Apocalyptic Tundra Age

They didn't eat lunch, and the transportation lasted until after six o'clock in the evening. When Xu Zhonglei and Cheng Yuming returned from Baiyang Village, they divided things for another hour before returning shivering from the cold.

Later, someone in the village recalled that the family who opened the supermarket was the most famous carpenter in this area decades ago, so they did not separate a special warehouse, but made a lot of cabinets to store things, and probably sold more things for the New Year. , The supermarket also specially replenished the goods, none of the dozen or so large containers was empty, and the villagers picked all the peaches with a simple trailer.

Moreover, the dozen or so containers were still leaning against the wall, so the damage from the earthquake was not serious, and all the things inside were intact!

If Xu Dali and his party, who went to the salt hoarder's house in Baiyang Village to dig salt, dragged eight sacks of salt back to the village at noon and immediately came to help, Xu Zhonglei felt that the time to return to the village would be more than an hour later!

Divide the loot, bah, the dividend meeting is over, Xu Zhonglei and Cheng Yuming came back with two small carts, Cheng Yuming helped, so they also shared a share, the most inside is salt, everyone shared a whole 28 packs, if you save some food, you can eat it for three years.

Seasonings such as soy sauce and vinegar are the most sought-after, but Xu Zhonglei has already stocked up a lot, so he exchanged a lot of seeds with others.

Yes, rural supermarkets still sell seeds. In spring, they can also sell pesticides and chemical fertilizers. However, the seeds Xu Zhonglei got were from the previous year’s stock, and they were placed under the hammer shelf that he had worked so hard to dig out. Often only one step away from people!

The tobacco store had stockpiled half a container, which was not enough to divide, and the men frantically turned to the cashier, picked up all the dirty tobacco in the display cabinet, and divided them among several people.

There are also packaged foods, all kinds of small tools, snacks with paper and pens... It is really a big reward to work like this for a day.

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On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the heavy rain that lasted for more than 20 days finally stopped.

The sky cleared up and the wind stopped whistling. Early in the morning, Xu Zhonglei urged Cheng Yuming to get up and work!

The white soil that Xu Zhonglei worked so hard to carry back from the mountain, along with the water traces of the heavy rain, spread out long white snakes in the yard. , while the weather is getting better, we must build the vegetable house!

Anyway, there is no need to burn tiles, so Xu Zhonglei decided to cover the roof directly with the boards removed from the board house, saving time and effort.

After a hasty meal, the two officially started work.

There is no need to waste the white clay, and the grass blades and straw can still be used for bonding. The last time the wall was not finished, the heavy rain came, so the first thing to do this time was to build the wall.

One mixed mud and carried it, and the other picked up bricks and built them hard.

Busy until three o'clock in the afternoon, a two-meter-high madero house that looks like a pigsty is not actually finished.

As soon as he got to the upper beam, Xu Zhonglei remembered, what the hell, the order is reversed, the correct posture to build a house is to build the frame first and then lay the bricks!My mind is full of building walls and walls, and I actually made such a serious mistake.

"Brother, what do you do next?"

"It doesn't matter, remember where I drew the circle. Go dig a hole, at least [-] centimeters deep, and I'll move the wood over there." Can't rebuild?Mang is done.

"Okay." Cheng Yuming picked up the drill and dug the soil without saying a word.

Xu Zhonglei dragged over the well-oiled wood in the row warehouse, and then went to the tool room to find a large bundle of iron wires coiled into rings, and used pliers to divide the iron wires into small iron wires of about 25 centimeters. It's pure physical work.

"Brother, what are you doing? This face looks like you've eaten ten catties of old vinegar." Cheng Yuming teased after digging a hole to drink water.

"Go dig your hole, this wire is of good quality... exhausting..."

Although the roof with pure wooden structure and mortise and tenon structure is very strong, for safety reasons, it is better to coil each connection with iron wire.

After the hole was dug, about forty wires were twisted, and the sky had already turned dark.

Dinner was fried chicken chops and whole chicken on New Year's Eve, and a mushroom soup to supplement vitamins. After the two hurriedly finished their meal, Xu Zhonglei drew the wiring diagram of the indoor planting lights, while Cheng Yuming assembled the wind turbine.

The temperature in the planting area is high and very humid. It is best to install the wiring terminals and switches outside to increase the service life of the wires and lamps. Fortunately, it can be disassembled for planting next year... Xu Zhonglei misses professional electricians a little bit. If they were there, the wiring problem would not be a problem.

Thanks to the excellent quality of the overtime dog, Xu Zhonglei still drew a plan. Put a wooden board in the middle of the vegetable field one meter high, the plug board is fixed on the top of the wooden board, and the planting lights are fixed below.

The vegetable field in Xu Zhonglei's yard is only two large vertical blocks, which are very long, and the problem can be solved by splicing two long wooden boards.At that time, the wind turbine will be installed on the roof, the electric box will be placed in the chicken shed, and the switch of the planting lights will also be placed in the chicken shed.

When the land was ready, the blades of the wind turbine whirled and the chickens at the back door lived in the second-floor villa. Xu Zhiping came to inform Xu Zhonglei about the vegetable seedlings.

It's the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.

"Shitou, your vegetable garden house is not bad. I think it's better than the house we built. Is it because of you? It's going to be spring soon. There's such a big battle."

Xu Zhonglei smiled: "I don't know if the situation will be better. This is called planning ahead. If someone from above comes, isn't my house a ready-made pigsty? When the time comes to raise pigs and cattle, it won't be a waste anyway."

"That's right, what is that?" Xu Zhiping pointed to the small white windmill on the roof, which was turning slowly.The exposed antennas are directly connected to the house, and with two installed at once, the target is too big to hide, and to generate electricity, the generator needs to see the wind to generate electricity, so Xu Zhonglei simply exposed it openly.

"Didn't I plan to start a business at that time, I thought about building a farmhouse, an ecological farm, and a friend who was in this business was advertising, wind turbines, solar generators, both in one, so I bought it I plan to prepare several sets, after all, there are frequent power outages in our village, so we can’t run out of electricity if we want to do business.”

After staying in the countryside for a year, Xu Zhonglei now makes up stories as soon as he opens his mouth. He can't just tell his big brother: Hey, I think the end of the world is coming. Buying a generator is for a dog to live!Not right, very wrong.

Xu Zhonglei continued: "A few generators were installed with solar energy on the roof as a water heater, and all the rest were packed and stuffed into the basement. Thinking about it these days, I installed it for the vegetable house first. The solar generator on our roof is not enough, and I want to add some energy at that time."

"Let me just say, this village is pitch black at night, and only your house has light." It has been so long since the earthquake that Xu Zhiping almost forgot what it feels like to be brightly lit. A generator is an envy.

"When buying things, I was greedy for cheap. I bought the wind turbine with the lowest power. Now that I think about it, I regret it too much. It's not enough." Xu Zhonglei said while refuting himself in his heart: No, what he bought was what can be found on the whole network Although the maximum power of the wind turbine with the highest power is much lower than that of solar energy; it is not only a few units that are bought, but dozens of them.

But let's just keep these things in the basement and wait for a few of them to break before replacing them.

explain?Which idiot would say it out, it would make people jealous in vain.

"As long as you have electricity, there are supplementary lights installed in several sheds in my field. Now there is no electricity, and they can't be used." Although Xu Zhonglei said that there are still a few, Xu Zhiping is still very envious. These days, there are As long as everything is fine, who cares if the power is too low.

Cheng Yuming passed a cup of boiling water alone, Xu Zhonglei collected the vegetable seedlings, pulled Xu Zhiping under the eaves, and talked while drinking water.

Xu Zhonglei wanted the elder brother to make more preparations, so he used mysticism: "Brother Zhiping, do you think it's all a coincidence? I don't think so. Our village is not in any earthquake zone. Our ancestors eighteen Dai, no one has ever seen an earthquake! This is still such a big earthquake, I think... I think..."

Xu Zhonglei lowered his voice, and Xu Zhiping also raised his ears to listen carefully.

"Brother Zhiping, think about it. Is it possible that something major is about to happen. Their gods in foreign countries said: In ancient times, there was a flood that drowned all people. Only people who got on the boat of God Only people survived. Tell me, is our big earthquake the flood that foreign gods talked about?"

"You said there would be a flood?"

Xu Zhonglei cried, the point is not the flood.

"...I mean, could it be that this big earthquake is just the beginning, and is there something big waiting for us in the future?" Xu Zhonglei felt that he was serious, like the aunt of the neighborhood committee trying to describe to another aunt to lead a community How good is your square dance.

"I think... no matter how big it is... it can't compare to this earthquake. If it's too big, I'll just jump into the river... We won't be able to survive..." Xu Zhiping thought for a long time, and finished drinking under the quilt What do you think about so much water, who knows.

"Hey." Xu Zhonglei sighed, besides the cold snap, he didn't know what else it was.

"You are a young man, why do you think so much? I think what you should worry about the most is your marriage. We are shrinking in the village, and we can't see a single girl. If I knew it, I would introduce you to a few more. A girl from the university." Xu Zhiping's worry was sincere.

"There is no girl now, let's not talk about this..." Xu Zhonglei changed the subject decisively, "Brother Zhiping, what are you going to plant this year?"

When it comes to the fields, Xu Zhiping talked too much: "Potato seedlings and sweet potato seedlings are ready, and I plan to plant them in a greenhouse. Potatoes grow fast, and if the temperature is good, they can be harvested in three months. Sweet potatoes It grows slowly, but it can be cooked and eaten, and it can withstand storage. There are also some vegetables, white radish, Chinese cabbage, Shanghai greens, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers.

There are not many seeds left, and all of them have been planted.By the way, there are no seeds to buy now, remember to save the seeds when you grow vegetables, otherwise there will be no seeds next year. "

"Rice also has to be planted. In the past, people in our village bought rice seeds directly from the seed company. Fortunately, Uncle Guosheng said that Uncle Guoqiang kept the seeds himself, and he just went to dig them out from their house yesterday. Now the rice seeds It is soaking, this rice is not enough, I plan to save all the seeds, and divide it next year, and now it is given to one family, and the other family will have to curse."

As soon as Xu Zhiping scolded his mother, Xu Zhonglei laughed.Both men and women in rural areas are capable of fighting, and when they scold others, they spit and spit. When Xu Zhiping has to fight and scold, Xu Zhonglei feels a little sympathetic: "It's not easy to be a rural cadre...it's too difficult, hahaha."

"Let's not talk about this. I have enough potato seedlings and sweet potato seedlings here. You can choose the others yourself. First come, first served. They are all put outside the greenhouse. Each person has [-] seedlings. Choose whatever you want." Xu Zhonglei got up and said goodbye, " I'm leaving first, and I have to watch over at Fenmiao, lest something happen."