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

Taking advantage of the water and electricity, everyone took a comfortable hot bath and went to bed early.

The temperature is now minus 30 degrees Celsius during the day and minus 40 degrees Celsius at night. The small water pipes in every household in the village have been frozen.

Those who have wells at home started to clean old wells to get water, and those who don’t have wells went to the back mountains to fetch water home. The difficulty in getting water has become a new worry for everyone.

Su's father and Wang Jie saw that the online quarrel was getting heated, and the government departments could only try their best to calm the people's emotions. Unfortunately, any official blocked words were of no use, and major software and portals were using many alternative words to discuss information related to this global extreme cold.

"Recently I noticed that there were many military supply trucks passing by us. The trucks were covered tightly with tarpaulins, so I couldn't see what was inside. The coordinates were Xibei Lin Village."

"I'm near the Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Terminal. It's forbidden to enter or leave. The guard said that only a government pass can be obtained. I still have two containers inside. It's so frustrating."

"A lot of people have recently come to an abandoned air-raid shelter in Yanbian, Xi'an, to move things, and they are not allowed to get close. It's very mysterious."

"We are at the border of Western Province. In the past, these mountains were military training bases. Ordinary people could not get close. Recently, I don't know what happened, but a lot of construction teams were recruited in. My brother was also in one of the construction teams. I haven't been able to contact him for half a month. It is said that they signed a six-month construction period and asked us to sign a confidentiality agreement. I wonder if they are digging air-raid shelters in there?"

"Be careful of spies. This kind of thing is not suitable to be said on the Internet."

"I work at the Zhuzhou Textile Factory. I heard that all the machines in our factory have been taken away. Did my boss run away? Will I be unemployed after the New Year? I'm looking for a job."

"The ones upstairs, could it be that they were expropriated by the higher-ups? My friend said that the warehouse of their seed company was forcibly cleared out by the government. Does this mean that something big is going to happen in the future?"

"Stop talking nonsense and stock up quickly. It's too cold here and there's no heating. The supermarket is only open for a few hours at noon and there's no way to queue up."

"Dozens of people have frozen to death in our village due to the extreme cold. It's terrible. I want to go to the north to get some heating."

"Let's go to the north in a group to steal heaters. Many people died in our village. They left quietly and were already frozen solid when we found them the next day."

"I'm out of battery here. My phone is only a little bit charged. What should I do? Help! It's so cold and there's a power outage. I need to go home to my mom."

"Our town has counted more than 500 elderly people and a dozen children who died in just one day. I heard that the crematorium couldn't keep up even if it worked overtime overnight."

"I'm selling my grave. I can pay in installments. Please consider it."

"The one upstairs has to die first. He has to pay off the mortgage while he's alive, and pay off the grave loan after he dies. How can this ever end?"

Wang Jie sat in front of the computer and turned the mouse, copying the useful information into the newly created document, and then printed out the sorted information using the small printer at home.

Wang Jie bought this printer when he was in Shenzhen and placed it in his home study for office use.

According to information from the Internet, the country has realized that this global disaster will not pass so quickly, and it is unknown when the collection of production equipment and related materials will begin.

Perhaps the National Meteorological Department started stockpiling supplies as soon as it discovered something was wrong, and what people are catching now is just the tip of the iceberg.

Or maybe it was just speculation before and not confirmed, but with the arrival of global extreme cold, this speculation has been confirmed, so the relevant actions of local governments are no longer hidden or reserved, and some of them are appropriately revealed to the public for speculation, questioning and thinking, so as to try to use limited resources to save more human beings.

After Wang Jie integrated the fragmented information from several major websites, he searched for a few keywords separately, made records, and then went offline.

The keywords that Wang Jie searched mainly include: logistics park, port, XX express station, transfer station, supermarket warehouse and the like.

Recently, Dad Lan has been pushing a cart to the back mountain to collect firewood every morning. The abnormal weather makes him very uneasy, and every time he goes back, he comes back with a cart full of firewood.

Whenever they passed by the Su family, they would knock on the back door to deliver goat milk and eggs. Su Yun had collected more than ten kilograms of fresh goat milk and a dozen fresh eggs and put them into the space, and would take them out and cook them when they were needed.

Every day, Su's mother would bring some food back for Lan's father, sometimes a bag of meatballs, sometimes a few tomatoes, a string of bacon, a bag of biscuits, or a pair of thick warm gloves. Unconsciously, they formed a tacit understanding.

Dad Lan knew Su Ma's character. He knew that blindly refusing would seem pretentious, so he accepted whatever Su Ma and Su Yun gave him. Next time he came, he would occasionally bring some extra soybeans and dried vegetables.

This extremely tacit communication brought the two families closer together. Even the taciturn Aunt Su would occasionally leave some snacks she made for Father Lan.

Sometimes, Dad Lan would have a handful of roasted peanuts or candies in his pocket and would not eat them himself, but would bring them home to share with Alan.

Today, my best friend Xiaojing sent me a message saying that the water pipes at home were frozen and there was no running water. Fortunately, her home is very close to the old well in the village, so if she is diligent in fetching water every day, she will not be short of water.

But now it is extremely cold, and the charcoal burns faster than usual, so they have to go out to collect firewood every day.

Su Yun reminded her that while others were burning gas and charcoal, she should ask them to bring back as much firewood as possible and store it away, and to stock up more food and daily necessities at home, and not to be afraid to spend money.

It will definitely snow in such cold weather, and there might be a power outage then. Be sure to fully charge your power bank so you can contact us at any time if you have any problems.

Xiaojing's whole family also read the reports online. In addition, Xiaojing had unreasonable trust in Su Yun, so the family went out to find firewood every day and stored it.

Within a few days, the dilapidated cowshed and pigpen at home were filled with firewood.

On the fifth day of extreme cold, all the funerals in the village were handled in a hurry. During this period, a child did not pay attention to keeping warm and froze his hands. He was rushed to the town hospital for treatment and has not returned yet.

Due to the large-scale use of heating equipment and high-power electrical appliances in the neighboring village, some cables were overwhelmed and short-circuited. Nearby villagers took a video and posted it in the group. The cable was directly burned by sparks and lightning.

There is no power outage in Xinxu Village for the time being. Brother Tan sent an emergency notice in the group, asking each household to use electricity in different time periods to avoid burning the cables.

Su Yun's family is allocated 4 hours of electricity before going to bed at night, from 4 pm to 8 pm, which is very convenient during the dinner time.

This power restriction measure caused heaters to be disabled, and the charcoal in many people's homes burned faster. People went up the mountain to collect firewood one after another. Everyone tacitly waited until it was warmer at noon before going out to collect firewood. Su Yun's family followed Lan's father up the mountain to collect firewood every day to pretend to be doing so.

Dad Lan goes to the back mountain to transport firewood several times a day and is more active than anyone else in the village.

Su Yun saw that Lan's father was wearing the clothes and shoes she had taken from him last time and looked in good spirits. She was happy for him. When she saw Lan's father in his previous life, he was wearing seven or eight coats and came out to look for firewood. He looked very haggard.

Standing in the perspective of God, Su Yun saw that the people she cared about were living better than before, and she felt very satisfied at this moment.

She is not anyone's savior, she simply hopes that her family is safe, and that the people around her will lend a hand as much as possible without exposing her to danger.

The people she could help were basically those who had helped the Su family in the previous life or were recognized by Su Yun.

Lan's father and Su Yun whispered that the cellar at home had been cleaned up and the milled rice, meat and vegetables had been put in. Now all the grains with shells were placed outside. He also told Su Yun to go to his house to get some rice if the Su family ran out of it.

The rice in Su Yun's space is enough for the whole family to eat for several lifetimes, so naturally he would not be greedy for such a small bargain.

But Lan's father thought that the Su family didn't farm, and they were just returning to the village to celebrate the New Year, so they couldn't store much food at home.

After helping Lan's father load a cart of firewood, Su Yun's family also picked up a lot of firewood and loaded it on a half-worn tricycle before heading home.

The road at the back of the mountain has been walked and repaired for many years, so it is no problem to drive a van up there. Ordinary carts and tricycles can even run side by side on some main roads.

On the seventh day of extreme cold, the temperature dropped another 5 degrees. The temperature was minus 35 degrees during the day and minus 45 degrees at night. It was snowing heavily outside. Dad Lan got up extra early today and went up the mountain after delivering goat milk to Su Yun.

Su Yun went to the kitchen and got two 1.5-liter thermos bottles, one filled with hot water and the other filled with the hot ginger soup that was always available at home for Lan's father to take to the mountain.

Su Yun didn't advise him not to go out when it snowed or anything like that. He just wanted to stock up on more things now so that he would suffer less in the future.

Lan's father took the two large thermoses, his eyes reddened: "The winter clothes delivered last time are very warm, and we have saved a lot of charcoal and firewood at home." He kept praising Su Yun for his good taste and knowledge in buying clothes.

It kept snowing, and several people in the village developed hypothermia in the middle of the night. Mengzhe's wife was a nurse in the hospital, and was called by Brother Tan to check on the people. Two people whose immunity was too weak could not survive and died.

The remaining two had to be sent to the hospital in the town, but many cars could not start. Su Zhangming lent the new energy Huolala that Su Yun drove back to Brother Tan, and hurriedly sent them to the hospital. Unexpectedly, the hospital was full of patients with hypothermia.

When Brother Tan came back, he said in the group that 25 elderly people died in the neighboring village on the first day of the temperature drop, and several more people died today in the heavy snow. The government issued an emergency notice asking everyone to reduce going out, stay at home as much as possible, and take measures to keep warm.

On the tenth day of extreme cold, it snowed heavily for three whole days, and the snow accumulated was half a meter deep. The south is humid, and the snow that fell was extremely thick and heavy. It fell on the ground and formed layers of ice, which was very difficult to clean.

The Su family’s task this afternoon is to take the children to clear the snow in the yard.

Starting from the roof, adults and children all wore thick down jackets and snow boots and went to the top floor with snow shovels. Wang Jie first shoveled out a one-meter-wide path, and then the children used small shovels to shovel the snow directly from the roof to the open space in the yard on the first floor. The little ones shoveled snow and made snowmen at the same time. When the cleanup was finally completed, only two round snowmen were left on the roof.

Because we have to take time to clean the front and back yards every afternoon, the roads are extremely slippery and you can easily fall and get pissed if you are not careful.

Most people in the village only cleaned the small area in front of their homes, and no one paid attention to the snow on the village roads. The road surface was not cleaned, and everyone was basically trapped at home. Even Lan's father could not pull the cart to the back mountain.

On the eleventh day of extreme cold, the Su family began to get busy with their own things early in the morning.

Su Zhangming was playing games with his friends on his mobile phone.

Su Xiaogu and Su Ma were cooking tea eggs on the first floor. There were so many eggs in the space. When Su Yun went to the farmer's market, he saw an egg wholesaler buy a truckload of fresh eggs. A plate of 30 eggs cost only 18 yuan, and an egg cost only a few cents. They directly bought a large truckload and spent tens of thousands of yuan.

There are newborn eggs, free-range eggs, and red-skinned eggs for making tea eggs. We also bought all the stock of salted duck eggs.

There are too many eggs now, so I took 50 boxes of red-skinned eggs and made them into tea eggs. From now on, I can eat delicious tea eggs anytime and anywhere.

Even if the whole family eats two tea eggs every day, it will take two months to finish the 1500 tea eggs.

Dad Su accompanied them in the kitchen, cooking tea eggs while listening to the radio.

Su Yun and Zhang Lili were arranging homework for the children on the second floor. On the laptop were the class videos that had been downloaded previously. They were about the primary school content for their nephew and Qiqi, and the kindergarten-primary school transition content for their younger cousin and Tang Tang.

Wang Jie was also searching for information online on the second floor.

This went on for several days and then the power went out in the village.

Su Zhangming called Brother Tan to ask about the situation, but the line was busy. It took an hour before the other end picked up. It was probably that they were just confirming the cause of the power outage or there were too many people calling.

It is said that heavy snow crushed the trees on the roadside, and when they fell, they directly cut off the power lines, causing power outages in many surrounding villages.

Those residents living in the town usually rely on electrical appliances for cooking and heating. When they lost electricity, they went to the town government to make a fuss, but the government was powerless to help. As a result, some people began to move to the countryside.

After the power outage, Su Yun's godmother also prepared to return to the village to spend the winter.

Xiaojing said that when she left, she took all the food in the house with her.

The only functional solar street lights in Xinxu Village were those installed a few years ago when the government carried out the “Village-to-Village” project in every village.

The snow is getting heavier and heavier, and traveling has become a problem, but using water has become more convenient. Many people collect clean snow directly at their doorsteps and boil it to use as domestic water.

Su Yun's family has no plans to use a generator for the time being. They will hang thick blackout cloth on the windows of their home and try to use kerosene and flashlights for lighting at night.

The Su family didn’t have a generator before, but now they have an excuse to use the generator by pretending to go out to buy food.

On the fifteenth day of extreme cold, heavy snow had been falling for a week, and the snow in places that had not been cleared was high enough to bury an adult up to his waist.

After Han Yunyun finished her study with the children in the morning, she went to the kitchen to help prepare the raw materials for making popsicles. She placed the bucket pot that Su Xiaogu used to cook soup on the stove and cooked a large pot of peeled green beans in it.

Today I'm going to take advantage of the weather and make some homemade mung bean ice cream. It's clean and hygienic, made with real ingredients, and has no additives, pigments or flavors. Your children can eat it without worry, and you can also be responsible to your family.

At this time, the outdoors is like a natural refrigerator. It is most appropriate to prepare some ice cream and cold drinks to save you the trouble of spending electricity to freeze these things when it gets extremely hot.

Use less gasoline and diesel. It is better to take advantage of them now than to burn oil to run the refrigerator later.

Boil the mung beans until they are soft and bloom, pour out half of them, add some condensed milk and stir, put them directly into the mold and leave them outdoors for ten minutes to set. Children especially like to make popsicles with them.

Su Yun took out several kinds of popsicle molds for the children to play with. The little cousin especially liked small animals and molds of various shapes. She was responsible for demolding and bagging them. Su Xiaogu was afraid that her hands would get frozen, so she would go to check on her after a while.

Su Yun took out a food processor and plugged it into the power box. Zhang Lili poured in the remaining mung beans and the broth, and then rotated at high speed for one minute to make a fine mung bean paste.

Aunt Su took an empty bowl, put in condensed milk and white sugar, stirred with a whisk until small pointed corners formed, then mixed in the beaten mung bean paste, stirred, and put into a mold to make mung bean ice cream. After tasting it, everyone felt that it tasted exactly the same as the mung bean cakes sold outside. Even Dad Su, who didn't like ice cream, couldn't help but give it a thumbs up.

I made red bean ice cream, milk ice cream, and chocolate ice cream in one afternoon. I froze them outside until they were hard, then removed them from the molds, packed them, and put them directly into the space.

Zhang Lili helped out and even took the time to use a juicer to make several buckets of mango, strawberry and grape juice. She then took the buckets outside and left them to freeze overnight. When she wanted to eat them later, she could just shave them into smoothies.

In the evening, the family had a delicious beef hotpot. Hotpot is the best match for extreme cold weather to make people feel happier.