943 inch by inch
The next morning, Erwin continued to help Otto with the funeral of the Melkes, while Hugo arrived at the train station early to get to work.
At eight o'clock, Second Lieutenant Duke, from southern Africa, arrived at the railway station in a multi-purpose military car to pick up Hugo and go with him to the warehouse in Munich.
A multi-purpose military vehicle is an off-road vehicle similar to a jeep, but there is no name "jeep" in southern Africa, so it is called a multi-purpose military vehicle.
This multi-purpose military vehicle weighs very lightly, with a total weight of no more than 700 kilograms, and in order to reduce the weight as much as possible, all unnecessary parts, including doors and armor, have been removed, and even the roof is made of canvas to further reduce the weight of the vehicle.
"This car is good, but it's not very convenient to use in Germany, especially the winter in Germany is too cold, I don't dare to drive too fast, otherwise we will be frozen into popsicles-" Although the car is good, but Ensign Duke complained while driving, there is no door, naturally there is no windshield, who will drive in Germany in October.
Hugo smiled politely, looking at the familiar street scene, feeling more and more confused.
Judging by the route, it appeared that Ensign Duke was sending Hugo home.
As luck turned out, Hugo was just two streets away from Mr. Heslin's home, which was originally a food factory, but was discontinued during the World War due to a lack of raw materials, and the former factory was converted into a warehouse, now filled with all kinds of food and household supplies from southern Africa.
When the car entered the factory gate, Hugo found that the guards of the factory had been replaced by southern African soldiers, these soldiers were all Africans, they were wearing crisp iron-gray uniforms, wearing the steel helmets of the Southern African Expeditionary Force, the leather shoes on their feet were shiny, and the bayonets on their rifles reflected the dazzling cold light.
"Later, you go to take a shower, change your clothes, and make documents at noon, the warehouse provides lunch and dinner, and your salary is one pound a week, which can also be converted into physical goods, you are in charge of warehouse No. 1, take care of those Indians, if you steal the supplies in the warehouse, then you will lose this job." Ensign Duke parked his car in front of a huge warehouse door with a striking "1" painted in white paint and a circle of paint on the outside of the figures.
The dark red door, the paint in some places has peeled off, revealing a black background, and the white paint is actually quite beautiful, the circle is quite perfect, which is very in line with Hu Ge's straight male aesthetics.
It can be seen that the exterior wall of the warehouse has been temporarily painted, the roof has also been repaired, and there should be no leakage, and there is a small half of the space in the warehouse filled with large boxes of uniform standard, and the English on the boxes makes Hu Ge secretly frightened.
The boxes were filled with canned food, and each box contained five hundred boxes, ten boxes stacked on top of each other, more than ten meters high.
Hugo looked around, and there were about five hundred boxes in a row, and ten rows in the warehouse.
That's only a small space.
In the words of Second Lieutenant Duke, in Munich alone, there were 150 such warehouses.
If there were so many cans in every warehouse, about 1,250 boxes could be distributed to every Munich citizen.
All year round of food is available!
There were more than twenty Indian workers with turbans on their heads working in the warehouse, and when he noticed these Indians, Hugo subconsciously frowned.
A box of canned food is 250 grams, and a box plus the packaging is actually about 150 kilograms, which can be easily carried away by four people under normal circumstances, and it will not be too laborious at all.
What Hugo saw was that eight Indian workers were still struggling to carry a suitcase, they were obviously in good health, not strong, but not thin, and should not be so hard.
"As you can see, these Indians don't like to work, such a box can be carried by two people in our southern Africa, but here it takes eight people-" Second Lieutenant Duke was also helpless, in the factories in southern Africa, all the people engaged in these manual labor were Africans, so it was no problem for two people to carry a box, but here, it would take eight people to carry it, and the inefficiency was unbearable.
"Thank you for your trust, Ensign, I will definitely work hard." Hugo was not afraid of difficulties, and at the same time he could finally understand why Ensign Duke wanted Hugo, a German, to work for him.
But Ensign Van Duke has a choice, and it is estimated that it will not be Hugo's turn to do this job.
After taking a shower and changing clothes, Hugo felt a little uncomfortable.
Clothes are the most common jackets and cargo pants of southern Africans, shoes are the same military boots as southern African soldiers, such a set of clothes is very valuable, especially shoes, it is not easy to buy such a pair of beautiful, comfortable, and durable shoes in Munich, Hugo is worried, mainly because he is worried that such a set of clothes, if worn out, will bring unpleasant memories to some Munich people.
However, such clothes are normal in the warehouse, and when he came to the warehouse, Hu Ge got the badge he had just made for him, and with this badge, he could enter and leave the warehouse freely.
There is a transparent protective jacket on the outside of the blue badge, Hu Ge doesn't know what material the coat is made of, this is just a temporary work permit, and after the photo is washed out, Hu Ge's photo must be pasted to use it normally.
When Hu Ge came to the warehouse, a truck was stopped at the door of the warehouse to unload, more than 20 Indian workers were waiting in line, the unloading was slow, the lifting of things was also slow, the Indian workers waiting in line were laughing and playing, there was no intention of helping at all, the driver was smoking in the cab, which also violated the warehouse regulations, Hu Ge reminded the driver in the past, the driver looked at Hu Ge's badge, the slightly panicked driver looked at Hu Ge's badge, and suddenly returned to his arrogant expression.
"Please don't smoke here, it's against the warehouse rules, smoking can cause a fire-" Hugo didn't know what the color of the badge meant, and even if he did, Hugo would remind the driver to follow the rules.
For this job, Hugo still cherishes it.
The driver glanced at Hu Ge contemptuously, took a hard puff of his cigarette, leaned against the door and spit it out slowly, not paying attention to Hu Ge's reminder at all.
"I said, please don't smoke inside the warehouse, it's against the rules—" Hugo reminded again.
The driver still goes his own way.
Hugo stopped reminding the driver, and looked down at the regulations of the warehouse that Second Lieutenant Duke had just given him.
Found that if someone did not comply, Hugo, as a storekeeper, could ask the gendarmerie for help.
Hu Ge turned his head to look around, and not far away, there were two military policemen wearing white steel helmets, looking at Hu Ge with a smile, and they didn't mean to help.
Hugo strode over and explained the situation to the two gendarmes.
"You have to deal with this situation yourself, we are only responsible for the security of the warehouse, as long as they do not endanger the security of the warehouse, we should not interfere." The gendarmes, who wore the rank of sergeant, seemed to be deliberately making things difficult.
"The driver is smoking at the door of the warehouse, which has threatened the safety of the warehouse, and the car has not turned off in accordance with the relevant regulations, which is also a violation of the regulations, and I don't want to trouble you, but I don't have the right to enforce it." Hugo prefers to see this as a test, and it is not easy to fit into an unfamiliar collective, especially in the current situation.
Because the Peace Agreement was not signed, Britain and Germany are still at war.
The two gendarmes looked at each other and walked past Hugo towards the car.
When the driver saw the two gendarmes coming, he immediately turned off the engine and threw the cigarette butts, raising his feet to extinguish the cigarette butts.
"Truck No. 1165, demerit once, if there is a next time, you will carry the bag like these workers, understand?" The gendarmes were in full swing.
"I'm sorry sir, I didn't mean to, forgive me, I still have children at home-" The driver pleaded bitterly, and he could no longer see the arrogance just now.
"What does this have to do with whether you have children at home, work honestly, no one will deliberately make things difficult for you, the gentleman just reminded you, why don't you correct it?" The gendarmes are not accommodating, and these Indians are indeed annoying, and they do not seem to notice this, but take pride in it.
After the two gendarmes left, the workers were much more swift, and the few workers who had been fighting a moment ago were now honest, but they still looked at Hugo with unfriendly eyes.
"Oh my god—" There was a sudden wail from the warehouse, and several Indians lost their balance while carrying the box, and the box fell and fell the foot of a worker, who rolled on the ground with his feet and wailed, and the wooden box broke with a scream, and several boxes of cans rolled out.
Hugo could see very clearly that the workers were busy putting the cans on the ground into their pockets, ignoring the wounded who were still rolling and wailing on the ground.
"You, you, and you, you send him to the doctor, you guys come over and register his name, and by the way put back what you just stole from, I can pretend I didn't see it, or I'll tell Second Lieutenant Duke that you think through the consequences." Hu Ge opened the folder in his hand and began to record, today is Hu Ge's first day at work, and Hu Ge has been prepared for these situations.
"Damn Germans—"
Someone was whispering a curse, and Hugo heard it clearly.
"I don't care how you scold me, please be serious when you work, I remind you again, I will not tolerate any slack behavior, if you are dissatisfied with me, then you can go and tell Second Lieutenant Duke, before Second Lieutenant Duke does not remove my position, you will be honest with me, understand?" Hugo is not a college student who has just left school, and the time he worked at the train station gave Hugo a wealth of experience.
For some people, even a little bit of friendliness will be considered by them to be an inch.
ps: Today's third shift, start to add in the afternoon - in addition to reminding the brothers who haven't slept at three o'clock, I go to bed early at three o'clock, and I have a lunch break at noon, so although I get up early, but the sleep time is guaranteed - brothers must pay attention to the body, the body is the capital of a happy life -