Feng Qianqian took out half of the leftover chocolate from her pocket. The little girl held the brown chocolate in her tender fair hand and handed it forward, “Brother, this is for you. Sister Qianxun gave it to me. It’s very good. Eat it, you don’t need your mother anymore.”
Jiang Chengzhu looked back and forth several times at Feng Junlei and Feng Qianqian’s faces, and reached out to grab half of the chocolate. He then turned and hid in the corner away from them.
In the morning of the second day, everyone got up and ate some of the sweet potatoes that were steamed the previous night.
Then they put the prepared meat and dried sweet potatoes in the earthen jar. Feng Junlei found a tree vine, tied the earthen jar, and carried it on his back. Before he left, he gave some sweet potatoes to Jiang Chengzhu who looked at them from a distance.
They returned to the highway from the fields, and Jiang Chengzhu followed them far behind them without saying a word.
“The thief is following us! He just ate! I don’t know if we can find food on the way, but we can’t give it to him,” Gao Yan said to the others vigilantly.
Feng Qianqian took her father’s hand and looked back frequently, but she did not speak.
Perhaps because of the early loss of her mother, she was more sensible than children of the same age, so she did not get involved in adults’ business.
Chu Qianxun found a commercial car parked on the road outside. She squatted under the car and tossed for a while, and then quickly opened the door. She carried out the driver who had been dead for a long time in the pilot-seat, sat there, and started the vehicle.
The car had seven seats, they could sit spaciously and take turns to sleep in the back seat when needed.
The people outside the car were surprised and happy, and got in the car one after another.
“Qianxun, you are so capable, how can you do everything?” Gao Yan did not forget to praise Chu Qianxun in time.
“That boy is still following us,” Gao Yan looked through the rearview mirror and saw Jiang Chengzhu running after the car.
“What is he doing? Does he want to go with us?”
“No, I don’t want him to. If I knew this would happen, I wouldn’t share the food with him.”
Everyone looked back at the car. The little figure behind the car stubbornly followed all the way.
Of course, he couldn’t keep up with the car’s speed, and the distance from the car was getting farther and farther.
The thin figure fell on the road, then quickly got up to continue running.
It didn’t take long before he fell down again, but this time he didn’t get up from the dust.
“Qianxun, let’s take him with us. He is just a child. He can’t survive if he is thrown on the road like this,” Feng Junlei couldn’t help it.
“In this world, there are too many people who can’t survive,” Chu Qianxun said coldly.
But her foot stepped on the brakes, pressed the reverse gear, and reversed the car.
The dust raised by the wheels fell on Jiang Chengzhu’s face. Jiang Chengzhu lifted his face from the smoke and stared at the car parked in front of him.
The glass in the driver’s seat lowered, revealing an indifferent face. The woman was indifferent and powerful. She could easily break his neck with one hand, but Jiang Chengzhu really hoped that she could take him.
When the door was pulled open, the man and the little girl in the back seat stretched out their hands to him with a smile.
Chu Qianxun looked at the boy in the back seat, wondering whether she should dislike this boy or her overflowing sympathy.
Forget it, it was not bad anyway, Chu Qianxun thought in her heart. She would just drop them all to the base in front.
The car went all the way, deviated from the national highway and drove into a vast industrial park.
“Qianxun, did you take the wrong way?” Gao Yan flipped through the map on her phone. She didn’t download it in advance and couldn’t open the road in this area.
“There is a food factory nearby. I’m looking for food,” Chu Qianxun stopped the car and found a reason for her behavior.
She jumped out of the car and led the people through a forest in the factory area. There was land behind the forest in which a large reservoir was built. The reservoir was originally covered with a cover. At this moment, it was damaged and there was no water in it. There was some dried up silt at the bottom of the reservoir.
Across the reservoir, was a concrete road in the factory area. There were several large steel structure warehouses on the opposite side of the road.
The door of the warehouse was open, and it was dark and invisible.
Chu Qianxun looked at the warehouse in silence for a moment, then turned around and started collecting supplies.
She found a truck parked in the factory area, drew out the gasoline from the tank, and poured it all into the bottom of the reservoir.
She took out a few extremely soft aluminum-plastic strips and put them on the top of the reservoir. Then only a wooden pole that could bear the weight was put in the middle.
She removed a large sheet of sun-shading film from the factory building and covered it on the aluminum-plastic strip. Finally, she sprinkled some dead leaves on the film and arranged it as a huge trap.