When Ye Changtian received the news, he immediately ran around the village. Fortunately, except for Ye Pei's family, the honey of other families had not been opened yet, as they were reluctant to part with it.
"They're all bad." Ye Changtian looked at the fifteen jars of honey on the table, his face as black as a rag.
Village Chief Ye was smoking a pipe, which had no tobacco in it. He was just satisfying his craving. After a long silence, he said, "Honey has a shelf life—"
"People also have eyes. The honey is obviously rotten." Ye Changtian found out when he got home. He thought he was unlucky and was given the bad honey, but he didn't expect that the honey everyone received was rotten.
"It's impossible for the higher-ups to deliberately send something like this. This has never happened before."
"Dad, I feel like something is not right. It started with the large influx of refugees from outside our village... I've asked around, and a lot of people from the neighboring village have also come here, settling down and buying land. There are also a lot of people from Flower City. As soon as they arrived in Yeshan, they started to build the town government, as if they were going to clean up the town again."
"Changtian, when gods fight, ordinary people suffer. The current situation is not good. The person who can manage logistics must be extraordinary. This time... we are all ordinary people. Don't get dragged into it."
Ye Changtian's voice became louder: "Dad!"
"Changtian, you have to listen to me this time."
Ye Changtian took a deep breath angrily: "But Xiaoyue almost ate this spoiled honey! I can't imagine what would happen to me if Xiaoyue got sick, I can't accept it! Dad, you are the village chief, you have to consider the overall situation, then don't worry about this matter, I'll take care of it!" As he said, he swept the honey into the bag, and strode out of the door carrying the bag of honey.
Village Chief Ye shouted but did not chase after him.
After going out, Ye Changtian stood in the corner, his whole body submerged in darkness, and did not move for a long time. He was thinking, who can he find to help him do this? One face after another was eliminated in his mind, and finally a handsome face was frozen. He made up his mind and asked Shao Shengan for help!
Like Village Chief Ye, Shao Shengan didn't want to get involved in this mess.
Ye Changtian realized that he had been thinking wrong. He thought that the villagers had their business roots here and would not dare to take the risk of offending the unknown. Perhaps the refugees from outside like Shao Shengan were more aggressive, but he did not expect that the people who fled far away with their families were no less eager for a stable life than they were.
"Please give our honey back to us." Shao Shengan took back his own honey.
Seeing Ye Changtian looking lost and lost, he did not say anything to comfort him. He just said, "The sun is coming out soon, go home early."
Watching Ye Changtian leave, Shao Shengan turned around and asked: "Do you think this is an accident?"
Qiao Qingqing smiled faintly: "If it was an accident, it would be fine. I'm afraid it's not an accident. Which idiot can do such a blatant stupid thing? If he is not an idiot, then he thinks his background is very strong and he is not afraid at all."
Shao Shengan also smiled: "Then I still hope it's an accident, or worse... an idiot." He was afraid that someone with a strong background would pass off inferior goods as good ones, and such people were generally difficult to bring down. In the past, he would agree to Ye Changtian's request, but now he would not agree. It doesn't matter if you say he is timid or cowardly, he just wants his family to live a stable life.
"I don't agree with you going either. After a while, when the town is cleaned up, the people from Qiuye Village and several nearby villages will be temporarily relocated to live in the town. This place will be vacated for unified planning, and it will definitely be chaotic during that period. It's better for us to keep a low profile." When Qiao Qingqing came in the previous life, the new community had already been built and the scale of the survivor base had been determined, but the confrontation between the local forces and the foreign forces in Huacheng would definitely be accompanied by blood and rain. This time they would witness it with their own eyes.
Half a month later, documents were issued throughout Yeshan, announcing the unified planning of five villages including Akiba Village and the establishment of a survivor base. At the same time, it was announced that the survivors in these areas would have to move to the town for work.
Taking the village as the unit, each village was divided into an area for temporary resettlement, and the resettlement content was also coordinated to ensure that every household had a sheltered place to live.
When this news came out, it immediately caused a huge storm in Qiuye Village.
"Why do we have to move? This is our home!"
"Can we come back after we leave? We are living here so well, why do you want us to move out?"
"Yes, yes! If anyone needs to move, it should be those from outside. This is our territory, our home..."
Village chief Ye only knew the news a few days in advance, and he had to cooperate with the resettlement of the villagers. He knew that the news was unacceptable, but he also knew the firm belief of the higher-ups in implementing the plan.
This plan cannot be changed, it’s set in stone!
"Village Chief Ye is so busy that he has no time to rest," said Shao Sheng'an. "Grassroots work is really hard to do."
"If I were a local, I would also find it hard to accept this news suddenly." She already knew the future trajectory, so she accepted it well, but for the people of Akiba Village, this was simply an unexpected disaster. They lived well in their own home and their roots were here, so why couldn't they live here anymore?
"The village chief is coming." Shao Sheng'an had sharp eyes and saw Village Chief Ye appear at the entrance of the alley, pass by his house, and walk straight towards their house.
"Village Chief, what's the matter?"
Village Chief Ye wiped his sweat tiredly, his lips were cracked and his voice was hoarse: "You have also read the notice, do you have any thoughts?"
Qiao Qingqing went into the tent to pour water for Village Chief Ye. He didn't have the energy to refuse, so he took the water and took a sip. Only then did he feel much better in his throat.
Shao Shengan shook his head: "Our family has no objection and will obey the arrangements from above. Village chief, when are you leaving?"
Village chief Ye breathed a sigh of relief, as long as there were no objections. From the time the notice came down until today, he had been persuading the villagers, visiting every household and persuading them one by one.
"The date for the first batch of migration has been set. It's in three days. Since you have no objection, can we be the first batch to leave?"
Seeing Shao Shengan nod, Village Chief Ye took out the booklet and added a few words on it with charcoal.
"Then your family should pack up your things first, and gather at the village entrance the day after tomorrow evening. I will set out with you and lead you there." He drank the water in one gulp and showed a tired smile. "Thank you for the water. I have seen everything you have done since you came to the village. I am very happy that you have joined Qiuye Village. I am sure we can still be neighbors in the future."
Shao Shengan's eyes moved slightly, and he asked softly: "Village Chief, they say that the construction here will be planned and constructed in a unified manner, so can we come back in the future?"
Village Chief Ye coughed and said, "I don't know the details, but it's impossible for the higher-ups to take away our land and houses and leave us villagers homeless in the future, right? You are also villagers now, don't worry."
When he was invited to the meeting in Yeshan, he was asked to provide the household registration information of the villagers in Qiuye Village and the land deeds. Those things were in the office buildings in the town. Even if the Internet was gone later, it was impossible that all the information would be gone.
More importantly, the person in charge also asked: "Is everything here? Are there some that have not been entered into the system in time? Paper materials are fine. Special treatment is required in special periods. I also recognize changes after natural disasters. The interests of the people cannot be harmed."
Village Chief Ye's heart was beating wildly at that time, and he asked tentatively: "Then I have some later household registration information and land deed sale certificates, but they are all handwritten by me, I don't know-"
"Sure. Bring it here."
After that, the confusion in the heart of Village Chief Ye was solved. No wonder those refugees who came later asked him to handwrite the household registration and land deeds information. It turned out that there was a backhand. He took a deep breath in his heart. The backers of those foreign refugees were too powerful!
After handing in the information, he began to think: What is the purpose?
A thought came to my mind: Will we have separate houses in the future?
Yes! There might be houses to be distributed in the future! Otherwise, why would these people who were born and raised in Qiuye Village give up their land? The newly built houses are all for outsiders to live in, and the original owners of the land are left homeless. How can this make sense?
After figuring this out, Village Chief Ye used this speculation to persuade the villagers. Some were easy to persuade, while others were not. Ye Shan also had no definite answer. These were just his speculations. What if he couldn't come back in the future? If he didn't leave, he wouldn't leave.
The work was too difficult to carry out, so after seeing that Shao Shengan's family was so obedient to the arrangements, Village Chief Ye had to give them some hope.
"As long as I am here, I will work hard to fight for the interests of the villagers as long as I am the village chief," Village Chief Ye promised.
"Thank you for your hard work, Village Chief. Let's go to town first and gather at the village entrance on time the day after tomorrow."
Village Chief Ye left with satisfaction.
"We'll leave the day after tomorrow..." Shao's father began to count. "The tent can't be taken down yet. We'll need it for the next two days, so take down the small tent first and pack up the luggage. We'll take down the rest when the sun goes down the day after tomorrow. When the time comes, Qingqing will bring your mother, your mother-in-law, and Feifei. They will gather at the entrance of the village first, and we two will take down the tent."
"Okay, let's do as you said, Dad."
After the deep well was dug, the relaxed atmosphere in the village was gone forever, and the village was filled with an atmosphere of unrest and anxiety in the past few days.
Qiao Qingqing's family did not go out or fetch water, but waited peacefully for the day of migration.
"I seem to have not seen Ye Changtian these days. The village chief has been running around, but I haven't seen him help." Shao Shengan thought of this and felt strange. You know, the village chief relies heavily on this son and often asks Ye Changtian to do things and run errands. Among the young generation, Ye Changtian has considerable prestige in the village.
"I haven't seen him since the honey incident, but he shouldn't have been in trouble, otherwise the village chief would be restless."
Shao Shengan sighed: "I feel relieved by what you said. I like him very much." He saw that Qiao Qingqing was absent-minded and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Qiao Qingqing looked at the distorted heat waves outside and said, "I wonder if Hu Yanhai, Dr. Wei's family, and Grandma Wang's family are also in town right now."
"Of course they will. The armed police and soldiers from Huacheng's original supply ship have regrouped and brought the survivors here. They must have all come. We will definitely meet again if we have the chance in the future."
It’s not that Qiao Qingqing really wanted to see them, but after her rebirth, apart from her family, those people were the only ones she had more contact with, and she sincerely hoped that those people could live well.
Two days later, in the evening, Qiao Qingqing and her family gathered at the entrance of the village. Led by Village Chief Ye, a group of 300 people set off towards the town. After two hours of walking, they arrived at their destination. From a distance, they could see lights ahead. Shao Shengan, who had participated in the early work, said, "The circuit should have been re-laid and the street lights turned on."
When she got closer, Qiao Qingqing found that it was indeed a street lamp.
Village Chief Ye took them to a temporary place to stay, which was a relatively new residential area. In the dark, it seemed that there were more than 20 floors.
"The top few floors are occupied, so we will live in the abandoned floors that are not occupied." Village Chief Ye announced, "The first floor is a shop, we don't want it, start from the second floor, draw lots! Draw lots for every room, don't fight or argue!"
Shao Shengan drew lots and got room 201 on the first floor.
"The second floor is nice, not so hot." Father Shao was very satisfied.
"It's just too smelly. The second floor is the smelliest, except for the first floor." Shao's mother frowned.
"It's okay, let's clean and disinfect it thoroughly." Qiao Qingqing said with a smile.
As soon as she entered the house, Qiao Qingqing turned on the lights: "Check each room first."
As a result, a body was found in the toilet.
The corpse had already rotted, flies were entangled in it, maggots were crawling in it, and the stench was overwhelming.
"It doesn't look like he died in the flood." Shao Shengan squatted down to check.
"He must have died after the flood receded. Look at his neck."
After hearing what Qiao Qingqing said, Shao Shengan looked at the neck of the corpse and indeed saw a scar caused by a sharp knife.
They carried the body out, and flies flew around it, some of them even hit Shao Shengan's face.
This experience was so terrible that he and Shao's father carried the body downstairs, and Qiao Qingqing went to find Village Chief Ye.
"There are two bodies upstairs, and one has turned into bones." Village Chief Ye shook his head, "Move it to the side first. I'll go find someone to ask what to do with it."
Qiao Qingqing and the others went back to continue cleaning.
All the doors and windows in the house were gone, leaving several empty holes. There was nothing in the house except garbage, and it was obvious that it had been ransacked by the survivors a long time ago.
"There are still many survivors in the town. When I was working here, I saw Ye Shan's supply truck coming here to deliver relief supplies." Shao Shengan said while cleaning.
"There are lights on the roof of our building, and there should be solar power generation equipment. It's more comfortable to live in your own home." Qiao Qingqing took out the curtains and gestured, "Just install the curtains. Nail the curtains in the living room and leave only the windows of the bathroom and kitchen for ventilation. For safety reasons, you can seal the windows of the bathroom and kitchen with wood, leaving a gap for ventilation."
"Okay, I'll do it." Shao Shengan put down the broom and helped install the curtains.
Shao's father, Shao's mother and Qiao Songzhi all had work to do, and Shao Shengfei was assigned the important task of guarding the luggage, so the whole family took action.
The town had been disinfected, but the disinfection work could not be implemented in every household, so the house smelled bad, rats and cockroaches were everywhere, and the highly corrupted garbage exuded a terrible smell. Shao's father directly shoveled the garbage on the ground with a shovel, and Shao's mother helped shovel the garbage into the trash can. Qiao Songzhi was using a long wooden stick wrapped in a towel and standing on a stool to poke the garbage on the ceiling.
"The drain pipes in the kitchen and master bathroom are damaged." Qiao Qingqing checked and determined that the smell of feces and urine in addition to the rotten smell in the house came from the damaged drain pipes.
She could even imagine that because the weather was too hot, the excrement of the people on the upper floors might have dried up before it flowed to the bottom. But the smell was flowing, fermenting continuously in the sewer...
The sewers in this building are all broken. If you don't want to sleep and eat in the smell of feces and urine, there is no other way but to tear them all down and reinstall them.
Mother Shao then regretted: "Now we live on the second floor, and there are so many people living upstairs, will there be more dirt upstairs in the future?"
"There is no condition to repair the sewers now, so the best way to solve the problem once and for all is to completely seal them off."
Hearing what Qiao Qingqing said, Shao Shengan immediately understood the problem: "Then I will go and talk to the residents upstairs about this matter. This is not just a problem for our family."
"I'm afraid the original residents will have complaints. Their sewer was working before we came, but it can't be used after we came," Qiao Songzhi analyzed.
"Let's just talk it over." Shao Sheng'an was a man of action. "I'll go right away."
Shao Shengan went out, and Qiao Qingqing and the others continued cleaning.
After shoveling out the garbage, start sweeping the floor and finally rinse the floor.
Shao's father rinsed it bit by bit, and Shao's mother mopped the floor inch by inch, dragging away the dirt and water and wringing them into the bucket. Soon, the bucket was filled with black dirty water.
After mopping and washing three times, the floor was finally clean.
"Let's spray some more to kill mosquitoes. Everyone, go out first." The curtains were nailed up here, and the windows were sealed to block the view from outside, ensuring full privacy. Qiao Qingqing took out the insecticide and sprayed every corner, even the ceiling. Finally, they blocked the door and the family retreated outside.
People around were coming and going, all busy moving. Compared to Qiao Qingqing and her family, other people's families had too much luggage, and they couldn't move it all in a few trips. While Qiao Qingqing and her family were packing, some families had already rushed back to Qiuye Village to move the remaining luggage.
"This community should be able to accommodate all the people in Qiuye Village, including the natives and refugees from outside." Qiao Qingqing looked around the unfamiliar community. "We should live here for at least half a year, and then go back after Qiuye Village is rebuilt."
"I hope that moving back to Qiuye Village will be the last time we move. Moving all the time is too painful." Mother Shao touched her eldest son's head with hope in her eyes, "We don't have to move again after that, right?"
Qiao Qingqing was unable to make any promises, and the road ahead would always be filled with ups and downs. All they could do was cherish every day of their stable life.
"It doesn't matter where you are. We can move anywhere. Didn't we agree that as long as we are together as a family, that's enough?"
Shao Shengan's voice rang out, and everyone turned around and saw him coming downstairs. When they arrived at the house, Shao Shengan smiled and embraced Qiao Qingqing, looking at Shao's father and the others, "Look, we are still together, this is a happy event worth celebrating, let's open a bottle of wine to celebrate!"
Qiao Qingqing raised her hands to hug his waist and said, "Open a red wine."
Everyone's mood improved again.
"How did you discuss it with them?" asked Shao's mother.
Shao Shengan acted relaxed: "This building has 20 floors in total. It was probably flooded to the 15th floor during the previous flood, so the original residents live from the 16th floor upwards. We drew lots to live on the 2nd floor and below the 15th floor. Now, except for the 7th and 15th floors, all other No. 1 rooms have been divided. I talked to them about this, and they all accepted to seal the sewer." After all, it was really too smelly! Now the weather is too hot, and the excrement of the residents on the upper floors will stop falling halfway, so the sewers on the middle and upper floors have a stronger smell than the second floor. When Shao Shengan went upstairs, he heard a resident on the 11th floor say that his son was vomited as soon as he entered the bathroom.
"Is it even smellier than our second floor?" Father Shao couldn't imagine how smelly it must be.
"It really stinks. I even went in and smelled it." Shao Shengan brought the subject back. "The sewer can't be sealed beyond the residents on the upper floors. But they didn't open the door and weren't very willing to interact with us, so I went down first."
In the end times, it is normal to be defensive and unwilling to interact with strangers.
Qiao Qingqing said, "Then each of us should do our own thing and seal our own sewers."
The house was barely cleaned, and she didn't want to waste her efforts.
"Okay, bring out the cement and sand later, and I'll make the mud."
After spraying the house with insecticide, he closed the doors and windows for an hour before opening them. There were many dead cockroaches and mosquitoes in the corners. Shao's father swept them all up with a dustpan and threw them into the trash can.
After killing the insects, the next step is disinfection and ventilation. It takes until five in the morning to complete the cleaning.
Regardless of other things, Shao Shengan and his father first sealed the sewer with mud, and then proceeded to the next step.
"Qingqing, take out the security door, and dad and I will install it."
The two security doors removed from Hua Cheng's original home finally came in handy. Qiao Qingqing and Shao Shengan pushed a tricycle out and pretended to lift the security doors in from outside.
During the installation, the people of Qiuye Village 202 looked on in amazement: "Where did you get such a high-quality anti-theft door?"
"Good luck, good luck, haha." Shao Shengan asked with a smile, "This door of your house is also very good. Did you take it away from home?"
"Of course! It's really heavy, a big iron door. It took a lot of effort to move it here. There are still many things in the house that haven't been moved yet. My husband and his family went back to move them - hey, have you moved all your things?"
"We've moved. We came from another place in the first place, so we don't have much stuff. Even if we move again, we'll still have the same amount of stuff."
This reminded the neighbor aunt of her sad story. Now she was also forced to leave her home. She sighed, "What a world this is. The village chief said that we can definitely move back in the future, but I don't know how long that will be!"
"The town is not far from Qiuye Village. We can go back and check on the construction progress of the base if we have the chance. We will definitely need to recruit people when we start construction, so we won't be afraid of running out of news by then."
After hearing what Shao Shengan said, the aunt felt much more relieved and a smile appeared on her face.
Qiao Qingqing didn't say anything. She listened to her husband chatting with the aunt next door and evaluated whether the future neighbor would be easy to get along with. In the end, she came to the conclusion that it was not a bad one.
After the security door was completed, Shao Shengan closed the door and they finally had a "home".
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