Current Situation in China (5)
When Yuan Huawei went to cut the thatch again, he took a new route, mainly to pick up rabbits and pheasants. When he passed by other people cutting the thatch, he casually looked at their " output " and found that several groups of people were cutting the thatch within a radius of less than one kilometer. Generally, the lack of knives affected the entire group's cutting situation. Of course, some groups had more knives and ended their work relatively early. He was cleaning up the rabbits or pheasants that he had accidentally picked up. When he saw Yuan Huawei and the others coming over, he looked at them warily. Yuan Huawei only reminded them with an ugly expression, saying, Just now, they saw two soldiers patrolling the hillside. They seemed to be investigating the person who started the fire. You guys should be careful too.
After Yuan Huawei's reminder, their expressions were especially ugly. From time to time, they would look up and curse at the soldiers, but they all gave up the idea of starting a fire.
Yuan Huawei and the others walked further and further away until they could no longer see anyone. They began to pick up rabbits and pheasants without worry. When they arrived at their destination, they saw that the four of them had already cut another eight stalks of grass and were lying down to rest. When they saw Yuan Huawei and the others coming over, they stood up and greeted them. Then, Yuan Huawei told them about the points. They also did not know what the points meant in the future, but they felt that it should be useful.
An hour later, there were already twelve big thatch grasses. Yuan Huawei said, They would go back after working for another half an hour. It was just enough for the two of them to split the food. When they went back, they would pick up some rabbits and pheasants. Whether it was to eat meat or earn work points, they would not lose anything.
When it was almost evening, everyone had already walked halfway back. They did not meet a single person on the way, but they had picked up more than 30 rabbits and pheasants on the way back.
After crossing the last ridge, there were five long lines in the valley. They were all waiting to register the thatch. Yuan Huawei and the others had no choice but to line up. While waiting, they chatted with the people around them.
When they returned, everyone saw them. Yuan Huawei and the others had gained more than most of the teams, causing waves of envy.
A middle-aged man with an unshaven beard looked at the rabbits and pheasants that Yuan Huawei and the others were carrying. His face was full of envy and he could not help but say, Your harvest is not bad! Awesome, awesome! Did you hear that? The first batch of people brought back more than 40 rabbits and pheasants this afternoon, which earned me 59 work points. One rabbit and one pheasant each earned me one work point. Two rabbit skins earned me another work point. It's much better than cutting grass. I'm so jealous. If I had known earlier, I would have picked up some rabbits and pheasants. I found three on the way, but I didn't pick them up. I lost 4 work points just like that. What a pity.
Yuan Huawei asked,"What are these work points for? What's the use?"
The middle-aged man said," Work points are very useful. It's related to future welfare and personal contribution to the country. It also allows you to freely exchange for things. There are many good uses."
Yuan Huawei: So awesome, who earned the most work points now?
The middle-aged man said," I do know that. One of the teams also brought more than 30 rabbits and pheasants. In addition, each of them carried two bundles of grass that weighed about 30 pounds. They earned 112 work points at once. Each of them earned 11.2 work points."
The second group has 99.8 work points. The third group is the first group I mentioned. They already have 91 points. I heard that they went out for the second time. It seems that when they come back, they will easily be ranked first.
Yuan Huawei: " How are work points calculated? You just said that he had 59 work points. How did it become 91 work points now?"
The middle-aged man said," I brought back some grass. The grass is clean and dry. It's worth ten work points per catty. Didn't I bring more than 300 catty of grass?" That was why he had so many points!
Yuan Huawei said,"Oh, oh, oh." Even his companions behind him were enlightened.
The middle-aged man continued," The person in charge of registration has already announced that the top three groups will have a special reward today. The first place group can each eat a rabbit and a pheasant. The second and third place can only choose one to eat." The top ten would also receive different levels of rewards. As for the others, they could only eat a big pot of soup.
Yuan Huawei and the others 'eyes lit up. They had already given up on the possibility of eating and drinking. They did not expect the result to be so unexpected. It was really an unexpected surprise.
However, Yuan Huawei waved his hand behind his back, signaling for silence and not to talk nonsense. This was because his two companions were also in this team and had a tacit understanding of him. They quickly reminded each other. They were only excited for a while before they calmed down. However, this joy was not easy to hide, and the middle-aged man still found some clues.
The middle-aged man was a little puzzled and said,"It's impossible for you to be the first. Why are you so happy?"
Yuan Huawei: " Because I feel that our team can still fight for third place with the current situation."
The middle-aged man looked at the things that Yuan Huawei and the others had brought back. The rabbit and pheasant should be barely close to 50 points, and more than ten thatch grass should be about 50 points. It was really possible for them to get third place. Anyway, the top ten and top five should be certain. She felt envious again. However, he could only sigh silently.
Time continued, and it was finally Yuan Huawei's group's turn. Since the registrar already knew Yuan Huawei, the university student, he seemed to have forgotten to weigh the grass, rabbits, pheasants, and other animals that they had brought back. The result was exactly 99.8 work points, which made the middle-aged man who had been watching at the side feel like he had knocked over a bottle of wine once again. With this result, they could tie for third place (because in everyone's hearts, the first place was basically confirmed).
Then, he heard the person in charge of registration say, You're a good college student. Adding on the 91 points you got from the first time, just a fraction of it is more than most of the groups.
Yuan Huawei: " No, no, no. This is because the people in the group are all afraid. They just want to eat and sleep well. They are the main force."
Registrant: The train runs fast. It all depends on the headband. You don't have to be modest. Give me a hand and send it to the woman in the quarantine zone. Your group should be able to get a few straw mats. Oh right, those who stayed behind to help will also be given a few work points. Let's round it up to 200 work points.
Yuan Huawei thanked him a few times and left, giving the registrar a lot of compliments. His other team members began to pack the grass and happily followed the grass marks along the way to the lady's registration office. Yuan Huawei also helped to carry the food, and his face revealed an excited smile.
Women's Registration Office
From dozens of meters away, they saw two unknown machines. Gasoline internal combustion engines made a vibrating sound. The female workers laid the smoothed thatch on the platform of the machine and fed it into the machine bit by bit. From the other side of the machine, a neatly packed straw mat came out. Then, they placed it horizontally on the second machine and covered it with the same layer of thatch. After that, they came out with a denser straw mat that was one or two centimeters thick. Then, he was carried by two female workers to the registration area where the women were.
Yuan Huawei and the others placed the things in the female registration area and checked the weight again. They saw the female registration officer looking at Yuan Huawei and the others in surprise and then asked, Who was the team leader?
Yuan Huawei replied as he walked over quickly and said, I am, I am.
Female registrar: Do you want a straw mat? 8 work points for one piece, and each person's labor will be paid out from the account.
Yuan Huawei: 8 work points for one? I thought it was free?
Female registrar: " Isn't it a mess if everyone wants to get it for free? There's a place to earn work points, and of course, there should be a place to spend work points." If he didn't understand anything, he could look at this place first.
Then, the female registrar pointed at the sign beside her.
The red wooden sign was written in white chalk: There are three types of work points
1. Total labor points: All the work points earned by an individual's labor will not decrease with the consumption of work points.
2.[Consuming Work Points: The amount of work points used for consumption cannot exceed the amount of work points available.]
3.[Remaining work points: The remaining work points after spending.]
Yuan Huawei and the others looked at it. It turned out that the female registrar must have been annoyed by the questions, so she wrote it down for everyone to see. However, the handwriting was really standard, as beautiful as printed words.
Yuan Huawei looked at the hundreds of straw mats that had been made, but there were not many people taking them. Could it be that most people did not earn enough work points? Or was it because of some other reason? So he asked the female registrar.
Yuan Huawei,"Why are there so many leftovers?" Was there no one to claim it?
Female registrar: " I've already collected more than 1,000 tickets. I think more people will collect them after 10 o'clock in the evening because everyone will get three to five work points at night. By then, most people will be able to afford it."
Yuan Huawei: Everyone has one?
Female registrar: Yes, almost everyone has one.
Yuan Huawei,"You guys can chase them out?" After all, there were still so many people.
Female registrar: We'll work until we run out of grass, and our registrar will stay overnight to make it convenient for everyone to exchange until there's no more grass to exchange.
Yuan Huawei replied with an " oh oh " to show that he understood. However, he asked again, What if he still didn't have enough work points?
Female registrar: " It can be exchanged for two people with work points. It's already spread. I guess there will be a lot of people after dinner. Besides, how can a living person die from holding their urine?"
Yuan Huawei was speechless. He didn't expect this woman to speak so directly, so he ended the conversation as if he was avoiding something.
Since there was still more than half an hour before dinner was usually served, most of his fellow villagers did not want to go back and forth to the tunnel to collect the straw mat. They would wait until dinner was served before they collected it. The others were closer to the tunnel entrance and were afraid that it would be unsafe to bring it back. Of course, many people had the same idea as them.
As the cooking area was more than 300 meters away from the tunnel entrance, there were 18 big pots lined up in a row. They were even bigger than the big pots used in the countryside to kill pigs and shed feathers. These were all installed in the past two days. It could be seen that they were supporting facilities for the long-term refugee camp because more things were being prepared step by step.
About 20 minutes before dinner, the person from his team who went to help returned to the team and told him that his mother and neighbors had been rescued by the troops Dianjun District and settled down there. He did not have to worry anymore.
Yuan Huawei's heart finally felt a little relieved (he went to check on his mother's condition the next morning).
Not long after, two soldiers held a loudspeaker and began to line up according to the scores of the team. According to their request, Yuan Huawei could only go to the furthest position from the tunnel entrance that was marked with more than 100 points because they were the first team. At the same time, this place was closer to the military camp and the 18 big pots. Every pot was cooking rabbit meat or pheasant meat. The smell wafted around and made them salivate. Every now and then, they would stretch their heads out to take a look.
Yuan Huawei stood at the front of the team. One meter away was the second team, and another meter away was the third team. The people in his team were sizing them up from the beginning to the end. They were a little unconvinced, thinking that they must have been lucky. However, more people looked through them at the eighteen pots, and they were all drooling.
They didn't know how long they had been waiting, but it felt like hours. The sky was almost dark. In the distance, they looked along the road and saw that the reservists who had gone out for training in the afternoon had returned. Under the lead of the soldiers and officers, they stood in formation on the other side of the road. They also stretched their heads out to look at the pot. The fatigue on their faces was swept away. They inhaled the fragrance of the meat in the air forcefully. Greed was almost hanging on their faces.
Finally, a portion of the soldiers who had returned from the team pushed a large flatbed cart to the front of the big pots. They scooped out the first big pot, the second big pot contained a whole rabbit and pheasant, and the third and subsequent big pots were all cut into pieces of animal meat. It seemed that they had been specially prepared.
As the meat was scooped out of the pot, the fragrance of the meat became much stronger, and everyone looked forward to it.
Finally, it was time to distribute food. As the top three had special rewards, they were given a stainless steel plate to hold things.
The first group each had a rabbit and a pheasant, a big bowl of meat soup, a packet of instant noodles, and a small iron spoon. (Although there were no other seasonings other than salt, it was much better than eating instant noodles.)）
The second group was given a rabbit, and the third group was given a pheasant. There was also a big bowl of soup, a packet of instant noodles, and a spoon.
The rest of the top ten teams would get a bowl of soup, two pieces of meat, and two packets of instant noodles.
After the top ten, there was a piece of meat, a bowl of soup, and three packets of instant noodles.
Then, the wounded in the tunnel were of the same level.
The reserve players could only watch quietly, drinking the meatless soup and eating three packets of instant noodles. They were all abnormally depressed, but they did not dare to flare up.
As for the woman, she only had a smaller piece of meat, a bowl of soup, and three packets of noodles.
While everyone was wolfing down their food, the installed loudspeaker sounded at some point. It sounded like it was still being adjusted. After a while, there was a person's voice from all directions. It seemed that the adjustment was done. Everyone listened and expressed their lack of interest. They continued to bury their heads in the instant noodles in the broth. After all, this was the first time they had tasted the broth since they came here.
When everyone was almost done eating, new sounds began to appear from the speakers around them. Although the voice had changed a little, Yuan Huawei could still recognize Wang Zhiguo's voice at once.
Wang Zhiguo: " I believe that many people ate meat and soup for the first time after the catastrophe. It was also the most they had eaten in the past few days."
Perhaps some people feel that they don't eat as much as others and don't eat as well as others, so they feel a little unbalanced. Now, I want to tell my fellow villagers that these are all brought about by labor. It's because you don't work or work less. There's nothing to blame others for. It's your own problem.
Tomorrow, we will continue to work. I hope we can solve the problem of food and housing as soon as possible. We will use our own labor to fight for ourselves.
Next, I will arrange the work schedule for tomorrow:
The men's reserve team was responsible for collecting food within ten kilometers of the south side of the highway. The other men's labor force went to the food gathering area within ten kilometers of the road to the north. What he needed to pay attention to was his safety.
The reserve ladies would go to the villages near the Che Xi toll station to search and bring back some necessities that could be used in life. At the same time, he hoped that the people who used to live near the Che Xi Toll Station would take the initiative to help…
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Just like that, Yuan Huawei was assigned tasks by the army every day, including finding food, cleaning up the debris on the highway and ordinary roads, leveling the land, and even cutting branches in the forest and stacking stones by the side of the field. It was not until the 16th of the first month that he was told to go to Peking University that he was transferred to a larger refugee area in Dianjun District. However, due to time constraints, he did not see his mother.
Then, he was transferred step by step to the train station in a small city in the north of Wuhan City (the city was basically in ruins), and began his way to Beijing to go to school. When he arrived in Beijing, it was already the afternoon of the 20th of the first month. It was the end of his life as a refugee after the explosion disaster.
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