Read Novel Full Chapter 275: Encounter
Chapter 275: Encounter
“Don’t be tricked by the busy activity of the two new cities in both directions; there’s still a significant distance between them, and the areas in between are quite disorderly, with many potential dangers.”
Knowing Jiang Ning’s abilities, Ma Guangnian didn’t refuse.
Compared to the temporary base in Fengcheng, the Guangzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Institute is much larger in scale.
The Hummer stopped at the entrance, and just happened to see someone coming out from inside carrying medicinal plants. It seems that the cooperative planting model is working well.
“Xiao Jiang, if it weren’t for you guys leading the way, we wouldn’t have thought of this good method.”
Ma Guangnian was very pleased. “I spend most of my time here. If you have any issues in the future, you can come directly.”
“Thank you, Teacher Ma. I’ll come to bother you often in the future. I hope you won’t find me annoying.”
Ma Guangnian doesn’t find it annoying; in fact, he hopes to have more people like Jiang Ning.
It’s too difficult to cultivate an outstanding traditional Chinese medicine doctor. How many doctors have unexpectedly sacrificed during the apocalypse, and the talent gap is the most frightening.
He took out a book with a vintage feel from his bag. “This is a book my teacher gave me years ago. It has been out of print for decades. It records the difficult and miscellaneous diseases encountered by traditional Chinese medicine over thousands of years, as well as the solutions. I’ll lend it to you to study carefully, remember to keep it safe.”
A thick book, yellowed and worn from flipping through it, showing its value.
Jiang Ning was flattered. “Thank you, Teacher.”
Ma Guangnian’s teacher should be the old professor who developed the prescription for treating liver and lung infections caused by haze. He hopes to meet him one day.
Waving goodbye, Jiang Ning drove back to Fengcheng.
Just as she reached the boundary of Fengcheng, a figure rushed out from the roadside.
Without time to brake, it collided and was thrown out, completely motionless.
No, is scamming even crazier in the apocalypse?
Jiang Ning’s head was a bit dizzy from the impact, but she didn’t get out of the car to check. Instead, she pulled out her gun and cautiously surveyed the surroundings.
Not far away, a figure came running, agile, with the arm badge of a public security patrol officer on his arm and holding a baton.
Looking at the man lying in a pool of blood, he was first stunned, then squatted down to check.
Barely alive, beyond saving.
Taking the cloth bag tightly held by the man, he dragged the person to the side of the road, then looked towards Jiang Ning, gesturing for her to get out of the car.
Jiang Ning looked at the person outside the car window, blood rushing to her temples in an instant.
Their eyes met, and both froze.
Jiang Ning opened the car door, the other party first showed joy, then a hint of complexity, and then rushed over excitedly and hugged her, “Anning.”
She hadn’t expected to meet Lu Yu in such circumstances.
In fact, she almost didn’t recognize him.
Two years apart, Lu Yu was almost like a different person.
His once fair and tender skin, softer than a girl’s, had vanished, replaced by roughness and darkness. There was even a scar on his profile.
The boyish Lu Yu had been completely transformed into a rough man.
On the other hand, Jiang Ning had hardly changed at all; if anything, she could be considered even more beautiful, with a newfound brightness and charm enhancing her clean and alluring appearance.
Two people who started from the same point now seemed like a world apart.
“Why are you here?” Jiang Ning was immersed in the joy of reunion. “A few months ago, Huo Yishen and I went to Dongqiao Mountain, and even went to the military base to find you guys, but the base said there was no such person, and we thought you went to the military base in Jiacheng.”
Recalling the past, Lu Yu squeezed out a faint smile. “After arriving in Huicheng, we went to the official base.”
It’s not safe to talk on the roadside. Jiang Ning pulled Lu Yu into the car. “How are Zhang Chao and Wei Li? Isn’t the official base good? How did you come back to Fengcheng?”
It’s quite cold; seeing him dressed lightly, his face turning purple from the cold, Jiang Ning handed over a thermos, “Drink some hot water first.”
Lu Yu didn’t take it and didn’t know how to tell her about his experiences over the past two years. “Anning, do you have a cigarette?”
Jiang Ning was taken aback.
She didn’t like the smell of smoke, and Lu Yu hardly smoked before.
However, the overall environment was suffocating and oppressive, so it wasn’t surprising that he had learned to smoke.
Jiang Ning handed him the cigarette.
Lu Yu smoked three in a row and then flicked the ash off. “Zhang Chao and Wei Li are still here. We patrol different areas. Wei Li is in the east of the city; Zhang Chao is in the city center. It’s still the same as before, rotating shifts every half month.”
Seeing how skillfully he smoked, Jiang Ning knew deep down that the three of them had encountered some serious trouble.
And it wasn’t just ordinary trouble.
What kind of events could turn someone naturally optimistic and a bit silly into the person he was today?
“On our way to Huicheng, we encountered several groups of bandits blocking the road, but we managed to pass through without incident…”
Zheng Weili’s home was in the county town. After experiencing typhoons, floods, and freezing, they had finally returned home after countless hardships, only to find that she was too late.
Her parents were gone.
According to the neighbors, they had died from heatstroke.
After burying their parents, Zheng’s siblings moved their families to the official base in Jiacheng.
Having grown up together, the bond between siblings might not have been deep, but they shared the same blood, especially for Zheng Weili, who had lost her parents without saying goodbye. Her two brothers were her only family left in the world.
Lu Yu and Zhang Chao wanted to enter the military base, but after discussing it, they decided to accompany Zheng Weili to Jiacheng.
After paying for 30 catties of grain, they successfully entered the base and found their two brothers and their wives.
Their nephews and nieces were all still alive.
Perhaps to make up for the lack of family, Zheng Weili took extremely good care of both families. Her nieces and nephews would come over to ask for food after every gathering.
At first, Lu Yu didn’t mind, after all, it was his beloved woman, and Zheng Weili was more capable than him. Over the years, she had contributed more to their relationship.
But once you open the floodgates, it’s impossible to close them. Both families constantly found reasons to ask for things from them, each trying to outdo the other.
Despite bringing a lot of food and medicine, it wasn’t enough to sustain them.
Today, one child from Zheng’s family fell ill, tomorrow another will faint from hunger. It was always one problem after another.
Lu Yu had hinted to Zheng Weili about this, but at that time she was immersed in the grief of her parents deaths and was being emotionally blackmailed by her two brothers and their wives, so she gave away everything she shouldn’t have given.
The labor intensity in the base was high, and they couldn’t even get enough to eat. Eventually, the three of them became scavengers.
Once, when Zheng Weili was injured, Lu Yu and Zhang Chao asked her family for antibiotics, but neither family was willing to give them any.
In the end, it was Zhang Chao who provided them.
After experiencing life and death, Zheng Weili also saw through things and gradually distanced herself from her family.
But then, she unexpectedly became pregnant.
Bringing a child into the world during the apocalypse was undoubtedly gambling with one’s life.
But since she was already pregnant, getting an abortion was equally risky, so she had to take the risk and give birth.
With a new life on the way and as time passed, Zheng Weili saw through the true colors of her family. She didn’t even give them a single grain of rice.
Her nephews and nieces, influenced by their parents, accused her of not giving them food, saying she was giving food to her lover instead of them. Now she was going to raise a wild child.
In her desperation, they cursed Zheng Weili and even punched her stomach.
Startled, Zheng Weili retaliated with a slap for each of them.
As the child on the ground cried and wailed, one of them screamed, “You’re a waste of money. You’re carrying a bastard that’s just wasting food. Let him starve to death, just like Grandpa and Grandma…”