Chapter 141 Pick your nose too
As he drove home, he planned how many trips he would make to haul coal.
One trip carried two tons of coal, five trips would carry ten tons. Before the apocalypse, ten tons of coal would cost tens of thousands of yuan, and after the apocalypse, it would only be more expensive.
With this calculation, I feel full of energy, and I'm determined to haul five loads of coal today.
But Brother Liu and Taozi still have to help with the work at the Baizhen base, and the coal they get will probably be distributed according to their work.
If I keep asking them for help, will it affect their interests?
Thinking about it this way, I realized I couldn't keep asking others for help later. I should put less coal in the sack and carry it up little by little myself.
Not long after I finished thinking about it, I arrived home.
After arriving home, the truck drove to the vicinity of the west wing, overturned the truck bed, and twenty bags of coal slid directly onto the ground.
This is only the first trip. We must put the coal in a corner, otherwise there will be nowhere to put the coal for the second and third trips.
Without stopping, the truck turned around and continued to haul coal.
On the way to the coal mine, I kept thinking about how to load the coal onto the truck more easily, but when I got there, I couldn't come up with a good solution.
Driving the car into the coal mine, the scene before my eyes was quite different from the first time I was there.
The base elder was standing in the middle directing operations, while three large excavators were dumping coal onto trucks one after another.
It seems that the base elder also felt that manual transport was too slow, so he preferred to use more fuel and brought in a bulldozer.
If the base elders were willing to give me some face, and the bulldozer just turned slightly and dumped a few shovelfuls of coal into my truck bed, wouldn't I be able to get two tons of coal right away?
Several trucks were lined up, waiting for the forklift to feed them. I envied the trucks that were being fed and wished I could be one of them.
After several large trucks were loaded and drove away from the coal mine, only my pitiful little truck was left standing there near the coal mine.
The base elder suddenly noticed me and waved at me.
"Come here quickly, come here quickly."
Before I could get close, he waved to the bulldozer, which then drove into the coal mine to load coal.
I immediately understood, and happily ran to the car, drove off, and parked at the feeding location.
The loader shoveled coal into the truck bed, and my little truck was instantly filled.
I rolled down the car window and shouted loudly to the old man at the base, "Thank you, sir! You're such a kind person!"
The base elder seemed to think I was a bit embarrassed, and waved me off, saying, "Hurry back, we'll come back a few more times, enough for five or six more trips."
With the help of the bulldozer, the weight on my heart was completely lifted, and my eyes were filled with longing for coal.
This time, the coal wasn't packed in sacks, which saved us some effort, as we drove directly to the vicinity of the threshing ground.
First, a large plastic sheet is laid on the threshing ground, then the truck bed is overturned, and the coal is instantly dumped onto the ground, black smoke rises up, and blackens a small patch of land around it.
Luckily, I had the foresight to dump the first cart of coal in the west wing; otherwise, the entire cart of coal wouldn't have been able to get in.
By the time they drove back to the coal mine, it was already dark. But judging from the base commander's demeanor, the Baizhen base was destined to work through the night.
Then I will also work tirelessly, keeping up with the pace of the Baizhen base.
For the rest of the night, I was either driving or waiting in line for the bulldozer to feed the animals. I didn't feel sleepy at all; my mind was filled with the excitement of making a fortune.
By the time the seventh truck was loaded, it was already dawn, and the base commander ordered all the bulldozers and trucks to stop.
"Leave a way out for others, now go!"
The base elder, his eyes bloodshot and exhausted, got into a truck and headed back to the Bai Town base.
The remaining few people started to finish, roughly filling in the rubble on the ground.
I also drove my own little truck, heading home.
Looking at the coal piled up like a small mountain in the threshing ground, I was extremely happy. The newly added dozen or so tons of coal would be enough for me to burn for many more years.
It took a whole roll of plastic sheeting to cover the coal completely. Bricks were used to weigh down the plastic sheeting around the coal to prevent it from getting damp and to keep it from attracting attention.
These coals weren't exactly free. Apart from the diesel I got in the basement, I used up almost half of the diesel I had stockpiled today, which really hurts.
But it's still worth it; compared to diesel, a dozen tons of coal are more appealing to me.
I didn't sleep all night; I stayed up all night.
After closing the front door, I prepared to wash up before going to sleep. When I looked in the mirror in the bathroom, everything except the whites of my eyes and teeth was black.
Although I was exhausted, I still forced myself to take a shower.
Halfway through washing, the floor was covered with large areas of black sewage, which looked frightening. So I washed even more diligently, picking my nose while washing my face.
I quickly dried my hair, crawled into bed, and fell asleep instantly.
I was woken up by hunger. When I woke up, it was almost dark, and several dogs were rubbing their paws on the ground because they were hungry.
Without saying a word, I first steamed a pot of rice, then chopped up some cured meat and stewed it with dried watermelon and dried potatoes.
I slept all day and didn't let the chickens out. I quickly prepared feed for the chickens and pigs.
This pig has really suffered following me; it has to endure such a heart-wrenching hunger every few months.
The ducks seemed to have a lot of complaints when they saw me, quacking incessantly until I poured the food into the trough, at which point they quieted down and started scrambling for the food.
I went outside to cut some grass to feed the rabbits. The rabbits seemed quite hungry, and they were eating grass faster than usual.
The mother rabbit looks like she's pregnant again; I'm looking forward to it.
As soon as I got home and stepped into the windshield, I smelled the aroma of stewing meat inside. My stomach was throbbing with hunger, and I couldn't wait to eat.
Several dogs lay listlessly in front of the stew pot, as if threatening me, "If you don't feed us soon, we'll die in the next second!"
The aroma was irresistible; the stew was almost done. Lifting the lid, steam billowed out, and the dogs immediately perked up and jumped away.
Every dog has experienced being burned by the steam from a pot lid during its childhood, so even if it's starving or pretending to be dead, it can't allow the steam from the pot lid to burn its body.
It's not that I don't stop them from eating when I was a child, it's just that as soon as the aroma of food comes from the pot, I just can't resist the urge to crawl into it.
Stir-fry quickly in the pan with a spatula, then transfer to a large bowl and serve.
Every day, the owner eats first and then the dog, but today is an exception. The owner mixed some of the vegetables and rice together and put them on the stove to cool.
Before the dog food could cool down, I started eating too.
The chewy cured pork, paired with chewy dried potatoes and dried watermelon, makes every bite of the meal incredibly delicious.
What tastes best? When you're hungry, every bite of food tastes best.
However, with the pitiful looks from the dogs, he ate heartily, finishing two bowls of rice, finally relieving his agonizing hunger.
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