Song Yin in the last days

On June 6th, Jiang'an City was empty of thousands of people, and all the thousands of registration points in the city were crowded. Even the high temperature of 15 degrees at two o'clock in the afternoon could not scare away the crazy crowd. The long queue could not see the end ...

And a small supermarket called "Fushou Rushan" located outside Jiang'an Second Ring Road was also closed on this day. Inside the supermarket, Qi Xia and Xiao Ling were leading a few people to check the goods and pack them into boxes.

Qi Xia and Xiao Ling have just met for a few days, and they are not very close. Xiao Ling said casually: "The registration point will not close until 08:30 in the evening. You can catch up with us when we finish our work."

Qi Xia lacks interest: "I haven't attended junior high school for a few days, so I don't meet the requirements. What about you, will you go there later?"

Xiao Ling sighed: "I can't go if I don't go, my mother burns incense every day these days, it's her wish fulfilled."

Qi Xia smiled: "Yeah, if you don't report it, she must have said that you could have gone to the dungeon."

Xiao Ling also laughed: "Don't say you can't get in, even if you're lucky, it's really better? There are only [-] recruitment places in such a big dungeon. I guess if you go in, you'll be farming. Now farming is a high-risk occupation, and if you are not careful, you will get cancer.”

Qi Xia wondered: "Then you still have to follow Brother Song, isn't it farming over there?"

Xiao Ling said positively: "That's different. Our scale is small, and we can grow enough food for our own family. It doesn't matter if the output is a little less. We can try to avoid the sun when the sun is the most poisonous during the day. The underground city has to support 200 million non-agricultural people. Population, it is estimated that a farmer has to feed a dozen or even dozens of people, so how can the output be less? It is impossible not to go to the field during the day, who knows whether the protective cover is reliable or not?"

Qi Xia sighed: "It's different after reading the book. Like me, I only know that it's right to follow Song Gefeng. How can I say so much?"

"What do you want to hear?" Xu Lingfeng walked in and asked with a smile.

"Brother Feng."

As soon as he showed up, several people in the supermarket made noises at the same time, and then they all felt that something was wrong, acting like a gangster, and laughed together.

Xu Lingfeng smiled and said, "While I'm here, if you have any questions, ask them quickly."

A worker quickly said: "I just want to ask if we need to drive?"

"You can drive, but I don't recommend you to drive. You will definitely not be able to get gasoline in the future, and the car will become a decoration. It is better to sell the car and replace it with supplies as much as possible. Don't worry, we have prepared enough large trucks Help everyone move things, but you can only load supplies, don’t bring furniture and electrical appliances.”

Someone asked: "Aside from food, what kind of material is the most important?"

"Salt, common medicines, vitamins, and various common tools, you may prepare some. In addition, you need to prepare a few more winter supplies, cotton-padded quilts, preferably down jackets and duvets. You know how cold winter is now. , It’s even colder there than here. By the way, shoes are also very important, especially winter boots and rain boots. In the future, there will be no factories, and these things will not be available.”

"Well, there are also rolls for wiping buttocks. I guess there is no place to buy them." A worker said, and everyone laughed.

Another person asked again: "Where are the farm tools?"

"We have already prepared large-scale farm machinery, and small farm tools can be brought, but there should be quite a few in the local area." Then Xu Lingfeng looked at Qi Xia, "I see that you have opened your mouth a few times, is there a serious problem?"

"Yes, Brother Feng, you only gave me 60 places, but there are at least a hundred people from my place who want to go, which is seriously exceeding the standard." Qi Xia was very distressed.

Xu Lingfeng seemed to have been prepared for a long time: "The 60 places I gave you are for entering the safe zone. There should be hundreds of people outside the safe zone. But you have to make it clear to them that we will spend a lot of money in the safe zone. Protect with strength, outside the safe zone, we will also protect, but the strength must be much smaller, and even if you enter the safe zone, it is impossible to be [-]% safe."

Qi Xia smiled: "It's okay, it's okay, there has never been a [-]% safe place, let alone now, they are not three-year-old children, if you don't understand this, then stay in Jiang'an. However, There are a few households that may not even have enough rations on the road, how to get it?"

"We will provide food for children under the age of 12. For adults, there will be some job opportunities, such as truck drivers, night guards, cooking and moving things, etc., all need manpower. If it doesn't work, you can call first. I will pay you back after the autumn harvest, and no interest will be charged." Seeing that Qi Xia was about to smile again, he added, "Are those of you reliable? Remember, we don't raise lazy people, keep your eyes open, and don't engage in adultery. Come in with tricks and tricks. By the way, don’t let in those who are glib and tricky, you are enough.”

Everyone laughed.

When the laughter stopped, Xu Lingfeng said again: "If you have a car and a house in your hand, you can start to deal with it. It doesn't matter if the price is lower. We will start on the 25th. If you still have a house in your hand by then, you can get rid of it. The team will not wait for you. We will have a meeting the day after tomorrow at the 'Mingsheng Clinic', and I will explain some precautions at that time. Now everyone, hurry up and put away all the things on the shelves and put them away in different categories. There will be a meeting soon. A batch of goods is coming, so be vigilant when you watch the night..."

This "Fushou Rushan" small supermarket is an industry under the name of Xu Fushan. The main purpose is not to make money, but to facilitate stocking and exchanging rice.The so-called "replacement of rice" refers to replacing old rice with new rice. It is a new thing that has only appeared in the past two years. The millet is already very unpalatable, and if it is stored for a longer period of time, it will become moldy and deteriorate. Therefore, in order to prevent the grain in their hands from becoming "old sesame seeds and rotten millet", the wealthy households show their skills and play all kinds of tricks. Out.

The way Xu Fushan came up with was to open a small supermarket, buy the new rice of the year through regular channels, and sell the old rice that he had hoarded in his hands. Of course, the price will be cheaper, so he buys and sells. In between, the old rice was replaced with new rice.In addition, he can also hoard other food and daily necessities through the supermarket, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Xu Fushan is definitely not the only rich man who does this, but Xu Fushan is definitely the first group to start. Not only did he open this small supermarket, he even bought all the stores in the supermarket. There are two floors in the basement. He only uses the ground floor for business and converted the basement into a warehouse. After Xu Lingfeng took over, he simply used it as a stronghold.

Not long after, three Jiefang trucks stopped outside the door, and seventeen or eighteen strong men jumped out of the trucks, and the trucks were unloaded in half an hour.

When the men were unloading the truck, Xu Lingfeng took their leader to a corner of the warehouse, where dozens of bags of rice were piled up, about four to five thousand catties, Xu Lingfeng said: "Please break them up and put them into small bags, each bag is 10 Jin, you have to work hard these few nights, and send it to the tent area so that no one will find it."

The man looked at the food in a daze, opened his mouth, and finally the long-term habit prevailed, he didn't ask anything, and replied "OK."

He didn't ask, but Xu Lingfeng didn't intend to say: "We have prepared enough food, and many people in the tent area are almost at a loss. Although a drop in the bucket will not help, it is better than watching them starve to death or walk away." Not to mention that some of them are lucky, because the ten catties of grain have survived the most difficult days, and maybe they will gradually get better in the future.

Limited by their ability, that's all they can do for Jiang An.

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Chen Huilan carefully scraped off the mud spots on the sweet potatoes with a knife, and then wiped the sweet potatoes as clean as possible with a cloth. Then she scooped up half a cup of water and cleaned them, then cut them into small pieces with the skin and put them in the pot, and then mixed them with Put half a pot of water, and cook sweet potato porridge with a little bit of rice in it.The remaining half cup of dirty water was not wasted, and he turned around and poured it into a small wooden basin in the corner of the tent. A half-dead potato seedling was planted in the basin.

The two-year-old daughter behind her was sitting on the ground and talking to herself, but Chen Huilan didn't even have the strength to speak, and there was only one thought in her mind: this is the last handful of rice and the last sweet potato in the family, and food will run out again. what to do?

Chen Huilan is a widow with two children, the eldest is eight years old and the youngest is only two years old. When the public announced that they would distribute "baby food", many people envied her to death, and she was also happy Die: 20 catties of food a month, if you replace it with sweet potatoes, you can get 30 catties, and you can eat it for a long time... But today is only the 15th, and the food is about to run out. How will I live the next half month?

Chen Huilan's family background is ordinary, but no matter how ordinary the family is, she has never been short of food. She used to hear that 30 catties a month was not enough to eat, but she still didn't believe it. Now she knows that it is not an exaggeration at all - no oil, no sugar, no meat, Even the vegetables are only kimchi, and the work is still manual work... Even her eight-year-old son can eat four taels of rice in one meal. How can 30 catties be enough?

Thinking of her son Chen Huilan felt even more bitter.An eight-year-old child, who was still in the second grade of elementary school before, is the age when pigs dislike dogs and don't know how much to worry about.Now, they are guarding cars under the scorching sun all day long, just for the income of 40 yuan a day. What can I do with that little money, just buy two or two meters!

But now she can't even earn two or two meters.I have been unemployed for more than a month, all my money has been spent, and all the things that can be sold at home have been sold out. I will run out of food tomorrow, and I have to pay 20 yuan for next month's tent rent on the 600th, and the next job is not yet available. I know where to look... To put it bluntly, as long as she can get some money, Chen Huilan is willing to sell her body, but she is not good-looking, she is also skinny, and she has nightmares even if she touches her. There is nowhere to sell.

In the past, she might still cry, but now Chen Huilan is so numb that she doesn't even have tears, staring at the pot, racking her brains to figure out where to get the money.Probably there is no such thing as an endless road, and a sentence from the neighbor's tent fell into my ears: "Today is the 15th, I don't know if it will be accepted there..."

Do you charge anything?

Chen Huilan was a little confused at the beginning, but after a while her eyes lit up: By the way, today is the day of "blood collection" on the 15th!

She heard a rumor a while ago that in recent months, every 15th, a masked person collected blood nearby, and exchanged 10 catties of rice for a bag of blood.It's not that Chen Huilan is indifferent, it's just that she was doing cleaning in an office building on the second ring road, not to mention work, she commutes by bicycle every day, and it takes an hour for the one-way trip, so she was afraid of affecting her body. dare to go.

It's all right now, the job is gone, so you don't have to worry about your health. You can exchange 20 catties of rice for blood, and then exchange 10 catties of rice for 15 catties of sweet potatoes. If you save some food, you can survive until next month. You can receive 20 catties of grain.

Chen Huilan felt that she had finally found the direction of her efforts. She was like a glass bead that fell into the mud. After a few drops of water, the mud disappeared and the brilliance reappeared...

In the middle of the night, Chen Huilan kissed the little dirty faces of her son and daughter, bowed out of the tent, and disappeared into the darkness.

As soon as Chen Huilan left, a figure flashed behind the tent. The visitor put the bag in his hand inside the curtain, looked suspiciously at the direction where Chen Huilan disappeared, thought for a while, and chased after her...