My courtyard shelter

With Yang Lina's help, the couple lifted the robot dog out of the box. The thing was not too heavy, about fifty pounds. read

Xu Dong installed the battery and pressed the start button. The robot dog moved instantly, scaring several children to hide behind the adults.

Even Xu Ma was shocked.

"Stay back..."

Xu Dong reminded him while holding the remote control.

As soon as he finished speaking, the robot dog turned over on its own, and stood up directly in the next second. The whole movement was clean and neat.

"Dad, where's the robot dog's head?" Dabao pointed at the robot dog and shouted.

"Robot dogs don't need heads."

"Then what if it can't see?" Dabao asked doubtfully.

Xu Dong shook the remote control in his hand, "It has a camera. Look here is the picture it sees."

The children ran over to see the strange thing.

Next, Xu Dong controlled the robot dog and began to circle in the yard. The dog's movements were extremely dexterous. Mark, perhaps sensing the crisis, madly expressed his anger at the robot dog.

Xu's mother rolled her wheelchair to the kennel, and it took a long time to get Mark to calm down.

"Husband, is this thing dangerous?" Yang Lina asked with a worried look.

Xu Dong didn't answer, but stepped forward and kicked the robot dog hard. The robot dog just paused on the spot, with almost no reaction.

"Look, it's okay! This is a robot dog, and it's not artificial intelligence. It won't actively harm humans. And I'll be there every time it's started, so nothing will happen.

"Dad, can I touch the robot dog?" Lele said excitedly.

"Dad, I want to touch it too." Dabao agreed.

Everyone else also looked forward to it.

Xu Dong nodded: "Don't worry, touch whatever you want."

After touching the cold dog body, the children finally satisfied their curiosity.

Father Xu took the opportunity and came over: "Third brother, can this robot dog guard the door?"

"It's possible, but it requires programming. I don't fully understand it yet. Once I understand it, I'll see if I can let it watch the door of our house."

"Then Mark is going to be laid off?" Dad Xu joked.

"A machine is a machine after all, and it must have loopholes. It's better to have double insurance!"

"This thing is quite interesting. How much did it cost?" Dad Xu asked.

Xu Dong looked around and replied in a low voice: "More than 300,000 yuan. The normal price should be more than 500,000 yuan. There seems to be a cheap version in China in the past few years. You can buy it for tens of thousands of yuan."

"too expensive."

Father Xu immediately lost interest. With such a high price, even if it were produced, he probably wouldn't be able to sell it.

Xu Dong smiled and said: "It's good to be a high-end toy. It can cultivate Dabao's interest in high technology. Maybe we can even produce a scientist in our family!"

Father Xu smiled and said no more.

After letting the children play with the robot dog for a full hour, Xu Dong put away the robot dog.

Dabao ran over and asked, "Dad, can I give the robot dog a name?"

"Okay, have you thought of a name?"

"I've thought about it." Dabao nodded: "It's color is yellow, I want to call it Rhubarb."

"Rhubarb? Well, that's a good name!" Xu Dong was very satisfied.

Rhubarb... rhubarb...

A very representative name, taking into account tradition and high technology, it is perfect.

So the robot dog had an official name.

…

A week later, Xu's mother accidentally slipped and fell when she was going to the toilet at home. Fortunately, it was a weekend and Xu Dong happened to be at home, so he was immediately sent to the hospital.

After examination, the situation is quite optimistic and the bones have not been displaced, which is a great blessing among misfortunes.

He originally planned to let Xu Ma stay in the hospital for two days of observation, but unfortunately she didn't come for a week. The hospital was actually full and it was hard to find a bed.

Before leaving, Xu Dong accompanied his mother to the original ward. As agreed before, Xu's mother wanted to visit some patients.

"Lao Zhang, why did you come for a follow-up consultation so soon?" Aunt Luo looked puzzled.

Xu Dong explained helpfully: "My mother accidentally fell, so I sent her over to check."

"How's it going? Is it serious?" Aunt Luo immediately asked with concern.

Xu's mother shook her head: "It's okay. I told you not to come to the hospital. I don't know if it's injured or not? What's the result? The doctor said it's nothing serious."

"It's okay. Xiao Xu did the right thing. It's safer to let the doctor check it out." Aunt Luo breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let's not talk about this anymore." Xu Ma waved her hand and quickly changed the topic: "Where is Lao Suntou? Why didn't you see anyone else and was discharged from the hospital?"

"Lao Suntou left two days ago." Aunt Luo's mood suddenly dropped a lot.

"Leaving? Are you discharged from the hospital or..." Xu Ma was afraid that she had misunderstood.

"Just as you thought, Lao Suntou's condition suddenly deteriorated, and he was unable to be rescued in the end."

"How could it be? Isn't he in good health? I heard him say before that he would be discharged from the hospital in a while." Xu's mother was very surprised.

Aunt Luo explained with a bitter face:

"You may not know at home that last year's super flu broke out again. In the past few days, the hospital was suddenly full. I believe you saw it when you came here."

Xu Ma nodded.

Aunt Luo continued:

"Less than two days after you left, a cold patient was admitted to our ward.

At first, no one paid much attention to it, but it wasn't until Lao Suntou was infected, and then everyone disappeared within two days, that everyone started to pay attention. "

Xu Dong was shocked when he heard this. He usually went to work and came home at the same time. If he hadn't come to the hospital this time, he wouldn't have known that the epidemic was going to break out again.

The key is that there was no news in the market.

"Lao Luo, you can't stay in the hospital anymore. You have to leave the hospital quickly." Xu's mother looked anxious.

"It's useless. This wave of flu is too contagious. Even if you stay at home, you can't escape it. At least you can be rescued in the hospital. My bed is valuable now." Aunt Luo said with a smile.

"You are waiting to die!" Xu's mother sighed.

Aunt Luo smiled bitterly and said, "What else can you do if you don't wait to die? I have lived enough for most of my life. I will die and save some food for my family."

"How can you think so? Who wants to die if they can live?"

When Xu's mother thought of her grandchildren, she would not rest in peace if she didn't see them grow up.

Aunt Luo stepped forward and patted Xu's mother on the shoulder.

"Xiao Xu, take your mother back quickly. It's better to come to this hospital less often in the future. Your family is well-off, so you must let your mother take good care of herself."

Xu Dong nodded quickly: "Then Aunt Luo, we will go back first."

Although he expected the epidemic to come back, he didn't expect that this time it came so quickly and so violently, catching him off guard.

"Lao Luo, you guys have to take care of yourself too!"

"Don't worry, it's just a small cold. I'm in good health and nothing will happen."

Aunt Luo suddenly became optimistic.

What the other party said was actually not wrong. As long as you are healthy, although there is the word "super" in front of "advanced flu", the damage is not much different from the common cold, and there are no sequelae either.

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