Chapter 43: State intervention, relief supplies
Heavy Snow Day 23
The temperature outside was getting lower and lower. Even though Qin Xingyue's house was equipped with a lot of constant temperature materials, Qin Xingyue could still feel that the temperature inside the house was getting lower and lower.
The air conditioner at home was on. Qin Xingyue sat in front of the electric stove and curled up on the sofa reading a medical book.
I don’t know if it’s because she often drinks space water, but her health is very good and her memory is getting better and better. These days, Qin Xingyue has read several medical books and memorized the theoretical knowledge by heart, but there is nothing for her to put into practice, and she doesn’t know how good her medical skills are, so she can only continue to read the knowledge in the medical books.
She planned to finish reading these theoretical knowledge of Western medicine, understand it thoroughly, and then continue to read books on Chinese medicine. She said that she would learn more when she had time. Now is the beginning of the end of the world, as long as there is food and drink and you don't have to go out, it is still very safe. It will be more dangerous as time goes by.
I only have free time to read now, but there will be fewer opportunities in the future.
Roasting by the fire, drinking juice and reading books, Qin Xingyue spent the day lazily. She fell asleep while reading.
At the same time, there were several families outside who had completely run out of food stores in the past two days.
No matter how much they save and reduce their expenses, there is only so much food in the house and the day will come when it will run out.
It has been snowing for so many days and the power and internet have been out for so long. In this era when no one has the habit of storing food, it is not easy to survive until now.
From yesterday till now, two families have not had a single bite of rice to eat, and the children in the homes are crying loudly due to hunger.
Not to mention the children, even the adults looked pale. Seeing that the snow showed no sign of stopping, they had no way to go out to get something to eat. In desperation, they could only go from house to house to beg for food.
In the past, when we were neighbors, a little food was not a precious thing, so everyone would easily agree and even give more.
But now, the world is different. When food cannot be bought, food is more important than anything else. Asking for food is tantamount to asking for other people’s lives.
Therefore, not only did the two families get nothing, but they were scolded a lot instead.
However, they did not give up. Instead, they went knocking on doors one by one, hoping to meet someone with a soft heart who would give them some alms.
Soon, they came to the family that took in Peng Li. The residents of this family were an elderly couple. In their early years, their only son died in a car accident and did not leave any offspring. The couple were left to depend on each other.
The couple had a good reputation in the community and were very kind-hearted. That was why they were persuaded by Peng Li to take in their family with just a few words last time.
At this moment, hearing the miserable pleading outside, the couple couldn't bear it. The grandmother said to the grandfather, "Old man, we still have some instant noodles at home. We don't eat this either. Go and give it to them. There are also children there. It's too pitiful to see them!"
"Okay, I'll get it right away!"
"No!" At this time, Peng Li suddenly shouted and stopped them: "Grandma Li, we don't have much food now. If someone comes and asks for food, you can give it to them. Otherwise, we won't have enough to eat!"
After a few days, she has figured out the situation at home. The elderly are in poor health, so they like to buy a lot of things when they go out and store them, such as potatoes, cabbage, sweet potatoes that can be stored for a long time. The old couple has stored a lot.
There were still a few bags of rice, as well as some dry food and noodles. She had never expected that the family that took her in had so many good things at home. She was happy for a long time.
If they eat these things sparingly, they can last for a long time and may be enough to last them until the snow stops.
But if the old couple gave something to others from time to time, no matter how much stuff there was, it would not be able to withstand their waste.
"But there are several lives out there. That kid will die if he doesn't eat!" the old man said tremblingly. He has lived for most of his life, so how could he not know the current situation? However, when he looked at those little kids, he would think of his own son when he was a child, and he couldn't bear to see them suffer.
"Grandpa Li, no matter how pitiful they are, it's none of our business. If you give them food, we will have nothing to eat, and then we will be hungry. These days, Dabao and Erbao have treated you as their own grandparents. Can you bear to see them suffer and starve?"
Peng Li cried and pulled her two children to her side. The two children also looked at the old couple pitifully.
At this moment, she had already regarded everything in the house as theirs, so she had no idea that she was being taken in by someone else.
The old couple of the Li family looked at the two children and felt a little embarrassed. In the end, they just said, "Give a piece of bread to the children outside the house." This was their insistence, and Peng Li had no choice but to agree.
However, as she watched them hand out the bread and listened to the voices of gratitude coming from outside, she stared at the backs of the old couple with hatred in her eyes.
But when they turned around, she looked pitiful and docile again...
"Residents of Tianhai Road are requested to go to Nanfeng Square to collect survival supplies. Each resident can only collect one item from their neighbor. Elderly people, children or special people with limited mobility can have their family members collect the supplies on their behalf with their ID cards."
"Residents of Tianhai Road, please..."
Qin Xingyue heard such a broadcast in her sleep. She opened her eyes and listened carefully again. After finding that she had not heard it wrong, she hurried to the window and saw a loudspeaker on a drone repeating the same content over and over again.
Qin Xingyue saw many people sticking their heads out of their homes, looking up at the sky, with happy expressions on their faces.
Someone even shouted in the direction of the drone: "I'm out of food at home, give us some!"
But the drones didn't respond. They just hovered in the sky over the community for a while, repeating the content of the sentence to make sure that everyone living there could hear it, and then flew in another direction.
The drone left, but everyone heard what it said, which was asking them to go to Nanfeng Square to get survival supplies.
It was their country that took action!
This thought flashed through everyone's mind, and everyone became excited. Without saying a word, they packed their equipment and went out.
Qin Xingyue put down the telescope, thought for a while, put on her coat and hat, closed the door, and planned to go out and take a look.
Even if she has enough supplies, she still needs to take a look at such an opportunity. Otherwise, people around her will easily know that she has enough supplies and she will be easily targeted.
The purpose of going out is to hide from others and to find out the situation outside. If there is a chance, go and search for supplies around.
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