"Hey! What are you doing, don't be so pathetic, what if someone sees..."
Bai Fuchi sternly reprimanded Guo Xiufang for her actions.
"Isn't this for the sake of our family? If they eat and live at home, let alone two bags of flour, even..."
"Alright, alright, Mom, when did you become..."
Bai Suxiang quickly interrupted her, afraid her actions would shatter the image of the great mother she had in her heart.
"You silly girl, you haven't experienced the years of famine, you don't know what it's like to be poor and hungry!"
"Yes, yes, yes, you've experienced it! We were also starving when we were kids, and we got through it!"
Bai Fuchi retorted.
"It's not that, and besides, what relation do they have to us? They're not related by blood or marriage. If they were our sons-in-law, then it would be another story!"
Guo Xiufang always had her own way of handling things, and with one sentence, she silenced Bai Suxiang.
"Hahaha, look at you, with my daughter's looks, she's afraid she won't get married? Besides, there aren't two sons-in-law for one daughter!"
Bai Fuchi teased with a laugh.
"Dad, Mom, what are you talking about? You shouldn't tease your daughter like this!"
Bai Suxiang quickly stopped them.
"Hahaha, we're just talking hypothetically!"
"Hmph, don't think I can't tell, you're interested in the thinner one, aren't you? I say, you might as well choose Fu Ruhai, at least he knows how to take care of people!"
Guo Xiufang threw in her opinion at the right time.
Bai Suxiang's face instantly turned red.
"Mom, what are you talking about? It's getting more and more ridiculous!" Sudan Novel Network
Bai Suxiang pretended to be angry and said.
"Hmph, I'm telling you, no matter what, I won't agree. At least in terms of etiquette, he's far behind Fu Ruhai!"
Guo Xiufang said very seriously.
"Hmph, I'm not talking to you anymore!"
Bai Suxiang turned and returned to her bedroom, slamming the door shut.
As soon as they finished speaking, the phone rang.
"Hahaha, alright, alright, stop talking nonsense, get my phone, let's see who's calling!"
Bai Fuchi said to Guo Xiufang with a smile.
"Who is it? It's your brother calling, answer it! Just tell him we can't make it!"
"Got it, got it!"
Bai Fuchi agreed and quickly answered the phone.
He habitually turned on the speakerphone so he could place the phone anywhere without having to hold it.
"Brother, how is it? Have you left the city? I heard it's hard to leave the city, where are you? Do you need me to pick you up?"
"Hmph! Forget it, we're not going! You said you couldn't leave the city, how can you pick us up?"
Bai Fuchi retorted.
"Oh, you see... Hehe, the key is that the TV said San Dong City is under lockdown, so I thought you'd come to the village. I have everything here, rice and flour, enough for our whole family for a while!"
"Alas, your intention is enough. We won't bother. The roads are too congested, you have no idea, it costs two thousand yuan for this stretch of road out of the city! They're really robbing us!"
"Ah? That expensive? Then it's better to stay home! Oh, right, you should buy more supplies. From what I see, who knows how long this will last!"
"Shush, you're so talkative! It's not the great famine anymore, what could happen!"
"That's true. I'm just reminding you!"
...
As the brothers chatted, Guo Xiufang didn't interrupt but put the clothes she had just tidied back.
"Alas, big brother, you have no idea what people in the village are saying."
"What are they saying?"
Bai Fuchi asked curiously.
"They, they say..."
The person on the other end of the phone clearly hesitated.
Bai Fuchi took a deep breath, waiting for the voice on the phone.
"They say that this time, the entire San Dong City is likely in grave danger!"
"Pah, pah, pah, what nonsense are you talking about!"
Bai Fuchi's anger flared up.
"It's true, I heard a few people died, especially that Li... Li what was it, and now this virus is just a rehearsal for what happened a few years ago, many people will die, you're like those quarantined patients, maybe..."
The person on the other end of the phone spoke without logical coherence, but their voice was choked with emotion.
Bai Fuchi's heart tightened.
Guo Xiufang's heart skipped a beat.
You must know that this virus is contagious and can kill people. Doesn't this mean that everyone in San Dong City will die in the city?
A sense of death unknowingly approached her.
"Hey, what are you talking about? That's too much! It hasn't reached that point yet..."
Bai Fuchi interrupted his speculation, though he was also a little nervous.
"What I'm saying is true, it's all over the village. I'm just... I also heard that San Dong City has built a temporary hospital, just like a few years ago, think about it, right?"
This was not untrue, the news kept playing related reports.
At first, it wasn't so tense. But after his brother's reminder, he became nervous.
"This... uh..."
Bai Fuchi didn't know how to respond for a moment and said after a pause:
"Forget it, let's leave it at that, we'll talk another day. Don't be so tense, we don't know what's going on yet, don't talk nonsense. You should also take good care of yourselves and prepare the things you need early!"
"Yes, we don't have anything to prepare! Okay, that's all for now, we'll talk later!"
Hearing Bai Fuchi say that, the person on the other end of the phone responded and hung up.
"Alas, this phone call is just adding to the worry!"
"He's just concerned, why is it adding to the worry?"
Seeing Guo Xiufang complaining about her brother's call, Bai Fuchi quickly defended him.
If the phone hadn't been called, the whole family would have just treated it as traffic control, preventing them from going out. But this reminder made them feel the danger approaching, and death was about to descend.
Anyone in this situation would be scared!
"Xiang'er... Xiang'er! Come out, we need to discuss something!"
Bai Fuchi called out to Bai Suxiang's bedroom.
"Coming, coming, what is it, Dad!"
"We need to discuss how to get through this period!"
"Dad, it's not a war, don't listen to Uncle and the others talking nonsense."
Bai Suxiang comforted him.
She had overheard their conversation occasionally but didn't think there was any need to be so tense.
"Whether it's one thing or another! You should go and buy some more durable items. If it's true... your mother was right!"
Bai Fuchi instructed, only now realizing that what Guo Xiufang had said was correct.
"Hmph, you weren't convinced just now!"
Guo Xiufang raised her eyebrows and muttered to herself.
"Okay, okay, I'll go now, I'll go now, alright, I'm tired of listening to you nag at home!"
Bai Suxiang said as she put on her shoes.
"This silly girl, she's tired of listening to us nag now, so when we're old, will you throw us in a dumpster!"
Guo Xiufang said, half seriously and half jokingly.
"Hehe, that's a good idea!"
"You!"