Doomsday Grain

Such cold weather has never been encountered before, and a number of people in the village died of illness due to unbearable freezing.In the past, there were about 600 people in the village including those who were away all year round. Now there are dozens of people who have disappeared outside, and the remaining people are only [-] people who are still alive.

The village head will record whoever has lost their households. Walking down one street, three or four of the ten families are empty, and the depression is tight.

Lin Qian's life at home was the best.The first floor is cold, but that's good for the second floor, compared to other houses in the village.

The other people’s houses burned the kang very hot, and then the whole family nestled on the kang to keep warm. Basically, there was no heat when they got off the kang, and they had to wear cotton jackets to keep out the cold.This is the case indoors, and no one wants to go outdoors.

The pure leather clothes of the village head were passed down to him by his father, who used to be a hunter, but unfortunately the use of shotguns was banned and was confiscated.However, the leather was still kept, and some clothes were made.

I used to have the money to buy new and nice padded jackets, but these were kept at the bottom of my suitcase. Now there is nothing better than leather to keep out the cold.Now I wear a small padded jacket, a leather jacket, a leather hat, and leather boots. Even if it’s minus seventy degrees and I walk outside for a while, it’s not too cold.

Lin Qian watched the village chief approach, and poured him a bowl of ginger soup to warm him up first.

"This is the first time I have encountered such a cold day, and I'm afraid Antarctica is not so cold." The ginger soup was still hot, and the village chief covered his hands with his gloves against the bowl, and said, "Many people died of freezing this year. To be honest, I have been to so many houses, and your house is the warmest. Most of them are nested on the kang, and some people simply dig a hole in the ground to connect to the kang, and smoke along the chimney to light the fire. When I get up, the ground and the kang are hot, so I can walk around in the house."

Lin Qian remembered that Uncle Liu's house next door was like this. They dug a hole in the kitchen to heat the floor of the bedroom, so that people could walk around barefoot inside the house, that's why light raindrops ran all over the floor.

"Smartness is forced by the environment. We all know that this year is cold, but how can we expect that this year will be so much colder than last year. My house can't afford to heat up the greenhouse now, and all the animals are driven into one greenhouse, so one greenhouse can be lit, and the others will stop. I don't know when the temperature will rise, let alone continue to drop the temperature, it will be unbearable if the temperature lasts for a month." Lin Qian is also helpless, but he is not worried at home, no matter how the temperature drops, the greenhouse will be able to Guaranteed to be ten degrees up.

Under normal circumstances, these animals in the family can not freeze to death at a temperature of about twenty degrees below zero, because they either have enough fat or thick fur.Chickens, ducks and geese have rich feathers and can huddle together for warmth, so there is no need to worry.As for plants, as long as there are enough seeds left, it will not be too late to plant them in the coming year when the weather turns warmer.

Lin Qian's family was in such a good condition, let alone other people's families.

"This year has passed, and I don't know what the next year will be like." The village chief thought about it and said, "It's also due to the fact that there is still a mountain like yours in our village that hasn't been burned. We don't know the harvest in the coming year. Count on the firewood on your mountain. Fortunately, you can see far this year, so that the mountain is not burned by fire, and the neighboring village is completely burned. This year, if you can divide the unburned wood, there will be no need to burn it next year. This big cold God, people's lives are held against firewood."

At such low temperatures, it takes half an hour for a person to freeze to death.

Lin Qian had guessed this when the fire started, but he didn't expect it to be so cold: "The firewood in the mountains is easy to talk about, but it's not mine at all. It belongs to the country. I can at most be a contractor. If it's still this cold next year, the government will It must be prepared in advance, at least it will be much better than this year. It is serious that the food is not available. The government can still distribute some dried vegetables, but it does not mean that the country will be able to save much, and it will have to be solved in the coming year. If it is still drought Hail, that's what kills."

Grandpa came and sat beside him.

The village head thought about it, and said: "The news from my side is that the state will fully support the construction of greenhouses in the coming year, and it is best to build a glass greenhouse. This year, we will start to process the production materials, and we will not be able to get them in place until the next year. When the spring of this year begins, it is already It has been tested in some rural areas, and the effect is said to be good. If it is implemented in the coming year, the winter will actually be able to survive, and the chickens raised will not freeze to death easily, and they can still eat meat."

There are not many chickens in the village, and the weather is gradually cooling down, and many of them froze to death.After the froze-to-death chickens began, all the baby chickens were locked in the kitchen, and they were served with delicious food. Some chickens were able to lay eggs even if they were upbeat, and the whole family wanted to feed them two catties of rice.

If there is a greenhouse, although it consumes firewood, chickens can be raised in it without dirtying the house, and even in the cold weather like now, some cold-resistant vegetables can be grown in the greenhouse.

Grandpa deliberately talked about eating vegetables, and the village head directly told what he knew.

The grandparents and grandchildren looked at each other, and the grandfather said, "This... what kind of support method?"

"To build a greenhouse, I need to subsidize more money. If the family has a small family, or if they are all women, elderly and children, they can build a small one for free. This is still a plan, and the details have not yet been implemented, so there may be changes in the future. But At that time, there will be almost one greenhouse for each family, and it will be enough to live. There will also be plastic greenhouses. In fact, the country will help to bear part of it. However, small hailstorms in plastic greenhouses are fine. If there is a big hailstorm like this year, it will be covered. It’s also a waste of money, and it’s impossible to prevent.”

The village chief took a sip of ginger soup, and the warmth flowed down his tongue along his throat, making him feel much more comfortable.

The village chief is not stupid. He said so much, but he also intends to get close to Lin Qian's family.Lin Qian has seen the big world. His grandfather is old and experienced there. There is also He Yangxuan who lives here.I don't know what will happen in the days to come, it's better to be closer than to fight against each other.

"So we are early?" Grandpa joked.

The village chief smiled and shook his head: "What do you mean, your family is not making enough money? With the price of vegetables now, you can earn back the money from the greenhouse in a month or two. It's not like now, it's just when things get to this point. Do. Didn’t several families in the village want to cooperate with your family to build greenhouses before? There are only one or two greenhouses, and now they live better than others. I’ve heard other people’s families say that your family’s fortune is great. Yes, doing things with your family can also bring you some blessings and good luck."

Lin Qian's reputation in the village has risen, so it's natural that there will be a lot of good words.

This kind of joke is over, grandpa narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "Cooperating with my family, a koi was born."

Laughing, He Yangxuan came over with the bag and put the bag on the table.

The village chief was a little strange, but he couldn't open his mouth.If you ask what it is, it seems like you want something.

Grandpa took it and handed it over: "It's not easy for you to be so busy in such a cold weather. My chickens, ducks and geese are still laying eggs, so I can't eat them for the time being. You can take a few back and eat more eggs, and you can eat more eggs." Can be warm and warm."

The village chief shook his head again and again: "These eggs can be sold for a lot of money."

"What money is not worth, counting money is the most worthless now. Come and take it, it's not easy for you to go from house to house." Grandpa handed him the bag.

Inside the bag was a foam box, which was what Lin Qian and his wife brought with them when they bought large quantities of supplies.It had been stored in He Yangxuan's space before to prevent it from taking up space, but now it is taken out for use, and the courier number is still pasted on the outside of the box, so it doesn't seem strange.The foam box is well insulated, and a few eggs packed in rice bran are placed inside, so it is not afraid of touching or freezing, at least it will not be afraid of freezing on the way back.

The village chief held the bag, a little embarrassed and a little moved.The more this kind of time, the more precious it is to be able to send things out.Anyone can make the icing on the cake, and now is the real timely help.

"It means your family is kind. Don't talk about anything else in the future. Your family's conditions are good, and you may meet someone who is jealous. If there is anything, just tell me. I can't control the big things. I can still talk about these crap things in the village." Two sentences."

Grandpa wanted this promise.

They said two more nice words to each other, Grandpa thought about it, and said hesitantly:

"I just remembered, what happened to the daughter-in-law and children of the Gao family? The old woman and the two men were arrested, so there are only four women and children left. How are you doing?"

Although the mother and son of the Gao family deserved what they deserved, the child is innocent. It is really pitiful for two women and two children to live in this kind of weather.

The person was reported by Lin Qian, and grandpa still cared about it.

The village chief thought about it, and said: "You are the only one who has this kindness. Mrs. Gao's daughter-in-law took her son back to her natal home. At the beginning, Mrs. Gao was afraid that she would be arrested, so she led the disaster to Mrs. Gao's wife's natal family, making his family full of shame. Mrs. Gao's daughter-in-law was also angry with him, and she went to the fence (squat, prison) again, so she simply took the child back to her mother's house. As for whether she will return or not, she doesn't know. Now the second daughter-in-law takes him. My daughter guards such a large amount of supplies, and her life is still passable. It was originally used by a family of seven, but now it’s just the two of them, no matter whether it’s firewood or food. I’m thinking here, there are a few extremely poor places, More relief supplies are needed, and I'm still considering whether to add the mother and daughter."

Gao Lao's family originally had a son and a daughter, and the two children gave birth to two children every two years.The son was beaten to death by hail on the mountain before, and only a daughter was left to support her.Now that the second Gao is in, the daughter-in-law will bring a daughter.

Grandpa nodded: "It's the child's father who steals things, and it has nothing to do with the child. In our village, there are many widows and widowers with children, and there are also old people who live alone. After this calculation, basically the quota given by the above That's enough."

The village chief nodded: "It's more than enough, it's much more than this. If it's about the same, I wouldn't be in such a difficult situation. It's not a problem to give it to anyone, and they don't worry too much. It's cold now, and it was better a few days ago. There are also a few old men who went to my place and said that they don’t want any government subsidies, and they just want the government to marry him a wife.”

"How normal is this? Didn't someone go to help the poor to marry him a wife when the days were good? If you don't have the ability to marry a wife, don't talk to him." Grandpa still understands this.

The village head nodded and stood up: "I should go to the next house too. Don't say I'm unlucky, I don't dare to open the door of any house I go now, for fear that if I can't knock, people will freeze to death if I go in. That's the case this year In this world, I don’t know how many people will be left in the coming year.”

The village head is also tired.People in the village died one after another, and many people were left alone, and only the village chief could take care of them.

It's not that the village chief has never thought about letting go, but he has been the village chief for many years, and this kind of thing doesn't just let go.Besides, being the village chief would give him more preferential treatment, and his family would be able to live a better life.Isn't this troubled world just to let life go on?

The village chief left, Lin Qian turned to look at his grandfather, his grandfather looked at Lin Qian, and then at He Yangxuan: "Did you hear that, this year will be like this."

"I've already made mental preparations." He Yangxuan sat beside his grandfather, "Our family can only take care of ourselves."

"That's what you said." Grandpa stood up, ready to lie down on it for a while: "You two will feed the animals later."

On the evening of the day the village chief came, something happened.

It wasn't Lin Qian's family that had the accident, they just came to help.

Lin Qian and He Yangxuan were both lying on the bed, and grandpa was upstairs watching TV.The outside door was knocked loudly, and Lin Qian's room had excellent sound insulation, so he couldn't hear it, but grandpa heard the sound, put on his clothes and went downstairs to have a look.

The temperature at night was much lower than that during the day, and it was even more difficult. Grandpa shivered as soon as he opened the door, and went out a few steps to the door. He saw the same person with the same frozen face.

Open the door to welcome people in. It's too cold to stand at the door and ask what's wrong.

As soon as he entered the room, the man's voice was trembling, and he only asked, "Do you remember Zhang Changxi? He was stabbed and bled a lot. When I asked other people, they said that it was too cold outside. I remember that you have an off-road vehicle. , the situation can get better, can you do me a favor and take him to the hospital?"

The voice trembled so badly that Grandpa couldn't hear it very clearly.

Most of the people in this cold weather are staying at home to keep warm, how could someone be stabbed?

"How can you be stabbed?" Grandpa asked.

The man sighed, and said with some embarrassment: "It's also his own death! Stay away from home in the cold weather and go to the house of the old lady Liu on your street to take advantage of it. The girl was afraid, so she stabbed him with a knife It deserves it too! But how can you say that human life is at stake, and people can still be saved."

As soon as he finished speaking, Grandpa's eyebrows were already frowned, and he did not hide the disgust in his eyes at all: "How can there be a car to drive in such a cold day? An off-road vehicle is also a car, and it is too cold to bear. It is so cold Heaven still goes out to take advantage of people, it is because God doesn’t like it.”

Grandpa said it harshly, and the man knew that this was not done by human beings, and said again: "It's a human life anyway, so let's help if we can. Many people have died in this world now, and one more person is left."

"1 deaths of this kind of waste are not many." Having said that, Grandpa still turned his head upstairs to ask someone to go.

Lin Qian was getting bored with He Yangxuan when there was a sudden knock on the door.Lin Qian pushed away He Yangxuan who was gnawing on him: "My master is here!"

He Yangxuan propped himself up and frowned: "That's all."

"That's the only thing that's going to happen. Get up!"

Lin Qian re-fastened the pajamas he had just unbuttoned, wiped his mouth and opened the door.

He Yangxuan's little brother is still standing, and it's not easy to go out to meet people. It would be embarrassing if grandpa sees him.

"What's wrong?" Lin Qian opened the door, stretched out his head and asked.

"There is an accident in the village. It is said that Zhang Changxi, the Zhang family, went to bully another girl, and was stabbed (stabbed) by the other girl. Other people's car can't start, so come and ask Xiaoxuan if the off-road vehicle can do it?"

Lin Qian turned his head to look at He Yangxuan. He Yangxuan covered his lower body with a quilt, frowned and said, "Rogue?"

Grandpa nodded: "It's a girl surnamed Liu who bullied our street, Qianqian, maybe it's your classmate."

Fortunately, the one who was bullied was someone he knew. Lin Qian's face darkened in an instant, and his expression was exactly the same as that of his grandfather.

He Yangxuan said directly: "The temperature is more than 70 below zero now, and it is possible to drop to [-] below zero. An off-road vehicle is also a vehicle and not a rocket. How can it catch fire in such a cold day?"

Grandpa nodded, turned around and went downstairs to tell him clearly.

There is no way I can't drive a car in such a cold day. To put it bluntly, it is fate.This person chose to do such shameless things in such extreme weather, and it can only be said that God punished him for such a result.

Grandpa went to send people away, Lin Qian closed the door and turned to He Yangxuan, "Can't it be opened?"

"How would I know?" He Yangxuan patted the bed, "Let's continue."

Lin Qian walked over, and He Yangxuan hugged him and pressed him under him.

Lin Qian continued to ask, "You tell the truth."

"It's probably not good. Even if the fire can be turned on, it may go out at any time. It's so cold outside, and the wind is blowing, and the fire can be turned off as soon as the wind blows. If the fire is turned off halfway through driving, the fire will not start without thawing. At this temperature, If you can’t do it at all, you can only wait for death. Even if you don’t turn off the engine, the tires may freeze off. It’s not suitable for driving at minus [-] degrees, let alone now? It’s not worth it for this kind of scum.”

Traveling in such an environment is risking one's life, and He Yangxuan has not yet reached the point where he would risk his life for this bullying scum.What's more, He Yangxuan's precious car, unless it's Lin Qian or grandpa, no one wants him to start it at this temperature.

When Lin Qian heard this was true, he thought about it and said, "I'm a little worried about Liu Zhifeng. She has a mother and a child, and now she's been bullied and stabbed by a beast. I want to go and have a look."

Anyway, we were classmates before, and we still know each other, so it's only natural to go and see if something happens.

"It's easy for you to gossip when something like this happens." He Yangxuan analyzed it, "Even in the city, if any girl was bullied, there would be gossip around her, saying that women are not serious, and flies don't bite eggs without seams. What's more, it's in the village? Originally, when this happened, she would inevitably be gossiped by others. You go to see it in the middle of the night, and add fuel and vinegar to your mouth. Even if you are thick-skinned and don't care, a woman with a child, how Can you afford this loss? There must be someone there to comfort others tomorrow morning, and you can go over and send something in the name of our grandpa, because our grandpa loves the child, it's better than you going in the middle of the night."

After all, it is scary.Gossip, especially for a single woman like this, can really kill.Now that she has suffered a great grievance, Lin Qian shouldn't go over and add fuel to the fire.

Lin Qian felt that what He Yangxuan said made sense, and sighed: "It's also a hard life."

He Yangxuan felt sour in his heart, but he was not an ignorant person.Besides, Liu Zhifeng is indeed a hard-working person, and her father's mistake after the college entrance examination laid the groundwork for her tragedy.

Originally studying so well, the future can be infinitely bright, but now she lives in a small village to support her mother and daughter, and is bullied by animals.

You are right.In the countryside, a widow's life is hard, not only because of the lack of a labor force in the family, but also because of other people's eyes and bullying.

Liu Zhifeng is not a widow, she is divorced.But if there is no strong man in the family, he is just waiting to be bullied.

It was only during the day that I heard that someone in the village asked the government to marry a wife, and this happened tonight.If I don’t have the ability to marry, I ask the government, and if the government doesn’t give it, I go to grab it. I thought it was useless to call the police due to extreme weather, or Liu Zhifeng endured it for the sake of his mother and children. Who knew that Liu Zhifeng had a strong temper and stabbed him.

Originally Zhang Changxi thought that the extreme cold was his protective umbrella, but how could he know that it was actually his death talisman.

"Sleep and sleep, go and have a look tomorrow morning." Lin Qian got into bed, closed his eyes and wanted to sleep.

He Yangxuan pushed the person: "Just sleep like this?"

"I have to get up early tomorrow, don't make trouble, be good." Lin Qian pulled him to lie down, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

He Yangxuan looked at Lin Qian with resentment on his face, seeing that his breathing was even, he couldn't bear to cry out again.

Sighing, He Yangxuan stretched out his hand to tug on Lin Qian's face, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The next morning, Lin Qian got up and started getting dressed without calling He Yangxuan.He Yangxuan was aroused by the sound of Lin Qian getting dressed.

He Yangxuan sat up and rubbed his eyes: "Why do you wake up so early?"

"Go to Liu Zhifeng's house to see. You can continue to sleep, don't worry."

He Yangxuan regained consciousness and began to put on his clothes: "I'll accompany you."

The two got dressed and went out to see grandpa got up early.

"Master, I'm going to see Liu Zhifeng." Lin Qian said.

"It just so happens that I have prepared something, and you go and carry it together. You go and remember to say a few words, and when the weather gets warmer, let her take my daughter for a walk around here, and just say that I like my daughter."

This statement is half true and half false, but at least it is a help to Liu Zhifeng.

Grandpa guessed last night that Lin Qian would go over to have a look this morning, so he made preparations as soon as he got up in the morning.Inside the bag were some vegetables and eggs in a foam box, and a small pot of honey and a little tea, which was good for calming down.

After all, he is a real grandfather who knows his grandson well.

The two of Lin Qian put on their coats, took the things prepared by their grandfather, and went out against the wind to Liu Zhifeng's house.

When you walk to the door, you can see a big pool of blood. There is still a little blood on the road outside, and there is more blood from the door to the yard.

Just from the bloodstains, one can guess what kind of shock it was last night.

It was really Liu Zhifeng's family who had the accident. I'm afraid Liu Zhifeng is also terrified now.

The outside door was open, and when people walked in, they could hear the roaring voice inside: "You must give an explanation! Why did my son die in your family! I want to call the police! If you kill my son, you must pay with your life !"