In the car, Qiao Qingqing cried herself to sleep. From the morning of her rebirth until now, she had been busy, calculating all kinds of materials in her mind, and she was exhausted. Now she felt relieved and emotionally relieved, so she couldn't help falling asleep.
When they got home, Shao Shengan carried her out of the car and Qiao Qingqing woke up immediately.
"It's okay, I'll carry you home."
Shao Shengan climbed the stairs steadily. Qiao Qingqing hugged his neck with peace of mind: "What I just said was true. I missed you very much. It was raining outside. I was afraid that you would not be able to get home in time, so I lied to you and said I was going to jump off the building."
"It's okay. Try another way to trick me next time. Don't use jumping off a building. I'm scared to death."
"So I'm sick?"
"That won't work. I'm worried too."
Qiao Qingqing touched his face: "Then how can I say it?"
Shao Shengan lifted her up and said with a smile, "Just tell me you miss me, and I will definitely come back."
"Liar." Qiao Qingqing's eyes were red again. "I told you countless times, but you didn't come back. You lied to me and said I was going to jump off the building."
"How am I a liar? I am - why is the door of my house so dirty."
Arriving at the door of the house on the eighth floor, Shao Shengan put Qiao Qingqing down and went to look at the new security door. The blue film on it was still there.
"You got a new door? A copper one? Yeah, not bad. You have good taste. I like this kind of door that is made of a whole piece of steel plate without any carvings. It looks elegant and dignified."
"Yeah." Qiao Qingqing took the key to open the door. After this security door was opened, there was another security door.
"Have you removed the original wooden door? The house is safe now and thieves can't get in." Shao Shengan knew that his wife was in a bad state, so he just agreed and tried to calm her down. But what he didn't know was that there was another anti-theft door behind this door. Qiao Qingqing told the master that three doors should be built. The fear of being broken into in the previous life was already deeply rooted in her soul. If she didn't do this, she might not be able to sleep.
Shao Shengan was really shocked when he saw the third security door that had not yet been installed leaning against the wall.
Three solid copper security doors with smooth copper surfaces and no carvings. This is too exaggerated.
But the more outrageous thing was yet to come. There were all kinds of sundries piled up in the living room, some of which were construction tools, and some were express boxes that had not been unpacked. This was not a big deal, but when he wanted to drag the luggage back to the master bedroom, he was really shocked.
He stood at the door, looking at the empty bedroom and the ground covered with cable heating pipes. The pipes were arranged in regular circles, but in Shao Shengan's mind it seemed as if there were circles of irregular lines spinning in circles.
"Qingqing, what is this?"
"Floor heating is also being installed in the second bedroom and attic. We can just sleep in the living room tonight."
Qiao Qingqing motioned for Shao Shengan to take a shower first: "Are the pajamas in your suitcase clean? Then go take a shower and talk about it after you finish."
Shao Shengan scratched his hair, opened his suitcase, took out a set of pajamas and went to the bathroom. Qiao Qingqing tidied up the living room, threw all the express deliveries into the space, and then piled the sofa against the wall to make room for the bed.
When Shao Shengan came out of his quick shower, he saw a bed suddenly appear in the living room, which was their wedding bed.
“This…”
"Are you hungry?"
"Hungry, not hungry, I ate the airplane meal, I'll make you a midnight snack - no, why is the bed here?"
There was clearly no bed in the living room when I entered the house, but after taking a shower for five minutes, the bed appeared?
Qiao Qingqing waved at him: "Come here." When her husband came over, she pulled him to sit down, put her arm around his and leaned against him.
This feeling is very happy. In the familiar home, on the marriage bed where they have slept for many years, they are both still very healthy and can feel each other's body temperature when hugging.
"Sheng An, I want to tell you something, you have to believe me. It's raining outside, and this rain will be the beginning of all disasters..."
Qiao Qingqing spoke slowly, talking about floods, ice and snow and scorching heat, epidemics and hunger, toxic fog and acid rain, and eternal night.
"...Later, it was suddenly completely dark. The sun didn't come out again. It was dark everywhere. The base had wind power generation. The street lights would be on for five hours a day. That was daytime. When the lights went out, it was evening. We called the street lights to be artificial suns. Don't you think it was fun? I thought we would just live like that, but there was an earthquake, a big one. All the houses collapsed. There were cracks more than ten meters wide on the ground. When people fell in, even their screams became very small. We fled. I was injured on the way and later died."
Shao Sheng'an's heart was beating fast as he listened to his wife talking about her so-called past life. He wanted to interrupt her and say it was all a nightmare, it was all fake, but his wife's expression and tone were so real that it made him panic.
She was really reminiscing and talking about the painful past.
His throat tightened, Shao Shengan said with difficulty: "Qingqing, why am I not in your previous life?"
Qiao Qingqing looked up at him with a sad expression: "Because you died in the second month of the apocalypse. The business you went to Country A to discuss was not concluded today. They said that the client had changed a new contact person, and everything had to start all over again. You were stranded in Country A. Half a month later, the rainstorms began to intensify, and some international flights began to be suspended. You rushed to take a plane back at the last chance. After arriving in Yuecheng, all high-speed trains were suspended. You wanted to go home but couldn't buy a ticket, not even a bus. I asked you not to come back and stay in Yuecheng. You said you bought a speedboat and asked me to wait for you... I waited for you for a month. When I got home, you lost more than ten pounds and still had a fever. You coughed and vomited blood. You told me that the motor of the speedboat ran out of oil on the way, and you rowed back by yourself. I wanted to take you to the hospital, but I didn't know how to row. The speedboat was spinning in place and I almost threw you off..."
She was choked with sobs and couldn't continue.
"Stop talking, Qingqing, stop talking."
Qiao Qingqing's sadness and pain were so real that Shao Shengan couldn't help but feel tears in his eyes. He hugged his wife and said, "Don't say anything. I'm still here."
After a pause, Qiao Qingqing continued, "Later I swam into the water and took you to the hospital in a speedboat. Most of the hospital was flooded, but luckily the upper floors were still usable. I waited for you outside, waited for you... The doctor said it was too late. You had severe pneumonia. You had delayed for too long and had multiple organ failure. You passed away at night. You are so stupid. If you can't come back, don't come back. As long as you are alive, it doesn't matter if we are far apart. Yuecheng is not far away. I can find you after the flood recedes. Why do you have to come back..." She hammered her husband's chest, "Are you stupid? Are you stupid!"
"I'm stupid, I'm stupid." Shao Sheng'an held her hand, and his emotions were also infected by Qiao Qingqing. "If what you said is true, I saw the floods all over Yuecheng. I know that there are floods all over the country, and the water level is getting higher day by day. I must be very worried about you and want to go home to be with you. I can't let you go home alone."
Qiao Qingqing burst into tears, and by the time she had vented her emotions, she could no longer open her eyes.
"Go to sleep, go to sleep."
Shao Shengan laid her flat on the bed and pulled the quilt over her. He was about to leave when he noticed Qiao Qingqing grabbing his clothes and frowning. He sat down again and took out his phone to text his colleague.
Two minutes later, a colleague called and he picked up the call immediately when he saw the screen light up.
Before he could say anything, his colleagues started complaining, "It didn't work out! My God, we were just about to sign the contract when we were talking to the client, but he just took a phone call and left! Now we can't get in touch with the contact person there. The boss asked someone with connections and heard that something happened to the contact person and he might be fired. It's over, this deal is over!"
"I can't talk on the phone, so I'll text you." Shao Sheng'an was shocked and hung up the phone. After editing the text message, he stared blankly at the text interface and then looked out the window.
It's raining outside. Is this rain really the beginning of a disaster?
If someone else told him that the end of the world was coming, Shao Shengan would have listened politely with a smile, but he would not believe a word of it. But this was what Qingqing said, and Qingqing's performance was so real, as if she had really lived in such a horrible world. When she talked about his death, her eyes showed a complex emotion of sadness, nostalgia and numbness when she talked about the painful past.
Recalling something, he touched the bed under him. This bed was not right either. Where did it come from? The only rooms in the house that could accommodate this bed were the master bedroom and the second bedroom. However, both bedrooms had floor heating. Even if there was a third room in the house, Qingqing could not move this bed out intact in five minutes. Besides, this was the wedding bed he had personally selected. It was made of solid wood and was very heavy. When it was brought in, it was also disassembled and then brought in for installation by the master on site.
Looking at his wife's sleeping face, he gently touched her frowning brows in her sleep and picked up the phone again.
In fact, he is still half-believing and half-doubting. He believes because he trusts his wife, but he is doubtful because it is really difficult for people living in a peacetime to accept that the end of the world they live in is about to come.
But this did not affect his care for his wife. He planned to buy a speedboat and ask the store to add more oil, which would be enough for two round trips from Huacheng to A City. Anyway, he could not get the bonus, and there was still a gap of 200,000 yuan for the down payment of the school district house, so a few more tens of thousands of yuan would not be a big deal, and he could earn it later.
Shao Shengan didn't know much about speedboats, so he spent half an hour searching on Baidu. The more he looked, the more he liked it. He picked and chose one and talked with the store owner for almost an hour before finally placing an order. He decided to take his wife to the beach to surf and relax the next weekend after buying the speedboat.
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