Xu Lai, who was closest to Xu Jiangming, heard his second uncle's mutterings and couldn't help but laugh, while at the same time feeling a sense of respect for the old man.
Although his second great-uncle had been away from the army for decades, he still deeply loved the Party and the country.
During the nationwide COVID-19 pandemic two years ago, he not only donated money and supplies, but also volunteered on the front lines.
After eating the watermelon, the family went back to their own tasks.
Xu Lai remembered that the property management staff said they would start distributing the daily necessities ordered by the residents yesterday, so she said goodbye to her family and left the space wearing a mask.
She returned to the living room, picked up her phone from the table, and saw messages from property management staff, as well as voice and video messages and voice messages from her neighbor.
She opened and looked at them one by one.
Chen, a property management staff member of Jinxiu Haoting, directly tagged her and her mother in the community's group chat.
"Resident of Unit 1702, Building 1, why didn't anyone answer your door when I knocked? The supplies I ordered for you were left at your door!"
Xu Lai quickly tagged Xiao Chen in the group chat and replied, "Sorry, this is really too much trouble for you!"
Without offering much explanation, she simply opened both doors, dragged the supplies home, and immediately locked them from the inside.
After putting everything away, she listened to the voice message sent to her by her neighbor, the girl from apartment 1701.
"Xu Lai, is everything alright at your house? The property management asked me about it because no one answered the door!"
Their building is 33 stories high, with only two apartments per floor.
A corridor several meters long connects the other two neighboring households, 1703 and 1704.
The neighboring apartment 1701 is occupied by a newlywed couple, namely the young lady who sent her the voice message, Li Qingya, and her husband, Xiao Rui.
Thanks to her mother Song Qiu'e's enthusiasm, Xu Lai learned that their neighbor Li Qingya was a Chinese language teacher at a primary school in the city, and her husband Xiao Rui was a surgeon at the city's First People's Hospital.
The students have already been on holiday due to the virus, so as a teacher, she must be at home.
Her husband is a doctor, so he must be at the hospital during this special time.
"Qingya, we're alright!"
The young couple next door were both intellectuals. Xu Lai remembered that whenever her mother gave them some of her homemade food, they would usually reciprocate with a gift.
Moreover, when they are not home, if my mother encounters any problems and asks them for help, they are always very enthusiastic.
Therefore, Xu Lai had a pretty good impression of this neighbor.
Thinking of the torrential rain disaster less than a month later, she typed another line: "Qingya, while we can still have the property management do our shopping, we can stock up on more food and drinking water!"
After finishing these tasks, without waiting for a reply, Xu Lai tagged the staff in the property management group again, asking them to buy five cases of bottled water, an automatically retractable sunshade, and five stools with chairs and backrests.
When we were eating watermelon outside the space warehouse, it was all outdoors, and everyone was standing up to eat it; there wasn't even a place to sit.
Once these things arrive tomorrow, we can set up a simple place in the space that can provide shade and a place to sit and rest.
A few minutes later, Xiao Chen from the property management company replied in the group, saying that he would help look for it when he went out to shop in the afternoon.
After thanking him, Xu Lai entered the space to help his second uncle and the others continue planting fruit tree seedlings.
As it was almost noon, Song Qiu'e put down her hoe and prepared to cook.
Seeing this, Xu Lai quickly moved closer to her and looked at her eagerly, saying, "Mom, can we order for lunch? I want to eat pickled fish!"
As Song Qiu'e was pulling her sun hat off her head, she couldn't help but tease her daughter when she heard her request: "The outside is under lockdown, and you're still thinking about food!"
Xu Lai replied with a grin, "Look at what you're saying! We have so much food stored in our space, it would be a waste if we didn't eat it soon and it expired!"
In her previous life, she died after experiencing two natural disasters: torrential rain and extreme heat. After this extreme heat, who knows what other apocalyptic disasters await humanity.
So enjoy life while you still can.
Since her daughter had ordered a big dish, Song Qiu'e went to the warehouse freezer to get a sea bass and started to thaw it. Xu Lai saw that the fruit tree seedlings were almost planted, so she also ran to the warehouse where dried vegetables were stored to look for bags of sauerkraut.
The mother and daughter cooked a pot of spicy and sour pickled fish, a stir-fried lotus root, a braised pork belly with potatoes, and a preserved egg and winter melon soup together.
After lunch, Xu Jiangming took his niece-in-law Song Qiu'e to prepare some pasture seeds.
In the afternoon, while Xu Haiguo continued to plow the land, their task was to plant pasture on the two acres of land that had already been plowed.
Xu Lai instructed her younger brother to wash the dishes, while she left the space to see what news was happening outside.
Sitting on the sofa in the living room, Xu Lai opened her phone and browsed through it.
Besides Li Qingya's reply, there were also more than a dozen missed calls and voice messages from her uncle's family.
She listened to her uncle's voice messages and found that they were all messages from her uncle's family asking them for money to buy things.
Xu Lai chuckled coldly. This family really has a lot of nerve!
Xu Lai ignored them and left directly.
For some reason, the signal was blocked as soon as the phone entered the space, so Xu Lai had no choice but to leave the phone at home.
In the afternoon, the family of five scattered grass seeds on the planned plot of land on two acres of land, and then put a water pump into the well to pump water and water the newly planted grass seeds.
"Oh dear, we've been busy all day, let's go out and rest for a while!"
After helping her father put the water hose back, Xu Lai hurriedly made a suggestion.
Xu Jiangming, who loves farming, still has some unfinished business, but he also knows that at this critical juncture, nothing is more important than his health.
So he nodded in agreement.
The ground inside the space is constantly exposed to sunlight during the day, while the outside of the space is contaminated with viruses.
The family simply went into the warehouse to rest.
The temperature inside the warehouse remained around 20 degrees Celsius, making it very comfortable to sit or lie down.
After drinking water and eating some stored fruit, Xu Lai noticed that everyone was looking at each other, seemingly bored. So, she pulled everyone together to tidy up the messy things in the warehouse.
A week later, the land in the space was planted according to the plan.
Every day, besides watering the land and vegetable garden in the space according to the needs of the crops, everyone's tasks are to feed the livestock.
The family's work has become much easier!
Xu Lai was also keeping a close eye on the situation of the sudden virus outbreak outside the space.
As time went on, especially after the lockdown lasted seven to ten days, Xu Lai saw on popular short video apps that some elderly people, children, and people with underlying conditions such as high blood pressure and diabetes could not withstand prolonged high fever, and more and more people died as a result.
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