Chapter 1517 Accumulate points to deal with natural disasters
Gan Province, Ji City.
On the S69 highway, a mighty motorcade was speeding from south to north.
Most of the convoys are heavy-duty trucks, and it can be seen from the tires of the trucks that they are loaded with supplies.
Next to the convoy, more than thirty motorcycles were driving.
Since the last time Zhongshi Yang was blocked and robbed by a group of people on his way to transport grain to the oil city, a new motorcycle escort has been added. The motorcycles are small and can shuttle freely on the road easily.
Once you encounter a roadblock and robbery in front or behind, you can go over to provide support in time.
In an explosion-proof vehicle, Xiao Hu was holding a corn silk cigarette produced at Da Zhangshu Base.
Open the car window and let the wind blow into the explosion-proof car.
"Unfortunately, why are Zuo Ruxue in the transportation brigade? This bitch has so much control. She even said that the whole team would stop for 10 minutes at 12 noon, but she insisted that that place was not suitable for a timeout...
..”
Wang Chunqi, who was driving the vehicle, echoed with a smile on his face:
"Captain, you are right. I couldn't stand her when we were at the Wushi transit station."
"Don't mention that moment, I get a headache when I mention it." Xiao Hu rubbed his eyebrows.
"I don't know how the Butcher and Lao Guo are doing. It would be great if they could go to the north. I haven't seen them for a long time."
As he spoke, Xiao Hu sighed.
At the last Da Zhangshu Base Center meeting, he and Zuo Ruxue were assigned to the transportation brigade, specifically responsible for the transportation of materials between the three cities.
At present, the main task is to transport the grain and some basic daily necessities produced by the Da Zhangshu Base to the Oil City, and transport the oil mined in the Oil City to the Da Zhangshu Base when returning.
It is estimated that when the grain is produced in the north, we will have to drive to load the grain from the north and transport it to the oil city.
Anyway, the main task of him and Zuo Ruxue is to be responsible for transportation between the three places.
"Captain, after we leave, who will replace us at the military base in Wu City?" Wang Chunqi asked.
Xiao Hu raised his head and thought for a while, "I remember it seems to be Li Qi and Song Qi."
"Song Qi? Have you never heard of this person before?" Wang Chunqi, his subordinate, asked.
Xiao Hu smiled and said, "He is the younger brother of our Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Song Min's younger brother."
"Oh, I understand."
Heading north, this road they had driven countless times had no obstacles, but the road surface was a little uneven and the speed should not be too fast.
.......
Halfway back to Oil City, Lao Luo wanted to get off the bus.
"City Lord, I'm going to the Trading Market Industrial Zone. A batch of chemical factory equipment that was transported from Southern Paradise is being debugged there. I'll go take a look."
"Okay." Li Yu nodded.
Before Lao Luo left, he didn't forget to close the car door.
The materials and equipment that Southern Paradise has accumulated over the years include not only equipment from several pharmaceutical factories, but also several sets of equipment from coal plants, metallurgical plants, and chemical plants.
However, although Southern Paradise has these equipments, it simply does not have the ability to set them up and run them.
In the past few years, we have been either running out of food or on the verge of running out of food. The first thing we think about every day is how to get more food.
As for these other things, I have more than enough ambition but not enough power.
There are many petrochemical products, including plastics, synthetic fibers, synthetic rubber, synthetic detergents, fertilizers, pesticides, soaps, etc.
They naturally know the benefits of producing petrochemical products.
Not to mention anything else, chemical fertilizers alone can make the crops grown grow better.
However, it's not that easy.
First, we need professional talents and skilled workers.
The second is raw materials. They are in short supply of the oil and coal needed for petrochemical raw materials.
Coal does know where to mine it.
However, after a natural disaster, the coal mine collapses, making it extremely difficult, time-consuming and labor-intensive to re-mine.
And transporting coal also requires truck transportation, and truck transportation returns to another problem, lack of fuel.
After calculation, they found that the investment period for building a petrochemical plant would be too long, and it would not be able to solve their urgent needs.
With their strength, they can't do it.
However, with the support of the Da Zhangshu Base, Oil City has the confidence to get things started.
They don't have to worry about food supply. At the same time, oil can be produced in the Oil City, and there is no problem with oil raw materials.
As for coal, there is a Guxian Yangshan Coal Mine around Petroleum City, which is about 100 kilometers away from Petroleum City.
Moreover, it is an open-pit coal mine, so the cost of mining is relatively low and the difficulty is relatively easy.
In the car.
Li Gang started the vehicle again and drove towards Oil City.
Seeing that he and Li Gang were alone in the car, Li Yu asked:
"Gangzi, why did you just ask to go back to the headquarters base?"
He thought there was something inconvenient to say just now, so he waited for Lao Luo to leave before asking.
"Ahem, it's nothing."
Li Gang coughed twice in embarrassment, "It's just that the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, and I thought we could get together then..."
Li Yu was stunned when he heard this. He counted the days and found that it would indeed be the Mid-Autumn Festival in more than a week.
Over the years, Dazhangshu Base has also become lively during the Chinese New Year.
The candies I gave out to the people below were just New Year’s gifts.
Li Gang now reminded Li Yu that since it's the Mid-Autumn Festival, he can also prepare a mooncake for everyone.
Mooncakes have a long shelf life and contain a lot of sugar, so they should be very popular at this time.
"I'll go back in two days. Third uncle's place...it depends on the situation. I'll have a chat with him then." Li Yu replied.
.......
Northwest of Oil City,
Nanhu Bay.
There were fallen cedar trees all over the ground, and pieces of cedar wood cut into three-meter-long pieces were piled aside.
There was a half-full truck parked on the roadside, and four or five empty trucks lined up to load.
These trucks basically made three or four trips back and forth, filled with fir wood, and then returned to the trading market.
There are still seven or eight trucks on the road, either on their way here or on their way back.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! On the edge of the cedar forest, a man wearing gray short-sleeves was eating a tortilla that had been distributed.
A corn tortilla the size of an adult's palm weighs approximately 125 grams.
Four corn tortillas weigh almost a pound.
The man calculated his harvest today. He could earn 0.5 points by cutting down trees in one day, which could buy almost half a catty of grain.
Thinking of today's harvest, a smile appeared on his face.
He ate more than half of a palm-sized tortilla, and he was a little confused about whether to continue eating the remaining half.
I picked up a 1L ordinary plastic bottle from the grass nearby. The blue packaging was long gone, and there was only a blue bottle cap.
He held the water bottle and took a few gulps.
I felt that my stomach that was only three-quarters full turned into five-cent full, and I put down the water bottle with satisfaction.
A voice came from the side.
"Lao Xu, I feel like logging is easier than working on a construction site!"
Xu Qingwen turned his head and saw Sui Dahua, who was in the same room, talking to him with a smile.
Sui Dahua, like himself, is the breadwinner of a family, with a father and a 13-year-old son.
And he is a wife and 11-year-old daughter.
Originally, he also had a 2-year-old son, but the apocalypse was too difficult, and his 2-year-old son died in the first year of the apocalypse. If his son had not died, he would be almost eight years old now.
By chance, the two of them entered the trading market before the thunderstorm disaster arrived.
and was assigned a room.
And in order to survive, we climbed up the wall to stop the zombies when the thunderstorm was at its most dangerous.
Later, when the trading market system was reformed, both of them became fourth-level members.
Before going up the wall, they both agreed that if the other person died, they would help take care of the other person's family.
I never thought that neither of them died.
Since then, the relationship between the two families has become particularly good.
Take care of each other and support each other.
This time Xu Qingwen wanted to come over from the construction site, but Sui Dahua was reluctant at first.
But now it feels really right.
It’s a lot easier, and there’s one more tortilla.
Xu Qingwen smiled, nodded and asked, "How many points have you accumulated?"
Sui Dahua smiled bitterly and shook his head: "8, what about you? You should have more than me, right?"
"Me too."
Xu Qingwen touched the bark of the fir tree and looked at the blue sky.
His face was filled with longing and beauty for the future, and his face seemed to be glowing.
"I have accumulated 14 points. My wife can now work on the construction site. I think it will be better for the two of us to earn points in the future..."
He lowered his head and looked at Sui Dahua and said:
"Dahua, let me give you a suggestion. You can earn points now. Earn more points if you can. Don't spend them randomly. It will be convenient to save more points to buy food in the trading market. And, if you do it in the future,
If a natural disaster happens again, we can get through it with the points we have.
I no longer want to live a life of hunger due to thunderstorms and natural disasters. You can probably understand how I felt when my daughter told me that she was very hungry... I was really sad and guilty."
As he spoke, his eyes were sad, showing a trace of worry about the future.
When Sui Dahua heard that Xu Qingwen had 14 points, a trace of envy flashed in his eyes.
They only get 0.5 points per day when they are on the construction site and when they go out to cut trees.
To earn 14 points, he needs to work every day for nearly a month to save up.
In addition, there are family members to support, and points need to be spent to buy food.
Xu Qingwen probably accumulated 14 points bit by bit from between his teeth.
None of it is easy.
I pulled out a piece of weed and chewed it in my mouth, tasting the slight bitterness of the weed.
He smiled wryly and shook his head and said:
"My old man is not in good health. Last time I bought two pills for him, which cost me a full 4 points. Tsk tsk! It's so expensive! Fortunately, I used to have some skills. I went to the North District Talent Hall to recruit today. I don't know if I can do it.
Apply for a job as a carpenter."
There was a young man next to him who was still eating tortillas.
Hearing the conversation between the two, he came over.
"Are you two Lao Deng in Versailles? Damn! You can still accumulate points on your hands!"
The two of them turned around and saw Ma Xiaotiao from the dormitory next door.
Ma Xiaotiao was very young, only eighteen years old. Both his parents were dead, and he had no elders or younger children. One person had enough to eat and the whole family was not hungry.
Ma Xiaotiao's father, Ma Badao, was 45 years old and died on a night of thunderstorms and natural disasters to stop zombies.
Later, Ma Xiaotiao inherited Ma Bingdao's benefits and became a fourth-level personnel.
Regardless of the fact that level 4 personnel are one level more than level 5 personnel, it seems that there are no advantages except that they don’t have to spend money on accommodation.
But if you put it into practice, the benefits will be many.
Not to mention anything else, once there is such a task assigned by the Oil City official in the trading market, such as wall construction, building construction, logging...
First of all, the first people to be recruited are level 4 personnel. When the level 4 personnel are full, they will be recruited from level 5 survivors.
Nowadays, there are constant construction projects in the trading market, and apart from laying waste and lying on the ground, all of them, the fourth-level personnel, basically have work on hand.
Having work means having points and food, and having points means not going hungry.
Xu Qingwen saw Ma Xiaotiao jumping over like a monkey, with a smile in his eyes.
"Xiao Tiao, how many points have you accumulated now?"
Ma Xiaotiao raised his eyebrows,
"0.5, maybe. How can you save so much?"
0.5 pieces?
Not even 1 point!
Sui Dahua glanced at Ma Xiaotiao with hatred and couldn't help but complain.
"No, you work with us, why do you only have 0.5 points? Since the thunderstorm disaster passed, we have been working almost every day for almost two months. You have used more than 20 points.
Where did it go?"
Ma Xiaotiao scratched his head and said:
"I'm hungry. The two tortillas given out are not enough for me. I went to buy something to eat when I was hungry. There was a barbecue restaurant in the business district recently. I haven't eaten meat for a long time, so I bought a few.
Eat skewers of meat.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Xu Qingwen frowned when he heard Ma Xiaotiao's words.
Kebab? Is that something they can afford now?
Damn, one kebab costs 0.3 points. How much meat is there in that kebab? Two kebabs are worth more points than they earned from a day of hard work.
Instead of buying this kebab, it is better to buy a corn tortilla, which is more practical, has a larger portion and makes you feel fuller, and only costs 0.25 points.
Really affordable and good.
Ma DaDang died between Xu Qingwen and Xu Qingwen at that time. After further analysis, Ma DaDang blocked the zombie that was about to rush up and saved the people next to him.
For Ma Xiaotiao's sake, Xu Qingwen and Sui Dahua took more care of Ma Xiaotiao.
Xu Qingwen patiently said to Ma Xiaotiao in a low voice:
"Xiao Tiao, please listen patiently when I say something to you. This is for your own good."
"It is not easy for us to enter the trading market, and it is not easy for us to become level four personnel. But you have to know that level four personnel do not have basic food supplies. If a natural disaster or accident occurs and we do not go to work, there will be no food distribution to
Ours.”
"So, when you can usually accumulate points, you have to start accumulating them. I also want to eat kebabs, and I can afford them. With 0.3 points each, I can buy dozens of them now, but I can't buy them all. I buy them all.
If you eat meat skewers, I will eat dirt from now on."
"You also know what it feels like to be hungry."
"I think back when there was a thunderstorm, each of us was given two corn tortillas and nothing else."
"Now if we calculate it carefully, 0.5 points, plus two corn tortillas, is actually four corn tortillas. The conditions are much better than then."
Sui Dahua added next to him: "One more tortilla for logging work. Now we have three tortillas a day."
"right."
Xu Qingwen nodded and continued to Ma Xiaotiao earnestly:
"So, you have to learn to accumulate points no matter what. The purpose of accumulating points now is to cope with the uncertain future. We don't know what the future will be like, but at least you have to learn to start accumulating points.
Otherwise, once a natural disaster breaks out and all work is stopped, what will you eat if you have no points? Are you hungry? If the natural disaster lasts for a long time, how many days can you be hungry? Who will help you then?"
Faced with these questions, Ma Xiaotiao looked at Sui Dahua and Xu Qingwen.
Facing Ma Xiaotiao's eyes.
Sui Dahua's eyelids twitched and he cursed:
"Don't look at the two of us, your dad protects you so damn well! It's so "good"!
When that time comes, don't expect the two of us to help you. We both have families to support, and we are both burdened. If we can't support our own families, we can't even support you.
Besides, you are so old, you! You can only rely on yourself."
Xu Qingwen nodded and said:
"Yes, your words are rude or not. If you really starve to death, there is nothing we can do."
"So, you have to save points! You don't have to support a family now, but you can actually save a lot of points, ugh..."
Facing the turns of persuasion from Xu Qingwen and Sui Dahua, Ma Xiaotiao gradually realized the problem.
He actually wanted to save points, but for a teenager who was growing in shape, he had some points on hand that he could exchange for food.
During the growth and development period, I would be so hungry most of the night that I would feel more uncomfortable than anything else.
Two tortillas a day are not enough for him.
Four yuan is about the same...
"Okay, I understand, I will start to accumulate points in the future!" Ma Xiaotiao knew that the two of them were doing it for his own good, and he secretly made up his mind not to wander around in the business district next night.
That Lao Chen braised food restaurant, Xie Dongming BBQ restaurant...etc.
He didn't even go.
Hearing what Ma Xiaotiao said, Xu Qingwen breathed a sigh of relief.
"That's good, keep saving up points! Xiaotiao! Save as much as you can!"
"With points in hand, we will feel safe in the future despite the turbulent times!"