Chapter 230: Chapter 230: Village Chief Li

The group talked while walking and soon arrived at Bai Zhengxuan’s orchard.

The orchard was quite a distance from the village.

Even after walking for a while, they could still smell a burnt aroma.

The burnt smell was strong and lingered in the air.

The orchard was surrounded by a fence, full of fruit, and children could be seen playing and laughing inside.

Not far away, there was a small hill with an air raid shelter. Its location was very hidden, and outsiders would not easily find it.

“Old Bai, thanks to your orchard, we can still eat fresh fruit. But I wonder who was so immoral to steal many of your trees!”

Village Chief Li pointed to the middle of the orchard, feeling slightly indignant.

The villagers have always been honest and don’t engage in petty theft.

The Bai Family’s orchard was never fenced before, and they never lost any trees, just a few fruits at most.

Later, when zombies appeared, nowhere was safe.

Worried about being bitten by zombies while picking fruit, the young people in the village put up a fence.

What they saw shocked them.

When the village chief led some young men into the orchard for the first time after the apocalypse, they discovered that in the middle of the orchard, many trees had been dug up!

Several trees of each type were taken!

The village chief was so angry that he started cursing!

Stealing fruit is one thing, but digging up the trees lacks moral integrity!

Bai Zhengxuan rubbed his nose and said generously, “Let them dig! It’s no big deal!”

It was him who had dug them up!

He planted them in Xiao Niu’s space!

Now, his family often enjoys fresh, juicy fruits from that space!

“Truly immoral! If I find out who dug up your trees, I’ll break their legs!”

Village Chief Li was still a bit angry.

He was upset about people with sticky fingers since he despised such behavior.

“Haha, it’s not that serious, not serious at all.” Bai Zhengxuan felt a bit uneasy.

He felt a chill up his legs.

“After enclosing the orchard, we cleared out some of those monsters, and we’ve picked a lot of fruit. With the good weather, they’ve all been dried into fruit preserves…”

Village Chief Li babbled on, leading the Bai Family into the orchard.

In the orchard, adults carried baskets, picking fruit from the trees. Some harvested mangoes were sliced open and spread out on clean plastic sheets to dry.

As the apocalypse hit, even with enough food, Village Chief Li ensured everyone dried and stored whatever fruit they could find.

His generation had known hunger, and he couldn’t stand seeing even a morsel of food wasted.

A couple of young people returned to the village from other cities, reporting severe shortages in the cities, which made them cherish any food they could see even more.

“Uncle Bai, you’re back!”

Seeing Bai Zhengxuan return, those picking fruit greeted him with delight.

In a zombie-infested world, reuniting with an old friend is rarer than winning a lottery.

“I’m back!” Bai Zhengxuan nodded with a smile.

He felt relieved seeing that the villagers were doing well.

The village folks picking fruit greeted the Bai Family with smiles, remaining optimistic despite having just survived a “catastrophe” and losing their village yesterday.

Being alive alone puts them in a much better position than most.

March was the season for harvesting pears and mangoes, and everyone had a bamboo basket.

The honest villagers, besides feeling happy to see the Bai Family, were a bit embarrassed.

After all, the orchard belonged to the Bai Family.

“Keep going, folks. This orchard is part of our village, and there’s nothing to be embarrassed about eating our own village’s fruit.”

Bai Anhai patted the hand of a childhood friend and joked, “Remember sneaking in here at night and eating to our heart’s content?”

“Of course, I remember!” A middle-aged man chuckled wryly.

They ate well, but later he and Xiao Hai ended up on IV drips, having the runs for seven days, nearly fatal!

Bai Anhai’s words made the honest villagers less self-conscious, and after some chatting, they resumed picking fruit.

They knew food was scarce, so they stored as much as they could.

“Thanks to your orchard! We’ve stored quite a few dried fruits in the air raid shelter. Every household has a box reserved for food. If anything happens, we can run immediately.”

Village Chief Li whispered in Bai Zhengxuan’s ear.

That day, Bai Zhengxuan said a lot.

Besides zombies, there were many other unpredictable factors.

Villagers had encountered quite a few mutant animals, and it was fortunate that several superpower users protected the village together.

Listening to Bai Zhengxuan talk about the apocalypse, Village Chief Li acted as if he had nothing to lose, using every public fund he could access.

Besides supplies, he also bought plenty of kitchen knives, enough for everyone in the village to have one.

In the air raid shelter, there was a hidden cellar, filled with supplies, the village’s last resort.

“Yes, make sure to protect yourself, this old bones of yours, and don’t act recklessly!” Bai Zhengxuan eyed Village Chief Li.

Seeing the small red dots on Village Chief Li, he knew that during the locust outbreak, he must have stayed outside instead of hiding.

That’s just how he was, having been a village chief for so long. He just wanted his villagers to be okay, always thinking of others, out of habit.

“Sigh, my old bones are like this. Just afraid I might die one day and not live to see the end of the apocalypse!”

Village Chief Li sighed.

Rescue was never going to come.

With things going as they are, he genuinely wondered if he’d ever see the apocalypse’s end.

Bai Zhengxuan was also in a daze.

He also wished for the apocalypse to end.

Unfortunately, the world now had zombies identical to humans, and it was unclear how long the conflict between humans and zombies would last.

Village Chief Li led the Bai Family around the orchard and then toward the air raid shelter.

At the shelter entrance, stood a dozen strong young men, each armed with a kitchen knife.

Seeing Village Chief Li and the Bai Family, they greeted happily.

No one is unhappy or surprised to see familiar faces standing before them again.

In such apocalyptic times, encountering someone you know is already quite rare.

Inside the air raid shelter, rows of tents were lined up.

These tents were all black, stockpiled by the old village chief before the apocalypse, risking imprisonment.

In this regard, Bai Zhengxuan considered the old village chief to be much greater than himself.

With the apocalypse’s arrival, he only wanted to be with his family, not caring much about the lives of others, his only deed being informing the village chief about the coming apocalypse.

Meanwhile, upon witnessing Bai Zhengxuan’s superpower, the first thing the old village chief thought of was stockpiling resources for the entire village.

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