Chapter 90
Wu Zheng's father is Wu Huizong, a native city dweller. But city dwellers are not always as wealthy as rural dwellers. Apart from a city hukou, he has nothing. His house is shabby and he has not received much education. He has been working for others all his life. He did not have much foresight at the beginning, and his life became more and more miserable. Wu Huizong's parents sold their shabby house to a rural breakfast vendor for 2,000 yuan, and they thought they had made money. In their time, renting a small house for a month did not even cost 10 yuan. They would laugh even in their dreams that a leaky and broken house could be sold for 2,000 yuan.
As a result, within a few years, the house was demolished, and the broken tile house was replaced with an elevator building. They changed two houses and paid demolition compensation. The breakfast shop used the demolition compensation to build a storefront. They lived in two houses and rented one. They continued to do breakfast business in the storefront and became richer and richer. Wu Huizong's family rented houses everywhere, and they were already poor, and they became even poorer.
Wu Huizong grew up in such a poor family. He was better off than his parents. He had been to school, although he only went to junior high school. At least he could read and write. However, he could not make a living with cultural knowledge. Because of his living environment, his horizons were narrow and he did not have much ability to make money. So he followed the way his family found and went to work in a factory. After entering the factory, he met Wu Zheng's mother. His mother was from the countryside, and Wu Huizong was from the city. Although he was poor, he at least had a city hukou. It was not known whether his mother married Wu Huizong for the hukou, but the two were together anyway.
As a result, in the second year of their marriage, when his mother was pregnant with Wu Zheng, the factory went bankrupt. In order to support his wife and child, Wu Huizong had no choice but to follow the laid-off people to work on the construction site. At first, the construction site was near where he lived, so he could go home every day. Later, the projects became farther and farther away, and the expenses after the birth of the child became larger and larger. In the end, Wu Huizong saved money and wanted to go home only once a year, but he could earn tens of thousands of yuan by going back once a year. At that time, housing prices began to soar, but tens of thousands of yuan could buy a very nice house. In order to earn a house for his son in the future, Wu Huizong had no other way but to work hard.
He didn't expect that his wife had cheated on him. He worked so hard just to make his wife and children happy. This greatly irritated the man who had been an honest man in the first half of his life, and he almost drew his knife to kill the adulterous couple.
Later they divorced and the woman no longer wanted the child. Whenever he saw Wu Zheng, he thought of the disgusting scene of his wife being pinned down by another man. This son, whom he had loved for several years and who had planned everything for him, instantly became a thorn in Wu Huizong's heart. What's more, when he vented his unhappiness in life and the humiliation of being cuckolded by his wife on the child born to that woman, the twisted pleasure made him addicted.
Wu Huizong had always known that Wu Zheng was his son, but that did not stop him from venting all his hatred on the innocent Wu Zheng. Until he remarried and had a younger son, this so-called eldest son became even more worthless than grass. Sometimes he would even deliberately stimulate his eldest son by showing love for the younger son, as if he could return the humiliation he had suffered to that woman that year.
But no matter what, he never thought of Wu Zheng dying.
He took it for granted that he wanted everything from Wu Zheng, and that Wu Zheng should support him. After he unexpectedly met Wu Zheng that day, he even felt at ease that he no longer had to worry about life. With Wu Zheng around, he could support him and his brother. Even though his youngest son was already an adult who had graduated from college, with Wu Zheng around, it was his duty to support their family. He even insisted on coming when he saw Wu Zheng wearing such a thick cotton-padded jacket.
But he never thought that Wu Zheng would freeze to death. He was clearly wearing so many clothes inside, and he was clearly wearing a down jacket, so how could he freeze to death?
Wu Huizong returned home in a daze. The so-called home was just a temporary heating room, just a place for people to sleep. The bathroom was outside and was shared. He was rescued after the weather turned cold. The houses that could be lived in were already full. Apart from staying in such a heating room, they had no other place to go. But such a heating room cost three points a month, and points were needed to buy food and drink every day.
When the earthquake happened, his remarried wife was unable to escape from her home. He wandered the streets with his youngest son, trying to pry open a shop door and steal something to sell. Luckily, he survived. He struggled hard until the weather changed and he almost froze to death when he followed the rescue team here. He finally settled down and met his eldest son. Wu Huizong originally thought that his luck must have changed and good days were coming, but why did he die?
As soon as he opened the door and saw his younger son sleeping wrapped in his older son's cotton-padded jacket, Wu Huizong felt dizzy. It was because of this piece of clothing, because of this piece of clothing, that his older son was gone.
Before he could immerse himself in the self-blame and fear of killing his son, Wu Huizong discovered that his younger son, who was sleeping in a cotton-padded jacket, was shivering. He hurried forward and pulled open his clothes. He saw that his younger son's face was red with fever and his whole consciousness was blurred. He then remembered that he went to Wu Zheng today to get points. His younger son was sick, but he couldn't let anyone take his son away, so he wanted to buy antipyretic drugs privately, but he didn't get the points and his eldest son was gone.
Those who were brought back later were placed in centrally heated rooms, where their body temperatures were easier to monitor than those living in apartments or villas. Also, because they lived so densely, their temperatures were monitored twice a day, and those with a fever were taken away.
Not long after Wu Huizong came back, it was time for temperature checks. He hid his youngest son behind the door, intending to tell the person taking the temperature that he had gone out and had not returned yet. However, the person taking the temperature was not a fool. He pushed him aside, opened the door and went into the room to check. When he saw the person who had been feverish, he naturally took him away without saying a word.
Wu Huizong rushed over and said, "He just caught a cold. We don't have thick clothes and it's too cold, so he's frozen. It's not the plague. If it was the plague, I would definitely be infected, but I'm fine. He just has a cold!"
The inspector saw a winter coat on the ground and said, "You don't have thick clothes? Take him away, not just him, but you too." Then he said to the person recording the data, "Put a seal on the door and arrange for someone to disinfect it."
Wu Huizong firmly believed that his youngest son was not sick, but just had a cold and fever. Since he had to be quarantined anyway, he had to stay with his youngest son. Now he only had this one son left, and he would never let anything happen to him.
The isolation place is a large cabin, which is also a heated room built later. However, it is not like a living place with separated rooms. Instead, it is a large cabin with floor heating on the ground, but there are no beds or mats, so people sleep directly on the ground. The whole large cabin is divided into several areas. Those who are sent here basically have a fever, but have no other symptoms. There are mild and severe cases of fever. Although the mild and severe cases are in the same cabin, they are separated by transparent isolation cloth. In this way, while utilizing the space, cross-infection between mild and severe cases is prevented as much as possible. As for whether you can get out after coming in, it depends on your luck.
No matter how much Wu Huizong insisted on emphasizing that his youngest son just had a common cold and fever, he was sent directly to the intensive care unit. Wu Huizong insisted on staying with the family to take care of him. They had seen many family members like this before, and they would have persuaded them before, after all, if one could live it would be a lifesaver. But now, those who wanted to live didn't need persuasion, and those who wanted to die couldn't be persuaded, so they sent them all there together.
There are no injections. It was so hot before and it is so cold now. At present, there are no conditions to transport liquid medicines, so the only medicines available are oral medicines. For example, those who are sent to this critical care area can at least be given a fever-reducing anal plug, but whether the fever can be reduced depends on themselves.
Wu Huizong was holding his eldest son's clothes and watching over his youngest son. His youngest son was still delirious with fever and did not wake up after being stuffed with medicine. He covered his youngest son with a cotton jacket and prayed that after the medicine he would sweat and he would be fine. But when he saw the clothes, he seemed to see the curse of his dead eldest son. He seemed to be possessed by a demon and threw the clothes away. He could not let his youngest son wear this clothes. Perhaps this clothes would bring his eldest son's resentment to claim his life.
Song Jia, who had no idea what was happening in the distance, cleaned the house. There was a frostbitten patient and a dog at home. If the environment was not cleaned up, they would be more likely to get sick. After cleaning the house, he came to the room to check on Wu Zheng, who was awake at the time.
Song Jia hurriedly said, "Why didn't you call me when you woke up? Do you want some water? Do you want to go to the bathroom? I cooked porridge, but it's not ready yet. You have to wait a while. Are you hungry?"
Wu Zheng shook his head. He was still very weak, his face was pale and he had no strength, but at least he was conscious.
There was no bed in their room, but luckily they had exchanged a few quilts in time before the weather got cold, so they were lying on the floor with quilts. Song Jia squatted next to Wu Zheng and said, "Your dad came today, but he didn't recognize me. I was afraid he would pester me, so I said you were frozen to death. Jian Chu also came to help, saying that you owed him points, and that your dad must have come to you to be a relative or friend, so he asked him to help you pay it back. Then that guy ran away as if he was escaping for his life, saying it had nothing to do with you."
Song Jia lowered her head, tears falling to the ground: "Mu Nan and the others also helped. Mu Nan said that his brother has prepared a crossbow and is watching upstairs. If your father dares to come in and tangle with us, they will shoot arrows."
Niuniu, who was lying on the bedside of Wu Zheng, got up and licked the tears from Song Jia's face with a low voice. Song Jia wiped her tears and said, "They are all good people. It was so cold that day, with a sudden drop in temperature, strong winds and heavy snow. They were worried about me being alone and helped me go out to look for you. You were so cold that you lost consciousness. They were busy all night and didn't sleep."
Wu Zheng tilted his head and looked at Song Jia. He was silent for a long time before he said in a hoarse voice: "I'm sorry..."
Song Jia sniffed and turned to look at him: "Let's just live our own lives, okay? We won't care about the lives of those who treat us badly, okay?"
Wu Zheng nodded and hummed. He went with the man that day, not because he was soft-hearted, but because he didn't want to be entangled with him and didn't want him to know where he lived. After giving him the points he had, he thought that it was time to break up, severing the last trace of so-called blood relationship and becoming a stranger from then on.
As a result, when he left, his father asked him to leave his clothes behind, saying that they had nothing and that they could not exchange their points for supplies to keep out the cold. He also said that his younger brother was already frozen. That younger brother was quite good when he was young. He would secretly hide his pocket money for him and save his own snacks for him. But when he grew up, he was influenced by his parents and gradually became distant from him. But he was also the only person in that so-called family who had ever shown kindness to him.
He also underestimated how cold it was outside. He gave it to her because he thought she was wearing several sweaters and a down jacket underneath, and it was just a cotton-padded jacket to keep warm.
As a result, he almost froze to death in the snowy night with temperatures below minus 30 degrees Celsius.
This is fine, let them treat themselves as dead, and then they will be clean and have no further involvement.
After two days of recuperation, Mu Nan's first meal after the ban was dried meat, sizzling barbecue, accompanied by his favorite dipping sauce, fat beef, fat lamb, chewy ox tongue, crispy pork belly, tender and smooth Wagyu beef, wrapped in lettuce and kimchi, and a sip of the clear soup of stewed beef with radish. There is no greater satisfaction in life than this.
When Qin Huai was grilling meat for him, Mu Nan sighed, "After all the eating, meat is still the best. Pray that the strong wind and heavy snow will take away all the fragrance and don't let the neighbors smell it."
Qin Huai said, "Eat it with confidence, you can't smell it." The wind outside was so strong that it could blow people away, and the smell dissipated and disappeared in an instant.
Mu Nan sighed: "When can we eat openly? Eating at home is like being a thief."
Qin Huai smiled and said, "That's why I cherish every meal I eat. I heard that the higher-ups are preparing to re-register their identities and get vaccinated."
Mu Nan was stunned: "Is there a vaccine now?"
Qin Huai nodded: "The hospital can't withstand an earthquake of this magnitude, but our country's virus research institutes can. They have enough equipment to develop plague vaccines. As long as the production conditions are met, the speed is still very fast. After all, the current plague is not an unknown virus. The two largest infectious diseases are plague and malaria. Such serious epidemic deaths are caused by the collapse of medical conditions. Now that they are gradually recovering, it is natural to vaccinate as soon as possible to save as many people as possible."
Mu Nan nodded when he heard this: "Then is the vaccine we are using now a mature vaccine? Should we wait?"
Qin Huai said: "Those who can be released must be mature. Even if you want to fight, I'm afraid you have to wait. The first batch must be medical staff and soldiers. They come into contact with many patients, so their safety must be guaranteed first."
Hearing this, Mu Nan was immediately relieved. He didn’t get vaccinated in his previous life, so he would try to get it in this life!
Since that cold wave came, the wind and snow outside have never stopped, and the temperature has been dropping by an average of one degree every day. Fewer and fewer people can endure such low temperatures to work outside, so the construction of resettlement houses has almost come to a standstill. However, the rescue outside has not stopped. As long as they find survivors, they will be brought back as much as possible, so more and more people gather here, and the supplies in the exchange point begin to run out. In addition, the wind and snow are too strong, and some people's winter clothes are not warm enough to even go out, let alone exchange food. Eventually, the exchange point is temporarily closed.
All development is forced by life. When people have needs, some things will naturally emerge. It may also be that after the earthquake, the higher authorities have planned and formulated a new monetary situation after going through the plans of various provinces. As for the international exchange rate of the new currency, there is no international exchange rate now. There are only a few countries like them that can remain intact until now.
When the new ID card needs to be re-registered, the new currency also begins to be promoted. One point can be directly exchanged for one new dollar, but the new currency will no longer be in paper form. It is said that it will be bound to the identity information, and consumption will be made directly by swiping the identity card. After the mobile phone is bound to the identity information, it will be possible to purchase goods through official purchasing channels. The specific estimates will have to wait until it is officially implemented to know, but at least now it has given the people a signal, a signal that even though the climate is extreme now, life is getting back on track.
Now the most important task every day is to sweep the snow. If the snow on the roof and the yard is not cleared, the whole house will be blocked by snow and it will be impossible to go out. They go out from the side door to the road, and across the road is the river bank. Several people directly shoveled a path towards the river bank, and then they could pile some snow inside and outside the yard on the tricycle and then dump it into the river.
The river channel had been cracked by the sun and there was no water left. Now, even with the continuous snow and wind, the entire river channel was only piled up to one-third of its height, so it was very suitable for them to dump the snow into the river.
The four girls who had no interaction with them before and seemed to have disappeared since they moved in, maybe because they felt a little guilty about always asking them to clean the snow in the yard, slowly started to cooperate with them. Anyway, whenever they saw them cleaning the yard, they would take turns to help.
As grown men, they would not let the girls do heavy work. They only asked them to shovel the snow in the yard together. As for the rest, they could get the girls on tricycles and ride outside, so there was no need for the girls to do any work.
After several contacts, their social expert Jian Chu also started chatting with the four girls. The four of them were from the same university, but not in the same department. They only got to know each other later because they rented a house outside. Their house was not a one-bedroom and one-living room type, but a large house that was renovated to make a small single room with a bathroom. The living room area was compressed very small, but it had a kitchen. They were originally from the same school, and their ages were about the same. They all had good personalities, so they got along well. They rented a house outside from their sophomore year and lived there until they graduated from university.
But the houses at the university are mainly for students, and single rooms are very cheap. If they move to another place, the rent will be expensive. So even after graduation, before they have some savings and a good job that can change the current situation, they simply continue to share the house. Anyway, as long as there are no major conflicts, they live comfortably.
The smog came suddenly, and they could only stay in the house to endure it. At that time, the four of them helped each other, shared meals, provided financial support if they could, and did more cleaning if they couldn't. The relationship between the few people, who originally just shared the house, was unexpectedly maintained because of this.
As for why he didn't go home when he was so hot, the girl who was chatting with Jian Chu shrugged: "At least he had a home to go back to."
Upon hearing this, Jian Chu said "oh". If he asked any further questions, it would be like prying into other people's privacy. Although he was very curious, he did not continue asking.
However, Sun Sisi didn't think there was anything she couldn't say, so she said directly, "Xuanxuan, the girl who came down with me, had to get married as soon as she got home. Her family arranged a marriage for her before she even took the college entrance examination. Can you believe that this kind of thing could happen in this era? So when it was so hot, she had no job, and could only receive government relief food, she refused to go home. Who knew that an earthquake would happen later?"
Seeing that the girl didn't care much about this kind of thing, Jian Chu asked casually: "Then why don't you go home?"
Sun Sisi smiled and said, "I don't have a home either. My parents divorced and remarried, and each started their own family. Which one can I go back to?"
Jian Chu said "oh" and helped Sun Sisi shovel the snow piled on the ground onto the tricycle. After Yu Zibai rode away, Sun Sisi nudged Jian Chu with her arm and moved closer to him: "Have you guys known each other for a long time?"
Jian Chu said: "Some of them I have known for a few years, and some of them can be considered as acquaintances halfway through life, what's the problem?"
Sun Sisi pointed at Qin Huai and said, "Do you know if that handsome guy over there has a girlfriend?"
Jian Chu subconsciously looked up, then his eyes fell on Sun Sisi again: "Even though he's wrapped so tightly, you can still tell he's a handsome guy?" They didn't have as much equipment as Qin Huai, and his eyes were exposed. Qin Huai even wore windshield glasses, so his eyes couldn't be seen, but you can still tell he's a handsome guy?
Sun Sisi sighed softly, "Don't underestimate the radar that women have for handsome guys. With his height, he must be good. Do you have a partner? In this situation, even if you have one, you probably don't have one. I don't even see any other girls here."
Jian Chu pointed at Mu Nan on the other side: "Did you see him?"
Sun Sisi hummed: "What's wrong?" She just heard this person calling that handsome guy "brother". His voice was nice, but not as charming as that handsome guy. It sounded a little childish. People who like little milk dogs might like that type.
Jian Chu: "His girlfriend."
Sun Sisi was silent for a second, then said, "Internal consumption, that's fine. Hey, it's too hard for women these days. You have to compete with other women for men, and compete with other men for other men."
Seeing Sun Sisi looking at Yu Zibai again, before she could say anything, Jian Chu said directly: "Don't look at her, that's my girlfriend."
Sun Sisi: “…” This domestic sales really leaves people with no way out.
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