Chapter 131: Cilantro, Chives, Amaranth, Baby Cabbage

After being hit a few times with a broom by Mother Shi, Huo Chenggui threw himself in front of Shi Yuebai.

“Yuebai, please save me!”

It wasn’t that he couldn’t fight back against Mother Shi, but their strength was worlds apart.

If he really did anything to Mother Shi, Shi Yuebai would never let him off.

Huo Chenggui’s intention to cling to Shi Yuebai for protection was obvious.

Yi Zhe stood quietly to the side, watching.

Mother Shi chased after him, angrily pointing her broom at him.

“You little troublemaker, don’t you dare touch my daughter’s things!”

Huo Chenggui looked at Shi Yuebai with pitiful, pleading eyes.

He even put his hands together in a prayer gesture, bowing to Shi Yuebai.

Mother Shi kept hitting him with the broom, not holding back at all.

Seeing that Shi Yuebai wasn’t saying anything, Huo Chenggui had no choice but to blurt out,

“Mom, I’m not an illegitimate child. Actually, I’m your real son!”

Everyone stared at Huo Chenggui in shock.

Second Sister-in-law Shi was so angry her eyes turned red. Whenever her eyes acted up, she could only see a faint blur of light.

She felt her way toward the source of the voice, tracing the outline of the people in front of her.

Second Sister-in-law Shi stormed over, furious.

“What nonsense are you spouting?!”

Shi Yaoyao, Xiao Jiao, Nong Yasi, Ah Hong, and Pang Ziyuan all crowded over to watch the drama.

Even Guai Guai poked his head out from a pile of parts to look at Huo Chenggui.

Mother Shi paused, broom in hand. “How is that possible?”

“I only gave birth to three children. If you were my husband’s illegitimate child, would I not know?”

Even if she was a bit crazy, even if she didn’t recognize her own husband or forgot everything else—

As a mother, there was no way she wouldn’t recognize her own children.

Mother Shi, fuming, raised her broom again.

“All the Shi family’s property belongs to my three kids. If anyone dares fight them for it, I’ll kill them!”

Huo Chenggui looked at Shi Yuebai again, pleading with his eyes for help.

Shi Yuebai just looked on coldly, not interfering.

So Huo Chenggui dropped to his knees in front of Mother Shi and hugged her waist tightly.

“Mom, listen to me. When you gave birth to Yuebai, you actually had twins.”

“But you were beautiful, the top socialite in Xiangcheng, and married a rich, handsome, loving husband. Your best friend was jealous of you, so she deliberately took me away.”

“She wanted you to regret it, to suffer, to fall into postpartum depression. But she didn’t expect you were carrying twins, and there was still Yuebai in your belly.”

“For years, as your third son, I’ve been wandering outside, suffering all kinds of unspeakable hardships. But finally, I found you, Mom!”

Mother Shi was stunned. The broom in her hand clattered to the ground.

At that moment, Shi Yuebai and everyone else stared wide-eyed at Huo Chenggui.

Mother Shi hugged Huo Chenggui. “My son!”

“Mom!”

The scene of mother and son reuniting was truly moving.

Shi Yuebai lowered her head and pinched her forehead.

She suddenly had the urge to strangle Huo Chenggui.

Yi Zhe felt the same way—utterly embarrassed and wanting to kill Huo Chenggui.

In his whole life, Yi Zhe had never felt so awkward.

He was Huo Chenggui’s team leader, but this was the first time he realized Huo Chenggui was so talented.

What did Huo Chenggui do before the apocalypse?

With this kind of talent, isn’t it a waste not to write web novels?

The next scene left everyone in collective silence, as Huo Chenggui and Mother Shi played out their loving mother-son act.

One dared to lie.

The other actually believed it.

Yi Zhe shook his head, walked over to Shi Yuebai, and took out his communicator.

“Do you have enough points? Need more? I can transfer some to you.”

Shi Yuebai replied, “I have enough.”

Yi Zhe didn’t ask what she needed the points for.

Shi Yuebai didn’t explain either.

It wasn’t until Captain Qiao returned with four people that everyone snapped out of Huo Chenggui’s farce.

The four people were all elderly.

So old that even walking was a struggle.

Captain Qiao slowly led them over, shuffling along.

He also had to keep an eye on them to prevent them from running off.

But honestly, even if they tried, they wouldn’t get far—Captain Qiao was much faster than them.

After all, Captain Qiao lived with Shi Yuebai day in and day out.

His fitness was far better than those city folks behind the walls.

When they arrived, Captain Qiao didn’t say much. Following Shi Yuebai’s instructions, he handed each of the four elders a tarp and a large can of preserved peaches.

The four white-haired, ragged elders, who thought they’d be eaten as soon as they were brought back, each held a big can of peaches in their arms.

They stared blankly at Captain Qiao.

Captain Qiao, meanwhile, carefully shielded his pocket and turned to leave.

This gave them the illusion that, in Captain Qiao’s eyes, their four lives were worth less than the free seeds that came with them.

After Captain Qiao walked away, the four looked at each other.

Then looked at the cans of peaches in their arms.

Did this mean they weren’t going to be killed right away, but were being fattened up first?

Actually, that wasn’t so bad. At over seventy years old, they were already at the end of their rope.

In the wasteland, their value was no longer recognized.

It was the same everywhere.

At least in this team, before being eaten, they wouldn’t go hungry.

They even got canned peaches.

They could even use the old tarp to make a little shelter.

At least they had a place to rest for now.

So the four “pieces of meat” gave up struggling. Fine, let it be.

At least eat their fill first.

Captain Qiao hurried across the ditch, carefully pulling a small paper packet from his pocket.

“I bargained with the vendor and got four packets of seeds as a freebie.”

Each packet had ten seeds.

Captain Qiao had put on quite a show, since the seeds were basically useless anyway.

The vendor knew that anyone coming to buy human meat wasn’t there for the free seeds.

But seeing Captain Qiao buy four “pieces of meat” at once, he generously gave him four packets of junk seeds.

The four packets were: cilantro, chives, amaranth, and baby cabbage.

Aside from the baby cabbage, which Shi Yuebai already had, the other three were new to her.

Shi Yuebai had Second Sister-in-law Shi put away the baby cabbage seeds and planted the other three.

It wasn’t that she was stingy with the baby cabbage seeds.

It was just that she already had a whole patch of baby cabbage growing.

That’s right—just two days ago, she’d sown the baby cabbage seeds, and by lunchtime today, they’d already sprouted.

Twenty little baby cabbages were evenly spaced across a plot the size of a parking space.

At this rate, in another day or two, they’d be ready to harvest.

But first, they needed to eat some of the newly dug, football-sized potatoes.

Those potatoes were downright monstrous.

Just one, sliced up, could make a huge pot of soup.

Everyone in the compound was getting sick of potatoes from eating so many.

Not to mention the ever-growing scallions and mushrooms.

If the scallions weren’t harvested, they’d spread everywhere.

Same with the mushrooms—they weren’t limited to rotting wood anymore, but were sprouting all over the ground.

The biggest patch of mushrooms was as large as a washbasin.

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