Blacksmith Li naturally didn't believe those "nonsense".
These days, garbage created by major industrial sectors and humans has caused repeated pollution and mutation of the environment. Mother Earth, who has always been tolerant, has stopped being silent in recent years. Nature has retaliated and warned the world in its own way. Various high temperatures, earthquakes, floods, and typhoons continue, but humans still go their own way without any self-restraint or control.
Many years ago, someone spread doomsday rumors online because an ancient foreign race predicted the end of the world tens of thousands of years ago. As a result, people all over the world who believed it stockpiled goods, built and renovated places to live, and major TV stations, websites and forums also reported the matter one after another. But when the day really came, nothing happened.
Many years have passed until today. Apart from a certain foreign country that always wants to be the boss and has been making trouble, artificially releasing a large number of viruses, causing countries around the world to spend many years in the shadow of the virus epidemic, there is also an island country that continues to leak nuclear power waste, causing worrying changes in the marine environment... Today's natural disasters are not worth mentioning at all in the face of these man-made disasters.
If others don't believe it, Si Nan can't force them to believe it. She returned to the 'mansion' and felt the hot and stuffy air. She thought that it was only June, but it was already a few degrees hotter than in previous years. The hot months in the dream were getting closer and closer. She was worried that her two friends didn't listen to her, so she turned on the air conditioner in the living room to a comfortable 26 degrees, took out a portion of steaming maocai from the space, turned on the TV, and ate the maocai while calling her two friends.
"Hello? Lily? What are you doing now? Have you stocked up and stepped up the house renovation as I asked?"
"Anan, what can I do? Of course, I'll play with men." Gao Moli's charming voice came from the other end of the phone: "I stocked up a few more bags of rice as you said, and some meat and vegetable daily necessities. My god, my mother-in-law almost fought with me, saying that when she experienced the big virus epidemic many years ago, the family stocked up a lot of rice and vegetables, but it ended in less than two months. The ten bags of rice weighing 100 kilograms that were stockpiled at home were all infested with rice weevils, and the meat and vegetables were all rotten and no one ate them. Now the family only stocks supplies for half a month at most. It's a waste if the extra supplies are spoiled. It's not easy for her son to make money to support my mother and me. Balabala, I was speechless. Besides, our wedding room was renovated just a year ago. You asked me to change the tempered glass and the better air-conditioning door locks. My husband doesn't understand at all, and my father-in-law also said it's unnecessary. I can't argue with them, so let it be."
Si Nan choked and was speechless for a moment. He coughed and tried to drink some water.
Gao Moli was her high school classmate. When she and Zou Shichu were admitted to the key high school in the city, due to her poor family background and lack of parental discipline and love, she became a little withdrawn and timid. Also, because she was born with a cold and indifferent face, she seldom talked to others in class and was ostracized by all the girls in the class. Only Gao Moli, who had a carefree personality, took the initiative to become friends with her because of a turning point. Their friendship lasted for nearly ten years, and they have never lost contact during these years.
Si Nan drank more than half a glass of water, and felt that his choked chest felt much better, so he continued, "Our tall and beautiful lady is beautiful, kind-hearted, and has a good figure. How could she be bewitched by Yang Litao? She has been infatuated with him all day long and even refused to listen to my advice. Even if you don't stock up more food, you should stock up more milk powder and diapers for the baby, otherwise..."
"I understand, Aunt Nan, you're too nagging." Gao Lili listened to her words patiently and joked with her. Her half-year-old daughter Wenwen started crying, so Gao Lili hung up the phone to comfort her daughter.
Si Nan sighed, turned around and continued to call her college classmate and best friend Sheng Youqing.
After a long time, the other party finally picked up the phone. Amidst the noisy voices, Sheng Youqing shouted at her: "Dear, if you have something to say, please tell me quickly. If not, please leave. I'm arguing with someone and I can't handle it!"
Simon:......
Sheng Youqing is a native of Xingcheng and Si Nan's roommate in college. The two hit it off right away since they were freshmen. Their hobbies, tastes, temperaments, and values are very similar. When they saw Jiang Feifei being excluded by her roommates, they took her along in everything out of sympathy. The three of them gradually became close friends who could talk about anything. They also often went on outings with Gao Moli from the next city. The four of them also agreed that after graduation, they would meet and contact each other frequently and be bridesmaids for each other. Who would have thought that the seemingly harmless and innocent Jiang Feifei would steal Si Nan's boyfriend?
I still remember that when Sheng Youqing heard from others that Jiang Feifei was trying to steal Si Nan's girlfriend, he was so angry that he started cursing and went straight to Jiang Feifei's door with a kitchen knife to chop her. Jiang Feifei was scared to death and she closed the door and didn't dare to go out. She called the police and asked them to deal with Sheng Youqing.
When the police arrived, Sheng Youqing had already run away. Late at night, he went to Jiang Feifei and Zou Shichu's homes, threw paint on them, and pretended to be a ghost to scare them. He did this several times, and both Jiang Feifei and Zou Shichu became mentally ill. Zou Shichu knelt down in front of Si Nan and begged for mercy, and only then did Sheng Youqing stop.
After graduating from university, Sheng Youqing inherited her family's hot pot restaurant and worked in the restaurant every day. She is beautiful but has a bad temper. When she encounters unreasonable customers, as long as her restaurant is in the right, she doesn't care who the other party is, she will just confront them and never admit defeat. She is nicknamed "Hot Pot Xishi" and is quite popular in online food recommendation websites.
Si Nan couldn't help but repeat what he said to Gao Moli to Sheng Youqing, who replied, "Don't worry, my family runs a hot pot restaurant, so the last thing we need is food and supplies. If the end of the world really comes as you dreamed, I'll have an excuse not to work! God knows how much my father exploits me, I'm exhausted, the store has such a high profit, but he pays me less than 3,000 yuan a month, which is not even as good as the waiters in the store. It's really Huang Shiren's exploitation in the world, I'm the White Haired Girl..."
Si Nan listened to the other party's mumbling with a smile and hung up the phone. She had almost finished eating the maocai, so she put the remaining soup into the double-opening oversized refrigerator in the kitchen, which was filled with all kinds of fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, vegetables and drinks. Only a small space was left in the top room temperature compartment for her to freeze the leftovers.
She had a hard time as a child, which made her frugal now. She would put the leftover food in the refrigerator and heat it up for the next meal. She would also save the delicious soup to make noodles the next day.
After eating and drinking, she went to the bathroom to take a nice aromatherapy bath. When she came out, she saw a news report on TV: "Recently, the surface temperature in a certain place in South Africa exceeded 70 degrees. The high temperature caused the local water source to dry up and the land to dry up. Due to lack of water and food, the number of deaths from heat stroke and fainting continued to rise. The local government is seeking help from the World Rescue Organization..."
The TV screen was showing an endless expanse of dry land like a turtle field with no grass growing on it. Then the screen jumped to a group of black people with dry and cracked lips and lifeless eyes, queuing in front of a small puddle to draw water.
Si Nan's eyelids twitched. She instinctively knew that hot weather would come in the near future. She had to return to Zizhu Town to remind her uncle and aunt, who had been living in the town, to make disaster preparations. At the same time, she had to buy a large amount of seeds, soil, and various eggs in the town to start the planting and breeding mode. So after turning off the TV, she ran to the large bed in the master bedroom, turned on the air conditioner and had a good sleep.
Early the next morning, I cooked some thin noodles with the leftover maocai soup from yesterday, added a little lard, chopped green onions, and green vegetables, and also some peppercorns and chili oil and stirred them in. A bowl of tempting red and green thin noodles was ready.
The filamentous noodles were very flavorful. The first bite was spicy and fragrant, and the tip of the tongue was dancing with the delicious taste. Sinan's appetite was opened, and he ate up all the noodles in no time, even eating the soup.
After washing the dishes and putting them in the cupboard, Sinan took a large square black backpack that he carried with him, locked the doors and windows, went downstairs to the mall to buy two gifts, filled two suitcases, took a taxi to the high-speed railway station in Xingcheng, bought a ticket to Daqing County, Linshan City, and got off the bus after sitting for more than an hour. He then took a bus from the county seat and transferred to Zizhu Town.
Zizhu Town is a small town nestled in the mountains and facing the water. The entire town covers an area of only 20,000 acres, of which the mountain slopes account for most of the area. The remaining arable area is pitifully small, which also means that there are not many families living in Zizhu Town.
Sinan's uncle lives in a self-built house behind the town's farmers' market, and her aunt lives in Daxi Village, more than half an hour away from the town. Sinan decided to go to her uncle's house first.
She arrived at her uncle's house dragging two heavy gift boxes. Her uncle and his family were having lunch. When they saw her coming back, her uncle Liu Dalin came up to her in surprise: "Xiao Nan, why are you back? Have you eaten yet? Come in and sit down."
Both cousins stood up and helped Sinan get his things. Grandma and aunt looked indifferent, without any welcoming expression and didn't say anything.
My uncle is kind-hearted and enthusiastic, but my aunt is a mean person. After Sinan's mother died, no one raised Sinan. Sinan's aunt overcame all difficulties and took her to live with her in-laws for two years. Her aunt's in-laws didn't like her and drove her out. So my uncle took her to his own home and she lived there for four years.
In these four years, my aunt had no idea how many quarrels she had with my uncle. She kept blaming my uncle for bringing Si Nan into their home, because they were just an ordinary peasant family and it was already difficult to raise two daughters. Adding Si Nan, providing her with food, shelter, and education would be like a death sentence for them.
Sinan's grandmother is a snob who favors boys over girls. When Sinan's mother did not listen to her advice and insisted on marrying Sinan's father, they severed their relationship. Later, Sinan's father betrayed her mother, and her mother died of depression at a young age. Sinan's grandmother vented her hatred for Sinan's father on Sinan, and often drove Sinan away, telling him to fend for himself and die.
Uncle, despite all odds, was determined to take Si Nan in. Together with Si Nan's aunt, he provided Si Nan with food, lodging and studies. Si Nan knew that she was not welcome, so she seldom went back to her uncle's house after she was admitted to university. She stayed in Xingcheng the whole time. Later, she got a job, working during the day and doing part-time work at night. Most of the money she earned was given to her uncle and aunt. Only then did her grandmother and aunt treat her a little better.
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