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Dinner time, Xu's mother strongly "criticized" her son for spending a lot of money to buy water. Read М

"It's a waste of money. There's enough water at home."

Xu's mother didn't object to buying water, but the price was too high. The water wasn't made of gold. It was outrageous. It was outrageous.

"Mom, didn't you complain about the lack of water some time ago? There are so many people in our family. With so little water every day, it may not be enough for washing faces, let alone taking a bath." Xu Dong advised.

"Then you shouldn't sign a three-year contract. Maybe in a few days, the water supply time will change back?"

Xu Dong took a sip of watermelon juice: "It's impossible. Once the plant factory is put into use, it can't be shut down at will. Even if it's for residents to use, they have to give way to them."

"I heard from your Aunt Wang that many seawater desalination plants have been built along the coast. How can there be insufficient water?"

"Mom, this matter is not as simple as you think. Our country has a population of 1.8 billion, and the total water consumption is over 1 trillion tons per year. Even if we save as much as possible now, we still need hundreds of billions of tons, right?

Do you know what these hundreds of billions of tons mean?

The largest seawater desalination plant in the world currently produces only 700 million tons a year. It takes about 100 such plants to barely meet daily needs."

Xu Ma and others were a little scared.

Xu Dong continued to explain: "One-third of our country's fresh water resources are now transported back from the South and North Poles, but the South and North Poles can't support it for a few years. Hard times are still ahead!"

In addition, the South and North Poles themselves have a big problem, that is, the ice period.

In autumn and winter, the route will be frozen, and the time that can be truly navigable in a year is actually no more than half a year.

"Dongzi is right, old woman, stop nagging, it's just tens of thousands of yuan every month, it's not like our family can't afford it." Xu's father helped persuade.

Xu Dong's words gave Xu's father a lot of inspiration, allowing him to have a clearer judgment and understanding of the future situation.

Xu's mother sighed: "Okay, if you don't want to say it, then don't say it. Anyway, no one will listen."

"Grandma, I listen to you, Dabao is the most obedient." Dabao immediately raised his little hand and said.

Xu's mother was overjoyed and hugged her grandson and kissed him hard.

...

The next day, perhaps out of "revenge" psychology, or perhaps frightened by what she said last night, Xu's mother, contrary to her usual behavior, sent Xu Dong to the grain store early in the morning.

Their family hasn't picked up the grain for this month yet!

In October, the total rations for the whole family were 172 kilograms, less than 20 kilograms per person.

They have many children, so it's a special case, which is understandable.

However, as for Xu's father and mother, they only have 46 kilograms of food rations, which is definitely not enough according to normal standards.

In addition, the rice and corn flour in the food rations are obviously much less, but the proportion of potatoes and sweet potatoes has increased by almost 30%.

After buying food from the grain store, as soon as I walked out of the door, a large group of people surrounded me.

"Brother, buy food at a high price, the price is negotiable."

"Do you want to exchange for fine grain? Three kilograms of corn flour for two kilograms of rice..."

Xu Dong waved his hand quickly: "I don't sell food, nor do I exchange food."

Today is neither the beginning of the month nor the time to get off work. I didn't expect that there are still so many middlemen in front of the grain store.

Squeezing out of the crowd, I finally got back to the car.

"Bang bang bang..."

An old lady caught up with me at some point and slapped the car window hard. Xu Dong waved his hand at her, indicating that he was not interested and was going to drive.

The old lady was persistent and kept shouting something. Xu Dong had no choice but to roll down the window. He didn't want to be scammed.

"Brother..."

"Auntie, I really don't sell grain or exchange grain." Xu Dong said helplessly.

The old lady looked flattering: "Brother, I have five pounds of corn flour and want to exchange it for potatoes or sweet potatoes."

"Auntie, I'm really not interested. You should find someone else!" Xu Dong repeated.

"Brother, please help me!" The old lady kept begging.

"I really can't do it. Sorry!" Xu Dong closed the window and prepared to leave.

Unexpectedly, the old lady knelt in front of the car and kowtowed without saying a word. It must be because she was too strong. Even her forehead was red.

Xu Dong hurriedly got out of the car to help her. This was too annoying.

"Auntie, please get up first."

"Brother, please, Auntie's family really can't make ends meet."

"Okay, I'll change it, isn't it?"

Xu Dong was not moved. He had seen everything in his previous life, and he had seen a lot of such trivial things. He agreed to it purely because he thought it was troublesome.

Alas, once you are entangled by such an elderly person, it is too difficult to get away, unless you call the police, but calling the police will also delay things.

When Auntie heard this, she immediately thanked him again and again: "Brother, Auntie thank you, you are our family's lifesaver, thank you, thank you!"

"Okay, tell me how you want to change it?" Xu Dong said impatiently.

"Just follow the market price. Auntie will exchange five catties of corn flour for ten catties of potatoes, or twelve catties of sweet potatoes. What do you think?"

"No problem, just follow this!"

Xu Dong took out a small electronic scale directly from the car. He bought it specially for the convenience of trading and kept it in the trunk.

The aunt quickly handed over the bag of corn flour. Xu Dong weighed it and found that the weight was exactly right. Then he opened the bag and checked it. The quality was also OK.

So he nodded.

After putting away the corn flour, he took out seven or eight sweet potatoes from his own bag and weighed them on the electronic scale:

12 pounds and eight ounces.

"Auntie, look carefully, the total is 12 pounds and eight ounces. The extra is my gift to you."

"Thank you, brother. You are so kind!" Auntie thanked again.

Xu Dong waved his hand, immediately packed the sweet potatoes, and handed them to the auntie: "Auntie, now we are even."

"We are even, thank you, auntie."

After Xu Dong left, the auntie instantly changed into a different person. The pitiful old woman disappeared, replaced by a shrewd old lady.

The old lady waved to the side, and a middle-aged man immediately rushed out.

"Mom, did you succeed?"

"It worked." The old lady said proudly.

The middle-aged man was very excited: "That's good. Our family finally doesn't have to go hungry this month."

"It's okay this month, but I can't say for next month." The old lady sighed.

"Mom, how did you know that this person was willing to exchange food?"

"Mom, tell you, if someone comes to get food after the beginning of the month, there is a high probability that his family is not short of food and must be well-off. It's right to target this kind of person."

The middle-aged man suddenly realized: "No wonder you came out to exchange food now."

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