My Courtyard Refuge

Seawater Desalination Plant

After returning home from get off work, Xu Dong smelled chicken droppings as soon as he entered the yard. No matter how many skylights were opened, it was useless. This is the price of raising chickens at home.

“Honey, you’re back.”

Yang Lina was throwing vegetable leaves into the chicken coop, while Hua Hua sat aside and stared at it, as if thinking of something.

“Well, Uncle Zuo sent all the chickens?”

“It was delivered after ten o’clock in the morning. I wanted to keep him for lunch, but I didn’t.” Yang Lina replied.

Xu Dong came over to take a look at the chicken coop, and felt that it was more delicate than Mark’s dog house, and then boasted: “This chicken coop is well designed, where did Dad learn it from?”

“Do you still need to ask, of course I went to school with short videos.” Yang Lina replied with a smile.

The whole family knows that Dad Xu likes to watch short videos when he has nothing to do, and he is almost obsessed.

“Dad really didn’t talk about his craftsmanship. I should have opened a woodworking shop for him earlier.”

“Put it down, the carpentry shop can make some money, and our shop can make money now.” Yang Lina said with a smile.

“How much money do you make?”

Xu Dong was slightly surprised. He hadn’t been to the store for two or three months, and he knew almost nothing about the situation there.

Yang Lina glanced at the kitchen and whispered, “The last oneIn August, a transfer of 500,000 yuan suddenly appeared on my mother’s bank card. The money must have been transferred by my father. ”

“How did you find out?” Xu Dong asked curiously.

“This morning, my mother asked me to help set the alarm clock on my mobile phone. I accidentally found the money transfer text message. Husband, tell me, did my parents hide it from us on purpose?”

There was a trace of dissatisfaction in Yang Lina’s tone.

“Uh…” Xu Dong had a headache, so he could only comfort him: “You think too much. My parents usually prefer our family the most. How could they hide it from the two of us? They probably want to give us a surprise!”

“Tell me, do parents want to secretly subsidize elder brother and elder sister?” Yang Lina is not stupid.

Xu Dong waved his hand indifferently, “Parents can subsidize if they want. Anyway, our dad earns the money, and they can spend it on whoever they want.”

Yang Lina pinched Xu Dong’s arm hard, and complained, “You are the only one who is generous!”

“Okay, our department is going to travel to Jinmen tomorrow, so hurry up and prepare two sets of clothes for me.” Xu Dong quickly changed the subject.

“How many days?” Yang Lina was indeed distracted.

“Come back Sunday afternoon.”

“The weather is so hot, why travel well!” Yang Lina complained.

“The leader has spoken, it’s okay not to go, you don’t want me to be isolated by my colleagues, do you?”

“Okay, I didn’t say I wouldn’t let you go.”

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Early on Saturday morning, Xu Dong drove to the north gate of the company in a big Benz.

This time he didn’t bring many “luxury” ingredients, but some vegetables grown in his own vegetable garden were fresh and delicious.

After all, this is a team building activity organized by Section Chief Li. He cannot and does not want to steal the limelight from his boss.

What’s more, the snack incident has only passed not long ago, and he doesn’t want to repeat the same mistakes.

In addition to the ingredients, Xu Dong also brought two bottles of wine.

This is very in line with his rich person’s personality, and there are still a lot of wine in the market, so it is not too conspicuous.

“Is everyone here?” Section Chief Li stood at the door of the North Gate and shouted loudly.

“A total of 12 people are here.” Xiang Xin counted the number of people and said.

The security department originally had 13 employees, but Lao Zhang retired early some time ago, so now there are only 12 employees left.

“Okay, then let’s go. I’ll take the lead in the car, and you all follow me.” Section Chief Li ordered.

This tour, a total of 4 vehicles and 12 people, the journey officially started.

It takes about two hours to drive from Yanjing to Jinmen, and by 9:30, everyone has already entered Jinmen.

On the viaduct, Xiang Xin suddenly pointed at a construction site outside the window and exclaimed, “Look, why are there so many hanging towers here?”

Xu Dong had already discovered it a long time ago. If his guess was correct, these factories under construction should be seawater desalination plants.

Yanjing has a population of 20 million, and Jinmen has almost 15 million. If the surrounding counties and cities are included, the entire metropolitan area has a population of more than 60 million.

With such a large population, the daily water consumption is astonishing. It is no wonder that Jinmen has started to build seawater desalination plants early.

“Is there some new district up there?” said a male colleague.

“I haven’t heard of it. If a new district is set up, it should be a big news. Moreover, in this difficult situation, the country has no money to develop it.”

“It’s near the sea, is it developing a scenic spot?”

Xu Dong said directly: “Don’t guess, these are not new areas, nor are they scenic spots. In my opinion, this should be a super factory under construction.”

“Factory, how is it possible? This construction site has no end in sight. How big is this factory? Xu, are you sure?” someone questioned.

Xu Dong pointed forward: “Did you see that row of big chimneys?”

“I see, is there something wrong?” Xiang Xin asked doubtfully.

“Only factories have such dense chimneys, do you understand now?”

“No wonder, I don’t know what kind of factory it is, but the scale is so large?” A male colleague asked curiously.

Xu Dong once again turned into a popular science expert:

“Look at the large pools by the sea. This should be a seawater desalination plant. Those pools are used to filter the sundries in the seawater.”

Everyone suddenly realized, and Xiang Xin even gave a thumbs up: “Brother Xu, you know a lot!”

Xu Dong said modestly: “Oh, these are not advanced knowledge, they are in high school textbooks, but you have forgotten.”

“Xiao Xu may be right. Think about it. Now that the drought is so severe, the country definitely needs to build a new seawater desalination plant, but I didn’t expect the scale to be so scary.” A male colleague echoed.

“It’s right to be scary. It shows that the current situation is not optimistic. This drought may not end next year, or even the year after, the year after…” Gao Yuemei worried.

These words suddenly made the atmosphere in the car dignified. No one could imagine what would happen in the future if the drought continued.

Only Xu Dong knows it well, but he can’t and doesn’t want to say it, and it’s useless to say it.repair.

Xiang Xin saw that everyone looked a little heavy, so she hurried out to interrupt:

“Brother Xu, how long will it take to arrive?”

===Section 46===

Xu Dong glanced at the navigation map, and replied: “It’s almost there after getting off the viaduct, and it will take about ten minutes.”

“Miss Gao, have you brought your swimsuit?”

Gao Yuemei spat, “I’m already at this age, what kind of swimsuit do I still wear, my whole body is full of fat, just thinking about it makes my eyes burn.”

“Who stipulates that older people can’t wear swimsuits. It’s too bad for us to come to the beach after all our troubles.” Xiang Xin persuaded.

Gao Yuemei was unmoved, she didn’t want to be the protagonist of gossip among her male colleagues.