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Chapter 15

Chapter 15 Old friends gather together

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Yuan can also fall to the cushion and stop moving, like a dead fish.

At that time, Zhouyou felt that it was over and that he would have to pay a lot of money.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Yike was very generous after he recovered. He didn't care about it and told him not to worry about it. He didn't even bother to go to the hospital.

In the end, it was the physical education teacher who forced Zhou You, the culprit, to send Yuan Yike to the county hospital for examination to determine if there were any signs of concussion.

On the way to the hospital, the two started chatting and realized that the misunderstanding had become serious.

Zhou You felt that Yuan Yike, a long-legged goddess, had to be stylish and very cold, so he took the initiative to stay away.

Yuan Yike also felt that Zhou You was very pretentious and difficult to deal with, so he usually avoided Zhou You.

After we talked it over, the misunderstanding was resolved.

Yuan Yike is a cheerful and cheerful person, not at all the stereotype of a so-called goddess who has her nostrils turned up in the air because of her beauty, as Zhou You imagined.

Yuan Yike felt that Zhou You was actually very easy-going and attentive, and he was a pretty good person.

Although the two did not become die-hard besties on the spot, they could at least chat.

For more than a year after that, the two also interacted frequently.

For example, Yuan Yike often asks Zhouyou questions after class, and he often sits and chats with classmates during dinner parties.

Although it has not developed into a romantic relationship between a man and a woman, it is indeed much better than an ordinary friendship.

Even Yuan Yike's college entrance examination application form was based on Zhou You's opinions. Her decision to go to Rongcheng Sports Institute and then switch to politics was also greatly influenced by Zhou You.

However, after entering college, the two were busy with their studies and rarely contacted each other, so their relationship gradually became estranged.

Zhou You only knew that she planned to take the civil service exam in Fanyang City after graduation. She did not perform well in the first national exam and failed. She simply went to Fanyang to become a college student village official and prepared to compete again next year.

The two met on the way home, which was unexpected and reasonable.

There are more than twenty people in Yuan Yike's group.

Before the drastic changes occurred, Yuan Yike, as a local village official, was leading a group of workers and fellow villagers from Lelai County to complete a soil and water conservation renovation project. To put it bluntly, it was to strengthen dams and maintain ditches.

That night, Yuan Yike was living in a mobile shed.

After the incident, Yuan Yike was a government employee and her family had some social status in Lelai County. For example, her cousin Deng Tao was the captain of the security team in Lelai County. He was still able to convince the small contractor and became the backbone of the team.

After several days of preparation, Yuan Yike and contractor Yin Xiuwen led a team of more than 20 people to set off, preparing to use the electric three-wheeled Laotoule that broke down on the roadside to cover a distance of more than 30 kilometers.

According to the workers' plan, they will not be able to reunite with their families immediately, but once they reach Lelai County, they will have a greater chance of returning home. Everyone here is eager to go home.

The preparations of Yuan Yike and others cannot be said to be incomplete. Their weapons include a utility knife, a screwdriver, and sharpened knitting needles.

The most important safety feature is the large acrylic box for hamsters that was moved from Yuan Yike's dormitory.

This box isn't very sturdy, but it can withstand stray cats, dogs, and mice, so it won't be a problem.

Those two poor little hamsters were forced to start a wandering life.

According to Yuan Yike's calculations, if nothing unexpected happens, the cruising range of this electric three-wheeler is almost enough to reach Lelai County.

Unfortunately, something unexpected happened, and Yuan Yike and others were overly optimistic about the conscience of the manufacturer.

The cruising range of this three-wheeler was greatly exaggerated. In addition, the power consumption of the electric three-wheeler at low speeds was much higher than expected, so much so that it broke down just halfway through the journey.

Before the tour car arrived, everyone was discussing what to do next, whether to abandon the baggage and switch to walking, and make plans for possible accidents during the subsequent walking journey.

Just when everyone finally made up their mind and began to move the light supplies they could carry to prepare for the road, Zhou You came.

After briefly communicating with Yuan Yike and exchanging the situation, Zhou You winked at Shen Ling, who was standing by her side with a nail gun, telling her to stay still and not to express her position easily.

Zhou You plans to get to know more about this group of workers and determine whether they are trustworthy or not.

The reason is very simple. The construction team headed by contractor Yin Xiuwen and Yuan Yike only have a very unstable temporary cooperative relationship.

When everyone is in the same predicament, this cooperative relationship can barely be considered reliable.

But if everyone is allowed to get on the bus and the most basic survival crisis is lifted, it is inevitable that people will be upset.

Psychologically speaking, it makes perfect sense for Zhou You to regard this group of workers as a source of instability.

But after chatting for a while, Zhou You couldn't help but sigh in his heart about the mystery of fate.

Of course, it is also possible that Lelai County is really just a small place, and the social circles of people overlap very much. If you chat a little more, you will always find that the two parties are related.

The conversation between Zhou You and Yin Xiuwen is as follows.

Zhou You: "Uncle Yin, where are you from?"

Yin Xiuwen: "In Dragon Taming Township, all of us who work here are my fellow villagers, and we are all in the same brigade. How about you, brother Zhou? Are you from the county?"

When Zhou You heard the words "Dragon Taming Village", he felt at ease.

His own hometown, Guangming Township, is next to Dragon Taming Township.

Returning to Guangming Township was originally part of his plan, but his grandparents and uncle's family are currently trapped in the village.

After chatting for a few more words, Zhou You and Yin Xiuwen actually recognized their relationship on the spot.

Taking their relationship up a notch, Yin Xiuwen's second aunt is married to Zhou You's third uncle, and is Zhou You's serious third aunt.

Then Yin Xiuwen Zheng'er Ba Jing can be regarded as Zhou You's cousin.

The two even met each other at the funeral of Zhou Yu's grandfather many years ago, but Zhou Yu was only a few years old at the time and had no memory of him.

But Yin Xiuwen and Zhou You's father, Zhou Lingsheng, were relatively familiar with each other. They met once during the Qingming Festival and had dinner together.

As for the workers who followed Yin Xiuwen, they were all from the same village and the same brigade. They had close or distant relatives and friends with Yin Xiuwen. Many of them, strictly speaking, were actually distant relatives who traveled around.

After the conversation ended, Zhou You simply called his father via video chat and asked his father to chat with his cousin Yin Xiuwen to verify his identity.

Well, they are indeed family members.

There was nothing to say. Zhou You immediately asked Yin Xiuwen and his team to rest for a while and went back to the electric three-wheeler to move things. Then he pulled a hemp rope and tied one end to the towing hook of the off-road vehicle and the other end to the electric three-wheeler. middle of tail.

Then when the off-road vehicle starts running, it can tow the electric three-wheeler away. The speed of ten kilometers per hour is not very fast. As long as you are careful, the three-wheeler is not easy to roll over.

Although electric tricycles have problems such as insufficient battery life and insufficient power, both lead-acid battery packs and brushless motors are valuable resources and cannot be given up easily.

The team returning home suddenly grew much larger.

After finishing their work, Yin Xiuwen and others got on the off-road vehicle.

Today's situation can be said to be slightly bizarre and full of coincidences, which many people who grew up in big cities find difficult to understand.

But in fact, this is not accidental. Even if the people he met while traveling today were not his high school classmates Yuan Yike and Yin Xiuwen, they might also be his classmates from other elementary schools, junior high schools, or alumni from the same school, or a relative of his classmates. It was nothing more than

It's just a difference between a slightly closer and a slightly distant relationship.

This complex network of social relationships is exactly the characteristic of small places and counties with low population mobility.

In a developed modern society, the complex social network formed by fellow villagers seems outdated and backward. It is very small-scale peasant economy and is a backward production relationship that will be eliminated sooner or later.

But what is foreseeable now is that as human beings suddenly shrink in size and civilized order gradually collapses and degrades, this small social network composed of geography and blood will definitely return to the stage of history and play a more important role.

In the past five thousand years of Chinese history, social networks based on family and regional relationships have been one of the foundations of Chinese culture.

In short, with more manpower, some things that were impossible or inconvenient to do before have become feasible.

After everyone settled down, Zhou You asked Shen Ling and Yuan Yike to take the workers to the back row and try to assemble the semi-finished products brought from the electric three-wheel with the existing resources in the car.

In addition, Yuan Yike and Yin Xiuwen also have several aunts in their group.

Due to the limited conditions and lack of supplies in the temporary work shed, only Yuan Yike and Yin Xiuwen among the more than 20 people were wearing decent clothes, while the others were really half-dressed.

When we were in a life-and-death crisis before, no one cared about such trivial details, but now that we were out of danger and there were enough tools and materials in the car, it was time to put on clothes that could hide our shame.

In addition, Shen Ling believes that the most urgent thing currently is lifting equipment. If existing materials can be used to make some manual hoists, "heavy objects" that exceed the load-bearing limit of the 3D printed conveyor belt can be transported onto the vehicle.

Or you can make a flat cart so that you can push and move some heavy objects.

For example, Zhou You felt that sooner or later he would face a power outage, but with today's human living habits, it was impossible to live without electricity, so Zhou You wanted to get a gasoline generator as a backup.

But the fact is that even a household portable gasoline generator weighs more than 50 kilograms, and it is impossible to move it even if it is placed in front of you.

The ability to carry heavy objects is very important.

(End of chapter)


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