In the Dong'an District of Xicheng, the prototype of a survivor base has now been built.
Dong'an District is the most remote area in Xicheng, with slow economic development and a small population. Many villages retain the appearance of more than 20 years ago. In recent years, in response to the national development policy, the Dong'an Flower City market has begun to operate. Before the end of the world, there were flower fields everywhere.
The army base is located in Yeshan.
The survivor base radiated outward from Yeshan. At first, the survivors rescued by the army lived in the high-rise buildings in the town. Later, as more and more people came, they were dispersed to live in the county town... When the ice disaster ended, the lower-level buildings that had been flooded and covered by ice reappeared. The survivors left Yeshan and returned home. Survivors from outside poured in one after another and occupied the ownerless houses. Everyone tried to stay as close to Yeshan as possible. With the protection of the soldiers, at least they could sleep well at night, and when they went out during the day, they didn't have to worry about a pair of evil hands reaching out to rob and plunder.
Qiao Qingqing and her family arrived at Dong'an District of Xicheng in the early morning and could see lights in the direction of Ye Shan from afar.
"I thought I was seeing things, but it turns out there really is a light!" Shao's father exclaimed.
"Let's find a place to stay first, and then look for a house in the evening." Qiao Qingqing said.
After finding an empty house to spend the hot afternoon, Qiao Qingqing got up on time at 5:30 pm and called her family to get up for dinner. When they were in the wild, Qiao Qingqing took out a motorcycle tricycle again, piled a lot of daily necessities on it, and wrapped it with green canvas. This was the family's future belongings.
The roadside was uneven and hot, and the tires were burned like melted chocolate during the short five-kilometer drive from the wilderness into the city.
The car was driven by Shao's father. He checked the tires and said that the car was still drivable and he just needed to drive slower.
Qiao Qingqing said: "Let's go to Yeshan and find a village close to the army to live in. It will be safer that way."
In her previous life, Qiao Qingqing arrived too late. The high-rise buildings with good environment in Dong'an District had already been divided up. Even the low-rise buildings were in great demand. At least they could shelter from the wind and rain, and they could be lived in after cleaning up. She could only rebuild a house on the ruins after the fire with the other survivors. This time, she arrived early, and the base should not have been built yet, so she should be able to find a better place to live.
"Okay, I'll drive slowly. Call me if you need anything."
The family set off again.
"There are a lot of people here. When we were in Huacheng, we rarely saw so many people walking on the road." Shao's mother looked surprised, but there was no doubt that she was very happy to see this scene. It meant that it was safe here and everyone dared to go out and walk around.
"Yes, there are so many people. Where are they going?" asked Qiao Songzhi.
The sun had just set and the road was still hot underfoot, but more and more survivors came out of their homes, most of them on foot, and some on tireless bicycles that creaked forward, all heading in the same direction.
"They should all be going to Yeshan. Let me ask." Shao Shengan stopped a middle-aged man and asked politely.
"Ye Shan will distribute supplies today. Did you just come from outside? You're so lucky." The middle-aged man glanced at them with some envy in his eyes, "It seems that you are also rich people, rich people." Then he continued walking.
"What is a rich person? I have no money." Shao Shengfei looked confused.
Qiao Songzhi looked at his healthy, dark face, then at Shao's mother and son-in-law, and finally at her daughter. She knew without looking in the mirror that although the family looked haggard after traveling for several days and deliberately made their clothes and faces dirty, their physical foundation was there, and they were not as pale and thin as most of the people they saw on the road now.
Qiao Qingqing said: "He should be saying that we are in good spirits. Let's go. We are going to Yeshan too."
It was dark when they arrived at the village at the foot of Yeshan Mountain.
The village is bustling with people and even more people live here. You don't need to ask to know that this is where Ye Shan will distribute supplies.
"Let's first look around the village to see if there are any empty houses." Shao Shengan asked Qiao Qingqing for her opinion.
Qiao Qingqing said: "We have to find the village chief first. The village chief here should still be here."
They asked for directions from three people before they finally found out where the village chief's house was.
"Oh, you don't have to go to the village chief's house. When the soldiers from Yeshan come down to distribute the supplies, the village chief will come out to sign for them."
Qiao Qingqing didn't think so. She was eager to meet the village chief and quickly settle the housing issue.
This village will be one of the new communities of the survivors' base in the next few years. Before the end of the world, it was the first ring of the city! If Qiao Qingqing doesn't quickly seize her own nest, she will regret it!
When they found the village chief's house, Qiao Qingqing and the others happened to see a group of people squatting at the door of the village chief's house, all with ugly faces.
"What should we do? The village chief said there are no vacant houses, and he is not willing to arrange for us to live in other people's homes."
"Damn it, what's so great about a shabby village in the mountains? Let's go! If they don't let us stay, we can find a place to live on our own!"
"Hey Brother Xun, there are troops here——"
"What nonsense are you talking about! I didn't say we were going to rob a house! We can find someone else to take us in. If the village chief doesn't make any arrangements, we can find a way ourselves. Otherwise, we can just build a house ourselves. What are you afraid of? Let's go. Don't be so arrogant here! "
"Brother Xun is right. I've seen many outsiders like us build their own houses. We rely on ourselves!"
They went off cursing.
Father Shao parked the car and said worriedly, "It seems difficult to live here. What should I do?"
"It's okay, let's go try it first."
The village chief and his family were having dinner, and it took a long time before someone came to open the door.
The person who opened the door was the village chief. He had an ugly look on his face and was about to curse the moment he opened the door. But fortunately, he found that the people knocking on the door were not the rude group of people just now, so he swallowed his curse.
Pretending not to see the ugly face of the village chief, Qiao Qingqing smiled before speaking, and said politely and warmly: "Hello, hello, you are the village chief, right? I am Qiao Qingqing, my family and I just arrived here today. I heard that if we want to settle down in the village, we need your consent. We really want to settle down in the village, so I am sorry for coming here to disturb you!"
Shao Shengan handed over a pack of cigarettes and said, "Hello, village chief. I am Shao Shengan, Qingqing's husband. We sincerely want to settle down in your place. You see, we are all here, and we are all honest people. Please consider it carefully."
The chief of Qiuye Village was stunned after being dealt with in this way.
He had a good first impression of the gentle Qiao Qingqing, and he thought she sounded nice, but there were indeed no empty houses in the village - but Shao Shengan stuffed a pack of cigarettes in his hand!
A pack of cigarettes!
Unopened, hard-shelled Zhonghua cigarettes with plastic seal intact!
Village Chief Ye’s eyes suddenly widened.
Now, the good words spoken by the couple were multiplied in his ears and became extremely beautiful.
The refusal words he often said were stuck in his throat. Village Chief Ye made a decision in his mind: "Oh, welcome to Qiuye Village. You are a guest from afar, come in and have a seat!"
Qiao Qingqing and Shao Shengan looked at each other: Well begun is half done.
Father Shao waved his hand: "You guys go in, I'll look after the luggage."
Village Chief Ye took them to the living room to sit down. While they were talking, his child secretly watched them from the window.
Village Chief Ye didn't see it and asked enthusiastically where they came from.
Qiao Qingqing was well prepared and took out her household registration booklet, ID card, and her and Shao Shengan's graduation certificates and degree certificates.
After checking the household registration, Village Chief Ye exclaimed: "Oh, you two are from XX University? It's a prestigious university! Ten years ago, a good kid from our village passed the entrance exam, and the leaders of the town came to give him a scholarship!" Village Chief Ye had a better impression of Qiao Qingqing's family.
Several older people looked honest and decent, one looked simple and silly, but not a bad person. This couple graduated from a prestigious university! They were top students! Although there was a natural disaster and life was different from before, Village Chief Ye still respected and loved people who were good at studying.
It will not be bad for Qiuye Village if such a family wants to live in Qiuye Village.
He thought for a while and said, "If you sincerely want to move in, I really welcome you. But there are really no empty houses in the village. Alas, you see my house has been flooded for several years. We came down from the mountain only after the ice melted and returned to the village to live. The army lives on the Qiuye Mountain. They sent us to the mountain to avoid the flood before, but now we are not allowed to live there! We understand this. I heard that there are many confidential matters on the mountain, and it is not good to have too many people. Our Qiuye Village is at the foot of the mountain, so they must have returned to their own homes. Among the people who came down the mountain, there are not only people from our village, but also from other places. The superiors told me to try my best to arrange it, and I have arranged it. Now there are really no empty houses, and they are all full! You should have seen it when you came. They all tried to find a place to live by themselves, setting up sheds and tents. I can't control where they set up. It's difficult for everyone, and I understand it."
Qiao Qingqing said sincerely: "Uncle Ye, we also know your difficulties. After all, your village is a Feng Shui treasure land, and everyone wants to live here. Our family came here from Huacheng. Our home has been burned down. There is really no other place to go. Now we have no other requirements. We just want to have a home, not like duckweed in the water, miserable and rootless. Qiuye Village is very popular. I like it very much. My parents-in-law used to farm in their hometown. They said that seeing Qiuye Village is like seeing their hometown, and they feel very close to it. Uncle Ye, it doesn’t matter if there is no empty house. Can you see if you can allocate a piece of land for us and we can build a house to live in. As long as the household registration can be settled, our family will not be picky even if we live in a pig shed!"
Shao Shengan also pleaded: "If it were before, we would not be too embarrassed to make such a request, but now is a special period, isn't it? Please consider it, we will definitely remember your kindness!"
"Divide the land?" Village Chief Ye frowned. "No need to divide the land. It's so hot now that we can't grow anything. You can use any vacant land you want. Many outsiders live in sheds over there. You can go there too."
This is not Qiao Qingqing's purpose.
If she occupies the land carelessly now, she will be driven away easily in the future. If she wants to stay here, she must have a legitimate reason.
Qiao Qingqing continued to plead, "How can we justify occupying the village's land without any explanation? If we occupy it today, it may be occupied by someone else tomorrow. Wouldn't we have conflicts and fights then? My family are all honest people. We are most afraid of fighting with others. It's better for us to buy a piece of land ourselves, so that we don't have to worry about anyone who wants to cause trouble in the future."
Village Chief Ye also thought it made sense when he heard it.
In fact, he didn't want so many outsiders to come to the village. There were so many people and so many things, and it was noisy everywhere, but he couldn't drive them away. There were people making trouble every other day in the village. Today someone was fighting for territory, and tomorrow someone was stealing things. There were so many troubles. He could only try his best to protect the people in his village from being bullied by outsiders. Fortunately, there were soldiers patrolling frequently, and those people didn't dare to cause any big trouble.
Now that he heard Qiao Qingqing say that she wanted to buy land in a legitimate way so that she could settle down there legitimately, he was very impressed.
This is a sign of respect for him as the village chief!
But the problem is that there is really no vacant residential land in the village...
"Didn't you just say that we can set up our tent anywhere? Then you can pick a place for us and write a document to prove that it is sold to us. My family and I will pay for it."
Qiao Qingqing looked at Shao Shengan. Shao Shengan lit another cigarette for Village Chief Ye and whispered, "Is one cigarette like this okay?"
Village Chief Ye was moved.
The village was now occupied by outsiders at will, and all that was done was to write a land deed - it was written by him, and it was not valid, so he was not afraid of a lawsuit.
Even if I don't write it, this family will still occupy the land...
"Grandpa!" The child outside the window couldn't wait any longer and shouted, "Come and eat! Grandma has to wash the dishes!"
The child interrupted Village Chief Ye's contemplation, and he laughed and scolded: "I wash my own dishes myself!"
Qiao Qingqing added another chip: "Uncle Ye, although I didn't study medicine in college, my hobby is studying medicine. I also have some medical skills. I can treat minor problems such as headaches, fevers, and injuries."
Village Chief Ye was quite surprised, but a little skeptical: "You are so young, are you really a doctor?"
"I'm not really a doctor. I just know a few basics." She took out a bottle of medicinal wine from her backpack.
"This is a medicinal wine I made myself. It's quite effective in treating injuries from falls. I'll give it to you."
Village Chief Ye took it, his eyes changing constantly.
Ten minutes later, Qiao Qingqing and her family left the village chief's house and went to the village entrance to visit Ye Shan to deliver supplies.
"The convoy is coming down the mountain!"
The people shouted in surprise. Qiao Qingqing and her family found a corner to watch, and sure enough, they saw a convoy approaching in the distance.
The convoy stopped at the entrance of the village. Qiao Qingqing counted and found that there were four military trucks in total, all with dark green tarpaulins wrapped behind them. A middle-aged man jumped on the front of the leading military truck and shouted with a loud speaker: "Everyone can get five kilograms of rice, two cans of meat, five bottles of water and a pack of water purification tablets this time! Where is the village chief? Line up as usual and collect with the booklet! Those who don't have a booklet should register first to receive it! There is also news that the well-digging machine has arrived and will start digging deep wells tomorrow. People with experience can sign up, and there is no salary! Three meals a day are provided! Okay, get in line!"
Village Chief Ye came out from the crowd, also holding a loud speaker: "Queue up, queue up! Don't cut in line!"
The team had already been lined up, and some of the newly arrived survivors didn't know the rules and were taught a lesson by the locals and pushed and shoved to line up again.
"Shall we line up?" asked Shao's father.
"Let's line up. Let's go register and get the booklet first." Qiao Qingqing withdrew her gaze from Village Chief Ye.
The line for registration and getting the booklet was relatively short and it wasn't long before they got to the front of the line. Qiao Qingqing also found that the group of people she had just met at the door of the village chief's house were there too, just in front of their family.
Registration is very simple, you can register with your ID card and household registration booklet. If you don't have these two, you can only repeat it yourself. After the natural disaster, the network was interrupted, the signal was disordered, and the household registration system could not be connected to the Internet. Even if you made up a fake name, the staff would not be able to find it.
The group of people successfully obtained the registration book, and Qiao Qingqing also heard "Brother Xun" say proudly:
"Why bother with the village chief? We can get the booklet too, and we can get the supplies as usual!"
"Brother Xun is right..."
They went to line up to receive supplies with laughter. Qiao Qingqing lowered her eyes to look at the land under her feet. It was dry and cracked, and the air was filled with the smell of soil. She looked up and around. This village was dilapidated and old. It was hard to imagine that it would be part of the new community that others envied and yearned for in the future.
I heard that the new community is full of new buildings and is the safest and most comfortable place. Even during the Eternal Night, the crime rate is always the lowest in the base. At the same time, the rent and house prices here are the highest. Those who live here are either native residents with household registration advantages, or wealthy and powerful people.
But now, there is no sign of the new community, and there are only a few ordinary villages like Qiuye Village.
"Let's go, now that we've registered, let's go line up over there."
The line to receive supplies was very long. Perhaps it was because there were too many new people who were not included in the plan, and there were not enough supplies in the end.
"We'll send it out next time!" the leader shouted.
"Isn't there another car? Why not send it out?"
“Yes, yes, we have only been here for two days just to get help here, how could you not send it to us!”
The leading soldier explained: "The last truck is not food, but equipment for digging deep wells! Okay, those who are not busy, please disperse. We are going to recruit well diggers next. Anyone who is interested and has experience, please sign up now!"
It was dark, and the military truck turned on its headlights, illuminating the area at the entrance of the village.
Qiao Qingqing and her friends did not go to register, but went to the village chief's house again. The village chief was very busy, and they waited at the door for almost two hours before he came home. He opened the door apologetically and led them in: "I have to help maintain order. Alas, we can dig a deep well tomorrow, and we won't have to worry about water in the village anymore!"
After entering the room, he licked his dry lips and took out an old booklet from the room.
"The people and land of the village are all here. I took them with me when I fled."
He rubbed his fingers and began to flip through the pages: "You want to settle down... I'll find an empty lot for you, and then write you a land deed. Let me make it clear first, there is no place to go to handle formal procedures these days. I wrote it by hand just to show my meaning, do you understand? The same goes for household registration. If you want to settle down, I will write your family's names into the village population book. As I said, it's for psychological comfort. You two are both college graduates, and you should know that changing your household registration is not easy and it's very troublesome!"
Shao Shengan always had a smile on his face. He nodded to everything Village Chief Ye said, occasionally flattered him and personally lit a cigarette for Village Chief Ye.
Village Chief Ye hasn't smoked a proper cigarette for a long time. In the past two years, he couldn't help it, so he took the old tobacco leaves stored at home and smelled them. Only during the New Year did he dare to pinch a little, wrap it in newspaper, and put it in the pipe, and take a few puffs with care.
While smoking, Village Chief Ye wrote very efficiently and made a new handwritten household registration book for their family: "Let's write you as the head of the household? Shao Sheng'an - OK, Shao Sheng'an is the head of the household." He took his own household registration book as a reference and wrote, "The next page is Qiao Qingqing, and her relationship with the head of the household is - husband and wife. OK, then the next page..."
He was very responsible and filled out the household registration and ID card provided by Qiao Qingqing and others stroke by stroke.
During the process, Qiao Qingqing did not speak, but her eyes gradually lit up. She looked at the simple household registration booklet that was stapled together, and her heart was filled with joy.
No one understands better than her what this household registration book represents.
In her previous life, she heard a neighbor gnashing his teeth and saying that they also had the opportunity to live in the new community. Qiuye Village and several nearby villages were first soaked in water and then frozen for two years. The buildings were dilapidated and shaky under the high temperature, and there were great safety hazards. If Qiuye Village caught fire, it would likely spread to the mountains. When the mountain fire started, everything would be irreversible.
So Ye Shan planned to raze Akiba Village and several nearby villages and rebuild houses, first for safety, second to accommodate more survivors, and third for ease of management.
After the reconstruction, local residents were given priority to be allocated new houses free of charge according to their original property rights. The remaining houses were sold or rented out, and the house prices and rents were quite high.
Those people recite it day after day and regret it every day.
"I've lived in Qiuye Village for half a year! Half a year! Why don't you give me a house? Why should I buy one? How can I possibly afford it!"
Unable to afford to buy or rent, they had to leave the new community and find new houses to live in the outskirts, such as in the town or the county. But the vicious cycle was that later the houses in the town and the county were also included in the management scope of the survivor base, and the real estate and buildings were re-coordinated and included in the management, and the original residents were still given priority in allocation. Those foreign refugees without property still could not be allocated free houses. They were constantly moved out, and finally they could only live on the outskirts of the base, and even lived in shanty towns with Qiao Qingqing and other survivors who arrived the latest.
The man gritted his teeth and said that his fellow villagers were allocated houses only because they moved their household registration to Qiuye Village and bought land and houses in Qiuye Village.
"Without formal procedures, how could Ye Shan admit it! How could he! I've seen his household registration book, it's just a few crumpled pieces of paper written by the old village chief! When I moved to Qiuye Village, I could live wherever I wanted and no one cared. Who would waste time and resources to buy land without formal procedures? I think it's just a way for the village chief to make money. Only a fool would buy it! But Ye Shan admitted it and really distributed the houses! Damn, there must be something shady!"
Those memories were still very clear. With her experience in her previous life, she had no idea why Ye Shan would recognize the procedures handled by the village chief, and she was not interested. She only knew that the moment she and her family came to Qiuye Village, buying land and moving households was the most important task.
At this moment, the progress bar of this task has been completed halfway, and she was extremely happy.
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