Chapter 31 Rice, Brother Jie, Give Me Some to Eat

Chapter 31 Rice, Brother Jie, Give Me Some to Eat

"Damn!"

"What’s going on here?"

Meng Ci stood in the living room, looking around at his surroundings, still not quite understanding what had happened.

Had he been kicked out of the space?

Meng Ci couldn’t believe it and prepared to enter the space again.

"Damn it."

Meng Ci couldn’t help but curse; he couldn’t enter the space anymore.

What was happening?

If he couldn’t enter the space from now on, what would happen to all the things he had stored inside!

Meng Ci paced anxiously, unable to find any solution.

Thinking back to the post-apocalyptic novels he had read before, some spaces had time limits for entry. Could this space also have one?

Meng Ci sat on the sofa and roughly estimated the time. He had entered the space around ten in the morning, and now it was two in the afternoon, about five hours.

Meng Ci had never stayed in the space for so long before. Could there really be a time limit?

Meng Ci consoled himself mentally that it didn’t matter, but he was afraid the space might truly disappear, leaving him without food.

Moreover, the power was going to be cut off tomorrow, so Meng Ci hurried into action.

He scooped out two basins of flour, kneaded it, and used the noodle press to make fresh noodles, packaging them in portions with plastic bags.

He also steamed two full pots of rice in the electric cooker.

Meng Ci cooked all the vegetables stored in the kitchen at once.

Braised eggplant, vinegar-braised cabbage, boiled fish slices...

Then he packed them in disposable containers and neatly arranged them in the cabinet.

The weather was very cold, so there was no worry about the food spoiling.

Besides, after the power outage tomorrow, the refrigerator would be useless anyway.

It was better to store everything here for convenience.

Drawing from his experience of installing gas in the space, Meng Ci took out the gas stove and gas tank from the empty room and quickly assembled them.

He found the charging cable and plugged in everything that could be charged in the room until they were all fully powered.

Meng Ci then sat down on the sofa, rubbing his waist and shoulders to rest.

During this time, Meng Ci kept trying to enter the space but still couldn't make it.

Meng Ci was in a terrible mood!

Seeing Liu Jie and Li Xiaoya being affectionate with each other on the surveillance camera made him even angrier.

Even in the apocalypse, how could they be so carefree while he was working himself to death!

No way.

If he wasn't happy, neither would they be.

After some thought, Meng Ci put a bit of rice in a box meal and added a serving of each dish, then hung it on the drone.

These three had been eating instant noodles for days; they must be sick of them by now.

Seeing a fragrant bowl of rice would surely elicit a reaction.

It would be best if they started fighting over it.

Taking advantage of the night, Meng Ci launched the drone.

Since Li Xiaoya and the others were sitting in the living room, Meng Ci made the drone gently bump into the balcony glass a few times.

Liu Jie heard the sound and his eyes lit up.

The last time there was a delivery, it was this sound, so maybe there's something good again.

Li Xiaoya, who was cuddling with Liu Jie, quickly sat up straight when he told her about it.

She followed him eagerly, step by step, full of anticipation.

Zhang Lu didn't want to be left behind and hurried over as well.

When Liu Jie brought the drone inside, everyone smelled the aroma of the food.

The three of them looked at the plastic bag with ravenous eyes.

Although Liu Jie was eager, he remembered that the drone brought food, so he gently placed it on the coffee table.

To prevent the drone from getting damaged, Meng Ci used the remote control to fly it back out through the window.

The three people in the room were focused on the box meal and didn't notice the drone leaving.

"Jie Ge, what's inside?" Li Xiaoya asked expectantly.

When Liu Jie opened the lunch box and saw the food inside, the three of them were overjoyed.

"Rice, it's rice!"

Li Xiaoya grabbed Liu Jie's arm, almost bursting into tears.

For days, they had been eating instant noodles. The rice they received wasn't enough to make a proper meal; even the porridge barely filled their mouths.

Now that they had a warm bowl of rice, how could they not be excited?

Liu Jie had been pampered by Li Xiaoya these past few days, so since she wanted the rice, he generously gave it to her.

"Thank you, Brother Jie!" Li Xiaoya held the lunch box tightly, overwhelmed with emotion.

Zhang Lu was not pleased at all.

"Xiaoya, I'm your mother. Why didn't you give me the food?"

"Xiaojie, don't you know to respect the elderly? I am Xiaoya's mother!"

At this moment, with food in front of her, how could Li Xiaoya let go?

"Mom, Brother Jie gave this to me." Li Xiaoya shielded the lunch box behind her back.

"You can't have it!"

"What do you mean Liu Jie gave it to you?" Zhang Lu suddenly burst out, her face contorted with anger.

"This food was exchanged for your father's body. I am his wife, and if anyone should eat it, it should be me."

As Zhang Lu spoke, she tried to wrestle the lunch box from Li Xiaoya.

Li Xiaoya hid behind Liu Jie. "Why not!"

"He is my father, and I am his daughter. It's only right that the food he exchanged for goes to me."

"What do you mean 'only right'!"

Zhang Lu was hysterical. She had endured the pain of trading her husband's body for food, giving some here and there.

Now that there was food, she couldn't believe it wasn't given to her!

Why not!

Zhang Lu's eyes turned red, and without caring about her appearance, she lunged for the lunch box in Li Xiaoya's hand.

Naturally, Liu Jie sided with Li Xiaoya.

"Aunt, please calm down. If it doesn't work out, we can go back and get more food from that fat guy."

"No, I want this one!"

Zhang Lu, who was already mentally unstable, didn't care and scratched Liu Jie with her manicured nails, leaving several marks on his hands and arms.

Liu Jie felt the pain and, unable to deal with these two crazed women, stepped aside to mediate.

"Xiaoya, why don't you give the rice to Aunt, and I'll go get another portion from that fat guy."

Seeing that he couldn't reason with Zhang Lu, Liu Jie tried to persuade Li Xiaoya.

"Impossible."

True to their nature as mother and daughter, both were equally stubborn.

Zhang Lu's chest heaved with rage. Fine!

If she couldn't eat, then no one would eat.

This time, Zhang Lu feigned a move, pretending to slap Li Xiaoya.

But when Li Xiaoya dodged, Zhang Lu used her right hand to knock the lunch box out of Li Xiaoya's grasp.

"Bang!"

"What are you doing!" Li Xiaoya looked at the spilled rice on the ground, furious.

"Ahh!"

Li Xiaoya trembled with anger, screamed, and lunged at Zhang Lu, starting a fight.

The two women fought, pulling hair and scratching each other. Liu Jie, rubbing his injured arm, dared not intervene easily.

The food on the ground was trampled and became dirtied beyond recovery.

"I am your mother, I am your mother, and you dare to hit me over a little bit of food!"

"I carried you in my womb for ten months and gave birth to you, you shameless thing."

"Do you even know what filial piety means?"

...

"You are my mother, you are my mother, why are you trying to take my food? You even hit me!"

"The food is mine, and no one can take it."

...

They fought while shouting, creating quite a scene.

Liu Jie, seeing that he couldn't help and indeed feeling a bit hungry, went to the kitchen to boil some water.

After all, these two were mother and daughter; they might make up after a little fight.

"Bang!"

"Ahh!"

In the kitchen, Liu Jie, unaware of what was happening outside, suddenly heard only Li Xiaoya's voice.

"Brother Jie, Brother Jie!"

Li Xiaoya's voice grew fainter, and Liu Jie sensed something was wrong. When he came out, he was shocked by the scene before him.