My courtyard shelter

"Finally, I wish everyone in our family good health and peace."

Xu Dong followed up by saying, "Dad, I also wish your and my mom's company will do better and better and create more glory."

"My part doesn't count, it's all your dad's business." Xu's mom said "disdainfully".

Tan Aifang looked at her daughter: "Jingyi, take your brothers and sisters and wish grandpa and grandma to live younger and younger."

Xu Jingyi nodded, then called her brothers and sisters together, and the younger generations blessed in unison:

"I wish grandpa and grandma (grandparents) good health and live younger and younger."

"Good!" Xu's father and mother were very happy.

"Let's toast together!"

"Cheers..."

After drinking a glass of wine, Xu Dong quickly picked up a sea cucumber. There were not many of these left, and now they could only enjoy them during the New Year.

Tonight's New Year's Eve dinner has a total of eight dishes.

In addition to braised sea cucumbers, there were also braised dried shrimps, pickled fish, fried bean curd with edamame and bacon, ham, cucumber and egg pancakes, a large bowl of vegetable salad, and finally two hot pots.

One chicken hot pot, one three-fresh hot pot.

Considering that there are many children in the family, only a little bit of chili was put in both hot pots, which was a bit regrettable.

The adults were toasting each other, and it was very lively.

The children's mouths were full of oil, especially Dabao and Lele, because their mother made an exception, the two of them completely let go of their stomachs.

The New Year's Eve dinner took more than an hour to finish, of course, the younger generation finished earlier, and they were watching TV in the bedroom at this time, watching TV, playing games, and having a great time.

After dinner, Xu Dong and others played mahjong while watching the Spring Festival Gala.

The theme of this year's Spring Festival Gala is still drought resistance, as the saying goes, everyone is united and shares the hard times.

The content of the program is very positive and less interesting, but there is a program with overseas live broadcast, which is quite interesting.

The program team connected with ten countries in total, half of which are in the midst of war.

Among the remaining five countries, the United States and Canada are generally normal; Kangaroo Country is deeply mired in a refugee crisis; Neon Country is still rebuilding after the disaster, which seems to be a long way off;

The last country is the Bear Country, which is freezing cold. Looking at the reporters' clothes, people who don't know would think they are in the Arctic!

Xu's mother looked at the shivering girl on TV and couldn't help but said with heartache:

"This girl is so pitiful. I don't know what their leaders are thinking. If they want to send a male reporter to such a cold place like the Bear Country!"

"Grandma, this female reporter is very popular on the Internet. She is very famous and likes to travel around. Maybe she asked to go there on her own initiative." Xu Jingyi introduced with a smile.

"It's so chaotic abroad. Why go abroad and mess around." Xu's mother shook her head.

"The Bear Country is okay. It's a bit cold, but at least there is no unrest. Personal safety is definitely not a problem." Xu Dong explained.

Xu Ting interrupted, "I heard that millions of people are starving to death every day in foreign countries. I wonder if it's true?"

"It should be true. Our country, the United States and the European Union account for more than 80% of the world's total electricity generation. Other countries, let alone eating, probably even drinking water has become a problem."

Xu Dong sighed.

"If people continue to die like this, won't they die out?" Xu's father took a breath.

"It won't be a case of dying out. When the global population drops to a certain scale, social order will basically be stable. With the current production conditions, I estimate that it should be no problem to feed 2 billion people."

Xu Ting was surprised and said, "Wouldn't it be that only...only one out of every five people can survive?"

"About that!" Xu Dong nodded.

According to his memory of his previous life, there will be a global census in a few years, and the number counted at that time will be less than 2 billion, only a little more than 1.9 billion.

"What about our country?" Xu's mother said fearfully.

"Our country has a strong industrial foundation and is a manufacturing powerhouse. We should be able to survive. As long as we can build enough power stations, enough desalination plants, and enough plant factories, it will not be difficult to survive."

Although Xu Dong said it lightly, there are many difficulties involved, such as resource shortages, incomplete industrial chains, ecological disasters and other problems, each of which is not so easy to solve.

Some are simply unsolvable and can only be delayed.

"Fortunately, fortunately!" Xu Ma patted her chest.

But what she didn't know was that the aging of the domestic population was quite serious, and the fate of this group of people was doomed. Even if they survived the famine, they could not escape several rounds of epidemics.

Only a small number of people can survive. Xu Ma in the previous life was a lucky one.

The topic was a bit heavy, Yang Lina hurried to make a pot of strawberry juice, added some more honey, and everyone continued to play mahjong while drinking strawberry juice.

……

At ten o'clock in the evening, the card game in the living room was still going on. Yang Lina took the tablet and secretly came to the bedroom of the three brothers of Dabao.

"Erbao, Xiaobao, wake up!"

Erbao rubbed his eyes and found that it was his mother. He immediately stretched out his hands for a hug. Xiaobao also woke up and looked at his mother with a silly face.

Yang Lina comforted the two brothers, woke up Dabao, and then carried the eldest son to the lower bunk, letting the three brothers sit in the same bed.

"Mom, I want to sleep." Dabao said in a baby voice.

Yang Lina touched the other's little head: "Dabao, be good, grandpa and grandma will call you later, and you will be able to see grandpa and grandma soon."

"Grandpa and grandma? But Dad said we don't have any." Dabao frowned and said.

Yang Lina gritted her teeth in hatred and planned to go back to settle accounts with her husband.

"How can you not have grandpa and grandma? Grandpa and grandma just went abroad before, and now they are back. Do you miss grandpa and grandma?"

"Yes..."

The three brothers nodded at the same time. In the kindergarten, many children have grandpa and grandma, and it is said that there are many delicious foods in the grandpa and grandma's home.

As soon as the triplets finished speaking, the WeChat ringtone rang. Yang Lina took a deep breath and clicked to connect.

"Hello, Nana, is that you? Can you see us?" Yang's mother's voice came from the other side.

"Mom, it's me, I can see you."

"We can see you too. Are those Dabao and his friends next to you? They are so beautiful!" Yang's mother said excitedly. In order to see the grandchildren clearly, she wanted to stick her old face to the screen.

Yang Lina quickly pointed the camera at the three brothers.

"Dabao, Erbao, Xiaobao, this is grandma, come and say hello to grandma."

Dabao said first: "Hello grandma, I'm Dabao!"

"Hello grandma, I'm Xiaobao."

"Grandma, I'm Erbao." Erbao waved his little hand and introduced himself.

"Good boy, so good!"

Mother Yang couldn't help wiping away tears.

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