Hoarding Goods In Space: Struggling To Survive In A Crisis World.
Chapter 821 Ice Making
"Is it finished?"
Qi Yuan looked embarrassed, "His explosives are useless, Jiang Rong is too strong, he took over the entire bandit nest alone, but the captured refugees, some uncles and uncles were beaten to pieces. Worse still, chained in a barn, some pregnant women, there is no difference between bandit's lair and hell.”
Ye Fu frowned, "What are their plans?"
"They are very afraid of people. Some of them went crazy. They're so pathetic. Some older sisters want to live in a bandit's nest. After all, there were places that could take shelter from the wind and rain, and those bandits had robbed many things. There's rations. There were also some people who wanted to go to the headquarters, after all, the headquarters was safer. Jiang Rong and I returned after dealing with the bandits, and let them decide for themselves whether to stay or not.”
"If I were them, I would go to the base. The bandit's nest is just a straw hut. I think they will collapse when the wind blows. As long as there were officers stationed at the headquarters, there would be no problems. Even if the work is heavy, at least personal security can be guaranteed."
Ye Fu also agreed with Qi Yuan's statement, but how those people chose was up to them.
The days inside the cave have calmed down again, and the thick fog in the mountains is getting heavier, if you don't wear protective clothing and masks, you can't get out at all.
A few days later, Jiang Rong said that a group of coal-digging teams had come from over ten kilometers away. He went to investigate. The men came from the northern Xinjiang base. They found there were several coal mines in the mountains. Station here for mining.
The miners were very hard workers, they implemented a two-shift system, the working hours of the workers were 14 hours, from 06.00 to 20.00, and from 20.00 to 10.00 am the next day.
Most of the workers are middle-aged and elderly people over the age of 40 or 50. Young people are left to work at the base, but their working hours are all the same. No matter men, women, or children, they have to work 14 hours.
"If I hadn't met you, even if I had survived by chance, I might have had to dig coal or do other work. Naturally, there was a reason for the base to do this. After all, now that there was a shortage of supplies, many people wanted to survive. It's more work, but hard work, I went peek for a while yesterday, anyone who is lazy or goes to the toilet for more than three minutes will be beaten, it's really miserable.”
Ye Fu shook his head, "You have skills. Once you enter the base, they will probably ask everyone what they know. Of course, those who knew medicine did not need to dig a coal mine. Those who know how to grow vegetables will be assigned to grow vegetables, and those who can build a house will go Build a house, so even if you go to the base, you don't have to be miserable.
This made Qi Yuan feel ashamed.
"But the luckiest thing for me is to meet you. Little guy like me, even if he has a little bit of technology, he can't advance at headquarters."
Qi Yuan was very satisfied with his current life. He is polite sometimes. For the rest, he can take care of the vegetable fields, read books, watch TV, and play basketball with Yiyi.
A few months later, the thick fog disappeared, and a new round of high temperatures appeared along with the extreme day. Ye Fu and the others lived inside the cave, so they did not know that there was no night outside. It was not 't until three days later Jiang Rong came out to inspect the photovoltaic panels, it was discovered that an extreme day had arrived.
“The trajectory of natural disasters in this life is different from the last one,” Jiang Rong said with a serious expression and lowered her voice.
"Don't come out recently, the sun isn't right. I remember the sun suddenly appearing after a heavy rain in the last life. Many people were sunbathing, and there were extensive ulcer wounds on their bodies. I just came out , and my skin felt a strong tingling after being exposed to the sun. . ”
"Are you hurt?"
Jiang Rong shook her head, "I can resist this tingling sensation but you definitely can't, especially Yiyi, outside is too dry, use burps to make ice cubes and put them inside the house, we turn on the AC and it will only make the cave become drier, and need to be humidified.”
After the ice cubes were ready, Ye Fu called out to Qi Yuan, and moved a large basin of stainless steel containing ice cubes to each corner. Yiyi was very interested in the ice cubes, and when she licked it, her tongue froze. Crying, the adults rushed.
"What's the matter, baby?"
Yiyi was very anxious, every time she moved, her tongue was getting ripped, and she was crying from pain.
Seeing his tongue freeze, Ye Fu hurriedly asked Qi Yuan to go to the kitchen to pick up a hot water bottle, Jiang Rong held Yi Yi back, otherwise he would move to avoid injuring the base of his tongue.
Qi Yuan brought a hot water bottle, and Ye Fu poured hot water over the ice, poured it over little by little, and immediately saved Yi Yi Yi's tongue.
"Mom, this hurts a lot."
“See, Bu.” The base of the tongue and gums are red and swollen from cold.
"Luckily, I'm not hurt." Qi Yuan patted his chest in fear. The boy was too curious to lick the ice. Fortunately, the adults were there.
Sending Yiyi back to the room, Ye Fu found an anti-inflammatory remedy to suck on.At night, the swelling of the base of the tongue and gums had subsided, and Yiyi was able to speak normally.
"Mom, why did an ice cube bite my tongue?"
"Es stone is very cold and sticky. I gave you ice cream before. Didn't you also say it stuck to your tongue? Ice cubes are the same as ice cream, but there is dirt in ice cubes. If your tongue is frostbite, it can also affect your tongue." Taste, so I can't lick ice cubes anymore, you know?"
Yiyi quickly nodded, "I don't dare anymore."
But with ice cubes, the cave is much cooler, the melting ice water can be reused to make ice, and can also be used for humidifying the air.
"The coal diggers have not been evacuated. I just heard an explosion. It's so hot, they still have to work."
Ye Fu sighed, "I can't help it. If the base will operate, it must be done. The temperature outside had already exceeded forty degrees. If you're exposed to sunlight for more than ten minutes, you'll probably suffer. from a heat stroke."
Ye Fu had never left the cave since the appearance of the polar day, in the blink of an eye, a year had passed, and a shelter at the northern border base had been built.
Unlike the mosquitoes in the thick fog, the insects that appeared this time showed signs of mutation, such as flies and mosquitoes the size of a palm, gray mice weighing about ten kilograms, the report said, centipedes and giant ants, and giant flying cockroaches ...
Ye Fu picked up the insecticide powder and asked Jiang Rong and Qi Yuan to spread it outside the cave and in the vegetable garden inside the cave.A few days ago when Qi Yuan was weeding, the, he found a nest of red ants in the vegetable garden. To prevent the ants from breeding, Ye Fu After some chalk powder was sprinkled on the ground, although the ants were removed, centipedes and cockroaches reappeared in the corner of the room.
Ye Fu was exhausted, "Fill the vegetable field with cement, I always felt centipedes and cockroaches born from the vegetable field."