Ants exploded, I opened a power plant to supply power to the world

Chapter 282 Chapter 281 Are all waiting eagerly
These street shops, especially those serving food such as hot pot restaurants, barbecue restaurants, or shabu-shabu restaurants, etc., have a huge income in one night.

Leaving aside rent and other costs, even if we look at the pure revenue, a good night can bring in tens of thousands, and a bad night can bring in several thousand. Of course, this is only possible if the store is big enough and the business is usually prosperous enough.

There aren't as many in other small shops, but there are still a lot in one night.

Now there is a power outage, and tens of thousands of dollars of revenue have been lost overnight. Everyone is naturally anxious, so when they saw the mobile power supply vehicle from the Zhetong Emergency Power Supply Department coming over, they all gathered around it.

Moreover, there was a power supply truck in front of Zhetong Power, which was full of front-line power workers.

As long as you open an account and then use Zhetong Power for electricity, they will immediately connect the main power line to the mobile power supply vehicle to restore the store's power supply network to normal first.

In addition, they will not be idle either. They will continue to work to directly connect the store to the main power supply line of Zhetong Power. This will take some time, so the mobile power supply vehicle will have to take over first.

Anyway, as long as they open an account, the store will return to normal, so everyone is very anxious.

"Come on, comrade, register for me and open an account for me. I've got your ID card."

"Hotpot King, didn't you just recharge 1,000 yuan at Xuehan Electric Power a while ago? Now the 1,000 yuan is lost? Can you please stop robbing us and wait for Xuehan Electric Power first?"

Hearing this, the man known as the Hot Pot King felt a little embarrassed and scratched his head.

Then he spoke directly in a carefree manner.

"Hey~ I don't have such a big shop, and the electricity bill of one thousand will be used up in less than a week. If I can't use electricity tonight, the loss will be more than one thousand. The remaining hundreds will be lost. I also support Zhetong Electric Power!"

He laughed it off and the matter was over. He really felt bad about the several hundred dollars still lying in Xuehan's electricity account, but there was nothing he could do.

After all, if we insist on waiting for the people from Xuehan Electric Power to supply electricity, who knows how long we will have to wait. It would be better to use Zhetong Electric Power to supply electricity on site directly. At least it is still early today.

If there are more diners coming later, and a few more tables come out, the thousand yuan will be out, and we can still make some profit from the rest.

There was nothing that could be done about it. After all, it was only after the arrival of Zhetong Electric Power that they realized how unreliable the Xuehan Electric Power they had been using was.

In the past, when there was going to be a power outage, everyone lost power at the same time. There was nothing that could be done about it.

But it is different now. Although we can see that there is a power outage on the streets, the shops using Zhetong electricity are still doing a booming business. Moreover, because there is a power outage here, their customers have all run away.

This is something they really can't stand. People are afraid of comparison. It's not that they are too jealous or bad, it's just that people are like this.

"Hello, can you please connect me to the Zhetong power supply? I'm cooking in the kitchen and I can't survive without electricity."

"Hello, comrade from Zhetong Electric Power, please connect the power to my chess and card room first. Many guests are about to leave, and the machines are still stuck. Please connect the power quickly, otherwise the guests will be very anxious."

The guests in this chess and card room are different from other guests. If other guests encounter such a sudden power outage, they will either leave immediately or make do with the bill and leave.

But these people in the chess and card room are all old customers and are very addicted to playing cards.

Just now, the game was in full swing and everyone was enjoying playing mahjong. Suddenly, the battery ran out and the mahjong machine stopped working. The winner had to be stopped before the game was decided.

Those who won the money were naturally happy, thinking that it was just a good thing that there was a power outage today.

But those who lost money won’t do that. This is a normal situation at the poker table. Those who won money want to stop playing, but those who lost money have to find a way to make up for their losses. Then how can the winners make up for their losses if they leave?

So everything has to be kept. Since the loser has said so, the winner naturally has to wait.

After all, everyone has their share of wins and losses, and everyone understands that.

If they just run away now, no one will want to continue playing with them in the future.

So when most people in other shops had left, they were still waiting in the chess and card room, smoking silently.

There are also places like Internet cafes, where everyone is eager to use electricity.

After all, apart from those who leave as soon as the power goes out, there are still many loyal customers in the Internet cafe, such as Internet cafe masters and the like. The Internet cafe is the only place they can stay in this city.

Now, as the screen goes out and the shouting and cursing around them rang out, the only thing the Internet cafe masters could do besides sighing was to open a box of cheap cigarettes and light up a cigarette.

Then they just need to wait where they are. When the screen lights up, it will be like the oxygen tube in the ICU resumes working, and they can breathe more easily.

One of the benefits of the information development brought about by the Industrial Revolution is that it provides groups like Internet cafe masters with space to survive.

But now there is no electricity, and they can only see their bearded and unkempt selves reflected on the turned-off screen.

Maybe... it's time to go out for a bowl of hot duck leg rice or beef noodles, and then go to a public toilet or something to wash yourself.

……

When the car from the Zhetong Electric Power Emergency Power Supply Department stops here, it brings peace of mind to people.

The anxious mood of the people around them calmed down.

The young salesgirls who were urgently called up to work overtime in the Zhetong Power Business Hall used the hood of the power supply truck as a simple desk and began to register everyone one by one on it.

The power supply will be arranged by mobile power supply vehicles, and charges will be made once it is connected to the main power supply line.

Fortunately, Zhetong's design is relatively reasonable. The initial deposit for opening an account must be at least 50 yuan, which can last for a long time, and the minimum deposit for commercial electricity is 100 yuan.

In this way, there will be enough time for the salesgirls to return to the business hall immediately after completing the registration and enter the pre-deposited amount of each new user in the background.

……

Yu Hongbo was among the crowd. Although he was already a middle-level leader in the power operation department, this action was sudden and he once again appeared on the front line.

With his brothers, Yu Hongbo also began to connect the power supply links between the stores and the mobile power supply vehicles for the customers of the shops along the street in the order of registration.

Other places like those for residential users are relatively clean. At least there is not so much oil and dirt in those places. When the cables and wires are dirty, they are just dry dust or something.

This is a little more acceptable, after all, it is also easier to clean up.

But the restaurants along the street are different, especially the piece of wire in Yu Hongbo's hand. Although he is wearing insulating gloves, Yu Hongbo seems to be able to feel the greasiness in it.

After all, there is oil and gas all the time in hot pot restaurants, and it is natural that the food is very greasy after being exposed to it for many years.

However, Yu Hongbo could not have any emotions. He did feel it was dirty, but he did not mind it. He was working with the wires in his hands without any hesitation.

"Brothers, hurry up and get everything done, then clean up a bit. Don't trip up the guests or anything."

According to his arrangement, the brothers quickly finished the wiring here. After confirming that everything was normal, they also arranged for the emergency power supply in the mobile power supply vehicle to be powered on at the same time. As the button was turned on, the power was transmitted here and the light in the hot pot restaurant was restored.

"Alright~ The electricity is coming, the electricity is coming, we still need it, you guys are so fast~"

Hotpot King serves authentic mountain city hotpot. As a mountain city native who came to this northwestern city, he also maintained his local accent and catchphrases.

Yu Hongbo took off his gloves with a smile, took the cigarette handed to him by the boss and spoke with a smile.

"Of course we have to get it. We at Zhetong Electric Power have to get everything."

"Hey, you've learned the Shancheng dialect pretty well."

……

After chatting for a while, Yu Hongbo started to go to the next store. They had a lot of work to do today, but fortunately there were enough brothers in the Jincheng plant of Zhetong Electric Power.

I can still cope with it now.

In addition, the staff in the business hall over there are also working overtime. After completing the registration, they have to return to the business hall.

It’s okay if the business hall is relatively close, you can just walk or scan a shared bicycle or electric car, but it’s not so good if it’s farther away.

When they arrived, colleagues from the power team drove a power truck to pick them up, but at that time the guys in the power team were busy connecting the wires, so they could only take a taxi to the business hall.

However, they will receive a message the next day that they don’t need an invoice for the taxi fare, they just need to show the payment record of that night and the group will reimburse them.

Zhetong is very good at this, which is different from other companies.

Other companies will not reimburse without invoices, and will even add many harsh conditions before reimbursement. However, there are no such thresholds in Zhetong Electric Power Group.

As long as you spend extra money due to work, the company will reimburse your expenses.

In addition, they have to work overtime for most of the night, and after going out on field work, they have to return to the business hall to enter data overnight. If this happened in other companies, employees would probably have complained a long time ago.

But here, these young salesgirls are all quite happy.

Because this is a relatively rare opportunity to earn extra money, during the induction training, the seniors in the group who trained them all taught by example.

They know that the group is never stingy with overtime pay.

Now one night can earn you several days' wages, and everyone is very willing to do it.

……

In just one night, because the Xuehan Power transmission lines were damaged, a total of thousands of businesses and seven or eight communities had to switch to Zhetong Power for emergency power supply.

Many people even chose to give up paying the electricity bills they still had on their Xuehan electricity accounts.

This is the result of a night of hard work by the staff of Zhetong Electric Power.

……

At nine o'clock the next morning, after work, an old King Long pickup truck came out from the Xuehan Electric Power Group. It is estimated that very few people have seen this brand of car. It belongs to a small factory brand from more than ten years ago.

Their boss Mao Xuehan sold off his properties before closing down, which was a rare act of generosity.

I bought a batch at a very low price and have been using them till now.

If I didn’t have connections at the vehicle inspection office, I probably wouldn’t even be able to pass the annual inspection.

Although Zhetong Electric Power achieved remarkable results last night, many people still chose to persevere. After all, not everyone can give up the electricity bills in their accounts.

There are still many people waiting in that area, waiting for the people from Xuehan Electric Power to come and restore the power supply.

The customer service phone line was flooded with calls last night. The two people on duty that night went there but found nothing and couldn't find anything.

So we arranged a complete five-person electrical operation team to drive over and check it out this morning.

The driver of the car on the road, who was also an employee of Xuehan Electric Power, felt something was not right.

"Squad leader, the clutch doesn't feel strong enough today. It's really frustrating."

"When has this lousy car ever been powerful? If it's rattling, just step on it harder."

After hearing this, the driver who was about to change gears on the overpass stepped on the clutch hard.

As a result, the car suddenly stalled.

"Fuck, this car is broken."

After complaining, he was not in a hurry. After all, it was common for this "old car" to stall while driving. He tried to start it again but failed.

The people in the car were helpless.

After all, everyone has their own responsibilities, and they are not car enthusiasts. They have been working at Xuehan Electric for so many years and have not even bought a car themselves. First of all, they don’t know how to repair a car.

Secondly, this is not their job, and the company will not give them an extra repair bonus after the repair is completed, so everyone doesn't care.

"Okay, let's call and ask the garage to come. There's nothing we can do."

As the squad leader said this, he took the lead and got out of the car, followed by several others. They first called the auto repair shop, then opened the trunk, took out the tripod and placed it upright behind the back of the car.

The rest of the time we just smoked, reported the situation, and then stood together on the viaduct waiting.

On the other hand, people in the area that had a power outage last night were still waiting. It was almost ten o'clock in the morning and there was still no call, so naturally the phone was ringing non-stop.

After all, there are many companies and commercial plazas in this area. It would be unacceptable if there was no electricity during the day when people were at work.

It has been such a long time, not to mention the power supply, they haven't even seen the maintenance personnel from Xue Han Electric Power, so they are all very angry now.

"The number you dialed is currently on a call..."

Upon hearing this, the person in charge of Feitian Plaza's beard trembled with anger. You know, their plaza had just deposited one million yuan for electricity bills some time ago, but now they can't even get through to the customer service phone. How can this not be infuriating?

(End of this chapter)