Chapter 53 Livelihood
As the crowd dispersed, Lin Xi remotely opened the fire door and entered her own courtyard from the garage.
What outsiders want to know is that the "prison" is actually no different from their own home.
The house is a two-story, three-level self-built house. It is simple in appearance and in reality, except that the walls are made of a fireproof, moisture-proof and extremely hard material, and the windows are all bulletproof glass.
If the courtyard is lost in the future, Lin Xi will give up farming and hide at home.
The roof is covered with photovoltaic charging panels to ensure indoor power supply.
The house is surrounded by fields in front and behind, and some parts are even divided into layers with scaffolding to increase the planting area. As for the height of each layer, it has been scientifically calculated.
The courtyard was surrounded by glass walls about 4 meters high. The one-way privacy film blocked the view but did not prevent Lin Xi from seeing what was happening outside.
In the future, when a zombie outbreak occurs, it will be convenient to observe the movements of both outsiders and zombies.
One-way privacy film reduces the amount of sunlight received in the yard to some extent, but has little impact on crops.
Stepping into the house, it wouldn't be accurate to say it was bare-walled; the entire main hall was filled with empty shelves, making it appear even more spacious.
Turning right into the room reveals a typical girls' room with warm yellow walls, a comfortable large bed, a simple wooden table, a wardrobe against the wall, and an ensuite bathroom on the other side.
Aside from having some shelves added to the walls for storage, this room is no different from a regular bedroom.
On the other side of the first floor is a huge kitchen. The stove and cupboards take up little space, and next to them is a large cold storage and an energy-saving refrigerator, as well as several layers of storage cabinets.
In addition to the shelves, there is also an activity room on the second floor. The activity room has solid wood flooring, an easy-to-clean beanbag rug, and a tatami sofa.
Bookshelves, a projector, a treadmill, a stationary bike, and some small fitness equipment.
This is the activity room on the second floor.
Apart from the shelving, the basement also features miniature bathrooms, kitchens, and bedrooms.
This floor is for preventing the courtyard and house from being breached, allowing escape through secret passages to the basement.
Lin Xi didn't know how the courtyard and home could be breached, but based on her experience of dying tragically in her previous lives, she discovered that people always die in unexpected and bizarre ways when they feel safe.
Therefore, we should set up more lines of defense and more escape routes.
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After inspecting the room, Lin Xi turned on the air conditioner in the bedroom, took a shower, changed into clean loungewear, and rested.
She opened her phone and saw that Yu Shiyun had sent her a message, offering her condolences after hearing that her home had been surrounded by onlookers.
Do I really look like a psychopath?
Lin Xi replied with a sentence.
During the time she was working on the project, she and Yu Shiyun became much closer, and they could even joke around occasionally.
Yu Shiyun was probably very busy and didn't reply immediately.
Lin Xi opened her WeChat Moments and found that Yu Shiyun had posted something half an hour earlier:
My first piece of work made the news! To protect my client's privacy, I can't reveal the details. Hehe.
Two people liked this post.
Gu Yixuan and Lu Wei.
Seeing Lu Weileng's grayed-out profile picture, Lin Xi felt slightly uneasy.
Lu Wei probably doesn't know this—
Yu Shiyun's first work was Lin Xi's house, which Lu Wei has never visited.
Did he like the news about Yunxiang out of curiosity, or was it because Yu Shiyun had also designed a nice safe house for him?
Both Yu Shiyun and Lu Wei were in the distant Nanhua.
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, they will likely remain just online friends and never meet again.
Lin Xi quietly left her WeChat Moments.
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Since the reporter visited Lin Xi's home, she has kept a low profile for a while and has stopped showing her face on her video account that makes boxed lunches.
Firstly, she was afraid of being recognized, and secondly, since the construction of her house was already completed, she no longer made boxed lunches to send to the workers, so there was no video footage.
This account only earned around 40,000.
However, because the online store account was created early and the products were well-selected, the business gradually grew, and the monthly income could sometimes exceed 10,000 yuan.
With the remaining 100,000 from the mortgage payment and the 80,000 saved from a year of work, the total savings of 220,000 are enough to stockpile supplies for the apocalypse.
Lin Xi resigned from her job at the tutoring institution and prepared to focus on practicing farming at home.
Water and electricity are supplied by nature, and food can be produced in advance if possible. Living in the countryside, Linxi doesn't have any high-cost activities.
Even if the online store stops making a profit, she will still have enough money to support herself and stockpile supplies for the apocalypse.
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Lin Xi regretted resigning somewhat, because it was July, and the high temperatures were gradually approaching, meaning there weren't many crops that could be planted.
Water spinach and cucumbers are the first choice, but Lin Xi had grown these two vegetables at home in her previous life, but her technique was not good and the vegetables did not grow well.
But having already quit her job, Lin Xi had no choice but to stay home and farm.
The continuous high temperatures in July and August make it impossible to plant new crops, but cucumbers and water spinach can be used to practice planting techniques and find ways to increase yields.
Although the methods of planting crops vary, there are commonalities in agriculture.
Lin Xi sowed the cucumber seeds and then hung the vines on a trellis. She also sowed water spinach and radish seeds in the soil.
Yunxiang will enter the plum rain season, which lasts for nearly a month, in mid-to-late June.
The drought following the rainy season can last for a long time, so watering is a major undertaking.
In her previous life, Lin Xi only had a small plot of crops on her balcony, which didn't require much effort to water with a watering can.
But now she has a large area to water, so manually watering her is not easy.
Fortunately, Lin Xi had mentioned the need for farming to Yu Shiyun when renovating the house, so four water spray devices were installed in the soil.
Since Lin Xi had no experience, he had to set the four water sprayers to different levels and test the yield of each field to find the most suitable amount of water.
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