"Sir, should we rest for the night, or should we leave now?"
The person in charge of the dock came to ask.
If Jin Feng wanted to rest at the dock, he would have to start preparing a place for the female workers to rest now, as well as prepare meals.
"No rest, let's go directly."
Jin Feng turned to look at Zuo Feifei: "Let the cook go up and cook first. After everyone gets on the boat, start the meal as soon as possible!"
The news brought back from Hong'an inferred that Yuguan City was always likely to be breached. In order to rush over for reinforcements as soon as possible, the female workers did not cook lunch. Instead, they prepared dry food before departure and only took two breaks at noon.
After a quarter of an hour, I ate some dry food and continued on my way.
Zuo Feifei had no intention of spending the night at the dock. After receiving Jin Feng's instructions, she immediately ran out and arranged for the female workers to board the ship as soon as possible while it was still dark.
The female workers were quite fast, and it only took half an hour for them all to board the ship.
Jin Feng and Runniang were the last to board the ship.
When we boarded the deck, we happened to see a group of female workers holding straws and looking for shelter from the wind.
"What are they doing?" Jin Feng asked.
"There is no room for living in the cabin, so they need to find a place to take shelter from the wind."
Zuo Feifei explained.
Although the Zhenyuan No. 2 is a converted cargo ship, it is an old-fashioned wooden ship after all and is not very large. It is impossible to accommodate two thousand female workers in the cabin if they rest normally.
In order to attract as many people as possible, when the delivery team loaded the supplies into the warehouse, they did not load them to the top, but to half the height of the warehouse, and then spread a layer of straw on the boxes containing the supplies. It became a simple matter.
bunk.
Female workers from two battalions slept on simple bunks in the warehouse.
The warehouse is like this, not to mention the cabins used by the crew to rest.
It used to sleep two people in bunk beds, but now it sleeps five people.
Two sleep on top and three squeeze in on the bottom.
Even the aisle in the middle of the bed and under the bed were covered with straw in advance and were full of people sleeping there.
The cabin that originally could only sleep a dozen or so people was squeezed into a cabin with forty or fifty people.
Even so, the cabin was too crowded and there was no way to accommodate many female workers. Zuo Feifei could only ask them to find a sheltered place on the deck to rest.
"This won't work, it will freeze people." Jin Feng frowned and said.
"But there's really no room for room in the cabin."
Zuo Feifei said helplessly.
If she could, she wouldn't want her people to live on the deck, but all the available places below were occupied.
Jin Feng did not speak, but walked down the deck with Runniang and his guards and entered the cabin.
As Zuo Feifei said, the cabin was full of people everywhere. The originally narrow aisle was now covered with straw, leaving only a space less than thirty centimeters wide where people could barely walk out.
Many female workers were sitting on the straw sorting their things. When they saw Jin Feng coming down, they all stood up.
"Sir, your cabin is over here."
Zuo Feifei pointed to a small door next to her.
"Our cabin?"
Jin Feng was stunned for a moment and pushed open the small door.
The cabin inside the small door should be a temporary partition. It is very small, probably less than five square meters in area. There are bunk beds inside, and there is only a small passage for people to walk through.
The bed that Princess Ninth usually sleeps on is larger than this cabin.
But now the conditions are limited. Compared with those female workers, Jin Feng can still have an independent cabin, which is already a very high salary.
Remembering Zuo Feifei saying "you" just now and seeing the bunk beds inside, Jin Feng turned around and asked, "Run Niang lives here too?"
"Yes!" Zuo Feifei nodded: "Conditions are limited. I really have no place to arrange for Runniang. I can only let her squeeze in with my husband. Otherwise, I can only let Runniang squeeze into the aisle or live on the deck."
When Run Niang heard what Zuo Feifei said, her face suddenly turned red.
"This..." Jin Feng was choked.
He couldn't really say that Runniang should live on the deck, right?
"Where do you live?" Jin Feng suddenly looked at Zuo Feifei: "Can't we let Runniang squeeze in with you?"
"I live in front of your husband."
Zuo Feifei pointed to Jin Feng's door.
Jin Feng stretched his head and took a look, and sure enough he found Zuo Feifei's assistant sorting straw.
"Feifei, why don't you come in too, and we can squeeze in together."
Runniang said with a blushing face.
Jin Feng thought Zuo Feifei would refuse, but who knew that she nodded without hesitation: "That's okay!"
After saying that, he went out directly, picked up his small baggage from the assistant, and placed it on the upper bunk of the cabin.
"Run Niang, I'm not a good sleeper. The upper bunk is too small. You and your husband should sleep together on the lower bunk. Anyway, you are both thin and you can squeeze in."
The upper and lower bunks are not the same size. The upper bunk is only about 80 centimeters wide, while the lower bunk is about 1.2 meters wide.
Runniang's face was already red, but when she heard Zuo Feifei say this, she became even redder.
But she still didn't refute, but put the package on her shoulder on the lower bunk.
Even if Jin Feng is a fool, he knows that Zuo Feifei is trying to match Runniang and himself, but he can't find anything to refute.
Runniang has already started packing her things. He can't drive her away.
He turned to look at the hammer, only to find that the hammer and his guards rushed into the opposite cabin.
Seeing Jin Feng looking over, Tie Shui quickly waved his hand: "Sir, we really can't squeeze in here!"
After saying that, the door closed with a bang.
"I didn't say I would go to your place..."
Jin Feng muttered angrily.
He had also seen just now that the place where Tie Hammer and his friends lived was indeed very crowded. No matter whether it was an upper bunk or a lower bunk, there were at least two people squeezed in.
The difference is that the thin ones squeeze into the upper bunk, and the strong ones squeeze into the lower bunk.
Even the open space between the beds is covered with straw like the outside.
If Jin Feng stayed there, he would probably have to share a bed with other guards.
If a squeeze is necessary, Jin Feng would rather squeeze with Runniang.
Runniang is fragrant and soft, isn't it a hundred times better than those big and thick men?
With this comparison, Jin Feng's arrangement with Zuo Feifei is more acceptable.
Jin Feng frowned again when he heard the sound of straw being collected in the corridor outside and the sound of female workers walking on the deck above.
This winter is already very cold, and now it is the depth of winter. The wind on the deck is like a knife, and it hurts my face.
If you sleep on the deck for a night, no matter how good your body is, it may be frozen.
Let alone fend off the enemy by then, I'm afraid many people will fall before they even reach Yuguan City.
"Feifei, you really can't sleep on the deck. Otherwise, we divide the people into two classes. One class sleeps, and the other class is on the deck to guard and train. Do you think this is okay?"
Jin Feng looked at Zuo Feifei who was packing her things on the upper bunk and asked.
When it came to business, Zuo Feifei's face became serious, she thought for a moment, nodded and said: "That's okay, not only will it allow everyone to adapt to life in Yuguan City in advance, but it will also prevent everyone from having a bad sleep.