Chapter 455: Beast Disaster. Food Coupons
There are three canteens in the C City Base, located in the rich area, the staff area and the ordinary area.
The canteen in the wealthy area is divided into two blocks, Block A and Block B. Block A is an ordinary canteen structure, and Block B houses various small shops, similar to the food stalls of the past, but now it is a high-end consumption area.
No matter whether Building B is called the canteen or the Baiwei Building, it is not only open to the rich but also to ordinary people. As long as they have points, anyone can go there to eat meat.
The canteen in the staff area is an internal canteen for employees, mainly for base leaders, important staff and joint defense team members. The price is cheaper than outside, and some special positions also have meal subsidies, but not everyone will choose to eat in the canteen, after all, the salary level is different.
The last one is the public canteen, which is located behind Building 4 and is open to the entire base. The price is a bit higher than that of the staff canteen, but it is more than ten times cheaper than Baiweilou. Of course, the dishes are not as rich.
This is also the cafeteria that Chu An is now entering. There are four floors in total. The first to third floors are the dining area, each floor can seat 200 people, and the top floor is for booths and private rooms, a total of 33.
Even here, it is a place where common people come to satisfy their cravings. Ordinary people can come here once every two or three months, and those who are a little better, like Yin Tianlin, can only come here once a month, so 600 seats plus the top-floor private rooms are more than enough.
When they arrived, food boxes were being packed up in the lobby on the first floor. Yin Tianlin explained that basic supplies would be distributed to the poor here at noon every day.
People who work at the base will receive food or points as wages every month, and scavengers can also exchange their earnings for food or points. But there are also many people who cannot find jobs and cannot go out to scavenge, such as the disabled, the elderly and children, who often have no family or friends.
The government cannot let them starve to death, so food is distributed here once a day.
"How do we determine their identities? Can I get the upper hand if I blend in with them?" Lao Chu asked with interest.
Huo Sisi explained, "You need food coupons to receive free food. At the beginning of each month, the block chief compiles a list of people who are unable to work in their jurisdiction and reports it to the community. A special person verifies the situation based on the list. Those who have no family members, have lost their ability to work, have not violated the base rules and are harmless to the base are confirmed as qualified.
The list of qualified people will be handed over to the canteen, and the canteen will then print food coupons based on the number of people. Statistics will be made at the beginning of each month, audited in the middle of the month, and food coupons will be issued at the end of the month, and the cycle will repeat."
"Aren't you afraid that someone will print food coupons privately?" Lao Chu asked again.
"It happened before, but we are also improving it. Now the patterns on the monthly food stamps are very complex and abstract, and there are watermarks. No one can make a master copy in a month, which effectively controls counterfeiting."
"Awesome! This is better than the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The prosperous Tang Dynasty didn't care about the life and death of the weak." said Lao Chu.
Yin Tianlin was a little bit unbelievable. "I heard that Sheng Tang has a lot of light labor jobs, and individuals are allowed to do business and open shops in the base. It is basically the same as the previous social form. There are welfare homes, schools, etc."
"Yes, you are right. But there is no free food distribution, so even if you are blind, deaf, missing arms and legs, you still have to get up and work. This job may just be threading a needle, but it still requires you to get up and do it.
By the way, Sheng Tang has another job that anyone with a breath can do. "
Lao Chu kept the question in suspense and everyone looked at him, waiting for the answer.
"Pathfinder." He wanted to talk about this as a light-hearted topic, but after saying these three words, his mind involuntarily thought of an old face that brought him a hint of warmth, and his heart suddenly became extremely heavy.
"I once ran away and hid in a garbage can for three days and three nights. I was hungry and cold. I thought I would not survive the night. I would either die there or surrender. Later, a homeless man found me and gave me half a moldy cake. Although I was eventually caught, it was one of the few warmth I felt."
Lao Chu suddenly coughed twice, "Ahem... I've strayed off topic. What I wanted to say is that the biscuits that the homeless man took were the reward for being a pathfinder. Their rewards are usually paid in advance. His task was to explore a forest, and then I never saw him again."
This topic is indeed very heavy. No one spoke for the next minute. In prosperous times, we advocated respect for human rights, but in the end times, it became trampling on human lives.
When they arrived, the free food had just been distributed. There was still some residue in the box, which could be seen to be coarse grain dumplings. This kind of food has no nutrition at all. One meal a day can only maintain basic life needs.
But... in the future even eating whole grain dumplings may be a luxury, as the end of the world will eliminate the elderly, children, the disabled and all useless and worthless things and people.
"Let's go to the top floor." Huo Sisi suddenly took Chu An's hand and broke the silence.
Chu An nodded. From the corner of his eye he saw that Old Chu was following them closely and showed no sympathy on his face, which made him feel a little relieved.
After all, she and Lao Chu hadn't seen each other for a year and a half, and it was at the beginning of the natural disaster, the most important time to form the three views of the end of the world. She was afraid that Lao Chu had come into contact with someone and had problems with his thinking, just like the incident with the homeless man, and whether he would get used to sympathizing with the weak.
What she worries about most is that one day, Lao Chu asks her to do something that he thinks is easy to do but will cause a lot of trouble. What if she objects and refuses to do it?
It’s not that she is indifferent, it’s that she doesn’t have the ability to control all Chinese people. This matter still depends on the government.
In short, the end of the world is not just a natural disaster. The change in human nature is the most dangerous. If you are not careful, even the golden finger will be beaten to pieces.
She had worked hard to get to where she was today, and she absolutely could not let it go to waste.
The group soon arrived at the top floor. There were private rooms on both sides, five on each side, some large and some small.
There are seven rows and four columns of booths in the middle, but the row near the window only has two large booths that can seat eight people. The other seats are also of different sizes due to design reasons, for a total of 33 seats.
At this time, there was only one table of guests on the top floor, with a man and a woman sitting in an eight-person booth by the window.
The man was about 40 years old, wearing a gray linen casual shorts and gray sweatpants. He had big eyes and a long face, an ordinary appearance. His hair was a little long and his chin had a heavy stubble, which seemed to have been neglected for a few days.
The woman looked very young, in her early twenties at most. She was wearing a one-piece overalls and a yellow short T-shirt. She had her hair in a high ponytail. She was very thin and her face was very pale, but her facial features were still pretty.
Both of them were facing sideways at the stairs, and when Chu An and others came up, they turned their heads slightly.
The man frowned when he saw Yin Tianlin. It was obvious that he knew him but was not familiar with him. Maybe he was a little... upset?
The woman's eyes changed from expectation to contempt. It was obvious that the person she was waiting for was not here.
She rolled her eyes at Chu An and the others, then turned back to stare at the water cup in front of her, which was only one third full of water.
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