Chapter 19

Qin Huai didn't let Mu Nan put the freshly-cooked roast chicken into the space. Although the space would keep the same state when you took it out as you put it in, people's psychological state was not like that. Qin Huai thought it would be better to eat the freshly-killed chicken while it was still hot.

Of course Mu Nan had no objection to this. He hadn't eaten Qinhuai's roast chicken for a long time. It was a pity that Qinhuai didn't use enough chili peppers, so it was only a little spicy. If there were more chili peppers, it would taste even better. He felt like he could eat a whole bowl of it in one breath.

Qin Huai listened to his little disdain and said without any mercy: "I gave you this little bit of chili just to enhance the flavor. Eat less of those heavy foods in the future."

Mu Nan bit her chopsticks and looked at him speechlessly: "Eat less. It will be good if you can have something to eat in the future."

After Mu Nan finished speaking, Qin Huai put a chicken leg in his bowl. Seeing that there was another chicken leg in the vegetable bowl, Mu Nan picked it up and was about to put it in Qin Huai's bowl, but was stopped by Qin Huai: "Save this for you to eat in the evening. It's only five o'clock. You will definitely be hungry again in a few hours. Eating a chicken leg is just right."

Mu Nan didn't listen and insisted on putting the chicken leg in Qin Huai's bowl: "It's not delicious if you eat it alone. It's better to share it. You have one and I have one. This is just right."

Looking at the chicken legs in the bowl and thinking about how Mu Nan had chopped off the chicken's head without hesitation, Qin Huai felt a mix of emotions for a moment. He felt uncomfortable and a little sour in his heart.

Seeing that Qin Huai still didn't pick up his chopsticks, Mu Nan urged him, "Eat quickly! Even when I was a kid, I never monopolized two chicken legs. Although I ate both in the end, you lied to me and said you didn't like them. When I was a kid, I really believed you. At that time, I thought, chicken legs are so delicious, how could anyone not like them."

Qin Huai smiled and said, "Isn't it because you have been skinny since childhood that I told you to eat more meat and grow more flesh? But you eat a lot of meat, but you just can't grow."

Mu Nan chuckled: "Then I will benefit from my physique in the future. If I were someone who was prone to obesity, I would gain weight if I ate a little more. In that environment in the future, if I wanted to say that I was also living a hard life, I'm afraid no one would believe me."

Seeing Qin Huai finally eat the chicken leg, Mu Nan was satisfied. He also picked up the one in his bowl and started to eat it. As he ate it, he said, "Compared to the chicken leg, I now prefer to eat chicken wings and the small wing tips. There is less meat, but it is more satisfying to eat. Brother, please give me some braised chicken wings. I saw someone bought chicken wings yesterday, and today he posted a picture of fried chicken wings in the group. I'll ask him where he bought them."

When he was young, Mu Nan liked some braised food very much. But one time, he didn't know whether he ate too much or the braised food he bought was not clean, but he got enteritis. At that time, Mu Nan was already in junior high school. He didn't tell him that he felt uncomfortable in his stomach, and went to school early in the morning as if nothing had happened. As a result, before half of the morning had passed, he received a call from the school teacher, and he was so scared that he ran all the way to Mu Nan's school. That time, Mu Nan had injections for several days in a row, and he suffered a lot. He skipped school and missed the exam, although it was excusable, but he still read a self-criticism on the podium on Monday.

After that, Qin Huai learned from others on his own. He asked several aunts who were good at cooking, and then combined the unique recipes of each family. He figured out a set of braised food recipes that Mu Nan liked.

Qin Huai said: "If you ask, buy more. It seems that you don't have chicken wings and chicken feet."

Mu Nan said: "Those are just bones with not much meat, and the price is not cheap. I don't know how to cook them myself, so I didn't buy them."

He did buy some of these cooked snacks, but he didn't buy any fresh food. He couldn't cook, and he didn't know when Qin Huai would come back or whether he would come back. He might not have the chance to cook those things after buying them, so he naturally didn't buy any. If he had known that Qin Huai would come back early this time, he would definitely buy a lot of the ingredients he had wanted to eat over the years and let Qin Huai cook for him.

Nowadays, as long as you have money, you can still buy most things, such as small wings and chicken feet. Although they are a bit expensive, there are still many people buying them. So someone here started a group purchase, and Mu Nan bought a lot with Qin Huai's mobile phone. Probably because he bought a lot, there might be elders like old neighbors in the group, who probably knew who they were, and worried that the young people would not be able to live, so they said: "Don't buy too much at a time, the meat will be bad if it is frozen for a long time."

Qin Huai glanced at Mu Nan who was watching a video and learning how to make chiffon cake, smiled, and replied in the group: "Prepare to make braised food, the children love it, make more."

Jian Chu, who was also in the group buying group, wailed and fell on the bed. Yu Zibai, who was trying to get work online, tilted his head and glanced at him: "What's wrong?"

Jian Chu said in a low voice, "They are going to make braised food."

Yu Zibai was confused at first, but he quickly realized what Jian Chu was talking about and said with a smile, "I remember seeing someone buying braised food when I went downstairs to get something. Otherwise, you can look in various groups to see where you can buy braised food and buy some. If I can make this order, I can make 2,000 yuan, and I won't have to live so tight anymore."

Jian Chu just sighed. He was not so ignorant. Besides, although they shared a house, they were now trapped at home because of the virus. They basically shared food and drink, but after all, they were not each other's relatives. Most of the rent was paid by Yu Zibai, so how could he spend it recklessly? "You haven't received the money yet, so I'm just saying it. You should save as much as you can."

After Jian Chu finished speaking, his throat felt itchy and he couldn't stop coughing several times. Yu Zibai frowned slightly and stood up to pour him a cup of hot water. The two grown boys were not so meticulous in their lives. They had never thought that such a thing would happen before, so they didn't store some medicine at home. After all, they could buy it at any time if they needed it. As a result, they had a cough now and didn't even have medicine to take.

After coughing for a long time, Jian Chu took two sips of hot water to moisten his throat, and then lay down on the bed again. Seeing Yu Zibai return to the small round table to work, Jian Chu said, "Why don't you go back to your room and turn on the air conditioner. I heard others say that there will be no electricity bills in the next few months, so there is no need to worry about power outages due to lack of money to pay the electricity bill. We don't have to save so much. Let's talk about it when we need to pay in the future, so that I won't bother you."

Jian Chu had said these words to Yu Zibai more than once since he started coughing, but Yu Zibai just wouldn't listen. At first, he was quite scared, fearing that he was infected, but these days, except for the cough becoming more severe due to the lack of medicine, there were no other symptoms, and Yu Zibai was not infected by him. Jian Chu was a little relieved, but he still wanted to live separately from Yu Zibai. If he had known earlier, he should not have let Yu Zibai live here to save a little electricity. Even if it wasn't that disease, now that he had a cold, he couldn't even buy cold medicine, so he had to rely on himself to get through it.

Yu Zibai said without even raising his head: "You are saying so much because you are afraid of infecting me. Go to sleep. If you want to be infected, you would have been infected long ago. You just have a common cold. Just drink more hot water and you will be fine."

After Jian Chu fell silent, Yu Zibai picked up his phone. Because the symptoms of infection with toxic mycelium are similar to those of a cold in the early stages, this type of medicine is almost banned from sale. If needed, you can only report to the community. Just in case, all those with such symptoms will be taken out for isolation, no matter if you have a common cold or an infection.

But even if you wear protective clothing, you will still be exposed, and there is even a certain risk of exposure because of some examinations. Sick people have poor resistance. There are examples online where people initially had a cold but were infected because they were transferred and isolated outside. Yu Zibai really didn't dare to take this risk.

Once you get this disease, there is no cure, so when he first determined that Jian Chu just had a common cold, he hoped that Jian Chu could recover on her own. But after a few days, Jian Chu's cough became worse and worse, with no improvement, and he couldn't help but get a little impatient.

When Mu Nan received another WeChat message from her neighbor, she was lying on the bed, with Qin Huai holding her toenails and cutting them. Mu Nan felt a little awkward and wanted to cut her nails herself, but Qin Huai slapped her away: "When we were little, you always kicked your feet into my hands and asked me to cut them for you, and you wouldn't agree if I didn't. Now I'm taking the initiative to cut them for you, and you're still not happy?"

Mu Nan said: "Well, I'm grown up now, an adult, and it always feels weird to be so clingy."

Qin Huai smiled: "What's so strange about that? You are still my brother even if you are a hundred years old."

Mu Nan couldn't convince him, so she could only let him do what he wanted. She felt strange when she received the WeChat message from Yu Zibai: "Didn't they say that we can go to the community if we need it? Although everything outside is closed now, the community should be able to get cold medicine. It seems that it doesn't cost money to go to the community, but it costs money to buy it from neighbors, and they don't worry that we will report them."

Qin Huai glanced at his phone. The man next door asked if his family had any cold medicine and was willing to pay for it. Qin Huai said, "Then just sell them a box at the original price. Just sell the anti-inflammatory and cough medicine. Tell them to tie the medicine to the fire hydrant in the corridor and let them take it themselves."

Qin Huai understood his neighbor's behavior. At this time, he went to the community to buy cold medicine. The medicine was available, but it also brought a lot of problems. If he were in his place, he would rather pay a higher price to buy it from his neighbor.

Mu Nan took out a box of anti-inflammatory, cough-relieving and lung-heat-clearing medicine from the space, thinking that the cough treatment the other party mentioned should be effective: "Let's take this one, it just so happens that there is a price on it."

Although a box of medicine doesn't cost much nowadays, you still have to collect the money. You can't give others the impression that they will give you anything as long as you ask.