Chi Yue stopped fighting to wash the dishes.
She and Wen Qizhou packed their luggage. Remembering that they were looking for a heater, they raised their fingers to the diagonal bedroom.
After sending them away, she quietly put away the furniture she had taken out from the space, put on her backpack and went downstairs first.
I haven't been out for many days, and the biting cold wind carries the goose feather snow and blows towards my face, like fine needles pricking my skin.
Shivering, she tied up her scarf, stepped on the thick snow with her feet, braved the wind and walked step by step around to the front yard of the villa, took out the SUV, sat in the passenger seat and waited for them to get off.
Not long after, two cars drove out of the villa area.
Wen Qizhou drove behind Zhao Peng and the others, driving along the third ring road toward the suburbs, and soon arrived at Heyuan Base.
The site is enclosed by a three-meter-high wall.
There are two entrances and one exit. New residents need to enter from the left entrance and register their personal information.
After logging in, they will be given a check-in guide. They followed the signs to the service center and observed the Heyuan Base, which covers a large area.
The base is divided into three areas. Area A contains offices, aprons and service centers, as well as separate fenced-off areas for military and high-level residences.
Areas B and C are all residential buildings.
There are ten official new buildings, each of different heights, surrounding six three-story villas and five six-story Western-style buildings that were once built by developers.
It seems there is not much difference, but Zhao Peng, who met them, said: "Area C is basically a Datong shop and a dormitory. People who don't have much money will live in Area C for a while first."
After hearing Qizhou, it became clear.
He put on windproof gloves, took Chi Yue's hand and followed them, entered the service center and lined up in front of the window.
The service center is obviously newly built. There are no tiles on the floor and the walls are simply painted. There are only three light bulbs hanging above the row of windows where the staff sit.
There were queues at five of the eight windows, but there were not many people handling business. They stood around for a few minutes before their turn came.
"Excuse me, are there any villas?" Wen Qizhou lowered his eyes and looked at the employee with the little sun at his feet, and directly stated his demand.
"Yes." The employee nodded and turned over the laptop as soon as he found the picture: "Now this is the only set left."
Chi Yue is not satisfied.
The dissatisfaction is that there is no furniture in the villa except the wooden bed. If they move in, it is impossible to put all the furniture, so the whole thing will look empty.
She discussed it with Wen Qizhou and finally chose to rent the small Western-style building with one floor and one floor where Zhao Peng and the others lived.
The monthly rent for a small western-style building is 1,500 points.
The points that can be exchanged for food and gasoline are almost the same as those in Lincheng, but the points that can be exchanged for medicines are higher. A plate of antibiotics or antipyretics can be exchanged for 500 points.
They took out the supplies they had prepared in advance and redeemed 3,500 points to pay two months' rent.
Then, under the guidance of Zhao and Peng, they drove to the small foreign building No. 8 and climbed the stairs to the sixth floor along the passage.
The house on the sixth floor still only has two beds.
Yao Chengwei offered to take them to sell furniture: "The furniture sold at the base is very cheap, and the store will help deliver it to your door."
"Well, we'll go later."
Chi Yue refused on the grounds of sleepiness.
Anyway, there is a bed in the bedroom, so they can sleep on it with the sheets and quilts they brought, and there is no rush to make up for the missing furniture.
"Then you rest first. I'll come up and call you when it's time for dinner." He and Zhao Peng lived on the fourth floor, which was very convenient to get up and down.
"good."
As soon as they left, Chi Yue and Wen Qizhou cleaned the master bedroom, moved the wooden bed, and put in space furniture.
As for the living room and kitchen, they are temporarily vacant. When they have time, they can go shopping around the base and buy a few things to hide their presence.
In the evening, they went downstairs to eat.
It was Sun Rui who opened the door for them. She was much more mature than before, and her eyes became tougher.
They chatted briefly for a while, and gradually learned more things that Zhao Peng had simplified from her, and they deeply felt how difficult it was for the three of them.
Speaking of the Yuan Chuan family whose whereabouts were unknown, Sun Rui sighed: "Uncle Yuan's health is not good, and Jiayu is so young. I don't know if Brother Yuan can handle it."
Chi Yue and Wen Qizhou said nothing.
Families with elders and younger ones have suffered many more hardships than them. The first problem they have to face is not natural disasters, but their own health.
The elderly have many underlying diseases, and children’s immune systems are still in the developmental stage, so their resistance is definitely not as good as that of adults.
No matter how you look at it, it’s not optimistic.
"Stop thinking nonsense." Zhao Peng, carrying a pot of stew, walked to the coffee table: "They will definitely be fine."
"I hope so."
"Come on, come on, use your chopsticks." Yao Chengwei handed out chopsticks to them, livening up the atmosphere and talking about interesting things he met at the base.
Perhaps it was because more people made food more delicious. They listened to each other's interesting stories and completely destroyed the pot of stew that looked ordinary but was actually delicious.
Chi Yue couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
She followed Sun Rui to take a look at their simple home, and was pulled to the bedroom to chat for a few private words.
"Sister Yue." Sun Rui handed her a cup of fruit tea and asked in a low voice, "How do you and Brother Zhou use contraception?"
"...?"
Chi Yue just took a few sips of tea and was caught off guard by such direct words. He suddenly choked and couldn't help but cough.
Sun Rui, who thought she drank too quickly, raised his hand and patted her back a few times, with a concerned look on his face: "Did you choke on her throat?"
"No." Chi Yue gradually calmed down.
Her cheeks were flushed with the blush caused by coughing, and she pretended to put down the glass calmly: "Of course, with a small umbrella."
"Then do you have any extra?" Sun Rui pursed her lips in embarrassment: "We have been looking for it for a long time, but we haven't found it yet."
They had just arrived at the base and had no acquaintances.
I met Chi Yue today. Thinking that they might have some leftovers, I shamelessly pulled her over to ask.
"Also." Chi Yue subconsciously put her hand into her pocket, picked a box at random and gave it to her.
Sun Rui was stunned for two seconds.
She looked down at the unopened square box and glanced at Chi Yue with an ambiguous look: "Are you still carrying it with you?"
"!!"
Chi Yue, who suddenly reacted, was so embarrassed by her own operation that the blush on her cheeks spread all the way to her neck.
"It's not what you think……"
"I understand." She leaned into Chi Yue's ear and said something about the playground, corridors and rooftops.
Chi Yue's mind was buzzing.
When Wen Qizhou was finally called out of the bedroom, the skin on her cheeks was still hot, and her right ear was extremely red.
"Yueyue, are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?" Wen Qizhou felt the temperature on her forehead and stared at that face with frowning eyebrows.
"No discomfort."
Chi Yue pulled him to say goodbye to them, walked downstairs, and said softly: "Let's go for a walk outside."
