Chapter 1277: Living in the days of natural disaster (5)
The rain that had lasted for half a month finally stopped, and the sky revealed a long-lost light.
The water level in the yard, which is up to the knees, has dropped slightly, but looking out, it is still white like an ocean.
Xu Dong and Xu Xi were lying on the railing on the second floor, looking towards the town entrance, muttering to themselves:
"Why isn't Mother Dean coming back yet?"
"Why don't Guangguang, Huihui, Nannan, and Beibei come back? Doesn't everyone want us?"
Ning Jin held Xu Yin's hand with her left hand and went upstairs with a radio in her right hand: "Don't wait, our place has become a disaster area. The residents of nearby dilapidated houses have all moved out a few days ago and will not be coming back soon."
Xu Dong was stunned: "Ah? What should we do? Are we left behind?"
Ning Jin sighed like a young adult: "We have been abandoned a long time ago."
Xu Xi instantly pursed his lips: "Oh, no, no! I'm scared!"
"Don't cry, don't cry." Xu Dong quickly wiped Xu Xi's tears, "Aren't we still here? Brother Ning and I will protect you and Yinyin."
Xu Yin ran up to Xu Xi and gave her two white rabbit toffees.
The little girl smiled instantly: "Toffee!"
Xu Dong licked his lips enviously, he also wanted to eat toffee.
The next second, Xu Yin stuffed two more pills into his hand.
"Hehe, I have one too!"
Ning Jin was a little tired: "We have to find a way to get out the food locked up by the dean's mother. We can't just rely on the rewards that Yin Yin brings out."
"That's right! We don't have any rice to cook." Xu Dong held a White Rabbit toffee in his mouth and ran downstairs on his short legs. "It's not going to rain anymore. I'm going to scoop out the water from the cellar."
"There's no food in the cellar." Xu Xi followed him downstairs, holding on to the wall.
"Idiot! There is a ladder in the cellar! If you move the ladder to the dean's mother's room, you can reach the pantry!"
"You're an idiot! Just want to reach the food cupboard table! Brother Ning's headache is that the cupboard door lock can't be opened."
The sturdy "Little Cannonball" paused: "Yes! Move the table over, and you can reach the cabinet door by climbing on the table. I'm so stupid! Hahaha!"
"..."
Ning Jin didn't look at them. She held Xu Yin and said, "Yin Yin, let's go downstairs too. The railings need to be repaired. Don't lie down on them like they do. It's not safe."
Xu Yin just smiled and said nothing, and stuffed a large handful of White Rabbit toffees of different flavors into his pocket. Her partiality was so obvious.
The four children came to the dean's mother's room.
Maybe he left in a hurry, so the door was unlocked without a key and opened as soon as he turned it. However, the food cabinets and double-door wardrobes on the upper and lower floors of the house were all locked.
Xu Dong was a little worried when he saw that Ning Jin was planning to violently break the lock of the food cabinet: "Will the dean's mother be angry with us when she comes back?"
"No, we are trying to save ourselves."
After Ning Jin finished speaking, he climbed up on the table and studied the padlock.
It looks like an ordinary copper padlock, but it is a bit difficult to pry it open.
Xu Dong and Xu Xi held the table and thought of many ways:
"Brother Ning, use lead wire."
"Brother Ning, use the hammer!"
"..."
Xu Yin took out a thin hairpin and climbed onto the table: "I'll do it!"
Ning Jin was afraid that she would fall, so she put down the small hammer in her hand and carefully protected her.
Xu Yin stood firmly on the table, reached the lock, inserted the straightened hairpin into the keyhole, and turned it, and the lock opened.
"Wow! Yinyin, you are so awesome!"
"Yinyin, lend me your hairpin!"
Xu Yin smiled and handed the used hairpin to Xu Dong.
Anyway, she didn't really rely on this thing to open it, she relied on permanent divine power.
Fortunately, she restrained her strength and prevented the copper lock from falling apart in an ugly way.
Ning Jin was the tallest. After breaking the lock and opening the cabinet door, he was responsible for taking things out.
Eggs, noodles, cereals, flour, millet, brown sugar, seaweed, dried shrimps, bagged pickles and dried radish, as well as individually packaged buns, soda crackers, and other miscellaneous foods that are usually given as rewards to sensible children.
There are three small jars placed side by side in the lower pantry, one jar of salted duck eggs, one jar of pickled mustard heads, and one jar of sour bean pickles, all of which are side dishes to go with rice or porridge.
In the original article, the four children relied on these foods to survive for another month.
Xu Dong and Xu Xi clapped their hands happily when they saw the food.
Ning Jin couldn't help but frown when she saw that there was no rice in the cabinet and only two handfuls of noodles.
Xu Xi remembered: "Before the heavy rain, the dean's mother was going to the supermarket to buy rice."
"We can eat noodles if we don't have rice!" Xu Dong said optimistically.
Ning Jin looked at him: "I can't knead dough, can you?"
"...Well, I can't make long noodles, but I can make pimples."
"The dough must be mushy!" Xu Xi laughed at him, "I can do this too."
Not to be outdone, Xu Dong said: “The batter I made was delicious, even the dean’s mother praised it.”
“The batter I made was so good that my mother praised it for being beautiful.”
"Why do you want the batter to be beautiful?"
"If it doesn't look pretty, it won't taste good! Hmph!"
"childish!"
"You are naive!"
The five-year-old and the five-and-a-half-year-old got into a fight over whose batter was better.
Xu Yin pulled Ning Jin aside and pointed to the side.
Ning Jin looked in the direction of her finger, and a multifunctional construction robot suddenly appeared on the originally empty ground.
Even Ning Jin, who was calm when faced with the situation, couldn't help but cry out in a low voice.
The two quarreling childish ghosts suddenly stopped arguing and ran over to look around the robot:
"Yinyin, what is this?"
"Is it a Transformer?"
Once they were born, twice they became acquainted, three times four times they were friends.
Xu Yin brought out her old friend: "Grandpa with the white beard said it was a robot that helped us dig holes in the ground."
Ning Jin caught the word: "Why dig a hole?"
Xu Yin blinked: "I don't know."
Xu Dong and Xu Xi didn't understand either, but they were curious about the robot: "Then let it dig. The gods are so kind to us and they won't harm us."
Ning Jin, the only sane person online: "..."
Xu Dong has already excitedly commanded the robot: "Let's go, let's go! Hey, Yin Yin, why doesn't it move?"
Xu Yin set the automatic start time.
As soon as Xu Dong finished speaking, the robot clicked to the set location, waving its robotic arm and quickly digging a hole.
A few days ago, she sent out a survey robot during the middle of the night to survey the terrain. The ground under the orphanage was relatively solid and suitable for building a bunker.
After much thought, she decided that instead of taking her three five- and six-year-old friends to the air-raid shelter to avoid disaster, she might as well dig a bunker and settle down.
Firstly, the air-raid shelter must be overcrowded, and even if there is control, there will be many people as vicious as gangsters. Secondly, how can you be as comfortable as a guest as you are a host?
Therefore, she spent several nights, started the scene simulation, and designed several bunker architectural drawings. Finally, she selected the most satisfactory one and entered the instructions to order the construction robot to build according to the drawings.
According to the robot's work progress, if the work is started day and night, half a month will be enough to complete the work.
After half a month, when the water receded completely and there would be a few sunny days, they took the time to cover up the orphanage and treat it as an uninhabited abandoned building, and then moved to a bunker before the extreme cold weather arrived.