As soon as Xia Shige entered the door, he took off his hat and rubbed his cheeks which were numb and stinging from the cold.
But the next second, she was surprised to find that the temperature in the room was almost the same as the temperature outside!
——This shouldn’t happen!
Feeling a chill rushing to his forehead, as if it was rushing to his brain along his hair, Xia Shige quickly put his hat back on.
She looked puzzled and asked Qiao Nana, "Why is it so cold in this room?"
Although the heating temperature is not high during this period, the indoor temperature should be kept around zero degrees.
But now Xia Shige feels that the temperature in the living room is almost the same as that in the corridor, at least minus 40 to 50 degrees Celsius.
Qiao Nana was wrapped in a thick quilt, with a thick white mist between her breaths. She replied in a trembling voice: "...Since, since the day before yesterday...the heating has been turned off..."
Although the heating has been intermittent during this period and would stop from time to time, it basically only stopped for a few hours each time. This is the first time that it has been stopped for more than 48 hours in a row like now.
Xia Shige was shocked when he heard this: "The heating is off?!"
The Xia family had always used natural gas for heating, and now there was a power outage. No one spoke to the family, so Xia Shige didn't know that the heating had stopped.
After a brief shock, Xia Shige reacted. She remembered that during the extreme cold period in her previous life, the government's heating was intermittent. By the end of 2026, the heating was completely suspended.
Energy is insufficient, coal and fuel are in short supply, and the government has no other options. Many people died during the cold disaster in the previous life. Many people who had survived the hot summer and long nights could not escape this extreme cold and were frozen to death in their homes.
Thinking of this, Xia Shige felt helpless. It was December 2026 now, and the weather would not warm up until at least March next year. In other words, there were still nearly three months to go...
Qiao Nana looked at Xia Shige's red cheeks from the cold, and said in a trembling voice: "...It's too cold outside, let's go to the bedroom first! I have a charcoal fire in the bedroom, the temperature in the bedroom is higher than the living room!"
But after staying outside for a while, Qiao Nana felt that her eyes were about to be frozen.
Xia Shige nodded when he heard this and followed Qiao Nana into the bedroom.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the two of them walked into the bedroom, Xia Shige smelled a strong stench!
Xia Shige staggered two steps due to the stench and bumped into the wall behind him.
She pinched her nose with her hand in surprise and asked Qiao Nana, "What, what is this smell?!..."
——Could it be that Yang Jing and his wife are dead?! Is this the smell of a rotting corpse?
Qiao Nana rubbed her hands awkwardly and replied in a low voice: "...I dried the feces and burned it as fuel, so it smells a bit...I thought, wouldn't it be possible to save some coal this way?"
Although Yang Jing and his wife had stored enough supplies and coal was enough for the time being, Qiao Nana was a thrifty person. In order to save coal, she dried the feces of her and Yang Jing and his wife and burned them as fuel.
Therefore, although the room was not warm, it was filled with a lingering stench.
After hearing what Qiao Nana said, Xia Shige didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a moment. She could only hold her breath for the time being and glance around the room.
She found that the layout of the bedroom had changed. The bed that was previously placed in the middle of the room was now moved to the side of the bay window. Yang Jing and Yu Yingying were lying on the bed at the moment. They were covered with two quilts and were sleeping soundly. They were not awakened by Xia Shige's arrival.
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