The old lady's grandson also had a bit of hypothermia, so everyone quickly found thick clothes and blankets from their house to warm him up. Fortunately, they also had an old-fashioned heating stove and two bags of coal, which the old lady must have brought from her rural hometown, so they quickly started a fire.
Everyone gathered on the 6th floor. There were 15 people in Building 3. Both children were hypothermic, and only one child was left in Room 601. Everyone sat in Room 601 to discuss the arrangements for the mischievous child.
"Thanks to Miss Xu and Xiao Zhou tonight, otherwise we would all have frozen to death. Especially this child is only eight years old and has no ability to survive on his own. His father and grandmother are gone, which is a huge blow to him. What will he do in the future? This damned natural disaster!" said the old lady who lives at the bottom of the stairs.
“My husband and I have been married for over ten years and still don’t have children. Why don’t we adopt Xiaozhi?” said Mr. 602, the kind-hearted man.
“You need to think this through. There may be other natural disasters coming, and we don’t know when they will end. You’re already having trouble feeding yourselves, how can you support another child?” Xu Lin said calmly.
“We’ve always dreamed of having a child, but at our age, it’s impossible for us to have one on our own. Once Xiaozhi comes with us, he will be our own child, and we will never let him go hungry, even if we don’t eat ourselves,” said the woman who lives in apartment 602.
"Let's wait until the child wakes up and ask him," said the old lady who lives near the stairwell.
“In this weather, most people can’t stand living near the stairwell. Why don’t you move to 601? You can pay Xiaozhi the rent. That way, you’ll all have a way to make a living,” said the old lady who moved to 701.
“Yes, the weather suddenly dropped to tens of degrees below zero. There are not only adults, but also children here!” said the kind-hearted man from 602.
“In that case, we won’t stay here for nothing. We’ll cover Xiaozhi’s three meals a day as rent,” the old lady living near the stairwell decided.
“We adopted Xiaozhi, so he can live with us. There’s an empty room in 601, Miss Dai can stay there. In the face of natural disasters, we must stand together,” said the woman who lives in 602.
Ms. Dai is a single woman who lives near the stairwell on the 7th floor.
"I still have ten jin of grain here. Give it to Xiaozhi as rent," Miss Dai said.
And so, Building 3 was re-divided. Xu Lin and Zhou Pin still lived on the 8th floor, a family of three lived in 701, the couple lived in 702, Miss Dai lived in 601 and the family of four who used to live on the 6th floor stairwell, and the kind couple and Xiao Zhi lived in 602.
After settling everyone in, it was almost dawn when Xu Lin and Zhou Pin returned to the 8th floor. Xu Lin took out two hot steamed buns and a cup of hot soy milk from her spatial storage and gave them to Zhou Pin.
"Let's eat something hot to warm up and take a nap," Xu Lin said, yawning.
"Yes, make sure the floor heating and the kang (heated brick bed) are a little warmer," Zhou Pin said.
Lying back in bed, Xu Lin felt alive again. She wouldn't feel anything if she stayed in minus thirty degrees Celsius for a long time, but if the temperature suddenly dropped to minus thirty degrees Celsius within a few hours, the human body would definitely not be able to withstand it.
Xu Lin woke up hungry at 11 a.m., her body automatically sending signals to store energy as the weather turned cold. She glanced at the thermometer, which showed the room temperature was 10°C, and took out an egg pancake and soy milk from her spatial storage, eating them while standing by the window.
There was probably someone in the building across the street who was really hungry. Seeing how low the temperature was, they thought they could walk on the ice to find food.
She had only taken about ten steps when she fell into an ice hole, and the outcome was predictable. Xu Lin gave up the idea of going out.
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