Chapter 70: The Water Breaks
"My cousin is so cute, I always think of his fat little face, and when I hear that they gave up looking for a child and gave birth to a new baby, I was so angry that I wanted to kill someone." Jin Mo's face rose with a slight flush, "My mother also said that my emperor is not in a hurry, the eunuch is in a hurry, and other people's parents want to open it, I can't think of it, what a stupid girl." ”
"You're not a stupid girl, you're a kind girl." I suddenly felt close to Jin Mo, although it was for this strange reason, I always felt a little estranged from her when I saw her cold words on her face before.
"Kindness can't be eaten, especially in the current world, sometimes I'm also confused." Jin Mo bit her lip, shook her head again, and left.
The corpses outside the door were led away, and everyone was finally able to go out to cut wood, and the small trees in the green belt were cut down by the men more than a dozen back, and they were split into a small section, but they didn't burn, it turned out that these woods were too damp, and it was not possible to burn them directly, and they had to be dried for a few days before they could be used.
So, on the ground on the fifth floor, we were filled with small pieces of wood stripped of the bark, although the temperature in the mall was very low, but the indoor was much drier than the outside, and after about five or six days of drying, the wooden sections could be lit and fired.
In the past, these jobs were men's business, and a few women in the city could chop wood, but the men had to venture out to cut wood, and we women had to do the detailed work, so we started collectively, no matter how strong or small, we all participated in the work of chopping wood and peeling the bark, but fortunately there were gloves in the mall, otherwise our slender hands would have to grind out big blood blisters in a few clicks.
Even Xing Ze and Fu Ran, the two little girls, helped peel the bark, but Peng Shao still maintained the posture of a young master and didn't stretch out his hand, of course, his girlfriends Baa Baa and Zhao Xinqing couldn't do such rough work.
The women of the driving school are very active in participating in the labor, led by Han Shujun, the eldest sister, they squatted on the ground and handled the firewood with small axes and machetes, without complaining about tiredness and bitterness, and when they came to the shopping mall, they ate hot meals, and their sense of security also skyrocketed, and doing these jobs was nothing at all.
The problem of heating and cooking has been temporarily solved because of these green trees, and the temperature on the fifth floor is no longer as low as before because of the daily fires in the back stoves of several restaurants.
A more serious problem came, I don't know whether the water plant was attacked by zombies or the underground water pipe was frozen and cracked, and the water in the mall suddenly and completely cut off.
The power outage has little impact on our survival, but the water outage is terrible, there are dozens of boxes of drink pure water in the supermarket, which is enough for us to drink temporarily, but there is no water to flush in the toilet is really fatal!
In order not to turn the bathroom in the mall into a horrible hell, we hurried to come up with a solution, which was to put a few plastic buckets in the supermarket in each bathroom as a commode, and then pour the excrement from the window to the outside of the mall.
This way of going to the toilet is really embarrassing and uncomfortable, not to mention anything else, just the stench in the bathroom, the people who went in were so smoked that they didn't dare to gasp, the electricity was cut off, and the bathroom could not be ventilated, so everyone could only endure it.
When I was once again visually stimulated by the "stock" in the commode and almost vomited, I gathered all the women and discussed with them, don't wait for the commode to be almost full before pouring it outside, pour it once if you can use it once, be diligent, don't let the smell in the bathroom deteriorate further, and people who go in after a long time are easy to be poisoned.
Then the women said that the number of plastic buckets in the supermarket is enough, for the sake of hygiene, everyone might as well have one, write their names on the buckets, pour them when they are finished, and importantly, they don't dislike themselves so much.
When we do this, there are only empty buckets in the bathroom, the smell gradually dissipates, and the air is much cleaner.
But the men think we are too hypocritical, they got a few oversized plastic buckets and threw them into the men's bathroom, and every time they wait for the bucket to overflow, they will come out of two people to pour, and it is not too heavy and disgusting, in their words, the trouble is the most unbearable, and the last time the toilet poured a small bucket? Just kidding, right?
The beautiful modern life is just a little bit out of our lives, every day around the back stove to make food, even the water to wash the dishes, can only use wet wipes to simply clean the tableware, after going to the toilet obediently carry a bucket to the window behind the mall to pour feces and urine, there is no possibility of taking a bath, the only thing that can wash the face and hands of the feet is to wipe with wet wipes, after a few days, our cheeks are rough.
Because of the lack of water, all the drinking water in the supermarket is stored in an empty screening hall in the cinema on the fifth floor, which is guarded by Tang Xiaozheng and Ye Qian.
After that, Gu Zhebei didn't know what to think, he asked everyone again, and transported the few remaining food and some daily necessities in the supermarket to the cinema and placed them in several other clean screening halls, of course, he left some of the food for the people on the first floor.
The people on the first floor will also come up to get water, they have no objection to the rearrangement of the materials in the supermarket, Gu Zhebei treats them equally, and even gives them some meat on the platform on the fourth floor.
In this way, the survivors in the entire mall are now treated the same.
Peng Shao suddenly became angry, the reason was that he asked Ye Qian to bring him an extra box of water, and he wanted to wash, but Tang Xiaozheng refused mercilessly.
"Hey, you stinky boy, you don't listen to me?" Peng Shao stood outside the screening hall and jumped to scold Ye Qian, Ye Qian was wronged to death, he was only responsible for guarding the material, where did he have the right to distribute more? I didn't dare to defend myself, and I was scolded there with a bitter face.
Tang Xiaozheng leaned against the door of the hall and was silent, his face was very firm, with a posture that you want to go in and knock me down first, of course Peng Shao would not come hard, he poured all his anger on his subordinates, just scolded Ye Qian.
"Peng Shao, are you naughty again?" Hu Luoluo rushed over when he heard the sound, and he couldn't cry or laugh when he saw this.
"I'm going to stink to death! How can people live so stinky? I'd rather not eat or drink than have oily hair! Peng Shao pointed to the tangled hair on his head and complained.
"That's right, my scalp is so itchy, and if I don't wash it, I'm going to have worms." Baa Baa was beside Peng Shao, touching his messy long hair with a bitter face.
"There's no way, just bear with it! There's not much water in total, so you have to keep it for drinking, but you're actually very handsome now, so you don't need to spray oil. Zhao Xinqing persuaded softly beside them, her hair was no longer fluffy, but she tied her hair up.
"No, no, no! I'd rather not drink water than stink to death! Peng Shao replied resolutely, and then pointed at Ye Qian and scolded, "You go in and move the box of water out for me!" I'm counting one, two, three! ”
"He can't go in and move if you count to a hundred, otherwise he won't be qualified to guard the material." Gu Zhebei walked over slowly, "If you really want to wash, it's not impossible." ”
Peng Shao turned around and looked at Gu Zhebei angrily, "Is there a way, didn't you say it earlier?" ”
Gu Zhebei pointed out the window, "Didn't you notice that it was snowing again?" Isn't it boiling water to go out with a clean bucket and boil it when you come back? ”
We all said yes, what a good idea!
Looking at the snowflakes flying in the sky, I felt like I could look new again.
Everyone couldn't wait to rush into the platform on the fourth floor with the clean plastic buckets from the supermarket, carefully picked up the pure white snow that had just been accumulated, put it in the bucket, compacted it, and reloaded it until the bucket was full.
The snow water is infinite, but the firewood is limited, we dare not waste too much, everyone shared a small basin of hot water, and after carefully washing the hair and face, the water turned gray and black.
The dishes that have never had a chance to be thoroughly cleaned can finally be cleaned with boiling snow water!
We took our commodes outside and washed them with snow and brushes.
The most excessive is Peng Shao, he commanded his subordinates to boil a large pot of snow water, and actually took a hot mandarin duck bath with Baba, using a lot of firewood.
But the convenience brought by the heavy snow made us all very happy, and no one cared about him.
Looking at the heavy snow, I wondered with infinite longing, will we not have to endure the stinky toilet as long as it snows? The snow melts and can be used to flush the toilet!
It turned out to be feasible, and the melted snow flushed the toilet clean, so we didn't have to empty the commode at least for the time being, but we had to go out and fill the snow and come back with a bucket of snow for the next flush.
But we didn't dare to eat snow water, and we didn't dare to boil it, who knows if there is a virus lurking in the snow? Everyone still went to the screening room every day to get their two bottles of water to drink, and no one wanted to take that risk until they were dying of thirst.
The snow has been falling for several days, and the snow is enough for us to thoroughly clean the bathroom that has become dirty before, and along with the restaurant where we live and the messy back stove have also done some hygiene, which is naturally the spontaneous behavior of the girls, love to be clean is the nature of women, those days when the water is broken, we are almost dying, there will be plenty of snow water, although it is very cold and biting, but in our eyes, the days with water are too happy.
Looking at us like a group of hard-working little bees wearing rubber gloves and wielding a big rag to wipe around, Gu Zhebei said that he was very helpless, he couldn't understand the "useless work" we did, in his opinion, as long as there is water to flush the toilet, it is considered a civilized person, and there is really no need to spend energy on fighting dust.
In fact, he doesn't understand, in such an apocalypse that I don't know what tomorrow will be, we women can only find a sense of peace in this kind of goosebump trivial housework, and keep wiping the "home" spotlessly, which can bring us an illusion, look, now we are still living a normal life, and it will not be worse anymore.
When we finished wiping the restaurant and wiped the hallway of the mall, the snow stopped outside.
Standing on the fifth floor of CapitaLand and looking into the distance, the buildings as far as the eye can see are all covered with beautiful snow quilts, and the blue sky is as pure as a fairy tale, so beautiful!
And the living dead, who knew the cold and tired, also came out and shook between the abandoned cars with snow hats, destroying the beauty in an instant.