This is apocalyptic

Chapter 55: Year by Year

The bed sheet in the yard has not been removed yet. After a tiring day, Bai Xiao also needs to use the well.

The water that is squeezed directly from the well is completely different from taking a shower with a ladle.

Lin Duoduo listened to the sound of water and looked at the bed sheet. Sometimes she found it very funny that a zombie was sneakily taking a shower here.

The palm-leaf fan was swaying, and after a while Bai Xiao came out from behind the bed sheet, and she glanced at him from the side.

"It shouldn't rain tomorrow." Bai Xiao said. When he came back, he saw the bright red sunset, which was very beautiful.

Don't go out when there is morning glow, but you can travel thousands of miles when there is evening glow. This sentence has been engraved in our genes.

He saw the locust flower tea that Lin Duoduo had dried for him, and he picked it up and drank it all in one gulp. He had just taken a shower, and after drinking a bowl of this, he immediately felt refreshed all over.

I don’t know if it’s because bad luck can turn around, but the weather has been good for a while. They harvested wild wheat in the fields and dug up wild vegetables. Lin Duoduo carried the basket and went into the mountains with him again. There were a lot of good things in the mountains at this time of year. This time, there was no need to carry firewood. Lin Duoduo still covered herself tightly to guard against insects and poisonous bees in the mountains.

Suddenly, time seemed to be running out. Bai Xiao found the wild pepper in the mountains that he hadn't seen last time. Now, he wouldn't have to feel bored when catching frogs.

When he came back from the mountain, he saw Lin Duoduo limping and couldn't help asking, "When did you sprain your ankle?"

“Nothing was twisted.” Lin Duoduo shook her head. “Maybe I got stung by something.”

Bai Xiao was stunned for a moment. He was limping from the sting, and it seemed to be serious. "Do you want me to help you?"

"No, just apply some medicinal wine on it when you get home and it should be fine."

After returning home, Lin Duoduo sat on a stool. When she rolled up her trouser legs, she took a breath, as if she had touched a painful spot.

When I lifted him up, I saw that there was a big red swelling on his calf. I didn't know what had bitten him.

"It will probably be fine after applying medicated wine a few times." Lin Duoduo looked carefully and saw that it did not seem to be infected. She immediately breathed a sigh of relief and gritted her teeth to endure the pain.

Bai Xiao knew that her trouser legs were tied tightly, and he didn't know how she got stung. He went into the house to get her some medicinal wine. Lin Duoduo poured out some, applied it on her with a frown, her hands shaking with pain.

The next day, her right leg could no longer touch the ground, and she looked towards the other side of the mountain with some sorrow.

"Is your leg going to be broken?"

Bai Xiao found that her calves were swollen and shiny. In this world, if you lose a leg, you will really have no way to survive.

"The things in the mountains are too poisonous at this time of year." Lin Duoduo put her right leg on the stool, pressed it gently with her fingers, and couldn't help but hissed in pain.

It was a busy time when a general was injured. Bai Xiao went to the hillside, found the grass he had used for the ritual, dug it up, and gave it to Lin Duoduo to chew.

Lin Duoduo didn't chew it, but crushed it in a jar and applied the grass juice on it. This was not an external injury like Bai Xiao's, so it didn't matter whether he applied it or not. It was just a psychological comfort.

It took two full days for the swelling in her legs to subside. She applied grass juice during the day and medicinal wine at night.

Bai Xiao suspected that if it weren't for the medicinal wine, her leg might have been crippled.

Seeing Bai Xiao's anxious look, Lin Duoduo smiled instead.

"Didn't we get here this way before we caught you?" she said.

Using a stick as a crutch, Lin Duoduo can still jump around in the yard. As long as she is not lying in bed unable to move, it is better for a normal person like her to prepare food.

Bai Xiao discovered that she didn't like spicy food, so he could only enjoy the wild pepper he found by himself. He chopped it up and made it into a sauce, and mixed a little with it when eating. Finally, she was able to enjoy the food again.

"You really don't want to try it?"

"No, my mother used to like this flavor, but I don't." Lin Duoduo shook her head.

"Maybe you are the zombie." Bai Xiao said disdainfully. This human's taste is too bland.

He even dug up a small wild pepper and planned to see if it could survive transplanting.

After injuring his leg, Lin Duoduo became much more obedient. He would just walk around the yard with a stick and no longer patrolled everywhere like before.

Bai Xiao occasionally showed his head next door and saw her sitting there with one leg propped up, wondering what she was thinking about.

The hottest time has passed.

“I didn’t expect that one day when I got injured, I would be taken care of by zombies.” Lin Duoduo found it amazing.

"One day you will be rescued by zombies."

Bai Xiao said.

Lin Duoduo propped up her chin, tilted her head, and looked at the zombie. "Do you remember the past? I think you might have escaped from the shelter."

"Why do you think so?" Bai Xiao was a little surprised.

"a feeling."

It's a feeling that's hard to describe. Lin Duoduo has seen people in the past, and she herself grew up after the disaster. Bai Xiao doesn't look like someone who lived before the disaster, nor does he look like her.

"Why should I run away from the shelter?" Bai Xiao asked.

"Yeah... why?"

Lin Duoduo couldn't figure it out, so she stopped thinking about it. Anyway, he was a zombie now.

Bai Xiao still went to pick fresh herbs every day and asked Lin Duoduo to apply them on her wounds. The swelling in Lin Duoduo's legs was getting less and less. He saw Aunt Qian from a distance on the hillside once. The old lady caught a cold but was not dead yet. It seemed that she had found some things to boil and take. She was able to live so long, so she must have some solutions to minor injuries and illnesses.

He knew in his heart that even if he found a shelter, Aunt Qian would not likely leave here. She already had one foot in the grave. The reason she was still living so stubbornly was probably because she was worried about Lin Duoduo, or maybe because she was the only one who remembered those people from the past. She had a special feeling for this land and didn't want to live or die, so she continued to suffer.

The harvested wild wheat was dried and Lin Duoduo gave it to Bai Xiao to grind.

"Do you really want zombies to pull the mill? Can I bring Erdan over?" Bai Xiao said.

"Erdan can't pull it."

Humans' experiment of driving zombies to work was very successful, and even a little addictive. They not only had to cut wheat and carry baskets, but also had to pull the mill.

The yellowish flour that came out of the grind was whole wheat flour. Bai Xiao put it away and said quietly, "Before the disaster, this kind of flour was more expensive than refined flour."

"how is this possible?"

"I know you don't believe it."

Bai Xiao pushed the millstone, while Lin Duoduo limped around on one leg and swept it with a broom.

The swelling in her legs has gone down, but she still feels a little painful. She is recovering and can still do these auxiliary tasks.

While sweeping, she remembered that she seemed to have seen this scene when she was a child. Her father was also pushing the mill in front, and her mother was following with a sieve. It seemed that it was a bag of soybeans that she had brought back from scavenging.

Later, I also planted soybeans, but I don’t know how, they gradually disappeared. It seemed that the soybeans were dead and could no longer be found.

Many things existed before, but as the years passed, some of them disappeared.

(End of this chapter)