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With oil supplies currently tight, most private cars on the road are new energy vehicles that rely on charging stations for charging.
After the government imposed oil price controls, the value of new energy vehicles skyrocketed, making them unaffordable for ordinary people.
Xia Ning also learned in advance through the vehicle's map forecast that a torrential rain that would last for several days was about to arrive.
She found an opportunity to store the car in the garage into her spatial storage.
Who could have predicted that after days of high temperatures and preparations for drought, the disaster we faced would be flooding?
The space was already packed full, leaving one room empty just in case, as a backup plan that I couldn't use casually.
Think about all those novels where other people's spaces can be upgraded and used for farming; compared to that, her space seems so uncool.
However, Xia Ning was truly content. How could all the good things in this world fall on one person's head?
Xia Ning was quite open-minded, but she was worried that her younger sister might do something rash, and that the dog might develop depression from being cooped up at home all day.
So the little genius Xia Ning came up with another brilliant idea.
She placed a ring of green plants next to her sister's giant hamster wheel and then propped a large tablet up in front of the wheel to play videos of the lawn.
He fooled his sister from every angle.
When my little sister gets tired of running on her wheelchair, she runs around the house in circles. The house has two bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen, one bathroom, and a balcony, which is enough for her to exercise.
Xia Ning would often brainwash her younger sister's dog ears: "When we have the means to move to a villa area, I'll lease a fishpond for you, find you a wife, and adopt a few children."
Forget about having biological children; the sterilization surgery wasn't done for nothing.
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The couple next door, Jiang Yuan and Wang Wei, weren't as carefree as Xia Ning.
Some people might think that young people living together is the best way to strengthen their relationship, which is a great thing.
Wrong, completely wrong.
Jiang Yuan and Wang Wei used to be extremely busy, and they only had so little time together each day. Naturally, they cherished each other and kept any dissatisfaction to themselves. In reality, they didn't have any opportunity to have conflicts.
Things are different now. We see each other all the time, from morning till noon.
Wang Wei even felt that Jiang Yuan was getting in the way at home.
She called her mother for advice, and her mother said she was just bored and had nothing better to do.
Isn't it because they're bored?
People who work overtime every day are suddenly stopped working. The first two days are quite happy, but what follows is confusion.
Wang Wei suddenly realized that she didn't seem to have any hobbies. She also watched short videos, and time flew by while she was watching them, but she only felt empty after she finished.
She was very curious about how Xia Ning managed to stay home all by herself.
Wang Wei and Jiang Yuan had discussed that Xia Ning's extraordinary temperament stemmed from her emotional stability—too stable.
When Wang Wei herself experienced the earthquake, she turned pale with fright. She remembers almost losing her composure when the power went out, and she also lost her temper due to the heat.
Xia Ning lived alone, and every time I saw her, she looked quite disheveled. After all, everyone except Shu Qilan was very unkempt at that time.
Xia Ning's mental state was different from others. As bad news piled up, the people Wang Wei met were either angry or resentful, but Xia Ning remained calm. It wasn't the kind of calm that comes from blind optimism, nor did she seem like a fanatical apocalyptic enthusiast.
That wonderful feeling was hard to describe in a few words. Wang Wei told Jiang Yuan about it, and Jiang Yuan only said that Xia Ning was probably an outdoor enthusiast who was brave and well-prepared.
Wang Wei disagreed, or perhaps not entirely. Her woman's intuition told her that Xia Ning seemed to have already accepted everything and was prepared to face her fate.
Anyway, whenever Wang Wei received bad news and felt uneasy, going out to see Xia Ning seemed to provide some emotional comfort.
Wang Wei wasn't the type to keep things bottled up inside, so she took the opportunity while Jiang Yuan was away to invite Xia Ning to her home.
She felt that if she kicked the man out, the two women could feel more at ease.
At least the first thing she does when she gets home is always take off her underwear.
Judging from her own experience, Wang Wei felt that Xia Ning was not someone who liked to be restricted, especially in such hot weather, it was inhumane to make her dress so formally.
Upon hearing this, Xia Ning, though unsure why Wang Wei suddenly wanted to invite her, accepted the invitation nonetheless. She also wanted to take the opportunity to observe how ordinary indigenous residents coped with the disaster and what preparations their homes had made, so she could emulate some of them.
It was nominally a women's pajama party.
Xia Ning prepared potato chips, sunflower seeds, popcorn, and a rechargeable electric fan. She changed into a nightgown and started her girls' nighttime chat.
After Xia Ning entered Wang Wei's house,
Surprisingly, Wang Wei's home was more comfortable than I had imagined. The temperature felt around 30 degrees Celsius, and sitting on a cool mat with a fan blowing wasn't too uncomfortable.
It is very impolite to wander around someone else's house without the host's guidance, but Xia Ning understood this after glancing at it out of the corner of her eye.
Their doors and windows were all covered with heat-insulating film, and a large heat-insulating curtain hung at the connection between the balcony and the living room, unlike other families who only relied on a few thick sheets of cloth to block the light. Xia Ning knew that heat-insulating film like this was priced at 800 yuan per meter on the market, and it was hard to find.
This shows that Wang Wei and Jiang Yuan, who don't flaunt their wealth, also come from families with powerful connections.
Xia Ning exclaimed exaggeratedly, "Sister Weiwei, your house is so cool!"
“Just call me by my name, I get goosebumps when I hear reduplicated words,” Wang Wei said frankly. “The person who sold me the heat insulation film told me not to tell anyone, that there are only so many left. So please don’t ask me.”
If someone else had said this, it would have sounded sarcastic and sarcastic, but when Wang Wei stated it simply and calmly, it made it seem like she genuinely thought so.
Xia Ning didn't know how to respond for a moment.
As expected, people don't change. Wang Wei can leave Shu Qilan speechless and Xia Ning at a loss for words.
So Xia Ning decided not to continue the conversation and changed the subject.
"Sister Wei, what can I do for you?"
Wang Wei didn't mince words and explained in a few words that it was nothing, she just wanted to chat with Xia Ning.
What shall we talk about?
The two looked at each other in silence.
After a while, Xia Ning tentatively suggested, "How about we go downstairs for a walk?"
Wang Wei nodded without hesitation: "Okay."
Xia Ning: ...
So, Xia Ning inexplicably went home and changed into her usual outfit—a tank top and shorts.
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