During the natural disaster, electricity resources were scarce, and electric steel bar cutting machines had been abandoned and changed to manual ones.


    "This is made of Uncle Huo''s jack and steel sheet." Xia Qing turned his head and picked a thumb at Huo Lei.


    Seeing that Xia Qing had cut the steel bars for two hours and could easily pick up his fingers, Jiang Ying secretly moved her fingers and arms, hoping that she would not tremble too much when she had dinner later. She also said, "Uncle Huo, is the rack of this cutting machine made of angle steel removed from the tower of the high-voltage transmission line?"


    "Yes, how did you see it?" Huo Lei was a little surprised, and he didn''t expect this little girl to understand these things.


    Jiang Ying explained, "When my brother didn''t join the army, he often took me to pick up rags and exchange for supplies. We dug out the base of the tower and knocked out this angle steel from the cement block."


    During the earthquake in the early years of the natural disaster, Jiang Ying''s house collapsed; in the second year of the natural disaster, her father was beaten to death in order to save the food in his family. Fortunately, the army took over the area shortly afterwards and began to build a safe area, otherwise none of the three of them would have survived.


    After the army arrived, the social order was slightly restored, Jiang''s mother looked for work everywhere, and the eight-year-old Jiang Ying also picked up garbage everywhere with the twelve-year-old Jiang Hu and assembled all kinds of rags into useful things for points.


    The brother and sister have been picking up the sixth year of the natural disaster. Jiang Hu participated in the free test and changed his identity card to green. He could earn more points when he took the task, so his family''s life was a little easier.


    Jiang Ying''s nose began to turn sore and lowered her head, not daring to think about it anymore.


    Xia Qing took over the conversation, "It must be you. This is the most labor-saving cutting machine I have ever used."


    After Huo Lei entered the territory, he was much less angry than before. He responded with a smile, "This has nothing to do with craftsmanship. The steel plate used is hard enough, and the blade edge is sharp enough to save energy. After dinner, I will sharpen the blade edge. In the afternoon, you can tie the stirrups and I will cut it."


    Zhao Ze took off his protective mask and walked over to discuss with Xia Qing, "Sister Qing, let''s hurry up and work in the afternoon. We will build the steel beams before three o''clock, and then pour concrete on the ground and beams at the same time. The construction will be completed before six o''clock. I will tell Brother Yue later, three more people will be added in the afternoon?"


    In order to prevent insects and earthquakes, steel bars must be laid on the floor, just like the walls and roofs, and concrete must be poured.


    "good."


    Xia Qing agreed to Zhao Ze’s arrangement that the construction can only be continued after two days of pouring the concrete and confirming that there are no abnormal changes. In other words, after working today, they can take a break for two days before coming over.


    After obtaining Xia Qing''s consent, Zhao Ze shouted loudly, "Everyone has rested and go for dinner. Let''s start work at 1:30 in the afternoon."


    "Sister Qing, do you think this time is OK?" Shi Du trimmed the angle of the stirrup hook, please check it.


    "It''s OK." After Xia Qing finished the inspection, he followed everyone to the canteen of the No. 15 territory.


    After dinner, they can rest here or go back to their territory to rest for a while.


    When in the construction team, Xia Qing would find a place with few people to sleep for a while after dinner and continue working in the afternoon. However, the labor intensity of building a house in the No. 15 territory is much smaller than that in the construction team in the safe area, and Xia Qing won’t feel tired even if she doesn’t sleep at noon. So she decided to go back and take a shower, change her clothes, and come back to work. The clothes she was wearing close to her had been wet.


    Today''s lunch was made with beans stewed with yellow light wild boars. The wild boars were brought back by Yue Haiying, and the beans were grown in a greenhouse.


    The chef in Territory No. 15 is a retired cook who is good at cooking big pot dishes. Before he could get to the container that was converted into a canteen, the fragrance wafted over. After washing hands with everyone, I entered the simple but clean canteen. When Jiang Ying was worried about how to serve the food, Tan Qi had already helped her to get the food, "Sister Qing, Sister Yingzi, here!"


    "Okay." Jiang Ying followed Xia Qing to the clean wooden table and sat down. She took the chopsticks handed over by Tan Qi. She wanted to say that Qi Qi had served her too many dishes, but she found that Xia Qing''s amount of dishes was twice as much as hers, and she couldn''t help but her nose became sour again and almost cried.


    The power evolver has a lot of food, and her brother is the same. He needs to eat a lot of food to eat. In order to have a full meal, he joined the army.


    "The food is so delicious today. Let''s eat it quickly. If it''s not enough, let''s go and serve it." Tan Qi was like a cheerful bird, calling her two sisters to have a meal soon, and then biting her chopsticks and looking forward to their feedback.


    Xia Qing pretended not to hear Jiang Ying''s breathing change, took a bite of the stewed meat, and sincerely commented, "It tastes delicious, this meat is stewed too tasty."


    The chef in the No. 15 territory has better cooking skills than Xia Qing. If she wasn''t afraid of the secrets in the territory being leaked, she really wanted to dig the chef into her territory.


    Jiang Ying, whose fingers were sore, couldn''t pick up the dishes. She lowered her head and pulled her mouth with chopsticks, and her taste buds were instantly activated. She lowered her voice and asked embarrassedly, "That delicious meal can be enough if you pay fifty points a month. Am I paying too little?"


    Xia Qing smiled, not only her appearance, but Jiang Ying also had a personality like Hu Zi. She didn''t talk much and was honest. She could recognize at a glance that the steel frame of the cutting machine was made of angle iron, and she might also know how to modify the bicycle.


    But she was a little restrained when she first came, and it was not the time to ask about this.


    Tan Qi smiled and bent her eyes, "A lot of them, we can''t eat meat every day. Uncle Yue and his friends can only eat it when they catch edible prey. Uncle Yue has been going out to hunt these days, so happy."


    Yuehaiying was not happy because he went out to hunt, but because Zhang Hongda was happy because he had all the antidotes. He didn''t go out to hunt specifically, but because Zhang Hongda''s second course of detoxification, he needed two people to help.


    Xia Qing ate two bowls of vegetables, four steamed buns and drank a bowl of mung bean soup, and left the No. 15 territory with satisfaction.


    Tan Qi and Jiang Ying followed Xia Qing and they were going back to the dormitory for lunch. Tan Junjie freed up the dormitory next to him for Jiang Ying to live in. After the house was built, she and Tan Qi would move into the territory together.


    After parting with Xia Qing, Tan Qi asked in a low voice, "Sister Yingzi, are you tired?"


    "I''m tired, but I feel very at ease." The people working here are either the lord or the brother''s comrades-in-arms, all of whom are trustworthy. Much better than being in a food factory in a safe area, Jiang Ying secretly made up her mind that she would adapt to life here as soon as possible, learn to farm, and then take her mother over.


    Jiang’s mother replaced Jiang Ying’s job and worked in a food factory, and she could earn 90 points a month.


    Tan Qi empathized and nodded vigorously, "Yes, that''s it!"


    In a hurry at noon, Xia Qing did not go through the northern isolation zone and returned to his territory through the passage between the two territories.


    As soon as he walked into the passage between Territory No. 6 and Territory No. 14, Xia Qing heard someone walking on grass in Territory No. 14. She pretended not to hear, continued to move forward and was ready for the fight. (End of this chapter)