I became a landlady in the last days

Chapter 21 Search
In the morning of the second day, Luo Yu and Su Mei got up, got dressed, took out soup noodles and meat buns from the space, and after a simple quick meal, they were ready to go out.

The outdoor temperature is low, thermal underwear plus down pants, cashmere sweater, down jacket, hats, scarves, cotton masks and gloves, wrap the whole person tightly.

There were also baby warmers on the inside of the clothes, and Luo Yu deliberately took out some warm eggs and put them in the pockets of the coats of the two of them.When you feel cold, put your hands in and it will keep you warm.

"Drink this brown sugar ginger tea!" Before going out, Su Mei purposely made a cup of hot ginger tea for each of them to warm up.

Luo Yu drank it all in a few sips, pulled the small cart for grocery shopping, and the two of them went out.

The two dogs stayed at home to guard the door, so as not to scare the neighbors by taking them out.

When they went out, Gu Yan and Zhang Fei were already waiting outside. After seeing them coming out, they greeted them, and the four of them went down to the first floor together.

The stairwell was dark, and the small windows on the floor were blocked by snow, which completely blocked the sunlight.Coupled with the power outage, it was even darker.

The cold wind penetrated through the cracks in the windows on the upper floor, and the whole staircase was chilly.

Gu Yan and Zhang Fei took out flashlights, one walked in front to lead the way, the other walked in the back to illuminate the people in the middle, Su Mei and Luo Yu walked in the middle.

A few people walked slowly and carefully, and within a few steps, they heard footsteps from upstairs.They didn't move fast either, perhaps because they didn't have lighting equipment, they walked very carefully and slowly.

When we reached the first floor, there were already several families waiting in front of Sister Lan's house.Seeing the four of them, only a few of them smiled politely at them, while the rest of them were all blank.

The four found a corner and stood there. After a while, the people upstairs also came down. They were a young couple.The two found a place to stand, and then snuggled up to each other, leaning sideways to keep warm, bowing their heads and whispering from time to time.

Luo Yu roughly counted the number of heads, and there were only about twenty people who came down, standing crowded in the corridor.

Some acquaintances got together and talked about their own situation, and some found a corner alone, staring alone in a daze, not making a sound.

After waiting for a few minutes, Sister Lan also came out. She counted the number of people and found that they were not all there yet. Just as she was about to say wait, the two who had arrived late came out of the stairwell.

It was Cheng Qing, Aunt Chun and his son Chen Kai from the eighth floor. Sister Lan shouted "Let's go!"

Sister Lan had already mentioned the specific situation yesterday, and now there is no room for explanation, so she walked directly to the door opposite to Sister Lan, and she knocked on the door politely.

"Grandpa, auntie, are you all right? Can you open the door? Grandpa! Auntie!"

The opposite door is an elderly couple, their children have already married and moved out, and there are only two old people left here.Sister Lan's family is very familiar with the two elderly people, and occasionally they get together to chat.

Since the power outage, she hasn't seen these two elderly people for several days. She knocked on the door yesterday, but she didn't hear a response, and she probably guessed their situation in her heart.

"What are you knocking on! Hurry up and pry people open! Didn't you already knock on the door yesterday?" Aunt Chun, who was shrunk in the crowd, yelled for someone to pry the door open, with an urgent and dissatisfied expression on her face. Patience caused dissatisfaction among those around him.

But the big guys didn't make a sound. In fact, they were equally anxious and urgent in their hearts, but they were just embarrassed to speak.

"Oh! Pry it!" Sister Lan sighed helplessly, and asked someone to pry open the door.

The man holding the tools behind is Sister Lan's husband. He was a little unfamiliar with the door lock, and it took him a long time to successfully pry the door open.

It was very dark inside, and it was noticeably colder inside because the ground floor was submerged in snow.

A thin layer of dust fell on the old wooden furniture, leaving a very abrupt circular mark on the floor in the center of the living room, as if it had been scalded by fire.

There is also an iron shelf on the side, which is the support under the round table, but the round plate above is missing.It may be that the weather was too cold, and the two old people couldn't stand it, so they took down the round table and burned it to keep warm.

A group of people went in, and they all went to the kitchen to find something to eat, but the kitchen was only this big. After it was full of people, the rest of the people who couldn't squeeze in were walking around in the room, looking for something. is what they need.

Luo Yu and the others did not move forward, but were more interested in the old wooden furniture in the living room. These are all good materials for lighting a fire!

"Ah!" A sudden exclamation attracted everyone's attention.

At some point, the young couple opened the door of one of the rooms. The girl was scared out of her wits by the scene inside, and now she was crying while hugging the boy. The boy hugged her tightly and comforted her softly.

Everyone was curious and walked over one after another, but Luo Yu smelled a familiar rotten smell and pulled his mother beside him.The two looked at each other, and instantly understood what was going on inside.

"Master, Auntie!" Sister Lan walked in and felt very sad when she saw the two old people on the bed who had started to smell.

"Oh, this, these two people, how pitiful!"

"It should be carbon monoxide poisoning!"

On the floor of the room, there was an iron basin with unfinished planks in it.It should be that the two of them felt cold and deliberately lit a fire in the room to keep warm.

Unexpectedly, due to the lack of air circulation, both of them were hit by carbon monoxide, and they died like this in their sleep.

Judging from the stinking condition of their bodies, they must have been dead for several days!
Seeing this, everyone couldn't help being afraid for a while. They all built a fire at home to keep warm. It seems that they should be more careful in the future, otherwise a careless mistake may end up like this.

"Let's go out!" Sister Lan told everyone to go out and closed the door again.

She has no ability to help the two old people, so she might as well just let them leave quietly.

After some discussion, they first moved out all the things that could be used, food, and drinks in the house, and then distributed them.

More than [-] people act together, the speed is quite fast, and everyone actively participates in it.

In the kitchen, there is still half of the rice bucket left, a bag of unused flour just opened, a few frozen potatoes, dumplings frozen in the refrigerator, and some salt and oil for seasoning, there is not much food left up.

In addition, some wooden tables, chairs, benches, and books on the bookcase were all moved out, saying that they could be used for pick-and-roll and burned to light a fire for warmth.

After a while, a pile of sundries piled up in the corridor on the first floor, separated from the food.

Immediately afterwards, everyone went up to the second floor. The two families on the second floor did not respond.They knocked on the door again, and after confirming that there was no echo, they pried open the door and went in.

Not surprisingly, the people in the house lost their lives either because of lack of oxygen or carbon monoxide, or because of hunger and cold.After the situation on the first floor, when they saw the dead again, everyone was able to accept it calmly.

201 is a pair of young mother and son, the child is only three years old, and the thin body is tightly held by the mother.The two slept in the room, and there was also an iron basin with burning wood on the floor of the room.

In order to avoid the lack of oxygen, the family opened the door deliberately, but it was a pity that they froze to death in the cold night.

In the kitchen of this household, there is a good amount of food left. There are only three or four packs of rice in ten catties. The refrigerator is empty, but there are a few cans and two packs of noodles for children in the cabinet.

"How many cans of milk powder are here!" The girl in the young couple found two or three cans of milk powder for children on the storage cabinet in the living room.

Some courageous people went into the room and searched out all the thick clothes and quilts in the closet.One of the ladies was holding a child's coat and muttering that it can be worn by the children at home.

There were not many things in this house, so after everyone searched and cleaned it, they went directly to the house opposite the door.

(End of this chapter)