The twenty-fifth chapter suicide (7)
Relatively speaking, women are always thin-skinned, especially when they involve sensitive topics such as relationships between men and women. No matter how generous Zhou Chen is on weekdays, she cannot smile at this moment. Immediately, she had to turn her gaze for help to Wu Han. From the corner of her eyes, she looked at the crowd of long-tongued women around her who ignited the soul of gossip. Wu Han knew that she would never end up with any good endings at this moment, but Zhou Chen's embarrassment made him unable to continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb. Good men cannot shake their heads when women say I want them.
Hesitation was just a flash of thought. Wu Han quickly stood up with a grudge and said with a smirk:
"Hey, sisters, you don't even look at the monk's face. If you continue to spoof like this, I will get angry."
As he finished speaking, there was a lot of laughter in the cafeteria. Wu Han's formal statement received no kind response. Zhao Yuan smiled and put on a gesture of three ladies teaching their children, retorting:
"We sisters say something private, you have to get involved, are you a man?"
"Zhou Chen, come and sit down to me."
Wu Han knew that when it comes to kung quarrel, he was no match for this group of women no matter what. He simply didn't take Zhao Yuan's words and just took the opportunity to get rid of the firewood. After Zhou Chen was settled, Wu Han said:
"You guys almost made Zhou Chen cry, so why don't I let me take care of it?"
The women had no intention of chasing each other and beating them hard. Apart from throwing ambiguous glances at Zhou Chen from time to time, they did not take any other actions for a while. Seeing this, Wu Han breathed a sigh of relief, at least he had dealt with this unwilling breakfast.
On the first day after the wedding, Wu Han wanted to protect Zhou Chen and help her stop the harassment of idle people, but also had to deal with these boring gossiping women. He was really struggling with the indirect attacks of the battle last night. Until dark, he suddenly remembered an important thing and rushed to the radio room. Finally, before the scheduled time came, Wu Han quickly turned on the power supply and preheat the radio station. After a lot of work, he served the old man-level electronic tube radio station that used electronic tubes to comfortably. More than ten minutes later, Zhao Manxiong's slightly hoarse voice came from the speaker.
"Squeak! Squeak..."
"I said to Brother Wu, it has been raining all the time these days, and the air is so humid! The radio station has had some minor problems and the signal is not good, so I forgive me."
Although Zhao Manxiong's job is to recycling the waste, he has been working on amateur radios much longer than Wu Han, and his technical level is much more skilled than Wu Han who became a half-time monk. However, it is hard for a good cook to cook without rice. The extreme shortage of spare parts makes him stretched. Even the radio station can only work hard and often have to go on strike for a few days. In this way, the connection with Taohuayuan is intermittent.
I almost missed the contact time today, and Wu Han was not in the mood to pick on the poor sound quality of the radio. He said:
"Brother Zhao, you should have almost closed your hands, right?"
After the flood, he went out for an adventure. When Wu Han and his party discovered the survivors of Xin'an Town not long after. Then, he contacted him via radio and learned some information about Zhao Manxiong, and found a large number of survivors on the southwest plateau. It is hard to say that these survivors suddenly fell from the sky. A few days ago, they were invisible to the ruins, and they could not tell when they were crowded. With the same idea as Wu Han and others, Zhao Manxiong's tribe also provided assistance to these things. However, due to objective reasons, it is impossible to provide generous assistance like Peach Blossom Spring, because it is not easy for Zhao Manxiong and his men to have enough food for their own family to eat, so where can they get the surplus grain to help others.
Hearing Wu Han’s question, he felt sorry for Zhao Manxiong’s tears at this moment, and he said with a sigh:
"Oh! Don't mention it. How do you ask me to support these people? It's very difficult to take in a small half, and the remaining people can only make their own way."
Upon hearing the sound, Wu Han was also silent. Zhao Manxiong's difficulties and unscrupulousness were understandable. The fate of those who were called making a living but were actually abandoned would be extremely sad. This is the cruel reality of this world! In this world after the nuclear war, there were so many things to be done, and nothing but suffering is missing. Resuming agricultural production is far away. Survivors from all over the world can't feed many people by just the wild fruits, wild vegetables and hunting they collected every day. Needless to say, since the mysterious appearance of those powerful monsters, people who claim to be the spirit of all things have slipped down from the top of the pyramid of the food chain. When humans who are going out to look for food and monsters encounter head-on, the hunter can escape without being eaten by the monsters, which is already considered good luck.
After a while, Wu Han woke up and comforted him:
"It's right? It's quite warm in the south. If you dig some wild vegetables or something, you can make do with it!"
It would be fine if Wu Han didn't persuade him. When this was said, Zhao Manxiong there was really crying and said in a choking voice:
"Brother, I'm going to tell you that this person's heart is full of flesh. Who can bear to see their miserable appearance? There is no way to stay. It's equivalent to suicide. I just want to be at peace with myself. As for the others, I really can't think about it deeply."
Perhaps because he was depressed for too long, the loneliness in Zhao Manxiong's words was very meaningful, which shows that he chose such a seemingly extremely cruel and wise approach in a dilemma, weighing the interests and choosing such a wise approach.
The newly emerged survivors appeared a little later than the flood that marked the end of the nuclear winter. Unlike Wu Han, Zhao Manxiong, who had survived the entire nuclear winter period, among these latecomers, the memories of most people were strangely stuck at a certain moment before the outbreak of the nuclear war. Therefore, when they opened their eyes, they suddenly found that the extremely familiar world had completely changed, and it was even more difficult to accept this cruel and unavoidable reality.
Under the huge psychological pressure and mental shock, the number of people who went crazy and committed suicide among these latecomers has always remained high, causing serious social problems.
Given the extreme psychological instability of newcomers, survivor groups from all over the country were all more cautious when inspecting and accepting these latecomers, fearing that they would take in time bomb-like madmen to their side.
Of course, the psychological problems of latecomers are important objective factors, but another more realistic concern comes from limited survival resources. Apart from special cases like Peach Blossom Land, survivors do not have the necessary material conditions to restore production and life, such as crop seeds and farm tools, they can only think about it when dreaming. Although the weather tends to warm up after the end of nuclear winter, the remaining ice and snow melt, there is still no hope of starting farming and production in the short term.
Chapter completed!