My Courtyard Refuge

Rebirth ten years ago

Parallel time and space, Luyang City, the capital of Wanzhou, Great Xia Kingdom.

In the office of a certain logistics company, a middle-aged man with a slightly vicissitudes was sitting at his desk, holding a pure black pen in his hand, and solemnly wrote down the three numbers “287” in his notebook.

“I really didn’t expect that I would have a day of rebirth, and I would go back to ten years ago, the year before the catastrophe happened!”

It was the rainy season at this time, and it was a gloomy and rainy day outside the window. Xu Dong couldn’t help but take a deep breath in this situation.

“If my memory is correct, in another 287 days, the entire earth will usher in an unprecedented catastrophe.”

The lunar calendar is February 15, 2022.

That is, on the day of the Lantern Festival in the Year of the Tiger, a group of sunspots code-named HX2368 will focus on a large flare.

In just one week, there were more than 1,000 rare large flares, and the destructive power was astonishing.

Among them, there are hundreds of large flares, accompanied by huge coronal mass ejections, which have a direct and devastating impact on the Earth’s atmosphere.

Xu Dong is not an astronomer, so he doesn’t quite understand the scientific principles involved.

But he had experienced it firsthand, and knew that for the next ten years, until the year of his death, the earth was in a severe drought that showed no sign of ending.

Taking the Great Xia Kingdom as an example, in the third year after the catastrophe broke out, all the rivers in the two capitals and thirty states in the territory, including lakes and lakes, had all dried up without exception.

More than 90% of the country’s land has been reduced to desert. Regardless of the south or the north, it is a gray world where no grass grows.

Those who survived can barely survive by using limited groundwater resources and large-scale seawater desalination plants.

The water crisis caused by the severe drought, as well as the resulting food crisis and ecological crisis, have almost pushed human civilization to the brink of extinction.

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Withdrawing his thoughts, Xu Dong smeared out the number “287” with a pen, then closed his notebook, and then opened the fucking Word file on the computer, and quickly finished a resignation letter.

Time is waiting!

It didn’t take much time to resign. After all, Xu Dong was just an ordinary salesman. In addition, the company’s performance this year was not good.

In less than an hour, after handing over the work and notifying a few colleagues who usually had a good relationship, Xu Dong left the company where he had worked for six years.

He came to the parking lot with his personal belongings, opened the door, and threw everything into the back seat of the car.

Speeding all the way, approaching the door of the house, Xu Dong adjusted his mentality, took out the key from his pocket, and opened the anti-theft door with his slightly trembling right hand.

“Husband, why did you get off work so early today?” Yang Lina asked in surprise when she saw her husband entering the door.

Xu Dong is 33 years old this year. He and his wife met through a blind date seven years ago, and they soon entered the palace of marriage.

After marriage, Yang Lina gave birth to Xu Dong a pair of beautiful twin daughters in the second year.

Later, in order to have a son, she conceived a second child last year, but she did not expect that the couple would have three more sons at once.

Xu Dong waved his hand and made up a casual way: “I just signed a big order in the morning, and the company gave me a week’s leave.”

Yang Lina is now in the postpartum breastfeeding period. At this stage, the mother is extremely sensitive to emotions. Xu Dong didn’t want his wife to be worried, so he told a white lie.

Yang Lina seemed very happy. There are five children to take care of at home. Even she and her mother-in-law are still busy and dizzy every day. Her husband can help share the burden by staying at home.

After chatting with his wife about homework, Xu Dong turned around and went to the bathroom to wash his face, then he couldn’t wait to go into the bedroom to see the triplets.

In the previous life, due to natural and man-made disasters, the triplets unfortunately died one after another. There were five children in the family, and only the second child survived in the end.

This is the eternal pain in Xu Dong’s heart.

After watching for more than ten minutes, Xu Dong secretly wiped away several tears, until his wife came in, and then changed the subject and asked:

“Where’s mom?”

Since Yang Lina became pregnant last year, Madam Xu has been staying at her youngest son’s house, taking care of the pregnant woman, and then helping to take care of the child.

In her previous life, Mama Xu never left until Xu Dong became ill from overwork.

“Mom went to the kindergarten to pick up Keke and Lele, and she should be back later.”

Xu Dong’s eldest daughter is Xu Ke, and the youngest daughter is Xu Le. The two have just turned five years old this year. They are in the upper class of a nearby kindergarten. They will start elementary school in September.

“Hmm… By the way, what’s for dinner?” Xu Dong asked again.

Yang Lina inexplicably felt that the husband in front of her was a little weird, but she didn’t know where the blame was:

“Uh, I will cook a braised silver carp, fried chicken with potato cubes, a tofu broth, and the leftover scrambled eggs with tomatoes at noon.”

Hearing these delicacies, Xu Dong couldn’t help swallowing. After all, he hadn’t eaten meat for seven or eight years in his previous life, and he almost forgot the taste of meat.Yang Lina looked at Xu Dong in puzzlement, why did her husband look like a starving ghost? Could it be that he hadn’t eaten at noon?

Unable to bear the strange look in his eyes, Xu Dong hurriedly found an excuse to leave:

“Have you bought the groceries yet? The commission for this big order is at least 5,000 yuan. Let’s have a good dinner to celebrate!”

“I haven’t bought it yet. I’ll call Mom later so she doesn’t have to go to the vegetable market.” Yang Lina nodded.

“Well, wife, what do you want to buy?”

“Pork is cheap these days. You can buy more ribs and shrimp. Lele has been clamoring to eat it. As for the others, you can buy them!”

“Okay, then I’ll make up my own mind.” Xu Dong escaped from the house in some embarrassment, he couldn’t help but heaved a sigh of relief.

Rebirth is the biggest secret in his life. For the sake of the safety of his family, he is not going to tell anyone, nor does he want to pretend to be the Virgin Mary to “save” the world.

The experience of his previous life gave him a deeper understanding of human nature.

Don’t pin your hopes on others, it’s really good only if you control your own destiny.

The vegetable market is less than 500 meters away from Xu Dong’s house, and it takes less than ten minutes to arrive.

Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar scene in front of him, Xu Dong seemed like a lifetime away.

In the previous life, this vegetable market was transformed into a large canteen run by the street very early on, and residents of several nearby communities bought food here every day.

In the ten years since the outbreak of the Great Flare, Xu Dong and his wife spent almost one-third of their time queuing here, and they are very familiar with the nearby bricks and tiles.

With complicated emotions, Xu Dong followed the crowd into the vegetable market slowly, and then quickly glanced at the layout of the stalls.

Then without any hesitation, he rushed directly to the meat section immediately.

“Boss, how do you sell pork belly?”

“Pork belly is 12.8 yuan, look how fresh the meat is.” The vendor owner greeted enthusiastically.

Hearing this price, Xu Dong couldn’t help being shocked even though he had made enough mental preparations.

You must know that in the previous life, meat was a luxury among luxury goods, and even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it.

Occasionally there are goods on the black market, and the price is also sold in taels. Even the cheapest pork ribs start at 100 yuan a tael.

At that time, the salary of an ordinary worker was only three or four thousand yuan.