Chapter 1: The sudden appearance of space
News report: As the Spring Festival travel rush approaches, please avoid peak travel times and pay attention to safety.
Zhao Nanyu was lying on the sofa watching the reports on the traffic congestion during the Spring Festival travel rush on TV, occasionally stuffing his mouth with one or two cherries that he had just picked from the farm in the afternoon, feeling very leisurely and happy.
Thinking back to the time when his parents passed away, Zhao Nanyu continued to work and live in the city for a few more years. He was so exploited by his boss that he resigned in a fit of anger, threw the resignation letter in the face of the menopausal old woman, and returned to his old house in the countryside. He opened an account online and became a Vlog blogger for his own entertainment.
Now it seems like a wise choice.
Otherwise, looking at the crowded station, she was afraid she wouldn't even be able to log into the ticket-grabbing platform.
I spent some time editing today's daily routine and then uploaded it to the backend for review and release.
To reward himself for a day of hard work, Zhao Nanyu immersed himself in rummaging through the snack cabinet, then put the rice noodles in a pot of cold water, boiled it for about ten minutes, took it out and set it aside, then added water and poured the soup packets, seasoning packets, sour bamboo shoots, peanuts, and bean curd sheets into the pot, waited for five or six minutes, poured the cooked rice noodles aside into the pot again and stirred them, so that each rice noodle was coated with thick soup, and thus a bowl of Zhao Nanyu's authentic snail noodles with good color, aroma and taste was served.
It tastes sour and refreshing after one bite.
I glanced at the backend and it showed that the post was successful and was being streamed and browsed.
Zhao Nanyu took out her phone and scrolled through the comments from netizens. There were both praise and criticism. If there were any positive comments, she would reply seriously. If there were any negative comments, she would just block them.
Humph, she is not a good-tempered person either.
A big bowl of snail noodles was finished in less than half an hour, without even a drop of soup left. It was worthy of the new spicy version. I worked up a sweat in the middle of winter.
Open the windows and let the cool air in to cool you down.
In the second half of the night, Zhao Nanyu curled up on the sofa and fell asleep while watching the latest Mary Sue drama "The Domineering CEO Falls in Love with Me". He forgot to close the window. At this time, the sky was a strange color and the temperature in the room dropped rapidly.
The next day, Zhao Nanyu wiped her runny nose with a tissue. Good, she had a fever and a cold.
She pulled out her medicine box and swallowed the medicine with her eyes closed, along with some cold water from the previous night. Although she had been petite and delicate since childhood, she could confidently pat her chest and swear that she had never suffered a serious illness. Even a common cold or fever only happened once every ten years, and the medicine worked immediately. Even if she broke out in a cold sweat, she was still a young, lively, and lovely girl.
But I don’t know what happened this time. The sofa cushions were soaked with sweat in the afternoon, and the temperature rose instead of falling. Wow, the thermometer measured 39.5 degrees.
It was even more outrageous at night. I took the thermometer out from under my armpit and it was 41 degrees.
If she keeps burning like this, she will burn to ashes.
This countryside is so remote, and there are neighbors living around, but Zhao Nanyu doesn't like dealing with outsiders, especially the aunts and uncles in the village who gossip about other people's family affairs every day. She avoids them whenever possible when she passes by, and never gives them a good look, so naturally she is not familiar with the neighbors.
If she knocks on someone's door in the middle of the night, it's unlikely that they will care about her life or death. It would be good enough if they don't scold her and beat her up.
If she called an ambulance, she would say she had a fever and a cold. Wasn't this a bit of an overreaction? Besides, the roads in the village were not easy to walk on, and it was difficult to locate the specific self-built house. The ambulance driver would ask for directions, and she couldn't tell the directions.
After much deliberation, Zhao Nanyu threw herself under a blanket and forced herself to sleep. It would be more reliable for her to get up and drive to the city hospital the next morning.
Sometimes I was lucid and sometimes I was dizzy, but I finally managed to hold on until dawn.
He pinched his thigh hard, jumped out of bed, his whole body was so hot that it felt like he was being boiled, so why was he still brushing his teeth and washing his face? Zhao Nanyu was wearing coral fleece pajamas with a long down jacket on top, bright red warm cotton shoes, and holding the car keys, he started working like a tiger.
At the gate of the First Municipal Hospital, Zhao Nanyu circled the hospital three or four times but couldn't find a parking space. The roadside was also full of illegally parked cars. Five or six traffic policemen in uniform protective clothing directed traffic for a long time, but the traffic was still congested.
She had been driving for two hours, her hands gripping the steering wheel were shaking, and she was nearly in shock.
It was no use. She was ready to abandon the car and force her way through.
Just then, someone knocked on the car window. It was the security guard at the hospital entrance. He was wearing three or four masks and walking around with a loudspeaker in his hand. "The hospital is packed these days. You can't get a number if you come now. Outpatient and emergency appointments are all booked until the week after next. Hurry and leave! It's a waste of time to stay here. There will be even more traffic and you won't be able to get out."
Damn it, Zhao Nanyu couldn’t control his temper.
There was no other way, so she found a nearby pharmacy with few people near her home, took out a mask from her car, put it on, and went downstairs to queue up obediently.
After waiting in the cold wind for more than two hours, it was finally my turn.
There was a sign at the counter: Limit purchase to one box of each medicine.
It seemed that medicines were in short supply. Zhao Nanyu suddenly had a bad feeling and hurriedly took out her medical insurance card to buy all the medicines she could. She thought that she would just buy them regardless of whether they were useful or not.
Everyone in the line was coughing. She held her mask tight against her chest for a long time, silently shifting her body to avoid physical contact or getting too close to anyone.
After the staff packed the medicine and handed it to her, she immediately ran to the car, threw the used mask into the trash can beside it, and then sprayed her body from head to toe with the disinfectant she had just bought before daring to get into the car.
In the foggy sky, she seemed to see the virus flying in the air.
It's not advisable to stay here for long, let's go quickly.
He stepped on the accelerator and when he returned to his old house in the countryside, Zhao Nanyu drank several glasses of water before he came to his senses.
There were fever-reducing patches and various antipyretic medicines, but I didn't tell them apart and just stuffed them into my stomach.
I raised my arm and smelled myself, and my inner pampered self came out. I felt like I smelled like a virus from head to toe.
Once in the bathroom, I rubbed and applied shower gel furiously. Steam curled around the glass door.
Ten minutes later, Zhao Nanyu fainted in the bathroom and lost consciousness.
When she woke up again, the water had flooded downstairs. She hurriedly turned off the faucet, picked up the mop and washbasin, and kept pouring out the water and mopping.
After dealing with the mess, she realized that she had been unconscious for three days and three nights, and tomorrow was New Year's Eve.
My body temperature is normal, and I looked in the mirror and I didn't see any missing limbs, but my body always feels weird, like there's something extra.
Before Zhao Nanyu could investigate carefully, she hadn't eaten for three days and was busy cleaning up this and that, so she was inevitably exhausted. Her feet staggered and she stumbled into a strange independent space.
Comfort yourself, you must be dreaming, don't panic.
I opened my eyes wide and looked carefully through my palms. There was nothing in this space. I couldn't tell how big it was. I couldn't see the end at a glance.
It was so empty that it was a little scary. She didn't dare to look any further or move forward. Zhao Nanyu kept nagging her to go out. When she opened her eyes again and looked around, she saw her familiar home.
He patted his heart and pinched the flesh on his arm.
Ah, it hurts.
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