My Courtyard Refuge

Ma Lingling’s Day (Part 2)

After lunch, grandpa went to work in less than ten minutes.

In grandma’s words:

“Your grandfather is becoming more and more like a workaholic.”

Ma Lingling felt that there was nothing wrong with being a workaholic, at least she didn’t lack money.

At her age, she is the most sensitive to trends and has the strongest desire for comparison. She will never have enough money to spend.

When she first came to Yanjing, she was planning to work a summer job in her grandfather’s shop to earn some pocket money, but her grandmother refused to agree, so she had to give up.

In the afternoon, Ma Lingling took a nap for two hours. During this time, the outdoor temperature was as high as 47 to 8 degrees. Unless there was an air conditioner, she couldn’t do any work.

After taking a nap, she first went to the kitchen to wash her face with cold water, then took out a bottle of Bingkuo from the refrigerator, drank it in three gulps, and then hiccupped several times.

It’s cool, that’s what I want.

Fortunately, grandma’s house used to be a convenience store, and now there is no shortage of snacks and drinks at home. Ma Lingling feels that the two little cousins ​​are living in a honeypot.

“Lingling, wake up, grandma has stewed white fungus and lotus seed soup, it’s so sweet, would you like a bowl?”

Xu’s mother is used to taking care of the triplets, so she doesn’t usually take a nap.Ma Lingling rubbed her belly and smiled wryly: “Grandma, why didn’t you tell me earlier, I just drank a bottle of Coke and I’m full.”

“You kid, why are you drinking so much Coke? It’s not nutritious at all. Next time, drink less.” Mother Xu taught.

“I see, grandma, you are dressed so formally, where are you going?” Ma Lingling asked curiously.

Mama Xu smiled and replied, “It’s been a long time since we got together. Your grandma Wang invited me to have afternoon tea. Would you like to come together?”

Ma Lingling went to Wang Xiujuan’s house once, and the other party was very generous. He gave her a big red envelope of 1,000 yuan when they met for the first time.

“Okay, grandma, wait for me, I’ll go change my clothes.”

Ma Lingling was worried about how to pass the time in the afternoon. The age gap between her and her younger cousins ​​was too big, and she was too embarrassed to grab their tablet. We couldn’t play together at all.

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As for mobile games, she really wasn’t very interested in them, otherwise her academic performance wouldn’t be so outstanding.

Half an hour later, Ma Lingling accompanied her grandmother to Wang Xiujuan’s house. Since it was a party, they must not be the only two who came.

“Old Zhang, you brought Lingling along, welcome.” Wang Xiujuan greeted her with a smile.

“Grandma Wang is good.”

“What a good boy, come and sit with me when you have time in the future.”

Wang Xiujuan is more traditional, and she especially likes juniors with good academic performance, otherwise she wouldn’t have given such a big red envelope back then.

“As long as Grandma Wang doesn’t find me annoying.”

Wang Xiujuan said angrily: “How can you be bothered? It’s too late for me to welcome you!”

After the courtesy, we waited for more than ten minutes, and finally everyone arrived.

Different from the afternoon tea time in foreign countries, Wang Xiujuan and the others held afternoon tea, after leisure, mainly to exchange some important information, so all the people present here are people with backgrounds.

Even Xu Ma’s family is a proper billionaire, and her son works in a power company, so she is no worse than others.

As the host, Wang Xiujuan first said: “From next month, the capital may gradually reduce the supply of rice and flour, and the proportion of corn and potatoes will increase in the future.”

“how so?”

“The situation is getting more and more serious. Our Yanjing side is doing well. I heard that in some remote areas, even sweet potatoes are in short supply.” Wang Xiujuan sighed.

“Old Wang, my neighbor next door went abroad the day before yesterday, and went to the other side of the ocean. Do you have a channel to find out what’s going on there?”

This aunt with big waves can tell at a glance that she also has the idea of ​​going abroad.

An aunt who spoke very slowly introduced:

“In this regard, I do know that the situation on the other side of the ocean is not much better than ours, and there have been several incidents of ‘zero-yuan purchases’ in succession before.

You also know that they can’t help but shoot, we Daxia people are not familiar with the place there, let me tell you, it’s better to stay in China! ”

“The key is that it’s hard to say in China. With such a large population, hundreds of millions of tons of food will be consumed a year. I think it’s even more difficult.”

Numbers are not deceiving, and this big wave is also very reasonable. Even if Daxia has enough emergency food reserves, it can be managed for at most two years.

What about after two years?

Mama Xu said at this time: “You don’t have to worry too much, my son just came back from Jinmen, and there is a big seawater desalination plant there, and the scale is said to be scary.

No matter how dry it is, we can still come up with a solution. I think it’s better to stay in China. I won’t go abroad anyway. ”

“I also heard from my family that this project will be completed by the end of the year, and it will be able to meet the daily water needs of 30 million people.

And the second phase of the project will start soon, and the scale will be larger than the first phase.

Not only that, similar seawater desalination plants are blooming almost everywhere in coastal areas. Lao Zhang is right, we don’t need to worry too much. ”

“To put it lightly, we all came from that era, anyway, I don’t like it…”

“Forget it, let’s not talk about this, who of you can get canned food? My son is going to the south for duty, and I want to get him some canned food to take with him.”

“I stocked some before, how much do you want?” Da Bo asked.

She wanted to go abroad wholeheartedly, and a large part of the supplies in her hands must be disposed of.

“Come on a box! I can’t afford more, what do you want in exchange?”

“Can it be paid in gold?”

“Okay, I still have some jewelry there, all of them are for you.”

Wang Xiujuan took the opportunity to interject and said, “Can you sell me a few boxes too, I can also pay the bill with jewelry, and I can also help you get air tickets or boat tickets.”

“Of course no problem, as long as I can get a ticket, I can give you a 20% discount.” Da Bolang said boldly.

At the end of the tea party, no one convinced anyone. The only consensus reached by everyone was that no matter whether you want to go abroad or not, you must hurry up and make final preparations.

Ma Lingling listened carefully from the side, but the more she listened, the more frightened she became, which opened her eyes to a high school student who was deaf to what was going on outside the window.

It turns out that outsideThe world of the world has changed a lot without knowing it.

The apocalyptic plot that originally only appeared in movies is actually happening now.

At this moment, she was very confused. The status of a top student that she was proud of at first seemed to suddenly lose its meaning at this moment.

On the way home, Xu’s mother looked at the silent granddaughter and couldn’t help worrying: “What’s the matter, didn’t you go well when you came?”

“Grandma, is what Grandma Wang and the others said about the end of the world true?” Ma Lingling asked worriedly.

“Of course it’s not true. How could the end of the world happen? It’s just a few years of drought at most. It’s not that serious.” Mama Xu comforted.