Chapter 5

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An hour later, Jiang Huan and the lieutenant returned to the villa. In the lobby on the ground floor, three people, including Yao Wuque, hurried in and out between the kitchen and the dining table, while Zhong Yin sat opposite Shen Shanwu, staring at him without blinking, doing her duty to the point of exaggeration.

As soon as Jiang Huan entered the door, Zhong Yin immediately stood at attention and shouted to the captain, followed by three more voices from the kitchen. Jiang Huan untied his cloak and handed it to the people around him, took off his mask, and nodded to the rest of the team, “Let’s eat.”

After speaking, he saw Shen Shanwu sitting motionless in a chair. He seemed to think that the other party was angry, so Jiang Huan walked over slowly, bent down, and softened his voice, “Let’s have dinner together.”

Shen Shanwu shook his left hand angrily. The metal handcuffs moved with a clang. “How do you think I’m going to eat?”

Jiang Huan lowered his eyes. His gaze touched Shen Shanwu’s strangled wrist. His expression suddenly became cold. He straightened up and said with anger, “Yao Wuque, Zhong Yin! Is that how you complete the task?”

Yao Wuque, who was serving the food, felt that a great disaster was approaching. He gritted his teeth and muttered that the little bastard had learned to complain, then handed the food to the teammates next to him. Zhong Yin, who had already sat on the table and came down silently, walked to Jiang Huan to confess, “Captain, this kid is too slippery. He’s going to run away if he’s not handcuffed like this…”

“Neither of you adults can look at a child?”

“But this is the kid’s territory after all. As the saying goes, it’s hard for a strong dragon to crush a local snake…”

“They didn’t even give me a glass of water.” Shen Shanwu added fuel to the fire. Yao Wuque’s eyes widened, and he scolded the little bastard in his heart for not saying that he wanted to drink water. If he did, would their team still skimp on a glass of water?

Seeing Jiang Huan’s expression getting heavier and heavier, Zhong Yin quickly stepped on Yao Wuqu’s foot, and then crushed it hard, “Captain, we know we are wrong.”

“Don’t untie it yet?!”

Yao Wuque bared his teeth in pain and squatted down aggrieved to untie Shen Shanwu’s handcuffs. Jiang Huan stood by and watched, saying blankly, “You are not allowed to do this to him in the future. Also, don’t keep calling “this kid, this kid”, he has a name.”

“Captain, he said it himself that he has no name!”

“But I gave him a name.” Jiang Huan said solemnly. He turned his head to look at Shen Shanwu, as if he wanted to soften his expression and tone, but he was used to his face and tone reprimanding his subordinates, and he couldn’t correct it for a while, “From now on, you will be called Jiang Tong.”

He paused, and temporarily added a sentence in order to ease his attitude, “Okay?”

This person really wanted to be his father, but Shen Shanwu also really didn’t want to have another father or a father ten years younger than him, so he really didn’t want to be this person’s son.

“Jiang…Captain,” Shen Shanwu was considering his words. What should he say to dispel Jiang Huan’s idea of being his father? It’s best to throw him directly onto the street to fend for himself.

But no matter how turbulent Shen Shanwu’s heart was, the other members of the Shanhai team witnessed the captain’s attitude and considered it one after another. The female team member in charge of cooking immediately took the lead in applauding, and she clapped her hands together, “Welcome, Jiang Tong!”

The male teammates who cooked with her hurriedly followed up, “Welcome, Jiang Tong!”

Although it was not clear why the captain attached so much importance to this child who appeared out of thin air, the captain must have had his reasons, and they, as subordinates, should also welcome him.

The lieutenant, who witnessed the whole process of arresting Shen Shanwu, couldn’t laugh or cry. On the way back with the captain, he proposed to at least find out the true background of the boy, whether his parents died at home or not. He didn’t want to forcibly take the kid away. Maybe the kid ran away from home during the rebellious period, and his biological parents should be in a daze looking for him now.

The captain nodded in silence at the time, but as a result, he had already thought of all the names, and he almost wrote “No matter what the situation of this child is, I will take him away” on his face.

With the increasingly uniform applause in the villa, even Yao Wuque reluctantly gave a perfunctory welcome, and Shen Shanwu’s heart became more and more desperate. How could he encounter this kind of ‘blessing’ of walking on the street and suddenly being forcibly adopted? The little beggars in the streets and alleys of the outer district were crying.

“The dishes are gonna be cold, so come and have dinner together.” The lieutenant said. He decided to send someone to the outer area to investigate the situation of the little kid in the afternoon.

The members’ kindness to Shen Shanwu calmed Jiang Huan’s previous anger well. He also left Yao Wuque and Zhong Yin with a punishment of 200 push-ups, turned around and took off his gloves, and then held Shen Shanwu’s hand hanging aside.

“Follow me.”

“…” Shen Shanwu also struggled symbolically, and before he could break away, he was led away. He couldn’t childishly break his wrists with Jiang Huan here.

Some team members had already opened the chair for Shen Shanwu intimately, and a soft cushion was specially placed on the chair surface. It seemed that they were afraid that Shen Shanwu’s short hands wouldn’t reach the table. The girl in charge of cooking obviously heard his complaint that there was no water to drink, so she scooped a bowl of soup first, and handed it to Shen Shanwu in a peaceful manner, “Come on, Brother Jiang Tong, try your sister’s craftsmanship.”

“…” To be honest, Shen Shanwu hadn’t eaten with a large group of people like this for a long, long time. There were only nine domestic mutants in total. They were distributed all over the world. They had their own things. The last time they gathered together was because of a new mutant in the high-altitude area of the west. He didn’t know how many years ago it was…

Although ordinary people classify mutants as zombies, the mutants themselves still think that they belong to humans. If they were human beings, they would always be social creatures. Who would like to be alone in the wilderness and walk alone?

He took the bowl with a slight touch and took a closer look. In the dim, clear soup, there were two pieces of tofu and two greens. The oil flowers were dotted with dots, and they were almost invisible to the naked eye. “…”

Then he raised his head and looked at the entire table. The whole table was green, with cabbage, loofah, and occasionally interspersed with a milky yellow pleurotus mushroom. There was a plate of red shrimp in the middle. It was not big, but it was meat anyway. The number was just nine. At first glance, it seemed just enough for them.

And there was no rice in the bowl in front of him, just two sweet potatoes and a bowl of mushy millet porridge. Shen Shanwu suddenly felt that he was touching nothing, and his appetite was lost.

Mutants could eat, but they didn’t need to eat at all physically. They could live in the sun like zombies. Food had become a hobby for them. Only when they thought it was delicious would they eat it. Over time, Shen Shanwu also developed an extremely picky eating temper.

Although he was not a chef and couldn’t make delicacies, for a meat lover, fat and juicy hares were better than Qingshui cabbage, no matter how they were roasted.

But Shen Shanwu also knew that for humans, such a radiation-free vegetarian dish could already be called a high-level meal in the country.

There were all young adults present, and one could eat one food at a time, especially Yao Wuqu, who was still in adolescence, ate three sweet potatoes with green vegetables, his eyes still shining green.

Shen Shanwu picked up the soup bowl and drank slowly. A pair of dark eyes like lacquered paint kept observing from side to side. There were nine people at the table except for him, and they all ate extremely fast. Everyone ate quickly in silence. It should be a habit developed by being in a state of combat readiness for a long time.

Jiang Huan’s eating posture was still the most elegant on the round table, exactly the same as when he was a child. Under the influence of his mother, this young master had always revealed his innate nobility in every move, as if he was not eating sweet potatoes or truffles, but drinking tofu soup or wine.

Jiang Huan seemed to feel Shen Shanwu’s sight. He raised his eyes and saw that the rice porridge in front of Shen Shanwu was hardly moved, and the sweet potatoes were barely touched. Only the soup was half consumed.

He frowned slightly and asked, “What’s the matter? Why don’t you eat it?”

Shen Shanwu didn’t know what to say. After all, there was probably no such thing as “unappetizing” in the minds of ordinary people nowadays. Some foods were good. Under the conditions of the end times, who would dare to be picky eaters.

“I don’t want to eat it,” Shen Shanwu pushed the rice porridge forward, “I think that little brother isn’t full yet. Give it to him.”

Yao Wuque was overjoyed, and he stretched out his hand to take it. Halfway through, Zhong Yin smacked her hands on his back, and he yelled in pain, “Why? He told it to me!”

“Let you eat shit, will you eat it or not?”

“You! Are you still a girl?! You can say such words!”

Except for the pair of clowns bickering, the rest of the people present looked at each other. Acquiescing that Shen Shanwu was doing it, deliberately looking for trouble for the captain. But this kid was really spineless, because he refused to be adopted by the captain. He could bear to keep his mouth shut in the face of such a sumptuous meal.

Jiang Huan thought for a while, picked up the largest shrimp from the plate in the center of the table, and put it on Shen Shanwu’s plate. “Hurry up and eat; there is no need to be hard on yourself in this way.”

The cooking girl gladly followed suit and also gave Shen Shanwu the shrimp clip that belonged to her, “That’s right, the little brother can grow taller by eating more.”

“Xiaowen, you really are…” The lieutenant shook his head and handed the shrimp on the plate to the cooking girl, Xiaowen. “It’s rare to eat meat once, but you know how to spoil the kid. The captain and I gave these two shrimps as a welcome gift to Jiang Tong. The others ate them one by one.”

You want to buy me with two shrimp? Without humans overfishing, we mutants can just fish in the river for this thing.

But seeing Yao Wuque sucking the shrimp head squeaking and refusing to let the shrimp shell go, for them, this was indeed a rare thing.

Shen Shanwu returned the lieutenant’s shrimp, but the one that belonged to Jiang Huan was shelled and put in his mouth. At any rate, he had raised this guy for two years, and eating one of his shrimp was nothing.

Seeing Shen Shanwu finally moving his chopsticks, Jiang Huan’s eyes gradually calmed down. He gave Shen Shanwu a loofah with chopsticks, “Eat more vegetables.”

Shen Shanwu was drinking rice porridge unknowingly. When he saw that Jiang Huan was about to pick vegetables for him, he hurriedly hugged the bowl and avoided it. “I hate loofah the most.”

As soon as these words came out, the people at the dinner table suddenly looked different. Yao Wuque’s face was what most people thought: This kid is so difficult to manage, I really want to beat him up. Why did Captain, who wanted to adopt, find such a guy?

The lieutenant was in another category: How could a child who grew up in an outer area be so picky? His identity is very problematic.

Jiang Huan was the most special kind. In a moment of astonishment, he never realized that he had murmured, “…you also don’t like loofah?”

The mutant’s hearing was superb, and no one else noticed Jiang Huan’s whisper, but Shen Shanwu felt that the word ’also’ was used very delicately. He hurriedly finished the soup and porridge, jumped off the stool, and said, “I want to go to the toilet!”

Jiang Huan looked at the loofah in his bowl quietly, without a trace of light in his eyes. His eyes were deep and heavy. The warm-hearted Xiaowen quickly stood up and acted as a nanny, “I’ll lead you to the toilet.”

The two of them took two steps one after the other, and Jiang Huan’s gloomy voice suddenly came from behind them, “Zhang Xiaowen, lock the toilet window with another lock.”

Shen Shanwu: “…”

The author has something to say:

Shen Shanwu: Strong-twisted melons are not sweet.

Jiang Huan: Who wants loofah to be sweet?