Encounter the Ice Age

The temperature in the room was relatively stable after the two of them had enough to eat and drink.

"Wait for me, I'll be right back." Chen Yang went out and came in with a basin and two cups.

Chen Yang: "Rinse your mouth, it will be hard to find a dentist in the future."

Zhaoqing pursed her lips and twitched the corners of her mouth, took out a tube of toothpaste, got some water from the jug and poured it into a cup, and the two of them sat on the edge of the freezer to brush their teeth.

The voice on the radio became deeper and deeper, and the voice of the female anchor became less clear due to the gradual weakening of the signal.

On such a day, being able to do the simplest little things in life as usual makes Zhaoqing feel precious.It's been a long time since he brushed his teeth carefully like a primary school student, and it took a long time before he was ready to rinse his mouth with a mouthful of foam.

Chen Yang pouted and pointed to the basin below, Zhaoqing spit in the mouthwash and put the toothbrush and toothpaste aside.

"If you wake up at night, just pee here, don't go to the toilet, it's too dirty! The sewage returns very badly." Chen Yang.

"Ok."

The two checked the room and found a lot of dirty things coming back from the sewer against the tide. They simply sealed the toilet door completely and pretended that they didn't have such a room in their house. They gave up their shame just to live a better life.

After finishing everything, the two of them took off their windproof jackets and shrank into the large freezer together on the quilt.

Zhaoqing rubbed his eyes, he was sleepy and worried, and asked, "Look at the wound."

"What? You took off your sweater, woolen pants, and diving suit." Chen Yang made a mockery, and threw the woolen pants and diving suit into the quilt.

Zhaoqing was obediently wriggling in the quilt like a little caterpillar. He leaned halfway in his long johns and asked, "Why, won't it be warmer if you wear more?"

"The diving suit is waterproof but it will hinder the heat dissipation of your body, and the long underwear will not be warm even if you wear many layers of sweat."

"Oh, so that's the case. It's my first time wearing a diving suit. Come here, let me show you the wound." Zhao Qing patted the pillow and asked Chen Yang to lie down to carefully examine Chen Yang's wound.

"Ah Yang, your wound healed quite quickly, without any signs of inflammation." Zhaoqing was amazed, Chen Yang's wound healed extremely fast, far exceeding ordinary people's speed, it was seen that there was still fresh blood yesterday, and today it has completely healed up.

Chen Yang: "I told you earlier, this injury is nothing serious."

"Quick recovery doesn't mean there's no pain and no scars. It's not a big deal." Zhao Qing lightened his hands and helped Chen Yang change the dressing and rewrap the bandage.

"Don't waste bandages." Although Chen Yang said so, his eyes were glued to Zhaoqing's gentle and careful expression, and he felt a sense of solidity that he had never experienced before.

"Don't waste it, wash it and use it as a rope." Zhaoqing is used to swallowing things but never wastes them, and never throws away things that can be recycled.

Chen Yang looked at Zhaoqing who couldn't open his eyes, and measured the temperature of Zhaoqing's forehead with the back of his hand.He picked up the thermos cup and said in a low voice: "You still have a low fever, take the medicine and go to bed, okay? Is there a big thermos cup?"

Zhaoqing said "hmm" and took out a large thermos cup and handed it to Chen Yang, while he raised his head and sprinkled the antipyretic granule in the bag directly into his mouth and washed it down with warm water.

Chen Yang pressed his finger against the thermos in Zhaoqing's hand: "Drink a few more sips of water."

Zhaoqing took advantage of the situation and obediently drank several more gulps. She was already full and her stomach became more distended this time. Chen Yang waved her hands again and again before putting down the thermos.

Chen Yang boiled an extra pot of water, and asked Zhao Qing to take out a few bottles of mineral water and put them aside before lying down.

Zhaoqing was sleepy under the effect of the medicine, and asked, "Don't you need another injection of antibiotics?"

"Not for now, go to bed first." Chen Yang closed the lower freezer door smoothly.

Zhaoqing closed her eyes and yawned a little, her voice sticky: "Do you need another quilt?"

"I think it's okay. Take out a bed and put it under your feet. If it's cold, I'll pull it up." Chen Yang saw a quilt appearing on them, and he rolled up the quilt and piled it under his feet.

"I'm so sleepy, but I'm always afraid that if I close my eyes, I won't be able to wake up again." Zhaoqing closed one eye, and squinted the other with only a slit left.

"Are you full?"

"Huh? Oh, I'm full." Zhaoqing didn't know why Chen Yang asked.

"love me?"

"...Love," Zhaoqing no longer pushes, pulls or hides, he and Chen Yang experienced everything that was once unimaginable, he loves Chen Yang.

"I love you too." Chen Yang patted Zhaoqing and asked, "Are you still afraid?"

It was only then that Zhaoqing understood the meaning of Chen Yang's question, and he shook his head: "I'm not afraid anymore."

"It's warm when I'm full, and you are in my arms. This is something I couldn't even imagine a day ago." Chen Yang said and hugged Zhaoqing tightly.

"Well, you're right, no regrets."

"There are still regrets." Chen Yang smiled.

"Ah? What regrets?"

"Not yet, love..." Chen Yang's lips brushed against Zhao Qing's forehead, and he didn't give Zhao Qing time to be shy and comforted him: "Go to sleep."

"Well, see you tomorrow, Ayang." Zhaoqing buried her head in her boyfriend's arms as she spoke, this was the place where he felt the warmest.

That night, Zhaoqing repeatedly dreamed about drowning and Chen Yang's bloody wound, and also dreamed that many corpses floating in the flood came towards him and when he raised his head, it was Chen Yang's chest.

The trembling of fear under the wrath of nature, and the trembling of joy when seeing Chen Yang, everything continued to appear repeatedly in Zhaoqing's dream.

"Don't move, don't open your eyes yet."

It was Chen Yang's voice. Zhao Qing was so obedient that he didn't open his eyes. He heard the sound of rummaging through things, and then felt that Chen Yang moved him to a place where he seemed to be resting on Chen Yang's thigh.

Chen Yang opened Zhaoqing's eyes a small slit and dripped a few drops of eye drops into them. Suddenly, Zhaoqing was so painful that he let out a small cry of pain and woke up completely.

"Hold on, I didn't think about it last night, the sea water is too dirty. Hold on, don't open your eyes yet, be good." Chen Yang gently massaged Zhaoqing's eyelids, watching the physiological tears keep flowing from Zhaoqing. The corners of Qing's eyes rolled out.

After a while, Chen Yang dripped Zhaoqing again, this time the pain was not as painful as before, it was cool and comfortable.

Chen Yang massaged Zhaoqing for a while, and pinched Zhaoqing's temples along the way.He saw Zhaoqing pursing his lips in a half-smile: "Okay, try opening your eyes again, does it still hurt?"

Zhaoqing opened his eyes and saw Chen Yang's face, he reached out and touched the stubble, "It doesn't hurt anymore." It feels good to be taken care of.

"Drink water first." Chen Yang woke up earlier than Zhao Qing and boiled the water.

Zhaoqing got up and drank two cups to relieve the thirst in his throat.

"Last night you boiled it up again and drank a pot of water."

Zhaoqing was sore all over, and heard that she reached out and hugged Chen Yang's waist, "I'm sorry, you didn't sleep well." He didn't remember anything, it was all a dream, and he didn't remember getting up to drink water.

"Why are you sorry for being sick? Don't say such things to me." Chen Yang stroked Zhaoqing's hair and helped Zhaoqing massage her head to relieve the discomfort after the high fever.

"I'll change your medicine for your injury?"

"Don't use it for now, change it at noon when it's hottest." Chen Yang kissed Zhaoqing's forehead, "What's for breakfast? Are you in charge?"

"Tch," Zhao Qing let go of Chen Yang with a smile and put on the clothes layer by layer, and Chen Yang pressed a hat on his head before leaving the warm freezer.

"Would you like to drink oatmeal and eat a sandwich?" Zhao Qing poured water into the pot.

"Eat yours and drink yours, you decide." Chen Yang likes Zhaoqing to make decisions, and prefers Zhaoqing to make decisions for him.

Zhaoqing pushed Chen Yang with his elbow and said, "I don't have these, will you make me hungry?"

Chen Yang didn't answer but smiled, he definitely wouldn't let Zhao Qing go hungry, at most it was not so comfortable.He has always pursued an idea that as long as people have the power to act, they will not be starved to death.

If there is no small world mentioned by Zhaoqing as a food supply, he will definitely gather all the edible food around to Zhaoqing, Zhaoqing will not starve to death before he dies of starvation.

Zhao Qing leaned over and kissed the corner of Chen Yang's mouth, and he got the answers to all the questions since Chen Yang went through the disaster and returned to him. This answer can make him open everything to love Chen Yang, Chen Yang deserves it.

The eyes full of love make people feel comfortable inside, and Chen Yang and Zhao Qing exchanged a sweet kiss.

As soon as the water was boiled with a kiss, Zhaoqing put oats and quinoa in the boiling water, and when the water was almost dry, he put more than half of the milk in the paper bucket, and handed the rest to Chen Yang and said, "You drink these."

"You don't want to drink?" Chen Yang took it.

"I drink milk at night." Zhaoqing stirred the oatmeal and quinoa porridge with a spoon. He couldn't adjust the fire because he was afraid it would get stuck at the bottom of the pot.

"Ah, I missed that last night."

"Make it up tonight."

Chen Yang raised his head and poured the milk into his stomach when he heard that there was still milk. He asked, "Do we have any food? How long can we eat it?" He had to calculate the time, and he couldn't just sit and eat.

"Hmm..." Zhaoqing thought for a while and said, "Most types are available. I have saved quite a lot over the years, but the amount of fresh meat is relatively small."

"What is your concept of relative?" Chen Yang pointed to a pile of coal in the corner and asked, "Is this too much or too little?"

"This? How many catties?" Zhaoqing took it out casually, he had no idea about the weight.

"About fifty catties."

"The boss opened three large warehouses for me, saying that the volume is six containers. About 150 tons?"

"So, 150 tons is too much or too little for you..." Chen Yang was a little shocked. He didn't expect Zhaoqing to be able to get so much coal.

"I don't know how to calculate this. It's not only serious ingredients but also snacks. I can only estimate the pile according to the volume. Anyway, food is more than coal." Zhaoqing switched perspectives and looked at the small world warehouse , did not stop stirring in the hand.

"It's almost done, let's eat first. Ayang."

Chen Yang was very surprised and didn't know how to comment, saying: "A person can eat 50 tons of grain in a lifetime, you...you can save too much, how did you do it?"

"Let's keep it flowing. Every time I buy vegetables, I need a chicken and I buy three. Every week, I will go to the market where the ingredients are exhausted to pull a few carts. It is cheap and not expensive to find the right place, and I will slowly save it. .”

"Don't the Conners know?" Chen Yang took the bowl and drank the oatmeal wholeheartedly.

"They already knew," Zhao Qing said, showing Chen Yang the note Mrs. Connor left him.

"That's right, you have a line in your heart. It's fairly defensive to outsiders, but if someone crosses this line, it's easy to find your anomaly. Seeds? Can you plant them?" Chen Yang happened to see that the letter said seeds part.

"Well, yes." Zhaoqing's small world currently has dozens of acres of planting land.

"But how do you grow it?" Chen Yang put the precious letter in a dust bag and returned it to Zhaoqing.

"I can enter my little world, but here I disappear. You eat your sandwich, eat more! It heals fast."

"No wonder you lock the door when you sleep at night. You have been working overtime for half a day. You are exhausted." Chen Yang said dumbfounded. There is no one who works during the day and farms at night.

"Fortunately, the first few years were tiring. Later, many plants bear fruit regularly. Only wheat and rice are more troublesome, and leeks are also cropped one by one, so it's not tiring."

"Can you keep animals there?"

"Because of pollinating fruit trees, I raised bees, and a small amount of chickens and ducks to lay eggs. I was afraid that I would not be able to deal with the other livestock. I didn't expect to encounter this doomsday. I knew I would raise some cattle and sheep. But don’t worry, I’ve raised a lot of freshwater fish, shrimp and crabs, and if you’re not afraid, there will be crayfish, bullfrogs, snails and so on! I didn’t expect to survive them in the water, and they’ve multiplied a lot now.”

"You still have the river?"

"It's a small lake. I'm not afraid of killing fish, shrimp and crabs. I'm really not good at killing cattle and sheep. It's a bit difficult to kill chickens."

Zhao Qing didn't want to eat after drinking a bowl, but Chen Yang gave him another bowl of oatmeal porridge, and he obediently picked up the bowl and began to drink slowly.

Zhaoqing's obedient appearance made Chen Yang's heart warm. He leaned over to kiss Zhaoqing's puffed cheeks from porridge, and said, "No wonder the fish soup you cook is fresher than other places. There are very few freshwater fish sellers in Seattle. I thought it was You didn’t expect that you kept it long ago, but you raised it.”

Zhao Qing didn't know why the fish soup tasted so good that it was worth kissing him, but he still nodded with a smile.

"Since you can go in, why don't you hide in it? Come out when everything is stable here, so why suffer." Only then did Chen Yang confirm that Zhaoqing had a small world, like the Fangwai world mentioned in Chinese mythology.

"I don't want to escape this world, but I want to hold on a little longer. Besides, if I go in early, I won't know you're back, and we will miss it. No matter how good a person lives, it's no fun," Zhao Qing fell into the memory bowl and put it down. Speak word by word.

"You came back to me and suffered such serious injuries. I saw the big water rushing towards you and dragging you in, but the small world didn't agree. I didn't hide from you before and came back again. It's even more impossible for me to leave you alone Here. I have to go through this winter with you, you are not allowed to persuade me, don’t let me in, no one can push me in unless I take the initiative.” Zhao Qing thought that Chen Yang would drive him to a safe place , refused first with a particularly firm tone.

It was Chen Yang's kiss that greeted Zhaoqing's words, a kiss with milk and oatmeal that tasted slightly sweet like sunshine.