Doomsday Grain

Through the door, the sound of hailstones falling outside could be heard. Lin Qian turned pale, took off his shoes and ran to the window, watching everything outside being devastated by the hailstones.

Judging by the momentum of the hailstorm, the few remaining crops this year can't be kept.

Another year of extinction.

I don't know how much food the villagers still have.

He Yangxuan came over with the shoes, knelt down and put them on for Lin Qian, fearing that his feet would catch cold.

Lin Qian turned half his body around, He Yangxuan stood up, Lin Qian reached out and grabbed He Yangxuan's sleeve: "It's still here, God really didn't give me any harvest this year."

"Maybe I won't give it in the next year." He Yangxuan's words were cruel, but realistic.

Lin Qian was a little dazed when he saw the hailstorm, but he smiled helplessly after hearing this.

"Yeah, so what else do I care about? The end of the world, how can a good day be called the end of the world? Let's eat."

Lin Qian turned his head and sat on the dining table again, looked at the food on the table, swallowed, and listened to the sound of hail that could still be heard through the soundproof glass, and put the food into his mouth.

Grandpa glanced at He Yangxuan, and He Yangxuan just nodded.He Yangxuan knew that Lin Qian was not a fragile person, and sometimes he might be sentimental, but he never influenced his decision because of these emotions.

No one is perfect, Lin Qian belongs to the kind of person who is close to perfection but has constant small flaws.

Such a person is actually more suitable to survive in the last days.Have kind thoughts in your heart, but don't get caught up in them.

This was the Lin Qian He Yangxuan knew.

The family didn't seem to have seen the hailstone, and also ignored the fist-sized hailstone.The whole family gathered around a table, full of food.

Lin Qian was still mourning the hailstorm in the village, but he didn't want this hailstorm to cause him trouble.

The hailstorm lasted for a full two hours, until the hailstones that hadn't melted outside reached the calf depth.When the hailstones were over and the sky cleared up, Lin Qian and He Yangxuan put on their warm rain boots and went out to clean up the hailstones in the yard.

Pour all the hail that has been cleared into the back ditch, and when the hail in the front yard has just been cleared, the venomous sunlight shines down again, shining on people with burning pain.

The two hurried back to the room, pulled down the curtains, and turned on the lamp. Lin Qian saw that the exposed skin on his wrist had begun to turn red.

He Yangxuan took out aloe vera gel from the space and applied it to Lin Qian, and said with some resentment, "Forget about the hail, why is the sun so evil?"

Grandpa poked his head over to have a look, and said, "It looks like it's been roasted by fire."

"Let me just say it's not a good day." Applying aloe vera gel on his wrist, he felt a lot more relieved. Lin Qian is not a delicate person, so after He Yangxuan applied it, he freed up his hands to do other things.

Grandpa thought for a while, then sat on the sofa and said hesitantly, "Tell me...can someone go up the mountain to dig vegetables today?"

Lin Qian was taken aback. A few days ago, there were people going up the mountain every day. Today, if there were people who would not want to go home for lunch and still dig vegetables on the mountain, this hailstorm...

"Is there something wrong with someone?" Lin Qian frowned.

He Yangxuan also realized that many people were picking wild vegetables on the mountain that Lin Qian had rented. If someone really had an accident on the mountain...

He Yangxuan said: "If someone really has an accident on the mountain... Qianer, will we be blackmailed?"

It's not that He Yangxuan doesn't care about the people who may have accidents, it's just that what happens to other people's families is their business after all.If something happened to someone else's house and they closed their doors to be sad, He Yangxuan would have compassion and send something to express comfort, but if he was involved, then don't blame He Yangxuan for being unfeeling.

"It's really possible." Grandpa thought of this when he mentioned it.

"Impossible?" Lin Qian frowned even deeper, "They climbed the mountain by themselves, so we can't be involved if something happens, right?"

If they were hired to work on the mountain, if something happened to them, it would be counted as a work-related injury, and they went up the mountain to pick wild vegetables, what did this have to do with Lin Qian, who rented the mountain?

Things haven't happened yet, so to say too much at this time is to judge the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.He Yangxuan didn't say any more, but his grandfather was worried.

It would be great if nothing happened on the mountain, but if something happened, it would be a problem for the family no matter whether they came to the door or not.Needless to say, the troubles they brought up here needless to say, even if they didn't look for it, something happened on their own mountain, and the people here as Baoshan had to express something.

This is the unspoken rule of life in the village, which makes people feel helpless.

Lin Qian was not that big-hearted. They stopped talking, but he began to think about something.

Things are going in the worst direction.

On this day, six people died in the village, and five of them were on the mountain.Two of them were on Lin Qian's mountain.

One is the 50-year-old daughter-in-law of the Zhou family at the east end of the village, and the other is the 16-year-old youngest son of the Gao family who lives two streets in front of Lin Qian's house.

And Lin Qian knew about this because the grandmother of the youngest son of the Gao family came to make trouble.

The sun was setting to the west, and the sunlight was already much milder. Lin Qian was inspecting the greenhouse with He Yangxuan.The steel plate was pitted by hailstones, not to mention the tempered glass.Fortunately, the quality of the tempered glass is still excellent. Even though it is covered with spider web-like cracks, it is still intact as a whole and does not delay its use.

Lin Qian had just climbed up to the top of the greenhouse to check the glass, when he heard a burst of crying from the door, and soon, a group of people gathered around, some of them were dragging the crying sound away Unsteady old lady.

Lin Qian's heart skipped a beat, and he vaguely guessed the reason.

From a long distance away, Lin Qian could hear the old lady crying her grandson, crying very sadly.

Lin Qian also sympathized with the loss of his little grandson, but it didn't mean that he could make trouble in his own house.

Lin Qian jumped off from the top of the greenhouse, stood firm and walked over, asking with a serious face, "What's wrong?"

The old lady's eyes were red when she saw the person, she stepped forward a few steps, grabbed the door and shook it violently twice.

This gate is an iron railing gate uniformly installed in the whole village. It can be opened normally and can be pulled left and right. It makes a lot of noise when it shakes like this.

"You give back my grandson's life! You give back my grandson!"

Lin Qian looked at the people behind the old lady. The person closest to the old lady was a woman in her early 30s. She didn't dare to look at Lin Qian, but kept patting the old lady on the back. The person next to her said, "He The little grandson was killed by hailstones on the mountain."

Lin Qian was stunned, and said, "Hurry up and make arrangements if there is no one left. Why are you making trouble at my house?"

The woman in her early 30s reminded: "Didn't this die on your mountain?"

Lin Qian looked at her with sharp eyes, "Then what does it matter to me? I'm from the mountains and not from the hailstorm. Everyone has seen the hailstorm. You guys go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables from my mountain. I'll tell you." I didn't say anything, I didn't ask for a penny, why did someone come to look for me when I was gone?"

Lin Qian took the lead first, and what he said made sense, but he still underestimated how unreasonable the old lady was, so he reached out to grab Lin Qian: "My grandson died on your mountain! If you don't look for you, who are you? My grandson! You don’t want people to go up the mountain to dig vegetables, can my grandson go! I said don’t go, don’t go! He’s dead after all! I just asked you for my grandson, and you give me back my grandson!”

Lin Qian was so angry that his scalp was numb, and he didn't care that the other party was an old man who had just lost his grandson, so he said, "Why didn't you say that I rented the mountain? All the mountains in China are owned by the government. Why don't you go to the Forestry Bureau and the government hall?" Want someone to go? I asked you to go up the mountain to dig vegetables, and you made a mistake, right! I will seal the mountain tomorrow, and I will see who dares to go up for me again!"

He Yangxuan sensed Lin Qian's emotions, stretched out his hand and pulled Lin Qian to calm down, and said, "If you really think we are responsible, then sue! When the time comes, the sentence will count! If it continues, I will call the police."

When the police were called, the people behind the old man dodged a little.But at this time, it's not who is reasonable, but who is more pitiful and unreasonable.

The old lady howled again, directly overpowering the voices of the two, repeating those few words, and finally rolled her eyes and fell down.

Lin Qian didn't care whether it was true or not, so he turned around and left.

He Yangxuan looked at them coldly, and was not in a hurry to leave, but just looked at them like that.

The villagers still don't know He Yangxuan, they just know that he has a very valuable car, he used to be a big boss, and he looks so young, so he is not easy to mess with.

A man came out from behind the crowd, caught the fallen old lady, and said angrily: "Everyone is down! Hurry up and open the door and get people into the room first!"

He Yangxuan is not a rotten good person, and it is even more impossible for him to welcome his troubles into the house. He opened his mouth and said, "The people didn't faint in my yard. What? They started to hold on to the door of my house after the mountain was blackmailed?"

He Yangxuan didn't show any shame, and he found another lock weighing more than ten kilograms from somewhere, and locked it on the door in front of everyone, it was solid.

When He Yangxuan returned to the room, Lin Qian was sitting there panting.Just as He Yangxuan was about to persuade him, Lin Qian spoke up first: "I've thought about it, but there's nothing wrong with being blackmailed."

He Yangxuan almost thought he was angry and stupid: "How do you say that?"

Lin Qian and He Yangxuan looked at each other, with sparkles in their eyes: "Maybe, this is a ready-made opportunity to avoid trouble!"

Grandpa came down from upstairs. He opened the window upstairs and heard clearly just now, and he also saw the performance of the two grandsons. At this time, he was angry, and his decision for the two grandsons was affirmative.

Lin Qian looked at his grandfather and said, "I've thought about it, give them money! We still have spare money, give it to them! But from now on, no one can go up the mountain easily! They are relying on their people to be gone on my mountain, so they have to Take your anger out on me. I was watching for fear of offending people in the winter, and they just came to my door right now."

He Yangxuan was a little confused when he heard these words, let alone grandpa.

"Please explain clearly." He Yangxuan said.

Lin Qian looked at the door, lowered his voice, and said, "Today's hailstorm, let alone the crops in autumn, will not be able to collect any firewood. A lot of firewood was soaked last year, and even good firewood was burned That's almost it. How are they going to survive the winter, except maybe the government will subsidize some coal?"

"Go up the mountain to cut firewood?" He Yangxuan had lived in the village for so long, so he still wanted to get it.

Lin Qian nodded: "That's right, it's going up the mountain to cut firewood!"

Grandpa knew the village best, and said: "In the past when I went up the mountain to cut firewood, I greeted the people who made the mountain, and went straight up the mountain to cut those short branches or withered trees. Many people died of freezing on our mountain. There is too little firewood this year. Going up the mountain to cut wood, our mountain is probably bald."

Lin Qian nodded and said, "It doesn't matter if you are bald. There is no mountain that is not bald in this situation. But they have cut enough firewood this year to go home and burn it at home. If there is no more firewood in the next year, they will come to us. We don't make mountain buns for the big guys. It’s unrealistic to charge for firewood, but it’s unrealistic to charge for it out of the blue.”

Speaking of this, He Yangxuan also understood, and suddenly realized: "I understand! If you really don't let the villagers go up the mountain to cut firewood in the future, you will easily get hated, but now someone blackmailed you, you let them go, and then And because of the closure of the mountain, they will only blame our people for selling firewood in the future. Okay, think so much so quickly."

It can be seen from this that after staying with He Yangxuan for a long time, Lin Qian's heart became more and more "dark".

"I thought of this when you told my grandfather about this at noon. I just saw that his family really wanted to blackmail us. Anyway, the money is worthless now, and they want us to give it to them. Then we will directly exchange it with firewood. Grain, and then use the grain to exchange useful things with those peddlers, then it is understandable that our family will live well in the future."

After hearing Lin Qian's thoughts, He Yangxuan felt very relieved. He always felt that the apprentices he had taught had become masters.

The family discussed it like this, but the play still needs to be sufficient.

Lin Qian always felt that if the acting continued like this, the whole family would become actor kings.

The family hurriedly helped the old lady to leave, but the old lady recovered after walking too far, and turned around to go to the Lin family to make trouble again.

The old lady stumbled to go back, but when the door of Lin Qian's house opened, Lin Qian came out by himself.Ignoring everyone's gazes, he walked over in stride.

The old lady was going to catch Lin Qian, but Lin Qian was too fast to catch up.Her family members wanted to help stop her, but Lin Qian said first, "Don't tell me, go to the brigade and let the village preside over it. It won't do you any good if you continue to make me call the police."

Looking at going to the village to solve it instead of calling the police, the family was actually relieved.They also know that this kind of thing is totally untenable, even if the police come, it is only mediation, or so-called humanitarian compensation.If Lin Qian was determined not to pay anything, there was nothing they could do.

It is even more unreliable if you go to the court, it doesn't matter whether you succeed or not, the money for hiring a lawyer may not be as much as the compensation.

On the contrary, they have the most advantage in going to the village.You know, most of the villages talk about human feelings, and many things don't necessarily depend on who is right, but on who is miserable.

Now the world is bad, there is no production in the field, and another grandson died on the mountain.At this moment, it's best to get some "compensation" from Lin Qian, so that the other one can be supported as well.

They themselves know that this matter is not very kind, but people are gone, and they have to be selfish to live well in this world.

Of course, Lin Qian knew the result of letting the village intervene, but this result was also what he wanted.

After entering the brigade, he hurried to find the village chief.The village chief found out what had happened, and was so worried that he sucked his teeth.Anyone with long eyes knows that this kind of thing has nothing to do with Lin Qian's family. Obviously, he was greedy and insisted on going up the mountain to dig wild vegetables. He was reluctant to go home and soak in the mountain at noon. He caught up with the hailstone and killed him. It was him. Unlucky, what's the matter with Guan Linqian, the mountain master?

If it weren't for the fact that Lin Qian would be responsible if someone died on Lin Qian Mountain, how much would the hospital have to pay in a year?

The village chief wanted to go to the Gao family to persuade him, but before he could say a few words, the old lady of the Gao family was already dying.The old lady is getting old, if this is the case, who can bear the responsibility?

If you don't want to finish the quarrel here, you can only start from the other side.

Lin Qian was assigned to be in the accountant's office. He was looking at his phone at this time. The door opened and the head of the village chief came in first. Lin Qian put down his phone and said with a blank expression, "Is there a result?"

The village chief looked troubled.Originally, this wasn't his own family's business, and getting involved was just making himself guilty.But he is the head of the village, and this kind of matter must be resolved as soon as possible.

"The old lady, you know, is notoriously unreasonable in the village. She usually loves her little grandson, but now that he is gone, it is understandable for her to be sad."

"I can understand." Lin Qian nodded.

The village chief heaved a sigh of relief, and said again: "This kind of thing, it's the unlucky whoever gets it. Let's say my sister's house, even if you open a small restaurant, you can't make much money at ordinary times. Three melons and two dates are enough for you." Making a living. Just the year before last, someone got into a fight over a few cents at the dinner table, and one stabbed the other to death. What do you mean by my sister? It’s unlucky for her to die in the store! [-], and the store has been closed for half a year, and the popularity will be even weaker when it reopens.”

Lin Qian himself is a business talker, so of course he understands this kind of speaking skills.The village chief said so much, just to make Lin Qian feel unlucky.It is also true that whoever suffers from this kind of thing will be unlucky.

But at this time, Lin Qian couldn't agree so happily.

"Don't say that I run a restaurant, and don't say how much I am related to me. The kid just took me five yuan to go up the mountain to dig me two pieces of mother-in-law for me. Because it doesn't matter, I also recognized it. But he went up the mountain Does it have anything to do with me? Not at all, he didn’t even get my permission to go up the mountain! What? Seeing that the tiger eats people and the park loses money, you want me to be unlucky? It’s a pity that the child died, and he raised him so big It's not easy, but bad luck can't be pinned on me! Just because I spent a lot of money, should I deserve bad luck?"

What Lin Qian said made more sense, and the village chief was even more embarrassed.

He sighed and said: "That's the truth, but what can I do if I don't recognize my bad luck? If someone is a big guy, it's okay, it doesn't matter if you say Potian. But if someone is an old lady, if you are really impatient, you will die. The door is closed, so what can I do? This is the society now, and if you want to pay for it, you will inevitably lose money and avoid disasters. How about this, you spend less, and I persuade them more, and we both take a step back. This is how we live Don’t you just want peace?”

They said that each took a step back, but in fact Lin Qian unilaterally gave in to them.

Just because someone's family is dead, and it's an old lady who comes to blackmail someone, this kind of thing deserves to be bad luck.

Lin Qian snorted coldly, with a chill in his eyes.But Lin Qian knew in his heart that when things got here, the play was basically over.Lin Qian stood up and said without rebuttal: "For 5 yuan, I won't pay any more. It doesn't matter if you make trouble again, I don't lack money for the lawsuit. Don't let me see their family members in the future, and give it to me again." Don't worry, I'm not being bullied for nothing!"

Lin Qian made a decision directly, but the village chief was relieved.If Lin Qian let go, then the matter will basically be settled.

It would be nice to be able to give [-] yuan, and if you continue to make trouble, you won't get any benefits.

The village head continued to do the work of Gao's family, so this matter is over.

Before Lin Qian took the money, the news that he agreed to pay 5 yuan to others spread throughout the village.According to the thinking of people who eat melons, Lin Qian was simply taken away by someone (as the saying goes, a fool).How can such a thing really pay?Not to mention the difficult time now.

Everyone in the village was talking about it, and another family who also died on Lin Qian's mountain also heard about it.

Originally, they didn't intend to ask for any "compensation", but when they saw that Gao's family successfully asked for 5 yuan, the Zhou family was also a little moved.

The person is gone, and the hailstone from God killed him. It stands to reason that he can only consider himself unlucky, but if there is some compensation, it is naturally a good thing.

Lin Qian still planned to delay for two days, and after showing enough anger, he passed through the village to give the money to Gao's family.As a result, the village chief came to the door again, and the Zhou family also wanted to ask for an explanation.

They didn't make a fuss, just handed over a message.But if Lin Qian only gave to one family and not the other, it would be unreasonable.

Lin Qian said that after thinking about it for two days, he asked the village chief to go back first.In the evening, before the sun had completely set and the sun was not poisonous, Lin Qian went directly to Zhou's house.

There are two families surnamed Zhou in the village, they are brothers.In the family where Lin Qian came, two sons, three grandsons and a granddaughter died during the plague last year, leaving only one son and one grandson. The person who was killed by the hailstone was the wife of the owner.

I don't know his name, but everyone in the village calls him Boss Zhou, and Lin Qian also calls him Uncle Zhou.They were never familiar with each other. It could even be said that this was the first time Lin Qian stepped into his house.

There is a coffin in the yard, and a coffin is inside, and the juniors are still keeping watch.

Boss Zhou looked at the coffin, feeling complicated in his heart.Lin Qian was standing outside the coffin, clasped his hands facing the coffin, showing respect to the deceased.

Boss Zhou saw it, but actually felt guilty.But looking at the few children left in the family, they became cruel again, walked out of the coffin, and pretended to be indifferent: "Why are you here?"

"I thought you thought I was sending you money." Lin Qian said sarcastically.

Boss Zhou's eyes moved, and he wanted to say something harsh, but he couldn't say it, so he choked out a sentence: "You gave it to the Gao family."

"So you think it's a loss if you don't give it to your family?" Lin Qian glanced at him, "Uncle Zhou, you are more than 20 years older than me, don't you understand the reason why some money is not so easy to get?"

Boss Zhou didn't quite understand, and looked at him with doubts.

Lin Qian didn't waste his time, he just said: "I came here just to explain to you, you have to think about it, do you want this money? I don't need money, you just ask and I'll give it to you. But if you take the money, you won't have it." There is no room for regret, if you take it, you won’t come back.”