MTL - Natural Disaster Apocalypse-Chapter 96
The one Xu Ming mentioned was the one behind their building. The surname was Qi. Speaking of which, this family was quite famous, at least all the residents in their circle knew about it. The courtyard is circled, and the gossip about a group of big men living with four girls is even more famous.
In the past, their two-family houses were separated by greenery, and there was no real fence. When the weather was hot, all the greenery in this area was sunburned, and it became more and more bare and unobstructed. When others were still adding things to their homes, Qin Huai and the others were the first to start building fences, one or two, which was more conspicuous at the time. Later, burglaries happened too frequently, and more and more people built this kind of courtyard walls. As long as they had the conditions, almost all of them built walls. When the construction started, the family surnamed Qi became famous. Others don't care about the relationship between the two adjacent families, at least the walls are built one by one, and that family doesn't know whether it is afraid of being taken advantage of or for other reasons, the courtyard wall is built directly from the gate of its own house, and only surrounds the house. The half range of their home.
If it's just like this, it's fine, maybe the two families don't get along well, and they don't want to share the gate of the big courtyard, but the family doesn't know if they plan to grow vegetables in the yard, and when they made the courtyard wall, half of the road was enclosed. Even if other people's yards are also expanded a little, they still leave a road that can be used by traffic. Their family only left a small road that can be used by one person, and they still occupy the front and back. According to their family, their one The building was originally built against the edge of the wall, and it would not hinder anyone if it occupied the road.
It's a pity that the family's luck is not good. The residents of the house behind the house may not want to cause trouble, or they have a good temper, and they didn't say anything. The house in front, that is, the house behind Jian Chu and the others, seems to be Huang Yes, I didn't make a sound at the beginning, as if it didn't matter if the land was taken up too much, until the walls of the Qi family's courtyard were finished, the male owner of the family surnamed Huang directly took a big hammer and took the occupied land. The whole wall of the public corridor in their house was knocked down.
The sound of knocking on the wall naturally alarmed the members of the Qi family, so a fight was inevitable.
There are quite a few people in the Qi family, five old people, the old couple of the Qi family, one son and one daughter, the daughter with the son-in-law, the son-in-law's grandma, the son with his daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law's parents. The daughter gave birth to a son, and the son's family The one is a daughter. There are eleven people in the family, but there are only two real force values, the son and the son-in-law. Except for the grandma, the old people above are really old. In fact, the parents' generation is only about fifty, not to mention In the prime of life, it is also an age that can exert strength, but after a year of extreme heat, and another earthquake, not to mention the extreme environment, it is the desperate mentality of facing the end of the world, which has already killed the human body. His energy and energy were exhausted, and his body was naturally not as good as before.
And the Huang family itself is a nearby resident, which can be regarded as the kind of village in the city. They are two families living together, just like Jian Chu and Xu Ming. The son, one daughter in the family, and the two brothers are not very old in themselves, they are only in their early forties, and they are still the kind who used to work hard. In terms of physical fitness alone, the Qi family can't compare. The Qi family's old, weak, women and children are all dispatched, and that's their disadvantage. In the current environment, it's not that when you go to the ground when you're old, others won't dare to touch you. Not enough, it's too cold outside, even with that burst of anger, it can't bear such a low temperature.
In the end, the yard of the Qi family was knocked down, and the bricks were smashed to pieces, leaving no room left. The front and rear families were torn apart, but the Qi family did not dare to provoke the Huang family, because the two brothers of the Huang family were from the local area. In addition to their family, there are a few other families who are very familiar with their family in the vicinity, and they are a little related. If they really want to make a big fuss, it will definitely be the Qi family's disadvantage, so this tone can only be tolerated.
If it's just this matter, it won't make their family too famous. It's not just his family who are fighting for land. The main reason is that their family's personnel are too complicated. Let's live separately. Together, they have constant conflicts all day long. Even though the house on their side has good sound insulation, it is said that the surrounding households can still hear the quarrel inside every day.
The most exaggerated one was the daughter-in-law of the Qi family. She may have suffered some kind of grievance. After all, she took her parents to join her husband's family. In the end, they made a fuss in the yard and began to take off their clothes, and said that if there was no way for people to survive, they would just freeze to death in front of your house.
The commotion was too loud, and the people in the building opposite them naturally hid in the room to watch the commotion. At that time, there was no power outage, and the whole process was filmed, and the **** video was posted on the community website. Although it was quickly cleared up, there were quite a few people who saw it. In the end, the daughter-in-law of the Qi family was dragged in when she took off her only set of underwear, and their family became famous because of this.
According to the family living next door to them, the woman’s husband secretly hid flour for his parents to make pancakes, and let the wife’s parents eat thin rice soup that can be used as a mirror to look at their faces, not even porridge. It is said that the two old people stay at home all day long, do not consume anything, and this is the only condition at home, so let the wife take care of it. It turned out that it was a burden at the time, and the in-laws were not too much. They knew that they were relying on their son-in-law to eat as little as possible, as long as they could not starve to death. Unexpectedly, her in-laws were hiding in the house and eating pancakes and she found out Yes, she also stays at home and cannot go out to work. Her man is indeed earning points outside, but she does a lot of housework at home. Why do her parents only drink thin soup and water, but you hide? Eat bread in the house.
This time, people were wronged very much, wronged for herself, wronged for her parents, she didn't care if she was treated harshly, but she couldn't bear her parents to follow her to suffer this wronged, so she started arguing, and even used that method to freeze to death in front of them In front of the house, to see if they still have the face to meet people in the future.
Mu Nan also knew about this at the time. After all, he had nothing to do and could only swipe his mobile phone. Coincidentally, he swipe across the video. When he swipe it, he dragged Qin Huai to watch it together. After watching it, he realized that the protagonist in it was It was the people who lived in the building behind them, so close to them. At that time, someone broke the news about the cause and effect of this incident. He even lamented to Qin Huai, saying that although there are no people in their house, there are few people and few people. The benefits of life, even though I have to rely on myself and no one to help me, I can avoid a lot of troubles.
But they didn't know about the wild boar, so Jian Chu looked at Xu Ming curiously: "How do you know, there is no electricity or internet now."
Xu Ming said: "Didn't we clear the snow behind the yard when we shoveled the snow yesterday? At that time, the people from the Huang family were cleaning the gate of their house. It was probably rare to see someone, so we chatted for a few words and sighed." The family surnamed Qi didn't know what kind of **** luck they had, but they dragged back a wild boar. I don't know where they found it, but it seemed to be frozen to death, and they didn't hunt it. The wild boar is not big, but It’s not too small, depending on the people in their family, they may not have that kind of hunting ability.”
Mu Nan looked at Qin Huai: "Can the frozen to death be eaten?" He seemed to remember that Qin Huai said that animals that died from freezing should not be eaten.
Qin Huai said: "It's better not to, because you don't know whether it can't withstand the cold and freeze to death, or it can't survive the illness and freeze to death. Some diseases can't be killed after high temperature cooking."
Jian Chu said: "So there are wild boars around here? Are you going to go hunting?" To be honest, he was a little ready to move. It has been a few months since the last time he let go of eating meat, and it was still summer. .
Xu Ming: "That's all I'm saying. I hope that some edible animals will pass by our yard. If we shoot from upstairs, we may be able to kill them."
Jian Chu tutted his head and shook his head: "The imagination is too good, what's the difference between this and falling meat from the sky?"
This matter is just mentioned by Xu Ming. As for hunting, although they have weapons, no one has ever done it. Even the alpaca was killed by Niuniu last time. Of course, if the neighbors have this idea, He is quite willing to practice it. He also stays at home, doing nothing all day long. He is about to finish reading the books he found in the ruins of the business district before. I don’t know how long this winter will last. If It would be nice to be able to hone one more survival skill.
After eating and drinking enough, Jian Chu helped Mu Nan wash the dishes before going back to each house. Before leaving, he said that when his playing cards were ready, he would have something to do in the afternoon. As for the deck of playing cards, It's been a week, and the materials have not been collected yet.
After they left, Mu Nan lay back on the kang, wrapped herself in the quilt in a comfortable position, hugged a small trash can and started eating melon seeds, a bowl of bacon and bean shreds can only be said to be half full, He purposely kept delicious snacks in his stomach, and he could have a supper later, sitting on the kang with Qin Huai and watching a movie and licking skewers, he felt comfortable thinking about it.
Qin Huai filled the stove with carbon and firewood. Compared with firewood, carbon is much more resistant to burning. Now it is added. I will add some later when I want to go to bed. I don’t need to worry about it all night. After feeling warm, Qin Huai opened the thick cotton curtain and saw Mu Nan stuffing something into his mouth like a little hamster, couldn't help but smile and said: "I just finished eating."
Mu Nan moved to the side to give Qin Huai some space: "Melon seeds don't take up my stomach."
Qin Huai took off his heavy coat and went to bed. Now that the electricity was off, it started to get dark outside around four o'clock. In order to prevent the light from leaking out, Qin Huai specially set up two ropes a little outside the kang bed, one for hanging Curtains were used as a cover, and a layer of cotton-wicked curtains was built on the side near the kang bed, which was windproof and warm, thick and opaque, and with a single light, the entire range of the kang bed was lit.
After Qin Huai sat up, Mu Nan asked, "Do you want to go hunting?"
Qin Huai said: "I have this idea, but we need to get the heating for the upstairs greenhouse at home first."
Mu Nan was a little curious: "In such a cold day, are there any animals outside, and can they be hunted in winter?"
Qin Huai hummed: "Yes, not all animals hibernate. In fact, there are very few hibernating animals. It's just that in winter, some animals do not move so frequently in order to store energy. There is also a winter hunting. Now I just don’t know if the animals that are still active here used to be in the zoo, and I don’t know how many animals there are in that zoo.”
Mu Nan: "The zoo is pretty big. It's a semi-wild animal park. There are lions, tigers, leopards, wolves, and all kinds of cranes with their feathers clipped. There are hippos, crocodiles, zebras, and a lot of monkeys. The monkeys are trapped on the Monkey Mountain. They are particularly disgusting. They jump on people and grab people’s hair to eat. They don’t let go. Orangutans, black bears, and boa constrictors are not open except for the aquarium. have."
Qin Huai: "There are no wild boars?"
Mu Nan shook her head: "It wasn't there when I went, but I don't know if it was there later."
Qin Huai said: "It seems that after the earthquake, many wild animals became active. The reproduction of animals is much faster than that of humans. When the living space of humans is reduced by nature, it may be their era."
Mu Nan is not worried about this at all: "It's great to breed. If you breed more, you can eat more. Last year, we couldn't grow food, and we haven't been able to grow this year either. Disasters have delayed human self-help. It’s finally a little bit smoother, and the next focus should be agricultural planting, otherwise the national treasury will not be able to withstand such a year-to-year consumption. Before the food is planted in a large area, it is good to have more meat to eat , but there should be no wild animal protection law now, right? If the protection continues, I think there will be more animals than people in the future, and it is impossible to introduce a wild human protection law among animals.”
Qin Huai smiled and said, "I've already figured out a method that I can try. The pipes can't be made outside. It's too cold outside, and they will be frozen. Open an opening between the first floor and the second floor. We're not ready. Less those pipes, just take over the pipes for heat, and just make a layer of bricks to cover the outside. If it is fast, it can be done in two or three days. You can talk to Jian Chu and the others and ask them to prepare more shooting tools now. , when I get the house done, we'll go out for a walk."
Mu Nan looked at him: "Take me?"
Qin Huai: "Do you want to go? It's very cold outside."
Mu Nan said: "Think, anyway, we wear a lot of clothes, several layers of cold-proof and warm clothes. We have to sweep snow outside every day, and hunting means walking a little farther. Try it?"
Qin Huai didn't object, and agreed simply: "Then I'll take you there to try."
When Qin Huai and Mu Nan started to rebuild the pipeline at home, something happened to the family that ate the wild boar. The pig they dragged back should be a young piglet, not very big. The family of eleven People, skinned and boned, there is not much meat, and now it is freezing in the cold, and the uneaten ones are hung in the yard, and they can be frozen in a short time, so they keep the wild boar by themselves Yes, I didn't exchange points at all.
The pig was discovered by their daughter and son-in-law. At that time, the daughter and son-in-law moved the snow at the gate of the yard to the road outside, and found the wild boar frozen into a popsicle in the snowdrift. The two were hesitant at first, after all, they did not I know how the pig died, but it was dragged back. Even if it is handed in, it can be exchanged for some points. As a result, the family, young and old, have not seen the meat for so long, so they are reluctant to exchange points. I haven't seen any oil or water for two years, so I gritted my teeth and thawed the wild boar, which naturally became a Chinese meal.
Because of what happened last time, the son of the Qi family had a quarrel with his wife. He took off his clothes in the yard and posted it on the Internet. This is a man who would be a little concerned. The quarrel was so fierce at the time, if it weren't for the two of them having a daughter , the parents of both parties are also trying to persuade them to make peace, and the outside environment is like this. This day is really hard to live on, but on the surface, it seems that the last time things have been reversed, but the thorn in my heart is still there. When the trouble broke out, the man bluntly said that it was brought back by his sister and brother-in-law. Since the family is going to be separated, the housework will not be done, and the meal will not be done, so don't come to eat this meat. , and said that if it wasn't for her daughter's sake, she should have been kicked out long ago.
The words have already been said for this point, that woman, that is, Wang Hui, no matter how greedy she is, she can't put her self-esteem on the ground like this for a bite, she even thought about it, and waited for the next time when the soldiers came to inspect , she will take her parents and daughter to the greenhouse, even if she squeezes the greenhouse with others, she will sweep the snow, clean up, and do the most tiring and dirtiest work, and she can support her parents and daughter, instead of coveting It is better to live with dignity outside if you treat yourself like a brick and mortar.
In the past, there was still hope in making troubles, but if you stopped making troubles, then there was really no hope.
Wang Hui's parents also noticed that this son-in-law didn't want to live a good life. Qi Kangmin's family background was average, let alone poor, and it must be worse than theirs. Even his sister's job after graduation was theirs. The Wang family helped to arrange it, but in times of peace and prosperity, this life can still go on. Qi Kangmin is doing a stable job, and his salary is neither low nor high. Anyway, the husband and wife have no mortgage or car loan, and there are two education funds for the children. Of course, because their family’s conditions are a little better, they help more, such as extra-curricular interest classes, etc., they have always been giving, anyway, they are only one daughter, not good for their granddaughter, Who can be good to.
When this disaster came, at first it might have been thought that the world would return to the past sooner or later. At the beginning, the son-in-law was fine, but as the days went by, his nature was gradually exposed, especially after they settled down here. The old man didn't go out to work, so how could his daughter let them go out to work? In the end, only Qi Kangmin and his sister's husband could earn points outside. This time, the son-in-law, who was good at first, changed beyond recognition day by day. The size of the family The affairs, clothes and meals of so many people are all taken care of by their daughters. Although Qi Kangmin's younger sister will also help out, her help is only to take care of her own naughty son. In that family, the one with the surname Qi is the master. And they are just cumbersome.
Father Wang is not that kind of pedantic person, he thinks that his daughter is married, no matter what, if he persuades him to make peace and not to persuade him to leave, if he is pedantic, he would not be able to start the family business from scratch. He is just such a daughter, a granddaughter, who grew up For those who are pampered, even if life is difficult now, you can suffer and endure, but you can't be abused by others.
Looking at his daughter who had already made a decision, Father Wang sighed: "Then let's go, your father and I can still move, it's no problem to support your mother, daughter and little Baoer."
Wang Hui couldn't stop crying, no matter what plans she had made in her heart, but the unknown and at a loss in the face of the future couldn't just be gone. She didn't know if her decision was right or not, but in this so-called Her self-esteem and pride are intolerable to be treated like a servant in her home, and even feel that she is being dragged down and looked down upon.
Just as she was thinking, her daughter opened the door and came in. Looking at her seven-year-old daughter, Wang Hui couldn't hold back her tears.
Little Bao'er flung herself into her mother's arms and wiped her tears. The little child, who was supposed to be the age of the culprit, had already been tempered by disasters and became sensible and well-behaved: "Mom, if you don't cry, in the future I will When I grow up, I will give my mother money to buy meat, and we will not eat their meat."
Wang Hui sighed and rubbed her daughter's hair: "Mom is fine, go and eat. After eating, Mom has something to tell you."
Little Baoer shook her head: "I won't go." She understands who really loves her. The grandparents who loved her before don't love her anymore: "I don't want to go. They are the family and I am the one who loves her." outsider."
Wang Hui immediately hugged her daughter tightly. This is another reason why she wanted to leave with her parents and daughter. If Qi Kangmin just treated her badly, she could bear it for the sake of her daughter. In this world, she takes a woman with her. The child will only have a more difficult life, but Qi Kangmin, as Xiao Baoer's father, wishes he could hold his sister's son in the palm of his hand and pamper him, just like Xiao Baoer said, they are a family, and his own family To the Qi family, he was just an outsider, a man who didn't even want his own daughter, what else could she expect.
Inspections are not every day, basically once every three to five days. Wang Hui secretly hides the things he has sorted out, and waits for the soldiers to inspect them, and then waits to leave. But unexpectedly, the second day after eating meat At first, Qi's mother was not feeling well, and she had a low-grade fever with vomiting and diarrhea. If Qi's mother was only sick, they might not have thought about it, but then Qi Kangmin's younger sister's son began to vomit and have a fever. It wasn't because he was young and ate a lot of meat, the situation was worse than Qi's mother, and the child was not sober when he had the attack.
There were two severe symptoms in the family. Although the other people didn't react so much, they still had abdominal discomfort. At this time, it was natural to think that the problem must be pork.
Father Wang saw that the whole family had some symptoms, and he was worried that it was not because of the gastrointestinal problems caused by the sudden eating of meat. He was afraid that the wild boar itself had died of illness, so he didn't wait for the inspection car, and directly took the clothes he could wear I took all the things I could bring with me, and headed towards Building No. 1. There were still soldiers stationed there. As long as I wore thicker clothes and didn’t stop on the road, I could still work hard. It was better than staying at home and being trapped. It is contagious.
The members of the Qi family didn't expect Wang Hui and the others to leave. Even Qi Kangmin felt that Wang Hui could only rely on him for the rest of his life. If he had the courage to leave, he wouldn't lose such a big face last time, so there was no Fortification, the few clothes at home that could be used for work were also taken away by Wang Hui. After they settled the sick mother and child, Qi Kangmin remembered that there was so little movement at home and Wang Hui came out to help. With the same uncomfortable stomach, he went upstairs angrily, only to find that the room was empty, his wife, children, father-in-law and mother-in-law were all gone.
