Chapter 157 Sickness
It was too sudden. How could someone who was full of energy just half a month ago suddenly pass away?
Sun Haiyun exhaled a breath of turbid air and said dully: "On the day when the temperature dropped, Mr. Luo caught a cold, and it hasn't gotten better in the past half month."
"When Mr. Luo was young, he followed the army to fight everywhere, and he had a lot of hidden injuries. They were not very obvious at ordinary times, but after he got sick, his body became weaker, and all the previous hidden injuries appeared."
"Aunt Xing prescribed him several doses of medicine, but they didn't help..."
After the snowstorm stopped, they thought about sending Old Man Luo to the sewers. The sewers were warmer and better than living in a building. But the old man probably knew that his life was coming to an end, so he refused to leave home.
Xia Xiaoman was silent for a while, then said, "I'll go up and take a look!" After all, he was half her master, so it was only right for her to see him for the last time.
Many people came to see Old Man Luo for the last time. Xia Xiaoman followed Sun Haiyun upstairs and saw that most of the people in the building were crowded in front of Old Man Luo's door.
Fu Baiwei supported Aunt Xing and stood by Old Man Luo's bed, crying and sobbing. Old Man Luo was usually very nice to her, making her feel the long-lost family affection. But she didn't expect that this family affection would be so short-lived...
Old man Luo's wife died early and he had no children, but he was not lonely at all when he left.
Wang Shijin and several second-generation military men who were close to Old Man Luo half-knelt in front of Old Man Luo's bed, acting as Old Man Luo's children and sending him off to the end of his life.
Xia Xiaoman looked at Old Man Luo. He passed away peacefully. People who didn't know him would think he was asleep...
Everyone was immersed in sorrow. After an unknown amount of time, Aunt Xing said, "Don't kneel here. Death is like the extinguishing of a light. Carry Lao Luo out..." When she said the last word, Aunt Xing burst into tears.
How can I really remain indifferent to an old friend I have known for decades?
Wang Shijin and others kowtowed several times to Old Man Luo, then stood up, moved Old Man Luo to a stretcher, and sent him to the body transport vehicle.
The others followed Wang Shijin and his companions and escorted Old Man Luo out of the community. Xia Xiaoman also followed behind until Old Man Luo was put on the corpse transport vehicle and taken away...
After returning home, she didn't know if it was affected by the death of old man Luo, but she had no energy to do anything and felt a little depressed.
He really had no mood to move, so Xia Xiaoman ate two bites of bread, added some honeycomb coals to the kang, and lay on the kang drowsy.
Hazily, Xia Xiaoman felt as if she was in a furnace. Her body was so hot that she was about to melt, and her mouth was very dry.
The desire to drink water reached its peak, but my eyelids could not be opened, as if they were glued shut. It took great effort to finally open my eyes.
He opened his eyes and looked around, his thoughts gradually returned to him. Xia Xiaoman woke up, struggled to get up, and found that his muscles were sore all over.
Without caring about all that, she took out a bottle of mineral water from the space and took two or three sips. The cool and stimulating taste made her sober up a little.
She raised her hand and touched her forehead, the scorching temperature was transmitted to her palm, and Xia Xiaoman sighed tiredly. It should be because she went to the sewer today, the alternation of cold and hot weather, and she caught a cold and had a fever.
After taking out a box of antipyretic medicine from the space and taking two pills with water, Xia Xiaoman continued to retreat into the quilt to rest. After taking a nap and sweating a lot, Xia Xiaoman felt that the fever should have subsided and his forehead was not so hot.
It took ten days for me to recover from this illness. The snow in the yard had piled up again because I hadn't cleared it for ten days.
But compared to the snowstorm, the snow in the yard was nothing to mention, and it was cleared away in two days.
After clearing the snow, Xia Xiaoman entered a period of doing nothing again, so she took out the container in the space, melted the snow water, poured it into the container and threw it outside to freeze. When the water in the container turned into crystal clear ice cubes, she took the ice cubes out and threw them into the space, and refilled the container with water to make ice.
After making ice for half a month, an iceberg has accumulated in the space.
These ice cubes are completely useless during the eternal night of extreme cold, but what if the eternal night disappears one day and things return to the previous dry and hot times?
It's always a good idea to save more supplies. Anyway, she has the space, so she doesn't have to worry about having no place to store them.
After collecting enough ice cubes, Xia Xiaoman wanted to build an ice wall around the yard.
She did it right away. She found a rectangular storage box from the space, which was just the right size for the ice bricks needed to make the ice wall.
So every morning, after getting up, eating breakfast and practicing knife skills, Xia Xiaoman would go outside to shovel snow and melt it. He would pour the melted snow water into a storage box and freeze it into ice. He would then take out the ice cubes and neatly build a wall.
By running back and forth like this every day, Xia Xiaoman clearly felt that he was becoming more and more adapted to the cold weather outside.
“Woof woof——”
The sound of a dog barking blew over with the cold wind. Xia Xiaoman froze in her place, wondering if she had heard it wrong. She pricked up her ears and listened carefully, and it was indeed a dog barking.
She quickly climbed up the built wall and looked around. Not far away, a light was moving quickly. Where the light shone, she could see the figure of a dog.
After a while, eight huge Alaskan dogs pulled a sled and ran to the front of her yard. There was a person sitting on the sled.
At this time, it was already surprising to see eight dogs, and these eight dogs were pulling a sled. Xia Xiaoman was shocked for more than ten seconds before she came to her senses and asked coldly, "Who are you? What are you doing in Shuiyue Bay?"
Xia Xiaoman didn't bring a flashlight and was completely immersed in the darkness. The people on the sled were stunned for a moment when they heard the sound, took off their goggles and searched for a while before they saw Xia Xiaoman.
"Excuse me, I thought there was no one here, so I wanted to come in and look for supplies."
Xia Xiaoman frowned as he looked at the load of supplies on the back of the sled. "Someone lives here. If you want to find supplies, go look somewhere else."
The man did not leave, but asked, "Are you the only one living around here?"
Xia Xiaoman's eyes turned cold, and he said sternly: "Why are you asking so many questions? Get out of here!"
"Beauty, don't get me wrong, I'm not a bad person." The man smiled and said, "Do you have any coal at home? I have a clean quilt in my car, I want to exchange some coal with you."
"No, get out of here now. If you don't, don't blame me for being rude!" As he said that, Xia Xiaoman took out a crossbow and aimed at the man.
Seeing this, the man immediately apologized and said, "Okay, okay, I'll go. I'll go right away." After he finished speaking, he pulled the reins, but the dogs didn't move at all.
The man muttered, "Dafu, let's go! Why don't you move? Are you hungry?" As he spoke, he got off the sled and touched the head of the leading dog, as if to persuade the dog to move.
Xia Xiaoman stared at the man's every move. The next second, something unexpected happened. The leading dog had untied its reins at some point and pounced on Xia Xiaoman.
Xia Xiaoman subconsciously pulled the trigger, and the sharp arrow shot out and hit the big dog in the chest.
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