Rebirth in the end times: The whole family keeps a low profile

On the 18th day of rebirth, the family stayed in the hotel for two more days after moving. Only after confirming that all the purchased supplies had been received into the space did Su Yun and Wang Jie finally breathe a sigh of relief.

The lease for the rented warehouse had not yet expired, and they refused to refund the money, so they just left it there.

These days, the king spent almost 20 yuan on gas, and Su Yun also used his spare time to download all kinds of information and videos onto his USB drive.

The stockpiling plan in Shenzhen has now come to an end, and there are still 10 days left before the large-scale city lockdown in the previous life.

Just in case, they decided to drive the rented Huolala back to their hometown today. The two children each carried a small backpack with water, snacks, tissues, small toys, and extracurricular books in it. They adjusted the back seat to a lying sleeping mode and drove back to their hometown in Xicheng.

The two children chattered all the way. The little boy, who was only a few years old, not only had a rich imagination, but also had many questions, such as why there is the sun in the sky, why does the shadow follow me, is the rainbow as sweet as a lollipop, and how do mushrooms grow?

Su Yun was glad that he had bought a lot of encyclopedias and Hundred Thousand Whys. He gave the children a tape recorder with external speakers and plugged in the USB flash drive containing Hundred Thousand Whys. The two kids listened with great gusto in the back seat.

As soon as the car got on the highway, Su Yun began to close her eyes and rest in the passenger seat. She had a problem and felt sleepy as soon as she got on the highway.

Su Yun was thankful that they had several long-distance trips every year. The two children had long been accustomed to taking care of their emotions in the car and were not feeling unwell physically. After listening to "A Hundred Thousand Whys", they fell asleep in a short while.

Passing the state capital, the control of the entrances and exits of this section of the highway is particularly strict. Fortunately, they have foresight and have insisted on taking the children for virus testing every day in the past few days. Only by keeping a 24-hour green code can they pass smoothly. Now the state capital not only requires 24-hour testing, but also requires a record of the test on the day to pass. As a result, many drivers need to stop for inspection, and cars are getting more and more congested on the highway, especially those temporary checkpoints. The traffic jam is getting worse and worse. Wang Jie waited in line for 2 hours before passing through the temporary checkpoint.

I have never noticed that there would be temporary quarantine checkpoints on the highway before. It seems that the situation in the state capital is very serious. Fortunately, I passed it safely.

Because of the traffic jam, they drove at a snail's pace in the state capital for 6 hours. Wang Jie didn't dare to stop at the service area to rest, for fear that something might happen on the road.

It started to drizzle, and in just half an hour the drizzle turned into moderate rain. Water began to accumulate on the road. Wang Jie slowed down the car. The rain was getting heavier and heavier. The highway was foggy. The wipers in front were working hard to sweep the rain off the glass, but the road could not be seen clearly. Su Yun opened the window slightly to take a breath, but a biting cold wind blew in.

By this time the car had entered the West City area, and the temperature had dropped by at least 15 degrees.

There was no choice but to park the car in the service station's parking lot. Su Yun took out a coat, trousers and socks from the space for the two children to change into. They also put on a coat over their short-sleeved shirts.

It was Su Yun's turn to drive and continue on the journey. Due to heavy rain, there was some water on the road that could not be drained away in time. Other vehicles could not be seen clearly ten meters away, so Su Yun chose the slowest lane and drove at a snail's pace.

After a while, the temperature dropped again. The two put on another base layer of clothing and covered the two sleeping children with blankets. The rain was too heavy, so Su Yun got off the highway and took the national road.

At this point, they were only halfway home, and Su Yun had originally planned to go to the national highway to stock up on some local specialties along the way. The car was basically moving at a snail's pace of 30 miles per hour on the road.

There are many self-operated shops on both sides of the road, selling a wide variety of things. Xicheng has always attached great importance to the market. Every town has fixed days to go to market to buy and sell things. There are unwritten rules in several towns near Su Yun's hometown. The 147th of each month is the market day for the neighboring Shuiyuan Town, the 258th of his own Luoyang Town is the market day, and the 369th of the month for the farther Xingle Town. When I was a child, my mother and I went to the neighboring town to attend the market several times. Every time there was a market, the town was extraordinarily lively, and businessmen from every village would come out to set up stalls to sell things.

There are also people who specialize in doing business at the market like traders. They go back and forth between each market to earn the difference to support their families. Some sell clothes, shoes, bags and dried Chinese herbal medicines, but there are more people who sell agricultural and sideline products.

Each market has some local specialties and abundant crops. Some markets are particularly famous for mushrooms, and some are particularly famous for Chinese medicinal materials, so sometimes there are outsiders who come here to buy.

This is the case in all the small towns and county towns in Xicheng. Today, when I passed by a small market, I found that most of the villagers in the surrounding area raised sheep and grew mushrooms. There were a large number of stalls selling mutton and mushrooms in the local market.

Wang Jie asked Su Yun and the children to go to a snack bar in the town to sit down and have a drink and go to the toilet, while he went to the market alone to buy mutton, lamb legs, lamb chops and various mushrooms.

Due to the special period, everyone wore masks and it was drizzling, so there didn't seem to be many people in the market. Wang Jie successfully collected a large amount of mutton, 15 lamb chops and various cultivated mushrooms, and asked the peddler to put them all in the Huolala truck. When Su Yun brought the children back and saw the truck full of mutton, the mutton smell was overwhelming. He quickly drove the car to a deserted place, packed the meat in the plastic frame bought before, covered it with a lid, and put it in the space to stack it.

There were many kinds of mushrooms, including oyster mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, king oyster mushrooms, pleurotus geesteranus, tea tree mushrooms, Agaricus bisporus, shiitake mushrooms, nameko mushrooms, flower mushrooms, straw mushrooms, coprinus comatus, etc. There were some that Wang Jie himself couldn't even name. After everything was packed up, he sprayed air freshener in the car to disperse the smell.

In order to collect more supplies along the way, they would sleep in local hotels before dark to get enough rest so that they could buy more the next day.

The map that Su Yun bought was also very useful. It was simply a paper version of a certain Baidu map. Supermarkets, hospitals, markets, main roads, small roads and unnamed roads were all clearly marked. Following the markings on the map, we deliberately went to local markets and farmers' wholesale markets along the way. They bought local specialty vegetables, fruits, rice, grains, beans and the like.

Normally it takes me 12 hours to drive home, but this time I went around and bought some more. It took me a week to stock up on 200 tons of rice and 100 tons of other coarse grains, including millet, black rice, barley, sorghum, sweet potatoes, potatoes, soybeans, mung beans, red beans, corn, etc.

There are many varieties of potatoes and sweet potatoes, some are suitable for steaming, and some are suitable for baking. Su Yun collected several large trucks of them all at once. Even if he couldn't finish eating them in the future, he could save them for seeds and plant them.

We also purchased a lot of local farm vegetables, including cabbage, greens, lettuce, cauliflower, cucumbers, carrots, white radishes, green peppers, screw peppers, Hunan peppers, millet peppers, colored peppers, lantern peppers, chopped green onions, ginger, garlic, coriander, celery, tomatoes, eggs, duck eggs, and quail eggs, and stocked up one or two trucks of each.

There were many special foods at the market and the two of them bought them all immediately when they saw them. The pickled sauerkraut and tender bamboo shoots had unique flavors, and the fried tofu puffs were particularly tempting. The special blood sausage and glutinous rice sausage could be eaten directly, and there were also freshly baked steaming whole grain cakes, etc.

When Su Yun saw the whole grain cakes, he couldn't help but buy several large pots that the store had just made, 100 sweet ones and 60 salty ones. If it is inconvenient in the future, he can eat them directly as dry food. They are much more delicious than compressed biscuits.

There were about 500 freshly slaughtered local chickens and ducks. This trip back home cost nearly 100 million yuan and filled up 3% of the space.

On the afternoon of the 25th day after her rebirth, the van was still 10 kilometers away from the town. Although Su Yun had been chatting with her family in the WeChat group every day recently, she was still very much looking forward to seeing her relatives.

The two little guys looked at the familiar scene outside the car window, and were extremely excited. Holding the gifts in their hands, they wanted to go back to their grandmother's house as soon as possible to play with their little nephew.

Today happens to be market day in Luoyang Town. The local temperature is much lower than that in Shenzhen. Everyone is wearing masks, sweaters and coats as they walk around the market. The Su family is right next to the town’s farmers’ market, so transportation is very convenient and the car arrived at the door in no time.

Su's father and mother had already prepared many special ingredients and were waiting for them to start cooking when they got home. The meat at the butcher stall was almost processed in the afternoon, and the whole family worked together to clean up the stall.

For dinner, Su's father and sister-in-law cooked. Braised beef trotters, bacon hotpot, local roast duck, boiled chicken, and stir-fried beef with chili peppers are all Su Yun's favorite dishes.

After dinner, Su Yun said that he would not live in the town this year and would return to his old house in the village to live for a while.

Of course Su's father and mother did not agree. They had been looking forward to their return for a long time, so naturally they wanted to live together.

Su Yun found several excuses before his parents agreed to let them move back to the village and treat it as a vacation.

Fortunately, it only takes less than an hour to drive back to the village, so it is very convenient to travel.

Su Ma packed some rice, vegetables, meat, oil, eggs, and noodles for them to take back to the village. The villas in the village looked like they had everything, but in fact there was nothing to eat. They didn't go back to live there often, and the food would go bad if left for too long, so they would bring food back every time they went back to the village, and pack up the leftovers and bring them back to town, never wasting food.

Su Yun originally wanted to stop her, but thinking that she had not yet confessed the matter of the space, it was better not to worry her parents for the time being, so she simply took whatever Su Ma gave her.

When Wang Jie drove back to Su Yun's hometown, Xinxu Village, it was just getting dark. He turned on the lights and saw some dust in the house. The couple cleaned for a while. Fortunately, there were no floor tiles on the first floor, just ordinary water-polished floors, which were easier to clean.

They quickly cleaned up the first night and soon lay down to rest. They would deal with the rest tomorrow.

The next day, they got up at noon. They didn't cook at noon. They just took the mushroom pork slices, a pot of radish and beef brisket soup and three boxes of rice that they had ordered earlier from the space and put them on the big dining table in the kitchen. Two dishes were just the right amount for four people, and the two little ones shared a box of rice. Food must not be wasted.

After dinner, Su Yun and Wang Jie took the two little ones out to visit relatives, carrying some specialties from other provinces.

The only blood relatives in the village were the grandma and grandpa's families. After visiting them one by one, they walked around the village slowly and observed them.

I remember the heights and lowness of each place in my mind or take photos with my mobile phone. In addition to having a mental overview, I also want to take a photo with my hometown as a souvenir.

Su Yun has experienced that not only people change, but the entire earth changes, so she now wants to take pictures and record the people and things around her.

Su Yun's hometown villa is built at the end of the village, on a higher terrain. In addition to the cement main road, there are many small roads in the village. So except for those who have fields at the end of the village who will pass by her house, few people walk here. Everyone is used to walking on the cement road at the entrance of the village to go out and taking another road in the center of the village to go to farm.

Su Yun enjoys quietness, and it would be even better if no one disturbs him.

When the Su family built the house, they dug a deep well behind the house, but it was rarely used. The more than 300 households in the village were basically used to tap water, and even if there were wells at home, most of them were abandoned.