After a night's rest, Chen Xin returned to the village shelter with his parents and his cousin-in-law, who was in charge of driving.

After Chen Xin coped with it, he found his second aunt and told her that he wanted some chickens to take back to raise.

"It's easy to say, but Ah Xin, can you bring the chick back? It's so cold now, it's easy for chicks to freeze to death! The second aunt expressed her worries, and at the same time took Chen Xin to the chicken farm in the shelter.

The second aunt opened the door of the chicken farm, and a hot air gushed out that was different from the slightly cold air in the shelter, which made Chen Xin look sideways.

The chicken farm was converted from an ordinary room with about seven or eight hens and a rooster, with a chicken coop made of bricks and asbestos tiles in the corner, and an electric heater on the other side.

This is the first heater Chen Xin saw after coming to this shelter.

"All the chickens are here, it's no problem if you want to take the chickens back to raise them, you can give you two hens, but on such a cold day, I'm afraid that your chickens will freeze to death if you can't bring them back." The second aunt opened the baffle at the door of the chicken farm, walked into the chicken farm by herself, and while touching the eggs in the chicken coop, she complained to Chen Xinban: "Now this chicken is better than people, no one has a fire, but the chicken has to make the nest warm for it, so as not to lay eggs!" What kind of world do you say this is? ”

Listening to his second aunt's words, Chen Xin could only laugh and didn't say anything.

What kind of world it is now, everyone knows what it is, and the second aunt is just complaining a few words, and Chen Xin doesn't need to answer her words.

However, Chen Xin was very sure of whether he could bring the chicks back, and replied affirmatively to the second aunt: "I don't want to hatch the chicks either, the second aunt, you can give me a few eggs that can hatch the chicks, I'll take the eggs back, and then hatch the chicks when I get back." I have heating there, the temperature is not low, there is no problem with chickens. ”

"That's good, it's good to have a few chickens, and you can touch two eggs every day." When the second aunt heard Chen Xin say that she had the conditions to raise chickens, she didn't say anything, but just asked him, "Then Ah Xin, how many eggs do you want?" Why don't you bring an extra hen? Otherwise, the chicks do not have a hen to hold the nest, and it is not easy to raise. ”

"It should be enough to hatch eggs for three or five chicks, mainly to have a male and female, which will be better." Chen Xin put forward his own requirements.

"Then I'll pick ten eggs and a hen for you, you go back and build a chicken nest, pay attention to keeping warm, let the hen hold the nest and almost hatch small." The second aunt nodded, put the eggs in a basket, handed them to Chen Xin to hold, and cleaned up the chicken manure on the chicken farm again, and then left the chicken farm with Chen Xin.

Together with the second aunt, the harvested eggs were sent to the storage room, Chen Xin looked at the small storage room, and couldn't help frowning: "Second aunt, there are not many things here!" Do you only have that much here? ”

"It's quite a lot! The other villages around are not as good as us. The second aunt said with great emotion, but also affirmed Chen Xin's statement: "The grain sent by the town every week is only enough for one week, and we can have this thing as a stockpile or rely on the chickens in the greenhouse and chicken farm you told us to build, and we can collect a lot of vegetables and eggs every month in exchange for some things."

In other villages, life is much harder than ours, they can only live on the food delivered by the town every week, and if the town does not deliver the food in time, they will starve, and even starve to death. ”

The words of the second aunt made Chen Xin's heart palpitate for a while, and he starved to death, which was already a memory that only the previous generation had in Yanguo.

Yanguo is a traditional agricultural civilization country, has always been very dependent on the land to maintain the life of the people, even in the modern era of advanced science and technology, all kinds of natural and man-made disasters can still greatly affect the harvest and life of farmers in a year.

In fact, before the large-scale promotion of hybrid rice in Yanguo, Yanguo's grain output has always been unable to meet the needs of the people, and Yanguo's per capita arable land area is also quite low in the world.

This is why, in the memory of the previous generation, at the time of the initial ******, there was a nationwide famine.

If it weren't for the hybrid rice of Yuan Dadruid and the efforts of the vast number of agricultural research workers, the grain output of Yanguo could still increase even though the cultivated area was decreasing year by year, and Yanguo would have faced a food crisis long ago.

In fact, it was only after entering the 21st century that Yanguo realized the transformation from not having enough to eat to being well-fed.

However, with the arrival of the apocalyptic disaster caused by the meteorite impact, the food crisis has really befallen the people of Yanguo.

The disasters caused by the meteorite impact are multifaceted, and the most immediate impact is the destruction of arable land across the country.

Although the grain stored by the Yan State before the disaster was enough for the people of the whole country to eat for three years, there was no output, and even if the grain could be eaten for ten years, it would be eaten one day.

Eighty percent of the population of Yan survived the disaster, thanks to the efforts of the state, which provided a considerable amount of labor for the post-disaster reconstruction work that has been carried out in the country, but also brought extremely great pressure on logistics, especially the supply of food.

Before the disaster, the grain output of Yanguo had reached an average of 650 million tons per year, and the per capita grain possession was about 470 kilograms.

But now the 650 million tons of annual grain production has been turned into fly ash, and all the arable land in the country has been destroyed in the disaster caused by the meteorite impact, and it is no longer possible to cultivate due to the current climate and environment.

At present, the main source of food in the country is the limited amount of food produced in the greenhouses of various shelters and specially established planting areas, which can meet some of the needs and consumption, but definitely cannot meet the needs of the nearly one billion survivors in the country.

In short, if the state is unable to solve the problem of food supply and demand before the stock is exhausted, then in two to three years, a significant proportion of the survivors will starve to death.

For Chen Xin, he will definitely not be able to influence the whole country and let the people of the whole country have enough to eat, but he can still do it so that his relatives can at least eat enough in this apocalyptic disaster.

As for the key to being able to do this, it is natural to rely on the system to upgrade this shelter.

However, it cannot be said that the upgrade will be smashed without any planning, which will easily cause all kinds of problems, and even if he wants to upgrade this shelter, Chen Xin must also consider the actual needs of his relatives.

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Chen Xin found his second uncle and planned to ask him what the current problems of this shelter in the village were, what were the most urgent needs, and then consider what projects to upgrade first.

"What are the problems and needs of the village right now?" After listening to Chen Xin's question, the second uncle touched his chin and thought for a while before replying: "The problem is nothing more than food, clothing, housing and transportation, whether you can think about it now, you don't need to go out on such a cold day, and the only thing you need to consider when living in a shelter is heating."

As for the rest of the food and clothing, the problem is not very big, relying on the supplies sent by the town every week, plus the greenhouse in the shelter and the chickens raised by your second aunt, everyone can still be guaranteed to fill their stomachs. ”

Chen Xin nodded and said conclusively: "In other words, the most urgent need in the village is heating?" ”

"It can be said that the weather is getting colder and colder, and everyone is doing things and activities during the day, so I can still stay up, but it is very uncomfortable to sleep at night." The second uncle showed his worries, and said to Chen Xin helplessly: "Now the heating in the shelter relies on generators to generate electricity, but the generators rely on a little gasoline sent by the town every month. ”

After Chen Xin listened to it, he suddenly understood.

Sure enough, even in different places, the needs are probably the same.

"I'll think of a way to solve these problems and try to solve them for the village." Chen Xinchong's second uncle made a guarantee, and at the same time put forward some requirements: "I can help the village shelter do some renovations, but I may need some materials, so please ask the second uncle to find the town or change it." ”

"Upcycling? Ah Xin, can you really do it? What can be transformed? When the second uncle heard Chen Xin say this, he immediately showed concern.

"There are many things that can be changed, but the first thing to do is to solve the problem of power supply. I first removed a battery from my car and connected it to the circuit of the shelter, so that the power supply problem could be solved for the time being, and then I made some modifications to try to make the power self-sufficient. Chen Xin expounded his thoughts, and at the same time explained his thoughts to his second uncle.

After listening to Chen Xin's thoughts, the second uncle showed a happy expression on his face, and the wrinkles on his forehead stretched out a lot: "If it can really solve the problem of power supply, it will help a lot!" When the shelter was built, we listened to Xin's suggestion to install a heating system, but unfortunately the electricity has not been able to keep up, and now we don't dare to turn on that thing. ”

"There's heating in the vault?" Chen Xin couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, but suddenly again.

Obviously, many problems were taken into account when the state built the shelter, and Chen Xin also reminded them of a lot of precautions for building shelters, and there must be a solution to the problem of heating.

It's just that the shortage of energy has made the heating system a decoration.

So let's solve the power supply problem first, so that the heater can be turned on! Chen Xin made up his mind in his heart.

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