Chapter 32 Chapter 32
People always have to part, just like him and his parents. However, Zhang Tianyu didn't expect that these people would leave after just one night's sleep, and there was such heavy snow outside.
"You live in the city, how do you get back?" When they came back, I didn't see any transportation.
Ye Xun would not reveal the matter of the space to others and could only say that he would walk back.
"The three of us can walk quickly, so we should be able to get there before dinner." In fact, it only takes an hour to drive there.
After so long... Zhang Tianyu was conflicted, but he finally made up his mind, "I have something for you, come with me."
After saying that, he turned around to comfort his sister: "Xiao Xin, be good. I'm going to go home with my brothers and sisters. I'll be back soon."
Zhang Tianxin nodded very obediently and agreed: "Xiao Xin will be good."
Zhang Tianyu led Ye Xun and the others out of the basement and walked to the other side of the backyard.
In the corner, I saw something covered with a piece of cloth. It looked quite large and might be difficult to carry.
Zhang Tianyu pinched out a corner of the cloth, lifted it up, and the contents inside were revealed to everyone.
It was snowmobiles! Two of them!
"My dad bought this last year. He wanted to take my sister and me to play in the snow. But before I could use it, the end of the world came. I don't know how to drive this kind of thing. Just in case you need it, you can drive it away. But there shouldn't be much gas left in it," Zhang Tianyu explained.
"I have the oil, but, Xiao Tianyu, have you ever considered leaving with us? There are no adults here to take care of you. If a few people with weapons come, what will you and your sister do? At least the base is under government control, and those people won't do anything reckless. If you want, we can take you and your sister away today. I have a friend who lives alone. His son died of illness not long ago. If you and Xiaoxin go to live with him, he should be able to take good care of you. At least it will be safer than here."
Zhang Tianxin is very well behaved and is not much older than Xu Feng's son. Zhang Tianyu can basically take care of himself, and they both have a lot of stuff. In the end, Xu Feng is the one who made the profit.
Ye Xun explained the pros and cons to Zhang Tianyu. Whether or not to go was a question for the other party to consider, and he was just giving a suggestion that he thought was good.
What he said was right. It was not safe for two little kids to have so many things, no matter in the end times or in the past. Now no one came to find them, thanks to the snowy day.
After several months of tempering in the apocalypse, Zhang Tianyu understood what Ye Xun said. It's not that he didn't consider going to places managed by the government, but there was no one he knew to help. Whether he could successfully get in was one point. If he couldn't get in, and they were carrying all these food and supplies, wouldn't that be a fat sheep delivered to his mouth?
So not long after Ye Xun finished speaking, Zhang Tianyu decided to move to the base. He believed that anyone who could be friends with his brothers and sisters would definitely not be a bad person.
"Brother Ye Xun, let's go."
After hearing this, Ye Xun's brows relaxed. This is right.
Time is tight and the things in the basement cannot be transported in one trip, so they can only be transported in two trips.
The bed boards were removed and tied to the back of the snowmobile with thick ropes. Food and supplies were piled on the boards. After they were full, more than half of the basement was empty.
There were two motorcycles, one for Ye Xun, Wang Yu and Bal, and one for Qin Wei and Zhang Tianyu, brother and sister.
Once you're seated, head to the base.
If outsiders want to become residents of the base, they need to pay one-tenth of the food fee. Children under ten years old need to pay half the fee, and children under five years old can pay free of charge. Zhang Tianxin is just five years old, which directly saves food.
After paying one-tenth of the grain tax, Zhang Tianyu obtained a temporary residence permit. After a month of observation and without any disciplinary violations, he could become a formal resident.
For accommodation, you can rent a house from the base, the rent is naturally also food, or you can ask friends to stay with you.
Ye Xun took the brother and sister to find Xu Feng, briefly introduced their situation to him, and finally asked him if he was willing to take the brother and sister in.
Of course there was no problem for Xu Feng. The families of these two kids were much richer than his, and they also had good things like diesel generators, so he might as well take advantage of it.
The housing problem was solved in this way.
Ye Xun and others made another trip and pulled all the remaining things from the basement.
The snowmobile had been seen, and it would not be safe to leave it anywhere. Ye Xun went directly to the base in the morning and rented it to them for use. They had to provide the diesel themselves, and if they wanted to use it themselves, they had to return it unconditionally.
It is basically impossible to find a decent means of transportation nowadays. When Ye Xun proposed this, the person in charge of the base agreed immediately. They still have enough diesel, and the only thing they lack is a means of transportation.
After the deal was done, Ye Xun and the other two went home. During the past two days outside, they didn't even have the conditions to wash their faces or soak their feet with hot water. Now they just wanted to return to their warm and comfortable home.
Now the base has solved part of the electricity problem. Why part of it? Because electricity is used during time periods, three hours at noon and three hours at night. It is free. If you want to use it at other times, you can buy it with grain, but the price is expensive. One kilowatt-hour of electricity requires one pound of grain, which can be potatoes, sweet potatoes, pork or beef.
Most families do not have spare food to buy electricity, and food and clothing are still a problem, so how can they care about the quality of life? This is putting the cart before the horse.
Another option is to work in the mines. If you work for a full month, your three-hour shift will be extended to five hours. Now there are no machines, and mining is all done by manpower with hoes. Although it is very hard, it is a good job in the base. Occasionally, you can have some minced meat in your work meals, and you can also subsidize the electricity for your home.
All the mined minerals are used to generate electricity for use by residents throughout the base.
Residents living on high floors already have ladders, and it is now very convenient to go upstairs. A household pays 5 kilograms of elevator usage fee every month and can get an elevator card. They just need to swipe the card when using it. If you are reluctant to spend money, you can choose to climb the stairs, which can also strengthen your body and warm your body.
Ye Xun and his men were not short of food, so they naturally applied for one. It became much easier to transport the wild boar meat, just a matter of moving their fingers.
The first thing to do when you get home is to take off all your heavy clothes one by one.
In order to keep the vegetables and rutabagas at home warm, I never turned off the air conditioner even when I went out.
In just two days of absence, there were a lot more eggs in the breeding box. Although they were small, there were many of them. I left four eggs to hatch and used the rest to fill the granary.
Qin Wei used the pork to make a delicious dish: pork stewed with vermicelli. The sauerkraut was given by Zhang Tianyu and pickled in a large vat at home. It was healthy and hygienic.
After blanching the wild boar spine with cooking wine, scallions, ginger and garlic, take them out and put them into the stew pot together with white radish to make soup.
The pork that has been running around in the wild has a delicious smell. Ye Xun was afraid that the smell would drift to the neighbors upstairs, so he quickly turned on three air purifiers to get rid of the smell.
Part of the remaining pork is used to make grilled skewers, and part is used to make sauerkraut pork dumplings. The leftover pork is refrigerated in the freezer.
The vegetables in the foam box had grown a lot taller. Ye Xun harvested a batch of them and put them in a black bag, intending to send it to Zhang Feiyu later as a return gift for the sauerkraut.
"Ah Xun, come and eat quickly. It won't taste good if it gets cold." Qin Wei finished cooking and came to call Ye Xun.
"Here it comes!" You can give the return gift at any time, the most important thing now is to eat.
As soon as I stepped into the cultivation room next door, I was overwhelmed by the aroma of pork vermicelli, and my mouth began to secrete saliva crazily.
Ye Xun sat down at his seat, picked up the bowl and took a big chopstick of pickled cabbage, then put it into his mouth. The sour taste of the pickled cabbage was so appetizing and delicious!
Even Qin Wei ate a lot. Normally he would control his food intake in order to maintain his figure, but today he ate a full bowl.
Even Bal, who was waiting at the bottom of the table, was given a bowl of soup, which was rinsed with clean water and had a light taste, which would not have much impact on health.
At the end of the meal, only soup will be left. Don’t throw away the leftover soup, use it to cook noodles tomorrow, it will also be very delicious.
Quite a life.
Wang Yu was the first to take a shower. It would take some time for Ye Xun to get his turn. The vegetables to Zhang Tianyu had not been delivered yet, so Ye Xun picked up the black bag, habitually brought a self-defense weapon, and swiped the elevator card to go downstairs.
I didn't call him because every time he was around, Zhang Tianyu felt uncomfortable and I didn't want to make things difficult for him.
When the elevator arrived, Xu Feng and his family were having dinner. When Xu Feng was pursuing his wife, he had tried to learn how to cook, and the food he cooked tasted pretty good, at least much better than Zhang Tianyu's.
After opening the door, he saw that it was Ye Xun who came. Xu Feng hurriedly called Zhang Tianyu to get another set of bowls and chopsticks, but was rejected by Ye Xun.
"I'm here to bring you some vegetables. I'll be leaving soon." He put the black bag on the table and opened it. "We can't finish the vegetables we grow at home. Tianyu happened to send us some pickled cabbage. These vegetables are a return gift."
After he finished speaking, he was about to leave despite Xu Feng's attempts to keep him. Halfway through his walk, he suddenly remembered something and turned back, telling the two of them earnestly, "A friend of mine at the base office said that the temperature may drop significantly tonight, so you should light the kang more vigorously to avoid catching a cold."
After saying this, without looking at their reactions, he took the elevator back to the 15th floor. He believed that the two of them would listen to what he said.
As expected, upon hearing about the sudden drop in temperature, Zhang Tianyu and Xu Feng's expressions turned serious, and they slowed down their pace in picking up food.
Xu Feng and Ye Xun have known each other for a while, and he has never made a mistake in what he said. So the temperature must be dropping tonight, and it's likely to drop quite a bit.
The doors and windows of the house were not completely airtight, and inevitably there were tiny gaps. Xu Feng took out a few unwanted blankets from the closet, then removed the curtains and fixed them together with the sewing machine left by his wife. While he was standing on the steps, he said to Zhang Tianyu, "Go light the kang now, and get two more quilts."
Zhang Tianyu quickly did as he was told.
He hurriedly sewed up the curtains and hung them back up, and even covered the doors with cloth.
The generator's oil was almost used up, so before entering the bedroom, I filled the tank. I also moved all the foam boxes for growing vegetables into the bedroom and checked to see if anything was left out before entering the room.
The three of them stayed in the bedroom, waiting for the temperature to drop.
After Ye Xun returned home, he asked Qin Wei to light the kang quickly, and he took a hot bath in no time.
While it was still warm inside, he urged Qin Wei to go quickly.
It takes some time for the temperature of the kang to penetrate the stone bricks and reach the bedding, so Ye Xun had to light the stove first. In fact, he couldn't remember when the last cold wave would come, but it was in the next two days.
This cold wave will bring the temperature of the entire province Z down to nearly minus 80 degrees Celsius, which has reached the limit of the human body. If it drops further, humans may only be able to build an underground world to escape disasters on the ground.
I don’t know how many people will freeze to death due to this drop in temperature.
Just when Ye Xun was daydreaming, Qin Wei, who had just finished taking a shower, walked into the room. The water vapor on his body formed ice crystals on the short way in, hanging on his eyelashes and hair.
"The temperature has dropped a lot. It must be at least five degrees lower than when I first entered the bathroom. Warm me up quickly. I almost froze your man to death."
Qin Wei opened the quilt and lay down in it smoothly before the cold wind blew in.
Ye Xun didn't listen carefully to what he said later, he only heard the first part, which was a drop in temperature.
It finally started.
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