Since he had only met him once, and was afraid of any taboos, Zhou Yan didn't go on board the boat, but shouted a few words at the bow.
The youth came out from the cabin at the news, with a handful of half-chosen wild vegetables in his hand, and asked, "What is the matter?"
Zhou Yan found that the young man is not very tall, but his body is very well proportioned. Yesterday, when he saw him, he was sitting in the laundry and couldn't be seen, but now when he stands, he sees a pair of long, straight legs, which can't be covered by the worn-out cotton pants.
But he also just took a look, did not look much, just straight to the point: "before I did not know that this is your place to park the boat in, but we will only stay here for two days, the day after tomorrow to leave, I hope to lend us a day to stop." After a pause, he added, "I just heard from a friend, you just got back, you should not have eaten yet, so I wanted to invite you over to have a casual meal with us, as a little token of our appreciation."
Such a far-fetched reason, even when the society was stable, inviting a stranger to dinner like this, people would not necessarily agree, let alone in the end times, after saying that, Zhou Yan himself felt embarrassed.
As expected, the young man said indifferently, "The boat you just parked, the meal is forgotten."
Since he had already come over, no matter how awkward it was, he couldn't just let it go, Zhou Yan continued to persuade, "Come over and eat some, we've just arrived and still have some questions we don't understand and would like to ask you for advice."
The youth didn't have time to refuse, there Lu Bachuan also came out of the cabin, Zhou Yan saw the situation and quickly looked at Lu Bachuan for help, hoping that he could come and help, he was really embarrassed and didn't know what to say, it was simply more fortunate than having him fight a bunch of zombies.
Lu Bachuan gave him a funny look, then turned back to the youth, nodded with a smile and said, "Let's have dinner together?"
The youth's eyes darted around between the two of them a few times as if he had thought of something, nodded hesitantly and said, "Then... wait a moment while I put something away."
After saying that, he turned around and went into the cabin to let go of the wild vegetables he was holding.
Zhou Yan watched the youth turn around, then turned to Lu Bachuan with a surprised face, his eyes filled with question marks, he racked his brains to pick up the conversation didn't work, how did Lu Bachuan, just a smile and a nod people agreed.
Lu Bachuan shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he wasn't quite sure.
Little did he know that their interactions all fell into the eyes of the young man who had turned around and come out.
When the three of them went back to the cabin, Ji Yan was already waiting next to the table. The table was not much higher than a coffee table, but a folding table.
Zhou Yan saw another plate of salted duck eggs cut in half on the table, which should be added by Lu Baichuan after he was afraid that there were not enough dishes.
After introducing their names to each other, several people started to eat, after all the weather is still cold, if we delay any longer, the food will be cold.
Lu Bachuan greeted everyone after serving the food, "Yang Fan, don't be polite, just treat it as if it's your own home."
Yang Fan nodded his head, since he had agreed to come over to eat at someone else's place, he naturally wouldn't be ostentatious.
Ji Yan was even more unnecessary to greet, when they were in college, they ate together quite a bit, and as soon as they started eating, they reached for a salted duck egg with the most oil.
Lu Bachuan also picked up half of it, picked the yolk into Zhou Yan's bowl, and then carefully picked the egg white into his own bowl with chopsticks, the whole action flowed smoothly and as a matter of course.
Zhou Yan also looked as if he was used to it.
The two of them were tired of each other when they weren't together, but now that they are together, they can use their toes to figure out what the situation is now.
The only thing that is not a big deal is the fact that you can't get a good idea of what you're getting into, and you can't get a good idea of what you're getting into.
The four men, a meal eaten by the wind and clouds, when all full, several plates of food all empty, even later cut the plate of salted duck eggs are not left, only a little rice remaining in the pot, to prove that a few people really can not eat.
Lu Baichuan made a cup of tea for each of them to eat.
Ji Yan held the cup of tea with one hand and touched his stomach with the other, lamenting, "What a pleasure to eat, I haven't eaten this much since the zombie outbreak!"
Zhou Yan knew that he must be exaggerating, but he still couldn't hold back and said, "Speak as if your mother is starving you."
Ji Yan took a sip of tea and then smacked his lips and said, "You don't know about that, although they are not starving, but they adhere to the principle of a fine stream of water, where would they let me let go of my food! What's more, I haven't eaten this bacon, this salted egg, for a year!"
Bacon Zhou Yan could understand, after all, after the zombie outbreak, it was difficult to even eat a piece of meat, but duck eggs should not be so bad, so he asked, "Shouldn't there be a lot of ducks in Silver Lake?"
Ji Yan sighed, "There used to be a lot of ducks ah, but since everyone fled here, those who don't have anything to eat go to the lake to find fish and ducks to eat, no matter if you're domestic or wild, since last year, you can't even find duck feathers."
Zhou Yan laughed and said, "Then at least this place is bountiful, wild fish and shrimp these can also feed some people."
Ji Yan seemed to have thought of something and said with a pained face, "Little Yan Yan, you don't understand, when we were in school, we said we envied the news that the people of a certain place used to have no food and lived on hairy crabs, I don't know, when the day really arrived, how desperate, you know, last fall, eating crawfish with crabs, almost didn't give vomit. "
Although Yang Fan didn't talk much beside him, he nodded his head when he heard this, indicating that he thought deeply of it.
Zhou Yan carefully thought about it, and could understand, even the food is not enough, where can there be neat seasoning, without the seasoning of the lobster cooked out can be delicious. It's just useless to say more, so he ended the topic: "Okay, I know it's not easy for you, I'll bring you a few more salted eggs when I leave later?"
Ji Yan hehely smiled, "It's not that hard lah, but salted eggs are also needed." After saying that, he asked, "Aren't you looking for someone? Tell me, what's the name, maybe we know each other?"
Zhou Yan knew that he had started this topic on purpose, so he received: "It's a military/person, called Lu Xing-an."
Only after saying that, he heard Ji Yan say with a surprised look on his face, "I go, it's not that Lu Xing-an you're looking for, is it?"
Zhou Yan asked evenly, "You know each other?"
Ji Yan looked at Yang Fan next to him and said, "I know him, he doesn't know me, but I don't know if he's the one you're looking for."
Zhou Yan roughly described Lu Xinglian's physical features, and before he finished speaking, Ji Yan interrupted, "That's definitely him."
Next to him, Yang Fan listened to them and understood roughly what Zhou Yan had said he wanted to ask himself before, but it wasn't a big deal to him, not to mention that he had come over and understood what he wanted to know, so he said, "As far as I know, Lu Xinglian went on a mission with some of his people, but he should be back in the next few days, so if you guys aren't in a hurry to leave, you can Wait a few more days."
Zhou Yan and Lu Baichuan didn't expect the news to come so easily, but since it was just a few days, they didn't mind waiting a few more days.
After the four of them chatted casually again, Yang Fan excused himself that he still had things to do and got up to take his leave, not disturbing the time of catching up with their good friend's reunion.
Only when Yang Fan left did Zhou Yan ask nicely, "Is Lu Xinglian famous here?"
Ji Yan looked at Zhou Yan with a look like a fool and said, "He's one of the three highest officers of the Silver Lake Base, do you think he can stay famous?" And then good-naturedly said, "How do you know him, by the way?"
Zhou Yan said with a complicated face at the news: "His wife and child are my neighbors."
Actually one of the highest officers of the base, so that the power must not be small, did not think that actually did not go back to look for the morning and Liu Yue, not afraid of his wife and still at home with what accident, Zhou Yan momentarily to have not yet met Lu Xinglian extremely poor impression.
Ji Yan looked at his expression and guessed what he was thinking. As a person living in the Silver Lake base, he couldn't help but want to explain: "You don't know, our side of the base may be different from other places, those who are in the military are really having a hard time. At first it was to take people outside to search and rescue survivors, and then it was to find food with all kinds of building materials and warm items, otherwise last winter the entire Silver Lake base survivors had to freeze to death at least thirty percent, and after the spring was busy running around the various bases along the coast to get back the salt we lacked here with gasoline diesel these."
As soon as he opened up, he couldn't stop a bit, "And, that kid next door I said he was a family member of the base big/big man, with his yellow face and lack of clothing and food, he doesn't look like it, does he? But the truth is, the one in his family is mainly responsible for cleaning up the zombies near Silver Lake, they should have known each other at that time, that kid's family is also from this area, by all means it shouldn't be so hard to live like this, and it's not like looking at the army/team when they don't have enough to eat, so they took out their own family's stocks."
"If it was before, whoever said this to me, I definitely wouldn't believe it, it's not easy to be alive yourself in the end times, where would you care about that much, but in this Silver Lake base, there are indeed a group of people like them, sacrificing their own interests and even their lives to maintain the stability of this side of the base."
Finally he stared at Zhou Yan's eyes and said, "I know you've spent a lot of time with his wife and children, so I'm sure you'll stand up for them more, but here, they are our heroes. As a friend for so many years, I hope that when you go back, you'll be able to convey our thanks to his wife and child, and if you can, tell his child that it wasn't his dad who was sorry, it was our entire base who was sorry and stole his dad."
In Zhou Yan's impression, Ji Yan is the kind of typical douche that is said on the network, everything is not in mind, as long as it does not touch his bottom line, very tolerant of people, even if they college called him "b*tc*" for four years, his mouth although resisted, but actually does not care, but instead feel that it is a nickname between friends, rarely is so A serious moment.
Therefore Zhou Yan also nodded seriously and said, "Yes!"
Seeing Zhou Yan nodding his head yes, Ji Yan looked profoundly thoughtful for a moment again, Zhou Yan thought he was going to tell himself about some heroic deeds, national righteousness and so on, but he suddenly grinned, "Do you want to know why Yang Fan just agreed to Brother Lu's ah instead of your invitation?"
Zhou Yan almost a tilt, the span of his topic, even after knowing each other for so many years, he was still a bit unable to keep up ah, but that's exactly what he was curious about, just wanted to ask why, but then thought, with Ji Yan's personality, he would be deuces like that, so he pretended not to be very interested and said, "Not much want to know."
Ji Yan with a lying/grooving expression, obviously I have just seen your face from the cabin that you want to know, but now you say you don't want to know much, but there is no other way, or bring up your condition and say, "Give me two more salted duck eggs well, I'll tell you."
The jar with the salted eggs was right next to it, and when Yang Fan left just now, Lu Bachuan gave him six of them and took six more to put next to Ji Yan, so Ji Yan also saw that there were quite a few salted eggs in the jar, so he wanted two more.
Zhou Yan, however, still wanted to tease him further, and turned to ask Lu Bachuan, "Senior, do you know why he came over here?"
Lu Bachuan also cooperated and nodded his head and said, "Now I know."
Ji Yan was on the verge of shouting at you guys to be so abusive to the dog man-boy! But for the sake of his beloved salty egg, he still didn't shout out.
Before leaving, Zhou Yan still took ten more salted eggs from the jar and asked, "Is that enough?"
Ji Yan nodded his head repeatedly, "That's enough."
This thing was meant to be a fresh meal, and any more would be easy to get tired of it.
In the evening, Zhou Yan still couldn't resist asking the question, and Lu Baichuan shook his head thinking, how come he's still so slow.
But still, he patiently explained to him, "Haven't you noticed that ever since I went out, he's been observing how we get along? Even more so during meals, I guess I haven't met many of my own kind here, I don't know how others get along, I want to see it."
Zhou Yan thought back carefully, it seemed like that was really the case. And when he wandered around the island during the day, he found that the percentage of female survivors here was high, although not to one to one, but it shouldn't be much different from the male to female ratio before the zombie outbreak, so that there shouldn't be a situation like the base he was at in his last life, where two men shacked up to live their lives.
If Yang Fan was with the one in his family after the end of the world, he hadn't seen her before and now there was no internet to check, so it was normal to want to learn something by observing others.