Chapter 451 Riot·Fifteen
In the early morning, the window knocker knocked on the window of Lao Bo's house on time, causing Lao Bo to get up from the bed which was not very warm.
The cold air made Robert shrink his neck. If he could, he would like to get back into bed again. Even if it was not warm enough, at least it could still make people feel the slightest warmth.
But Laob did not do this. Instead, he shiveringly put on his clothes and finished washing himself with ice-cold water.
If it were in the past, Robert's wife would have boiled hot water before he got up, so that the family could have hot water to wash up in the morning and drink steaming hot soup or hot porridge at the same time. .
However, now the Lauber family can no longer afford to buy fuel, and even the family's breakfast is cold.
Of course, a large part of the reason for this is because now only he and his two children are left in the Lauber family.
His wife did not survive last winter and fell asleep one cold night and never woke up.
Although Lauber is doing his best to take care of his two children, he is a grown man and has to go out to work during the day to earn as much money as possible to support his family. It is really difficult for him to have enough energy to do so. Well, these things were originally the responsibility of the wife.
He came to the kitchen, mashed the two compressed biscuits he received yesterday in a bowl, then added water to brew them into three bowls of a paste that was far from delicious. Only then did Lauber order his own. The two children get up.
Although the family has lost their mother, Lauber is relieved that the children are very sensible.
The eldest of his two children is nine years old and is now learning how to take care of his five-year-old sister.
Although the nine-year-old child couldn't do many things well, he still took his sister to wash up after his father told him to get up and tried his best to help his sister get dressed to prevent her from getting cold.
When the two children sat at the dining table, Robert had already finished his portion of the paste.
He deliberately used a large bowl and pretended that he had eaten a large bowl and his stomach was full.
In fact, the paste was only enough for one adult, divided into three portions. It might be enough for children to eat half full, but for adults, it's really not enough to fill their teeth.
But this was all the rations that Lauber could earn every day, and he basically left these rations to his two children.
As for himself, he can have lunch at the construction site, which can barely sustain his most basic consumption for the day.
Because of this, Robert was very grateful to Countess Brandlis who gave him a job.
Although Lauber heard that she had a bad reputation and said that she liked to brutally suppress anyone who opposed her, what does this have to do with Lauber, an ordinary worker?
For Robert, the countess killing a few nobles would have no impact on him. Instead, it would make him feel that it would be better if more of the unbecoming nobles died.
Compared to those damn nobles, the countess with a bad reputation gave him a job, so that he could still have a job that could make a living in this terrible environment and earn enough to feed his children. of rations.
Although this ration is barely enough to feed the children, you only need to think about the situation on the streets of Longton now to understand how rare it is to have a job with stable rations.
Because of this, Robert was very grateful to the countess.
At least he doesn't have to be like his neighbors, who can only line up every day to eat a meal of relief food at the street corner, barely keeping themselves from starving to death.
In Langton today, it is difficult for even people from downtown to find jobs.
Although many construction sites have opened up in the city, and it seems that people are recruiting people to work everywhere, in fact, there are at least five people waiting in line for every job.
Even if the countess was kind-hearted and hired three people for one position and adopted a rotation system for 24-hour construction, there would still be two people who could not find a job and could only rely on food relief to survive from starvation.
Most of those who can find a job have a certain skill or at least ten years of starting work experience. For example, Lauber used to be the foreman of a construction team and has been in the industry for almost ten years. If you are recruited, you can have a living job.
Although every day's work is very tiring, at least he can receive a ration and take care of the construction site. This allows Lauber to keep his children at home while ensuring that he does not starve to death. After eating, this was enough for Robert to be grateful to the countess.
As for some people gossiping about the countess, do they think it is because of her incompetence that the people of Longton are deprived of their meals? Lauber could only say that these people were still not hungry enough.
In fact, among Robert's co-workers, although there are also gossips about the countess, everyone has a very good impression of the countess.
No matter what she did, at least she gave them jobs and food to eat.
And compared to Langton before the disaster, the working hours required by the countess were already very merciful. She only allowed each worker to work ten hours a day, with a half-hour break in between. time.
You know, any job that Robert could find in Longton before the disaster had less than twelve hours of work.
Although according to the countess, this working time is the most efficient work she requires from all workers during working hours, long working hours will only cause labor efficiency to decrease and errors to occur. She already works in three shifts 24 hours a day, so there is no need to go Fight for those hours of work.
Lauber didn't quite understand what the countess said, but he at least knew that the countess asked him to work only ten hours a day.
So even though he was very worried about the two children at home, Lauber still seriously told his son to take good care of his sister at home, not to open the door to anyone, and not to run out to play before going to work. .
Before the disaster, Lauber's son was already studying in a public primary school. However, with the disaster, public schools basically stopped.
Coupled with the death of the woman in the family, Lauber had no relatives or friends to help take care of the children, so he could only let his nine-year-old son take care of his five-year-old daughter.
It took a while to arrive at the construction site. Lauber had to go to the foreman to sign in before he could receive today's rations.
This is also one of the virtues of the countess. She pays the workers one day's rations first, so that they can complete today's work with peace of mind without worrying about the problem that the rations will be gone after the work is done.
And from another perspective, if some workers have not eaten breakfast, this ration can at least fill their stomachs first.
In fact, Lauber knew that more than one worker would eat a quarter of his ration after receiving it in the morning. The reason why he didn't eat everything was not only to save a portion for dinner, but also because like Lauber, he needed to take the rations home.
However, just when Robert had packed his rations and was about to go to work, the foreman stopped him.
"Lauber, I remember you said that you used to be a foreman in a construction team, right?" The foreman looked at Lauber and asked him.
Lauber nodded. Although he didn’t know what the foreman wanted from him, he still answered honestly: “Yes, when I was in the construction company, I was the foreman of the construction team and worked for about four times. "
The foreman nodded with satisfaction, and then asked him: "I remember you have two children? Do you have enough food at home?"
" It’s barely enough for the children, and although I’m a little hungry, I can still have a meal at the construction site at noon, so it’s not a big problem.” Lauber answered honestly. He had some vague guesses, but he still controlled himself very well. emotions.
The foreman became more and more satisfied with Lauber, so he explained to Lauber: "The countess issued a new order, requiring each construction site to strengthen the control of workers, and to appropriately promote foremen from among the workers to ensure that every Each team has at least one team leader.
I was in charge of all the teams in your class before. Now, according to the order of the Countess, a team leader will be promoted from each of your three teams.
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Lauber, you are the most diligent and honest person in your group. In addition, you have work experience and respect the Countess very much, so you have a spot among the three group leaders.
< br>From now on, you can get an extra ration and eat two meals at the construction site, which is a bonus for the team leader.”
“Is this true?” Lao Bo listened. He was overjoyed at the news. Although he suddenly felt that his promotion had some inevitable connection with his respect for the countess, his joy still prevented him from thinking about it in detail.
Getting an extra ration every day was a huge help to Lauber, and their family's living conditions suddenly improved dramatically.
Especially since Lauber can eat two meals a day at the construction site, which means that he can save his two rations for his children and only need to eat at the construction site.
After all, you don’t have to be as frugal about eating at a construction site as you would at home. Although everyone’s portions are set, one portion is enough to fill an adult.
Lauber's ability to endure this period of time was all due to this meal on the construction site.
Now that he can eat two meals a day, for Robert, he has gone from being half hungry to at least half full.
The foreman was very understanding of Lauber's happiness. He nodded and said affirmatively: "Yes, you have been promoted to the leader of your group, and the people in your group will be in charge of you from now on."
< br>"Don't worry! I will definitely take good care of them and ensure that all the work is completed on time every day!" Lauber earnestly assured the foreman that this was the only thing he could guarantee.
However, the foreman shook his head and said: "It is your responsibility and must do to complete your work seriously. As a team leader, you are responsible for more than just this!"
The foreman saw that Robert really didn't understand, so he could only shake his head helplessly and explained: "The reason why the countess wants to promote you team leaders is not to urge you to work hard, although it is true that there are There are requirements in this regard, but if this is the case, foremen will be enough.
The purpose of setting up the team leader is for you to urge the workers not to participate in anything that is not allowed by the empire during this period. Illegal gatherings, don't listen to some unfounded rumors, let alone believe in any heretical sects
Lauber, your job is to allow these workers to work with peace of mind every day, instead of participating in some illegal assembly and then being incited to participate in some parade! "
Hearing what the foreman said, Lauber suddenly remembered that before the construction of the construction site started, there were indeed some religious activities in the outer city and lower city.
It was just them The beliefs he preached were contrary to what the mainstream faith churches in the empire preached. Robert didn't pay much attention to this. He just said it to the patrolman when he passed by the police box.
I haven't seen anything like this since.
Now that the foreman reminded him, Lauber understood exactly what he should do.
Although Robert doesn't care about politics at all, he still understands these things clearly.
So, under the foreman’s eager expectations, Lauber nodded seriously: “Don’t worry, I will seriously supervise every worker! I will never let them go astray.”< br>
In this regard, the foreman showed more trust in Lauber.
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At this time, on the route from Langton to the North, Purficott was taking his own plane. The empty boat returns to the north.
At such a critical moment, it stands to reason that Purficott should not leave Langton.
But Purfico had something very important to do and had to return to the north, so after arranging all the matters and temporarily leaving the work to Princess Anne, Purfico Te then boarded his airship and embarked on a journey back to the north.
For ordinary people in the empire, such things really have no impact or burden on them.
Even if the entire empire is now in a situation of lack of food, ordinary people will not be in a situation of lack of food because of Purficott's trip.
After all, the food itself will not pop out of the cracks in the rocks, and it will not disappear for no reason.
For ordinary people, traveling in Perfect Court will indeed have an impact, but when this impact actually falls on ordinary people, it is almost impossible to feel it due to various reasons.
This effect is, of course, the result of Purficott’s careful arrangements along the way.
Not only that, she also issued several new orders against the nobles of Langton, successfully making the nobles within the scope of the decree gnash their teeth at her, while the ordinary people praised her kindness.
Perficott can of course squeeze the common people and protect the interests of the aristocracy, but compared with hurting the interests of some nobles and benefiting the people, Purficott thinks that crying as a family is better than crying all the way?
A noble's interests are damaged, but he can feed many ordinary people.
So cry for the nobles and curse her, let her take the responsibility!
(End of this chapter)