Chapter 366: Between Light and Darkness
With enough supplies, as time passes, the newly built City of Hope is undergoing various beautiful changes every day at a speed that is visible to the naked eye.
Among them, the people who live here have gradually begun to enjoy these gratifying changes.
As soon as it was dark, Sem, a nineteen-year-old young man who had just gotten off work at the construction site, rushed all the way to the small home where his family lived temporarily.
A resettlement area with tens of thousands of tents set up on the original farmland outside the city.
There are more than a dozen such simple resettlement areas around the original city of Imphal.
In the previous time, the seven members of the Sam family were crammed into a tent with a height of no more than two meters and an area of no more than fifteen square meters.
Sam was in such a hurry that he was too late to even eat dinner in the canteen on the construction site.
Because today is an extremely important moment for the Sam family: from the tent to the new home.
After half a month, the first batch of 1,000 new houses built by the mutual aid association has finally begun to be distributed.
Even if the style of each new house is ten small bungalows lined up all the way, this time there are 10,000 houses to take out and distribute.
But compared to the more than one million people who have migrated to Hope City, the number of 10,000 houses can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket.
Therefore, the principle of new housing allocation can only be the families who have registered in the mutual aid association, and everyone fights for luck to draw the number.
Thanks to the protection of the dragon god and the ancestors, Sam's family of seven was extremely lucky to get the first batch of precious places in the house.
According to the detailed rules for the division of rooms announced by the mutual aid club, they can be divided into three rooms, all of which are large rooms of 21 square meters.
The moment they learned the good news, the grandmother and mother of the family were excited and cried for the first time, and now they could finally say goodbye to the low tent......
After running back home, my father and mother, who worked in other areas, also returned home early.
Even, they have packed up all the belongings in this temporary small home.
After seeing the eldest son of the family come back, this family of seven consisting of a pair of grandparents who are nearly 70 years old, a pair of parents in their 40s, plus a son and two daughters, began this moving trip.
It's not that accurate to say it's moving.
Because after each man carried a little more in his hands, he even brought all his belongings.
Along the way, when the family of seven walked through the huge tent settlement area, there were neighbors who had become familiar with them, and greeted them warmly.
From the eyes of these people, what can be seen is a strong color of envy.
Sem was perfectly understandable about this, although the great chief Zhang had promised that anyone who worked hard and conscientiously would be given a new home within five months.
What the great leader promised, naturally, will not change.
But if you're unlucky, you'll really have to live in such a bad place for half a year longer than anyone else.
Just think about the terrible environment where it is difficult to even turn over at night when you sleep, who wants to stay here for an extra day.
The only thing they can hope for is that the next time they draw their numbers, they will be a little more lucky and be able to move out of this hellish place sooner.
As for the distribution methods and rules formulated by the protest against the great Zhang chieftain, no one did it at all.
On the one hand, it is gratitude to the great leader, and on the other hand, it is this lottery method that depends entirely on luck, which everyone thinks is fair enough.
Before, the nineteen-year-old young Sam thought the same thing.
But after something happened yesterday, he wasn't so convinced.
He remembered that it was noon, and he had just finished lunch, and then an officer of the mutual aid society came to him for a chat, not only to confirm his identity as a Meitei, but also to inquire about his high school grades.
In the end, when he made it clear that he was willing to be the great leader of Zhang, he did not hesitate to go to the soup.
The officer patted himself on the shoulder with satisfaction, and told himself covertly: The people who are loyal to Leader Zhang will be given preferential treatment.
That evening, the family received the good news of the new house......
After an hour's walk, the Sam family finally arrived at their new home, carrying their shabby belongings.
It was on the other side of the city, in a cluster of small bungalows with no borders in sight, with three rooms connected together.
The room was rather rudimentary, with a roof covered with linoleum and bark, walls of bare red brick, and a floor of little more than a thin layer of cement.
The only household appliance is an electric light, such as the bathroom and kitchen, which are naturally even more absent.
There is only one public toilet and one shower room for every three rows of small bungalows, and even the running water is not installed for the time being, and everyone currently shares the same kind of self-pressurized well.
But even so, when Sem looked at his four elders, he looked at the three rooms with satisfaction.
The two eleven-year-old twin sisters were running in and out of the room excitedly, and he still couldn't help but feel endless gratitude to the great Leader Zhang.
Not to mention now, even when I lived in tents before, it was much better than the situation where those demons would appear and take them away at any time.
In this feeling, the young Sam made up his mind in his heart:
"Great Chief, whatever you need young Sem to do for you, I will be loyal to your orders. ”
For a mutual-aid society that has only been established for a very short time and all means seem to be very jerky, the management of a city with a population of nearly two million is definitely a huge challenge for them.
But at the end of the day, their management principles are also based on one point:
That is, loyal, hard-working people will be given preferential treatment, and if they do not, they will be punished.
Not everyone will get out of the dangerous situation before, and they will work hard because they are grateful for the great leader's saving grace.
According to the situation reflected by the grassroots managers:
There are a very small number of guys, not only do they disdain the work arranged by the mutual aid association, but they also eat more when they eat in the cafeteria.
Even, there are people in the former society, who have all kinds of oppressive behaviors against those honest people.
So when many lucky people like Sem moved into their new homes with joy, some people also ushered in a moment that was extremely dark for them.
The 5,000-strong security corps, which had just been established for less than a week, made its first mission tonight.
After they were divided into hundreds of teams, under the leadership of the grassroots administrators, they directly arrested all these people in the resettlement areas.
As a harmonious civil organization, it is natural that the Mutual Aid Society will not impose criminal laws on them.
However, when they learned that they would be kicked out of Hope City by daylight tomorrow and would be banned from thereafter, the arrested men were scared.
However, no matter how much they pleaded, it would not change the determination of the top management of the mutual aid association.
The so-called killing chickens to show the monkeys, they are the chickens that are used as a warning.
For a time, two different moods of joy and sorrow began to play out in different parts of the city, but in general, only one person was crying out of hundreds of laughing people.
Including Zhang Wei, these managers who are still immature think that it is worth it!