Chapter 47 - 47

Chapter 47 ProposalQi Tianyu is now the second-in-command at the base and can only obey Qin Ling's orders to leave the house and stand at the door.Looking at the sky.I wish I had that kind of power someday.How carefree it would be to do whatever you want then!When Su Xiaoyu got back downstairs, it was already dark. She had just moored the inflatable boat when she saw Gu Lingxiao climbing down the rope, anxiously asking…"Why are you back so late?"After saying that, he noticed that there were four woven bags on the speedboat.Su Xiaoyu wiped the sweat from her face with her sleeve."We went to a place that was a bit far away, but we found a few bags of frozen goods in the cold storage, including fish, shrimp, chicken, and pork. We can improve our meals again in the next few days."Gu Lingxiao took out a tissue from her pocket to wipe his sweat, and upon closer inspection, she noticed how delicate his skin was. It didn't look like a boy's skin at all; it looked more like a girl's.Maybe it's because I'm too young. Thinking back to when I was 18, my skin seemed pretty good too.Su Xiaoyu felt a little embarrassed by the wiping, so she took the handkerchief and wiped herself herself." Brother Xiao, I found coal. It's not too far from here. I found it in someone's yard. They're probably keeping it for heating in the winter.""Let's go retrieve the coal tomorrow, so we won't be afraid if there's extreme weather."Gu Lingxiao: "How many places did you go today? I thought you just went out for a stroll, but you didn't come back at noon. I should have gone out with you."Su Xiaoyu laughed, "Of course you have to go to faraway places to find supplies, otherwise where would these things come from?""Don't go so far next time, what if something happens?" Gu Lingxiao felt more and more sorry for her brother and wanted to scold him. Why was her brother so troublesome?Su Xiaoyu nodded repeatedly to indicate that she understood, and that's when she stopped being scolded.They went to great lengths to move their belongings upstairs.Seeing the fish and shrimp in the bag, Lin Xiuxiudecisively took some out and soaked them in water, then said to the others,"Let's eat dinner a little later tonight. I've prepared some fish and shrimp, which I'll fry in oil.""Xiu, didn't you want to eat fried chicken? Here's a bag of chicken legs." Su Xiaoyu asked with a doting expression.Lin Xiuxiu hadn't expected there to be chicken drumsticks, so she decisively took eleven drumsticks per person. Then, thinking that an odd number wasn't good, she took one more and put it in the bowl.Sprinkle salt inside, then add more water to defrost.Upon learning that there would be delicious food tonight, the guys upstairs came down to take a look, and when they found that there really was good food, they stayed.So a group of people sat in the living room eating sunflower seeds and watching variety shows on their tablets.Jin Jun wanted to help in the kitchen but couldn't. He was fine with playing with a gun, but he couldn't handle a kitchen knife.Lin Xiuxiu simply refused everyone's help, deciding to work hard and finish the job quickly. They were all exhausted after a long day, so how could she let them do any more work?I steamed a big pot of red bean rice; I've decided to have a proper meal tonight.The remaining frozen goods were packed in plastic bags and put into the freezer.Thankfully, we managed to kick everyone out of the building and get a few freezers, so now we have a place to store frozen goods.I plan to use that bag of pork to make dumplings and buns, freeze them, and then steam them if it's inconvenient to cook later.I've been planning to make more steamed buns for days, because I can't let everyone go hungry!Because there was delicious food, everyone waited patiently until after 10 o'clock before they could eat.Lin Xiuxiu's cooking skills are getting better and better. She knows everyone's tastes and tries to make dishes that appeal to a wider audience so that everyone can eat more.It was already midnight when the meal ended.The temperature seemed to have dropped a bit again, so Su Xiaoyu decided to put on a thicker blanket. Thinking about how quickly the temperature rose with the instant heating, she was afraid that the temperature would drop just as quickly in the extreme cold.Not only did she change to a thicker blanket, but she also made Lin Xiuxiu change to a thicker blanket. She planned to mention it to them at breakfast tomorrow; men generally don't pay attention to these things and think that having something to cover themselves with is enough.The temperature dropped again this morning, but I didn't feel cold at all because of the thick blanket.When I came out of the house, I saw Lin Xiuxiualready making breakfast. She was wearing a thick purple flannel hooded pajama set and had bunny ears on her head.Wearing thick cotton slippers, the breath exhaled into the room was already misty, which was enough to show that the temperature inside the room had dropped below 0 degrees Celsius."Xiaoyu, let's have rice noodles this morning.""Thin the shrimp a bit and put them into the rice noodles. Each person should have at least four shrimp, along with some greens and a spoonful of chili oil.""Okay, I'll do as you say." Lin Xiuxiu was completely obedient to Su Xiaoyu's words.The amount of supplies at home was no longer a consideration for her. Whenever she felt there was nothing to eat, she would always find something.Her entire mindset has changed; as long as everyone eats well, that's all that matters. Life is fleeting, passing in the blink of an eye, and now with this natural disaster, we must cherish every single day.Su Xiaoyu had a dream last night. Orphanagehad more than 40 children, more than 10 of whom were girls. After they went to the so-called new base, two of them died not long afterward.The aunt who was in charge of them was murdered while trying to find out the cause of the children's deaths, and some of the children died not long after.Such things are very common in the base; people die every day, and there are also people struggling to survive.But the dream felt so real that when I woke up, I touched the corner of my eye and found a tear.Those children are truly pitiful. Could it be that the original owner's emotions are still inside her body?If we ignore it, will we continue to have these dreams every day?After thinking about it, I thought, why don't wesend some food to the Orphanage so they won't go to the base?They went to the base because they had no food. If they had food, perhaps their fate could have been changed.Thinking about this made me feel at ease.This morning we had Crossing-the-Bridge Rice Noodles, which had shrimp, vegetables, and meatballs. Everyone enjoyed it so much.The three bowls of Crossing-the-Bridge Rice Noodles were naturally eaten clean, so clean that the bowls didn't even need to be washed.Seeing that everyone enjoyed the food, Lin Xiuxiu silently made a mental note to cook it for everyone another day.Su Xiaoyu didn't plan to go out alone today. She wanted to take Zhou Yu out to retrieve the coal, but Gu Lingxiao said he was going to go instead.I wanted to find someone silly to follow along.Zhou Yu has a carefree personality; once he finds something, he won't care about anything else.But Gu Lingxiao insisted on going out with her, disrupting the plan.Now we can only go out and try our luck; maybe something unexpected will happen and cover it up.With that in mind, the two of them boarded the speedboat.The water level has dropped a bit more, so perhaps we won't need the speedboats to get to higher ground.There are more people searching for supplies outside than before. The crowded places are like ancient times when people fled famine, with huge, densely packed groups of people.