Doomsday Grain

"What's wrong?" Lin Qian was taken aback.He knows how much the Liu family attaches importance to this child, and they usually take good care of it. All delicious food and drink are strictly for pregnant women to eat. How could something happen?

Aunt Liu was so frightened that she cried, her hands were still trembling: "I met a kidnapper... They say kidnapping a little girl, but I don't think that even pregnant women will be spared. Your brother accompanied her to the intersection for a walk, and your brother went to the toilet Your sister-in-law was almost taken away! Fortunately, your brother came back in time and was almost taken away!"

Lin Qian understood. He hurriedly opened the door to welcome him in, went into the house and changed his clothes, and asked He Yangxuan to make tea to calm down the shock. Lin Qian went to the garage to drive.

He Yangxuan threw the car keys to Lin Qian. Lin Qian's bun was still in the city, and He Yangxuan's off-road vehicle was faster.

Aunt Liu was so frightened that she couldn't help but obviously not suitable to go with her. Uncle Liu and his son Liu Dongsheng got into the car with pregnant woman Wang Ying, and the car drove straight to the county with dust all the way.

To be on the safe side, the car drove to the county hospital and went directly to the emergency room.

Liu Dongsheng was sitting on the seat, his hands were still shaking, Lin Qian saw that things were almost done, and took out his mobile phone to call the police.

At this time, when I asked Liu Dongsheng about the kidnapper, the car model, the license plate number, etc., he had almost forgotten about it, and his mind was full of his wife and the newly formed child.Lin Qian frowned and sorted out the known information. It is unlikely that this matter will be found out.

Changxing Village is relatively remote, and only the small shop has unclear surveillance. Now that there is a power outage, it is unlikely that the small shop will be photographed.Even if there is a backup power supply to power up the monitoring, the monitoring can at most capture the car model, but not the kidnapper, and it may not be able to clearly capture the license plate.

Since that group of people can choose to attack here, they are sure that they will not be caught by the tail.

So this kind of thing can only be left alone.It's lucky to protect someone, and if you don't protect that person, you won't be able to find it.

If a pregnant woman is really captured, she can find a place to lock her up, and if the baby is lost, she will be buried directly. If the baby is born, it will be sold for the money of two people.In today's society, there are fewer and fewer people. I don't know how many bachelors are struggling to marry a wife. The market may be better for those who have had children. After all, some people get married to have children.

Lin Qian analyzed the psychology of those kidnappers, and the reason for attacking pregnant women came out.

This group of beasts can think so thoroughly, I don't know how many times they have succeeded, but right now there is nothing they can do.

A police officer came over and made a record, and then went to the village to investigate the situation.Lin Qian knew that the incident happened in the village, and there were too few clues to get.

Fortunately, the pregnant woman did not have any major problems. She received a fetal-prevention injection and was hospitalized for observation for two days.

In this way, the Liu family father and son were completely relieved.Uncle Liu wanted to invite Lin Qian to dinner, but Lin Qian declined, and called home tonight to see the situation. If there is no problem, he will go home first. If the pregnant woman's condition is unstable, he still needs to help.After all, they are neighbors, so they can't ignore this matter.

Besides, there was no electricity, and their father and son's mobile phones could not be used. Now it was troublesome to call a car, and Lin Qian had things to deal with after he left.

Until the afternoon, Uncle Liu saw that his daughter-in-law was fine in the ward, and there was no problem with the rounds in the afternoon. He felt at ease, and said to Lin Qian, "You have a lot of work at home, so go home and do it in two or three days. Wait for Xiaoying to stabilize before picking us up. Today’s matter is really troublesome for you, but fortunately you delivered it in time, so you can keep the 200 yuan.”

After finishing talking, Uncle Liu wanted to give Lin Qian two red tickets. How could Lin Qian accept it? He refused again and again: "I just happened to go to my house in the county to have a look, by the way. Save the money for my sister-in-law to buy more It’s delicious, she’s quite frightened. Then I’ll go back first, there’s a phone in the hospital, call me anytime if you need anything, and I’ll leave my phone number for you.”

Lin Qian asked the nurse for a piece of paper, wrote down his phone number and gave it to Uncle Liu before leaving.

Lin Qian drove out of the hospital, thought for a while and went back into the hospital to buy some medicine.It is a pity that the hospital stipulates that only the medicine prescribed by the doctor can be purchased, and unless there are special conditions, most of the medicines are restricted.

Now the productivity is not increasing, and most of the time it is consuming the inventory in the past.

Lin Qian understood, and then drove away.

Go straight back to the village.

As soon as I entered the village, I saw a few people standing in the middle of the road and talking at the intersection of my own road.Lin Qian stopped the car, and they gave way one after another. When Lin Qian drove past, he saw a woman holding a child from the corner of her eye. She was a little sloppy. She had obviously just returned, and she came back on foot. She was very embarrassed.

People from the village came back one after another.Lin Qian recalled that if he hadn't been controlled by those scumbags in his previous life, he would have gone back to the village early to live with his grandfather.

It's a pity that I missed it in my previous life.When he escaped from that devil's lair, the world was already a hell.

When he got home, grandpa first asked how the pregnant woman was doing.Lin Qian understood what he had said. Grandpa stomped his feet and spat a few times, scolding the kidnapper for nothing. Lin Qian then told what he saw when he came back.

"A woman with a child, if she really walked back, she would be lucky not to be kidnapped along the way. Now this kidnapper is so rampant, he directly drags people. The one on our road...isn't that your classmate?"

Hearing what Grandpa said, Lin Qian still hadn't realized it: "My classmate?"

Grandpa said: "Did you forget? I told you before that her father refused to let her go to university and let her go to work. Then she got married and divorced! When you were in junior high school, you said that she always beat you in the rankings." !"

The big list is the grade list.This Lin Qian was deeply impressed, and suddenly realized: "It's her? I didn't recognize it at all."

It's not so much that I can't recognize it, it's better to say that I didn't think about it at all.Lin Qian stayed in the city for too long, and the people of the same age he saw were basically well-maintained and looked young.Especially for women, it is almost impossible to tell their age with makeup on.

It is certainly different for the skin in the countryside that lacks maintenance in the wind and sun.Lin Qian will be thirty in the next year, and women of his age have suffered a serious loss of collagen, so Lin Qian hardly thinks about being the same age.

Just looking at it from the corner of the eye, Lin Qian subconsciously felt that it was someone who was at least five or six years older than him.

"It's normal if you can't recognize her after so many years. Besides, that girl's life is hard. She has suffered a lot in these years, and she has to bring a girl by herself, and she has to make money and send it home. If you have time, go and have a look. Anyway, she is a classmate. Get in touch. Not afraid of anything."

He Yangxuan came out of the kitchen to wash the fruits, of course they all came out of the space.

"Student?" He Yangxuan had some doubts.

Lin Qian said with some regret: "My former classmate. During the college entrance examination, he was admitted to a very good university, and the admission letter came down. But at that time, there was a popular saying among girls in the village that studying was useless, and her father believed it. I refused to let her go to college, so I found a factory to let her work. Later, she married and divorced, and brought a girl with her. In recent years, I heard that while working part-time and raising a daughter, I had to send money to my family. On the way back I saw it, it was the same street as us, and I didn't even recognize it."

This kind of thing is actually not uncommon, but no matter how many times I hear it, I can't help but feel a little sad.

"It was just a mistake." He Yangxuan stuffed Lin Qian with a grape, and put the fruit plate in front of Grandpa.

Grandpa said: "At the beginning, I went over to persuade my daughter to study, but my parents were so determined that they didn't want my daughter to study. I heard a few days ago that there were girls who were not good at studying, and their parents were so determined that they would smash them." The money allowed her to go to three colleges. After graduation, she found a good job. Now she is doing well in her husband's house. She studied well because her parents didn't agree. Now her father passed away because of the plague last year. , her mother is the only one left in the family who is still sick. A woman takes care of her mother and takes care of a child. There is no man in the family who will have a hard time in the future."

What Grandpa meant was that he intentionally asked Lin Qian to come over and help out more.

Lin Qian nodded in agreement, thought for a while and said, "Aren't you afraid of rumors this time?"

After the plague, although more women died than men, many women became widows.A few have found someone again in the past six months, and most haven't found a suitable one or don't want to look for it anymore.Sometimes grandpa would remind him not to talk to them, because spittle can eat people in the village.There are so many poor people that I can't help them even if I want to.

"Isn't this your classmate? Besides, you have a thick skin and are afraid of people talking about it?"

Sometimes grandpa's words really divide people.In the past, he was afraid of being said badly, and the less things happened in the village, the more peaceful he would be. This time, he said that Lin Qian had a thick skin and didn't care.

Lin Qian glanced at He Yangxuan, dumbfounded.

He Yangxuan changed the subject and said, "Master, what shall we have for dinner?"

Of course Grandpa knew what his intentions were. He glanced at him and said indifferently: "Noodles. Eat some water noodles, and eat other accumulated food in this hot day."

In fact, the air conditioner in the house is cool, and there is no delay in eating, but it is also refreshing to eat with seasoning on the surface of the water.After receiving the letter, Lin Qian and the two chatted for a while. Grandpa went to cook, Lin Qian went to feed the livestock, and He Yangxuan went to the greenhouse to have a look, and casually sprinkled two handfuls of fish food on the fish in the swimming pool.

The next morning, Lin Qian took two handfuls of green vegetables from his own greenhouse to visit his old classmates.

This female classmate was also surnamed Liu, so she was somewhat related to Uncle Liu next door, and her name was Liu Zhifeng.It's ridiculous to say that such a meaningful name, but because of his father's mistake, he missed the university and changed his life.

Lin Qian stood at the gate and knocked twice, while Liu Zhifeng was cleaning up the house.With a thin body, she seemed to be unable to exert strength, and her seven or eight-year-old daughter was helping, but it didn't help much.

Hearing the sound of the door outside, Liu Zhifeng saw a man through the window, and felt a little strange in his heart, so he told his daughter to stay in the room, wipe her hands and go out.

"Is it Liu Zhifeng?" Lin Qian asked for confirmation.

"I am." Liu Zhifeng approached and saw it clearly, and said uncertainly, "Are you... Lin Qian?"

"It's me. I heard that you came back yesterday, but something delayed me. We are old classmates, so we have to come and see. I was busy all day yesterday, and I just found time. You must be busy for a while when you come back. Don't bother me. My grandfather asked me to deliver this dish to your aunt, so I'll go back right away."

Lin Qian didn't even intend to enter the yard.Not to mention the rumors in the village, Liu Zhifeng had just returned to the village at this time and had just settled down. There were three generations of three women in the family, two of whom had little labor, and Liu Zhifeng was the only supporter.This state is the most vulnerable to being bullied, especially men.

This was also the time when their family felt the most insecure. Lin Qian was not a troublemaker, so he knew how to measure.

Liu Zhifeng breathed a sigh of relief seeing his attitude, and said with a smile: "I also know that this dish is worth a lot now, but the rats are still making trouble. No one has much food, so I don't have the nerve to ask for it."

Liu Zhifeng opened the small door, Lin Qian handed the bag over, and said with a smile: "My house has a greenhouse, and these are grown in the greenhouse, and mice can't get in. I still have something to do at home, so I'll leave first."

Liu Zhifeng took the food, watched Lin Qian leave, held the bag and heard the sound of the plastic bag, feeling a little complicated in his heart.

Lin Qian has been working in the dark these days, but compared to other people in the village, he is still much fairer, and his skin is delicate. It can be seen that he has lived a good life these years, eating good food, and being well-raised.

Liu Zhifeng's daughter Liu Zixuan ran out to see the bag in Liu Zhifeng's hand beside her mother.

Liu Zhifeng smiled wryly, patted Liu Zixuan's head, and washed the vegetables before entering the room.It has been a few days since I have eaten fresh vegetables. The vegetables in the yard are not big, and many of them have been eaten by mice.When Liu Zhifeng came back yesterday, he didn't want to pick it.

Putting it into the basin, Liu Zhifeng felt even more sad when he saw the leaves of the vegetables full of moisture.

On the way back, Lin Qian deliberately walked to a shady place, and looked back at Liu Zhifeng's house, feeling the same sigh in his heart.I just glanced at it from the corner of my eye yesterday, and I saw it clearly just now.

He is very thin, and he seems to have lost weight rapidly in recent days, so his skin is a little slack. There are obvious crow's feet around the corners of his eyes, and nasolabial folds have also appeared. He looks like a person in his early forties.

She lacked maintenance in the first place, and now she has experienced a disaster. She supports a family by herself and brings a girl who has just grown up. Under such a great pressure, it is no wonder that she looks so old.

In the days to come, I don't know how their family will persist.

However, if there are no outsiders interfering or looking for trouble, it is not difficult for the family to support each other and survive.The difficulty is that those bastards who bully the weak and fear the hard will come to bully widows.

Two days later, Lin Qian drove to the county hospital. Wang Ying's condition was already stable and she did not need to be hospitalized.Lin Qian drove them back, this time it was He Yangxuan who drove, and Lin Qian went to the garage of his family in the county to drive the buns home.

At this time, vegetables never worry about sales.There are many greenhouses in the village, and some people have already gone directly to the countryside to buy vegetables.

Lin Qian was waiting for this time, only waiting for the vegetable seller to "turn over".The scene of going bankrupt before was done enough, and now I have to turn over beautifully.

There are four greenhouses in his home, and it is easy to turn over any way he wants.

There are more greenhouses in Lin Qian's house in the whole village, so the orders are also the most.Advance payment Lin Qian refused to use cash, and only wanted to buy some daily necessities and medicines, the price was easy to negotiate.

When others asked, they said that the house is very clean and consumes a lot. It will take time for production to resume in the future, so we should stock up at home first.

People in the village thought it made sense. Other families with greenhouses have learned to change some useful things, but money is still needed.

At this time, you can see the benefits of having a greenhouse, and everyone in the village has thought about it, and plans to build a greenhouse or a greenhouse.

And Lin Qian was already busy digging wells.

The method my grandfather chose is the oldest soil method, relying on manpower to dig down a little bit.Grandpa said that he had dug many wells when he was young. Anyway, the family was not in a hurry to use them, so he was not afraid to take his time.The two young men used two shovels, watched the terrain, and started digging a well in a greenhouse.

Grandpa can look at the ground and can tell where water can come out. The two of them are just like this under the command of grandpa, digging wells like mud eggs every day.

Lin Qian could clearly feel that with the increase in strength, although he was tired, his arms swelled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, his muscles began to grow, and his body became stronger and stronger.

Because of the lack of vegetables, it became popular in the village to dig wild vegetables in the mountains.Although the land on the mountain has been watered by sea water, many tenacious wild vegetables have survived.Although there are relatively few flies, no matter how small the flies are, they are still meat.

There was a mountain on Lin Qian's side in the village, but he didn't stop those who went up the mountain to dig wild vegetables. There were actually no good wild vegetables at this time, but it was just to pass the boredom and at the same time add more greens to the dinner table at home.

More than half a month later, the well has been dug 14 meters down, and there is still no water.What Grandpa meant was to keep digging down, and count as soon as you see water.From time to time, he would also instruct the two on how to dig down, how to dig to avoid the collapse of the well head, the well was dug a bit big, and more space was deliberately dug down, so that it could be used to store some things in the future.Although there is a basement at home, the temperature in the wellhead is just like a natural refrigerator due to the water coming out, which is very suitable for storing some long-lasting foods, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, radishes, and cabbage.

This is how people stored winter vegetables in the early years.Nowadays, it is not difficult to eat vegetables in winter, and with the popularization of running water, few people in rural areas do this.

At noon this day, grandpa made stewed chicken with mushrooms for the two of them.Because they have to do physical work every day, grandpa cooks delicious food for the two of them in different ways. Most of them are meat and vegetables, which taste good.Usually, when the two of them are well fed, they will have more energy to work.

Lin Qian put a big chopsticks of mushrooms in his bowl, and then ate them bit by bit, until his mouth was full of oil.

After two mouthfuls of food, He Yangxuan saw that Lin Qian's chin was oily, so he took out a tissue from the paper drawer and wiped Lin Qian clean.

Why would someone else wipe his mouth at such an adult? Lin Qian reached out for a tissue and wiped it carelessly by himself.

He Yangxuan turned his head and found that his grandfather was looking at him, smiled at him, and lowered his head to eat his own.

The atmosphere between the two of them, from the very gluey at the beginning, is now less greasy and more of a tacit understanding.Originally, the tacit understanding between the two was quite good, but now they are completely like one person.Often when one person says the first half of a sentence, the other person knows the second half.

Just this morning Lin Qian said something downstairs: "Help me take that down."

Grandpa, the grandfather who has raised him for so many years, didn't realize it. He saw He Yangxuan throwing a bunch of keys from the stairs. Lin Qian just took the keys and went to the warehouse to carry some firewood into the boiler room. The firewood in the boiler room was almost used up. .

Although the weather is hot now, the house still burns the heating every three to five times.One is to maintain the heating, and the other is to prevent the house from getting damp.After all, the air conditioner and air conditioning fan are blowing in the room all the time, and sometimes the humidity will be a little heavy.

Such a tacit understanding made grandpa a little jealous.But it is also a good thing for grandson to have such a highly compatible person together.

Grandpa thought very clearly.No matter how close he and Lin Qian were, there would be a day when he would leave. He was nearly 60 years older than Lin Qian, and Lin Qian still had a long way to go after he was gone.

It is not an exaggeration to say that He Yangxuan is an all-rounder. Apart from not being able to have children, he is more considerate than any other woman.The bigger advantage is that the productivity of a man can be at least one and a half times that of a woman. The life of two men is much easier than that of an ordinary couple or even a family of three.

Thinking about it, Lin Qian would live happily ever after without any pressure, which was exactly what grandpa wanted.

It’s just that when you’re old and no one dies, if whoever leaves first, how lonely will the one left be?

But this is not something grandpa should worry about. At that time, grandpa may not know where the child has gone, and he can't control it anymore.

Grandpa was still thinking about it when he heard thunder outside.Grandpa put down his chopsticks and got up and went to the window to look at the sky outside. After a while, the sky was already covered with dark clouds. The clouds rolled at a speed visible to the naked eye and piled up thicker and thicker. It seemed that there was a lot of rain.

"It's going to rain!" Grandpa said happily.

Three consecutive months of drought are almost desperate.It was originally a saline-alkali land, but now there is not enough rain to wash it away, and with the scourge of rats, many people basically have no harvest.If there is a heavy rain at this time, although it is late, it will be useful.

Lin Qian also put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth. He went to the window and looked at the sky. He was obviously not as optimistic as his grandfather.From his experience, in the last days, every change in the sky is not that simple.

Lin Qian came back to his senses, patted He Yangxuan on the shoulder, and then went to the door to put on his coat.At this time, the wind was already blowing outside, and the temperature rarely dropped.

He Yangxuan hadn't eaten yet, looked at his movements, although he didn't understand, he believed in Lin Qian, put down his chopsticks and followed him to get dressed.

"Why are you going?" Grandpa didn't quite understand.

"Take back the solar panels and generators, and then put on the protective cover of the greenhouse." The protective cover mentioned is the baffle, and the steel baffle was bought. The price is quite high but the quality is also very good.

Grandpa understood it, and asked doubtfully, "It's so hot today, can't there be hailstones?" Generally, hailstones occur in autumn, and hailstones rarely occur in summer, especially during the dog days.

"Be prepared." Lin Qian said while putting on his shoes, "The weather is so bad right now, let's get it on first."

The two moved faster, first put away all the solar panels, put them in the nearest greenhouse or house, and then went to cover the baffles.As soon as the third of the four greenhouses was built, the sound of hail was heard not far away.

He Yangxuan's expression changed, he dragged Lin Qian and ran into the house. Lin Qian's eyes were still on the half-finished greenhouse, and He Yangxuan had already pulled him into the house.

As soon as I entered the house, I heard the sound of hailstones outside.The hailstones hit the steel plate so loudly that it really made people's hearts tremble.