Bi Qiao’an lay motionless in the icy snow, watching helplessly as the falling flakes slowly buried her. As her consciousness faded, her mind drifted back to the three arduous years she had spent ...
Chapter 133 Broken Teeth and Nosebleed
On the first working day of the new year, Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan just walked into the office and heard everyone discussing the Woan forest fire. They did not join the topic, but sat quietly in their seats and listened.
"Let me tell you, our country is really amazing. It took only three days to put out the fire. It's a pity for the firefighters. They paid the price of their lives because of one person's selfishness."
"Our country is indeed great. Yesterday I saw a piece of news online that the wildfire in Linling Country has not been put out yet. It has been burning for a month or two. The Linling government has given up and moved all its citizens to the desert. If it weren't for our strong national strength, we might have become another Linling Country."
"This Linling Kingdom is about to burn down. How are we going to survive after the dry season is over?"
"Who knows? We'll see later. Fortunately, our country is well prepared."
After they chatted for a while, Yu Shui made two "pooh sounds" and spat out a few "small stones".
"Fuck, my teeth!" Yu Shui licked the last tooth on the upper left side with his tongue. The sharp notch almost cut the tip of his tongue.
Yu Shui picked up his broken teeth and looked at them. They were covered with black and yellow tartar. He brought them to the tip of his nose and smelled them. Oh my god, they stinked!
Every time Yu Shui has something going on, he likes to shout loudly. Here, Yu Shui has easily attracted everyone's attention again.
"How long has it been since you last brushed your teeth? Your teeth are about to fall out."
"I just brush less, not never brush!" Yu Shui blushed when he heard this and hurriedly explained.
"Then why is your tooth broken? Will you be able to eat again from now on?"
Yu Shui licked the remaining half of his tooth and said, "It should be OK. This position, I think it's my wisdom tooth. It shouldn't affect my eating."
"Could it be that the wisdom tooth didn't grow smoothly and was directly crushed by the old tooth next to it?"
Yu Shui shook his head, "I don't know."
"Then you should go to the hospital and have the remaining teeth extracted!"
Yu Shui looked at the other person in horror, "I don't want it. I don't feel any pain now and can eat. It's so painful to have a tooth pulled out. Please don't hurt me!"
Bi Qiaoan walked over and looked at Yu Shui's broken tooth. She couldn't help but cover her cheeks. She seemed to feel that her two wisdom teeth were also aching.
Shen Yanming quickly pulled Bi Qiaoan back to his seat, but before he had sat for a while, Bi Qiaoan's nose started bleeding.
The two of them were busy dealing with it. When Deng Shui saw Bi Qiaoan's embarrassing look with toilet paper stuck in his nostrils, he suddenly forgot about his broken teeth and said, "Oh Qiaoan, your style is quite unique!"
Bi Qiaoan rolled his eyes at Yu Shui. Why hadn't she noticed that Yu Shui was so cheerful before? It seemed that after the institutional reform, Yu Shui had completely let himself go.
"Tell me, is it because you don't have enough water to drink that you get a sore throat? Don't be embarrassed, I often have nosebleeds too, it's all because of the dryness!"
Bi Qiaoan said in a muffled voice: "No, it's because I ate too well that I got irritated."
"What did you eat that could cause you to get sore throat?" Yu Shui covered his left cheek and sat in front of Bi Qiaoan, looking at her with burning eyes.
Bi Qiaoan was silent for a moment, then reached out and took out a bag of dried red dates from her bag. "There wasn't much fruit here, so I just wanted to eat something sweet to sweeten my mouth, and then, maybe I ate too much..."
Bi Qiaoan thought about it and handed it over, "Do you want to eat?"
Yu Shui swallowed his saliva and said, "Eat, eat, eat. I haven't eaten these for a long time."
"Then you can share some with everyone?"
Yu Shui took the red dates and went to distribute them happily. After Yu Shui left, Shen Yanming touched Bi Qiaoan's head.
He knew that Qiao An would sometimes be soft-hearted and want to subsidize the people around him, but he also knew that Qiao An always knew his limits, and the things he gave out were not necessary and were very limited.
By noon, everyone took out their lunch boxes.
Nowadays, few people go to restaurants to heat up their meals, because not only do they have to queue up, but the microwave ovens are also covered with grease and handprints.
Therefore, everyone switched to insulated lunch boxes, filling them with hot meals every morning, which would still be warm at noon.
Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan thought that since New Year's Day had just passed, the quality of everyone's meals should have improved, so they prepared boiled pork slices and rice.
As a result, the aroma of meat made everyone's mouth water. "You two are really good at cooking. You still have such high standards at this time."
Shen Yanming was stunned after hearing this, and he stood up and looked around, only to find that everyone's meal had become pickled vegetables and porridge, but Yu Shui, Li Yinhe and the others were eating canned meat, pickled vegetables and porridge.
"Have you finished your food?"
"Ah, there isn't much left after so long. Luckily I bought a lot of kimchi, otherwise I don't know if I can stick to eating porridge every day. Shen Yanming, do you have any vegetables at home?"
Shen Yanming nodded, "There are some dried fungus and dried mushrooms. Look, I cooked some mushrooms and fungus with the boiled pork slices, and the bean sprouts and other things in it are all grown by myself."
"What? You can also grow bean sprouts yourself?"
Shen Yanming taught everyone the tips he learned online, and finally asked everyone, "Do you have beans at home?"
Most people nodded, only one or two shook their heads. Shen Yanming thought for a moment and said, "I still have two kilograms of soybeans at home. I'll bring them over tomorrow to share with everyone. Let's get through this dry season first."
As a result, Shen Yanming received a wave of grateful looks, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, finally getting through the issue of the meal.
After lunch, Zhu Ranran came. As soon as the little guy entered the office, he ran to Bi Qiaoan and called her Aunt Qiaoan.
It turned out that Zhu Ranran and Grandma Zhu went out to buy groceries. When passing by the hall, Zhu Ranran insisted on coming in to find his father. There was no choice but Grandma Zhu brought Zhu Ranran in.
Looking at what Grandma Zhu was holding, Bi Qiaoan asked in surprise: "Aunt Zhu, where did you buy this?"
"It's in Wangchun Market. I saw on the news today that there was no water supply. In order to compensate the residents, the Qinghe Alliance opened up vegetable purchases. Look, there are still fresh vegetables!" Grandma Zhu took out juicy tomatoes and cucumbers from the bag with a smile on her face and showed them to everyone.
"Oh my God, my mouth is watering. I haven't eaten fresh vegetables in months!" Ye Xiaoxiao said greedily while staring at the vegetables in Grandma Zhu's hand.
"If you want to buy some, go quickly. There aren't many left. But there are still a lot of dried vegetables over there. If you go early, you should still be able to buy some."
Upon hearing this, everyone's minds flew away. After discussion, Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan were once again left on duty in the office, and everyone else quietly went out to buy groceries!
After everyone left, Bi Qiaoan took out a box of yogurt from her bag and handed it to Zhu Ranran, "Drink it quickly, this is a secret, you can't tell anyone else!"