Infinite Disaster Survival

After the solar energy equipment began to be used, the quality of life of the villagers has improved a lot. Although the long-term use of air conditioning may further aggravate the extreme climate, when faced with the situation where people are threatened by high temperatures if they do not use cooling measures, people can only choose the present and then try to find a way to save the near future.

Since they can use air conditioning at home, these parents are embarrassed to let their children bother Wen Zheng and his son again, and in order to express their gratitude to them, the villagers often call Wen Zheng and Tuan Tuan to come over for dinner.

In the past, when there was no electricity, it was completely painful to call people over for dinner. Now that the problem has been solved, almost the whole village is calling Wen Zheng and Tuan Tuan over.

They can go to one family every day for more than a month.

When Wen Zheng and Tuan Tuan want to stay at home, they refuse directly. Occasionally, when they want to go out, they will ask the good ones what they are cooking today, and say a word after they have chosen, and then go to eat dinner after the sun goes down.

The villagers who saw the father and son on the road all greeted them warmly. The villagers who lived near the family eating there quickly sent some of their own dishes to them, or those who were on good terms simply brought their cooked meals to join the table.

Nowadays, Wen Zheng and Tuantuan have a unique and transcendent status in the village.

It was hot and they ate late, and it was dark after dinner, but they didn't have much desire to sleep. It's easy to sleep less in the hot summer. There was nothing to do at home, so they might as well get together, watch the latest news on TV, and chat with the villagers.

As they chatted, the topic turned to Tuantuan teaching the children.

Adults are always prone to this problem. After praising Tuantuan, someone suddenly asked various questions to the other children in the room, and was concerned about their learning progress at home after not going to class recently. The children who were originally having fun showed awkward smiles, clearly not wanting to bring up this topic that spoiled their fun.

Even the children who were willing to learn and had been asking questions to Tuantuan on their mobile phones in the past few days were too willing to answer these questions, but there were still parents who didn't care and urged their children to answer quickly.

Wen Zheng sighed softly in his heart, and just when he was about to change the topic, the news on TV attracted everyone's attention.

The helpless migration began.

Some high-temperature areas in the country have reached the temperature that only appeared in the tropics in the past. Air conditioners and other refrigeration equipment have become less important. The high temperature has brought about an extreme lack of water.

The land with deep cracks on TV is really a scene that can only be seen on TV for the villagers of Dongxi Village who have often suffered from floods in the past.

The barren land is thousands of miles long, and no grass grows.

The cracked land can no longer accommodate any plant growth. There is only a small amount of water left in the deep wells. The water resources here are not enough to meet the survival needs of the local people.

Compared with the method of transporting water from other places thousands of miles away, it is a more reasonable choice to migrate people to places with more abundant water sources.

The state arranged everything for them, and most people followed the arrangements and started packing up their things at home, but there were still quite a few people, especially the elderly, who shook their heads and were unwilling to leave.

Facing the persuasion of others, the thin old man sat on the ground, not caring at all that the ground was too hot after being exposed to the sun, and stroked the dry land with his hands. He grabbed a piece of soil with force, exerted strength with a few fingers, and threw it forward, and fine yellow sand fell on the ground.

The expression on the old man's face seemed to be neither crying nor laughing. The complex expression of multiple emotions could not be described in words, but it made everyone who saw it feel the dryness from the bottom of their hearts.

"I encountered such a severe drought when I was a child. It was because my two elder brothers saved their own food that I was able to survive. Later, I thought that life would get better and better. Our government really brought hope to my generation, and made me think that future generations would no longer have to experience the pain I had experienced, but God just didn't want people to have an easy life."

The old man's voice was not choked at all, and even the last words complaining about God were particularly calm. He refused the help of others, stretched out his hand to hold the still hot ground and insisted on standing up: "I am old and don't want to toss anymore, just let me stay here, there is still some water in the well for me."

It's easy to say, but leaving such an old man alone in this land that has become difficult to survive, there is no one to help if something happens. This old man who insisted on staying has long made up his mind to die. Rather than moving to a distant place and struggling to survive for a few more years, he would rather be buried under the soil of his hometown.

The government officials who tried to persuade him and the reporters who were filming the incident were unable to say anything. Later, Wen Zheng saw that this incident had become a hot topic of discussion on the Internet. There were not many accusations in the comments. "If it were someone else, I would have scolded him a long time ago, but looking at this grandfather, I could feel his inner pain."

Everyone who saw the news in the house was silent. The loudest sound in the house was the TV that was broadcasting the news. The joy that had originally arisen from the installation of the power generation equipment gradually faded. In many places, their compatriots had to make painful choices.

They were just a little bit more lucky to be able to sit in a comfortable room and watch TV.

"It's hard to leave your hometown. If you really can't survive, who would be willing to go far away? If it were me, I wouldn't want to leave the village again." An old man in the house looked at the scene on TV and felt the same way. He lowered his head to cover up and quickly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand.

The others present noticed it and quickly persuaded the old man, but they no longer had the heart to chat and have fun. After saying goodbye to each other and going home, they couldn't help thinking about these scenes all night.

But what can they do with their strength?

All they can do every day is to pay attention to the latest developments reported on the news. In their free time, they will keep themselves busy and complete the physical work assigned by the village committee in the morning and evening. In the hot daytime, activities that do not require strenuous exercise are the most popular. Those handmade products that young people are about to forget have become popular again in the village.

Once they are free, they always think about them in their hearts. So when the destination of the migration department shown on TV included their Huaiyang City, some villagers became alert. When the village chief announced that some people would indeed move to their village, the villagers did not raise any objections. They also turned their full discomfort and love for their compatriots into practical actions and quickly prepared rooms for them to live in the village.

The village committee's office building was cleared out for these people first. The rooms on site did not need to be renovated and left vacant. They only needed to put some missing furniture and arrange them to be habitable. In addition to the village committee being busy with the arrangement, each household in the village provided some daily necessities. Even if each family only sent one, the total number and variety would be quite a lot.

Before the new members arrived in their village, another small episode happened. In July, the temperature was so high that a breath outside was hot. The ground was completely able to quickly fry an egg, and all the plants without shelter gradually withered.

So when thick black smoke appeared on the horizon, the villagers felt that it was expected, but also unexpected.

There was a fire in the neighboring village last summer. The temperature this year has reached a new high, and the possibility of burning grass leaves and causing a fire is very high. Unexpectedly, since May, the country has learned from last year's lessons and began to require all places to pay attention to fire prevention. As a result, there are still fires that produce so much black smoke.

I don't know which village is so careless.

The villagers of Dongxi Village have been frightened by the fire that almost affected their village last year, so they have made preparations this year. When harvesting grain, they use agricultural machinery and dig fire-proof ditches in various places in the village.

Later, as the plants turned yellow and dried under direct sunlight and became flammable, the village committee divided the villagers into different teams and went out to pull out the hay in the morning and evening.

By clearing the flammable materials and blocking the spread of the fire, Dongxi Village can be said to have minimized the possibility of fire.

This year, during the Qingming Festival and other days when people need to go up the mountain to worship, the custom of burning with fire was completely abandoned. All kinds of prepared food were offered in front of the graves, two glasses of wine were poured, and then a lot of words were said, and it was over.

After receiving the news, the village chief looked up at the black smoke in the sky. The black smoke seemed quite close in the air, but if the distance was converted to the ground, it was estimated that it was at least one village away from Dongxi Village.

After making a few phone calls to ask, it turned out that the fire really came from the next village next door. It was said that the villagers there quarreled because some people did more work and some did less work. Later, they simply stopped working. The village cadres failed to solve the problem in time and let the conflict continue to develop.

The wild grass lay on the land in large areas, and it became the most powerful fuel when it met a little spark. The conflict between the villagers there has never been resolved, so even when fighting the fire, they failed to cooperate well, which delayed the progress of the firefighting. Even though as many fire extinguishers as possible are now equipped everywhere, in the end, most of the village was burned down, and more than a dozen people were sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. It is not known whether they can survive.

After listening to this call, the village chief was very glad that the villagers have been getting along more and more harmoniously in the past two years, and even quarrels rarely occur. This incident suddenly woke him up, so the village chief took this case that happened not far away and reminded the villagers again that conflicts should be resolved as soon as possible, and they must not let a small grudge between individuals affect other people or even the entire village.

In this atmosphere, the relocated families arrived before the end of July, the hottest time of the year.