Chapter 27 Material Disputes
Hearing You Xi's words, Gao Yun and Bian An frowned, but hesitated for a while, and still didn't say anything.
Chen Ya was taken aback: "Xiaoxi?"
Chen Ya was not surprised because she didn't hear this matter from her just now, but because she was now forced by everyone to distribute supplies.
Although he also wants supplies, he can compare his heart with his heart. If the owner of the shop is his family, and this kind of supplies are more important than anything else, and the whole community forces him to share all the things of their family, he reckons fly into a rage.
But You Xi still said: "It's just that there are too many people in the community, so it must be very troublesome to divide. Now that Aunt Tan has mentioned it, and this garage originally belonged to your family, then I will leave the matter of distributing supplies to you." !"
"Me?" Tan Qian was taken aback.
Youxi suddenly changed his attitude and changed his words. Everyone was a little dumbfounded, and then felt embarrassed again, feeling like they just joined forces to bully a little girl.
But everyone wanted supplies in their hearts, and this shame was fleeting. In order to make up for it, people offered to give Youxi money one after another, so that even if they used the money to buy her family's things, it would not be considered in vain.
"Forget it, now that you have money, you don't have anything to spend it on. Money is nothing. You can't eat or drink waste paper. Food is the most precious thing." She smoothed the hair on her cheeks, "Okay,
this one I have handed over the matter to Aunt Tan. She should have the key. After all, it is her garage. But my parents don’t know about it yet. They are not in good health. I’m afraid they will be stimulated. I’ll go home first. Accompany them, it's up to you."
After finishing speaking, You Xi turned around and walked towards Building No. 3 of her home.
Behind, someone whispered.
"What do you mean by this, why did you get stimulated by sharing something?" "
Is this a deliberate shame?" "
Forget it, people are willing to share things, just throw it away, go, hurry up Yes, we are also a member of the community, and those who see it have a share."
"Yeah, although there are a lot of things in the grocery store, there are more people in the neighborhood, so don't go late and you won't get anything..." "
Ah, then I have to go back and call my parents. portion!"
...
You Xi sneered, turned the corner, and entered the unit door.
Chen Ya couldn't hold back, and finally chased after him: "Xiaoxi, don't be impulsive, I know you are angry, but those are your family's things, as long as you don't want to, I will find a way with Bian An Xiaogao and the others. "
You Xi smiled at Chen Ya: "Thank you, but I'm afraid you alone can't stop this matter."
Chen Ya remembered how Gao Yun and the others were neither stopping nor persuading just now, and fell silent for a while.
***
When Youxi entered the door, Mother You had already prepared lunch, and Father You winked at her.
She understood it, and ran to the small room facing north under the pretext of going to the toilet, and put all the hot dishes, soups, and noodle cakes that Father You had packed into the packing boxes on the food shelf in the Star House warehouse.
After that, she put most of the food in the storage room into the warehouse, because she had collected half of it before, and the three of them have been making rice balls, noodle cakes, steamed buns, steamed buns, dumplings, pancakes, Fried rice and other cooked food, so the rice and flour are consumed quickly, but there are still a lot of canned food, instant noodles, sausages and various biscuit snacks. There are less rice noodles, adding up to two or three bags.
After collecting the things, she came to the dining table and explained the matter of entrusting Tan Qian to "distribute things".
Father You knew the inside story. He knew that his daughter put all the things from the grocery store into her space on the day she came home.
But You's mother didn't know, she was very distressed when she heard the words, the You family's wealth is poor, and the grocery store is not only for food, but also all of their belongings, if it is distributed, it will be tantamount to emptying out the family's wealth.
But the problem is, there are so many people in the community, everyone wants something, if she doesn't allow them to come and grab it directly, who can she beat?
Don't think about it too much, it hurts when you think about it.
Seeing Mother You's heartbroken look, Father You wanted to open his mouth a few times, but couldn't bear it a few times.
No, the matter of the daughter's space is too important. This is the basis for the survival of their family of three. It's not that he doesn't trust Mother You, but he's afraid that once she knows that her daughter has such a big baby, she will start to sympathize with this one and soften her heart for that one.
It doesn't matter to help others, but in this situation, I'm afraid that helping others will bring trouble to the door.
Compared with Mother You's distressed appearance, it is obvious that his daughter's safety is more important, he can't say that!
You Xi secretly laughed at You's father from frowning his eyebrows to being determined to keep the secret.
Although the appearance and personality are somewhat different, the father in this different world is the same as the father in the original world in some aspects.
When the three of You's family were having lunch, there were already a lot of people gathered at the garage of Building No. 8, all of whom wanted to pick up their things.
Tan Qian was unwilling to let so much food and use out of her own hands, not to mention who knew that the people who came to pick up the food were really short of food or just because they wanted to take advantage?
She couldn't believe it, it's only been four or five days, so many families have run out of ammunition and food, and there is absolutely nothing to eat!
In the end, Tan Qian made two excuses. One was that she had forgotten where the keys were and she had to go back to look for them first. The other was that the people who received the things were too messy. She thought she should make a list first and count how many people there were. Get things, and then decide how much to send to each household.
The second argument was quite reasonable, and Brother Long was not afraid of her running away, so he agreed and took the initiative to undertake the work of counting the list.
After such a delay, the matter of distributing things was set at night.
That afternoon, after the crowd dispersed, Tan Qian and her son quietly walked down from the fourth floor, preparing to open the small door of the garage and move some things to her home.
After the accident that day, a family on the third floor of their unit mutated, screaming for help and crashing all night.
Later, the zombie wandered into the corridor somehow, even though there was a door panel, Tan Qian and the three were still terribly frightened.
Later, Gao Yun organized people in the community to clean up the zombies, and this was the end of the crisis.
She didn't get over this matter for a few days, so she didn't bother to move the supplies in the garage. After all, in her opinion, the distance from the fourth floor to the garage is only three and a half floors, so who knew that this would happen suddenly today.
As the mother and son went downstairs, the son still complained to her in a low voice, saying that it was all because of her greed for taking things. Now that it's all right, so many things have to be distributed, how much can be moved now.
"Okay, keep your voice down, and remember to take canned meat and instant noodles, and cartons of milk."
However, when Tan Qian tiptoed to open the locked garage door, both mother and child were empty at the same time. The garage was shocked.
This, what's going on! ?
What to eat and drink?
Tan Qian's son's eyes were red with anxiety: "Fuck! Where are the things! Where did the things go!" **In the
hottest
time of the afternoon, there was a commotion next to the garage of Building No. 8 in the community.
Although Brother Long promised to distribute the supplies at night, he was not stupid. He was afraid that Tan Qian would mess with him, so he quietly sent a younger brother to guard not far from the rolling shutter door of the garage to keep an eye on the movement inside.
As a result, Tan Qian and her son were too shocked to suppress their voices, attracting the attention of outsiders. The man patted on the shutter door to let the people inside open it, but Tan Qian naturally did not open it.
Later, the man asked another younger brother to call Brother Long. Brother Long came with a cigarette in his mouth and an ax he had obtained at the supermarket at the intersection. When the two axes went down, the lock under the rolling door was broken, and several people manually lifted the rolling door. , but only saw empty shelves. As soon as Tan Qian saw Brother Long and the others, she subconsciously wanted to leave through the small door at the back, but was grabbed by someone, "Where's the food
!"
!"
"You don't know? You don't know what you are doing here at this time! Do you think we are fools?"
"Let go! Why are you holding me! Oh, hurry up, come here, these foreign hooligans want Murder!"
...
The matter quickly came to You Xi, because the You family was the owner of the grocery store.
Although Tan Qian was arrested, she insisted that there was nothing in the garage, and that it must be the You family's fault! He deliberately took her into the ditch, but in fact, he moved away and hid things long ago.
But the problem is that the No. 8 building where the garage is located and the No. 3 building where You's house is located are separated by a small park, and there is an open area in between.
On the day of the accident, someone passed by the garage and saw shelves full of food items. Later, an infected person appeared in the community, and everyone hid at home.
In the next few days, almost everyone was trapped at home. At night, Gao Yun organized a group of people to patrol the whole community. If the You family really came to move things, there must be a lot of movement with so many things, how can it be silent? Empty if you say it is evacuated?
"The garage was locked on the day the accident happened. I haven't been to the garage since then. There are surveillance cameras in the community. If you don't believe me, just check the surveillance cameras and you'll find out." You Xi still didn't let anyone disturb you father and mother, and followed her to inform
her People went to the garage.
"No need to check, Miss Xiaoxi, I will definitely believe you!"
Chen Ya was originally aggrieved by this matter, but now seeing that they lost things by themselves and blamed You Xi, she immediately became angry, "Tan Qian has The key to the garage, and they live in the same corridor. If you don’t ask her clearly, what are you doing with the creek! Go back and go back with the eldest brother. Let them make trouble here. Anyway, I don’t want those things, so don’t come here Let's make trouble there!"
Chen Ya became really angry with the mentality of protecting the calf.
Seeing this, Gao Yun ordered the surrounding crowd to disperse and let You Xi leave.
After the two left, everyone turned their attention to Tan Qian again. There was no surveillance in the corridor, and she had the key, so she was powerless no matter what she said. Finally, Gao Yun, Bian An, Wu Di, and Long Ge decided to stop the fruitless dispute and let the facts speak for themselves.
And the way to let the facts speak is to send a few people to Tan Qian's house to check to see if there is a large amount of food supplies.
You Xi and Chen Ya listened to the general situation of the situation as they walked.
Chen Ya deserved the curse, she shook her head and said nothing.
It wasn't until after dinner that day that she heard that those people had found a large amount of rice noodles under the tarp in a utility room of Tan Qian's house.
There are several boxes of instant noodles, dozens of bags of rice, a corner of flour, noodles, miscellaneous grains and seasonings, several boxes of vacuum-packed sausage, luncheon meat, and lo-mei. There are even a lot of daily necessities, not to mention other drinks and snacks.
No matter how Tan Qian yelled that those things belonged to her family, everyone didn't believe it. Some people found that those things were exactly the same as those in the grocery store before, no matter the type or brand. Anyone with a discerning eye would know that they belonged to You's grocery store. thing.
So, those people immediately moved all the boxes of supplies clean.
When Father You knew about it, he sighed and shook his head, and told Youxi that those things should be from the grocery store.
You’s store has been open for two years, but every week there will be less and less items, sometimes a few packets of instant noodles, sometimes a few cans of luncheon meat, sometimes a bucket of oil, sometimes a large bag of roll paper, sometimes two bottles of soy sauce ...
He knew in his heart who took it, and he didn't expose it, but because he thought that more things would be better than less things. Anyway, they were small things and worthless.
"However, I didn't expect that she would take so many things from the grocery store back and forth. Alas, now those people have taken away all the things as if they were from our store. What will she do in the future... "
What Father You couldn't understand the most was that there was so much food hidden at home, and his son was also at home, but he was too greedy to lead the food that others risked their lives to bring back from outside with those widows.
"Those are the things in our store."
You Xi has no sympathy for Tan Qian at all. If the other party hadn't been black-hearted and pushed You's grocery store out of nowhere, who would have the right to go to her house to search for things.
As long as she was less greedy, she opened the garage right away, and didn't find all kinds of excuses to delay until night, and others wouldn't blame her entirely.
Now she's being dug out of what she's stolen over the past two years, and it's really her own fault.
**
It was useless for Tan Qian to roll around and cry. Seeing that all the things hidden in the utility room had been removed, the pain was like gouging out her flesh.
There are not only the things she got from the grocery store, but also the things she bought herself!
The son blamed her for being greedy, stealing chickens and eating rice, and not telling her about so many things hidden in the house. If he knew, he would not let her go down to get food no matter what.
The daughter-in-law was adding fuel to the scene in a weird way, and kept clamoring to go back to her home.
"Go back by yourself! Don't drag my son out to die!"
Tan Qian transferred her anger to her daughter-in-law, who naturally didn't want to, grabbed her husband, and used the child in her stomach as an excuse to make trouble.
The three of them quarreled all night, and finally the neighbors upstairs and downstairs came to knock on the door to make her quiet. What if all the zombies outside were attracted to the community by such a quarrel.
The fence of the community is only two meters high, made of cement and bricks, if a large number of zombies are attracted, no one can survive if the fence is pulled down.
"If you keep arguing and arguing, believe it or not, we will ask Brother Long and the others to drag you. If you don't want to live, leave the community and don't drag others!"
After that, the Tan family finally calmed down, but how could Tan Qian swallow this tone. The things in her house were divided and eaten by the gangsters in the neighborhood. She was not happy, and neither were others.
So early the next morning, Tan Qian went downstairs to Youxi's house, saying that the grocery store was gone, and she and You's family both had keys, so if you want to check, you can't just check her family, you also have to check! He also said that the You family pretended to be a good person and distributed all the things in the grocery store to everyone. In fact, they had already moved all the things back home in private. I don't know if it was because the items taken from the Tan's house were not enough yesterday, or it seemed that there were less goods than the grocery store, and soon a lot of people gathered downstairs. No one spoke out to stop it, and many people even whispered that what Tan Qian said was reasonable, and wondered if they could get another share. Youxi held down Father You and Mother You who wanted to go downstairs, told Father You to be careful about Mother You and not to go down and stir up trouble, then took the stick from the shoe cabinet, changed shoes and went out. There were twenty or thirty people gathered outside the anti-theft door in the corridor, the center of which was Tan Qian, who stood there with her waist in her hands and scolded, with a bit of ruthlessness. Youxi understands this kind of people, in their eyes there is no difference between right and wrong, they only look at whether it is beneficial to themselves, no matter how much they say, they will never reason with you, they know that persimmons need to be picked softly, and sometimes they will rely on their own age Moral kidnapping of people. This kind of person has a sharp tongue, can speak out all kinds of fallacies, and is also easy to swear. For such a person, Youxi only has one word: fight. She just woke up today, wearing a pair of white sweatpants, a small black T-shirt, her hair tied into a ponytail, revealing her slender arms and neck. With fair skin and no expression on her face, the girl strode out of the corridor, swung her right hand vigorously, and opened the three sections of the metal stick in her hand. She didn't say a word of nonsense, she went directly to Tan Qian and gave her a stick. The metal rod was thrown on her face accurately, like a slap in the face, instantly shutting her up. Tan Qian was threatening "you, you, you, you dare" one second, and she fell to the ground the next second.
She slammed her hands on the rough concrete on the ground, and because of the speed and force of the landing, she directly scratched the skin of her palms, and blood oozed out, causing her to gasp in pain.
But she soon discovered that the wound on the palm was not the most painful, but the left side of her cheek, which swelled up like a steamed bun when it was thrown, and it was painful to touch it lightly.
"If you want to investigate, you can investigate? What qualifications do you have?" Youxi looked down at her, "Being a good person at a young age, thinking of taking advantage of others all day long."
She raised the stick in her hand, "This is me The answer I gave you, is it still making trouble?"
Tan Qian obviously didn't understand, seeing the stick in Youxi's hand, she screamed like a pig: "Beating the old man, the dead girl of You's family beat someone and killed— —”
“Pa ——” Another blow, this time on the right side of the cheek.
Youxi actually restrained most of the strength, otherwise, with her current strength, Tan Qian's face would be bruised like the zombies before.
Tan Qian didn't dare to howl anymore, she covered her swollen face and sobbed, saying that she would call the police and arrest her to eat in prison...
"Report, the sky has changed a long time ago. Zombies are changed by people. If I can kill zombies, so can I." Kill people." You Xi twirled the stick in his hand.
Someone recognized the metal stick in her hand, and remembered what they saw when they were hiding behind the window of their house. One of the people who were the first to clean up the zombies in the community was holding this stick in their hand.
Several people were wearing masks that day, and they wrapped themselves tightly. Most of them didn't go downstairs and didn't see their faces clearly. They only knew Gao Yun, Chen Ya, Bian An and the others. That's because they were the ones who came forward to strengthen the South Gate, organize meetings and train nights, convene people for training, and then go out to find food, so almost everyone ignored Youxi. Now that someone recognizes the stick, they know that she is telling the truth, and they can't help but take a big step back. Many of them dare not face the zombies directly, let alone fight and kill the zombies at close range. They have no way of imagining how this fair and beautiful girl did it.
When everyone retreated, Gao Yun, Bian An and Brother Long came over. Before Tan Qian came to make trouble, someone went to notify them.
But they were still a step late, Youxi had finished beating and was about to go upstairs.
When everyone saw Brother Long coming, they gathered around them eagerly. Yesterday they got the food from Brother Long. It is said that it was hidden by Tan Qian, and they went to her house to find it.
Then will they go to You's house to look for them today?
Before the residents in the community could speak, Youxi had already stopped: "Are you going to my house to search for food and supplies?"
Brother Long held a cigarette, looked at the little girl in front of him and said nothing.
He knew very well in his heart that if Tan Qian had moved away and hid the things before, she would have no reason to take the initiative to mention the grocery store, so this matter probably has something to do with the little girl in front of her.
How could Gao Yun not understand what Brother Long could guess, he frowned and looked at You Xi: "What if we want to go up?" You Xi's
expression remained unchanged: "Our family runs a grocery store, even if there are many The things you bought are also the stock you bought before, are you going to move them all?"
"Xiao Gao!" Chen Ya disapproved.
In fact, Gao Yun was in a dilemma. He knew that Youxi was right. The owner of the shop couldn't have any stock.
But now that there are so many people in the community and the food is in short supply, is it true that he took people to rob those small supermarkets outside? Or take a risky detour to go to the big supermarket from another road?
What if there are zombies on the other road?
Gao Yun struggled for a moment, and finally said: "I'm sorry, but for the sake of fairness, we still have to go up and take a look." "
Fair? How is it fair?"
You Xi didn't speak, but Chen Ya couldn't help it, "You's family supplies No matter how much it belongs to You's family, don't you think that what you are doing now is not robbery?"
However, there are several people from Brother Long blocking it, and it will be useless for Chen Ya to get angry.
You Xi didn't stop them, but gently moved out of the way.
**
Suddenly seven or eight big men appeared in the originally not-so-spacious house. Youmu sat on the sofa from afar and watched them, her fingers trembling.
Sitting next to her, You's father held her hand firmly, not only to comfort her, but also to be careful not to let You's mother say outrageous words.
Now there is only one bag of unsealed rice in the storage room, half a bag of flour, a few scattered packets of instant noodles and drinks, and the rest are some inedible daily necessities.
Several young people went around the room a few times and found that there was not much food except for a little more frozen meat in the refrigerator freezer.
When Gao Yun left, his complexion was very bad, and he said sorry to Youxi and Youfu Youmu with guilt in his eyes.
You Xi really didn't need his sorry, she did hide the food, and they would never be able to find it.
If they didn't choose to go upstairs and enter the door and search around like robbers this time, but to discuss with her how to get food, she might find a way to go to the large supermarket at the intersection with them and help them get enough food. food and water back.
But now, absolutely impossible.
She is not a virgin.
After a group of people left, Mother You got up and went to the storage room to look around, her expression looked wrong, no matter how confused she was, she knew that there was definitely more food in the house than that.
Father You came up to cover again, "You can make breakfast with me first, your daughter will be successful." "
Then...those, they were hidden in other people's homes in advance?"
"Isn't there no one next door..." Father You Vague.
But Mother You felt that she understood, and immediately waved her hand to signal Father You not to continue talking, for fear that the walls might have ears.
Today, she really saw that Tan Qian was an extremely overbearing and unreasonable shrew. Gao Yun, who had a good impression in the past, could bring people to search for food when he turned around.
And the neighbors who gathered downstairs were usually polite and decent, but they didn't know that it was only a few days after the accident, and they had their eyes on her family's things. Yesterday's distribution was not enough, and they came again today.
If the food hadn't been hidden, it would probably be impossible to keep it all.
It's a good thing she didn't speak just now, otherwise she would definitely be in trouble. She saw her daughter beating people upstairs, and thought it was not good. Neighbors in a community should have something to say, beating is too much.
But now she feels that she should not care about these big things in the future, and let the father and daughter do it. She just needs to be responsible for cooking so that Youxi and Youfu can eat well.
Youmu went into the kitchen to make breakfast, but when she turned on the faucet, only some cloudy and yellowish water flowed out, and after a while, even the yellowish water disappeared.
On the sixth day after the end of the world, the water was cut off.