My courtyard shelter

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

However, due to time reasons, the amount of electricity stored during the day was not much. In order to save electricity, the alcohol stove had to "work overtime" for one night.

Generally speaking, the power generation of each square meter of Han tiles is about 1 kilowatt per day, which is 1 kWh.

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

Excluding the impact of charging and discharging and power conversion efficiency, this means that the courtyard has about 220 kWh of electricity for normal use every day.

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

In short, solar power generation is not omnipotent, and electricity can be saved as much as possible.

With electricity, Xu Dong's family's life gradually returned to normal, except that the convenience store was still closed.

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

The solar flare has ended, and the country is about to launch large-scale post-disaster reconstruction work.

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

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

As expected, the entire capital area was plunged into complaints when this "bad news" came.

The original seven days of home life, plus three days of post-disaster statistics, was already the limit that everyone could endure.

This "limit" refers not only to the spiritual, but also to the material, meaning that everyone's daily necessities are almost consumed.

In fact, there is no shortage of daily necessities in the market, but everyone is running out of money.

You heard it right, "no money" is literally no money, and everyone has no cash available.

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

Now, there is no electricity and no network, and electronic payment is completely over.

Actually, the inability to use electronic payment is not the worst.

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

The reason is simple. The bank's electricity has not been restored.

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

Restoring the bank is no easier than restoring the power system.

So, this has become a dead end.

Fortunately, the country's response is not slow. Soon a relief plan covering all citizens was officially released, and it was urgently passed by Congress at the first time.

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

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

The plan aims to alleviate the cash crisis of citizens and support their daily expenses.

When the news came, complaints instantly turned into joy.

Then, the collection plan was also released:

As a family unit, go to the street office or village committee where your household registration is located to collect the relief funds with your household registration book.

As for those who work or live in other places, you can use your ID card or household registration book as collateral, and you can also borrow the corresponding amount of relief funds.

In the final analysis, this move is to prevent "interested people" from repeatedly fraudulently claiming relief funds. After all, without the Internet, it is impossible to synchronize information.

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On February 27, Yanjing officially opened for the collection of relief funds.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, more than an hour before the opening time, Xu Ma couldn't help but go out to line up with her new household registration book.

Xu Dong stopped and persuaded again and again. After all, the family didn't lack anything, and it was the same to collect the money later. Anyway, the relief funds would not grow wings and fly away.

Unfortunately, nothing was done.

This was the first time in Xu Ma's life that she had taken such a big advantage of the country. Besides, there were nine people in the family, and this was not a small amount of money. It was better to get it in her pocket as soon as possible.

There was no other way, so Xu Dong finally used his trump card and proposed to queue up for the relief money on behalf of his mother.

Even so, Xu's mother did not agree. According to her, she had to personally experience the welfare that only "people in developed countries" had.

Xu Dong was so amused that he could only let her go in the end. However, he still sent a small stool to her halfway, after all, sitting was better than standing and suffering.

Xu's mother was completely chatting, after all, everyone was idle anyway, and there were no mobile phones to play with.

"Lao Zhang, you look so beautiful with your smile, there must be a lot of people in your family, right?" An aunt named Wu, who was about the same age as Xu's mother, joked.

Xu's mother made a nine-point gesture and said modestly, "Not many, not many, only nine people."

"That's not a lot, didn't your family split up?" Aunt Wu speculated.

"It was split up, a long time ago, my husband and I are now living with our youngest son, and our eldest son and daughter are all in Luyang." Xu's mother replied.

A young woman next to her was quick-witted and immediately surprised: "Then your daughter-in-law gave birth to five children in one go?"

"Yes, my third child has two daughters and three sons." Aunt Xu said complacently.

"Why did she give birth to so many?" Another person interrupted.

Xu's mother explained: "I didn't expect to have so many children. I didn't expect that the first baby would be twins, and then the second baby would be triplets. The fate of the children has come, and there is no way to stop them."

"Lao Zhang, you are so lucky."

Aunt Wu envied that young people nowadays are unwilling to have children.

Her family was in this situation. She had been looking forward to having a granddaughter for many years, but her daughter-in-law refused to have another granddaughter no matter what.

Xu Ma had to be "humbly" again and said:

"It's not good to have too many children. If you don't worry about taking care of them, the burden will be heavy in the future. I can't afford to buy a house or even get a wife. I'm almost worried to death."

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

"I live in a courtyard worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but I'm afraid that my grandchildren won't be able to find wives! I happen to have a three-year-old daughter at home. If you don't mind it, can you be Dabao's wife?"

"Wow!" Aunt Wu was shocked, and then teased: "Old Zhang, I didn't expect you to be a rich old woman?"

Xu's mother just said "poof" and said, "What a bullshit rich girl. Our house is only worth a lot, and our savings are definitely not as much as yours."

"How do you know how much savings your family has?" someone shouted.

"Yes, let's talk about it, it will open the eyes of us poor devils."

Xu Ma couldn't resist and quickly "begged for mercy". Everyone laughed even more happily and then changed the topic to other aspects.

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After waiting in line for several hours, Xu Dong delivered another lunch at noon. It was not until about two o'clock in the afternoon that Xu's mother finally received the 9,000 yuan relief fund.