Chapter 17: Colds
After eating, they repacked the rice.
The packaging of rice is not completely closed and can enter a certain amount of moisture, so in order to prevent moisture, it is best to pack it separately in garbage bags. In addition, they also wrapped dried chili peppers and star anise in paper towels and put them inside, which Liang Ying said could prevent insects.
They bought a lot of delicious things this time, two bags of rice were enough for the three of them to eat for more than two months, but Liang Shuyu thought it was still not enough. So they'll have to go out in a few days.
By the way, I also bought two more cans of gas for backup.
And the candles, which are consumed too quickly.
The rain doesn't seem to stop, it's still so fierce after so many days in a row.
The stairwells have become water curtain holes, and the alley road has almost become a turbulent river, rushing down, flooding the pond of the village chief's house, and listening to the neighbor's grandmother said that a fish jumped out yesterday morning and was picked up by Luo Wei's family, who lives below.
The village chief kept scolding there, Luo Wei just didn't know, and cooked fish head soup that night.
"It's raining, it's raining." The voice came from Wei Youqi's house, it was Grandma's voice, and she came to the door again.
Is it already morning?
Liang Shuyu didn't sleep all night. What time is it today? What day of the week? What's the time now?
"Lao Liang, come down and play cards!" Wei Youqi's voice.
Their current entertainment is only playing cards.
Liang Shuyu was too lazy to reply, what was the point of playing cards, it was too boring.
He wanted to get some sleep, but he was too energetic, and it was possible that he had slept too much during this time, and his life and rest were completely chaotic.
There was no choice but to get up and go to the toilet, but when he opened the bedroom door, he saw Liang Ying walking into Liang Wenjing's room with an inright expression, Liang Shuyu knew that Liang Wenjing had a fever and nightmares last night, and Liang Ying had taken care of her for half a night.
"Do you have sore limbs?"
Liang Shuyu touched her forehead, a little hot, and rummaged through the medicine at home, but there was no antiviral cold medicine or fever reducer.
"No, it's just a cough and a runny nose."
Liang Shuyu breathed a sigh of relief, "That's okay." "If it's a viral flu, it's a problem if you don't have a pit virus cold medicine.
"Okay? What's so good? Liang Wenjing blushed and shouted weakly.
Liang Ying said: "It should just be frightened and cold, it's fine." "She had already looked at it, but she couldn't find an antiviral drug.
"Well, I'll go out again in the next two days and buy some medicine and come back." Liang Shuyu said.
It seems that although he bought a lot of medicine last time, he still missed important things! He had to take an inventory of his medicines.
Fortunately, Liang Wenjing was really just frightened and feverish, and she also drank cold powder when she came back that night, which is estimated to have a preventive effect, and her cold was cured within two days.
But Liang Shuyu's heart was in his throat.
Because he suddenly remembered a news about a power outage in Europe last year, and it is said that many of the deaths were caused by colds and diarrhea.
Colds can heal on their own, but the flu is almost not.
Because the flu is a viral cold.
This made Liang Shuyu dare not let Liang Wenjing and Liang Ying go out on an adventure with him again, because the rain kept falling, and he didn't dare to guarantee that there were unintentional gangsters outside, or that a decomposing corpse suddenly appeared like last time.
October 3, 2032, heavy rainfall. Day 11 of the power outage.
The rain is crazy underground.
It seems like it will never stop.
Liang Shuyu was about to go out on the ninth day, but a police uncle suddenly appeared on the street to maintain order, asking them to wait at home and not go out. Because there will be super typhoons and torrential rains in the next two days.
In addition, Liang Wenjing's cold had been cured, and the medicine and gas were not so urgent, so Liang Shuyu did not go out.
With the appearance of the police uncle, there are finally a lot less rumors in the streets.
They learned from the policeman's uncle who was parading the streets that most of the police force had been withdrawn to fight the floods, and most of the houses in the downstream area had been submerged, and many people had died in the floods.
The police uncles were busy and warned all civilians to stay in their houses and not to go out and cause trouble.
However, Liang Shuyu did not know the specific area of the sunstorm-stricken area from him, because he was not a police officer, he was a temporary mobilized civil servant, and he was still a local resident, and even he did not know the situation outside.
However, I heard that they could use radio among their higher-ups, and although the situation was chaotic at the moment, it did not reach the level of collapse.
The state has not given up on them, and there are many people involved who are working in invisible places. This is what Liang Shuyu thinks, and it is also what the neighbors think.
The sky fell, and a tall man stood on top of it. So people are not afraid, and the social order has not collapsed, at least for now, a good social order is maintained.
However, it has been nearly half a month since the water and power outage, and many families who were unprepared at the beginning were caught off guard to face such a tragic situation:
Without gas, there is no way to make a fire.
Without candles, no lighting is possible.
Without food, there is no way to fill your stomach. But most importantly, there is no cash, no food.
Some people don't know what these things mean, in a very simple and clear way, now imagine that you are trapped in your home, your home is cut off from water, electricity and gas, is there enough food in your home to keep you to eat for half a month?
There is no natural gas, and rice is useless. If you're lucky, you may have gas or solid fuel, alcohol lamps, portable gas stoves, etc. at home to survive for a while, but for how long?
There is no electricity, and the rice cooker, induction cooker, and hot water kettle are all scrapped, which means that there is no food to eat, and there is no hot water. Maybe a little luck, like Liang Wenjing, who bought a set of flower tea tea sets at home, and by the way, a box and a half of tea wax, it was very lucky.
You can drink hot tea while lighting up.
Before the power outage, people seemed to have the illusion that the contents of the refrigerator were automatic, because when they were empty, someone would buy them and add them. Now a ** naked reality is in front of you, you have a lot of money in your bank card, you may be a multi-millionaire, but you just can't get a Grandpa Mao!
So Aunt Xiuping was saying two days ago that many people have nothing to eat, and they can't get cash when they take out all kinds of things to exchange for food.
It's not poor, it's cashless!
Liang Shuyu persuaded her to close the store and stop selling, maybe the power outage would last for a long time.
She didn't listen, Liang Shuyu had no choice but to persuade Wei Youqi. Wei Youqi hid the rice noodles at home, so that Liang Shuyu was a little more relieved.
It is very uncomfortable not to drink hot water, and few people can insist on not eating hot things for more than ten days. Even if they don't drink hot water, the food they eat is hot, and they don't eat dry biscuits or bread like this, their stomachs are dry, their mouths and tongues are sore, and the whole person seems to be soaked in cold water and roasted dry.
Liang Shuyu didn't have the opportunity to try, his house had gas and candles, he heard from the neighbor below, the gas just ran out, and he didn't have time to change it.
I don't have much cash at home! Come to Wei Fatzi's house and spend ten yuan to buy a few cups of hot water to drink.
Since the power went out, it seems that all kinds of strange things have come out of nowhere.
Issues that had never been paid attention to before are now extremely important.
What used to be important now doesn't matter.