Chapter Forty-Eight: A Year Later
Time flies, and more than a year has passed in the blink of an eye.
In the course of this year, we have made a lot of preparations for the end times.
First of all, we went back and forth between the mountain village and the city many times, and bought a lot of daily necessities in the city. Everybody had some in their rings.
Sister Qu and Second Sister Qu also explored relationships everywhere and collected materials.
Sister Qu found out at the class reunion that a classmate had a way to get coal, and it was very cheap, more than 400 tons a ton, so she begged her classmates to buy a lot of tons of coal.
When she and others went to buy coal, they also found that there was now a new type of wooden honeycomb coal, which was very cost-effective, so she couldn't help but buy a lot more.
Second Sister Qu took advantage of the teacher's convenience to directly buy a large amount of edible salt at the lowest price through the salt works in the south of the students' parents.
We also went to the south, and when we came back, we took out the fresh fruits and all kinds of food in the space for everyone to share.
The four elderly people in the family also often wander around the major wholesale markets to collect supplies.
Last winter, I experimented with the function of an ice cellar in Tayama Village. After the river froze, he dug up a lot of ice with tools and pulled it back and stored it in the ice cellar. When we went back to Tashan Village this summer to escape the heat, just like the big families in ancient times, the house was cooled down with ice cubes, and the effect was very good.
This summer is more dry than last summer. The water in the creek dried up on the hottest days, and the rice yield in the field was cut by more than half. Some villagers' wells are shallow, and there is no water in the wells, so they can only get water from their neighbors' houses for drinking.
Our family used the iced water to water the vegetables in the greenhouse, and there was no shortage of water for the vegetables, and we and my aunt's family ate fresh vegetables for a summer.
Due to the poor harvest of land in the mountains last year, several families who had relatives in the city sold their houses and land and went to the city to join their relatives, so I took the opportunity to buy two houses and more than 20 acres of land. It's all next to our house. I want to wait for the future if Sister Qu and Second Sister Qu come, so that there will be a place to live.
Secondly, the space in our home is also fully utilized. The Camellia oleifera trees were pulled out last winter, and I planted cotton a few more times, and since then I have been planting rice, wheat, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, soybeans and other foods that can fill my stomach.
There are also livestock (including dogs) in the space, we generally keep only 20 of each type, and the rest of the old, weak, sick and disabled are slaughtered and disposed of and stored in rings.
There are also a lot of ancillary products of these animals, chickens, ducks and geese feathers I have picked out and left, and I have found someone to process them together with wool, and I have made a lot of bed thickened duvets, down jackets, down pants, wool blankets, woolen sweaters, wool pants, etc., and even hats, socks, gloves, etc., I have also made many pairs of down and wool.
The eggs laid by chickens, ducks and geese are all counted in mountains, and the milk produced by sheep and cows is used as water by my family outside the space. The three children have also grown a lot taller and their physique has also strengthened a lot.
In addition, I took the cotton harvested in the space to the two old ladies, and made cotton clothes, cotton pants and quilts when they had time.
I also pickled a lot of pickles, pickles, salted duck eggs, salted goose eggs, etc., and also used grain to brew a few vats of liquor.
I took so many things from the space, and found various reasons to give a lot of them to my sisters and parents, so that they could put them in the ring, is it okay.
Thirdly, we also used the charcoal making machine in the space to make a lot of charcoal from the garbage collected from Tashan Village and the trees eliminated in our space, which is the kind of burn-resistant organic carbon. I've experimented and found that a piece can really burn for a long time, about 4 times more than charcoal, but it's just not very easy to ignite.
I called the supplier who sold us the machine and told him the problem, and they said, "You guys are pretty much it, don't put too much dirt in it." ”
I'm embarrassed, people think we buy machines to fake. Therefore, if there is too much soil, there will be no organic carbon. I quickly explained to others that we don't cheat, and the organic carbon we make should be used by ourselves.
People just asked me how long it takes to light the charcoal fire, I said it takes more than 10 minutes, people said that this is a normal phenomenon, if you want to ignite organic carbon quickly, as long as you brush a layer of chemicals on the surface of organic carbon, you can solve this problem, that is, the cost is higher, and to ensure that there is no pollution, harmless to the human body.
I checked on the Internet, there is indeed this technology, and the Internet also says that the main role of this chemical is to support combustion, and it will become water after combustion, and there is no harm, so I bought ten barrels of ** chemicals from the supplier at a high price.
Jiang Zhi also provided me with a method, he heard someone on the Internet, saying that the butane spray gun head for igniting charcoal is safer, environmentally friendly, faster and cleaner. In order to persuade me to buy it, Jiang Zhi also calculated an account for my little pick.
The price of the spray gun head ranges from 65~85 yuan, the gas tank generally ranges from 8~10 yuan, and 95 yuan according to the upper line, and a tank of gas can be lit at least 20 times, and the cost is less than 5 yuan. And the cost of this 5 yuan has the price of the spray gun, the spray gun itself can be used more than 1000 times, if you use 1000 times, the cost is greatly reduced, 85 + 500 = 585 / 1000 times, only spend 0.585 yuan at a time, very cheap!
This cost seems to be lower than the cost of my high-grade organic carbon, and I was moved by Jiang Zhi's words again, and bought a lot of butane spray gun heads and matching gas canisters on the Internet.
Finally, there is our cultivation, and in such a long period of time, our cultivation has taken another step, and now it is the fourth layer.
On the fourth level, we have also gained a new ability, that is, the aura in the body can be released. It's very similar to the spiritual power in the novel, but the spiritual power in the novel can be realized by thinking, and we must release the aura from the outside of the body.
At present, only a small amount of spiritual power can be released. When the aura in the body is emptied, you will feel a little sluggish when you cultivate again, and as the surrounding aura slowly enters the body, you will feel that the whole body is like soaking in a hot spring, warm and very comfortable. And the volume of the body will increase. In this way, more Reiki particles can be loaded into the body to support the release of Reiki for a longer time. It's a cyclical process.
Jiang Zhi exercised this ability by harvesting vegetables in the space with aura, and at the beginning, he could only move the vegetable leaves like the wind with aura. Through unremitting training, Jiang Zhi is now full of spiritual power and can harvest a quarter of the land in the space. Moreover, his spiritual power is like his other hand, oh, I should say many other hands. You can also complete the special effects of teleportation in the novel.
I practice the aura mainly by drawing talismans, applying the aura to the tip of the pen, and blending it into the pattern on the yellow paper together with the cinnabar. The drawing of talismans is done in one go, and the aura is evenly distributed in order to succeed.
I started learning to draw talismans a year ago, and when I didn't know how to release my aura, I first practiced drawing patterns with a brush dipped in ink on white paper to find a feeling.
I didn't deliberately be in the space when I was studying, once, I was drawing talismans at home in Tashan Village, and my aunt happened to come, and when she saw me drawing talismans, she made a fuss and said, I live in this house, and I am the same as Lao Jiatou, and I actually studied these things that the gods and gods are talking about.
I told the reason I had already thought of, I found a book on drawing talismans in this house, and after reading it, I was more interested, and I began to learn to draw talismans.
The aunt said that she should have listened to her at that time and not buy Lao Jiatou's house, Lao Jiatou was evil, and the house was also evil. You see, a good person will not follow the right path.
Jiang Zhi listened to his aunt's words and laughed. I'm speechless, I'm still a good person, okay, I haven't taken the wrong path.
Anyway, everyone I know about learning to draw talismans knows.
But for some reason, I still haven't been able to draw a successful talisman, which makes me feel very frustrated.
Jiang Zhi said that I haven't found the feeling yet, and I think maybe Jiang Zhi is right.
In the course of more than a year, the end times are one step closer to us.
There have been many natural and man-made disasters abroad.
In December last year, the world's strongest earthquake in nearly 40 years struck the waters of country Y, and triggered a tsunami, affecting more than 10 countries in East Asia, causing heavy casualties and property damage.
In May this year, the ** continent of country M was hit by a category 6 hurricane, which can be said to be a "catastrophe", resulting in serious losses of people and property. The hurricane killed tens of thousands of people, destroyed nearly 1 million homes, and left nearly 10 million homeless. 80% of the area was flooded, with a total area of about 300,000 square kilometers. A series of damage figures made this hurricane known by netizens as "the worst disaster in the history of country M".
In September this year, country J was hit by a severe tropical storm, killing about 14,000 people and affecting more than 8 million people, making it the strongest storm in more than 130 years.
Of course, there are some small island countries, R country sank in the sea in this year's repeated earthquakes and tsunamis, and completely withdrew from the stage of history.
Last winter, there were a wide range of natural disasters such as low temperatures, rain, snow, and freezing in the south. The affected area of crops was nearly 200 million mu, 100 million mu was damaged, and 50 million mu were lost; There were also several heavy snowstorms in the north, causing power outages, transportation disruptions, rising prices, and water supply disruptions. Both the North and the South suffered heavy losses.
This summer, most of our country has suffered another severe drought. The natural disaster ravaged for more than four months, with seedlings dying, the land cracked, and people and animals thirsty. Nearly half of the country's farmland was affected.
Recently, a lot of photos of subsidences and sinkholes that have appeared inexplicably have been reposted on the Internet. The picture is very clear and realistic, and the location of the incident is attached to the picture. Many god-level netizens confirmed that the picture is real. It caused an uproar and panic throughout the country.
There are many posts about the end of the world on the Internet forums, and some people have even made a table of a series of natural and man-made disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear radiation that have occurred at home and abroad in the past few years and posted them on the Internet. It was deleted within a few days. But the impact he had had was far-reaching.
There are many people with a sense of crisis who have begun to hoard food and supplies. Domestic prices have hit record highs again. The state also immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, began to intervene in price control, banned some illegal traders, refuted rumors on television, invited some experts, and gave a scientific explanation for the Tiankeng phenomenon now circulating on the Internet.
In short, during this year, the earth was full of calamities, and many people believed in the eschatological rhetoric.