Chapter 424: Happiness in Adversity
At night, food was distributed again.
This time Su Ming asked everyone to chop wood to prepare a bonfire. Everyone was very active and no one was lazy or shirking their responsibilities.
Apart from the brief speech at the beginning, Su Ming did not do much in the past few days, but the atmosphere in the manor was changing quietly.
In the evening, Xu Tiejun received his father's body and a suicide note.
Before, when his father was about to leave, Xu Tiejun had a very bad premonition in his heart, and now this premonition has come true.
Su Ming didn't want the old man who sacrificed for them to have a mutilated body, so he expended a lot of his mental energy, transferring all the injuries into ischemia, and finally perfectly preserved the old man's body.
Old man Xu lying on the stretcher looked pale, as if all the blood in his body had been drained out, but his body was intact. There was a smile on his face and his eyelids were slightly closed, as if he was asleep and had a long-unseen good dream.
Seeing his father on the stretcher, Xu Tiejun couldn't help but burst into tears. Although he had expected it long ago, he had thought more than once since he came here that someone in their family would die, and he also felt that his father's body would be the first to collapse in the end. But when his thoughts came true, Xu Tiejun still couldn't bear it.
Elton, who was in charge of transporting the body, sighed softly, bowed slightly, and consoled him: "Please accept my condolences. Your father was a true hero. Everything he wanted to say to you is in this suicide note."
After he finished speaking, he looked up at Xu Tiejun's wife and his son standing beside him, and nodded politely: "You two, there is a banquet outside, it's a rare opportunity to relax, let your husband calm down by himself, I think the child should be hungry... Everyone has been very hard during this period."
The wife and son left and the door of the room was closed gently.
Without the sight of others, Xu Tiejun felt much more comfortable. He looked at his father who seemed to be smiling on the stretcher, opened the envelope and took out the suicide note inside.
[Tiejun, let me be clear in advance that this suicide note was not entirely written by your father. Although I asked Elton to write it down as exactly as it was, he said that the message in my suicide note was not conveyed well enough and needed some slight modification, so I asked Elton to help me modify it a little.
Of course, after I wrote the suicide note, I asked Elton to read it for me, and it was exactly what I wanted to say, so there was no problem.
Let me say first that I, your father, do this voluntarily. You may not understand, but I believe you will understand it in the future. Just like you are considering Tiedan, I am also considering you and Tiedan.
Mr. Xia said that only thirteen people can go out from here. Everyone hopes that they and the most important people around them can go out, but is this realistic?
Those who had left here before were no longer considered human beings. Xia Ming said that some of them survived by cannibalism, some survived by killing people because they lost their conscience, and some were crazy and even killed their own sons, daughters, and wives. In short, they were all a group of people with mental problems.
After staying here for so long, even a fool can see that this place wants us to stop being human. If you stop being human and become a ghost, you can live a little longer than others, but are you willing to do that?
I just don't want to, and I believe you don't want to either. Since I taught you how to be a blacksmith since you were a child, I have always told you that being a human being is like being a blacksmith, you have to endure. You are hit by the hammer again and again, and finally you can become a good piece of steel. If you can't endure it, then you are useless!
There are some truths that a rough guy like me cannot explain clearly, but I think that even if there is no reason, some decisions are always correct.
For example, if I help Xia Ming bear some injuries now, then I am definitely not doing anything wrong. Some smart people will think I am stupid when they see me doing this , but son, you should not think I am stupid, right? Only those noble lords who only think about themselves and the scoundrels in the slums will ignore others and only care about themselves.
People like us have always supported and helped each other to survive, just like your mother and me.
I don’t know what to say. Anyway, there are a lot of things I want to say but I can’t. Don’t do things that make yourself or your family uncomfortable, and don’t be too afraid of death. Everyone will die. We old people are more calm than you young people, but in fact, as long as your mentality is right, there will be no problem.
Being alive is not the only goal of human beings. You, Tiedan, and Yingzi don’t have to keep waiting for those thirteen places.
According to your father's idea, to live is to make yourself and the people around you who are important to you proud of you. I have always been proud of you. I am glad that I sent you to Mr. Li's house next door to learn to read, otherwise you would be like your father, who can't recognize a single word at first glance.
Tiejun...Are you proud of your father's current state?
(I am Elton. This is what I wrote privately. I did not read it to your father. When he asked me to write this suicide note, he cried a lot when he talked about your mother. I can see that he has a lot of things he wants to express but cannot express them. But I personally hope to provide you with some of my own views: your father may want to say that the meaning of life is not to feel alive, but to feel the good feeling of being alive.)]
“Dad——!!!!”
Xu Tiejun lay on Old Man Xu's body and cried like a child.
Outside the window, a banquet was taking place and people's laughter and joy could be heard from outside.
Xu Tiejun stood up sobbing, walked to the window, opened the curtains, and saw the lit bonfire. Many long tables were moved out next to it, and all kinds of food were placed on the tables. Everyone was dancing and singing around the bonfire.
Looking at this scene, Xu Tiejun was stunned.
He didn't know how long it had been since he had heard such laughter .
It would be great if our father saw us holding hands, singing and dancing.
…
The main house was destroyed, and Su Ming temporarily moved to a side house next door.
He stood by the window on the second floor, his eyes lingering on the flames twisting on the glass. The sounds of laughter and pleasant or wild singing reached his ears, making Su Ming feel very relaxed.
Perhaps he should have done this a long time ago. He had always focused on the correct plans and steps, but ignored everyone's emotional feelings.
This dinner may seem extravagant, but it actually costs very little.
Canned food and drinking water are used to fill the stomach and quench thirst, and other foods that are not given by alien creatures are used for celebration. Although those foods will not bring a sense of fullness, the taste enjoyment is still there. After the servants prepare various foods, let everyone finish the cans and join the dinner.
After Su Ming's precise calculations, those who obtained extra food in the word guessing game did not need to share the food this time. In addition, those who had left the manor long ago would not share the food, so in theory, the food was more abundant than before.
This time, after everyone has eaten their fill, the remaining food will still be enough to last until the next alien creature arrives.
