"36.7 degrees Celsius! That's great! Lai Lai's fever has really gone down!"
Five minutes later, Song Qiu'e took the thermometer out from under her daughter's arm and saw that her daughter's fever had indeed subsided in a short time. She was overjoyed.
Hearing this, the others around the bed also breathed a sigh of relief.
"Lai Lai's fever has just subsided. You should all rest at home for another day and go back to the city tomorrow!"
Looking at his eldest granddaughter, whose face was still somewhat pale, Xu Jiangming offered some words of advice to his nephew and niece-in-law.
Xu Haiguo and Song Qiu'e, who had planned to return to the city this afternoon because their youngest son would be taking the high school entrance exam in a few months and had a heavy workload, found their second uncle's words to be reasonable.
Although my son has a heavy academic workload, my daughter's health is equally important.
"Okay, Second Uncle, let's rest at our hometown for another day and head back to the city tomorrow morning!"
Xu Lai recalled that in her previous life, ten days later, an unknown virus infection caused by the American biological research institute broke out in many cities across the country, as well as in City C where they lived.
Overnight, countless people began to experience high fever, runny nose, and cough after being infected with the virus.
Fortunately, although this virus infects many people and is easily transmitted from person to person, it is a self-limiting virus.
Generally, after about half a month, the specific antibodies produced by the human immune system can completely kill the virus.
However, after being infected with this virus, infants and the elderly often cannot withstand high fevers of up to 40 degrees Celsius, which can lead to seizures, and they are at high risk of suffocation and death due to the inability to cough up thick phlegm. They also face a high risk of death due to underlying medical conditions.
Therefore, on the second day of the outbreak, the government, which had experience in controlling the COVID-19 epidemic, implemented a lockdown to keep those infected at home.
A month later, thanks to government lockdowns and the deployment of professional teams to disinfect public places and the homes of those infected, the virus was finally eradicated.
But what followed was a year-long torrential rain disaster that affected the entire planet.
After the continuous torrential rains ended, an extreme heat disaster followed.
After more than half a year of global torrential rains and natural disasters, the world began to suffer from extreme food shortages, and social order gradually deteriorated. Areas beyond the control of the military became like apocalyptic hell, where people engaged in the law of the jungle, burning, killing, looting, and committing all sorts of atrocities.
Therefore, in order for their family to survive in the future, the most urgent task is to stock up on various supplies in the ten days before the outbreak of the virus.
Stockpiling supplies requires a lot of money, and it's impossible for a girl like her, who can't carry heavy loads, to do the work of stockpiling a large amount of supplies.
So she instructed her younger brother to bolt the gate of their old house from the inside to ensure that outsiders could not get in, and then she told her family about her rebirth.
The virus, torrential rain, and extreme heat disasters experienced in the previous life, including the evil deeds of the eldest uncle's family.
"Lai Lai, are you delirious from the fever?"
Upon hearing her daughter's description, Song Qiu'e, who was the first to react, was clearly somewhat incredulous. She quickly reached out and touched her daughter's forehead again, worried that she had a fever again.
Although neither Xu's father nor his son Xu Chao spoke, they both looked incredulous, clearly not believing what Xu Lai had said.
Only Xu Jiangming, who had served as a soldier stationed in the Kunlun Mountains of Tibet for five years when he was young, looked solemn when he heard his granddaughter's words.
The story of the granddaughter's rebirth and the apocalyptic disaster she experienced before her rebirth sounds absurd.
But when he served in the army in the Kunlun Mountains of Tibet, he said and even experienced more absurd things.
Seeing that her parents and younger brother clearly didn't believe her, Xu Lai quickly sat up in bed and said urgently, "If you don't believe me, you can go and look at our car and see if the braking system is good or bad."
After paying respects to their ancestors yesterday, Xu Haiguo drove his family of five to town to buy some meat, vegetables, and fruit. The car was able to brake normally when going downhill.
The car traveled from where it was parked to the front door of my house on a smooth cement road, so there was no need to brake.
During this time, none of the people in the house touched the car.
His eldest nephew, Xu Yongqing, the son of his elder brother Xu Zhen, had studied car repair for a period of time after failing to get into university after graduating from high school.
Speaking of the place where he learned car repair skills, he even helped find it himself.
Unfortunately, after a few months of learning, he couldn't stand the dirt and exhaustion, so he gave up.
Did the eldest brother's family really want to harm them?
"Wait here in the room, I'll go check!"
Thinking of this, Xu Haiguo walked out with a sullen face.
Five minutes later, the door to the room was pushed open, and Xu Haiguo entered with a livid face.
"The car's braking system has indeed been deliberately sabotaged!"
He found it hard to believe that his elder brother's family would actually try to kill them all for material possessions like a house and money.
"Xu Zhen is an ungrateful beast!"
Upon hearing his second nephew's words, Xu Jiangming couldn't help but curse.
Sitting on the bed, Xu Lai suddenly didn't understand the cursing words of her second uncle.
If the second uncle wanted to curse someone, shouldn't he have cursed her so-called eldest cousin, Xu Yongqing, first? Why did he start cursing her eldest uncle right away?
Standing to the side, Song Qiu'e noticed the confusion in her daughter and son's eyes, so she whispered some secrets to them that they didn't know.
It turns out that their uncle Xu Zhen was not Xu Haiguo's biological brother.
His original surname was Yu.
He was the son of Xu Haiguo's mother, who was also the maternal grandparent of Xu Lai and Xu Chao. After the brother's unexpected death, the maternal sister-in-law ran away with the man, taking the compensation money with her.
Their grandmother felt sorry for her nephew Yu Zhen, who was less than ten years old and had no parents, so she discussed with her husband and brought her nephew back from her maternal home to raise him.
Their grandfather was kind-hearted, and since he only had a five-year-old son, he felt that going in and out of the countryside wasn't lively enough, so he nodded in agreement.
Later, in order to continue sending their nephew to school, and for convenience, with his consent, his grandparents transferred his household registration from his maternal home and changed his surname to Xu.
Xu Haiguo was only five years old at the time, too young to remember anything, but Xu Jiangming was already fifteen.
He clearly remembered how good his elder brother and sister-in-law were to his sister-in-law's nephew.
Back then, we farmed in the countryside, and our family's financial situation wasn't good.
But if this ungrateful classmate had something, and he asked for it, his older brother and sister-in-law would rather go hungry and save their food to sell for money, just to buy it for him.
What's most infuriating is that five years after he joined the army, when he was twenty-three, his elder brother and sister-in-law both died in an accident, and Xu Zhen, who was already eighteen, started making a fuss about dividing the family property.
He even boasted that he was the eldest son in his family and that the two-story house that his family had worked so hard to build belonged to him.
"Your father was only thirteen years old at that time, not even an adult yet! That ungrateful wretch was so heartless!"
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