Wei Zhong smiled and said, "What do you think, Mr. Zhou?"
Du Laozhuang sighed in his heart. He actually felt that it was enough to reach this point.
But Wei Zhong's opening forced him to express his attitude, especially since Zhou Yunshu had just said that he had ideas to solve the water problem, and he did not want to lose Zhou Yunshu's face at this time.
"Mr. Zhou, do you have any good ideas?"
"I think there is no rule without rules." Zhou Yunshu looked at Du Mazi who showed no reflection in his eyes and said, "If you do something wrong and the punishment is not enough or not in place, it will inevitably happen again."
"Escape is hard enough. Is it possible that in addition to guarding against outsiders every day, you also have to think about how to guard against your own people?"
After Zhou Yunshu said this, everyone shook their heads, no, they didn't want it at all.
"Mr. Zhou, what do you think we should do? We all listen to you!"
"Yes, Mr. Zhou, just say it, we will listen to you!"
Zhou Yunshu listened to the sounds around her, looked at Du Mazi who was looking at her with a face full of resentment, and said, "I am not targeting Du Mazi and the others this time, but everyone including me."
"If there is someone among us who steals or betrays one of our own people again, is it not too much to drive him out of our team?"
"Not too much!"
"Of course not too much!"
Seeing that they still had another chance, Du Mazi breathed a sigh of relief.
They are also afraid that they will really drag their families out and be kicked out. Being kicked out at this time will lead to death.
After the dust settled on this matter, people re-recognized Zhou Yunshu's influence in the team.
The crowd dispersed and the deliberations continued.
They have not forgotten that Zhou Yunshu said before that there is a way to temporarily alleviate the problem of water shortage in the team.
"Mr. Zhou, the method you just mentioned to alleviate the water shortage?"
Everyone stared at Zhou Yunshu, this was the key to their continued survival.
"There is a way, and this method can also prevent things like Du Mazi and others stealing water from happening again."
"What can I do?" everyone asked in unison.
“Distribute water uniformly.”
"Ah?" Du Laosan asked in confusion: "But we are short of water now, where can we find water and distribute it uniformly?"
Zhou Yunshu continued: "So what I said before is that it is not easy to implement this matter, and not everyone is willing to do it."
Not everyone, including those who are sitting here trying to find water for the entire team, may agree.
The solution that Zhou Yunshu thought of was unified distribution. This method was based on the collective economy implemented in the 1960s and 1970s due to material scarcity and a lot of waste.
"What do you mean, Mr. Zhou?"
Zhou Yunshu explained, "It means that we find trustworthy people to collect all the water in the team, and then distribute it uniformly."
Sure enough, as soon as Zhou Yunshu finished speaking, someone immediately objected.
"No, why should we share the water that we finally saved at home? What will we drink if we share it?"
The people sitting around the meeting were basically the relatively well-off families in the team, and there were also many people in the team who had no money. Didn't Zhou Yunshu say this to cut their flesh?
Zhou Yunshu looked at the people around her who were also unwilling to donate their own water, and continued: "I understand how you feel."
"But have you ever thought about it? The water theft incident that happened today is not the first and it will definitely not be the last."
Du Youtian frowned and said, "But Mr. Zhou, you just said that if there is another theft next time, then drive them out. They don't dare..."
"Without water, people will die of thirst. Who cares whether you drive them out or not." After Zhou Yunshu said these words, the people sitting around fell silent.
"People can do anything when they are in a hurry. I am afraid that when the time comes, people who are in a hurry and have no other way out will not only grab water but also kill people to vent their anger."
Zhou Yunshu looked at the silent people around him and continued: "The unified distribution I mentioned will indeed be unfair to families with water, but we will also find ways to compensate in other ways."
She looked at everyone, "I will also take out all the water in my house. I am not doing it for myself, I just want our team to work together and tide over the difficulties together."
Wei Zhong looked at Zhou Yunshu and said, "This can only solve the temporary dilemma."
"So the most important thing for us now is to find the water source."
Zhou Yunshu turned the wooden stick in her hand and said: "As Brother Wei said before, since there is a ruined temple there, and the ruined temple has not been in ruins for a long time, there must be villages or towns around it."
"As long as we find a place with human habitation, everything will be easy. If we can't find it, we won't be able to get out of Luzhou alive even if we don't distinguish between water and water."
At that time, she could only escape with her own people.
She had done everything she had to do. If these people still couldn't be saved in the end, she wouldn't just watch her family waiting to die.
Zhou Yunshu said everything she needed to say. She stood up and looked at everyone who was thinking: "Everyone can think about it. Time waits for no one. It is best to have a result tomorrow morning."
Zhou Yunshu looked at Du Laozhuang, who was hanging his head, and Wei Zhong, who seemed to agree no matter what he said, and continued: "I still said what I said before, what we need most now is to work together and not to disintegrate ourselves from within. "
After Zhou Yunshu finished speaking, she turned and left, with Feng Xujie following closely behind her.
When they returned to their position, Wei Zhong's four men had not left yet. In other words, the ones closest to Zhou Yunshu and the others were not Du Laozhuang, but Wei Zhong and others.
When Li Jialan saw Zhou Yunshu coming back from the discussion, she immediately waved to her daughter.
"What happened? Is it solved?"
Zhou Yunshu nodded. She looked at the four little ones talking quietly in the erected oilcloth shed, looked at Li Jialan, Fang Huiwen and Chunque, and said again what she had said before in front of Du Laozhuang and others.
Fang Huiwen thought about the water left on her mule cart, and estimated that her family had the most water in the entire team.
"Is this really okay? What if..." Fang Huiwen was afraid of what would happen to the children at home if the water got out.
Zhou Yunshu looked at Fang Huiwen and Li Jialan who looked at her worriedly and said, "Don't worry, I have always prepared a retreat."
Feng Xujie was originally worried that Zhou Yunshu would be too kind, but when he heard Zhou Yunshu's words, he looked at her curiously.
"You are my bottom line. If this team is really not suitable to continue, I will take you away."
Her family is her bottom line, and she will not leave her family to die.
