Rebirth in the end times: The whole family keeps a low profile

Some families in Luoyang Town have preserved wells from a long time ago. The terrain here is complex and there are many underground rivers, so water is very convenient, many times better than in the city. When there was a water and power outage in the city, many people fled to the countryside.

Xinxu Village is a medium-sized village near Luoyang Town. It is located on a higher ground and there are several natural springs bubbling up from the ground in the village.

Decades ago, when there was no running water, everyone went to wells or springs to get water. These springs were all located in the low-lying areas behind the mountain. The mountain behind was neither high nor steep. The continuous hills formed a sharp contrast with the karst stone mountains in the next village when viewed from a distance.

Su Yun's family's homestead is quite large, about 500 square meters. Grandpa has no other sons, only dad and Su Xiaogu. The new house is about 300 square meters, and the remaining 200 square meters is the old house. The new house is next to the old house, separated by a 3-meter-high wall, with two small doors on the side for easy access.

Although Su Xiaogu was divorced and had a child, Su's father was reluctant to let his only sister live alone, so he always took special care of Su Xiaogu in life and reserved a room for her when a house was built in the village.

After the Su family villa was completed two years ago, it really made a lot of people envious. Most of the people who built houses later in the village followed suit, so there are more than 30 villa-style houses in the village, and most of them have underground storage rooms.

The two underground floors of the Su family villa are usually used to store farm tools, grain, tools, winnowing baskets and miscellaneous items.

At present, the Su family villa only has basic furniture and appliances and some tools and farm implements left over from when the house was first built, and it looks a bit shabby.

I bought a batch of pots, pans, and utensils when I moved into my new house to entertain guests. Now they are piled up in the kitchen cupboard gathering dust.

The first floor is mainly designed for Su Ma and Su Xiaogu. There is a large front yard of 70 square meters, surrounded by a wall more than one meter high. The basement, yard and first floor are paved with marble water-polished floors. It is well known in rural areas that this kind of water-polished floor is non-slip, dirt-resistant and easy to maintain.

The gate of the yard is an ordinary iron fence gate, and you can see into the yard from the outside. The gate of the house was made of steel at a high price, and it is both strong and grand.

There is also a sunshade and rainproof shed on the left side of the entrance to the yard, which is used to store motorcycles, bicycles and tricycles at home.

On the right side of the open space, a round stone table and four stone benches were built with cement, which can be used for picking vegetables, resting and chatting.

A row of floor-to-ceiling hidden shoe cabinets are designed at the entrance of the house, so there is no need to worry about having too many shoes at home.

The hall is the main activity space. The 60-square-meter space looks very spacious and bright. It is simply furnished with a set of wooden sofas and coffee tables commonly seen in rural areas, a simple TV cabinet, and two sets of side cabinets against the wall. The side cabinets contain some commonly used small items, such as nail clippers, scissors, utility knives, sewing kits, etc. On the wall hangs an embroidery painting made by my sister-in-law Zhang Lili, with a few large characters on it: "A harmonious family brings prosperity." It makes one feel warm inside.

There are three bedrooms on the first floor. The master bedroom has the largest space, and the two secondary bedrooms are slightly smaller.

Su Ma’s master bedroom has a separate dressing room and bathroom, and the bathrooms in the other two rooms are located at the end of the public corridor outside, making it convenient for guests to use the toilet without feeling embarrassed.

The layout of the second and third floors is basically the same as that of the first floor, with not much difference. There are two 30-square-meter storage rooms and a small pavilion on the top floor. Usually, grain is dried on the top floor. The two small rooms are convenient for storing grain without having to move it up and down. Currently, one small room is filled with some sundries, and the other is idle, with a clothesline occasionally placed there.

The large new Chinese-style kitchen is the biggest highlight. The kitchen is in the backyard on the first floor. The area of ​​the backyard is about the same size as the front yard. A 40-square-meter indoor kitchen was built. On one side of the kitchen are new upper and lower cabinets for storage, a customized movable island counter, and a specially customized storage cabinet with a built-in double-door large refrigerator, steam oven and the like.

The range hood, stove and sink are all made in the latest popular style, which is not only beautiful, practical and easy to keep clean. On the other side, a stove commonly seen in rural areas was made. At the beginning, I thought that I could occasionally eat some firewood meals. The house is close to the back mountain and there is no shortage of firewood. The kitchen is relatively large, so meals are also eaten in the kitchen, and the large dining table is placed directly in the kitchen.

There is some firewood piled up against the wall of the 40-square-meter backyard outside the kitchen. There is also a well next to it, a stainless steel folding table under the eaves, and a few antique stools. The backyard is not big, but it can meet all the daily needs of the family.

The kitchen as a whole looks spacious, with good air, plenty of light, and a very reasonable layout.

Since the house has been uninhabited for a long time, there are no pig pens or cattle pens.

The entrance to the basement is on the other side of the parking shed in the front yard. There is a separate staircase leading down, which is quite hidden.

The other one is in the kitchen. This design is mainly for the convenience of storing farm tools and crops, so that the whole house does not look messy and free of clutter. After all, in rural areas, the most common things in the house are farm tools and crops. It does not look good anywhere, so just put them all in the basement.

If there are no natural disasters, Su's father and mother will live here in their old age. Just thinking about it makes me feel very yearning.

It’s a pity that such a nice house can only be lived in for one year. After the extreme cold, they will have to rush to the nearby rescue base for refuge.

The common trees on the back hills of the village are pine trees and low shrubs, which are most suitable for raising chickens. The village chief, Brother Tan, rents a forest on the back hills to raise chickens.

There is firewood everywhere on the mountain. Those dry pine needles are best for starting a fire. In short, Su Yun gains a lot every time he goes up the mountain.

In the rainy season, the mountains are full of mushrooms, wild chestnuts, wild lemons, and some unpalatable grapefruit trees. In the spring, there are wild strawberries and small wild flowers all over the mountains.

The ground was covered with thick pine leaves, so even if he fell it would feel like he had fallen on a quilt and it wouldn't hurt at all. Su Yun liked to go to the back mountain to pick wild fruits and mushrooms the most.

The back mountain carries so much joy for the children in the village.

There are many roads leading to the back mountain, which is convenient for transportation and not steep. Motorcycles and small four-wheelers can go back and forth in the back mountain. Occasionally, some snakes will appear, and the brave children will use branches to drive away the snakes. Because there have been no accidents, adults never forbid children from going up the mountain to play, as long as they return home before dark.

There are not many young people in the village on weekdays. Most of them go out to work, and it is the elderly and children who take care of the three acres of land at home. But during holidays, young people come back one after another, and the village becomes particularly lively at this time. Most people gather at the store in the center of the village to play cards, eat melon seeds, chat, and warm themselves by the fire.

Su Yun has never liked to join in the fun, and he is not often at home after work. The older people still remember which family he is from, and he is more familiar with his peers who went to school with him, but the younger generation of children basically can't recognize whose family he is from.

Wang Jie tidied up all the big things inside and outside the house, and Su Yun also took the children to clean the house inside and out, as if it were a general cleaning before the New Year.

When Wang Jie has free time, he installs invisible cameras around the villa. There are 5 cameras installed in front and behind the house. The images of the gate, front yard, back yard, living room and old house yard can be seen on the mobile phone software.

After Wang Jie finished fixing the camera, he opened his laptop and used CAD software to design some self-defense weapons. There were two blacksmith shops in the town, which usually specialized in making iron products such as sickles, hoes, and kitchen knives. If you paid more money, you could also make the hatchets and machetes you wanted.

So the extended version of the machete was born, with a handle of 60 cm and a blade of 70 cm, and 30 large machetes with single and double edges. Then, 30 medium-sized machetes with a handle of 40 cm and a blade of 50 cm were made, and 30 small machetes with a handle of 20 cm and a blade of 25 cm were customized, with single and double edges, 100 ordinary sickles, 50 ordinary saws. Although there are electric saws, it is always inconvenient to take them out. 100 ordinary hatchets are also equipped with special belts for hatchets, so that they can be tied behind the waist without affecting travel, and look more like an authentic farmer.

Farm tools for the fields are also essential. You need to buy some hoes, shovels, rakes, steel chisels, hammers, axes, etc.

We also collect some common bamboo products in the countryside, such as chicken cages, fish cages, and bamboo plaques, which are also indispensable in rural areas, and the prices are not expensive, all priced at around 30 yuan.

Wang Jie's slender fingers controlled the keyboard and mouse. While designing weapons, he was thinking about what to buy at the next market.

For dinner, Su Yun cooked a pot of fragrant rice and took two main dishes from the space, braised pork trotters and braised chicken. He also fried a handful of fresh Shanghai greens and made a pot of winter melon and pork ribs soup. The family of four was having a happy meal when they received a call. Su Zhangming said that he was going to the town for a barbecue tonight. Su Yun thought it was time to confess the things about the space and use the last month before the natural disaster to get everyone in the family moving.

At 6pm, Wang Jie and his family drove a van for more than 40 minutes to the town. Because it was not a market day, the streets were deserted. Su Yun drove the car to the parking space in front of his house and parked it. The blacksmith shop was not far from Su's house, only a few minutes' walk away. Wang Jie said hello to Su's mother and father and went to the blacksmith's house to discuss things first.

Fortunately, the owner of the blacksmith shop lived upstairs in the shop and did not have a strict concept of working hours. When Wang Jie arrived, the boss had just finished dinner.

The workshop behind the blacksmith shop was scorching hot, the temperature in the boiler was extremely high, and the table was covered with red-hot iron lumps.

Wang Jie greeted the boss and handed over a few drawings. The blacksmith took a look at the drawings and was shocked. These were not ordinary items. He already had ready-made farm tools for daily use, and most of them were similar even if they were customized. But this machete looked weird no matter how he looked at it, and there were so many of them. Blacksmith Tan was afraid that he would be investigated if something happened, and was about to refuse, but Wang Jie wrote a string of numbers on the drawings. The price of a machete was 500, which was considered a high price, and it was not difficult to make. It was just optimized and improved on the basis of the machete. He had been a blacksmith for 5 years and had made some strange objects, but none of them had such a high profit. What's more, he had to purchase many farm tools, which was another considerable income. After some consideration, the total amount of all the knives and farm tools was . He paid half of the deposit first, and agreed to pay the balance after the goods were delivered before New Year's Eve.

The 60 machetes and existing farm knives will be picked up together in due time. After agreeing on a few details, Wang Jie finally feels relieved.