My Siheyuan Shelter

Chapter 224 Oil Crisis
At noon, after Dad Xu came back, lunch officially started.

Xu Dong explained last night that the meals should be kept as simple as possible, especially the meat dishes. A dish of braised dried shrimp and a dish of fried fish steak are almost enough.

From now on, their family's standard of hospitality will basically be based on this. It's too ostentatious, which not only makes the guests uncomfortable, but also has a bad influence.

In addition, the children have also been instructed in advance.

The reason is very simple. It is said that good friends cannot show off, otherwise little Enya will feel very uncomfortable.

Finally, the twins, including Ma Xu, nodded solemnly.

The food was ready, although she was very low-key, Aunt Zhang was still taken aback.

The standard of food is no worse than before the drought, basically everything that should be there is available.

"Auntie, would you like some white wine?" Xu Dong knew that the other party could drink, but he didn't drink much.

Aunt Zhang quickly waved her hand: "No need, just like you, just drink soy milk."

Xu Dong was not reluctant, and poured a large glass of soy milk for Aunt Zhang. In order to keep a low profile, he didn't even make the strawberry juice and watermelon juice that the children must have every day.

"Come on, let's raise our glasses together, we welcome Aunt Zhang and little Enya to our house as guests."

"Cheers!" The children were all excited.

"Enya, come and try the fish steak, is it delicious?"

Putting down the cup, Xu Dong first picked up a piece of fish steak for Zhang Enya, the little guy was somewhat cautious, and only focused on eating rice with the chopsticks in his hand.

"Thank you Uncle Xu!" The little guy smiled sweetly.

Xu Dong pinched the other person's face: "Hurry up and eat, uncle's house is also yours, don't be too polite, look at your sister Lele, the chopsticks are flying up."

Lele didn't care, and imitated her father, and took a piece of fish steak for Aunt Zhang.

"Grandma Zhang, eat fish steaks. The fish steaks are very tender and you can eat them even if you have bad teeth. My grandma loves fish steaks the most."

"This kid is really polite."

Xu Dong glanced at his little daughter, and he finally understood that Lele's EQ is definitely the highest among several children. This child has a thick skin and a sweet mouth. He may not be worse than Ke Ke in the future.

At the dinner table, Xu Dong asked about the follow-up situation on Qindao, since he came back, he seldom paid attention to the news there.

Aunt Zhang introduced: "The number of stowaways has decreased a lot, the places where refugees were housed before have been demolished, and everything in the city has returned to normal.

In the past two months, the food rations have become less and less, and many people have become fishermen again, which is much better than part-time jobs. Some people even smuggled kelp back from the Southern Dynasty and made a fortune.

Alas, if your Uncle Zhang hadn't been old, I would have wanted him to venture out. In this world, honest people can only go hungry. "

Xu Dong really didn't expect Aunt Zhang to be so open-minded. They, including Dad Xu, probably experienced the roaring 80s and were more aggressive than young people.

"Where did they buy their fishing boat?" Father Xu asked curiously.

The country has even stopped production of cars, so there is no reason to let go of small fishing boats. In fact, this thing is not very useful. It is better to develop deep-sea fishing.

"Some are old fishing boats, and some are imported from Nanchao and Nisang." Aunt Zhang replied.

Xu Dong expressed his puzzlement: "Uh, why do they sell fishing boats? Isn't it good to catch fish by yourself?"

"I also heard from those crew members that Nanchao and Nisang are very short of gasoline right now, and they can't drive even if they have a boat. It's better to sell the boat to make some money, and then import some necessities from our country."

"Is it so scarce?" Xu Dong asked unexpectedly.

"Of course, the Southern Dynasties are still at war, and Nisang is not much better. The big earthquake that happened last month is said to have a magnitude of eight or nine. We can feel it there."

In fact, the main reason for the shortage of oil in the two countries is that the major oil-producing countries are now in trouble. Compared with the previous two years, the oil production is currently less than one-fifth.

What's more serious is that the quartet headed by Pretty Country, Great Xia, the European Union, and Mao Xiong directly divided up the international crude oil production. Unless they are oil-producing countries, they can't even drink soup.

As for Daiying, it was back in the arms of the EU a few months ago.

"Why wasn't it reported in the news?" Mother Xu interjected.

Xu Dong speculated: "The higher-ups probably don't want to cause panic. After all, Nisang is quite close to our country, so it will be somewhat affected."

"There won't be an earthquake here, right?" Mama Xu said nervously. The big earthquake 40 years ago still had a big impact on their generation.

"It's okay, Mom! Yanjing is the capital, so there are very few earthquakes here, so don't worry too much." Xu Dong comforted.

At least until 2030, there will be no major earthquakes in China, but on the other side of the ocean, there will be a major earthquake a few years later, but the west coast has already declined, and the loss is not great.

In addition, there are no major earthquakes in the world.

"That's good." Xu Ma said reassuringly.

After lunch, Mama Xu took Aunt Zhang to chat about homework, and finally called Aunt Wang, and they played mahjong.

On Xu Dong's side, he took a few children outside and went crazy. First, he went to the zoo to see giant pandas, then visited the former imperial palace, and finally went to the amusement park to play until dark.

In short, the schedule was full, and I didn't get home until [-]:[-] in the evening.

"Why are you coming back now?" Yang Lina complained.

"Ke Ke, aren't they going to start school soon? It's a rare opportunity, let them have fun!"

"Has Enya been sent back to the hotel?" Yang Lina asked.

Aunt Zhang didn't stay for dinner, she went back to the hotel at six o'clock, and Yang Lina specially packed some snacks for her.

"I sent her back. I wanted to bring her back to have dinner together, but unfortunately there was no time, so I had to send her back to the hotel first."

"When we leave tomorrow, I'll prepare some more snacks for you, so as to save you from going hungry when you come back late."

Xu Dong smiled wryly and said, "This time it was a mistake. I didn't expect that there wasn't even a restaurant outside."

"Of course not. The food rations are not enough. You are probably the only ones who are willing to eat out now." Yang Lina said angrily.

In fact, there are still restaurants, but they are not open to the public. They are all state-run guest houses.

Mama Xu heated up the food, and Xu Dong and the children immediately gobbled it up, going crazy all afternoon, really tired and hungry.

"Where are you going tomorrow?" Yang Lina asked again.

"Mom, dad will take us to climb the long wall tomorrow." Lele hurriedly replied.

Yang Lina frowned and said, "It's a hot day, no matter what long wall you climb, you'll die from the sun."

Xu Dong smiled and said nothing. It was indeed his idea to climb the long wall. According to the memory of his previous life, the long wall will not be open to the public from next year.

Due to the lack of vegetation and the sharp drop in groundwater, the long wall is at risk of collapsing at any time, so we can only choose to close the scenic spot.

As a native of Daxia, Xu Dong does not want the children to have regrets.

It's fine if it's a long distance, but it's right in front of the house, so it's really unreasonable not to go there.

ps: Ask for recommended tickets and monthly tickets!

(End of this chapter)