My Courtyard Refuge

Forty May

“Xiao Xu, you brought these?”

Xu Dong nodded: “Each person has a big bag with more than a dozen kinds of snacks in it, and two boxes of yogurt. Uncle Sun, you can pick whatever you want. I’ll take a break.”

“Okay, then I’ll take it myself.” The male colleague picked out a bag, opened it, looked at it, and then gave a thumbs up:

“Xiao Xu, you didn’t say anything. If you have any difficulties in the future, just come to uncle. If uncle can help, he will definitely help you.”

With so many snacks, I can save enough for my grandson to eat for several months. Given the current situation, this is much more cost-effective than simply grabbing a meal. It is indeed a big favor.

Xu Dong shook his head and said modestly: “Not much, my family opened a convenience store before, and now I still have a little stock in hand.”

“No wonder! I said… so many snacks, you can’t buy them in the market now, and I don’t know when this day will end?” the male colleague said with emotion.

Xu Dong twitched his lips, what is the point of this, the hard days are yet to come!

Especially under the national system of Daxia, when it really came to a critical moment, the higher-ups gave an order, no matter what rich businessmen and dignitaries, they had to suffer together.

===Section 30===

“It should be soon!” Xu Dongyan said insincerely.

Next, colleagues from the security department came to work one after another. Everyone received a big gift bag, and everyone was surprised.

The three female colleagues even racked their brains and “robbed” a lot of snacks under the guise that men shouldn’t eat snacks. This almost aroused public anger, and the whole office was noisy for a while.

It even attracted a lot of onlookers from other departments.

When Section Chief Li came to the office, he saw such a scene.

“What’s the noise? Hurry up and change your clothes. You’re going to work soon.”

Everyone dispersed, and Xu Dong let out a deep breath. The old fritters in the group system are not active at work, and they are good at fighting and bickering.

Section Chief Li glanced at Xu Dong, and said in a serious voice, “Come to my office later.”

Xu Dong didn’t dare to delay, carrying a big bag and two boxes of yogurt, followed Section Chief Li into the office.

“Uncle Li, this is your share.” Xu Dong casually put the things on the sofa.

Section Chief Li nodded, and then softened his tone: “Next time, keep a low profile. If you do this, everyone in the company may know about it, and the influence will not be good.”

“I’m sorry, Uncle Li, I didn’t think carefully. I really didn’t expect everyone’s enthusiasm to be so great.” Xu Dong explained with a wry smile.

“Okay, let’s forget it this time, pay attention next time, try to do it after get off work if you have something to do, don’t make it known to everyone.”

Xu Dong nodded.

Section Chief Li then asked: “I see that there is still a bag on your table, is it for Director Su?”

“Yes, you also know…”

“I understand! It’s not suitable for you to come forward now, let me deliver it for you!”

Afraid that Xu Dong might misunderstand, Section Chief Li immediately explained: “Everyone is staring at you, you are staying at Ximen today, don’t go anywhere, first avoid the limelight.”

“I see, I still have to trouble you, Uncle Li!” Xu Dong quickly thanked.

“Okay, go to work now!”

Hearing the word “go to work”, Xu Dong suddenly slapped his thigh hard and said angrily, “Oh no, I forgot to clock in this morning!”

Section Chief Li waved his hand: “It’s okay, I’ll make up a note for you later, saying that I will arrange you to go out.”

“Thank you Uncle Li!” Xu Dong thanked again.

…

After the “snacks” turmoil, Xu Dong became famous in the entire power company. Everyone knew that there was a capable person “Xu Dong” in the security department, who could get shortages, so they all came to inquire.

Xu Dong was so annoyed that he explained it over and over again, and after hiding for half a month, the incident completely subsided.

At this time, May has quietly arrived.

On the first day of May, as Wang Xiujuan said, the prices of water, electricity, and gas have all increased, and the price increases have been quite astonishing.

Among them, the price of tap water has risen the most exaggeratedly. Not only has the stepped fee been cancelled, but the unit price has also risen directly from the original 5 yuan per ton.Twenty times, came to 100 yuan per ton.

The whole country was in an uproar for a while, but it also triggered the enthusiastic pursuit of seawater desalination plants by private capital.

After all, with the current level of technology, people have been able to successfully control the cost of seawater desalination at about 5 yuan per ton.

One can imagine how huge the profits are.

However, it should be noted that this cost is the cost before the solar flare erupts, not the current cost.

As for the current cost, no one knows. After all, the domestic industrial chain has only recovered less than 35%, which is already far ahead of other countries.

In addition to water prices, the increase in electricity prices is also not small. The price of civilian electricity alone has risen to 3 yuan per kilowatt-hour, and the cumbersome step-by-step charges have also been cancelled.

Calculated according to this price, a normal household consumes about 300 degrees of electricity per month, which means that the electricity bill alone will cost nearly 1,000 yuan.

Who is willing to pay for this money?

In an instant, many families were afraid to turn on the air conditioner, and the electric fan suddenly became hot.

Fortunately, the price of heating has not increased much, at least it will not be cold to death at night.

Gas has risen the least, thanks to the plunge in global raw material prices, so that gas prices have only “slightly” increased by less than 50%.

However, none of the above has much to do with the old Xu’s family. Even if the price of water has risen sharply, they can still afford it.

Right now, Xu Dong and his family are mainly focusing on how to sell electric fans. The sudden outbreak of electric fan fever directly made the family ecstatic.

Xu Dong is also in favor of selling electric fans. Firstly, this thing takes up too much space, and secondly, the price is high enough, not much less than later generations.

“Mom, let’s sell it by ourselves. When will we sell it? Maybe we will be targeted by the price bureau. By then, fines and everything will be trivial matters. If we get involved in the bureau, it will be troublesome.” Xu Dong persuaded.

Making money is a good thing, but it shouldn’t make you foolish.

“Mom knows, it’s okay to find a wholesaler, but the price can’t be too low.”

Xu’s mother thought about it, and the reasoning was indeed the same. Besides, the youngest son had just entered a state-owned enterprise, and if something happened to him, he might not even be able to keep his job.

Seeing that his mother agreed, Xu Dong immediately called Boss Wang. Boss Wang was the one who sold his electric fan last time.

“Hello, is this Boss Wang?”

“I am, who are you?”

Xu Dong was a little embarrassed. It seemed that Boss Wang was so angry last time that the other party even deleted his phone number.

“I’m Xu Dong. I bought a warehouse electric fan from you before. Did you forget?”

After being reminded, Boss Wang remembered immediately, so he quickly asked, “Mr. Xu, have you sold those electric fans?”

“not yet!”

“Then congratulations, you are going to make a fortune.” Boss Wang said sourly.

“thanks!”