Chapter 9: Blizzard Closes the City
She even managed to attract the attention of the wife of the president of the hot spring resort, who @ed her in the group and asked:
[Are you comfortable living in the resort? If you have any ideas, you can directly reflect them to the housekeeper so that they can make adjustments and improve the overall service level of the resort! ]
Before Mu Jiu could reply, Madam's post was flooded with flattering comments, praising her for being gentle, warm and approachable...
Although Mu Jiu didn't want to get involved, her emotional intelligence was not so low that she would offend others and become the target of public criticism.
[I have lived here for a while, the holiday villa is pretty good! But because I have moderate mania, I need to rest and recuperate, so I don’t reply to messages often. Thank you for your concern! ]
After Mu Jiu sent this message, there was silence in the group for one minute.
Then the lady replied:
[Okay, then I hope you take good care of yourself and recover soon! @Everyone]
After a while, the group returned to its original liveliness, and the topic finally shifted away from Mu Jiu and changed!
In the city, after five days of heavy snow, there was a slight unrest.
The original news reports indicated that the blizzard would pass in two or three days, but it has now been five days and the snow covering the ground is already above the knees, with no sign of stopping.
And what's terrifying is that people found that the temperature outside was still continuing to drop!
The average ground temperature at this time is minus 18 degrees Celsius.
Some places are experiencing power outages and network outages due to the collapse of power lines caused by accumulated snow.
The power outage caused air conditioners and various electric heaters in the south to stop working, which was simply adding insult to injury for ordinary people trapped at home.
As for the north, it is still August and it is far from the collective heating season.
Even if the authorities work overtime to organize heating, it will still take time, materials, manpower, etc.
As for the water supply, as early as the third day when the temperature continued to remain below zero, the water pipes in most places had completely frozen...
But fortunately, there was still snow, and people found ways to use basins on the balcony to collect the falling snowflakes and use them as water.
Only at the hot spring resort, because of the high ground temperature, the supply of water and electricity is always strong even when a heavy snowstorm is approaching.
The hot spring resort is like a piece of land sitting on a small boiler, sizzling with steam despite the extreme cold.
Probably because the boss's wife lives here, the housekeepers pay extra attention to public service.
Every day, the snow on the roads within the resort is cleared to both sides to make it convenient for guests to go out.
In addition, the people living here are well prepared and have more food reserves than those in the city, so the neighborhood relations are relatively harmonious.
Every afternoon, Mu Jiu could see groups of wives who had made appointments in the group going to the mountains to take a hot spring bath.
There is a family of four living next door to Mu Jiu. The little girl is not very old, but she likes to grow flowers just like Mu Jiu.
She filled the small sunroom on the rooftop, which was used for drying clothes, with flower pots, all of which she brought on the day of moving.
The family enjoyed their stay at the resort very much.
During the day, Mu Jiu often saw the little brother of that family wrapped tightly and dragged out for a walk by his dog.
After all, Alaska is the dog that is least afraid of the cold!
Mom was busy in the kitchen, while Dad was standing by the fire in the yard in a thick pajama suit, doing Tai Chi, spinning in circles, or smoking.
The little girl likes to stay in the yard and build snowmen, and sometimes the whole family will build snowmen with her.
Mu Jiu stood on the second floor of his villa and could clearly see a long row of snowmen of different shapes piled in the yard.
Mu Jiu saw the happiness of this family and envied them, but it was a pity that she would never have the chance to experience it in this life.
After all, her family members can do nothing but suck blood.
Unexpectedly, on the seventh day after the end of the world began.
Mu Jiu was watering her flowers in the yard. The seeds had already sprouted tiny pointed buds under the repeated nourishment of the spiritual spring water.
The little girl from the next yard came over holding an insulated box.
She stood outside the yard and waved to Mu Jiu.
This was the first time someone came to see her since she revealed her "mania".
Mu Jiu opened the glass door a crack and asked the little girl through the electric fence outside: "What's the matter?"
The little girl first gave her a warm smile, and then said:
"Sister, this is the red date chicken soup my mother made. It's really delicious and can warm your body and stomach. Send some to you to try!
My mother is a doctor. She said that the disease is not serious and that I will get better as long as I take the medicine as prescribed by the doctor and keep a happy mood.
If sister is not afraid of the cold, she can come out and build a snowman with us!
Look, those snowmen on the opposite side of the road were all made by us together!"
Looking in the direction the girl pointed, Mu Jiu discovered the mystery on the opposite side of the road: under the tall snow pile, there was a row of round little snowmen.
She was about to reject the girl's kindness, but she placed the insulated box directly in front of Mu Jiu's door, waved at her, and ran away.
While running, he said, "Sister, you drink it first. I will go home and get the box after dinner!"
Mu Jiu didn't want to pay attention to it at first, but after taking a look at the insulated box, his hand involuntarily opened the door and brought the box in.
She remembered that when she was in school, her mother also brought her lunch to school every day, in an insulated box, which she handed over at the school gate...
It has been a long time since I had the meal cooked by my mother.
Mu Jiu placed the thermos box on the kitchen island and poured the chicken soup into his own bowl.
She brought the bowl into the space and asked Butler Beibei to help her check if there was anything wrong with the soup.
After confirmation, I left the room, sat in front of the table and savored the food slowly.
Although she is someone else's mother, the taste of my mother is indeed different.
When the girl came back in the afternoon, Mu Jiu returned a box of strawberries, a small bag of strawberry seeds, and a clean lunch box to her in return.
The girl did not refuse. After saying thank you, she happily took the seeds home.
In the afternoon, Mu Jiu saw her tinkering in her sunroom, and it seemed that she had already planted the strawberries!
Human relationships are a back-and-forth process.
In the following days, the girl would often bring over various delicious dishes made by her mother and share them with Mu Jiu.
Mu Jiu did not refuse again. Although it was the end of the world, she did not mind distant relationships.
In return, she would give the girl some seeds of different kinds of food and ask her to take them back and plant them on the rooftop, which could be considered a kind return.
In fact, in the entire South City, perhaps only the hot spring resort can remain so calm and maintain life as usual.
When the blizzard reached its tenth day, riots of varying degrees began to occur in the city.
Most of these riots occurred in crowded residential buildings.
Because the snow outside was already as high as a person, it was difficult to travel.
Maybe if you get stuck in the snow, you will never be able to climb out.
Many people did not take it seriously when they were able to go out at first, thinking that the blizzard would soon be over.
After all, it was a disaster that even the authorities had not anticipated, which led to insufficient supplies stored in many homes.
Moreover, the energy supply was cut off too early. Even if there was rice and noodles at home, there was no way to cook them. Many people ate them raw and even lost their lives due to stomach upset.
Coupled with the extreme cold, many people closed their eyes and could never open them again.
The building gradually became dead silent, which undoubtedly added fear and burden to the living people.
Because of the snow, everything in the city came to a halt, including police and medical care.
People are trapped in their homes, with no one to turn to for help, so they can only save themselves.
In order to survive, people soon started to form groups to go out and sweep the buildings.
There were burglaries, bullying, group looting, etc. It was a mess.
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