Traveling through the new apocalyptic era

At one o'clock in the afternoon, as soon as Yin Ling was lying in bed getting ready for a nap, she heard someone calling her and her grandma. At first, she thought she was hallucinating, but when she sat up and listened carefully, it seemed that Granny Liu next door was calling them.

After putting on her pajamas again, Yin Ling told her grandma not to move. She could just go out and take a look. It was too cold and she struggled to open the door.

After leaving the house, opening the door to the living room and walking to the balcony, Yin Ling timidly poked her head out and saw Granny Liu next door waving to her from the second floor of their house.

It was looming, and the two sides were parallel. It was actually not very visible. Yin Ling had to walk to the west terrace, which was level with the kitchen, to see the person clearly.

Granny Liu and her husband usually live on the first floor. It is inconvenient for the elderly to go upstairs, so the second floor is basically unused. I guess I came up here today to find them.

"Grandma Liu, what's going on!"

Yin Ling felt that her voice was quite loud, but in fact it was partly absorbed by the heavy snow and partly blown away by the wind. When it reached the other side, the sound was already muffled.

When Yin Ling sniffed and returned to the house, her grandma also got out of the bed and was waiting for her in the living room.

Before grandma could ask Yin Ling, he quickly explained the situation, "It's a school holiday. I told my family to pick someone up. What do you think we should do with such thick snow? The car can't go. It's such a long distance. The old couple was worried, so they came to see me. , said that I have the contact information of the village party secretary, and asked me to ask the village chief if there is anything he can do?"

"Why did you let this school come back now? This is not easy to accept!"

Yin Ling shook her head and sent a group message to the supermarket in the village asking everyone if they had received any news about their children's holidays.

The group quickly became lively, and most of the people who sent messages were parents of children who were far away from home. After all, the elderly did not know how to use smartphones, did not know a few words, and did not know how to participate in these group chats.

Several families have received the news and are anxious to contact their families to see how to pick him up.

"The school also had a power outage. The quilts the children brought could not withstand the cold at all. The school's backup diesel generator could not withstand the use of so many students. In addition, transportation was difficult and the school's daily supplies could not be delivered. We were about to run out of food. , so I gave three days for everyone to take the children home."

A parent who knows better said in the group that everyone is anxious regardless of whether they have children attending the school here.

Then the supermarket owner sent a few photos taken on the second floor. It was white as far as the eye could see. The snow on the road was neat and there was no trace of damage. It looked like a deserted countryside that had been uninhabited for a long time.

"The snow is one meter deep. Not to mention cars, even if you take just two steps, you'll have to fall into it. It's hard to find it."

“There’s a power outage at home?!”

"The snow has been so heavy this year that we have stopped working and are staying at home. The supermarkets in the community are all sold out and cannot replenish the goods."

“@老谢, can you send some rice and noodles to my house? My parents don’t know how much food they still have, so I’ll pay more for running errands.”

"@老谢, me too!"

Someone soon checked in and checked in. "Everyone, the snow is really deep and the door can't be opened. If you are really in a hurry, see if you can borrow some from your neighbors. Let's help each other." Lao Xie is the supermarket owner. This group is actually not a supermarket group, but a village group. We have created a group, otherwise the people would not be so gathered.

"Everyone, everyone in the village is aware of our difficulties. We are now short of manpower and have to rely on ourselves. We have contacted nearby villages to clear the snow together and strive to clear the main roads. There will be a broadcast in the village to inform everyone to go out. To clear the snow, I hope that those who are able can go out and respond, help each other, and clear a path of hope for our village. If every household has difficulties, register with the village party secretary, and those who can help will definitely help."

When the radio rang, Yin Ling learned that the village had its own diesel generator, but it was probably just for the village government's emergency response in the summer, and could not be used by the whole village. Even if it could, there wouldn't be that much diesel for it.

Yin Ling got dressed, including a fleece thermal coat, a thin down vest, a black feather jacket, knee-length leather boots wrapped up to just above the knees, and waterproof sweatpants covering the leather boots and tightening them around the ankles. After hearing the sound of the radio and grandma, they pushed open the door that seemed to have been dusty for a long time. Yin Ling struggled to get out of the gap in the door, took the shovel handed over by grandma and began to clean the door of his house.

The snow was so thick that Yin Ling reluctantly cleared a small space at the door, then left a door half open. Grandma also took a shovel to help clear the snow at the door.

It took Yin Ling half an hour to clear a [-]-centimetre-wide path for only one person to walk to the side of the road.

The watertight road in the village is actually not very wide, and it is difficult for two rows of vehicles to pass side by side. When encountering vehicles, one party must stop aside to give way, otherwise it will be easily scratched.

What needs to be cleaned now is mainly the half of the road near the supermarket.

Yin Ling wielded a shovel and began to clean up. The half of the road to the supermarket was on the opposite side, so she still needed to clean up the road on this side first.

Grandma didn't listen to the advice and didn't want to stay in the house, so she followed Yin Ling to help clear the snow.

When Yin Ling received the call, he had already opened the road in front of his house and began to officially clean the road.

It was a call from the village party secretary. Because the road had to be cleared to pick up the children home, I found out that her family had a car and hoped that she could help drive to pick them up. There were also several families in the village who had cars who would go together. , will be rewarded.

There are not many cars in the village. The supermarket owner’s van pulls goods, the pig farmer Uncle Xie’s family owns a car, the village party secretary’s family owns one, and a selected college student also owns one. She comes here to work during the day and returns home at night. I rent a house in the town, and my family is from the city next door. It has snowed heavily these past two days, so I probably live in the village.

Without thinking about it, Yin Ling nodded and said yes, then turned to her grandma and said something. The two of them turned back and started clearing the snow at the door again. Her car would not be able to drive out until it was cleared.

The radio has been broadcasting news about clearing the snow. Yin Ling has opened the road to Grandma Liu's family next door to clean up the door before freeing the two elders from the yard. More and more people are joining the snow clearing army, regardless of age 67 At ten, people wrapped in down jackets and military coats began to work hard to clear the snow.

The most difficult thing is that the snow is too high and there is no place to pile them. In the end, people can pile as many piles as there is room in front of their house, regardless of the garden vegetable patch at the door. As long as it does not block the area facing the front door, they can pile it.

The snow was still falling, but not heavily, but two hours later everyone was still visibly wet.

The hodgepodge we ate at home in the evening was just bacon, vegetables, dried sweet potatoes, and some vermicelli stewed in a pot, which was easy and rich.

What Yin Ling was thinking before going to bed was, don't come together tomorrow morning, the area that has been cleaned will be covered by snow again!
In her dreams at night, she was buried in heavy snow.