Xu Chao, who was focused on spraying alcohol in the living room, heard his sister's question and quickly turned around to reply, "Sis, you know what, there really is!"
Xu Chao lowered the alcohol spray bottle he had raised and continued, "At four o'clock in the afternoon, we received a notice from the municipal government saying that in order to deal with the current virus, citizens are required to stay at home for a week!"
"Also, in the property management group on my mom's phone, the property management staff later issued a notice to help residents purchase daily necessities during the lockdown. To avoid suspicion, I also posted some daily necessities that I needed the property management to purchase for me in the group!"
Xu Lai was also in the community's property management group. She took out her phone and browsed through the messages. Sure enough, she saw that her younger brother had used their mother's account to send messages to the group asking the property management to help him buy things.
There is a bag of 50 jin of rice, three packs of noodles, and some vegetables and meat.
It seems her younger brother is quite clever.
When Xu Jiangming, Xu Haiguo, and Song Qiu'e saw what their grandson had done, they couldn't help but praise him for doing the right thing.
Upon hearing his family's praise, Xu Chao's still-childish face was filled with irrepressible pride.
After a busy day, everyone was a bit tired. For dinner, Song Qiu'e went straight to the kitchen to boil water and cooked a big pot of dumplings that she had previously made and frozen.
There are fillings with sauerkraut and pork, pork with scallions, and eggs with chives.
While her mother was cooking dumplings, Xu Lai took the initiative to go to the kitchen and prepare several dipping sauces according to the family's tastes.
After the plump, white dumplings are cooked, pick one up and dip it in the sauce.
Take another bite, and the broth inside the dumpling mixes with the dipping sauce, creating a delicious and savory flavor that makes you want to swallow your tongue.
After finishing her meal, Xu Lai washed the dishes, went back to her room, took a shower, picked up her phone, and comfortably lay down on the bed.
She opened the most popular short video app in recent years, and found that it was flooded with videos related to the virus.
Some videos show patients with high fevers and persistent coughs crowding hospitals and clinics across the country.
In the video, all the medical staff were wearing protective suits.
Even in various cities, there are videos of people wearing protective suits and carrying heavy disinfection equipment to disinfect the streets.
There are also videos of patients who are under lockdown indoors posting that their elderly relatives and children at home contracted the virus and developed fevers of over 40 degrees Celsius, and even experienced seizures.
There are also many videos of parents who are devastated because their children, even after taking fever reducers and antiviral drugs, find that these medications have no effect.
With each video Xu Lai watched, her mood grew heavier.
Because soon, these elderly people and children who are infected with the virus and have low immunity, especially those elderly people with underlying diseases, will die from high fever and various complications.
There's nothing she can do; there's no effective treatment for this virus. Even if she were reborn, all she could do was try her best to prevent herself and her family from contracting it.
Xu Lai didn't sleep well that night. She was woken up early the next morning by noises coming from the living room. She got up and left the room in her pajamas.
"Lai Lai, you're awake too! Quick, put this mask on!"
Song Qiu'e, who was holding N95 masks and distributing them to Xu Jiangming and Xu Haiguo, quickly handed another mask to her daughter.
“Yes, Lai Lai, the videos on my phone are getting scarier and scarier. This morning I saw several videos of elderly people and children who died in this virus.”
"The government's press release today only stated that this is a new type of virus and advised everyone to take precautions, but it did not offer any actual methods to completely cure this virus!"
Xu Jiangming and Xu Haiguo both looked serious when they mentioned the virus.
How about this!
Xu Lai offered her suggestion: "We'll seal off the doors and windows, and the whole family will stay in the space during the day. When it gets dark, we'll be ejected from the space, and then we'll sleep wearing masks!"
Fortunately, their city is located in the central part of the country, and the Qingming Festival has just passed, so wearing a mask at this time does not feel stuffy.
This is a triple insurance against the current unknown virus, so how could Xu Jiangming and the other two disagree?
So Xu Lai called out to her younger brother through the door, bringing the whole family into the space.
Today was another physically demanding day, so breakfast couldn't be neglected.
They went to the warehouse and carried out a stainless steel wood-burning stove they had stockpiled, placing it next to the well.
Xu Chao volunteered to fetch a bundle of firewood from the warehouse, while Xu Jiangming was in charge of starting the fire.
Song Qiu'e is the head chef, with Xu Lai and her father assisting her.
For breakfast, Song Qiu'e made golden egg pancakes, stir-fried a large bowl of appetizing spicy and sour lotus root, and also made a seaweed and egg drop soup.
The family ate with exceptional satisfaction.
Xu Lai had a brief discussion with her second uncle and parents.
Of the six acres of land in the space, half an acre is occupied by a pond, poultry and livestock pens, and vegetable gardens.
Of the remaining five and a half mu, two mu will be used to grow pasture, half a mu of potatoes, one mu of wheat, and two mu of rice.
As the youngest girl in the family, Xu Lai was assigned the easiest tasks—washing dishes, feeding chickens, ducks, geese, sheep, rabbits, and the fish, shrimp, and crabs in the pond.
Xu Haiguo took out the small household tiller that was stored in the space, loaded it with diesel, and began tilling the land.
Xu Jiangming, Song Qiu'e, and Xu Chao planted the purchased citrus, apple, pear, and watermelon seedlings around the edges of the pond and vegetable garden.
Feeding chickens, ducks, and geese is simple. Xu Lai simply mixes rice and corn kernels together, sprinkles it in the chicken, duck, and goose pen, and then lets the chickens, ducks, and geese out of the poultry house to eat.
Xu Lai simply took a cabbage she had bought, tore it up, and put it in their stone trough.
The four rabbits were fed two carrots and a few pieces of cabbage.
As for the fish, shrimp, and crabs in the pond, Xu Lai simply scattered the feed she had specially bought into the pond.
After finishing all that, looking at the somewhat glaring light in the space, Xu Lai went straight back to the warehouse and brought out a round, large watermelon.
"Second Uncle, Dad, Mom, Xiao Chao, come and eat some watermelon!"
Xu Lai placed the watermelon on the cutting board of the stainless steel wood-fired stove, cut it with a cleaver, and revealed the tempting bright red flesh.
Xu Haiguo, who was sweating profusely from exhaustion, immediately turned off the tiller and walked towards his daughter while rubbing his arms.
He reached out and took the watermelon from his daughter, took a big bite, and the juicy, refreshing, and sweet seedless watermelon instantly chased away his fatigue.
Xu Jiangming, who loves rural life, ate watermelon and exclaimed, "Living this kind of simple life all the time is actually quite nice!"
After a short while of sighing, he muttered to himself, "But I still hope for peace and prosperity for the country, and that everyone is doing well!"
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