Chapter 84: Fate
At about ten o'clock in the evening, Luo's mother was still watching TV in the living room, and when she saw that she hadn't slept yet, she asked, "I heard you were talking on the phone just now, why did you come out again?"
Rob shook his head: "Mom, I'm a little uncomfortable and want to go downstairs." ”
Seeing her expression, Mama Luo was a little puzzled, but seeing that she was in a very bad mood, she didn't stop her, and said, "Then you pay attention to safety." Don't forget to walk in places that are too dark. ”
"It's okay, I'll just stand downstairs for a while and throw out the garbage by the way. ”
She woke up a little late in the morning today and forgot to take the household with her when she went downstairs.
Midnight is a good time to throw out the garbage, no one.
Probably Xu Chuan thought the same way, so the two met next to the garbage can.
"Huh, Rob?"
As soon as Rob threw away the garbage in the bin, she heard someone calling her not far away, and when she turned around, she saw Xu Chuan also carrying a bag of garbage to this side. "What a coincidence, you also come out in the middle of the night to throw out the garbage?"
Xu Chuan spread his hands: "I'm at home, my mother is chattering endlessly, arguing with my father, I'm a little upset, so I use the excuse of throwing garbage out to breathe." ”
When the city was first locked, the group was discussing every day, and everyone exchanged various information from various sources in the group. Everyone was in a heated mood, and they often discussed it until late at night, and everyone didn't sleep.
But now, except for the grocery shopping group and the temperature reporting group, the other groups have gradually fallen silent. No one even predicts when Wubei will be unblocked.
I was probably at home every day, mentally and emotionally tired. Everyone has been shocked, frightened, angry, sad, and cried, but now they are overdrawn and have no strength. What to do after passion, daily bickering is a common thing, between husband and wife, between mother and daughter, between father and son......
And middle-aged women can quarrel with anyone......
Therefore, Xu Chuan was helpless to be nagged by his mother, so he had to come out and throw away the garbage to relieve his boredom or something, but he didn't expect to meet Rob so coincidentally.
Is this the fate of the legend?
Rob took a deep breath through the mask and said, "The classmate who hadn't been in touch for a long time just now called to say that her grandmother had passed away, and she cried for a long time. ”
Seeing her wilting appearance, Xu Chuan deliberately changed the topic, thought for a while and asked, "Do you still have meat at home?"
Rob was stunned for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "How can there be meat, all members of my family are vegetarians! My brother-in-law used to have no meat, but now he can eat Chinese cabbage happily!"
Now that meat has become a rarity, Rob is most deeply touched by volunteering.
In the vegetable group buying package for more than a month, Chinese cabbage is the strong protagonist!
I heard that the price of vegetables in vegetable farms all over the country is now expensive, but their community has also bought two 10 yuan vegetable packages, ten yuan and ten catties of vegetables, Chinese cabbage, carrots, white radish, cabbage, potatoes, these three random combinations.
These dishes are transported from all parts of the motherland by train and large trucks, and I have to thank the people of the whole country for their efforts!
In the news, it was said that farmers in Guangxi cut down all the bananas in the fields and transported them to Wubei on motorcycles, and the people in the mountains of Hubei donated all the bacon they had pickled at home to the people in the epidemic area.
Xu Chuan was helpless, in his life experience, he had never been so stretched, worrying about what to eat for three meals a day, "If this continues, I will really eat Chinese cabbage!" I was scolded by my mother today just because I asked one more question, 'Is there meat?'!"
"Hahaha! It seems that you are also a carnivore!" Rob heard him say this, and the previous depression was a lot dissipated: "You don't know, my mother has been watching that kind of disconnection before, spitting on her habit of hoarding. Now that I think about it, if I really made it empty at home, I am afraid that it will be even more difficult to deal with in the past month or so. ”
"Yes, in the past, I always disliked the unit for sending rice, flour, grain, oil, soybeans and mung beans during the New Year's holiday, but this epidemic found out how safe it is to have two bags of rice and two barrels of oil at home. Still, I want to eat meat......"
However, the problem is still not so simple, the rice is available, the oil is available, and the two carnivores in the family are still not easy to deal with...... Every day when the Xu family's food is served, two men, one old and one young, have to ask their souls: Is there no meat?
Now, ham sausages have become a good thing, at least a little meaty, which can fool children.
"Do you remember that day when it snowed?"
Since the lockdown, the community has served meat three times, and the scene of each time is vivid. The most impressive thing was the day when it snowed. It rarely snows in Wubei, and it is not small in the sky.
"I wasn't a volunteer at the time, so I put on a mask, a plastic bag on my gloves, and wrapped myself in a thick down jacket, and ran downstairs to get meat from the janitor's room. When I ran to the door out of breath, I saw hundreds of portions of two-pound and one-pound bags of meat, neatly arranged on the snow on the side of the road. There were staff at two properties standing in the snow with small notebooks and pens in their hands. Take one copy and cross out a house number. ”
"Me too, I was more than a meter away to make out my name and number in the notebook. After confirming this, the eldest brother who guarded the meat shouted at me: "You can pick whatever bag you want!" I took a hard look at it, but I stood far away, and through the sealed plastic bag, where could I tell whether it was good or bad? Finally, I carried a bag with my fate! On the way back against the wind, my hand carrying the meat quickly froze and I felt a little sad. ”
Looking back now, Rob still has mixed feelings.
Xu Chuan said: "Actually, the meat is fine, and I can't bear it, the important thing is that I don't smoke! I'm better, my dad has been a smoker for more than 30 years, but it is impossible for the community to open a cigarette group purchase, and then a group of smokers/contact the supermarket in the community, and finally get a stock ......"
Xu Chuan was on the balcony at the time, and saw the windows of the supermarket under the 7 buildings open, and then people came to connect one after another, and the scene of everyone wearing masks and hurriedly taking cigarettes was a bit funny, and it was not easy for smokers who ran out of food!
"I've seen people in the group asking what kind of alcohol they have, and it's probably better to get drunk on this dreary day, and I suspect that alcohol may also be a substitute for disinfectant alcohol. Recently, every day when I go out, I feel that the corridor is sprayed with liquor, which is definitely the taste of liquor, which is much more complicated than the taste of alcohol......"
Although we are at the center of gravity of the epidemic area, the daily life of ordinary people still has to go on. The community group buys vegetables, rice, flour, grain and oil, sometimes eggs, and pork from time to time. But beyond that, there are a lot of different needs that people have......