Chapter 3 RV
There were still some stars from last night in the sky, twinkling in the dim light. A faint pink hue had begun to appear in the eastern sky, and daybreak was approaching.
The riverbank outside the city was lined with dense reeds, with crystal dew hanging on the reed leaves. The sounds of insects, birds and frogs could be heard one after another, unaffected by the fighting last night.
Two thin figures were lying in the reeds on the river bank.
Li Ai's limbs were sore and she was breathing more out than in. After soaking in the river for several hours, her whole body was wet and cold. She turned her head to look at Li Hao lying next to her. The older brother was even more exhausted.
The two men floated on the raft towards the direction of leaving the city. There was a wooden fence in the river section outside the city. The two men could only abandon the raft and dive through the wooden fence to get out of the city.
Before crossing the wooden fence, Li Hao cut the hemp rope of the raft, letting the wood spread out and pass through the wooden fence. The gap in the wooden fence was more than enough for two half-grown children to pass through. They floated to the surface and grabbed a piece of driftwood, lingering and drifting far away outside the city.
Li Ai's current little girl's physical fitness really needs to grow and strengthen. It was all thanks to Li Hao's dragging and pulling that the two finally got to the shore.
Young people have good sleep quality and fall asleep as soon as they lie down. The two of them lay in the grass without moving until dawn.
In fact, I was just too tired to get up.
Li Ai looked at her two thin palms in the morning light, the skin was rubbed by the hemp rope. She climbed over the wall to pull the hemp rope, and soaked in the river while holding the hemp rope tightly. When her body recovered, she felt the burning pain.
At least the two of them escaped from the city, but many people did not escape. The people who suffer the most in war are always the civilians.
The two of them lay there for an unknown amount of time, watching the rising sun in the east. Li Ai wondered if there would be soldiers coming out of the city to search, and if the villages near the city had already been destroyed.
Li Hao turned his head, and the two siblings looked at each other, thinking the same thing, and they both struggled to get up.
Li Hao stood up, pushed aside the tall reeds, and stood on tiptoe to observe the surrounding situation.
There were large tracts of reeds on both sides of the river, and the reeds were tall and deep. The two held their breath and listened quietly. Apart from the chirping of birds, the buzzing of insects and the sound of flowing water, they heard no other sounds, and they did not see anyone for the time being.
Li Hao pushed aside the reeds and looked into the river. He was so frightened by the scene in the river that he turned around immediately, unable to bear and dared not look any further.
"What's wrong?" Li Ai leaned over, but Li Hao blocked her view. "Don't look! We have to leave quickly. This place is not far from the city!"
"Let's go, let's go!" Li Ai saw a bit of the river, turned around immediately, took the lead, and stumbled out of the reeds.
The skin without cloth was scratched by the reed leaves, and the face and hands felt painful and itchy, and there were mosquito bites!
"Bang! Ouch!! Hiss~ my head." Li Ai didn't know what she hit and the pain was so severe that she couldn't control her tears.
"What are your eyes for? You're such a grown-up, why don't you look at the road when you walk..." Li Hao took two steps over to check Li Ai's forehead, and saw a small bump visibly bulging.
"Shhh! It hurts! I have to watch the road and be careful not to get cut by leaves! Who would have thought there would be a huge rock blocking the road in this place!"
Li Hao looked up at the "boulder" in front of him, and patted Li Ai who was covering her forehead, "Am I dazzled..."
"What?" Li Ai turned her head to look at him, followed his hand and looked back ahead. "Hiss~ Did I get dizzy or am I dazzled?"
The brother and sister stared at the car in front of them in amazement.
"No wonder it hurts so much! It turns out that it was the ladder that hit the rear door of the car!" Li Ai reached out and touched the ladder. The metal was cold and hard, and there was morning dew on it. "Hiss~ We are not wearing ancient clothes? We are still in modern times? Are those all acting??"
"That's impossible! There can't be no crew or camera for filming! I've been living in the city for more than half a month, and as an errand boy, I often go out to the streets! I haven't seen any modern products!"
“It looks familiar to me…” Li Ai looked at the car in front of her, bent down and pushed aside the grass to reveal the blocked license plate, and took a look… “Oh my… mine… mine…” Pointing at the license plate, she looked at Li Hao with horror.
Li Hao bent down and looked over. "This... this seems to be your license plate! And this car... I remember you only have one RV under your name!"
Li Ai nodded blankly, "The RV that was in the accident with me..."
"Oh my god!" Li Hao pushed aside the reeds and walked towards the front door. "Ghost RV?!"
Li Ai walked over behind him and glared at him, "What ghost RV! This is my favorite car!!!"
"Since it's your RV, there's nothing to be afraid of! We're already in such a miserable state, no matter what, let's get in the car first!" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to open the door, but Li Hao pulled and pushed for a long time, and the door didn't budge. "Do I need the car key to unlock it?"
"We are souls traveling back in time, so where would I get the car keys... Let me do it!" Li Ai held the door handle and gently pulled it, and the door opened...
"I pulled the door handle hard! Why can't I open the door?!" Li Hao stepped on the electric step, opened the insect-proof mesh door, and walked into the car.
Li Ai entered the RV and felt a sense of familiarity. She wanted to turn on the main switch above the door to see if the car had power, but she was too short to reach it.
Li Hao squatted down, hugged Li Ai's legs, and lifted her up.
Li Ai stretched out her hand and pressed all the switches, and the lights in the car came on! "There's electricity! I wonder if the car can start?"
Li Hao panted heavily and sat down on the sofa, looking like Ge You.
Li Ai closed the car door and locked it. She turned and walked to the driver's seat, opened the storage box under the steering wheel, and found the car key in a black leather case. "The car key is really here!" Li Ai picked up the car key, looked at it, touched it, put it back, and closed the storage box.
I walked into the familiar driver's seat and sat down, adjusting the seat higher and closer, "My body height is not enough! Tsk~" The seat was adjusted to the shortest distance, so that my feet could barely reach the accelerator and brake, I stepped on the accelerator and pressed the ignition button, "boom boom boom..." the car started!
"Can you walk?"
Li Ai tried to step on the accelerator, and the car drove out smoothly! "Okay! The gas is still full!"
"Get out of here quickly, there are corpses everywhere! It's so uncomfortable!"
"Where are you going?"
"Let's go first!"
"No, let's change clothes first. It's uncomfortable to be wet, and we're afraid of getting sick!" Li Ai put the car in P gear, took off her old cloth shoes, and put on slippers. The little girl walked slowly to the bathroom in the wide slippers to wash her feet, then stepped on the bed and took out the clothes and towels from the wall cabinet.
"Here's a new towel for you. This set of black shorts and tops are for both men and women. Wear them." Li Ai said as she threw them on the bed and took a set of casual shorts and tops for herself. The two siblings could only wear this kind of clothes now. Fortunately, she was modern and mostly wore casual clothes and pants and flat shoes.
Li Ai got off the bed, walked into the bathroom, turned on the shower and tested the water temperature. "There's hot water! I'll take a shower first!"
"Is there any water in the car?"
"Look in the refrigerator."
Li Hao stood up, walked over to open the refrigerator, quickly took out a bottle of water, opened the lid and drank half of it in one breath. He almost died of thirst!
After taking a shower, Li Ai wiped her hair and said, "My hair is really long and thin. I'm going to cut it in half."
Li Hao picked up the clothes and towels on the bed and walked to the bathroom. "It was not popular to cut hair in ancient times! The hair on my body was given by my parents, I dare not damage it."
Li Ai: "Tsk, it's so hot, it must be uncomfortable to have such long hair. After you wash them, throw away the tattered clothes, pants and shoes of these two children?"
There was a sound of water coming from the bathroom, "Okay..."