Natural Disaster Apocalypse

Chapter 174:

Hoarding food is not something you can think about now. There is a shortage of food everywhere. Unless you have money to buy high prices, as long as it is imported, it is not cheap.

So even though Jian Chu and Song Jia were scratching their heads to hoard food, they could only succumb to reality.

However, this incident also reminded Mu Nan, thinking that she would try not to go out during this period of time for safety, and there was nothing important to be busy at home, so Mu Nan simply took an inventory of the entire space.

Fortunately, when he put things into the space before, it was planned and not random. Now there is no need to rearrange the things that were put into the space before the end of the world. He just needs to count the quantity in his mind. Do a new statistic.

But this is also a big project. In addition to those boxes of goods, there are also many kinds of packaged finished dishes, as well as the cooked food that his brother kept cooking at home every day for several months. Up to now, he has only eaten For a small portion, the remaining quantity must be counted for each portion.

The things stored after the end of the world are a bit messy, and they need to be taken out and classified again. He can directly see the things in the space through his consciousness, even through a cardboard box. Move, so can only take out.

Because after the end of the world, there were a lot of things that were directly collected, especially the rice and noodles that he bought were of average quality. He and Qin Huai had better rice to eat, so they didn't eat it and bought it later. The cleaned ones are vacuum-packed separately, and only two catties are packed, and it is more convenient to take them out and exchange them later.

After going out and entering, he still went through all the things in his head. The things he stocked up before were not the hundreds of thousands of goods he had made a fuss about before, but the tens of millions of goods Qin Huai had prepared. It is so huge that the reorganized items and quantity are almost five pages long.

After counting and sorting out all the things, Mu Nan's brain was throbbing, obviously exhausted.

When Qin Huai returned to the room, he saw Mu Nan with a fever-reducing sticker on his forehead, lying dead on the sofa, with a reorganized catalog on the coffee table beside him, after a quick glance, Qin Huai put the catalog aside , and then sat down on the sofa, let Mu Nan rest on his lap, and rubbed his head.

"It's not an urgent matter, just take it slowly, and make yourself feel comfortable if you have a headache."

Mu Nan snorted, turned his face towards Qin Huai's lower abdomen but didn't speak, the tip of his nose lingered with Qin Huai's unique breath, and inexplicable drowsiness came, this time it didn't hurt too much, it was far from falling When I went to receive the goods for the first time, the stimulation was so great that my head was swollen and uncomfortable, and I was fine just lying down for a while.

Under Qin Huai's gentle massage, Mu Nan quickly fell asleep. Qin Huai lifted his head gently, pulled out a pillow from the side and put it on him, making sure that he was still sleeping soundly after the movement. Qin Huai then squatted aside, tore off the fever-reducing sticker on his forehead, and put a new one on it.

Mu Nan was lying on the sofa sleeping, Qin Huai was sitting on the floor, entered the list that he had just sorted out into the computer, and then directly pulled up a watch to reclassify all the items into categories, food into one category, supplies into one category, like this If you want to check something, you can find it directly from the main category, and you don't need to look through the entire directory.

After finishing the table statistics, Qin Huai printed out the things, cleaned up the records in the computer, checked the time, and then got up to cook.

Thinking that if the cooking is too bland, Mu Nan probably won't have much appetite. It happens that there is a duck in the refrigerator. This kind of tender duck is not suitable for making soup, and the soup of old duck is better. Qin Huai simply made a pot of duck casserole and used it all The beer is dry-boiled, and a few Chaotian peppers are added to taste.

While the pot was burning, Qin Huai heard Mu Nan's cell phone ringing a few times, and went back to the house to take a look. Mu Nan was still sleeping, and the brightness of the cell phone screen on the tea table had just dimmed. He was afraid that someone would follow him again. The message woke people up, Qin Huai directly unlocked the phone, their phones were all recorded with each other's fingerprints, and they were not afraid of each other's reading.

The news is that Jian Chu sent over, saying that there are a few more stalls in the small market today, selling some heating supplies, all of which were found in the urban area, some scattered things, can If you repair it, you will repair it, and after you have accumulated some usable ones, you will come to set up a stall.

Because I don’t know if there will be winter this year, and if it will be cold again in a few months, these heating products are quite popular. They only saw the news in the group yesterday, and they know that there will be stalls there today, Just wanted to go and have a look together.

Qin Huai directly used Mu Nan's mobile phone to reply in his small group: "He's asleep, don't go."

So indifferent, simple and direct, you don’t need to think about who is replying to the message. Jianchu replied with an ok emoji, and went with Song Jia, the two girls next door, and the brothers and sisters of Cai’s family, regardless of whether they bought it or not. Yes, it is also good to have a look to understand some market prices.

After replying to the message, Qin Huai put Mu Nan's mobile phone on the small dining table in the living room, and took out a box of frozen chicken wings from the refrigerator, let it defrost first, and waited for Mu Nan to wake up to see if he wanted to eat roasted chicken wings , or fried chicken wings, it won’t take long to put them directly into the pan.

Mu Nan was awakened by the smell of casserole duck, and stretched out comfortably. She almost twisted into a worm on the sofa. Before she even opened her eyes, she started calling for brother. Qin Huai poked her head at the door: "Are you awake? Want to eat?" Roasted chicken wings or fried chicken wings? There is a duck casserole."

Mu Nan twisted his head up to 90 degrees and placed it on the armrest of the sofa to look at him, his voice was still hoarse after waking up: "Fried chicken wings."

Qin Huai: "Wake up and wash your face, the chicken wings are fried and you can eat."

Mu Nan subconsciously went to look for the phone, Qin Huai walked out and said, "The phone is in the living room, just now Jian Chu was looking for you, I helped you get back to him."

Mu Nan walked out without wearing slippers: "Why are you looking for me?"

"I invite you to visit the market, where are the slippers?"

Mu Nan took the phone and ran back to the room barefoot, looked at the chat history, there was nothing serious, so he left it alone, went to wash his face, and felt refreshed.

There was a crackling sound from the frying pan, accompanied by the tempting aroma of high heat, Mu Nan opened the refrigerator door and poured two glasses of fruit juice, and sat on the small dining table in the living room waiting for dinner.

Before the meal came, I received a video of Song Jiafa in Daqun. In the video, there was a small square, but a group of people were pushing and shoving at the water station, as if they were having a conflict.

Mu Nan quickly sent a question mark to the group, asking what was going on.

Jian Chu didn't type, and replied directly: "You woke up, why didn't you sleep during the day?"

Mu Nan knew that Jian Chu was teasing him, but he couldn't say that there was no such thing as daylight at all, it was just tiring from tidying up the goods.

Fortunately, Jian Chu was just a joke, and soon sent several voice messages, briefly talking about the situation in the small square.

To put it simply, the problem of water use is getting more and more difficult. Although the water station has begun to limit the number of water fetches, the water output is getting less and less. If the water output is small, it will take more time to fetch a bucket of water, and there will be more people. The queues are long, so those in other districts that are relatively close to here will ride their bicycles to fetch water in order to save a little time in queuing.

Originally, the water station was set up by the government, and the construction around each district is just for the convenience of water, not the property of a certain district, so it is the same wherever the water is fetched, and there is no difference.

But the population living in the second district is not too large, and there are several residents who jointly built wells in their yards before, so there are not many people queuing to fetch water here, and now there are other districts coming over. This caused more and more people to line up here.

The weather is already hot, and seeing that some residents who do not live on their side occupy their water resources, this conflict inevitably arises.

A few days ago, the arson incident had just passed, and the severe punishment came to trial. The whole residential area was quiet, and I didn't dare to make too much noise if I was angry, for fear of being set as a model.

But as more and more people crowded in, plus the small spot where the water was drizzling, the elders in the front line and the people behind hurriedly urged, and some even said some acid words about the community's xenophobia. When it comes to the hot tempered ones, they will catch up at one point, and they will directly carry the bucket and swing it at the person, and then they will fight.

This is not the first time this kind of thing has happened, and other districts often get into group fights over small things, so Mu Nan just watched the excitement and asked in the group: "I'm not afraid of hitting you, you bought it Is there anything?"

Jian Chu: "I didn't buy anything. I don't think I can use the electric heating stove. If the electricity is uninterrupted, the whole house doesn't need additional heating. There seems to be no need for the stove, if there is no electricity, the stove will be used in winter, so there is no need for such a small stove.”

Song Jia interjected: "Things are very expensive. The little sun costs more than 20 yuan. It's not as good as the ones we found in the business district before. There is also a kind of one that is held in the hand, like ceramics. Palm-sized one costs more than 20 yuan, it’s better to find a glass bottle, wrap it in a towel and pour boiling water to warm your hands.”

While gnawing on the fried chicken wings, Mu Nan listened to their complaints about the high prices outside, then put away the cleaned bones, brought Niuniu over to play later, and gave the bones to Niuniu to eat.

Jian Chu asked Mu Nan: "I saw down jackets for sale, and they looked quite new. Do you want to buy them? If you want them, you should go there as soon as possible. I feel that there are quite a few people buying them."

Mu Nan replied in the group: "No, my winter clothes can still be worn, and I won't grow any longer anyway, as long as they are not torn or fat, they can be worn until the end of time."

There are a lot of clothes in his space, cheap and expensive. This kind of winter clothes are very durable, and it will be no problem to wear one piece for ten years. Anyway, there are enough clothes in the space for him and his brother to wear for a lifetime. Don't waste your money buying it.

Several people chatted for a while in the group, and Jian Chu also took a few photos of stalls selling winter items and sent them to the group. Mu Nan zoomed in on the pictures and saw that he basically had them all in his space, so I lost interest, put down my phone and began to eat duck legs seriously: "I think this winter may not come."

Qin Huai dug out the duck heart and gizzards from the bottom of the bowl for him, and put them on top of the duck meat so that he could pick them up easily: "It's always like this whether you come or not."

Mu Nan swiped open his phone, looked at the temperature officially announced today, and sighed: "It's almost half a year without a single drop of rain."

There has been no rainfall for half a year, and they are exposed to the sun every day. There is a well in their own yard, so the feeling is not too great, but those who can only rely on water stations to eat and drink can obviously feel that water is becoming more and more a problem.

Some people were startled and uneasy at this time, and prepared to grit their teeth and dig wells in their own yards. However, some people in the community group said that the well water in their yards seemed to be running low recently, and it took a long time to dig wells in their yards. A bucket of water, so spending money to dig a well at the moment is not very useful, after all, they are all at the same depth.

Someone popularized science in the group, telling everyone not to listen to the fact that the wind is the rain, saying that there are a lot of water sources under the surface, which have fed the entire earth for billions of years.

But no matter how popular science is by others, it is a fact that water is getting less and less.

Qin Huai’s yard is okay. They added some extra money and gave the chicken back. Please ask those workers to make the well deeper. So the surface line of their well is different from the depth of the water station, but it’s not too deep. , but just a little deeper, the current situation is much stronger than outside.

This time, before the masses panicked, the government issued a news, saying that deep wells had been drilled, and the water source was really exploited as if it were oil. Now only the state machine is capable of mining to that depth, so no matter what, it is impossible. It is worse than when there were droughts and famines in the past.

Mu Nan looked at the news and asked curiously: "Then why doesn't the north drill like this? I heard that there was another group of people who came from the north a few days ago. I saw someone secretly took a photo. They are so tall but thin , It’s almost like an adult, and there is another news that a person finally got here, because he was thirsty for too long, he suddenly saw the water and drank out of control, and the raw water made himself dead .”

"Because the geographical environment is different, some places are short of water. It doesn't just need to be pumped deep to get water out. Moreover, if the water is pumped too deep, the surface will collapse. There is a reason for this. standard."

Even on their side, the drilling site selection has been done for a long time. The shallow surface wells are fine as long as they are not excessive. The deep groundwater is not so simple. You just drill down and pump it up. There are many professional wells in the middle. Technical aspects need to be considered, and even the purity of water must be monitored, so exploiting water sources is not as simple as it seems.

Mu Nan put down his phone, and focused on the puzzle of returning to the rivers and lakes again: "I hope the well water in our yard will not dry up, it cost so much money to run."

Qin Huai sorted out the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle for him next to him, and then saw that he was holding a picture in a very conspicuous place, but he couldn't see it for a long time, Qin Huai didn't remind him, but just patted his head : "Let's just play for a while, lest you get blinded."

Mu Nan looked at the one in his hand that he had been looking for for at least ten minutes and said, "Is there anything extra to confuse the public?"

Qin Huai reached out and clicked on an empty seat, and Mu Nan immediately said, "Hey, I just said that this one is very similar, and I almost found it, tsk, don't influence me here, it's because of you that I can't concentrate !"

Qin Huai swiped his hands in the air for him: "Did you see this?"

Mu Nan raised his head and looked at him with question marks in his eyes: "What is it?"

Qin Huai: "This pot is big and round."

Mu Nan, who was successfully amused by the laughter, threw himself on the puzzle piece on the coffee table, seeing Qin Huai walking outside the room, Mu Nan hurriedly shouted: "I want pudding!"

He has it in his space, but he is too lazy to take it, he just wants to wait for Qin Huai to give it to him.

Qin Huai brought him one from the refrigerator. The pudding was made by himself, so it was not sealed. He put a spoon in it and delivered it to someone.

When I went to the roof to prepare vegetables, I saw Yu Zibai and the others gathered around the well from the balcony on the third floor, and I didn't know what they were looking at, so I yelled downstairs.

The people downstairs looked up, and Jian Chu said: "It's nothing, I'm just watching the water flow, the water flow has become a little smaller in the past two days."

Qin Huai took advantage of the street lights shining in from outside to see the water flowing out of the plastic pipe, which could be described as a trickle. It looked normal when he fetched water yesterday.

Jian Chu squatted next to the bucket and looked at the little bit of water flowing down, and sighed: "I hope it won't dry up."

Yu Zibai: "Probably not for the time being."

Hearing Qin Huai's shout, Mu Nan from the room also came out: "What's wrong? The well is out of water?"

Qin Huai: "Also, the water flow is a bit weaker."

Mu Nan clicked his tongue: "Now I don't know where I can order custom-made containers. In this way, we can save a few buckets of water in advance, but water has a shelf life. Forget it, it won't last long after storage."

It's not like his space, it doesn't matter how long you put it.

Qin Huai patted the back of Mu Nan's head: "Water has a shelf life?"

Mu Nan looked at Qin Huai in astonishment: "Water doesn't have a shelf life?" How could it be possible that the mineral water bottle still has the date printed on it when he hasn't drunk water before!

Qin Huai: "Then tell me, if water has a shelf life, why is the fresh water still drinkable after the earth has been around for billions of years?"

"Eh... because they haven't seen the light?"

Qin Huai never expected Mu Nan's IQ, but at this moment he still wanted to pry open his brain to see what was inside.

Jian Chu downstairs also looked at Yu Zibai in a daze, and asked uncertainly, "Water doesn't have a shelf life?"

Yu Zibai explained patiently: "Water has no expiration date. As long as the water is in a flowing state, it will never expire. Therefore, there is a saying of running water. If it is put into a bottle, the expiration date marked on it does not refer to water, but to water. It is the use date of the material of the water bottle, after a certain number of years, the container filled with water will decompose and produce harmful substances, so it will expire."

After Yu Zibo finished speaking, he continued: "But if we directly pack the water, the water cannot be kept for a long time, because the water loses its fluidity and becomes stagnant water if it is not strictly sterilized. In the case of disinfection, the microorganisms inside will continue to grow, and it will not be drinkable after a long time."

Mu Nan and Jian Chu who were upstairs and downstairs looked stunned: "So I'm so stupid."

Because the water flow of the well in the yard has become smaller, everyone in the yard has been worried for a few days. The water trouble outside has not stopped these days. If the well in the yard can't get water, then it was really a waste It cost so much money to drill such a well.

But after several days of observation, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. There is still water, and the flow rate has not changed again. It is a matter of time. The water output from their wells is very large. If it is night, it is estimated that there are too many people fetching water, so the water output will be less.

Mu Nan was also surprised: "Isn't our well deeper? How come it seems that the water we pump is connected together. There are more people pumping over there, and less water coming out from our side."

Qin Huai: "It's just a little more than ten meters. It's not that you can separate the upper and lower water sources with that one meter. Water is inherently fluid. It can only be said that when the water station outside is completely out When there is no water, there is still a little possibility of water coming out of our distance of ten meters deep.”

Fortunately, for the convenience of fetching water, a roof was specially built on the road connecting the entrance to the well, so they can come out to fetch water during the day, that is, it only takes five minutes to heat up. As long as they are not exposed to the sun, it’s okay to heat up , as if entering the boiler room.

Probably in order to alleviate the turmoil caused by the fish in the entire residential area and the tension of the water source, just in time for the second batch of potatoes harvested on the farm, the upper management simply issued a subsidy and welfare, Kang Yun Local residents, with their ID cards, go to the neighborhood committees of their respective communities to receive a 100-gram package of dried potatoes.

The first batch of potatoes was a trial planting, and the seed source may not be enough, so the planting area is not large, and the harvest is relatively small. The second batch directly shovels the rice that has been carefully planted but can only be harvested in the end. With drought-tolerant potatoes and corn, rice may not be considered for the time being. If the planting conditions are not good, if rice continues to be planted, some people will starve to death because they cannot afford rice.

Regarding farm planting, the official has always been a semi-transparent model, and will update the growth process and approximate output on the official website, no matter how large or small the harvest is, it is better to let the public know than to know nothing. Accidents come strong.

Those who have lived here for a period of time like the Cai family and have rented houses under their names are also considered local residents. Those northerners who have just arrived not long ago are not counted, so there is no way to get it. Well, the cost of the policy that was introduced a long time ago, and the whole family sits together for one crime, has now been revealed, and the family members of those criminals cannot receive this kind of benefits.

Looking at the official notice, Mu Nan sighed: "How big is a hundred grams, why not just send one potato to each person, a hundred grams of dried potatoes is more than one potato, right? After drying and dehydrating, I don’t know if a catty of potatoes can yield a hundred grams.”

Qin Huai was rummaging through the frayed black short-sleeves for going out: "A potato can be big or small. This is the benefit given by the superiors. If there is a dispute over the same size, it would be bad. Just dry the potatoes. One hundred grams per person, no more, no less, change your clothes, take out the dark eye shadow you bought or contouring, and wipe the exposed skin."

I don't go out every day, eat and drink well, and the food is white and reflective, which is not a good thing outside.

Mu Nan sighed again, for the 100 grams of potatoes to toss so much, and also consumed a small amount of contouring sticks, I don't know if it was a profit or a loss.