末世 二三 事

At 05:30 in the afternoon, the colleagues in the office left work one after another. After finishing the final work, Jing Lin also turned off the computer and left for work. He still had to go to the nursery in the nearby residential area to pick up his little nephew Lele. .

Lele is five years old, the child of his deceased sister.

In August last year, an earthquake occurred in X province, and only Lele was rescued from my sister's family living in X province.The parents of the two siblings left early. When Jing Lin was in college, his elderly grandfather also passed away. In addition, Lele’s father had no relatives, so Lele’s custody fell to Jing Lin. each other's only relatives.

At this time, when the student party is on vacation in the scorching heat of July, Lele's kindergarten is also on vacation.But Jing Lin usually has to go to work, so he can only put Lele in a nearby nursery in the morning, and pick him up after get off work in the evening.

When we arrived at the nursery, the teacher was waiting at the door with Lele.

Lele, who was carrying a little duck schoolbag, saw her uncle, her eyes lit up immediately, she turned her head and said goodbye to the teacher, she jumped on Jing Lin like a small cannonball, hugged his leg, and looked up at him: " uncle!"

Jing Lin smiled and patted his head, then took his little hand and said goodbye to the teacher before walking to the bus stop.

Lele was crushed under the collapsed building for more than three days. He was not very lively at first, and he was even more silent. At first, he cried for his parents. When he finally realized that there were no more parents, he became more Rely on Jinglin.However, Jing Lin couldn't be with him anytime because of his work, so he felt very guilty towards Lele.

The two took the bus to a vegetable market not far from their residence to buy some fresh vegetables before heading home.

Jing Lin is now 27 years old and has been working for several years. He is also saving money to buy a house, but he has saved his salary for a few years. In the city where he lives, it is not even enough for a down payment, so he used to rent a house by himself. Have a good time.

The community is an elevator apartment that has only been built for a few years. The floor that Jinglin rents is on the sixth floor. He holds Lele's hand and prepares to take the elevator, but he sees a "under maintenance" sign in front of the elevator, so he has to take Lele with him. Happy to climb the stairs.

Jin Wuxi sank, the temperature in the evening had dropped, but it was still hot, and the two of them were already sweating profusely when they climbed up to the sixth floor.After opening the door and entering the house, Jing Lin turned on the air conditioner first, and went into the kitchen to take out the unfinished meat from the refrigerator to defrost it.Then he took a bath for Lele, changed his clothes, turned on the TV and tuned to the animation channel, then turned and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner for the two of them.

Although he is a single young man, Jing Lin has good cooking skills.I took out the tender corn I bought at the vegetable market and peeled half of it. I washed the rice and put it in the pot, and put it on the fire. By the way, I cut an eggplant and steamed it.I took another cucumber to marinate, finally cut up the thawed lean meat, took out a few green peppers, and prepared to fry a simple green pepper fried meat.

In the evening, it is corn porridge, with steamed eggplant, cold crispy cucumber and a small stir-fried pork with green pepper.

After eating and tidying up the kitchen, Jing Lin went to the bathroom to wash away the tiredness of the day. After washing his and Lele's clothes, he entered the room, opened his notebook, and enjoyed the few entertainment times he had every day.

In fact, Jinglin’s life before was very dull and boring. In addition to going to work, he used to go out to have dinner with his colleagues occasionally, and then go home to check Weibo and watch movies. Now it’s just an extra support Lele. responsibilities, and nothing much has changed.

When Jing Lin entered the room, Lele turned off the TV by himself and climbed onto the bed behind him. When Jing Lin was leaning against the bedside to play with the computer, he sat next to Jing Lin and played with his little duck toy. When you are tired, you will fall asleep.

Jing Lin was scrolling through Weibo, when he saw a Weibo post about aftershocks in Province X this afternoon, his eyes darkened.In his 27 years, because his parents left early, the people who accompanied him most were his grandfather and elder sister. Now these two are gone, and his elder sister left him in such a miserable way.

Not in the mood to scroll through Weibo anymore, Jing Lin was about to turn off the computer and go to sleep.

But just before he turned off the computer, the lights in the room suddenly dimmed, and Lele, who was playing with ducklings next to him, whispered "Ah", and then dragged the duckling to Jing Lin's side, grabbing him. the corner of his pajamas, and called him in fear: "Uncle!"

Jing Lin quickly reached out and patted his back comfortingly.Lele was buried below for three days. After being rescued, she was very afraid of the dark. For this reason, Jinglin bought a floor lamp and put it in the room, and never turned it off at night.

There was a power outage, and the computer lost the internet.Jing Lin turned on the computer and put it on the bedside table, and took the mobile phone next to him to call the property management number, but even after dialing several times, it was displayed in the call, presumably other owners were also asking.Jing Lin used his mobile phone to go to Weibo, and when he refreshed his page, he found that several cat pet bloggers who followed him said that there was a power outage and it was super hot.

Jing Linxin said it couldn't be such a coincidence, could it be that everyone lives in the same community?

Thinking of this, Jing Lin got down from the bed and looked out the window, Jing Lin froze on the spot when he saw it.

Although his place is not a city center, the night will not be as bright as day, but it shouldn't be so dark. Except for the occasional flashing car lights, there are no other lights as far as the eye can see, even the street lights are black.

Is the power system of the whole city paralyzed?

I don't know if it's because there is no air conditioner or something else, but when Jing Lin came back to his senses, he realized that he was actually sweating and hurriedly opened the window.

Fortunately, although the electricity was cut off, there was still some wind at night, so it wasn't unbearably hot.Jing Lin took out a plate of mosquito coils from the drawer and lit it. At first, he wanted to check Weibo again to see what was going on, but when he saw that the battery of his mobile phone was off, and there was an alarm going on tomorrow morning, he turned off the phone.

The computer scene is not going to be turned off, there is no light, Lele will feel scared even if there are people around him.

In the middle of the night, Jing Lin woke up sweating profusely. The laptop was out of battery and turned off. The room was pitch dark. He touched the phone on the bedside and turned it on, and it was only past two o'clock in the morning.Shaking the phone light to Lele's side, he saw that Lele was also sweating profusely, his brows were frowning, and he was not sleeping comfortably.

With the light of his mobile phone, Jing Lin found a magazine and held it in his hand as a fan. He leaned sideways on the head of the bed and fanned Lele lightly, while he fell asleep again in a daze.

Because of the heat, Jing Lin didn't sleep very well that night, he woke up and slept, and stayed up until the sky turned white.Jing Lin pressed the bedside lamp, but found that there was still no call. He turned off the alarm earlier, and got up with a tired face to take a shower.

When he finished washing, Lele also woke up, the hair on his forehead was wet with sweat, and he was sitting on the bed rubbing his eyes.

Jing Lin picked up the mobile phone next to the bed with low battery and dialed the number of the property owner. He wanted to ask when the call would come today. He opened the closet to find the clothes Lele was going to wear today, and took Lele, who was still in a daze, to the bathroom to drain the water. Give him a bath and shampoo.

There was no response from the phone. Jing Lin took the phone away to have a look, and it hung up automatically. He called again, only to find that there was no signal.

Jing Lin frowned, stood by the window, opened the phone book and called a colleague in the company. The situation was the same, and the call was disconnected within two seconds.

At this moment, Jing Lin's heart was beating like a drum, and he felt a little nervous for no reason. He looked at Lele in the bathtub and decided not to send Lele to the nursery today.

After drying Lele's hair, Jing Lin took the briefcase and left the house holding Lele's hand.