Chapter 1646: Amulet of Peace, Heading to the North

It's dawn.

Half past seven in the morning.

In the business district of the trading market, there was another long queue outside store No. 2.

These survivors come here every morning,

Use points to buy the staple food you need for the day.

It tastes best when it's freshly baked in the morning.

Shop No. 2 mainly sells corn tortillas, sweet potato tortillas, and multigrain tortillas.

Among them, corn tortillas and sweet potato tortillas are sold at the same price, which is 0.25 points each.

The dried biscuits are very solid and can basically satisfy an adult man for one meal.

These cakes are added with a small amount of sugar, cooking oil, and some dried vegetables.

In addition, the sales price is extremely low, and it has been well received by many survivors.

It is also the main food for survivors in the current trading bazaar.

Store No. 2 has six windows, and now five are open.

The window was sealed with glass, leaving only a hole about 30 cm by 30 cm in the middle.

Window No. 1.

After the man in front left,

Hong Lele quickly walked up, took out a white number plate from his pocket and handed it over.

"Hello, I'd like a corn tortilla and a sweet potato tortilla, thank you."

The staff inside the window picked up the number plate and handed it to the person next to him to deduct the corresponding points.

Then he picked up a piece of corn tortilla and a potato pancake with tongs, and pushed them to the window.

"There are no bags today, just take it."

When Hong Lele heard this, he had no choice but to reach out and take out a piece of cloth from his arms and wrap the two pieces of cake.

"OK."

The staff inside also deducted points and handed out Hong Lele's number plate.

"A total of 0.5 points and a balance of 23.2 points. This is the list. Keep it."

Hong Lele took the list ticket and number plate, confirmed the numbers on the ticket, nodded and said:

"OK, thanks."

Then she left with a list, ticket, and number plate in one hand and a tortilla wrapped in a rag in the other.

The temperature has dropped a lot in recent days.

In the morning it was only over ten degrees Celsius, which was a bit cold.

The tortillas had just come out of the oven and were still warm. She put the tortillas in her arms and felt the warmth in her arms. She felt an indescribable sense of solidity and walked quickly toward the living area.

It is still early, the gate of the trading market has not yet opened, and the construction of the construction site has not started.

But we have to gather and prepare at eight o'clock.

Ever since his father Hong Fu was injured after falling down at a construction site, he has not recovered yet.

After a hundred days of straining his muscles and bones, Hongfu suffered a fracture, so he still needed to recuperate.

However, you can still save your life after falling from the construction site building, which is considered a blessing in misfortune.

And because the accident occurred on a construction site, Oil City waived their treatment costs.

Hongfu has been discharged from the hospital in the past two days, but his bones are still recovering and he cannot return to work at the construction site.

Without work, there are no points, and everything is empty.

They didn't save many points to begin with.

Staying in the trading market requires spending points every day.

Points are required for food, drink and accommodation, and the remaining points are getting less and less.

Hong Fu's inspector Zhang Shi took pity on their father and daughter, so he signed up Hong Lele for the construction of a buffer city and gave her a place.

Hong Lele was overjoyed when she found out.

In the past, her father was her supporter, but now that her father is injured, she can still support her.

She was in a hurry and had to deliver the tortillas to her father quickly. Then she had to rush to the square to gather, and then they went out of the city to work on the buffer city wall construction site.

These two pieces of cake are both for my father.

She had food at the construction site, and would hand out tortillas to the workers when they arrived at the square.

Walking quickly in small steps, she returned to the residential area 7 minutes later.

"Good morning, Uncle Liu." Hong Lele saw Liu Shengsheng after returning to his residence.

Liu Shengsheng and his father Hong Fu are close friends. The last time his father was injured, when Oil City did not announce that they would be exempted from treatment costs, Uncle Liu took the initiative to use all his points to help them.

It can be seen that a friend in need is a friend indeed.

What's more, in this kind of apocalypse, it is even more precious and rare.

Liu Shengsheng just got up and nodded when he saw Hong Lele and said with a smile:

"Are you buying pancakes for your dad again?"

"Yeah, you have to go early, otherwise you won't be able to catch up with work." Hong Lele placed the pancake on his father's bedside.

Hong Fu was still sleeping, and Hong Lele did not wake him up.

After she simply cleaned up, she walked to the square with Liu Shengsheng.

The building of the previous trading bazaar has been completed, but other projects in the trading bazaar have not yet been completed.

When Liu Shengsheng and Hong Lele arrived at the meeting point in the square, thousands of workers had already gathered in the square.

Several pickup trucks loaded with hot pancakes were at the front, distributing pancakes to the workers.

When working on a construction site, I have to take care of myself twice.

Give out a piece of cake before going to work and a piece of cake at noon.

After work in the evening, give each of them 0.5 to 1 point.

Depending on the type of work, the points awarded are also different.

There are many types of work, such as carpentry, masonry, steel workers, concrete workers, crane workers, electricians, mechanics, surveyors, waterproofers, scaffolders, handymen, etc.

Jobs like handyman usually only have 0.5 points.

High-risk jobs such as scaffolding that require standing at high places are worth 0.8 points per day.

The highest points usually require high technical content, which is not possible for newcomers.

For example, template workers or crane operators get higher points.

Hong Lele is a newcomer in the construction industry, so she can only start as a handyman and receive the lowest 0.5 points per day.

However, for Hong Lele, she is already very satisfied.

"Newcomers, come and get the tortillas quickly, and leave the city in fifteen minutes." Ding Wu shouted with a loudspeaker.

Hearing this, Hong Lele hurried to the pickup truck to get the tortillas.

She took the hot tortillas and walked to the side with Liu Shengsheng.

She ate the tortillas in small bites.

The tortillas were hot, and eating a bite of hot food in the morning made her very satisfied.

Life is getting better.

At this time, she was happy, like a little hamster, squinting when she smiled.

Among a group of rough men, she, a teenage girl, squinting her eyes and smiling, was like a beam of light.

She ate a few bites, took out a bottle of water from her backpack, took two sips, and then continued to eat the tortilla.

In the misty morning, she had a beautiful vision of the future and a little happiness in her heart.

It was not easy along the way. The death of her family left only her and her father.

When her father fell from the building at the construction site, her world collapsed.

Now that her father's injury has been treated, she can also earn points and support her father with her own efforts, which makes her very grateful.

Grateful to come to the trading market, grateful for the opportunity given to her by the oil city.

She is like a tenacious grass in the storm, growing in the storm until the moment the sun comes out.

Ding Ding Ding——

The iron rod hit the gong and echoed in the square.

Liu Shengsheng stuffed the tortilla into his mouth and said to Hong Lele:

"Le Le, I'm going over, be careful at the construction site."

"Okay, goodbye Uncle Liu." Hong Lele nodded.

She and Liu Shengsheng were not at the same construction site. Liu Shengsheng continued to work at the trade market site, while she was going to the buffer city to build the wall.

Ding Wu beat the gong and asked them to line up and walk to the gate of the trade market.

More than 2,000 workers lined up and left the trade market earlier than other survivors who left the city.

When she arrived at the construction site, Hong Lele put on the white helmet she received and followed the team leader to the wall construction site in the east.

Today is still the foundation, and the foundation of the buffer city wall is ten meters.

Now it has been dug, and the next step is to install the formwork and put in the tied steel bars for grouting concrete to fix it.

"Lele, you will come with me later and help me fix the formwork." The team leader turned his head and said to her.

"Okay, team leader." Hong Lele nodded.

Perhaps it was because he saw that she was young, only sixteen or seventeen years old, and she was still a girl working at the construction site.

So the team leader took good care of her and often asked her to cooperate with him.

Under the gloomy sky, the construction site of the buffer city wall outside the trading market started.

Ten minutes later, the crane was also opened.

The sound of various mechanical equipment operating on the construction site was heard.

Oil City.

Li Yu pushed open the window and stretched his body.

Huh——

He stayed in the Oil City Trading Market for two or three days, and the inspection was almost done.

The most important thing was to dispatch people from the trading market back to the headquarters base. The candidates were finalized last night. Next, we just have to wait for Uncle San to send people to send them back to the headquarters base.

The inspections in the past two days were quite satisfactory.

The oil wells in the Oil City are operated very standardized, the commercial area of ​​the trading market operates very well, which exceeded his expectations, and the defense of the trading market wall is also systematic.

Except for Li Yuan's encounter with a drunkard last night, everything else was satisfactory.

Uncle San was quite angry when he learned about this.

He planned to strengthen the operation and management of the commercial area after Li Yu left to prevent such things from happening.

Uncle San has always been confident in the management of the trading market, so Li Yu did not tell Lao Huang and the others when he came.

Li Yu started to inspect the trading market as soon as he got off the plane.

The trading market he saw was the most real one, without any preparation in advance.

Uncle San did not like face-saving projects. If the inspection was all fake, it would be better not to inspect.

So every time Li Yu came, Uncle San did not tell the people below.

The room where Li Yu lived had two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom.

When he woke up in the morning, he habitually exercised.

However, it was not convenient to run in the oil city, so he did push-ups in the living room.

300 push-ups, 300 sit-ups, and 300 squats.

He had a very good physique, and after doing all this, there was only a slight layer of sweat on his forehead.

He took a towel and went to the bathroom.

He turned on the faucet to test the water temperature.

After a simple shower, he changed into a clean combat uniform and went downstairs.

While eating breakfast, he said to his uncle:

"Uncle, I'm going to the North today."

Uncle was a little surprised, "Isn't it tomorrow? You've only been here for two days."

Li Yu shook his head and said:

"We've seen everything we need to inspect, so let's go to the North as soon as possible."

"Also, please arrange the reinforcements that Uncle has assigned to the headquarters base as soon as possible. The headquarters is still waiting."

"Okay, we can leave today. It is estimated that these workers will arrive the day after tomorrow." Uncle nodded.

If worker No. 2500 is transported by helicopter alone, it will take at least dozens of helicopters to transport him at the same time.

There are fewer than ten helicopters in Oil City, with limited capacity.

Might as well send people back by truck.

And these people all have some luggage and packages of their own, and the helicopter can't fit so many things.

Finished eating.

Over at the helipad, the relevant ground staff also checked the helicopter and filled it with fuel.

Before leaving, Li Yu took out a small sachet from the helicopter and handed it to his third uncle.

"Uncle Third, this is the peace charm that grandma asked me to bring you. He said that you should pay attention to safety outside. You should carry the peace charm with you to keep yourself safe."

The third uncle was stunned and took the folded square peace charm from Li Yu's hand.

"Where did your grandma get the peace charm?" asked the third uncle.

Li Yu scratched his head and said awkwardly:

"Er Sanqing Temple, didn't our headquarters base's fourth outer city build a Taoist temple for Qingxiao and the others? Grandma asked for it from there."

The third uncle didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he hung the peace charm around his neck and placed it close to his skin.

"It's good. How is your breast health?"

Li Yu nodded and said:

"It's pretty good. I play badminton every now and then. Now I've set up a marriage agency at the headquarters base and started working as a matchmaker."

The third uncle was dumbfounded, a marriage agency? matchmaker?

"The old lady can't sit still. She has something to do and doesn't think too much. It's good. It can also promote the population growth of the headquarters base. She should be supported."

Li Yu nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, I think so too."

If the elderly don't bother themselves and become busy, it will be easy for them to think too much and even bother the younger generations.

"Um."

"Uncle Third, I'm leaving." Li Yu had nothing more to say, nodded towards Uncle Third, and then walked towards the helicopter.

After a few minutes.

The third uncle looked at the helicopter flying into the sky and touched his chest.

An alloy dog ​​tag that has been worn for many years.

There is also a peace charm that I just got.

It feels warm in my heart, so nice.

(asking for monthly ticket)