On January 22, 2020, there are only two days left before the New Year, but for a professional writer like me who stays at home all day long, it doesn’t feel any difference.

"Oh~ This New Year is getting less and less fragrant, and I can't even smell the aroma of meat balls..."

When I woke up in the morning, I pushed open the balcony window. I didn’t have the sound of firecrackers, smoke, or even the fragrance of fried rice balls that I remembered from childhood. The Chinese New Year is just an ordinary family gathering for the increasingly wealthy Chinese.

"Great writer! Do you know how much pork costs per pound..."

His wife Yang Xiaorong walked over with a basin of clothes in her arms, and her five-year-old daughter followed behind her and made a noise. Before she knew it, the child had already surpassed my waist, and time was as fast as a flash of time.

Although my nurse sister is only in her early thirties and is only half a year older than me, she is a nurse from the city central hospital and has been working on night shifts in the "Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Department" for a long time.

Even if you are born beautiful, you can't stand the torture of night shifts, and your gray hair will always appear quietly.

"It's over fifty! Only one pound..."

The nurse raised five fingers and said in the vegetable market expert: "Who is willing to fry the rounds now? I can't bear to fill the sausages. This year, our family has changed to vegetarian food, by the way! Our hospital has just set up a fever clinic. Don't run out if you have nothing to do!"

“What clinic?”

I picked up my daughter absent-mindedly, but I couldn't keep up with my wife's jumping thinking.

"Fever clinic! You don't read the news, the new coronavirus is causing a lot of trouble in Wuhan..."

While drying clothes, my wife said, "My friend in Wuhan said that the new coronavirus is very contagious. Many people in Wuhan are infected. If you have to go out, you must wear a mask and wash your hands frequently. Use the seven-step method I taught you to wash your hands!"

"Let's go! Go draw..."

I ran into the living room with my daughter in my arms, and didn't take any virus seriously. Not to mention that Wuhan is far from our Ma'anshan, my wife's fuss over the years has numbed me.

I always feel that my wife has an occupational disease, which leads to a mild obsession with cleanliness. If she doesn't follow her, she will be unhappy...

Do not touch the elevator randomly. When you wear clothes when you go home, you must hang them on the balcony. The first thing you do after hanging clothes is to wash your hands. The ordinary washing method is not good. It must be "inside and outside, big wrist standing up" and operate according to the seven-step washing method.

"Dad! What is a virus..."

My daughter asked me with a brush and I smiled and replied: "Virus is a bacteria, a bad thing that cannot be seen in your eyes. If you go out, touch the bacteria and touch your mouth, it will penetrate into your stomach, making you sick and uncomfortable!"

"Hey! What are you talking nonsense about you..."

The wife ran over angrily and said, "You are still a nurse's husband. You can't tell the difference between viruses and bacteria. These are two kinds of things. If you don't understand, don't talk to your children. Go online and check it carefully, so as not to lose my people if you say it out!"

"Cut~ Bacteria are divided into good bacteria and bad bacteria. Bad bacteria are just viruses..."

I walked into the study with disdain, but after checking the Internet, I found that I was very wrong. It was really two different things. The volume of virus alone was thousands of times smaller than bacteria.

I saw a concise and clear description on the Internet. Bacteria are fully equipped bandits, easy to distinguish and aim, and can be removed with drugs at target. However, viruses are criminals mixed with civilians. They are difficult to distinguish and not easy to remove. Once infected, it depends on their own resistance.

"What kind of bats are you eating? Is there something wrong with it..."

I browsed the news about the Wuhan epidemic, and all kinds of news were flying all over the sky. For ordinary people like me who do not have professional knowledge, they had no way to distinguish the true or false. They could only choose to trust the news from the big newspapers and would not read any messy self-media.

Of course! After reading more than a dozen news, I still didn't take the new coronavirus seriously...

"Husband! Look, Wuhan is locked down..."

As soon as I woke up the next morning, the nurse sister showed me her cell phone. I turned over and retracted into the quilt and said, "Shit it! It's the New Year, it's just a good time to reunite at home. It's time to wait until the virus is eliminated. It's better to have a good rest for a few days!"

"Not as light as you said..."

The nurse sister kicked me dissatisfiedly and said, "It's the New Year now. How many people in Wuhan have to come back to their hometowns? This virus is transmitted from person to person. At that time, the virus will spread everywhere, and everyone in the whole country will suffer!"

"Are you finished? The emperor is really not in a hurry to be in a hurry to the eunuch..."

I lifted the quilt and said angrily: "What are you, a young nurse, worrying about these things? You want to compete with experts for jobs. The doctor knows more than you. You can do whatever you want. It's not too late to wait for an infected person in Ma'anshan to be anxious!"

"Why don't you have any sense of crisis..."

The wife said angrily: "I forgot about SARS back then. How fierce the human-to-human transmission is. This new crown is said to be more powerful than SARS. It is difficult to buy masks in the whole of Hubei. Anyway, you stay at home and don't go out. I will buy you what you need!"

"Life and death have fate! Wealth and honor are in heaven..."

I shook my head and smiled, "My friend robbed the salt during the SARS family and has not finished eating it yet. As a nurse, you shouldn't be panicking. If I weren't your husband, I would have scared you to death. What a big deal!"

"Oh~"

The wife sighed with her waist on her back: "Don't think that the virus is far away from you. It may appear by our side at any time. You should wash it up and have breakfast. I'll take the baby to grandma's house. By the way! You must wear a mask when you get the express delivery, don't..."

"Don't touch things randomly, you must wash your hands frequently. Seven-step washing your hands, you can go..."

I drove away the nurse's sister with a grumbling heart. I couldn't stand her nagging. However, when I got up and looked at the WeChat group, I finally found that several groups were in a furious situation, all of whom were discussing the new coronavirus. Readers in Wuhan were further describing how serious it was.

"Believe in the country! Believe in the government! Don't believe in rumors, don't spread rumors, stop posting messy news..."

After yelling in the WeChat group, I threw off my phone and got up to wash, and looked at the streets outside the window, and I didn't think there was any difference.

"Women! You always like to make a fuss, what a big deal..."

I started brushing my teeth and washing my face in high spirits. Thinking that the two things I just bought were delivered to the express station, I hurriedly prepared to go out after washing my face. Looking at the mask my wife placed on the shoe cabinet, I curled my lips disdainfully and went downstairs without wearing anything.

...

Four confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Ma'anshan!

Looking at the local news just released on my phone, I was a little confused when I sat in the car. I ran around indifferently yesterday. As a result, after a night passed, four infected people appeared in the city, and it was still on New Year's Eve.

"Is this still going to make people celebrate the New Year..."

I muttered depressedly, and looked up and saw my wife who had just gotten off day shift running out of the hospital like a gust of wind, got into the car and asked breathlessly: "You saw the news, did you run around yesterday and did you wear a mask?"

"Wear, I've put it on! I took a courier and didn't go anywhere..."

I was very guilty and avoided my wife's gaze. I had known that the virus had suddenly come to our city, and I wouldn't go out shopping or buy anything, and I wouldn't put a ready-made mask on my face.

"Let's go! Go to my aunt's house for the New Year's Eve dinner..."

My wife didn't see my guilt, so I quickly started the car and drove onto the road. The relatives at home took turns preparing the New Year's Eve dinner. This year it was my turn to reunite at my aunt's house. My parents and their children went there early in the morning.

"I have prepared New Year's gifts for everyone, bought from suppliers, otherwise I won't be able to buy them..."

The wife picked up a large plastic bag and smiled and said, "Each family has four packs of disposable masks, a bottle of medical alcohol, and a box of disposable gloves to let everyone have a safe New Year!"

"Yang Xiaorong! Can you understand something..."

I said angrily: "You are afraid of death and it's over. For the New Year, you can give these things to your relatives. If you don't talk about you, you will feel unlucky. This is the New Year. How can you put the things from the hospital in the car and you won't be able to take them down!"

“I have prepared regular New Year’s gifts, this is extra…”

The wife retorted: "What do you mean I'm afraid of death? I'm giving these things to my relatives in the hope that everyone will improve their self-protection awareness. The new coronavirus is very unfriendly to older people and the mortality rate is very high. If something happens, who will suffer it!"

"Who can the virus be friendly to? Do you think it is here to make friends..."

I waved my hand and said, "Don't tell me the big truth. I think you are an occupational disease. Everything looks like a virus. Anyway, you are not allowed to bring these bad things. It's not too late to send them out after the New Year. I don't want others to scold me for being ignorant!"

"Hmph~ You are only an occupational disease. What's wrong with having a sense of prevention..."

My wife pouted angrily, but she didn't take this unusual New Year gift out of the car. But after we walked into my aunt's house with the gift, my aunt said the first thing she said: "Xiaorong! You have masks in your hospital, can you buy some for me?"

"I want it too, I want it too! I can't even buy a mask..."

After hearing this, my sister-in-law also shouted in the living room. As a result, relatives in the room were asking for masks, and some people had bought masks and alcohol, and the topic was all about COVID-19.

"You guys scold him..."

The nurse poked my finger on my head and said fiercely: "I specially bought masks and alcohol for each of you, but this guy is feudal and superstitious. He insists on giving masks during the Chinese New Year, so I will throw them in the car and not be allowed to be brought up!"

"What's bad luck! The price of masks has risen..."

The second aunt came over and taught me and said, "You don't know how serious the epidemic outside is. Four of them were diagnosed today. People in the entire community were quarantined. I don't know how scary you guys go and take the masks up, I just didn't buy them!"

"Okay! I'll get it now..."

My wife, like the female general who won the battle, turned around and went downstairs as proudly looked at me.

After my wife brought all the "unlucky" things up, I looked at the happy smiles of my relatives and the vigilant tone, and I found that I seemed to be a little stupid and bold.

"It won't be that serious..."
Chapter completed!