In the eyes of the Executive Committee, whether Changjiang or Yazhou is important now seems to be an obvious matter. However, this result made Marik and Qiu Yuan feel unacceptable, and they chose to take the initiative to come to Yazhou, in order to make some achievements here, so as to accumulate some capital for the future to get ahead in the crossing group. If the Executive Committee only treats Yazhou as a dispensable existence from beginning to end, then what is the point of them being here?

He Xi observed his words and knew that the relationship between these two people was wrong, so he opened his mouth to persuade: "Don't misunderstand what I mean, Yazhou may not be important in the long-term planning of the Executive Committee, but at the moment, this is the focus of the Executive Committee's attention. ”

Marik was reminded by He Xiyi, and quickly recovered from his frustration: "That's right, Yazhou has a population of 20,000, and it is the closest sales market and human resources provider to the base camp, and it is also the only window we can keep in touch with Daming at present." ”

"It's also the closest place to pose a military threat to the base camp. At some point, Mu Xiabai and Feng Anan also came out and joined the discussion.

"Although the garrison in Yazhou is not strong, it is a potential threat after all. Our working group should not only assume the responsibility of commerce and diplomacy, but also play the role of a military outpost. Mu Shabai looked around at everyone and said slowly: "Although you are not soldiers, you must also shoulder the task of guarding your homeland, but we use steel guns in our hands, and you use your own professional knowledge. Being in a foreign land, I hope you can unite and don't care about personal gains and losses!"

Obviously, the emotional reaction of Mariko and Qiu Yuan just now was seen by Mu Xiabai, and as an iron-blooded soldier, he would definitely not turn a blind eye to this kind of loosening of the feelings of the members of the working group.

Qiu Yuan felt a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said: "Lao Mu is right, although we have different division of labor, but we still have to cooperate well in this place, if we can't do anything here, then how can the executive committee hand over more important tasks to us in the future?" By the way, what about Zhang Guang and Zhao Xiaoruo?"

"Zhang Guang is helping Zhao Xiaoruo carry his luggage, let's not go to the trouble. Feng Anan said with a wicked smile.

Everyone understood, Zhang Guang called several colleagues together the night before departure, explained his thoughts, and stuffed a cigarette as a thank you gift. Although a group of people are all bachelors and are natural competitors in personal emotional matters, after all, they have to take care of a little bit where they can be convenient for people.

Zhang Guang moved seven or eight wooden boxes containing luggage into Zhao Xiaoruo's room and put them away, fetched a basin of well water to come in, and helped Zhao Xiaoruo wipe all the furniture in the house. Zhao Xiaoruo saw that he was busy, and he was a little reluctant to go, and wanted to go to the kitchen to boil some boiling water to make tea. When she arrived at the kitchen, she saw that the earthen stove was burning wood, and she couldn't operate it at all, so she had to call Old Man Yang to make a fire and boil water.

After Zhang Guang cleaned the house, he didn't see Zhao Xiaoruo after turning around, and finally Qiu Yuan, who was standing in the courtyard, pointed him the way. Zhang Guang went to the kitchen to see that this girl was stupidly waiting for the water to boil in front of the stove, and her face was black and white from the smoke and fire, and she didn't know it.

"It's not easy to get this thing, is it?" Zhang Guang said as he squatted down in front of the stove, took the tongs and reached into the stove to pluck the firewood that had not been fully burned.

Zhao Xiaoruo smiled, reached out and wiped the sweat on his forehead: "I have never seen a firewood stove before, and today is the first time to use it." ”

"It's not convenient for the firewood stove to get on fire, so I'll go out and buy some coal tomorrow and come back to make some honeycomb coal, so it's convenient to boil water or something." Zhang Guang said as he continued to break the fine wood and stuff it into the stove.

"Do you still know how to make honeycomb coal? I think you seem to be quite skilled, have you practiced before?" Zhao Xiaoruo asked curiously.

"My hometown is rural, and when I was a child, my family used to burn firewood and honeycomb coal, and these jobs were often done when I was a child...... A few days ago, the metallurgical workshop made a batch of honeycomb coal stoves and molds for beating honeycomb coal, and I specially sent a report to the executive committee to ask for a set, which can be used tomorrow when taken out of the box. Zhang Guang said with a familiar expression: "I don't think it's inconvenient, I'm used to it." It's that you've lived in the city since you were a child, and you must be very uncomfortable with this kind of environment all of a sudden, right?"

Zhao Xiaoruo bit her lip and hesitated for a moment before saying, "I just don't want others to see me as a pampered eldest lady, so I will come to participate in the crossing." I want to prove that I, Zhao Xiaoruo, can live well no matter who I leave, no matter what kind of environment I am in!"

Zhang Guang stared at Zhao Xiaoruo in amazement, and was stunned for a long time before answering: "I have never treated you as a young lady. I'm good to you, it's not like you can't do anything......"

"I know. Zhao Xiaoruo stroked the hair that hung down in front of him, and did not let Zhang Guang continue on this topic: "I don't seem to have asked you before, why did you choose to participate in the crossing?"

"This is a call in the dark, I know that someone is waiting for me to appear......" Zhang Guang saw Zhao Xiaoruo glaring at him, and suddenly couldn't make it up: "Okay, okay, I'll be honest." People like me who came out of the countryside are very difficult to find a daughter-in-law in the city, but I came out to see the world for a few years, and I was unwilling to let me go back to find a rural girl as a daughter-in-law. ”

"It's as if you come to the Ming Dynasty and don't need to find a rural girl to be your daughter-in-law. Zhao Xiaoruo hit him mercilessly.

Zhang Guang said proudly: "That's different, I was chosen by people before, but now I choose people, no matter how bad I am in the future, I can marry a rich lady who knows how to learn......"

Zhang Guang knew that he was speechless as he spoke, and hurriedly said: "...... Of course, those were just immature ideas from the past, and I definitely don't have them anymore. ”

"Do you know it yourself!" Zhao Xiaoruo threw the firewood in his hand into the stove, got up and left, leaving Zhang Guang with a panicked face.

The dinner that day was Chef Zhang Guang, although the taste could not be compared with Chef Fan in the base camp, but the combination of three meats, three vegetables and one soup was enough to make the other members feel admired, after all, not everyone can make a table of meals with a wood stove. And such a table seems to have redeemed the impact of the previous gaffe, Zhao Xiaoruo also took the initiative to ask him how to cook one of the dishes, so that Zhang Guang's heart that had been hanging finally let go.

However, showering after dinner has become a new problem. The previous owner probably didn't expect so many people to move in at the same time, so the whole house was only two wooden bathtubs for bathing, and the bathing had to be boiled, which became extremely inconvenient. Of course, in order to take care of the lady, Zhao Xiaoruo must have been the first to allocate the bath bucket and hot water, but all the rooms in this courtyard are not very soundproof, and a group of bachelors don't seem to be very polite when they hear the sound of water, so they all have to gather in one room, open their laptops while playing movies, and fight landlords to pass the time.

When Zhao Xiaoruo finished taking a bath, a group of people had to go into her room again and carry the bathtub out with the bath water, which was also quite embarrassing. Zhao Xiaoruo's face was flushed, and she didn't know if it was the effect of hot water bathing, or because a group of big men helped her carry the bath water.

"Before leaving, we have all thought about food, clothing, housing and transportation, but why doesn't anyone think about bathing?" asked Marik in a rhetorical manner.

At the meeting that night, bathing became the first important topic to be discussed. At the base camp, there were separate public baths for men and women, and there was a small charcoal boiler for hot water in the bathroom, and everyone seemed to ignore this detail of life. However, after coming to Yazhou to live, I found that if the problem of bathing is not solved well, then I am afraid that it will continue to plague the working group for a long time in the future.

Of course, the fundamental reason for this problem is that there is such a person as Zhao Xiaoruo, who is of the opposite sex, and if she does not live here, then everyone can get a collective open-air bath in the patio, and it is also fun to happily pick up soap together after work every day. But now it is impossible to let Zhao Xiaoruo go back to his home and change to a man, not to mention how much psychological damage to Zhao Xiaoruo will be done, that is, after the fact, the women's association will lash out, and none of these single men here dare to pat their chests and say that they can bear it, although everyone knows that the propaganda slogan of the women's association "women can hold up half the sky" is only a propaganda role, but no one will really want to try how powerful the "half the sky" is when it falls.

"You still have to build a special bathroom. Qiu Yuan pressed his still sore shoulders and said, "More than a dozen buckets of bathwater have to be carried in and out every day, which is too tiring." I just washed it and sweated again, which is not washed in vain. ”

"With a coal-fired boiler, there is enough space in the kitchen to set up a small boiler, and then it is not difficult to convert the firewood room next to the kitchen into a bathroom, waterproof the ground, and dig a drainage channel into the gutter on the street outside. When cooking dinner, throw a few pieces of honeycomb coals and slowly warm the water, and when it gets dark, you can use it. Zhang Guang took the initiative to build yì road.

"Is it technically difficult, is it safe to use?" asked Marik, who didn't know much about this kind of thing.

"The technology is very mature, and the public baths in the base camp use this kind of boiler, but with a larger capacity and charcoal. As for safety, there is no problem, when the time comes, just connect the boiler exhaust duct to the kitchen chimney. This kind of coal-fired boiler is atmospheric pressure, and the water temperature is not too high, so as long as the pipe seal is not leaking, it is enough, and it is not difficult to implement. Tomorrow I will mention this when I contact the base camp, if the other side can pay attention to it and let the metallurgical workshop work overtime, maybe we will be able to use it next week. Zhang Guang patiently explained the details.

"You've been thinking about this when you were taking a shower just now, right?" He Xi suddenly said.

"That's it, I ...... at the time" Zhang Guang almost lost his words for a while, and then coughed dryly: "I'm not doing this out of any selfishness, but also for everyone to make life more convenient." ”