Chapter 99: Digging the Snow
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
There weren’t many people in Zhao Hao’s neighborhood. There were only about 20 of them at a glance. The rest were basically the owners of other neighboring districts.
The other districts were basically similar to the Jinghua district where Ye Xingchen lived. Each district had elected its own district manager.
However, what was different was that their managers did not go out to look for supplies for them like Ye Xingchen. Most of them asked the residents to take out their supplies and distribute them uniformly. Or they were like Zheng Huaqiang and the others, who recruited followers everywhere and killed anyone who did not listen.
By now, the vast majority of people had long run out of supplies. Many of them relied on eating sour meat to survive.
At this moment, there were many people standing in the supermarket who had to eat sour meat to survive.
When Zhao Hao arrived, he naturally stood with the twenty people from Jinghua District.
The atmosphere at the scene was not very harmonious. After all, everyone wanted to snatch more things. If there were more people, then there would definitely be fewer things in their own hands. Everyone was selfish during the apocalypse.
Zhao Hao didn’t want to go to the supermarket at first because, in his opinion, supermarkets all had owners. It was very shameful to go in and snatch things without paying a single cent.
However, he could not handle Li Anran nagging in his ear every day, saying that Little Treasure was pitiful, that adults did not care about Little Treasure after eating their fill, that Zhao Hao was selfish, that Zhao Hao did not treat her as one of his own, and that he did not treat Little Treasure as one of his own.
After being bullied by Li Anran for so long, Zhao Hao began to wonder if he was too petty. He was actually persuaded by Li Anran to come out and look for supplies with them.
They said they were looking for supplies, but they were actually snatching things. Whoever attacked faster and ran faster would get more things.
However, the supermarket had long been covered by the blizzard and was deeply buried underneath.
“Then what should we do now?”
“We’re already here. We can’t go back empty-handed, right?”
“Yeah, it’s not easy to come out. We can’t just go back without finding anything, right?”
There were layers of snow everywhere. Usually, the snow was loose and no one stepped on it. Today, they had walked out step by step with wooden planks.
Usually, it would take ten to twenty minutes to get there, but now it took one to two hours to get there.
At this time, everyone was carrying their weapons. Among the people standing in the supermarket, there was no lack of people holding shovels as weapons.
However, no one was willing to shovel snow for others.
Who wouldn’t want to pick up a freebie? Who would be willing to contribute their labor force for free?
They all looked at each other, staring at each other for a few hours, but no one was willing to move.
In the end, Zhao Hao said, “How about this, Brother Xia? Why don’t you lend me your shovel first? Otherwise, it’s not a good idea for everyone to just stand here.”
The snow outside had stopped, but the thick clouds still blocked the sun, it was only a little brighter than before.
Zhao Hao exchanged his iron pipe with a middle-aged man named Xia Yu in the neighborhood. It was only a temporary exchange. After Zhao Hao finished using the shovel, he still had to exchange it back.
The people in the other districts could not help but glance at Zhao Hao. They did not want to be the silly bird who stood up for him.
After hesitating for a while, Xia Yu finally gritted his teeth and handed the heavy and cumbersome shovel to Zhao Hao.
He was afraid that Zhao Hao wanted to use his shovel, and he was afraid that Zhao Hao wouldn’t be willing to exchange it back after borrowing it.
However, Zhao Hao had always maintained a good impression with the owners of Jinghua District. He also didn’t want to work for free or use someone else’s work. Therefore, he gritted his teeth and handed his shovel to Zhao Hao.
Zhao Hao wasn’t like them. He thought that it was a blessing to be at a disadvantage. If everyone just stood there and wasted their time, it would be better for him to take on the role that no one wanted to take on.
Zhao Hao picked up the shovel and pushed the snow to the side.
After a few huffs, the surrounding people all looked like they wanted to watch the show. No one wanted to come up and help. In the end, Wang Wei, who came with the people from Jinghua District, came up and joined Zhao Hao in the digging.
His shovel was Li Qiang’s. Li Qiang gave it to him to protect himself before he went out today.
“Brother Zhao, let me help you!”
The two muscular men worked much faster in an instant. In a short while, Zhao Hao and Wang Wei had actually dug a shallow pit.
However, the snow on the top was not too tight. It was indeed easier to dig, but the deeper they went, the more solid the snow became.
The supermarket was two and a half stories high, and they were already on the third floor.
“Are you tired? Take a break.”
Wang Wei and Zhao Hao sat in the snow pit they had dug and stuffed some clean snow into their mouths to quench their thirst.
Zhao Hao had made some preparations before coming out. He had grown up in the north, so he naturally knew that it was not easy to dig up accumulated snow after a long time. He thought that he would probably have to stay here for a day, so when he got up in the morning to prepare breakfast, he even used the alcohol that Ye Xingchen had secretly given him to light the wood and heat up a few sesame biscuits.
However, Wang Wei did not think about that. He just wanted to rush in and snatch it as soon as possible.
Zhao Hao took out his phone and looked at the time. He didn’t forget to turn on his camera and take a video for Ye Xingchen, moving the phone around.
“Do you want some, Little Wei?”
Zhao Hao took out a sesame biscuit that was already frozen hard from his pocket. He broke it into two halves from the middle and handed the bigger half to Wang Wei.
At this time, there were people who would kill for food. How could there be a fool like Zhao Hao who took the initiative to share his food?
When the onlookers in the snow saw Zhao Hao’s actions, they began to regret it.
If they had known that there would be such food to eat, they would have dug the snow with Zhao Hao no matter what!
Food was precious, so how could Wang Wei reject such precious food that Zhao Hao offered?
He immediately thanked Big Brother Zhao and took half of the sesame biscuit.
The biscuit was frozen hard, so it was naturally not delicious. However, at a time when everyone was hungry, Wang Wei was so touched that he almost cried.
The people who were here were all hungry. Even if they had prepared food, they did not dare to take it out openly like the two of them.
There were too many people and too many eyes. They were afraid that people would remember and plot against them..
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