"What does her son want her? Ask carefully, why did she suddenly want it?"

Ye Zhou frowned and walked forward, reaching out to take the phone in the old man's hand. The latter glanced at him helplessly and let him take the phone over.

The guide was still trying to communicate with the old man, but after Ye Zhou lit up the screen of his mobile phone, he immediately discovered the problem.

No signal.

Ye Lan, who was beside him, took out her own cell phone, which was also in no signal condition.

"...Brother, there is no signal."

"I saw it."

Ye Zhou answered helplessly, and then said to the guide:

"You told her that it wasn't her son who didn't answer the phone, it was because the phone had no signal. Did this place have a signal before?"

The guide quickly translated the old man and then replied:

"There is a signal...is there something wrong with the phone?"

"It's not a problem with the mobile phone, it's a problem with the base station. Do you know where the base station in this area is?"

"What is a base station?"

"It's the iron tower, the signal tower."

"There is no signal tower nearby!"

"......Is there any weird tree, or a telephone pole with white boxes hanging on it?"

"There are trees and there are trees! I'll take you there!"

A few minutes later, the group followed the guide to a fake tree on the hillside, which was clearly made of plastic. Seeing Ye Zhou skillfully prying open the cabinet disguised as a rock, the guide was almost surprised to be able to speak.

"This...is a signal tower? Can a tree also be a signal tower?"

"......This is a landscape-type base station. This thing is everywhere in the scenic area. In theory, you can kick a big stone on the side of the road, which may be a base station. There is something wrong, and the ups exploded."

Ye Lan, who was standing beside him, looked at Ye Zhou's actions and asked curiously:

"Brother, how can you do this?"

Ye Zhoutou took out the deformed hybrid battery from the cabinet without looking back and threw it aside, then said:

"If I can't do this, it would be strange. You may have forgotten what my old job is for."

"Oh...yes, you are a communications engineer. How about it, can you repair it?"

Ye Zhou shook his head and replied:

"It can't be repaired, the entire power supply system has exploded and the power module has also burned. Please call for repair, but it will probably take a long time to come. This place is too remote... Let's find a way to take the old man down first and ask her to call her son."

After saying that, Ye Zhou stood up and planned to close the cabinet door, but suddenly a faint cry came from his ears.

"Hey!! What are you doing!!"

Ye Zhou looked in the direction of the sound, and a figure riding a donkey suddenly appeared on the grass not far below.

Wu Ping and the guards scattered around the periphery all put their hands on their waists vigilantly, but Ye Zhou recognized the person's identity.

"It's okay, don't be nervous. It's Xiewei's people. I guess they treat us as batteries stealing..."

A few minutes later, the popular arrived at the base station and wanted to continue approaching, but was blocked by Wu Ping.

Before he could speak, Ye Zhou spoke first:

"Ups are burning, I have to change it."

The visitor was stunned and looked suspiciously at the deformed battery on the side. After confirming that Ye Zhou was not lying, he asked:

"Are you tourists? Or ms? Why are there so many people?"

The guide wanted to answer, and Ye Zhou shook his head slightly and said:

"We are either Xiewei, or we find that there is no signal, so we come and take a look. Is there a way to deal with it?"

At this time, the visitor had already seen that Ye Zhou's group of people had a special identity, and his originally tough tone also eased.

"I came here to deal with it. I received a signal from the network monitoring before and found that the battery was working abnormally. Hey, the temperature has risen too hard in the past two days, and the battery has aged again. Sooner or later... Can I let it go? I want to take a look."

Wu Ping made a little move, but still blocked Ye Zhou's side. The person who came walked to the cabinet and was about to use the key to open the door, but found that the cabinet had been pried open by Ye Zhou.

"......You pried the cabinet open? Brother, are you very familiar with your hands, come with me?"

"As a fellow traveler... you didn't bring a backup power supply?"

"Take it in, it's in your bag."

While speaking, the visitor took out a thin battery from his backpack, which was a size larger than the hybrid battery that Ye Zhou pulled out before.

"Here, do you know the new sulfur silicon battery? Which one do you belong to? Have you not developed a new battery solution?"

"Uh...I'm not one of them. You just brought one?"

"I can't carry so much of it by myself. Anyway, they are all compatible. I will hold on first and come here to change it in two days."

While talking, the visitor quickly changed the battery. After restarting, a signal was finally displayed on Ye Zhou's mobile phone.

"Yes, it's quite quick. When did you receive an abnormal signal?"

Hearing Ye Zhou’s question, the visitor frowned and asked:

"I said, brother, you don't know how to be a friend, right? I can't answer your question, competition is not a good thing..."

Ye Zhou gave Wu Ping a wink and laughed and cried. The latter walked to the visitor and showed his ID to him. The visitor said in a panic:

"No, leader, I have no other meaning... My name is He Fang, I am Xiewei from Huaji. I just came to build the base station, and I did nothing else..."

"I know, we are also here to repair the base station... I will ask casually, just forget it if you don't want to answer."

"You can answer, you can answer! We received the signal more than 8 hours ago. We just arrived. It's too difficult to walk, otherwise we could get faster..."

"Eight hours are quite fast. I can come here in the middle of the night. Is there often a problem here?"

The visitor shook his head and replied:

"There are few problems. This is the first time this year. We usually work hard in the maintenance and deal with them when we find any signs. Now we are all agile network monitoring. If the network is cut off for more than 12 hours, we will be held accountable."

Ye Zhou nodded slightly, then looked at Ye Lan meaningfully without saying a word.

After chatting with the maintenance staff who came to the maintenance, the group returned to the old man's house, dialed the phone, and Ye Zhou sighed with emotion as he looked at the old man's excited expression.

This was his first time to come into contact with an elderly person who was actually living in a remote area. Before that, he had never thought that a phone call that could not be reached temporarily would have such a big impact on these elderly people.

He quietly walked to the door and looked inside. Surprisingly, the room was much cleaner than he expected.

It is indeed as the guide said before, there is only the simplest food in the kitchen, but there is still no shortage of basic supplies such as rice, flour, grain, and oil.

There are even a few pieces of bacon hanging on the beams of the house, but judging from the degree of blackening, it should have been several years of history.

"This seems OK...it seems to be a question of self-care ability, right?"

The guide on the side nodded and replied:

"It's this problem--to put it bluntly, it's still a problem of road."

"The road here is too difficult to walk. It has a high altitude and complex terrain. Many things need to be transported in very high cost and the express delivery fee is also expensive. Leader, think about it, if I want to bring a box of instant noodles in, I need to go there alone, let alone other large goods."

"So, the result is that the supplies here are becoming increasingly scarce, and these people have less and less choices."

"Now I can bring them some ham sausages occasionally. What if the mountain is blocked after heavy snow? They only have some rice and bacon and other supplies left. Okay, the question is: let alone whether these old people can cut the bacon, even if they are cooked, can they bite it?"

"This problem is so small that it can't be even smaller, and it even looks a bit ridiculous in the city."

"You can't eat bacon, can't you eat anything else? Why don't you eat fresh ones? Why don't you eat some small breads, big steamed buns, etc.? You're not really poor enough to afford it!"

"But the fact is that you can't afford it. What's expensive is not the product itself, it's the path that the product has taken."

Ye Zhou nodded, not knowing how to answer for a while.

As the guide said, this is a problem that cannot be smaller, and it can even be said that this is a blind spot left behind after the official solves basic living problems as much as possible.

But the problem is, because it is a blind spot, does it not exist?

Doesn’t the quality of life of these huge number of left-behind elderly people need to be further improved?

This is an extremely sharp discussion. On the one hand, there are super high costs and ultra-low cost-effectiveness ratios, and on the other hand, the scary high suicide rate and low quality living standards for elderly people in rural and remote areas. No matter which side you choose, it will bring about imbalance on the other side.

So is there a way to make up for this blind spot?

Shipping daily necessities through postal workers is just an imperfect delaying strategy. It relies on people's kindness rather than the strictness of the system, and it will inevitably be impossible to go long.

He opened his mouth and wanted to speak, but he couldn't speak.

This deep sense of powerlessness was something he had hardly experienced before.

However, the next second, a voice sounded from behind the group.

"The problem you mentioned is actually not a problem, it will be solved by next month at most."

Ye Zhou looked back in surprise and said that the person who spoke was the former assistant maintenance officer.

“How to solve it?”
To be continued...