in dissatisfaction. Lu Xin could only smile helplessly, then took out a piece of candy from his pocket, handed it to her in the air, and said with a smile, "How about you eat this?"
The younger sister showed a happy expression on her face and took the candy proudly.
There was a moment of silence in the room.
The old lady and the weird kid all watched Lu Xin take out a piece of candy, stretched it out into the air with a smile, and said something happily, and then watched him put the candy back into his pocket. Then they happily picked up the small aluminum pot and started eating noodles.
This action, in this softly lit and silent room, seemed indescribably weird.
The old lady on the bed suddenly fell silent, and the strange child also trembled slightly.
"Eat it quickly, or it will get cold later."
Lu Xin was eating noodles while chatting friendly with the old lady and the weird kid, and said, "Your gathering point is the safest one recently, so I came to stay here for the night. However, I see that you have planted a lot of fields outside, and the food harvested should be enough, right? Why don't you seem to be able to even eat? You two seem to have been hungry for several days."
"If you really can't make it, you can go to Qinggang. In Qinggang, there haven't been any reports of people starving to death for several years."
"..."
The old lady kept staring at Lu Xin, trying to see something from his face.
But there was only friendliness, gentleness, and enthusiasm on Lu Xin's face, and she couldn't find what she wanted to see.
So she spoke slowly and said, "We are the only two who don't have enough to eat. They can eat enough..."
"You smell, they are stewing meat in the back, waiting to eat."
"I let you go now, but you won't."
"Then what do you think they will do to you after they are full?"
"..."
Lu Xin listened, feeling a little enlightened. "Is that why you let me leave early?"
The old lady just looked at Lu Xin indifferently and did not answer.
Lu Xin smiled and said, "It's useless to leave early. They have already blocked the road in front and back. How can we leave?"
The old lady's pupils shrank slightly. "You know?"
"Of course I know, I can see it."
Lu Xin said honestly, "But it doesn't matter. I was originally on a business trip to visit relatives, and I also wanted to see the local customs and customs around me. My family said that people need to travel often, go out and see different places, and they will be in a good mood."
The old lady could understand every word he said, but she just felt something was wrong.
She didn't know how to answer for a moment, so she hugged the strange kid holding the big bowl tightly, and wanted to take his bowl away.
She was a little worried about letting her children eat this person's food...
But the taste of noodles and beef was so tempting that the child didn't let go at all. He grabbed it eagerly and bit her palm. Suddenly, a row of teeth marks appeared on her palm, and after a while, a little black blood slowly seeped out.
Lu Xin had finished eating the noodles at this time, sat on the pony and took out a cigarette.
"Mom, there seems to be something wrong with your little kid."
He seemed to be looking for something to talk about, smoking and chatting.
The old lady hugged the child in her arms tighter, pursed her lips, and refused to answer.
"So, is it because he has a problem that those people don't eat him?"
Lu Xin glanced at the strange child curiously. "Afraid he has poison on his body?"
"..."
"Uh-huh!"
Listening to Lu Xin's words, the old lady trembled, and her eyes fell on his face with some seriousness.
"I'm just kidding."
Lu Xin smiled apologetically at her and said, "You haven't spoken a word. It's so embarrassing."
"Who dares to eat my little grandson?"
The expression on the old lady's face was already a little confused. Her body was shaking wildly, and she suddenly said hoarsely:
"I have four sons. Who dares to bully our family?"
"But all four sons are dead. How can an orphan and a widow live? There's not enough food to eat, and there are people coming to rob them. How do you think they can live?"
"Just wait..."
She made a sharp argument and cursed nonchalantly, "I just hope that my little grandson will recover from his illness..."
"When he recovers and grows up, he will be stronger than his father, and those people will be in bad luck..."
"..."
Lu Xin could hear a strange madness in her voice.
He glanced at the strange kid, shook his head, and said, "He won't get better."
The old lady suddenly looked at him, her eyes full of hatred and her teeth grinding loudly.
Lu Xin looked at him and said sincerely, "Please believe me, I am professional."
Yesterday I achieved the Hundred Alliances achievement. Old Ghost was very excited and wanted to celebrate even more!