Chapter 21 A drop in the bucket
After the only snacks in the grocery store were sold out, some people who were out of control did not even let go of some of the dry goods./ww.qb⑤,coм.
The fat man smiled and couldn't hold it together. He never expected that his little cleverness and at this sensitive time, he could actually sweep nearly two million yuan in goods worth tens of thousands of yuan, making him numb in Hemudu Town and directly squeeze into the ranks of rich people.
In his opinion, what happened in Zhejiang B is a big deal, what are you afraid of? Modern times are not ancient times, in the era of hot weapons, what kind of monsters are you? Machine guns, cannons and missiles are used together, so even the slag cannons cannot be found. "What a bunch of fools." The fat man muttered, put the money in a snakeskin bag, then closed the door of the small grocery store, and went back to his nest to count the money with peace of mind.
Everyone who didn't buy it showed a look of disappointment, hating himself for not having such courage?
Zhou Liming finally recovered for a long time. The scene in the money transaction just now stimulated Zhou Liming to change his worldview sharply. He was extremely depressed to find that even if he had a salary of tens of thousands of yuan a month, in front of him, he could only eat instant noodles. Money... suddenly became extremely important in his mind, or the money was originally very important.
With a bitter face, Zhou Liming touched the hundreds of dollars in his pocket, but he still had pocket money saved in the orphanage. Now he can't even afford a piece of egg yolk pie.
"The town government should be able to get some food, right?"
With this idea, Zhou Liming struggled to squeeze into the materials that the town government invested at a crossroads. Zhou Liming can only rely on this now, otherwise, including himself, the children, and the dean An Xiaowei, they would all be hungry, waiting for whether there would be any improvement tomorrow.
The buildings on both sides of the streets in the town were tightly closed, with too high vigilance, and no one was sure whether there would be any accident.
When Zhou Liming struggled to squeeze to the intersection, the people here were close to each other, so dense that they were out of tune. People who were pretentious in the past, all rushed forward like ordinary people in the city. After being hungry for a day, they had long been unable to care about their previous style and just wanted to get a bite of food.
The people from the town government were indeed distributing food, or to be precise, like in ancient times, were distributing porridge.
Such a shocking incident occurred. Hemudu Town was also in an extremely dangerous situation. It was much more sensitive than ordinary people. Officials had left first. But as the saying goes, wealth and honor were sought in danger, a deputy mayor gritted his teeth and brought a group of town cadres who were willing to stay to carry out the preliminary rescue work, took out the grain from the grain warehouse, collected all the pots and pans on the market, and set up a large LCD screen at the bridgehead.
All this adventure was finally rewarded. When the superior issued an instruction from the phone number, when he found that there was a deputy mayor and several town cadres in the entire town, the promotion of the front line became inevitable. The deputy mayor was truly appointed as the town party secretary and the commander-in-chief of temporary rescue...
Whether it is for the people who are sincere or have other ideas, for Zhou Liming now, he doesn't need to think about it or know it.
As long as he did a good thing, no matter what his starting point was, at least it was a good thing, which was worthy of recognition. If it were not for their organizational and material resources, the huge crowd gathered here would have been in chaos, and the people who died of trampling would definitely be unimaginable.
Due to the lack of staff in the organization, it is already good to be able to distribute porridge. Where can we maintain order on the scene?
Zhou Liming originally thought that it would be ruled out for collection, but the people on the scene were crowded and rushed towards the front, which was extremely chaotic. It was just that whoever grabbed the front would receive the food. In this case, the order was also paid attention to. I am afraid that you would not be able to get the porridge if you waited for a night.
Thinking of the dean and the children, Zhou Liming took a breath, then pulled his hand and rushed forward desperately.
The place where the porridge is distributed is to form a large circle with tables, most of which face the street, and a small half is connected to the gate of the grain warehouse. The porridge is cooked from the grain warehouse and then transported.
When Zhou Liming squeezed in front of him, he saw more than 20 middle-aged men and women putting spoonfuls of white porridge into white foam boxes. Whenever he put down the porridge, he had already taken away the foam box containing the porridge. Although there were more than 20 people who gave porridge, they were far from enough people in this big scene.
However, what Zhou Liming did not expect was that when he squeezed to the porridge delivery site, the porridge bucket in front of him had become so empty.
At this time, a man with some official style walked out with a bitter face and said with a loudspeaker: "Everyone, I'm sorry, the grain storage in the grain warehouse has been used up and there is no way to mobilize it for the time being. Those who have not received it, please believe that the government will definitely ship to the next day. Please bear with it tonight."
The people who heard this news were stunned for a moment, and the lively scene fell into absolute silence for several seconds.
"You, hell, how come the grain warehouse has no food?"
A sharp voice broke the mysterious silence.
The official holding the trumpet knew it was going to be bad, and quickly explained: "Everyone knew the role of the grain warehouse and it was already in name only. In the past few years, the policy changed. After the cancellation of many agricultural taxes, there was no grain in the grain warehouse... Please listen to me, the grain warehouse really has no..."
The people who were just excited for a moment could hear it. I don’t know who said, “Let’s go in and see, how can the grain warehouse have no food!” People rushed towards the grain warehouse.
Zhou Liming believed that because Dean Zhou's relatives from the countryside had visited the orphanage, Zhou Liming heard that the grain warehouses in the town were almost all empty, and many of them simply rented out the empty warehouses to some individual enterprises, and used this rent to subsidize the personnel who were still working in the grain warehouses as bonuses.
The grain warehouse, which was once unlimited, has become a clean government office without any oil or water.
It was because of this that Zhou Liming knew that it was certain that he would be hungry tonight, and it was impossible to find food in this town. It was probably people who could buy all the food they could eat long ago. What's more, there were too many people gathered here, and the food in the whole town was just a drop in the bucket.
"tomorrow?"
Zhou Liming smiled bitterly, and at the same time felt panic. With the ability of a ferocious beast, he might not have been able to appear in Hemudu Town tomorrow, and even Yuyao City could not escape the fate of Zhejiang B City. At that time, those who escaped Zhejiang B City may not be safe.
Chapter completed!