"Who are you? What are you carrying, and what are you going to do?"
After the patrolling police stopped the people, they asked several questions in a row. Because he was worried about the safety of the road, Li Dong took the villagers with them when they set out and asked them to bring self-defense things. Axes, all on the belt.
Because of the darkness, these self-defense weapons are not conspicuous, but the patrol officers are all holding flashlights, and the strong light hits them. These weapons pinned to the waist are naturally exposed to the patrol officers, causing vigilance.
"Comrade police, I'm Li Dong, head of Hou'an Village. These are all men from our village. Wasn't the power outage during the day? I called the power station and no one answered, so I took the villagers into the city to inquire and disappeared. , I took some money and food along the way to see where I could exchange daily necessities."
Li Dong quickly got out of the car and walked to the vicinity of the patrolman, "Look, this is my work permit and ID card, we are not bad people."
"How about you, take out your ID cards."
After hearing Li Dong's self-introduction, the vigilant expressions on the policemen's faces softened a little. Several policemen who had been standing behind him and kept their hands on the gun pockets ready to draw guns also put their hands down. Two of them walked towards Jiang Liu, etc. People, ready to check their ID cards.
These people from Hou'an Village were innocent, and they didn't come here to do bad things. They were naturally calm, and generously took out their ID cards and handed them over to the patrolling police officers.
"Comrade police, what's the situation in the city now?"
Li Dong took advantage of the fact that several police officers were checking ID cards to get close to the squad leader. He took out a pack of cigarettes from his chest pocket, took a cigarette and handed it to the squad leader.
It's not that Li Dong is stingy, but that there is nowhere to buy cigarettes if he has money.
That squad leader is also an old smoker, but now most of the shops in the city are closed, and the few small shops that are open only buy food. He has a wife and children at home, and four elderly people to take care of. The food at home is tight, and there is no extra ration to exchange for cigarettes.
Therefore, seeing Li Dong handing him a cigarette, the team leader's addiction to cigarettes came up immediately. He took the cigarette and put it under his nose to smell it.
Li Dong told the team leader about a group of old people and children he had 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 some people be willing to let their own old people and children grow up? On a hot day, I'm squatting by the street begging for food."
Li Dong couldn't understand. In his opinion, begging for food was a very humiliating thing. If his stupid son Dashen dared to encourage him, his wife, and his eldest grandson and two-dog-grandson to sell it out, he would have to sell it. The kid can't be beaten to death.
"It's not that simple."
Because of that cigarette, the team leader has a good impression of Li Dong, and Li Dong's identity is the village head of Hou'an Village. Now who doesn't know the life of the villagers is better, the team leader also wants to form a good relationship, in case there is any request in the future people.
"The daily supply of relief food in the city is not much. Everyone over the age of 13 can receive 2 or 2 meters or two steamed buns per day. Children under the age of 2 can receive two tins of milk powder every month, which can only ensure that people will not starve to death."
The treatment of their patrol team is good. In addition to the original salary, they can receive an extra five kilograms of rice every month. This is to ensure that they can patrol and maintain law and order, but ordinary workers are now no different from unemployment. Now, there is no other source of food other than relief food.
"And not everyone can get the relief food. Now the relief food is only available to local residents and foreigners with temporary residence permits. Some people can't receive food or save food. They can only find a way to get food back. You just saw Most of those old people and children are family members of migrant workers, and a small number of local people are also trying to save their own food rations so that the strong workers at home can eat enough. As for the solution, who would think that there is too much food."
The team leader sighed: "But there is no big trouble in the city for the time being, there are a lot of petty thefts, the people in our patrol team work overtime to patrol, but there is always something they can't care about. Uncle, why did you bring so many people into the city? That's right, you have a lot of people, and you have weapons, so most people won't touch you."
As the captain of the patrol team, he naturally knew that there were some people in the city who were dispatched at night to ask for food from good-hearted people, but it was not illegal to ask for food, and with the shortage of food, the detention center and prison simply did not want to admit more people to increase When the food is consumed, the people on the patrol will turn a blind eye to those people, as long as they don't make trouble.
"Is that so?"
Li Dong's expression is a bit solemn. It turns out that not everyone in the city can receive relief food. As far as Li Dong knows, there are many migrant workers in the local area without a temporary residence permit. Most of these people are young and middle-aged people who are engaged in heavy labor. If people don't have food to eat, after a long time, there will be big troubles.
For these people without food, apart from those self-employed merchants in the city who open supermarket grain stores and hoard a large amount of food, they are rural people who have enough food.
Li Dong didn't know if the police in the city could suppress those people, but if the police couldn't do anything about them, they would be in danger.
It seems that it is time to think about the village soldiers. He has to gather the young descendants in the village and set up some roadblocks near the village.
"By the way, aren't there any shops open in the city now?"
Although there is food in the countryside, other materials are lacking, such as diesel fuel, batteries and other items that are not expected to be stocked up on weekdays.
There are also seasonings such as salt. I am afraid that the refrigerator cannot be used normally. Food that is not easy to store in the refrigerator must be disposed of as soon as possible, which requires a lot of seasonings such as salt and pepper.
"You know Sufang Street?"
Sufang Street was originally a street for farmers. The largest vegetable market in the county is on that street. Some aquatic product shops and lo-mei shops are mostly gathered there.
Therefore, Li Dong quickly nodded to show that he was clear.
"There are still a lot of shops in that street, and there are many residents who set up stalls there to exchange items they don't need, but they don't accept RMB anymore, they only accept food and gold, and there is no specific price for all items. Negotiate with the owner of the item yourself."
The team captain looked at the bags of food that Li Dong and others were carrying, with a look of envy on his face.
Although the state unit still insists that the RMB is the settlement currency, in fact, the value of the RMB has long been ignored in private transactions. The current market only recognizes grain, gold and water, but the tap water has not stopped, and the demand for water is It's not big, even if there is demand, all you need is bottled drinking water.
"There are people from the urban management team on Sufang Street, and the safety is guaranteed, but it's hard to say when you go out of Sufang Street. I suggest that you bring more people if you change big things in the future. It's good like today."
This team leader is really kind and caring, he gave very sincere advice, and also told a lot of information that Li Dong didn't know before.
"Thank you, comrade."
Li Dong is a bit greedy, but he is definitely not a bad person. He gritted his teeth, took out a few cigarettes left in the pack in his pocket, took one out of it and put it in his pocket, and handed the remaining half of the pack to him. That squad leader.
The other party did not refuse, and calmly accepted the small half-pack of cigarettes, and released them after confirming from their colleagues that the ID cards of Jiang Liu and others were in order.
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"It's really not easy for people in this city."
Everyone has heard the conversation just now. Those villagers who were envious of the people in the city had a lot of heart. I thought how proud it was to have an urban hukou in the first place. Whoever has more relatives in the city has a good family. A symbol of a prosperous family.
Unexpectedly, a sudden change will come, and the people in the city are not as good as the people in the countryside. At least the people in the countryside have food in every household, so there is no need to worry about starvation.
It's just that there are not many relatives in the city. Thinking of their relatives who are alive and dead now, everyone is inevitably a little uncomfortable.
"Go to the power supply station first, and then go to Sufang Street to have a look."
Li Dong opened his mouth and said, and then the group accelerated towards the power supply station on their bicycles.