Natural Disaster (MTL)

Chapter 67

Chapter 67

This is a three-bedroom, and the whole building is this pattern.

In order to keep cool and save resources, they decided to sleep in the master bedroom as a family.

The bed was ready, everyone took off their shoes and went to bed, Qiao Qingqing took out a small table and everyone sat around.

"Unfortunately, there is no way to install a solar generator on the second floor, so we can only blow fans."

"It's okay, after the renovation of Qiuye Village is completed, we will try our best to get a house on the top floor, which will be ready for use." Qiao Qingqing said with a smile.

As usual, there are ice buckets and solar fans. Everyone eats breakfast around a small table and goes to bed after breakfast.

The air in the room is still very bad, but after smelling it for a long time, you will get used to it. Anyway, since the temperature has warmed up, there has been little comfortable air at the tip of their nose.

The neighbors and the upstairs were also packing their luggage with a jingle. As the sun rose, the daily routine of day and night made them sleepy. "I'm so sleepy

, eat breakfast now and then go to bed. If you don't sleep now, it will be too hot to sleep."

"Go to sleep, go to sleep!"

, the solar panels on the top floor absorb heat in the sun and continue the light energy for the darkness of the new day.

In the days after the move, Qiao Qingqing and his family didn't go out much. The house must be much more comfortable than living in a tent. Everyone likes it very much.

The villagers had more trouble moving than they did. The first group of people who came with them didn't finish the move for four days. At this time, the second group of people also started to move, and the community was very lively.

When it's lively, it's easy to get chaotic, and Shao's father doesn't let Shao Shengfei go out to play.

"Would you like to play with toys at home?"

Shao Shengfei nodded and said after a while, "I want to watch TV, watch cats."

After leaving home, everyone hadn't watched TV.

Shao's mother coaxed him to say that watching TV costs electricity and will watch it later.

Qiao Qingqing said, "Then watch TV for a while to celebrate our new home."

When people are free, they want to pursue some spiritual relaxation. When Shao Shengfei mentioned it, she also wanted to watch TV.

After the solar generator was put into use, the fuel generator at home was temporarily on vacation. She took out the generator, TV, and disc player, and Shao Shengan came to start, install and connect it.

The dark TV screen flickered, sizzled a few times, and then the picture was normal.

"Maomao!" Shao Shengfei shouted happily pointing at the TV.

"Shh, eldest brother, let's watch quietly." Shao Shengan turned around and gave him a booing gesture.

Shao Shengfei quickly covered his mouth and nodded vigorously.

"Come on, let's watch together." Qiao Qingqing called him with a smile.

Shao Shengan responded and climbed onto the bed to sit with Qiao Qingqing. The family sat on the bed and watched TV. Although it was a cartoon, it looked very interesting, simple and happy.

"I'll find some snacks to eat." Qiao Qingqing took out potato chips, rice noodles and peanuts from the space, unpacked them, poured them into a plate and placed them on the small table, then took out the glass and red wine, and looked sideways at Shao Shengan, " Red wine, you are talking about celebrating moving to a new house."

Shao Shengan opened the wine stopper and filled six glasses. Father Shao and the others took it with a smile. They drank red wine with snacks and watched cartoons while blowing the fan.

"Is there any Sprite? I'll add a little." Qiao Songzhi took two sips and felt unpalatable, so she liked to add Sprite to the red wine.

"Yes." Qiao Qingqing took out Sprite and added it to her.

She shook the cup and took another sip, and the corners of her eyes and brows were filled with a pleasant taste: "This is how you get used to drinking it!"

Shao's mother was moved: "Then I will try it too?"

"Come on, your own mother, try it too!"

The vigorous and lively move lasted for a month before it came to an end. Occasionally when I met Village Chief Ye, Qiao Qingqing could feel that the other party was a lot older. The whole person looked like a shriveled sweet potato, haggard and tired. It seemed that organizing the villagers to move cost him a lot. great energy.

In the past month, Qiao Qingqing's heat-relieving medicine has been selling quite well. After all, they are moving. Even moving at night is exhausting enough. The temperature at night is 389 degrees Celsius. Much. Qiao Qingqing also went to the emergency room once, and cooperated with her good mother-in-law to deliver a villager's birth smoothly, and the mother and daughter were safe.

After the moving wave passed, the town began to stabilize, the security team maintained order, and people began to set up stalls on the roadside at night to exchange some daily necessities. Occasionally at night Qiao Qingqing and the others would go out and stroll around the neighborhood, but the experience was not good, and they encountered a group of mice twice. The mice these days are fat and aggressive. People dare not think about what they ate to grow so big. The first reaction to encountering mice is to avoid them. Otherwise, if they get bitten, they may follow this Say goodbye to the fucking world. The second reaction is to hunt and kill. After all, it is meat. After it is cooked at high temperature, it is swallowed whole with eyes closed, and it is enough to fill the stomach.

Mother Shao was caught by a mouse and had a few bloody mouths. After returning home, Qiao Qingqing helped her deal with it. After that, the family tried not to go out.

After that, they could often see some people with armbands on their arms, with their lights on, nets, sticks and plastic buckets in their hands, catching mice along the street, the mice caught were killed, the bodies were put into buckets, and then A companion turned on the nozzle to spray disinfectant water.

"There are a lot fewer mice, but we should stay out of the house for now. Your mother's injuries on her feet are not yet healed. Those damn mice are very poisonous!" said Father Shao.

In the second month after the move, the town government issued a recruitment notice, demanding a large number of construction-related workers.

Both Shao's father, Shao's mother and Qiao Songzhi signed up, and finally Shao's father and Shao's mother were hired. Qiao Songzhi smiled bitterly: "The interview time is very fast, and the interviewer directly asked us to carry the bucket and carry the bucket from one end to the other. With the stones, I estimate that a bucket weighs 70 to 80 jin, and two buckets. If you can't carry both, you can use a pole, and there are poles there—"

She didn't have that much strength at all, and she only had the strength to suckle with her hands. Carrying a bucket and walking about ten steps.

This time, it is obvious that we need to recruit workers with good physical strength and strength. Although Qiao Songzhi feels regretful, he can't do anything about it.

Mother Shao said to Qiao Songzhi, "Sister Zhi, I heard Qingqing say that you used to be in a flower shop in your hometown, and it was normal that the flower shop didn't have a lot of energy. When I was in the back kitchen, the pot was not light! Qingqing can see a doctor. Sheng An, I, and Lao Shao go to work together. This family can support it. If you are not selected, it will be fine. Besides, there must be someone in the family. You can help Qingqing at home. My family Feifei also sorry to bother you."

Qiao Songzhi sighed: "That's the only way, don't worry, I will take good care of Feifei."

Three days later, Shao's father and Shao's mother set out with the team, carrying the backpack that Qiao Qingqing prepared for them.

After another two days, Shao Shengan's work arrangement was also settled. The work place is the village next to Qiuye Village.

"There are only three of you at home, is it really okay?" Shao Shengan was worried. He actually disapproves of his parents going to work. First, his parents are getting old, and he doesn't want them to be too tired. Second, if he goes out to work, it will be safer with more family members, but his parents insist and Qingqing also supports it. When he was about to go out, Qingqing, his mother-in-law, and his elder brother were left at home. He was really worried.

Qiao Qingqing tidied his neckline and said warmly, "It's okay, it's still safe now, didn't you encourage me to say not to be too pessimistic? We each have our own jobs now, and we're not bound by the end times. It is also a blessing to wait for you to come back at home."

Shao Shengan kissed her: "Okay, then wait for us to come back, and protect yourself before we come back." Finally, touching Qiao Qingqing's face, Shao Shengan reluctantly left under the urging of his colleagues downstairs. home.

Qiao Qingqing did not go downstairs, but just stood upstairs and watched.

In the days of separation, Qiao Qingqing hung her heart, but now she is much stronger than when she was reborn. If her emotions at that time were fragile glass, now those cracks have been in the company of her family and lovers for three years. been patched. She misses Shao Shengan and her in-laws, but she has been able to handle her emotions well and keep her mind stable.

She also has a lot of work herself and is busy almost every day.

In the use of medicines, she is relatively economical, and she does not want the villagers to think that she is very wealthy. In these days in Qiuye Village, her medical skills have been well tempered, especially the skills of acupuncture and moxibustion have improved by leaps and bounds. Practice makes people progress. This sentence is true. She can now use acupuncture and moxibustion to treat some minor illnesses and pains, and supplemented with a small amount of drugs, she can achieve very good results.

After living in the community for a month, even the local residents began to seek medical treatment from her.

"My wife has always had a bad lumbar spine, and she has been carrying it hard for the past two years. Can you see if you can do anything?" The husband and wife on the 19th floor came to see the doctor together. Qingqing look. He actually didn't trust this new "Doctor Joe" very much.

This Doctor Qiao looks too young, not even thirty years old, can medical skills really work?

But there was no way. His wife had been suffering from back pain for several years, especially during the two years of low temperature, which was humid and cold. Several times he was afraid that his wife would die from back pain.

"I'll take a look." Qiao Qingqing read it carefully, "Your wife's situation needs surgery."

Pei Yan was disappointed: "I know, I said before that surgery was needed, but my wife fell after the temperature dropped... Later, the hospital was running out of medicines, and there was no way to perform surgery."

"I can only use acupuncture to help her relieve her pain, and if she accepts, I will do it. About two courses of treatment can significantly improve, but there is no way to cure her."

"Yuxiu—" Pei Yan looked at his wife.

Chi Yuxiu's face was very bad, and her weakness was weak: "It can be relieved."

"Okay, how about the consultation fee?"

"It's enough to exchange the materials, or I will also accept the gold and jade jewelry."

Pei Yan took out a gold ring "Can this last two courses of treatment?"

Qiao Qingqing glanced at it: "Yes, your wife still has some spleen and stomach disorders, I'll take care of her along the way."

After acupuncture, Pei Yan carried his wife upstairs, and Chi Yuxiu kept going. Wipe the sweat for him, and he was so distressed that he burst into tears.

"It's all my fault for hurting you, I'm a waste..."

"Don't say that, you're my wife, it's not right for me to take care of you, don't cry, I'll be home in a while." After

a course of treatment, Chi Yuxiu felt back pain A lot of relief, and I can walk independently without anyone's support. Pei Yan was very happy, and once came back from going out, he even sent something to Qiao Qingqing's house.

"What is this?" Qiao Songzhi took it and asked curiously.

Pei Yan said with a smile: "It's a sweet potato. The newly planted sweet potato with high temperature resistance looks a little different, and the taste is different from the previous one, but the feeling of fullness is very strong. You can try it, it is best to cut it into pieces. Cook soup, don't steam it, don't bake it, you will regret wasting food."

Qiao Songzhi was surprised: "How long has it been since then, a new type of sweet potato that can withstand high temperatures has been developed? This is too amazing. Come on!"

Qiao Qingqing took out a piece of sweet potato from the bag. This sweet potato did not look like a sweet potato, with a brown-black outer skin and many rhizomes. She used her fingernails to dig the outer skin to reveal the light brown inside.

"It's been more than half a year to heat up, so it's not too late, and we haven't been able to put it into production in large quantities. And the growth cycle of this new type of sweet potato is different from the traditional one. One cycle can be completed in two or three months under high temperature conditions." Pei Yan Look at the watch, "I have to go home, remember what I said, don't bake, by the way, don't let other people see this thing."

Qiao Songzhi nodded quickly: "Don't worry!" Entering the

room, Qiao Songzhi asked Qiao Qingqing, "What do you think Mr. Pei does? Or what kind of background does he have, how can he get such a good thing?

" These two possibilities will be known in the future anyway." Qiao Qingqing put the sweet potatoes back into the bag, there were two in total, and they were very large, and it was estimated that one weighed three or four kilograms.

"It's like a small watermelon, the experts are amazing, how good this sweet potato grows."

"Let's try cutting it in half for lunch." Qiao Qingqing said.

The sweet potatoes were cleaned up by Qiao Songzhi. Although the family was well-off, Qiao Songzhi knew that the situation was not good, and how many people could not have enough to eat every day, so she resolutely put an end to waste. She carefully brushed the outer skin of the sweet potato with a brush, washed away the soil, and didn't even cut off the stems, which would be full after stewing anyway.

She cut the sweet potatoes into pieces with a kitchen knife, put them into the pot and boiled them, and turned to ask Qiao Qingqing, "Can you cook the sweet potato sweet soup in the same way as before?"

Qiao Qingqing was folding clothes in the room when she heard the words. it is good.

After cooking, Qiao Chanzhi added white sugar to cook a pot of sweet potato soup. In addition to sweet potato sweet soup for lunch, there was also a drawer of steamed buns, Qiao Qingqing's steamed brown sugar buns and cabbage vegetarian buns.

Qiao Songzhi came out with three bowls of sweet soup and greeted Shao Shengfei who was playing jigsaw puzzles in the living room to eat. Shao Shengfei responded, happily ran to the room, took off his shoes, went to bed and sat cross-legged.

"Mother Qiao, what is this? It's so dark."

"It's a sweet potato, it's a little hot, so be careful drinking it."

"Yeah!" Shao Shengfei picked up a spoon and scooped a spoonful, blowing gently.

"This soup gets darker as it cooks... It's not black, it's very dark brown, but the taste of the soup is okay, similar to the previous sweet potato, but this sweet potato is a little dry, and it's not very soft after cooking for so long. Next time I will Stew it in a pressure cooker and see if it can be softer."

Qiao Qingqing drank the soup first and then ate the sweet potato, and it turned out that the entrance was a bit piercing: "The taste is a little softer than sugar cane bagasse."

Qiao Songzhi was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "That's how it feels! Oh, I just can't tell! I feel that I have a lot of muscles in my bite, and it's a bit too old."

"Look at Mother Qiao!" Shao Shengfei pulled a thin line from his teeth. Sweet potato tendons.

Qiao Songzhi wiped his hands with a towel, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

"It's too difficult to plant in this high temperature weather. It's hard to grow something. As long as you can fill your stomach, the taste is almost not a problem." Qiao Qingqing coaxed Shao Shengfei not to waste food, "Can we eat well together?

" A pot of sweet potato soup was eaten by them all.

"It's not very delicious, but it's quite full, and I can't even finish the steamed buns." Qiao Songzhi said with emotion, "It would be great if I could produce more vigorously in the future. No matter how much material Yeshan has, he will finish it one day. Just keep planting."

"Well, the rest will be eaten when Sheng An and the others come back."

"I'll make it in a pressure cooker, otherwise I'll just cook the sweet potato porridge, and see if it tastes better."

Qiao Qingqing smiled Nodding, put away the unfinished buns.

Later, Chi Yuxiu came to do acupuncture again, perhaps because she was in a good mood, Chi Yuxiu took the initiative to chat with Qiao Qingqing for the first time, and then she knew that Pei Yan was working in the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

"The work is intense, he is very tired, and he has to take care of me. Fortunately, I feel much better now. I don't have to lie at home all day, and now I can go up and down the stairs by myself, I told him to focus on work..."

Qiao Qingqing is very fond of experts and professors. She had a bad life in her last life, but that was the limitation of her living environment. Living outside the Survivor Base was so chaotic and impossible. But in general, the survivor base is moving forward. When the temperature is high, the base studies heat-resistant crops. During the two years of eternal night, when there is no sunshine, the base studies new crop varieties, and has never compromised with natural disasters.

She has eaten new types of potatoes and sweet potatoes that were grown without light, and planted them by herself. Survivors in the periphery almost all have a small plot of land, maybe only the size of a foam box, maybe only a washbasin. Squeeze out a place in the family, and plant their own hope...

"Mr. Pei, they are great." Qiao Qingqing said sincerely.

Chi Yuxiu was stunned for a moment, then showed a shy smile: "This is the first time I have heard such a solemn evaluation, I am very happy, for my husband and his colleagues."

A week later, Sweet Potato Heat Resistant No. 1 Officially launched, Qiao Qingqing and the others received the latest relief supplies, each household can receive a piece of sweet potato.

It was well-received on taste, but well-received on satiety.

It has been more than three years since the natural disaster, and the survivors have suffered not only physically and mentally, but also have experienced their taste. As long as you can fill your stomach, you can eat it no matter how bad it is - the sweet potato heat-resistant No. 1 tastes not bad, at least the sweet soup is delicious.

"Can we grow this sweet potato ourselves?" Qiao Songzhi asked Qiao Qingqing's opinion.

"Mom, I inquired about it when I received the supplies, but we can't plant it yet. We can't grow it alive. If we want to plant our own, we'll wait for the more stable No. 2 and No. 3 to come out."

Qiao Songzhi was a little disappointed: "Okay. "

In the construction site, Shao Shengan's breakfast this day was sweet potato soup. He drank sweet potato soup and looked in the direction of the town. After leaving work yesterday, he visited his parents in Qiuye Village, and it took him an hour to go back and forth. It's a pity that he can't go back to town to see Qingqing, there is not enough time.

Has Qingqing also eaten sweet potato heat-resistant No. 1?

"Captain—" Shao Shengan went to discuss with the captain after breakfast, to see if he could exchange some sweet potatoes for him.

"I want to take it home and give it to my family when I'm on vacation." The

captain glanced at him: "You must have some at home."

Shao Shengan smiled: "I still want to take it, please help."

"Okay, I'll help . You ask the logistics, you work hard, I'm optimistic about you."

On the way back to the tent to rest, Shao Shengan met Lin Mingyong. Lin Mingyong obviously saw him, pursed his lips and frowned. He had no intention of saying hello, his eyes swept over and continued to walk forward, never thinking of Lin Mingyong but stopped him.

"Xiao Shao, wait a minute!"

Xiao Shao?

Shao Shengan sneered inwardly, because he didn't remember his name.

He pretended not to hear him and continued to walk, but out of the corner of his eye saw Lin Mingyong following quickly, and quickly stopped in front of him.

"Didn't you hear me calling you?"

"Mr. Lin, do you have anything to do with me?" The

three words made Lin Mingyong's brows furrowed even tighter. The daughter is uneducated, how can even the son-in-law be so rude!

Seeing the dissatisfaction in Lin Mingyong's eyes, Shao Shengan was unmoved. No one could remain indifferent after knowing the so-called father-in-law's calculations about his wife. When he saw Lin Mingyong, he could not wait to slap the other side.

Glancing around, Shao Shengan's fists loosened and tightened.

"Xiao Shao, I don't know how Qingqing misunderstood me. I'm a father, and all I can do is to be patient with my daughter. I thought you were also highly educated and could make your own judgments more objectively, but I didn't expect that. You— "

"Mr. Lin, if you stop me and just want to accuse my wife in front of me, then I don't have the time to listen to your nonsense, you have something to say, don't delay my rest, I have to go to work in the evening. "

Lin Mingyong is also an angry person. The reason why he stopped Shao Shengan was because he recognized that this was his son-in-law and wanted to have a chat. When he came here from his hometown, he had to start fighting again for everything. His daughter and son were too young to be able to rely on him. When he saw the eldest son-in-law, he had some thoughts in his heart, and then he said hello.

Unexpectedly...

"Then you go!" Lin Mingyong is also a big boss with a successful career. Although his career is almost gone now, the pride in his bones is still there. If people don't want to pay attention to him, he will not be hot and cold!

Shao Shengan turned around and left.

When he returned to his team, his companion also asked him, "Do you know that person? I heard that the person with that kind of armband on his arm is a logistician. If you have something to do with it, can you help us with a message and give us a meal?

Shao Shengan shook his head with a sullen face: "I don't know." "

No, it looks like you didn't know you when you talked just now." "I really don't know. Go to bed

now, the sun is up."

Shao Shengan couldn't sleep for a while, so he decided to find an opportunity to sack Lin Mingyong and beat him up.

After making this decision, he finally felt a surge of sleepiness, yawned and started to fall asleep.