My Siheyuan Shelter

Chapter 247 Petty Citizen

At dinner time, Xu's mother strongly "criticized" her son's behavior of spending a lot of money to buy water.

"It's a waste of money, and the water at home is not enough."

Mother Xu has no objection to buying water, but the price is too high. The water is not made of gold.

"Mom, some time ago, didn't you always complain about the lack of water? There are so many people in our family, and there is so little water every day, not to mention taking a bath, washing your face may not be enough." Xu Dong persuaded.

"Then you shouldn't sign a contract as long as three years. Maybe in a few days, the water supply time will change back?"

Xu Dong took a sip of watermelon juice: "Impossible. Once the plant factory is put into use, it is impossible to shut it down casually. Even if it is used for residents' water, they have to make way for them."

"I heard from your Aunt Wang that there are many seawater desalination plants built along the coast. How could this water not be enough?"

"Mom, this matter is not as simple as you think. Our country has a population of 1.8 billion, and the total water consumption every year is trillions of tons. No matter how much we save now, we still need tens of billions of tons, right?

Do you know what these tens of billions of tons are?

At present, the world's largest seawater desalination plant has an annual output of only [-] million tons, and almost a hundred such plants are needed to barely meet daily needs. "

Xu Ma and the others were a little frightened.

Xu Dong continued to explain: "At present, one-third of our domestic fresh water resources are transported back from the North and South Poles, but the North and South Poles can't last for a few years, and the hard days are still to come!"

Moreover, the North and South Poles themselves have a big problem, that is, the freezing period.

Every autumn and winter season, the air route will be frozen, and the time for real navigation throughout the year is actually no more than half a year.

"Dongzi is right, old lady, stop nagging, isn't it just tens of thousands of dollars a month, our family can't afford it." Dad Xu helped to persuade.

What Xu Dong said gave Father Xu a lot of inspiration, allowing him to have a clearer judgment and understanding of the future situation.

Xu Ma sighed: "Okay, if you don't say it, don't say it, anyway, no one will listen to it."

"Grandma, I listen to you, Dabao is the most obedient." Dabao immediately raised his little hand and said.

Xu's mother was overjoyed, and hugged her eldest grandson and kissed him hard.

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The next day, maybe out of "revenge" mentality, maybe because she was frightened by what she said last night, Mama Xu was uncharacteristically, and sent Xu Dong to the grain store early in the morning.

Their family hasn't picked up the food for this month yet!
In October, the whole family’s rations totaled 172 catties, less than 20 catties per person.

Their family has many children, which is a special case, and this is also understandable.

However, when it comes to Xu's father and Xu's mother, there is only a mere 46 catties of rations. According to normal standards, they must not be full.

In addition, in the rations, rice and corn flour were significantly less, but the proportion of potatoes and sweet potatoes increased by almost [-]%.

After buying grain from the grain store, as soon as he walked out of the gate, a large group of people immediately surrounded him.

"Brother, collect grain at a high price, the price is negotiable."

"Do you want to exchange fine grains? Three catties of corn flour for two catties of rice..."

Xu Dong quickly waved his hand: "I don't sell food, and I don't exchange food."

Today is neither the beginning of the month nor off-duty time. I didn't expect that there are still so many second-hand dealers around the grain store.

Squeeze out of the crowd and finally get back to the car.

"Bang bang bang..."

An aunt followed up at some point and slammed on the car window. Xu Dong waved his hand at the car, signaling that he was not interested and was about to drive.

The aunt persevered and kept yelling something. Xu Dong had no choice but to press the car window. He didn't want to be touched by others.

"Big brother..."

"Auntie, I really don't sell or exchange food." Xu Dong said helplessly.

The aunt had a flattering look on her face: "Brother, aunt has five catties of corn flour in her hand, and she wants to exchange it with potatoes or sweet potatoes."

"Auntie, I'm really not interested, you should find someone else!" Xu Dong repeated.

"Big brother, help me!" The aunt kept pleading.

"I can't, I'm sorry!" Xu Dong closed the car window and prepared to leave.

Unexpectedly, the aunt directly knelt in front of the car, and started to kowtow without saying a word. She must have kowtowed too hard, and even her forehead was red.

Xu Dong hurriedly got out of the car to help someone, this matter was too disturbing.

"Aunt, you get up first."

"Big brother, please, I really can't live with my aunt's family."

"Okay, can I change it with you?"

It's not that Xu Dong was moved. He had never seen anything in his previous life. He had seen this kind of pediatrics a lot. The reason why he agreed to it was out of trouble.

Alas, once you are entangled by such an elderly person, it is too difficult to get out, unless you call the police, but calling the police will also delay things.

When the aunt heard this, she immediately thanked you repeatedly: "Brother, thank you, aunt, you are the lifesaver of our family, thank you, thank you!"

"Okay, tell me how do you want to change it?" Xu Dong said impatiently.

"Just follow the market price. Auntie can exchange five catties of corn flour for ten catties of potatoes, or twelve catties of sweet potatoes. What do you think?"

"No problem, just press this!"

Xu Dong directly took out a small electronic scale from the car, which he bought specially for the convenience of transactions, and kept it in the trunk all the time.

The aunt hurriedly handed over the bag containing the cornmeal. Xu Dong weighed it and found that the weight was exactly the same. Then he opened the bag and checked that the quality was okay.

So he couldn't help but nodded.

After collecting the cornmeal, he immediately took out seven or eight sweet potatoes from his bag and weighed them on the electronic scale:
Twelve catties eight taels.

"Auntie, look clearly, the total is about [-] catties, and I will give you the extra."

"Brother, thank you, you are truly a bodhisattva, God will bless you!" Aunt thanked again.

Xu Dong waved his hand, immediately bagged the sweet potatoes, and handed them to the aunt: "Auntie, now we are clear."

"It's cleared up, thank you, aunt."

After Xu Dong left, the aunt seemed to have changed in an instant. The poor old lady disappeared and was replaced by a shrewd old lady.

I saw the old lady beckoning to the side, and a middle-aged man rushed out immediately.

"Mom, did you succeed?"

"It's done." The old lady said proudly.

The middle-aged man was very excited: "This is all right, our family will finally not have to go hungry this month."

"It's okay this month, but it's hard to say next month." The old lady sighed.

"Mom, how did you know that this person is willing to exchange food?"

"Mom told you, those who come to collect food after the beginning of the month, nine out of ten families are not short of food, they must be very rich, just pick this kind of people."

The middle-aged man suddenly realized: "No wonder you only come out now to exchange food, Mom."

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(End of this chapter)