In the afternoon, Lu Baichuan was still guarding the boat, and Zhou Yan went to the shore to go for a walk to see if he could find Chen Chen's father.
The two of them agreed that Zhou Yan would return at 12 noon, or else Lu Baichuan would go looking for him, but he was not familiar with the place.
Zhou Yan lived in the base for a year before he was reborn, and was quite familiar with the management style of the base, although the Silver Lake base was not the same as the one he was in in his last life, but both were built on the basis of the military, and the management style should be roughly the same.
From the back of the square, the road was divided in two, one side was obviously the area where the army/troops were, and the other half was the residential area.
In the past, there were a lot of people who had fled to the island from other places, and they were living in old houses that were no longer used by the residents. No, probably just a self-built shed that could keep out the wind and rain.
Since ordinary people on the military/team's side of the residence are easily not allowed in, Zhou Yan didn't rush to find someone, but instead turned in from the alley and wandered around the residential area.
On this side of the residential area, most of the doors are closed, and occasionally dogs can be heard barking from inside, but the more you go inside the alley, the more lively it becomes.
By the side of the road, there were stalls selling things, chatting, and even people gathered around to play cards, everyone was dressed casually, perhaps due to the lack of groceries, the clothes didn't look very clean, and the hair was mostly greasy. Zhou Yan's clean clothes, coupled with the fact that he was carrying a shoulder bag, looked heavy, but seemed a bit out of place with this picture.
While he was checking out these people, they were also checking him out, with an inquisitive, even envious, look in their eyes, but since there were officials/soldiers patrolling nearby, no one made any moves.
Zhou Yan didn't want to stop here, seeing that there was no one who looked like Lu Xinglian among the patrolling people on this street, so he quickly walked forward and wanted to leave.
As he passed by a stall selling wild amaranth, he saw wild amaranth on the stall and paused in his steps, but still walked over and asked, "How do you sell this amaranth?"
The stall owner looked up and sized him up, grimaced and said, "Half a catty of rice for one catty."
Before Zhou Yan could speak, he heard a snicker beside him: "Tsk, I say old man Li, just your amaranth, a big handful of it in the wasteland behind you, it costs half a kilo of rice a kilo, why don't you go grab it?"
The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the shoes you've been wearing for a while.
Old man Li was not happy with the news, but said: "I said Ji Jia boy, how much I sell is my business, which is your turn to mind your own business."
He spoke in a dialect, but over the past year Zhou Yan got used to hearing the dialect of Lu Baichuan's place, and the two provinces were actually not very far apart, and Zhou Yan understood it.
The youth looked up at the words, "I can't control others, but this silly boy you're going to pit him in front of me, I'm going to control it."
As soon as he raised his head, Zhou Yan recognized him, not expecting to actually meet someone familiar here, a little incredulous, "b*tc*?"
The youth looked helpless at the words and sighed, "Now I really regret meddling a bit."
Zhou Yan saw that it was indeed him, and with a surprised face, he walked over and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't mind these small problems, in other words, why are you here?"
The youth closed the books in his hands and stacked up the few books that were on the stand, wrapping them with a large piece of cloth that was padded and said, "I've been here."
Zhou Yan saw that he would miss the point and explained, "I was asking how you came to be at the base of Silver Lake."
The youth picked up all the books and said: "My hometown is here, I didn't expect to sleep in the same window for four years, you don't even remember this, it's really sad to hear it."
Zhou Yan smiled apologetically and said, "I didn't think of it at the moment."
The youth held something in front of him and said, "Let's go, this is not the place to talk, go to my house and sit down?"
Zhou Yan nodded his head and followed behind.
The first time they were introduced to each other was when the young man introduced himself as Ji Yan, but unexpectedly he was answered by an idiot in the dormitory. The first thing you need to do is to get rid of your own personal belongings, and you'll be able to get rid of your own belongings.
The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the newest addition to your own website, and then you'll be able to see it for yourself. Said raising the cup in his hand to drink and said, "But it feels pretty good."
Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows and said, "I can scream more if you want to hear it."
Ji Yan waved his hand evenly and said, "Don't ever."
Zhou Yan was not poking fun at the words and asked, "Why didn't you call out to me just now in the alley?"
Ji Yan paused, pointed at their clothes, as if a little embarrassed, and said, "It's not like the contrast is too obvious, and I haven't thought of how to open up yet."
Zhou Yan nodded his head as an acceptance of his explanation, then asked, "When did you go back home?"
Ji Yan sighed, "You know, I went back to our city C to work after I graduated from college, and when the zombies first broke out, I didn't worry about my parents, so I rushed back that morning." After a pause, he added, "Now that I think about it, I'm glad I came back early then."
City C was indeed quite close to here, and it wouldn't take more than a day for them to get there with such a slow boat trip, in which the waterway was still winding, and if they drove, it would take two or three hours at most.
Ji Yan then asked, "What about you? Why is it here?"
Although they hadn't gotten together since they graduated from college, there was a group in the dormitory and people were in regular contact, he knew that Zhou Yan had been developing in S City, even if he had to go to the base it should be in S City, he didn't expect that he would actually cross the province to come to Silver Lake.
Zhou Yan didn't intend to hide it from him, smiled and said, "Senior Lu Bachuan's hometown is over here, so we're coming over here."
Ji Yan could understand the news, after the zombie outbreak, many people from the city went back to the countryside, after all, the countryside had land and food, the population was also sparse, so naturally the zombies were not that dense. But suddenly realizing something again, he asked, "Which senior were you just talking about?"
Zhou Yan said, "Ah, Senior Lu Bachuan, you know him too."
At school, Zhou Yan was often with Lu Bachuan, so naturally the people in their dormitory knew each other as well.
Ji Yan sniffed and moved all the stools over to Zhou Yan's side, and asked with a gossipy face, "You guys are finally together?"
Zhou Yan was a bit shocked by the news and forgot to speak for a moment.
Ji Yan saw the situation when they weren't together yet, and said with a hateful expression, "Hey, it's the end of the world, and some people aren't even enlightened yet, poor my senior!"
Zhou Yan was a bit embarrassed by the news and said softly, "We're together." After a pause, he asked again, "How did you know that?"
Ji Yan shook his head and said, "Except you don't know, everyone else in our dorm knows that the senior likes you, and you don't hate him either, right?"
After saying that he didn't wait for Zhou Yan's reply, he added: "Speaking of back then in school, when several of us took off, we all invited you to dinner, and Lao San even invited me more than once, little Yan Yan, isn't it time for you to invite me back once?"
Zhou Yan thought that it was almost time for dinner, so he said, "Then let's do it today at noon, and our boat will stop at the dock."
Ji Yan said on hearing that, "That's fine, didn't you just want to buy amaranth? My mom should have picked there."
He said and went into the kitchen, and later shouted inside again, "And do you want watercress?"
Zhou Yan thought about today's lunch menu and said, "I'll take some too!"
As they headed to the dock, Ji Yan remembered to ask, "You're supposed to be here this time to get your medicine, right? Did you get it yet?"
Zhou Yan nodded and said, "Well, but there's no rush today, I'll go get it tomorrow morning."
"Oh, if you don't have an ID, you need twenty pounds of white rice for one share of medicine you know, right? If the food you brought isn't enough, my family still has some." Their family was local, the medicine they needed had already been received for free, and they had land on the island, before the zombie outbreak, the family also had a lot of food in stock because of their parents farming, there was no shortage of food at all, now it was hard to meet a friend in this situation, they couldn't let people make this trip for nothing because they didn't have food.
Zhou Yan sniffed and patted him on the shoulder and said: "It's enough for now, don't worry, I'll find you if it's not enough." After a pause, he asked again, "Do you know how to find someone the fastest if you want to find someone on this island?"
Ji Yan was surprised, "You haven't asked anyone else yet, have you?"
Zhou Yan shook his head and said no.
Ji Yan: "The base registered the permanent residents of the island back last year, as long as they live on this island, it's very easy to find them, just go to the base's external office and pay a few pounds of food is enough, but if they're not on this island, it's not easy to find them, Silver Lake is so big and there are countless small islands in it, so no one knows how many people actually live there. "
Zhou Yan nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll go over there this afternoon and ask."
As they spoke, they arrived at the dock, and Ji Yan was surprised to see where he parked his boat and asked, "Why did you park your boat here? " Zhou Yan asked, "What's the problem?"
Ji Yan said, "This is something that the big/boss of someone's base left for their family."
Zhou Yan sniffed, "Ah, when we came over, we asked the people on the boat next to us to say that no one stopped here, so they stopped in and no one came to say anything."
Ji Yan pointed at the boat next to them and asked, "Is that the only boat that said that?"
Zhou Yan said, "Yes!"
Ji Yan nodded, "Oh, that's fine! The location is reserved for him."
Because the cabin burned the stove, Lu Bachuan was afraid that the choking smell of burning honeycomb coal would be blown into the cockpit inside, and a few days ago, he had separated the cabin with a curtain, dividing it into the front and back cabins, where the stove burned in the forward cabin. Now Zhou Yan brought back Jiyan, the curtain is just as good as a sight line, so you don't have to worry about people coming in to see the entire cabin.
Lu Baichuan and Jiyan are acquainted with each other, so they started to prepare lunch after greeting each other, and Zhou Yan was the chef, while Lu Baichuan and Jiyan were helping out.
Zhou Yan used the fish and shrimp he bought in the morning to make a braised carp and a scalded shrimp. Ji Yan brought over amaranth stir-fried with garlic, water celery stir-fried with bacon, and sour and spicy shredded potatoes, which is enough for three people to eat.
Before dinner, Ji Yan, who went out to the shore to use the bathroom, came back and mysteriously said to Zhou Yan, "I just saw the man from the next boat come back, do you want to go and invite him over for a meal to thank him for letting the land to park the boat for you?"
Zhou Yan looked at him and said, "Go ahead! What's the idea?"
Ji Yan also did not hide it, and said, "I'm not seeing him as a big/big family member, you go and ask him to come over for dinner, and if you don't find the person you're looking for on this island, you can also ask him to help keep an eye on the other islands in the lake. Of course I'm also thinking of taking advantage, if I can make a connection, I'll be able to do things on the island in the future."
Zhou Yan thought that Lu Xinglian was a military/man, so it might be feasible, so he got up and walked over to the boat next to him.