Infinite Disaster Survival

The seven families who moved here, with a total of more than 20 people, including men, women, old and young, got off the government vehicle in the evening. They looked healthy, but they were probably not too excited after leaving their hometown and traveling a long distance. They looked exhausted standing in the village.

When they walked into the temporary residence arranged for them in the village, the more than 20 people showed a little moved. The soldiers who sent them to Dongxi Village felt relieved after being surprised. This village seems to be really good.

At least from the layout of these houses, Dongxi Village is quite welcoming to the arrival of these outsiders. The new families gradually relaxed and hoped that moving here would be a good new start.

According to the policy in the news report, it is not as everyone thinks that all people in difficult areas will be moved to the north as a whole.

In fact, the cities in the north have become particularly popular after the arrival of hot weather. Many smart people have bought houses there and moved there. The housing prices, which were not very high in the whole country, have risen steadily during the rush to buy, and the actual resident population has also increased rapidly.

Before the migration operation started, the north had already taken on almost twice the population of previous years. Even if the country is now shifting its focus there, if the local area takes on too many people, the economy and other aspects may be difficult to control or even collapse more seriously.

Therefore, the destinations of this population migration are divided into many regions, and the main types are divided into two types, one is the area with low temperature, and the other is the area with abundant water resources. Dongxi Village belongs to the latter.

The more than 20 newcomers came from a village called Ningqi Village, and they all had the same surname, Yang.

After putting down everything, they walked to the faucet under the guidance of the villagers. They dared not use too much force, and gently stretched their hands to lift it up. The water as thin as wool slowly flowed out, flowing into the water cup below, and finally poured into their mouths and drank it all.

After drinking, bean-sized tears came out of their eyes. The emotions that had been accumulated in their hearts for these days were vented out by crying.

Seeing that more than 20 people were settled in Dongxi Village, and leaving them with enough rations for half a year, the soldiers who sent them here did not have a good rest and drove away at night. The only thing they took away was the water that Dongxi Village added to their water tanks.

As soon as the soldiers who accompanied them all the way left, the new villagers were a little uncomfortable. More than 20 people chatted for a long time in the middle of the night before they finally couldn't resist sleepiness and fell asleep.

After all, they were separated by several provinces, and the dialects spoken by the new villagers were completely different from those in Dongxi Village. The elderly basically spoke dialects, and only young people could speak Mandarin.

But humans don't just communicate with words.

When they opened their mouths to each other, they found that they could not understand the meaning of the words. The two people who had the same ancestors for thousands of years showed the same confused expression on their faces. Seeing this, the young man was about to use Mandarin to translate for both parties, but the old ginger was still spicy, and the mother had already come over to give the other party a steaming hug.

The young man looked at the parents and the elderly on both sides, and communicated with half-baked Mandarin, expressions and gestures made by his hands. It happened that they really seemed to understand and had already communicated very friendly.

Only they were left, giving an awkward smile to their peers on the opposite side.

In the friendly atmosphere where Dongxi Village was willing to accept and Ningqi Village was willing to integrate, the villagers with the surname Yang gradually began to get used to life in Dongxi Village and slowly learned a few words of each other's dialect.

The two villagers who lived in different regions exchanged their experiences of life in the past years, most of which were the methods of making various foods and local customs that were different from each other. In the process of understanding each other, they began to influence each other.

The twenty or so newcomers brought new vitality to the village. The villagers were very curious about them. Wen Zheng also took Tuantuan to interact with them and confirmed that the newcomers had no major problems. He also expressed their friendly welcome.

After more than half a month, the results of the mutual influence came out. Wen Zheng noticed that the biggest and best impact the new villagers brought to Dongxi Village was to make everyone more economical when using water.

It is not that the people in Dongxi Village are not economical. Not only is there publicity on TV, but they themselves can figure it out. In hot weather, water resources will only become more and more precious. They also save water as much as possible in their daily lives.

But those who have not lacked water so far cannot be compared with those who have really faced the dilemma of no water available.

Ningqi Village had been out of water long before the migration, and they really used water to the extreme. The villagers of Dongxi Village did not make any bad comments because of their excessive economic behavior. They all admired them and began to learn from them.

Both sides became harmonious little by little in these details of life.

But when the temperature continued to remain high in August, they faced new problems.

During the day, the sun radiated heat wantonly, and the air seemed to be distorted under the intense heat. There were no human figures outdoors, and the living animals tried to hide in the shade, and the chirping of insects decreased day by day.

Human beings' living habits have to change to staying up and coming out at night. During the day, they hide in the house with the air conditioner rumbling, barely energizing themselves to fall asleep, and only come out to take action late at night. In this way, day and night habits are completely reversed.

When night fell, the villagers woke up from their intermittent sleep, clutched their hungry and growling stomachs, put on clothes that could cover their bodies but were as cool as possible, and got up to wash up.

He reached for a small basin and placed it on the sink to prepare for water. He turned on the faucet in the house, but the familiar sound of running water did not appear. There must be no water in the water tower.

The villager got up and looked at the water tower placed in the yard. There was still electricity in the house, and the water tower was plugged into the switch. A bad premonition emerged from his heart, but he still couldn't believe it.

I unplugged the plug and plugged it back into the socket. There was no response from the water tower. I quickly dug out the repair tools from inside the house and took apart the switch to check whether the circuits were burned.

The family members who were startled by these movements came out of the house one after another. The youngest daughter ran out in a small skirt. Before she could reach her father, she let out a low exclamation.

The rest of the family members turned their attention to the bird carcasses lying in the yard. Unlike the little girl, they were not surprised. The mother walked to the corner and picked up two long branches. The brother picked up the shovel placed behind the door. The two men went out to the roadside a little further away and buried the rotting, smelly bird carcass in the soil.

The entire process was exceptionally skillful.

After entering August, some birds began to be unable to withstand the high temperature, unable to support themselves during flight, and fell to the ground and lost their lives. Today's temperature has accelerated the rate of decay of living things. If it is not cleaned up in time, the stench caused by decay will linger around until the next day, making it more difficult to clean up and even lead to someone's death. the emergence and spread of some diseases.

Not only their own yards, but also public areas in the village. As long as the whole village is not shrouded in stench, the villagers will clean them every night according to the areas divided into groups by the village committee.

Even the little girl, who was no more than her parents' waist, regained her composure after the initial exclamation.

When the mother and son came back, they saw that the man had already checked the lines. It was probably because he had not finished checking the lines. They went into the house and dug out just enough water with a water ladle. The little girl knew what her father was going to do at a glance. She ran to remove the piece of paper covering the pressurized water well to prevent it from being stained, and watched her father pour the diverted water into the pressurized water well.

The water flowed slowly into the sun-dried pressurized water well. The man held the long handle of the pressurized water well, lifted it up and pressed it down, feeling the force coming from the pressurized water well. There was no feeling of water being drawn at all. The man was so tired that his arms ached and he was unwilling to give up. Even the sound of water being pumped out from next door was not noticed at all.

Under the gaze of four pairs of eyes, no water appeared at the mouth of the pressurized water well.

The family well ran dry.

Dongxi Village, including several nearby villages, does not have running water. Every household has a well, so why bother with running water? In the past, pressurized water wells were used, but later water towers began to be installed in the courtyard. After electricity was turned on, water could be sucked into the water tower by a water pump for storage, and then flowed through pipes to various faucets in the home.

The neighbor next door also gave up trying again and shouted over the wall: "Lao Liu, come here and help me remove the stones from the well. I have to see if there is water in it. Mad, you look like this." I have never seen my well go dry.”

"I'll go over right away and you can open up your yard."

The man walked to the next door, and his family followed him with concern, and walked into the yard of the next door's house. The house next door did not install a pressurized water well directly above the water well, but had both a pressurized water well and a particularly rare water well. This was preserved because the neighbor liked to hang buckets to ice things. Later, when the children were born, they liked to be in the yard. He ran around, fearing something might happen, so he found a stone slab and covered the well.

When the mother stopped her children from getting close to the well, the strong men moved the stone slab aside with all their strength. Standing on both feet, the powerful flashlight the child found shone directly with light, and no water marks appeared in front of his eyes.

There is really no water.

"Dad." Even though the little girl still couldn't understand the current situation, she could still feel everyone's heavy mood. She held her mother's and brother's hands with her little hands, and still called her father with some uneasiness.

The mother was immediately awakened. She bent down to pick up the frightened child and gently comforted her. She comforted everyone and even more so herself: "It's okay. There are several newly drilled deep wells in our village. There must be water."

"Yes, there are also those deep wells, let's go take a look now."

The two families walked out of the yard and met their neighbors who were also walking out. When they walked to the main road in the village, they met more people.

These people have no other thoughts now. They just want to get to the location of the nearest deep well quickly and see if these deep wells that have been prepared just for this time can be used.