During this period, Xu Rong and Chen Zhou had constant quarrels, both small and big. Every time they met, they would quarrel over various things.
At first, Xu's mother would try to persuade the two to stop arguing over such trivial matters. However, her persuasion had no effect. Even if they stopped arguing at the time, they would still quarrel after half an hour.
Moreover, the content of their quarrels every day was almost the same. As a result, Mother Xu stopped trying to persuade them, but her worries grew deeper and deeper.
When my daughter married Chen Zhou, the couple was very sweet and loving, and they looked like a perfect match, with both being talented and beautiful.
Although the other party was getting married for the second time, his daughter was not young anymore. In addition, Chen Zhou had no burden after the divorce, and his daughter was pregnant, so the couple agreed to the marriage.
According to the couple's thinking, although their marriage may not be the best, they can still spend the rest of their lives in peace and stability, supporting each other and making progress together, which should not be difficult.
However, what they didn't expect was that just an earthquake and a snowstorm would turn their marriage into this state, unable to withstand any test at all.
This was a little hard for Mother Xu, who had lived in harmony all her life, to accept.
"She chose this man herself. She is a married woman but she pursues Rongrong. This kind of person has a bad character. Besides, husband and wife are birds of a feather, and they will fly away separately when disaster strikes... With the way they are, I wouldn't be surprised if they get divorced in the future." Xu Xiangguo looked at the half-person-high snow outside the window without even changing his sitting posture.
"But...but...they have only been married for less than a year, and they are getting divorced like this. It's a bit too much of a joke." Mother Xu sighed.
"There are many people in this world who get divorced after just one day of marriage, but they've been here for over half a year. What's so strange about that?" Xu Xiangguo frowned. "Instead of worrying about this, why don't you worry about how we're going to live in the future..."
"Huh?" Mother Xu was puzzled.
Xu Xiangguo glanced at his wife, his eyes full of meaning as he said, "I'm looking at the sky. I'm afraid things are going to change drastically. We might never be able to go back to the way things were before, not even to Yunhai City..."
"What do you mean?" Mother Xu asked in surprise. "It was just an earthquake, wasn't it? After the earthquake, reconstruction is done, and your TV station has to be rebuilt, then you'll have to go back to work, right? We'll have to go back to Yunhai City, too. Even though it might take a while, it's not like we'll never be able to go back."
"No... the situation is not that optimistic."
Xu Xiangguo shook his head, sighed, and said solemnly, "Look, so many days have passed since the earthquake... We initially had a few rescue supplies, but over a month later, we haven't seen a single rescue worker. This is completely out of character for our country. There are two most likely reasons for this... One is that the earthquake and snowstorm affected such a large area that the densely populated cities couldn't handle them, and naturally, they had no time to care about those of us living in the countryside. The second is that the people above them are already busy with their own affairs, so naturally, they have even less time to care about us."
"No matter which of the reasons it is, our days ahead will probably not be easy, and may even be more troublesome than now... I have a feeling that natural disasters like blizzards will become more frequent in the future. In the future, it may be like now, with difficulty in getting food and drinking..." After saying this, Prime Minister Xu sighed deeply.
If the people above don't take any rescue action, life will be difficult for the ordinary people below.
And it has been more than two months. Even if there was a snowstorm during this time, if someone really came to rescue them, those people should have arrived no matter what.
There have always been many snowstorms in the north. Did people in the north not need to go out in the past?
They don't have some snow-clearing and transportation tools here, but they are indispensable in the north.
The more he thought about it, the more depressed Xu Xiangguo felt.
"If you say so, what should we do in the future? Rongrong just gave birth to a baby, and the baby is premature. If we don't even have food to eat in the future, I'm afraid we won't be able to survive." Mother Xu is a weak person. When she heard her husband say this, the worry in her heart immediately appeared on her face.
"Hey, I tell you not to think about the future. We're all going to be hungry tonight, what's the point of thinking about the future... You'd better lie down and sleep early to avoid wasting energy. Tomorrow daytime, I'll go out with Chen Zhou to see if we can find something to eat. You just stay at home and take care of Rongrong and my mother-in-law." Xu Xiangguo's stomach was gradually burning due to hunger. After filling his stomach with cold water, he finally felt much better. He patted the bed next to him and told his wife to go to bed quickly.
Mother Xu sighed and touched her rumbling stomach. She followed her husband's example, drank a bellyful of cold water, and lay down on the bed.
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Xu Rong and Chen Zhou argued until they were dry-mouthed. Looking at Chen Zhou lying on the bed with his back to her without saying a word, Xu Rong was so angry that she wanted to punch this useless man to death.
Does this guy think that I can't do anything to him just because he lies in bed pretending to be dead?
Xu Rong's eyes turned slightly, she snorted coldly, got up from the bed and walked towards the kitchen.
These days were enough for Xu Rong to understand the structure of the entire Chen family's old house. Don't think she didn't know that this guy would secretly hide some food when he came back every day. Even if no food was found today, it would definitely not cause everyone to starve all night.
It would have been fine if he had changed from three meals a day to two, but now this guy even wants to skip dinner. That's impossible!
Xu Rong deliberately slammed the door shut and walked towards the woodshed at the back under the moonlight outside. She had secretly seen Chen Zhou hiding something there a few days ago!
The firewood shed behind the Chen family's house was renovated from an old wooden structure. It had two floors, with the upper floor housing a utility room and the lower floors housing the pigsty, goat pen, and firewood shed. However, Liang Ping and her husband had been living in Yunhai City with their son for years, and aside from the utility room, the lower floors were completely empty.
Originally, there was not much firewood even in the woodshed. It was because the weather was too cold these days, so a large pile of firewood was collected. Some of the wood was dry and some was wet. The dry ones were those that had been found before, and the wet ones were newly cut by Chen Zhou and his men in the back mountain. They were all piled on both sides by Chen Zhou. Xu Rong looked around and soon set her sights on the pile of wet firewood. This pile of wood was particularly large, several times the size of the pile of dry firewood next to it.
"If that guy wants to hide something, he must have hidden it here! There's nothing in the utility room upstairs, just two broken jars. There's no way to hide anything there."
Thinking that there was food hidden in there, Xu Rong's hands moved more firmly and forcefully, and she tried hard to search in the pile of firewood. After just a few minutes, Xu Rong's eyes suddenly lit up, and she actually found a pheasant from the pile of firewood!
This was a pheasant that had not been plucked, but had obviously been frozen to death. Its entire body was stiff, as if it were a stone.
If this had happened in the past, Xu Rong would have kicked it away. This kind of dead thing was not worthy of tainting her eyes!
But now...
Xu Rong licked her dry lips, touched her hungry stomach, picked up the frozen pheasant, and walked towards the kitchen!
Plucking hair and chopping meat, Xu Rong can do these things very well now without any guidance from anyone.
Boil a pot of hot water and prepare the chicken. Xu Rong was reluctant to throw away the intestines, heart and other internal organs. She endured the nausea on her hands, washed them all, chopped them into small pieces, and put them into the pot with the original pheasant to stew.
Pheasant is not very oily, so the best way to cook it is to stew it.
There was nothing in Chen Zhou's kitchen. Xu Rong searched for a long time but only found some salt, which she put into the soup.
When Xu Rong was stewing soup, she didn't think about avoiding others, nor did she think about closing the kitchen door. The door of Chen's kitchen was wide open.
As time passed, the aroma of chicken soup gradually spread throughout the kitchen. Chen Zhou, who had been sleeping in the room, opened his eyes, his brow furrowed...
Why did he seem to smell the aroma of chicken?
Chen Zhou's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately rolled out of bed and hurried out. He opened the door, and the rich aroma of chicken soup wafted into his nose. The aroma and the noise not only attracted Chen Zhou, but also woke up Chen Jihong and Xu Xiangguo, who were already awake due to hunger. They opened the door and walked into the kitchen together.
"What are you doing?!" Chen Zhou's face was filled with rage. As soon as he entered the kitchen, he saw Xu Rong's actions and the chicken soup stewing in a clay pot on the stove. He immediately grabbed Xu Rong's arm and said angrily, "Why are you not sleeping at night? What are you doing here? How dare you steal my things?! Xu Rong, aren't you going too far?!"
"What do you mean by stealing your things?! We are husband and wife, your things are mine. Is it stealing if I eat my own things?!" Xu Rong glared at him and said, "Besides, it's such a big chicken, if you don't give it to me to eat, do you want to use it to support other women?!"
"What do you know! This is what I found to supplement the nutrition for my child. You are such a grown-up and yet you want to snatch things from a child. You are not worthy of being a mother!" Chen Zhou was so angry that he couldn't speak.
"You haven't told me anything about this since you brought the things back. How should I know what you're thinking?!"
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Chen Zhou was still arguing, but not far away, a group of dark shadows that had sneaked into the village suddenly stopped.
The leading black figure moved his nose and smelled the faint aroma of meat in the air...
The man spat, his tone unkind: "Damn it! I don't even have food to eat, and people in this village are still eating meat! I smell the aroma of chicken. It's been over two months, and they can still eat so well. No wonder so many people here in Lixi Village say they are rich."
"Let's go! Let's have a good fight today, and then we can have a good time later! Hehehe!"
"That's right! That's right! This time we will definitely be able to find something delicious to reward us! Hehehe!"
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