AWB Chapter 174: Extreme Cold Doomsday: Receiving
Chapter 174: Extreme Cold Doomsday: Receiving
"Hello, is this Ms. Jiang Jiang? We will deliver your order to your location this afternoon. Let me confirm with you again. It's at No. 111, Wuling Road, Feng County, about meters before the starting station of , at the foot of the mountain, right?"
After lunch, Jiang Jiang received a call saying that the items she had ordered had arrived.
Because the village was going to open a convenience store, Jiang Jiang ordered a lot of things online, but they could only be delivered to the foot of the mountain.
As for the wooden cabinets for storing various things, a villager who knew some carpentry skills directly made two, one large and one small, and then picked up two small pieces of glass from the construction site to make them.
When Jiang Jiang went to check the progress of the factory construction two days ago, he took a glance and saw several shelves and two cabinets, one large and one small, placed next to them.
All is ready except for the opportunity.
Now the "East Wind" has also been delivered.
Jiang Jiang went to the party secretary to send a few people away. Zhang Heng was the most active. After all, the store was built and his father worked there. Zhang Yang and several younger people in the village came to help.
She led her people down the mountain and waited on the side of the road for a while before a delivery truck arrived.
Since all the items were wholesaled from the same store, the store packed them together and sent me several large boxes.
Zhang Heng and his companions tied the box with hemp ropes with ease. Two people worked in a group and put the other end of the hemp ropes on sturdy bamboo poles, then carried the box on their shoulders and lifted it up.
"Let's go back!"
"One-two-one! One-two-one!"
The crowd shouted slogans and headed up the mountain.
Jiang Jiangze checked the material details with the delivery boy and agreed to unpack and inspect the items later. If anything was missing, they would reissue the items or refund the money.
"But your place is really too remote. It's because there are so many orders for this item that our boss asked me to drive here to deliver it."
The delivery guy was obviously also an employee of the company. He drove for more than an hour to deliver the goods and chatted with Jiang Jiang.
Being remote has its advantages. When the doomsday comes, the villagers can stay at home and take refuge. If they were in the city, with tall buildings and no water or electricity, it would be so cold that you wouldn’t believe how cold it would be.
It so happened that the factory building was about to be completed in the next few days. When Qin Shan was free, he would take a few brothers to visit each household in the village to see if the beams of this house needed to be repaired, and how many tiles needed to be added to the eaves of that house.
Perhaps the time has come, Jiang Jiang pretended to remind him casually:
"Captain Qin, Grandma Wang lives alone. She is in poor health and the mountain is humid. She gets pain in her bones every time it rains. Can you repair a kang? It's cold in the mountains in winter, and repairing a kang will keep her warm."
Liaocheng is located in the southwest. Its winter is not as cold as that in the north, but humidity is inevitable, especially for the people in Qingshan Village who live in the mountains. During the rainy season, their clothes never seem to dry.
"It's a small matter. I can fix it in less than a day."
Qin Shan was in a good mood as he was contracted to take on the project this time. Jiang Jiang had already paid him the final payment. He would receive the remaining payment only after the factory building was repaired and inspected.
Not to mention, she also introduced the dilapidated house renovation project in Qingshan Village to him. This request was a small matter for him.
"I estimate that the factory will be completed in two or three days. After it is dried for a few days, we can move the machines in."
Qin Shan seemed to have thought of something and spoke to Jiang Jiang.
Because of Jiang Jiang's previous request to build a basement, their completion time was a few days later than expected, but it also exceeded Qin Shan's initial estimate.
Although he didn't quite understand why a basement needed such good materials, and the cost of materials was higher than the price of building a factory, Qin Shan had been working in society for many years and knew not to ask questions that he shouldn't ask.
As long as Qin Shan and others built a kang in Qingshan Village, the technique would be learned by a group of people in the village who were working hard to learn the technique without having to do it a second time.
For the people of Qingshan Village, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn.
For Qin Shan and others, this is not a secret. They can learn it as long as they work on the construction site for a year.
Not to mention, he actually has some little ideas of his own. If he has the opportunity to take on bigger projects in the future, the people in Qingshan Village know him well, are hard-working, and have learned a lot from him. They will be able to help when the time comes.
"Good good!"
The construction progress is fast, and Jiang Jiang is happier than anyone else.
Only she knows what she will face in the future.
When constructing the basement, Jiang Jiang provided some of the materials herself, using some high-tech materials that she had stored in the first world.
Qin Shan could only see that it was valuable and made of good material, but he never imagined how expensive these materials would be.
The factory building on the ground is where charcoal is produced, and it is also a cover used by Jiang Jiang to confuse others.
The only way to survive the cold wave is to stay in a warm basement.
Jiang Jiang's eyes were distant, as if he was thinking about something that would happen long in the future.
"Sister Jiang Jiang! Let's go to Brother Zhang Heng's house together!"
Wang Yiran brought a few children to find Jiang Jiang.
If we talk about opening a convenience store in the village, Zhang Dachuan's family is the happiest, and the second happiest ones are undoubtedly these children.
What the canteen sells, in addition to various household items, are mostly snacks that children like.
After the factory was built in the village, as long as they were willing to work, whether they pulled weeds and corn stalks from the fields or picked up firewood from the mountains, they could exchange them for money from the factory, and it was no problem to buy some snacks.
Today, Wang Yiran and a few other kids went to the canteen to find out what snacks were on sale.
Jiang Jiang saw how excited they were and didn't say that she knew everything and that she had chosen all the items.
You have to be a sister who doesn’t spoil the fun.
"Let's go, let's see if there's anything delicious."
Jiang Jiang rushed to Zhang Dachuan's house with the children as if she was driving ducks.
Since the factory had not been fully built yet, the convenience store was temporarily opened in Zhang Dachuan's home.
When Jiang Jiang arrived at Zhang Dachuan's house, she found that it had changed a lot.
The gate to Zhang Dachuan's yard was open, and the main room seemed to have been cleaned out. It was very tidy inside, with only a few large shelves left and two cabinets with casters placed in the yard.
Zhang Dachuan and his family were busy counting various things and putting them on shelves and cabinets.
"Jiang Jiang, why are you here?" Zhang Dachuan hurriedly greeted Jiang Jiang, and asked Zhang Heng to bring a few benches for them to sit down and rest.
Jiang Jiang was not here as a guest, so she quickly waved her hand.
"Uncle Okawa, there's no need to bother. We just came to see how the store is going."
When talking about the convenience store, Zhang Dachuan smiled.
It has been a long time since the house has been so lively, and it has been a long time since his life has been so fulfilling.
As they took out various things from the store, several children exclaimed in surprise.