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

The Su family's kang was lit up early at night, and the temperature in the rooms with heating pipes was set to 28 degrees. It is estimated that the temperature will drop to about 10 degrees when the cold wave comes.

Su Zhangming and Wang Jie are responsible for calling all relatives and friends tonight when the cold wave hits, and try their best to prevent them from being affected.

In her previous life, my grandmother’s legs were frozen tonight and she barely survived a few months before passing away.

They were drinking tea and watching movies on the kang in the kitchen. They had downloaded a lot of videos on the tablet they bought earlier, and also downloaded all kinds of movies, TV shows and variety shows on the USB flash drive they bought online. They chose a Hollywood action movie and were watching it with relish. In the video, the male protagonist was racing with gangsters to grab a top-secret document, and the plot was just reaching the climax. Wang Jie had never watched a movie so intently in his life. It felt so good. Who would have thought that after the natural disaster, life would become more comfortable than before.

Recalling that Che Zhichun called to complain some time ago, saying that not only was the factory forced to shut down, but his entire family was also locked up in Shenzhen for home quarantine. Wang Jie'an pretended to comfort him and then hung up the phone. Che Zhichun's fate was also changed in this life.

After watching a movie, Wang Jie started to check the news and weather conditions in various places online. Su Zhangming also used his mobile phone to check his Moments. He didn't like to watch news on other platforms except Douyin! He was the type who watched whatever he saw. Anyway, since Su's father started to tinker with the radio, he would share news from various places every day during dinner.

The last time an island froze over, the cold wave spread across the earth as if it had wings. Many areas have encountered the same situation. The Internet has been in an uproar. Some vigilant people have begun to stockpile supplies and heating materials, but more people feel that the power of the cold wave will gradually weaken over time, and the evil winds from abroad will not reach them. They do not believe in doomsday theories and sneer at people who hoard goods.

There were dozens of information web pages open on Wang Jie's notebook, including major forums at home and abroad.

He collected information that might be related. Granaries in many parts of the country were transferring large quantities of grain, and major ports had gradually stopped exporting grain and coal half a month ago.

Foreign forums are also paying attention to the subsequent developments of this cold wave event. Some netizens are arguing fiercely online, attacking the government for its incompetence and inability to properly handle the various losses caused by the cold wave.

There was so much hostility on the Internet that it made Wang Jie feel depressed. His fingers kept rolling the gears on the mouse.

At 12 o'clock in the morning, the entire Internet was flooded with news about a sudden drop in temperature in a certain area and the discovery of several homeless people frozen to death on a certain street.

This phenomenon has finally attracted a new round of attention from people, and all the hot searches on Weibo are about discussions about extreme cold.

It’s destined to be a sleepless night!

They kept waiting until 2 a.m. and finally felt a chill coming from under the kitchen door. They shivered with cold and opened the door to look at the thermometer outside. It was minus 5 degrees Celsius just now, but now it was minus 15 degrees Celsius. The white cold air was visibly falling from the sky. They felt pain on their skin like needles. The outdoor thermometer was still dropping, and in just five minutes it showed minus 25 degrees Celsius.

They quickly added coal and combustion aids under the kang, adjusted the temperature of the heater leading to each room, and while making a phone call, they wrapped themselves tightly and knocked on everyone's door to check on the situation. Since the rooms were insulated and sealed, the temperature did not drop much. After confirming that everyone was in good spirits, the room temperature was normal, and the quilts were thick, they felt relieved.

We have also called grandpa, grandma, Xiaojing, godmother, Lan's father and others, and confirmed over the phone that everyone is conscious before we feel relieved.

The village chief, Brother Tan, was woken up by the ringing of his cell phone while he was sleeping soundly. He then discovered that his hands and feet were cold. The temperature dropped by dozens of degrees overnight, which was a rare drop. Could it be the legendary cold wave that was coming?

The village cadres organized several people to call each household overnight to wake them up.

After a round of searching, they found that 13 households did not answer the phone, so the village cadres took people to knock on the doors to confirm.

Alan's family didn't answer the phone. After knocking on the door for a while, I saw Alan's father opening the door. He was wrapped in five or six cotton coats to keep warm. When I asked the reason, I found out that the cell phone at home was frozen and turned off.

Brother Tan and his men continued to knock on doors in the cold wind and found that Mr. Li, a 72-year-old elderly man living alone at the entrance of the village, had been frozen to death and had hypothermia. He was covered with a quilt, his consciousness was blurred, and his breathing was getting weaker and weaker. A group of five people kept talking to him while calling the emergency number and lit the charcoal basin in the house. After five minutes of hard work, Mr. Li passed away. Mr. Li's two sons were trapped in other places and did not come back for the New Year. No one answered the phone when they called.

The hospital phone was always busy, and two village officials were so scared that they cried.

Two brave ones were left behind to continue contacting Mr. Li's family. Brother Tan took people to the next house. They knocked on the door but no one responded. Three people broke in. Old Mrs. Liu was shivering on the bed, wrapped in a quilt, holding her little grandson. The old phone next to her was so frozen that it couldn't be turned on. They closed the doors and windows for Old Mrs. Liu and lit a charcoal fire. The temperature in the room rose a little. They poured a cup of hot water and handed it to her. The old lady finally recovered. It turned out that her son and daughter-in-law opened a hair salon in the county town and left the old lady at home to take care of her grandson. Recently, everywhere was sealed off and the two couldn't rush back. They didn't expect the temperature to drop in the middle of the night. Their home was an old house with serious air leakage. Their hands and feet were frozen and couldn't be flexible. They could only hold their grandson and hide in the quilt to keep warm.

Brother Tan called Tony Liu in the county town. The couple was so cold that they could hardly speak. They promised to rush back tomorrow and asked the village chief to come to their house more often to check on the elderly and children in the next few days.

Walking to the next house, Brother Tan was very scared. The remaining ten households were basically elderly people living alone. He didn't know whether their phones were frozen and turned off and couldn't be dialed, or whether they were infected like 72-year-old Mr. Li.

After working until the early morning, only two people were rescued from the remaining ten households, the rest were gone.

The hospital's phone number never got through. Someone in the village group forwarded someone else's video. The town hospital was full, and all the people were relatives of the infected people crying. For a while, most people in the village group were sending messages. Su Yun saw that the group was flooded with messages, so he had to mute the group.

On the first night of extreme cold, 12 elderly people froze to death in Xinxu Village. The relatives of several of them have not been contacted so far. Fortunately, the elderly in the village make their own coffins and keep them at home when they get older.

Brother Tan found experienced elderly people in the village to handle their funeral affairs. He announced the news of the deceased elderly person in the group and asked each family in the village to arrange one person to come and help and express condolences.

Dad Su and Su Zhangming were wrapped tightly in three layers early in the morning. They wore the extreme cold thermal suit that Su Yun bought online, a thick fleece sweater with a few hot packs on it, and a down jacket, high-top non-slip mid-calf boots, and a fur hat with fleece covering the ears.

As if that wasn’t enough, Su Yun also put small and exquisite rechargeable hand warmers in their pockets before letting them go out.

Su's father said that Su Yun was too cautious and that he needed to adapt to the bad weather.

Su Yun complained in his heart that there would be plenty of opportunities to exercise in the future, so he shouldn't get frozen on the first day.

Although the weather was unusual, people in rural areas believe that the dead are the most important, so people have to endure the cold. A total of 9 households had elderly people die, and in 3 households, both elderly people were frozen to death.

We can only deal with it one family at a time. The first family is Mr. Li, who can’t contact his relatives. Other families with relatives still have to arrange funerals later.

The door of Grandpa Li's house was full of people who came to help and pay their respects. The young people waited at the door for the elders to arrange work. There were no family members and no one to prepare a banquet. So many people died in the village, and no one was in the mood to care about these things. Grandpa Li's funeral was handled in just one morning.

When the children of the Su family woke up in the morning, they found that the weather outside had changed. Su Yun gave the children good protection before leading them out of the room. The temperature in the heated room of the Su family was maintained at 20 degrees, while the temperature outside the house was almost minus 30 degrees. The temperature difference of 50 degrees could easily make people catch a cold and get sick. Just inhaling the air outside made their noses feel like they were not their own.

Everyone has been eating greasy food these days, and something big happened last night. Zhang Lili was in a very low mood. She only cooked a pot of vegetable noodle soup in the morning. After everyone finished breakfast, they discussed arranging daily homework for the children. It was extremely cold all day, and adults and children at home had to learn not only skills to deal with natural disasters but also knowledge.

From Monday to Friday morning, the children watch learning videos, do homework and practice calligraphy on the second floor, mainly supervised by Zhang Lili, a primary school teacher, and Su Yun, who has attended college. At noon, when the weather is warm, they exercise in the basement, do housework, practice shooting and other outdoor activities. Before going to bed at night, the children are free to watch TV, read books and play games.

Zhang Lili and Su Yun take turns supervising the children to do their homework in the morning, and exercise with the children in the afternoon. When they are free, they have to help with housework in the kitchen. Many raw materials in the space need to be cleaned and processed, and the quantity is so large that Su Xiaogu and Su Ma sometimes can't handle it.

Wang Jie and Su Zhangming are responsible for arranging the children's afternoon shooting practice, physical training, outdoor activities and housework arrangements.

Dad Su listens to the radio every morning and is responsible for popularizing survival skills and knowledge in various extreme environments at home.

Su Xiaogu and Su Ma are responsible for preparing three meals a day and some food for the family.

This way everyone has something to do, but it's not too hard.

Everyone has two days of free time on the weekend, and there may be outdoor activities or family activities. Too comfortable a life will make people relax their vigilance and ignore dangers, so try to arrange outdoor travel or replenish supplies in the surrounding area under the premise of safety, so that everyone can adapt more quickly to the extreme climate and various crises that may be encountered in the future.

After attending Uncle Li's simple funeral, Su Zhangming and his father hurried home. They opened the heavy insulating curtains at the door and felt a gust of warm air blowing on their faces. They did not dare to go into the house directly. They stomped their feet in the entrance hall to slow down, then took off their mid-calf boots and put on home slippers before entering the house.

The 15 degrees temperature in the living room was quite comfortable, so they went straight to the kitchen to find something to eat. There was firewood burning under the stove, warming a large pot on top of the stove. They washed their hands and sat by the stove to keep warm. Su Yun took out two servings of hot smoked bamboo shoots and bacon rice from the space and gave them to them. The body loses heat too quickly in winter, so they were very hungry. In addition, they were busy at the door of Grandpa Li's house in the morning and didn't even have a sip of water. The weather was too cold, so many people went home early before they finished.

There was another funeral in the afternoon, and two funerals every day in the following days. The weather was too cold and the bodies were all frozen stiff, so they were buried as much as possible according to local customs.

In fact, after a while, when everyone gets used to it, they won’t care so much about the sense of ritual.

Except for the four children, the adults in the Su family were in a bad mood that morning, and the house suddenly became much quieter.

While eating, Father Su planned dinner: "Let's have bacon hotpot tonight. We can't eat stir-fried dishes in this cold weather. They will get cold after a while."

Su Zhangming also raised his voice and said, "Mom, I'll go down to the basement and get two skewers of fragrant pork bacon, and then get some dried mushrooms to soak."

Su Ma adjusted the water flow from the faucet while muttering, "Luckily your sister has some vegetables, otherwise where can we find vegetables for hot pot in this cold weather? The vegetables planted in our old house have just sprouted and we don't know if they can survive. After you two finish eating, go check the temperature in the old house to make sure the chickens and ducks don't freeze to death."

Dad Su just happened to want to go next door to see the chickens and ducks in the greenhouse.

In order to take better care of the chickens and ducks during this period, Su's father watched videos and learned chicken and duck breeding techniques. In order to do a good job of extreme self-rescue science popularization at home, he studied the videos and read books every day.

The Internet is full of reports about low temperatures. Meteorologists believe that this extreme cold weather will not last long and the temperature will rise after spring.

TV stations have also been broadcasting various tips on keeping warm in a loop, but no one is reporting on the latest developments of the epidemic.

In extremely cold weather, people reduce their activities and are generally fully armed when going out. The risk of infection is greatly reduced, and checkpoints in various places are gradually cancelled.

It was already dark at 6 o'clock in the evening. Aunt Su made a pot of steaming hot bacon hot pot with fresh radish slices, lettuce, tofu, mushrooms, cabbage, enoki mushrooms, bean sprouts, etc. The kitchen was filled with the smell of bacon and mushrooms, accompanied by Su Ma's special dipping sauce and the meatballs and tofu buns that were put into the space before.

After a whole day of hard work, adults and children went straight to a big pot of fragrant Wuchang rice.

Hot water is burned on the stove 24 hours a day for room heating and daily cleaning.

I didn't dare close the faucet tightly, and always left a small flow of water to prevent the water pipes from freezing. The kitchen always felt bustling and lively whenever I came in.