diskusbooks Chapter 396
Chapter 396
Recently, the family has had a great harvest.
The supplies were exchanged for a helicopter and a cruise ship, which ensured their future survival.
Coincidentally, Meng Mingyue also accepted Xiao Xiao's proposal.
The Zhou family prepared a sumptuous meal in their villa to congratulate Meng Mingyue and Xiao Xiao on their engagement.
After the end of the world, due to the lack of resources, people's engagement and wedding ceremonies are very simple, and only a formality is needed.
Most unmarried couples don’t even go through the formalities.
The woman just drags a suitcase to the man's house, which is considered a gift.
After the end of the world, it is actually more obvious that adult women are expelled by their original families.
When household supplies become increasingly scarce and can no longer meet the family's survival needs, girls are more likely to be abandoned by their families.
But what makes humans human is that they are essentially different from animals. It is impossible for us to abandon our own children like wild animals. Instead, we will find a home for them, no matter whether this home is good or bad, and we will try to make it sound good.
For example, girls will always get married when they grow up, and girls are eager to get married.
Whether in Dongyuan Community or the new base today, Zhou Shuwan has seen many women who got married in a hurry. Most of the reasons were that their families could not afford the living expenses of multiple people, so they hurriedly married their daughters off.
However, some girls are very unfortunate. Because they are too young, no one is willing to accept such children. Their original families have no choice but to abandon them.
This kind of thing happens a lot.
Especially in natural disasters, whether it is floods, acid rain, high temperatures or extreme cold, children are pushed outside at will, and by the time someone finds them, not even their bodies are gone.
On the morning that Meng Mingyue and Fan Xiao arrived at Zhou's house, they saw several girls frozen to death on the road.
Because there was another snowstorm at night.
The bodies of these girls had been buried by thick ice and snow. Only the girls could be seen through the transparent ice. Their faces were ashen, their clothes were tattered, and their eyes were closed. Because it was too cold, all of their bodies were hunched over, like a shrimp that had no way to protect itself and could only curl up.
Meng Mingyue's good mood was immediately ruined. She looked at the corpses and did not move for a long time.
Both of them were wearing air-conditioned clothing and were among the few people in the base who could go out freely.
Xiao Xiao held her hand and whispered, "Let's go."
Meng Mingyue looked at several nearby buildings. These girls could only have been abandoned by their families. It was impossible for others to come out in such extremely cold weather.
She closed her eyes and followed Xiao Xiao to Zhou's house.
Zhong Tiyun and Grandma Pang prepared a large table of delicious food.
A big plate of chicken, a braised fish, a sweet and sour pork ribs, a stir-fried pork with peppers, a dish of ants climbing a tree, a dish of stir-fried dried bean curd sheets with mushrooms, a dish of stir-fried vegetables, a dish of peanuts, a dish of cold shredded kelp, a dish of kelp soup, a dish of canned yellow peaches,
A total of ten dishes and one soup.
Xiao Xiao and Meng Mingyue were both very surprised and a little embarrassed.
The two of them prepared such a sumptuous meal that it felt like they were eating for free.
Zhong Tiyun smiled and pulled Meng Mingyue to sit next to her, scolding her, "Coming to your aunt's place is like coming home. Mingyue is a capable child, and Xiao Xiao is also young and promising. Now she is the head of our base. The two of you are a match made in heaven! You are a perfect match!"
"Come on, let's have a drink! Let's celebrate Xiao Xiao and Ming Yue's engagement together!" Qi Mingyu raised his glass.
Everyone at the table raised their glasses with smiles on their faces, and then began to eat.
Meng Mingyue then talked about what she saw on the road.
The originally lively atmosphere cooled down a bit. Zhou Jianghai also said, "I have seen this before. There are too many such cases. There are fewer and fewer children in the base now! Some young people don't want to have children, fearing that they will be born in the end times and suffer. Others have children but can't afford to raise them. It's extremely cold outside, so if they are left outside, the children will freeze to death in a few minutes. They don't have to suffer too much! Alas, this is all because of the end times..."
"It's understandable, actually. Supplies are so scarce right now. People can't even feed themselves, so how can they feed a child?"
Zhou Shuwan had seen this kind of thing too many times, so it was not surprising to him. He lowered his head and ate quietly.
Xiao Xiao picked up a piece of kelp and ate it with a tasteless taste. Then she sighed softly, "If this continues, we won't have any more children!"
Meng Mingyue looked at him: "Xiao Xiao, what do you think?"
You can't talk about things that haven't been decided, so Xiao Xiao just shook his head. But at the rest of the dinner table, he was obviously in a bad mood and seemed to be thinking about something.
He is now responsible for the success and failure of the entire base, so the others understand and do not disturb him. After dinner, they gather together to watch TV.
Yes, watch TV.
At the beginning, Zhou Shuwan downloaded countless resources and put them on a large-capacity storage disk. When he wanted to watch them, he would play them on his computer.
Later, when I was looking for supplies, I also bought a large number of discs, and there were so many film and television resources at home that I couldn’t watch them all.
What they were watching at that time was a domestic cartoon. The scenes were particularly grand and majestic, which made people excited.
Xiao Xiao was very interested: "Your family also collected these, how did you preserve them? I also saved some resources at the beginning, but then my computer got damp and I haven't looked at it since."
Zhou Shuwan smiled and said, "When we were collecting supplies, we collected countless desktops, laptops, and tablets. Many of them got damp, but even now, there are still a few that can be used!"
Xiao Xiao nodded thoughtfully.
Qi Mingyu then said, "We should have a few laptops at home that can be used. Wanwan, go find one and bring it back to Xiao Xiao."
"Row!"
Zhou Shuwan readily agreed.
"Okay, then we'll accept it." Meng Mingyue was very happy.
There are no entertainment facilities at home now. There are computers in the base, but they are very few and very precious. It is impossible for Xiao Xiao to take the computers from the base home just for entertainment.
Now, the Zhou family is willing to give her one for free, so of course she is very happy.
Not only her, but also her parents and Xiao Xiao's family can have some entertainment.
Xiao Xiao asked, "How many do you have left?"
Zhou Shuwan asked with a smile: "Why, do you want to exchange it at the base?"
Xiao Xiao nodded seriously. "Most of the work at the base now requires statistics, but we have too few electronic devices and rely heavily on handwriting, which makes the work efficiency too low. If you have any extra, I'd like to buy them back at a high price."
I didn't expect that the computer I used to store data on would have this use.
But don't say too much, lest it arouse suspicion.
Zhou Shuwan and Qi Mingyu exchanged a glance and held out their hands: "There should be six or seven still intact."
Meng Mingyue was surprised: "There are still so many! You must have stockpiled a lot!"