Before you know it, time has come to the end of November.
Throughout November, several major events occurred internationally.
The first big thing.
Under the initiative of the other side of the ocean, including Daxia, the European Union, Daiying and Mao Xiong, the five parties held a G5 summit in Brussels.
At the meeting, all parties jointly discussed many political, economic and military issues. The most important result was that the five parties signed a large number of patent exchange and technology sharing agreements with each other.
The second thing is that the EU carried out emergency expansion and included some Philippine countries and Middle Eastern countries to make up for its huge shortcomings in energy issues.
The third thing is that many countries in the Philippines have fallen into civil strife, and the situation is getting worse.
The fourth thing is that the prices of energy such as oil, coal and natural gas suddenly experienced a sharp rise after experiencing a low for more than half a year, and the prices returned to the peak period a few years ago.
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Early in the morning, Xu Dong was feeding chickens again.
The chicken food is the small fish heads left over from before. The fish heads are minced and mixed into the leftovers and fed together. The hens lay eggs more diligently.
Now I can pick up two or three more eggs every day.
In the vegetable garden, Yang Lina is watering. Recently, the water supply has been cut off for more and more days. The daily water supply is seriously insufficient, and even automatic irrigation has been stopped.
But there is good news. The desalination plant in Tianjin will be able to supply water to the capital next month, and the water crisis will be solved by then.
"Lao San, where are you?" came Xu Ma's voice.
Xu Dong sighed resignedly. He really wanted to rest for a while, so he quickly stood up and responded: "Mom, I'm in the living room, what's going on?"
"Accompany Mom to the grain store. Our family hasn't bought the food rations for this month yet?" Xu's mother ordered.
There was no shortage of food at home, but Xu Ma and Yang Lina got impatient after queuing up at the food store. The key was that it wasted so much time that they delayed buying food until the end of the month.
At the end of the month, there are fewer people. Except for some people who come out to buy vegetables, they almost buy whatever they want.
Of course, grain stocks may not be sufficient at the end of the month, and most of what you can buy are some miscellaneous grains such as corn and potatoes.
Fortunately, the old Xu family has more rice than they can eat, so there is no shortage of it at all.
After starting the car, the mother and son went to the nearest grain store. There was a plaque hanging on the right side of the store door, which read:
[Grain sales point in Xingfuli Street, Dongcheng District]
After waiting at the door for a while, at eight o'clock sharp, the grain store opened on time.
There are large and small grain stores in the capital, but the layout of the stores is basically the same, similar to that of an ordinary bank. There is a row of service windows when you enter the door.
Xu's mother trotted to a window, handed over two food cards, and said casually: "Take out all this month's money."
The counter staff is a young girl who seems to have just graduated. For a young person, her attitude towards work is quite serious.
"The head of the household is Xu Dong's. There are 24 kilograms of potatoes, 20 kilograms of corn flour, 30 kilograms of hybrid rice and 22 kilograms of vegetables on the account. However, the hybrid rice is now out of stock."
"Then replace everything with corn flour!" Xu Ma had already expected this situation.
"Okay, according to the conversion ratio of 1:1.3, the total is 59 kilograms of corn flour, 24 kilograms of potatoes, and 22 kilograms of vegetables."
"Yes, take them all out." Xu Dong nodded immediately.
As for Xu Ma, she is still using the small notebook she carries with her to calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division!
"Okay, you need to pay a total of 1,028 yuan."
At the same time, the staff handed over a receipt:
"If there's no problem, please sign here."
Xu Dong had already seen the price list at the door. The unit price of corn was 8 yuan, and the price of potatoes and vegetables was 10 yuan. The amounts were correct.
After signing, scan the QR code to pay.
Within a few minutes, Xu Dong got one month's rations for his family of seven from the pickup port under the counter.
Among them, the vegetables were randomly distributed. What I received was cabbage and carrots, which together weighed exactly 22 kilograms.
Immediately afterwards, the staff swiped another card:
"The head of the household, Xu Changming, has 20 kilograms of rice, 14 kilograms of flour, 10 kilograms of vegetables, and 10 kilograms of potatoes. Do I need to replace the rice with corn flour?"
"Change!" Xu Ma nodded.
After returning home, Xu’s mother weighed herself again using the electronic scale at home to check whether there was any missing weight.
Xu Dong smiled bitterly and said: "Mom, grain stores are run by the state and are not private. Moreover, they have to be weighed twice to make sure they are not wrong."
"Mom won't worry if I don't weigh you." Xu Ma said stubbornly.
"All right!"
Before going out, Xu Dong asked casually: "I'm going to work, do you want to bring anything with you today?"
Xu's mother thought for a while and replied: "Buy more salt. There is not enough salt at home."
The salt at home was originally enough to last for several months, but I used a lot of it to make salted fish, and it was almost exhausted.
"knew."
When he came to the electric power company, Xu Dong found that Section Chief Li had arrived very early today, and he had a proud look on his face. Everyone was guessing whether the old leader was going to be promoted.
"Sister Gao, is Uncle Li really going to be promoted?"
Xu Dong took the initiative to inquire.
Section Chief Li is usually very nice to him. He really doesn't want him to leave. Others are not as easy to talk to as Uncle Li.
As for the position of section chief, he would never get his turn anyway. After all, he has only been in the position for less than a year and his qualifications are too junior.
Gao Yuemei shook her head: "Even if Lao Li wants to be promoted, it stands to reason that he will be promoted to the Logistics Department. I haven't heard that anyone in the Logistics Department is going to be transferred?"
"Will he be transferred to the branch below?" Xiang Xin interjected.
Yanjing Electric Power Company, although its headquarters may not be eye-catching, in fact its scale is not small at all.
The total number of employees in the company is more than 10,000, and there are dozens of branches and directly affiliated institutions.
"This is really possible." Gao Yuemei nodded.
Xiang Xin suddenly said in surprise: "Boss, if Uncle Li is gone, will you be asked to take over?"
Before Xu Dong had time to answer, Section Chief Li called him into the office.
"Uncle Li, congratulations on your promotion!"
Section Chief Li was obviously taken aback and asked doubtfully: "What Gaosheng? Where did you hear the rumors?"
"What, Uncle Li, didn't you get promoted?" Xu Dong said awkwardly.
"I'm already old. Even if I get promoted, it won't be my turn." Section Chief Li sighed. He is 55 years old this year and will retire in a few years.
"This...everyone saw your smiling face this morning and said that you are about to be promoted!"
Section Chief Li waved his hand: "No problem, you can go out and explain it to me later so that everyone can stop spreading it."
Xu Dong nodded.
Section Chief Li took a sip of water and spoke again: "I asked you to come in because I wanted to ask if you have time in the evening?"
"Yes, Uncle Li, you..."
"That's just right, come home with me for a meal after get off work." Section Chief Li invited.
"Uncle Li, what's the matter with you? Just say it, we don't need to be so polite."
"Okay, it's settled, you go back to work!" Section Chief Li waved his hand.