"Come on, kid! How can we, with just a few of us, defeat an entire village? Do you think you're Superman?" Huanzi glanced around and pointed at a group of armed soldiers standing nearby and whispered, "Don't you see they have guns too?! Tsk... I really don't know what the connection is between these soldiers and the people in this village. Why are there so many people? It looks like they all live in the village."
Along the way, they saw dozens of soldiers holding guns. They didn't receive such treatment when they were in the temporary shelter in Yunhai City before!
At the beginning of the earthquake, major cities such as Yunhai City and Li'an City established their own temporary shelters to assist in rescue efforts. However, after the radio broadcast that a temporary base had been established, the original shelters were gradually dismantled, and military and government personnel began to evacuate, urging everyone to move to the temporary base together.
However, some of these people went to the so-called temporary base, while others stayed in the temporary shelter because of fear and worry due to the snowstorm.
Wei Le stayed in his villa for a long time. By the time he could no longer stay there and went to a temporary shelter, the military and government had already withdrawn. The so-called temporary shelter in the city looked almost identical to the refugees he had seen on television before, perhaps even more miserable and destitute than those on the news.
Huanzi is the one who lives in a temporary shelter with her grandmother.
It's a long story. Huanzi's real name is Tan Huan. He was originally a child from a well-off family. He had no worries about food and clothing and was spoiled by his family. He was fearless and just thought that if the sky fell, there would be tall people to hold it up. At worst, he still had his parents at home. However, he didn't expect that when the earthquake came, both his parents died in the earthquake. Only his grandmother who happened to be walking the dog in the community at noon that day and Huanzi who was playing games in an Internet cafe survived.
The two young men were about the same age and both liked e-sports games. In addition, they had similar personalities to Wei Le, so they ended up playing together. This time, they came to Wanxi Village together.
"Don't overthink it, the two of you. Even if the sky falls, there are still tall people to hold it up. Just stand by and listen... There are so many of us in this group. If they chase us away, there will definitely be others who will stand up and speak out."
Huanzi's grandmother patted the two young men's arms, sighed, and said, "As for you, Xiaole... you should be more polite. We are now on each other's territory, so we should at least be polite to each other."
After saying this, Grandma Huanzi became a little worried and continued to give a few more instructions: "Besides, I've been to Wanxi Village before. Although the people there are poor, they are quite kind. So don't have any opinions about this village. According to what the group of people said before, we may have to live in this village for a long time. In this case, we all need to get along well."
"Okay, grandma, don't worry...just leave these things to us." Huanzi winked at Wei Le, telling him not to continue talking so as not to make grandma worry again.
After all, both the Sun family and Wei Le and his group were feeling nervous and uneasy because they had arrived in an unfamiliar place, and the other people in the car shared the same feeling.
Fortunately, they didn't have to worry for long, as people from the village came out carrying things. What Accountant Qian and his men brought were indeed the tents that had been dropped from the plane.
These tents had hardly been used before and were all brand new.
Accountant Qian glanced at everyone, then sighed and said, "The houses in our village collapsed during the earthquake. Although everyone has been working hard to rebuild them, we still can't provide you with any houses in the village. So you can stay in these tents for the time being."
"If you want to live in a house later, you will have to go up the mountain to cut trees yourself, or go to the foot of the mountain behind our village to make red bricks. There is nothing else on our mountain, but there is a lot of yellow mud for making red bricks." Accountant Qian pointed in a direction behind him.
No one around spoke, and all eyes were fixed on Accountant Qian, waiting for him to continue.
Accountant Qian continued, "We don't have many tents in our village. These 28 tents were left over from the last relief distribution. They're all of the same standard and about the same size. Five of you can share one tent, and the children can squeeze in. As for how to arrange it, that's up to you."
As Accountant Qian finished speaking, the three men following him, who were carrying two baskets of tents, put down the baskets full of tents.
Everyone looked at the two baskets of tents, and their originally lifeless eyes suddenly brightened up. Many people whispered and looked up at Accountant Qian.
They felt that the people in this village did not seem to be that difficult to get along with, which gradually calmed the originally uneasy hearts of the disaster victims who came from Yunhai City.
The whole day, everything had happened so suddenly that everyone was feeling a bit heavy. Even Accountant Qian didn't want to waste time on nonsense, so after putting down the tents, he directly turned the conversation to the main point that everyone was focusing on.
"Our village is called Wanxi Village. I'm sure everyone has heard about it before you came here," Accountant Qian said. "I won't go into other details. I'm sure you'll understand after living here for a while. Since you're already in our village, you must abide by our rules. There are a few things I need to tell you about first! This will prevent you from saying I didn't warn me later."
"First, no one in our village is allowed to steal or intentionally injure others! If any conflict really occurs, Village Chief Zhao and the village secretary will help to deal with it! Otherwise, this person will be expelled from our village! Nowadays, although the environment outside is very chaotic, the people in our village must unite!" Accountant Qian said this in a loud and clear voice.
This made the originally noisy crowd suddenly quiet. Many people nodded in agreement after hearing what Accountant Qian said.
Those who can follow the government to the countryside are not evil people.
We were all just ordinary people trying to survive. Everyone looked at Accountant Qian and waited for his next words.
"Second, after you've rested for a few days, starting next month, all healthy men between the ages of 18 and 55 must join our village patrol team and patrol alongside the men in our village! As for those households without anyone to join the patrol team, they must follow our village rules and pay the patrol team ten kilograms of grain per household each month."
Compared to the first one.
As soon as the second piece of news came out, the originally quiet crowd immediately became noisy as if a □□ was suddenly thrown into the air, and many people frowned and looked embarrassed.
"Ten kilograms of food a month? That's a bit too much... We don't even have that much food on us..." Someone in the crowd raised their hand and said hesitantly, "Of course we support the village patrol, but this month's supply is a bit too much..."
"Yes... this food is indeed too much. We can't afford it at all."
Those who said these words were those who had no adult males at home, while those who had adult males at home who met the patrol team's requirements hardly spoke a word. Instead, they stood aside and watched silently, or talked to their families in low voices.
In fact, it is normal for such a scene to occur. After all, the current issue of paying grain does not seem to have much to do with them. Instead, it is those families who have lost their men and pillars of support.
They had originally thought of leaving Yunhai City and moving to the countryside because of a lack of food, but they didn't expect that now they have nothing, and it seems that the situation is even worse. Isn't this even worse than their life in the city?
"Don't worry too much about this matter. If you don't have enough food, we can wait until next year to make up for it. As for what we really can't provide, we won't force you."
Logically, Zhao Zhengde, who should have been at home discussing matters with Uncle Nine Zhao Xingguo and the others, somehow showed up here. He looked at everyone with a serious expression and said, "But since we all live in the same village, we'll see each other every day. What's going on in everyone's homes? I'm sure after spending some time together, everyone will be familiar with each other... I just hope no one will deliberately delay."
Everyone had a conflicted look on their faces, but no one spoke. Instead, they looked at each other.
Seeing that no one spoke, Zhao Zhengde knew that many people in the crowd were dissatisfied, so he continued as if offering a sweet date, "It's normal for rice to yield more than 2,000 kilograms per mu nowadays. Even if two or three layers of hulls need to be removed after husking, each mu of land can still produce more than 1,000 kilograms of grain. Rice planting and harvesting only take more than four months, so ten kilograms of grain per household is really not much. When you go back and divide the land among the villagers, are you unwilling to give out even this little food?... Besides, this patrol team is to protect everyone's safety. If anyone feels unnecessarily, they can bring a tent and live outside the village at night."
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