Chapter 30: The Great Trough (1)
In the 32nd year of the crisis era, Song Xiang and Evian's daughter Song Shiyun was six years old, and the two parents communicated with their upstairs and downstairs neighbors in the community group, and finally got some fresh fruit for the child's birthday after working for a long time.
Their small home, allocated by the government, is 100 square meters, with three bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom, and the largest living room has been converted into a soilless cultivation room.
There are four rows of tempered glass shelves, divided into three floors, the first is a 40-centimeter-high fish pond with some fish and shrimp, and the second and third floors are 1.2-meter-high soilless farmland dedicated to growing rice.
The aisle in the middle of the shelf is also covered with a layer of soil, planted with pumpkins, potatoes, and sweet potatoes.
The house is 2.8 meters high and is fully utilized.
There is also a small room divided into two floors, the lower part is good for raising chickens and ducks, the top is planted with chopped rice stalks to grow mushrooms, and this room also has a layer of water tank with bean sprouts.
He became a self-sufficient urban peasant.
Of course, the food output of two houses is not enough to feed a family of three, and part of the food gap comes from community work.
This era reverted to a system in which the inhabitants of the community spontaneously formed one ultra-small government after another.
Let's call it a neighborhood committee.
The neighborhood committee first applied to the higher authorities for the property rights of all the houses in the community, and then converted the vacant houses and underground parking lots into indoor farmland, and even built greenhouses.
The neighborhood committees arrange for the residents to work, and finally distribute the grain output according to their work, and this process has the dawn of supervision to ensure justice to a greater extent.
Seeing the shrimp egg custard coming from Evian, Song Xiang came to his daughter's bedroom and asked her to log out of the VR game: Data Blue Star.
"Yunyun, stop playing, let's eat!"
Seeing that his daughter didn't answer, and her hands were still pinching something, Song Xiang showed a happy and satisfied smile.
Dawn: "Sir, do you need to close the game?" ”
"No, Yun Yun heard it, come out."
After a while, Xiao Yunyun said, "Ah Zhu, Xiao Qi, see you in the afternoon, I'm going to eat." ”
With her father's help, Yun Yun quickly took off her V gear.
The girl walked ahead and asked cheerfully, "Dad, it's my birthday today!" Can you play with real mud? ”
Evian said, "Soil is precious, don't flush it down the drain like you did when you were a child." ”
"Well, Yunyun knows, I was ignorant at that time, and my ass was beaten badly, and I still remember how much it hurt."
"That's because you pulled out all the sweet potato seedlings and rice that your parents worked so hard to plant, if it weren't for Shuguang to alert us in time, you would have drowned, and it's no wonder if you don't hit you."
So the soilless cultivation room has a password, so the two of them no longer go out to work together.
"Come, Yunyun, eat egg custard."
"I heard that the neighborhood committee plans to have a cow, and hundreds of households are fed with sweet potato vines and pumpkin vines, so they should be able to afford it, and next year we will accumulate some milk quota and make a cake for Yunyun to eat."
"Hmm~, thank you Mom and Dad!"
The happy little Yunyun looked at the gloomy sky outside the window, and was a little lost in an instant: "Dad, Mom, I haven't been out of the community, and I haven't seen the blue sky and white clouds, the stars in the night sky..."
"Does the beautiful world in the game really exist?"
Evian touched the child's little head and comforted: "It once existed, and it should exist in the future, and Shuguang is calling on countries to stop development and rebuild the beautiful ecology of Blue Star." ”
Song Xiang touched his wife with his arm and whispered, "Don't talk about this heavy topic to your children." ”
"Dad, I know, I know, I heard it when the big friends in the game talked about it, they said that Dawning Technology is an ETO and a surrender faction that betrays humanity, why?"
Hehe, because of political correctness.
The public opinion on the Internet does not reflect the real thoughts of the people, because public opinion is completely controlled, and if you want to post an article in support of the dawn, you will find that it can be sent out but no one can see it.
Song Xiang remembered that last month, someone in the community was pulled into the orange to educate for a few days, and when he came back, he didn't say anything, just shook his head and pointed to the smart products around him, comparing the gesture of sewing his mouth.
He shook his head, he didn't want to talk about this dangerous topic, and whoever dared to talk about protecting the environment and preventing the country from developing industry was an ETO and an anti-human.
On the contrary, Evian said: "Xiao Yunyun, don't listen to other people's opinions, read more philosophy books, and when you grow up, you can distinguish the rights and wrongs of the world." ”
Xiao Yunyun nodded seriously: "Well, Mom, I will study hard, in order to get a college diploma, in order to play games every day for unlimited hours!" ”
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While washing dishes in the kitchen, the two talked in a whisper: "In addition to our family, many other households have canceled food rations, and it seems that the food problem has become more serious." ”
Evian said: "The arable land has been reduced to 500 million mu, and in the past two years, all we have eaten is reserve grain, and our country has not yet experienced a large-scale famine, which is already very good compared to other countries." ”
"It's really a bad era, I heard that there is no one in black Africa, and they have been abandoned by the international community."
"What can we do if we don't abandon it, it's hard for us to even feed ourselves, how can we have the energy to care about their lives and deaths."
"Some countries have gone to the deep sea to fish, made canned hair for the people, and even dug up the algae in the sea for people to eat!"
A lot of seaweed can be eaten and is nutritious.
"Oh my God, wouldn't that disrupt Blue Star's oxygen cycle? And it's easy to be poisoned, after all, it's so polluted now! ”
"What's the solution? It's better than starvation, and besides, now there are artificial green lungs, that is, the green vegetation is dead, and humans can also make oxygen, and the problems that industry can solve are not a problem. ”
After thinking about it, Song Xiang decided to change the topic that was closely related to the family's daily life: "I heard the old man downstairs say that the representatives of the city are discussing whether to restore the water and electricity bills. ”
"Ahh We don't have any money! It's not trying to rob us of our food! "Evian's mind was spinning fast.
"It is estimated that the uncle said that there are two plans in the city, one is to restore the water and electricity bills, the price is very low, and it is not usually charged, but when you need it, you can use this as an excuse to charge one-tenth of your three-month grain production, and at most once a year."
"And the second?"
"The second is more straightforward, our seeds and nutrient solution are all provided by the government, and every time we apply for these materials, we have to pay 5 percent of the food for a quarter."
Evian said: "Doesn't that make it clear that let's choose the first option? The second one has to pay 10 percent more. ”
Song Xiang shook his head and said, "We don't have to choose, the representative will choose between the two plans on our behalf." ”
Evian said angrily: "Isn't this bullying? Clearly the constitution stipulates that all state-owned assets belong to all the people, so why do you need to charge fees? It's hard enough for us to just live, and we have to raise a bunch of waste who don't do anything? ”
Angry, she didn't think about the reason.