After the chickens were killed, the remaining ten or so carp, grass carp and silver carp in the fish pond were also killed.
The more than 20 fish that Si Nan bought at the beginning were all half-grown fish weighing more than one kilogram. Now, more than five months have passed, and except for the fish that have been eaten one after another, the remaining fish weigh more than three or four kilograms, and they have been relying on oxygen pumps, air conditioning, and fresh water to survive.
The weather is too hot now, and the solar generator on Sinan's balcony always has problems. She dare not turn on the air conditioner for fear of an explosion in the high temperature. The fish in the fish pond have been wilting and turning upside down in the past two days. Even if she doesn't want to kill them, she has to kill them and pickle them or put them in the space.
Killing the fish was naturally done by Cheng Suming, mainly because he was a surgeon and was very good at doing this. In his hands, it only took him half a minute to clean a fish thoroughly, without breaking the gallbladder or cleaning the internal organs properly.
After dealing with the chickens and fish, the vegetables grown on the balcony also need to be dealt with.
At the beginning, Sinan planted a lot of fruits and vegetables on the balcony. Half of the vegetables, such as tomatoes, winter melons, and watermelons, which have relatively high requirements for soil, weather and humidity, gradually died due to root burns in the second month of planting due to high temperatures and untimely watering. However, the other vegetables grew well.
However, because it has been five months, the weather has reached a new high temperature. Watering in such high weather, even in the morning and evening when the temperature is lower, will be like boiling water and burn the roots of the vegetation. In the past few days, a large number of vegetables planted on the balcony have died. No matter how reluctant Si Nan is, he has to harvest all the vegetables.
She took out a plastic vegetable basket from the space and picked down the strange-shaped pumpkins, bitter gourds and cucumbers that were wrapped around the balcony railings and hanging on the ceiling of the balcony.
The pumpkins were all yellow and very big, each weighing about six or seven pounds. There were five of them in total, taking up half of the plastic basket.
Cucumbers and bitter gourds are both local seeds of Zizhu Town. Cucumbers are oval in shape, half an arm long, with some thorns on the skin and a very bitter tail. The skin is green in the early and middle stages of growth, and turns very yellow in the later stages, and the taste becomes very sour.
This kind of cucumber doesn’t taste as good as the greenhouse cucumbers in the city, but its advantage is that the seeds are easy to grow and can adapt to harsh weather conditions.
When Sinan has nothing to do, he goes to the balcony to pick some cucumbers as a snack. He has been eating them for more than two months, and the cucumber vine is still intact, with seven medium-sized cucumbers hanging on it.
If the weather hadn't been so hot, it would have probably been able to bloom and bear fruit for another month.
The bitter gourds were the kind with white skin. One gourd was half the length of my arm and as thick as my wrist. I picked four, two of which were bright red, with cracked ends revealing the red flesh inside.
Si Nan took out two bitter melon seeds with pulp from the tail and took a sip. They were very sweet, with a bitter aftertaste. It was the taste of her childhood memory when she lived at her uncle's house and her aunt didn't give her food, so she secretly picked bitter melon seeds to eat as snacks.
Bitter melon seeds have a very hard shell. As long as you don’t bite the seeds when eating the outer pulp, you can still plant it next year.
Si Nan took out the seeds of the two red bitter gourds, put them in a paper bag and stored them in the space, planning to plant them again next year.
Turning around, she saw Cheng Suming using his scalpel to cut leeks and garlic sprouts. Si Nan thought that he really used this scalpel everywhere. If she hadn't been mentally strong, she really wouldn't have been able to eat the vegetables cut with his scalpel that had seen blood.
They harvested all the vegetables grown on the balcony and filled a large plastic basket. They moved all the remaining soil into the space, along with the grape trees, peach trees and other fruit trees she had planted.
The main reason is that the weather is too hot and the soil has dried out and cracked. If you leave it on the balcony without growing vegetables, the nutrients in the soil will be lost. It is better to leave it in the room and wait until the temperature drops before taking it out to grow vegetables.
After finishing all this, Si Nan used the remaining water in the fish pond to clean it, then used a gourd-made ladle to scoop the dirty water into a bucket, took it to the bathroom and put it aside so that it could be used to flush the toilet.
Five months ago, when Xingcheng had not yet had its water supply cut off, she would take out the extra-large water storage barrel in the space every day to store tap water. However, Xingcheng had lost its tap water three months ago. Over the past few days, Sinan had been using the tap water stored in the space to take a bath, wash clothes, flush the toilet, etc., and the water level was gradually running out.
The temperature has soared recently, and she dares not turn on the air conditioner. She has been placing super large blocks of ice at home to cool down. There are two large plastic baskets under the ice. The melted water is used to flush the toilet, water the vegetables, etc.
She has recently been considering whether to use cat litter. After all, with the current hot weather, there are too many places where water is needed.
But then she felt a little uncomfortable with using cat litter to solve her physiological problems and then shoveling it out. After thinking about it, she decided to wait and see.
There were too many vegetables at home, so Si Nan took out a large pumpkin, two cucumbers, a handful of leeks, a handful of garlic sprouts, water spinach and other fruits and vegetables from the vegetable basket. He also took out a freshly killed hen and a big fat carp and put them in a basin. He handed it to Cheng Su Ming and said, "There are so many fresh vegetables that the two of us can't finish them all in a short time. Cheng Wei has been thinking about the vegetables and fish on my balcony. You can give them to her and let Yang Wentao cook for her."
The weather has been hot recently, and there are sounds of electrical appliances exploding everywhere. Sinan didn't dare to turn on the air conditioner and only put ice cubes in the room. Cheng Wei, who used to come over to use the air conditioner every day, was also unable to bear the heat. Yang Wentao bought a lot of ice cubes from somewhere and put them in the freezer of 1503, asking Cheng Wei to come less often. Cheng Wei was so hot that she didn't want to move, and she hardly came to 1501 in recent days.
Cheng Suming went out with the basin and came back soon with a bag of steaming buns in his hand. Seeing Sinan busy in the kitchen, he asked, "Do you want my help?"
"No need." Si Nan shook his head: "I'll just stir-fry some chicken giblets and get some crispy fish to eat."
She saw the buns he had placed on the worktop and exclaimed, "Yang Wentao made them? That's perfect. It saves me from having to steam the rice in another pot."
The weather is too hot and natural gas pipelines often explode. The staff of the natural gas company are unable to repair them. In order to avoid large-scale natural gas leaks and cause large-scale explosions in the city, the natural gas supply was stopped two months ago.
The power supply is generally turned on after midnight so that everyone can briefly enjoy the air conditioning fan and fall asleep. There is no electricity during the day, so if you want to eat, you have to find a way yourself.
There are many gas cylinders stored in Sinan's space. A large gas cylinder can burn for a long time. If you want to eat, you can just steam a pot of rice in a steamer on the gas stove.
Most people in Xingcheng have no electricity or gas. If they want to eat, they can only put the pot under the sun and cook slowly using solar energy, or go downstairs to buy discarded tables, chairs, benches, etc. to cook at home. Some people also raise funds to buy increasingly expensive gas, honeycomb coal, small gas stoves, etc. to cook.
In short, people in the city now not only lack food, water and other supplies, but even how to cook has become a problem.
There are many cases of young people dying of starvation, thirst, or even being burned to death because they do not know how to cook, how to make a fire, or how to make a fire improperly.
These things have been reported in the news. The state and government departments have called on the general public to be careful when using fire at home and try not to go out during the day. Government departments have gradually opened a number of free summer resorts, and citizens can go to the summer resorts to avoid the heat with their ID cards and household registration.
If it is inconvenient for citizens to cook, they can bring food rations and pay a small fee to ask people in the canteen of the summer resort to help cook.
In the face of the disaster, national government departments have been trying to find ways to distribute supplies to the general public, and people from all over the country have been calling on them to persevere, endure the high temperatures, and not give up hope.
At the same time, various crimes such as robbery and theft have emerged one after another during this period. Many businesses have obtained food, water, medicine and other supplies through illegal channels and sold them privately at high prices. The country has dispatched a large number of police and troops to maintain public order in major cities and arrest criminals. The TV station has been calling on the general public to report together. Once the report is successful and verified to be correct, the government department will send food, water, medicine, etc. as a reward.
It’s a pity that there are fewer and fewer TV stations broadcasting in the past two months. In addition, the power supply is limited, so many people don’t have the leisure to watch TV and don’t know much about the news on TV.
Fortunately, the Internet has been operating normally. Every few days, government departments will send cars to broadcast the latest national news instructions along the streets of the city at night. Everyone gets the latest news through various channels. Recently, in order to obtain rewards and materials, people have reported unprecedented numbers of crimes, which has greatly reduced the crime rate.
The meal was ready quickly. The chicken offal was made from the blood, intestines, livers, livers and hearts of the five chickens that had been killed earlier. They were washed and cut into small pieces, and then stir-fried with pickled peppers, radishes, ginger and fresh green onions that Sinan had grown himself. The red color looked attractive and it tasted sour and spicy, very appetizing.
Because the chicken blood is put into the pot with cold water in advance, boiled on low heat until it is set, and then picked up and fried together, the chicken blood tastes tender, like tofu. Cheng Suming, who never liked to eat chicken offal before, couldn't help but take a few more chopsticks. Read the novel and join QQ group 630809116
For crispy fish, first put the fish in the pan and fry until both sides are golden brown, then take the fish out and add chopped pickled peppers, young ginger, bean paste, and peppercorns. Add some water and put the fish back into the pan and cook it for a while. When removing from the pan, add some salt, MSG, and a little vinegar, make a starch sauce, and garnish with some chopped scallions and coriander. The taste of the fish is very similar to that of chicken offal, both are sour and spicy and appetizing. The difference is that the fish meat has been fried, so it tastes burnt and fragrant, without any fishy smell, and it is so delicious that even spitting out the bones doesn't seem so trivial.
Yang Wentao is a northern man who is good at making pasta. Since Cheng Wei can't cook, in order to let Cheng Wei eat different foods, he has been painstakingly researching various dishes over the past few months. After each dish is ready, he will bring a portion over for Sinan and the others to taste.
Sinan thinks the most delicious thing Yang Wentao makes is the steamed buns, especially the buns this time, which have thin skin and rich meat filling. When you take a bite, the aroma of wheat combines with the aroma of pure pork filling that is half fat and half lean. Paired with the two sour and spicy appetizers, you would be letting yourself down if you don’t have a big meal.
Si Nan loves fish, so she ate most of it. She also fried a lot of chicken offal, but the two of them couldn't finish more than half of it. There were four buns left, so Si Nan put them into the space and took them out to eat in the evening.
The solar generator on the balcony always has problems. Although Cheng Suming often repairs it, the power is always intermittent. Sinan is afraid that the refrigerator will break down if it keeps flashing between power outages and power restorations, so he unplugs the socket and doesn't freeze anything inside. He puts any leftovers into the space and takes them out when he wants to eat.
In today's weather, cooked food will go bad if left outside for a few hours. Most people will control the amount of rice they cook and leave no leftovers, to avoid wasting it if it goes bad or causing diarrhea if eaten.
Sinan doesn't have this worry as she has space. Space has a constant temperature. Whatever you put in will be the same when you take it out. She doesn't have to worry about the food going bad.
After dinner, Cheng Suming washed the dishes and Si Nan cleaned the table. After they finished, she felt sleepy.
It was really hot both day and night. Sometimes she was too hot to sleep at night, and she couldn't bear it during the day, so she had to make up for the sleep.
She yawned and said hello to Cheng Suming: "I'm going to catch up on my sleep. Don't call me if you have nothing else to do."
"Okay." Cheng Suming answered without raising his head while washing the dishes.
While washing, he suddenly felt something was wrong. Why did he hear some strange noises?
I looked up and saw two big white geese on the balcony. I don't know if it was because the balcony was too hot and they couldn't stand the heat without air conditioning, or because they saw Si Nan who was about to leave the living room. Anyway, the gander was very excited and banged his long neck against the glass door leading to the living room, making strange gurgling sounds, as if saying to Si Nan: "Open the door quickly, the geese are dying of heat. If you don't open the door, I will break it down for you."
Si Nan heard the noise and actually walked over to open the door, saying, "I'm sorry, Dabai, I forgot there's no air conditioning on the balcony. You two must be getting too hot, come in and cool down."
She opened the door, and two big geese rushed into the living room and went straight to the two extra-large ice cubes placed next to the TV in the living room. They stood aside, flapping their wings and cooing. The couple made low sounds of cooing and quacking, and no one knew what they were mumbling.
Si Nan smiled, turned around and went to his room to sleep. Because he didn't dare turn on the air conditioner during this period, in order to make himself less hot when sleeping, Si Nan always slept on his side in his room.
She spread a cool mat on the floor next to the bed in the bedroom, placed two large ice cubes on the left and right of the mat, took off her bra before going to bed, and wore an ultra-thin silk suspender pajamas to sleep.
Sleeping this way is comfortable and much cooler, and you don’t have to worry about Cheng Suming seeing things he shouldn’t see.
As soon as she left, Dabai and his wife sensed the murderous aura in the kitchen, and they followed her quickly with their flat goose feet, making a clapping sound, for fear that if they ran too slowly, they would be caught by someone in the house who would kill a chicken to scare the geese at any time.
Cheng Suming:......
The scalpel is ready to be used. I must kill those two stinky geese if I get the chance!
Si Nan walked to the door of the side bedroom and found that the two geese had been following her. Seeing the panicked expressions of the two geese, she realized something and glanced at Cheng Su Ming, who had a gloomy face. Si Nan took out a bag of cat litter from the space with a smile, poured it into a basin, half-knelt in front of the gander and said, "From now on, I will call you Dabai and your wife Xiaobai, okay?"
“Gah!”
good!
"What a smart goose." Si Nan reached out and touched Dabai's head, pointed at the basin of cat litter and said, "If you and Xiaobai want to save your lives and stay indoors to keep cool, you can't poop anywhere in the future. If you want to poop, poop in that basin. If you poop anywhere, and someone wants to kill you and your wife, I can't do anything about it. Do you understand?"
Hearing this, Dabai looked towards the kitchen uncontrollably. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but he felt that the male human was sharpening a knife...
Its body trembled slightly, and it quacked obediently, then stretched out its long neck and rubbed Si Nan's hanging hand to show that it understood. At the same time, it turned to Xiao Bai, who had a low IQ, and made a few coos to explain the seriousness of the matter to him.
The soft feathers of the gooseneck rubbed against the back of her hand, making it itchy. Si Nan was surprised that Dabai had really become a spirit and could actually understand what she said. At the same time, she put the cat litter box into the toilet and told the Dabai couple who followed them to the side-bed toilet like followers that they could go to the toilet here from now on. The couple stretched their necks and made a cooing sound for a while, but it was not known whether they understood what she said or not.
After Si Nan dealt with them, he returned to his room. Dabai and his wife followed him in. Si Nan wanted to chase them out, but then he remembered that Dabai was very alert. She used to lock the door before sleeping and put a chair against the door to prevent Cheng Suming from coming in and causing unnecessary embarrassment. Now that the couple came in and squatted beside the ice and groomed their feathers, she didn't need to do so much to guard against Cheng Suming. She just closed the door and lay down on the mat boldly.
After tossing and turning on the mat like frying fish for more than half an hour, she finally fell asleep. She didn't know how long she slept when she was suddenly awakened by a loud goose cry.
Sinan opened her eyes dazedly and saw Dabai crying anxiously in her ear. He would occasionally bite her arm with his mouth and pull it out, as if he wanted to pull her somewhere.
"What's going on?" Si Nan stood up and followed Dabai and his wife out of the room. He soon smelled a burnt smell.
She looked in the direction that Dabai had gone and found that the awning on the balcony had somehow caught fire. A big hole was burned in the right awning, and the solar generator was also affected. It was burning and crackling, and there were constant explosions. It looked very scary.
Si Nan was startled and looked around. He found a note left by Cheng Su Ming on the coffee table in the living room, saying that his friend Yu Yong was sick and he had gone to see his friend. Si Nan could only go to the bathroom, fetch the dirty water in the bucket, and rush to the balcony to put out the fire.
After five minutes, Si Nan got out several buckets of water from the space and finally put out the fire on the balcony.
She then realized that it was not just her balcony that was on fire. Many of the balconies or windows with roofs and sheds on the dozen or so buildings within her field of vision were on fire, with solar panels and air conditioners exploding.
There were flames burning everywhere and loud sounds of explosions and fires. Children were frightened and cried loudly at home. Many families did not have extra water to put out the fires and could only look for sand or use their hands, feet, bodies, sticks and mops to put out the fires.
Si Nan stood on the balcony and watched for a while. She found that most of the houses that had fires were able to control the fire. She then silently took out her cell phone, took a look at the temperature, and found that it had risen by another degree. The perceived temperature was already close to sixty degrees. The fiery red sun had been scorching all things in the world. No wonder her house couldn't bear it. The awning caught fire due to the scorching light.
"Dabai, Xiaobai, thank you, you saved my life." Si Nan looked at the big hole burned through the balcony and felt extremely fortunate to have let Dabai and his wife into her room today.
Otherwise, if she fell asleep, even if she smelled a burning smell, she would be careless and think that someone else's house was on fire, but she might not get up to check. By then, if the fire spread to a point where it was out of control, her life would be in danger.
In order to repay the kindness of Dabai and his wife, she took out a bag of poultry feed from the space and poured it into a small basin, filling half of the basin. She also took out a cabbage, chopped it with a knife, added some corn flour and water and mixed it together, and put it in the living room for the two of them to eat.
This is one of the favorite foods of poultry. The Dabai couple did not hesitate to eat it.
However, Sinan noticed that Dabai ate very little, so it stood by the basin and ate bit by bit. When Xiaobai was full, it flapped its wings twice and walked away while tidying up its feathers, and then it ate what was left by Xiaobai.
Sinan couldn't help but smile. Even animals knew how to love and give in to their wives, but there were so many scumbags and bitches among humans who spent all day thinking about how to cheat, betray and cheat on each other. It was really ridiculous to think about it.
She thought of Cheng Suming. Although they had an arranged marriage and were a plastic couple, Cheng Suming had always been very good to her. At least he never argued with her about food and drink.
For example, she likes to eat fish, so he not only often cooks fish for her, but also carefully picks out the fish bones for her so that she can eat as much as she wants and he can eat the leftovers. Sometimes he will even study fish recipes according to her taste and make a whole fish feast for her, but in fact, he himself is not that fond of fish and seafood.
Thinking about it this way, Cheng Su Ming is very similar to Da Bai, both of them love their wives very much.
Si Nan felt a little warm in his heart. He picked up his phone and called Cheng Su Ming to ask him what time he would be back.
She didn't know what was going on. In the past, the person would answer the phone within seconds, but today, no one answered the phone after she called for a long time. She felt a little uneasy. After hanging up the phone, she sent him a video and called him on the chat app, but still no response.
She called repeatedly in anxiety, until the sun went down in the evening and the sky gradually darkened, but Cheng Suming still didn't answer her call.
She couldn't sit still anymore, so she wanted to go to room 1503 next door to talk to Cheng Wei and Yang Wentao, and then went downstairs to find Cheng Suming. Suddenly, the phone rang, and she quickly picked it up and saw that it was her good friend Gao Moli.
As soon as the call was connected, Gao Moli started crying on the other end of the phone: "Nannan, do you have any food at home? Can you lend me some food and drinks? Your goddaughter Wenwen is almost starving to death..."
"I still have some food and drinks at home. How much do you want?" Si Nan had expected that Gao Moli would do something like this today. Considering how difficult her in-laws were and how weird her husband was, it was already amazing that she could hold on for more than five months before coming to him to borrow food and water.
"No matter how much I lend, I can't shut up my parents-in-law and my useless husband." Gao Moli hesitated for a long time on the other end of the phone and told the truth: "Nannan, I have been divorcing Cao Weizhi for the past few months. Yesterday, my mother-in-law lent all the water I had reserved for the children to make porridge to my eldest sister-in-law, and didn't leave a drop for Wenwen. I got angry and had a big fight with my mother-in-law. My husband thought I hit my mother-in-law and slapped me, which stunned me. This morning, I took Wenwen and went to the Civil Affairs Bureau with him to get a divorce certificate. I am desperate now and can only come to you. Can you take us in for two days?"
Si Nan was silent for a few seconds, then slowly said, "Okay."
She has her own space, so it is not appropriate for her to allow outsiders to live in her home, so as not to expose her space and bring about the fatal disaster that Cheng Suming mentioned.
However, Gao Moli is her friend for many years. She has been with her for nearly ten years. The two are good friends and like sisters. If her sister is in trouble, she will naturally help.
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