Chapter 172: Determined Not to Be a Social Animal
For the angry young man Wang Shijin, knowing that someone was taking advantage of his position to pursue personal gain without caring about the lives of ordinary people, he would wish to dig out that person's ancestors and whip his corpse.
He scolded the Crazy Dragon Society for a full five minutes before returning the topic to the farm.
"The authorities have seized several large generators, heating equipment and hundreds of thousands of tons of coal from the Crazy Dragon Society. With these things, construction of the farm and power station can continue." Otherwise, in such severe weather conditions, it would take an unknown amount of time to get all these supplies.
"Not many people went to the farm to recruit. I heard that they didn't plan to recruit anyone. Their own people can manage the farm well."
"It's just that the higher-ups think that everyone in the city is stuck in the sewers with nothing to do and will be driven crazy sooner or later, so they opened up a few jobs to recruit people so that everyone has something to do."
"Few people know this news. We know this news because our friends in the army told us. If we don't have acquaintances to help us, we won't be able to get a job quota even if we try our best."
"Do you want to apply? If you want to go, we will go to sign up later." Wang Shijin looked at Xia Xiaoman.
Xia Xiaoman shook her head decisively, "No, I'm not interested in farming." Are you kidding? She has so many resources in her space, why would she fight to be a social animal? She has been farming since she was a child and now she has no worries about food and clothing. She must be crazy to go farming.
Seeing that she refused so decisively, Fu Baiwei kindly advised: "Xiao Man, I know you have stockpiled a lot of supplies, but we don't know how long the Eternal Night will last. If you don't go out to earn supplies, you will just sit there and eat up all the supplies. What if one day you run out of supplies?"
Xia Xiaoman said vaguely: "If I run out of money, I'll find a way to earn more. Anyway, if I eat enough, my whole family will not be hungry. As long as I have hands and feet, I won't starve to death."
Fu Baiwei did not give up and continued to persuade him, "The working environment on the farm is quite good. In order to allow the plants to grow, they have specially installed heating equipment. You don't have to endure the cold when working there and you can get paid. I heard that it is paid on a daily basis. You can get one kilogram of grain and one kilogram of charcoal a day, and three meals a day are provided. The benefits are very good. Are you really not going?"
"No." Xia Xiaoman shook her head.
Seeing her stubborn look, Fu Baiwei could only sigh helplessly, "Well, if you don't go, I'll give the spot to someone else."
Xia Xiaoman heard this and asked, "Aren't you going?"
Wang Shijin at the side said, "Fu Baiwei is not going. Her boyfriend has gone to work, so she wants to stay and look after the house. I have decided to go, and I have asked Aunt Xing to look after the house for me."
Xia Xiaoman looked at Fu Baiwei, "Your boyfriend has gone to work, does that mean the electricity will be turned on soon?"
Fu Baiwei nodded. "Almost. Ayun said that it will take at least half a month to get electricity. But it can only be connected to the sewer. The ground environment is bad, and it is not easy to install wires. Even if they are installed, they will be easily damaged by freezing."
Although only the sewers are electrified, it is worth looking forward to. With electricity, it is easy to help farms solve the problem of plant sunlight, and the sewers can also be expanded with the help of electricity.
Seeing that Xia Xiaoman did not apply for the farm job, Fu Baiwei went back with Wang Shijin. Before leaving, she begged Xia Xiaoman to give her a set of puzzles to kill time. Xia Xiaoman threw the puzzles she had put together to her, saying that she had already played with them once and there was no point in putting them together again.
After seeing the guests off, Xia Xiaoman's life returned to normal.
I woke up in the morning and opened my eyes, lying in bed thinking about what to eat for breakfast. After a while, I thought of the egg pancakes that I hadn't eaten for a long time.
He got up, put on his clothes, tidied up the kang, took out a wash basin, washed it, poured flour, eggs and water into it in turn, slowly stirred it into a batter without any particles, and then put it aside to ferment.
During the fermentation process, Xia Xiaoman took out his broadsword and practiced the plum blossom double swords five times.
After the morning exercise, she stirred the batter with a spoon. When she saw that it was almost fermented, she cut some ham cubes into it, added salt and a small spoonful of five-spice powder and mixed them evenly. Then she heated the pan with oil and started to spread the pancakes.
After morning exercise, Xia Xiaoman was hungry. When she was making the second pancake, she had already finished the first one.
He spread the pancake and ate it at the same time. In the end, there was no pancake left on the plate as it all went into Xia Xiaoman's stomach.
After eating and drinking, I went out to sweep the snow as usual. The temperature has risen a bit in the past two days, and the melted snow on the roof has flowed down little by little, causing long icicles to form under the eaves.
Ice spikes are long and sharp. If they are not cleaned up in time, they will fall when you pass by and can poke a bloody hole in you.
Xia Xiaoman raised the shovel and knocked down all the icicles hanging under the eaves. Watching the crystal clear icicles being knocked down one by one, she felt an inexplicable sense of relief.
He was knocking hard when suddenly there was a crisp sound in the yard. Xia Xiaoman immediately stopped what he was doing and turned around to stare at the yard vigilantly.
After standing there for a while and not seeing anything moving, Xia Xiaoman thought for a moment, put the shovel aside, took out a high-intensity flashlight from his pocket, turned it on, and shone it around the yard.
There was no ghost nearby, and Xia Xiaoman wondered if she was hallucinating. But after thinking about it, she felt that it was impossible, so she picked up a shovel to check the trap hidden in the yard.
Suddenly, Xia Xiaoman froze in place. There was a mousetrap near the wall, holding a ball of snow-white fluffy stuff. The sound just now should have been made by this little thing.
The little creature was pierced through by a mousetrap, and its snow-white fur was stained bright red.
Xia Xiaoman didn't expect that there were other creatures living outside in the snow. She curiously poked the white fur ball with a shovel, and the white fur ball's feet twitched weakly for a moment and then stopped moving.
Xia Xiaoman didn't want to touch the unknown thing directly, so he used a shovel to shovel the ball of white hair and the mousetrap into the living room.
Entering the living room, the light was much brighter. Xia Xiaoman poked the white fur ball with a stick and said in surprise: "White rabbit? How can there be a little white rabbit outside in such weather?"
Xia Xiaoman was puzzled. This white rabbit was small, but its fur was very thick and smooth. It felt like someone's pet rabbit. How could it appear in the snow? Could it be someone's pet that escaped?
As soon as this thought came up, Xia Xiaoman rejected it immediately. It was already so late, even if someone had a pet rabbit at home, it would probably have become roasted rabbit meat by now, how could it be raised so well.
But if it wasn't a pet rabbit, where did this white rabbit come from? How did it survive in this cold and eternal night?
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