the beginning of the end

When I left the space the next day, the room outside was so cold that I shivered.

"I remember I didn't turn off the air conditioner when I entered the space yesterday. Why is it so cold?" Mu Qiangguo frowned doubtfully. He and Shen Xi had spiritual protection to protect them from the cold, but the little guy had just received spiritual energy to clear his veins, and his body was still in the category of ordinary people.

"I'll go and have a look." Shen Xi picked up the remote control of the air conditioner that was placed on the table in the living room, but no matter how he pressed it, it couldn't be turned on. "broken."

"See if the sitting air conditioner in the living room can be turned on?" Mu Qiangguo couldn't let go of the sleeping child, unable to help.

Shen Xi went to plug in the sitting air conditioner in the corner of the living room, and the air conditioner was turned on instantly, and it was ready to use. The temperature was manually adjusted up, and the room should be warmed up in a short time.

The child will not be too cold, and the two adults are relieved.

"I'm going to open the bedroom, and put the baby in the bedroom to sleep later." Mu Qiangguo let Shen Xi hold the baby, planning to open the bedroom. Their house is Xiaoyue with three bedrooms and one living room. The floor plan, there is a small garden upstairs, and the living area downstairs alone is [-] square meters. The space is so large that an air conditioner can't warm it up at all.

I went to the bedroom and other rooms, but I didn't expect that all the vacancies hanging outside the house could not be opened.

"It seems that all the air conditioners hanging outside have been frozen." Mu Qiangguo went back to the living room to inform Shen Xi of the result. He wanted to open the window just now to see if the air conditioner hanging outside was broken, but the windows were actually freezing. He couldn't open it, touched the glass window, and felt his hands sting from the cold when he touched it lightly. Mu Qiangguo finally found the reason why the air conditioner was sold collectively.

"If the cold air doesn't come down, I'm afraid there will be street vendors in the circuit and air in a few days." Shen Xi quickly thought of the first problem to be faced now, and gently patted the "woo woo" in his arms. A child whose movements are unaccustomed to stiffness.

How could Mu Qiangguo fail to guess Shen Xi's worry, the two adults were staring at the little guy who fell asleep again, thinking at the same time what would happen to the little guy if the electricity and gas stopped, they couldn't stay away from the crowd and live forever Living in the space, it is even more impossible for the little guy to stay in the space alone and not come out, not to mention that Mu Qiangguo has his mother and brother to take care of.

"I'll get a wood-fired charcoal stove and prepare it when I come back. There is still a lot of charcoal left after the last barbecue at home." This is the only solution Mu Qiangguo can think of at the moment.

"En." Shen Xi frowned, and couldn't think of any other solution, "Be more careful when you go out." He didn't know what it was like outside, but he wanted to go and see it with Mu Qiangguo, but he couldn't let the little guy go. alone at home.

"I will pay attention." Mu Qiangguo replied with a smile, and approached and kissed the corner of Shen Xi's mouth.

After eating lunch, Mu Qiangguo went out under Shen Xi's instructions.

Shen Xi took the little ones to play in the living room, one was reading a book, the other was watching cartoons and playing with cars.

"Daddy, is daddy?" The baby misses his daddy after not seeing Mu Qiangguo so much, he is usually taken by his daddy.

"Father will be back in a while." Shen Xi put down the book and coaxed.

"Where's Dad?" The baby didn't know how long it would take, and continued to stare at Dad and asked, blinking his small eyes, and asked in a soft voice.

Shen Xi continued to explain patiently: "Dad is going to buy milk for the baby."

"I don't have any at home?" The baby thought and thought ignorantly, it seems that only the things that are not in the house are the only things that the father buys. This is what the father told the baby, and he remembered it.

"En." Facing his son's adult-like question, Shen Xi nodded stiffly.

After getting his father's affirmative answer, Mu Xibao ran to the side to find out his special stool and dragged it under the anti-theft door with difficulty. He sat quietly on the stool without moving.

Shen Xi thought for a while, as if she understood why, she walked up to her son and squatted down, asking, "Baby, what are you doing?"

"Wait for Dad." Mu Xibao knew that Dad would open the door and come in from this place when he came back. Every time Dad came back, Dad would take him here to welcome Dad, so he wanted to be the first to see Dad come home.

Hearing his son's expected words, Shen Xi's cold heart was touched. He picked up his son and sat on the stool together, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "I'll wait with the baby."

Mu Xibao didn't understand why his father was laughing, but his father said that he would wait for his father to come home with him. He was very happy, and he turned around and kissed his father's face, giggling.

Shen Xi hugged the little man in his arms tightly, and kissed his son's little face.

The untimely ringing of the doorbell broke the joyful interaction between the mother and child.

"Dad, you're back." Mu Xibao stared at the door, struggling to get down from Shen Xi's arms, intending to open the door, but he was not tall enough to reach the lock.

Shen Xi knew that Mu Qiangguo had brought the keys of the house with him when he went out, so it was impossible to ring the doorbell, so the person outside would naturally not be him.

Seeing that his father still didn't come to open the door, Mu Xibao shouted anxiously: "Daddy, daddy, door, door."

Shen Xi stepped forward to unlock the lock, the door was half opened, just enough to be blocked by his body, outside the door, two unexpected people stood outside the door.

"Brother Shen, is Brother Qiang at home?" Su Zi and his wife stood outside the door, looking at Shen Xi with some embarrassment.

Seeing that the two were wearing thick clothes and their bodies were still shivering from the cold, Shen Xi thought about how the two families had a bad quarrel last time, so why would they come looking for someone again, and said coldly: "Go out."

"Not here." Su Zi's voice was low, and his face was obviously very disappointed.

"Dad." Mu Xibao pulled Shen Xi's two legs, looked out through the gap and saw that he didn't see his father, he pouted, very unhappy.

Shen Xi turned around and picked up his son, intending to close the door to comfort him, but seeing that the two people outside were still not planning to leave, he asked in puzzlement, "Is there anything else?"

Su Zi didn't speak, his wife tugged on Su Zi's sleeve, seeing that he lowered his head and ignored her, she just kept silent, Su Zi's wife Liu Zhen couldn't help but look at Shen Xi by herself and said flatteringly. : "Shen Xi, how old is your son, and he speaks so neatly?"

"It's going to be three years old." Seeing that Liu Zhen had nothing to say, Shen Xi didn't know how old the baby was given Su Zi's familiarity with Mu Qiangguo.

"It's so smart." Liu Zhen praised her inappropriately, and when Shen Xi replied blankly, with a fake smile on her face, "Your child seems to be much smarter than my daughter, you haven't seen it yet?" Pass my daughter?"

"Su Xiang, come out." Liu Zhen stretched out her hand and pulled out the little girl who had been hiding behind Su Zi, and pulled her to look at Shen Xi, "This is your Uncle Shen."

This girl is about five years old, thin and small, and she has not spoken all the time, no wonder Shen Xi didn't notice it just now.

Su Xiang's lips were purple from the cold, she glanced at Shen Xi, was stared at by his cold eyes, and shouted in fear: "Uncle Shen."

Shen Xi really couldn't figure out what Su Zi's wife was paying attention to, so he didn't say anything, and continued to look at the family of three outside the door expressionlessly.

"Daddy, it's cold." But Mu Xibao was blown in the face by the cold wind outside the door, lying on Shen Xi's chest, he couldn't bear the cold air.

"Let's go." Hearing the child's voice, Su Zi felt ashamed to stay there, and took Liu Zhen's hand.

"Who are you going?" Liu Zhen shook off Su Zi's hand, thought for a while, and stopped beating around the bush, and said to Shen Xi, "Shen Xi, is your air conditioner broken?" The wind, she could feel it.

Shen Xi finally understood what Liu Zhen was up to. It must be that the air conditioner at home was broken, and she couldn't stand the cold. She wanted to come over to turn on the air conditioner, but she was too embarrassed to explain it directly. "Is something wrong?"

Shen Xi asked calmly, obviously unwilling to respond to his wife's questioning, Su Zi couldn't understand what Shen Xi meant, felt that he had been humiliated, his face flushed immediately, and he felt that Shen Xi was going too far, it must be I remember the embarrassing revenge my wife gave him last time, didn't I just want to turn on the air-conditioning and heating in your house, I need to pretend to be so high-minded, now Su Zi has forgotten that Shen Xi has always had a cold temper. There is no intention to target the couple.

"Shen Xi, the air conditioner in our house is broken, you know the temperature is freezing to death, so, you see—" Liu Zhen accompanied her smiling face, intending to explain her intentions, thinking that Shen Xi would definitely not refuse, No more freezing at night.

"Enough." But before she finished speaking, Su Zi roared and stopped her.

A roar frightened the two children. Su Xiang looked at her father timidly, with a look of wanting to cry but didn't dare, while Mu Xibao in Shen Xi's arms was frightened into crying by the roar.

With a cold face, Shen Xi patted his son's body and coaxed him softly.

"What are you yelling, it's louder than the sound." Liu Zhen came back to her senses, and immediately threw a splash at Su Zi, hitting and scratching, and the couple began to fight outside the door.

Regardless of the noise of Su Zi and his wife, Shen Xi was planning to close the door and go get milk to coax his son.

"Ah——, help——" Suddenly, there was a more shrill scream from outside the window.

With the door still open, Shen Xi turned around holding his son and walked quickly to the window to look down. Liu Zhen took the opportunity to drag her daughter and Su Zi into the house quickly, and closed the door tightly.