Qiu Tu's creed has always been to ask questions when you don't understand something, and never hold it in yourself.
So when he met a neighbor who ran away when he saw him again, Qiu Tu stepped forward and grabbed the neighbor's neck, "Uncle Chen, why are you running?"
Qiu Tu is also a well-known figure in Jiuxiang Street.
Before the New Territories City was established, he led Atai, Eagle and others on a rampage in several nearby streets.
Although they are not very enthusiastic about these neighbors, they are not bullying like other groups. They can even occasionally help the neighbors and solve some troubles.
After the establishment of the New Territories City, Qiu Tu relied on Secretary Bai's relationship to enjoy the royal food and became an unattainable big shot in the eyes of these neighbors.
But Qiu Tu still did not dominate the streets. Instead, he pulled Yan Ai's tiger skin, found jobs for Ying Ying and other brothers who followed him, and helped the streets obtain several welfare benefits. He was very humane.
This style of conduct also gave him a good reputation in the streets and a certain degree of prestige.
Therefore, Qiu Tu had never encountered a situation where neighbors ran away when they saw him.
What surprised him even more was that after being pulled by Qiu Tu, Uncle Chen's face suddenly turned pale. He kept saluting and bowing to Qiu Tu, and kept mumbling, "Qiu Tu.
, we have no grudges in the past and no grudges in the recent days.”
"When you were alive, I helped you look after the door. Even if I once stole two potatoes, I was still very hungry. You must not take me away."
Qiu Tu:??
Qiu Tu keenly captured a key word, "while alive.".
He pushed back, so these neighbors thought he was dead?
Qiu Tu frowned slightly, grabbed Uncle Chen, and slapped him twice to wake him up.
After Uncle Chen was slapped, he was no longer afraid. Instead, he shouted excitedly, "Qiu Tu, are you not dead? You scared me to death! I thought I met a ghost!"
Qiu Tu:
Looking at Uncle Chen who spoke so eloquently, Qiu Tu resisted the urge to slap them both again and patiently asked about the whole story.
Soon he knew everything.
He walked towards his home with a dark face.
Then he saw Shen Lingshuang kneeling on the ground downstairs in his house, wearing a sackcloth and mourning, holding a black and white photo of himself in his arms.
She was so small that she couldn't hold up the mourning clothes at all, and looked pitiful. Her big eyes were red and swollen from crying, but she still threw the yellow paper into the brazier and kept crying while holding Qiu Tu's black and white photo.
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When Qiu Tu saw this, there was a black line on one end.
He walked up to Shen Lingshuang and asked in a conspiratorial manner, "I heard that you tell people everywhere that I am dead?"
Hearing Qiu Tu's voice, Shen Lingshuang was stunned for a moment, and her eyes stayed on Qiu Tu's black riding boots.
Then she moved up little by little until she could clearly see Qiu Tu's handsome face. Her expression changed from sadness to disbelief.
After a moment, she suddenly jumped up from the ground, jumped onto Qiu Tu, and then started to cry loudly, "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuhahahahaha......haha!
Qiu Tu originally wanted to teach this little girl who "cursed herself to death" a lesson, but when he saw her looking really sad now, he felt a little soft-hearted for a while.
He hesitated for a moment, and finally gently held the girl's pretty ass with his right hand, patted her back gently with his left hand, and said comfortingly, "Okay, okay, why are you crying? And, who told you, Am I dead?"
Shen Lingshuang said with an aggrieved look, "No one told me."
"I guessed it myself."
Two question marks popped up on Qiu Tu's head:??
Shen Lingshuang explained with sobs, "When I woke up, I found my house in a mess. The door was broken, the roof was broken, and things were in a mess. I felt very uneasy and suspected that the worst possibility had happened."
"After that, I looked everywhere for you, but I couldn't find any trace of you."
"I asked the new sister, and the new sister said you were fine, just out and busy."
"Although I don't believe it, I still wait for you at home with my last hope. I have been waiting for you."
"As a result, after waiting all night and all morning, I didn't see you coming back. I was completely panicked."
"Then I went out to find Eagle and wanted to ask you about your true situation. I asked many people and finally found the Old Alley Street Police Station."
"I asked someone to go in and deliver a letter, and then the eagle came out."
"He saw me and said you were okay. I asked him to call you to make sure you were okay."
"He said he didn't have a communicator, and you were probably busy. Let me not disturb you. Let me go home and wait."
"Maybe it's because I've experienced too much disappointment since last night, and you stayed out all night and didn't come back for a whole day. I suspected that something had really happened to you, and he and the new sister were worried that I would be sad, so they teamed up to lie to me. .”
Speaking of this, Shen Lingshuang's tears came down again. She choked and said, "I have seen too many."
Maybe she thought that the Cataclysm Awakening was a secret, so she blurted it out, "I've seen too many accidents."
"I'm so sad, so sad"
Speaking of this, she lay on Qiu Tu and cried again.
After listening to Shen Lingshuang's story, Qiu Tu was really dumbfounded.
He didn't think it was to blame Shen Lingshuang for thinking too much. The probability of awakening from a catastrophe was extremely low, but after he awakened, he ran out all night and didn't come back for another day.
If he were Shen Lingshuang, he would probably be thinking nonsense.
He couldn't help but blame himself. After fishing all day, why did he forget to come back to say that he was safe?
Thinking this way, his heart softened. He hugged Shen Lingshuang and patted her gently, then he felt a little complicated.
Originally, when he knew that Shen Lingshuang was wrapping herself in mourning and burning yellow paper downstairs, he thought Shen Lingshuang was playing tricks there or cursing him.
After all, it's normal for a young lady to suddenly have troubles.
As a result, I didn't expect that Shen Lingshuang was really worried about him.
This silly girl. I have only known her for a few days, so she deserves to be so sad.
"Whoosh--" Just when Qiu Tu was thinking this, a whistle suddenly came from upstairs.
Qiu Tu looked up.
I saw Artest, Yingying, and Akun looking downstairs at the windows in the corridor upstairs, clearly watching the excitement.
Qiu Tu pointed at them helplessly, feeling like he had met a group of bad friends.
Maybe she was tired from crying. After crying for a while, Shen Lingshuang fell asleep in Qiu Tu's arms like a koala.
The girl was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and her body was thin. Qiu Tu was a Catastrophic, so her body had been greatly strengthened, and her weight could hardly be felt.
Therefore, Qiu Tu didn't bother her, just kicked aside the brazier and black-and-white photos, and then carried the girl upstairs.
When they came upstairs, several brothers were waiting there, looking at the two of them jokingly, with evil smiles on their faces.
Qiu Tu glared at them, carried Shen Lingshuang back to the room, and gently placed her on his bed.
Eagle's work is still very reliable. The door that was originally broken by Qiu Tu has been replaced with a new one. It is also an iron door.
After closing the iron door and coming to the corridor, Ying Ying and others were leaning against the window.
When he saw Qiu Tu coming out, Yingying handed Qiu Tu a cigarette and said softly, "That's a good girl."
"She is wearing sackcloth, mourning and burning paper for you as your wife this afternoon."
Qiu Tu held a cigarette in his mouth, paused while striking the match, and then struck the match again.
"嚓~"
As the flame burned, Qiu Tu lit the cigarette in his mouth and said calmly, "Don't think too much. She thinks that if something happens to me, she killed me and she should be responsible for me."
"In addition, I have trauma in my heart, so I am so sensitive to this matter."
After hearing the conversation between the two, the big man Artai poked his head out from behind and interjected, "What kind of reason is that? Brother Tu, I bet the life of my father who doesn't know where he is, that girl is 100% I like you."
Qiu Tu said nothing and continued to smoke quietly.
Eagle looked up at Qiu Tu and smiled.
It's impossible for Qiu Tu not to notice things that even Artai, a stubborn person, could not see. It was obviously just a tough talk.
However, Qiu Tu is the eldest brother of several people after all. If he doesn't want to express his opinion, it means he has his own ideas, so Yingying also changed the topic at the right time. He looked at Artai and asked, "Brother Tai, are you here in the Special Service Department?" How did you do in two days?"
Hearing the words of the Eagle, Artest suddenly became excited. He waved his two thick arms and said, "What do you need to say?! I, Artest, am not number one wherever I go?"
"Eagle, let me tell you, none of the agents on the training team can be my opponent!"
"I see, within a few days, I will be promoted. Then I will be able to do more things to help Brother Tu."
When Qiu Tu heard this, he glanced at Artai and felt a bit fake.
He, Eagle and Akun looked at each other and got the same answer.
But knowing Artest's character well, they didn't question it.
After all, Artest loves face most.
In my memory, Artest once boasted while drinking, saying that he caught a chicken with his bare hands in an alley that day.
Eagle was also drunk at the time and questioned whether he was bragging. The New Territories City was so poor that even a fallen bird would be eaten by people. How could there be any chickens alive?
As a result, in those days, whenever Artest saw an eagle, he would drag him to that alley to have a look.
Qiu Tu didn't ask in detail how the matter was resolved in the end, but he just knew that the two of them seemed a little weak at that time.
So, after listening to Artest's words, several people quickly responded, "Ah, yes, yes. My brother Tai is the best in the world."
"Yeah, how can those little Karas from the Secret Service be Tai's rivals?"
"Artest is really good."
When Atai saw the three people praising him, he immediately grinned.
After talking about Artest's current situation, Qiu Tu also turned to look at Yingying and Akun. He asked, "Don't just talk about Artest. Yingying, Akun, how are you two doing now?"
"Have you been screened by the Political Department?"
Yingying nodded when he heard this, and Akun also said, "Brother Tu, don't worry. Brother Ying and I have passed both the written examination and the interview."
"The Political Department has informed us to report tomorrow."
"But it's not clear which department it is assigned to."
Qiu Tu smoked his last cigarette, nodded slightly, then lowered his head and put out the cigarette butt, and said, "I will go meet with the people from the security department tonight."
"They promised to let me arrange for two people to enter the army."
"When I have time tomorrow, let's get the brothers together and see who is suitable."
Hearing Qiu Tu's words, the three of them were a little surprised.
Young people who grew up together in troubled times have known since childhood that in this era of cannibalism, the power of individuals is too small, and only by joining together can we survive.
This truth flows in every drop of their blood even now that they are adults.
Therefore, the stronger the small group is, the safer they are and can live a better life in this era.
"Let's do something great together!" Qiu Tu flicked the extinguished cigarette butt away and took the lead in extending his hand.
Artest, Eagle, and Akun also put their hands on each other one after another, "Do a great job!"
The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the four of them, golden, as if foreshadowing the golden age they were about to create together...
[Eagle loyalty +1, current loyalty: 91]
[Artest’s loyalty +1, current loyalty: 96]
[Akun’s loyalty +2, current loyalty: 87]
Shen Lingshuang stayed up late and was frightened all night, so she might be really tired. So, she slept until about 9 o'clock before getting up in a daze.
When she got up from the bed, the first thing she did was to look for Qiu Tu.
At this time, Qiu Tu had sent away Artai, Yingying and Akun. He had also exchanged all the guns and communicators back, completely eliminating the hidden dangers from last night.
So, I was sitting by the bed quietly thinking about my next plan.
Hearing Shen Lingshuang get up, Qiu Tu came back to his senses, turned to look at her, and asked softly, "Are you awake? Are you hungry?"
Seeing Qiu Tu by her side, Shen Lingshuang was visibly relieved. She regained her original eldest lady temperament, lay down on the bed, then pouted and said arrogantly, "I'm not hungry."
Qiu Tu smiled when he saw this and did not get angry with the little girl. He went to the living room to bring over the food he had brought back.
Of course the food is cold, but in troubled times no one cares that much.
Although Shen Lingshuang has a tough mouth, her brain is not broken.
Seeing Qiu Tu bringing the rice, he immediately said with a smile, "This is what you begged me to eat."
While sitting up from the bed, he picked up his chopsticks and started to eat.
Seeing her cute look, Qiu Tu smiled and sat aside to watch her eat quietly.
The little girl must have suffered a lot during this time, so she wolfed down her food and her cheeks were as bulging as a hamster's.
Qiu Zhong went to get her a glass of water and comforted her to eat slowly.
It wasn't until she was almost full and her speed slowed down that Qiu Tu slowly spoke,
"Lingshuang, when I asked you to refine the [Catastrophe Potion], I had a verbal agreement with you."
Chapter completed!