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Chapter 63 Levels, 3 Buildings, and Returning to One's Roots
A moment later, Cheng Qiushui brought Cui Shou and Gu Yan over, moved the light machine gun and bullets onto the electric trailer, and covered them with a felt tarpaulin.
"Cui Shou, Gu Yan, you two take the stuff back to the warehouse first, then go back to your posts. If anyone asks, don't say anything. I have something to discuss with the boss."
"Okay."
Cui Shou and Gu Yan dragged the electric cart toward the gas station warehouse, while Cheng Qiushui headed toward the container hotel, where a large truck was parked at the entrance.
The truck bed opened from the side, revealing a roll of steel and a stack of rectangular blocks of timber. Lu Zheng and Lu Sheng were standing next to the truck, talking to each other.
As Cheng Qiushui approached, she overheard them discussing the purpose of the container hotel.
"Cousin, I still have my opinion. It's not that I'm being mean, but those young people from small families are also part of the Lu family. They wouldn't want to live with refugees."
Lu Zheng pointed to the container hotel and said:
"On the contrary, as long as you make the lives of the refugees one level worse than theirs, they will feel valued and work diligently for you."
And you can save on materials, what's wrong with that?
Just as Lu Sheng was about to say something, he suddenly noticed Cheng Qiushui approaching out of the corner of his eye. After meeting Yu Guang's gaze, Cheng Qiushui took the initiative to report:
"Boss, the two tasks you assigned me are complete. The weapons used to build the defensive fortifications are temporarily stored in the warehouse. I will report to you on the previous statistical work in a bit."
Lu Sheng nodded and asked for his opinion:
"Qiu Shui, you've come at the right time. Lu Zheng wants me to reserve two rusty shipping containers specifically for Liang Shan's team. The originally planned dormitory will be reserved for the family members who will arrive later."
"Boss, my opinion may be a bit subjective, but we can't start this. It will only increase the camp's operating costs for no reason and may even slow down the camp's development."
Cheng Qiushui deliberately emphasized the point about slowing down the camp's development, immediately alerting Lu Zheng.
Lu Sheng noticed Lu Zheng's reaction and raised his hand to signal Cheng Qiushui to continue.
Cheng Qiushui nodded knowingly and said:
"The supervisor's approach is essentially to reduce the camp's management costs, since the living conditions here are definitely not as good as where the family members grew up."
But if you want to, it's easy to further subdivide. Today you make the living conditions of the workers harder than those of the family members, and tomorrow the children of the smaller families closer to the core come over. Do you have to downgrade the first batch, or build better accommodations for the second batch?
Either it hurts people's feelings, or it wastes a lot of materials, or it pleases neither side. In the end, the family members feel disrespected and quit, while the workers, unable to bear the humiliation, continue their wanderings, and the camp comes to an end.
"Alright, alright, stop trying to scare me with those kinds of statements!"
Upon hearing this, Lu Zheng quickly waved his hand:
"I'm offering some suggestions out of good intentions. If you don't listen, then don't listen. It's not me who will be upset when they cause trouble."
Seeing Lu Zheng turn away and sulk, Lu Sheng felt he had found the right person. Cheng Qiushui had somehow managed to get Lu Zheng to not argue with him.
After Lu Zheng remained silent, Lu Sheng looked towards the container hotel and saw the huge characters appearing above it:
"A rusty container hotel consumes 6 units of wood and 6 units of steel. It can be combined and upgraded into a basic container hotel, according to your needs."
Based on your requirements, the merged facility will be split into two parts. The first part will consist of four containers, and the second part will consist of two containers. The upgraded entry will be: "Dormitory".
He reached out his hand, and the words descended at the same time, gently touched by his finger.
The next instant, as if a switch had been flipped, some of the timber and steel on the truck turned into streaks of light and swept past the three of them, rearranging the containers piled up in front of them.
Despite the large scale of the upgraded items, the reorganization was completed in just a few breaths.
After the light faded, the container houses that were originally piled together became two small buildings, one large and one small.
The larger building consists of four shipping containers with a total of 52 beds, while the smaller building is exactly the same as the one Qin Feng and his group are staying in, with 26 beds in each building.
Lu Sheng discovered that the upgraded system perfectly fulfilled his needs.
The building, consisting of four shipping containers, is located right in the middle of two smaller shipping container buildings, and there are numbers on the side walls of the two smaller buildings that look like white paint paintings.
The building where Qin Feng and his group stayed was number one, the newly built building was number two, and the hotel in the middle was not numbered.
He knew the reason: in the plan, these two small buildings were intended to be dormitories, so they needed to be numbered.
"Autumn Waters".
"Boss, I'm here."
"Notify the workers to move."
Under Lu Sheng's orders, the workers and their families, who were living in cramped two-story houses, rushed out. Many of them had not stepped outside since moving in.
Lu Sheng originally intended to assign them accommodations according to gender, but the workers preferred to live with their families, so he did not interfere further.
Compared to the original two-story building, the container dormitory is twice the size and has enough beds, so they no longer need to sleep on the ground.
As Lu Sheng watched the workers enter their new home one after another and saw the joy on their faces, a sense of accomplishment welled up within him.
While the workers were moving in an orderly manner, Cheng Qiushui reported her statistical results to him.
"Liang Shan's team consists of 24 people, 16 men and 8 women."
He handed Lu Sheng a piece of paper with a more detailed age distribution of the male and female groups on it, and then continued his report:
"There are 16 young and middle-aged people, 5 elderly people, and 3 children, including elderly men..."
"Alright, alright, I can check it myself. Did you find anything else?"
Lu Sheng raised his hand, signaling Cheng Qiushui to talk about something else.
"There's nothing special about it. If I had to say something, it's just that several of the elderly people are quite old and have multiple chronic illnesses. They probably won't make it through this winter."
Cheng Qiushui shared her observations and conclusions:
"Treat them well, let them pass away peacefully in the camp, and this will become a home for those who remain alive."
Boss, as you probably know, there's a very important concept about death in our culture: "fallen leaves return to their roots."
The place you work, the place you live, are not necessarily home; only the place where you can die peacefully is home.
Lu Sheng nodded, finding Cheng Qiushui's perspective insightful. Cheng Qiushui then continued:
"Oh, right, there's one more thing. The reason why the selection of sentries has been delayed is that Liang Shan and several elders have not reached an agreement."
"Could you elaborate?"
Cheng Qiushui did not answer immediately, but turned to look at Cui Shou, who was standing guard not far away:
"We know our own business best. Boss, why don't you call Cui Shou over?"