Chapter 14: The Old Man Gathers

Syllable!

Yuan can also fall into the cushion and there is no movement, like a dead fish.

At that time, Zhou You felt that it was over, and he had to lose a lot of money.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Yi was quite generous after relieving himself, and he didn't care about him, so that he didn't have to care, and he didn't even bother to go to the hospital.

In the end, it was the physical education teacher who forced Zhou You, the culprit, to send Yuan Yi to the county hospital for examination to determine if there were any signs of concussion.

On the way to the hospital, the two chatted, only to learn that the misunderstanding was a big problem.

Zhou You felt that Yuan Yi, the long-legged goddess, had to be stylish, very cold, and took the initiative to hide away.

Yuan Yike also felt that this guy was pretending to be like that, and it was not easy to deal with, so he usually avoided Zhou You.

After the conversation was opened, the misunderstanding was resolved.

Yuan Yi is a hearty person, and he is not at all the stereotype of the so-called goddess who has nostrils facing the sky because of her beauty.

Yuan Yi felt that Zhou You was actually very easy-going, very careful, and a good person.

Although the two did not become hardcore friends on the spot, they were at least able to talk.

For more than a year after that, the two also interacted frequently.

For example, Yuan Ye often asks questions about Zhou You in his spare time, and he often sits and chats together when his classmates have dinners.

Although it has not developed into a relationship between men and women, it is indeed much better than the friendship of ordinary friends.

Even Yuan Yike's voluntary filling in the college entrance examination also referred to Zhou You's opinions. She chose to go to Rongcheng Sports Institute, and then switched to politics, and her life route was also greatly affected by her travels.

However, after entering the university, the two were busy with their studies and rarely contacted each other, and the relationship slowly became estranged.

Zhou You only knew that she planned to take the civil service examination in Fanyang City after graduation, but she performed abnormally in the first national examination and failed, so she simply went to Fanyang to become a college student village official, preparing to fight again in the coming year.

The two met on the way home, which was unexpected.

Yuan Yike has a total of more than 20 people.

Before the upheaval, Yuan Ye, as a local village official, was leading a group of workers from Lelai County to complete a soil and water conservation renovation project, which to put it bluntly was to strengthen the dam and maintain the ditch.

That night, Yuan Yi was living in a mobile prefabricated shed.

After the incident, Yuan Ye, as a government official, also has some social status in Lelai County, for example, her cousin Deng Tao is the captain of the security brigade in Lelai County, and he can still subdue the small bag foreman and become the backbone of this team.

After several days of preparation, Yuan Yi and the contractor Yin Xiuwen took this team of more than 20 people, ready to use the electric three-wheeled old man who broke down on the side of the road to complete the journey of more than 30 kilometers.

According to the workers' plan, not to mention that they can be reunited with their families immediately, as long as they arrive in Lelai County, they will have a greater chance of returning home. Everyone here is like an arrow.

The preparation of Yuan Yi and others cannot be said to be incomplete, and the weapons include utility knives, screwdrivers, sharpened knitting sweater needles, and the like.

The main safety facility is the large acrylic box for raising hamsters that was moved out of Yuan Yike's dormitory.

The box isn't very sturdy, but it's okay to withstand stray cats, dogs, and mice.

The two poor little hamsters were forced to start a wandering life.

According to Yuan Yi's calculations, if nothing else, the cruising range of this electric three-wheeler is almost enough to support the arrival of Lelai County.

It's a pity that there was an accident, and Yuan Yi and others were too optimistic to estimate the conscience of the manufacturer.

The range of this three-wheeled car is quite a bit false. In addition, the power consumption of the electric tricycle in the low-speed operation state also far exceeded expectations, so that it broke down just over the halfway point.

Before the arrival of the touring car, everyone was discussing what to do next, whether to abandon the baggage and turn to walking, and to formulate a plan for the accidents that may be encountered during the next walking journey.

Just as everyone had finally made up their minds and began to move the light supplies they could carry and prepare for the road, Zhou You came.

After briefly communicating with Yuan Ye and exchanging the situation, Zhou You glanced at Shen Ling, who was guarding his side with a nail gun, and asked her to stay quiet and not express her position easily.

Zhou You plans to find out more about this group of workers and determine whether this group of people is reliable or not.

The reason is very simple, the construction team led by the contractor Yin Xiuwen and Yuan Yi are only a very unreliable temporary cooperative relationship.

In the midst of all the hardships, the partnership is barely solid.

But if everyone is allowed to get on the bus, the most basic existential crisis will be lifted, and it will inevitably be people's hearts fluctuating.

Psychologically, it makes perfect sense for Zhou You to see this group of workers as a precarious factor.

But after chatting for a while, Zhou You also had to sigh in his heart about the mystery of fate.

Of course, it is also possible that Lelai County is indeed just a small place, and the social circles of people are very overlapping.

The conversation between Zhou You and Yin Xiuwen is as follows.

Zhou You: "Uncle Yin, where are you from home?" ”

Yin Xiuwen: "How to train the dragon township, our group of people who work are all my fellow villagers, and they are all in a brigade. Brother Zhou, what about you? In the county? ”

When Zhou You heard the three words of Dragon Taming Township, his heart was already half steady.

His own hometown, Guangming Township, is next to how to train your dragon.

Returning to Guangming Township was originally in his plan, and his grandparents and uncle's family are really trapped in the township at present.

After chatting a few more words, Zhou You and Yin Xiuwen actually recognized their relatives on the spot.

Putting their respective relationships upward, Yin Xiuwen's second aunt married Zhou You's third master, and she is Zhou You's serious third aunt.

Then Yin Xiuwen Zheng'er Bajing can be regarded as a cousin of Zhou You.

At the funeral of Zhou You's grandfather many years ago, the two even met, but Zhou You was only a few years old at the time, and he didn't have much of an impression.

But Yin Xiuwen and Zhou You's father Zhou Lingsheng are still familiar with each other, and they met each other during the Qingming Festival and had dinner together.

As for the workers who followed Yin Xiuwen, they were all from the same village and brigade, and they had some relatives and friends with Yin Xiuwen, both near and far.

After chatting about it, Zhou You simply called his father for a video communication, and asked his father to chat with Uncle Yin Xiuwen to verify his identity.

Well, it's all my own family.

There was nothing to say, Zhou You immediately asked Yin Xiuwen and his party to take a short rest, go back to the electric tricycle to move things, and then pulled a hemp rope, one end bolted to the traction hook of the off-road vehicle, and the other end bolted to the middle of the tail of the electric tricycle.

Then when the off-road vehicle runs, it can tow away the electric three-wheeler, and the speed of ten kilometers per hour is not too fast, as long as you are careful, the three-wheeler is not easy to overturn.

Although the electric three-wheeler has problems such as battery life, false standard power, and insufficient power, both lead-acid battery packs and brushless motors are valuable resources and cannot be easily abandoned.

The number of returnees suddenly grew a lot.

After finishing these, Yin Xiuwen and the others got into the off-road vehicle again.

Today's situation can be said to be slightly bizarre and full of coincidences, which makes many people who grew up in big cities find it difficult to understand.

But in fact, this is not accidental, even if the tour today is not high school classmates Yuan Yi and Yin Xiuwen, it may also be his other elementary and junior high school classmates, or alumni of the same school, or a relative of a classmate, it is nothing more than a difference between a slightly closer and farther relationship.

This complex network of social relationships is the characteristic of small places and small counties with low population mobility.

In the developed modern society, the composite social network formed by the villagers seems to be outdated and backward, and it is very small-scale peasant economy, which belongs to the backward production relations that will be eliminated sooner or later.

But now it is foreseeable that as the size of human beings suddenly shrinks and the civilized order gradually collapses and degenerates, this small social network composed of geography and kinship will surely reappear on the stage of history and play a more important role.

In the past 5,000 years of Chinese history, social networks based on family and regional ties have been one of the foundations of Chinese culture.

In short, with more manpower, some things that were previously impossible or inconvenient to do become feasible.

After everyone settled down, Zhou You asked Shen Ling and Yuan Yi to take the workers to the back row, trying to combine the semi-finished products moved from the electric three-wheeler with the existing resources in the car.

In addition, Yuan Yi and Yin Xiuwen also have several aunts in their group.

Due to the limited conditions in the temporary shed and the lack of materials, among the more than 20 people, only Yuan Yi and Yin Xiuwen were wearing decent clothes and pants, and the others were really a little unclothed.

No one cared about the minutiae when they were in a life-and-death crisis, but now that they are out of danger and have enough tools and materials in the car, it's time to change into clothes that can cover their shame.

In addition, Shen Ling believes that the most scarce thing is lifting equipment, if you can use existing materials to make some manual hoists, then you can exceed the 3D printing conveyor belt load limit of the "heavy objects" to move onto the car.

Or you can make a flatbed cart and you can push some heavy objects around.

For example, Zhou You feels that sooner or later he will face the dilemma of power outage, but with today's human living habits, it is absolutely impossible to have no electricity, so Zhou You wants to get a gasoline generator to prepare.

But the fact is that even a domestic portable gasoline generator weighs more than 50 kilograms, and even if it is placed in front of it, it is impossible to move it.

The ability to carry heavy loads is very important.