Hearing what Shi's father and mother said, Shi Jiang's heart warmed slightly, and he shook his head and said, "It's okay, it's like having an extra pocket on your body, which can hold a lot of things. So, we don't have to worry too much about supplies."
After hearing her daughter's repeated assurances, Shi's father and Shi's mother felt relieved.
When Shi Mu came back to her senses, she immediately cleaned up everything in the room, including the floor lamp and curtains in the hotel room.
If Shi Jiang hadn't stopped her and said she had a bed in her space, Shi's mother would have even wanted her daughter to put the bed in the hotel into her space.
Seeing that nothing could be left in the room, Shi's mother reluctantly followed her daughter and the three of them out of the room.
Someone heard the door open and quietly opened it a crack. When they saw that the three people in the Shi family did not bring anything else except the sticks in their hands, they immediately didn't pay much attention.
Shi Jiang did not ask Shi's father to go to the management office to return the temporary residence card. After all, after a while, when the base conducts population checks again, it will know that the room has not been occupied for a long time, and it will naturally be taken back.
When the things inside are missing, the base will only think that it was the people next door who did it.
Now we have to hand over the card. The people from the base went to the room and took a look. It was so empty. The three of them came out empty-handed. It was strange that they could not be suspicious!
The family got into the RV, and Shi Jiang asked Shi's father and Shi's mother to lie down and have a good rest, while he drove along the route drawn on the map.
The place drawn on the map is within the scope of the base circle.
However, the population is relatively sparse.
Even on the way there, there were many cars heading into the city, presumably because those people wanted to find a place to stay in the city.
Drive all the way to the red circle on the map, at the other end of the town, where there is a checkpoint.
After Shi Jiang got off the car, he spent the price of a pack of instant noodles and found the person in charge of the town here.
It was a burly man with a beard and a shiny head. He looked at the three members of the Shi family in puzzlement and asked, "You want to live here?"
Shi Jiang nodded, pointed in the direction of the urban area of City A, and said helplessly: "More and more people are going there, and we can't find a suitable house at all. Although our family has an RV, we can't find it."
My parents felt that it was better to have a roof over their heads. There are only three of us in our family, and we just want to live a stable life."
Hearing this, the man nodded, accepting the excuse.
"It's okay to live here, but we are building a city wall here. As a family of three, one person must go to work on the city wall. Of course, we will give you credits, and these credits can be used on our side.
You can buy daily necessities and food in the shops and canteens. By the way, my surname is Li, Li Baolai, I am the mayor of this small town and I am responsible for everything in this area."
Hearing Li Baolai's words, Shi Jiang didn't think much and nodded directly in agreement.
However, there is only one requirement: they find a suitable place for them to live in the town.
Li Baolai also fully agreed to this request.
In fact, he was just pretending just now. After all, more and more people are leaving the town, and the work arranged by the base cannot be completed without anyone.
There are too few people like Shi Jiang and others who actually come from the city to find accommodation in a remote place.
Usually it's people from outside who come in and are tricked into living in this town.
However, as time goes by, interested people will naturally be able to find out the specific situation, and many people will take the opportunity to leave this town and go to the city to find better opportunities.
As a result, in this town, apart from the old and young, there are very few young and middle-aged people.
In Li Baolai's eyes, the Shi family couple, who are only in their forties, and Shi Jiang, who is in his early twenties, are the representatives of young adults!
He happily took the three members of the Shi family around the town.
Shi Jiang directly bought a villa in a villa community in the south. There were several fruit trees planted in the yard of that house.
There are orange, pomegranate and winter jujube trees. In the middle of the three trees is a piece of land for growing vegetables. They are gathered into three or four groups. It seems that the owner usually grows some vegetables for home use.
The main reason is that this house has a glass greenhouse on the roof. In Shi Jiang's eyes, it can grow more vegetables.
After giving the keys to the villa to the Shi family, and telling Shi's father where to pick up the tools tomorrow morning, and then go to work, Li Baolai left happily.
The family opened the door and looked carefully upstairs and downstairs. Shi's mother immediately went to the kitchen and found that the gas was still working, but there was no food or anything.
The box containing the condiments was quite complete and had not been taken away. Maybe the person who collected the items was dissatisfied and dumped all the items into the box, making it inconvenient to take them away.
Hearing Shi's mother happily say this, Shi Jiang sighed secretly.
Because this is just the beginning, it’s only been three or four days. After another month, I’m afraid everything in every empty room will be scraped clean, not even a particle of salt will be left.
Down.
The family cleaned up all the dust left in the room due to no one being around in the past few days.
Shi Jiang took out new sheets and quilts from the bag, and Shi's mother also took them apart and put them in the washing machine to wash.
Because the population in the town has dropped sharply, the electricity usage has dropped, so the town can still use electricity.
However, after a while, I'm afraid the electricity will not be supplied.
Although there is no generator in her space, there is no shortage of things.
The most important thing is that this is all I brought with me in front of Li Baolai. If I don't take the opportunity to get some back, how will others see the things that suddenly appear in my home?
Therefore, during these few days, Shi Jiang planned to go around and see if there was a generator.
If you can pick it up, pick it up; if you can't pick it up, use it in exchange for supplies.
There are so many empty houses in this town now, and she can still go to those houses and pick up any leaks, no matter what. Just like what Shi Mu said was scattered in the seasoning boxes, she can also collect them back and accumulate them into something.
At night, Shi Jiang almost shed tears while eating the food cooked by Shi's mother.
I have been on the road these days and have been cooking porridge every day, so I can finally have a home-cooked meal.
Early the next morning, Shi's father went to the place designated by Li Baolai to pick up tools for work. Shi Jiang wandered around the town, and Shi's mother was at home, cleaning up the bare ground in the yard and holding Shi Jiang's hand.
I was given vegetable seeds and planned in my mind what kind of things to plant.
In the glass house on the roof, Shi's mother is also preparing to grow all the hydroponic vegetables, such as water spinach, which is easy to grow and can grow again after being pinched.