After the Earthquake of Rebirth

The next day, Du Cheng and Huzi drove down the mountain to the new town after breakfast.

Before going down to look at the contracted land and clearing the dead grass, they passed by the new city under construction twice, but they didn't go in and take a closer look.

As soon as Du Cheng and Huzi entered the new city, they were shocked by the bustling construction scene.

In order to avoid the roads clogged with ruins in the city, Du Cheng entered the city along the highway outside the city D from the University City. Originally, the two planned to go home first, but there were rows of brand-new residential buildings and busy construction scenes. The two couldn't help but drive another lap along Xinxing Road.

"It's really fast." Beard sighed with one arm propped by the car window.

Du Cheng didn't speak, but he also agreed with Huzi's emotion in his heart.

It has been less than two months since the rebuilding began, but there are already more than 30 buildings in the two rows closest to the road in the part of the Guangxin Road that has been built, not to mention those behind the two rows that were destroyed. Blocked buildings.

"I don't know if they live in Dabai's house. If they don't live in the house, we might not be able to find them."

After reading the general situation, the two drove back to the community, parked the car, and began to climb the stairs.

Although Dong Wen'an and Bai Chengyi were given the keys to the two houses at the beginning, Du Cheng and the others also kept a spare for themselves.It just happens to come in handy now.

Du Cheng first opened the iron door they installed at the elevator entrance.When they moved from the city to Cangyun Mountain, they had already cleaned up the corridors inside the iron gate, and all the things piled up outside were moved into the house or taken away into Ning Qiyan's space.

But now there are a lot of messy things piled up here.

"It should be Dabai and they put it." Hu Zi glanced at the things in the corner.

Du Cheng then opened the door of his house.The windows in the hall were half open, allowing the air in the room to circulate, without the stuffy smell left by long-term sealing.

"I live here alone." Du Cheng walked around each room, the master bedroom where Ning Qiyan lived remained unchanged, and the second bedroom, which is the room where Du Cheng lived for a while, had a pillow and a quilt , It should be used by people who come to live.

At this time, Huzi also went to look around the house where he and Ning Xiaowen lived.

"No one lives there." Huzi said.

The two looked at each other and immediately knew who lived here.

Bai Chengyi, Zhang Wei, and Qu Dong worked together, and Wang Yang and the three of them also lived together. If they came to live, they couldn't come back alone, so only Dong Wen'an, who was recruited into the deployment department alone, was left.

"Shall we go to the construction site?" Hu Zi asked.

Wang Yang and the others were assigned to the Ministry of Health, so it was troublesome to find them.But Bai Chengyi and the three should build a house on the construction site, and it is relatively easy to find someone.I just don't know where it is.

Du Cheng thought about it, went to the study to find a pen and paper, and left a note.

"Let's go out and have a look first. Leave a letter for Wen An. Let's come back at six o'clock in the evening. If he sees the note, he can wait for us at home. If he doesn't come back, let's go back first." Du Cheng wrote explain.

Beard shrugged.

Leaving the community, the two searched for several construction sites that were under construction before finding Bai Chengyi, or Bai Chengyi was driving a crane and saw them first.

When the work came to an end, Bai Chengyi jumped off the crane while wiping his sweat.

"Why are you here? Are you okay on the mountain?"

It's no wonder that Bai Chengyi was worried, there were still six days left, and their two-month construction period was coming to an end. If it wasn't urgent, Du Cheng and the others shouldn't have come to him on purpose.

Seeing that Bai Chengyi was sweating profusely, Hu Zi handed over his own water, "It's fine on the mountain."

Bai Chengyi was not polite either, and just drank it after taking it.Most of the bottle of water went down in one breath before he wiped his mouth and sat down by the side of the road.

Hu Zi and Du Cheng also sat on the ground.

"Then how did you come here?"

Beard stretched out two fingers: "Two things."

Bai Chengyi looked at him.

Beard nodded.

After staring at each other for a while, Bai Chengyi kicked over, "You said it! Waiting for food?!"

Beard laughed and avoided before starting to explain.

This time he and Du Cheng went down the mountain because they wanted to find Bai Chengyi to inquire about recruitment.It's not about recruiting workers for reconstruction in the city, but about recruiting workers for their own farm. The machines for plowing the land have not been seen yet. The hope is a little slim, but the work in the field can't wait like this forever.Seeing that the corn sown in spring will be harvested in more than a month, they plan to hurry up and hire people to plow the land, count as much as they can, and plant a batch of grain first after the next season's sowing.Otherwise those lands would be a waste.And to build a greenhouse, you have to find someone to start the work.The greenhouse this time is different from the small greenhouses built on the space and platform before. The area and quantity alone cannot be built by themselves.

The second thing is farming machines. There is no trade-in point, and there is no news from He Jun. Asking Bai Chengyi and the others to help inquire is considered a dead horse as a living horse doctor. If there is no news here, they will completely give up.

On the second matter, Bai Chengyi asked Du Cheng and Huzi to ask Dong Wen'an directly. His work is closer to the existing material reserves and external contacts in D City.As for the recruitment, Bai Chengyi was really right.

He has worked in the city for nearly two months, so he is quite familiar with the recruitment and salary here.

For the reconstruction work in the city, whether it is the mandatory working hours for each person or voluntary participation in the reconstruction in the future, three meals a day are all included, plus three credits a day.All in all, the salary for participating in the reconstruction is already quite generous during the busy season.If Du Cheng and the others plan to find someone to plow the land and build a greenhouse, if they want to recruit mature labor, they must pay at least as much as the reconstruction side.

However, Bai Chengyi also gave another suggestion, which is to recruit people outside the age range required for reconstruction.

Whether it is compulsory or voluntary, the reconstruction of City D only accepts healthy citizens aged 60, but Bai Chengyi has seen many people who are not within the age range come over and want to participate in the construction during his stay in the city.

Many of them do not have the labor force that meets the age at home. They are old and young. Even if they can farm in the mountains, the care is not timely enough, and the harvest cannot catch up with ordinary families.Even though the government has taken some care of such disadvantaged families, the remuneration for reconstruction is still very attractive to them.

But the government has government regulations. No matter what the reason is, the set basic age range will not change, and those who do not meet the age limit will not be able to participate in the reconstruction.

But for Du Cheng and the others, there is no question of how old they must be when recruiting workers to build a farm. In addition, whether it is plowing the land or building a greenhouse, there is no danger.

In this case, even if the credit points are not enough, in addition to three meals a day, if you pay less credit points, or use extra food and other things instead, you are not afraid that you will not be able to recruit people.

Bai Chengyi's proposal made Du Cheng and Hu Zi very excited. The farm work has no technical content. Even if you recruit some people who are not familiar with farm work, you can take it easy and pay according to the degree of completion of the work. Do more and do better. The salary is higher, and the slower one is paid less.People who work like this have nothing to complain about.

Thinking of this, the two of them have already planned to recruit workers according to Bai Chengyi's proposal, but now they can only let out a little rumor. If they want to recruit workers specifically, they have to wait until they go back to determine the salary standard.Because it involves farming, Zhang Pingguo and Ning Xiaowen, who are familiar with farm work, will help study the standard.

After saying this, it was almost noon, and Zhang Wei and Qu Dong had almost finished their work. Bai Chengyi found the person in charge and said hello. The three of them would not eat at the construction site at noon, and waited until the afternoon when work started. come back again.

The person in charge waved directly to let them go first.

Since they are not small, they finally got into the car driven by Du Cheng, Hu Zi sat in the co-pilot's seat, saw Bai Chengyi and the others timid behind him from the rearview mirror, and laughed all the way.

Arriving downstairs in the community, Bai Chengyi let out a sigh of relief as soon as he got out of the car.

Nima almost squeezed into a quail!

Before going upstairs in a hurry, the food that Ning Xiaowen brought to Du Cheng and the others was still in the car, and now it happened to move all the way up.

Bai Chengyi and the others will be able to go back to the mountains in a few days. Ning Xiaowen didn't prepare much food this time, but Wang Yang and the others were not found. The three of them, Bai Chengyi and Dong Wen'an, could eat two or three meals.Among other things, a box of eggs, three big roosters, and fresh tomato sauce are enough for Bai Chengyi and the others to replenish oil and water.

Du Cheng and Qu Dong had just finished cooking, and before everyone sat down to eat, they heard the sound of keys opening the door.

Coincidentally, Dong Wen'an, who usually goes back to the community to rest and sleep after dinner, decided to come back at noon today. He planned to wash the clothes he had saved up for a few days. Taking advantage of the afternoon sun, he could dry them at night. .

As soon as the door was opened, Dong Wen'an met a row of eyes.

"I'll go! You really know how to pinch!" Bai Chengyi looked at Dong Wen'an's surprised gaze and smiled.

After recovering, Dong Wen'an couldn't help laughing, walked to the table in two steps, and sat down.

"That's right! I counted, and I knew that there was something good at noon today!"

After eating the big pot rice for almost two months, it was either shredded potatoes, potato slices, or potato cubes. Except for Hu Zi and Du Cheng, everyone sitting here was almost eating potatoes. Looking at it, it was both meat and eggs. Isn't the food here a good thing!

They didn't care about talking at the dinner table, and everyone ate hard. When the food was almost finished, it was time for Bai Chengyi and the others to go to work. Strolled back to the construction site.

Dong Wen'an's working hours are not so strict, and he often stays up late to work overtime, so the working hours during the day are relatively flexible.After Bai Chengyi and the others left, Dong Wen'an was not in a hurry to go to work, and chatted with Du Cheng and Hu Zi for a while.

Unlike Bai Chengyi and the others, Dong Wen'an couldn't help at all when it came to recruiting people to work, but he could solve the problem of farming machinery.

Due to the nature of their work, I am afraid that among them, only Dong Wen'an is the most familiar with the types and stocks of materials currently available in D City.He Jun's deduction was correct at the beginning, among the existing supplies in the entire D City, there really is no large-scale farming machinery.But the absence of city D does not mean that other cities do not have it!

Further north of City D is Province J, which was originally a large agricultural province. The food planting there is not like the countryside around D City. Small households have a few acres of land, and others have hundreds of acres of land. , so compared to manual farming, it is more inclined to mechanized planting.

And because Province J is closer to the north, the temperature in winter is lower and the time is longer, so even if it was once a large agricultural province, the food rations are now tight. If the roads are clear, it is easy to exchange food for machines.

But the only problem is that the road is not smooth.

Province J was once a large agricultural province, and the food stocks in each city were much more sufficient than that in D city, so the temporary food shortage was not the most important thing, but the most urgent thing was coal and other materials used for heating in winter.

After the earthquake, the road to Q province with sufficient coal reserves was mainly repaired there, while the closer city D was still unable to open to traffic normally.

City D has also been repairing roads after the earthquake, but the repairs were on the road leading to the capital. Otherwise, the vaccine for the plague would not have been successfully researched and transported from the capital.

Therefore, farming machines can be replaced, but it will take time. For the time being, if Du Cheng wants to cultivate their farm, they can only rely on manual plowing and planting.