Chapter 606: Mist. Repairing Mountain Road
After a week of renovation, the shelter was basically restored to its previous state. Li Qing also kept his promise and divided all the supplies in the warehouse equally.
However, when the supplies were being divided, a small incident occurred. Three households on the hill who had no dealings with them thought that they would not get a share, so they all came down to make a scene.
One household is a DINK couple in their forties, one is a mother who protects her children and a mama's boy in his thirties, and the last household is three men and one woman living together.
Su Ye was the one distributing the supplies at the time. Seeing their aggressive attitude, he didn't say much and had people throw their share over. The list of people to be divided equally included the three families, but no one knew them. They had originally planned to wait until the evening for Guo Jing to bring the supplies back to them, but they didn't expect this to happen.
"We don't need these supplies." Su Ye warned with a cold face, "Take them away quickly and don't cause any trouble."
A few people were embarrassed and started to curse, especially the mother who was protecting her calf, her mouth was full of foul language as if she had eaten shit.
Su Ye was not good at cursing, and he was very angry. Fortunately, the refugees knew who they were these days, and they all stood on Su Ye's side and cursed back for him, so they didn't get much advantage.
After Li Qing knew about this, he comforted Su Ye first. Su Ye was no longer as sensitive as before and did not take it to heart. Instead, he felt warm in his heart because the refugees spoke for him. He also advised Li Qing not to cause trouble for the three households. The construction of the base was imminent and the overall situation should be the most important.
Li Qing discovered that since the idea of building a base came up, everyone has become more energetic and positive than before. Even Old Man Wei, who didn't want to care about anything, is discussing the expansion of beds with the only doctor in the clinic.
People really need a positive goal.
Even if he didn't go to the three households to argue, the matter couldn't be forgotten. Li Qing felt it was necessary to cut off ties with the three households, so he consulted with everyone.
Currently, the shelter is temporarily composed of Li Qing, Gangzi, Shen Changyuan, Jinli, Guo Jing, Chuan, Gu Ye, and Lao Chu. All of them have voting rights except Lao Chu.
Lao Chu did not want to participate, so he took the initiative to take the responsibility of organizing the meeting. Because everyone has their own things to do, each time a major decision is discussed, only more than half of the people need to participate, and the content passed by the meeting will be conveyed to others.
Li Qing asked Lao Chu to organize the meeting. Currently, only Chu An, Jinli and Guo Jing can come. Four people are more than half, and Lao Chu is not included.
Guo Jing knew the three families well and felt that the most difficult one was the mama's boy's family. Both mother and son had distorted values and no sense of shame. The cruelest one was the DINK couple who killed their pet dog and cat that they had raised for eight years for meat.
"It is rumored that they have eaten human flesh, but I don't know whether it is true or not." Guo Jing just told them what he heard and saw.
The others looked at each other, thinking nothing of it, but it was always right to think of the worst.
"What are the backgrounds of these three men and one woman?" Li Qing asked.
"I really don't know. It seems like they were college students or friends." Guo Jing suddenly remembered something. "Oh, that woman seemed to be pregnant. She got some medicine from Lao Liang and had an abortion. She was lucky."
"Looking at the state of that woman, she doesn't look like she was coerced." Old Chu muttered, "Maybe the young people just can't control themselves."
"Ahem...Uncle Chu, this is not the point." Jinli said, "The point is these four people..."
“Cough, cough, cough…” Li Qing almost choked to death and patted the koi’s head. “What are you thinking about, little kid!”
Koi covered his head with his hands, feeling extremely aggrieved. "I just wanted to say that the four of them are not easy to deal with."
Li Qing blinked a few times to hide his embarrassment. "Ah, that one is indeed difficult to deal with. The key is that they handed in their supplies to enter the shelter. As long as they don't want to leave, the shelter can't kick them out."
Guo Jing suppressed his laughter and suggested, "We can put up barbed wire fences outside their houses."
He had wanted to do that before.
"We can open the network first, but we don't need to block it to avoid unnecessary conflicts. Just let them feel our intention." Chu An said, and took out the simple map of the mountains he had asked Guo Jing for before, "Since we are relatively well-equipped today, I suggest discussing building a road to the mountains."
Li Qing agreed that if people could live in the mountains, the shelters could be used as buffer zones, and the low mountains could be used as planting areas, with people being sent to guard and maintain them on a regular basis.
"I agree." Jinli said, "Once we all move out, it will be like sidelining them. They won't be able to find us if they want to cause trouble."
"Aren't you afraid that they might do something sneaky backstage?" Guo Jing felt something was amiss.
"I'm afraid they won't do it." Li Qing raised his eyebrows and said, "If they dare to do it, I will kill them."
The meeting passed the decision to repair the mountain road first, and Shen Changyuan's first thing was to recruit workers.
The next day, Chu An, Gu Ye, Lao Chu and Guo Jing went up the mountain to have a look. The way up the mountain was a bit steep and indeed not suitable for mountain road construction. There were also some dug steps on the road that had not yet been poured with concrete.
Everyone felt refreshed as soon as they entered the mountain. The temperature on the mountain was three to four degrees lower than outside, and the air was fresh. It might be related to the current weather. It was not as humid as imagined, and it was still relatively suitable for living.
"We chiseled out the steps you just saw bit by bit with hammers and chisels." Guo Jing recalled those days with lingering fears. "We only slept three or four hours a day, didn't have enough to eat, didn't have warm clothes, and people died almost every day."
Chu An didn't want to use this method, which would not only consume a lot of manpower and material resources, but also take a long time. She planned to stay here for three months and had to settle everyone within three months.
After walking around for an hour, Chu An asked Guo Jing to go back to work while she and Gu Ye walked around. Guo Jing did have a lot to do, so he hurried down the mountain.
Chu An wanted to use explosives to blast the site and then dig it mechanically, but after analysis, she found that the efficiency improvement was limited and did not meet her expectations.
"Xiao An, look at the waterfall over there." Gu Ye pointed to the southeast. Through the leaves, one could see a large smooth stone wall with several streams thicker than cow horns on it, which could barely be considered a waterfall. However, the mountain on the left side of the waterfall seemed to be gentler than this side.
"We can use the slope to build the road." Gu Ye remembered that Yeling Mountain in Liancheng was like this. The road up the mountain twisted and turned and made a big detour.
Chu An was delighted. With natural conditions, things would be much easier. When he encountered a place where equipment was needed, he could use mechanical assistance to open up a huge working surface in a short period of time.
However, if you want to go up the mountain from that side, you need to wade through the river at the top of the waterfall. Now the river is dry and there is no danger, but what if there is heavy rain in the future?
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