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    It is not troublesome to rent a freezer. Although they are not a coastal city, the seafood industry is not developed, so there are not many special warehouses such as freezers, but there are several large seafood transshipment markets on their side, equivalent to a Haishi is a transfer station for inland seafood, and many fresh markets need to use ice, so the amount of ice cubes coming in and out is still very large. He made a move from it, and it wasn't too conspicuous.

After Mu Nan added insulation film and heat insulation curtains to the windows of the houses on both sides, Qinhuai also took care of it properly. During the day, such large trucks are not allowed to go on the road. In addition, it is relatively hot during the day, so Qinhuai also took care of it. I didn't want to take Mu Nan out in such a hot weather, so I happened to take Mu Nan to and from transportation every night. The ice storage needs to hire workers to help with the ice. After loading the ice into the freight ice truck, he will drive the truck away to the rented warehouse on the other side, let Mu Nan collect the ice into the space, and run for a night. Several tons of ice can be smuggled into space in two or three trips.

The oil side is even simpler, and you don't even need false certificates. After contacting a private buyer, you drive a small truck directly to pack the boxes. To the outside world, he is also a middleman, and people don't bother to ask a few more questions. There are a lot of people who transfer them from private oil dealers like them and then find buyers to make the difference. As for how others sell it, whether it will be investigated if the movement is too loud, it is none of their business.

But because Qin Huai buys more frequently, he can pull a few cars from them almost every day, which makes the oil seller a little curious: "Your business is good?"

Qin Huai smiled and handed a cigarette, watching them like this The worker who was helping to load the goods said: "If the last source of goods hadn't been unhappy, I would not have looked for a new source of goods. I have never worried about selling the things in my hand, only worrying about not having enough goods." The oil dealer listened to him

. It's a bit surprising to say that. I didn't expect this person to look young, but he turned out to be a veteran. Seeing that the other party seemed to have a lot of offline, and every time he gave money, he was very straightforward, so he asked tentatively: "You guys are just throwing money away. ?"

Qin Huai glanced at him: "Why, do you have other goods?"

The oil dealer said: "Yes, do you want white wine?"

Qin Huai had some boxes of liquor in City B before, but he doesn't drink, and the boxes he prepared were just for future preparations. Of course, if the price is right, it doesn't hurt to get some more for storage: "What brand and what price? "

The oil dealer said the brand, took out his mobile phone, turned on the calculator, and counted a few numbers. Qin Huai shook his head when he saw it: "It's too high. I won't be able to make much profit by reselling this price, so it's not worth my trouble." The

oil dealer saw that there was something going on, so he laughed and started negotiating with him, and finally almost found the other party's low price. Only then did Qin Huai let go and said, "Okay, I've never made baijiu before. Try it first. I'll get a batch first. If it goes well, I'll come to you.

" As long as there is money to be made, they are all brothers! And baijiu is more profitable than oil. After all, the price of oil is there, and there is only a little profit. Liquor is different. The channel is different, and the price is different. It can be said that selling one or two bottles of baijiu can earn It is much more than selling one or two barrels of oil. Like Qinhuai, there seem to be many merchants who have gone offline and can sell all kinds of goods. He is naturally happy to make friends. If the liquor line can be stabilized, the epidemic will The loss of these months can be made up.

It's a pity that the oil dealer thought very well, but he didn't have so much time to make money for him.

On the day when the temperature in their city broke through 40 degrees for the first time, a car exploded on the way. Fortunately, there were no casualties. I stopped, and hurried to the back seat of the car to get a fire extinguisher. Some passing vehicles also stopped to help, but unfortunately the fire could not be put out, and the car exploded in the end. When they realized that something was wrong, the people who helped put out the fire and the owner of the car subconsciously ran a little further away. Just as they ran away, the car exploded with a bang.

Qin Huai was driving a car at that time, following the traffic flow around the turntable, the car behind him exploded, and when the car exploded, all the cars behind him were blocked, if he didn't happen to be in front, he might have died too. Being stuck in the middle of the road and unable to advance or retreat. Although Mu Nan said that he dreamed that many vehicles and some electronic equipment would suddenly explode when the temperature became higher, but seeing it with his own eyes now, it still makes people feel a little horrified.

As soon as his car got off the bridge, Mu Nan called: "Brother, where are you?"

Qin Huai: "On the way back, we have already arrived at Qingchuan Avenue."

Mu Nan on the other end of the phone seemed relieved "Come back as soon as you're done with the matter. If you have anything to take, I'll go with you tonight. I just saw the news of a car exploding on the Konggang Bridge. It scared me to death." Qin Huai said: "

So It's going to be on the news soon? The car behind me just exploded, and I saw it too, don't worry, I'll be right back, and I'll be home in ten minutes." Mu Nan urged: "Then hurry up, I'm at

home Waiting for you."

Qin Huai would tell him where he was going and what he was going to do every day because he was not with him and he was worried that he would be worried. Mu Nan was making dumplings at home, and when he saw someone in their community post the news about the vehicle explosion on the Konggang Bridge, he was so frightened that he quickly called Qin Huai, because the Konggang Bridge is the only way for Qin Huai to go home, and when he heard that Qin Huai was coming back soon Now, Mu Nan felt relieved. He felt that he couldn't let Qin Huai go out again. Now that the temperature had started to rise, he couldn't take chances and run outside. Anyway, they had accumulated enough things, so let's forget about the unspent money. Life matters.

Qin Huai parked the car in the underground garage. It took less than five minutes to get home from the elevator in the garage, and his body was already drenched with sweat, which shows how high the temperature is now.

As soon as he entered the door, Mu Nan handed over a wet towel: "Hurry up and wipe off the sweat to cool down. Wipe off the sweat before going to take a shower. It's so hot. Let's eat cold noodles later. Would you like to drink iced cola or iced beer?" ? I put a few bottles in the freezer, and it's probably frozen into smoothie by now."

Qin Huai: "Beer."

After washing off the heat, Qin Huai sat in the cool air-conditioned room, eating cold noodles and said, "I'll collect the ice again tonight, and I'll return the freezer, and I won't collect the oil, which is flammable and explosive. Things, on such a hot day, if they can't be stored in the space immediately, the road is too unsafe. The daily consumption we have prepared for a few years is almost enough, and we have to go out again tomorrow night. The car we booked It can be handed over, and when the time comes, drive directly into the warehouse and put it away first, otherwise our community needs multiple RVs, which will definitely attract people to watch, and it will be too conspicuous."

Mu Nan asked: "Then how much money do we have left?"

Qin Huai He took out his phone and looked at his account, except for the remaining balance that needs to be settled: "There are almost 300,000 left." The RV was bought with a loan, and the first thing he could do when he was able to go out was to take Mu Nan to see it. car, and then apply for a loan. It is estimated that the economy has been depressed after the epidemic. The speed of loan processing is quite fast, and it will come down in about ten days, but the car he wants has not yet arrived. He has been urging the 4S shop, and finally he will The car arrived.

Mu Nan bit her chopsticks and sighed: "There's still so much money." In

the half a month since they came back from City B, they have been receiving goods from the warehouse almost every day. The most troublesome thing is the ice cubes. A lot of mineral water, drinks, all kinds of quick-frozen food, fresh meat and several varieties of vegetables and fruits, afraid of attracting attention, the amount purchased is not too large, but there are also a lot of accumulation every day, except In addition, I bought some clothes and shoes, bought a bunch of quilts and other bedding, and bought a lot of generator solar panels and storage batteries on large items. I spend money like running water every day, but I still have thirty Dou Wan, I never thought that spending money is a difficult thing, if it is not afraid of attracting attention, then it would be much easier to spend money.

Qin Huai said: "It's a pity that we don't have enough time, otherwise we can modify a car and put it outside. If there is anything to do, the modified car will be more durable than this ordinary car, so the little money left in my hand may not be enough." During the epidemic If you can't go out, even if you have money, no one dares to risk your life to do vehicle modification at that time. If you can go out, time is too tight, so you can only give up the idea of ​​​​vehicle modification.

"Forget it, let's go out for a stroll at night these few days, buy some casually, and we can go wholesale some ice cream later."

Mu Nan nodded, and asked again: "Aren't you going out this afternoon?"

Qin Huai: "No, I'll make dumplings with you in the afternoon."

Mu Nan smiled: "The meat I thawed has already been wrapped, I'll take a nap in the afternoon Well, the days of sleeping at night and going out at night are about to begin again."

Qin Huai looked at him: "Again?"

Mu Nan paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "I have a lot of inspiration at night. I used to draw at night when I was drawing and sleep during the day. "

Qin Huai frowned: "If you don't sleep at night, you can't get up during the day, that's how your body is ruined."

Mu Nan snorted, didn't listen to Qin Huai's lecture, put down the bowl after eating, climbed into bed, hugged the computer and started looking for TV dramas to pass the time .

The two slept together in the afternoon, finished dinner, and did housework for a while. Seeing that it was almost time, the two went out together. Feeling the double reminiscence separated by a door, Mu Nan sighed: "It's melted, the whole person is melted."

Qin Huai laughed and said: "I know how hot it is outside, but I always want to go out."

If you can I have never gone out, and Mu Nan doesn't want to go out, but now I can still hide in the air-conditioned room, what should I do if there is a power outage in the back? Although people are very adaptable, there must be a process of adaptation. Sometimes, he won't be unable to accept it all at once. So it is better to go out every day, feel the heat outside, and let yourself have a process of adaptation.

There are more people in the supermarket than expected, but many of them are walking around pushing an empty cart. It feels that there are not many people shopping, and most of them are here to catch the air-conditioning.

Hearing that someone lamented that the price of something had increased again, Mu Nan subconsciously took another look. He is not sensitive to the price of things, unless it is something he knows in common sense, such as a bottle of mineral water that costs two yuan. Only when he sold it for five or six yuan did he realize that the price of the item had increased.

Qin Huai was much more sensitive than him, holding a bottle of yogurt that Mu Nan likes to drink: "This bottle used to cost twenty-three six yuan."

Mu Nan glanced at the price tag: "Now this bottle is 27.5 yuan, which is an increase of 4 yuan."

Qin Huai put a few more bottles in the cart: "The weather is hot, and the sales of this kind of thing If it is higher, the transportation cost may also increase a little, and the price will naturally rise."

Mu Nan picked up a Yakult: "This one, has the price also increased?"

Qin Huai hummed: "This one has increased by two yuan, it's okay, Do you want it? If you want it, take a few more."

Mu Nan naturally wanted it, although he had already stocked up many boxes of this thing in his space, but there was never too much. I just picked up some yogurt and some snacks. A shopping cart was full. When I went to check out, I saw that there were still a lot of sandwiches he used to eat in the refrigerated area. Mu Nan walked over and took a few: "There is also microwave rice here, I haven't eaten it yet, do you want to buy a few boxes and go back and try it?"

Qin Huai pushed the cart and walked to him: "Buy it."

The leftover microwave on the shelf can be eaten as soon as it is heated There are not many lunch boxes left, and they all have different flavors, so Mu Nan simply took them all. When he got the last one, he heard someone beside him with a smile: "Can you give me the last box?"

Mu Nan turned her head and saw that it was the doctor who lived on the same floor as them, and quickly said: "Doctor Xu, what a coincidence, which flavor do you want? It doesn't matter if you have more, we just haven't tried it before, so try something new."

Xu Ming took the last black pepper flavored one from the shelf: "One is enough, thank you."

Qin Huai said, "Dr. Xu just got off work?"

Xu Ming nodded and sighed: "The temperature is too high recently, Even if they avoided going out during high temperature hours, some pets were still scalded, their paws were severely scalded, and many suffered from heatstroke, so the hospital was very busy."

Mu Nan was puzzled: "Pet?"

Xu Ming smiled He smiled: "I'm a veterinarian."

Mu Nan snorted, he thought Xu Ming was a human doctor.

Just as he was talking, Xu Ming remembered something, and said to the two of them, "Are you in the community group? Can you help me? I don't have time to go to the community during the day at work, and I didn't join the group before. Now there is some news from the community I can't even receive notifications."

This is not too much trouble, Mu Nan directly took out his mobile phone: "Then I will add you first, and then pull you into the community group, were you not at home during the epidemic? "

Xu Ming shook his head: "I lived in the hospital for several months. If it weren't for the kind-hearted volunteers over there who would occasionally send some food, I would have starved to death. I didn't expect things to develop like that. A few cats and dogs who had just undergone surgery needed to be looked after. It was raining and smoggy, and I was worried about what might happen on the road, so I thought about staying in the hospital temporarily, but I ended up staying here for a few months. "

Mu Nan sighed: "It's not easy, I'll pull you into the group and wait for the group owner to pass."

Xu Ming smiled and said, "Thank you."

Xu Ming probably just came to buy dinner, so he took the microwave After dinner, Mu Nan turned to Qin Huai and said, "When I heard about the surgery that day, I thought he was a human doctor. I also wanted to say that at such a young age, he can already perform surgery on stage. It's pretty amazing."

Qin Huai said with a smile: "When you were young, you thought about becoming a veterinarian when you grew up. At that time, your aunt would not let you keep a dog. You expressed your unwillingness that you would become a veterinarian when you grow up. Being a veterinarian will allow you to have countless cats and cats." It's a dog."

Mu Nan also smiled: "I had many dreams when I was young. I wanted to raise pets and become a veterinarian, I wanted to eat snacks and open a small shop, and I wanted to be a bus conductor if I liked taking a car. The egg pancake at the school gate was delicious. I also thought about being an egg cake owner, selling fried chicken, making milk tea, dreams, don't they just change at any time according to preferences."

Qin Huai smiled even more: "Then your dreams are quite down-to-earth, They are all scientists, astronauts, and no matter how bad they are, they are also big bosses."

Mu Nan said: "Facts have proved that people still need to study more. In the future, those scientists and astronauts will definitely have a better life than the big boss. After all, they are talents who have been cultivated with great difficulty, and they are considered the foundation of the country. But the boss, unless he can do it If people's livelihood is shaken, and they can still accumulate after a scene, otherwise they can only squat on the side of the road and dig tree roots."

There are not many rich business owners in the country who can do that, and I remember Mu Nan The development of the previous life was similar. A few rich businessmen and overseas Chinese, as well as several well-known and unknown big bosses, donated several huge sums of money. They said it was to support the country's space program. Where did the money actually go? Of course, ordinary citizens like Mu Nan don't know about it, but since the government has been able to produce some supplies, it can be seen that the higher-ups are probably already preparing for the future.

At this time, it is really irrational to hoard a large amount of things. Even if it is just a small amount for the above, it may not be noticed by people, but if you can't stand it, there will be unexpected events. One, so staying at home and doing nothing is the safest thing to do.

But it's said that they don't do anything, but Mu Nan and Qin Huai can still spend a lot of money every day, go to the supermarket every other day or two, drive a little farther in the evening, put away the things they bought when they get in the car, and go back to the community empty-handed. It will not attract attention, and buying some things online, spending thousands of dollars a day, receiving express packages for a few daily necessities, is not eye-catching.

Although the temperature is a bit strangely hot now, the temperature is still hovering around forty-two forty-three. Even though it is so high that some people are already vigilant, but more people just lament that everything is not going well this year, and it is too hot .

Until an old man fainted to the ground due to heatstroke, passers-by hesitated for a moment, and more people came to testify to each other and carried the fainted person to a cool place, but the skin of the fainted person touching the ground was scorched red. After being sent to the hospital, even if the first aid was first aided, the news that he could not be rescued in the end was exposed. Only then did people realize that this high temperature is not only weirdly hot, but also deadly.

The community Mu Nan lives in is relatively lucky. Because it is an old community, many equipments and the like have reached the maximum service life, so there are potential safety hazards. When the old community was remodeled last year, their community was the first to be remodeled. . In the past, the middle and lower floors on their side used groundwater, and the upper floors used water from water tanks. After the second renovation, all of them were changed to groundwater. The power supply box outside and the cables in the entire community have all been replaced.

And the community next door had just started to renovate the water supply, but the epidemic shut down. Now the water pipes have not been renovated, so naturally they can't move the electric box, so one afternoon, there was a loud noise, and the transformer of the electric box in the next community blew up. The two buildings in the box, with nearly 600 households, were all without electricity.

It was two or three o'clock in the afternoon when the electric box exploded, and Mu Nan and Qin Huai, whose work and rest had become upside down day and night, were startled awake by the explosion at the same time. Opening the curtains and seeing that there was nothing unusual downstairs in the community, the two were relieved, and soon someone posted a photo of the transformer on fire to the group.

Mu Nan said: "It's so loud, I thought what happened to our building."

Qin Huai was also startled: "Last night, the transformer in the civil aviation dormitory exploded, and today another one exploded."

Mu Nan He fell back on the bed again: "Fortunately, the equipment on our side has just been replaced, otherwise it might be bombed three times in a row."

Qin Huai also lay back on the bed, but after waking up from the fright, he lost sleepiness, so he started looking at his phone.

The hottest topic on the Internet right now is the global high temperature. Some people say that the polar glaciers are melting at a speed visible to the naked eye. Once the glaciers melt, there may be another unsolvable virus. There are many corpses of fierce beasts from ancient times, and ancient viruses from tens of thousands or even millions of years ago.

In addition to viruses, the sea level rise caused by the melting of glaciers will greatly threaten the existing living environment of human beings, and may make some cities or some small countries disappear forever in the rising sea water.

Of course, these future or foreseeable crises are still a little far away from their current lives. The biggest problem around them now is that medical resources are once again strained.

Excessively high temperatures make it difficult for people to travel, but they have to go out in order to live. Not everyone has such good conditions to stay behind closed doors. The previous epidemic has caused many people to carry debts. Now if If they don't work as soon as possible to make money, what do they live on. Many people think that it is just a little hotter, as long as they are not exposed to the sun and pay attention to drinking plenty of water, there will be no major problems. But I don't want those who overestimate their own conditions to end up in the hospital with heatstroke, or even die.

There are also people who have died before being sent to the hospital, and there are not a few people who died of heat. Of course, it is impossible to announce the specific death toll. Hoarding items to resist disasters, but fearing that once it is announced, it will cause greater turmoil and chaos.

There are many rational and orderly people, but there are many more crazy and unbearable people. There are even those with ulterior motives who do not hesitate to use some public opinion traffic to make money, and there are more. Those who are for profit, who cares whether others will do something that causes social harm because of their provocative words, the profit is obtained, and the life and death of others is not important.

So many times some people blame the higher authorities for concealing things, but if they don't hide things, the situation will only get worse.

There is a nurse in their community, who may not know much, but because of work, I have seen more, such as heat stroke, heat death, because I have too much contact with each other every day, so I have no idea about the seriousness of this high temperature. I paid more attention to it, so I told everyone in the community group that if possible, stock up on more food and drink, especially water, and do not go out during the day. Even if you go out at night, try to stay with relatives and friends to avoid heat. If no one finds out after being dizzy, then by the time someone finds out, he might die early.

If it was before the outbreak of the epidemic, everyone might not be vigilant in the face of such high temperatures. Even if it is stockpiling, stockpiling enough to eat for a month is almost enough. But now people have just survived the last fatal disaster. Even if there is no such high temperature, some people may start consciously hoarding some food and drink supplies with lingering fear. Now the abnormal high temperature makes people panic even more.

As a result, all parts of the country, and even some foreign countries, have started a wave of stockpiling.

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