Since almost all residents of Xingfu Community have joined the villa area, calling it a villa area is no longer accurate. Therefore, the name "community" was adopted. After discussion, everyone chose an elegant name: Jiangyue Community.
The next day, the matter of expanding the wall was put on the agenda. With more people involved, it was decided to expand the area of the wall, but the supplies prepared were less.
Fortunately, many of the residents in Xingfu Community were farmers from the surrounding area, and they were quite skilled at things like building walls, repairing houses, and repairing irrigation ditches. When an elderly man named Wan Xu found out about this, he suggested that they could use materials from nearby. The nearby market and a few old houses could be demolished, and the barbed wire that had been used as roadblocks could also be used. Although it was not as sturdy as a brick wall, it could be placed in a relatively hidden and safe area in the back hills.
Everyone agreed that it made a lot of sense. So they found a few experienced people and replanned the area, trying to include nearby farmland and houses as much as possible, and set up several sentry posts. They also planned to arrange for dedicated personnel to patrol and install surveillance equipment to ensure safety to the greatest extent possible.
Those who applied to build the fence received a third of their monthly salary that day, which they used to buy food. Back home, they were finally able to have a hearty meal. Their families were overjoyed. This greatly increased everyone's enthusiasm for signing up, and the team was quickly filled.
It took another day to complete the household registration statistics for the villa area. Among the 846 people, there were more than 50 children and more than 100 elderly people. Overall, the age groups are relatively healthy.
Most of the elderly living alone did not survive. The elderly and children have relatives to support and care for them, which has solved a major problem for the villa area.
The children were all sent to school in the villa area. With more children, the teaching staff also expanded, and another teacher and a handyman were hired.
In this census, people with special skills were specifically sought out, and we were really lucky. Among them were blacksmiths, bricklayers, butchers, well diggers, drivers, and someone who used to be in charge of papermaking technology in a factory.
Ye Yunyi had been looking for a blacksmith. After finding the blacksmith, she showed him the set of equipment she had used to bind the zombie king. He said he could make it, but she needed to provide enough fire-testing materials, iron, equipment, and a suitable location.
That's no problem. Happiness Community is so big, we can definitely make use of it.
The women in Xingfu Community are not pampered, especially those aged 40-60. They all did farm work when they were young, and they still do it now. Those aged 20-30 haven't suffered much hardship, but most of them have received a good education. However, there aren't many clerical jobs available, and they can't compete with those in the villa area. To survive, they apply for jobs repairing walls or doing odd jobs. Some who don't want to do that go to do farm work. Those who really don't want to work have families to support them, and as long as they don't cause any trouble, no one cares.
It's the perfect time for spring planting, and the planting has already been completed inside the villa. The security team retrieved the barbed wire used for roadblocks and cordoned off a safe zone. The construction workers are working within this safe zone, so building the wall and planting can be done simultaneously.
The Happiness Community has many houses, but due to a significant decrease in population, most residents have moved to areas closer to the villa district. Only two buildings are now fully occupied.
During this time, Chen Yu and Gao Fei improved the hydroelectric power generation equipment, which provided enough electricity for the villa area. They also brought the electricity to the two buildings in the Happiness Community.
The water supply in Xingfu Community is manageable. Two large water storage tanks have been built on the rooftops of the two buildings where they live, and simple purification devices have been installed. The drinking water still needs to be filtered by themselves, but it is usable for daily washing.
The drinking water in the villa area is spring water, which would be inconvenient to get to the Xingfu residential area. Fortunately, there are well-drilling professionals. We hired one to survey the locations and found that a well could be drilled in both the villa area and the Xingfu residential area. So, the well-drilling plan was put on the agenda.
Through building walls, farming, and digging wells, almost everyone has found a job, except for those who are unwilling to work. The newly recruited guards are also undergoing training under the guidance of Xiao Qin and Xiao Deng.
Everything was running smoothly. Everyone was all smiles. Even when working, they were no longer afraid of the zombies outside the barbed wire fence. Those who had been trained in the villa area would occasionally fire an arrow to kill the zombies. However, because the zombie corpses were difficult to dispose of, they were stopped by others.
But Ye Yunyi, Wang Zixiang, and Zhao Yong were thinking further ahead. Building walls, digging wells, and farming would eventually come to an end, and once those were over, they would find themselves without work again. The resources they had painstakingly saved up were almost depleted by the addition of these 800-plus people. For long-term sustainable development, they needed to get these people to create more resources.
Mr. An made an estimate: the green area in Xingfu Community is already small, so let them plant their own crops. If the land outside is cultivated properly, it can barely support more than 1,000 people, but it requires careful planning.
There are also the medicinal herbs that Dr. Shen asked us to plant. If they can take good care of them and nothing serious happens, the medical supplies will be basically enough. However, they have collected some daily necessities such as soap, toothpaste, toilet paper, and cloth, which can be used for a while, but it would be best if they could produce them themselves.
For salt that they cannot produce themselves, they must find more and stockpile more. However, it is not realistic to specifically seek out a salt field.
There's also iron, which needs to be collected, as it will be needed for making bullets or other things later.
In short, while providing them with jobs, they also need to ensure the steady development of the community.
So they opened the gates opposite each other in the villa area and the Happiness Community, making it convenient for people to travel between the two communities without having to take a detour through the outer gate.
Most of the staff lived in Xingfu Community, so the factory was also located there. There were some shops on the ground floor of Xingfu Community, and some of them were unclaimed. They were used to set up clothing studios, food processing plants, paper mills, and blacksmith shops. Some people with a good eye for business opened tea shops and taverns.
Although we don't have money right now, we will eventually have it. If we take these jobs now, we might make money later and won't have to do farm work or other chores anymore.
With these plans in place, Ye Yunyi felt much more at ease.
With the increase in the number of guards, Ye Yunyi no longer needed to take them out every time. Under Zhao Yong's command, the guards from the villa area had already gone out many times, bringing back everything that could be used, including equipment, supplies, daily necessities, and medical equipment.
The area surrounding their community was almost completely emptied out, until one day, they brought back a person.
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