65: Really stingy, can't even afford to buy a bed

Opening the door was a man with a scruffy beard.

"Why is there blood on your clothes? Are you hurt?"

The fat man feigned indifference: "Just a small injury. The sheep I encountered today were too fat. Hong Jie and her team are moving supplies. I brought two survivors back early so you, Brother Zhang, can enjoy them first."

"Otherwise, with Hong Jie around, you wouldn't even be able to say a word to them, Brother Zhang."

The man called Brother Zhang looked behind the fat man.

Two girls wore warm face masks, revealing only a pair of beautiful eyes. They were both young, and their hands were tied with ropes.

Brother Zhang smiled, revealing his dirty yellow teeth: "As expected of my brother, you always think of me when there's something good."

"Everyone come out and see what good stuff the fat man brought back!" Brother Zhang shouted as he entered the room.

Jiang Fei and Yin Jing followed the fat man inside.

The ropes on their wrists were slipknots; they could break free with a pull.

Jiang Fei quietly loosened the rope, using her sleeve to conceal her movements, and took out the pistol from the Supermarket warehouse.

Yin Jing also silently gripped the gun hidden in her sleeve, ready to draw it at any moment.

The third floor of the guesthouse was very spacious. These people had knocked down the original small rooms and converted it into a large hall.

Bricks, bed railings, and other junk were piled in the corner.

In the center of the hall, there was a cracked red sofa and a few chairs.

Next to it were three large iron barrels used for heating.

Six people were gathered around the iron barrels, warming themselves by the fire, and stood up when they heard Brother Zhang's words.

"The fat man is good! He brought back two women today. I finally don't have to envy Brother Zhang for having someone to warm his bed. You must leave one for me tonight!"

"That's only after Brother Zhang is done playing, then it'll be our turn."

"Hong Jie should be back soon, right? Brother Zhang, hurry up! I can't wait!"

"What's the rush? Let me see what these two girls look like first..."

Bang!

Brother Zhang, who was trying to remove Jiang Fei's mask, was shot in the forehead and fell to the ground with a thud.

"Damn it! They have guns!"

"There are weapons upstairs! Go get them!"

"Run!"

Everyone scattered. The fat man took the opportunity to hide behind, pulled out a small knife, and was about to ambush the nearest Yin Jing when...

Jiang Fei, who had been on alert, quickly raised her hand and pulled the trigger, shooting the fat man in the temple.

Yin Jing instinctively turned her head at the sound and saw the corpse on the ground, instantly understanding everything.

Jiang Fei actually saved her... "I'll fight you all!"

"Brothers! Shoot! Today, either they die, or we die!"

Clang--!

The door was kicked open.

Lu Yu and Xu Qianyao, who were in charge of the rendezvous, rushed in with their men, firing indiscriminately.

The few people who were clamoring a second ago were now riddled with bullets, lying in a pool of blood.

Xu Qianyao told his teammates to count the bodies and took off his Lei Feng hat: "This room is much warmer than outside."

"We'll split up to find supplies, two people per group, searching one floor. The rest will disinfect."

Jiang Fei chose to team up with Lu Yu and was about to go to the top floor when Yin Jing stopped her.

"Um, thank you for saving me just now."

Yin Jing awkwardly shifted her weight: "I'm very sorry about what happened at the entrance of Yulan Garden before."

After saying that, Yin Jing turned and ran away, seemingly embarrassed.

Jiang Fei didn't care and went upstairs.

The guest rooms upstairs were all intact. There were 11 rooms on the top floor alone. She was responsible for searching the left side, and Lu Yu the right.

Presumably to save money, the single beds in the rooms were made of stacked bricks, with thick cardboard as mattresses.

The cement floor hadn't been polished either; it was rough and uneven.

So stingy.

They wouldn't even buy a bed.

Jiang Fei grumbled, putting the bricks into the Supermarket, planning to use them to build walls for the planting garden when she returned. Unexpectedly, in one room, she found a box of jewelry.

System: [Ding--Gold detected: 1659 grams]

She took back what she just said!

Hong Jie and Brother Zhang weren't stingy at all!

With the gold, Jiang Fei searched even more diligently.

However, after searching all the rooms, she only found some scattered food, cotton clothes, and cotton quilts.

Jiang Fei disappointedly organized the items, put them in a large plastic basin she found, and walked towards the stairwell.

Lu Yu had also finished searching the rooms on the right side and found more supplies than Jiang Fei.

5 boxes of mineral water, 3 boxes of black tea beverages, 2 boxes of milk powder, and 2 boxes of instant noodles.

Lu Yu had already been to the rooms on the right, so it was not good to collect bricks there again. Jiang Fei and he moved the supplies downstairs.

Third floor.

Everyone else had returned, laden with goods. Supplies were piled into two small mountains, half of which were cotton quilts, foam boards, and charcoal.

Xu Qianyao was on one side comforting several thinly dressed young people, as well as the little boy who had run back.

Recognizing them all as university alumni, Jiang Fei had no intention of greeting them, but when she clearly saw the face of one of the girls, hatred instantly surged in her eyes.

Yu Xuanjiao!

Her "good junior"!

In her previous life, she escaped from that small base that did dirty deeds and met Yu Xuanjiao and the scumbag on the road.

They were alumni and had some contact before, so they had a good impression of each other and traveled together.

Who knew that these two, one would emotionally manipulate her, and the other would pretend to be pitiful to gain her sympathy.

She was like a big fool, always working herself to death to find supplies, yet she couldn't get a single bite of food, and was foolishly morally blackmailed by the two—

"A Fei, you are capable, you should contribute more. If you don't go find supplies, and we starve to death, you will be the murderer."

"Sister Jiang Fei, I'm not feeling well today. You surely wouldn't be heartless enough to make me go out and suffer, would you?"

Until the two knocked her out and sold her to a village for the price of a packet of expired biscuits.

She became food for those devils, was tortured by Jiang Zixuan, and finally perished in a sea of fire.

Yu Xuanjiao wasn't with the scumbag. Had they not met yet?

Jiang Fei walked to a chair in the corner and sat down, calming her emotions to avoid shooting Yu Xuanjiao in the head.

Death was too easy.

At the very least, she wanted them to suffer a fate worse than death, like Jiang Ziming and Jiang Zixuan.

Noticing that Jiang Fei was no longer beside him, Lu Yu looked up, searching for her.

He happened to see the lingering coldness on Jiang Fei's face.

Lu Yu couldn't help but walk over and quietly asked, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, just a bit tired."

Seeing that Jiang Fei was unwilling to tell the truth, Lu Yu didn't expose her. He just went to the car outside to get his backpack and brought hers back as well.

Then, he took out a thermos from his own backpack and gave it to Jiang Fei.

"I boiled hot water at home. Drink some to warm yourself up."

"Thank you." Jiang Fei poured half a cup of hot water into the thermos lid and sipped it slowly.

Just then, Xu Qianyao clapped his hands: "We'll rest here tonight and depart tomorrow morning. Yin Jing, go get the food and distribute it to everyone. We'll organize the supplies after we eat."

"I just found a kettle. We can put it on the iron barrel to heat water. Anyone who wants to drink can come and pour it themselves. There are cups over there."

Xu Qianyao began to clean the aluminum kettle.

Yin Jing went to get the food and delivered the first two portions to Jiang Fei and Lu Yu in the corner.

It was two cups of instant noodles and two bottles of drinks.

"No need, we brought our own food."

Rejecting Yin Jing's food, Jiang Fei took out a self-heating spicy beef hotpot and a bag of 4 steamed buns from her backpack.

Lu Yu brought canned luncheon meat and self-heating tomato rice noodles.

The steamed buns in the bag were ones Jiang Fei had steamed before. She had taken them out of the Supermarket warehouse when they departed and put them in her backpack to cool.

Jiang Fei shared two steamed buns with Lu Yu: "Not eating staple food won't keep you full. I have plenty more at home."

Xu Qianyao and his team also had self-heating rice in their car, and as official personnel, there was no need to worry about causing a scramble.

Lu Yu accepted the steamed buns and added half a portion of luncheon meat to Jiang Fei's self-heating hotpot.

After pouring in water and closing the lid, the heating pack began to work.

Soon, a fragrant aroma filled the room.

Several teammates close to Jiang Fei unconsciously swallowed their saliva.

They all had self-heating rice provided by their superiors in their bags, meant to supplement the Rescue Team's nutrition, but they were reluctant to eat it.

Now, smelling the aroma... Eat it! What's the point of keeping it?! It won't have babies!

The teammates immediately went to get their self-heating rice, including Xu Qianyao and Yin Jing.

It was all because the spicy beef was too fragrant!

Before long, the smells of braised beef, curry chicken, braised chicken with mushrooms, and other self-heating rice dishes also wafted out.

For the survivors on the other side, eating instant noodles that weren't fully cooked, this was undoubtedly a form of torture.

Instant noodles were indeed better than bread and biscuits, but compared to self-heating hotpot and rice, they seemed meager.

After being hungry for so long, who wouldn't want to eat meat?

The survivors were indeed craving, but they didn't ask for any.

After all, this was food that others had brought.

If it had been found in the guesthouse, they might have asked why it wasn't shared with them.

But some people felt unbalanced inside.

Yu Xuanjiao put down her lukewarm instant noodles, gently tugged at the sleeve of the person sitting next to her, and whispered:

"Senior Han, I have a sensitive stomach. The instant noodles aren't soft enough, and my stomach will hurt if I eat them. Could you please help me get some warm food?"