I survived with my sister in the doomsday

Lin Lin used to work in sales. He knows a lot of channels and knows many suppliers and manufacturers. But now the signal is poor and they can’t communicate. Things that used to be done by just making a phone call now require going to the merchants to discuss the transaction. We are located in the outer ring of the city, and it is impossible to go to the nearby farmers’ market to do business just by walking and carrying a backpack.

At present, the road traffic department and the Ministry of Construction are busy with the construction of urban roads. However, due to the severity of the disaster and lack of manpower, the restoration of traffic is very limited. However, in order to save the victims or rebuild the city, the Zheng government proposed that the first priority is to restore urban traffic. Therefore, this project needs to recruit a lot of labor and technical talents. Priority will be given to transporting earth and filling the collapsed road surface. The raised road surface will be flattened by bulldozers, and the road surface blocked by large rocks from mountain slides must be cleared of rocks in time. As for the broken bridge, we can only open other roads for traffic. Fortunately, the main function of our bridge is to connect other cities. If it is blocked, it will not have much impact for the time being.

Lin Lin and I didn't have the skills to drive special vehicles, and we were also incapable of doing physical work, so we could only wait for two days. Under the strong supervision of the city leaders, the city's roads were finally paved enough for at least off-road vehicles to pass.

These two days, we are still doing volunteer work to help pack lunch boxes in the canteen, but now the lunch boxes are not free, they are for sale. Of course, the soldiers and leaders, police officers and volunteers can still get free lunch boxes, and others can only buy lunch boxes by earning city currency by finding work. Currently, disaster victims can also buy them with RMB. A lunch box is only 20 yuan, and as long as you work hard, the minimum commission is 20 city currency per day. The Zheng government is doing its best to ensure the minimum living standard for everyone, and also provides food for children under ten years old and the elderly over seventy years old.

Lin Lin and I thought that if we wanted to buy goods, we would need at least one car. Everything is difficult at the beginning. Now it seems that we have to start from scratch. We couldn't get an off-road vehicle, but Lin Lin miraculously got a broken bread. I saw it was a magical car - Wuling Hongguang! The magic of this car is that it can run on any road surface and is very agile.

Lin Lin proudly told me that the car was rented to him by a friend he knew in the factory, and that he only had to pay him a daily rent.

I'm curious, what does your friend do?

He curled his lips and replied that his friend's leg was hit by falling equipment when the earthquake came, and he is now lying in the hospital. He probably won't be able to drive in the future. He doesn't have high demands, just two meals a day.

I couldn't help but sigh that this friend was so unlucky. Lin Lin replied nonchalantly that many people had died and he was considered lucky.

These two days, Feicui heard that we were going to open a supermarket and she became interested in going out with us to collect supplies and resell them. I thought that was a good idea after all, Feicui would definitely not be able to stay at home. I was worried about letting her find a job, so I wanted her to follow me so that I could keep an eye on her and not cause any trouble for me. Grandpa told Feicui to listen to eldest brother and not to be impulsive when she was away from home. After that, she turned around and kept telling me that money is external things and nothing else matters. The most important thing is to bring Feicui back safely!

Grandpa took out all the money I gave him in the past few days and rolled it into a plastic bag with 30,000 yuan. This was the starting capital for Lin Lin and me!

Now the gasoline at the gas stations inside the factory are also supervised by soldiers with guns. Usually, government vehicles come here to refuel. We asked Brother Chen to smooth things over and get some gasoline for the car. Brother Chen is off work these days and can stay at home with the children, so I also asked him to help me take care of my grandfather and second sister at home. Brother Chen agreed immediately. With the guarantee at home, we set off to visit the former market without any worries.

Before we set off, we both found Lin Lin's former connections and wholesaled some of the factory's bread and canned fruits. Wouldn't it be even better if we could resell them?

The farmers' market is not in the city center, but in the opposite direction of our direction. It takes a long time to drive back and forth on this rugged road. How long it will take depends on the road conditions. But when we got out, we found that the buildings were basically destroyed and there were no reference points on the previous road. Lin Lin, who was driving, actually got lost.

Feicui, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was scolding Lin Lin for bragging about being a living map when she first came out, but now she has become a person with poor direction!

I sat in the middle of the back seat, leaning my head between the backrests of the two of them to stop Feicui's complaints, saying, "Who can find their way in this road condition?" But I think the infrastructure department has gone to such great lengths to build the road, so the road we can drive on should be the main road, so let's go.

Continuing to drive forward, we came to a newly restored plastic greenhouse base. Here there were workers busy doing reconstruction work, some were building walls and some were tying plastic sheets together. It was quite lively.

We were in a good mood and asked Lin Lin to drive to the nearest greenhouse, park the car, and the three of us got out and ran over to check out the situation. There was also a leader in charge here, who saw us and asked us which base we were from.

Lin Lin is good at dealing with others. After just a few words, she started chatting with this person. She told him that we are from Shengbin Base on the outer ring road. What is the name of your base?

After taking the cigarette handed over by Lin Lin, the leader told us enthusiastically that this used to be a vegetable base on the outskirts of the city. After the earthquake, the workers didn't suffer any injuries because their houses were almost all made of steel plates. Only the back wall of the greenhouse was knocked down. Now this place has been taken over by the city leaders and rebuilt to continue production. A large number of vegetables from the fields have also been rescued. The cabbage and potatoes you ate a few days ago were all pulled away from our fields!

The three of us were amazed. Wow, we have come to the vegetable greenhouse base in our city. We asked again, "Will your vegetables be confiscated by the Zheng government in the future? How did you wholesale them in the past?"

The leader thought for a moment and said that it is probably not possible to sell to individuals for the time being, as people and vehicles will come from above to take them away directly. Their biggest difficulty now is that they don’t have enough manpower. After the disaster, many migrant workers in the city were injured, killed or died, and the few remaining workers can no longer endure the round-the-clock work.

We looked at each other and it seemed that our supermarket could not sell vegetables, so we decided to give up.

Just as we were about to say goodbye to the young manager, he suddenly asked us to wait for a while. He turned around and ran to a shed. When he reappeared a moment later, he walked towards us with a watermelon in each arm and said that he wanted to give the watermelons to us. We didn't feel comfortable asking for things for free, so the leader said naively that originally these watermelons were sold to the city's population of one million, but now the roads are blocked and the population has dropped sharply, and the watermelon harvest has been piled up there, and they are about to rot in the field in this hot weather. Anyway, that's it, since you've come here, just consider it good luck, I'm giving it to you!

Feicui was curious as to why Shengbin Base didn't come to pick up watermelons. Lin Lin explained that the only cars and oil left after the earthquake must be used to pick up hard currency that can fill the stomachs of residents, such as food and vegetables. These fruits can only be regarded as snacks, and the Zheng government can't afford them.