Outside the window, the snow was falling heavily, and it was all white, and when you stepped on the snow, it was like sinking into cotton, and the snow was as high as a meter and deep to the thigh.

"When is this snow going to fall? It's not going to go on like this, is it? "Anxiety swept over everyone.

Originally, everyone thought that the cable would be repaired soon, but they didn't expect that two days had passed and there was no power.

Several households in the community did not have natural gas pipelines, and there were two days of power outages, so they had to knock on doors and ask if they could give some hot water.

At first, everyone was quite enthusiastic and tried to help if they could, but after more times, many people began to become impatient, "Why do you ask me to help you boil hot water?" ”

"I want to give my son a bath."

The woman who spoke was Liu Yan, who lived on the fourth floor, less than 1.6 meters tall, petite, with a three-year-old son, with a cheerful personality, who loved to greet and chat with people, and had a good relationship with the people in the building.

"Taking a shower on such a cold day?" Aunt Wang, who lived on the fifth floor, frowned unhappily.

She had already boiled water for Liu Yan twice, and in less than two hours, she came to herself again to ask for hot water, who could be comfortable?

There are so many people in the building, you can't catch her alone, right?

Aunt Wang thought of this and said, "I myself am reluctant to use a gas stove to boil water for a bath, this natural gas is very expensive, okay?" ”

After hearing this, Liu Yan hurriedly said: "I'll give the money, right?" How much does a pot of hot water cost? ”

In order to avoid trouble, Aunt Wang deliberately opened her mouth and said, "Two hundred yuan a pot!" ”

"What? Are you robbing? ”

"If you don't buy it, forget it, I'm too lazy to burn it." Putting aside these words, Aunt Wang was too lazy to quarrel anymore, and directly slammed the door slammed.

Wan Jiafeng heard the conversation outside and was about to open the door, but her daughter hurriedly stopped her.

Sang Ning pulled her mother back into the living room and said in a serious tone, "Mom, we can't help with this favor." ”

"Why? Isn't it just to help make a pot of hot water? It's not a trouble, Ningning, we can't be so cold-blooded. ”

"It's not cold-blooded!" Sang Ning said, "Today you lend her water, tomorrow she will ask you to borrow rice and noodles, inch by inch." ”

"Knock knock", the door was knocked, and Liu Yan's voice came, "Teacher Ye......"

didn't hear a response, she knocked on the door a few more times, "Teacher Ye, Sister Jiafeng, are you at home?" Teacher Ye, you should be at home, right? Can you help with kettle water? My family Youyou hasn't taken a shower for three days. ”

Ye Shaohua and Pei Xian were playing chess in the room.

He vaguely heard a voice outside, and was about to stand up, Pei Xian, who was sitting opposite him, picked up the black cannon on the chessboard and knocked out the red cannon, "General." ”

"This ......" Ye Shaohua was stunned, and hurriedly sat back again, finding that he was checkmated.

"Uncle, shall we have another game?" Pei Xian's eyebrows were shallow, and he said with a smile.

Ye Shaohua loves to play chess very much, but his son and daughter are not interested in chess, and now it is rare for someone to play chess with him, he is naturally happy, but someone shouts "Teacher Ye", he has to go out and have a look.

"Wait, someone called me, I'm going to see who's knocking on the door......"

"Uncle, you don't have to worry about it, I think Sang Ling will take care of it." As he spoke, Pei Xian had already rearranged the chess pieces.

Hearing him mention his daughter, Ye Shaohua couldn't help asking: "You and Ning Ning don't live in the same city, and they have always been in a long-distance relationship before?" ”

"Well, I took the initiative to pursue her in college, and we established our relationship online."

Ye Shaohua set up the chessboard and asked, "Can you tell me why you like my lemon?" ”

Pei Xian moved the second "pawn" on his right: "When I was in high school, I ranked first every time, and Sang Ning was always second in her age, so I couldn't help but notice her, and then I found out that we were all loners, and there were no friends around, so I unconsciously had a little more affection for her......"

Didn't Sang Ning have any friends in high school? Wait, he just said that he takes the first grade every time?

Ye Shaohua suddenly remembered one thing, the provincial champion of Ningning's college entrance examination that year seemed to be surnamed Pei, with a total score of 728 points, and he was still in the same class as Ningning.

As a middle school teacher, he has a natural affection for students with excellent grades, and he can't help but appreciate Pei Xian's expression a little more.

When the two were playing chess in the house, Sang Ning shouted before her mother could speak: "I'm sorry, we have a lot of family, and we're also boiling water and preparing to take a bath at this time, why don't you go to other people in the building to help?" ”

"It's Lemon, isn't it? I'm Liu Yan who lives downstairs, your mother often mentions you when chatting with me, is your mother at home? Can you please help me boil the kettle for hot water? Just a pot, okay?

My family loves to be clean, and I have to take a bath, and I can't help it, for the sake of the children...... Sister Jiafeng, can you please help me? ”

Listening to Liu Yan's pitiful pleading outside, Wan Jiafeng whispered to her daughter: "Ning Ning, this Liu Yan is quite pitiful, she is often bullied by her mother-in-law, and her husband never takes children, so she needs to be Zhang Luo for everything, let's help her, right?" All right? ”

"Mom, you can't be so soft-hearted."

"I promise to only borrow her a pot of hot water, not any rice and noodles," Wan Jiafeng took her daughter's hand and discussed, "Good lemon, just this time......"

Sang Ning was helpless, "Okay, just once!" And I can only borrow her hot water, not anything else. ”

"Okay," after getting the girl's consent, Wan Jiafeng smiled happily and said in the direction of the door, "Youyou, Mom, wait, I'll open the door." ”

She went to the kitchen first, then opened the door and handed her kettle out, "This is what I boiled in the morning, and it's still hot." ”

"Sister Jiafeng, thank you," Liu Yan took the kettle, "When I finish bathing my Jiayouyou, I will send it back to you immediately." ”

"Don't worry, you're also working hard, Youyou is still so young, and now there is a power outage, and you have to worry about all the big and small things at home."

Liu Yan sighed aggrievedly, "Hey, I said that I wanted to install a natural gas pipeline, but my mother-in-law didn't agree, and now that there is no electricity, she scolded me again, saying that I was young Why should I listen to her as an old woman, and said that I have no opinion, and I really let her say everything alone." ”

"Your mother-in-law is old and stubborn and unreasonable, so you can only let her."

"What else can you do if you don't let her?" Liu Yan choked up and complained, "I don't know how many days I have to wait before I can call, begging for someone every day for a pot of hot water, what is this?" If you don't call tomorrow, you can't live this day, woo woo woo ......"

Seeing her crying bitterly, Wan Jiafeng hurriedly patted her shoulder and comforted her kindly: "Don't worry, there will definitely be electricity soon." ”

Liu Yan sobbed for a while, finally stopped her tears, and continued to cry, "My family now lives on a few packets of biscuits, and those biscuits are still the snacks I bought for Youyou last week, and I see that I am about to eat them all, and I don't know what to do in the future." ”

Speaking of this, she pursed her lips, seemed to be very embarrassed, and hesitated: "Sister Jiafeng, I see that you and Teacher Ye seem to have gone to the supermarket to stock up on a lot of food, can you sell some to me?" ”