The Great Flood of the End of Time: Female Neighbor Comes to Borrow Food

Chapter 276 First Arrival at Meishan
"We've made it ashore. We've finally made it ashore."

Old man Yang landed on the ground and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, expressing his deep emotion.

This restricted area of ​​water is no joke. If he were to cross the river by himself, he would have died eighteen times already.

Only with someone as capable as Mr. Liang around could they have crossed the river on a simple raft.

Old man Yang sighed and looked around quickly.

He is a native of Meishan Village and is very familiar with every tree and blade of grass on the mountain.

But when he looked at the plants and trees in Meishan again, he was stunned.

The grass and trees in front of me were barren, with a lot of weeds and thorns, and some trees had grown into towering trees.

Among them are the bayberry trees that he is so familiar with!
"Oh my god, is this still a bayberry tree?"

Old man Yang was shocked when he saw an extremely huge bayberry tree not far away.

This bayberry tree is almost 20 to 30 meters tall, and stands out among all the nearby trees.

As far as he could remember, there had never been such tall bayberry trees in Meishan.

However, looking around now, there are similar huge bayberry trees everywhere in the distance.

Yangmei was also somewhat surprised to see the changed Meishan Mountain. She said, "Why has it become like this? Uncle Lin, are you sure this is a bayberry tree? I remember that the bayberry trees on the mountain were no taller than two stories high, right?"

Old Man Yang was surprised and said, "It is definitely a bayberry tree. Although it has grown a little bigger, I recognize these leaves. They are still bayberry tree leaves."

"Wow, such a big tree, how big can the fruits be?" Old man Yang couldn't help but be surprised.

What he thought was, if this had happened in the past, wouldn’t it have been a bumper year?

As a lifelong fruit farmer, what he always considers is whether there will be a good harvest or not.

Liang Yuan said: "At the end of the great flood, humans and animals all mutated. It's not surprising that these bayberry trees mutated. There are also many mutated plants in Yangshan."

"Now is not the time to lament. Can you tell where this is in Meishan? Are there any attractions or buildings nearby?"

"Our top priority is to find the people on the mountain first."

"Yes, yes, Mr. Liang is right, Xiao Yangmei, we need to find someone. Let me see where this is."

Old Man Yang nodded quickly and looked around quickly.

With his understanding of Meishan, it should have been easy for him to figure out the terrain nearby.

However, plant mutations have long since changed the environment in the mountains, and it is now difficult to identify them.

Suddenly, Yang Mei shouted, "Uncle Lin, look, there is a grave here."

Hearing this, Old Man Yang quickly ran over and asked, "Where? Where? Let me see."

Then I saw a grave with a cement base in the grass.

The tombstone was covered with moss, and many weeds grew out of the cracks in the cement, blocking the words on the tombstone.

Old Man Yang hurried forward and reached out to push away the weeds.

But on the tombstone was written "Tomb of my late father Li Mao", with rows of names of filial sons below.

They are Li Kuirong, Li Kuihua, Li Kuifu, Li Kuigui and Li Kuian.

There is also a row of blank space on the right, which should be reserved for the mothers of these people.

Generally, old couples are buried together in a grave and they share a tombstone.

Whoever dies first will have his or her name written on the name sheet first. The other half will be left empty until the other old person dies, and then the name will be written on the name sheet. They will then be buried together.

The mothers of these filial sons should not be dead yet, so the blank space over there is still empty.

Of course, this happened before the Great Flood, and we don’t know whether he is dead or not now.

Old Man Yang saw the inscription clearly and laughed: "This is the tomb of Mr. Li Mao. I know where it is. This piece of land also belongs to them. Come with me. I remember that they have a shed here."

Hearing this, Yang Mei also remembered and said, "Uncle Kuian's land? Then I know where it is. I have been to this place before. Their land is not too high on Meishan Mountain. The terrain is relatively flat. It is a good location. I remember it is not far from the plank road."

Liang Yuan asked: "Is this a good location?"

Yang Mei nodded and said, "The closer you are to the foot of the mountain, the better the location. There is more soil and less rocks at the foot of the mountain. The soil is fertile and the terrain is flat, so it is convenient to go up and down. The higher you go up the mountain, the more troublesome it is."

"My father told me that when the land was divided, all the good places were snatched up by others. Since our family was not large and had no connections, we were allocated the area close to the top of the mountain."

"I remember when I was a child, my parents had to climb up and down every day to take care of the more than 100 bayberry trees. They were exhausted."

"Thankfully, Meishan was later planned as a scenic spot by the government, and our land was contracted by the government. We were given money every year, and my family was able to live a comfortable life. Later, we encountered some demolitions and our lives became better."

Yangmei sighed with emotion, as if recalling the difficulties her parents faced when she was a child.

Old Man Yang was looking for a way ahead. When he heard this, he turned around and said, "In our time, the family with more male offspring was the most powerful. Li Mao's family took advantage of the fact that they had more male offspring. They have five sons, and they are rich and prosperous. The five brothers are very powerful in the village. Li Kuirong is even the village party secretary. How can their family have less land?"

Liang Yuan asked curiously, "Why aren't all the people in Meishan Village surnamed Yang?"

Old man Yang smiled and said, "Of course not all of them are surnamed Yang. The main surnames are Yang and Li. Then there are some other surnames. They were all sent down from the city and settled here."

"When the market economy was just opened up, many people from Jiangbei came to work here. Those who came early and made money bought residential land and built houses here. There were also many people from other families coming here one after another."

Liang Yuan was surprised: "Can residential land be bought and sold in Linjiang?"

"Hey, now we can't do that. We didn't manage it well before, and Meishan was a deserted place back then. No one paid much attention to it."

“Who knew it could be developed into a scenic spot later on? The whole Linjiang developed well, and the land became valuable at that time.”

"I remember that we had a lot of land back then. We could just find a piece of vacant land and build a house. The same was true on the mountains. Whoever occupied the land and reclaimed it would own it."

Old man Yang laughed and said that there were indeed not so many rules in the era they lived in.

Liang Yuan felt emotional that Linjiang was benefiting from the policies.

Sometimes it’s not that you don’t work hard, it’s just that you were born in the wrong place.

Although they are both farmers, the land in Liang Yuan’s hometown is not worth a penny, and some people would rather leave it there and work there than farm.

Let’s look at Linjiang City. The land here is so valuable that you can get millions by just demolishing it.

"Look, over there!"

Old man Yang suddenly shouted excitedly and pointed to the depths of the dense forest.

Liang Yuan looked through the woods and saw an inconspicuous shed built deep in the woods.

However, there was a wooden fence around the shed, and the entire shed was covered by vines and haystacks.

If it weren't for the heavy rain that exposed some of the plastic roof on the top, it would have been hard to find.

Old Man Yang pulled aside the nearby grass and said excitedly, "Let's go over and take a look. There was no fence here before, but now there is one. There must be someone living here."

"I don't know which of the five brothers it is."

As Old Man Yang walked inside, he called out, "Is anyone there? Kuirong? Kuihua? Is anyone there?"

Liang Yuan brought Yang Mei and followed Old Man Yang. He looked towards the nearby grass, but seemed to find no footprints there.

As he approached the obviously concealed shed, he saw some chaotic footprints on the ground.

Many footprints were submerged in the accumulated water, and Liang Yuan looked towards the shed surrounded by a fence.

There was a broken clay jar outside and some broken bricks and tiles were piled in the corner.

The area enclosed by the fence seemed to have been cultivated. There were many water containers such as paint buckets near the ridges. There were also some crops between the ridges, but most of them had died.

There are also many potholes and bumpy places, as if someone has dug something.

Old man Yang pushed open the fence and walked towards the shed. The door of the shed was made of wooden boards and was very simple.

When he arrived at the door, Old Man Yang took a look and found that it was still locked.

He turned around and called Liang Yuan: "Mr. Liang, Xiao Yangmei, come and see, this place is locked, and the lock is rusty. I'm afraid no one has been here for a while."

Liang Yuan walked over, looked at the padlock, and pinched it casually.

There was a sudden clicking sound, and the padlock was crushed by him.

Liang Yuan pushed the door open and looked inside.

The shed is built with bricks on all sides, and the roof is made of a blue steel plate of the kind used in construction site dormitories, which is then welded together with locking nails. A layer of plastic sheeting is covered on the outside, and on top of that is a thick layer of leaves and branches.

The space inside the shed is not very big. There is a wooden bed with bamboo poles supporting the four corners and white mosquito nets tied to the poles.

There was a moldy quilt and a torn pillow on the bed.

There is a dark yellow table with peeling paint at the head of the bed.

There were some bowls and chopsticks on the table, and there was some water in the broken bowl.

Liang Yuan looked up and saw that it should have dripped from the steel plate on the roof.

Some leather tiles were laid on the ground to make a simple floor.

The house must have been ransacked; benches and other things were missing, as were some farm tools.

Old Man Yang looked around and said, "It seems that no one has been here for a long time."

Yangmei asked curiously, "Why do you still put up a fence outside and cover the shed with leaves when no one is coming?"

Old Man Yang shook his head and said, "I'm afraid these things were already there before the flood. After all, this place is close to the restricted area of ​​water and there are so many mutant beasts in it. I guess the survivors in Meishan wouldn't dare to come over."

"Let's go. Let's go to the plank road and go up the mountain from the plank road. We should be able to find someone." As he said that, Old Man Yang was about to leave the shed.

Liang Yuan did not move, but looked under the wooden bed.

Yang Mei was curious and asked, "Little brother? What's wrong?"

Liang Yuan shook his head and said, "There is a bad smell under the bed."

Yang Mei was stunned: "Smell?"

She sniffed but couldn't smell anything, only a musty odor.

Liang Yuan walked towards the bed, reached out and lifted the bed board, revealing the leather floor inside.

He pulled the floor casually, and with a sound of "kuchi", the leather floor was torn apart.

But I saw that under the leather, there was not mud, but a wooden door!
"what?"

Old man Yang came back and was surprised when he saw this scene.

"Why is there a cellar here?"

Liang Yuan reached out and grabbed an iron ring on the wooden door and pulled it hard.

Click!

The wooden door was lifted up directly, and immediately a strong stench hit me in the face!

It was a stench of rotting protein mixed with a fermented stench.

Liang Yuan immediately held his breath, and Old Man Yang next to him almost vomited and quickly covered his mouth and nose.

Yangmei also hurriedly covered her mouth and nose and stepped back in panic.

Liang Yuan looked into the cellar and saw that it was pitch black down there. He could vaguely see some cage-like iron bars.

He casually took out a flashlight from the inventory, shone it downward, and his expression changed slightly.

However, I saw that there was indeed a large iron cage underneath. The cage was filled with water, but the water was not deep, only about ankle-deep.

The entire cellar is estimated to be more than three meters deep, with walls built with bricks. A large iron cage is close to the wall, acting as a support to fix the entire cellar space, and especially acting as a dungeon.

Because inside this iron cage, there were three swollen, maggot-filled corpses!
Liang Yuan scanned the bodies with his mental power and confirmed the genders of the bodies.

All women!
And these women were all naked!
The corpse had been soaked in water for a long time, and gigantism had already occurred.

Liang Yuan stepped back and pulled Yang Mei out.

Old Man Yang didn't see it clearly, but he vaguely saw the horrifying human body shape.

He suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. He didn't dare to look at it any longer. He quickly closed the board and ran out.

As soon as he ran outside, he started vomiting violently in the corner.

"Ugh... ugh!"

Yang Mei didn't see what was going on inside, so she couldn't help but ask, "What's going on? What's in there? Why is it so smelly?"

Liang Yuan said: "They are several rotten corpses."

"Wow--"

Old man Yang suddenly started vomiting again.

Liang Yuan pulled Yang Mei away from the wooden house and said, "Someone must have lived here after the flood. Not only did they live here, they also imprisoned three women here."

"Look at the bodies of the three women, they were not wearing any clothes. I guess..."

He shook his head and said nothing more.

Yang Mei's face turned pale immediately, and she obviously understood what Liang Yuan meant.

At this time, Old Man Yang finally recovered and cursed: "Damn it, who has no conscience, how could he do such a thing, a beast, worse than a beast!"

The old man stamped his feet and cursed, his face also turning pale.

Liang Yuan said: "Uncle Lin, it's the end of the world. Have you never encountered these things before?"

Old Man Yang couldn't help but sigh when he heard this: "We went up the mountain early before. Although there were quarrels in the building and some people fought when they were pushed to the limit, nothing too extreme was done."

"After we got to the mountain, we didn't have nothing to eat. We could go to the river to catch fish and hunt mutant beasts in the mountains. We could still fill our stomachs and we didn't do anything too extreme."

Hearing this, Liang Yuan couldn't help but sigh: "Then you are lucky. If you stayed in the building, you would know how terrible human nature is."

Yangmei couldn't help but recall the tragic things she had seen in the building.

Old Man Yang said angrily, "Since they have already arrived at Meishan, the resources in Meishan are much better than those in Yangshan. Not only do many families have fields on the mountain, but there are also many crops on the mountain. They will not be starving, so how can they harm others?"

Liang Yuan shook his head slightly. Old man Yang thought too highly of him.

Some people, even if they have food and drink, once they find out that the world is coming to an end and no one can restrain them, evil thoughts will naturally arise in their hearts.

"Let's go, this guy might still be on the mountain, maybe in the shelter in Meishan."

Old Man Yang and Yang Mei's expressions suddenly changed.

Old Man Yang couldn't help but say, "I don't know which beast did this."

Liang Yuan shook his head slightly: "Let's find a shelter first. I wonder how Sister Mei's parents are doing now."

There was some worry in Yangmei's beautiful eyes, and she couldn't help but say, "I know where the plank road is, follow me."

She pulled Liang Yuan and hurried to find the plank road.

Old Man Yang also hurriedly followed. The three of them climbed through the woods and hillside, and soon they saw a winding mountain path halfway up the mountain.

This is a wooden plank road, built with a steel frame underneath and pure wooden handrails. The plank road is relatively spacious, about three to five meters wide.

I have also been to Meishan Liangyuan, so I naturally know this plank road.

This is a walking trail for tourists to visit Meishan.

Along the plank road are bayberry groves of various families.

Visitors can stop at any time to negotiate the price of picking bayberries with the owner of the bayberry tree.

Generally this price is not cheap, but the main thing is that you can eat as much as you want and take a few pounds of food with you when you leave.

If it is not the season when bayberries are ripe, this plank road is open to the public for free, allowing tourists to enter the mountains for fun.

In June and July, when bayberries mature, the plank road will be temporarily closed.

Only when the picking work is almost done will some be left for tourists to come in and experience the fun of picking bayberries themselves.

Walking on the mountain path and climbing up, you can see many bayberry trees with steel pipes crisscrossing along the way.

These steel pipes are not intended to prevent the bayberry trees from falling, but to make it easier for fruit farmers to climb up the trees to pick bayberries.

Liang Yuan noticed that the steel pipe frames of many bayberry trees had been dismantled and no one knew where they had been moved to.

Not long after, Yang Mei suddenly said, "There's smoke over there! There must be someone over there."

Old Man Yang also looked over there quickly, but the trees were dense and the mist obscured the view, so he couldn't see the situation clearly.

But Old Man Yang recognized the location instantly: "It's Yunquan Temple! That's Yunquan Temple!"

When Liang Yuan heard his words, he immediately remembered that when he came to Shushan for a visit, he did see a temple on the mountain.

However, every time he followed the plank road route, he could not get there, so he had never been able to actually go to Yunquan Temple.

Yang Mei said quickly, "Let's go over and take a look. Yunquan Temple is large enough and has many rooms. The square is also clean enough. Maybe everyone in the village lives there."

"Yes, yes, the only places on this Shushan Mountain where people can live are Yunquan Temple and Jieshi Academy to the west. There is smoke coming out there, so there must be people there." Old Man Yang also said excitedly.

Liang Yuan said: "In this case, let's go over and take a look."

Liang Yuan was not familiar with the road conditions, so Yang Mei and Old Man Yang led the way.

The three of them walked along the plank road, then walked onto a small path, following the steps and climbing up to the mountainside.

Yang Mei introduced: "This path is generally only known to locals, because it leads to the orchards of each family, so it has never been open to the public, and many foreign tourists do not know about this path."

"How do outsiders get to Yunquan Temple?" Liang Yuan asked.

"Go through the main gate, come in directly from the east gate of Shushan, and then don't take the plank road, take another road, you can go directly to the main gate of Yunquan Temple."

"Of course, few people go to the East Gate, and the bus is far from the East Gate. Most people still go to the West Gate to enter the mountain, and then they can only climb the plank road, and they can't reach Yunquan Temple."

Liang Yuan suddenly realized, and the three of them walked forward while talking.

When we reached a flat section of the road, several figures suddenly jumped out of the woods.

"stop!"

"Damn it, who allowed you to leave Yunquan Temple?"

"Stand there!"

The men came with threats, each of them holding a hoe, sickle and other weapons.

Moreover, judging from their agile bodies and extremely fast speeds, it is clear that they have awakened special powers.

(End of this chapter)