Natural Disaster (MTL)

Chapter 35

Chapter 35 

On the way back, more and more people went out, and everyone exchanged information, which was all bad news.

Downstairs in the community, a group of residents are also chatting.

"My entire family next door froze to death. They were all elderly and children. I heard that my son and daughter-in-law couldn't come back from other places. Who would have thought that they would freeze to death!"

"All my family members have a cold. Do you have any cold medicine?"

"This The weather is horrible! How can the temperature drop so much! I have lived in Huacheng for 20 years, and I have never seen this kind of weather!"

"The temperature in Huacheng has never dropped below minus ten degrees! Isn't it hell!"

"One of my neighbors, who is the frogman, likes to go into the water in the middle of the night to fish for things. Whoever believes that he can catch something at night must be stealing things. When he woke up in the morning, he heard the noise next door, saying that there was no one Come back, now the whole family is looking for it outside, I think the retribution has come to an end, and I was frozen under the water!"

"What are you talking about! What are you talking about! Why is your heart so vicious and cruel, my family Taotao shouted You have been your uncle for more than ten years, so you cursed him like that!"

Shao Sheng'an pulled Qiao Qingqing away from him: "It's a fight."

"That mouth is too mean, it deserves to be beaten." Chen Binggang frowned, and the crowd gathered around. Open a little and go back to your own building.

"Why did the fight start downstairs?" Qiao Songzhi asked.

"It's the people in the next building who talked a little bit. Alas, everyone is in a bad mood now, and it's easy to get angry. The delivery of supplies has been delayed. If there's nothing wrong, we won't go out. Say.

"It makes sense, it makes sense. If you have enough things at home, you can do it without going out." Father Shao said quickly.

"The supply ship was also affected. The soldiers didn't have any clothes to keep out the cold, so they wore autumn clothes with cardboard stuffed inside.

" Clothes?" Qiao Songzhi hurriedly asked.

"I delivered some food just now. If you want to deliver clothes, then pack them up now. I'll deliver them." Shao Shengan looked at Qiao Qingqing.

"I'll pack up, let's go together later." Qiao Qingqing entered the room and packed out fifty sets of fleece underwear and fifty pairs of fleece socks. Shao Shengan was packing, and Qiao Qingqing said, "There aren't that many coats, and at most twenty will be sent out .

"

Insisting on going together, the couple went out together again, threw the supplies near the supply ship, and ran away after attracting the attention of the soldiers.

After returning home, Mother Shao cared about Qiao Qingqing: "Are you tired, Qingqing? Hurry up and change your clothes. I feel your coat is cold."

"Okay, I'll change it now."

She matched Shao Shengan's clothes On the bed, it was warm to the touch. When I opened it, I saw that there were two kettles under the clothes, and the water in them had become warm.

"It must be my mother. She helped me warm my clothes like this in winter when I was a child." Qiao Qingqing changed her shoes and socks, outer pants and outerwear, and then she felt more comfortable after changing her clothes.

Shao Shengan smiled: "Mom is so kind to us." He also quickly changed his clothes.

"I bought a few bamboo baskets and took them out in a while."

"Bamboo baskets? Do you want to put something in?"

Qiao Qingqing said with a smile, "You can hold the coal stove, and after lighting the coal stove, you can boil water and put it on the bamboo basket. You can spread your clothes, and you can dry and warm your wet and cold clothes while the water is boiling."

Shao Shengan understood and praised it as a really good idea.

Qiao Qingqing took out the two kettles, Qiao Songzhi came to pick them up, and touched: "It's not cold yet, just enough to drink, there is ginger syrup in it." On the

first day of cooling down, the family drank ginger syrup for the second time. Hiccups are all that spicy.

The lunch was made by Qiao Songzhi and Shao's mother. One made egg fried rice, the other stewed pork ribs and lotus root soup, and steamed a drawer of buns. Everyone was very full. When she is full, she has to work. Qiao Qingqing took out the plastic film and asked Shao Shengan to send it to the neighbors. This thing is not worth the money.

"I'm going to deliver it

right away." The neighbors on the left and right were very pleasantly surprised, even thanking them, and hurried to seal the windows without letting go of the corners, otherwise the cold wind would penetrate everywhere, and it would really freeze people to death. .

Qiao Qingqing sealed the windows together with the family at home. In the end, only the exhaust window of the bathroom was left for general air circulation. When the bathroom door was closed, the shutters under the door were sufficient for ventilation.

"I read in the news that northerners do this in winter. After finishing the house

, the house will be much warmer. I'm afraid it will cool down tonight." If the sun comes out, the solar generator will come in handy, and then we can save gasoline and generate electricity." Father Shao looked at the sky in a trance, praying for the sun to come out quickly. Qiao Qingqing didn't speak. In the last life, the temperature was extremely low and cold for three consecutive years, and the sun didn't even have a shadow.

The prepared solar generator, she is preparing to generate electricity to supply air-conditioning in the hot and scorching climate after the low temperature apocalypse. In the past three years, if you want to use electricity, you can't do without a fuel-fired generator.

In the evening, Qiao Qingqing and the others attended the funeral of Grandpa Wang downstairs. Now the situation is special, and there is no way to cremate, so the Wang family had to hold a simple funeral, and then temporarily bury the body in the community.

"Wait later, and then send it to Fushan." Grandma Wang said in a trance.

Fukuyama is a local cemetery with high terrain, so it must not have been flooded. But Fukuyama is also far away. There is no means of transportation now, and it is freezing to the bone. It is impossible to go on foot, and people may break down on the road.

Qiao Qingqing held her hand, feeling her palm cold and feeling sad.

"Grandma Wang, we have to work hard to survive. The thieves don't let people live, so we have to live."

This sentence was said by Grandma Wang to Qiao Qingqing in her previous life. Grandma Wang touched Qiao Qingqing's face and said she was pitiful. , being bullied: "Come and live at my house, in the future...there will always be a way to live."

Grandma Wang's eyes were flushed, and her tears were flowing, she twitched the corners of her mouth when she heard the words, and sighed: "Live, live."

On this day in Jinyuan Community, more than a dozen corpses were buried. Zheng Tiehui and the volunteer team leaders of other buildings arranged for a place to be temporarily buried in the direction of the original electricity room. The ice layer was dug up, buried relatives, and then shoveled back the broken ice, and soon a dozen graves were erected in the electric room.

Some residents objected, saying that it was unlucky to be buried in the community, and the family of the deceased was swarmed and beaten, and the blood splashed on the snow.

"Don't kill people when you have the kind!" Wang Jiale, who had always squinted and smiled innocently, burst out with astonishing ruthlessness at this moment.

"Okay, okay, don't let Grandpa Wang worry about you, go home!" Shao Shengan stuck his arm tightly, and cooperated with other neighbors to drag the person back.

Wang Jiale shook off the crowd and knelt in front of the tomb bag and wept silently: "Grandpa, grandpa woo..."

Qiao Qingqing's family sent some condolences to the Wang family, and the gifts given in special times were also special, which were worn by two elderly people. Big padded jacket, and a coal stove.

Wang Jiale came up to thank him, his eyes were red: "I know your family has been taking care of my family, and those things can save lives now. I will not be hypocritical and politely refuse. I will accept it. Wang Jiale will keep this love in my heart!"

Qiao Qingqing repeatedly told him to remember to ventilate when burning fire.

After watching Wang Jiale go downstairs, Qiao Qingqing locked the iron door and looked back to see Zheng Tiehui's son standing at the door looking at her gloomily.

This young man under 20 has been so gloomy since he was discharged from the hospital last time.

Qiao Qingqing ignored him, continued to enter the house, and closed his security door.

"Hurry up and close the door, it's freezing to death!" Mrs. Zheng shouted loudly.

Zheng Liangdong just lowered his eyes and closed the door. He was dragging his feet on his walk. Zheng Tiehui came down from the balcony just now and was angry when he saw it: "How can you be so dead at such a young age! You can't even count on the difficulties you are facing at home now. , your sister got a cold when she was looking for firewood, and I didn't see you helping!"

Zheng Liangdong glanced at him, his eyes swam into the room blankly, and slammed the door. Zheng Tiehui vaguely heard him saying, "No matter how hard you struggle, you will die, what else are you doing".

"Look at him, look at him!" Zheng Tiehui lost his temper at Mrs. Zheng. Mrs. Zheng frowned: "He's been like this since the last time he got sick. You know he's suffered a big crime, so why bother with him. Pick up firewood! I'll pick it up tomorrow!

" Our whole family doesn't know if we can make it through the night." Zheng Tiehui shuddered and turned his head, "Why is there air leaking there!"

Mrs. Zheng hurriedly said, "Xiaoying said the room was a bit stuffy, so she opened a crack."

Zheng Tiehui The anger came out: "It's not that there are no gaps, the toilet has an exhaust port, so it's still boring? I'll catch a cold after a while, I'll see what you do!" Angrily went to block the gap.

In the room, Zheng Liangdong lay weakly on the bed, wrapping himself tightly. It's cold, he feels very cold, and he has to experience this cold for a second time, he feels too desperate.

He closed his eyes, as if he still felt the big rock that fell on his head in the big earthquake, so heavy and sharp, when it hit his body, it seemed to smash his soul.

It's not like an earthquake, it's like the whole sky has collapsed. He fled everywhere, but he couldn't escape at all.

It's too hard, it's too hard to live.

If you struggle hard and you will die in the end, why waste your energy?

Thinking of the completely different situation of 801 next door from his previous life, Zheng Liangdong thought that Shao Shengan must have been reborn, so everything changed. The next door is so motivated. Shao Shengan died in a flood in his last life. He must not have seen the cruelty in the future. In the future... Shao Shengan will know that everything he does is futile.

In 801, Qiao Qingqing went into the kitchen to help Shao Shengan.

"What's for dinner tonight?" she asked.

"I want to make spicy beef rice bowl and cook some chicken soup." He replied while cutting the beef.

"Then I'll get the chicken soup." "Okay

, the chicken soup you make is the freshest."

Qiao Qingqing took a chicken, cut it into pieces and blanched it in water, added an appropriate amount of water, cut into ginger slices, added wolfberry and red dates, and covered the pressure cooker. In normal times, she cooked in a crock pot, but she made soup and porridge and other liquid food in the crock pot at home and stored it in the space, so she had to use a pressure cooker.

"The pressure cooker is also good, the meat is soft, I like to eat soft chicken." Shao Shengan cheered.

The chicken soup stewed in the pressure cooker is equally delicious, and the meat is lightly folded and scattered. Mother Shao served the soup, two drumsticks were distributed to Qiao Qingqing and Shao Shengan, and she served the rest of the meat to Qiao Songzhi and Shao Shengfei.

"Where do you use this, you can scoop whatever you want. My mother, don't be an outsider. We are all one family." Qiao Songzhi replaced the bowl of soup with Shao's mother and took the bowl of Shao's mother, "I eat it. Don't rob me of this bowl."

"My mother, please don't do this." Mother Shao wanted to exchange it, but was stopped by Qiao Songzhi.

"Mom, let's eat, just serve the soup by yourself in the future, so let it come and go." Qiao Qingqing said.

Shao Shengan also said a few words before Mother Shao sat down.

"Let's eat, this beef is really good, sizzling, spicy enough, I'm sweating after eating it." Father Shao took a big mouthful of rice and praised it.

Qiao Qingqing gently touched her mother with her knee, and put the boned chicken thighs into her mother's bowl.