At night, there was a strong wind and rain, lightning flashed and thunder. After the alcohol wore off, I stood up and prepared to go to the toilet. I fumbled and pulled the pull cord of the light switch. "Plop, tap". After pulling it a few times, the light did not come on.

Could it be that the light bulb was broken? I was so pissed that I couldn't think about it. Fortunately, I was very familiar with the environment of the room. It was easy for me to go downstairs in the dark. The strange thing was that the lights everywhere couldn't be turned on.

I hurriedly went to the toilet to release the "pressure" and felt much better immediately.

After thinking about it carefully, it seems that the light bulb is not broken, but a power outage is more likely.

Slowly I fumbled for a ladle of water and drank it. But I was awake. It was still early in the morning. It was better to go back to sleep.

When I got to bed, I couldn't fall asleep. I closed my eyes, but I still couldn't fall asleep. When I opened my eyes, it was just dark night. It was better to close them.

The light fragrance of Baogu, mixed with the moisture of rain, gives people a different feeling.

I heard people say a few days ago that the "rural power grid" is going to be transformed. I don't know if it's true or not. Anyway, the "electricity" in the village is quite confusing.

I really don’t understand. It’s obvious that “Uncle Mu” works at Longzhong Power Supply Station, but he seems to be the director. Why hasn’t the electricity problem in the village been solved? His family is “half rich”, and his second aunt and two cousins My brother also lives in the village. He also goes back to the village to live after get off work.

The management of electricity is very confusing. The main reason is that "electricity bills are expensive". Sometimes electricity costs one or two dollars per kilowatt hour, sometimes seven or eight dollars per unit. There are also frequent power outages. Therefore, flashlights, candles, and kerosene lamps are almost always available in every household.

.Except for "kerosene" which is relatively cheap, everything else is still expensive.

The kerosene lamp is a legendary object. In fact, it is very common. The most common one is made of an ink bottle, and it is also made of a tire-sealing glue bottle.

To make the ink bottle, you need to find a red rock ink bottle and use a red-hot fire pillar (a thin steel bar about a ruler long and about 4 mm thick, with one end bent into a small ring for easy hanging and handling, and one end hammered to be sharper).

Burn a round hole in the middle of the plastic bottle cap, thread the cotton thread into a thin copper tube seven or eight centimeters long as a wick, then pass the copper tube through the ink cap, fill the ink bottle with kerosene, and install the copper tube

Screw on the ink cap of the wick and a kerosene lamp is ready.

When the wick is full of kerosene, it can be ignited and used for lighting. The brightness of the kerosene lamp depends on the amount of cotton thread that exposes the copper tube. The more exposed the copper tube, the brighter the lamp will be, and the less exposed the lamp will be dim. It consumes oil to light up, so you want to save oil.

It won't be bright. You can't have the best of both worlds, being bright and fuel-efficient.

Kerosene lamps are simple to make, convenient and practical. The only drawback is that they produce a lot of fumes and will be blackened wherever they go. If you are not careful, they can easily ignite other items and cause fires.

The price of electricity is a bit intriguing. The county said that the electricity fee is three cents and five cents per unit, but when you get to the village, it has doubled several times. The village said that the "electricity loss" is relatively large, and there are some "electricity thefts", so

In the end, the electricity bill was more expensive when divided evenly. For those villagers who had big opinions, the village cadre said impatiently: "If it's too expensive, you can just use it without electricity. If you don't use it, you won't have to pay the electricity bill."

Therefore, the village is looking forward to the transformation of the rural power grid, just like looking forward to the stars and the moon. But for some unknown reason, other villages have completed the transformation, but our village has not yet.

Another "informed person" said: Some people in the village do not have to pay electricity bills. Everyone cannot afford electricity, but the electricity in these people's homes is turned on. Perhaps this is the root cause of "high electricity bills"?
Chapter completed!