Chapter 16: The First Arrival in the Border City
Xie Yan took the four of Fu Xin to board the land walker sent by the Xie clan to pick them up, and went directly to the research site - the Xie Energy Mineral Mining Center.
They were greeted by Jiang Caishi, the leader of the No. 1 Mining Team of the Xie Energy Mineral Mining Center, who is an intermediate re-engineer with a lifespan of about 30 years and has been engaged in mining for 15 years.
Captain Jiang warmly led Xie Cheng and the others to the living area of the first mining team and arranged accommodation for them.
With Xie Cheng having greeted the Xie Group in advance, the accommodation arranged by the Xie family for them is not bad, they are all single rooms that can only be lived in at the team leader level, and they are fully ensuited.
After the five of them put down their luggage, Captain Jiang led them to the work area again.
It's working hours, and the workers are busy.
I saw that some of the mining workers operated large-scale excavation equipment, some operated precision mining instruments, some even directly carried out manual mining work, and some carried the mined energy ore and transported it to the outside.
"99% of our workers here are reconstructed people, and 1% of ordinary people are mostly in precision technical positions and management positions." Captain Jiang took them to introduce as he walked, "Although we usually work hard, the company's welfare is still very good, and everyone is willing to be positive." Not to mention the salary, let's just say that the life enhancer launched by the company before, although the market is in short supply, but every time it is produced, it will give priority to shipping a batch to our side for everyone to buy. Captain Jiang's expression was faintly proud.
"I heard what the students of the Soil Academy are going to do this time...... Research! Not only the company cooperates, but we are also very supportive, and I hope that you can research more products such as life enhancers that can benefit us after research. Captain Jiang looked at a few people with a smile on his face.
The five of them looked at Captain Jiang's face and couldn't bear to tell him the truth.
However, Xie Yan said directly: "The research of life enhancers belongs to the professional category of bloodline gene research, and it has nothing to do with us. He looked at the faces of several people, paused, and added: "However, if our research is comprehensive and meticulous enough, it can help the soil master improve the physical fitness of the recreated person from the source, and it will directly save you from taking the medicine in the future." ”
Just as Captain Jiang introduced the situation of the workers to Xie Cheng and the five people, a pleasant music bell sounded in the work area. I saw that many workers stopped their work and ran in one direction.
"What's going on?" Lu Jiayao asked curiously on the side.
"Oh. The company sent life enhancers, and the ringing just now was to remind the workers to buy it. Captain Jiang said nonchalantly.
"I see that everyone looks anxious, do you want to grab it if you buy it here?" Fu Xin was also a little curious.
"There is no need to rob here, they are all distributed in turn according to the order of registration and payment. But there are so many of us workers, and it will take at least two or three months to wait for your batch, and these of them are all in this batch, and of course they are in a hurry to get their treasures. ”
"Does this life enhancer really have such a good effect? Have you used it? Yao Jingyu, who had not spoken, also asked.
"I haven't used it, I have a baby at home, I emptied my family a few years ago, and borrowed 300,000 yuan from the company, and now I have just finished paying off the money, how can I have spare money to buy this thing." Captain Jiang waved his hand at a few people, "But listen to everyone, the effect should be good!" ”
"Do you have children?" Fu Xin was shocked, she hadn't heard that recreating people could have children. Looking at the performance of the other people who were not surprised, she was a little strange, could it be that she didn't know enough about the situation of recreating people.
"Yes, a girl, just five years old this year, looks beautiful." Speaking of the child, Captain Jiang smiled, "By the way, my daughter-in-law is the cook of our mining team's canteen, and she will cook a banquet at home at night to catch you up, and you will have to save face when the time comes." Just in time for you to meet my daughter. ”
When several people heard this, they hurriedly responded, and they all sighed that Captain Jiang was too polite.
After chatting, the five of them carefully walked around the work area and had a general understanding of the various types of work and the corresponding work requirements and work intensity. I was ready to go back to the dormitory.
On the way back, Fu Xin pulled Xie Yan and finally said the question that had just hovered in her heart: "Isn't it impossible to have children if you recreate people!" How could Captain Jiang have a child? ”
Seeing his girlfriend sneaking to the side of her, Xie Yuan thought that she had suddenly opened her mind and wanted to make love to herself, and her heart was full of anticipation.
As a result, he asked himself such a question, and Xie Cheng suddenly couldn't cry or laugh.
However, it is estimated that Fu Xin also knew that this question was too pediatric, so he pulled himself aside and asked. Thinking of her previous experience of having no resources, being hindered by her family, and secretly insisting on learning the knowledge of soil, Xie Cheng felt sorry for her girlfriend again.
He touched Fu Xin's head and patiently explained: "Well, it is true that recreated people cannot have children, but the government allows adult reborn people to apply for the creation of babies for raising if they have sufficient financial ability." However, the birth of the baby must be carried out by a government-affiliated forging agency. ”
After explaining, Xie Cheng continued: "Actually, after you go back, you can take a look at books such as "The Regulations on the Survival of Recreated People", although there is no theory of recreation, but it completely contains all the rights and obligations of recreating people to survive now, which can help us to further understand the situation of recreating people. ”
When Fu Xin heard this, he nodded, and smiled gratefully at Xie Yuan. At the same time, I secretly thought that I still had a lot of homework to make, and it seemed that I would have to work hard after I went back.
After returning to the dormitory, the five of them packed their luggage, and after cleaning up, they thought about buying some gifts to take to Captain Jiang's house, but the discussion did not come to a conclusion for a long time.
Fu Xin thought of the lively scene when the workers received the life enhancer in the afternoon, so he offered to send the life enhancer to Captain Jiang's family.
Everyone agreed, but where to buy it is a problem, not to mention that this thing has always been robbed, and even if you buy it now, you may not be able to grab it. In the end, Xie Cheng asked his father to send two boxes of life enhancements.
After getting the gift, the five of them carried it and rushed to Captain Jiang's house in a hurry.
When they arrived at the door of Captain Jiang's house, they rang the doorbell, and the person who came to open the door for them was a little girl carved in pink, with crystal clear skin, bright and flashing big eyes, long curly eyelashes, a small and cute nose, ruddy lips, and long curly hair, she was completely a delicate Barbie doll.
"Are you guests coming to my house for dinner?" As soon as Barbie's grandmother's voice came out, it immediately sprouted the hearts of five people.
Especially Fu Xin, including several girls, were completely intoxicated by her cuteness, and they didn't react to answer for a while, and Xie Yan on the side saw this, put on a smiling face and hummed cordially.
"Sissi, bring your brothers and sisters in." The urging voice of Captain Jiang in the room woke up Fu Xin and the others, realizing their gaffe, they smiled at the girl embarrassedly and followed her into the house.
Captain Jiang saw a few people coming in, quickly set up the tables and chairs, and then picked up his daughter who walked to his side, and warmly beckoned them to come over and sit down.
Captain Jiang's house is different from the room of a single worker, it is a two-bedroom suite, according to Captain Jiang, this is a welfare house allocated by the company to dual-income couples.
Captain Jiang was chatting with everyone enthusiastically, and his daughter-in-law walked out of the kitchen with dishes.
Captain Jiang's daughter-in-law looks like a gentle, honest woman, with fair skin and a well-proportioned figure, which is very different from the general image of a chef.
His daughter-in-law smiled softly at everyone, put the dish on the table, and began to serve another dish.
"Captain Jiang, your wife is really gentle and virtuous!" Fu Xin praised sincerely.
"Where, where!" Captain Jiang waved his hand modestly.
"Tell your lady to come and sit down, don't be busy." Lu Jiayao also said on the side.
"Okay!" Captain Jiang was not polite, and agreed and called his daughter-in-law to sit down.
After everyone sat down, Fu Xin looked at Qian Qian and couldn't help but praise again: "Captain Jiang, you and your wife's daughter are so beautiful!" Lu Jiayao and Lu Jiaxi on the side also nodded hurriedly in agreement.
"That's right!" Speaking of his daughter, Captain Jiang immediately straightened up his waist and replied with a smile: "When we first created her, we didn't have any other requirements, we just wanted to be beautiful, cute, and well-behaved!" Now, she looks like this, and we are very happy. ”
"Oh! Where was it made? "Fu Xin heard Xie Yuan's explanation yesterday, and he already roughly understood the matter of making a baby, but he was still not clear enough, so he took this opportunity to ask Captain Jiang.
Hearing Fu Xin's inquiry, Captain Jiang slowly opened the conversation.
It turned out that Captain Jiang and his wife applied to the government for a baby five years ago, and after the application was approved, the two began to sort out the funds in their hands.
The minimum cost of baby making was 600,000 yuan, and the two only had half of the money in their hands at that time, so they borrowed 300,000 yuan from the company, and then went to the baby making agency of the border city government to buy a baby making baby, which is now their daughter Sissi.
Over the years, the couple has been paying off their debts and raising their daughter at the same time, although life is a little restrained, but the family is harmonious and happy, even if the days are more sweet.
A few days ago, they finally paid off the loan, and as soon as they had saved a little money in their hands, Sissi was old enough to go to school.
In today's society, except for ordinary people who can't have children, even the re-created people themselves will not choose to buy forged babies as children to raise, so there are very few schools for forged children, and there is only one in the entire border city.
And the school is still very far from the Hsieh Energy Mineral Mining Center, and it takes an hour to take a one-way public transport.
In today's unusually developed traffic equipment, the traffic between cities is only two or three hours at most, not to mention that in a city, the traffic usually does not exceed half an hour. An hour of transportation is indeed a waste of time.
Coupled with the long hours of the re-creations, they had to leave their daughters in school and pick them up after dinner every day.
In this way, in addition to the tuition fee, they also had to pay two meals and custody fees, and the money saved by Captain Jiang and his wife quickly bottomed out again, so for the life enhancer launched by the Xie family, the two of them did not buy it once.
Fu Xin listened and felt very sad.
"Are you paid very little?" After hearing this, Xie Yan was a little puzzled.
"Of course, it's not low in recreation, with an income of 5,000 yuan a month. Moreover, Xie's welfare is good, there is no money for the allocation of houses and canteens, and various subsidies are hundreds of yuan every month. Captain Jiang replied with a satisfied face.
After hearing this, the five people were speechless. In a society where the average salary of ordinary people is 50,000 yuan, I didn't expect that recreating people would live so chillingly, and the income is only one-tenth of the income of ordinary people. They didn't know what to say for a while.
Fu Xin looked at Captain Jiang with deep wrinkles, looked at his daughter-in-law with a simple smile, and looked at the ignorant and lovely Qianqian, and suddenly felt powerless in his heart, wanting to do something but unable to do anything.
This was the second time she had felt this way. Last time I was in the mall, I just felt aggrieved but powerless through the explanation of the salesperson, and this time I looked at the helpless life of Captain Jiang's family, and I felt even more sad and indignant but still powerless.
"Then have you ever thought about Sissi's life in the future?" Fu Xin asked cautiously.
"With us, we naturally won't treat her badly, and when we all go in the future, she's almost gone." Captain Jiang spoke, his tone gradually falling lonely, "Sissi is a low-level crafter, and she will live to be about 20 years old at most. ”
The five of them were all nearly 20 years old, and they were shocked when they heard Captain Jiang's words. Even Xie Yan, who had always been relatively indifferent to other people's affairs, was shocked, he thought about it for a while, and said comfortingly: "It's okay, Captain Jiang!" I know people in the Xie Group, and I will send you life enhancers regularly in the future. ”
After hearing this, Captain Jiang's eyes first flashed with a fine light, and then dimmed: "No merit is not lost!" How can you put your own pressure on others. As he spoke, he raised his glass and beckoned everyone, "I invited you here today to catch you up, so I won't say these words." Here, let's have a drink. I wish you all the best in your research at Hsieh's! ”
Several people looked at Captain Jiang's reaction, raised their wine glasses one after another, and changed the topic.
Although Captain Jiang's kindness was obvious, and everyone was grateful for Captain Jiang's actions, this meal still made everyone's hearts heavy.
For these five students who have not yet entered the society, although they know and have seen many recreated people around them, they have never really understood their living conditions, or even if they have heard about them, they have never cared.
Now, through getting along with Captain Jiang's family, they have deeply realized the hardships and difficulties of recreating people's lives, and they are a little unspeakably uncomfortable in their hearts.
However, they don't have much time to worry about these things, because tomorrow the investigation will officially begin.