Natural Disaster (MTL)

Chapter 20

Chapter 20




When Shao Shengan opened the door, Zheng Tiehui smiled warmly and earnestly: "Xiao Shao, right? I'm Zheng Tiehui from 801. Our family still lived here when you and Xiao Qiao got married. Remember me?" Not being a bad face, he gave him a smiley face, said he recognized it, greeted Uncle Zheng, and opened the door.

Zheng Tiehui apologized first, saying that he moved back last night, it was too noisy, and he was very embarrassed to cause trouble to their family, and said that he stuffed the tobacco and alcohol.

Shao Shengan refused: "It's all neighbors, and now is a special period, everyone understands each other." Then he talked about the laser pointer last night.

Zheng Tiehui hurriedly apologized: "It's my son who's wrong, I'll apologize for him first, and I'll teach him a lesson when I come back!" In the

room, Qiao Qingqing was carefully watering the newly planted shallots. When Shao Shengan came back, she raised her head: "How do you say it took so long?"

"It took me a long time to apologize." Shao Shengan shook his head, "He also told me one thing, he said that we were on the top floor, and the people downstairs wouldn't come up. Why don't you? Seal up the stairs and ask our family's opinion, I have agreed."

"It's good, let's install it." In the

next few days, the Zheng family has been doing renovations, reinstalling new security doors and security windows. It is said that the labor fee is particularly high, five times higher than when Qiao Qingqing hired someone before. Zheng Tiehui ordered the iron gate to be installed at the entrance of the corridor, but in the end it was not in place, saying that something had happened and he had to transport it himself.

"I didn't have this iron door in my last life, and it seems that I couldn't bring it back..."

"He said he hoped that I could go out together and bring the door back to install—"

Hearing this, Qiao Qingqing clenched his fists, and his eyes couldn't help but be a little flustered: " You want to go out? Otherwise, I'll go, you'll stay at home—"

Her unease was so obvious, Shao Shengan was slightly startled, and quickly held her hand: "I'm not going, I'm not going, I told him I gave him the money to hire someone to transport him, and I didn't go out."

The panic slowly eased with Shao Shengan's comfort, Qiao Qingqing's breathing eased, looking at her husband's young face, her heart was bitter, how could she become so fragile!

"Don't go, there are iron gates in my space. They were originally designed to seal the entrance to the stairs. They came back and they were able to seal it." Qiao Qingqing held her husband's hand and said firmly, "Give me a little more time. , I will recover."

Shao Shengan hurriedly reassured her: "It doesn't matter, I will be by your side, we are all by your side, don't be afraid that we will disappear, don't be afraid!"

"I know, I just need a little time. Adapt, Sheng An, sometimes I always think it's a dream, I'm afraid that you will disappear again after waking up from the dream."

"No, don't be afraid, I promise you, I will never leave you, you believe me Is it?" The

sound of rain was in his ears, but Qiao Qingqing could only hear Shao Shengan's promise, so firm and powerful. She nodded heavily: "I believe in you."

I believe, in a previous life you said that you would definitely come back to me, and finally you came back.

In this life, you said that you would never leave me, and I firmly believe that you can do it.

"An An and my sister are kissing!"

Shao Shengfei came out of the kitchen, his eyes widened in surprise, and he turned his head and shouted to the kitchen.

From the kitchen, Mother Shao shouted in a low voice: "Don't talk nonsense, come back and help make dumplings!"

Shao Shengan coughed: "Brother, you have to take a bath, go, I'll take you to take a bath!" At the

end of the iron gate is Shao Shengan It was installed together with Zheng Tiehui, because the iron gate was provided by Qiao Qingqing's family, and Zheng Tiehui also transferred 2,000 yuan after asking the price.

In the days that followed, people in the community often moved back, and relatives also came to seek refuge. I heard that the environment in the refuge is not good, it is better to rely on relatives or relatives.

Qiao Qingqing's two uncles are in good condition at present. They said that the local government's rescue measures are very good, so they will not come to Huacheng. It is too troublesome and the journey is long.

"Then, then pay attention to your body, buy more food and medicine around you, and you have to buy expensive ones! If the water doesn't drop every day, things will only get more and more expensive!"

After hanging up the phone, Qiao Songzhi sighed and asked Qiao Qingqing, "When do you think the communication will be cut off?"

"On the sixth of next month, it will be another eight days. Mom, I sent something to my uncle and their family, you don't want it. I'm too worried."

"With you here, I'm not worried."

Three days later, the power supply company repaired the circuit and the community restored power, and the people quickly charged their mobile phones and power banks. Five days later, communications and the Internet came to an abrupt halt. People trapped in their homes by the floods were suddenly closed to the outside world, and anxiety spread everywhere.

Qiao Qingqing bought five DVD players and a large number of discs, as well as various books. These days, he still downloads film and television programs day and night, and has stored enough film and television entertainment resources for the future.

After disconnecting from the Internet, she calmly took out a cartoon disc and inserted it into the DVD player. Soon, the home had a cheerful background sound again.

Unfortunately, the circuit was interrupted again during a heavy rainstorm a few days later, and the home began to use a generator. The generator was buzzing, Shao's father bent over and looked at it with his hands behind his back, feeling distressed about the gasoline, he greeted Qiao Qingqing: "Qingqing, why don't you turn off the disc, this gasoline is wasted by burning, just give Feifei a toy. You don't have to watch cartoons all the time."

Mother Shao responded and coaxed Shao Shengfei to play with building blocks. Shao Shengfei was aggrieved: "This episode is about to be finished."

"Dad, Mom, let's watch this episode for eldest brother. It happens that the rice cooker is also cooking, not too short of a moment."

"Hello, sister, thank you sister! Shao Shengfei immediately shouted loudly, Shao's mother was helpless and relieved, looking at Qiao Qingqing with loving eyes.

At this time in her last life, Qiao Qingqing was worried about her missing in-laws and uncle, and worried about her husband and mother who lost contact. In this life, she listened to the animation in the background sound, and walked back to the kitchen with ease to prepare for cooking. When she was lying down, she saw her mother sitting on the bedside knitting a scarf from the crack of the door, and smiled and pushed the door: "Is it knitted for me?"

Qiao Songzhi gave her a look at her: "It was made for Sheng An, you don't like this color. "

That mom knitted me red, I like big red."

"Then you have to wait a moment. You have to weave for Sheng An and then for Sheng Fei. You are at the bottom of the line."

"It's okay, I can wait."

Seeing her daughter humming a song to the kitchen, the smile on Qiao Songzhi's face She disappeared, and she looked out the window, the rain was really dense, and this was just the size... They were only two mothers and daughters. Although the in-laws were two years older than her, they worked all year round to be strong and strong, but Feifei's intelligence was low. She is also obedient and well-behaved. She was raised tall and strong by her in-laws. In this family, there will be more places to rely on her son-in-law and her in-laws in the future. She will plan more for her daughter. Looking down at the scarf in his hand, Qiao Songzhi continued to knit it.

After arriving in the kitchen, Qiao Qingqing took out a piece of tendon and a pack of spare ribs from the refrigerator, thawed it with warm water first, washed the vegetables first, patted the cucumber sauce, and made a cucumber salad. After the meat was thawed, she marinated the meat and ribs. Shao Shengan came downstairs and smelled the fragrance. "What are you doing? It's delicious."

"Make a small crispy pork, steam pork ribs with garlic, stir fry a small green vegetable, and mix with cucumber, do you taste enough?" She took a piece for Shao Shengan, and Shao Shengan highly praised: "It's delicious, sour, spicy and crispy. , it's so delicious. I'll fry the little crispy meat, don't rub your hair with the smell of soot."

"It's okay, I like to cook." Originally Qiao Qingqing didn't like to cook, but she has experienced material shortages in her previous life. Looking at the full material reserves in her life, her inner desire to cook is surging. When cooking, she can always be satisfied and happy.

Of course, Shao Shengan supported this. He was also happy for Qiao Qingqing to have fun in cooking: "Then I'll do the trick."

Qiao Qingqing instructed him to mix fried meat powder, find a nice plate for the ribs, and let him Go to the steamer: "While steaming the ribs, warm up some steamed buns to cushion the stomach." The

dinner was very rich, and the elders were full of praise for the dishes tonight. Shao's father and Shao's mother praised Qiao Qingqing's good craftsmanship, and Qiao Chanzhi praised Shao Sheng'an. Attentive and capable, Shao Shengfei ate the crispy and crispy meat, his eyes narrowed with joy, and the whole family felt very happy.

Although the power went out, candles or other lighting tools were lit in each house in the night, and the lights of thousands of houses were still reflected on the water surface at night outside the window.

The first day of disconnection has passed like this.

The next morning, Qiao Qingqing heard voices outside early, and after washing up, she opened the door and went out to see. Only then did she realize that the residents of this building were gathered in the corridor to chat, and the main topic was communication and the Internet. In this era, daily life is inseparable from the Internet, and suddenly the Internet is disconnected, how can people not panic?

"My aunt is trapped there, and I'm still posting messages online for her to ask for help. What can I do now, will the rescue go?"

"My daughter is fiddling with the radio, and the radio seems to be moving, but if you don't listen carefully, it's all noise. "

I'm quite scared. It was said on the Internet that the end of the world is coming. Do you think it looks like that?"

"I'm going out to buy some more food. Who are you going to go with?"

After listening for a while through the iron gate at the entrance of the stairs, Qiao Qingqing went home and planned to discuss with her husband whether to go out with the residents downstairs.

"We have enough food, but we still have to act like we don't let outsiders know that we have enough supplies."

Shao Shengan also thought of this: "Then take out the kayak, and don't use the assault boat for the time being."

"Okay. "

They inflated the kayaks and carried them downstairs.

The stagnant water has soaked up the light furniture on the third floor, and the corridors are full of luggage and supplies. The people on the third floor are discussing with the residents upstairs to temporarily rent a place, and there are a few who plan to go out to buy food. Residents are blocked in the corridor to discuss. Seeing Qiao Qingqing and his wife and the kayaks in their hands, their eyes lit up: "Little Qiao Xiaoshao, you have kayaks, do you want to go out too?"

Qiao Qingqing saw that there were six of them, but only A

kayak , so he smiled and said, "Yeah, I don't have much stock at home, so I have to go out and buy it." I didn't want to buy it, but I wanted to buy it but couldn't. Oh! We can go shopping together. Can you bring two more people in your kayak?"

"Yes."

Qiao Qingqing's kayak was divided into two people. A group of eight people wore raincoats and set off in the rain.

Using a kayak requires mastery of skills. After Qiao Qingqing and Shao Shengan tried for several minutes, they were finally able to grasp the direction in the rain.

The kayak slides on the water, and the surrounding buildings are covered in mist, and Huacheng has become a city on the water. There are a lot of debris on the water, and drifting objects often hit, and the other two people on the kayak have nothing to do, so they start fishing. They fished out a bucket and a broken basin, as well as several bottles, some tattered clothes and a shoe.

"It's all rubbish, throw it away!" The resident of 401 threw the things back into the water angrily.

Qinghui Supermarket was still open yesterday, but it was closed today, and everyone looked at each other at the door.

"Why don't you try another supermarket, there's another one in front of you."

"There's another one over there in the middle school, but I don't know if it's still open."

"Alas, the traffic is inconvenient! You can get there in five minutes by bicycle. , now it takes a lot of effort, I'm afraid it won't open!"

Qiao Qingqing said, "Go to Furun Plaza, before the communication was interrupted, I heard from a colleague that the supermarket there was still open and had moved to the sixth floor. Amusement park."

"Really or not?"

"I want to try it out, you can go together if you want."

After discussing it with everyone, we decided to try it out. most likely to survive.

"Let's go then!"

In fact, the supermarket that had been open nearby in the past life was the Furun supermarket. Later, there were police guards there. I heard that it was the transfer station for military support materials. In the last life, Qiao Qingqing and the residents of the community searched for a long time, and they went through hardships along the way to find the Furun supermarket four kilometers away. There are not enough kayaks, so Qiao Qingqing uses the bucket at home. Every time he goes out and comes back, he is soaked all over, and he can take off half a bucket of water when he takes off his clothes.

It was not until later that the supplies were in place. The relief supplies were air-dropped to the top floors of various floors at the beginning. At that time, the upper floor of Qiao Qingqing's house was the delivery point for supplies. People downstairs had to pass through her house when they wanted supplies. At that time, the order was still there, everyone Also pay attention to politeness, Qiao Qingqing's life was not bad at that time.

But over time, in a closed environment like an island, the dark side of some people's hearts broke out.

There have been many vicious looting incidents in various places. Many elderly and children cannot get food and starve to death at home. Qiao Qingqing was also threatened. She was a woman who lived alone and was coveted by a malicious man. She was the son of the resident of 601 downstairs, whose name was Song Jintao. The man broke into her house and was cut off by her with a kitchen knife. only hand.

From the wrist, the root of the palm was broken, and his screams resounded through the community at night.

The family wanted her to be responsible. She swung the kitchen knife like a madman at the time, slashing anyone who came close to her, hysterical, and seemed crazy, which scared people away. The family took their son to the hospital in an assault boat. Later, the water level rose and the sixth floor was submerged, so the family moved away. Before leaving, they had to carry a bucket of feces and pour it on her door.

Later, the rain stopped, and the relief supplies were delivered in the form of material boats. There were also material boats near the Jinyuan community where Qiao Qingqing was located. In the early days, they were collected by ID cards or household registration books. After the shortage, the policy will change, and you need to get it in person, and no one can replace it.

Thinking about it, Qiao Qingqing couldn't help but fall diagonally to the rear. It was Song Jianmin, the father of the man whose hand was cut off by her, a resident of 601. She glanced back, looked away, and continued rowing. On the road, the other two people rowed in kayaks, and Qiao Qingqing and Shao Shengan rested.

Going out at nine in the morning, it was noon when we arrived at the destination, and everyone was exhausted. Although it was summer, it was still uncomfortable to soak in a humid environment for a long time.

"The door is open! Look, there's a strip of cloth there, saying that the supermarket is open for business!"

"It's really! It's great! Come on, let's get close!"

A piece of cloth cut from a sheet hung horizontally outside the window, A large line of characters was written in black oil-based pen on it: "

The supermarket is open for normal business!" "Hurry up! Let's dock!"