happy apocalypse

Chapter 58 Chaos Outside
Although there is a power outage, life must go on.We dare not use air conditioners now, so we can only use charcoal stoves for heating.

This is also very good. We often add a grate on the charcoal stove and put a few sweet potatoes and potatoes. The skin of them is charred and blackened by charcoal fire, and the syrup drips out from the cracked gap. , It tastes hot and sweet.Let me eat one and think about two, and I will be full just eating sweet potatoes.

Later, Jiang Zhi refused, saying that the sweet potato should only be eaten as a snack and should not affect the main meal.

Jiang's father and Jiang's mother are very bored at home now, and they can't go out in this weather, so they can only stay at home. Jiang Zhi sees them wandering around in this room and that room, and they really have nothing to do.I took out the battery from the ring, connected the TV and DVD player to the power supply, and played movies and TV shows for them. Of course, at a certain time, it was Hanhan's cartoon time.

Jiang's father and Jiang's mother took out two thick quilts from the bedroom and put them on the sofa to cover their bodies to keep warm. Then they put the charcoal stove in the living room next to the sofa, and turned down the sound of the TV, so as not to worry about going upstairs and downstairs. The people heard that Niao quietly watched TV and had fun secretly. The sitting position was warm and comfortable, and they adapted very well.

Elderly people can't watch too much TV. I also suggested that Qu's father and mother could be picked up if appropriate. The four of them played mahjong together at a table.This proposal was approved by Jiang's father and Jiang's mother.

However, some difficult problems emerged.

On the second day of the power outage, Hanhan suddenly yelled in the toilet in the morning, "Mom, it's not good, come quickly."

When we heard our baby son’s cry, we rushed to the toilet. We sat in the toilet without lifting our pants. We walked the bird and pointed at the toilet and said, “Mom, it’s not working.”

I first went forward to help my son put his pants on. Not all places in the house are warm, and the temperature in the kitchen and toilet is much lower than that in the living room.

Jiang Zhi stepped forward to check the broken toilet that Han Han said, and after studying it for a long time, he finally knew where the problem was.

The toilet seat is not broken, but it is not draining, it should be that the sewer pipe is blocked.Jiang Ma went to ask, and it turned out that the sewer pipe leading to the outside on the first floor was also frozen.

"What should I do? How will I go to the toilet in the future?" I asked with a sad face. We stored water and cooked food before, but we didn't expect that the sewer pipe would be frozen.

This is a very serious problem. If it is not solved properly, it will directly affect our quality of life.

Dad Jiang answered me: "There's nothing to do. When we were young, there was no toilet. We always put a toilet at night. We do the same now."

"Isn't the toilet very smelly?" I was worried about these useless things again.

"It's okay, just put the lid on after use, it won't taste much every day." Mama Jiang comforted me.

In fact, I also know that even if the taste is strong, I can't help it. I just want to hear everyone's comfort.

Who goes down every day?I thought to myself and didn't dare to ask.

Father Jiang took the initiative to undertake this glorious and arduous task, "From now on, I will clean the toilet every day, so you don't have to worry about it. Hey~hey~, I didn't expect that it will be 50 years ago, and I will return to my old business."

Afterwards, our family made a toilet by ourselves, found a bucket about the same size as the toilet, removed the seat cushion and cover of the toilet, and installed it on the toilet, which made the sitting comfortable and prevented the smell from spreading.Dad Jiang really went out to empty the toilet at 6 o'clock every morning.At first Jiang Zhi refused to let Jiang's father go, Jiang Zhi said he would go, but Jiang's father strictly stopped him.But I saw that Jiang Zhi gave Dad Jiang the storage bag that our family used to store garbage. What's going on?

Later, Jiang Zhi accompanied Dad Jiang every morning to go out to empty the toilet. When he came back, he brought back a bucket full of Shicheng snow, boiled it to cool and warmed it, and used it for bathing and doing laundry for the family.Stored ice cubes are used for cooking after melting.What everyone drank was the stream water that we took out from the space.

When our family has temporarily solved all the problems, roasted sweet potatoes around the charcoal stove, and watched TV under the warm quilt, the outside world has already begun to become chaotic.

The snow was too heavy and the roads were impassable, trapping many people at home.

It is too cold, there is no heating at home, people can still huddle in quilts, there is no water, people can eat snow to quench their thirst, and there is no natural gas, but people cannot eat raw rice and white noodles.

There is also this kind of cold weather and harsh environment. The weak cannot persist. Many old people and children are sick. Under such circumstances, people cannot be sent to hospitals without heating and medicines.So some people go out to look for things that can burn and generate heat. Don’t think about coal and charcoal now. There is no place to buy it.

In recent years, City D has been very strict about urban greening. Basically, there are many trees planted in front of and behind buildings in every building area, and on both sides of the road.

Many people came up with the idea of ​​these trees. At the beginning, they went out to cut branches secretly at night, but after a few days, some people blatantly chopped down trees with an ax during the day.

With the first person there will be the second, and then there will be countless others.

Father Jiang looked out the window and saw these people who were cutting trees in the snow during the day and said, "It's not right for these people to cut trees like this."

Jiang Ma felt sorry for the family, "Why is it wrong? People are going to freeze to death or starve to death. If you don't let the trees be cut down, people will die."

"It's not that no one should let people cut it down. If you need firewood, just cut the branches. You have to give the tree a way to survive. Think about it, if everyone cuts down the trees this year, if the next winter is still so cold , They don’t have any trees to cut down, so what will they do then?” Father Jiang thought that as long as the tree doesn’t die, it will germinate and grow in the next spring, so it can be used continuously. bought and sold.

"Hey, people are anxious now. The family is cold and hungry, so they want to cut down more trees and save them at home. Who can think of whether to use them continuously or not?" Mother Jiang listened to Dad Jiang's words. , I also lamented the hardships of people's lives now.

"When the weather is better, as long as the road can be walked, we will go back to Tashan Village. This city cannot live in the future." After listening to what they said, Jiang Zhi also expressed his own thoughts.

I also whispered beside me: "Yes, next year's weather will only be worse than it is now. If there are no trees to keep warm in the city, and no food to feed the hunger, what will people be like at that time?"

After I finished speaking, there was a moment of silence in the living room.

No matter how much we worry about next year, this year people are desperate for trees, and some people fight and fight over the ownership of trees, and finally get bloody.Even this did not stop people's obsession with cutting down trees.

Within a few days, the trees in the building area were cut down by the residents. Some people saw that there were no trees in the building area, so they walked out of the community and went to further places to look for them.

People have temporarily solved the heating problem, but the food problem has emerged again. Some people do not have much food in storage, and they have used up all the food in their homes these days without going in or out.

People are also trying to go out to buy food, but now there is no shop open in the entire D city, even if there are some stocks, they are kept for their own use, how can they be sold, money is more important than life?So now in City D, money is no longer easy to use, and goods can no longer be bought with money.

(End of this chapter)