"Sigh, it seems we'd better stay in City C for now!"
Xu Lai sighed with some disappointment.
The prelude to the extreme heat has begun. Xu Lai originally wanted to take advantage of the current social order, while things were still relatively calm, to find a way to move his family to a cooler, preferably deserted place.
Anyway, her space has a water source, land for growing crops and vegetables, and she can even raise poultry and livestock on a small scale.
It's best to find a cool, secluded forest; it's not only more comfortable but also safer there.
But the environment in other places is even worse than in City C. What if the cool forests in the mountains catch fire or die in the extreme heat in a short period of time? Wouldn't it be even more dangerous for them, who are all alone at that time?
Since they had no choice but to stay in City C, Xu Lai decided to lead everyone in a small renovation of their home in order to cope with the upcoming high temperatures.
She remembered that in her previous life, less than a month after the torrential rain disaster ended, the temperature rose to over fifty degrees Celsius.
There are only a few days left before the temperature drops to over 50 degrees Celsius.
"Our task today is to install the insulation on this house!"
After sparring with his younger brother Xu Chao for over an hour, Xu Lai took off his gloves, wiped the sweat from his face with a towel, and gave instructions.
In recent days, the government has only provided electricity for three hours, from noon to 4 pm.
During this time, they turned on the large air conditioner in the living room, using government-supplied electricity.
After the government cut off the power for a limited time, they continued to use the electricity generated by the solar panels in their home to power the air conditioners in their air-conditioned rooms.
Xu Lai took out the thermal insulation cotton she had stored in her space.
We plan to work together to completely cover the four walls and the roof of their air-conditioned room with thermal insulation cotton.
This way, when extreme high temperatures arrive, it can also serve to insulate against external high temperatures.
Otherwise, even if you turn on the air conditioner, the high outdoor temperature will still affect the temperature in the air-conditioned room.
The family of five worked together very well. The three men were responsible for taking the measurements, Xu Lai and Song Qiu'e were responsible for cutting the insulation cotton with scissors, and then Xu Jiangming, Xu Haiguo and Xu Chao used tape to fix the cut insulation cotton in place.
"Lai Lai is so clever! She put this up in the air-conditioned room, and the temperature is noticeably lower now!"
Mr. Xu is getting on in years and is somewhat sensitive to the cold; he can feel it as soon as the room temperature drops.
Seeing this, Song Qiu'e quickly turned up the air conditioner temperature a few degrees, because at this time, the worst thing was for her family members to get sick.
"This will save a lot of electricity!"
As Song Qiu'e adjusted the temperature on the air conditioner remote from 26 degrees to 28 degrees, she said with a smile.
After finishing the task of applying the insulation, Grandpa Xu drank a glass of warm water before saying to his family, "Since the temperature is going to rise rapidly again in a few days, I need to remind the old squad leader and Brother Lu to find a way to get a solar panel system, otherwise this hot weather will be unbearable!"
Not to mention that Old Master Xiao once saved Old Master Xu's life, the Lu family and the two families have always had a good relationship.
The rest of the Xu family nodded in agreement.
Both families have elderly members, and the Lu family has a child who is just over a year old. If they don't have solar power to run the air conditioner, things could easily go wrong in this extremely hot weather.
Today happens to be Sunday, a day off, and Xiao Rui and Lu Ping, who work at the hospital and government departments respectively, are both at home.
Grandpa Xu was a smart man. He simply said to the two families in a tactful way, "I heard that the weather will heat up rapidly in a few days. The government can only provide electricity for four hours a day during the hottest time. Everyone should try to find a way to get a solar power generation system."
Otherwise, how would this family, with elderly people and children, manage?
"Our hospital leaders have also mentioned that they received inside information from experts at the Central Meteorological Bureau, and that the weather is indeed very likely to warm up significantly in the near future!"
After listening to what Grandpa Xu said, Xiao Rui also shared the information he had obtained from inside the hospital.
The Lu family, living in apartment 904 of unit 2, shared the same sentiment as Lu Ping, a programmer who worked for the government.
Upon learning that the Xu family already possessed a solar power generation system, Xiao Rui and his son from the Xiao family, along with Lu Ping and his son from the Lu family, borrowed Xu Lai's electric tricycle that afternoon and went to the Qin family's trading market.
Fortunately, they stumbled upon a few people selling used solar power equipment at the trading market.
When Xiao Rui and Lu Ping asked about the price, the person selling the solar power equipment insisted that it could not be lower than 1,000 work points.
"Sigh, someone in my family is sick, and I urgently need work points to take my family to the hospital for treatment and to buy medicine. Otherwise, I wouldn't be selling this stuff in this hot weather!"
Xiao Rui didn't have that many work points, so he used a ten-gram gold bar as payment.
Now that the government is resuming work and production, many pieces of equipment require the use of gold, and the value of gold has been steadily rising.
At Lu Ping's house, Grandpa Lu went to the government supermarket last time to sell fish in exchange for work points. After buying some other things, he still had 117.5 work points left.
Adding Lu Ping's salary of 300 work points for the past half month, he has a total of 417 work points.
Before setting off, they borrowed 500 work points from the Xu family, bringing their total to only 917 work points.
However, Zhu Yi, the manager of the trading market, knew Old Master Xiao. Upon seeing this, he took the initiative to step forward and waived the transaction fee for the seller after selling the solar energy equipment.
In the end, both the Xiao family and the Xu family bought a second-hand solar power generation device for 917 work points each.
After thanking Zhu Yi again, the Xiao and Lu families loaded the two sets of equipment onto an electric tricycle and drove back home.
While the young people in the Xiao and Lu families were resting at home, they installed the solar power generation equipment that very day.
Fortunately, air conditioners are an appliance that every household had before the torrential rains and floods.
The next morning, a few hours after the sun came out, both the Xiao and Lu families were enjoying the comfort of air conditioning.
Sure enough, a week after the air conditioners from both companies were installed, the air temperature rose again.
"Damn it, why is the weather getting hotter and hotter? Is it trying to kill us all?!"
The sun hangs high in the sky, releasing endless heat, as if it wants to ignite the whole world.
As soon as Xu Lai opened the window, a wave of scorching heat rushed towards her.
The air seemed to freeze, so stuffy that it was hard to breathe; every breath felt like inhaling scalding flames, burning the throat and lungs.
Listening to the complaints from her upstairs and downstairs neighbors, Xu Lai reached into her spatial storage and took out a thermometer, placing it on the windowsill.
Ten minutes later, Xu Lai went over to check and found that the temperature had reached 50 degrees Celsius.
In just a few days, the temperature has risen by ten degrees, and it's only 10 a.m.
If it's 2 PM, the hottest time of the day, the temperature will probably be even higher.
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