Chapter 2 Coolies
Yu Yan came here in the early hours of the morning and hadn't gone out yet, but she knew about her situation through the diary and furnishings in the room. When she walked out of the room in a beggar's suit, she was shocked by the scene in front of her.
Thick stone slabs covered the entire ground, a bluestone color. There's not a hint of green. Countless pedestrians are in a hurry in all kinds of clothes, and many adults and children with yellow faces beg for every pedestrian who is slightly cleanly dressed, but unfortunately not many succeed.
Yu Yan walked to the street, and suddenly heard a burst of erhu pulling, hoarse, obscure, an old man in his 5, 60s sitting on a step, cross-legged, one of the trousers was empty, with a broken bowl in front of him, his eyes were dullly pulling the bow, squeaking like crying, from the inside to the outside of despair.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a little boy of seven or eight years old, wearing clean clothes, and his face was white and fat, and he looked very good. The little boy ran to the old man who was pulling the erhu and threw a stack of things into the old man's broken bowl. Yu Yan took a closer look, and it turned out to be a dozen hundred-yuan bills. The old man was expressionless, and continued to pull the bow until the boy threw another dozen coins into the bowl, filling the broken bowl. The old man reached out without saying a word, took out the money from the bowl and threw it aside. Then continue to pull the bow rod.
"Xiaobao, what are you doing, don't mess around." A middle-aged woman with a large figure came over and grabbed the little boy.
"Mom, I'll give you money for food." The little boy looked up at his mother with a grin.
The middle-aged woman glanced at the old man and pulled the boy out: "Let's go quickly." It's time to eat, your dad beat you a rabbit yesterday and made you rabbit porridge to drink today. ”
When the old man heard the rabbit porridge, he swallowed his saliva obviously, then lowered his head and sighed. The people around me also watched the mother and son leave with envy.
Yu Yan watched the whole scene silently, and then walked down the street, walking out by feeling, maybe her current outfit is no different from the roadside begging, so no one pays attention to her.
The streets are crowded, confused, sad, desperate, self-deprecating, contemptuous, excited, hopeful, constituting a big picture of the end times. Yu Yan couldn't help but wonder, are these really from a novel?
The whole base is very large, Yu Yan walked for more than an hour to see the city wall, the city wall has a big iron gate more than ten meters high, five or six meters thick, and more than ten meters high. She suddenly had a feeling of unreality. In just one month, humans were able to build such a majestic wall? Or is it true that novels are just like comics, they are not real, so you can write as much as you want, and draw as you want!
Standing next to the doorway, the view inside the city is surprising enough. I didn't expect it to be even more shocking outside the city. It is several kilometers wide, and the ground is full of stone slabs. In the distance, a thick field of greenery stretches to the sky. Yu Yan only felt that she had become a pebble, standing on the green ocean of Noah's Ark.
Yu Yan was speechless for a long time. She never knew that the scene in the novel turned into reality so spectacular, and she even wondered if this world was really the novel she read. Yu Yan, who was deep in thought, was suddenly awakened by a burst of distant voices.
"The Tiger squad is recruiting, there are three people with special abilities, and only two people are recruited, and they have to sign up as fast as they go out of the city."
"The Ordinary Alliance team, the alliance of ordinary people, go out of the city to find supplies. Did anyone come? ”
The hunting team at the gate of the base in the novel, she still remembers this. However, it doesn't seem to be next to the doorway. It's a few hundred meters away from the gate. Yu Yan carefully looked at the group of people who were in separate groups a few hundred meters away. Outside the city, there are dangers, opportunities and death coexist, but if you want to live well, you have to go to the city.
If you want to get out of the city, you have to have strength!
"No, no, no, how much strength can you have as a girl, you can't move two stones. You'd better go find some light work, like washing clothes for the army or something. ”
"That kind of work has long been taken over, where can I get my turn? Please, I have a lot of strength, I'll work hard, please, why don't you give me half a person's ration? ”
Yu Yan stood in front of a foreman in charge of a construction site, who looked to be in his 40s, dark and strong. At first glance, it is powerful.
"If you are asked to do it, you can't do it, you will lose time, and now the construction site has a lot of work, and you can't hold on for a day. You'd better find another job, even if the base only distributes one bowl of porridge a day now, it's better than here. ”
"Just let me try, and if I can't make it through, you won't have to pay me. If you are slow to work, you can count me by the piece, and you will pay for as much food as I do. I don't pick. Please. ”
The foreman was entangled by Yu Yan and had no choice, and said hesitantly: "You have to think about it, this work can be tiring, big men can be so tired that they can't walk, and half a ration can only have three steamed buns and water a day, three steamed buns look too much, if you don't work this day, it will definitely be enough, but doing this kind of work, three steamed buns and Ben can't keep up with the consumption of physical strength." ”
"I know the way, I know the way, I'm not idle, thank you and brother Xie. I will work hard and strive to make six steamed buns a day. Yu Yan hurriedly climbed up the pole, for fear that the foreman would change his mind.
The foreman was helpless: "I also know that if you can't survive, your girl's family won't come to do this, alas, this world is not ruthless, but the food is limited." There you go. Base points can only be calculated according to the amount of work you do. ”
"Hey, Brother Xie Lu, Brother Xie." Yu Yan is very happy to get a job moving stones for herself.
Yu Yan doesn't have to come here to move stones, except that she doesn't want to owe Xie Rumeng too much, more importantly, she wants to exercise her physical strength, she can't stay at the base all the time, one day, she will have to leave the base. But she's not stupid, just because her limbs are not diligent, her grains are not divided, and she has to rest for half a day with buckets of water. Now out of the clouds, that is the rhythm of looking for death.
Yu Yan knew that she would be able to awaken her ability in half a year, but Yu Yan didn't want to wait. When waiting becomes a habit, it will keep waiting. And, that way of awakening. Yu Yan really didn't want to go through it.
Sweat, Yu Yan wiped her head, she forgot a lot of details, but she remembered this clearly, as if she didn't know what the reason was, Xie Rumeng was not at the base, Yu Yan was caught by several people in a room, and there were several girls in the room, Yu Yan watched the girls being wheeled and violent by those people, and when a man held her down, her spirit was greatly stimulated, which stimulated the ice ability.
Yu Yan didn't want to activate her abilities in that way, so she had to train herself now, and strive to get out of the base as soon as possible and get the opportunity to awaken in hunting.
It's not that there are no women on the construction site, but most of them are strong in farm work, and a thin and weak little girl like her is the first one, although she is dressed in tatters, her hair is messy, and her face is dirty, but the young girl's youthful vigor cannot be hidden. The big man on the construction site couldn't help but whistle when he looked at such a young girl. Yu Yan didn't care about them, she carried the unloaded stones to the cart one by one, and didn't wait for the cart to be particularly full and pushed it to a specific location, she couldn't push it if it was too full.
"What's the blow, is the job done? What's wrong with having too much strength? The foreman scolded at the whistling men.
Yu Yan smiled gratefully at the foreman and continued to work.
The stones are very heavy, and the small cart full of stones is even heavier, Yu Yan gritted her teeth, cheered herself up in her heart, and walked firmly step by step, several times she almost collapsed when she pushed the cart, steady her mind, rest for a while, and continue to push.
When the day's work was over, Yu Yan's tired butt was spread on the ground and she couldn't stand up.
The foreman came over and handed her a bag: "This is yours, I thought you wouldn't be able to hold on, the little girl is not big, but she is quite strong." Take it. ”
Yu Yan looked at the two steamed buns in the plastic bag, her eyes lit up, she worked on the construction site and ate three meals a day for twenty points. Two steamed buns and water for one meal, Yu Yan said to the foreman at the time that only half of the ration was good, and this morning and at noon, she only ate one steamed bun. Doing such heavy work, a steamed bun is already so hungry that his chest is close to his back.
"Brother Xie Lu, thank you."
"Ha, what is there to thank, you deserve it, take it, do you eat it here or take it back to eat."
Yu Yan thought for a while: "Let's eat here." "The food is your own when you eat it, and if you take it back, you may not be able to do anything. Besides, I'm really hungry right now.
The foreman smiled: "Yes, look at your little girl, she is not very old, but she has a lot of ideas." That's right. ”