Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Chapter 596 In the Name of Exercise

After hearing what Lin Geng said, the neighbors in the yard were also tempted. They thought that their houses would have to be inspected and reinforced sooner or later, so they might as well take this opportunity to inspect and reinforce them together with Lin Geng's family. This would save them a lot of money compared to asking them to find people and buy materials on their own in the future.

So everyone hit it off and agreed. If they were going to do it, everyone in the yard would do it together, and each household would inspect and reinforce their houses to prevent anyone's house from being collapsed by the rain if it rained heavily.

After a big drink, Lin Gengjiu took action the next day. He enthusiastically found craftsmen to help the neighbors in the yard check the conditions of each house, find out the hidden dangers of each house, and develop a repair and reinforcement plan for each house.

What followed was a full-scale house repair and reinforcement operation. No. 95 Yard was bustling with activity. After more than a week of hard work, all the houses in the yard were finally reinforced. Lin Geng got a lot of wood and plastic sheets from somewhere, and the neighbors in the yard all asked Lin Geng what he was doing with these things.

Lin Geng said that the wood was to be used to expand the kitchen when he had time, and that the plastic sheeting was to be sent to a village in a mountainous area to build a plastic greenhouse for growing vegetables, but it was just temporarily stored with him.

It was already the end of July. Before it got dark, Dahuang, Erhei and Sandezi began to become restless. They seemed to have a premonition of what was going to happen. They wandered around the house and could not calm down.

San Dezi is the yellow mangy dog ​​who helped Lin Geng find the human traffickers to rescue Lin Xiaoxi. Later, Lin Geng was grateful to it and adopted it. He first placed it in the small world and raised it for a while. He completely cured all its illnesses. Even its hairless skin grew new hair again, and it gained a lot of weight.

Although San Dezi is not as fat and strong as Dahuang and Erhei, and his fighting ability is not as good as Dahuang and Erhei, this guy's sense of smell is more sensitive than Dahuang and Erhei, and he is very good at tracking by smell. Sometimes he follows Lin Geng into the mountains, and is responsible for leading the way in search of prey. His tracking ability is much stronger than Dahuang and Erhei.

Lin Xiaoxi knew that it was San Dezi who saved her, so she liked San Dezi very much and would hug San Dezi to sleep all day long. As a result, San Dezi became the most favored dog in the Lin family, which made Dahuang and Erhei a little resentful. However, Yu Li, Lin Xiaoxi and Lin Yi all doted on San Dezi very much, so the two of them could only stare blankly and had no way to deal with San Dezi.

However, San Dezi was not arrogant because of his favor at home. He did not show off in front of Dahuang and Erhei. He was still very respectful to Dahuang and Erhei and had a very proper attitude. He still followed Dahuang and Erhei's lead. That was why he was not defeated by Dahuang and Erhei and firmly sat in the third seat of the Lin family's dogs.

On that afternoon in late July, the first person to have a premonition that something was going to happen was Sandezi. He had been standing at the door that afternoon, looking towards the east of Sijiu City, and he kept growling in a low voice, as if there was something terrible in that direction.

At the beginning, Dahuang and Erhei roared at Sandezi with disgust, but after a while, they began to feel something and became anxious. Like Sandezi, they squatted at the door and began to hum uneasily in a low voice towards the eastern sky.

Lin Geng was also sitting on the steps at the door at this time, looking towards the east with a complicated expression. He didn't know whether the people in Tang City had been evacuated or not, and whether there would be serious casualties.

In fact, he had been paying attention to the situation in Tang City during this period of time. He knew that Tang City had started evacuating people since mid-July. The military dispatched a large number of vehicles to Tang City and evacuated a large number of Tang City residents to surrounding cities and counties hundreds of kilometers away for resettlement in the name of an exercise.

Sijiu City also received a lot of people from Tang City. Several higher-lying areas were opened up outside Sijiu City, and a large number of tents were temporarily built to temporarily accommodate those evacuated from Tang City.

In addition, Sijiu City also organized a number of volunteers to provide various services to the people from Tang City who were evacuated to Sijiu City. Lin Geng also went to see it several times and found that Sijiu City had indeed received a lot of people evacuated from Tang City.

Because this so-called exercise involved a large number of people and a vast area, it caused a lot of speculation in society and even caused a certain amount of panic, making some people who did not know the truth panic. Many versions of rumors appeared among the people, saying all kinds of things. Mainly, many people speculated whether a large-scale war was about to break out, so many people began to stockpile food privately.

Even many people in Courtyard No. 95 heard a lot of rumors, so they privately asked Lin Geng whether a large-scale war was about to break out and whether they needed to store some food in advance. After all, many people in the courtyard had experienced the three difficult years and were really scared of starvation.

So after hearing some rumors on the market, many people panicked and instinctively wanted to buy more food and stockpile it in case something big happened and they were unable to buy food.

Yan Bugui was the worst hit among them. During the three difficult years, Yan Bugui was the only one who earned money to support the family. In order to avoid starvation, he really tried every possible way and barely managed to get through those three years. No one in the family starved to death, but during those three years, his family hardly saw any meat, let alone had a meal of fine grain. They basically survived by relying on corn flour or sweet potatoes. The whole family was swollen due to malnutrition.

So after hearing some rumors about the Tangcheng evacuation drill during this period, Yan Bugui immediately went to buy all the food on their family's food list and stored it at home. He even paid a high price and secretly bought a lot of high-priced food from the Pigeon Market and carried it back home to store it.

Fortunately, this old guy still had a conscience. When he was secretly storing food, he thought of Lin Geng. He found Lin Geng privately and reminded him to store some food in advance to avoid any accidents that might cause him to suddenly run out of food, just like during the three difficult years when the food supply of every household was reduced and their families went hungry.

After listening to Yan Bugui's words, Lin Geng was a little amused, but in his heart he still appreciated Yan Bugui's initiative to remind him. At least this old guy is not like before, who only cares about scheming against others. He still remembered to remind him at the critical moment.