Doomsday Grain

It was actually a little difficult for Lin Qian to go home alone. The other places were fine, the car was good, and the high and low places were passed in no time, and small cracks were basically not afraid, and passed with a single push.

It is the crack at the entrance of the village that is a headache. Although there is a wooden plank, no one helps to look at it, and I am afraid that the wheels will push the wood into the crack and the car will fall.

The sun is still outside, and besides, it is not easy to find a trailer at this time.

Lin Qian was a little worried when he drove back from the countryside. At this moment, he noticed that there were actually paths on both sides that were suitable for agricultural tractors to get on and off.It wasn't there when I came out, but the gap is still six or seven miles away from the village, such a long road, and there are so many paths to the ground.

Lin Qian hadn't taken this road many times since he called home. Most of them were for picking up couriers. He had something on his mind and never paid attention to these trails.

Lin Qian looked at the road, and then at the field. He could see his home in the distance, so he began to pay attention to finding the way in the field.

There is a lot of land here, and there must be some trails between them for tractors to pass through.

Lin Qian drove for three or four miles, and drove halfway from the village to the village before he found a relatively wider road.Seeing that there was a similar road below, Lin Qian looked along that road and saw that it extended all the way to the river.The river passed by the side of the village, and once you saw the river, it was basically not far away.

At this time, He Yangxuan at home was holding his mobile phone, hesitant to make a call.If he was on the road, it would definitely not be safe for Lin Qian to answer the phone, but at this time, it is reasonable to say that the drive from the county to the village would only take this time.

He Yangxuan was still hesitating, his grandfather came back from the yard, opened the door and said to He Yangxuan, "I heard the car ringing, come here and see if it's your car?"

He Yangxuan stood up and went out the door in a blink of an eye. Wasn't it the sound of his own car?

He Yangxuan was about to go out and remembered that he didn't have an umbrella. The sun came out when the sky cleared, and his skin would fade away without an umbrella.Turn around and enter the garage, and open the garage door.

Lin Qian drove back from the river, and the lower half of the car could not see its original color, it was all mud.

He Yangxuan was standing on the right side of the garage at this time, intending to spot the car as soon as it came to the front, because normally he would drive from the left when returning home from the entrance of the village, but today Lin Qian's car came from the right, which surprised He Yangxuan.

He Yangxuan stepped back to back up the car, the car was outside because of the reflection and he couldn't see the people inside, but when he entered the garage and the light dimmed, He Yangxuan could see the people inside at a glance.

The person who made him scratch his head these two days finally came back.

Lin Qian opened the door and got out of the car. He Yangxuan hugged him, gritted his teeth and said, "You still have the face to come back!"

Lin Qian was in pain from being hugged, and patted He Yangxuan on the back: "I'm just staying in the city for a day, don't do this, we have to wash the car."

He Yangxuan was taken aback: "Car wash?"

Lin Qian pushed him away, and said with some embarrassment: "I came back by the river, I didn't think about it, it just rained last night, the river is too muddy, and the wheel marks are deep. The deepest one is more than one foot. That is to say, your off-road vehicle has a high chassis, and if you change it to a low chassis, it will stop there."

Only then did He Yangxuan turn his attention to the car body. Indeed, there were many muddy places, and there were still some grass leaves on the wheels.The water flowed by the river, even though there was salty rain in the early spring, and it was dry now, there was a fixed water source by the river, and the grass grew well.So in addition to the mountains, the river is also a favorite place for people who dig wild vegetables, but the time is early morning or evening, when avoiding the harsh sun.

"You didn't drive into the river?" It was really distressing that the car was dirty, but at least everyone was fine.

Grandpa came over to take a look, then turned around and went back to the house when he saw that there was nothing wrong.Now that the two of them finished talking, He Yangxuan took Lin Qian back to the house to have a warm bite, and there was no rush to wash the car.

There are six dishes on the table, including meat, vegetarian, cold, and hot dishes.Both grandpa and He Yangxuan felt that Lin Qian had suffered a lot in the city, and they both wanted to make up for him, but Lin Qian actually stayed in the city for a day.

At the dinner table, Lin Qian talked about everything in the county, especially about snakes. In the city, he saw two snakes with his own eyes. Maybe there are more snakes entering people's living areas. up.

Lin Qian was also hungry, so he picked up a chicken leg for himself.

He Yangxuan looked at Lin Qian's eating and felt a little distressed. Thinking about what Lin Qian said, he frowned and said, "We should have thought about it a long time ago. Rats can walk around the streets, let alone snakes, which have no natural enemies. .Although the reproduction is a bit slow, but in this world, nothing is strange."

That's right.

Lin Qian had never encountered this in his previous life.In the last days, each place has the same appearance, different changes, and the same misery.Lin Qian had encountered an increase in insects, and there were so many flies and mosquitoes that many people were sucked dry by the mosquitoes within a short sleep.

Lin Qian thought that there was nothing scarier or more disgusting than that, until now he met a snake mouse.Thinking about it this way, flies and mosquitoes are actually more acceptable. At least there are ways to prevent flies and mosquitoes. These snakes and rats can penetrate everywhere.

"It's not necessarily a bad thing. Snake meat is delicious." Grandpa didn't worry too much. He ate snake meat a lot when he was young.

Grandpa offered to eat, but Lin Qian smiled: "Aren't you afraid that snakes are poisonous?"

Grandpa said indifferently: "Of course you can't take a cold bite, but people are really opposite to snakes. As long as you are not afraid in your heart, basically snakes can't bite people. But generally snakes will not take the initiative to bite people, because they will not take the initiative to attack too much. Big animals, unless they feel in danger."

"Didn't it mean that the reaction speed of snakes is more than twice that of humans?" This was what Lin Qian saw by chance when he flipped through the webpage before.

Grandpa curled his mouth: "Reaction ability is nothing. No matter how fast the brain is, it's useless. Snakes don't have that IQ, so they can't make predictions. Human brains are much better at calculating than snakes, and they can guess in advance when snakes will attack. , how to attack, even if it is 0.1 seconds earlier, it is enough to avoid the snake and hold the snake's head in your hand. Those who can't avoid being bitten are mostly because they are too scared. How about those who raise poisonous snakes? When you are not afraid, catching snakes is like playing."

Of course, those who raise snakes are also bitten.That's because I'm too familiar with snakes, sometimes I lose my vigilance.

What Grandpa said was indeed of a high level, at least Lin Qian and He Yangxuan hadn't thought about it, because they didn't understand and hadn't experienced it.He had caught a poisonous snake recently, but that also had an element of luck. If he really met Lin Qian, he would be afraid of winning or losing.

Grandpa said it with certainty and confidence. Looking at it this way... it seems that he has experienced it.

"Master, have you ever caught a snake?" He Yangxuan asked.

Grandpa picked up a chopstick head of vegetables for himself, without raising his head, he said, "I have eaten it, why didn't I eat it during the two years of famine?"

"Eat it often? Otherwise, why are you so experienced?" He Yangxuan asked again.

Grandpa raised his eyes, as if his thoughts flashed, and then said: "What experience can I have, go to the mountains to try my luck if the ground doesn't grow food. Animals are animals until then, and I have eaten bear meat. I can also tell you about my experience in beating bears, why do you still need it?"

Grandpa's tone obviously did not intend to continue, Lin Qian and He Yangxuan looked at each other, and ended the topic knowingly.

Grandpa said again: "Didn't you have snake repellent? Sprinkle it around. If you want to eat snake meat, go out and catch two and I'll make it for you. Try something new. There are many poisonous snakes, and they really kill people, but change them Thinking about it from an angle, isn’t this the meat delivered to your mouth?”

Now there are not many livestock in the whole village, and there are still a few laying hens, and all of them are precious.Some people want a few eggs to go home to hatch chickens, but only relatives can get a few eggs, and they are not for sale.Because if you give it away, it's friendship, and people can't ask for more. If you sell it, you can give more and give less, not to mention the loss of friendship, and you still have to eat.

Some people are really greedy for meat. They either go to the river or the ditch beside the paddy field to catch fish, or even roast a few mice to satisfy their gluttony.Especially those children, when they are growing up, they are the most gluttonous, and they are not as particular as adults.A child thinks it is delicious after roasting a mouse, and the children around will secretly catch the mouse and eat the meat.

As a result, some mice were caught and eaten by their children before they died after taking the rat poison, so two children were hospitalized.

Later, the adults really felt sorry for the children, so they didn't stop them. They used mouse traps to catch the mice and raised them for two days to make sure they didn't take medicine, and then baked them for the children.

Now that there are snakes, it is much more respectable to eat snake meat than rats.

Grandpa mentioned snake meat twice, which made Lin Qian a little greedy.Grandpa has lived a lifetime of experience and knowledge. He said it must be delicious if it is delicious.

Just relying on grandpa's cooking skills, he has too much right to speak in this regard.

After dinner, Lin Qian and He Yangxuan changed into clothes and went to the garage to wash the car.The car is still a new car. It has been less than a year since I bought it, and I haven't driven it much, so it can't just be so dirty.

Although it rained last night, water resources are still lacking right now. At least half of the people in the village cannot eat water because the water pipes were bitten by rats and it was too late to repair them. The room has water.Some people have water pumps, so they pump up two large tanks while electricity is available.

But the daily water is still limited, and the two people who wash the car are still very hateful if they are discovered by outsiders, and they can only wash it in the garage. Not only that, the water cannot flow out.

When the garage was first built, I paid attention to it. The garage is sloped, and the water for washing the car will be kept in the corner and flow into the bucket placed outside along the pipe.The buckets are replaced by two. If the dirty water is cleaned with detergent, it is kept for flushing the toilet. If it is useless, it is washed with water, and it is kept for watering the yard. In short, there is no waste at all.

In the garage, the concrete is painted with anti-skid roads, so if you don't worry, you can put a brick against it, and you won't be afraid of the car moving.

Lin Qian took a brush and cleaned it with foam from top to bottom. There was only one brush, and He Yangxuan took a water gun to clean up the brushed area. It seems to come.

The two looked at each other, Lin Qian put away the tools and took off the sleeves.

He Yangxuan pulled Lin Qian to the door and got into the driver's seat.

Lin Qian knew that he was going to be hypocritical again, so he put on a show twice: "I just finished my work and I'm still buried..."

What if you put away your usual work clothes and still want to sit in the car?There is no door either!

He Yangxuan chuckled, put his thigh between Lin Qian's, raised his chin and said, "Just make my car so dirty and clean it?"

In fact, Lin Qian knew that no matter how clean He Yangxuan was, he wouldn't care about such things.When the two were together, He Yangxuan gave Lin Qian all of himself, so why would he care about a car?

"Compensation? Compensation for what?" Lin Qian also started to play a rogue, "Then you show me the way, how should I come back? Come back from the top of the crack? No one instructed me to drive the car in again? Then I opened the door in a hurry The car went looking for someone, and then fell into the crack with a 'gu dong'? Come on, let's guess how deep the crack is, can you still find me?"

He Yangxuan pushed his thigh up, and Lin Qian stretched out his hand to block it, with a smile on his face: "Why don't you give me some advice?"

"You're fucking bad!" He Yangxuan had nothing to do with him.He was just looking for an excuse to take advantage of it. Lin Qian started talking when he caught a topic, and he said it so frighteningly, what fell into the cracks, and only picked words that He Yangxuan couldn't hear!

"No fuss, no fuss." Lin Qian stopped He Yangxuan, "But it's still feasible for me to come back this way. Apart from the bad road, it's actually more convenient than going home from the main road. If it's not raining, at most I'll be able to get back on my way back Hui, just flush it with water, it’s very convenient.”

"It's all trivial, but I'm a little concerned about the crack. It's from an earthquake, and it can be as deep as it is." He Yangxuan finished speaking, then remembered his purpose, and stretched his hand down to grab Lin Qian's waist and eyes , "Changed the subject again, right?!"

"Who changed the subject? Isn't that the end of the conversation?" Lin Qian pulled his hand down, "Don't let my father see it in broad daylight, and wait until night."

Lin Qian is not a rigid person, he is also a young man.It's just that he doesn't like stimulation very much, he never refuses the couple, and he enjoys it very much, but he always feels that it's not good to prostitute in the daytime.

How can He Yangxuan let the meat from his mouth escape when everyone is under him?As soon as he lowered his head to catch the lips that make people love and hate, there was another burst of entanglement.

I thought that after yesterday's rain ended, it would return to the previous sweltering heat again.In fact, it can be regarded as returning to the scorching heat. During the five or six hours between the morning and the afternoon, the ground was like a steamer, hot and humid, and it was extremely uncomfortable.

In the evening, cloudy clouds climbed overhead again. In the evening, there were a few thunders and it rained again.

It's already September, and everything that can die in the field has died, and only a few rice seedlings have survived tenaciously in the paddy field. When it comes to October, I don't know how many catties of rice can be produced in an acre of land.It is basically equivalent to no production, not to mention the dry land with no green at all.

If it had rained two months earlier, there might have been some relief. Now that it rains, at most wild mushrooms will grow.As far as the village is concerned, only Lin Qian's mountain is left in the village, and the entire mountain of the other family has been burned down.Except for Lin Qian's house, the nearest mountain that was not burned was more than 20 miles away, and only a few people were willing to go that far just to pick mushrooms.

And Lin Qian's mountain was sealed off when he was digging wild vegetables a few months ago, and no one was allowed to enter.

Seeing that it was raining, the people in the village who were accustomed to picking mushrooms were a little eager to try, but they didn't know when and how to open their mouths.

Grandpa also thought of this, but now the weather is still hot, and the mushrooms may not grow out.

Two days later, it rained heavily for another two days. It continued to rain at night, and basically stopped at dawn. The sun was not so harsh, at least the ground was not drying so fast. .Some people tried to put their hands under the sun, it was a little hot, but it didn't hurt, and it was completely bearable.

Ever since they knew that there were too many snakes, Lin Qian and the two stopped patrolling the mountain, for fear of disturbing the poisonous snake on the mountain and being bitten.

Grandpa advised the two of them to go to the mountain to see if there are any mushrooms when they are armed, and to pick some if there are any.Throw grass to startle snakes, you will not be afraid of snakes if you beat grass with sticks frequently, and you will not be afraid of snakes if you meet two people with sticks in their hands, so you don't have to be afraid.

The two were moved by their grandfather, and one morning they waited for the light rain to stop, and the two drove into the mountain.

When it rains, the power grid is turned off, and there is an automatic sensing device.But even if there is no electricity, it is not easy to turn over.

The two searched for more than two hours, and they really picked more than a catty of mushrooms.Although it is not much, it is enough to eat two meals, and it can be regarded as a good harvest.

Grandpa fried a plate at noon that day.

"Wait a minute, there are so many mushrooms, we can't stop others from picking mushrooms up the mountain." The mushrooms were served on the table, and Grandpa spoke before eating them.

Lin Qian raised his eyes and said nothing.Knowing that grandpa must still have something to say, grandpa is not a loser.

Sure enough, Grandpa continued: "Our power grid can't be done in vain, just like firewood, and it will be listed for money. The three melons and two dates will be charged less, just mean it. This can be regarded as the best of benevolence. Otherwise, you will not be able to close the mountain. If people go in, they will definitely have to complain."

Grandpa meant that Lin Qian should manage his reputation well.The benefits of a good reputation outweigh the disadvantages in the village, but one must not appear too weak and bully.So as long as there is the word "fair", it's not just a blind effort to please people, but a relatively fair price for everyone to get what they need.

He will not be generous to others for free, but he will not ask for a lot of money, and occasionally give some small discounts, which is enough.

Lin Qian nodded, turned around and said, "Then how do you tell others? You can't use a loudspeaker to shout all over the village, right?"

"Just put a sign at the gate of the house, at the gate of the mountain, and on the way into the mountain. Those who want to go up the mountain will see it. Isn't there a hut on the mountain? You alternately guard one by one for a day, and the mushrooms come out for a while. It will be all right in winter. At that time, you will need both of you to sell firewood."

It's an idea, and it's a small business that isn't very profitable.

He Yangxuan picked up a mushroom with chopsticks for Lin Qian: "However, there are snakes on the mountain. If you pay a fee, you must ensure your safety. If you are really bitten by a snake, isn't this another chance for people to blackmail us?"

He was bitten by a snake because he didn't pay attention, and Lin Qian didn't raise the snake.But just like the hail that killed people, if you really want to blackmail you, how can you care about that?If I can get in touch with you, I will hold on to it.

"It's not difficult." Lin Qian said with a smile, "One catty of grain is covered by hailstones, ten catties of grain is covered by snake bites, and if you charge according to the price, it will be considered as insurance. Our family doesn't have much money, but there are many valuable things."

Thinking about it this way is actually quite troublesome.Don't let them go up the mountain to complain, let them go up the mountain and there are so many things, but in order to build a good reputation, this thing must be done.

"If you give one-third of the mushrooms when you go down the mountain, it will be free." Grandpa said, "This should solve a lot of troubles. You two should pick up a few more firewood sticks. If you really go up the mountain, give one to yourself. Be careful." Grass is fine. I think many people should choose to give mushrooms, so we can save ourselves from going up the mountain to pick them.”

After all, it is Grandpa, who has a comprehensive way of thinking.Lin Qian and He Yangxuan looked at each other and nodded.

The next day, Lin Qian and He Yangxuan went to the county together. Wang Ying was just five days old and fit to be discharged from the hospital. After taking her home, the family cleaned up and continued confinement for Wang Ying. As for the woman who was bitten by the snake, she still needed more Observe for a few days.

As the light rain falls day by day, it really feels like an autumn rain and a cold.

Lin Qian put up a sign, not only picking mushrooms, but also the price of firewood.

The canteen and Xue Xinyi also posted paper advertisements, explaining that the price of picking mushrooms on the mountain is one catty of fine grains or two catties of coarse grains.A cart of firewood is ten catties of fine grains or twenty catties of coarse grains.

Such a clear price tag naturally caused a lot of complaints, thinking that they were crazy about food.

But soon some people started to help and say good things.

After all, Lin Qian had been outside all the time, and when he came back suddenly, he brought a friend with him. He was farming land and building a greenhouse in front of him, so it was understandable that he didn't have time to stock up too much food at home.And Lin Qian doesn't seem like a person who is open to money. The Liu family gave birth to a child and the family who was bitten by a snake had an accident. Lin Qian helped to send it to the county. Few, people who have a car are generally reluctant to use it, even if someone pays for it, they will take the opportunity to ask for more points, and even let them get in the car after a good price.

In addition, the day he met the snake, it was Lin Qian who took the lead in catching the snake. He was an enthusiastic and capable young man.

Lin Qian didn't even know that his actions at that time could bring such good results.

And the Liu family also wanted to help Lin Qian speak well. Originally, after giving birth, many people came to accompany them, so they inevitably talked a lot. After this, Lin Qian's reputation in the village increased. The impact of fees is not that great.

The day after the ad was released, some people went up the mountain to pick mushrooms, and they all chose to go up the mountain for one-third of the mushrooms. Lin Qian was actually happy to take mushrooms for nothing.After all, mushrooms were the best to eat back then, and they were pure wild and pollution-free.As for food, he has plenty, and he doesn't care about that.

As the weather is getting colder every day, many people are afraid to think of last winter, and two families choose to go up the mountain to chop firewood for food.

And the people on the mountain next door to Lin Qian saw that Lin Qian charged a fee, and they also charged a piece of it.Although it was burned, there are still some carbonized trunks, which look better than ordinary dry branches.Moreover, his family lost a lot in the first place, so they got an extra income.

Everyone in the village knew that the source of these charges came from the hailstorm that blackmailed Lin Qian's two families.

If it weren't for the greed of the Gao family and the Zhou family, Lin Qian would not have closed down the mountain in a fit of anger.

In this way, for the first time, these two families suffered a lot because of that momentary greed.