The Analects of Righteous Father’s Collapse

"Who are you? What are you carrying, what are you going to do?"

After the patrol stopped the people, they asked several questions in succession. Because he was worried about the insecurity on the road, Li Dong took the villagers with them and took them with self-defense items. Some people took sickles and some people took firewood. Don't put the axe on your belt.

Because of the darkness, these self-defense weapons are not conspicuous, but the patrolmen are all holding flashlights, and the strong light hits them. These weapons around their waists are naturally exposed to the patrolmen, which arouses vigilance.

"Comrade police, I’m Li Dong, the village chief of Hou’an Village. These are the men in our village. Isn’t there a power outage during the day today? I didn’t answer the phone at the power supply station. I took the villagers into the city to investigate and disappear. , I took some money and food to see where I can exchange daily necessities."

Li Dong quickly got out of the car and went to the patrol. "Look, this is my work permit and ID card. We are not bad people."

"You guys, take out your ID cards."

After hearing Li Dong’s self-introduction, the vigilance on the faces of the patrol officers eased slightly. Several policemen standing behind him kept their hands on the gun pockets at any time and were ready to take out their guns. People, ready to check their ID cards.

These people from Hou'an Village were innocent and did not come here to do bad things. They were naturally calm and took out their ID cards to the patrol policemen.

"Comrade police, what is the situation in the city now?"

Li Dong was close to the captain while several policemen were checking their ID cards. He took a pack of cigarettes from his chest pocket and took the initiative to hand a hand to the captain.

It's not that Li Dong is stingy, but that now he has money and nowhere to buy cigarettes.

The squad leader was also an old smoke gun, but now most of the shops in the city are closed. The few small shops buy goods and only look for food. He also has his wife and children, and four elderly people to take care of. The food at home is so tight that there is no surplus ration to change cigarettes.

So seeing Li Dong handing him a cigarette, the captain of this cigarette addiction immediately came up. He took the cigarette and sniffed it under his nose, not willing to smoke, and put it in his pocket carefully.

Li Dong told the team leader about the group of elderly children he just met: "Isn't it said that relief food is distributed every day in the city? Everyone can rely on their household registration skills. How can anyone be willing to let their elderly children grow up? On a hot day, squat down beside the street to beg for food."

Li Dong couldn’t understand it. In his opinion, begging was a shameful thing. If his stupid son Dahui dare to encourage him and his wife, as well as his grandchildren and two dog grandsons to come out and sell miserable mercy, he had to take that The kid beat him to death.

"How can it be so simple."

Because of that cigarette, the captain of the team has a good impression of Li Dong. In addition, Li Dong’s identity is the village chief of Hou’an Village. Now who doesn’t know that the villagers have a better life, the team captain also wants to have a good relationship. People are.

"There are not many relief foods provided in the city every day. Everyone over 13 years old can get 22 meters or two buns a day. People over 65 and under 13 years old can get one or two meters or one bun a day. Children under the age can receive two cans of milk powder every month, and these foods can only guarantee that people will not be starved to death."

The salaries of their patrols are good. In addition to the original salary, they can receive five extra catties per month. This is to ensure that they can patrol effectively and maintain law and order, but ordinary workers and office workers have long been unemployed. In addition, there is no other source of food except relief food.

"And not everyone can get relief food, now relief food is only for local residents and foreigners with temporary residence permits, some people can't get food, they don't have food, they can only find ways to get food back, what you just saw A large part of the elderly and children are the families of migrant workers, a small number of locals, they are also to save their rations, so that the family can work hard enough to feed, and some are really cheap, but this is also not As for the solution, who would think there is too much food."

The captain said with a sigh: "But there is no big mess in the city for the time being, there are many thieves, there are many people in our patrol team who work overtime and patrol, but there is always a place where you can't care. Uncle, you bring so many people into the city That’s right, you have a lot of people, and you still have weapons, so most people won’t move you.

As the patrol team leader, he naturally knew that there were so many people in the city who asked for food from some kind people at night, but it was not illegal to ask for things. In addition to the shortage of food, the detention centers and prisons did not want to take people in to increase. When the food is consumed, the patrol members will keep their eyes closed to those people, as long as they do not make trouble.

"This way?"

Li Dong’s expression is a little dignified. It turns out that the relief food in the city is not available to everyone. As far as Li Dong is aware, there are many migrant workers who do not have temporary residence permits. Most of these people are young adults who work hard. If people don’t have food to eat, it will cause a lot of trouble for a long time.

For these people who have no food, apart from the merchants in the city who open supermarket food stores and hoard a large amount of food, they belong to the rural people who have enough food to store. Perhaps in the eyes of those people, they have already become sweet and sour.

Li Dong didn't know if the police in the city could suppress the gang, but if the police couldn't help them, they would be in danger.

It seemed that it was time to think about the village soldiers. He had to gather the younger generations in the village, and he had to set up some roadblocks around the village.

"By the way, are there no shops open in the city now?"

Although there is food in the countryside, there is a lack of other materials, such as diesel and batteries.

There are also seasonings such as salt. The refrigerator may not be able to be used normally. Food that is not easy to keep in the refrigerator must be processed as soon as possible. This requires a lot of seasonings such as salt and pepper.

"You know Sufang Street?"

Sufang Street is the original farmer's street. The county's largest vegetable market is on that street. Some aquatic shops and lowei shops are mostly gathered there. As long as they are locals, there is nothing to know.

So Li Dong nodded quickly to make himself clear.

"There are still many shops open on that street, and many residents are stalling there to exchange items they don’t need, but they don’t accept RMB anymore, they only accept food and gold. You negotiate with the owner of the item yourself."

The captain looked at the bags of food brought by Li Dong and others and looked envious.

Although the state unit still insists on RMB as the settlement currency, in fact, private trading has long recognized the value of RMB. The current market only recognizes food, gold and water, but now the tap water has not stopped and the demand for water Not big, even if there is demand, all you need is bottled drinking water.

"There are people watching the city management team on Sufang Street. The safety is guaranteed, but it's hard to say when you go out of Sufang Street. I suggest that if you change large objects and bring more people in the future, it's good like today."

This captain is really kind and caring. The suggestions given are sincere, and he also told a lot of news that Li Dong did not know before.

"Thank you, little comrade."

Li Dong is a bit greedy, but definitely not a bad person. He gritted his teeth, took out a few cigarettes left in the pocket, took one out of it and put it in his pocket, and handed the remaining half of the pack to him. The captain.

The other party did not quit, frankly accepted the small half pack of cigarettes, and waited from the colleagues to confirm that Jiang Liu et al.'s ID card was no problem.

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"It's not easy for people in this city."

Everyone in the conversation just heard that the villagers who had envied the people in the city had a heart and soul. I thought it would be proud of having an urban hukou. Who has more relatives in the city? That’s a good family. Symbol of the prosperity of the family.

Unexpectedly, there was a change, and the city people were not as good as the country people. At least, the country people had food for every household, so there is no need to worry about hunger.

It's just that there are few relatives in the city, and the thought of those relatives now that they don't know the life or death is inevitable.

"Go to the power supply station first, and then take a look at Sufang Street."

Li Dong said, and then a group of people on their bicycles accelerated towards the power supply station.