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

I tidied up the car, put away the things for Xiaojing and the things bought from the supermarket, kept the shopping receipts, and drove the car to Wangjia Village. It was windy outside, and the whistling wind hit the glass, which was very uncomfortable to hear.

Su Zhangming was still intoxicated with the excitement of buying for free and had not come to his senses. He and his father Su usually liked to smoke and drink, and they were used to passing cigarettes to friends when socializing with them. Although he had stockpiled a lot of cigarettes and alcohol when he went to the county town last time, the feeling of getting them for free was indescribably stimulating and exciting.

Although he couldn't drink outside in the future, it was not bad to have a small drink at home. Besides, cigarettes, alcohol and tea were the most suitable gifts for people to build relationships. At this moment, Su Zhangming felt that he would be the social king who was loved by everyone in the future.

Wang Jie didn't feel anything special. He knew that in a short time almost all supermarkets would be penniless. Some were emptied by human movement, and some were directly soaked in floods and washed away by natural disasters.

It is good that they can be moved by humans, which means that these things still have value. It would be a real waste if they were really flooded.

The terrain of Luoyang Town is not very high, so it is only a matter of time before it is flooded. Moreover, if the heavy snow continues to fall in a few months, many people will have used up their stored food at home and without new food supplies, serious theft and robbery will surely occur.

That will be the real end of the world.

They found a secluded place to park their car on the way and had lunch in the car.

Su Yun took out the fast food he had ordered in Shenzhen from the space, the steaming chili fried pork rice and hot seaweed egg drop soup, and everyone buried their heads in their food.

After dinner, Su Yun packed the disposable lunch boxes in plastic bags. Some of them could be used after washing, while those that were unusable could be burned.

The car continued on the road, and after another 10 minutes we could see Xiaojing's house, as well as the mud house where Wang Jie lived when he was a child not far away.

Wang Jie's mud house was built when his grandfather was still alive. It collapsed due to a rainstorm when Wang Jie was a teenager, leaving only some ruins.

Su Yun and Wang Jie later fell in love. When they came to Wangjia Village for the first time, they saw a pile of mud houses that looked like ruins. They were so shocked that their jaws almost dropped to the ground.

Even though I knew that Wang Jie was poor when he was a child, I didn't expect that he was the poorest in the village. I had endless beef and pork when I was a child, but Wang Jie couldn't even get enough to eat when he was a child. He dropped out of school in his teens and resold chickens and ducks to others to make a few cents difference. Later, he went to Shenzhen and got some opportunities.

Su Yun and Wang Jie were often laughed at by others when they were dating and getting married, and there were almost no people in Wangjia Village who were willing to come to the banquet.

In the end, only Xiaojing's family from Wangjia Village came to the banquet, while people from Xinxu Village came to see Su's father's face, with nearly 20 tables coming. The contrast with the less than one table of people from Wangjia Village was really stark. From that day on, Su Yun and his wife understood that face is earned by oneself, not given by others.

For a long time afterwards, neither of them was willing to return to Wangjia Village. It was not until Wang Jie became successful in his career that he returned to Wangjia Village more often, but he never took care of the mud house again.

Xiaojing's in-laws' house was not far from Wang Jie's mud house, and soon their car drove to the open space in front of Xiaojing's house.

Xiaojing's in-laws also seemed to be diligent and efficient. The snow at the doorstep was obviously cleaned regularly. Su Ma and the others did not get out of the car. Only Su Yun and Wang Jie got out. This was Su Yun's first time visiting her best friend's in-laws' house.

Xiaojing's husband Wang Zhihui opened the door. Wang Zhihui knew Su Yun. Xiaojing had often mentioned Su Yun as her best friend. She had also had dinner with Su Yun several times. He quickly welcomed the two into the house.

At this time, Xiaojing and her parents-in-law were all warming themselves by the fire in the kitchen. The temperature outside was minus 40 degrees Celsius, and even with the doors and windows sealed in the kitchen, the temperature would still be close to minus 10 degrees Celsius even if a fire was lit.

When Xiao Jing saw that it was Su Yun coming, she quickly stood up and found a stool for them to sit on.

"Why are you here? I wanted to send you a message, but my phone ran out of battery and my power bank was frozen and couldn't be used."

"I happened to go to town to buy some things today, so I came to see you. How are you? Is the baby in your belly okay?"

"The baby is fine, but it's too cold and he can't sleep well every day."

Seeing what Wang Jie was holding, Aunt Wang quickly declined, saying it was too expensive and that there was food at home, so she asked Su Yun and the others to take it home for the children. Su Yun knew that her best friend had stockpiled a lot of food before the New Year, so she must be better off than other families.

"Aunt Wang, take this and give it to Xiaojing."

Uncle Wang took out a handful of plates from the cupboard to satisfy Su Yun and Wang Jie's cravings.

Aunt Wang also brought two cups of hot water and handed them over.

Su Yun and Wang Jie sat around the stove holding cups, "Aunt Wang, you guys keep these things and eat them slowly. After all, adults don't have to eat them, but the baby in your belly needs to eat them. Xiaojing is already thin, and if she doesn't get enough nutrition, she won't be able to survive."

Aunt Wang was really grateful to Su Yun. If Su Yun hadn't kept calling his daughter-in-law and asked them to buy more food, their family would still have a lot of stock now, unlike the neighbors who had almost eaten up all their bacon.

Of course Aunt Wang would never let Xiaojing starve. She would like Xiaojing to eat more every day. She is really too thin, and her belly is still not obvious after more than four months of pregnancy.

The beef, eggs and milk powder for pregnant women that Su Yun brought were exactly what the Wang family needed most at the moment. They had not thought of stocking up on milk powder for pregnant women when they stockpiled goods before. Aunt Wang held Su Yun's hand and kept muttering to him.

Wang Jie went to the car and brought out a portable power storage box, and taught Xiao Jing how to use it in front of her.

Xiao Jing was very grateful. After the power outage, all the mobile phones at home could not be turned on, and he was very worried that he could not contact Su Yun and his family.

Pregnant women are sensitive by nature. She has suffered from insomnia and hair loss in the past few days.

Aunt Wang understood that the food Su Yun brought would definitely be given to Xiao Jing first. In fact, Su Yun was worrying too much. The Wang family had been a single-son family for three generations, and Xiao Jing finally got pregnant. The Wang family really treated her very well, fearing that she would melt in their mouths, and did not dare to let her do anything easily.

Xiaojing and Su Yun talked about their recent situation. The food at home was fine, as they had stockpiled a lot before the New Year. But firewood was too difficult to collect now. It was okay at the beginning, but recently there was not enough firewood in the village for everyone to collect.

If this continues, the firewood at home will only be enough for two months. I don’t know when the weather will get warmer, so the most important thing right now is firewood.

Su Yun frowned, "Hasn't the village road been cleared? You should have a lot of firewood in the mountains. Don't think about picking it up in the village. Go to some farther places. The weather is too weird. Prepare as much firewood as you can, otherwise you will freeze to death before you finish eating the food."

Wang Zhihui also had this concern. It didn't matter if he suffered from the cold, but he couldn't let other people in the family suffer from the cold. Now the family can only make a fire in the small kitchen to keep warm during the day. At night, the whole family sleeps in one room and burns a charcoal stove. What should they do when the charcoal stove runs out?

Uncle Wang also nodded in agreement: "Let's go for a walk in the back mountain before it gets dark this afternoon. Tomorrow we'll use the family cart to get firewood. We have to at least fill up the rooms on the first floor."

After chatting for a while, Su Yun took out the shopping receipt for their reference. They could go to the supermarket to buy the money themselves or share some among themselves.

Looking at the outrageous prices, Wang Shen hesitated for a moment and decided to buy 20 bags of salt and a barrel of soybean oil, and didn't order anything else.

Wang Jie and Wang Zhihui were talking about the prices in the supermarket and the situation in the town.

Su Yun pulled Xiao Jing quietly into the room and took out a set of polar warm autumn clothes and trousers for Xiao Jing from his mountaineering bag.

No one would know that I was wearing these underwear underneath.

The Wang family would naturally not treat Xiaojing badly when it comes to food, but heating is indeed a problem. Xiaojing held the thermal suit and as soon as she touched the fabric she knew it was different from the thermal clothes she usually bought. Not only was it of better quality, it was also lighter and locked in warmth. She immediately changed into the thermal clothes that Su Yun had given her, but she was reluctant to wear it next to her skin, so she also wore a base tights underneath. This way, even if she needed to change clothes, she only needed to change the clothes next to her skin, and the thermal clothes that locked in warmth could be worn all the time.

After chatting for a while, the few of them were about to go back. Aunt Wang gave Wang Jie two strings of homemade sausages in return. For the sake of long-term exchanges in the future, normal return gifts should still be accepted, otherwise, after a long time, a sense of taking it for granted would arise.

They hurriedly got on the car and drove for half an hour before arriving at the entrance of Xinxu Village.

Su Yun loaded a lot of charcoal and rice into the car. After entering the village, many people were curious about how much they brought back. Su Yun chatted with them openly and showed them the shopping list.

Just to say that the prices outside are dozens of times higher than before. Things that usually cost 2000 now cost tens of thousands. Things in the car that usually don’t look valuable now cost less than .

Everyone was scared off after hearing this, as they were reluctant to spend so much money to buy a few bags of rice and charcoal.

Although there are rumors online that the end of the world is coming, everyone is still hoping for the best. If they spend all their money and it gets warmer in the spring, they will be at a huge loss.

The people who had their eyes on Su Yun also left in tacit agreement, not daring to ask for food. They thought to themselves: He is such a spendthrift, buying food at such a high price. If he could sell his own food, he would make a fortune.

Su Yun didn't care what they thought, as long as they didn't target her.

Passing by Alan and her grandmother's house, Su Yun and Su Ma each took two handfuls of noodles and went to visit them. The two families each took some salt and oil.

There was already some firewood stored in my grandmother's house, plus the firewood she picked up in the back mountain some time ago. The firewood in the yard was covered with three-color plastic film. If the whole family used it sparingly, it could last for a month or two. But my grandmother looked particularly old, and her whole body seemed to be curled up into a ball, looking very pitiful.

When they got home, Su Xiaogu and the children had ground the soybeans, and there were seven or eight buckets of ground soybean water in the kitchen.

Su Xiaogu was cooking soy milk. She cooked two buckets of hot soy milk water, covered them with lids and put them in the space. Next time she wanted to drink soy milk, she wouldn't need to use the soy milk maker.

Take two more buckets to make tofu pudding, and the rest to make three plates of tofu. The remaining bean dregs are not wasted. They are stir-fried with chili peppers and dried vegetables, added to the ingredients and poured into the bean dregs to mix evenly. A big pot of fragrant and spicy bean dregs that are delicious and go well with rice is ready.

In addition to spicy bean curd dregs, tonight's dinner also includes a pot of braised lamb with green onions, which is very appetizing.

The children ate spicy rice mixed with bean curd dregs in big mouthfuls, and beads of sweat appeared on their foreheads.

Dad Su likes to eat spicy bean dregs the most. When his grandparents were still alive, they often ate this dish at home. Every time he eats this dish, he always feels a dozen years younger.

Everyone was still hungry after the meal, and Su Yun took the initiative to go to the kitchen to wash the dishes.

Su Ma and Su Xiaogu took the children to bathe and go to bed.

Zhang Lili and Su Zhangming were not sleepy at all. They sat around the warm stove, peeling a bag of garlic and watching a movie on their tablet.

Wang Jie and Su's father were washing vegetables in two large basins, taking advantage of the winter when everyone was stuck at home to do some washing and cutting work.

Chinese cabbage, romaine lettuce, and lettuce are easy to clean. Just rinse them twice and no special treatment is required.

After washing the dishes, Su Yun took out a few clean buckets with lids, used a crusher to crush the cleaned garlic and chili peppers, and then packed them separately. This way, he wouldn't have to wash and cut them every time he cooked.

Because blackout curtains were hung on the doors and windows, although it was bright inside the Su family's house at this time, people looking from the outside saw that it was pitch dark like other houses in the village. No one knew that they had turned on the lights and used a generator.