After the disaster

The cancellation of the limited electricity consumption has a great impact on the whole society. Previously, each person had five kilowatt-hours of electricity per month, which could only meet the basic living electricity consumption of citizens. This time, the upper limit will be lifted. In the next time, all walks of life will all develop.

Three yuan is more than one kilowatt-hour, which is several times more expensive than before, but it is not unaffordable for people like Qiu Cheng and the others.If they can’t afford it, they don’t need to pay electricity bills as long as they control the electricity consumption within five degrees per person per month.

However, the meaning of this package is not only in terms of electricity consumption, it also has a huge impact on the current currency value.

Before the government said to recognize the old currency, but you said it was recognized, the common people could not believe it, and it was still useless. Now that the price of water and electricity has been fixed, it costs more than three yuan per kilowatt-hour of electricity and more than five yuan for a ton of water. Banknotes are no longer useful, but at least they can be used to pay utility bills, right?

On the morning of May 31st, after Qiu Cheng came out, he got some food for him and Ah Chang, and then he packed up his things and went out. All he had to bring was the real estate certificates of the houses upstairs and his personal ID card. , in extraordinary times, keep everything simple.

Because it may take a long time to go out this day, Qiu Cheng decided to take Ah Chang with him. After all, he was going to the bank. On a day like today, there should be no trouble.

The two went to the nearest post office to their home. It was almost eleven o'clock in the morning, and there was a long queue in front of them. Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang used to be at the end of the queue, and thought they would have to wait for a long time , I didn't expect the efficiency of the bank staff to be very high. It didn't take long for the team to be short.

Qiu Cheng probed and looked, and all the windows over the counter were open. At noon, there were people replacing them during lunch time, and none of the windows suspended service.

They waited for less than two hours in total. When it was Qiu Cheng's turn, he handed all the real estate certificates and his ID card to the window, and then he heard the sound of the staff inside typing on the keyboard and The sound of the printer continuing to work.

"Do all these accounts need to be recharged?" The printer was still busy, and the staff member looked up and asked Qiu Cheng after finishing the task at hand.

"Is it convenient to recharge in the future?" Qiu Cheng asked her.In the past, the water and electricity bills in their community could be recharged from the property, but now there is no property, and it would be a little troublesome if they had to go to the bank every time.

"There will be a top-up machine, but I don't know when it will be implemented." The staff said, and took two printed documents from the printer, and took out a copy from each for Qiu Cheng to sign.

"From 1501 to 1507, each house received [-] tons of water and [-] kilowatt-hours of electricity, and the remaining households received [-] tons of water and [-] kilowatt-hours of electricity." Qiu Cheng said, and handed in his savings card.

It just so happens that he has always been used to using postal savings cards, and he doesn’t like to have many cards like others. He only has two cards, one for deposit and one for online shopping, and the card for online shopping Generally not a lot of money.

"Okay, please wait a moment." The staff inside immediately got busy with their fingers flying.

After the password was successfully deducted, the staff quickly handed over a note for Qiu Cheng to sign. Qiu Cheng took it and glanced at it. Seeing the number on it, he suddenly became a little uneasy.

I saw a few neat and clear numbers in the balance column: 257.41.

At present, the water and electricity bills in Xinnan City adopt a prepayment policy. If you want to use water and electricity, you have to pay first. If there is no money in the account, there will be no overdraft.

On the way back, Qiu Cheng looked at the thick stack of IC cards, and at his own savings card with only 200 yuan left, and couldn't help but sighed.

"What is this for?" Ah Chang also reached out and took a card to look at.It wasn't raining at this time, but it was still overcast with high humidity.

"It's for money." Qiu Cheng said.

"Eat money?" Ah Chang opened his eyes wide.

"Yes." Qiu Cheng nodded seriously.

"No more money?" Ah Chang probably knew what money was, and he didn't watch TV for nothing for so long.

"I have no money, I'm very poor." He was so poor that he couldn't even pay the water and electricity bills. It seemed that he had to find a way to get some money.

"I have." The cat man raised his chin and said proudly.

"That's not enough for you." Qiu Cheng also found some cash when he was sorting out Ah Chang's strongholds, but the amount was not large and scattered, and the total amount was less than 1000 yuan.

"There are many." Ah Chang said again.

"Where is it?" Qiu Cheng stopped.

"Over there." Ah Chang pointed to the opposite side of Xinnan River.

"A lot?" Qiu Cheng reconfirmed.

"En!" Ah Chang nodded desperately.

That night, after night fell, the two of them sneaked out of the community and walked all the way to the opposite side of the Xinnan River. The environment is good, next to Xinnan River Park, so the housing price has always been high, and it is one of the best high-end residential areas in Xinnan City.

It was raining at night, and it was quiet everywhere. The two of them didn't ride a tricycle, they walked, and they walked into the villa area quietly. Because of safety reasons, these villas are now [-]% empty. The darkness is overwhelming, and the rich are always particularly afraid of death, but whoever has some family background, who would dare to live in such a remote place at this juncture.

After finding his stronghold, Ah Chang looked left and right, and after making sure there was no one else around, he flipped over to the terrace on the second floor of this villa. Originally, he planned to enter the house and go downstairs to open the door for Qiu Cheng, but unexpectedly As soon as he arrived on his front foot, Qiu Cheng followed him on his back foot.

The two entered the room one after the other, walked down the stairs to the first floor, and then Ah Chang moved out a fruit box from under the TV cabinet. Although the light was very dim, Qiu Cheng could still distinguish the painting on the outside of the fruit box. Pattern of kiwi.

Ah Chang moved the fruit box to the coffee table, and took out bundles of hundred-yuan bills from it, he took out all these bills, piled them up on the coffee table to form a hill, and asked Qiu Cheng, "Is it enough? "

"Enough." Qiu Cheng felt that he would never have to worry about utility bills again in his life.

"!" Ah Chang didn't speak, but stared at Qiu Cheng with bright eyes.

"Awesome." Qiu Cheng stretched out his hand to touch the top of Ah Chang's head as if coaxing a child.

"..." Ah Chang's expression full of anticipation suddenly weakened.

"Hey." Qiu Cheng saw him like this, thought for a while, and leaned forward to kiss him again.

"Woo..." Ah Chang squatted there silently with his head down, pawing and pulling the feather carpet on the floor with his fingers.He contributed one of his most precious strongholds...

"Not enough?" Qiu Cheng chuckled lightly, threw Ah Chang on the ground, pressed him face to face, and then kissed him deeply, eye to eye.

"Woo..." Ah Chang's eyelashes trembled, then drooped slightly, and his eyes immediately became hazy.

After the kiss was over, Qiu Cheng kissed him on the cheek again, then got up from the carpet, and first inspected the whole villa. He found that many of the previous things in the house had not been taken away, probably the villa's The owner left in a hurry and died before living in the temporary base for five years, or something happened during the initial chaos.

"I'll take these first today." Qiu Cheng found a shopping bag and put the money in it, and took some jewelry from the master bedroom.

"Hmm..." Ah Chang's ears turned red, and he had no objection to Qiu Cheng's decision.

"Let's go, it's raining outside again." In the house, Qiu Cheng could also clearly hear the sound of rain outside, and could even judge the magnitude of the rain based on the sound.

"Oh." Ah Chang followed behind him step by step.

The two of them still turned out from the balcony on the second floor, without an umbrella, and just went back in the rain all the way.

Because the sound of rainwater hitting the umbrella will overwhelm some other movements, allowing them to control their surroundings, and the dryness and warmth under the umbrella can easily make people feel alert.

With this money, Qiu Chengcheng dared to waste water and electricity. The next day, that is, in the morning of June 1504, Qiu Chengcheng went to turn on the fill lights in the three rooms of 1506, 1507, and [-]. The warm light of halogen lamps shines on the crops in the house, like the sun on a sunny day.

From six o'clock in the morning to six o'clock in the evening, Qiu Cheng supplemented the light on these crops for twelve hours every day. After a few days, he found that some crops that had begun to show a tendency to grow excessively due to successive rainy days also began to slow down. Slowly become stronger, no longer pumping straight up.

Since indoor lighting is useful, Qiu Cheng quickly started to arrange 1502 and 1503.

In such rainy days, indoor planting still has great advantages over outdoor planting. At least you don’t have to worry about the crops being soaked by the rain, and the fertility of the ground will not be washed away by the continuous rain. In some cases, it is relatively convenient to fill in light.

When Qiu Cheng and the others applied the first waterproof grout to the ground of 1502 and 1502, the batch of Chinese cabbage that had been planted on the balcony of 1501 had reached maturity. The growth cycle of Chinese cabbage is relatively short and relatively shade-tolerant , This batch of Chinese cabbage is growing well.

This time, Qiu Cheng decided to use all of them to pickle spicy cabbage. According to his experience last time, pickling spicy cabbage can be eaten within three to five days at the fastest under the current temperature conditions. The first time is to pickle with salt The cabbage needs about twelve hours, and then the cabbage is marinated with spicy sauce, and it is almost enough to stand at room temperature for two or three days.

Just two days after the batch of spicy cabbage was pickled, the sky finally cleared up again. After finishing his meditation this morning, Qiu Cheng took Ah Chang with him and went to the city to inquire about renting a car.

He plans to rent a pickup truck, load up the spicy cabbage and potatoes that his family has recently accumulated, and go to the provincial capital to try his luck.