Chapter 12 Chapter 12
Qin Wei, who was sitting on the sofa outside, didn't know that the brother and sister mentioned him and was thinking about what to eat for lunch.
Perhaps because he often does not have time to eat when he is on a mission, he attaches great importance to three meals a day. People live for decades, and eating and drinking are top priorities.
By the way, call his brother and ask him to stock up on food during this period, as this rain is likely to be global and will not stop for a while.
"Where did you hear this news?"
Qin Wei's elder brother is Qin Ye. The Qin family also made their fortune as local rich people. When it came to Qin's father's generation, he wanted to develop in politics, but he had no way. He was about to retire and was still a deputy director. His career had come to an end.
The eldest son, Qin Ye, also known as Ye Tongye, shoulders the Qin family's ambitions. He is more ambitious than his father and has become Qin's father's superior at the age of 35.
As for Qin Wei, perhaps all the rebelliousness and treason of the Qin family were embodied in him. He was a good national defense student, but after graduation he did not join the army, but became a mercenary and was the best in the industry.
Qin Ye didn't doubt his own brother, but he hadn't received any information, so he naturally doubted Qin Wei's words.
Qin Wei couldn't explain where the news came from. During all these years as a mercenary, he always relied on his intuition to escape from danger, and he believed in it this time as well.
I had to make up an excuse to get by. "A friend told me that a relative of his works at the Meteorological Bureau. He just told me that the heavy rain this time will have a big impact. You should buy more supplies privately. This matter will probably not be made public. It may cause trouble. Don't tell anyone."
Qin Ye naturally wouldn't tell anyone, and even if he did, no one would probably believe it.
After finishing the call with his brother, Qin Wei went to the kitchen to get busy. His employer's sister was an overseas Chinese and the food she ate abroad was probably not very good, so he planned to cook hotpot, which was not available abroad.
I didn’t know if the brother and sister could eat spicy food, so I cooked a shabu-shabu pot with spicy beef oil and mushroom soup base.
The aroma of the hotpot was so overbearing that it made Wang Yu drool right after she finished talking on the phone with Mr. and Mrs. Ye. She hadn't eaten hotpot for a year, and it was all thanks to Lao Gan Ma. God knows how she got through the past 365 days!
I obviously can't stand spicy food, but I still insisted on eating it. By the end of the meal, it was so spicy that I was about to cry and have runny nose.
Ye Xun looked at it with disgust and asked her to wipe it off quickly.
He and Qin Wei love spicy food, so this level of spiciness is acceptable. It’s just that the smell of hot pot is really strong. I wonder if it will be too eye-catching in the end of the world.
In the end, Bal also got a few pieces of meat, which were from the pot of mushrooms. There were too many spicy seasonings, which were not good for the dog's health, so Ye Xun didn't dare to feed it to him.
After cleaning the table, Qin Wei checked the inventory in the kitchen. He had looked in the cabinets under the stove. Basically, there was rice and some vacuum-packed pasta, as well as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, but relatively few other seasonings.
The main reason was that Ye Xun didn’t think about this when he was stockpiling goods, because he couldn’t cook and therefore didn’t consider it comprehensively.
It is really inconvenient to go out now, but there are still people delivering takeout. They are all people who have to support their families, and they won’t get paid if they don’t work.
Now the delivery fee has skyrocketed and has risen to 20, and this is within 3 kilometers. If it exceeds 3 kilometers, it will be even higher than before.
Qin Wei placed an order on the app for dried vegetables and seasonings that he didn't have in stock in the kitchen, especially hot pot base. He bought 50 bags of each flavor. If he ate hot pot every day, he would be able to eat them for half a year.
The delivery man was late, but it was reasonable. The water level had risen a lot and had reached the thighs of adult men. The electric bikes could hardly move. If he was not short of money, he would not have come out to take the job.
After the order was completed, Qin Wei gave a reward of 200.
Qin Wei's stockpiling actions these two days did not avoid Ye Xun. Ye Xun knew that the other party might have vaguely sensed something. Qin Wei was a smart man and would not ask too many questions. It was easy to get along with smart people.
The most important thing now is to take good care of the seedlings in the living room.
During the rainy days, Ye Xun would go to see how the vegetables were growing when he had nothing to do. He would apply fertilizers and kill insects on time, and the vegetables grew vigorously.
Other residents had a harder time.
This is already the fourth day of rain, and there is no sign of stopping. The water has already reached the second floor. No one lives on the first floor, so there is no problem. However, the residents on the second floor are in trouble as their home appliances have been flooded and cannot be used.
Complaints to property management were also resolved.
Eating has also become a problem. Nowadays, people buy enough vegetables for one or two days and rarely buy a lot at one time to take home. Now there is only rice and a little meat in the freezer at home, and the vegetables are eaten up early.
Ye Xun is in 1502. The smell of cooking will only float upwards, so he simply dismantled the oil fume duct and blocked it with cement. It can also prevent rats and insects at the back. He puts an air purifier next to him when cooking.
The external pipes of the air conditioner were also removed and sealed with cement. If it is directly replaced with a floor-standing type, the air conditioner outer box will be useless when it is too hot or cold, especially in hot weather, it is prone to explosion.
The three of them were more restrained when eating, and tried to cook dishes with less smell of oil smoke. The doors and windows of the house have been treated, and the sealing effect is very good, so the smell is difficult to penetrate, but it is better to be safe than sorry.
On the seventh day, the water level reached the third floor. The drainage pipes in the community were completely useless. The property management explained that the community was low-lying and a garbage dump upstream was washed away by the flood, and the garbage was brought down and blocked the drainage outlet.
After communicating with the property management, the residents on the 2nd and 3rd floors pried open the doors of the unsold unfinished houses on the upper floors and moved in as an emergency measure.
The property management did not agree at first, but that group of people had already pried open the door, so they had to agree even if they did not want to.
After solving the housing problem, a new problem arose. The family had no more food, so they had to knock on doors one by one to borrow. But who would dare to lend at this time? There were several mouths to feed at home, and besides, being a good person did not necessarily bring good rewards.
On the ninth day, Ye Xun saw a message in the homeowners group that the 11th floor had been robbed. The husband was away on a business trip and could not come back, leaving only his wife, children and elderly parents. The thieves were three strong men who had no ability to fight back. Not only did they steal the food, they also touched the woman. If the old man had not called the police, who knows what would have happened next.
He told Qin Wei and Wang Yu about this.
The main concern is Wang Yu. She has always lived in a peaceful society and has never had any contact with them, but she will eventually get used to it.
As for Qin Wei, this big brother has no idea how many people's blood he has stained his hands. He is not someone that a common citizen like him needs to care about.
In fact, Wang Yu, who was subconsciously put in a weak position by him, might not be as weak as she thought?
Gun ownership is legal abroad, and one can hear neighbors playing shooting games almost every week. Wang Yu said that these are child's play.
But it was difficult to say it out loud, for fear that his cousin would worry again, so he pretended to be angry, blamed these people and said that he did not have bad intentions.
Ye Xun was relieved now, and the plan of strengthening his body had to be put on the agenda. Without a good physique, it would not be easy to survive this doomsday.
The next day, Qin Wei got up at seven o'clock as usual and found a few more dumbbells and a treadmill in the living room.
Some time ago, I felt that morning exercises were not satisfying enough without any equipment. Today, I saw dumbbells and kept exercising until I was sweating profusely.
Ye Xun has been adjusting his biological clock recently, and basically gets up around 8:30. In addition to exercising, he also remodeled the structure of his living room.
Qin Wei didn't know where he got the two-layer shelf from, but he moved the foam boxes full of vegetables onto it, and the space in the living room instantly became much larger.
He also began to hint to Qin Wei, what if these vegetables were not enough for the three of them? The planting area in the living room was still too small, and it would be better if there were more rooms for growing vegetables.
He knew that this boy was eyeing his room.
It's right next to the living room and there's no load-bearing wall in the middle, so it won't have any impact if it's demolished.
Qin Wei didn't care, but seeing Ye Xun frowning every day because of the source of vegetables, he started to feel disgusted and wanted to wait for Ye Xun to speak up himself.
The opportunity came on the fifteenth day of the rain. At this time, the government had already dispatched soldiers and volunteers to deliver relief food and help with purchasing to the residents trapped in the flood and suffering from hunger.
It is called relief food, but in fact it is just some wilted vegetables, a palm-sized piece of frozen meat, and some noodles. If you don’t want to eat the relief food distributed by the government, you can ask volunteers to buy it for you, but the running fee in the middle is negotiated by them.
The vegetable and grain warehouses in the city were basically flooded, with only a small amount of surplus goods, so the prices are now shockingly high, especially for vegetables. The fields were all flooded and all the vegetables were rotting in the fields.
Now the errand fee alone is 500 per time, not including the cost of serving the dishes.
Ye Xun was planning to ask someone to run errands as well. Three adults hadn't bought any groceries for so many days, and they could still say they had food stored at home in the past few days. If they didn't pretend again, it would be obvious that they were telling others that they had food.
Isn't this just asking people to come and rob?
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