Hiding in the mountains to watch the end of the world

When the group arrived in the town, An An was excited and tired all the way, so An Huaize hugged her, and Zhao Mian went to find a place to put the carriage. If you lose it, you don't need the car, but the horse... Zhao Mian is confident that this guy can't be lost.

The market in the town has been open for a long time. It is in the east of the town, which is where the granary used to be. This is the trade area, with a lot of supplies, and the residential area is not far away. Chen Laosan and his base are in this area , and the rest are open to the rest of the town.

Most of the open areas are used for business. At this time, banknotes are completely useless. To put it bluntly, it is disgusting to use it to wipe your butt. Naturally, no one uses it. Everyone uses it. Some of them use coarse grains, so coarse grains gradually become the basic currency. Many things in the market are converted into coarse grains.

In the bazaar, most things can be bought with coarse grains. The bazaar here is taken care of by Chen Laosan and the others. There is a stall fee for each stall every day. Of course, An Huaize and the others have never paid attention to it before. Not very clear, but they don't set up stalls, so it's okay if they don't understand.

Those who sell things usually sell some daily necessities, such as toilet paper and the like, and also sell clothes. Almost everything is sold, but there are not many, and many of them are rarely seen.

However, there are also many that are very popular. Daily necessities are very popular. Clothes, unless they are worn by very young children, otherwise, other things are not as easy to sell as cloth. Of course, cloth is not very easy to sell. After all, this is not It's cheap, and it's not like everyone doesn't have clothes to wear at home, so most people don't buy them.

Most of these things are traded with coarse grains. Of course, some people don’t want coarse grains, so they will go further inside to set up stalls. Some of them are traded with rice noodles. There are also many things here, of course there are no types. There are so many people outside, but there are also many people. After all, at this time, everyone is not without food.Inside, it is necessary to exchange things specific to the seller, and naturally there are fewer people.

Zhao Mei and the others mainly came out to stroll around, and then bought some things to go back. In addition to the New Year’s goods, they also bought mulch, fertilizer, vegetable seeds, etc. for the beginning of spring. Now the family is headed by three children. They came to worry about it, and Zhao Mian didn't intervene, so he let them do it themselves.

Zhao Mian and the others also bought these things. Aunt De and the others didn't come because something was delayed at home, so they had to buy the cloth for An Huaize's clothes themselves. Zhao Mian wanted to see if there was anyone in the town For those who sell fur, although they can do it themselves, it takes time to tan the fur. Zhao Mian wants to make clothes for Ozawa before the new year.

The clothes of a few people are not bad, especially An Huaize, he likes to tidy himself up, Zhao Mian is rough, but his clothes are also clean and tidy.

A few people were talking and laughing, especially when they were holding a child, who was obviously the lucky one in the family, and the people next to them couldn't help but look sideways, with envy in their eyes.

As the New Year approached, few people in the town had a smile on their faces, as if there was almost no hope in their eyes. Even those who set up stalls, most of them were not allowed to bargain. As long as you talk about the price, directly Just pull down your face and don't sell it.

That's right, the plague has not passed, and everyone has not recovered. Fortunately, few people are infected with the plague now, and most of them are people who were infected before. Otherwise, the market may not be able to open.

That's it. It is estimated that someone in the family or in the village is infected with the plague. This disease cannot be suppressed like the two villages of Liujiatun and Zhaojiatun. Dead people, during this period of time, wherever they go, they are doing nonsense, and in the end, everyone doesn't do it anymore, just inform the villagers, and the residents who are going to die in the town will not go out and tell others, This kind of suffering can only be swallowed by oneself.

The plague has come, and everyone is afraid to eat new rice now. Everyone has discovered that almost everyone who eats new rice has the plague. The rice is a serious problem and can only be used to feed the livestock at home.To make matters worse, that's all.

But life has to go on, and some villages heard that refugees harassed them from time to time, but when Chen Laosan and the others got the news and rushed to them, they had already disappeared.

The blows again and again have made everyone numb, and now they are just alive, and they don’t know when they will get over it. If there are still people in the family, at least there is hope. They didn't get the plague, and many people couldn't bear these blows, and they committed suicide one by one.

With so many blows, everyone is just fooling around now, muddling along, and don't have the energy to bargain with you.

But fortunately, the roads with the provinces and cities are now connected, but they are also guarded by the army. I heard that the people can’t pass because there is no census here. Calculating the time, it will be years later.

But this can be regarded as a consolation. Many people's family members are outside. Everyone is numb from the natural disasters and man-made disasters. They can't help but give birth to some hope. Maybe the family members will come back by then. Life can go on.

Zhao Mian found a booth, squatted down and looked at the seeds inside, "Brother, give me some vegetable seeds."

The stall owner is a man of at least 40 years old. He bowed his head and didn't know if he was sleeping. There were only five or six kinds of seeds on the stall.

For example, corn must be planted, and there are soybeans in it, and Zhao Mian also picked a lot.

After picking, Zhao Mian missed his head, "What vegetables do you want to eat?"

An An tilted her head, thinking he was calling her, and pointed happily, "Daddy, this pot!"

The stall owner raised his head when he heard the sound, and stayed on An An's face for a while, finally there was some fluctuation in his eyes, and a smile overflowed, "How old is the child?"

"It's almost one year old." An Huaize held An An steady, afraid that he would fall.

Almost a year old?The stall owner smiled sadly, "My grandson is older than him."

"What about your grandson?" Zhao Jun subconsciously asked.

The stall owner stopped laughing, didn't speak any more, and lowered his head again.

Zhao Mian frowned and gave Zhao Jun a wink, Zhao Jun said sorry softly.

"I'm sorry, my grandson will be back when the road is cleared." The stall owner was not angry.

An Huaize didn't want to continue this topic, and talking about it would just poke someone's pain, so why bother.

"You can pick and choose. I'll go get the food." An Huaize remembered that they hadn't brought the food yet.

"Let me go." Zhao Mian stood up, "You can take these two, and you can take it yourself."

The jade pendant was still on Zhao Mian's body, and there was no food in the car, but fortunately there was a place to put things in the back, and the younger brothers and sisters didn't know it, so they could cover it up.

An Huaize lowered his body and took some. An An was a little restless. This was his first time in a place with so many people, and he kept moving around. An Huaize frowned and reprimanded him in a low voice.

An An didn't move anymore, the stall owner looked at An An kindly, and said softly to An Huaize, "Children need to talk more, don't let it go."

An Huaize just smiled and said nothing, his attitude was distant and indifferent, and he just asked the stall owner to calculate the price.

The stall owner doesn't mind either. Those with children should be more careful these days.

Zhao Mian came back soon, and everyone's vegetable seeds were only more than five catties of coarse grains.

Zhao Chen and the others followed behind in embarrassment, "I forgot to bring food when I came out, brother, we will return it to you when we go back."

"En." Zhao Mian didn't object, then suddenly stopped and looked into the crowd.

An Huaize was puzzled, and followed Zhao Mian's line of sight. It was Zhao Sheng. An Huaize sighed in his heart. Liu Cuihua's death really hit Zhao Sheng hard, but... well, the dead are the most important, and An Huaize also forget about it.

"Are you still going?" An Huaize looked at the crowd, and Zhao Sheng also saw them, but turned his head and left.

Zhao Chen and the others also saw it. They were very happy for a second. Seeing that Zhao Sheng turned around and left without saying hello, the three of them became silent in an instant, depressed, and stood silently. There.

They are brothers, the second brother doesn't intend to recognize them, right? Parents have been sick for so long, and they only came to see them once.

"Let's go, I still need to buy something." Zhao Mian called out and pulled the three of them away.

After that, everyone bought some more things one after another, leaving only mulch, fertilizer, cloth, and fur.

A few people put away their things, and then carried a few bags of rice into the market. Several stalls had already been locked by them, and they went directly carrying the grain.

There is no place to sell the mulch film. I heard that it is all in the hands of Chen Laosan and the others. It is not for sale. Chen Laosan and the others have their own circle and land. Such a large group of people usually spend a lot of money, and the land also needs a lot of money. Plant a little more, and the mulch itself is not enough, so how can it be sold?

Fertilizers are available in the market, but not much, which is very expensive, no coarse grains, no new rice, one catty of rice flour and one catty of fertilizer, whether you want it or not.Zhao Mian only bought one bag, but Zhao Jun and the others had to plant a lot of land, so they had to buy five bags of fertilizer no matter what.

More than 600 catties of rice were used as fertilizer. Because of the new rice, although rice and noodles are said to be the same price, noodles are actually more popular than rice.When the stall owner was collecting the grain, he was a little unhappy when he saw that it was rice. After careful inspection, he made sure that it was not new rice before giving them the fertilizer.

Zhao Mian bought a piece of cloth, but it was only eight catties of rice, which was 24 catties when converted into coarse grains. The price was not bad, and the fabric was quite good.

There are a lot of cloth in An Huaize's space, much better than this one, but the two of them seldom go out to shop together, so they just bought some, off-white, and the fur chosen by Zhao Mian The colors are a little different, but the combination is not ugly.

But this is a bit abrupt, the fur is light gray, although it is not ugly, but Zhao Mian still feels that this color does not match well.

The fur store sells rabbit fur, fox fur, and others, but the tanning is not good, not soft, a bit hard, this is for Ozawa to wear, and it will be uncomfortable at that time, so Zhao Mian didn't like it.

After looking for a few stalls, either the color was bad or the fur was not good or the tanning was not good. Zhao Mian really couldn't find what he liked, so he didn't want it. At most, he went to the mountains to hunt some back.

"Don't you still have a lot of fur at home? Why do you want to buy it?" An Huaize wondered.

"Look, if there are any good ones, you can buy some." Zhao Mian made an excuse instead of answering.

An Huaize didn't ask any more, An An was already asleep, and they walked back slowly.