Chapter 11 Suicheng

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Shu Fu returned home before the people from the door and window shop came.

She went to 15 gas stations that day and bought six 30L portable oil drums from each station, taking away 180L of gasoline. In total, she bought 2,700L of gasoline from the 15 gas stations. Not counting the oil drums, she spent nearly 20,000 yuan on gasoline alone.

She had not used a car or been to a gas station in the few years since she came to this world. The various restrictions on refueling in her native world were deeply rooted in her mind, causing her to become anxious when she went to the fourth gas station today. She was afraid that when she was halfway through refueling, someone would come out and accuse her of hoarding gasoline and call the police to arrest her.

But in reality, no one cared about her.

However, she was still very careful and tried to choose gas stations that were scattered around. Every time she emptied the portable oil drum in the car, she would go to a nearby underground parking lot and stay for a while.

There happened to be a supermarket above two parking lots, so she got out of the car and went into the supermarket to quickly stock up on some fresh vegetables, fruits, eggs, milk, meat, fish, bottled water and other items.

She didn't even take time to eat. When she was hungry, she just took out a piece of bread from the space and ate a few bites to get by.

The farthest gas station happened to be near the agricultural wholesale market, so she went straight there and bought a large amount of vegetables and fruits, fish, shrimp, crab, seafood, various cooked and braised dishes, side dishes, dried seafood, fresh and frozen beef, mutton, pork, dumplings, meatballs, fish balls and other semi-finished products.

She rented a flatbed truck and carried the supplies back to the truck one trip at a time until every corner of the truck except the driver's seat was filled before she finished her shopping and left.

Now, there are a total of 101 30L portable oil drums and 3030L of fuel in her bracelet space. Because the portable oil drums are all of the same shape and can be stacked, they don’t take up much space.

On the way back, Shu Fu went to the commodity wholesale market again and bought 20 half-cubic-meter rectangular storage boxes. This type of storage box has a lid and can be stacked when not filled with things, which does not take up space. After the items are filled, they can be stacked directly with the lid closed.

She wasn't going to use them to store items, but to store water.

Currently, the raft water tank can only hold 500L of water, and the purified water is only 10L per day. Although it is enough, there is no heating device in the drifting island house, so all the water that comes out is cold.

Even if the room is kept warm, she can't just wash with cold water. Boiling water with a kettle takes too much time and electricity, so she plans to fill all the boxes with hot water at around 60 to 70 degrees for washing. One box can hold half a cubic meter of hot water, or 500L. If all 20 boxes are filled, it will be enough for a long time.

At this time, the car full of supplies from the farmers' market had been stored in her bracelet space. She also stopped by the nearby food city, found a gourmet restaurant that she had not had time to visit before, and took away a lot of takeout food and drinks.

The last two stops were at another water station near the community, where she again asked for 40 boxes of 4-barrel purified water and had the other party deliver the water to her garage.

The second place was the grain and oil store outside the community. She drove her emptied car and bought a whole carload of rice, flour, cooking oil, grains, and various seasonings.

She doesn't eat rice for all three meals a day, and her appetite is not big. Based on her previous consumption, she consumes about 3 to 5 kilograms of rice a month. Assuming 5 kilograms a month, this truckload of staple food and oil plus those she bought before are enough for her to eat for many years.

At 3:40 in the afternoon, the door and window master arrived when the rain was least. He not only brought tempered laminated glass and sliding anti-theft windows, but also a stainless steel fence door that matched the size of her front door.

This was the result of her calling the other party to discuss the gate later that day. The fence gate is somewhat similar to the anti-theft window, installed on the outside of the door panel, and is also a sliding type, which can be regarded as a reinforcement for the gate.

Because the laminated glass is installed on the inner layer, Shu Fu also said that it doesn't have to be beautiful, as long as it is firm, so the whole installation speed is quite fast.

During this time, she went downstairs to the garage to sign for the 40 boxes of canned food, rice and dehydrated vegetables she ordered yesterday. She then pushed a folding cart to the express cabinet to take out the other items she had ordered.

After picking up this batch of items, most of the things she had ordered online were delivered.

All work was completed before six o'clock in the evening.

She looked at the three sturdy window panes and the freely movable fence door, thanked the master with satisfaction, and after seeing him off, she began to clean up the dirty house, first sweeping and then mopping the floor.

Before seven o'clock, she finally finished all her work and collapsed on the sofa due to exhaustion.

After lying on the sofa for ten minutes, she stood up again and went to the bathroom to clean the storage boxes she had bought today one by one. Then she turned up the water temperature and began to repeat the work of draining and storing water.

The water heater in her home was purchased after she rented the house. It is a gas water heater, which is installed in the kitchen. It is a little more expensive than an electric water heater, but there is no need to boil water in advance when using it, and there is no limit on water usage. Just adjust the required temperature and it can be used immediately.

Gas is cheaper than electricity, and after calculating daily expenses, it is definitely better than an electric water heater.

Because the gas water heater can be turned on and used immediately and the temperature can be adjusted, she thought about installing one in the house on the drifting island when she was sorting things out. But there was no electricity or gas in the wooden house, and she, who was not good at handwork, could not install it herself.

Even if she knew how, she didn't dare to use an electric drill to drill holes in the wall of the wooden house. Only then did she think of storing warm water.

For dinner she had noodles she cooked herself, simple vegetable noodles, plus a box of braised dish - spiced shredded chicken.

While waiting for the water to be released, she still opened the lottery wheel and used the two lottery chances.

My luck was average and I won the fifth prize in blue and the fifth prize in red respectively.

The blue fifth prize is a "shower barrel" and the red fifth prize is 2 50-kilogram bags of rice.

The rice is packed in vacuum bags, which are similar to the packaging currently sold on the market, except that there is no brand name on the outside of the bag. It is just an ordinary nylon composite film bag.

After receiving the shower room barrel, the turntable showed the words "placed", but the barrel did not appear in her house. Shu Fu understood, closed the curtains on the living room balcony, put away the sofa and coffee table, and released the raft.

On one side of the wooden shower room in the drifting house, there was indeed a half-person-high round wooden barrel. One side of it was fixed to the wall, and the shower head occupied both sides of the shower room.

There is also a wooden faucet on the wall above the wooden barrel, which can obviously be used to directly pour water into for bathing.

But there was only cold water now, and she couldn't afford the luxury of pouring a large amount of stored hot water into it to take a bath, so the wooden barrel was not very useful.

But after these few draws, she had a rough idea of ​​the contents of the prizes. The red ones should be food and supplies, the blue ones were probably physical home furnishings for the drifting island house, and the green ones, if she hadn't guessed, should be energy that could be used on the raft.

Among the three prizes, red and green are both good, but blue is a bit useless. After all, she can arrange the furniture herself.

Now she has placed a wooden coffee table, a single sofa, several aluminum storage racks, and boxes of organized clothes, shoes, socks, bedding and daily necessities in the wooden house.

I just don’t know what those three golden prizes that have never been drawn will be.

**

Tuesday, moderate rain.

She still didn't go to work. She went out in the rain in the morning to do a parking space job, and took a tabby cat that was hiding under her car to take shelter from the rain back home. The tabby cat had an owner, who lived on the fourth floor of her building, near the stairwell.

This cat was originally a stray cat. She remembered that it was picked up by the sixteen or seventeen-year-old son of the family on the fourth floor when she first moved in. It was still an abandoned kitten at the time.

The building had poor sound insulation, and when she occasionally passed by the fourth floor, she would always hear the sound of the boy playing with the cat. She didn't know what happened recently, but the cat would always run out to play by itself.

The tabby cat is a rather wild breed. She guessed that the cat might have grown up and started to yearn for the outside world. In addition, the open corridors in the building were particularly suitable for the cat to climb.

The cat was wet all over, and when he saw her, he opened his eyes wide, looking a little silly. The color of his eyes was rare in cats, blue, and his fur was also very beautiful, a little brown with a little silver mixed in.

Although she sometimes heard cats meowing when going up and down the stairs, this was the first time she saw the appearance of a tabby cat clearly. It was about three or four months old and quite cute.

I don’t know if it was sick, because it didn’t run away. Instead, it took two weak steps towards her.

She reached out from under her raincoat, spread out a thick towel in both hands, and wrapped it directly around the cat.

The tabby cat cried out and seemed to be trying to struggle.

"Don't move." Shu Fu wrapped the tabby cat in the towel a little tighter, "I'll take you home."

Perhaps because the towel was dry and soft, the cat stopped struggling and lay there obediently, meowing softly twice.

When she brought the cat over, the people in the house were arguing about the missing cat. The son said he would go find it and go back to school after finding it. His studies were important in high school, so his mother was naturally angry when she heard it. She scolded him and said she would go out to find it and told him to go to school.

The boy expressed his disbelief on the spot, saying that she didn't want to keep it in the first place and hoped that it would not go back.

After Shu Fu knocked on the door, the boy's father came to open the door. She had met the father two or three times and had the impression that he was a taciturn man.

When the other person saw the cat wrapped in a towel, he seemed to frown. But the boy was very happy, called out "Little Guai" in surprise, rushed over to take the cat from her hand, and thanked her.

I don’t know if it was because the boy was a little too hasty, but the originally well-behaved tabby cat struggled and meowed twice.

"Thank you." The boy's mother also came over and thanked her, but her expression also did not show much happiness.

Shu Fu didn't say much. She didn't care much whether others thanked her or not. She just did what she wanted to do. As she said before, any choice she made was based on her heart.

When she walked into the stairwell and went up the stairs, she heard the boy's mother urging him to go to school, saying that he was already late and had an exam in a few days and asked him to do well in the exam.

The boy responded absentmindedly, as if he had discovered that the tabby cat was sick, and he kept saying that he would take it to the hospital, which caused his mother to start scolding him again, and the tabby cat's slightly hurried cries were also heard during the conversation...

Such a simple task will bring you a 5% progress bar and a chance to win a lottery.

[Congratulations on winning the fourth prize: Front Door Eaves]

【Do you want to receive the prize? 】

【whether】

This time it’s a blue prize, one level higher than the previous blue fifth prize, “shower tub”.

Shu Fu released the raft, and a rectangular wooden eaves appeared on the top of the front door of the wooden house. The eaves were the same height as the wooden house, and the same width, extending outwards for about half a meter. There was a square pillar of log color on each of the outer corners on both sides, and a wooden fence about one meter high between the pillars and the wooden house.

Originally, the raft outside the cabin was empty and people standing on it had to be careful not to step on empty air and fall out. But now there is an eaves with a fence, at least when she stands at the door of the cabin, she will not fall into the water directly because of the shaking of the raft.

It seems that this blue prize is also good. She can arrange the furniture herself, but she can't do this kind of fixed home decoration by herself.

In the afternoon, when the rain stopped, she took her ID and went out, drove to a nearby bank, left 5,000 yuan in her card as a backup, and withdrew the rest in cash. 5,000 yuan plus the debit function on various platforms was enough to support her online shopping expenses for a period of time.

It will take some time for Suicheng to go from the disaster period to the overall evacuation period, so she has to keep some cash to deal with the situation when network problems occur.

After that, when the city is completely submerged in water, it will become a deserted city, and the money will be of little use whether it is left in the bank or in your hands.

Thinking of an empty and quiet water city and a picture of himself, Shu Fu sighed, already able to sense the loneliness in advance.

Moderate rain mixed with light rain continued to drizzle for two days.

Shu Fu didn't go out again. She ordered various takeouts delivered to her door every day, including Sichuan cuisine, sushi, milk tea, desserts and bread... as well as vegetables, fruits, fish and meat from the supermarket, milk, yogurt, various carbonated drinks, snacks, fast food, and daily necessities.

On Thursday afternoon, moderate rain turned into heavy rain, and the sky was like it was on Sunday, as if it was leaking. The rain was dense and fast, rushing down from the gloomy sky.

Towards evening, residents of Suicheng received a unified thunderstorm disaster warning on their mobile phones. Having learned the painful lesson from the last time, Suicheng's subways, buses and taxis were all suspended.

It was the time when people were getting off work and leaving school. Those who had not left the company or school could only stay indoors and wait. The few pedestrians who happened to be outside took shelter in the nearest sturdy buildings.

All private cars on the road closed their windows and slowed down. On several roads where parking was allowed, car owners even chose to pull over and wait anxiously for the thunderstorm to pass.

When the first thunder flashed across the sky, Shu Fu had already checked all the doors and windows in the house, then released the raft in the living room and went directly into the house on the drifting island.

The house didn't suffer much damage during the last thunderstorm, but one should be prepared for the worst. Since she had the safe wooden house for five hours a day, she naturally had to use it.

She turned off the main power switch in the room. There was no light in the room, and it was pitch black. In this light, even if the curtains between the living room and the small balcony were not drawn, one could not see inside, so she did not close the curtains.

There is a rechargeable energy-saving lamp on the wooden coffee table in the cabin. The light is warm and is on at this moment. The faint orange-yellow light fills the entire cabin.

When standing outside the wooden house, even if the headlights were on inside, the light could not completely penetrate through the frosted glass, and only a little faint glow could be seen.

Due to the limitation of the living room, the raft can only be placed vertically in the room. The front door faces the direction of the small balcony. When the door is closed, only the two side walls of the living room can be seen from the window of the wooden house.

The dark living room reflected the lightning from the thunderstorm outside, which flickered and was accompanied by the terrifying thunder, hitting people's eardrums and making those who listened feel frightened.

Shu Fu thought that this thunderstorm would pass quickly like the last one. Even if it was more severe than before, it would only last half an hour at most.

But an hour had passed, and the dazzling flashes of lightning in the dark sky outside had not stopped.