Doomsday Grain

Uncle Liu didn't pick it up either, still hesitating: "Then let's talk about it, I can't say anything for sure, and I dare not give you a guarantee. If it doesn't work out, I can't bear the guilt." .”

"Don't worry, don't worry, this can't depend on you, can't you? Come on, you can take it. Didn't I say it? If the thing is done, you are the hero, and if it doesn't happen, it won't depend on you. That's because he has a high vision. Let's Just treat it as a friend, and if there are other young men with good conditions in the future, please help me find it (find it)."

Only then did Uncle Liu take the rice over, fasten the buckle around his mouth, carry it out of the glove, weigh the weight, and nod.

Seeing that he picked it up, Wu Xiulian showed joy and said a lot of nice things in succession.

Uncle Liu came over and took his leave. Wu Xiulian walked all the way to the gate, and when she looked back, she was still full of joy, as if the happy event had come to an end.

Qian Da is not very optimistic about this matter: "Can it be done? The family conditions are good. Besides, I know my sister and her son. With this relationship, can you look at us seriously?"

Wu Xiulian glared at her son: "Why don't you look down on me? Is our girl missing an arm or a leg? How old is he? Ours is only twenty. Why can't he be worthy of him? Besides, in the current world No, you don’t even have to watch TV, it would be nice to marry a wife and the couple stay together, what’s the point of being alone?”

Erya began to think about what she looked like when she saw He Yangxuan, with a big gold chain and a small watch, dressed in mink fur to walk like a crab, the poor and poor appearance of the standard Northeast outfit B boss 20 years ago.Even Wu Xiulian thinks this is a rich family's dress, and anyone with a bit of knowledge understands that this is a low and vulgar nouveau riche.

The second girl has gone out to work at least, so she has a far-sighted vision, so how could she be able to look up to this kind of person.

But when I looked around, my grandparents were full of calculations, my father let it go, and my stepmother almost hung up two couplets of firecrackers.The elder sister of the same mother is numb, the younger sister and younger brother simply don't understand anything, their eyes are curious and ignorant.

So, what else is there but despair?

Uncle Liu was not in a hurry to go home with the rice in his hands, but took two extra steps to Lin Qian's house.

"Uncle Liu?" Lin Qian went to open the door, but was taken aback when he saw the person.

Welcoming people in, pouring hot water: "You come here, this is..."

"I just went to see Lao Qian's family. Here's this for you. I'll take it from them." Standing by the sofa, Uncle Liu handed the rice to Lin Qian.

Lin Qian took it from his hand, feeling quite heavy: "Do you want it from them?"

It's strange, in yesterday's situation, Wu Xiulian walked away cursing, she couldn't bear a single grain of rice, why did she take out so much food all of a sudden today?

"Didn't you tell me to go there to collect debts? I went, and they didn't recognize this relative, and what they said was quite ugly. You can't let you be scolded for nothing, so I promised them to introduce his second granddaughter to your Xiaoxuan. This is the money they gave as a matchmaker." Uncle Liu laughed.

Lin Qian looked at Uncle Liu with some surprise, but couldn't tell that this Uncle Liu was so honest that he could set up a trap for them.

"You said they mentioned it themselves?" Lin Qian took the rice and put it on the tea table, let Uncle Liu sit down, and the two sat on the sofa and said.

In that situation yesterday, they didn't take a grain of grain from their family, and Uncle Liu took so much just by talking about it.

"They asked by themselves. When they asked Xiaoxuan whether he married a wife, I followed them. But to be honest, they really didn't treat their own daughters as human beings. It can be heard from that tone that the old lady It means marrying a girl to someone else is like an object. Looking at the little girl, her face is not very good, she is not happy and dare not say anything."

Uncle Liu understood what happened 20 years ago, and Lin Qian's mother was facing the same situation. Her natal family seized her to extract the surplus value, but she couldn't find a second way to go.

"We don't care what they think. I didn't expect it. I just took a look at Wenxuan and fell in love with him. What is this called? Thieves don't go away?"

Although these four words are not appropriate to describe them, they are similar in nature.The trip was not in vain, and instead of relying on Lin Qian, he just wanted to catch a wealthy son-in-law and go back.

Uncle Liu nodded: "Don't dislike me for talking too much, you should be more careful now, and you may cause trouble in the future."

Uncle Liu is still glad that he doesn't have such relatives in his family. Although there are some bad relatives, they are usually not seen face-to-face all year round.

"I know this well, otherwise I wouldn't have arranged these things." Lin Qian picked up the rice and stuffed it to Uncle Liu, "You took the rice, so it's yours. You also brought what they asked you to say." , this is your hard-earned money."

Uncle Liu shook his head again and again: "I've already accepted your eggs, and besides, my family is not short of rice now. You are sending out so many eggs all at once just to solve that family. You can't afford the money alone, can you?"

Although Lin Qian solved them, in the final analysis, Lin Qian still suffered a disadvantage.Such a big drama cost more than 20 catties, what is the world now?An egg is a rare thing, let alone twenty catties.

But then again, it's rare for others, but it's worthless to Lin Qian. At most, he can exchange some rice, but Lin Qian has no shortage of rice, so naturally he doesn't care about it.

To put it bluntly, I sent Mi and Uncle Liu away.When the two were lying on the bed at night, He Yangxuan casually picked up a comic book and was reading it. He glanced at Lin Qian from the corner of his eye, and couldn't help but stretch out his arm to touch him.

"What's wrong?" Lin Qian always felt that something was wrong.

"It's nothing. It's just that Uncle Liu went to Qian's house to ask for a bill today, do you know? I asked Liu Dongsheng to ask Uncle Liu to help me yesterday."

Acting requires a full set, and only when someone asks for credit can the authenticity of Lin Qian's bankruptcy be deepened.

"What's the matter?" He Yangxuan felt that the air pressure on Lin Qian's body was a little low, so He Yangxuan stretched out his arm to touch Lin Qian.

"The old lady has her eyes on you." Lin Qian did not raise his eyebrows, and his tone was quite calm.

It was just like this that He Yangxuan felt panicked and reached out to hug Lin Qian. He Yangxuan rubbed Lin Qian on the forehead:

"Didn't she have an old man?"

The corners of Lin Qian's lips twitched. Not to mention, He Yangxuan was full of desire to survive, at least Lin Qian was in a much better mood after a flash of wit.

"She wants you to be her grandson-in-law, and wants to marry her second granddaughter to you."

He Yangxuan understood, was he jealous?

Lin Qian was not angry with He Yangxuan, but felt uncomfortable.He is not a stingy person, nor is he a jealous person, not to mention that whether the second girl of the Qian family can show up again in the future is another matter.It's just that the top-notch old lady is a little angry. First she calculated his family's food, and now she calculated her daughter-in-law.

"You still take it to heart? It's impossible for her to block the door to force the marriage, that's all." He Yangxuan gave Lin Qian a pat on the back.

"I didn't take it to heart," Lin Qian turned around, "It's just a little awkward. But after thinking about it, maybe this kind of person will have a better life in the future. It was plague and winter before, and their family Nothing happened, maybe God has nothing to do with this kind of people. Good people in this world don’t live long, and this kind of shameless life is more comfortable than anyone else.”

He Yangxuan smiled: "Do you still remember that time when we took Wang Ying to the prenatal examination in the county and came back to meet someone who set up roadblocks in the village?"

Lin Qian thought for a while, and understood what He Yangxuan meant: "Did they not kick the iron board?"

He Yangxuan nodded: "That's the truth. It's their luck to succeed once or twice, but this kind of person, the smoother he is, the more unscrupulous he is. If he doesn't get a lesson, he really thinks the whole world owes him. A child needs to fall a few times to learn to walk. Know how to walk carefully, let alone such a big family."

After all, He Yangxuan was a former leader. Not to mention whether the Qian family will be really unlucky in the future, at least Lin Qian feels at ease after hearing these few words.

"Then we should stay away from them right now, not to mention implicating us, it would be disgusting enough for us to be covered in blood."

A few days later, the army went to the countryside to deliver supplies again. This time, the amount of supplies was delivered twice in one return. How did the villagers know that it was two and one, and they thought they would give so much in one visit. Everyone was happy to follow like.

At this time, the Qian family also starved and lost weight for two weeks. Seeing the army was like seeing their relatives, so they asked the army to send them back.

Wu Xiulian waited and waited, but she didn't see Uncle Liu coming to answer them, so she guessed that she was cheated, but she couldn't get the food that was cheated, because she didn't know where Uncle Liu lived, so she might not go to Lin Qian again to ask for it Bar?Wu Xiulian wished she would never see Lin Qian again for the rest of her life, for fear that he would post it again and ask her for food.

This time I came back full of calculations, but in the end I didn't get anything, and I even put in a convenience bag of rice without even a splash.

The bad luck didn't stop there.The Qian family used to have heating in their home. Usually, there is a kang on the top of the house, and then the heating is turned on. Although it is still cold, it is no problem to wear a thin cotton jacket inside the house.But now people have been away for several days, and no one is lighting a fire in the house. The temperature of minus [-] or [-] degrees in the past few days has directly cracked the heating pipes.

There is no one to take care of it in this winter, the heating cannot be turned on, and the stove can only be used to warm the fire wall, so this precious heat is wasted a lot, and the room is even colder.

This has been a toss for a few days, the good days have not been passed, and the good days have become worse.

Wu Xiulian was not reconciled. Once when the soldiers came to deliver supplies, she wanted to beg the soldiers to take their family to the city to join Lin Qian's mother.The house is a bit small, and it doesn't need its own firewood for heating, and it also saves a lot of work.

But the soldiers didn't know the situation before, and they really thought she was a poor old man who was worried about his daughter. Now that they understand, how could they waste resources for them.

In this way, the family of eight, who were living well before, really started to have difficulties.

Because of insufficient heating, the amount of food to eat doubled, and there was a lack of meat and calories. After returning home one by one, they still started to lose weight round and round.By the beginning of spring, the children are fine, but the adults are all skinny.

Of course, this is all for later, right now they are just worrying about the cold room.

Another month passed in a flash of time, and the temperature didn't rise, but fortunately it didn't drop either.No one pays attention to when New Year's Day passes, but time flies, and the Spring Festival is coming again.

When the temperature has just reached minus [-] or [-] degrees, it is the time when the government comes to rescue the most materials. Basically, it will come once every five or six days. On the one hand, it is to distribute houses to make people’s lives better. On the other hand, it is also to re-count the number of people, because This winter, countless people freeze to death silently.

Now that people have adapted to the low temperature, there are fewer and fewer rescues.The last time was more than ten days ago, and this time, it was basically the last time a year ago.

This time there was no food or coal for the rescue, only a couplet of firecrackers and a new calendar.The day is all dated, just what is needed for those who have forgotten the day.

There is also a set of soilless cultivation equipment, some nutrient solutions and some seeds with a short growth cycle, which are considered new year's goods.

Planted in these houses, as long as the temperature is not too low, it can basically be eaten during the Chinese New Year.There is also a small bag of mung beans with raw bean sprouts.

There are not many things, but for the villagers, it is already very considerate.

When Lin Qian saw the firecrackers, he felt sad for no reason.In the past when conditions were good, the government has been calling for the reduction of pollution and the prohibition of firecrackers. Although the restrictions on rural areas are much looser, they have not advocated the use of firecrackers.Nowadays, they take the initiative to deliver from door to door, at least in this extremely cold weather, it can be regarded as giving this tasteless Spring Festival a little bit of New Year's flavor.

The weather is not heating up, but the New Year is still going to pass.Every household cheered up a bit. In the good days before, they celebrated the New Year every day. Now that the conditions are not good, there is only such a festive day in a year. Of course, we should try our best to live it on this day.

Lin Qian didn't have much thought at first, but looking at the bundle of firecrackers sent by the army, on Xiaonian's day, he was so cruel that he discussed with He Yangxuan and his grandfather, picked a fat pig from the pigsty and killed it, and used it from the village Broadcast and broadcast about selling pork.

Each person is limited to half a catty, and the price is five catties of rice or ten catties of miscellaneous grains.

This price is of course very expensive compared to before the end of the world, but in this end of the world, it is actually the same as free.

Lin Qian didn't suffer a loss, at most he made less money.After harvesting the grain, the cost of raising pigs has returned, so I don't want to spend too much.

On the day of the pig slaughter, Grandpa wanted to do it himself, but was stopped by He Yangxuan.I found a villager who was good at butchering pigs to help kill them, and gave him the pig kidneys (kidneys) and large intestines as a reward.He not only kills the pigs, but also cuts up the pork, and cuts each one into half a catty portion.The workload is quite heavy, but the remuneration is absolutely generous in this world.

On this new year's day, Lin Qian's house was especially lively.The place where the pigs are slaughtered is in a greenhouse. The greenhouse that has been idle for two or three months is lit again, and two benches are moved to put the pigs on it. At this time, there are many people who buy pork in the greenhouse. Everyone couldn't wait to look at the pig that was still alive, and the thin sunken eyes were much rarer and more greedy.

Most people haven't smelled the smell of meat all winter.A small number of chickens were raised last year. When I was really greedy, I could kill one and taste it. Now I see a live pig, and I am very greedy.How can chicken be better than pork?

Lin Qian and He Yangxuan stood at the door of the greenhouse. Grandpa wanted to come, but He Yangxuan invited him back.I always feel that grandpa is getting older, which makes him less bloody.It's fine to kill a chicken, but don't get involved in killing livestock.

"Come on, let's wait a while. The pigs haven't been killed yet, and we have to wait for a while. Don't worry, I will kill one that is not enough to sell. I will definitely let the big guys buy it. Come on, let's get warm in the house first, the house It's hotter in here than in here."

Lin Qian mobilized again and again, but still very few people went out, but there were more and more people.Because Lin Qian didn't set the price in detail, the price of meat in all places is the same, so they all waited here, just waiting for the meat to be divided, and the meat was selected first.

The definition of good meat is different now than it used to be.In the past, the leaner the pork, the better. Eat pork with three layers at most, and don't have too thick a fat layer.It's different now. For big guys who lack oil and water, the fatter the meat, the better, even if it's all fat, it's not too much.

In the end, it was so crowded that Lin Qian and He Yangxuan were about to go out, so there was no way to directly send people outside, so everyone should go out first, either go to the building to warm up, or go to other greenhouses, don't get in the way here.

The other end is also urging the butcher to move quickly and divide the meat.

He Yangxuan watched the slaughter of pigs last year, but this year he was still shocked. Lin Qian helped him carry blood and hot water, and he was so busy that he was sweating.

Half a catty of meat, cut out to only a small piece, even a convenience bag is useless, so I learned the method of selling meat in my old age, weighed it, tied it with a few straws, and went back with it.As soon as the wind blows along the way, it will be cold, and you can cut it when you get home. It depends on your preference whether to keep the dumplings for the Chinese New Year.

Uncle Liu's family also came to buy meat, Lin Qian intended to make an exception for him and sell more to his family, but Uncle Liu's family didn't want to make this special either.I usually buy eggs at Lin Qian's house, and the family is not too greedy, just buy some meat to make dumplings.

People come and go, this young year is very busy.

This nearly [-]-jin pig is enough to sell. Only a few people come to buy more with two or three people. Most of them come to buy half a catty, which is enough for the whole family to eat for two.Some people couldn't bear to take five catties of rice, so they didn't buy it, and some had trouble with Lin Qian's family, so they didn't have the nerve to come over.

Until noon, there were fewer talents, and there were only some lean meat or lymph nodes left over from the pork.The spare ribs Lin Qian raised the price of a catty of grain, and they were all sold out. There were no offal and stuffed blood sausage left, and they were all sold out.

Lin Qian thought that there would be more leftovers. At least he was a new butcher, so he could eat some butcher's vegetables. As a result, there were many people coming and going, and it was almost sold out in a blink of an eye.

In the end, there were five yuan left, and one of the two people who was not satisfied picked a piece. Just as they were about to go out, there was a person standing at the door.

When the two meat buyers saw the man, their expressions became a little strange, and they left in a hurry without saying a word.

Lin Qian was being polite to the butcher.The butcher was very busy on this day. He packed the cleaned large intestine and pork kidney, and picked the best one from the remaining three pieces, put it in a bag and handed it to the butcher.

At this time, a moderate voice came from behind: "Qianqian?"

As soon as Lin Qian turned his head, he saw the old face of the other party. After a moment of reaction, Lin Qian remembered that it was Lin Fengying.

Last year, the two quarreled twice, and they have not waited to see each other since then.Lin Fengying often spoke ill of Lin Qian in the village, but it was just for the sake of verbal pleasure, and it didn't hurt or itch for Lin Qian.

"What's wrong?" Lin Qian's tone was cold, not bad, but not good either.

"Buy meat." Lin Fengying smiled a little stiffly.She didn't want to come either, but her little grandson was clamoring for meat, and the grandparent and grandson had been arguing all morning, and finally the little grandson shut himself up in the room and didn't even eat.

Lin Fengying was keeping such a grandson alive, so naturally it hurt like something.So seeing this, no matter how hard it is to hold back your face, you have to have the cheek to come over to buy meat.

They were thinking of ways along the way, and even thought that if Lin Qian didn't sell meat to her when she came over, she would spend an extra catty of grain and ask someone to help buy it.

"There are only two yuan left, so choose it yourself." People come to buy meat, and there is no need to separate people when doing business.Although Lin Qian didn't like her, there was no need not to sell her meat.As long as the left and right don't make trouble, they are all guests.

Unexpectedly, Lin Qian didn't make a fuss at all. Lin Fengying looked at the meat case, and there were only two pieces left with a little lymph.Lin Qian threw away most of the lymphatic meat, but it was like this when the two pieces of meat were divided, and there was no way to cut it across the board.

There will be no problem if you eat less left and right, so you will sell it.Of course Lin Fengying could see it. Although she knew that it would be nice to have meat at this time, she still couldn't help muttering: "Is there only these two yuan left?"

"Come earlier and there are two pieces of lean meat to choose from. Now I only have these two pieces. You pick one, and I keep the remaining piece for making dumplings."

As soon as these words came out, Lin Fengying's first reaction was disbelief.But so what if Lin Qian lied?Just these two pieces of meat, no one forced me to buy them.

Lin Fengying reluctantly handed over the food, but Lin Qian said he didn't say it, and put it in the corner.Lin Fengying picked up a piece of meat, put it on the scale to check, and made sure that there was no shortage of catties, so she carried the meat away.

Lin Fengying has been a calculating person all her life, and she has to think about everything for a long time whether she can take advantage of it or not.This kind of person spends his whole life carefully, and maybe he really benefits more than others, but living like this for a whole life is really tiring.

There was only one piece left, Lin Qian lost his appetite looking at the lymph nodes, so he also gave it to the butcher.Such a whole pig has been busy all morning and there is nothing left, and the family has not even eaten a bite of pork.

After everyone left and locked the door, it was still He Yangxuan who took out two catties of sauced beef from the space, and the family fried two dishes and ate together.

In fact, this day was not in vain. I earned nearly two thousand catties of grain, half of which was coarse grain.Although the coarse grains should be doubled, there are still some people who are reluctant to part with rice.

The grain earned on this day is almost enough to feed a family of three for a year or two.

It is not a loss to exchange so much for a pig.

However, there wasn't that much storage at home. Lin Qian was still thinking that next time the army came to buy the piglets, he would take the food away and exchange it for something useful.For example, some good things produced by the military industry, or other poultry and livestock that are not available at home.

Enrich the variety of open-mouthed beasts, and you can have more tricks in your daily meals.

"We don't lose money by selling pork in this way, and we can continue to sell pork in the coming year. But killing one or two pigs a year is enough. If there are too many, it will be easy to sell. In addition to the food for the family, the rest can be sold to the government. Save yourself trouble." Grandpa gave Lin Qian a slice of beef.