Chapter 93
The injection was given on the second floor. Mu Nan was lying on the sofa with a hanger next to him for an IV. Xu Ming naturally knew about dispensing medicine. Some aspects of basic fever and cold are actually interchangeable. It's not that if you study veterinary medicine, you can only treat animals. You still have some basic medical knowledge for humans. It's just that the management was strict in the past, and you couldn't practice medicine for humans without a veterinary license. The penalty would be a fine or even jail time. But in the current environment, it's better to know a little than to know nothing at all. Moreover, Xu Ming is very responsible and not an unscrupulous doctor. Therefore, he was conservative in using medicine for Mu Nan. He would rather give more injections than give too much medicine.
After setting up the drip and hanging water for Mu Nan, Xu Ming said to Qin Huai, "There is ceftriaxone in it. Although the conditions are no longer there, I still remind you again, don't touch any alcohol, it's fatal. It's very simple to remove the needle, just press lightly on the needle eye and pull it out."
Qin Huai nodded: "Thank you."
Xu Ming smiled and said, "It's not easy to get these medicines at this time. The remaining amount you have can be used for two injections. Let's see how he is first. His tonsils are indeed severely inflamed." As for where Qin Huai got these medicines, Xu Ming was not very curious. The medical station where he worked before also had these medicines, but they were in short supply and their use had to go through layers of approval. After all, it is difficult to transport such liquid medicines under current conditions, and the production after the earthquake cannot be too large, so it is so scarce. I heard that the military doctor just now came to Qin Huai specifically. Anyway, capable people always have more channels than ordinary people.
Qin Huai said, "He has been like this since he was a child. His tonsils are easily inflamed. When he was a child, they got inflamed too often. He was told that he needed surgery to remove his tonsils, but the doctor said he would have to eat liquid food for more than 100 days. His parents couldn't bear it, so they hesitated and didn't do it."
Xu Ming said, "It's a good thing his parents didn't have the heart to do it. Although having tonsils removed can prevent this type of inflammation, it also means one less layer of protection. For someone like him who already has a poor immune system, respiratory diseases will only get worse. Okay, can you pull them out yourself after the injection?"
Qin Huai nodded: "Okay, thank you."
Xu Ming smiled and said, "What's there to thank me for? This injection should reduce the swelling a little. I can barely eat some liquid food. I'll be there first. Contact me if you have anything else."
After Qin Huai sent Xu Ming downstairs, he returned to the second floor and picked up Mu Nan's IV bottle: "Come upstairs and lie on the bed to get comfortable."
Mu Nan sighed, and couldn't help coughing a few times, and slowly followed Qin Huai up to the third floor. He definitely couldn't fall asleep, so Qin Huai simply played his favorite anime, which was good for distracting his attention, and adjusted the pillow so that he could lean on the bed. The two leaned against each other, so when Qin Huai's phone rang, Mu Nan saw it as soon as he turned his head, and then picked up the phone to type with him.
"You have no sympathy for women now." This was not the first time he saw someone confess his love to Qin Huai. In the past, some senior schoolmates would stuff love letters in his hands and ask him to pass them on to Qin Huai. But no matter what, Qin Huai would always politely thank them for their love and gently refuse them. It was nothing like now, he could be described as cold and heartless.
Qin Huai glanced at him and said, "You have a family, why should you be kind to women?" Then he looked at Mu Nan with a grim expression and said, "You want me to be kind to women?"
Mu Nan quickly shook his head. It was good enough that he didn't feel jealous. How could he expect his brother to be gentle with other women?
Qin Huai then said, "If you encounter this kind of situation in the future, you must reject it coldly and mercilessly. You cannot be ambiguous and make people give up even though they know it is impossible. A straightforward rejection will only hurt them temporarily. The so-called unwillingness to hurt others is the greatest cruelty to others."
Mu Nan pouted and typed on his phone: "Since childhood, many people have lined up to confess to you. I have never felt what it feels like to be confessed to."
Qin Huai saw the words he sent, smiled and hugged him: "My confession to you doesn't count as a confession?"
Mu Nan tilted her head and glared at him, then poked him fiercely on the phone, "How could you confess your feelings? You just came up and kissed me!"
Qin Huai was happy: "Do you want to hear some earthy love words?"
Mu Nan raised an eyebrow at Qin Huai, and Qin Huai said: "Accompanying is the most lasting confession of love. I will use my whole life to confess to you."
Mu Nan shivered exaggeratedly, and Qin Huai really gave her goosebumps all over the floor. Qin Huai hugged the person who tried to stay away from him tightly, and said: "Besides, there are many things you don't know."
Mu Nan turned his head to look at him, silently asking if there was anything else he didn't know.
Qin Huai held his hand that was receiving the injection to warm it up, and said with some memories: "When you were little, there was a girl in your class. I don't remember her name, but she had a ponytail and always had a bow on her head. One day she came to me and asked if she could marry my brother when she grew up. I said no, and she ran away crying."
Mu Nan was suddenly shocked.
Qin Huai continued, "Before, there were always female classmates who asked you out to eat fried chicken strips and drink milk tea after school. You were so stupid that you didn't know what they meant. You only cared about eating. One time, you had diarrhea for two days. I warned her not to take you out to eat these things again. The parents intervened. Those female classmates stopped playing with you after that, right?"
Mu Nan remembered this incident. At that time, because he was greedy, he ate spicy and icy food without restraint and ended up eating himself to death. Qin Huai warned the classmates who often ate with him after school, and then the small group after school was disbanded. He felt guilty at the time and did not dare to resist.
Talking about those years, Qin Huai remembered every detail clearly: "When I was in junior high school, you hosted the flag-raising ceremony with another female classmate. You also hosted a cultural performance with B. That female classmate tried to put a love letter in your schoolbag, but I caught her. I confiscated it and told her not to use this kind of thing to affect your studies."
Mu Nan was furious. He looked at Qin Huai with dissatisfaction and accusatory eyes. He sent a message to accuse him, "How could you do this? Adolescence without love letters is incomplete. You have deprived me of my perfect youth!"
He also thought that he was not bad looking. It was he who became withdrawn when he was in high school and college and was unwilling to interact with others. But he was quite active before. It was impossible to say that he had not become smart. There were many couples in love in junior high school. It seemed that all his romantic opportunities were blocked by Qin Huai!
Qin Huai smiled and comforted him: "I'll be with you from birth, growing up, until death. Isn't this more perfect?"
Mu Nan snorted, still a little unhappy.
Qin Huai coaxed, "So you are much more popular than me. There are always people who want to snatch you away from me. I have to hide you, just like a dragon guarding its treasure. Even the light must be hidden so that it cannot be discovered. In this way, no one will come to snatch this treasure from me."
Qin Huai said this while kissing his treasure, but unfortunately his treasure was not happy about it and turned his head away, refusing to let him kiss him. He also sent him two words: "Infectious."
Qin Huai smiled and said, "I heard that if you pass your cold on to others, it will get better faster."
Mu Nan rolled his eyes. This kind of nonsense that had been circulating for who knows when could only be found in brainless romance dramas. However, Qin Huai felt that to know whether it was nonsense or not, one had to try it first.
Injections are faster than simply taking medicine. When Mu Nan got the second shot, his throat was no longer swollen and his cough was much weaker. While Xu Ming was adjusting the speed of his drip, he said, "Give him another shot tomorrow, and then take medicine to consolidate the effect and he will be fine."
Mu Nan smiled and nodded at him, and said in a hoarse voice: "Thank you."
Xu Ming smiled and said, "Please stop talking. Drink more hot water and talk less to protect your throat."
Qin Huai rubbed Mu Nan's head, then sent Xu Ming downstairs. After they reached the first floor, Xu Ming said, "A doctor I know who stayed in the hospital sent me a message this morning saying that the number of injured people has increased dramatically recently. Some were lucky and were found to be still breathing when they were sent to the hospital, while others died on the way to the hospital. They could only be sent to an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Most of them were from Area 3. However, there were also a few home robberies in Area 2. But maybe because there are soldiers stationed in Building 1 and daily patrols are quite frequent, the situation is slightly better."
For example, the few apartment buildings that did not collapse are now called Area 1 by person B. The low-rise buildings in the villa area on his side are Area 2, and Area 3 is the single-family houses built later. Due to limited building materials, they were in a hurry to build the houses. In addition, the original plan was to build low-rise buildings, so the foundation was not deep and it did not consume much effort. A row of single-family houses could be built in about half a month. The single-family houses are slightly smaller than the townhouses on his side. Each household may be more than 100 square meters, but the two-story duplex structure has expanded the living area. It is a mixture of wood and concrete. After the houses here were full, those who passed the quarantine period began to be arranged into the single-family houses. Therefore, the situation over there is that the population is a little dense and the management is a little worse. In addition, the speed of police response in the snow and ice is not fast enough, which has led to the rampant situation of home robbery.
Xu Ming told Qin Huai this to give him a reminder: "The exchange point is closed, and the temperature outside is still dropping. I'm not too worried about other things. Our country has done a good job in gun control. Now this place is under the jurisdiction of the army. The security of our people is enough for the time being, but extreme weather is uncontrollable. I'm afraid that this extreme cold is not just this."
At this temperature, crimes have already begun to occur in the military's jurisdiction. The root cause of the problem is the extreme environment. If the temperature continues to drop, there will be a shortage of food and daily necessities, and even when the water and electricity pipes cannot withstand the low temperatures, it is unknown how bad the situation will be. Although it seems to have gained temporary stability under the government's control, the government is not going to be able to save lives alone. While staying in the house to avoid the winter, Xu Ming always feels that he should do something, whether it is stockpiling food or cold-resistant supplies, it is better than doing nothing.
Qin Huai understood what Xu Ming meant and asked, "What do you think?"
Xu Ming said: "It may be difficult to get food. Fortunately, I bought a lot of it before. It's so cold now, and the food won't spoil that easily, so I don't have to worry about it for now. But for cold protection, I think it's not safe to just rely on floor heating. We can still generate electricity now, which is an early storage. In addition, the population living here is not too large, but it can't withstand long-term consumption. There is no transportation condition for energy like natural gas, so the heating will stop sooner or later. I want to stock up some things that are resistant to burning at home, and it would be best if I could make a kang."
But he was a complete southerner and had never paid attention to this before. He had the idea, but he had no idea. He could pick up firewood outside, but making a kang was a technical job, and he didn't know if it could be done in a house like his. He remembered that all he had seen on TV before were bungalows, which means that if a kang was to be built, it might only be built on the first floor. But it didn't matter, because there was a small living room and a garage on the first floor. When the time came, he and Jian Chu could renovate it so that the two families would not disturb each other. But the problem was, how to do this?
Qin Huai said, "Let's stock up on some firewood first. There are some fallen trees outside my house that were piled on the roadside and not cleaned up. Now they are buried under the snow. Let's chop them into firewood first. As for the kang, I'll think of a way."
Xu Ming didn't want to just throw the problem away and ignore it. He just told B his idea so that everyone could brainstorm and think of a solution. After all, the kang was something that B really needed to figure out. He thought that Qin Huai was familiar with people in the military and maybe he could ask someone about it. Anyway, none of the doctors and nurses he knew knew anything about these things.
Qin Huai didn't need to ask anyone about making a kang. Even for the construction of a house, Mu Nan's space had all kinds of simple to complex drawings, not to mention this kind of thing that is necessary for wintering. Moreover, he had the idea of making a kang a long time ago. His B's family was okay, as they had their own door and window, so he could just renovate the small living room on the first floor without using the garage. As for putting the kang upstairs, he probably didn't have the technical ability to do so, and the flue and the like would be difficult to modify. Therefore, if a kang was needed for heating, he could only live on the first floor.
Seeing that his friend was discussing how to make a kang in the group, Mu Nan immediately gave Qin Huai a thumbs up. Qin Huai smiled and said, "What's wrong? You're praising me before we even start making it?"
Mu Nan typed to Qin Huai on his phone, "Fortunately you chose this place. If I had lived in an apartment building, I wouldn't have been able to build a kang!" When he was choosing the house, he didn't even take building a kang into consideration. It turned out that he was too inconsiderate.
Qin Huai said: "It's not certain whether it can be done." If he does it on B's side, he can only do the old-fashioned one, because bricks and cement are still available, but pipes may be difficult to make. If he can't get a smoke pipe, he can only build one with bricks.
Mu Nan has 100% confidence in Qin Huai: "My brother is a superman, he can do anything!"
There are blueprints to make a kang, but the materials are hard to get, so you can only buy them from the military. Qin Huai contacted a soldier who had added a purchase point before, and asked how many purchase points were needed to buy cement bricks and fine sand. These were not food, and although reconstruction materials were also in short supply, it was not that there was not enough money to make a kang. The soldier did not reject Qin Huai directly, but asked him to wait and he would go and ask.
While waiting for a reply from the other side, he B started discussing the matter of stockpiling firewood. At present, some fallen big trees were right next to his B yard wall, but they were covered with snow. Several people discussed to drag back those that could be dragged back first. Fortunately, the garage was quite large, so they dragged the trees to the garage and then chopped them slowly. If they chopped them outside, not only would it make a lot of noise, but they would also have to wear thick clothes to keep warm. It would be better to drag them back first.
Mu Nan's injections were complete, and the swelling in his throat had gone down, so it didn't hurt to eat anymore, but his cold wasn't healed yet and he still had a slight cough. Qin Huai would definitely not let him go out in the wind, but Mu Nan probably wouldn't want to do nothing. After all, everyone was busy preparing for the winter, and he couldn't stay in the house with peace of mind. So he simply chopped wood in the garage with Song Jia and Jian Chu. The wood had been covered in snow for so long that it was frozen hard. They opened the door leading to the garage to let the heat from the floor heating in the house come in, and it took two or three days for the wood to thaw to the point where it could be chopped.
In the past few days, he B dragged back all the trees he could find while hiking in the surrounding area, but it was obvious that the firewood was not enough to burn, so Qin Huai and a few others discussed to go to a farther place to look for it. At that time, he, Xu Ming and Yu Zibai would go out together, while Jian Chu, Mu Nan and Song Jia would stay in the house to deal with the wood. As for the wounded man, he could only lie down as before.
He B had a lot of knives in his hand. Although he didn't have a wood-chopping knife, a bone-chopping knife was barely enough. However, chopping wood was also hard work, and there were no wooden stakes, so he could only chop on the concrete floor. After a long time, the concrete floor was cracked.
Mu Nan rubbed his aching waist, handed the knife in his hand to Jian Chu, and walked aside to drink water: "It's too tiring, I think I should go out to find wood, and leave them at home to chop wood, this is the real hard work!"
Jian Chu was sitting on a small stool, chopping wood until the chips flew. Hearing this, he said, "Zi Bai said that he met a lot of people who were also looking for wood outside these two days. People nowadays have a strong sense of crisis. They are probably worried that there will be no supply of floor heating, so they all came out to find things to burn. If my B3 is outside, we will have no choice but to run." He knows how to fight, but Mu Nan has only learned from his brother and probably has never practiced it himself. It can be seen that Song Jia can't fight either, so he can only run away when he is alone.
Mu Nan said, "The soldier replied yesterday, saying that he could get some red bricks and cement. But the price is not cheap. One point is worth fifty red bricks. I need at least four kangs. I don't know how many bricks are needed for one kang."
Jian Chu: "Maybe a hundred or so at most. For the four of them together, that's quite a lot. Will they deliver it to my B, or does my B have to haul it himself?" The snow outside is too deep. It will take a lot of effort to haul it over.
Mu Nan: "I don't know, because they are not sure how much they can get. They just told my B the price first, and I will see how much my B wants after he calculates it."
Jian Chu used all his strength to split a tree stump in half, then stood up from the small stool and stretched his neck to stretch his muscles. "I haven't been to work for a few days, and the little strength I gained from exercise has been lost at home. I'm so tired."
Song Jia looked at him and smiled. The work in his hands was a little easier. He only needed to process some of the pieces that were too big. The smaller firewood was easier to ignite. He needed some coarse firewood and fine firewood. Coarse firewood was durable and fine firewood was easy to burn. He had to prepare both. However, touching the wet wood after the ice melted, he couldn't help but say, "Is there any way to dry these woods a little? Otherwise, they are wet and I feel like they can't be ignited at all."
Jian Chu said, "When the time comes, just pile them up on the floor of the small living room on the first floor and use the floor heating to warm them up. As long as the fire can be started, there is no need to worry about wet firewood. There is a saying that goes, 'More firewood means less moisture'. As long as the fire can be started, there is no need to worry."
Mu Nan was not worried about this. He had a lot of fuel in his space, including plenty of smokeless coal. He just didn't know where to put the stove. If it was installed outside, the coal might have to be used away from people. If it was installed in the house, the smoke outlet would be a bit troublesome. When burning this kind of thing in the house, the most important thing is to prevent carbon monoxide. It would be hot, but after a night of heat, the person would be gone.
Just when several people were taking turns to rest and chop wood, there was a knock on the door of Mu Nan's house. Jian Chu was chopping trees in Mu Nan's garage, so he heard the doorbell very clearly. If it was Qin Huai coming back, he wouldn't knock on the door. If it was someone coming in from outside, he wouldn't be unaware of it. Niuniu didn't even call out, so the only people who could knock on the door could be Song Jia's neighbors, those girls.
Jian Chu clapped his hands: "Come on, I'll go with you to see what's going on with her B."
The ones who came to see his B were the short-haired girl Tu Juan, and Sun Sisi, who spoke to his B the most. As soon as the door opened, the two girls waved and greeted him B enthusiastically.
Mu Nan stepped back a few steps to let the two girls come in and talk. The wind and snow outside had never stopped. Just by walking a little bit closer, the two girls had already been covered in a lot of snow.
After entering the house, Sun Sisi directly stated her purpose: "I just want to ask, next time you go out to collect firewood, can you take me with you? I have a trailer, and I promise not to cause you any trouble."
There were so many pieces of wood in the ruins before, but everyone was rushing for food and supplies, and no one wasted time picking up the wood on the ground. Later, the weather got cold, the floor heating was turned on, and everyone was busy earning points to exchange for food. Everyone came with nothing, and the most important thing was to fill their stomachs, so there was no time to pick up firewood. Now the situation has completely changed, work has stopped, and we can only stay at home, and the sense of crisis that follows has become stronger.
In fact, she B had the idea of picking up some burnable things a long time ago, but it was very chaotic outside. It was not safe to go out with many people, and it was not safe to stay at home with few people. After all, she B didn't know these big men next door at all at that time. Now that she knew that he B was selling domestically, she felt much more at ease. Seeing that he B had hauled back piles of wood these two days, she also discussed it with him before coming here.
Sun Sisi was afraid that he would worry that she and the others would be a burden, so she quickly assured him, "I will follow you, mainly because it feels safer with more people, but I will be responsible for myself and I don't need your help at all, okay?"
Mu Nan and Jian Chu looked at each other, and it was not easy to make a decision. After all, Qin Huai was the one who went out, so they said, "Let's wait a little longer. I need to ask him first."
Sun Sisi said, "Then I'll add B as a friend first. I can contact you by phone if anything happens. Although we're next door, it's quite cold to run over here."
That's no problem. Jian Chu and Mu Nan have both added her on B. They live in the same compound, so it's convenient for them to leave contact information with each other.
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