Chapter 042 I bought it before I couldn’t afford it, but now I can’t afford it
There are good people. There are always selfless and selfless people who prevent the social system from collapsing after the apocalypse. Ordinary people are lucky to be alive after the apocalypse.
Within two days, the temperature in Wucheng returned to 4 degrees Celsius, and many companies started work again. Considering safety issues, all schools started their winter vacation early, and only the senior high school students were still attending classes.
But now everyone is facing an embarrassing problem: cars cannot be refueled, buses and subways are crowded, and although the price of taxis has tripled, it is still impossible to get a shared ride. There are fewer cars on the streets of Wucheng!
The reason why some people are willing to pay high prices for rides to work is based on the belief that the dark days will soon be over, everything will return to normal, so just be patient.
Gas stations are now only supplying public buses, special buses, taxis and other social vehicles until the end of the Dark Day. If the Dark Day does not end...
This is when the benefits of energy-efficient electric vehicles become apparent. You can find a charging station and use a fully charged vehicle for two or three days. You don't have to queue up under the scorching sun and wait for half an hour for a ride. Many energy-efficient vehicles have become illegal taxis, earning two or three hundred yuan per trip.
Those who have money can just buy energy vehicles, and those who don’t have money can only wait for the dark days to end, because the prices of energy vehicles have skyrocketed, which is in line with the saying: you only bought energy vehicles when you couldn’t afford them before, but you can’t afford energy vehicles now.
Jing's father drives the energy car to take Jing's mother to work every day. The large group of people waiting for the special bus at the gate of the community who pass by are extremely envious.
Their community is very remote. Although every family has a car, when the car runs out of gas, they can only take the special bus that is temporarily added. The special bus costs 30 yuan per trip, and there are two round trips a day that are not on time. If you miss it, you don’t have to go to work...Now because of weather and traffic problems, the government has issued a notice to reduce working hours by 2 hours.
Luxury Car Dealer No. 5: "Whose car is that BYD Song in the neighborhood? Can I take a ride?"
Wang Dazhao No. 1: "Same thing, is the driver of that Song car running an illegal taxi? He should drive an illegal taxi for our neighborhood. The 7-seater can fit 9 people."
Jing's father was very excited after seeing the news. He had been idle at home for a month and had been looking for something to do. He could earn several thousand a day by driving an illegal taxi. Jingshu rolled her eyes, thinking that the money would be useless in a few months.
Jingshu could only retort: "The weather is so hot, and those people haven't showered for seven or eight days. They smell all kinds of things. I don't dislike them, but I can't stand the strange smell and dirt that they made in the car."
"That's right, the foot odor, bad breath, and body odor in the office are making me sick. Please leave me some clean space!"
Jing's mother said with a headache that in order not to make special arrangements, she hadn't washed her hair for three days. It would be difficult for her to keep her boss clean when he went to work with hair mixed with oil and dirt.
After the water resources were polluted, Wucheng cut off the water supply to the entire city and only sent water trucks to supply limited water. If the water was used normally as before, it would not be long before Wucheng would be completely out of water. The Wucheng government also had to use the limited water to harvest a batch of crops that had not yet completely died. Even if the Dark Day ended, it would not change the water shortage.
Supermarkets have stopped supplying mineral water and all kinds of beverages. Although the news is about corruption every day and citizens are encouraged to report injustice, the mineral water is still divided up by powerful people and stored for life-saving use. Ordinary people have no idea how scarce water is.
Among the 13 district governments in Wucheng, Jing's mother is only a ninth-level clerk in one of the district governments, and she is not even close to the top. In her previous life, she was able to get a small amount of mineral water thanks to Jing's father's coincidence.
So now, our daily water needs are completely reliant on water trucks that deliver water every two days. We have enough water for cooking and drinking, but forget about showering, washing our face, washing clothes, or even washing dishes. When the weather gets hot, we sweat and smell, and we can't even shower...
Don’t be fooled by the current trend of slicking back hair or wearing hats, as that is extremely dirty and the greasy strands can only be slicked back.
Everyone in the group was asking whose car the BYD Song was and whether it could be run as an illegal taxi. Seeing that no one was responding, a car owner jumped out.
Lusong has not yet moved in: "Mine is an Audi Energia, but I live in the city. I can go there if I want. It's 500 yuan per trip. You can carpool. It can accommodate 6 people. It has air conditioning. Call me if you need anything."
Traffic police don’t care how many people are packed into a car now.
Traffic jams are now unblocked. It is reported that among the four million private cars in Wucheng, only a few hundred thousand energy-efficient cars are running.
Wang Dazhao No. 1: "It's okay if it's a little expensive, but count me in. The Dark Day will be over in a few days anyway."
Luxury car dealership: "Count me in too."
We quickly gathered six people and agreed to set off at 10 o'clock every day, which was much better than waiting for the bus at the door at 8 o'clock.
The country has really tried its best to provide various resources these days, but the hot weather has increased the country's energy consumption and the death of poultry and crops. The United Nations has stopped the supply of crude oil, and soil and water pollution has led to water shortages across the country.
We wanted to persevere through the Dark Days despite all the difficulties, but on January 24th it was announced that the whole country would enter a period of energy reduction until the end of the Dark Days.
From now on, the daily power supply hours will be changed to 7:00 to 17:00, with power supply for 8 hours a day, to ensure that there is electricity during the hot season so that people will not die from the heat and the food in the refrigerator will not be damaged.
Be patient, the dark days will soon be over. Everyone believes that the dark days are over. There is still at least half a year's worth of food stored at home, so it doesn't matter even if there is a shortage of water and electricity.
Just when everyone was dreaming of the end of the dark day, Jingshu was in the villa, enjoying the air conditioning, sweating profusely as she cooked two pots of spicy hot pot on the gas stove.
After the whole pot of beef meatballs, shrimp balls, shrimp dumplings, fish balls and fish tofu are cooked, put them into the space while eating, and then put in the chopped beef rolls, mutton rolls, various vegetables, fish, shrimp and meat.
When Jingshu was full, all kinds of cooked food filled the 1 cubic meter space. When the power and natural gas went out and no one could cook, she took a pot and poured out the hot pot in the space and ate the ready-made hot pot directly, saying that it was a hot pot made with coal.
There are only a few tons of coal stored at home, and it is not known whether it can last for 10 years after the apocalypse. Jingshu must of course be thrifty and cook the meal in advance and put it in the space.
Another advantage is that the aroma of the cooked food won't spread too far. Otherwise, when everyone is short of supplies, if you make a chicken stew with mushrooms, the smell can be smelled from hundreds of meters away. That scene...
These days Jingshu is busy cooking meals every day. She makes two boxes of curry into 1 cubic meter potato curry chicken rice, 1 cubic meter spicy Maoxuewang, 1 cubic meter braised black pork chop, 1 cubic meter prawns in tomato sauce, 1 cubic meter steamed hairy crabs, and 1 cubic meter fried fish fillets. She also makes the frozen chicken that she had wholesaled before into finished products: fried chicken nuggets, fried chicken wings, fried chicken legs, fried chicken nuggets, bone-in chicken, chicken fillets, popcorn chicken, French fries, etc., which take up 2 cubic meters.
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