Doomsday Grain

The temperature has dropped below zero, but the rain is still falling, and the ground is covered with a thin layer of ice. You must be careful when walking on the road to avoid falling.

Grandpa lit the stove, then collected the ashes from the stove and sprinkled them all over the yard, as well as a section of the road at the door, to increase friction.

The person who was bitten by the snake brought him back and gave Lin Qian gas money.After this incident, the relationship between the two families has become closer, and they usually move around more.

Some people did not cut firewood, some went up the mountain to get firewood, and some went to the rice fields to collect the few grains.

Lin Qian's family had a lot of land, both of Lin Qian's parents had land, so in total, three people lived on four people's land.

The paddy fields are all side by side, and the area is not small, but the harvest is only more than 100 catties.

If it weren't for their large stocks, they would definitely starve to death with such a small harvest.

The village chief came over twice to ask about Lin Qian's family situation. At this time, Lin Qian didn't cry about being poor. He just said that the vegetables in the greenhouse would not worry about selling, and he would not sell them for money in the future, as long as he only needed food. up.

There are two more sows with piglets in the family. In the future, not only can they sell vegetables, but maybe they can also sell meat.

Grandpa himself means that it takes time and effort to raise piglets, and they have to bear the risk of getting sick when they grow up, and they are easy to attract people's attention.It might as well be selling Piggy.Anyway, pigs have strong reproductive ability and are not as strenuous as cattle and sheep. Only selling piglets can save a lot of effort.

But cattle and sheep are much more expensive, and they still need to breed a lot now. Whether it is selling milk or other things, they will be of great use in the future.

Not to mention anything else, there is less and less gasoline now, and plowing cattle will be the best substitute in the future.Just wait for the cattle to breed more, and rent them out to plow the land in the future, which will bring in a lot of money.

Chickens, ducks, and geese don't need to pay too much attention. Whether it's selling eggs or cubs, it's easy and easy.

Plus fruit trees planted on the hill.

In the eyes of the villagers, although Lin Qian's family looked difficult, their prospects were much better than any other family in the village.

The natural disasters in the past two years have brought great disasters to Lin Qian's family on the surface, but after careful calculation, only Lin Qian's family has benefited the most in the whole village.

When the weather turned cold, grandpa chose a bigger carp and chopped it in half. He stewed half and made soup to drive away the cold for the two grandsons. They watched on the mountain during the day and came back at night.

As the weather turned colder, the snakes all but disappeared.Snakes are cold-blooded animals. They cannot move in winter and can only hibernate. Therefore, as long as it is severe cold, there is almost no need to worry about poisonous snakes.

Grandpa opened the pot to see the milky white soup inside, smelled the taste, picked up a spoon to fill some soup, and was about to taste it when he heard someone knocking on the door.

Grandpa closed the lid, turned off the fire, and opened the door to have a look.

Open the door and look at an old man on the street. He has played cards a few times before, and his friendship is pretty good.

"Old Lintou, come with me quickly!"

"What's wrong?" Seeing his anxious face, Grandpa wiped his hands and went out to open the door.

"The child of Li Erchun's family fell into the crack! It was the crack in the ground that was shaken by the earthquake two months ago. Those bratty kids always went there to play, and they didn't listen to what they said. They fell in!"

The children in the village lack places to play.The seam was bottomless and about one meter wide, just enough for the children to jump over.So children are very keen on this game called "Courage" recently. Standing on one side of the gap, standing long jump and jumping to the other side, repeating it repeatedly. Parents always say, but when children encounter interesting things, how can they listen to adults? ?

Grandpa frowned: "Then go down and look for it!"

"Someone tied a rope and went down to look, but they couldn't get to the bottom! Some people had bright flashlights and tried to find it, but they still couldn't see where the bottom was, and they couldn't hear the voice of the child inside. They didn't know whether they were dead or alive. They all said that The crack is evil, ask the elders in the village to go and have a look. You are the only one with good thighs and feet in the village, come with me to have a look."

People are old, but their experience is still there. At this time, the way to think is more comprehensive than that of young people.

Grandpa nodded: "You go ahead, I'll go back to the house and put on my clothes."

Grandpa turned his head and entered the house, put on the padded jacket hanging by the door, remembered that there was still fish soup stewing, went to turn off the fire, and went out with a stick and went straight to the crack.

At this moment, many people were surrounded by the crack, all of them had regretful expressions on their faces.There were already few children in the village, but there was none.

Two strips of wood were nailed above the gap.Lin Qian had laid wooden planks before, but someone reinforced them later, forming two narrow bridges.Because there are usually only cars passing here, such a small bridge is enough for cars to pass safely, and no one will think about sealing it completely.

This also caused the children to come and play, brewing tragedy.

Li Erchun's wife died of the plague last year, and his parents also died.There is only such a son right now, and he is still thinking about marrying another wife to give the child a complete family, and the child just fell into the crack without warning.

Li Erchun had a rope tied around his waist, and he was about to go down. Grandpa just happened to come over, and someone in the crowd said something, and they automatically made way.

Grandpa took a few steps and stepped forward. He glanced into the gully in the sunlight, his brows were tightly furrowed, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Uncle, look at this..."

"Don't go down lightly. We don't know what's below. Call the fire brigade. The fire officers and soldiers are in charge of this. They have relatively complete equipment, which is better than us fooling around."

Li Erchun wiped his tears and said: "But the child is still down! It's so cold, if you don't rescue him, he will freeze to death!"

In fact, everyone present knew that if the child hadn't heard anything about it for so long, it might be a sign of bad luck, but at this time, no one could bear the heart to tell this poor father.Maybe there was hope, maybe the kid just passed out in the ground.

Grandpa asked for a bright flashlight from the person next to him, and the flashlight was in a spotlight state, so Grandpa took a photo into the ravine.

Under the condition of concentrated light, the strong light flashlight can clearly illuminate a thing at a distance of nearly [-] meters.In the gully, it is reasonable to say that the light will not be too scattered, and the light will shine farther under the refraction.In this case, it is still dark and there are only two possibilities.

One is that the ditch is more than [-] meters long, and the other is that there are light-absorbing substances in it, so the light cannot reach the bottom.

Some substances are very light-absorbing, or even non-reflective.The flashlight can see things because of the refraction of light. If the light cannot be refracted, it is naturally impossible to see what is.

"Just looking at it like this, it is 80-[-] meters deep, not to mention how the child is, where can I find such a long rope? It is not reliable to tie several ropes together, and even if there is such a long rope, That's heavy enough. The force of falling is no worse than a tug-of-war on the ground. With such a long rope to send you down, five or six people above can't hold you back. The more anxious you are, the more you will be in a hurry. Don't fall in without the child being rescued. Call the fire department Team, everyone stand far away, whoever has wooden planks and iron sheets will cover them first and wait for the officers and soldiers to come.”

Grandpa commanded everyone, then walked a few steps back, leaning on a cane and waiting for them to execute.

At times like this, older people speak the most.

Li Erchun wiped the wet corners of his eyes, and sighed heavily: "This kid is just disobedient! I've been told several times not to come and play, but he just won't listen to this crack!"

Someone came to comfort me, and the good child just disappeared, and no one felt good when they heard it.But things have happened, and there is always a way to solve them.

Lin Qian and He Yangxuan went home and smelled the smell of rice but didn't see grandpa. They called grandpa on the satellite phone, and grandpa told them what happened here.Lin Qian saw that the temperature outside was five or six degrees below zero. Don't worry if Grandpa is freezing outside, he found a pair of warmer shoes, put a pair of self-heating insoles inside, put them in a plastic bag, and took two more Nuan Baobao went to find grandpa.

The fish soup was still a bit hot, so He Yangxuan continued to prepare the food at home.

All the way to the crack, the self-heating insole in the shoe was just hot when it touched the air.

"Master, you don't know how to wear thicker shoes when you go out. Come on, let's put on your shoes first."

Lin Qian put the shoes on the ground and helped his grandfather to put them on.

Grandpa stretched his feet in to feel the temperature. He glanced at Lin Qian and put on his clothes calmly. His feet happened to be freezing.

Old people are prone to cold hands and feet, and it is even more serious when they stand outside for a long time in cold weather.Lin Qian sent this, don't be too considerate.

Lin Qian took out the two warm baby stickers again, peeled off the paper, folded the warm baby in half and put them in Grandpa's two pockets.In this way, as long as you put your hands in your pockets, it will be warm and you will not be afraid of the cold.

Putting the shoes that grandpa was wearing into the bag, Lin Qian knew that grandpa's feet were cold just by touching the top of the shoes without any temperature.

Although it was out of date, some people couldn't help but say that Lin Qian was caring and knew that he loved Grandpa.

Lin Qian didn't feel anything.He's almost thirty, he's no longer a kid who would take off after hearing a few compliments, and there's nothing wrong with being nice to grandpa.

"Go back to eat first. If you want to come, you have to wait until the meal is finished. The fire brigade will have to wait a while before they can come."

Lin Qian nodded.On Grandpa's side, someone found him, so Lin Qian didn't have to keep watching.After a while, as soon as the fire brigade arrives, Lin Qian will come over to pick up Grandpa. If he really has to take care of the rest, Lin Qian can just watch over here.Grandpa, as a conscious and elderly man in the village, is all he can do now.

When Lin Qian returned home, He Yangxuan had just extinguished the fire of the fish soup, and was pouring the fish soup into a soup bowl. He looked up and saw Lin Qian, and asked, "How's it going?"

"Wait for the fire officers and soldiers to come. The bottom of the ditch can't be seen at all, and I don't know if the fire brigade can do it."

When the crack just opened, Lin Qian and the two passed through in a thrilling manner, and now this kind of thing happened again.To be honest, Lin Qian felt more and more that the crack was not a good thing.It's not a simple danger, but an unspeakable weirdness.

As for why, Lin Qian was not sure.If I have to say anything, it can only be called intuition, an intuition brought back from the last days of my previous life.

"Let's go there as little as possible in the future. You can also pass by the river. If you want to go out in the future, you will walk by the river. It's a bit dirty, so it's safer." He Yangxuan served Lin Qian soup.

"I always feel that thing is evil, and I can't tell it. By the way, I heard people say that after a pond starts to drown people, it will start to drown people one after another. It is said that it is because the water ghost catches the dead ghost. You said this crack Will it be the same?"

"What are you thinking? Don't fix those feudal superstitions in a harmonious society."

Lin Qian smiled, and turned to say: "Who knows, maybe I'm out of my mind. Let's eat quickly and get my grandfather back later. It's getting cold, don't freeze the old man."

"Do you still remember when I said that our master is not simple?" He Yangxuan said.

"It's up to you to say?" Lin Qian scooped up the fish in the fish soup.

"I've been feeling this way more and more recently. If it was just a guess before, you've seen it recently. Our grandfather's behavior is not at all like an ordinary old man in the village."

Lin Qian stopped chopsticks and thought about it: "I've thought about it too. Maybe the world was bad in the past, and a really kind person might not be able to survive. Only by being more thoughtful can you live a better life than others. It's normal for my grandfather to be like this."

"A lot of mind and IQ are two different things. Our master is superior both in the city and strategy. There are too many people in general. You know that I am a smart person, but I feel short in front of my master. Maybe it is I think too much, my grandfather must have been not simple before, maybe he has a lot of background."

"What could it be? A bandit? My grandfather doesn't look like that kind of person." Grandpa is dark enough, but he has a bottom line and is generous. Although his mouth is a bit damaged, he is a standard knife mouth and tofu heart. Never a really bad one.

"I feel like a soldier." He Yangxuan said.

Lin Qian thought about his grandfather's behavior carefully. In fact, he was not strict, but it was not impossible to say that he was a soldier.

"My grandfather came here after the founding of the People's Republic of China. If he was a soldier, then a soldier would be worth much more than it is now. Not to mention being a leader, he is an ordinary soldier. Until now, the benefits have been very high. If he was really a soldier before As a soldier, it’s okay to retreat during the war, but since the founding of the country, most of the country has stabilized, so it’s not right to retreat, and you still have to rely on such a poor and remote place to suffer.”

"Maybe it was because of some reason that I was discharged from the army, or it was not our army, but I hid here because of the liberation? You know that I was a soldier. Although I didn't seek to make progress, I only worked for two years. Soldiers still have some ability to distinguish. Why don't we find time to ask?" He Yangxuan looked curious.

"Let's forget it." Lin Qian shook his head, "Since I was a child, I have rarely heard my grandfather talk about his youth. It is now the end of the world, and when we talk to the two of us, we will stop halfway. Then change the subject. There must be some reason why he doesn’t want to think about the past, why should we force him to talk about it?”

Everyone has something that they don't want to be known, such as Lin Qian's rebirth.So he can understand Grandpa's concealment and respect Grandpa's decision.

What Lin Qian said made sense.He Yangxuan just casually said that the things that grandpa didn't want to say may be because of the unbearable memory.

Since you don't want to say it, let the memory be sealed forever.

"It makes sense. But if I ask you to guess, I always feel that my grandfather was an officer before."

"If that's the case, you won't be able to shine, so what do you care about?"

After the two finished talking, they ate quickly and went to pick up grandpa together.

The family of three stood for a while, and the fire brigade finally came.

Everyone present breathed a sigh of relief.I don't know why, I was full of worries, but I was relieved when I saw that touch of red coming over.

Grandpa came home, Lin Qian and He Yangxuan were watching here.The first is to see if the child can be rescued, and the second is to see how deep the crack is.

The firefighters understood the situation and quickly launched rescue operations.The crack was briefly probed, and a firefighter went down into the crack to save people.

A full 10 minutes passed before the signal came from below.At this time, the person has gone down to a depth of 60 meters, and the depth is still invisible with light source detection, let alone the child.

Reluctantly, in order to ensure the safety of the firefighters, they were brought up.

Li Erchun collapsed immediately, reached out and grabbed the fireman's arm, and said, "Comrade, you can save the child! My child hasn't grown up yet, and it's not easy to support him!"

The firefighters on the ground were also very helpless. It's not that they didn't want to rescue them. The crack was so deep that they didn't see the child.

I have been a firefighter for so long, and I don't know how many things have been solved, but this is the first time I have encountered such a thing.

"Our equipment is limited, so we can only apply for a geological survey to come and explore the bottom. We can't see the bottom if we go down so deep. We... really tried our best."

Li Erchun sat down on the ground, stared at the crack for two seconds, and suddenly shouted: "I'm going down! If you don't go save me, go down and save me! I'll save my son!"

The people around him hurriedly stopped him, and even firefighters with professional equipment couldn't do anything about it.This thing is inherently evil, and it cannot be explained at all. It is really embarrassing for the firefighters to save it.

This is a bloody lesson, and children must be taken care of.

The firefighters also began to report the situation here.No one took this crack seriously before, they just put wooden boards on it and ignored it. Now that something really happened, we must pay attention to it.

In fact, the fire brigade did not give up, but tried to use equipment to continue to probe, because there was no other detection equipment, the only way was to use the simplest method, put a rope down the middle of the gap to take a look, at least Find out whether the following is a zigzag or a line.

The lower end of the rope is tied with a light source, and it is lowered continuously until the rope is used up, and the star point of light at the bottom can still be seen. Looking at it from this angle, it still does not touch the bottom.

Pull the cord up and there is nothing wrong with the light source.

This is strange, the gap looks like it is vertical, but it stands to reason that this depth is enough to touch the groundwater and other layers, but nothing can be seen below.

As time goes by, the possibility of the child's rescue becomes even more remote.

Even my father was beginning to lose hope.

The people gradually dispersed, and the fire brigade also left.

The next day, Lin Qian got the news that the fire brigade came again with geological survey personnel, this time with more professional equipment, to check the cracks again.

Lin Qian also went over to take a look, and saw that the geological surveyors over there were using sound waves to detect, and the result was that there was a reflection signal 120 meters below, which proved that there was something there.

Although judging from the reflected area, it is unlikely that it is an individual, but it is much better than nothing.

A firefighter installed the protective device and went down the crack again. It took more than an hour to come up. After coming up, he had an extra tree root in his hand.

The tree root is as thick as a baby's arm, and the section is still very moist. It was just broken off.

The root of the tree is supposed to be very tough, but this section looks very brittle.

"I only found this at the bottom." The man was a little exhausted, and said, "I picked the bottom one, and it broke when I stretched out my hand. There is nothing else."

"It's strange. Although the roots of individual trees can reach a depth of 120 meters at most, they may be basically fibrous roots. How can there be such deep roots in such a deep underground?" The geologist took the roots, The roots are very clean, with only a few grains of sand on them, dark brown, and the roots of the tree cannot be seen.

120 meters is the limit of the fall. Continue to use sound waves to detect, but nothing is detected. This hole seems to have no bottom at all, which is creepy.

This section of tree roots is the only harvest.The personnel of the fire brigade sealed the area around the crack. After negotiating with Li Erchun several times, Li Erchun also gave up searching and agreed to seal the crack.

The village found someone to seal the entire crack with a pile of wood. Since then, this crack has replaced the speed bump, and no one wants to mention it again.

The matter has come to an end, and no one can tell why.

The village paid attention to that crack at the cost of one life.In fact, as long as someone is more diligent and seals the entire crack earlier, there will be no fatalities.

In fact, no one has ever taken this matter into their own responsibility.Since Lin Qian built a simple bridge on it, the village only strengthened it on this basis, and then they all felt that it was enough for passing cars, and left the rest alone.

When tossing and turning on the bed at night, Lin Qian would still think, if he had nailed more boards, even if he hadn't nailed all of them, but nailed a board ten centimeters apart, that child would not have disappeared into the bottomless depths. in the gully.

But it's useless to think about it, Lin Qian can't be blamed for this matter.

After two days, the weather became colder again.The house was so hot that the whole family was too lazy to go out.

A sow gave birth and gave birth to a full ten piglets.Lin Qian was happy. Giving the sow some meat was a reward. Pigs are omnivores and can eat meat.

For the past two days, I have taken care of the piglets every day, supervised the feeding to prevent the size difference of the piglets from being too large, and at the same time released news in the village that I will sell eight piglets, leaving two to be raised by myself and killed for meat.

But there are only two to buy.

If it is early spring, you must rush to buy it.But now in winter, the supplies are scarce, so they can only feed some dregs to eat, and the pigs are not easy to grow meat.It can't compare to the weeds in the spring and summer when there are swarms of weeds. You can cut some and feed them every day. They grow fast and don't waste food.

Lin Qian wasn't in a hurry if he couldn't sell in the village, so he called the government directly. Some of them were short of piglets.Now the source of meat is precious, and even the fastest-breeding pigs are priceless.

However, chickens, ducks, and geese have basically returned to their previous levels. At least it is no longer difficult to eat an egg, although it is a bit more expensive.