In an open-air kitchen, four people are cooking food.

A slightly chubby woman holds a large spoon and stir-fries it in a pot.

"Give me the soy sauce."

"Okay." Another woman next to her handed a bottle of soy sauce to the woman.

The living conditions of people in the era of interstellar exploration were very simple, and there was no stove for stir-frying, so they could only build a temporary stove on the ground and put a big pot on the stove to work, not to mention the smart kitchen that appeared decades later and could cook thousands of dishes, just fry the dishes.

After pouring the soy sauce into the pot, the fragrance of the shredded pork with green peppers became stronger, and the woman wiped the sweat from her forehead, turned off the stove, and put the dishes in a small steel basin.

On a small table next to it, there were already four small steel basins.

"Ah, it smells so good!" Liu Xiaoman sniffed the stir-fried vegetables in the basin, "Stir-fried greens, dried celery, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, shredded pork with green peppers, four dishes." With the addition of winter melon pork rib soup, so many dishes are enough. ”

"Irene, Xiaoman, you guys bring the lunch box, let's start filling them with food, they're going to be hungry." Yang Cai Flower Road.

"Yes, okay."

At this time, Wang Gang, the only male member of the logistics team, came over with a bucket of rice -- the rice was steamed in a unified place, and as soon as the meal arrived, the logistics personnel of each pioneer team would go to receive the rice and take it back to the logistics points.

After Wang Gang came back from the rice point, four dishes and one soup had already been placed in the five small grids of the one hundred special lunch boxes on the table, and after the rice was brought, the four of them worked together to put the rice in the largest compartment in the lunch box.

Cover the lid of the lunch box, the well-sealed lunch box also has a good thermal insulation effect, even if you open it after four or five hours, you can still eat a hot meal.

100 lunch boxes in the body of a small electric tricycle that can be driven directly outside the base. Meals are delivered to the work site of the brick-making team.

"Wang Gang, go and bring them food, remember to come back early."

"I know."

Wang Gang stepped on the electric tricycle, accelerated to start, and disappeared from the eyes of the three.

Yang Caihua took out a few pairs of clean dishes and chopsticks, made some food in the rice bucket, and said to Liu Xiaoman and Feng Yilin: "Let's eat a few of us, we will be busy later." ”

"Well, eat."

Three women, eating a fragrant meal. I ate it with a lot of flavor.

In the past nearly a month, the three women have learned a lot about each other.

Feng Yilin is the youngest, 28 years old this year, with a 6-year-old daughter and a 4-year-old son, the reason why she went to work outside is because her husband who went to work in the city did not come home for two or three years, and later heard that she ran away with another woman, and she went to the city alone to find her husband. After looking for half a year, she couldn't find it, and she had no choice but to find a job and find a way to support her children.

Come to this strange planet. It was a complete coincidence, the hotel was closed, she had just lost her job and saw a place to hire people. She walked in, and the other party's offer was very good, with a monthly salary of six thousand. Eating and lodging, and there is no limit to skills, as long as she can work, this kind of good thing, she signed up without thinking about it.

The interviewer asked her about her family situation, and she couldn't hide it, so she had to tell the truth, and begged bitterly: "You can help me, my two children will have no one to support if I don't support them, except for illegal things, you can let me do anything, I can suffer anything!" ”

The interviewer looked at her pitifully, his eyes were red, and he recorded her identity information in the selection book.

Liu Xiaoman, 37 years old, is also an ordinary-looking middle-aged woman, from the city, the family conditions were okay, but after her husband had a car accident and became a vegetative person, she had to hand over her son who was in elementary school to relatives for foster care, she sold the house and took her husband to a remote countryside for treatment.

Medically, the probability of recovery in a vegetative state is very low, and it is true, even if Liu Xiaoman took care of her husband on the hospital bed for 6 years, her husband finally died because of ineffective treatment.

The moment she found out that her husband was dead, Liu Xiaoman didn't cry, but just breathed a long sigh of relief and accepted this reality very calmly, even if she once loved this man very much.

Back in the city, there is no place to live, and there is no money on her, although she really wants to go to school to see her son, who is in the seventh grade, but she does not have the courage, she does not even have the money to buy a carton of milk, so she can only stand outside the school gate, look at his class twice, and can't stop crying.

She also participated in the interview because of a coincidence, and after she told her about her situation, she said, "I need a job, I need money, and I want to redeem my son with money." Without much hesitation, the interviewer added her name.

Yang Caihua is the eldest of the three women, 46 years old, her two sons are in college, her husband is a gambler, and the money she earns outside every year is only enough for herself, except for her son's tuition fees in school, which he bears, and the living expenses are all earned by her.

Yang Caihua has worked in many industries, worked as a tailor in a factory, washed dishes at a meal, worked as a nanny for others, and stepped on a rickshaw in Wandong...... I didn't make any money, and in the end I worked as a small worker on the construction site, although it was very hard, but I made more money.

After working outside for 20 years, Yang Caihua earned money to provide for two college students, relying on nothing else, or ruthlessness.

Once, she worked in a restaurant, and the boss did not pay her salary for three months, so she pulled out the leather pipe on the gas tank in a fit of anger, released the gas, and wanted to die with the boss, so the boss gave him the money.

Stepping on a rickshaw in Wandong, because she stepped on a black car, without a license plate, after being caught by the urban management department, the vehicle was detained, a fat official got into her car, kicked her with his foot, and urged her to hurry up, she was angry, and now the car was detained again, and the official wanted to urge her, just right, a car drove over, and she stepped on the rickshaw and rushed towards the car.

"Phew!" The car stopped with an emergency brake, and the official's face turned pale with fright, "You're crazy!" ”

Yang Caihua has a scar on her head, from her forehead to the corner of her eyebrows, a full five or six centimeters -- she was beaten with a steel pipe, it was on a construction site, she and other workers worked for half a year, after the building was built, the developer did not give the workers a penny, the workers came to them for a theory. was actually hired by the thug invited by the developer, and the head was beaten and bleeding.

That developer has black. Dao background, ruthless, said to be the city's tyrant, whoever dares to provoke him can take anyone's life.

Yang Caihua rushed up, half a year's salary, that's her life, her two sons, still waiting for living expenses!

She went straight to the developer and asked him to pay her for it. A big hand came down with a steel pipe, and hot blood flowed down from the door of his head, Yang Caihua took the opportunity to hug the developer's leg and kneel on the ground, no matter how those people hit, they just didn't let go.

"Crazy, crazy!" The developer was also notoriously ruthless on the road, but as soon as he saw Yang Caihua's eyes, a cool breath came out of his heart. "Give her the money!"

That time, there were more than 100 workers on the entire construction site, and she was the only one who asked for wages. Although, she had 20 stitches on her head.

Although Yang Caihua has a spicy personality, no one wants to take advantage of her, but after coming here. She, like most people, is full of hope for the future and relationships with others. It has also become like a family, loving each other and supporting each other.

Moreover, it may be because they have the same and similar experience, Yang Caihua, Liu Xiaoman, and Feng Yilin, three women, have a feeling of mutual pity and care for each other.

After eating, Yang Caihua put the bowl on the table, began to count it with his fingers, and said: "Captain Zhang told me that our performance is linked to the brick-making team, how many performance points they can get on average, and we, the logistics staff, can get 80% of the points, that is to say, if they are 800 yuan a day on average, we are 640 yuan." ”

Feng Yilin interjected excitedly: "I heard that three days here is equivalent to one day on the other side of the earth, and a day here is 68 hours, almost, one day on our side is the same as one day on the other side of the earth, we have almost 20,000 yuan a month!" ”

Liu Xiaoman said: "20,000 yuan, it's not a lot, I heard that some teams, because of the block, can get an average of more than 30,000 yuan a month, and those engineers, I heard that they pay a fixed salary, 1,000 performance points a month." ”

Feng Yilin said in surprise: "1000 performance points, this is 100,000?" ”

Yang Caihua said brightly: "This is the benefit of studying, in the future, when my two sons graduate from college and also become engineers, come here to help, our family will not have to make a fortune?" ”

The three women, imagining to their heart's content, their voices filled with joy and hope, and this scene happened in every place in the city of the 3rd Dome, and even in every city of the dome.

……

After the stars set in the east, the sky darkened, the red earth rendered a dark red, and the brick trucks at the stone mining sites basically stopped rumbling.

"It's time to call it a day, it's time to call it a day." Zhao Zhi said to Zhang Beichuan a little tiredly.

The red giant has 34 hours of daytime, and in such a long time, a hundred workers of the brick-making team have to eat five meals and take two breaks for 8 hours in between, but they can't leave the stone stepping point, and the air in the air bag of the spacesuit runs out, so it is replenished from the compression tank of the brick-making truck. For meals, take turns eating in the car.

Zhang Beichuan looked at the 7th brick-making team next to him, Wang Qiang and they didn't mean to get off work yet, thought about it, and asked, "How much air is there in the air tank?" ”

Zhao Zhi looked at the meter number, "There is still 11%, and it can be used for about 3 hours." ”

"How many bricks did we make today?"

"93,470 yuan, more than 6,000 yuan more than yesterday."

"Then let's work for another two hours and strive to break through 100,000 yuan!"

"However, the team members are already tired, and I want to sleep now."

"I can sleep for more than 30 hours when I go back, and I won't die if I hold on for a while, Wang Qiang, haven't they left yet, we have to break through ourselves!" Zhang Beichuan's eyes showed a fighting spirit.

Zhao Zhi's mouth opened, and he had to say, "Okay, work for two more hours." ”

A long pole rises on the top of the brick truck, and there is a bright energy-saving lamp on the top of the long pole.

More than half an hour later, a bright meteor suddenly crossed the sky, dragging a long tail flame, passing rapidly, only to hear a booming explosion, half a minute, the ground shook violently, countless people saw this sudden scene, their faces were terrified...... (To be continued......)