After the disaster

Qiu Cheng remembers that a colleague used to like to play with grass aquariums. When he was in the company, he liked to tell people how big and big a tank he had recently opened, how he designed the layout, what aquatic plants he planted, and how much he will put in the future. How many freshwater prawns and what kind of fish to raise.

For a while, Qiu Chengcheng often heard him tell people about the problem of supplementary light: "Like metal halide lamps and high-pressure sodium lamps, those are too expensive, and LED lights are uneven. It is difficult to buy good products. According to my experience, I still use three Basic color rare-earth energy-saving lamps, if possible, bask in the sun, my wife also likes to use this lamp for growing succulents..."

This is also the benefit that the successful foundation establishment brought to Qiu Cheng. Those chaotic memories in the past have become clearly visible now.

"Do you want white light or yellow light?" the proprietress asked.

"6500K." Qiu Cheng reported a number from memory.

"Oh, you want white light, how many watts?" The proprietress said, and rummaged through the shelves next to her.

"How many watts is the biggest one?" Qiu Cheng asked him.

"Want the biggest one?" The proprietress's hands paused, and immediately she found an energy-saving lamp packaged in a blue and white paper box and handed it to Qiu Cheng: "This is the biggest one, 105 watts."

Qiu Cheng took it over and saw that it was a relatively common brand on the market in the past, so he asked her, "What's the price?"

"This one? Just give me two catties of cornmeal." The proprietress said.

"So expensive?" Qiu Cheng couldn't help frowning.

"It's not expensive anymore. When the temporary base in our city was under construction, many lighting stores sold their stocks to the city government. Now in Xinnan City, how many lighting stores still have stock? "The middle-aged boss who hadn't spoken to him spoke at this time.

"I'll take a look again." Qiu Cheng said and handed back the energy-saving lamp in his hand to the proprietress.

The store owner is right. In the past five years, they did consume a lot of ordinary light bulbs and energy-saving light bulbs in the temporary base, but now the X virus vaccine has been released, and production is resumed all over the country. There will be new products entering the market soon, and ordinary energy-saving lamps like this should not sell as much as two catties of cornmeal.

"Hey, how much do you want? I'll sell you one cheaper." The proprietress yelled as soon as Qiu Cheng and the others left.

"Two catties of cornmeal are still too expensive, so you can go out and pick one up without paying." The middle-aged boss didn't have a good word to say.

Qiu Cheng didn't bother to talk to them either. If you go into a shop like this once, you will never go there again.

In Qiu Cheng's eyes, two catties of cornmeal is not a lot, but in the eyes of most citizens in Xinnan City, it is still quite a lot.It's just that there are really few lighting stores in the city that still have stock. If these few stores drive up prices, most citizens will have no choice but to admit that they are slaughtered. As time goes by, some people will naturally become complacent.

After leaving the lamp shop, Qiu Cheng went to the decoration shop he knew. That shop might not sell lamps, but the shop owner might be able to introduce him to a good source.

"Hey, who's here!" The owner of the decoration shop is looking left and right at the door of his house at the moment, and he hasn't seen a single customer come to the door this whole night. As a result, he saw Qiu Cheng, happy It's too bad.

"I want to buy some light bulbs this time." Qiu Cheng smiled at him and said.

"Come in and talk about it." The store owner first welcomed Qiu Cheng and the others to the eaves at the entrance of his store, and then asked him, "What kind of light bulbs do you want to buy?"

"Three-color energy-saving lamps. Otherwise, high-pressure sodium lamps or metal halide lamps are also acceptable, as long as the price is right." Qiu Cheng said.

"Metal halide lamps? Are second-hand ones okay?" The store owner asked immediately after hearing this.

"Okay." Qiu Cheng also came to the spirit at this time.

"Come with me!" The store owner pointed to the intersection on the west, and led the way ahead. After walking a few steps, he turned back and called his two sons, "Talk to your old lady." Look at the store, don't run around for me."

The shop owner took Qiu Cheng to the west for about ten meters, and then turned into an alley on the left. On a rainy night, the alley was a bit dark, even with street lamps on, it didn't make people feel very uncomfortable. Bright.

Qiu Cheng was riding a tricycle, and Ah Chang was standing behind him, holding Qiu Cheng's shoulder with one hand and holding a big black umbrella with the other.

"It's just a little further ahead." The shop owner walked for a while, then turned back and said to Qiu Cheng and the others.Public security is not good everywhere these days. It is inevitable for ordinary people to feel uneasy when they are taken into such small alleys. If he hadn't dealt with Qiu Cheng twice before, he would be at ease with Qiu Cheng, and he would not be worried today. Will be alone and go into the alley with the two of them.

"It's okay, you lead the way." Qiu Cheng wasn't too worried, he had a good impression of the owner of the decoration shop.Moreover, since the foundation was successfully established, his body's sensitivity has improved a lot, and his reaction is much faster than before. Now, flying over the eaves and walking on the wall is no problem.

After wandering around in the alley for more than ten minutes, they finally stopped in front of a three-story house.

"It's here." The owner of the decoration shop first told Qiu Cheng and the others, and then shouted upstairs, "Fu Chunlong! Fu Chunlong!"

"Who is it?" A muffled answer came from upstairs.

"Me, Ma Chongqing." The owner of the decoration shop said loudly.

"Ma Si, what are you doing here so late?" A head stuck out from the window on the second floor.

"Stop talking nonsense, it's raining, why can I still come to you? Hurry down, there's business to do."

"Wait." The man called Fu Chunlong looked at Ma Chongqing, then at Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang, and came down to open the door without hesitation.

Qiu Cheng and the others waited outside the door. First, they heard a soft slap, and the lights in the room turned on. They stood outside and could see some light through the crack of the door, and then the rolling shutter door was pulled up.

"Come in." Fu Chunlong beckoned them to enter the house.

"Did you go to bed so early?" Ma Chongqing asked him.

"No, I'm watching TV." Fu Chunlong raised his hand and wiped his face, then asked Ma Chongqing, "What do they want to buy?"

"Oh, didn't you collect a batch of metal halide lamps last time? How about it, haven't they sold yet?" Ma Chongqing asked him.

"It's still there." Fu Chunlong looked at Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang again, finally fixed his gaze on Qiu Cheng, and asked, "How much do you plan to want?"

"How much do you have?" Qiu Cheng asked him back.

"It's not a lot, just a dozen or so." Fu Chunlong said and went to the back, and after a bang, he brought out a basket of metal halide lamps, not only the bulbs, but also the lamp holders and lampshades. I don't know where a piece of wire was removed. It seems that it can be used as long as the wire is connected.

"How many are there in total?" Qiu Cheng picked up a metal halide lamp and looked at it, which seemed relatively new.

"Seventeen, all of which are [-] watts." Fu Chunlong said as he turned back and took out another basket from inside.

"Is there nothing broken?" Qiu Cheng asked him.

"I've checked them all. If you're worried, you can check them again later. Do you want all of these? If you want them all, it's cheaper for you." Fu Chunlong said.

"How much?" Qiu Cheng asked him.

"You take all thirty catties of corn flour." Fu Chunlong was very straightforward.

"Okay, I don't have that much cornmeal right now. You can send it to me tomorrow, and I'll weigh it to you then." A metal halide lamp is less than two catties of cornmeal, which is already very cheap even if it is second-hand, especially in In the case of the lighting store just now for comparison, Qiu Cheng agreed without haggling.

Then Qiu Cheng left his address and gave him more than three catties of corn cakes as a deposit. These three catties of corn cakes could offset two catties of cornmeal.

"Then let's go first." After paying the deposit, Qiu Cheng saw that Ma Chongqing didn't look like he was going to leave, so he greeted him, and he and A Chang left first.

"Let's go first, we brothers still have to chat." Ma Chongqing didn't get the commission yet, so he wouldn't leave now.

"Are you familiar with these two?" As soon as Qiu Cheng and the others left, Fu Chunlong asked Ma Chongqing.

"This is the third time we have dealt with each other. Last time they bought a batch of mirrors from Mr. Luo." Ma Chongqing replied.

"That's him?" Fu Chunlong had heard of this.

"That's right." Ma Chongqing nodded, and then asked Fu Chunlong, "Do you want to pay this commission now or in two?"

"What are you giving now? The payment for the goods is not in place yet." Fu Chunlong barked.

"Then you give me the deposit first." Ma Chongqing was not annoyed either.

"Okay, I'll give you one. You don't need to look for it." Fu Chunlong handed him a cornbread, which was about four taels in size. Ma Chongqing's commission was only [-]%, and he could only get three for a cornbread that weighed more than three catties. More than two, it is indeed a profit.

"It's not all mine, there's half of Marcian." Ma Chongqing sighed.

"What's the matter with Ma Er?" Fu Chunlong was puzzled.

"He met this client first. Alas, this is the rule in our family." After getting the commission, Ma Chongqing didn't want to stay any longer, and soon came out of Fu Chunlong's house, holding an umbrella and walking through the alleys. Go home to the store.

Early the next morning, Fu Chunlong sent the batch of metal halide lamps to Qiu Cheng and the others. Qiu Cheng took him to 1512 and tried them one by one. Thirty catties of cornmeal were given to him.

Fu Chunlong opened the bag containing the cornmeal, grabbed some cornmeal, rubbed it with his fingers, put it under his nose and smelled it, and finally reached out to check the cornmeal under the cloth pocket, and made sure it was all right, so he asked Qiu Cheng nodded and left with the cornmeal.

The appearance of these metal halide lamps looks a bit like a miner's lamp, but there is no mining area around Xinnan City. Qiu Cheng guessed that someone might have dismantled the lights of the gymnasium.

It is said that the light of metal halide lamps is very close to sunlight, and it is good for supplementing light on plants, but this kind of lamps are generally more expensive, and they do not save much power. Like the batch that Qiu Cheng bought this time, They are all [-] watts, and if a lamp is lighted for more than two hours at will, the power will be gone after one kilowatt hour.

Qiu Cheng first installed two metal halide lamps in each of 1504, 1506, and 1507. Now, 1504 species are a piece of peanut and a few dozens of soybeans, 1506 species are all soybeans, and 1507 species are rice.

Two metal halide lamps, one is installed on the left side of the wall, the other is installed on the right side of the wall, the two are staggered, one is inside and the other is outside, and they are installed at a height of about 1.5 meters from the wall. The angle of the lamp head can be Adjustment.

The six lights have been installed, and the next one is June [-]st. In the past two days, a staff member has posted a notice in the elevator downstairs. Starting next month, there will be no water restrictions in Xinnan City Power cuts.

However, the government will still subsidize [-]kWh electricity and [-] tons of water per person per month. This subsidy will last for one year. During this year, citizens need to pay for the excess of the subsidy. The electricity fee is tentatively set at [-] yuan The water fee is tentatively set at [-] yuan and [-] tons. If there is any change in the future, we will notify you at that time.

In addition, on May 31st, several postal outlets in Xinnan City will resume operations. In addition to cash deposits and withdrawals, there will also be utility bill payment services. The previous utility cards are still available and can continue to be used. If there is any loss of utilities Cardholders, or citizens who have been relocated, can go to the following postal outlets to reapply...

Qiu Cheng has never moved, nor has he lost his utility card, but he still doesn't have a utility card for the houses upstairs that have just been transferred. The company will send electricity to these houses.