Chapter 146 The Purpose of Work Points
Xia Xiaoman sent Sun Qing out of the community. As they walked, they found many people rushing out of the community with weapons.
Sun Qing asked curiously, "Why are they holding knives? Are they going to fight?"
"Not sure." Xia Xiaoman frowned. She didn't hear any gongs being struck in the community, so it shouldn't be that someone was besieging the community. But so many people were rushing out with weapons. Could it be that something had happened to the team that was transporting coal?
Just as she was thinking about it, she saw Fu Baiwei holding a crossbow and running out with the team. She shouted loudly: "Fu Baiwei! What are you going to do?"
Fu Baiwei looked back and saw Xia Xiaoman. She ran while shouting, "The woodcutting team is fighting with others. Let's go and help!" After that, she quickly caught up with the team and ran out of the community.
Seeing this, Sun Qing asked, "Do you want to help?"
Xia Xiaoman said: "The gong for defending against the enemy has not sounded, so we don't need to help. The patrol team and the shooting team will go to rescue people."
Sun Qing nodded. "Then I'll go back first. If you think it over and want to go to Yuancheng with me, feel free to come find me."
Xia Xiaoman responded and watched her leave. After Sun Qing walked away, she turned back home. After walking a few steps, she saw someone carrying a wounded person back to the community. It looked like the wounded person was seriously injured.
The next morning, Xia Xiaoman went out on time to clean the sewer. Suddenly, she heard someone calling her from behind. She turned around and saw Fu Baiwei riding her tricycle towards her.
"Don't you have to patrol today?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
Fu Baiwei hummed, "Too many people were killed or injured in the wood-cutting team yesterday. Our shooting team has to take over and continue to cut wood."
"Why did the team that was chopping wood yesterday start a fight with others? Was someone deliberately causing trouble?"
"No, someone is trying to grab the territory." Fu Baiwei explained: "Now basically the whole country knows about Yongye's news. Some people are anxious to stockpile more wood, so they gathered a large group of people to grab the territory."
Shuiyuewan has always been chopping wood in the back mountain. After seeing the eternal night coming, the residents in the surrounding area also followed the people of Shuiyuewan to chop wood in the back mountain as it was closer.
But people are always greedy. When the residents in the surrounding area saw Shuiyuewan working together to cut wood, they cut down a large area in one night. They were worried that all the trees in the back mountain would be cut down by Shuiyuewan, so they spontaneously organized to cause trouble for Shuiyuewan and wanted to occupy the entire back mountain.
The other side had more people and more power, and the woodcutting team was unable to suppress them for a while, so they had to send people back to the community for help.
"When we went over to provide support, those people righteously accused us, saying that we sent so many people to cut firewood in Shuiyue Bay and left no chance for the residents nearby to survive."
"Bah! They don't even see how many people live in Shuiyue Bay. We only sent two hundred people to chop wood, which is already too few. If every family sent one person to chop wood, there would be at least four or five hundred people." Fu Baiwei said indignantly.
Xia Xiaoman frowned, "Do many people go to the mountains to chop firewood?"
Fu Baiwei hummed, "Yes! Fuel is in short supply now. If you see a stick on the road, people will rush to pick it up."
"We originally planned to go chop wood at night and continue working during the day. But Aunt Xing said that the sewers had been cleaned up almost completely, and even if we asked for leave, it would not affect the progress. She asked us to go chop wood during the day and try to get more fuel back."
The sewer has indeed been almost cleaned up. The location that Xia Xiaoman was cleaning had already been dug through with other teams yesterday. Today, they only needed to clean up some corners and crevices.
Suddenly, someone called Fu Baiwei in the distance. She looked in the direction where the voice came from and said anxiously, "I won't talk to you anymore. The captain is calling me." Before she finished her words, she rode away in a hurry on her tricycle.
Xia Xiaoman went to the sewer to clean the sludge as usual. Before the lunch break, the sewer had been cleaned.
Zhou Wenyu, who received the news, rushed over and confirmed that the sewer was cleaned. He then registered the work points for each of them and said, "The sewer is cleaned, and your work is done. These are the work points you have accumulated during this period. Check if there are any problems."
Xia Xiaoman leaned over to take a look. Cleaning the sewers earned five work points a day. The team worked for 48 days, and each person got 240 work points. She took four days off, so she had 20 less work points than others, only 220 points.
Someone in the team asked, "Captain Zhou, what are these work points for?"
"I will report your work points later. Your work points will be recorded at the trading point tomorrow. You can use these work points to exchange for warm clothes."
Upon hearing this, Xia Xiaoman asked, "Can work points only be exchanged for warm clothes? Can they be exchanged for other things?"
Zhou Wenyu glanced at her and said, "In addition to being able to exchange work points for warm clothes, if you want to live in the sewers in the future, you will also need to provide work points to exchange, including exchanging for coal in the future. So I remind you, don't spend all your work points, otherwise you won't be able to live in the basement if you want to in the future."
Someone heard this and murmured, "The sewer is dirty and stuffy, only a ghost would want to live there."
Xia Xiaoman didn't say anything. She probably understood the purpose of these work points. These work points should be a layer of protection left by the higher authorities for the masses.
Cold-keeping supplies will be very important in the future. If they are sold in large quantities, rich people will hoard them in large quantities, while poor people probably won’t be able to afford them even if they want to.
By using work points to exchange for cold-resistant and warm supplies, the authorities can ensure that most ordinary survivors can get cold-resistant and warm supplies, while at the same time increasing the enthusiasm of the masses and making them work hard to help the government in order to earn work points.
I have to say that the Fucheng government has thought very carefully. This arrangement is much better than asking the people to exchange their supplies for cold-weather items. After all, not everyone can afford to buy cold-weather items.
After confirming that there was no problem with the work points and returning the searchlight, Xia Xiaoman turned around and went back to the community.
As luck would have it, I met Fu Baiwei again on my way back.
At the gate of the community, a man and a woman stopped Fu Baiwei from leaving. Fu Baiwei looked very unhappy, as if she was trying hard to suppress her anger.
Xia Xiaoman took a few steps closer and heard the woman's sharp and piercing voice, "I raised you up, and you just want to walk away! Do you have a clear conscience?"
The man also shouted angrily, "You are such an ungrateful bastard! Your mother and I were worried about whether you would survive being washed away by the water, but you didn't even know how to go home after surviving. You just hang out outside!"
Hearing this name, Xia Xiaoman immediately understood that this couple was Fu Baiwei's biased parents.
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