Without Xiong Wei and Zhang Sen in the New Year, Cheng Xiaoyu couldn't get excited about having fun. There was always a gap between him and his childhood playmates and relatives of the same generation, and he couldn't get enough to drink, eat or play poker.
At the same time, to put it bluntly, you can't urinate in a pot, and you will get tired of it after one or two peeings.
The Lunar New Year of 2008 has not yet arrived. After five or six days, Cheng Xiaoyu has been used to the hustle and bustle of the city and without the company of his friends. If it were not for his grandfather’s Gubenpeiyuan exercise, he would have had enough.
The effect was considerable, and thinking that he had not spent a good New Year with his parents in several years, he was ready to leave.
After taking medicinal soup twice a day in the morning and evening, and hiking twice a day, after a few days, to paraphrase an advertising slogan, my body was not weak anymore, and I could go up to the fifth floor in one breath. After my body began to recover, Cheng Xiaoyu couldn't help but wonder about the existence of the magical left hand.
To avoid getting interested, no matter how big a setback it is, or if it doesn't involve death, individuals just can't resist the temptation of supernatural powers.
The small electrical appliances at home began their journey of rejuvenation again. The broken radios, black and white TVs, and single-cylinder washing machines that had been eliminated long ago were all replaced by Cheng Xiaoyu and began to be repaired. Despite repeated obstructions from his parents, Cheng Xiaoyu rented a van and ran to Meicheng to buy some.
He bought two LCD TVs, one at home and one at his sister’s house. If the snow had not been too deep in winter and the roads were difficult to walk, he would have wanted to buy a washing machine, refrigerator and the like. Hundreds of thousands was not much, but he wanted to live in the countryside.
It is easy to buy a comfortable living environment for two families. Moreover, Cheng Xiaoyu did not plan to spend all the money. He spent a total of more than 60,000 yuan when he came back and gave it to his family. He planned to leave 300,000 yuan as a start-up capital.
His body has recovered and is no longer sluggish after the New Year, and he is still ready to have a big fight.
The warmth of home made the gloom in Cheng Xiaoyu's heart fade away, the festive atmosphere of the New Year washed away the decadent past, and the care from relatives warmed the cold heart. Cheng Xiaoyu knew that it would only take a short period of time to recover.
On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household is bustling with activity, and relatives who are due to return have also come back from outside. They are just waiting for the night to pass and the New Year to arrive. The New Year in rural areas has a different kind of excitement. It is one of the few people who can still feel the excitement of twenty or thirty years ago.
A place with a strong New Year flavor like before.
The New Year pigs are killed and the rice cakes are steamed. The children hold small debates and crackle with them. The snow cannot hide the heat brought by the New Year. The red lanterns are hung high. In the empty area at night, one can see the lamps that lack light but represent the meaning of the new year.
Lanterns that carry the hopes of every household.
It's just getting dark, and every household is drinking hot shochu and chatting about the New Year. The year's bumper harvest is waiting for the spring to increase the price of corn and rice and sell it at a good price. The life of farmers is very simple and pure. They can be very simple.
Facing the New Year, in the harvest year, when I see the corn house full of corn through the melting cracks in the window, this is money, this is the result of a year's labor, this is life.
Just as this joy was gestating and waiting to explode tomorrow, the entire village suddenly fell into darkness, and all the lights and lanterns disappeared.
The wind picked up, it snowed, and the whole village had a power outage.
This happened on the last day of the year. Everyone in every household was depressed. The village party secretary began to contact the town's power repair department. After getting the news that it was not a power outage but a power failure, he waited for their arrival and took the strong laborers of the village to search independently.
At the fault point, I called the nearby villages and received news of power outages in three villages. Electric vehicles drove over. There were only two staff members, one old and one young, who were celebrating the New Year. They checked at the substation that controls this area.
After some research, we came to the conclusion that part of the line was damaged.
The snow was howling, and there was only one way. People from several villages mobilized despite the wind and snow. They didn't know how to use electricity. At least they had good eyesight. They walked along the village roads and rural roads to check whether there was any breakage or damage to the telephone poles.
The cause of the disease must be found as soon as possible so that emergency repairs can be carried out. Looking at the snowflakes in the sky, the entire area will be covered with snow in a few dozen minutes. The cultivated land and the uninhabited land deep in the hills cannot be inspected, let alone emergency repairs. If
The snow has been falling for half the night, and there is no way to repair it tomorrow.
The emergency incident also confused the two electrical power repair maintenance personnel. It was the New Year, and even Meicheng didn't have many people on duty. They had to ensure electricity for hundreds of thousands of people. Several villages and hundreds of households looked like
There are not many people. How can we spend this New Year without electricity? It is said that no one will watch the Spring Festival Gala. If you can't see it, it will be a different mood. Country people also pay attention to good luck and unlucky. In the eyes of some old people, the New Year is basically broken.
, this is a very unlucky thing, and it must be repaired no matter what.
Cheng Xiaoyu also went out with his father. There were many people and strength. In less than thirty minutes, when the mobile phone signal was smooth, the wires near the three villages did not appear to be broken or damaged. At this time, the two people on duty for power repairs also
My claws are numb. In the past, when I encountered this kind of situation, firstly, there were many people, secondly, the weather was good, and thirdly, I could delay finding the fault slowly for a day or two. But today, all three favorable conditions have become disadvantageous.
Seeing the villagers eagerly surrounding the substation with flashlights in spite of the wind and snow, Cheng Xiaoyu felt unhappy. In addition, his father Cheng Lao was muttering to the side: "It's an unlucky start to the new year, what should I do...
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The two maintenance personnel once again pulled down the control switch in the substation room and conducted another inspection under the illumination of more than a dozen flashlights. There was still no result. In their words, it was definitely not a fault with the equipment, but something in the wiring.
Something went wrong.
As long as a person has the ability to transcend nature, even if he is so weak that he can only change one square meter of the natural environment, he will shout "I can conquer nature" and maintain a normal mind and the arrogance to overcome natural disasters.
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The same was true for Cheng Xiaoyu. He subconsciously put his left hand on the insulated area of the equipment, touched his stomach and felt full after eating a few bowls of rice. He tried it cautiously, and the thought of why the power was turned off flashed in his mind.
As soon as my body trembled, I felt as if energy was being extracted from my body by a giant exhaust fan. Bad thoughts flashed through my mind, and I felt that I was about to faint again. However, I discovered a second later that the energy inside my body's intestines and stomach had just been
A surge of energy emerged from the undigested remains of the medicinal soup that Grandpa drank, replacing the body's existing energy consumption.
"The main circuit board is short-circuited and burned out. Do you want to repair it? The circuit is broken. Do you want to repair it?"
The state of the circuit boards of the equipment in the substation where I was now appeared in my mind. Parts in several small places were burned out, and then there was another long-distance signal transmission, as if I was looking for the broken wire. Where Cheng Laoguai lives.
In a ravine two kilometers behind the hill, the wire connection of a telephone pole was broken.
"Repair?"
Cheng Xiaoyu immediately gave up his thoughts. His stomach growled loudly after he had just eaten. He felt sleepy and wanted to sleep. This was the first time he was overloaded with troubleshooting and did not faint. It was like drinking too much and making his head dizzy and confused.
They were all double images, I just felt soreness in my waist and legs, and I didn’t want to do anything, so I just wanted to lie down and rest immediately.
"I've studied maintenance, let me see." It was uncomfortable, but Cheng Xiaoyu didn't want to miss the opportunity to be prominent. He also wanted to try how much mist energy he would get by repairing the power supply lines in three villages.
Most importantly, he didn't want to spend the end of 2007, or even the New Year of 2008, in darkness.
PS: Thanks for the many years of rewards! (To be continued)