Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 111

Today’s update is here. Yesterday, the editor told me that there was a recommendation next week, and I was asked to do two updates. The work of the unit is not over yet. I will try my best to double update. I hope that I will not disappoint everyone by then.
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Ever since Qiao Miwei entered Taoyuan in her dream, she can dream of Taoyuan every night, but she has never entered it again. It is not the real Taoyuan. Dodge, but Qin Zhiyuan is full of interest in Taoyuan, as long as he dreams of Taoyuan, he will definitely take a good look inside.

After a few times, Qin Zhiyuan is more familiar with the structure of Taoyuan than Qiao Miwei, but it is useless to know, after all, the things in the dream are fake. Qin Zhiyuan also asked Qiao Miwei about Taoyuan. However, Qiao Miwei simply explained a few words and then kept silent. In fact, Qiao Miwei didn't know much about Taoyuan, so he couldn't say it even if he wanted to.

Because Qiao Miwei always dreamed of Taoyuan at night, he was always in a trance during the day, so he didn't know what was being discussed at home. It wasn't until Qiao's father and Sun Ying picked up the shovel and picked the wall that Qiao Miwei Woke up, "Dad, what are you doing?"

Qiao's mother sat aside and laughed, "Old Qiao, I said that Wei Wei has been in a panic for the past two days, but you still don't believe me, how about it, she must not know what we discussed just now, if you don't believe me, you can see."

Father Qiao chuckled, turned around and said to Qiao Miwei, "I think the army's method is good. The basement is divided into small bedrooms. The effect of keeping warm is good, and it doesn't cost much firewood. The main thing is the sum of your brother and your sister-in-law. It’s inconvenient for us to live together, and you’re getting older. You used to live alone and now you don’t want to live with us. Anyway, the underground is spacious. Let’s dig two more bedrooms for you and your brother and sister-in-law. one."

Qiao Miwei heard this, and got up quickly, "Dad, I don't want a bedroom, I want to sleep with you, let's get a room for brother and sister-in-law."

Father Qiao nodded, "It's fine, anyway, we can dig it when you want it."

The weather is cold, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of ice. Looking from the bottom up, the ice layer has been frozen to a depth of more than two meters underground. The cellar at Qiao's house must be deep enough, otherwise the soil above will not be easy to dig, but That's it, it was not easy to dig out a bedroom. Later Qin Zhiyuan heard about it and came to help. The three of them dug for nearly a week before they dug out a three-meter-square space, although it was big enough for people to sleep in. But it looked too small, no matter what, two people had to reach four meters to turn around.

So the project continued, and Qiao Miwei and Yu Yawen were not idle here. The two of them also participated in the construction of the kang in the cellar before. They knew what they needed, so they rushed to the sun at noon. When I was a little taller, I went out to rummage through the collapsed courtyard walls around their house to find suitable bricks and stones to move back.

After another three or four days, the space was finally expanded, but there was still a vent here, otherwise the kang would not be able to be built, even if the two of them lived here, they might suffocate to death. The vent can only be dug vertically upwards. Although it is enough to dig out a small passage, it is no less difficult than the previous work, after all, the soil layer above is frozen very hard.

After busying for more than half a month, the bedroom was finally finished, and the kang was installed. Qiao's mother even hung floral curtains around the bedroom. If one didn't study carefully, one would not even be able to tell that this was a cellar. The earth kang is smaller and burns less firewood, and the two bedrooms are connected, so the heat will flow back and forth, so that the hut does not need to burn much to live in.

After the room was dry, Sun Ying and his wife moved in. Yu Yawen had already taken a fancy to this bedroom, and every day looked forward to the early drying of the kang.

Qiao's small bedroom has been repaired, and the base has also made great progress. The hall has been dug up to nearly [-] square meters. Although it doesn't sound too big, it is amazing in terms of earthwork.

People's potential is really unlimited. In order to live in the cellar as soon as possible, people broke out to dig twice as hard as usual, even the elderly and children participated. The team also has gains every day, so that people can not only fill their stomachs but also over-fulfill their daily work.

Before I knew it, the harsh December passed by. When Yu Yawen got up early to wash up, she inadvertently glanced at the calendar hanging on the wall and exclaimed, "Oh my god, today is a new year!"

Qiao's mother was cooking porridge, and after hearing Yu Yawen's exclamation, she threw the firewood in her hand and got up and said, "Is it true or not, let me see?" She went to the calendar and looked, "No, I didn't expect it to be so The Chinese New Year is coming soon! Today is the new year, although there is nothing good in our house, but we can’t pass it so casually, let’s cook four dishes today to celebrate!”

Although there is no meat, the four dishes that are either potatoes, cabbage or dried radish every day are very exciting. After breakfast, Qiao Miwei and Yu Yawen began to clean up, and Qiao's mother began to prepare the ingredients. When everything was ready, Qiao's mother said to Qiao Miwei, "Weiwei, go tell Zhiyuan, don't let everyone miss Xiaonian, we have survived so many disasters, we should celebrate."

"Okay." Qiao Miwei threw down the rag in his hand and put on his coat, but before she could go out, Qin Zhiyuan came, but he had a big bag of things in his hand, and he started yelling as soon as he came in, " Mom, look what I brought here."

Mother Qiao took the bag and pulled it happily, "Where did you get so many things?"

Qin Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Today, the team that went to the village to collect supplies finally dug up the small store in the village and swept away all the goods in it. I looked through my things and found this, so I brought it here."

After hearing this, Qiao Miwei came closer to have a look, and said pleasantly, "Wow, it's a hot pot ingredient. It's great. It's delicious to eat hot pot in such a cold day, and it's Dezhuang's hot pot ingredient. It's delicious!"

Qin Zhiyuan brought hot pot ingredients, various dipping sauces, and vegetables. Qiao Miwei took the bag and went to wash the vegetables. Yu Yawen rolled up her sleeves to help, and smiled at Qin Zhiyuan, "Are you Didn’t you know that Xiaonian brought the hot pot ingredients today.”

Qin Zhiyuan was very surprised. He turned to look at the calendar on the wall, and then said in a strange voice, "We have lived in such a cold environment for more than three months!"

Mother Qiao laughed, "That's still fake, but we are all living well. What does this mean? It means that no matter how big the disaster is, as long as we are active and work hard enough, we will definitely be able to survive and adapt to all of this. I think everyone is getting used to it quite well now. People of our age, when we were young, the winter was minus [-] degrees, and we haven’t survived it. That is, the temperature has been getting higher and higher due to various pollutions and damages in recent years. Now Although the temperature here is colder than ours at that time, as long as we don’t directly freeze people to death, we can live.”

Yes, human beings have a strong ability to adapt. No matter how harsh the living environment is, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, people can survive and make life better.

Although Qin Zhiyuan was the top leader of the army, he didn't dare to blatantly search for vegetables grown on the shelves of the base, so fresh vegetables were limited, so he could only use the dried vegetables stored by Qiao's family to make up the number. Fortunately, all kinds of vegetables had a good harvest. Mother Qiao and Mother Tan are also diligent. They really prepared a lot of vegetables. Regardless of whether they are suitable for shabu-shabu or not, they all prepared a plate, as well as potatoes and mushrooms, and a piece of Qin Zhiyuan's private donation. Pork belly, this simple hot pot is ready.

I can’t use the induction cooker, so I prepared a charcoal hot pot. When the small flame was on, the soup was bubbling and bubbling. The thick red oil floating on the soup was blooming. Qiao Mi took the plate of frozen tofu slightly With a wave of chopsticks, a plate of frozen tofu went in. Mother Qiao hurriedly stopped her, but it was too late, and the plate was already emptied. Put half a plate next time."

Qiao Miwei nodded and poured the wide noodles in, "Okay, put less next time, I'm hungry, I haven't eaten hot pot for a long time."

Yu Yawen was also actively serving the dishes, and the pot was full after a while. Mother Qiao quickly took the lid over and put it on, "No one is allowed to add more. Wait until the pot is cooked. If you don't see the pot, it will burn." Well."

The pot was covered, Qiao Miwei put his chopsticks in his mouth, stared at the pot cover, and kept urging, "Why is it not cooked yet? Is it not hot enough? Do you want to add two pieces of charcoal?"

No matter how anxious Qiao Miwei was, the hot pot would not be boiled right away. At this time, Qin Zhiyuan mysteriously opened his coat, reached in and took out a small, flat glass bottle, "Dad, look what is this?"

Father Qiao's eyes lit up when he saw it, "Erguotou!"

It is indeed Erguotou, although it is only half a catty, and it is low-quality wine, but in the days when supplies are scarce, it is already a very luxurious thing to drink a bottle of low-quality Erguotou.

Qin Zhiyuan succeeded in currying favor with his father-in-law, feeling very pleased with himself, he handed the wine bottle to Father Qiao, and explained, "It was all found in a small shop, the large bottle of wine was almost broken, only a few bottles of Erguotou like this are left, There are no more than ten bottles in total, all of which have been seized by me, let’s keep the water flowing, drink this bottle first today, and in the evening when everyone is resting, I will bring the rest over.”

Father Qiao nodded cheerfully, twisted the cap of the bottle, put the mouth of the bottle under his nose and took a sniff, "Oh, it's been a long time since I last drank, smelling this Erguotou makes me hungry."

Mother Qiao has dug out a few glasses and gave them to the three men, "All the wine glasses at home are broken, so let's make do with this." Anyway, there is only half a catty of wine in total, and the three of them will share it. I was worried that Joe's father would get drunk, and even though Joe's father used to control his drinking, Qiao's mother knew that he was still a glutton, and she would not stop him from taking a sip of wine after all.

(End of this chapter)