Chapter 152 Sewer Opening
After driving the supplies in the building back to the community, Wang Shijin and Fu Baiwei immediately reported the matter.
Over the next few days, authorities found more than a dozen illegal workshops through stalls selling cotton-padded clothes and seized dozens of truckloads of substandard cotton-padded clothes and quilts.
However, these cotton-padded clothes and quilts were not destroyed. Instead, they were boiled at high temperatures to sterilize and disinfect them, and then washed, dried and sold at low prices.
Now that Xiaguo has completely stopped production, fabrics have become a commodity that people are scrambling for. These black-hearted cotton clothes and quilts are just of poor quality and dirty. After high-temperature disinfection and cleaning, some people are willing to buy them at a low price.
On the other hand, the two protagonists Wang Shijin and Fu Baiwei, who destroyed one of the illegal workshops, were also rewarded with 200 work points each.
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The weather is getting colder. Two months ago, it was suffocatingly hot at 60 or 70 degrees Celsius, but now the temperature has dropped to 7 or 8 degrees.
The temperature has dropped incredibly fast in the past two months, but fortunately it has given people time to gradually adapt, so when people opened the door and saw a layer of frost on the ground, they had already gotten used to it. They went back into the house, put on another layer of clothes, and went out without changing their expressions.
After fetching water, Xia Xiaoman returned and continued to dig soil to make honeycomb coal. After digging for so many days, she had dug a big hole in the yard. She didn't plan to fill the hole back, thinking that she would make a trap in the hole when she had time.
After working hard to make honeycomb briquettes for most of the day, she heard a noise outside the door. It was the patrolman at the gate of the community informing her that the Ye family fleet had arrived.
Xia Xiaoman changed her clothes and followed the patrolman out. Before she reached the gate of the community, she saw Sun Qing in a mink coat from a distance.
Xia Xiaoman smiled and said, "It's so cold today, why did you put on the mink fur?"
Sun Qing shook the mink fur on her body and said, "Wearing mink fur makes me look more like a big sister." She put her hands on her waist and raised her head, looking like a don't get close to me, "Just tell me if I look like one!"
Xia Xiaoman burst out laughing, "Like, like a big idiot!"
Sun Qing rolled her eyes at her and threw the mink fur to her. "This is for you. After you sell the goods this time, I don't know when I can see you again."
Xia Xiaoman was about to return the mink coat when she heard this and asked, "What's wrong? You were found to be smuggling goods, and the Ye family fleet is going to lay you off?"
"No." Sun Qing shook her head. "It's because the weather is too cold. Seafood is hard to transport and sell. I'm worried that if we encounter a snowstorm on the way to transport the goods next time, all the people in our team will be trapped on the road. Let's wait until the weather warms up before coming to the floating city!"
Xia Xiaoman frowned. It hadn't snowed in the floating city for decades, and the lowest temperature was only two or three degrees below zero. But now it was night, anything could happen, and it was not surprising that there would be a blizzard.
"If you don't sell seafood, how are you going to make a living in the future?"
"We don't know for now. It depends on what the weather will be like." Sun Qing said confusedly: "If the weather is not too cold, we may continue to go out to sea to fish and sell to surrounding towns. If the weather is bad, we still have a lot of supplies stored during this period, which can last for about half a year."
Xia Xiaoman was silent for a moment, "Wait a minute, I'll go back." After she finished speaking, she turned around and ran into the community. Sun Qing called out to her twice behind her but she didn't stop.
Seeing Xia Xiaoman running away, Sun Qing had to deal with the business with Shuiyue Bay first and explain clearly the reason why she would not come in the future.
Wang Shijin felt sorry for not being able to continue doing business with the Ye family fleet, but he could understand it. Eternal Night was dangerous. If there was a blizzard, the whole fleet would be wiped out. Didn't you see that Old Man Luo didn't allow him to go out to transport coal these days? He was worried that something might happen to him on the road.
Sun Qing was talking to Wang Shijin about the termination of the contract when she saw Xia Xiaoman approaching with a cage out of the corner of her eye.
When Xia Xiaoman came closer, she could see clearly what was in the cage. "Tsk, so generous, giving me four rabbits."
"You said you didn't know what to do in the future, so I caught two pairs of rabbits for you. These rabbits are quite strong. You can try to raise meat rabbits when you go back."
Sun Qing shook her head. "No, no, I can eat it, but I don't have the ability to feed it."
"Take it back and try it. If it can survive, keep it. If it can't, kill it." Xia Xiaoman stuffed the cage into her hands without saying anything.
Sun Qing hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay! I'll take it back and give it to Xiaojie to try. Maybe she can support it."
They chatted for a few more minutes, and seeing that it was getting late, Sun Qing reluctantly left.
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After Sun Qing left, Xia Xiaoman stayed at home completely, making honeycomb coal all day long.
In the morning, after having breakfast and practicing boxing for a while, Xia Xiaoman took a shovel and bucket and went out to collect yellow mud.
The door opened and a searchlight shone on the ground, a layer of snow reflecting the light back.
Xia Xiaoman was stunned for a moment, squatted down and grabbed a handful of snow, muttering to himself, "It's snowing? No wonder it's so cold today..."
Throwing away the snow in her hand, she walked to the place where she usually dug soil and dug twice. The soil was frozen and she couldn't dig out any soil after digging twice.
Xia Xiaoman sighed and turned to go home. Just then, a patrol passed by and a horn sounded.
"Please be advised, all owners! Please be advised, all owners! The government has opened the sewers. The sewer temperature is higher than the ground. 50 work points can rent a spot. Owners who need to go to the sewers to avoid the cold, please sign up at the property management department!"
Xia Xiaoman stood there and listened to the notice several times. After thinking for a long time, she still couldn't accept living in the same place with others.
She has a basement. As long as the house does not collapse, the basement is no different from a sewer. In comparison, the basement has better privacy.
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Although it snowed, it was not heavy and stopped after a while. The weather was not particularly cold and was still within the tolerance range for humans, so not many people went to the sewers to avoid the cold.
While queuing for water, Xia Xiaoman heard passers-by describe the situation of the sewer.
50 workers rent a location, which is only five meters long and one meter wide. There is a smoke exhaust pipe at each location. If you feel cold, you can set up a stove under the smoke exhaust pipe to burn fire.
The space in the sewer is small. In weather like this, burning a stove in the sewer can make it as warm as possible. It is indeed a good place to avoid the cold.
But anyone who has cleaned a sewer knows that the width of a sewer is only 2 meters, half of which is where people live, and the remaining half is the aisle.
Everyone lives in the same corridor, so close together that they can even hear you fart in your sleep. There is no privacy at all.
Just thinking about it, Xia Xiaoman was very reluctant to live in the sewer. She had too many secrets, and living in the sewer was too unsafe.
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