Chapter 286: Withered Vine II
That's just as the second son Rotten Bones expected, the bus seems to be too complicated for the stupid son Grey Bones. Leaving aside the first morning to go to work with the whole process, there was no moth in the next few days of commuting, or taking a station, and getting off the bus in advance, but fortunately, the area around Changteng Town has been walked, so there is no situation of getting lost. Missing the free breakfast in the factory and the meal at home in the evening is nothing, the key is that the power plant will be late will deduct wages, once or twice the head of the team to see the special circumstances for the sake of some accommodation, more than a few times is absolutely impossible.
As a last effort, Lao Yuganti slipped through his stupid son's ears and pointed at the two names of 'No. 8 Community' and 'Power Plant' on the stop sign, and the latter was just a silly music, and it was not in a state of oil and salt at all. The next day, I was still late for the station. Although it is good to save some time on the road, it is still terrible to be late and deduct wages, and the old dried fish has no choice but to give up. Although there is such a convenient thing as the bus, the stupid son can only rely on his legs to get up early and rush to work in the dark.
The old dried fish has been tossed for so long, and even the spring plowing has been delayed, compared with the previous year, only forty percent of the area has been planted, it can be said that this is the smallest area of the land for more than 40 years. However, Lao Dried Fish is not worried about the food ration problem, and from last year's experience, forty percent of the planting area is still more than enough, after all, the factories and schools provide food.
And when the old dried fish barely finished sowing the seeds, he was worried about another thing, that is, the large number of gentiles in the eighth community.
I don't know what's going on, after the Spring Ploughing Festival, a large number of foreign families in fancy costumes, hair and eyes, and language barriers have moved into the community. Although his own interests have not been harmed, he has seen the black-haired and yellow-skinned old dried fish of the crocodile all his life, and he is always not so comfortable with the entry of these foreigners, but he can't explain it clearly. Go upstairs and downstairs to turn on the water, or go to the public toilet at the end of the corridor, and you will always encounter one or two, and it is awkward to nod and say hello, and it is awkward to ignore the passing.
However, this mood was soon reversed, and the neighborhood committee, that is, the group of old women who used to sit at the entrance of the village to discuss the shortcomings of each family, seemed to be some kind of call of the corresponding lord to open a language learning center in the community. Although it was free for a large group of Gentiles, the hired teaching assistants were paid a small salary, and the old dried fish, who didn't want to be too far from home and had no farm work to do, was dragged by a few old women to become a language teaching assistant. I have to say that the aunt of the district committee is almost instinctive in collecting gossip news from every household in the area, and the situation of the old dried fish is naturally difficult to escape.
The specific content of the class is also very simple, one-on-one or one-to-two chatting. Usually the Gentiles are gathered together first, and after watching a passage of the introduction to the local dialect of the crocodile led by the young lord himself, and then accompanied by these idle old men and old lady teaching assistants, basically talking about it for seven or eight days, after the Gentiles pass a very simple exam, the teaching assistants can get their salaries.
With effective means of communication, all kinds of misunderstandings and prejudices will naturally disappear quickly. Through the teaching of two groups of students, Lao Yugan gradually got to know these Gentiles. Their situation is much the same, they are all from the United Kingdom, and after this year's Spring Ploughing Festival, they took their school-age children to the mage towers in various cities to receive magical guidance. As a result, he was blocked by the propagandists of the crocodile collar at the gate of the mage tower, and under the temptation of housing, work, food, etc., he signed the immigration agreement in a daze, and then took the family to complete the immigration with the help of the crocodile collar staff.
Of course, according to some people, there is also a group of guys who claim to be from Tro Territory are also doing similar things, but unfortunately the immigration threshold is more stringent, and the conditions offered are not as high as here.
The old dried fish only felt that the lord's thoughts were getting more and more difficult to understand, and if he had treated these first-ring or even half-ring gifted gentiles so favorably, if he had been ten years old at the time, what kind of situation would he have now. For this reason, I was repeatedly asked by my stupid son, 'Is it hungry and can't sleep?', but the imagination that has long dried up has not been able to give any gorgeous pictures, or subconsciously has been satisfied with the life of having children and daughters.
When five batches of trainees were brought in, there was a slight deflection in the impression that the Gentiles had turned for the better. There was a theft incident in the community, but he was a stupid thief, and he didn't know whether it was inexperience or other reasons, so he didn't 'step on the point', so he took a fruit knife and crawled into a room downstairs of the old dried fish. And living in the room is a second-ring magic warrior in his fifties, who is generally similar to the old dried fish, but was expelled from the family for committing a crime.
The final result was that the stupid thief was punished on the spot, but the old man slept peacefully in the middle of the night, and only went to the public security station in the center of the community to report the case the next morning, covered with blood. When asked why he slept in the middle of the night, the answer was also very simple, it is not easy for the future students to go to work every day, so don't make a fuss in the middle of the night.
With the help of the aunt of the neighborhood committee, it didn't take half a day for the news to be known to everyone in the whole community, and along with yellow hair and blue eyes, it became an unpopular appearance trait, and other gentiles were also more or less affected.
And that's not the end of it. As you can imagine, the origins of these Gentiles are quite mixed, although the majority of the freedmen who work hard to cultivate the land, there are also many people who mingle in the slums of the big cities, and even the relatives who are not involved in the magic to guide the children at all. As the initial promises are fulfilled one by one, the anxiety and panic gradually subside, and the recurrence of various bad habits and old diseases is inevitable.
And this time, it hurt people's lives and had a huge impact, which was the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the crocodile collar executives, who had already paid attention to it, had to take practical and effective action. It is not only to prevent this kind of thing from happening, but also to suppress the emerging xenophobic ideology.
As a result, Neighborhood No. 8, like all the satellite towns around Changteng, once again appeared at the entrance of the neighborhood with a new object: newspapers. But apparently this is a stupid trick, the situation in Changteng Town is better, in the surrounding satellite towns, these papers printed with lofty slogans such as solidarity, cooperation, understanding and mutual assistance have been distributed for free, ninety percent of them have gone into the sewers of public toilets, because whether it is the residents of the community or the gentiles who have just arrived, the language of the crocodile collar is all limited to the mouth, the text or something, and it is the limit to be able to understand the bus stop signs and limited propaganda slogans.
However, at this time, in the area of Changteng Town, the core of the crocodile collar, the manager is also a newly established and energetic administrative agency, and the community security office quickly responded to the situation, and the upper echelons also responded as quickly as possible, not only using the secret weapon of the positive propaganda position: black and white silent films, but also beginning to investigate in the hope that new ideas will emerge under the collective efforts.
After dark, a large white curtain will be pulled up at the entrance of the No. 8 community every once in a while, and some simple and educational sitcoms will be staged. Of course, due to the limitations of objective conditions in all aspects, the plot is broken, the characters are pale, and the means of embodying the core idea are quite simple and crude, which is several times more rigid than the hard product placement advertisements of earth movies.
Fortunately, this method is novel enough, eye-catching enough, and everyone's ability to appreciate it is very limited, not only did there be no uncomfortable reaction such as "vomiting" and "abuse", but they wanted to watch the next day after watching one day, and even if they didn't eat dinner, they had to grab a good seat in the front. And the repertoire of a few Gentile beauties marrying crocodiles and cooperating to make a lot of money was put on two turns, and the signs of conflict between the Gentiles and the locals were suppressed.
However, the old dried fish family had additional surprises, one was that there was a granddaughter with broken scales in the investigation team composed of more than a dozen dolls, and the second was that the head of the investigation team was actually the eldest lady of the family, Lord Flashing Scales.
Due to the complex origin of students in Changteng Town School, all staff simply live in the school and semi-closed management, so there are not many opportunities for Broken Scale to take leave to go home, since his father's rotten mouth of the southern internship - that is, after returning from the operation of following the large army to the south to pull people, he only stayed at home for one night, and then hurriedly returned to school.
Faced with such a situation, of course, Lao Yugan took his granddaughter home to live, but he didn't want to be stopped, and his granddaughter was embarrassed when she broke her scales.
"It's a collective action, and according to the rules, you can't live outside alone. ”
"How can your own home be called outside. Come home with me, your father has already gone to the gate of the community to buy vegetables, and he made two plates of meat dishes for you tonight. With the stubbornness and voice of the croppers, the old dried fish naturally shouted in front of a group of dolls, and no longer listened to the explanation of the scales, grabbed the little hand and pulled it back. And this only made Broken Scale even more embarrassed, and he could only stand still with all his might.
However, this stalemate did not last long, and Shining Scale, as the captain, quickly thought of a solution, that is, to directly arrange a girls' dormitory into Broken Scale's house, anyway, it is still his own relatives, and the part of the rent in the investigation funds sent by Sister Binglian is not cheaper than outsiders, it is better to be cheaper for his own family.
In this way, in the small investigation team, Shining Scales and Broken Scales lived in Broken Scale's house with another girl at the rent of three copper coins, and the rotten mother-in-law and son could stay, but he could only come and live with his father and brother. It's also a kind of joy for all.
However, Broken Scale is very grateful, and even his enthusiasm for work has increased by three points, and this time he can actually take the opportunity of the investigation to live at home for ten days, which is something that has never happened since entering school. There is no doubt that in this crocodile collar where everything is amorphous, someone has not introduced the system of doing five days off and two days off, weekends do not exist, and the official holidays throughout the year are only ten days before and after the autumn harvest celebration, after all, it is on par with the national polity of all stages of capital accumulation on the earth. Correspondingly, the leave system is quite relaxed, of course, unpaid leave.
The small investigation team then settled down in Neighborhood 8, and first targeted a group of old men and women who had been practicing speaking to Gentiles, including old dried fish, of course. At first, he was still a little inaccurate, and he said some scenes cautiously, but when he learned that this investigation was related to his granddaughter's results, he immediately opened the conversation box and poured out all the words in his heart.
"You just said that you didn't like the Gentiles in the first place, can you explain why?"
The old fish grabbed the sparse white hair, frowned and smacked, and hesitated: "I can't say why, in short, I just don't like it, probably because they look different." Don't slow you little dolls, after contact, I learned that there are still Xu Qin people among these gentlemen, my father died at the hands of Xu Qin people, and I have always hated Xu Qin people. But they are all black-haired and black-eyed, before they knew that those families were Xu Qin people, but they never hated it, and after knowing it, they got bored. ”
This answer obviously satisfied the little boy who asked the question, and he smiled a little as he wrote it. Seeing this, Lao Yugan hurriedly laughed and said, "Can you change my granddaughter to ask me, you see that your school is so strict, there is no chance to meet, and you have to leave without saying a few words when you meet, it's weird." ”
The three little dolls looked at each other, probably considering the kinship of the shining scales, after all, the embarrassment caused yesterday had already made the little investigation team know that this was a distant relative of the head of the group, and this investigation was not serious, although there was an internship requirement of 'all imitation of the regulations of the Public Security Bureau on interrogation of cases', but there was no need to strictly imitate the article of 'relatives avoidance', so it was very simple to agree to this request.
So soon, the old dried fish smiled like a chrysanthemum, looking at his granddaughter who entered the door with a notebook in his hand with a serious face, and as for whether the other two dolls were male or female, and what they looked like, they were completely blind. First, he repeated the content of the question and answer just now, and finally admonished: "When I just said this, that little doll seemed very interested, and I thought it should be of some use. Hurry up and write it down, so as not to be left behind in your grades. ”
Broken Scales couldn't cry or laugh, and it was useless to explain, so he simply took his grandfather's hand, held it in his palm, and comforted: "Don't worry, it's been written down." With that, he took the notebook from the boy next to him and unfolded it for his grandfather.
"That's good, that's good. The old dried fish only felt that the warmth in his hands had been transmitted to the bottom of his heart, and he was so moved that he forgot to ask the words he cared about in the plan, although questions such as eating and dressing warmly, studying hard, going to bed early and getting up early, and not drinking raw water had been asked three times last night.
Broken Scale coughed lightly and asked, "After completing several batches of crocodile collar speaking tutoring, has your attitude towards those Gentiles changed?"
"Yes. ”
Another little boy chimed in: "Can you tell us about the specific process, for example, what were your thoughts during the first few batches, and after exchanging more batches, are there any subtle changes?"