Chapter 040: Water and power outages began
As for the good stuff like royal jelly, of course we get up early in the morning and scoop a small spoonful and soak it in warm water, and the whole family drinks a cup. It can beautify the skin, nourish the yin and moisten the lungs, and can also supplement various vitamins and nutrients in the end times without sunlight.
The black pigs, sheep and calves in the Rubik's Cube Space have grown a lot bigger after being fed normally. Compared with the previous speed of maturing in one month, it saves a lot of food and spiritual springs, but it is also faster than normal pigs and sheep. Jingshu estimates that they will mature in half a year.
Jingshu bred more quails and planned to make a large number of roasted quails and roasted quail eggs and keep them in the space as midnight snacks. Her appetite has become bigger recently.
Jingshu only had a little bit of chickens, ducks and rabbits left, but the diluted spiritual spring was still very powerful. In addition to recovering the intake of the fighting chicken No. 1, which could lay more than 20 eggs a day, Jingshu could also collect more than 20 chicken eggs, 7 or 8 duck eggs, and more than 100 quail eggs, which was much better than the chickens and ducks raised in the villa.
The eggs they saved these days allowed Jingshu and her father to successfully make a batch of preserved eggs, and also gave Jingshu a reason to buy a lot of lime so that she could do bad things later.
On January 18, Jingshu Community suddenly lost power. The entire Wucheng had been operating at overload for more than ten days. Not only did it have to provide electricity for households at night, but it also had to provide air conditioners, electric lights, street lights, etc. for various companies during the day. Finally, it could not bear it anymore.
The most important thing is the electricity consumption of 24-hour air conditioning. According to statistics, the national average electricity consumption is 5 times that of usual times!
I usually don’t want to turn on the air conditioner, and in Suzhou, the electricity charges will be doubled if it exceeds the household electricity usage, but I have been using electricity without any scruples for the past half month, and the result is that there is no electricity supply.
After receiving thousands of complaints in just a few minutes, Wucheng Power Company issued emergency measures, urgently delivering diesel and allowing businesses in each community to generate electricity on their own.
Wang Qiqi No. 13: "Everyone, the community's supporting services are currently insufficient, and there's no generator. If you can't stand the heat, share a car in the basement, turn on the air conditioner, and wait for the power to come back. I can still fit two people in my car."
The temperature in Wucheng is still as high as 4.00°C. More than half of the office workers and business owners in Jingshu Community have closed their shops and are resting at home. Now, with a power outage of less than half an hour, the house is like a steamer.
People in the early days of the apocalypse couldn't stand the heat and couldn't drink the muddy water, but they still survived. How pretentious! Jingshu was lying in a villa with a constant temperature of 2, eating Haagen-Dazs ice cream and thinking irresponsibly.
Some people in the community went back to their parents' or in-laws' homes or relatives' homes, while others turned on the air conditioner in their cars and waited for the call. During this period, Wang Qiqi actually added more than a dozen people to the group. This community that can accommodate tens of thousands of people currently has only more than a hundred people living there. No wonder restaurants dare not open here.
However, within a year, this place will become one of the most sought-after new urban areas in Urumqi, and countless homeless citizens will flock in. Every parking space in the basement and underground garage can be divided into a place for a family to live.
In the previous life, at the end of the world, she exchanged her villa in a prime location for food. The family lived in basements, iron cage houses, refugee camps, etc. Later, due to various natural disasters, they followed the government to migrate many times... That was a nightmare, Jingshu didn't even want to think about it again!
Today, Jing's father sent Jing's grandmother three bags of mushrooms and two plates of garlic sprouts, as well as some eggs, Chinese cabbage and Lingquan diluted tortoise jelly for the old lady.
I heard that it is very difficult to buy vegetables in the city. The price of a wilted cabbage has risen to 50 yuan. Other green vegetables and out-of-season vegetables are no longer available. The only vegetables left are various mushrooms, leeks, bean sprouts, and other vegetables that grow indoors and do not require sunlight.
The prices of dried goods and seafood in the market have also increased. Because they are more expensive than vegetables, not many people buy them. They all want to wait until the dark day is over before buying.
Jingnai still has to stay in the city for a few days to queue up at the pharmacy to buy medicine for her high blood pressure. The old couple are still energetic.
To reduce the looting, the government has restricted pharmacies to only accepting medical insurance cards, and the limit is 50 yuan per day. The elderly couple still have thousands of yuan in their medical insurance card, and when they heard that all the medicine is out of stock and they won't be able to get it back for half a year, they hurried to go to the pharmacy with their third aunt Jinglai every day to buy medicine.
All the summer-heat-reducing pills, vitamins, Huoxiang Zhengqi water, etc. in the pharmacies were sold out. Many people who took long-term medications rushed to grab the medicines, including Jingnai. Even though Jingshu told her that she had bought a lot, Jingnai still insisted on using up all the money on her medical insurance card before she would give up.
Jingnai is also an insecure person
After experiencing the famine, she had to stock up on everything. Even though she used to favor boys over girls, was stingy and reluctant to spend money on food and clothing, and had to bargain when buying vegetables, she was really good to Jingshu. She was the most partial to her since she was a child and gave Jingshu all the good things. So the filial piety that she didn't have time to show in her previous life...Jingshu came to do it in this life, and let Jingnai do whatever she wants.
At seven o'clock in the evening, Jingshu and her family sat in front of the TV watching the news and eating dinner, which included three steamed sea bass, a bowl of steamed eggs with caviar, a large pot of curry potato and beef brisket rice, and tomato and egg soup.
No matter how much is cooked, Jingshu will pick up the leftovers and lick them clean, leaving no oil droplets. This is how cleanly people who have lived for ten years in the apocalypse eat.
"You don't want to learn from others, but you choose to lick the plate like your dad." Jing's mother pointed at Jing Shu and said, "With your appetite and the way you eat, who would dare to have you in the future?"
Jing's father was innocently caught in the crossfire: "That's right, the bad things are all learned from me, and the good things are all inherited from you."
"Of course not! Look at this solar power generation and filtered water system my daughter has installed. It's great! Others have power outages and can only eat cold instant noodles for dinner, but we can still enjoy a hearty dinner with air conditioning."
"You were calling him a prodigal son before." Jing's father muttered softly.
The entire city of Wucheng is still without electricity, and people are either using backup power or electricity generated by generators. However, areas in the south with large populations and insufficient power supply have long used diesel generators.
Today's headline news: The United Nations has refused to ship crude oil to China until the Dark Days are over. It's China's fault for cutting off food exports. This is truly devastating news. The country has taken emergency measures to produce its own oil domestically until the Dark Days are over. Domestic oil reserves are only sufficient for a few decades, so China has been importing.
Jingshu knew that it would not be long before she would face the embarrassing situation of having a car but no gas, because gasoline was an important strategic material and the country had more important uses for it, so the supply of gasoline to private cars was temporarily stopped.
Including important energy sources such as natural gas, Jingshu will start cooking food after she finishes her busy work to save some coal.
It was completely dark and the temperature in Wucheng had dropped. Everyone in the community returned home, only to find in horror that even the mud and water were gone!
Zhang Bingbing No. 4: "Everyone, I'm out of water at home. Can anyone give me a few bottles of mineral water? Thank you."
No one said anything. After a while, Zhang Bingbing No. 4 said again: "I want to buy two bottles of mineral water at a high price!"
Still no one paid any attention to her, so Zhang Bingbing got angry:
"They're all a bunch of neighbors who don't help. The ladies who hitched a ride with me this afternoon told me to call the group if I have any problems. I burned all my gas to run the air conditioner, and now I can't go out or buy water. I paid a high price for two bottles of water, but no one is willing to help."
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