"Drill a deep well near City C!"
It seems that the government leadership must have received accurate information about this weather change.
"Does your supermarket in this trading market sell water?"
Xu Lai put aside the shock from the previous message and changed the subject to the purpose of her visit today.
"Ah, our Qin Group's supermarket in this market doesn't sell water, it still only sells food and the like!"
Zhu Yi was almost caught off guard by the girl's train of thought and didn't quite understand.
"However, we just got two water purification systems and some water purification tablets from our internal supermarket. Would you like them?"
Zhu Yi couldn't bear to disappoint the girl who had helped their Qin Group several times, so he volunteered to introduce her to all the water-related items in his supermarket.
For Xu Lai, although there is a well with a good water output in her space, she doesn't need to worry about water for the time being.
On the other hand, the water in this space well is needed to irrigate the crops in the space. What if the water in the well is not enough or suddenly dries up?
Another point is that the duration this space remains open seems to be related to the external environment.
For example, these past two days, the sun has been setting later, so they can spend more time in the space.
What if a polar night suddenly occurs in the future, and we suddenly can't enter space?
Xu Lai felt that they couldn't rely entirely on space and needed to make two preparations.
So he thanked Zhu Yi and said, "Manager Zhu, thank you so much! We'll take all of these!"
The three members of the Xiao family—Old Master Xiao, Xiao Rui, and Li Qingya—had their eyes light up upon hearing this.
With these devices and water purifiers, at least we can store some water while there is still water in the reservoirs and ponds outside.
When everyone followed Zhu Yi to a small department store on the second floor owned by the Qin Group, they saw that the two water purification devices even came with two large plastic water tanks.
"This plastic water tank is food-grade, so you can use it with confidence!"
Zhu Yi pointed to the two large blue water tanks placed to the side and explained.
"These two boxes contain water purification tablets!"
When the supermarket staff saw the manager personally introducing the water purification tablets to the customers, he cleverly opened the box of water purification tablets and took out a small bottle of them.
"This small bottle contains 100 grams, which is 100 pills. Add 20 pills to one ton of water and let it stand for two hours to complete the disinfection. This box contains 50 bottles!"
"Do you want both cases of water purifier tablets?"
After the introduction, the staff member, out of professional habit, casually asked a question.
These kinds of things are hard to come by, and at least during the period when the city's water supply system returns to normal, water purifiers are indispensable.
"We'll take them all!"
Without hesitation, Xu Lai waved his hand and took them all!
Xu Lai and his group wanted to buy some food, but after such a long period of torrential rain and natural disaster, there was no food available for sale even here.
Zhu Yi used his maximum authority as manager to sell the two sets of water purification equipment and two boxes of water purification tablets at half price, in exchange for two 50-gram gold bars.
These items were divided equally between the Xu and Xiao families, and when it came time to pay, Xiao Rui took out a gold bar rather proactively.
At this time, the only hard currency available for buying things, besides exchanging them for items that the seller deems valuable, is gold.
Xiao Rui was very fortunate that in the early stages of the torrential rain disaster, when he saw that things were not going well, he exchanged a lot of his family savings for gold and stored it at home.
As the saying goes, "Antiques are valued in prosperous times, gold in chaotic times."
When he handed the gold bar to the staff, he couldn't help but sigh that the ancients were right!
"Once we've bought this, we'll have to trouble Manager Zhu to arrange for it to be delivered to our door. We've been walking all the way here!"
After the transaction was completed, Xu Lai joked with Zhu Yi with a smile.
"Haha, Miss Xu's things, we must deliver them to your door!"
After saying goodbye to Manager Zhu, the group continued to stroll around the market, where they spent a lot of money to buy several large 50-pound plastic water buckets.
"Keep these things on hand. In case of a water shortage, these plastic buckets can be used to store water at home!" Xu Lai suggested.
With the military and government in charge, everything in City C changed.
Despite the hot weather, in order to get City C back to work and production as soon as possible, the military and government officials officially began recruiting workers from the public the day after the city's silt and garbage had been cleared.
After the disaster, everything needs to be rebuilt!
Infrastructure such as network communication, electricity, water conservancy, and gas, which are closely related to the lives of ordinary people, require a large amount of human and material resources.
The surviving people are also in dire need of a job to support themselves or their families.
If we continue to use currency, some people will acquire it through other illegitimate means, which makes it meaningless for most ordinary people to continue using it.
Therefore, the military and government management swiftly proposed a work point system.
That is, each person uses their own ID card to register a work point card at the municipal government service hall.
At the end of each workday, the department that provided the work would give the employee a special work point card.
The numbers on the work point cards vary in size.
Employees can use this work point card to buy food and other supplies at the government supermarket.
Xu Haiguo and Xu Jiangming, both from the Xu family, used to work as construction contractors, and they were both skilled in plumbing and electrical work.
In order to earn work points, the two couldn't stay at home and insisted on signing up to work.
However, Xu Jiangming was still stopped by the Xu family.
"Second Uncle, actually, with Lai Lai's space, we don't lack food at all. Hai Guo's participation in the collective work is just a pretext for outsiders. It's so hot, and you're too old to go!"
This whole family doesn't go out to earn work points, yet they all have rosy complexions from eating so much; this is bound to attract the attention of those with ill intentions.
"Yes, Second Uncle, I went to ask Grandpa Xiao's house next door, but Grandpa Xiao isn't going either!"
Xu Lai deliberately brought up Old Master Xiao.
Xiao Rui, a member of the Xiao family, is a surgeon. Even if the sky were to fall, this profession would still be highly sought after.
For example, workers in the power and water industries earn 10 work points a day, which can be used to buy two kilograms of rice or two kilograms of flour.
As a doctor, Xiao Rui could earn 20 work points a day, which was twice the amount earned by an ordinary person.
"Yes, Second Uncle, my sister's crops in her space will be harvested soon, and we'll need your help to oversee things!"
Xu Chao, who was making meatballs, also tried to dissuade him.
After being persuaded by his niece-in-law and grandchildren, Xu Jiangming finally agreed not to go to the government to earn work points.
However, the daytime high temperature of 40 degrees Celsius is something that Xiao Rui can manage to endure while working indoors.
But for people like Xu Haiguo who work outdoors, the Xu family is very worried.
So when Xu Haiguo got up early to prepare for work, Xu Lai took out an outdoor work uniform and a box of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water from her spatial storage and handed them to him.
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