Surviving the end of the world

On New Year's Eve, of course, we can't stay in the space. The candles at home are white, which is not festive enough. Chen Jin simply found out the kerosene lamp that hadn't been used for more than ten years. Fortunately, there was still a small can of kerosene. Finally, it was lit. Fortunately, although the light was not good, the dishes on the table were very rich. There was a big plate of braised pork, a foot-long braised carp, and the bone soup was still simmering on the briquettes stove, and the smell was removed with orange peel. Two handfuls of vermicelli were added to the carrot and mutton soup, and a lot of meat balls and fish balls were added, and they were boiled out of the space. The stewed pork offal and the wings, claws, and necks of chickens and ducks were randomly cut and placed. When they arrived on the plate, the soup was already frozen, and the two of them didn't think it was too cold. They scooped up vermicelli and mutton and ate these braised vegetables.

The stewed mutton is very bad, and the bones are a bit crispy, but it is home-raised sheep after all, and there are fresh grasses to eat all year round. The taste is very good. The salt and pepper ribs fried before are also placed on the table. Now It's already cold, not so crispy, Bai Jing doesn't care, even the meat and bones gnaw "crack bang bang bang".

Chen Jin also picked up a piece of pork ribs, gnawed slowly, and suddenly remembered that Father Chen was here.This salt and pepper pork ribs is Chen's father's specialty. When Chen Jin was in high school, every time he went back from the monthly vacation, Chen's father would fry two catties of pork ribs. Chen's father and Chen mother ate two pieces, and the rest was Chen Jin Yes, if you can't finish eating, you have to take it back to school and share it with the people in the dormitory. Everyone says that Dad Chen's craftsmanship is good.

I don't know what happened to Dad Chen and the others in the town, Chen Jin gritted her bones, feeling a little worried.

At this moment, Dad Chen and the others are not in the town at all, and Chen Zhe is back, and he is staying here for a long time. The teachers' dormitory is obviously too cramped.There is only one bed, if Chen Zhe is still young, it is okay for three people to sleep together, but Chen Zhe is now an adult of eighteen or nineteen years old, and he is also a tall man, how can he squeeze together, it is really outrageous .

It happened that those who rented a house in the city were originally for the children to go to school in the city. At this moment, classes from kindergarten to university were suspended, so why rent a house? The family simply refunded the rent, and Father Chen and the others went back to out of town.I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional. No one told Chen Jin the news.

Father Chen is not a short-sighted person, otherwise, he would not have disregarded his family's objections and insisted on going from elementary school to high school. Teachers who also subsidize living expenses, although the teachers' salary was low at the beginning, and then the teacher's salary jumped a few steps, and now it can barely be regarded as a high salary.

Father Chen was worried about encountering the previous situation again. Before returning to the city, he immediately bought two to three hundred catties of rice noodles and various condiments. A lot of vegetables such as potatoes and Chinese cabbage that can be stored, and a lot of dry goods such as mushrooms and fungus, and a lot of garlic and ginger. In addition, I also bought dozens of catties of raw meat, anyway, the temperature dropped sharply , You don’t need a refrigerator, you can freeze it tightly. Even though Yang Xiaoyun has been nagging for several days, Dad Chen, who doesn’t like shopping, still insists on continuing to stock up at home.

However, Father Chen's considerations were obviously not thorough enough. He forgot to stock up on two more tanks of gas, so when the heavy snow broke the power lines and the community was completely out of power, trouble came.

If the tap water is cut off, it will be cut off. It can be used once it melts some snow, but there is no electricity, and the gas is almost used up. The whole family can't eat raw food!Moreover, there used to be electric blankets and electric heaters in winter, and even hot water bottles were heated by electric kettles. Now that there is no electricity, gas has to be used urgently. These heating facilities have become waste at all.In desperation, it was not too cramped, so I chose the innermost room, took out all the quilts, blankets and even thick clothes, and the three of them huddled together to keep warm.

The wooden tables and chairs at home were split to be used as firewood, but today's furniture is very light, and there is not much wood without various adhesive additives. Therefore, even this should be used sparingly. Therefore, Although there are a lot of things in the garrison, they can only be made into a hodgepodge in the end. In many cases, they are half-baked, so it is not easy to complain, because it saves firewood.

This is not the worst. The paths in the countryside are generally narrow. Even so, almost all the people in the village have mobilized. The situation in the city is even worse.

To restore water, electricity, and traffic, it is natural to start from the leadership. Although this is only a small town, it has been developed for various reasons over the years. Most of the roads in the city are four-lane or even six-lane, several feet thick. How much snow does it add up to, how long it will take to clear it up, and how long it will take to get to the community where Dad Chen and the others are located.

In comparison, people in the city don’t have the habit of hoarding food. When the snow hasn’t stopped, some people’s homes are about to run out of food. When the snow stops, it hasn’t melted, although they don’t know if there is anything to sell outside. , but the snow on the road prevented them from leaving the community at all.

Man is driven to a corner and can do anything.One night, Dad Chen and the others were woken up in the middle of the night. From the window, they saw a fire in a building opposite, and there were shouts and begging for mercy. There were faint figures in and out of the fire. You can guess without looking clearly. It turned out that the very hungry people robbed that family, and I don't know if there were any injuries.However, in such a cold weather, if there is no food, it is impossible to survive.

Dad Chen and Yang Xiaoyun, who were fully awake, didn't even bother to go to sleep. They took Chen Zhe to get up in the dark, and pushed the sofa in the living room to block the security door. This group of desperadoes, no amount of defense can be overstated.

Dad Chen and the others prepared in a timely manner. Sure enough, one person took the first step, and the rest naturally abandoned their original moral bottom line. Besides, they all had their own reasons. Their wives and children were about to starve to death. It was about to die, and they had to eat. With confidence, these people gathered together to find suitable targets to rob them of food and even firewood.

Naturally, some people visited Dad Chen's house. Dad Chen and the others heard those people "bang bang bang" kicking the door, and some even saw the door lock with a saw. They could only block more things on the door. After that, he firmly supported it with his body.I don't know how long it took before the people outside gave up cursingly. Hearing the footsteps of those people leaving, Father Chen and the others had a look of joy on their faces.

Yang Xiaoyun almost collapsed on the ground, she said with some confusion: "Old Chen, what should I do?"

Father Chen frowned, and finally said, "It doesn't matter, we'll go back to the countryside when the snow melts!"

Yang Xiaoyun exclaimed: "Back to the countryside, we all have non-agricultural household registrations, and we don't have a piece of land in the countryside. Besides, wherever we live in the countryside, we can't live with your elder brother. The two of us are fine. You can't let Chen Zhe get angry with you!"

Father Chen snorted: "It doesn't need to be so troublesome. On the side of Xiaochenzhuang, our family has land, and it was allocated to Chen Jin at the beginning, a little more than an acre, and it has been rented out to others all these years. Just take it back! As for the house..." Father Chen hesitated, "I'll talk about it when I get back!"

When encountering such a thing, even if Yang Xiaoyun is usually strong, she still can't make up her mind. Seeing that Father Chen has made up her mind, she doesn't think about it any more. He took a deep breath and made up his mind that even if he went back to beg Chen Jin, Chen Zhe couldn't be wronged.

Chen Zhe grew up pampered and pampered. When did he live such a life? When encountering such a thing, he scratched his greasy and knotted hair irritably, and subconsciously looked at the place where the calendar was originally hung on the wall. Where there are only some traces of being blackened by the smoke and fire, the original calendar has been caught fire, and now he can't even figure out the day, he sighed in his heart, when will such a day end!