NOVEL NEXT Chapter 9 Blizzard Closes the City
She even managed to attract the attention of the hot spring resort president’s wife, and @her alone in the group, asking:
【Are you comfortable living in the resort? If you have any ideas, you can report them directly to the housekeeper so that they can make adjustments and improve the overall service level of the resort! 】
Before Mu Jiu could reply, the lady's lower body was flooded with a series of flattery, praising her for being gentle, warm and approachable...
Although Mu Jiu didn't want to get involved, her emotional intelligence was not so low that she had to offend others and become the target of public criticism.
[I have lived here for a while and the vacation villa is quite nice! But because I have moderate mania and need to rest, I don’t often reply to messages. Thank you for your concern! 】
After Mu Jiu posted this message, the group was silent for a minute.
Only then did the lady reply:
[Okay, I hope you take good care of yourself and get back to health soon! @everyone]
After a while, the group returned to its original liveliness, and the topic finally shifted from Mu Jiu to another topic!
In the city, five days after the blizzard, a faint commotion began.
The original news report said that the blizzard would pass in two or three days, but now it has been snowing for five days, and the snow on the ground has reached up to the knees, but it has no intention of stopping.
And the scary thing is that people find that the temperature outside continues to drop!
The average ground temperature at this time was minus 18 degrees.
Some places are already experiencing power outages due to downed power lines due to snow.
The power outage caused the shutdown of air conditioners and various electric heaters in the south. For ordinary people who were trapped at home, it was simply adding insult to injury.
As for the north, it is still August, far from the collective heating season.
Even if officials work overtime to organize heating matters, it still requires time, materials, manpower, etc.
As for the water supply, as early as the third day when the temperature continued to remain below zero, the water pipes in most places had been completely frozen...
But fortunately there is still snow falling. People find ways to use basins to catch the falling snowflakes on their balconies and use them as water.
Only here at the hot spring resort, due to the high ground temperature, the supply of water and electricity is always strong even if there is a heavy snowstorm.
The hot spring resort is like a land on a small boiler, steaming strongly in the extreme cold.
Probably because the landlady lives here, the housekeepers are particularly attentive to public services.
The snow on the roads in the resort will be shoveled to both sides every day to make it easier for guests to go out.
In addition, the people who live here are well prepared and have more abundant food reserves than people in the city, so the neighborhood relationship is quite harmonious.
Every afternoon, Mu Jiu could see groups of ladies who had made appointments in the group to go to the hot springs in the mountains.
The little girl is a young girl in the family of four next door to Mu Jiu, but she likes to grow flowers just like Mu Jiu.
She filled the small sunroom on the roof used for drying clothes with flower pots, which she brought on the day of the move.
The family had a very comfortable stay at the resort.
During the day, Mu Jiu often saw the little brother from that family wrapped up tightly and being dragged out for a walk by his dog.
After all, Alaska is the dog that is least afraid of the cold!
Mom was busy in the kitchen, and Dad, wearing a thick pajama suit, stood by the fire in the yard, doing tai chi, spinning in circles, or smoking.
The little girl likes to stay in the yard and build snowmen. Sometimes the whole family will build snowmen with her.
Mu Jiu stood on the second floor of her villa and could clearly see a long row of snowmen of different shapes piled up in the yard.
Mu Jiu saw the family's happiness in her eyes and envied it in her heart, but it was a pity that she would never think about it in this life.
After all, her family members can't do anything else except suck blood.
Unexpectedly, on the seventh day after the end of the world began.
Mu Jiu was watering her flowers in the yard, and the seeds had sprouted small pointed buds under the nourishment of the spiritual spring water over and over again.
The little girl from the yard next door came over holding a thermos box.
She stood outside the yard and waved to Mu Jiu.
This is the first time someone has come to see her since she revealed her "mania".
Mu Jiu opened the glass door a crack and asked the little girl through the electric fence outside: "What's the matter?"
The little girl first gave her a warm smile, and then said:
"Sister, this is the red date chicken soup made by my mother. It is very delicious and can warm the body and stomach. Send some to my sister to try!
My mother is a doctor. She said that the disease has nothing to do with it. As long as you take the medicine according to the doctor's instructions and stay in a happy mood, you will be fine.
If sister is not afraid of the cold, you can come out and build a snowman with us!
You see, those snowmen on the opposite side of the road were all piled up by us together! "
Following the girl's hand, Mu Jiu discovered the mystery on the opposite side of the road. Under the tall snowdrifts, there was a row of round little snowmen.
She was about to refuse the girl's kindness, but she placed the thermos box in front of Mu Jiu's gate, waved to her, and ran away.
While running, he said: "Sister, you drink first, I will come home and pick up the box after dinner!"
Mu Jiu didn't want to talk to him at first, but after taking a look at the insulated box, he opened the door involuntarily and took the box in.
She remembered that when she was in school, her mother would bring her meals to school every day, a thermos box, handed over from the school gate...
It’s been a long time since I’ve eaten the food cooked by my mother.
Mu Jiu placed the thermos box on the kitchen island and poured the chicken soup inside into his own bowl.
She brought the bowl into the space and asked Butler Beibei to check if there was anything wrong with the soup.
After confirming, he left the space, sat in front of the table, and tasted slowly.
Although she is someone else's mother, her mother's taste is really different.
When the girl came back in the afternoon, in return, Mu Jiu returned a box of strawberries and a small bag of strawberry seeds to her, along with a cleaned lunch box.
The girl did not refuse. After saying thank you, she happily went home with the seeds.
In the afternoon, Mu Jiu saw her tinkering in her sunroom, and it seemed that she had already planted strawberries!
Favor is a back and forth between you and me.
In the next few days, the girl would often bring over various delicacies made by her mother and share them with Mu Jiu.
Mu Jiu did not refuse again. Although it was the end of the world, she was not disgusted by the distant relationship.
Accordingly, she will give the girl some seeds of different types of food and ask her to take them back and plant them on the top floor, which is also a kind of return of kindness.
In fact, in the entire Nancheng, only the hot spring resort could be so calm and maintain life as usual.
When the blizzard reached its tenth day, riots of varying degrees began to appear in the city.
Most of these riots occur in residential buildings with large crowds of people.
Because the snow outside was already as tall as a person, it was difficult to travel.
Maybe if you get stuck in the snow, you'll never get out.
Many people didn't pay attention to it when they were able to go out at first, thinking that the blizzard would be over soon.
After all, it was a disaster that even the authorities had not anticipated, which led to insufficient supplies in many homes.
In addition, the energy supply was cut off too early. Even if there was rice and noodles at home, there was no way to cook them. Many of them were eaten raw and died because of stomach upset.
Coupled with the extreme cold, many people closed their eyes and could no longer open them.
The building gradually became deathly silent, which undoubtedly added fear and burden to the minds of the living.
Because of the snow, everything in the city was shut down, whether it was police or medical services.
People are trapped in their homes, and they have no choice but to save themselves.
In order to survive, groups of people soon started to go out to sweep buildings.
Housebreaking, bullying, group raids, etc., all in chaos.