Chapter 704 Liao Chen
During the natural disaster years, there was a shortage of electricity resources, and the electric steel bar cutting machine had been abandoned and replaced with a manual one.
"This was made by Uncle Huo using a jack and steel sheets." Xia Qing turned around and gave Huo Lei a thumbs up.
Seeing that Xia Qing had been cutting steel bars for two hours and her fingers could still easily pick them up, Jiang Ying secretly moved her fingers and arms, trying to stop herself from shaking too much when eating later. She also said, "Uncle Huo, is the frame of this cutting machine made of angle steel removed from the high-voltage transmission line tower?"
"Yes, how did you tell?" Huo Lei was a little surprised. He didn't expect this little girl to understand these things.
Jiang Ying explained, "Before my brother joined the army, he often took me to pick up scraps and exchange for supplies. We dug out the base of the tower and knocked out this angle steel from the cement block."
During the earthquake in the first year of the natural disaster, Jiang Ying's house collapsed; in the second year of the natural disaster, her father was beaten to death in order to save the family's food. Fortunately, the army took over the area soon after and began to build a safe zone, otherwise none of the three of them would have survived.
After the army arrived, social order was slightly restored, Jiang's mother looked for work everywhere, and eight-year-old Jiang Ying followed the twelve-year-old Jiang Hu to pick up garbage everywhere and assemble various rags into usable things in exchange for points.
The brother and sister kept picking up garbage until the sixth year of the natural disaster. Jiang Hu participated in the free test, and his identity card was changed to green, so he could go on missions to earn more points, and their family's life became better.
Jiang Ying's nose began to sour and she lowered her head, not daring to think about it anymore.
Xia Qing took over the conversation, "You're the one. This is the most labor-saving cutting machine I've ever used."
After Huo Lei entered the territory, he was much less angry than before, and responded with a smile, "This has nothing to do with craftsmanship. The steel plate used is hard enough and the blade is sharp enough to save effort. I'll sharpen the blade after dinner. You go to tie the stirrups in the afternoon, and I'll cut it."
Zhao Ze took off his protective mask, wiped his sweat and came to discuss with Xia Qing, "Sister Qing, let's hurry up in the afternoon. Get the steel beams ready and set up before three o'clock, and then pour concrete on the ground and beams at the same time on the first floor, and finish before six o'clock. I'll tell Brother Yue later, add three more people in the afternoon?"
In order to prevent insects and earthquakes, the floor, walls, and roof must be laid with steel bars, and then poured with concrete.
"Okay."
Xia Qing agreed with Zhao Ze's arrangement. After two days of concrete pouring, they can continue construction after confirming that there are no abnormal changes. In other words, after finishing today, they can rest for two days before coming back.
After getting Xia Qing's consent, Zhao Ze shouted loudly, "Everyone, take a break and go eat. We will start work at 1:30 in the afternoon."
"Sister Qing, do you think it's okay this time?" Shi Du adjusted the angle of the stirrup hook and asked Xia Qing to check.
"It's OK." After checking, Xia Qing followed everyone to the canteen of Territory No. 15.
After eating, they can rest here or go back to the territory to rest for a while.
When Xia Qing was in the construction team, she would find a cool and less crowded place to sleep for a while after eating, and continue to work in the afternoon. But the labor intensity of building a house in Territory No. 15 is much less than that of the construction team in the safe zone, and Xia Qing will not feel tired even if she doesn't sleep at noon. So she decided to go back to take a shower, change clothes, and come back to work. The clothes she was wearing were already soaked.
Today's lunch is yellow lantern wild boar meat stewed with beans. The wild boar was brought back by Yue Haiying and the beans were grown in the greenhouse.
The chef of Territory No. 15 is a retired cook who is good at cooking big pot dishes. Before we even walked to the container that was converted into a canteen, the aroma wafted over.
After washing hands with everyone and entering the simple but clean canteen, Jiang Ying was worrying about how to serve the food when Tan Qi had already served her the food, "Sister Qing, Sister Yingzi, this way!"
"Okay." Jiang Ying followed Xia Qing to the clean wooden table and sat down. She took the chopsticks handed over by Tan Qi and wanted to say that Qiqi had served her too many dishes, but she found that Xia Qing's dishes and staple food were twice as much as hers. She couldn't help but feel a sore nose again and almost cried.
The power evolvers have a big appetite, and so does her brother. He needs to eat a lot to be full. He joined the army to have a full meal.
"Today's dishes are so delicious. Come on, eat quickly. If it's not enough, we'll go get more." Tan Qi was like a happy little bird, calling her two sisters to eat quickly, then biting the chopsticks and looking at them eagerly, looking forward to their feedback.
Xia Qing pretended not to hear Jiang Ying's breathing changes, took a bite of the stewed meat, and commented sincerely, "Delicious, the meat is so flavorful."
The chef of the No. 15 territory is much better than Xia Qing in cooking. If she was not afraid of the secrets in the territory being leaked, she really wanted to dig this chef to her own territory.
Jiang Ying couldn't pick up the food with sore fingers, so she lowered her head and took a bite with chopsticks, and her taste buds were instantly activated. She lowered her voice and asked embarrassedly, "Such delicious food, you can be full with 50 points a month, am I paying too little?"
Xia Qing smiled. Not only in appearance, but also in Jiang Ying's personality, she is like Hu Zi, not talking much, and honest. She could recognize at a glance that the steel frame of the cutting machine was made of angle iron, and she might also know how to modify a bicycle.
But she was still a little reserved when she first came, so it was not the time to ask these questions.
Tan Qi smiled with eyes curved, "It's a lot. We don't get to eat meat every day. We can only eat it when Uncle Yue and his friends hunt edible prey. Uncle Yue has been out hunting these days, so happy."
Yue Haiying was not happy because he went out hunting, but because Zhang Hongda's antidote was ready. He didn't go out hunting specifically, but because Zhang Hongda needed two people to help with the second course of detoxification.
Xia Qing ate two bowls of vegetables, four steamed buns and drank a bowl of mung bean soup, and left the No. 15 territory with a satisfied stomach.
Tan Qi and Jiang Ying followed Xia Qing out. They were going back to the inspection team dormitory for lunch. Tan Junjie vacated the dormitory next to him for Jiang Ying to live in. After the house was built, she and Tan Qi moved into the territory together.
After separating from Xia Qing, Tan Qi whispered, "Sister Yingzi, are you tired?"
"Tired, but I feel very at ease." The people working here are either the lords or my brother's comrades-in-arms, all of whom are trustworthy. It is much better than the food factory in the safe zone. Jiang Ying secretly made up her mind that she would adapt to life here as soon as possible, learn to farm, and then bring her mother over.
Jiang's mother replaced Jiang Ying's position in the food factory and could earn a salary of 90 points per month.
Tan Qi felt the same way and nodded vigorously, "Yes, that's it!"
In a hurry at noon, Xia Qing did not take the northern isolation zone, but returned to her own territory through the passage between the two territories.
As soon as she entered the passage between Territory No. 6 and Territory No. 14, Xia Qing heard someone walking on the grass in Territory No. 14. She pretended not to hear it, continued to move forward, and prepared for battle. (End of this chapter)