Plane Supermarket

If the supermarket is operating normally, there should be [-] to [-] employees, and this is even when the supermarket is not busy.

When the supermarket is busy, at least ten to twenty temporary workers are needed.

Ye Zhou didn't expect that the business would be so good. The customers in the supermarket were crowded with each other. Even if the original 13 people were split in half and one person was used as two people, there were just 26 people, which was still not enough.

And among the 13 people were old people and children—he didn't let the children go in the end.

Originally, Ye Zhou wanted to wait a little longer. Maybe after the panic buying wave passed and the business deteriorated, the existing employees could handle it.

But seeing the employees and family members lying on the ground in disorder after the supermarket closed, they still made up their minds to recruit temporary workers before opening the next day.

The employees were so tired, and Ye Zhou himself was not much better. He stared at the monitor for a while and then went out to change shifts with Sarah. He kept scanning the QR code to check out, and kept explaining to others.

But even so, after the supermarket closed, there was still a long queue outside, and there was still a tough battle to be fought the next day.

So seeing that it was still dark and the supermarket was still closed, Ye Zhou was still thinking about Chen Gang who was introducing himself at the back door.

Chen Gang had never been a soldier, and he didn't have that kind of temperament. Zou Ming also observed that he didn't have calluses on his hands and shoulders, and he carried photos of the whole family with him.

According to him, he was married a long time ago, and both his parents and the woman's parents were in Luoyang base.

His wife and two children are at the Changfeng base, and the couple have lived apart for a long time.

Changfeng Base is an important industrial area. Now 30.00% of domestic industrial products are produced by Changfeng. The people who can live in Changfeng are workers, and each worker can only keep two family members with them. After discussing with their husband and wife, they think The child is still young and a girl, it is not a good thing to leave the mother.

So Chen Gang, who failed to become a worker, brought the elderly to Luoyang, where it was easiest to settle down.

There are four elderly people, the youngest of whom is over 60. In this "new world" where the average life expectancy is less than [-], they are considered to be very old. Even if they go to work as temporary workers, no one wants them. The child's life is already difficult, and Chen Gang needs to send her food and tickets from time to time.

And Chen Gang's job salary is not high, and he is still a temporary worker, so after he established a good relationship with the people in the team, he started a logistics business.

Officials also turn a blind eye to this - they can't really cut off the people's way of life.

Some small things, the official is also willing to raise their hands to skip.

But now that everyone is tightening their belts, where can I send something to relatives and friends?

Chen Gang's life is not up or down. When the business is good, he saves more tortillas, and when the business is not good, he saves them.

He took out all the tortillas he had at home and replaced them with rice and bacon. Except for sending some to a few old customers, the rest was left at home and sent to his wife.

So Chen Gang is now a complete pauper, and has to support the lives of four elderly people.

Although Ye Zhou didn't know whether what he said was true or not, or how much of it was true.

But his supermarket is really short of people.

And if he wants to recruit people, he can only recruit from the base. Even if he defends against one, he cannot defend against the second.

After thinking about it for a while, Ye Zhou said to Chen Gang: "I don't recruit regular workers, only temporary workers. The wages are paid in the form of materials. There will be points every month. Points can be exchanged for materials. You can choose by yourself."

"Once you find that your hands and feet are unclean, no matter what you say, you must leave here immediately."

Ye Zhou looked into Chen Gang's eyes: "Do you understand?"

Chen Gang opened his mouth slightly, and he looked at Ye Zhou in disbelief, as if what the other party said was just his hallucination.

Ye Zhou: "If you agree, you can start working now."

Fearing that Ye Zhou would go back on his word, Chen Gang shouted, "I promise! I promise!"

Ye Zhou said again: "The supermarket is indeed short of people, but not everyone is recruited, and you don't want to bring all your relatives in."

"Just right, the door is not open yet, I want you to enter the base to find some people." Ye Zhou didn't want nepotism in his supermarket.

Ye Zhou's understanding of Feng Ling and the others was limited to their names.

"It's fine if you can't find it." Ye Zhou didn't force it, "We open at seven o'clock, so come back before seven o'clock, do you have a watch?"

Chen Gang shook his head: "Watches are also in limited supply. I bought them to make cornbread."

Ye Zhou said to Zou Ming, "Get him a digital watch."

Plastic electronic watches are cheap, and there are plenty of them in supermarkets, and few customers come to change them.

"By the way, the supermarket does not include food or lodging." Ye Zhou, "Recently, the working hours are long and the workload is heavy, so there will be subsidies, but after it stabilizes, the passenger flow will come down, and the salary will be stable."

Chen Gang has no objection, he is sincere and fearful, even if Ye Zhou said that the sun is square at this time, he can immediately abandon the years of cognition, and firmly say that the sun is indeed square.

After they left, Ye Zhou leaned on the sofa, looked at Zou Ming sleepily, and asked feebly, "Are you sleepy? I'm so sleepy."

The supermarket only closed at ten o'clock last night, but that doesn't mean their work is over. Replenishment can only be done by manpower. All the men, women, and children in the store mobilized, and it was already two o'clock in the morning when all the goods were replenished.

Ye Zhou hurriedly took a shower and went to bed without even counting the turnover.

In the morning, because of Chen Gang, I got up before six o'clock.

With all his efforts and calculations, he only slept for less than four hours.

He just tried to talk to Chen Gang with all his energy, but now that Chen Gang is gone, Ye Zhou's upper and lower eyelids started to stick together like glue.

Zou Ming sighed: "Go to bed and sleep, I have hired a temporary worker, you can take a good rest today, and I will help you deal with anything."

Ye Zhou closed his eyes and said, "That's so embarrassing."

Zou Ming was silent for a moment: "It's nothing, before..."

Ye Zhou yawned, but couldn't hear Zou Ming's words: "What did you say? I didn't hear it."

Zou Ming shook his head: "I said, if you persist like this, you probably won't be able to work tomorrow, so go and rest."

Ye Zhou was a little puzzled: "You just said such a long word?"

Zou Ming didn't answer any more. He watched Ye Zhou take off his clothes and crawl back into the quilt to sleep. He made sure that Ye Zhou was asleep before leaving the lounge.

The employees are also fine. They yawned while working. They were too busy last night and went to bed after delivering the goods. Now they have the energy to clean.

Fortunately, the customers are basically concentrated in one or two areas, otherwise they will be exhausted just by cleaning.

"Brother Zou." Wu Yan stared at the two huge bags under his eyes and ran towards Zou Ming. He asked pantingly, "Is the immortal resting?"

When no outsiders were around, they still didn't want to be called Boss Ye Zhou.

Zou Ming: "He's tired."

Now everyone in the store thinks that although Ye Zhou is an immortal, but because he went down to the earth to endure calamities, he was reborn in a mortal body, and he would be tired, thirsty, hungry, and die. It's just that the immortal "died" also returned to the sky, and he was born with a mortal body. Death is not the same thing.

So they suddenly became considerate.

Zou Ming walked around the supermarket, making sure everything was tidied up before walking to the door.

Outside the glass door was a long line of base residents. They were carrying big bags and small bags, and some even found a suitcase from nowhere. Everyone stood outside the supermarket with all their belongings, and some people were packing up tents.

They even turned a blind eye to the zombies wandering outside the barbed wire.

Countless pairs of eyes were fixed on the supermarket door, and they rushed in only when the supermarket opened.

Zou Ming thought of his base, which was completely different from here.

This is still a human society, with rules and laws, and people have not been driven to a desperate situation.

Although their lives are mechanical and hopeless, at least they have not fallen into deeper despair.

At least at this time, they don't need to sell their children or daughters, nor do they need to sell themselves.

When the country is still there, their safety and dignity can be guaranteed.

When the population drops so sharply that production cannot be maintained and the country falls apart, human dignity will become insignificant. Men and women can sell themselves, and morality and morality will all give way to survival.

Resources are always in the hands of those at the top of the pyramid.

But the people of the lower class have to be beaten to death for the little bit leaked by the upper class.

Zou Ming looked at the eager eyes of the residents in line.

He probably also had such eyes, longing to get rid of the predicament, longing for the stable life of the supermarket representative, longing for the warm lights, longing for the person in the store.

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Chen Gang was walking on the road to the base, he was in a daze, it seemed that what he was stepping on was not the road, but the cloud.

He was so dizzy that he asked who Feng Ling was and where Feng Ling was.

Although he only knew such a name, he was sure that he would be able to find the other party. This was the first task the boss gave him, and he had to complete it!

"There are too many people named Feng Ling. I know three of them. Which one are you looking for?"

Finally someone answered Chen Gang's question.

Chen Gang immediately returned to his place, with a smile on his face, he said with great enthusiasm: "It's not over fifteen, and his complexion doesn't look very good."

The person who answered shook his head: "The three I know are all adults."

Chen Gang was not discouraged, and continued to move forward after thanking the other party.

In this way, he searched street by street by casting a wide net, and finally came to the vicinity of the public service center.

"Oh, Feng Ling!" The enthusiastic uncle pointed to the service center and said, "It's in the center, that child is suffering, who are you? A relative?"

Chen Gang shook his head: "Someone asked me to find her."

The uncle looked at him vigilantly: "Don't have any evil intentions, our base is not big, you can't escape if something happens."

Chen Gang didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Don't worry, I'll pass now!"

He ran to the service center, and sure enough, he found Feng Ling who was eating quickly.

The public service center supports a bunch of old, weak, sick and disabled. They have no source of income, and sometimes do some voluntary labor, but according to their physical condition, they really can’t do much work, so most of the time they live on subsistence allowances.

Two tortillas a day, not much.

However, it is impossible for the officials to only let them eat tortillas, and occasionally give them some pickles, mustard, potatoes and sweet potatoes.

The people here are more or less malnourished, and they only care about the seriousness.

Feng Ling took out all the rice she bought, took their teacher to line up yesterday, and replaced all the tortillas stored in the service center with rice and bacon sausage. .

Even Chen Gang couldn't help swallowing when he smelled the rice.

There are too many elderly people in the family, so he is reluctant to eat and bought rice, but he has not eaten rice so far.

Chen Gang swallowed so much that his tongue hurt a little.

He couldn't help thinking, what can he eat at noon when the supermarket packs meals?

He didn't dare to think about good things, can he have a slice of bacon?

It is best if it is all fat, dripping with oil, and the mouth will be full of the aroma of fat, and he can die in that aroma.