More and more people came to Liberty Mountain, and every day people appeared at the entrance of the village, helping the old and the young, dressed in rags and haggard. The www.biquge.info Chinese has always valued the countryside, not without life, and will not leave the homeland where he was born and raised. Therefore, the people who walked on the Freedom Hill were basically people who had failed in the original situation, and they were all frail, and the elderly and teenagers were in the majority, which was very uneconomical from the point of view of labor. However, Meijia Village never refuses to allow anyone to come, even the sick, there is a special place to resettle, with free three meals a day and basic medical care.

The settlement of these people gradually became the main work of the guards and hospitals, and some fixed procedures gradually developed. Visitors will be settled in a shack in an industrial area, where they will live for 10 days without health problems, and then they will be assigned to work and then moved to live on Freedom Mountain. The shacks vacated will become temporary shelters for the next group of displaced people.

The convoy returning from the county town always brings a group of homeless people, these people are weak and sick, and most of them are old, weak, women and children, and they always drag on the half-day journey until dark. Seeing the village from afar, Wei Min, who returned to the village to report to Liu Yao, relieved himself and said to the displaced people: "Look, there is our village in front. The hillside is called Freedom Mountain, and the houses on it are the new-style houses that Huang Yuanwai said have water and water, and you can all live in them. ”

Although the displaced people still can't imagine what it means to go up and down the water, they are all smiling when they see that their destination has arrived and the promised food and accommodation are right in front of them. Only Xiong Tinghua was very worried in the crowd, grabbed his son Xiong Guangning's hand, and looked at his father who was coughing on his knees on the side of the road, and he couldn't be happy anyway. The son's hand was as thin as a chicken's claw in his palm. Other five-year-old boys will run around if they don't catch it, but only their own children, if they don't hold it, they may not be able to stand on their feet at any time. Realizing this, Xiong Tinghua felt sad in his heart.

Everyone else walked to the shack, and the crowd could be seen stirring around a cauldron, and shouting: "Line up!" Line up! A few sturdy lads with short sticks in their hands kept going. The aroma of rice porridge came from afar.

"Tinghua, you go quickly, don't delay, I'll be able to come later." Xiong Hengdao gasped and urged his son to hurry up and take his grandson to get food. Xiong Guang stood quietly against his father, swallowing saliva, motionless. Seeing that his grandson was so sensible, the grandfather became more and more anxious and coughed even more.

"Don't worry, old man, everyone has something to eat. You sit down for a moment. Wang Yufeng came from behind, helped Xiong Hengdao to sit down on the side of the road, and said to Xiong Tinghua: "I am a nurse, I will take care of your father." You go get something to eat first. It's okay to bring some for your father. ”

Xiong Tinghua didn't react for a moment, and said, "Nurse...... What does a nurse do? I'll go back to dinner later. ”

"A nurse is a doctor's helper." Wang Yufeng pointed behind him and said, "Look, the doctor who came from behind, my master, Ms. Yao Ying." ”

"Ms. Yao Ying? A four-word name? Xiong Tinghua asked.

Wang Yufeng was angry and laughed in her heart, and said, "You really care about everything." This lady is an honorific title for a woman. ”

Xiong Tinghua nodded and said, "Nurse Yu, what do you call me?" ”

Wang Yufeng suddenly blushed a little, said his name, and asked the father and son to hurry up and eat. Xiong Tinghua thanked him and took his son's hand to the cauldron and stood at the end of the line. The crowd soon quieted down under the beating of the short stick, and slowly walked forward.

In front of the cauldron, there were still a few soldiers waiting, and each of them was given a bamboo card to tie in their hands. Xiong Tinghua studied the symbols drawn with a brush on the bamboo plaque, but he couldn't understand it at all. Each family with their luggage was given a large bamboo basket with a bamboo tag tied to it, with the same symbols on the card as the one who handed it over, and all the luggage was put aside in the basket.

It didn't take much time for the quiet group to get these things done, and soon everyone got the food, a thick bowl of porridge with dried fish and vegetables each.

Xiong Tinghua saw a lady say to the soldiers with short sticks: "How many times have I told you, not only to shout for the queue, but also to shout that there is something to eat." They are crowded because they are afraid that they will not be able to eat. The soldiers nodded, stood up straight, and replied in unison: "Yes!" Ms. Yao Ying. ”

Yao Ying sighed and said to the soldiers: "It's all hard work, hurry up and go and settle down to take a bath and change clothes." The soldiers shouted "Tiger" and turned and ran away. Wei Min's daughter-in-law was handing out food, and when she saw Yao Ying coming, she hurriedly greeted: "Hello Ms. Yao." ”

"Cook some more porridge, I think there are a lot of people this time. The porridge was burned and covered, and I came to help change clothes, and there were many women. Yao Ying commanded and hurriedly walked away.

"Ma'am, I would like another bowl of porridge. My father is still behind. Xiong Tinghua hesitated for a long time, but still asked Wei Min's daughter-in-law.

"Okay. But if I don't see your father later, you'll be in trouble. Wei Min's daughter-in-law took out another coconut shell bowl, filled it with porridge, and handed it to Xiong Tinghua. Seeing that it was easy to get a second bowl, the homeless people next to them also asked for another bowl to be brought to others.

Wei Min's daughter-in-law put the big spoon into the pot and said loudly: "Whatever you want to bring to others, you will bring people to me later." In our Meijia Village, there is a rule to make clear, in this place, we will believe whatever you say, but once you are found to be lying, then you will be in trouble. ”

Those who pretended to bring porridge to others dispersed when they heard this. Wei Min's daughter-in-law shouted in a louder voice: "I hope you remember this rule!" Lie to people here, and you will be in big trouble. Xiong Tinghua didn't look at everyone's sneering expressions, shook his head and led his son to deliver porridge to his father, and saw Yu Taoping walking slowly with his coughed father. Hurriedly helped my father to sit down on the table and chair next to the cauldron. The table and chair were very rough, just a few flattened pieces of wood nailed together. But they are all firmly anchored to the ground, and the height is perfect for people to sit on and eat.

After eating the porridge, the displaced people were led to the river, where two bamboo huts were erected at a considerable distance, one with guards standing at the door, and several women standing at the other. Xiong Tinghua led his father and son to the shed, and each of them got a small basket, on which a bamboo plaque was also tied, which was also painted with the same symbol as the bamboo plaque in his hand. Xiong Tinghua felt very much that this was a very efficient method, relying on these symbols, people and things could be separated, but they would not be messed up.

Sheds were built along the riverbank, covering a long stretch of the riverbank. The soldiers of the guard stood on the shore and helped and supervised everyone to go out into the water to bathe. The requirements for bathing are very detailed, you need to take off all your clothes, scrub your body with a damp cloth dipped in alkaline water, untie your braids and hold your bubbles in the water, and then wash your hair with alkaline water. The clothes they had taken off were put in baskets and taken away.

Xiong Tinghua's family arrived last, but they took a shower first. They complied with every arrangement, not full of suspicion and worry like the others, and quickly dried their hair and bodies as required and walked to the end of the shed. One of the soldiers handed them a suit of clothes and led them out of the shed to a row of huts.

The wooden house is very basic, you can see that the trunk is not carefully groomed, the bark is bare and rough, but the structure is pleasant. A gutter surrounds the hut, and a few pillars support it about a foot from the ground, and you can see that the house must be very dry. The hut was long in a row, with a cloister in front of it, and against the wall lay a flattened piece of wood, which was supposed to be used as a chair to sit on. Xiong Tinghua was thinking like this, and was guided to sit down on it.

When everyone sat down on the wood, the lady named Yao Ying walked up to the wooden house and said, "Welcome to Meijia Village." My name is Yao Ying, and I'm the doctor here, and I've helped you settle here from the beginning. Everyone had already showered and changed into clean clothes. Later, everyone will be assigned a place to live, with a quilt in it. The clothes that you just changed and the clothes you brought with us, we will take them and cook them, so as to get rid of fleas. After everyone takes the boiled clothes, they are washed cleanly, so that they can start their life in Meijia Village cleanly. ”

The homeless people didn't expect Meijia Village to care so much about cleanliness, but they didn't say anything about working and living, and they didn't feel like they had scratched the itch, so they couldn't help but talk about each other.

Yao Ying waited for everyone to talk for a while, and then continued: "Tomorrow morning, everyone will wash their clothes, pack their luggage, and go to the place where they just ate three meals a day." In the afternoon, someone will come to arrange your work. Please rest assured, in Meijia Village, as long as you are willing to work, have the strength and skills, you can support yourself and your family. Now everyone goes to the room to rest first, and if you still want to eat, you can go and drink another bowl of porridge after arranging a place to live. Well, I hope you all go well here. ”

Yao Ying is always unaccustomed to using torches and lanterns, which either go out or burn her hair and clothes, and the lanterns are always knocked over and burned when she picks them up and puts them down. So as soon as it got dark, Liu Man was sent to take his mother home with a lantern.

"I think of all your father's decisions, this is the most right thing to do." Yao Ying put her arms around her daughter's shoulders and said as she walked. Yao Ying was very relieved to find that her daughter was already taller than herself.

"yes, especially if you have bad eyes and poor athletic ability." Liu Man said with a big grin, the lantern in his hand swaying restlessly in circles.

"Don't shake! It will burn later. ”

"I'm not you. On average, come out twice and burn a lantern. ”

"Lanterns are inherently easy to burn."

"You go and inquire, no one has ever burned a lantern in Meijia Village and Freedom Mountain."

The voices of the two came far away in the night, and Liu Yao also heard some at the door of his house, and he couldn't help laughing when he thought that he had also said that his wife would rub it once when she drove out twice on average. The smile on the corner of his mouth did not dissipate, and Liu Yao heard himself muttering to himself: "There can't be a war, otherwise she won't be able to run away." These words made Liu Yao's mood suddenly very heavy, and the lantern in front of him became clearer and clearer, and it looked so dim in the thick night.

Just sent Wei Min away, Liu Yao's worries about the war couldn't help but become heavier. Huang Fatzi's analysis is very reasonable, if it is an opponent of commercial competition, there is no need to be so bothersome, just come to the store to see, and count directly on the side when unloading the car. Liu Yao has already arranged for Wei Min to rush back to the store tomorrow and bring his own instructions: usually be vigilant and take strict precautions, store less money and food materials in the store, rent more warehouses to disperse the inventory and not be wiped out, build a backyard behind the store, and avoid idlers when unloading the car in the future. At the end of this instruction, Liu Yao wrote a sentence in a larger font: If there is danger, the guarantor will not insure the goods.

"Dad, there are so many homeless people, my mother is tired to death." Liu Man said as he stepped on the ground and slammed into the table.

"I'm fine, it's Wei Min's widow and soldier who are tired." Yao Ying hurriedly pulled Liu Man to wash his hands, and said: "Tired or not is secondary, the key is that there is not enough food, and these people are honestly not of high quality, the proportion of qualified labor is very low, and there are many old, weak, women and children." With so many people living here and making a big splash, do we need to change our strategy? ”

Liu Yao and the rest of the family sat down and said slowly: "Before I came, I asked the expert group to prepare some things for liberal arts students, including a passage engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. I copied it down when I was waiting for you. Putting down the chopsticks, Liu Yao took out a piece of paper and read it: "Give it to me!" Those weary and poor people who yearn to breathe freedom, the poor people who are abandoned and oppressed on the other side, those who have no place to return and who have suffered from the wind and frost, hand you over to me, I stand at the door of freedom, holding high the lamp of freedom, lighting your way home! ”

There was no one in the room for a moment. Liu Yao also said: "For reasons that try not to disturb history, I will not spread this passage in this time and space, and I hope it will still appear on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, although I am not sure if the Statue of Liberty will still appear." ”

"If it doesn't show up, we'll make one!" Liu Man was so firm that he said a little viciously. The whole family laughed.

"In addition, although the people recruited now are not very efficient, if I can settle these people so that they can support their families and live and work in peace, you can see this demonstration effect, and our population will double next spring. Winter is always difficult, and many people will not survive and need to find a place to settle down. ”

"Then we need a place to take a hot shower." The first question that came to Liu Man's mind was this.

"Yes, we're going to build a watermill to lift the water into a pot on a high place for the newcomers to take a hot shower. Almost this meaning, let General Manager Zhao organize people to design and construct. Thinking that the team in Meijia Village was becoming more and more capable, Liu Yao's mood suddenly improved.

"Difficulties will always pass, and there are ways to deal with dangers. We still need more people, which allows us to develop ourselves as soon as possible, and I think this is also the requirement of building civilization: to let more people live a better life. ”