Apocalyptic Tundra Age

On November 2024, 11, Xu Zhonglei finally filled six of his eight houses.

After the iron gate was double-locked, Xu Zhonglei finally let go of the pressure he had been living on all along, and planned to take a vacation for himself.

The nine-month-old eldest and little paper have grown very large. Thanks to Xu Zhonglei's half-month trip to the cold storage to buy a pile of chicken bones and duck feet, they eat nutritious food, their fur is smooth and smooth, and their weight is low. It has broken through 60 catties, and its strength is amazing.

This pile of goods needs to be transported from the gate to the basement of the house, and from the gate to the side warehouse. Xu Zhonglei had a flash of inspiration when he watched the two puppies running back and forth with an empty sled.

So the two sled dogs made great contributions. They pulled the pulley sled and carried the goods back and forth.

Xu Zhonglei praised in his heart:

Sled dogs - powerful, obey commands, love sports, really kill people and steal goods, move bricks and build walls, a must-have dog breed for home and travel!

Xu Zhonglei filled six of the eight small warehouses, three of which were filled with fuel such as compressed wood chips, anthracite, and barbecue charcoal that he had bought before, and one room was filled with machines bought by Xu Zhonglei, as well as wires and screws. Such small hardware, and the remaining two rooms are filled with briquettes.

Xu Zhonglei's hometown is in the south, and the main material for heating is briquette, which is more expensive than coal in the north, but it is also resistant to burning.In addition to the severe drought this year, until November, the sun was still shining brightly in the sky, and briquettes were still cheap. Xu Zhonglei bought briquettes to fill two rooms, and in the end he only spent less than [-] yuan.

For the other two rooms in the warehouse, Xu Zhonglei spent a lot of money to buy materials for soilless cultivation. Rows of tempered glass boxes are filled with water to make the foundation, and there are partitions with small holes on them, and horizontal bars for fixing. In the end, Xu Zhonglei followed a soilless flower cultivation shed in the county, learned the technique for a few days, and bought a lot of water-soluble nutrient solution.

This is Xu Zhonglei's final preparation for the most terrifying situation that may happen. If grain cannot be produced in the future, this is Xu Zhonglei's grain production base. Produce enough potatoes for Xu Zhonglei to survive.

Of course, this house can also produce water spinach, bean sprouts, sweet potato leaves, sweet potato vines, lettuce and other green vegetables. Xu Zhonglei also prepared several boxes of water-soluble vegetables in order to ensure smooth production of his intestines—to prevent pooping. Sexual fertilizer. '

Fertilizer will volatilize and lose its effectiveness after a few years. At that time, Xu Zhonglei has no choice but to dig out the fermented garbage in his biogas digester, which is ready-made fertilizer.

There was still half a room, which Xu Zhonglei purposely separated with wooden boards.There are seven thick logs inside, which are the thickest logs that Xu Zhonglei rummaged through all the hills in Xu's old house village and dragged back. This half of the room will be humidity controlled, and it will be a mushroom house.

Xu Zhonglei placed an order and bought a bunch of commonly used mushrooms online, including Flammulina velutipes, Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus eryngii, Coprinus comatus, Lentinus edodes, Pleurotus eryngii and a bunch of mushrooms whose names he couldn’t remember after buying. Add a few dishes.

At that time, he didn't see the whole picture of the future clearly, so now he can only rack his brains to prepare.

"Oooooooooooooooooooh-"

During lunch time, the dogs were scurrying around beside Xu Zhonglei's calf, and from time to time they even raised their front legs, and two alternating dog heads appeared on the table.Forget about the little paper, the boss followed suit, which was really contrary to the steady image of the boss, and the mouse rushed to the highest place in the kitchen to inspect his younger brothers.

Xu Zhonglei put a cooked chicken leg in the rice bowls "[-]", "[-]" and "[-]". The third bowl is specially for the cat and mouse at home, so the chicken leg is a circle smaller, and it is mixed with the staple food in the rice bowl The dog food and cat food were brought to the ground next to the wall next to the gate, where he had agreed with them on the dining table.

The mouse is used to eating with the two dogs. Although it eats very vigilantly, arches its back, makes a loud "grunt" sound in its throat, and grins at Xiaozhi who covets chicken legs from time to time, but anyway, Instead of pounced directly, he tore and bit at the small paper.

Xu Zhonglei stared at the little paper wind and clouds, looked at it, couldn't hold back, hahaha!

Xiaozhi's hair didn't grow evenly when he was a child, and the black and white hairs were very close together, so it was impossible to tell what it would grow into.As a result, it grows now, good guy, a circle of black hair grows down from its two ears, which are symmetrical.There is white hair in the middle of the dog's head. Looking at it from the front, it is a little old man from the Mediterranean. Xu Zhonglei looked at it once and smiled once.

Haha!

Coupled with Xiaozhi's iconic Husky's small eyes, it is absolutely perfect.

After Xu Zhonglei watched the puppy eat, he put a pinch of salt into the pot where the chicken was boiled, sprinkled some green onions, poured light soy sauce and chili powder, boiled it for a while, added a bowl of steamed eggs, and that was his lunch up.

The chicken in the cold storage was really not tasty, it was dry and woody, and had a meaty smell, so I'll give them all next time.

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"Mom?" Before twelve noon, Xu Zhonglei's mother called.

"You resigned?"

"Yes, it's been almost a year since I resigned!"

"Why did you resign suddenly? What work are you doing now?"

"I went back to my hometown and built a house here. I have been busy with the house for the past year."

"Aren't you going to stay in Guang'an?"

"Yes."

"So even the house is sold?"

"I plan to start a business here in the future, and I need a sum of money." Xu Zhonglei had no choice but to prevaricate the fucking question.

"Xiao Lei, you are not young anymore. I said at the time that the house is for you, and you can do whatever you want. I have no objection. But, I hope you can think carefully before doing things impulsively. What are you doing? Leave Guang’an where you have been staying for more than ten years, you have lived here for more than ten years! Your network is all here! Even if you really find a good project, you can’t handle it good!"

After a year, Ms. Xu Aizhu finally realized what her own son had done.

Xu Zhonglei wasn't angry. His mother has been a leader for many years, and she always talks like this.

"Mom—I want to come back. I do have my own reasons, but I can't tell you. I'm 27 this year and know what I'm doing."

"That's fine, I'll hang up first."

Xu Zhonglei vaguely heard someone calling Mr. Xu, he still had something to say, so his mother simply hung up the phone.

Ah, always!

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Xu Zhonglei's mother, Ms. Xu Aizhu, is a character who took the script of the leading heroine of Shuangwen, who has experienced ups and downs, has a strong personality, and is also particularly stubborn.

Ms. Xu Aizhu is the third in the family. Xu Zhonglei's other three aunts are named Xu Aimei, Xu Ailan, and Xu Aiju.According to grandma, his old lady was born with a restless temper.When she was a girl, she decided to marry and live with the most beautiful boy in the village next door. Unfortunately, the handsome boy, Xu Zhonglei's father, was not a very good character. At that time, the economy was booming, and everyone wanted to have money. , Xu Zhonglei's father went astray, a gang broke into a house and robbed him, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

At that time, Xu Zhonglei was still a three-month-old child, and the risk of induced labor was high. Coupled with the natural mother-child relationship, although Ms. Xu Aizhu divorced cleanly, Xu Zhonglei, the "evil breed" called by the villagers, still stayed.After the relatives of the old Xu's family introduced three widows and widowers from other villages to Ms. Xu Aizhu, Ms. Xu Aizhu slapped her butt and left Xu Zhonglei, who had just been weaned, to go to Guang'an.

Xu Zhonglei kept thinking, a single woman with little education and no money, with only a train ticket to go south, surrounded by men who go south to do coolies.How did she gain a foothold in Guang'an, then resolutely gave up her seemingly stable factory job, took up the little money she had saved, and devoted herself to the road of entrepreneurship.

Xu Zhonglei thought, if these can be written, it must be a magnificent epic.

It's a pity that Ms. Xu Aizhu didn't share these things with Xu Zhonglei's grandmother, nor did she tell Xu Zhonglei about them.

His contact with his mother is one call after another for living expenses, and there are only two or three phone calls a year.

When he was studying hard in this small countryside alone, shuttled among the small fields, and walked to school before dawn, his mother had become a strong woman, beside her, there was There was a gentle and stable Uncle Gu, and a newborn little brother.

Xu Zhonglei was admitted to high school, which is the best high school in the province.

Ms. Xu Aizhu came back by plane and had a talk with Xu Zhonglei.

Talk about the future, about the school, about Uncle Gu's arrangement of Xu Zhonglei's majors and work place, about the university he will try to get into in the future, and about the house that Ms. Xu Aizhu bought for Xu Zhonglei a few years ago, which belongs to Xu Zhonglei The future wedding room was also a mother's confession to her son who had been neglected for many years at that time.

Xu Zhonglei went to the university in Guang'an with infinite longing for his mother.

After graduation, Xu Zhonglei rejected Ms. Xu Aizhu's arrangement for him, and went to his former company to live alone.

Ms. Xu Aizhu speaks logically and carefully, likes to reason, and also likes to say "respect your choice". Xu Zhonglei has known and felt it a long time ago.Therefore, whether it was his tentative proposal to move out of Ms. Xu Aizhu's house, or Xu Zhonglei's decision not to go to Ms. Xu Aizhu's company, as long as Xu Zhonglei had a reason, Ms. Xu Aizhu would "respect his choice."

Of course, Ms. Xu Aizhu is also very stubborn. It is impossible for Xu Zhonglei, her son, to change anything, including coming to Xu Zhonglei's old house before January next year, and staying for several weeks.

Fortunately, Xu Zhonglei knew that Ms. Xu Aizhu had the habit of renting real estate. When the time came, he would find an excuse to lure his family to a house in that remote villa area. As long as it dragged on for two more days, the family would not be able to leave once the earthquake happened.