440, Winter Has Arrived 04

The power outage was very torturous at this time. Fortunately, Yu Heng had bought candles and flashlights before, otherwise it would be so dark that she couldn't even see clearly when boiling water. After that, the broken charcoal in the old charcoal stove was burned out. When Shen Meiling was asked, she said that it was used by her mother-in-law, Mrs. Li, to boil Chinese medicine in the past and had not been used for many years. There was no extra charcoal at home.

"But the second-hand shop of Old Man Sun on West Street sells coal briquettes. I don't know if it's still open."

Regardless of whether it's open or not, you have to go and check it out, otherwise you will really get cold. Although the temperature is above zero during the day, it is almost close to zero at night, which is still freezing. What I am afraid of now is that I will be frozen unconscious while sleeping at night. Yu Heng was getting dressed and was about to go out. Zheng Han couldn't stand it anymore and pushed her husband: "You go! Of course you go. Mom is so old, you let her go out in the snow? What if something happens?"

Zhou Qingrong thought so and said: "Mom, I'll go."

Yu Heng nodded: "That's fine, follow your uncle Li and buy two coal stoves. Bring as many coal briquettes as you can."

Zhou Qingrong went out with Li Cong in the snow. Yu Heng opened his laptop at home to surf the Internet. He felt that it was not a good place to stay. This town is not very developed. It is not as good as the top but better than the bottom. Once the city is closed due to heavy snow, it will be very troublesome. The transportation of materials will be interrupted and the water and electricity facilities will be affected. Moreover, the snow is getting heavier and heavier. In less than ten days, the snow has not reached the window sill. It can be expected that the snow will soon press the windows and then the snow water will enter the house.

Now he faces two choices. One is to return to a more prosperous city. The more prosperous the local government, the higher the control. If it really turns into a cold winter apocalypse in the future, it can also organize forces to provide assistance faster. There are disadvantages, too. The population of a prosperous city is large, and food will be consumed quickly. However, he has a storage ring, which can store a large amount of food in advance. He had already stored a batch in the supermarket that day. This body can't stand overwork. If he really wants to go to the city, he needs to rely on Zhou Qingrong to collect supplies.

The second option is to return to Zhou Jianjun's hometown. The hometown is remote and makes a living by farming. Every household has a cellar to store food. The Zhou family has a large population and is intertwined. The power of the clan will be a strong bond and protection layer when troubled times come. In the village, five years ago, Zhou Jianjun's cousin Zhou Jianmin took the lead in rebuilding the house. A row of old houses were all demolished and rebuilt into a simple rural courtyard. It was neat and tidy, using good wood and blue bricks, one connected to another, looking grand and beautiful. Zhou Jianjun's family naturally has one, which is ordinary, large and spacious. He only lived in it for two months around the New Year, and it was still new. The disadvantages are also obvious. The place is remote and all kinds of assistance are difficult to get in place.

Yu Heng needs to make a decision, whether to return to his original home in City C or to his original in-laws' home. Putting aside the issue of food, he has to consider the comfort and safety of sustainable long-term living, as well as the intensity of long-distance travel that this body can withstand. City C is a second-tier city. The original home in City C is located on the seventh floor of an ordinary community. No matter which home you go to in this town, the distance is about the same.

He prefers to go to his hometown. The materials don't matter. Just buy them outside first. He is interested in the courtyard house in his hometown. The house is made of good materials and is built high in the village. If the end of the world is a cold winter glacier, it would be very convenient to build a kang in the house like in the north.

Yu Heng is waiting to see if the heavy snow and low temperature will warm up a little, and then take action. Before that, he plans to find a room on a high floor in a big hotel in town, if there is a vacant room. Yu Heng had wanted to stay in a hotel for a long time. The Li family's house is located at a relatively low altitude, lower than the newly built cement road outside. If the snow keeps falling, it will be impossible to live there for a long time. However, the hotel has no vacant rooms yet.

Zhou Qingrong went away for a whole day. If he hadn't kept in touch, it would have been really worrying.

In the evening, Yu Heng received a call. It turned out to be from the Silver Leaf Hotel. The front desk said that someone had just checked out and asked Yu Heng if he wanted to stay. If he wanted to, he had to make an order immediately.

"Yes, help me book it immediately. It's too late now. We'll go there tomorrow."

As soon as the phone was hung up, Zhou Qingrong came back in cold sweat, dragging back two large sacks. Zheng Han quickly took him to take a hot bath, change clothes and drink ginger and sugar water. After all, he was young. After cleaning up, Zhou Qingrong recovered and his face was not as pale as before.

Yu Heng had already lit the coal stove and put a pot on it to boil water.

"Too expensive, that old man is taking advantage of the situation!" Zhou Qingrong wiped his hair and sat by the coal stove to warm himself. "Just these two stoves and a bag of coal briquettes, he charged me three thousand! What a profiteer!"

"It's just one bag, it won't take long. Qingrong, let's go to the hotel tomorrow. I called the nearest Silver Leaf Hotel and asked. They have a generator, and the room has electricity and electric heaters."

"That's fine. But mom, can you and Haohao stand it? It's very, very cold outside."

"I can, Haohao, you can carry him on your back when the time comes, just wrap him tightly." These days, he has been taking care of his body. He has taken all the genetic medicine and also taken the body-building pill. He is currently scraping the powder of the marrow-washing pill and soaking it in water. His physical condition has improved a lot. His physical vitality and function should be about the same as those of a fifty-year-old, about seven or eight years younger. Of course, Zhou Qingrong, Zheng Han and Zhou Haojun also ate these things unknowingly. He usually mixed them with ginger and sugar water, so it was impossible to taste them.

"The hotel just contacted me and said that there is a room available. If you want to go, go early, otherwise it will be occupied by someone else."

Zhou Qingrong looked at the water marks on the window and the wall and nodded: "The terrain here is indeed too low, and the snow and water are almost entering the house. But we have a lot of luggage, how can we carry it?"

"I'll take care of this, don't worry."

Yu Heng talked about this with Shen Meiling during dinner in the evening and asked them: "Are you going? Our two families can squeeze together."

"We won't go. Alas, I can't leave my mother alone at home." Li Cong said, his brows were furrowed, his face was listless, and his lips were black and blue. It can be seen that this trip today has consumed his body a lot. "Alas, if I had known earlier, I would have cremated my mother's body first like you. Now it's snowing so hard that I can't do it."

Shen Meiling snorted, but didn't say anything else.

Yu Heng didn't mean to get involved in other people's family affairs. On the same day, he replaced the rent with a red envelope to thank the Li family for their care during this period. After packing up everything at night, they were ready to leave the next day. Yu Heng was the last one to go out and put all the luggage into the storage ring.

The whole family was dressed tightly, wrapped in a whole set of one-piece waterproof clothing, wearing masks, and using brooms and mops to explore the way, leaving the Li family with one deep step and one shallow step.

They left the house near noon, and Yu Heng found that the snow on the street was not smooth and traceless. He saw traces left by many people walking, like a huge piece of cream, with irregular small paths drawn by naughty children with their fingers, and the small paths were filled up again with soft cream.

The snow that was as deep as the thighs was still cold enough to make people shiver through the waterproof clothing and nearly ten layers of thick clothes. Yu Heng bit the thick ginger in his mouth every once in a while, and his steps were not fast, but he followed the two young people closely and never fell behind. Zheng Han and Zhou Qingrong looked at it several times and put their hearts at ease, concentrating on moving forward.

The Yinye Hotel is not far away, less than one kilometer away, but the snow is thick and difficult to walk, so it took 40 minutes to walk.

When they arrived at the hotel, several people almost fainted. Fortunately, the hotel was very experienced and immediately took them to the bathhouse to take a warm bath and brought them boiling ginger sugar water to drink.

"These days, there are always guests like you who come here and are also frozen. Don't worry, our hotel has doctors and medicines. If you feel unwell, just tell the front desk."

The family of four walked for so long in the sub-zero environment, and they really didn't get sick. Yu Heng sneezed twice, and even his runny nose and stuffy nose were cured when he woke up the next day. Living in the hotel, the environment is indeed much better. The room is warm and dry, and it makes people dizzy and want to sleep.

Yu Heng dug all the children out and pulled them to exercise. Zhou Qingrong secretly asked him to go out for a talk, just at the viewing potted plant at the end of the corridor. Standing here, you can see the heavy snow outside through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

"Well, well, Mom, are you hiding something from me?"

Yu Heng glared at him: "What did I do?"

He has accumulated a lot of power these days, and Zhou Qingrong was a little scared when he was glared at. He twisted his hands and said with a stammer: "Well, well-"

"Hold your head high! Speak with your tongue straight! You are already a few years old, and you stutter more than your son. What a shame!"

Zhou Qingrong has been living smoothly for more than 20 years. Whether it is academic, work or even marriage, he has rarely encountered setbacks. Young people like him have family members to provide funds for starting a business, and they have not even suffered setbacks in starting a business. Zhou Jianjun is a strict father. During his growing up life, Pei Shufen was a kind mother who took care of the family's mundane things. Therefore, Zhou Qingrong has always been in awe of Zhou Jianjun.

But these days, it seems that since the bus was stranded on the highway, he felt that his mother began to change. After his father passed away, it became more obvious, and he became more afraid. He had never been so afraid of his father before.

Facing Yu Heng's reprimand, Zhou Qingrong stood up straight with his head held high and chest puffed out reflexively.

It was like his senior class teacher in high school! Oh my god, help me!

Zhou Qingrong instantly recalled the fear of being dominated by the serious class teacher several years ago. Although he stood up straight, he stuttered more. He didn't have the slightest doubt that this was not his biological mother. It was just that her temper had become worse and her ideas had become more numerous. In other aspects, wasn't she still his mother? He, he just wanted to ask, did his mother awaken some secret?

For example, storage space? The bracelet left by his grandmother suddenly dripped blood and recognized the owner? His mother recovered the memory of her past life... and so on.

He remembered that the hours he watched when he was in school were all like this. Personality began to change, things at home suddenly disappeared, and when he waved his hand - oops, they fell to the ground. It turned out that the old things he brought before suddenly recognized the owner, and a small farm, small ranch or football field appeared in it. Otherwise, there was no way to explain it. They entered the hotel empty-handed, and when they turned around, suitcases, travel bags and other things appeared in the room, right?

Although it's a bit far-fetched to think so, it does make sense!

"Mom, do you have that space? The one that can hold things, the kind of space that you can carry with you?"

Yu Heng looked at the cheap and stupid son who had come to her door by himself, and felt funny in her heart, but her face became more serious, which frightened Zhou Qingrong so much that her legs softened and she wanted to bend down.

"How did you find it? Don't ask me about this."

Zhou Qingrong's eyes lit up: "Mom, it really exists?" Seeing Yu Heng nod, Zhou Qingrong became more excited, and her face was full of curiosity: "Mom, show me! How magical! Is it a bracelet, a bracelet, a necklace, earrings, or a ring?"

Yu Heng frowned and said: "How old are you? Why are you so curious? If I tell you here, won't you shout so loudly that everyone in the street will know it?"

"No, no, Mom, I'm just curious. Tell me, I won't tell anyone else. Mom, do you have any secrets in your space that can help you become an immortal? Do you have any spiritual spring water that can cure all diseases and cleanse your essence and marrow?"

No, I just want to beat you up.

Yu Heng grabbed Zhou Qingrong's ear: "Okay, I'll show you next time, go back."

"Hey, hey, hey, Mom, let go, let go..."