Natural Disaster (MTL)

Chapter 33

Chapter 33


Many people did not sleep that night. Qiao Qingqing's house was renovated, with better sound insulation, and with the effect of floor heating, the family had a good night's sleep, and they were refreshed when they woke up the next day.

"The water outside is frozen!"

After getting up, Shao Shengfei went to the balcony to play as usual, and suddenly shouted loudly. He lowered his head and saw that the onions he was taking care of had frozen to frost, and cried out sadly: "Mom and Dad! Woohoo!"

Shao's father and Shao's mother also got up when they heard the movement, and as soon as they stepped out of the door, they couldn't help hissing, it was really cold outside!

"I'll close the door, don't let the heat outside run away." Mother Shao hurriedly turned back to close the door.

"Mom, I turned off the generator. After the generator has been working all night, I need to let it rest. After the power outage, the floor heating system in the house will also stop." Qiao Qingqing walked out of the utility room, and the generator was placed in the small room. In the small utility room, she heard Shao's mother talking, and she raised her head and shouted under the stairs.

Mother Shao understood: "Then the door still has to be closed, it's still warm inside, and the door can still be kept warm."

That's true, Qiao Qingqing agreed: "It's still my mother's thoughtful thinking." Mother Shao smiled shyly.

"I'm making breakfast, let's cook some hot porridge on such a cold day." Shao Shengan probed from the kitchen, "Mom, you don't like ginger, you can't eat ginger in this weather, I cut a lot of it and put it in the porridge. Here, boil fish sliced ​​porridge."

Qiao Songzhi smiled bitterly: "In such a cold day, if you don't like ginger, you have to work hard to eat it, you can put more."

"It's only after six o'clock, and the sky is not completely clear - glass It's all frozen." Father Shao wiped the glass with his hands, but he could only wipe off the moisture from the indoor side of the glass, and the ice on the outer layer of the glass was solid.

He looked at the escape window, looked out from the gap of the aluminum alloy escape window, and explained in a stunned manner: "The water outside has already frozen?!"

Qiao Songzhi and Shao's mother followed, and they were all shocked by the sight in front of them.

Qiao Qingqing also leaned over and quietly looked at the scene outside.

She had seen it when she woke up just now, and looking at it now, the impact in her heart is still unabated.

I saw that the filthy and chaotic flood was no longer rippling, and the debris in the sewage no longer swayed and collided with the water waves. They all solidified into a rigid posture, lying in the same rigid ice. In the past, it was a vast expanse of yellow and turbid ice—at first glance, it could be mistaken for mud, with all kinds of debris half buried in the ground.

Following this escape window, Father Shao and the others were deeply shocked. The cold rolled over the ice and scraped at their faces, piercing their skin, keeping them awake at all times, so that they wouldn't think they were dreaming.

It's all true, everything in front of you is true!

"It's so cold." Shao Shengfei rubbed his hands, got out from Shao's father, came to Qiao Qingqing and lowered his head to ask, "Sister, my onions are dead, what should I do, sister."

Qiao Qingqing raised her head slightly and stood on tiptoe He touched his head with his feet and said warmly, "It's alright, we'll plant it again in the future. The onion is very strong and will definitely be able to grow again."

Shao Shengfei bent down and nodded obediently: "Okay. But I want to fish, and today I will I haven't seen any fish."

"Go fishing later, there will be a chance."

"Mom and dad, don't look, come to the living room."

Father Shao was about to close the escape window, but Qiao Qingqing stopped him: "Dad, we want to Get used to this temperature, open the window and let the air circulate."

"One, two, three... -31 degrees below zero?" Mother Shao stammered as she looked at the thermometer hanging on the wall.

The thermometer was hung there by Qiao Qingqing early in the morning. Hearing the words, he said, "When I just hung it, it was minus 30 degrees Celsius. It seems

that the temperature has cooled down again. You go to wash first, and I will get the hot water ready."

Everyone washed their faces, brushed their teeth, and splashed out the dirty water. The water turned into ice mist before it hit the ground.

"Oh oh oh! Look good!" Everyone's heart was heavy, only Shao Shengfei maintained a lively and innocent heart, feeling that it was a novelty of Coke.

The breakfast was eaten in the master bedroom. It was indeed a little warmer inside than the outside. When I took a thermometer, it was actually below zero, but compared to the minus 30 degrees outside, it was already 7 or 8 degrees below zero.

"This fish is good, but why doesn't it taste like crucian carp?" Shao's father still felt strange eating it. He remembered that the fish caught from the water at home were either crucian carp or tilapia. The fish in the porridge tasted like sashimi. ?

"It was frozen under the refrigerator at home, and I turned it out." Shao Shengan said lightly.

Mother Shao blinked: "But the refrigerator at home has been out of power for a long time, and there is nothing left in the frozen layer."

"Qingqing, take your eldest brother out to play for a while."

Qiao Qingqing glanced at him and asked Shao Shengfei to go out with her.

"Actually, I have a mysterious space. Before the flood, I had a precognition dream, so I hoarded a lot of supplies in the space." Shao Shengan made up a story, which stunned Shao's father and Shao's mother for a while. Qiao Songzhi also looked surprised when he heard it for the first time.

"In short, in the future, you don't have to worry about not enough food and materials at home, they are all very sufficient. I only told Qingqing about this first, and it was Qingqing who helped me prepare the materials together. Parents, Qiao's mother, I lied to Qingqing. For you, the money from the family's sale of the shop and the house will be used to buy supplies..."

Outside the house, Qiao Qingqing took Shao Shengfei to play with toys. She was distracted from the master bedroom, thinking about how Shao Shengan was fooling his parents in it at the moment. After thinking about it, I remembered what her mother said to her in private.

At that time, the two of them were drying clothes on the terrace, and her mother said:

"Qingqing, Sheng An is indeed for your safety, and I'm also glad that he treats you so well. But Qingqing, people's hearts are the most unpredictable, he took the danger away. , your aura is naturally gone. Listen to your mother tell you carefully, I have never doubted your relationship with Sheng An, and I also see his parents' love for you. But that was all in the past and also It's what you said before the end of the world. I'm worried about one thing. Will his parents look down on you in the future, thinking that his son is capable and you are not worthy of him. Qingqing, this is also an opportunity, don't blame him Mom is too realistic to speculate on people's hearts too hard, Mom is for your own good."

At that time, Qiao Qingqing didn't speak, just hung up the clothes in silence.

In fact, what her mother said, after hearing Sheng An's decision, she thought about this possibility. The time she has spent with her in-laws is too short, and everything is going well at present, but she has experienced so much darkness, and she is more defensive than anyone. Her in-laws and eldest brother are just incidental to the love house and Wuxia. The only ones she really trust are her mother and Sheng An.

If her in-laws really had other thoughts, she would be very confident and not afraid at all. She never doubted Sheng An's sincerity towards her, only worried that it would be difficult for her husband to be caught in the middle. At the end of the world, there are only a few people in the family. If they can't unite and give birth to a few thoughts, they can't give up their blood relatives, and only Sheng An will be in trouble.

Withdrawing his gaze towards the room, Qiao Qingqing felt calm in her heart. Compared with the sudden apocalypse situation, the possibility of changing the mind of the in-laws is really not worth mentioning.

The door opened, and Shao Shengan called her: "Let's go downstairs and have a look."

Shao's mother came out to clean up the tableware and let Shao Shengfei come over with a smile: "Go upstairs with your father to clean up the vegetables, be good."

Shao's father rushed to Qiao Qingqing smiled, the same smile as usual, but his eyes were erratic, obviously he hadn't absorbed what his son just said, and went upstairs with fluttering footsteps, as if he didn't even notice Shao Shengfei following behind him.

"Let's leave the door open to dissipate the smell - I remembered, the clothes on the terrace were confiscated! It must have been frozen into popsicles, I'll go take a look." Qiao Songzhi waved to Qiao Qingqing, and walked upstairs after Shao Shengfei.

"Let's go." Shao Shengan stretched out his hand, Qiao Qingqing walked over and caught up.

The security doors on the third floor were covered with frost, and the tentacles felt cold.

"A little slippery."

Qiao Qingqing gave him a towel before twisting the door open layer by layer.

There was a layer of ice on the floor outside the door, and the anti-skid boots squeaked when stepped on.

"Be careful, it's slippery." Shao Shengan walked ahead and knocked on the door of Zheng's house next door first.

It was Zheng Tiehui who opened the door. He was well dressed and offered to go downstairs to check the situation.

In 701, Grandpa Wang really passed away, and the family hadn't slept all night, very haggard. Grandma Wang cheered herself up and thanked Shao Shengan for the hot water he sent last night, choked up and said, "At least, I tasted two hot ones before I left. The children at home are also sick, and the house is very messy, so I won't invite you in. Sit down." The

rest of the Wang family, like Zheng Tiehui, looked sullen, with dark circles under their eyes from staying up late, their lips turned purple from the cold, and several children were wrapped like bears and wrapped in quilts, but they were still surrounded by Weak and weak from the cold, he hummed with his eyes half-open. Qiao Qingqing knew that the two juniors of Grandma Wang's family had been admitted to the hospital for eating lotus root before, and their body had probably cooled down before they were completely conditioned. This was a great challenge for children.

The situation of 702 was not bad either. Mr. Tian and his wife survived. Fortunately, Chen Binggang woke up at night and took immediate measures to prevent the two old people from freezing to death at night.

Chen Binggang held Shao Shengan's hand and thanked him repeatedly: "Last night was really too dangerous. Your hot water really helped a lot. I'll boil a new pot and return it to you later."

"Don't be so polite, they are all neighbors . ."

Everyone dressed like bears, went downstairs in full armor, and decided to explore the new landscape downstairs.

Qiao Qingqing decided to go down by herself. The rope that had been hanging on the corridor window on the seventh floor was frozen, and she could no longer hold it. She tied it again, wearing thick climbing gloves on her hands, and firmly grasped the rope and pedaled down. When the boots are pushed against the wall, ice chips will fall when they are pushed.

Shao Shengan held his breath and looked at her with the probe, he didn't even dare to warn her, for fear of shocking her.

When Qiao Qingqing landed smoothly and stood firmly on the ice, he raised his head and waved at him, and he exhaled a breath and climbed up the windowsill to follow him.

The ice layer under his feet was strong enough. After stepping on it a few times, Qiao Qingqing looked around. There were people moving in the distance. There was a sound of hitting the ice layer in a certain direction. Voice.

Overnight, the landscape has undergone earth-shaking changes, and Qiao Qingqing deeply feels the insignificance of human beings.