Chapter 319: Chapter 317 Trivial Matters at Home (3 Updates)
Together with the Han brothers, Han Ping and Han Ze, they cleared the snow at the entrance and closed the refuge door again. Only then did Chen Xin return to the shelter and take off his power armor.
"Mr. Chen, you’re finally back!" Han Ping was a bit emotional seeing Chen Xin return. The shelter had been sealed off by a snowstorm these past few days, and he was constantly worried about Chen Xin’s safety, regretting not going with him to the city that day.
Seeing Chen Xin back now, he finally let go of his worry. After all, as a bodyguard, he should be with the person he is protecting.
"Is everything okay at home? Nothing happened, right? Where are my parents?" Chen Xin shrugged indifferently, took off his driving helmet, and asked Han Ping.
"Everything here is fine. Although we were trapped by the snowstorm before, the shelter is self-sufficient, so there’s no problem. Your parents are downstairs," Han Ping quickly calmed down and answered Chen Xin.
Chen Xin nodded, patted Han Ping on the shoulder, and said, "You’ve worked hard. It’s good that nothing happened. I’ll go check on my parents first. You two go ahead and do your things."
After saying this, Chen Xin headed towards the elevator.
Upon reaching the lower level by elevator, because he had already heard from Han Ping that Chen Xin was back, his parents and the Mo sisters were waiting together for his return.
"Dad, Mom, I’m back." Chen Xin greeted his parents and also gave a smile to the Mo sisters nearby.
"It’s good that you’re back. What about Qin? Didn’t she come back with you?" Chen Xin’s mother quickly showed concern for Qin Lan upon seeing that Chen Xin came back alone.
Although Chen Xin and Qin Lan had broken up, when they were together, Chen Xin’s mother had already regarded Qin Lan as her daughter-in-law.
When they broke up, Chen Xin’s mother was quite upset about losing such a good daughter-in-law. Now that they showed signs of getting back together, of course, Chen Xin’s mother was very concerned, hoping they can reconcile so she can soon have a grandchild.
Therefore, seeing that Qin Lan did not come back together, she was naturally very concerned about the matter.
"A-Lan had some business in the city, so I came back first." Chen Xin explained briefly and then concernedly asked his parents, "Dad, Mom, did anything happen to you these past few days? Is everything okay at home?"
"Everything at home is fine, just a bit cold, nothing else. You’re tired from coming back, go wash up and have a good rest," Chen Xin’s father nodded slightly, relieved to see his son was fine, and gave him a couple instructions before turning to leave with Chen Xin’s mother.
After his parents left, Chen Xin turned to Mo Qingyan and Mo Qingxin, greeting the two and asking, "Hi, you two beauties, are you comfortable living at my place?"
"It’s okay, but the vegetables are almost ready for harvest again this month, and the few chickens are doing well. The hens even started laying eggs a few days ago." Mo Qingyan maintained her slightly cold demeanor but reminded Chen Xin after answering his question: "Uncle and Auntie were very worried about you before, if there’s nothing else, don’t run around. They’re too old to bear if something happened to you."
"I understand, thank you for your concern." Chen Xin smiled at Mo Qingyan to show he appreciated her advice.
Faced with Chen Xin’s attitude, Mo Qingyan could only nod and gave no further response.
On the other hand, Mo Qingxin was very concerned as she asked Chen Xin, "What’s the situation with the food supplies in the city now? The blizzard was so big, the situation in the city must be very serious, right?"
"The situation in the city is indeed very serious, nearly everywhere is buried under snow. In several official shelters I visited, people had frozen to death." Mentioning this topic, Chen Xin’s face turned somewhat heavy as well: "Fortunately, things have finally stabilized. By the time I left, the city government was already organizing post-disaster recovery and production resumption."
"People froze to death? It was actually that severe!" Mo Qingyan’s expression changed slightly upon hearing that people had frozen to death in the city from Chen Xin.
Even though she knew the blizzard was severe, because Chen Xin had made adequate thermal precautions here, keeping the temperature at a human tolerable level with the geothermal pump, Mo Qingyan thought the city’s situation shouldn’t be as bad. Yet she was surprised to hear Chen Xin mention fatalities, which was far beyond her expectations.
Chen Xin nodded heavily, then continued, "The low temperature issue is quite severe. Here we have a geothermal pump, so it’s not much of a problem, but in the city, the boilers couldn’t produce enough power to raise the temperature. Before I went into the city, many shelters had temperatures below minus ten degrees, causing many people to suffer from cold exposure and some even froze to death."
Speaking, Chen Xin detailed the situation in the city to the Mo sisters and explained why he stayed in the city for so long.
"I didn’t expect you did so much in the city, thank you for your hard work." Knowing what Chen Xin had been occupied with, Mo Qingyan’s attitude softened considerably, touched that he remembered to check on her family’s place: "I’m going to leave my place as is for now. Defrosting the wine is quite troublesome, and even if defrosted, the taste would be affected. Might as well leave it like that. I’ll deal with it when I return later."
Although she treasured her collection dearly, right now Mo Qingyan really couldn’t handle the wine, and with her home frozen under snow, she and her sister had no means or methods to clean it up.
So she wasn’t tied up on the issue and planned to leave it for a while, figuring she’ll find a way to handle it when she returned later.
"Alright, since you say so, we’ll talk about it then. When A-Lan and I left, we locked the door securely, no one will get in, so you can rest easy about that." Chen Xin had no objections to Mo Qingyan’s decision.
After finishing these matters, Mo Qingyan noticed the fatigue on Chen Xin’s face, thus pulling her sister who wanted to say more, she said to Chen Xin, "A-Xin, you should go rest first. Coming back from the city must be tiring, rest well and we’ll talk later."
"Yeah, I’m indeed a bit tired. I’ll go take a bath first. Being in the city for several days, I didn’t have a proper bath, it’s been bothering me." Saying so, Chen Xin smiled at Mo Qingyan and Mo Qingxin before heading upstairs to his room, planning to take a nice long bath to relax.