For the evening meal, everyone had to go to a big tent surrounded by private houses to pick it up.
Everyone only received one portion and they had to register on the side after receiving it. They could help people in the same room get it, but someone would watch them when they registered and they had to write the names of the other people.
Xiao Tian really didn’t want to go, so he asked Jiang Dacheng to help him bring it. Then Yang Zhi and Long Sheng also asked him with Qi Yan and Kang Ye not far behind. In the end, everyone simply asked Jiang Dacheng to help bring the meals.
Half an hour later, Jiang Dacheng came back carrying a small plastic bag all over his body.
Xiao Tian glanced at it: “Where’s the meal?”
Jiang Dacheng handed the plastic bag over: “Here, your meal!”
“What?!” Xiao Tian’s eyes widened like copper bells: “That’s all for the six of us?!”
“One bread, one bottle of mineral water, and one ham sausage per person.” Jiang Dacheng said weakly.
Xiao Tian was speechless for a while, staring at the not-so-large plastic bag. Yang Zhi and Long Sheng looked at each other and chose to be silent.
Qi Yan looked at their dejected appearance and walked over to open the bag. The bread was the kind of puffed bread, the inside was empty and it was not filling at all; the ham sausage was the kind that costs two yuan a stick; the mineral water was the kind of small bottle that would be gone in two sips.
With a long sigh, Qi Yan divided everything, tore open the bread bag for himself and ate it: “Eat it. It will benefit them if we don’t eat it. We have paid so much ‘entrance fee’ and we must get it back, ah.”
When Qi Yan said this, Yang Zhi and Long Sheng also began to eat. Jiang Dacheng and Xiao Tian were the angriest. It took a long time for the two to calm down before they picked up the bread and bit it viciously.
The ham sausage was finished with the bread, and after drinking the two sips of mineral water, they were able to ease their anger.
“When I was receiving the meal just now, I saw that woman Su Cancan.”
Jiang Dacheng said suddenly while lying on the bed.
Everyone else was taken aback, Qi Yan and Kang Ye glanced at each other, the emotions in their eyes were clear at a glance.
“She seems to be doing well.” Jiang Dacheng said irritably: “How come the bad guys are doing well these days? Honest people like us have to live this kind of forced life!”
“Che, that woman is close to a big shot. She must be doing well.” Xiao Tian sneered on the side: “She has some capital. The first time I saw her, I thought this girl was unpretentious and had a lot to offer.”
Qi Yan packed his luggage and pretended to ask unintentionally: “How is she doing well?”
“She’s wearing mink-fur clothes. I used to be a trainer in a fitness center. Those noble ladies who came to exercise wore mink-fur clothes just like hers. She also speaks differently, it’s quite arrogant anyway.”
“Oh.”
“She went inside the city and it seemed that she was passing by this area. She must live better than us. Fortunately, she didn’t see me. If she saw me and rely on me again, it would be over.”
Jiang Dacheng’s funny words drew a burst of laughter. Qi Yan smiled and found that Kang Ye was also staring at him.
The corners of his mouth were slightly cracked, showing a little bit of snow-white teeth, smiling shyly.
Seeing Qi Yan staring at him, Kang Ye was taken aback. He quickly retracted his smile, blinked, and looked at him.
Qi Yan said softly, “Smile more, you look good when you smile.”
“Really?”
“Of course. If you don’t believe me, ask other people.”
“No, I believe it. If you like me smiling, I will smile.” After speaking, Kang Ye grinned and laughed softly again.
Yang Zhi, who witnessed all this, turned his head with relief and a trace of desolation. He found that Long Sheng was looking at him without blinking.
“What?”
“I know that you are both relieved that Kang Ye is becoming more and more integrated into this team and also sad that you are a single dog.”
“I’m not a single dog…” The corners of Yang Zhi’s mouth twitched: “I have a wife and daughter.”
“I believe you.” Long Sheng nodded and said, “Once, I had a baby marriage at the tips of my fingers. If the apocalypse hadn’t happened, I might be engaged by now. Next, I was going to start a business, get married, have children, and finally embark on the pinnacle of life.”
Yang Zhi: “…” You have said this set of words hundreds of times!
Although their life conditions were very poor, all the people in the team slept very sweetly that night.
This kind of bunk was much more spacious than the bunk beds on the RV. They could turn over back and forth and sleep in various indecent but comfortable sleeping positions.
In the middle of the night, Qi Yan, who had always been a light sleeper, was awakened by the sparse sound by the bed. He opened one eye and found that Kang Ye was sitting by his bed at this time, holding something in his hand.
Opening his eyes all at once, Qi Yan propped up his upper body and said in a soft voice, “What’s the matter?”
“Here” After Kang Ye said, pushing the object in his hand towards Qi Yan.
Qi Yan lowered his head and found that it was the bread and sausage given to Kang Ye today.
“Why didn’t you eat it?” Qi Yan asked in surprise. Why didn’t he notice that Kang Ye had secretly hidden the food?
“I don’t need to eat. Aren’t you hungry?” Kang Ye tore the bag of bread apart and brought the bread to Qi Yan’s mouth: “Eat.”
In an instant, an indescribable emotion exploded in his chest. Qi Yan felt the tip of his nose sour, lingering with the smell of the flavor on the bread, but at this moment he tasted something different.
Taking the bread, Qi Yan opened his mouth and ate it bit by bit, tears overflowing in his eyes, spinning for a long time.
“Don’t keep it next time. In order to avoid other people’s suspicion, you have to eat it.”
“I’m okay. I’m not very hungry and originally I don’t have to eat much.”
“You are so stupid, too stupid to throw away.”
Tears finally flowed down his cheeks, Qi Yan had no time to wipe them, letting the tears flow to the corners of his mouth with salty tear. Eating the sweet bread, Qi Yan finally gave up.
After being a raider for so long, only this target brought him so much surprise.
After eating the bread, Qi Yan looked at Kang Ye with tears in his eyes, and said with a chuckle: “I’ve said that much, will you remember?”
“Mn.” Kang Ye nodded. He stretched out his hand and wiped the tears on his face: “Don’t cry.”
“If I can’t cry, you have to eat.” Qi Yan asked.
Kang Ye pursed his lips and said with a tangled expression: “It’s a waste for me to eat.”
“Then you have to eat too.” Qi Yan said sternly.
Qi Yan demanded so, Kang Ye could only nod in response: “Okay, listen to you.”
[Kang Ye’s favorability towards Qi Yan +5, current favorability: 85]
Kang Ye was a non-assertive person. He relied on Qi Yan as much as Qi Yan relied on him. It’s obvious from a long time ago that Kang Ye was looking for a reason to survive, for what and for whom he survived.
Then, Kang Ye chose Qi Yan and Qi Yan chose him.
With Qi Yan, the word’s Kang Ye had said the most might be ‘Listen to you’.
Listen to you for everything, doing whatever you say, and going wherever you say.
——So, don’t abandon me, I want to follow you for the rest of my life.
