439, Winter Has Arrived 03

Zheng Han's mouth trembled several times, shouted "Mom!" and then squatted on the ground and cried loudly. Zhou Haojun was induced to cry loudly and call out for his mother. Zhou Qingrong was awakened and asked in a daze: "What's wrong with you? Something happened to my mother-in-law?"

"Something happened to my mother, I want to go back! I want to go back!" Zheng Han grabbed the phone and was about to go out. Zhou Qingrong hurriedly called her: "Ahan!"

Zheng Han ran out of the gate in one breath and walked hard towards the road. The cold wind howled and the heavy snow pressed hard. She somersaulted into the snow and struggled to get out. Zhou Qingrong, who chased her out, rushed over to hug her and dragged her back.

At this time, Zhou Qingrong took on the responsibility, changed clothes for him and his wife, rushed to the kitchen to see the boiled sugar water, brought in a whole pot, and fed his wife a bowl first.

"Is that so? Is there anything else?" Zhou Qingrong tried hard to recall the first aid methods he just heard on his phone, "Oh hot compress! Hot compress! There is no hot water bottle! What should Ahan do?!"

Zheng Han wiped his tears, drank the whole bowl of ginger syrup in one gulp, and said, "I'll borrow it from Li's house. You can feed mom another bowl, and my son can drink it by himself." After that, he went out and knocked on the light on the other side of the hall. room.

The Li family had also woken up. The lights were on and they seemed to be making a noise. Zheng Han knocked on the door for a long time before someone came to open it. The person who opened the door was Mrs. Li's daughter-in-law. She had a bad look on her face: "What's the matter?"

"Uh, do you have a hot water bottle at home?"

"No!"

After closing the door, Zheng Han felt a little scared when he heard the crying in the room, so he went back to get a towel to soak in hot water, and applied a compress to her mother-in-law's head, neck, chest and abdomen as the nurse just said on the phone.

"The effect is great! Look, mom's body temperature has warmed up!"

The couple were very happy. They had already lost an old father. If something happened to the old mother again, they would really not be able to bear it. Later, Zheng Han also pulled out the old charcoal stove in the corner of the kitchen, lit the remaining broken charcoal and placed it next to the bed to warm up.

Suffering from cold and shock that night, Zhou Haojun fell asleep again after eating sugar water. Zhou Qingrong helped his father get dressed. The body was completely stiff and the clothes could not be put on. Zhou Qingrong only had to wrap the body with a quilt and hug his mother. Go to their bed and sleep with your child.

Neither young man was sleepy, and Zheng Han was waiting for news from her brother. Finally, her brother finally answered the call, but brought bad news. The snow was also too deep and the ambulance could not be dispatched.

"He's already dead. He was dead when he was found. Even if an ambulance comes, it's of no use." Zheng Han kept crying after hanging up the phone. "It's all my fault. It's been so cold recently. Why didn't I tell my brother to watch more?" Click my mother, it’s all my fault.”

Zhou Qingrong himself was unable to comfort his wife, so he could only put his arms around her shoulders, and the two of them were speechless.

This time the temperature dropped sharply. I don’t know how many frail and elderly people froze to death during the night.

Yu Heng regained consciousness when Zheng Han wiped his body. Later, he was confused and woke up again the next morning. He regained his strength after eating a bowl of sweet porridge fed by Zheng Han.

"I bought a hot water bottle, it's in that bag." Yu Heng looked at Zhou Jianjun, who was already hardened to stone. It was too late. If he had been given a few more days to take the genetic medicine in small doses many times, Zhou Jianjun's health would definitely be better, and he would not have frozen to death like this. This time it was also thrilling. He almost died of hypothermia. If Zheng Han hadn't stepped forward at the critical moment, he would have frozen to death long ago.

Facing his thanks, Zheng Han said lonely: "Mom, this is what I should do. It's great that you're okay. My mother is gone, and now you are the only mother left." After saying this, he turned red. After crying all night, she had no tears left.

Yu Heng asked in surprise: "What happened to my mother-in-law?"

"My mother left last night, just like my father-in-law."

Yu Heng did the math and found out that Zheng Han's mother was twelve years older than her original mother, and was already sixty-nine this year. She was not in good health and suffered from many illnesses. Alas, even a sixty-year-old man like Zhou Jianjun, who is usually in good health, can't hold it, let alone Zheng Han's biological mother.

At this point, words of comfort seem redundant.

After waking up, Yu Heng asked Zhou Qingrong to go outside to get water to boil and fill hot water bottles. Both he and Zhou Haojun needed to hold the hot water bottles to keep warm.

"Mom, I haven't asked you yet, where did these two quilts come from?"

"Oh, I went to the supermarket to buy it that day. I bought a lot of things, and I have to report everything to you. Go and boil water. Qingrong, you are the only adult man in our family now. Don't act like Your wife is feeling uncomfortable now that she was so helpless in the past, please bear more of her burden."

Zhou Qingrong responded obediently this time: "I understand, Mom. Just lie down on the bed and don't get down. Don't freeze."

Yu Heng lay on the bed and called his uncle in his hometown and told him about Zhou Jianjun. At the same time, I also heard some bad news. Some of the old uncles in the Zhou clan had also left.

Zhou Jianjun is the second eldest brother. The elder brother passed away a few years ago. Of the three brothers, only Zhou Jianye, the elder, is left on the other end of the phone. Zhou Jianye burst into tears on the other end of the phone: "He's not usually in good health. I'm fine. Why did something happen to him? He's still dead on the road. It's so far away from home. What should I do? Oh my brother... "

The farmer's cry was rough and straightforward. Even if the speakerphone was not turned on, the cry could still be heard. Zheng Han couldn't help but want to cry while holding the child. She thought that now that the road was blocked by heavy snow, she couldn't go back to see her biological mother, and her heart hurt like a knife.

"Okay, I got it. I'll take Lao Zhou back when the road is clear."

After hanging up the phone, Yu Heng walked to the window wrapped in a military coat and opened it a little. The snow outside had completely covered the road surface. Apart from the sound of the wind, nothing else could be heard, and no living creatures could be seen moving. The whole street was submerged in the wind and snow. All that could be seen in the field of vision was endless white snowflakes. The road surface that was cleared during the day was now only white after a night of snowfall.

When I turned on my phone, the news was full of news about a sudden drop in temperature, which dropped by nearly 20 degrees Celsius! It's polite to say that the temperature dropped, and it's more like jumping off a cliff. The temperature in many areas in the south dropped below zero degrees, and it was more than three o'clock in the morning, which caught people off guard!

In the morning, the temperature had warmed up, and the temperature in the town where Yu Heng was located had returned to seven or eight degrees. Those few hours in the early morning could truly be called the moment of death.

The host called on the public to keep warm, pay attention to the warmth of the elderly, strengthen safety measures when heating, pay attention to air flow when burning charcoal, etc., and also kept repeating the emergency first aid measures for hypothermia.

"Mom." Zhou Qingrong came in with a kettle, followed by a middle-aged woman.

Yu Heng looked at the woman, who should be Sister Li's daughter-in-law. In the conversation with Sister Li, he had learned that there were a total of four people in this family, and Sister Li lived with her son, daughter-in-law and grandson. The population was simple and the residence was spacious, so Zhou Jianjun's family was arranged to live here.

"What's the matter?"

Shen Meiling looked around the room first, and finally stopped at the bed where Zhou Jianjun's body was. She asked: "Aunt Pei, where is your old man? The temperature dropped sharply last night. Did he not get cold?"

Yu Heng showed a sad expression: "He is gone. The temperature suddenly dropped last night, and there was no way to save him."

"So that's how it is." Shen Meiling bit her lower lip and clasped her hands together, "My condolences, my mother-in-law also passed away last night. This thief God is so bullying. My mother-in-law has not enjoyed happiness for most of her life. She passed away silently. My sister came to knock on my door last night. At that time, I was in a bad mood and had a bad temper. I hope my sister won't be angry with me." Zheng Han waved his hands quickly, saying no, no. Both families have relatives who have passed away, who can be in a good mood? They can all understand each other.

After crying for a while, Shen Meiling wiped her tears and asked, "Auntie, what are you going to do?"

Yu Heng sighed, "We can only wait until the snow stops and the road is clear, and then we can take the person home." He held Shen Meiling's hand and said sincerely, "I'm really sorry. You are kind enough to let us stay, but my old man is at your house... It's not good, but there is no other way now. Please understand, thank you very much." He stuffed a red envelope and sent the person out in a good tone.

Zheng Han asked worriedly, "Mom, does the Li family not want our dad to be here?"

"It's normal not to want to, but fortunately the weather is cold." Yu Heng sighed.

During the day, the lights should be turned on in the house, otherwise it would be too dim. At noon, Shen Meiling's son Li Sian came to call them to eat. The food was relatively simple, one spicy cabbage, one fried bacon and one egg and kelp hot.

"Just eat something, hey." Li Cong, the son of the old lady Li, stretched out his hand to greet them.

After the death of a loved one, no one was in the mood to cook. It was good to have something to eat.

At the dinner table, except for Zhou Haojun who was a little noisy at the beginning, and then sobbed and quieted down after being scolded by his father, the atmosphere of the meal was a little dull.

After dinner, Yu Heng fiddled with Zhou Qingrong's laptop for an hour, and finally went to Shen Meiling to ask: "Is the funeral home in your town far away?"

Shen Meiling was a little surprised: "Are you going to do it here? Aren't you going home?"

"I probably won't make it. The snow won't stop in a short time. I'm afraid that if it's later, I won't be able to leave the funeral home in the town." The weather conditions in the future are not optimistic. "As for the funeral, let's wait until we get back to my hometown." It is not appropriate to leave the body at someone else's house.

Shen Meiling told him the address of the funeral home. Yu Heng went online to check and found the phone number of the funeral home. When he called, the operator there said that the funeral home was operating normally, and if he was willing to pay a large price, they could pick him up at his door.

Yu Heng made the decision and arranged for them to come and transport the body. Zhou Qingrong was reluctant. It was so shabby to just cremate it casually.

"Don't you feel bad seeing your dad so cold? It's not a good idea to leave it like this. It's better to cremate it first."

After the decision was made, they said they would try their best to come. This "try their best" didn't mean they had to wait until the afternoon of the next day to see the funeral home people. They drove a truck with a layer of iron chains tied to the wheels. There were three men in total, all young and strong, who carried Zhou Jianjun's body into the car in one go. Yu Heng asked Zhou Qingrong to follow. Zhou Qingrong jumped down in shock as soon as he got on the car. There were corpses lying in the car, whether they were wrapped in quilts, covered with straw mats, or just lying on the ground, which made him feel extremely horrified.

His face was so ugly, as if it had been painted with several layers of white paint. Yu Heng felt it was inappropriate and said, "I'll go."

"I, I, I--"

A man laughed, "Forget it, we'll take care of it for you. We'll put the urn in our parlor first, and you can pick it up when you're free. Other people actually do the same thing, and you can do the same thing if you're not in a hurry to handle your funeral. We're all legitimate funeral homes, and we'll keep it for you, so don't worry."

Zhou Qingrong thought it was fine, but Yu Heng shook his head. It would be even more difficult to go to the funeral home if the weather went on like this. After all, he was the husband of the original body. He occupied this body, so he had to do his best to let Zhou Jianjun return to his roots and arrange for his ashes. He had to get the ashes as soon as possible.

"Can you send it to us again?" Yu Heng asked, "The price is not a problem. I want it to be sent to us as soon as possible. Is that okay?"

"Yes, but is this amount acceptable?"

"If you can pay by credit card, you can accept it."

After the negotiation, the truck slowly left the Li family. At noon the next day, Yu Heng got the urn and paid the balance. After eight days, the snow did not decrease at all. The temperature dropped again after warming up, fluctuating between minus 6 or 7 degrees Celsius and zero degrees. The local people complained. The roads were completely blocked, the market was closed, and shops stopped operating on a large scale.

Under the heavy pressure of the snow, the circuit had problems for the first time and the power went out.