msmithbooks Chapter 148 The 2nd Year Rainy Season
Chapter 148 The 2nd Year Rainy Season
The only tree house in the jungle was full of clothes and quilts. Su Qing was wearing pajamas and held up the clothes pole to hang the clothes on the clothesline tied to the beam of the house.
After the clothes were washed, they dried them out of the water. They could have put them away most directly, but the sun came out after the rain in the afternoon, and the jungle just after it rained was too wet to dry the clothes. Su Qing wanted to put them away Let the sun dry in the room, and then use a mirror to invite the sunlight in, which can be regarded as sunbathing.
Qi Jiang, who had just finished washing his clothes, came out wiping his sweat, took the mirror and went to the window to place it, adjusted the angle little by little, and asked slightly panting: "Susu, how about this angle?"
A meandering sunbeam hits the ceiling, and several pieces of clothing reach the sun.
Su Qing roughly estimated that there are eight windows in their tree house, and the number is too small to allow all the clothes to be exposed to the sun.
Thinking of this, he felt a little disappointed: "Living in the rainforest still has too little sunlight, which is blocked by the tree canopy."
"The left and right are just a temporary place to stay." Qi Jiang felt that this was a good place to live, so he went to get sunlight from another window, "After I prepare the banquet, I will go around the coastline to see if there is any suitable territory for us. "
"Banquet? What kind of banquet?" Su Qing was taken aback. Why did a banquet pop up after the party?
Qi Jiang slammed his hands together and snorted: "I forgot to tell you, I hope the base sent me an invitation letter, saying that there will be an auction at the banquet, and I am going to have fun."
He took out the invitation letter, Su Qing walked over to look at it for a while and put it back on the coffee table: "Who are there?"
"It is said that I hope that the base will hold its own party..." Qi Jiang told him in a nutshell, "I think what Liu Xingjie said makes sense. I hope that the base has a large number of people and can indeed collect a lot of information that we don't know. You can also browse around at the auction."
"That's Chen from before..." Su Qing paused.
"Chen what?" Qi Jiang looked at him suspiciously, "I hope the base sent someone to invite you?"
"Not really." Su Qing bowed his head and coughed lightly, "Brother Chen told me about this banquet before, and I don't know if the news he got was more general or he hoped that the base didn't plan to hold an auction, so he He only told me about the meal, and was afraid that I would conflict with the base, so he let me avoid it, and I simply went out the next day."
After hearing this, Qi Jiang couldn't believe it: "Brother Chen you mentioned, is that the one I know?"
"uh-huh?"
"Then why didn't you cancel the mission? I went to the mission hall these days, why didn't Brother Chen come to look for it..." Qi Jiang suddenly felt that it was meaningless to say this, and asked happily, "By the way, what is he doing?" When did it come?"
"I forgot to log out." Su Qing was very embarrassed, "He came ten days ago, but I told him that I would not come back until four or five days later, maybe he was waiting for me to find him and didn't pay attention to the mission hall. "
Qi Jiang didn't get entangled in this matter, but thought that Su Qing had been out of the house for too long, so he nervously and carefully scanned Su Qing's exposed skin, even though he didn't see the wound, he walked over and observed carefully: "You How far did you fly out for the first time? Didn’t you encounter any trouble? I even forgot to check yesterday.”
"Is there anything to check, what trouble can I encounter." Su Qing snorted, "By the way, how many days have you been back?"
"I'll be back for eight days." After Qi Jiang answered, he turned the topic to Brother Chen, "How is Brother Chen doing now? What did you guys talk about?"
"Look at how excited you are, I didn't see you so excited when I came back." Su Qing took a bit of jealousy, "Obviously before... um..."
Chatting and chatting, they disappeared in the living room, only a few mirrors placed or not placed and clothes hanging from the roof remained.
As for Brother Chen's matter, we may have to wait until the next time before we can continue talking.
Two days later, Hope Base officially confirmed the time and place of the long-planned exchange banquet, and sent someone to deliver the auction brochure to Qi and Su.
"The reference value of this brochure is not very great, so the appearance of the lot is more reliable." Su Qing half-lyed on the sofa, holding the auction brochure in his hand and looking at it with gusto.
"After all, the world has just been resurrected. Many things are too new for everyone. It's normal not to know much about them." Qi Jiang lay beside Su Qing, with one hand on Su Qing's stomach ambiguously, "Don't look at this Alright, Susu, let's go back to the room... Ouch!"
A slap sounded, and Qi Jiang grinned in pain and took his hand away: "Why, what's the matter?"
"What's the matter?" Su Qing snorted angrily, "I keep thinking about that stuff, can I still do some serious work?"
Qi Jiang couldn't laugh or cry in his heart: You have been clinging to me these two days, it's not my fault alone.
Susu's fault of only teasing and not caring about it is not once or twice. Qi Jiang knew in his heart that he should not think about it these two days, so he sighed very regretfully: "Which auction do you like?"
"Just elixir and psychic mines, both of which will take our time to dig. It's better to prepare them first. You just need to pay some spiritual stones. There are too many spiritual stones now. Let's keep the animal pills first, so as not to worry about them in the future." If you run out, you have to go on a killing spree to stockpile the goods, wasting time and committing crimes.”
"Don't buy information?" Qi Jiang was puzzled, and leaned on Su Qing to carefully read the words on the auction booklet, "I think the introduction of this information is not bad, it shouldn't be a loss if you buy it, and it can save us a lot of time, why? Not buying?"
"I feel that the efficiency is too low. I want to use my family's secret technique to make something to help us explore the map." Su Qing put down the booklet in his hand, turned his head to Qi Jiang's ear and roughly said his thoughts.
There were only the two of them in the house, and a silence circle was set up here, so the voice inside could not be heard at all, and Qi Jiang saw that he was inviting himself by getting so close.
"Susu... um..." Su Qing pushed Qi Jiang's face away with his hand.
"Don't even think about it." Su Qing snorted coldly, like a child who succeeded in pranking, humming a little song and leaving the sofa, "Fix it yourself."
Let you toss me these two days, hum!
Qi Jiang on the sofa smiled wryly, but there was nothing he could do, who made this his wife?Of course, I can only coax and obey.
He ran back to the room in embarrassment to deal with his personal problems. Su Qing lay on the window and looked at the heavy rain outside.
When Qi Jiang finally came out, he wanted to "teach" Su Qing a lesson, but found that he was "in a daze", so he simply let him go this time.
Qi Jiang carefully helped Su Qing put a blanket on so that he would not catch a cold, and moved a stool to sit beside Su Qing and read a book.
Time passed quickly, and two days later it was time to report for the Exchange Banquet of the Hope Base.
At night, Su Qing put on a woolen sweater and a cloak for himself, and sighed slightly looking at the sky outside: "Can't we eat during the day? There will be an auction after the meal, and I don't know how long it will be." Clicked."
"It's okay, the things we want to buy are in the first half, and we'll come back to sleep after shopping." Qi Jiang took a thin scarf to help Su Qing wrap around his neck.
"Didn't I say that Senior Xiang Shengshu cured me of congenital insufficiency? I won't catch cold so easily."
"The disease brought by fate is not so easy to cure, you are weaker than half of the people now." Qi Jiang helped him fix the scarf on his own.
"That's the physical quality determined by blood, no matter how strong I am, I can't be like you?"
"Then you have to be more careful." Qi Jiang thought that the temperature had been a little higher these two days, so he held Su Qing's hand in his palm again, seeing that his hand was a little cold, he took out the glove again.
"Hot." Su Qing withdrew his hand.
"Hey, your hands are too cold."
"Did you forget my ice crown and ice staff?"
Qi Jiang paused and put the gloves in his pocket: "Then remember to tell me if you're hot, don't force yourself."
After going through a "competition" going out, half an hour had passed, and the two finally went out slowly.
They didn't want to socialize at first, but because of etiquette and respect for Hope Base, they wanted to arrive only half an hour early, but now they dawdled for half an hour, and they were almost late when they went out.
It's not good to be late, but considering the two people's current speed, the distance of more than a hundred kilometers is really nothing. In the end, they arrived at their destination a few minutes earlier.
The banquet was held in the auditorium, and it was open to the top-ranked hunting groups, various departments of the Huaxing Army, and other prominent figures.
I hope that the base has a population of 2000 million. Even though the proportion of the hunting team in the entire base is very low, there are still one million hunting awakeners. Although there are not many hunting groups in the top ranks, there are also many people who come. Hope that the base has experienced many hardships, and there are not a few famous people.
All in all, when Su Qing and the others came in, there were already nearly 2000 people sitting at the tables in the entire banquet hall waiting for the table to start.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, 2000 people looked over curiously.
Such a large banquet was held only when Su Qing came back, which made Su Qing feel strange, not an ominous premonition, but rather strange.
"It's just a dinner party, why are there so many people?" Su Qing quickly used the sound insulation technique, leaned into Qi Jiang's ear and asked in a low voice, "What are they doing?"
"With such sincerity, it is natural to ask others."
Su Qing closed her eyes to hide the dissatisfaction in her eyes: "Come on, don't even think about going to bed early tonight."
"You can go to bed early, leave it to me, and go back after shopping, don't worry."
Qi Jiang's expression remained unchanged, and he pulled Su Qing's hand like a fish in water, even though he was the last to arrive, he did not change his face and walked to the only two vacant seats in the hall.
This is the main table, and the people sitting on it are people they don't know. When Qi Jiang came to the seat, he nodded to everyone. He didn't need to be greeted by everyone. He took Su Qing to sit down as if he was the master, and patted him gently. Pat Su Qing's hand to make him relax.
According to the usual practice, even if the person who arrives last is not late, he will usually punish himself with three cups, but Qi Jiang directly skipped this one, and did not feel wronged at all.
"All the dishes are served?" He glanced at the dishes on the table, and found two fresh vegetarian ingredients, which looked like some kind of leaves, and they smelled delicious.
Without knowing it at all, he ordered the two plates of green vegetables with his chin cautiously, and asked everyone on the table with a smile of interest: "Is this a new ingredient?"
"I just discovered it these two days." A gray-haired grandfather on the main table nodded kindly, turned the table and transferred one of the vegetables to Qi Jiang, "Mr. Qi can try it."
Due to his own upbringing, Qi Jiang would not be so rude. He usually didn't talk much at banquets before, and he didn't bother to talk when people came to him to talk.
But Su Qing obviously had never participated in such an occasion, so he was a little cautious. In order to let him relax, Qi Jiang turned against the guest.
Now that Su Qing has relaxed, he handed over part of the initiative again, evoking a distant smile: "Haven't you asked your names?"
"If your surname is Geng, Mr. Qi can call me Lao Geng." The white-haired grandfather replied with a smile.
Surname Geng?That's Master Geng from the former Huaxing Army in Hecheng?
Qi Jiang pieced together this conclusion from some fragments of information that he had almost forgotten, and looked at the other people on the table, and probably guessed their identities.
Hope Base has a total of nine principals, who are the first and second in command of Xicheng, Hecheng, and Xicheng in the past, that is, the division commanders of the Huaxing Army in the three cities, and the three mayors and deputy mayors.
Yes, although these three cities were forced to relocate, the management is not as miserable as Fengcheng, and there is no fault. With these nine people, I hope that although many people have died in the base, enough people have been retained. tinder.
With a population of 2000 million, I don't know any other base that can compare.
There are a total of ten seats on the other tables, and only the main table has eleven seats. But this table is relatively large, and the dishes on it are larger than other tables, so it will not be crowded, and there is no need to worry about not having enough food.
After the three top officials of the Huaxing Army, that is, Geng Hecheng, Qiu Xicheng and Luo Xicheng, introduced themselves, Qi Jiang told Su Qing his name.
Next came the three mayors and deputy mayors, Mayor He and Deputy Mayor Liu of Hecheng, Mayor Zhang and Deputy Mayor Zhou of Xicheng, Mayor Qin and Deputy Mayor Huang of Xicheng.
Of course, the Hope Base is now a family, and their current titles are of course no longer the principals of the three cities. The Huaxing Army of the three cities has synthesized a new division, named the Division of Hope, and several other mayors and deputy mayors He is no longer called the mayor, but is responsible for managing various departments of the Hope Base.
What are Mr. Geng, Mr. Qiu, and Mr. Luo responsible for, and what departments are the mayors and deputy mayors in charge of? Qi Jiang and Su Qing, who don't pay much attention to the Hope Base, don't know.
They don't need to rely on the Hope Base, and it doesn't matter if they don't know these things, so the two of them are not curious at all, and they don't care at all.
This flirtatious attitude, in the eyes of others, represents one's own self-confidence and arrogance. Several principals of the hope base exchanged glances without any trace, and all smiled.
Mr. Geng greeted with a smile: "Mr. Qi and Mr. Su haven't eaten yet, right? Let's have dinner first?"
"En." Qi Jiang responded.
"Everyone, let's eat." Master Geng smiled and picked up the chopsticks and took a bite first.
There is a large stage in front of the main table. Many soldiers and waiters stand on both sides of the stage.
On the stage, some dancers walked up and danced beautifully and powerfully, which was very pleasing to the eye.
This scene is a bit like some grand banquets before the end of the world, but there is no alcohol here, because alcohol is a strategic material nowadays, and it is generally used in hospitals to disinfect wounds.
In order to be vigilant against monsters and worms that may attack the base at any time, most of the residents of Hope Base who have survived until now are not good at drinking, and even alcoholics can give up alcohol in order to survive.
On the table, there were only some rough tea leaves instead of wine, which is already a very luxurious commodity nowadays. Others are also very careful when they eat, and they don't want to waste it at all.
Even the performance on the stage is very suitable for the current world, and the preparation is not careless.
There are fish and meat on the table, both of which are full of energy. Monster meat is a staple food nowadays. Most people don't pick the taste, as long as it is edible and not poisonous.
Qi Jiang only knew one piece of snow rabbit meat in it, and he had never eaten the others. In addition, there were not many seasonings in it, and he didn't know how the other dishes tasted, so he only tasted the leafy greens in front of him that he hadn't eaten before. Take a sip.
The taste is slightly bitter, but very refreshing. Although the taste is average, Su Qing has never eaten this food, and Qi Jiang knows that he definitely wants to taste it.
"Try it, it tastes alright."
Su Qing took a sip, nodded slightly, and still liked it, Qi Jiang smiled when he saw it, and picked up another chopstick for him, and after he ate it, he picked up a piece of snow rabbit meat to try for himself.
The snow rabbit meat itself is delicious. Although there are few seasonings, it is steamed just right, and it is tender and smooth in the mouth. Qi Jiang sandwiched another piece for Su Qing.
"Try this, it's a cooking method we haven't tried before, if you like it, I'll go back and make it for you."
Su Qing frowned and ate the rabbit meat: "Well, it's delicious."
"Then you can eat more." Qi Jiang took another piece for him, not being polite at all.
From the time they came in, except for Su Qing who was a little more cautious at first, they didn't see each other at any other time. When it was time to eat, the principals saw the same thing with them, and they were actually a little disappointed.
These two young people are too stable, which makes them difficult to talk about.
The energy of the two plates of vegetables on the table is not as good as that of the meat. Although the taste is not bad, the quantity is not much. Qi Jiang and Su Qing just tasted a few bites, and then they ate snow rabbit meat.
A few minutes later, the youngest deputy mayor Zhou asked with a smile: "Mr. Qi, Mr. Su, are the other dishes not to your liking?"
"What are these made of?" Su Qing asked without answering.
Deputy Mayor Zhou introduced the ingredients in the dishes to Su Qing in a good-tempered manner. Some Su Qing could match, and some could not, but he was not interested after listening.
However, he still nodded slightly to save face, took a piece and put it in his mouth to taste.
Average taste.
Su Qing, who is used to eating snow rabbit-level ingredients, doesn't like this kind of food that tastes so-so and doesn't taste very good. Adhering to the spirit of not wasting food, he ate all of it, but he never touched this dish again .
Qi Jiang was also testing dishes, and among the remaining six dishes, he found a fish with a good taste and texture. It was the yellow sand river shrimp and yellow sand river crab in a nearby river called Huangsha River.
The reason why it is called Huangsha River is that it was full of yellow sand when there was no vegetation before, but the river water mixed with sand turned yellow, and many monsters in it were also named after this river.
Now this place has turned into a jungle. The water of the Huangsha River is clear, and suddenly there are some fresh fish that come out of nowhere. I hope that someone at the base will catch it and try it. The taste is surprisingly good.
However, these fish are all monsters. Although they are not big in size, they move very quickly and deal high damage, so it is very troublesome to catch one. In addition, the energy of these fish is not as good as that of the same fish. Other monsters of the same level, so the price of these fish is actually very low, and no one likes to eat them.
After all, in this world, delicious food is not as good as full food.
If it wasn't for this banquet, I hope that the people at the base would generally not waste their energy trying to catch this kind of fish.
After a meal, the food on the table was cleaned up, the plates were removed, the waiter quickly cleaned up the table, and soon served some tea and fried peanuts.
Peanuts are still the same peanuts as before. The energy is too low to fill the stomach, but now everyone is full and needs such a small snack.
This banquet was mainly for communication, and the protagonists were still hopeful experts from the base. Mr. Geng went up to give a speech after waiting for a while.
When he was speaking, some decorative fabrics on the stage were quickly removed, and the exposed stage seemed to have other functions.
If it is an auction, there is no need to remove these decorations at all, so there should be other programs in the future.
Soon, they figured out what the second show was about.
Since it is communication, in addition to information exchange, there is naturally a link of making friends by force. In Mr. Geng's words, it is not acquaintances without fighting, but it is also completely voluntary.
Everyone is a famous person, if they can become famous in such an occasion, then the power of their subordinates will definitely increase in the future, and soon some people will jump on the stage and start to learn from each other.
These people were fighting in close quarters. Su Qing, who was not good at this, looked at it twice and lowered his head disinterestedly. He took out a wet handkerchief and wiped his hands to peel Qi Jiang's peanut clothes.
Qi Jiang is usually not picky about food, but he also has his own preferences. He prefers salty peanuts, such as salt-boiled peanuts, salt-fried peanuts, braised peanuts, etc., but if they are fried peanuts, he doesn’t like peanut shells very much. Although you can eat it, it only belongs to the kind that has been eaten.
Now that he had nothing to do, Su Qing peeled peanuts for him to eat, and peeled the peanuts out one by one with his thin white fingers. The white peanut kernels made Su Qing's fingers look like high-quality jade.
Qi Jiang frowned slightly, reluctant to let Su Qing do this kind of work, but seeing how vigorously he peeled, even ordinary peanuts could not hurt his hands, Qi Jiang smiled after eating a peanut that Su Qing fed into his mouth By this blessing.
After a while, Deputy Mayor Zhou next to Su Qing asked curiously, "Why don't Mr. Qi and Mr. Su watch the game?"
Now Qi Jiang's heart is full of Su Qing's seductive fingers and peanuts, he pretends not to hear what he heard, and eats the peanut kernels that Su Qing feeds him with a smile.
Su Qing said in a calm tone while peeling peanuts: "I don't understand."
Deputy Mayor Zhou exchanged glances with several other people, and everyone's eyes revealed a message: I believe you ghost!
As for melee combat, Su Qing is indeed at the level where he can see clearly and avoid it, but he can't understand the way to do it. It's a pity that others don't believe it.
At the moment, there were still two people who had awakened three times up there fighting each other. After they got down, Deputy Mayor Zhou gave the crowd a look, and soon two people who had awakened four times went up to fight.
There are fourteen four-time awakeners in this hall, three of them are strong folks, two are the leaders of the two strongest hunting groups in the hope base, one is a casual person, and eleven of them are from the Huaxing Army. bit.
After all, the four awakenings that have crossed a hurdle are not at the same level as the three awakenings. According to the division of strength, the four awakenings and the five and six awakenings belong to a large stage. Start watching carefully.
After the two people above had finished their competition, two more people who had awakened four times went up to compete. Deputy Mayor Zhou's tone was still gentle and polite: "What do you two think of the previous competition?"
In order not to go up to perform, Su Qing flattered her face: "It's amazing, I can't do it." So slow.
Qi Jiang also showed a smile: "Your base is full of talents."
The words of your base directly express Qi Jiang's attitude. They don't plan to stay here for a long time, and they don't regard themselves as people of Hope Base.
It stands to reason that if you are a wanderer, you should stay when you encounter a human gathering place, and hope that the strength of the base is still very good, and the wanderers can also guarantee their own safety when they settle here.
But anyone with a little brain knows that they are not homeless.
As for whether these two people want to return to their own base or find another base after leaving Hope Base, Deputy Mayor Zhou and the others have no control, because they never thought of forcing these two people to stay.
Since it is impossible to stay by force, it is better to get the benefits first.
"Hehe, it's not as good as Mr. Qi and Mr. Su." Deputy Mayor Zhou smiled sheepishly, "Many people in our base are very interested in the two, and there are also many fourth-awakened people in the army who want to Competing with the two, I don't know if the two can show respect?"
"As far as I know, the awakened ones, especially those who are soldiers, are not willing to admit defeat. I'm afraid this fight will be endless. If I keep standing on that platform, I'm afraid your base will lose face." Qi Jiang smiled politely, "Forget it."
Su Qing lowered his head to hide the smile in his eyes, and continued to peel peanuts for Qi Jiang, the eyes of other people at the table changed slightly.
"Mr. Qi, don't worry." Mr. Geng smiled and shook his head, accusing the people under him like he was reproaching, "Everyone in our base has a sense of proportion, you just need to show everyone your hand, lest they get too arrogant and think My three-legged cat kung fu is really the best in the world, and Mr. Su, you too..."
Su Qing didn't want to go up and fight: "I don't like fighting."
Seeing him grow from a weak and sick beauty who can only pick up a wrench and a stick to hit his head, to a beautiful god who kills enemies with one arrow when he is annoyed, Qi Jiang would definitely refuse if he knew his character, and he almost couldn't help it The expression on Zhu's face was revealing.
Afraid of holding it in for too long and other people would see the clue, Qi Jiang simply showed a bigger smile to hide the confusion in his heart: "Yes, Susu's personality is relatively quiet, he doesn't like this kind of scene."