Chapter 476: Work
After Ye Qiuyu fed Chen Jiayi and wiped her mouth, Luo Yuan called her: "Doctor Ye, come here!"
Ye Qiuyu didn't know what was going on, so she rushed over: "Mayor Luo, call me!"
"This is your part!" Luo Yuan picked up the remaining energy crystal and handed it to her.
Ye Qiuyu looked at the almost completely transparent sheet and looked stunned. Then she even breathed a little faster, but she hurriedly said, "This... this, Mayor Luo, this is too expensive!"
"Don't care so much, just take it for you!" Luo Yuan patted her shoulder gently: "Just do things with your heart in the future!"
This was the first time Luo Yuan had an intimate contact with her body. His hot palm seemed to penetrate the thin clothes and penetrated into his skin. Ye Qiuyu trembled all over, her face turned slightly white, and then she turned red again.
At this moment, her heart was in a mess and she didn't know what to do. She had always been very thoughtful. Sometimes, a common word would be broken in her heart, crushed and chewed repeatedly:
"Is this a hint? What should I do? Should I refuse and refuse to accept it, or pretend not to understand, accept it first, or just follow the trend!"
Luo Yuan looked at her white and red, and his expression changed. He thought that his face was tender and he didn't dare to accept it. He couldn't help but grab her hand and put the energy crystal in her palm: "Hold it!"
Ye Qiuyu looked blankly, her body was dumbfounded, as if she had completely lost her thinking. After a while, she came to her senses, but found that Luo Yuan had already walked to Chen Jiayi!
She bit her lip and let go of her hand. Looking at the thin and light energy crystal core of the palm of her hand, she felt like she was heavy and heavy.
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In the early morning, a harsh alarm ring suddenly rang.
Cui Weichuan, who was still sleeping, closed his eyes, was confused for a while, suddenly felt shocked and completely awakened.
Today is his first day at work, so he can't be late. He quickly turned over and stopped the alarm.
He was originally a grassroots civil servant in Motu City (Chapter 311), but unfortunately encountered a major earthquake at that time, and the entire Motu City was buried underground. He came to Hope City as a refugee.
At that time, Hope City accepted a large number of refugees from all over the world, and among them, there were also civil servants like him, and it was impossible for everyone to assign the corresponding jobs.
After waiting for a few days, he was assigned to Hope City First Steel Plant as deputy section chief of the logistics department.
This profession is not bad. To some extent, he was even promoted a small step. He has always guessed that there were some off-field factors in between, because he knew a big man, and his daughter was able to come to Hope City alive, which was also saved by this big man. Perhaps it was because of this aspect that he promoted him out of order.
That period may be insignificant for that big man, or even just acquaintance, but for him, it may be a turning point in his life.
However, the good times did not last long. The destructive disaster a few months ago turned the factory where he was in an instant into ashes.
He was lucky. It happened to be his turn to work day that day and was not in the factory, so he survived fortunately.
During that period, the entire Hope City was in chaos and darkness, and cried all night long. Everyone in the entire Hope City wore mourning, and some people vented everywhere because of their despair for the future. On the streets, gunshots could be heard occasionally.
This was the day he feared the most. He and his baby daughter hugged in this hut and didn't dare to go out for several days.
Fortunately, in a few days like this, everything began to improve, the city order gradually recovered, and light also came to the city of Hope again, but since then, he has been completely unemployed.
The days of unemployment are quite difficult, and he can only queue up to go to the public welfare canteen to fill his stomach every day. Although he will not starve to death, it is impossible to eat well or eat enough. Even if he wants to buy some small items for his family, he still has to think about it again and again.
As a newly migrant refugee, he didn't have much savings, and by now there was nothing left.
Faced with such a poor life, he could tolerate it, but he didn't want his daughter to accompany him to suffer, and was discriminated against by other classmates in boarding school.
He has to own a job!
Fortunately, after the end of the world, learning was completely free, otherwise he would not be able to afford his daughter's tuition.
He walked into the bathroom, washed his face, brushed his teeth carefully, cleaned up his personal hygiene, then walked to the wardrobe, took out all the clothes he could wear, put them on one by one. This job requires working in the cold field, and he must pay attention to keeping warm.
He put on all the clothes he could wear and sweated suddenly. He wanted to take off a few pieces, but after thinking about it, he could just forget it. He only took a few steps to wait until he arrived at the underground floor, which was only one layer away from the outside world, and the temperature would drop a lot.
Finally, he took out a leather coat, leather gloves and leather boots, held it in his hand, and closed the wardrobe.
This three-piece cold-proof set is quite heavy, especially the leather coat, which weighs more than 20 kilograms. A layer of animal skin on the outside is as thick as 3.5 mm, and the inner lining is soft red hair like flames. Even if it is cold after wearing it, it seems to be covering the stove.
In order to buy limited-edition cold-proof clothes, Cui Weichuan queued up for a whole day in the environment of more than minus 30 degrees Celsius, and finally bought his and his daughter's clothes from the salesperson, and spent most of his savings for this.
But before he could wear it for a few days, he regretted it. As the heating lamp gradually filled every corner of the city of Hope, the temperature here gradually became warm like spring, so this expensive leather jacket became a decoration in the wardrobe. Every time he saw it, he felt so distressed that he was about to twitch.
But when you drink and peck at everything, you have a clear requirement for this work to bring your own leather jacket. When you think about it, Cui Weichuan had to feel that he had foresight.
The salary for this job is quite high, three times that of ordinary jobs. Due to his previous work management experience, he was hired as the team leader and managed about 100 people. His salary is twice that of ordinary workers. He will never have to live like this in the future.
He closed the door, walked out of the house, and soon arrived at the underground floor.
This layer of disaster collapsed during the disaster, but was later restored. Now you can still see traces of cement repair.
He found that he was not the earliest, and there were hundreds of people earlier than him. Now some of the space here has been transformed into an open-air canteen, and these people are having breakfast at this time.
When Cui Weichuan smelled the food, he couldn't help but swelled in his stomach. He immediately went to serve the windowsill and made a serving.
During a chat with the chef, he got good news that the food here is not limited. These days, Cui Weichuan has eaten half-warm every day and has been living a very painful life. Now he can finally eat well.
During his meal, more and more people came, and the originally cold and quiet cafeteria soon became crowded with people.
His dining table was gradually filled with people.
"Hey, Chief Cui!"
"Ah, Lao Hu, you are here too." Cui Weichuan looked up and found that it was a colleague from his department, so he hurriedly said.
"What can I do if I don't come? Now I have some food here." Old Hu said with a wry smile, his bearded face was obviously a bit of a bad life. It was obvious that he had been in a very downturn during this period.
"Who is not the same? This is the first time I have had a full meal!" Cui Weichuan also said empathetically.
"How many people came today?" Lao Hu looked at the cafeteria and said in confusion.
"Ten or 20,000!"
"I don't think it's all the time. There are at least 30,000. Have you heard that the groundwater here is almost exhausted, otherwise why do you have to go to the snow to mine ice cubes?" Lao Hu suddenly said mysteriously.
"You can't say this!" Cui Weichuan said quickly: "Be careful of being heard, not to mention that with Mayor Luo here now, what are you afraid of? Even if the aliens are solved by him, he is afraid of no water."
Lao Hu shrank his neck and was a little scared. He hoped that the city was still under martial law, but there was no such thing as freedom of speech. Once he was suspected of inciting the people's chaos or spreading rumors, there was no good result: "Look at me, I'm used to this big mouth, so I can't change it. Eat, eat!"
"Your daughter is in the first grade, right?" After a while, Lao Hu asked again.
"Yes, I went home once a week and found that I was fat." When talking about her daughter, Cui Weichuan couldn't help but show a doting smile on her face.
"Of course I'm fat. The school's food is not comparable to our public welfare canteen, and there is no limit to the quantity there." Lao Hu said enviously.
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As time goes by, the number of people continues to increase.
When it was six o'clock in the morning, a team of fully armed military and police officers and a large number of civil servants in charge of work began to enter the first floor.
"The workers from the 1st brigade gathered towards me!"
"The workers from the 2nd Brigade gather to me!"
"The 3rd Battalion..."
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"The 32nd Brigade..."
"I'll take a step first!" When Cui Weichuan heard the brigade he belonged to, he quickly stood up and rushed over.
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"All squadron leaders leave the line, organize their own teams, and report on numbers."
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The workers in the reconstruction area are both workers and reserves. Almost everyone has conducted military training. In just a few minutes, the workers who were originally huddled into a mess were arranged in square formations!
As the exit steel door opened, the black workers walked out of the dungeon in neat steps.
"Hiss, it's so cold!" The gas from his mouth turned into fine ice chips in a blink of an eye. Cui Weichuan tightened his clothes and couldn't help but start to tremble.
The sky outside was dark, as if it was full of ink. This was the first time he had walked outside since the disaster. He had previously had an estimate of the cold outside, but he never expected it to be so cold.
Even though I was wearing a thick fur coat, the chill still couldn't stop drilling into the bones.
He touched the high-strength wine in his arms. In order to keep the cold, it was distributed for free before departure. Originally, he felt that it was not necessary at all, but he couldn't help but want to take a sip, but he just thought about it. Today he had to wait for a day, and this half-pound of strong wine could not stand a few sips.
The 15th Brigade arrived at the selected area and stopped.
"I know everyone is cold, so I'll tell you a long story!" The captain took out the iron horn and shouted loudly: "The working conditions this time will be quite difficult, and many people may feel regretful now.
I know many people have received rumors or have speculations, but unfortunately, this time the situation is the same as everyone speculated, and Hope City's groundwater is on the verge of exhaustion.
If I hope the city will lose water, I think everyone will know the consequences.
So this job is not just a simple job, but also for you and the entire Hope City, you have no possibility of quitting!
Now that the ice mining has officially begun, each captain leads your team members to come here to get tools.”
While talking, two trucks had already stopped here, and the workers on the truck kept throwing the tools below.
Cui Weichuan didn't expect that Lao Hu would guess. He felt heavy in his heart and called on the team members to collect tools and mine ice cubes. Each team received three thick metal stakes tied with ropes to smash the ice layer, a large number of iron chisels, and five simple wooden sled trucks.
As for construction machinery such as excavators, there is no one at all.
Even the trucks drove away quickly after throwing away the tools. The entire brigade was assigned only two trucks, each of which was extremely precious. In this cold weather, it was impossible to stay outside for too long. The ice cubes were only loaded into the truck to transport them away by sled trucks.
The mining work began soon.
Cui Weichuan assigned his job well, led the way and lifted the metal stakes and began to smash the ice.
The metal pile is thirty centimeters thick and weighs 800 kilograms. It is lifted with a rope and the other four people. Each person has to bear at least 160KG. Without a single force, it cannot be lifted.
Fortunately, he followed Luo Yuan all the way to Hope City and ate a lot of high-level food, which made him very strong.
But no matter how strong he is, he is just an ordinary person. The work of smashing ice cubes is quite tiring. Not only does he need to keep shouting and cooperating, but the ice layer is even more incredible.
It often takes more than ten times to crack before it can barely crack. It will be repeated hundreds of times before it will eventually break. Then it will be changed to another place. The broken ice will naturally be mined by others, filled with sleds and sent to the underground floor.
However, one advantage is that he no longer feels cold, and instead feels a little sweat on his whole body. Until noon, he didn't take a sip of the strong wine in his arms.
This was a sudden commotion from afar, and one of the workers suddenly stopped.
"Why did you stop suddenly?" Cui Weichuan almost stopped and said unhappily. If such a heavy metal stake stops rashly, will there be an accident?
Chapter completed!