When Wang Dabao saw the three households marked, he said in surprise, "None of those three households have electricity, how do you know it's them? They don't even have electricity meters."
"Look closely, what's the connection between these three companies and the dozen or so companies we just looked at?"
"Let me see... It doesn't seem to have anything to do with it. I can't see it. Just tell me directly, don't keep me in suspense. I'm not as smart as you."
"Haha, okay then, I'll tell you."
Seeing that Wang Dabao didn't quite understand, Wang Tianxiao thought for a moment and realized that this kind of knowledge about electricity was indeed too advanced for Wang Dabao to grasp; it wasn't something he could understand just by thinking about it.
"We called this time in groups of six, you know that, right, Brother Da Bao?"
"Hmm, I know that. It means six households share one switch, so it's like all the electricity comes in from one line. Back then, we were all together... Ah, I see. You mean these three households were in the same group as the dozen or so households before us?"
"That's right, that's correct. You're right. These three families, along with those whose meters are running low, make exactly eighteen families. And each of the three families corresponds to one of the five families."
"Now I understand... But even so, what does that prove? Why insist on it being these three companies? What does it mean that the other fifteen meters have lower readings?"
"That's right, Brother Da Bao, electricity is actually quite similar to water. Let me give you an example. If six of us are using the same water supply from the same channel, and we all open the same size tap, wouldn't the water volume for all of us be roughly the same?"
"Of course! As long as the ground is flat, the water will flow evenly to every house." Wang Dabao understood when he heard about the water flow.
"Yes, that's right. So what would happen if one of the six families suddenly turned up the water pressure, causing a large amount of water to flow into their home?"
"If that's the case, then this house should have a lot of water flow, and even if other houses have their taps open, not much water can come in. Relatively speaking, the water inflow to each house will be much less."
"Brother Da Bao is absolutely right. It's the same with water, and it's the same with electricity. The reason why the other five households have less electricity is because one household's electricity consumption is too high, affecting the electricity consumption of the others, so it appears to be much lower. Under normal circumstances, the electricity meters of these five households should not only not be low, but should be appropriately high..."
"Because one household should theoretically not be using electricity at all, right?" Wang Dabao said with a smile.
"That's right, that makes sense."
Wang Tianxiao also laughed, "Because the total electricity supplied to each household is fixed, in theory, the more households that are connected to the power grid, the more the electricity delivered to each household will be affected. Five households will definitely have more voltage than six households. But why are the fifteen households now experiencing less voltage each?"
Wang Tianxiao did not explain complex circuit knowledge to Wang Dabao.
These households were originally connected in parallel, so theoretically each household should have the same power input. However, in reality, there is a voltage compensation distribution phenomenon. The household that uses high-power appliances will consume more power, while the other households will not have enough voltage. This was a common occurrence in rural areas in the past.
Urban electricity has a higher total voltage and a very short transmission route, so this situation is relatively much better.
In earlier years, the electric lights in rural areas were very dim every evening, but they would be brighter after nine o'clock at night.
It will become much brighter.
The reason is that after nine o'clock, many people are asleep, fewer people are using electricity, so the voltage of the lights is much higher and they become brighter.
After Wang Tianxiao gave a simple example, Wang Dabao finally understood.
Upon seeing the names of the three families, he began to guess why they used electricity.
First and foremost is Cao Hong's family.
Like the people in Mijia Village, this family makes a living by making and selling tofu. They usually get up at two or three in the morning to make tofu and then take the freshly made tofu to sell at dawn.
Although their tofu was of decent quality, the family was notorious for thieves.
Because they lived close to Wang Tianxiao's house, they stole countless things from his family in their past lives; none of their ancestors had clean hands.
Cao Hong's mother, that old lady, even had her leg broken for stealing, but that didn't diminish their desire to steal.
Anyway, the villagers all disliked them, and people would come to their door from time to time asking them for things.
It was a constant stream of profanities.
But this family was shameless and seemed to never care about such things; no matter what others said, they continued to steal.
In this tense era, the fact that he wasn't sent to jail for decades is a testament to the kindness and compassion of his fellow villagers.
Besides Cao Hong's family, the second family was surnamed Xue.
The head of this family was particularly fond of playing mahjong, so many people from the team and even the village often came to their house to play cards all night long.
They take a cut of the table fee.
The reason they're stealing electricity is probably because they played mahjong all night and used up electricity.
However, since they only had lights, they didn't steal much electricity, so it wasn't a big deal.
The last family also has the surname Wang, and they share the same great-grandfather as Wang Tianxiao, which is roughly the same as the relationship between Wang Dabao and Wang Tianxiao.
She was closer to Wang Dabao.
Wang Tianxiao didn't understand why this family was stealing electricity at first, but later he seemed to remember that they were a clothing manufacturer, and he wondered if it was related to that.
The woman in that family was a renowned tailor. People from the neighborhood would buy fabric and take it to her to have it cut and made into decent clothes.
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