441, Winter Has Arrived 05

Living in a hotel does provide many benefits, such as washing and eating. As long as you pay, your quality of life will increase.

There are quite a few people stranded here. Although the weather is bad, the hotel, which charges double the price, makes a lot of money. The waiters also get bonuses and their attitudes are very good, making the guests feel the warmth of spring in the cold winter.

After living there for four days, the blizzard finally slowed down. Two days later, the temperature began to warm up. The news said that the global blizzard and low temperature weather that lasted for half a month was about to end, so Yu Heng began to contact the driver of the bus he was riding at the time.

The bus was also stranded there. The driver said: "Wait until the road is open, and I will remind you when we leave." As a result, the driver called two days later and said that a section of the mountain collapsed ahead and was being repaired.

"It will take several days. I think we can't make it. We plan to return to City C. Do you want to?" Today is New Year's Eve, and Yu Heng doesn't want to delay on the road. After thinking about it, if he was going back to his hometown, he would have to buy supplies in a more prosperous city first. He had already made a list, and many of the things in it were not available in his hometown.

After deciding to return to City C, Yu Heng and his family took a car to the designated location and got on the bus back to City C. "Mom, we are not going back to our hometown? What about Dad?"

"Wait until the spring and it's warm, and then send your dad back. I've made an agreement with your third uncle that there will be no other gossip in the hometown, don't worry."

Yu Heng looked outside the car, and the thick snow was shoveled on both sides, and the snow water flowed all over the ground, making it wet everywhere. There was no sun today, the sky was dim, and the traffic on the highway was dense, and there were many people on the road. After all, tomorrow is the first day of the Chinese New Year, who wants to spend the New Year on the road.

At three o'clock in the morning of the next day, the bus stopped at the bus station in City C, and Zhou Qingrong called a friend to pick him up. Zhou Qingrong's friend is called Mingming, with a surname of Ming and a given name of Ming. The 30-year-old otaku, unmarried, looked around when he drove over: "Where's the uncle?"

The joy of going home was diluted, Zhou Qingrong sighed: "He died on the way. It was very cold that day, and he died directly."

Mingming's eyes widened, and his eyes behind the glasses were round. He stuttered and didn't know how to speak. Zhou Qingrong knew his friend's character, so he patted him: "I'm fine, let's go home."

No words were spoken along the way. When the car stopped downstairs of Zhou's community, Mingming lay on the steering wheel without saying a word. Zhou Qingrong patted him: "What's wrong? Is your head hurting again? Did you stay up all night again last night?"

Mingming raised his head, his face was full of tears and snot, and his glasses were covered with white mist. "Wow... Why did Uncle Zhou leave like this? It's his birthday tomorrow, and I bought him a new chessboard..."

After going upstairs and entering the house, Mingming was still sobbing. Yu Heng liked such children very much, simple and kind, and greeted him: "This is the specialty we bought on the road, the sausage you like to eat, smell it and see if it smells good."

Mingming took it while sobbing, sniffed twice and nodded heavily: "Smell good!"

"Be good, don't cry." Yu Heng touched his head: "Don't go back, have lunch at Auntie's house at noon, I'll make you steamed sausage rice."

When they got home, there were too many places to clean up, so Yu Heng asked Mingming to take Zhou Haojun to the room to play. The two of them could play together very well, and they played games in a team.

Zhou Qingrong took the initiative to help, and cleaned up quickly, and the meal was ready at one o'clock in the afternoon. Mingming was about to leave after dinner, Yu Heng nodded: "Go home and take a bath, come over tonight for the New Year's Eve dinner." Mingming is a child from a single-parent family. His mother died of illness five years ago, and he has been spending the New Year at Zhou's house for the past few years.

Mingming said yes and went home. They were all acquaintances, so there was no need to be polite.

"Okay, I'll assign tasks." Yu Heng clapped his hands and asked his son and daughter-in-law to sit down. "I read the news and feel that the weather will still be bad in the future, and prices will definitely rise. So, Qingrong, you go to purchase, and I will give you the purchase order. Ah Han, you are more careful, accompany Qingrong."

"Okay, mom."

The two agreed, Zheng Han took the purchase order and exclaimed in surprise, "Mom, so many? A bit exaggerated, right?"

"Not exaggerated, listen to me, use this card to swipe it, and have someone deliver it directly to your home. You hurry up and come back before the New Year's Eve dinner. Okay, go! If you are late, everyone will go home for the New Year."

"Mom, this gasoline generator How do I use the generator? We have electricity at home."

"Have you forgotten that when we stayed at Li's house, the snow was so heavy that the power grid collapsed and the power went out? Buy it for backup."

"You can't buy gasoline now. The police station is on holiday. How can I get a certificate?"

"Buy the generator first, and we'll talk about the gasoline later."

"Oh." Zhou Qingrong looked at another item, "Seeds? We don't have land at home. Why buy seeds?"

Yu Heng glared at him, and Zhou Qingrong lowered his head and said, "Buy, buy, buy. Well, some of them should not be available. It's already 30 today. What should I do?"

"Buy what I can first." After driving the couple away, Yu Heng called the nearest electrical appliance store and asked them to send someone to install the heater. Unfortunately, they said that the masters and workers had already gone on holiday, and no matter how much money they paid, they couldn't install it. They were also preparing to close, so they had to give up. Seeing Zhou Haojun watching TV by himself, he called him: "Come here, grandma will teach you how to do exercises."

After Zhou Haojun did some exercises, someone delivered goods to his door. Yu Heng sorted them out and put them in the storage rings. By five o'clock, the delivered supplies filled up eleven storage rings. He sent Zhou Haojun to do his winter vacation homework in his parents' room and didn't let him see the scene of him putting things away. The child was too young and was afraid that he couldn't keep it to himself.

After five o'clock, he started to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner. Mingming came over at half past five and brought some fresh vegetables and mushrooms, and the dishes were almost ready.

"Well, I didn't buy meat." Mingming scratched his head, and Yu Heng smiled and touched his head: "You've eaten sausages, are you afraid of eating meat? Go buy it, and have a good meal on New Year's Eve." Now that you can eat good food, eat it quickly, and you really can't care about other things. Yu Heng gave Mingming 500 yuan and asked him to buy it. Mingming waved his hand and rushed out.

He bought a chicken and a duck at a high price, and said happily: "These are the last two. Fortunately, I went quickly, otherwise I would have sold them to others!"

The chickens and ducks were slaughtered, and Yu Heng was busy in the kitchen, stewing soups and stir-frying. Just after finishing, Zhou Qingrong and his wife came back, with big bags and small bags all over their bodies. Sweaty smell.

After a quick shower, the New Year's Eve dinner began.

At the dinner table, Mingming was a little surprised. Everyone seemed to eat more, right? He looked at Zhou Haojun who had another bowl of rice. This picky little guy had such a good appetite? Thinking about it, he must have suffered a lot when he was stranded on the road before. Thinking of Uncle Zhou who had passed away, Mingming always felt depressed.

Zhou Qingrong and Zheng Han both felt that their appetites were very good. Maybe it was because the afternoon shopping was too hard, and they always felt that they could eat another bowl. Yu Heng looked at the family of three and nodded with satisfaction. If you replenish enough energy for physical strengthening, your body will be stronger. He looked at Mingming again. Pei Shufen, the original body, liked this child very much. He was honest and lovable. He always knew the etiquette when he came home, and he had a good relationship with his original husband.

After Mingming's mother passed away a few years ago, Pei Shufen squeezed out time to care for him in the busyness of taking care of her grandson. Therefore, Mingming had a good relationship with the Zhou family. It was not an exaggeration to say that he was half a son. The child is in good health, but if he can take the medicine to strengthen his body with the Zhou family, he will definitely be stronger.

Thinking of this, Yu Heng picked up some food for him and asked him, "When will you start work?"

"The ninth day of the first lunar month."

"It's three days earlier than last year. This is too hard. Eat more, eat more."

Eat the New Year's Eve dinner with the TV on. After eating, everyone went downstairs for a walk. There were children making snowmen downstairs. Zhou Haojun looked jealous and rushed over. Zheng Han hurried over to watch.

"Mingming, stay and sleep tonight. Don't go back during the New Year. Let's spend it together."

"Hey! Okay!" Mingming thought, Auntie must be lonely, and he should accompany her.

Zhou Qingrong was scratching his head. He had too many questions in his mind. After entering the house, he found that all the things he bought were not at home, and his mother said that the things had been signed for. He was even more curious about the heirloom in his mother's hand.

Yes, in his heart, it must be an heirloom.

After midnight, the city was much quieter, with only a few places still keeping lights on all night, and most residential areas fell into the silence of the night. At four o'clock in the morning, a strong wind blew on the ordinary streets of City C, making the iron canvas sheds and other things creak, the green belts swaying left and right, and the treetops swinging.

The dull wind blew from east to west, overturning the plastic trash cans, turning out the plastic bags and water bottles inside, and sticking them on the windows of an unknown house. It happened that there was a child sleeping in that room. The child was awakened in the middle of the night and cried loudly. So the night lights were turned on, and the adults got up to coax the children.

After finally coaxing them to sleep, there was a loud noise on the balcony, which not only scared the adults, but also woke the children up with a jerk, crying heartbreakingly.

"Why are you crying so hard? Oh my goodness..."

"Mom, I don't know whose balcony a flowerpot fell down and hit our balcony." The child's father said when he went to the balcony to check, "Oh my god! What a strong wind!"

In the distant sky, red clouds piled up. After accumulating for most of the night, snowflakes finally spit out at dawn, splashing and overwhelming the world.

C City, which never snows, snowed. On the first day of the new year, local residents were excited, and social networks were full of noise: "We also have snow hahahaha white soft snow hahaha!"

C City's local forums and social software were all jubilant. Even if there were a few comments muttering that it was impossible for snow to fall in this geographical location, they were swept away by the large-scale congratulations of welcoming the snow.

The reason for such a grand occasion is actually understandable. About three years ago in winter, it rained for half an hour in C City with ice crystals, the ice crystals were as big as mung beans. The heavy rain with ice crystals caused a huge storm in the local area. C City is located in the southeast coast and has never snowed before, but now it has ice crystals! Ice crystals! Rounding it off, it is snowing!

Everyone was excited and posted their own photos and videos. The Internet was full of carnivals. Netizens from other places laughed at them, "It's just ice crystals. Come to our xx, make snowmen and ski. It's fun." "You call this snow? Tsk tsk tsk." Oh my! The locals were so angry that they scolded back on the Internet, "We just love little crystals!"

People who have never seen snow are very yearning for pure white snow. The small ice crystals three years ago made people very excited, but this time it was real snow! Heavy snow at the beginning of the year is auspicious!