Fan Xuan and his men were very excited when they got the news, and they even made some noise in their respective bases before coming to Dayan Mountain.
For example, when they were sent out by the base to carry out the mission, they were told what kind of rewards they would receive, what they would get if they returned alive, and what kind of sympathy their families would receive if they sacrificed their lives.
Now they're demanding those benefits. What? Just because they're infected, those benefits are gone? Bullshit! After they were infected, the base didn't give them any extra compensation, and didn't do anything to save them. So, just because they're infected, the base can just shirk its responsibilities?
In short, those who deserve material subsidies will receive them, and those who deserve official positions will receive them in the form of material or benefits. They've built up their own network over the years, and while I'm reluctant to interact with them now, I can still connect with some of them.
For example, team leaders like Fan Xuan are the confidants and right-hand men of their respective superiors. In order to appear loyal and righteous, their superiors say that their previous positions will be reserved for them. So they use their connections to sell their positions and networks for a good price. When someone takes their position, naturally another position becomes vacant, and the lower-level person competes for that position, and so on.
In short, their actions caused some disturbances in the three bases.
Some of the infected people have considerable wealth at home, so they ask others to go back and sell their houses or land.
For some infected people, their family members are worried about being infected too, so they not only distance themselves from them but also seize their assets. Even some relatives who have not been in contact with them for more than ten years come to take advantage of them. Naturally, these infected people are unwilling to accept this and look for someone to take back their belongings.
For this reason, a small agency industry has even emerged. As long as a certain percentage of the reward is given, many people are willing to file lawsuits on behalf of infected people.
After dealing with these, Fan Xuan and his team removed the infected from their original household registration, completely removing them from the base. While some in the base felt this was unpleasant, the fact that these infected people were restlessly staying in the Dongyang base ruins and allowing others to mess around with them was quite annoying. Furthermore, it was a good idea to get rid of a group of people carrying the zombie virus as soon as possible.
But others said that even if they left the base, the infected people could not move freely. They had to either stay in the Dongyang base forever or leave China. Otherwise, they would be a security risk and they had the right to eliminate them.
At this time, Lin Zhongrong and Lin Man sent people to come forward and said that the Dayanshan Peace Base would take over these people.
People only then realized that these infected people had such a deep relationship with the Lin father and daughter. Some people thought that the father and daughter were stupid for wanting such a hot potato, some people thought that they had some conspiracy, and some people simply envied and jealous of the infected people. Why could they go to Dayan Mountain? Maybe they could even get a household registration there. They tried every possible way to live there for a while, but it was extremely difficult and the waiting list was several years later.
In short, Fan Xuan and his more than 400 infected people came to Dayan Mountain with a lot of supplies. They wanted to hand over these supplies to Lin Man to please her, but Lin Man refused and asked them to keep them for themselves. Then he arranged them to the infected area of the Reunion Base, letting them live and manage together.
This group of infected people also came with their families. It wasn't just two spots per person, but everyone who was willing to follow them came, young and old, even brothers and sisters. What surprised Lin Manyi was that there were dozens of young women. Upon asking, he found out that they were relatives of deceased comrades of the infected, or sisters and distant relatives. They all wanted to come to Dayan Mountain, but for various reasons they couldn't come. Staying in the original base didn't offer any good prospects, so this time the infected people went to great lengths to remove their household registration and bring them here.
Lin Man felt like she was being offered a beautiful woman, but it had to be said that this gesture really pleased her. She began to view these infected people more favorably and personally took the single girls among them to be placed with the single women in the base. After the observation period, they could be registered as residents. The Peace Base now provided additional subsidies for several groups of people, including the elderly, children, the disabled, pregnant women, and single women.
Some people say that subsidies for single women will make them more inclined to remain single, which is detrimental to the stability of the base. Lin Man thinks this is nonsense. The Peace Base lacks women, so of course they need to improve their status and treatment to attract more women. She also doesn't force women to marry. When they come here, her first priority is to ensure they live happily. This will help them feel a sense of belonging to the base and contribute to its stability.
Moreover, she provides the highest subsidy for newborns. When a couple gives birth to a child, basically all the food and clothing for the child in the first three years are covered, and medical care is completely free. The subsidy for pregnant women and mothers is also very high. Under the stimulation of such welfare, most women are still willing to find a partner and have children.
Look, those 2,000 women have basically found their homes happily, and the number of bachelors in her escort team has dropped sharply, the happiness index has been rising, and many of them are already expectant fathers.
Lin Man gave the new members a general introduction as they walked, and they all listened with fascination. They passed by farmlands on the way, and birds chirped and flew around, which was not scary at all. All this made them surprised and happy.
Suddenly, a little white bird flew over, landed on Lin Man's shoulder, and pecked her hair. Lin Man turned her head to look at it and said, "Where have you been going crazy again?"
This little bird is Guan Guan. After it has a physical body, it can no longer stay in space. It runs out every day and flies everywhere, leading its group of bird brothers to fly around, so bird droppings are everywhere. However, no one complains. Instead, they like these birds very much. Whenever they see a bird's nest, they will carefully help maintain it.
In people's eyes, the appearance of these birds represents hope and vitality.
These birds are also very good at finding insects to eat. There aren't many insects on Dayan Mountain, at least not many different kinds. Some birds are picky eaters and have to fly far every day to find food. Guan Guan lets them catch the insects they like and bring them back to feed them slowly. As a result, the variety of insects on Dayan Mountain has increased. There are also more wild grass species, after all, some birds like to eat grass seeds.
Guanguan chirped twice, ignored her, and flapped its wings and flew away.
"There are so many birds here. There are no such birds in the north." The newlyweds were amazed.
They happened to pass by the hospital and saw a lot of people gathered there from afar. They asked in confusion, and Lin Man told them that it was the hospital and two women were giving birth in the hospital today.
This is also a scene in the Peace Base. Whenever someone gives birth on that day, not only will the family members gather outside the hospital delivery room, but there will definitely be a lot of people gathered outside the hospital wall, including neighbors, good friends and brothers, old men and women who don't have much to do, pregnant women with big bellies who have nothing to do every day and do handicrafts, women who are not pregnant yet and want to take part in the good news, and older bachelors who don't even have a partner but just come to take a look to satisfy their cravings... There are so many stone and wooden benches outside the hospital.
Seeing that they were curious and eager to see the hospital, Lin Man took them there. As soon as they arrived, they heard a loud baby cry. People inside and outside the hospital burst into joyful celebrations, and everyone was as happy as if a new baby was born in their family.
The new girls stretched their necks to see what was going on, but of course they couldn't see anything. They just looked at the pregnant women with big bellies around them, and the people who were watching the fun from a distance with their babies in their arms. They were very envious. The nervousness they had when they first arrived completely disappeared, replaced by the ambition to find a partner and have a baby as soon as possible.
Lin Man noticed that their eyes became eager and they began to look at the men around them. He couldn't help but sweat. They adapted too quickly.
After settling the newcomer in, her mother just got off work. I picked her up and took her home. Well, there was already someone at home. Her father was busy preparing ingredients in the kitchen.
It has been like this for the past few days, and Chen Yu is used to it. She greeted him with a normal expression and started correcting homework in the living room. Lin Man went into the space. Lin Cheng was busy in the rice field. Seeing that there was not enough water in the field, Lin Man came out to fetch water again. She put her hand in the puddle, or you could say the well, and leisurely absorbed water. Then, in the space, it was like rain falling above the rice field.
Lin Cheng stood aside and watched. The green rice was wetted by the water and covered with crystal water droplets. The water level in the field slowly rose. His heart seemed to be moistened, becoming bright and full.
Lin Man left in the morning and came back just now, which meant he had spent almost a whole day alone in the space. He was actually very accustomed to being alone, and he could find many things to do, but when she came back and created her own movement, he realized that the space where he was alone was silent, even still, and he was not enjoying himself, but just wasting time in a dull and numb manner.
Her arrival brought back all the colors, and it seemed as if his silence throughout the entire day was just waiting for this moment.
After a while, Lin Man entered the space again and looked at the rice fields: "Is this enough?"
Lin Cheng curled his lips: "Well, that should be enough."
Lin Man looked at it and said, "I heard that you can raise fish in rice fields. Should we raise some fish?"
"Didn't they say crabs are raised in rice fields?" Lin Cheng said.
"Is that so? But we don't have any crabs." She had never eaten crabs before, but they had fish, just a few species, imported from the north. They had even created a fish pond on Dayan Mountain, but forget about crabs. Speaking of crabs, Lin Man thought of shrimp, and then of seafood. Seafood wasn't practical; Dayan Mountain didn't have the conditions to raise them, but river fish was something she could still hope for, right? She didn't particularly like fish, but she was eager to try other aquatic products.
She said, "Lin Cheng, let's go find some crabs and some more fresh food."
Lin Cheng was slightly surprised, then smiled and said, "Okay."
Lin Man asked him, "Have you ever eaten crab?"
“I ate it when I was a kid.”
"What does it taste like?"
"That's it..." Lin Cheng couldn't find the words for a moment.
Lin Man asked again: "There seem to be many kinds of crabs. What are the differences between them?"
Lin Cheng: “…”
“Is there a big difference in texture and taste between crab and shrimp?”
Lin Cheng, Lin Cheng couldn't answer.
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