My Courtyard Refuge

Bailout money

That night, the long-lost lights came on in the courtyard, and the air conditioner roared again.

However, due to time reasons, the stored electricity during the day is not much. In order to save electricity, the alcohol stove has to temporarily “work overtime” for one night.

Generally speaking, the power generation capacity of each flat Hanwa is about 1 kilowatt a day, which is 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity.

The total area of ​​the Han tiles installed in the courtyard was about 290 square meters.

After deducting the impact of charging and discharging and power conversion efficiency, this means that almost 220 kilowatt-hours of electricity can be used normally in the courtyard every day.

Of course, this is the most ideal state. It is impossible for Yanjing to be sunny every day. In addition, there is a huge gap in power generation between summer and winter.

All in all, solar power generation is not a panacea, and you can save electricity when you usually use it.

With electricity, the life of Xu Dong’s family gradually returned to the right track, except that the convenience store was still closed.

At 10:15 a.m. on February 23, Daxia officials finally announced to the people of the whole country through various channels:

The solar flares are over, and a massive recovery effort is about to begin across the country.

On February 25, the Yanjing Post-Disaster Reconstruction Committee officially disclosed to the public:

Due to the damage to power equipment far exceeding expectations, the restoration of power in the capital area will not be until the fifth of next month at the earliest.

When this “bad news” came, as expected, the entire metropolitan area fell into complaints.

The original seven-day home life, plus the three-day post-disaster statistics, is already the limit that everyone can bear.

This “limit” not only refers to the spiritual, but also material, which means that everyone’s living materials are almost exhausted.

In fact, it is not that there is a lack of living supplies in the market, but that everyone is running out of money.

You heard that right, “no money” means no money in the literal sense, everyone has no cash in their hands.

Last year, the penetration rate of electronic payment in Daxia exceeded 90% for the first time, and cash is rarely seen in daily life.

Fortunately, there is no electricity or internet, and electronic payment is completely over.

In fact, the fact that electronic payment cannot be used is not the worst.

The worst thing is that everyone can’t withdraw the money stored in the bank, although this is only temporary.

The reason is simple, the bank’s power has not been restored either.

And not only electricity, but also various servers and systems in the bank need time to restructure.

Restoring a bank is no easier than restoring an electrical system.

So, this becomes a dead end.

Fortunately, the country’s response was not slow, and soon a bailout plan covering all citizens was officially released, and it was urgently passed by Congress immediately.

The time spent before and after was less than a day.

The content of this bailout plan is very simple. It is to distribute money to all citizens, regardless of property, age, or skin color. As long as they have Daxia nationality or a green card, everyone will receive a quota of 1,000 yuan.

The program aims to alleviate the national cash crisis and support its daily expenses.

When the news came, the complaints instantly turned into joy and excitement.

Then, the receiving plan came outup:

Take the family as the unit, and go to the sub-district office or village committee where the household registration is located to receive the relief fund with the household registration booklet.

As for those who work or settle in other places, they can use their ID cards or household registration books as collateral, and they can also borrow a corresponding amount of bailout funds.

In the final analysis, this move is to prevent “wishful people” from repeatedly fraudulently receiving bailout money. After all, there is no network, and it is impossible to synchronize information.

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On February 27, Yanjing officially opened the door to receive relief payments.

At 8 o’clock in the morning, there was still more than an hour before the opening time, Xu Ma couldn’t help but went out with the new household registration book and queued up.

Xu Dong stopped and stopped, persuaded and persuaded, after all, there is nothing lacking in the house, and it is the same to receive the money later, anyway, the bailout money will not grow wings and fly.

Unfortunately, nothing to say.

This is the first time in Xu Ma’s life that she has taken such a big advantage from the country. Besides, there are nine people in her family.

There is no way, Xu Dong finally resorted to his trump card and proposed to queue up to receive the relief money by himself instead of his mother.

In this regard, Madam Xu also refused. According to her, she insisted on personally experiencing the benefits that only “people in developed countries” have.

Xu Dong couldn’t laugh or cry, and in the end he could only let her go, but he still sent a small bench in the middle, after all, it’s better to suffer while sitting than standing.

Xu Ma’s side chatted thoroughly, after all, everyone is idle, and there is no mobile phone to play with.

“Old Zhang, seeing your beautiful smile, there must be a lot of people in the family?” An aunt named Wu who was about the same age as Xu’s mother joked.

Mama Xu made a gesture of nine, and said modestly: “Not many, not many, there are only nine people.”

“That’s not much, isn’t your family separated?” Aunt Wu speculated.

“It’s been separated, it’s been separated a long time ago. My wife and I are now taking care of our youngest son, and our eldest son and daughter’s family are in Luyang.” Madam Xu replied.

A young woman next to her had a quick mind and was immediately surprised: “Then your little daughter-in-law gave birth to five children in one go?”

“Yes, my third child has two daughters and three sons.” Madam Xu said complacently.

“Why are there so many?” Another person interjected.

Xu’s mother explained: “I didn’t expect to have so many babies. I didn’t expect that the first child would be twins, and then the second child would be triplets. The fate of the children has come, and there is nothing to stop them.”

“Old Zhang, you are so lucky.”

Aunt Wu envied that young people are not willing to have children nowadays.

This is the case in her family. They have only hoped for a granddaughter for many years, but the daughter-in-law refuses to have another child.

Mama Xu had no choice but to “modestly” say again:

“It’s not good to have too many children. Not to mention worrying about taking care of them, the burden will be heavy in the future. I can’t afford a house, and I can’t even get a wife. I’m almost dying of worry.”

As soon as the words fell, the proprietress of a local restaurant immediately exposed Xu Ma’s “lie”:

“I’m living in a quadrangle with hundreds of millions of dollars. I’m afraid that my grandchildren won’t be able to marry a daughter-in-law! It just so happens that my family has a three-year-old daughter. If you don’t mind, why don’t you make Dabao his daughter-in-law?”

“Wow!” Aunt Wu was taken aback, and then teased: “Old Zhang, I didn’t expect you to be an old rich woman?”

Mama Xu gave a “bah” directly, “What kind of rich asshole, our house is only worth a lot of money, and the savings must not be as much as yours.”

“How do you know, how much savings does your family have?” someone booed.

“Yeah, let’s talk about it, let us poor ghosts also open our eyes.”

Unable to resist, Mama Xu hurriedly “begged for mercy”, and everyone laughed even more happily, and then changed the topic to other aspects.

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After queuing up for several hours, Xu Dong delivered another lunch at noon. It was not until after two o’clock in the afternoon that Xu Ma finally received the bailout money of 9,000 yuan.