Apocalyptic Tundra Age

"Gululu" "Gululu"

Xu Zhonglei was woken up by his stomach in his sleep.When he woke up, he found that his legs were stretched out straight, and his butt was about to slide off the wooden chair.

He just came back yesterday afternoon and drove for nearly ten hours before driving back to his hometown from Guang'an.This is too tiring for a technical nerd.

He has had a driver's license for a long time, but Guang'an has developed rail transit, which makes it inconvenient to drive to work, so he never bought a car.When I came and went to the court, after thinking for a long time, I chose the cheapest Wuling Hongguang and white bread among the Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Jeep off-road vehicles and SUVs.

Without him, this car will crush many luxury cars with its unparalleled load capacity in the countryside.

He swiped the card boldly under the contemptuous eyes of the salesman, and with the interior insurance license plate, he spent a total of [-] yuan.

The sky is big and the earth is big, and the food is the biggest. The old house uses an earthen stove, and there is no firewood now.He decided to use the Mijia induction cooker that he installed in the trunk of the car these days.

He removed the seats in the car, and what was placed in the rear compartment were his pots and pans in Guang'an.

He sent the documents and books directly by express.Sofas, gas stoves, cabinets, etc. were given to neighbors.What was left was some things that needed to be delivered but couldn’t be delivered directly. He went to the delivery point and bought some large cartons for three yuan each.His belongings are all put in cardboard boxes, and the cartons are piled up one by one.It's easier to put than to find.

He took out the cartons one by one and looked for them one by one like opening a treasure chest. Fortunately, he only opened the fourth box and found the induction cooker. Xu Zhonglei remembered that there were two large bags of instant noodles and braised beef in the front seat of the car!

He took the instant noodles, folders, clothes, a large bag of snacks and four or five bottles of mineral water in the front seat back to the lobby of his old house in two trips.

Boil water, ready to cook noodles!

Remembering that there should be some free-growing vegetables in his vegetable garden, Xu Zhonglei decided to eat healthier.

The vegetable garden was facing the gate of the old house. Xu Zhonglei opened the four folded wooden door and saw the weedy vegetable garden. He turned off the fire and planned to take a look.

No one has been to this vegetable garden for more than ten years, and only a faint path can be seen. The tea tree that his grandfather used to make the wall back then has grown very lushly, and because it has not been pruned, it is taller than him.

Xu Zhonglei opened the door of the vegetable garden, which was randomly nailed with wood, and was lucky enough to see a few carrots among the weeds. He said in his heart that he was awesome. After so many years, he could still recognize what the part of the carrot land looked like at a glance.

He didn't bring a hoe, so he picked up a stick and started to plan radishes.

First pull the jagged leaves of the carrot aside, then dig down along the direction of the exposed tuber, and you can see the red body of the carrot. When the carrot is almost exposed, lift the carrot up, and it will be a whole carrot up.

Xu Zhonglei planed all the three carrots he saw, and then took aim at the shivering shallots squeezed by weeds.The weeds are horrible. There are more yellow leaves than green onions. When I have time, I must dig up all the weeds in this vegetable garden

After Xu Zhonglei pulled out the shallots, he put the radish and shallots aside, and continued walking along the foot-wide path.

Cabbage has strong vitality and has occupied a large area.Xu Zhonglei picked a lot of cabbage flowers, thought it would be enough for a meal, and went back home.

When Xu Zhonglei was in his third year of high school, his grandmother passed away. The mourners went back to their homes, and the adults turned off the electricity meter.When Xu Zhonglei came back, he turned on the meter and found that the electricity was still working.

As for water, his house does not have tap water, and has been using well water, which is pumped up by electric pumps and sent to various faucets through pipes.As soon as he came back last night, he cleaned up the big dry pool in his house, cleared out the dust and debris, and then turned on the water pump to pump water into the big pool.

The big pool was on the third floor, short and dark, and he was exhausted from carrying the garbage down again and again.

Now, Xu Zhonglei, who washes vegetables with a faucet outdoors, uses the water from this large pool.

It is that several faucets in the bathroom are rusted, and the two pipes outside are leaking.Xu Zhonglei wrote on the mobile phone schedule: Repairing faucets and water pipes should not exceed three days at the latest.

Boil water, add instant noodle seasoning, add sliced ​​carrots, cook for 5 minutes, then add tender cabbage hearts, light yellow cabbage flowers, and two instant noodle cakes, simmer for 1 minute, and finally Sprinkle with chopped green onions and serve!A big bowl of instant noodles with rich colors and comprehensive nutrition is ready!

Xu Zhonglei looked at the time: It's one o'clock!Sure enough, picking and washing vegetables is too time-consuming. If you cook by yourself in the future, it is best to make dried vegetables, or pick the vegetables you will eat for the day in the morning.

After eating, it was time to tidy up. His old house had two and a half floors.

There are three rooms upstairs, two rooms downstairs plus a hall. There is a small door behind the hall, and the bathroom is inside.His grandfather broke through the wall on one side of the hall, built a livestock house for raising chickens and ducks next to it, and built a kitchen to the right.At that time, it was an earthen house made of mud and grass. When he came back, he found that the kitchen had collapsed. Through the collapsed tile roof, Xu Zhonglei saw a blackened stove, broken pots and jars, and a piece of rice crushed into several pieces. cylinder.

Regarding the collapsed kitchen, Xu Zhonglei had no choice but to settle down in the hall now and take care of eating and living first.

Xu Zhonglei first tidied up the two downstairs bedrooms. The front one was where his grandmother lived, and it was well lit and bright.The closet was mostly empty.

It is a local custom that when a person dies, all the clothes and bedding of the deceased should be burned to remove bad luck.At that time, the funeral staff probably couldn't tell which clothes belonged to grandma, so they burned all the clothes in the cabinet.Xu Zhonglei opened the solid wood dark yellow cabinet door, and there were only some books inside.

Xu Zhonglei coughed and flipped through the pages. They were all his books, from elementary school to junior high school, and the first volume of the third grade of elementary school. There were also palm pictures he drew along his fingers. He compared his current hand.

Ha, that's almost twice as big.

The world is impermanent, and he went back and forth, but he came back here.

There is an empty TV cabinet in the bedroom. The TV was removed by the villagers after his grandmother's funeral.The bed also had only one empty shelf.There are some miscellaneous things in the bedside cabinets on both sides, reading glasses, flashlights that are rotten into several knots, a few cheap black fountain pens, workbooks, thread ends, charging cables, and long-expired medicines.

Xu Zhonglei cleared out one of the cardboard boxes he used to hold things in, and put the things that should be thrown away and those that should be kept in it.There are also his own textbooks, which are also stuffed in.There was really nothing in the front bed, so Xu Zhonglei continued to pay attention to the small dark room behind.

The small dark room deserves its name, the light bulb is broken and the light is poor.Probably for the convenience of sleeping, colorful papers were pasted on the window panes.Taking a closer look, on the wall next to the window, there are three posters of Huanzhugege, two of Ziwei, and a family portrait of Huanzhu—this must have been posted by one of my aunts.

When Xu Zhonglei opened the window, he could see the whole picture of the room clearly, the hardened cement floor, a small bed, and a small sofa next to the bed.Diagonally opposite the bed stood a large, dark cabinet.On the ground in front of the cabinet, several cardboard boxes were piled up.

The back bedroom was too damp, and the air was filled with the smell of moldy clothes.Xu Zhonglei decided to find out the mask in his car first, because rhinitis really can't afford it.

That black cabinet has a long history. It was the old belongings of Xu Zhonglei's grandma's grandma, who married in with her.

The cabinet was originally bright black, with a thick layer of tung oil painted on the surface, but with the aging of the years, it has become the plain and unpretentious appearance it is now.Not to mention the clothes in the cabinet, Xu Zhonglei looked at the pile of colorful ragged cotton jackets, and his face was also green.

These clothes probably belonged to his great-grandfather, and they were all moldy.Xu Zhonglei only saw patches of suspicious bluish-gray and patches of off-white.

Shaking the clothes, the bacterial spores scattered and sprayed his face, and he could smell the suffocating smell through the mask.

Xu Zhonglei became ruthless, turned out all the clothes in the closet, and set them on fire in the open space in front of the bamboo grove.What makes me angry is that after years of hard work by the bacteria, many clothes are very damp. The fire has been burning for a long time, and white smoke can still be seen rising into the sky above the bamboo forest. It took more than an hour to finish the fire.

Little by little, Xu Zhonglei moved out the empty wardrobe and put it on the small square outside the old house to dry it. He also moved out the small sofa next to the bed, and went to Musty.

Xu Zhonglei took a towel as a rag, carried an iron bucket, and wiped all the two rooms twice, and then took a broom, a dustpan and a bucket to clean up the three rooms on the second floor. house.

By the time Xu Zhonglei started to clean the small storage room on the third floor, he had lost consciousness and his mind went blank. He just mechanically moved the agricultural equipment left by his grandfather one by one, and put them all downstairs. on the small square.

"Hey! Stone, this is moving!"

Xu Zhiping came with a small motorcycle on his shoulders, and the loud voice Xu Zhonglei heard on the third floor was almost as if Xu Zhiping was shouting beside him.

Xu Zhonglei waved to Xu Zhiping from the small balcony on the third floor. Ten seconds later, he saw a bright orange figure rushing to the third floor.

"You're pretty fast, it's all sorted out."

While talking, Xu Zhiping helped out and moved the remaining bits and pieces down.

"There's no reason to ask guests to help, you go down and rest, I'll go down later."

While greeting politely, Xu Zhonglei pointed to a pile of iron machinery honestly and said, "Brother Zhiping, help me."

The two got busy much faster. Within half an hour, Xu Zhonglei and Xu Zhiping were sitting together in the lobby on the first floor, basking in the sun while drinking bottled mineral water face to face.

"Stone, you want to finish the construction soon, right? I found workers from a dozen or so counties. They are skilled workers who specialize in this industry. There are 25 or [-] young laborers in total.”

Xu Zhonglei asked; "Then it will be finished in a few months?"

"Two months at most!" Xu Zhiping asked worriedly: "Skilled workers in the county town pay 350 yuan a day, while bricklayers and wall builders here also pay 350 yuan, and small workers pay 200 yuan a day. It will take three months. This salary has to be paid out by more than 50 yuan!"

Xu Zhonglei took out his mobile phone calculator and calculated it. If it can be completed in two months, it will not exceed the budget. Excluding the cost of materials, Brother Zhiping can still make a lot of money.

"It's better for the workers in the county town to eat and live here directly, rent a board house, and then find a woman in the village to cook." Xu Zhiping began to count food, clothing, housing and transportation.

"It's better if there are more people. Let's start work as soon as possible, and we still need to leave time for decoration. Don't worry about money, I still have money."

When Xu Zhonglei said this, Xu Zhiping finally felt relieved, and talked about his arrangement, "I have already arranged it. The workers will come in three days. I will go to the county seat tomorrow to order sand, gravel and cement from the boss there." Reinforcement, and then rent a few plank rooms."

"I don't understand these, just follow your experience." Xu Zhonglei said with a smile, "I'll add your WeChat first? Send you the drawings, WeChat for the project or cash?"

Xu Zhonglei didn't move when he heard Xu Zhiping.Seeing it, Xu Zhiping almost burst into tears.

It was only then that Xu Zhonglei remembered that, generally speaking, when a contractor does something, the money is paid in advance by himself, and the money is paid only after the project is completed.Some arrears can even be delayed for five or ten years. Customers like him who directly pay in full are simply angels.

Xu Zhiping did not lie to him, but said directly: "Shitou, I know you are sincere, and I will not lie to you. I will take 50 yuan first, and then I will ask you for it when the money is not enough."

"Then thank you Brother Zhiping, I will forward it to you directly on WeChat, it is convenient for you to go shopping!"