Chapter 9 Chapter 9
At around eight o'clock, the two couriers arrived together. One cart was filled with warm clothes and thick quilts, and the other cart was filled with instant noodles and ham.
She bought light and warm down jackets for cold-weather clothing, and bought two types of quilts: down quilts and large quilts. She asked the store to vacuum compress them. The store said that the down balls in the down for insulation would be damaged, so it was recommended not to use them.
Compression, so in the end only the quilt was compressed for her. She placed the things on top of the existing supplies in the space, planning to wait until all the things were purchased before putting the down jacket and quilt on top.
Looking at the instant noodles, Qiao Qingqing couldn't help but salivate. She was really greedy for the taste of instant noodles. In the sixth year of the apocalypse, when she was working at the base, she smelled the smell of instant noodles on a certain floor, the kind that was mixed with flavors and spices.
The fragrance was synonymous with "unhealthy" and "junk food" before the end of the world, but at that moment, the fragrance attacked Qiao Qingqing's brain, making her yearn for it.
That smell lingered in Qiao Qingqing's mind for several days, and she was eating instant noodles in her dreams. At that time, she thought happily that if she and her husband's savings were converted into instant noodles, they could buy 30,000 boxes, and each bowl would be enough.
With an egg and ham. Thirty thousand boxes, enough for the couple to live for several lifetimes. Thinking about it, I made myself laugh, laughed and cried again.
She took out a bag, crushed the noodles first, then opened the package, poured the seasoning bag into the crushed noodles a little bit, grabbed the mouth of the bag and shook it quickly, then pinched out a piece and put it in her mouth.
The taste was still familiar, so she ate the whole bag of instant noodles with red eyes and ordered a portion of milk tea. While drinking milk tea, she decided to stock up on some milk tea. It was a waste of money to buy finished products, so she went online to buy milk tea making materials.
Plan to do it myself in the future.
At ten o'clock, Qiao Qingqing turned off the faucet and looked at the water tank full of water, feeling very satisfied.
The faucet flow rate in the factory is much faster than that at home. It takes more than three hours to fill a large water tank. She has already filled two of them, and the remaining ones will be filled in the next few days. She put the filled water tanks in
The space was gone, I locked the warehouse and drove home.
Qiao Songzhi said that she had gone to the hotel to sleep. Qiao Qingqing went to the front desk of the hotel to ask a few words to make sure that her mother had indeed checked in before going home peacefully.
After an afternoon, the house has changed a lot. The third security door at the entrance has been installed. The living room is very clean, which must have been cleaned by her mother. The floor heating in the master bedroom and the second bedroom has been completed, the cement slurry is backfilled, and the front door is opened for ventilation to speed up the solidification. She
After checking the house, all the anti-theft windows had been installed. She touched them and found that they were all clean. Her mother must have wiped them.
Sitting in the living room, she was stunned for a while before going into the bathroom to take a shower. While taking a shower, she looked at the drain and started thinking again. At that time, she went to the accident site to find her parents-in-law. The water on the road was getting deeper and deeper. She didn't.
After finding her, she almost couldn't come back. Rescue soldiers used a kayak to bring her back. When they came back, the water in the community had reached the second floor. The house was full of water, and heavy rain flowed in through the cracks in the windows.
Later, when the water level continued to rise and the drainage outlet flooded back, she used many methods to block the water outlet in her home, even the toilet. However, water still leaked from the outlet every day, and she had to use a towel to absorb the water from the floor and wring it out.
Go into the basin and pour the sewage out of the window.
Such humid and stinking days passed for almost half a year, until the cold winter came and froze all the floods, and the problem of sewage backing up from the drainage outlet of the house was relieved. Although she almost froze to death in the extreme cold, the shivering Qiao Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief.
She put on all the clothes she could wear, took out all the quilts in the house to wrap herself up, and hid in the bathroom and burned a chair to keep warm. In the first few days, she didn't dare to open the door or window at all, for fear of freezing herself to death.
It wasn't until all the things that could be burned at home were burned that she barely adapted to the weather, which was more than 20 degrees Celsius below zero. She boldly went out to collect firewood. The trees were frozen in the ice, so she went to break the ice...
Thinking too far ahead.
While getting dressed, Qiao Qingqing thought that it would definitely not be possible to fill the drains now. There is still about a month until the sewers are filled with sewage. During this period, life at home will be inconvenient. She can buy cement sand and gravel at home first, and then mix the simple ones when the time comes.
Concrete to seal drains in your home.
After leaving the bathroom, Qiao Qingqing immediately wrote this down on her shopping list, fearing that she would forget.
"Why haven't you come back yet?" Looking at the clock on the wall, it was already eleven o'clock. Qiao Qingqing was worried and sent a text message.
It took more than ten minutes for my husband to reply: "I can't go back tonight, so you go to bed first, don't worry."
How could she not be worried? It is illegal to sell gasoline on the black market. Sheng'an bought so much at one time and dealt with those in the black market... Qiao Qingqing told herself not to think wildly and to have confidence in her husband. She was not sleepy yet, so in order to divert her attention, she
Start organizing the space and strive to maximize the efficiency of using the space to store things.
After finishing it, it was already late at night. She finally felt sleepy and sent a text message to her husband to ask him to go to the hotel to sleep. Otherwise, he would not be able to sleep for a few hours if the master came to work tomorrow. After sending the message, Qiao Qingqing turned off the light and went to sleep, habitually leaving
A small lamp in the entrance hall.
Shao Sheng'an came back at around six o'clock in the morning. He smelled of alcohol, cigarettes, and a mixture of various smells. Qiao Qingqing woke up when he opened the door: "You're back?"
"You go to bed and I take a bath first."
He took a quick shower and came out five minutes later with the scent of shower gel.
He went to bed and hugged Qiao Qingqing. He nestled into her neck, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "I entertained Brother Wang and the others until about five o'clock in the morning. They were all drunk, and we had to arrange for them to enter the hotel one by one." Wen Wen.
He was a little distracted by the scent of his wife, but he didn't sleep much all night. He was really tired, so he fell asleep after a while.
Qiao Qingqing couldn't laugh or cry. She touched her husband's face, looking lonely.
But Shao Sheng'an couldn't sleep for long. At nine o'clock, the master knocked on the door on time.
Qiao Qingqing had already prepared breakfast. He squatted on the balcony with a bowl to eat. Qiao Qingqing smiled and cursed: "Why don't you get a stool? It's not like there aren't any stools at home."
"Honey, come and see, there are a lot of ants moving here."
Qiao Qingqing leaned over and saw dense ants crawling up from downstairs. The long queue was like a winding and flowing black line.
"They climb really high. They also know that it's safe when it rains." Shao Sheng'an turned to smile at her, "Our house is on the eighth floor, it's very safe."
"Yeah." Qiao Qingqing responded softly, "By the way, let me tell you something. After dinner, come up to the attic with me."
The solar installer hadn't arrived yet, so Qiao Qingqing told him in the attic that she had made an appointment for a sterilization.
Shao Sheng'an couldn't react: "What kind of surgery?"
"Tubal ligation. Sheng'an, I don't want to have children anymore." She stared at her husband's eyes, not letting go of every emotion in his eyes.
Shao Sheng'an finally understood. At this moment, his mood was very complicated. First, he thought that he had discussed with his wife the names of their future children. They could have two, one with his surname and one with his wife's surname. Where would the school district house be bought? The children would get more money in the future.
Good educational resources... Those wonderful futures that he enjoyed suddenly came to nothing. Shao Sheng'an's first reaction was confusion, then loss, but immediately he noticed the eyes of his wife looking at him closely.
There was a lot of uneasiness hidden there, and his heart clenched into a ball, and he woke up instantly.
He allowed himself to show a gentle smile: "I thought it was a big deal or a small matter. If you don't want to have a baby, you can't have it. Let's live in a world of two."
Qiao Qingqing relaxed a little and her expression was no longer so tense.
"I know you like children very much. I made a decision without permission. I'm sorry for you, but I won't change my mind. I'm really scared."
"Having a child is a matter between two people. I respect your opinion." Shao Sheng'an hugged her to comfort her and added in his heart: You also like children very much.
"Thank you Sheng'an."
Looking at his wife's eyes, Shao Sheng'an's heart was solemn as never before. Qingqing overturned the future planned by the two of them, and devoted himself to preparing for the apocalypse, leaving no trace of weakness for the apocalypse. At this moment, he finally completely believed that the apocalypse was real.
is coming.
After completely accepting this fact, Shao Sheng felt unbearable. How serious psychological trauma has the apocalypse left on Qingqing's heart? She doesn't want to give birth to a child in the apocalypse, and she doesn't want her child to suffer. He really wants to say that as long as he is here, he won't
It was he who made her and the child suffer, but he was not the one who experienced those disasters. It was Qingqing who had those painful memories, and his comfort was in vain.
The really effective comfort is probably to follow Qingqing's wishes and let her not be so stressed.
Chapter completed!