I survived with my sister in the doomsday

After sending Xiaobai home and chatting for a while in his living room, we decided to leave some food for Xiaobai before leaving. We gave Xiaobai some of the remaining bread, and Lin Lin persuaded him to eat this first.

When Xiaobai returned home, he said confidently that his family had money and food, and that he had kitchen utensils, rice, flour, and vegetables in the refrigerator.

I said, I heard that there is no natural gas now, and ordinary citizens are not allowed to use electric stoves to cook, so what will you do?

Xiaobai first took out a stack of RMB from the drawer of the TV cabinet and insisted on giving it to Xiaolin for the money for her crutches. Linlin declined, saying that she didn't need to pay him back for this little money and she still needed to use his car. Seeing that Linlin really didn't want it, Xiaobai had to give up.

Lin Lin curiously asked, "What food do you have at home?"

Xiaobai took us to his kitchen, only to find that his refrigerator had been lying on the ground during the earthquake and the leakage protector was broken. We hurriedly helped him prop up the refrigerator. Xiaobai opened the refrigerator and found that the food in it was smelly.

The foul smell made Lin Lin scream: "Xiao Bai, please throw away this stinky trash can, it stinks too much!"

I said something else, if it's not broken, wash it and keep it for use, after all, it's a household appliance. I wanted to help him clean it, but when I turned on the faucet, I found that there was no water, so the water pipe might have been broken in the earthquake.

There was no other way. Now there were so many holes after the disaster that professional people had to come to repair them. Lin Lin drove to find the property management to see if Xiao Bai's house could be repaired. I was worried that the property management would not come, so I stuffed a pack of Yunnan Yunnan tea into Lin Lin's pocket and told him not to be stingy and be polite to others and say something nice.

Sure enough, not long after, Lin Lin drove back with two burly men, one repairing water pipes and the other repairing power lines. They were both quite capable and good at chatting. One of the older ones said, "We have been very busy recently. You can see that the houses didn't collapse during the earthquake, but the interiors of every house were damaged. The water pipes and power lines are the blood vessels of the houses. Every household came to us for work. We were so busy that we didn't even have time to eat lunch when your brother found us."

I politely responded, "Thank you for your hard work."

Lin Lin grabbed me and whispered, "It's not hard work, I'll only come if you pay me 200 yuan each!"

Upon hearing this, I thought to myself that it seemed like they could earn several thousand a day. Since we were hiring them, I stopped being polite and asked what I wanted to know, what was the current housing price in this community?

Lin Lin knew that we had just received some money, and he knew that I had the confidence to ask about the price of the house, so he didn't say much and just watched the two of them work.

The guy just now looked at me curiously and said, "I didn't expect you to be rich. You want to buy a house here?" There was a hint of sarcasm and contempt in his words. I think it might be because I was wearing a school uniform vest that I looked poor.

I also answered with a sullen face: "I don't want to buy it, I just want to ask."

He said "oh" in understanding, and he obviously thought his guess was right. He continued to talk: "I heard from the girls in the sales office yesterday that our Technology Garden is planning to expand. But come on, brother, I advise you to buy a house if you have the money. I heard that the future reconstruction of the city will expand outward with the base as the center. Then this community is next to the base, which is the future city center. I estimate that the housing prices here will definitely have a lot of room for appreciation!"

But he didn't know how much it could be sold for. I asked Xiaobai how much he paid for it. Xiaobai replied that he paid 400,000 yuan in full. He regretted it now. He knew there would be a big earthquake. Now all banks are bankrupt. If he had applied for installment payment at that time, would he not have to pay it back now?

I thought that after the disaster, no one would have so much cash on hand, and the money in passbooks or online banks should have been invalidated, so it certainly can't be that expensive. If it is still 400,000, then the jadeite is 250,000, and my space costs at least 5,000 or 6,000 a day. If you calculate it this way, we can also buy it in installments.

I asked the brother if I could pay the down payment in installments first? The brother smiled and replied that he really didn't know. Those who can move in now are all connected and have connections, and they may not have really spent a lot of money to buy the houses. The occupancy rate of this community was less than 30% before, but now it is almost full. I don't believe that they all ran away with the money during the earthquake?

After chatting for a while, the electrical circuit and water pipes were repaired. After Lin Lin helped Xiao Bai pay the money, the two of them happily said goodbye to us and said they were going back to eat before leaving.

Xiao Bai also asked me curiously: "Brother Huo, do you really want to buy a house here?"

I shook my head and said I was just asking around. Actually, the shabby prefabricated steel house here costs four hundred thousand, which I don't think is worth it. But, looking at the city, I guess I won't be able to go back for a while, so living in this single-family building is definitely better than that crowded staff dormitory.

After the water was turned on, Lin Lin and I started to help Xiao Bai clean up the kitchen and the smelly refrigerator. We disposed of a lot of garbage and threw it at the door. Xiao Bai had a bag of rice and noodles at home. We stewed rice for him before leaving. I gave him two cans of food. Lin Lin took out a set of blue and white porcelain bowls from Xiao Bai and counted out eight of them. She looked up and said to Xiao Bai: "You are alone at home now. You don't need this set of bowls for the time being, so give it to us." Then she told me to take his bowl away. I suddenly remembered that we ate with a convenient box lid in the dormitory yesterday. We really need this now. I didn't care whether Xiao Bai agreed to put it in my backpack, and took his chopsticks by the way.

It was already past noon when we settled Xiaobai down, so we had to hurry back to buy lunch for the girls in the dormitory.

We drove back to the factory and went straight to the cafeteria. It was the first time for grandpa to come here with us. He looked at each window with curiosity. I asked grandpa, "What do you want to eat? I will buy it for you today!"

Grandpa looked at the dishes and their prices one by one. Now an ordinary lunch box in the cafeteria only has two vegetarian dishes and rice for 20 yuan, which is a low price that basically satisfies ordinary people and will not go hungry. If you want to eat from the special kitchen at the other end, you have to walk past the lunch box window to reach the special kitchen window. Dishes with meat, such as chicken, duck, fish, and pork, will cost more than 50 yuan, and some even 100 yuan. That is just the price of the individual dishes, but the portions are not small. A single vegetarian dish from the special kitchen costs 15 yuan each, not including the rice.

Grandpa was reluctant to spend the money and said that we should either buy one meat dish and two vegetable dishes.

I secretly told grandpa that Feicui and I got the money yesterday and told him to buy whatever he wanted to eat! Grandpa was shocked when he heard it and asked me, "No wonder you want to buy the house in that villa community."

I said that the villa was not important, but that we had a good meal as a family. Grandpa was very happy with what I said and ordered two meat dishes, one was braised chicken and the other was boiled fish. Our base is near the river and people go fishing every day to exchange for city currency, so fish has become the signature dish of this canteen. I also bought two vegetarian dishes, shredded potatoes and stir-fried cabbage. The vegetarian dishes cooked in the small stove are completely different from the big pot lunch boxes. They are delicious and have shredded meat in them.

Passing by the supply and marketing cooperative that was being built in full swing, my grandfather asked me what it was doing.

I explained the supply and marketing cooperative to him, and grandpa suddenly seemed to recall his youth, an era when supply and marketing cooperatives began to appear in various places. He began to talk to me incessantly about his experience of buying things in the supply and marketing cooperative when he was young. The car was parked outside, and Lin Lin told me anxiously that we should walk slowly while he went to the car first.

I said okay and you go ahead. Actually, I was just about to ask him to leave. Once he left, I could secretly hide some of the lunch boxes I had just bought in my space. One reason is that it would be lighter, and the other is to prevent others from looking at me with covetous eyes because they saw I bought a lot of food. When I turned a corner, I let the lunch boxes in my hand enter my small space at will. Of course, my small space was full and there was not much space left, but it was still no problem to put two boxes of vegetables.

It was much easier to carry two less large boxes of food. When I passed by the supply and marketing cooperative, I asked the staff when the store would be ready for business. A worker answered me, "Soon, we'll be open to business in the evening!"