The road from C city to Silver Lake is much better than the one from their home to C. Not only is the river a lot wider, but there are no piles of rocks left behind by the sand dredgers, making it a lot easier for boats to navigate.
The two people arrived at Baiyin Lake in the evening, the boundless lake, sparsely floating a lot of boats, if not to look outside the lake, only the scene in the lake, but like a peaceful painting.
Unlike the cruise ships we encountered in C city, there were all kinds of boats here, and when the people on board saw their boats sailing in from the mouth of the river, no one hid in their cabins or looked surprised, as if they were used to it these days.
Although, at a glance, there was no boat on the lake that was more dilapidated and ugly than theirs.
The two of them did not care, as they drove straight to Qingluo Island in the center of the lake.
The base of Silver Lake was built on Green Conch Island.
The surface of the lake was extremely vast, and the boat traveled for half an hour before reaching the island, the two of them followed the directions of the passersby they met on the lake and found the dock.
The dock was wide enough to be seen on the lake, and the water near the dock was divided into two halves by a buoy, and the boats parked on one half were only simple types, but there were quite a few.
The other side was a variety of different kinds, from beautiful cruise ships to the simplest fishing boats, hmmm! When this vessel of theirs joined, there would be more of the same.
Zhou Yan saw that the ships on this side were all parked in pieces, each one was not next to each other, they would be almost two or three meters apart in between, but if they wanted to park another ship in, they couldn't.
But their boats were shuttle shaped, and although they were long, they were narrow, and it would be easy to just find a gap to park in.
But they didn't do that, these people parked their boats at a distance apart, should have the intention to take precautions, their boats haven't parked in yet, both sides will probably come out to drive people out.
The two of them slowed down the speed of the boat's movement, all the way from the rear slowly around until the junction with the military/team ships, Zhou Yan saw that this is still about three meters wide, so he let Lu Bachuan in the cockpit control, and ran to the bow of the boat.
There was a man squatting there washing clothes at the stern of the boat. When he saw Zhou Yan run to the bow, he just looked up at him and continued to lower his head to rub clothes.
The man's appearance is extremely ordinary, probably because of the shortage of food, his face is yellow with malnutrition, and his eyes have the numbness that Zhou Yan has seen many times in his last life in the base, as if nothing can excite his interest, and his head is lowered to rub the clothes in a mechanical manner.
This kind of person, Zhou Yan has seen more than enough, and will not back down at all just because someone looks like they don't want to take care of it, when he immediately greeted, "Hey, brother, has anyone stopped at this place?"
The man seemed stunned at the words and looked around again, seeing that there was indeed no one beside him, and Zhou Yan kept looking at him before confirming that he was really asking himself, so he shook his head and said, "No one is stopping."
After Zhou Yan thanked him for his words, he raised his hand to indicate that Lu Bachuan could take the boat in.
The man looked like he wanted to say something at the sight, but opened his mouth and swallowed back, except that Zhou Yan was standing at the bow of the boat and had mistakenly passed by, while Lu Bachuan was in the cockpit, engrossed in thinking of how to squeeze the boat in without bumping into the boats on either side, so he didn't notice anything different about the man.
The pier was very large, with a square attached to it, and at a glance, one could see many people setting up stalls to close them, and some officers/soldiers patrolling, or standing guard.
When Zhou Yan waited for the boat to stop, he jumped right off and walked up to the nearest patrolling officer/soldier to inquire, "Excuse me, where do you pick up the medication to treat the virus that was on the radio?"
The officer/soldier on patrol looked at him, then turned to the boat behind him and said, "You're new here, aren't you? Every day from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., go to the square above with your ID card and get it for free."
Zhou Yan asked, "What if you don't have your ID card?"
"Then twenty pounds of rice for one share of medicine!"
Zhou Yan asked again, "My family didn't come, can I help with the rice exchange?"
The officer/soldier looked Zhou Yan up and down at the words, and said, "As long as you have enough rice, you can exchange it for as much as you want."
Zhou Yan nodded his head and said, "Thank you very much!"
The officer/soldier saw him leaving and reminded him, "One more thing, the island has a curfew after 9:00 p.m. Don't leave the boat for shore if there's nothing wrong."
"Good!"
The officer/soldier saw that this was all said and done, and went on to patrol, only not to go more than a few steps without resisting the urge to turn back and take stock of their ship.
By the time it was completely dark, a few street lights were lit on the docks. The two of them have been working together for a long time, and they have been working together for a long time, and they have been working together for a long time.
The two of them still didn't open fire for dinner and just ate casually.
After they finished eating and came out of the cabin, there were no more pedestrians on the shore, only the occasional patrolling officer/soldier could be seen walking by.
If you look around, most of the boats next to them are not leaning against the shore anymore, but instead have retreated four to five meters into the lake, which looks like it should be to prevent people from sneaking onto the boat at night, so Zhou Yan did the same.
The company has been in the process of developing the new product for the past two years.
It is a good thing that the night passed without any accidents, and Zhou Yan, who has good hearing, kept an attentive eye on it all night, and the neighborhood was quiet and peaceful, and it looks like the security of this Silver Lake base is still good.
The two of them were woken up early in the morning by all kinds of yelling, they had lived in the village for almost a year, and hadn't felt such a lively atmosphere for a long time.
They couldn't help but want to go down for a stroll.
It was just that there were only two of them, and they definitely had to leave one of them to guard the boat, Lu Baichuan saw Zhou Yan's expression as if he really wanted to go down and stroll around, but wanted to accompany himself up there, so he said, "I see that there seems to be a riverfood vendor over there, so go down and see if there are any shrimp vendors, and if there are, buy some back, I kind of want to eat shrimp."
Zhou Yan immediately said on hearing that, "Good, is there anything else you want?"
Lu Baichuan said, "You can watch and buy the rest."
Zhou Yan turned around the square, there were indeed many aquatic products for sale, but there were actually some for breakfast, so it seemed that everyone was living quite well here.
The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. Freshly caught from the lake in the morning."
Zhou Yan walked to a more well-stocked stall and asked, "How do you sell all the fish and shrimp?"
The shopkeeper saw that there was business coming, and immediately greeted warmly, "It's all one kilogram of rice, and if you use a meal ticket, it's two meal tickets for one kilogram."
Zhou Yan knew that there would be rice tickets in the base, but he didn't expect it to be so cheap, but on second thought, it was understandable, Silver Lake was rich in fish and shrimp, and the fish and shrimp that were normally produced were sold all over the country, and now that there was no place to sell them, the local residents were probably tired of eating them as rice already.
It's just that Zhou Yan didn't have a meal ticket on hand and couldn't get rice directly out of the space, so he said, "I forgot to bring rice, wait for me and I'll be right back."
The stall owner laughed and also made a joke and said, "It's fine, just remember to come back and look for me when you come back, don't go to the wrong place."
Zhou Yan nodded and accepted, he was going to buy it anyway.
Lu Bachuan saw that Zhou Yan returned soon, so he asked, "Didn't you buy any?"
Zhou Yan laughed and said, "How do you buy something without an exchange? Paying with a code?"
The first thing that I want to do is to tell you that I'm not going to be able to do anything about it, and I'm not going to be able to do anything about it, so I'm not going to be able to do anything about it. The two of them actually forgot for a moment that buying and selling was a trade.
Zhou Yan found a small bag and poured about three pounds of rice into it, paused and asked Lu Bachuan: "There's still breakfast for sale up there, do you want me to bring you some back?"
Lu Bachuan shook his head and said, "No need, if you want something to eat, just buy some yourself."
There were many people on the shore selling things from stalls and few buying things, they were already new to the area, and it was not good to be too beckoning all of a sudden.
Zhou Yan didn't say anything more at the news, he was originally just asking randomly, after all, there was still quite a bit of food in his space.
Finding the previous stall, Zhou Yan handed the bag in his hand to the stall owner, and pointed to a carp next to him that was around a pound: "This rice, for this carp, and all the rest for the shrimp."
The stall owner opened the bag to take a look and asked in a low voice, "New rice from last fall?"
Zhou Yan nodded his head.
The stall owner didn't say anything else, but weighed the rice and then weighed the fish and shrimp for Zhou Yan, and finally calculated and said, "The fish and shrimp add up to three pounds and two taels, which is three taels more than your rice, so it's a gift for you, come see me next time if you want to exchange it."
Zhou Yan nodded his head and responded, "Okay!"
The shopkeeper found another bag and poured the rice into it, only when he poured it, he stuck all the mouths of Zhou Yan's bag directly into the other bag, so that not a single grain of rice would fall out and outsiders wouldn't be able to see the rice.
When Zhou Yan returned with the fish and prawns, Lu Baichuan was already boiling white porridge on the stove.
He couldn't eat so many fish and shrimps at once, so he put them in a bucket of water and raised them. The dozen or so shrimp that were picked out were stripped of their heads, their backs opened, the shrimp threads picked off, and when the porridge was almost ready, they were thrown in and rolled around a few times before they could be eaten.
With a little bit of the buns that Ye Yuan Rong had made for them earlier, it was another perfect breakfast.
Since the virus in the village was under control for the time being, the two of them had planned to be here for two days to begin with. Today, they would first go around to see if they could run into the morning's father, then tomorrow morning they would go back to change the medicine, and then the morning after, they would set sail back whether they could find the morning's father or not.