Chapter 10: Starting to live alone

Seeing that he was determined to help, Xiang Yu stopped trying to stop him. It was obvious that two people working together were much more efficient than one person.

More than an hour later, the snow in the yard was cleared. The young man said nothing, turned around and left with a shovel.

"Thank you."

Xiang Yu drove the car parked outside into the yard. The furnishings in the room were the same as when she left years ago.

An old TV was placed in the center of the main room, with a wooden cabinet with a broken door and a gray coarse cloth spring sofa underneath.

Next door is my grandparents' former house, behind it is the kitchen, and her room is behind the main house.

Each room was not big. Xiang Yu took out the old stove he bought from the farm machinery store from the space, plugged in the exhaust pipe, and started the stove.

The coal mine was stuffy inside. After more than ten minutes, sparks appeared, and heat came from above the furnace, dispelling the coldness in the room.

After heating the stove, Xiang Yu drove to the village committee, where she had left all her previous express deliveries.

Winter clothing, kayaks, and some self-defense knives, daggers, machetes, and folding knives.

On the way, he saw a small supermarket and a mobile phone store that were open, and bought five electric blankets, ten mobile phones and five tablets from Xiang Yu.

After taking the things back, the stove was burning brightly. Xiang Yu opened all the express deliveries. He bought four sets of winter clothes in total, which were enough for him to wear in turn.

In addition, there were several thousand cotton clothes purchased from the factory before, so it was more than enough to wear one and throw away one.

Towards evening, Xiang Yu drove from house to house in the village and bought two bags of rice and some dried vegetables.

After all, she came with nothing.

Every household in the village grows their own crops, and the food is more abundant than in the city, so their chances of surviving and waiting for rescue are greater than those of people in the city.

Looking at the stove burning brightly, Xiang Yu took out the lard from the space and started to boil it.

At night, Xiang Yu opened the folding spring sofa, drew the curtains, spread two layers of thick bedding on the sofa, and then covered it with an electric blanket before going to sleep.

The sleep she had last night was the best sleep she had since her rebirth. When Xiang Yu woke up and opened her phone, there were several unread messages displayed on it.

Chang Ming, Xiang Wan, his aunt, and his parents who had not been in touch for many years ignored Chang Ming's message and Xiang Yu opened his aunt's chat box.

At first, she just talked about some family matters and asked about how she was doing in K City. Only at the end did she ask her about Chang Ming.

The message Xiang Wan sent her was that she was choosing a birthday present for Chang Ming, and she also sent some pictures of limited edition watches.

"Cousin, which one do you think Chang Ming will like? You have been with him for such a long time, you must understand him. Why don't you help me choose?" she said this as if Chang Ming was her boyfriend.

"Hmm..." Xiang Yu frowned and finally clicked on Xiang Wan's avatar, which was a picture of holding hands.

In the picture, two people are holding hands, but it is pitch black around them, so they are obviously still on the same bed.

Xiang Yu recognized the hand at a glance. It was Chang Ming's. It seemed that the two of them had been together for a long time, but she just didn't know it.

And her aunt must have known it, but she never told her. In fact, because Chang Ming was able to go out to find food, her family kept her in the dark.

Chang Ming's message seemed normal. "Xiang Yu, my birthday is in a dozen days. Can you come back before my birthday? It doesn't matter whether you have a gift or not. What matters is that I want to see you."

Xiang Yu looked at the big stove burning beside him and the soft quilt covering him, then he lay on the bed and took a picture of Chang Ming.

It’s not hard to tell from the photo that the room is warm and comfortable; there are even two baked sweet potatoes on the stove.

After calculating the time, it is now the time when the college cafeteria reduces the meals, and because City A has high temperatures all year round.

The students’ quilts are all thin summer quilts, which cannot keep them warm at night, and they don’t have thicker cotton clothes to cover themselves when they go out during the day.

Xiang Yu had experienced all kinds of things there in his previous life.

She could already imagine how wonderful the expression on Chang Ming's face would be when he saw this picture.

Xiang Yu glanced at the messages sent by his father and mother. They must have gone to Yangdeng Community to look for him and found that someone else was there.

I also knew that she sold the house, and sent her a message asking for money.

"Xiang Yu, your brother is getting married soon. Didn't you sell the house? Why don't you lend some money to your brother? Not much, just 700,000 yuan will be fine."

Xiang Yu looked at the message sent by his father. He had cheated on his mother two years after marrying her and even had a child who was two years older than him.

The message my mother sent was similar to his, also asking me for money, but what she said was more ridiculous.

"When you get married in the future, your brother will carry you on his back. If you don't get along well with him now, who will carry you on his back? Then everyone will laugh at you."

When grandma died, the passbook she left for her was also taken away by the two of them in this way, but dad was always more dominant, so mom only got a very small portion.

Without replying to the two people's messages, Xiang Yu stayed in the house and did not go out. Now the wind and snow outside seemed to be even stronger.

Through the window, you can still hear the whistling sound.

There was a roar of a car coming from next door. Xiang Yu looked towards the window and saw a white car driving past the door.

He heated the stove a little higher, opened his phone, and looked at the overwhelming news on the Internet. Almost every video was about the hardest-hit areas in various cities buried by the blizzard.

As well as scenes of rescue workers shuttling through the snow, there are also many spontaneously formed civilian rescue teams rushing to the hardest-hit areas one by one.

Some people also said that their area is relatively remote and belongs to a basin, and the heavy snow cannot be cleared away at all.

After the garbage was cleared that day, the pile was higher than the day before the next morning. The first floor of the community was already flooded. They couldn't go out and hadn't been to work for more than a week.

Many people are trapped at home, and the food at home is almost exhausted. Some have not eaten anything for four days.

They posted the address on the local website, hoping to be rescued.

The official consolation became increasingly inadequate, and in the end they simply closed all private messages and comments.

There were too many people waiting for rescue, so orders were issued from above to temporarily incorporate the rescue teams spontaneously formed by the public and send them to surrounding towns for rescue operations.

After making breakfast, Xiang Yu pulled the curtains, found a dozen bags of vegetable seeds from the space, and started planting them on the black soil.

With the help of the machine, she planted the vegetable seeds quickly, and when they matured, she could collect the seeds for planting.

After finishing the things in the space, Xiang Yu pushed the one-person cart in the yard and went out.