The return of natural disasters before the end of the world

Xiong Mingzhang's family has a sow, which is fed with good chaff every day, and I don't know how carefully it is raised.Prices soared when the weather was hot, and he once hoped that if the price was higher, the pigs could be sold at a better price.As a result, the world is in chaos, and every household hoards food and rice, so they are willing to exchange it for meat.

If one person in the whole village exchanged a little, it would be enough to eat two meals of meat, and his pig could still be consumed. The problem was that others didn't want it.Some want to change a little, but they can't afford to change too much.Now it can basically be said that there is no water or electricity. If you change too much, it will really break down, so you can only keep it like this.

Xiong Mingzhang watched the pigs lose weight every day, not to mention his heartache.The hair is about to turn white.The family members were also anxious to get angry, and their mouths were full of angry bubbles.

At the appointed time in the evening, they all gathered at Lei Li's house.Some who came early were still sitting in the yard eating melon seeds and chatting.Lei Gang, Lei Yi and the others came earlier, but Lu Xueyi came earlier.As soon as he opened his eyes, he ran towards their house.

Originally, he was not familiar with the people in this village, but Yao Ziqing and his family were the ones he knew best.His old man can manage the small vegetable field in front of the house by himself, and he has nothing to do when he stays at home.It's better to follow them and see if there is any chance to get some supplies for storage.

After seeing Lei Gang and the others coming, they talked about buying pork together. The two of them thought about it for a while and said, "Let's see how things are going tonight. If it's good, then we'll give it a try, but we'll just split it up between the two of us. The amount is a bit large, right? The main reason is that the weather can’t be released, and it must be consumed on the same day, otherwise it will be a big loss!”

"There are also Ma Chen and Lei Zheng. Ziqing said that if we really want to buy, he will also buy some, but instead of going to the town to set up a stall, he will eat at home. It's probably not much, but at least we have shared some. Also I don't know the condition of the pig, but Yao Nai said that it has lost a lot of fat and there is not much meat left!"

Yao Ziqing just sat and listened to what they were saying, while peeling melon seeds to feed Xiao Wu.The dog's teeth can't knock melon seeds, so it is spoiled.He kept pawing and pulling Yao Ziqing's leg, and after selling his cuteness for a long time, he only got a little bit in return. Being a dog is not easy...

Lei Xiao and Lei Li didn't intend to follow tonight. There have been a lot of mosquitoes in the house recently, and the bites are red and swollen, and the itching is unbearable.

There is an old locust tree not far from their house. It has been around for a long time. Although it has been exposed to the scorching sun, because of lack of water, the leaves on the tree are yellow and dead, but it is still tenaciously alive. .

The room is stuffy, so I simply hang a homemade lantern, which can illuminate a small area.Light a plate of mosquito-repellent incense next to it to smoke mosquitoes, and a group of people just sit around and chat together, or move the small stone mill at home to grind beans, wheat and other things, which is quite leisurely.

The two of them went to the market to play, grandma went to the door to sit and chat with people, Lei Li and Lei Xiao took out a few pieces of burning charcoal that had been prepared before, and put them in the iron basin.Then put the pots in different places in the house.

Put out the charcoal with dichlorvos, and then the charcoal will continue to emit strong and pungent smoke for a period of time.Close the doors and windows in the house, and fumigate well, so that mosquitoes, cockroaches and other things will be fumigated and killed.

After the door was closed, Lei Li wiped the sweat from his forehead: "After a few hours of smoking, the mosquitoes will probably be stronger. The mosquitoes are so big now. I don't know what they ate. Their vitality is so tenacious, so they can Impossibly hot!"

Lei Xiao washed his hands, and said to Lei Li: "You go to grandma's place, I will take Xiao Wu to walk around in the woods."

"It's so dark, what's the point of getting better, it's so dangerous in the woods at night, don't go!"

"It's okay, don't worry, Xiao Wu, let's go"

Xiao Wu, who was sitting at the door and sneezing constantly, stood up now. Even though the doors and windows were closed, the pungent smell in the room still made him uncomfortable.Leaning towards Lei Li, brushed his tail with his calf as a greeting, then followed Lei Xiao away.

Seeing a person and a dog drifting away, Lei Li felt helpless.Anyway, Lei Xiao has a sense of propriety in doing things, and he still keeps his weapons close to him, so nothing should happen to him.Then he closed all the yard doors and walked towards where grandma was.

Lei Xiao's night vision ability is no worse than Yao Ziqing's now. Since the thick fog that day, he also has something similar to the inner alchemy in his body, and he can absorb the surrounding elemental energy more smoothly.

Si'er was ignorant and mistaken, everything was done according to instinct, but Lei Xiao had a purpose.Like breathing, the direction and speed of elemental energy moving in the body, after gradually being able to control, he found that as long as this energy is concentrated in a certain place, the ability of that place will be more prominent.

For example, if the elemental energy is constantly flowing in the acupuncture points around the eyes, then the eyesight will be strengthened, and you can see farther and more clearly.Concentrate the elemental energy around the cochlea, and the hearing will become stronger.If you concentrate the elemental energy on your legs and palms when fighting against people, then the strength and speed will be improved more obviously.

And tonight he wanted to go into the woods to see what the faint commotion in the woods was lately. In the past two days, he could always hear the sounds of many animals running around in the woods.It wasn't very obvious, but there was a commotion in the usually silent forest, which still made people feel a little uneasy.

Lei Xiao is not worried about the other ferocious beasts, most of them have a sense of territory, even if they count as lions and tigers, Lei Xiao is confident to get rid of them.But if it is a wolf, it is really dangerous.

Creatures like wolves like to live in groups, and even cooperate collectively when besieging prey.If wolves really appeared in their woods, it would be really dangerous.

It's not necessary to come and look for it. If you encounter it, even if it is him, it may be difficult to get out.But if there are groups of wolves here, there will be some traces of life left.

Xiao Wu has been closely following Lei Xiao's footsteps, his footsteps are extremely light, he is obviously a very fat and bulky dog, just like a professional hunting dog, lurking in the dark night.

Lei Xiao glanced sideways at the dog at his feet, the shaved hair grew a little, not too long, but good enough to cover the flesh.It became a black ball again, which is very suitable for moving in the dark.It's just too dark, and he can ignore it at a glance.

A fine sound sounded from the side of Lei Xiao's body. It was so subtle that it was easy to mistake it for the wind blowing if one didn't pay attention.

Xiao Wu bent down, his tail hung down, and his whole body was tensely staring at a certain direction.That direction is exactly where the sound was made just now, obviously Xiao Wu also discovered the problem, it seems that the vigilance is indeed very high.

Suddenly Lei Xiao moved, and a dagger came out of his hand. With a sting sound, the dagger pierced deeply into the bamboo body, and there was a snake writhing and dying on it.

Lei Xiao frowned, why is it a snake again?When he got closer, he saw an emerald green bamboo leaf, and his brows frowned even deeper.This snake is highly venomous, fast, and small in stature, making it particularly dangerous.

Pulling out the snake's fangs, he stuffed the snake into the bamboo basket behind him.There is also a special lid on the basket to prevent the contents from spilling out.

Lei Xiao walked deeper for a while, and carefully identified that there were no traces of wolves living in the surroundings, so he was relieved.But from entering the forest to leaving the forest, within an hour, he had already caught three poisonous snakes.

When he got home, he found that Lei Li had come back and opened the doors and windows for ventilation.Looking at the snake Miemen planted in the yard, I don't know whether this kind of thing can stop the poisonous snake.

"It's almost dawn, and Si'er and the others haven't come back yet. This time they brought [-] chickens, and now there is no communication. I don't know how they are doing. Did you gain anything from going to the forest?"

Lei Xiao handed the basket to Lei Li, and Lei Li took a look, his scalp went numb, and he took a deep breath: "This, you caught this in the woods?"

Lei Xiao nodded: "Sprinkle realgar powder on all corners of the house. There are definitely many poisonous snakes in the woods, so don't take it lightly."

Lei Li looked at the things in the basket and felt his hairs stand on end.If the forest was really infested with poisonous snakes, their family living on the edge of the forest would probably be the first to suffer.

When I thought of this, I couldn't sit still, I searched for realgar powder, and sprinkled it all over the house without any money.Anyway, Xiao Wu would not eat casually, so there is no need to worry that it will be poisoned to death by realgar powder.

"Is there any wormwood at home?"

Lei Xiao thought for a while, Si'er seemed to have bought a lot of these things, so he nodded, "It's at Si'er's."

Lei Li glanced at the increasingly bright sky, thinking that it was about time for them to come back: "Then when Si'er comes back, let him take some more and keep them at home. The realgar is actually not very effective against snakes. Ordinary snakes If you encounter it, you will turn around and go away, but I really don’t know what the poisonous snake will do. The smoke effect of wormwood is better, put a little bit of wormwood everywhere, and it will have some effect.”

Thinking that there are so many poisonous snakes in the woods behind the house, I can't even sleep well.

Yao Ziqing and the others returned with a full load this time, selling everything.There are almost tens of thousands of people in the town, and there will always be some people who worry about eating well but not eating well. Today, someone heard that there was a fried chicken seller in the market, so he came directly to buy five chickens.

However, not all of them are exchanged for food, and some of them use daily necessities such as roll paper and toothpaste to see if they can be exchanged.Fang Jinlei didn't want toothpaste, there was a lot of it from the supermarket last time.However, there are not too many roll papers, after all, there is no substitute for this kind of thing for the time being.

There is nothing to do with the leaves. What if there are no leaves in winter?So roll paper is more popular.

When I got home, I smelled a strange smell as soon as I entered the door, but Yao Ziqing didn't think it was strange when he said before that he would smoke the house today.When he entered the yard, he saw several emerald green snakes. He almost jumped up in surprise: "Why are there snakes? Could it be another snake in the house?!"

Today I was going to smoke the house, but when I came back and saw a few more snakes, my first reaction was naturally that the poisonous snakes hiding in the house had been smoked out.

Lei Li smiled and comforted Si'er who was about to explode: "It's not from the house. Your second brother went to the forest today and brought it back from the forest. Don't worry, we sprinkled a lot of realgar at home and planted a lot. The snake-repelling plant will not enter the snake!"

Snakes won't come into their house, but that doesn't mean other people's houses won't either.Lei Zheng and Ma Chen's faces turned a little bit bad.Squatting beside Lei Li to watch him handle the snake, he asked worriedly: "There are a lot of snakes in the forest? It's too scary to get three of them in one turn, isn't it?" It is possible to get into this kind of thing at home, and the whole person will be bad!"

Lu Xueyi was also stunned: "It's scary, the earth is so dangerous, I really want to go back to Mars as soon as possible!"

Lei Zheng patted him on the head: "Then you go back to Mars!"

Seeing Lei Xiao adjusting the ingredients in the fire room, Ma Chen probably planned to wait for the grilled snake meat. After thinking about it, he felt a little embarrassed and said, "Captain Lei, can you give me some realgar powder? I always feel a little uncomfortable." Practical."

Lei Xiao nodded: "Go to Si'er and ask him to get you some."

Yao Ziqing was terrified when he saw them, so he went to the small warehouse and pretended to take out a box from it: "Hey, if you want realgar powder or realgar wine, that's all you need, but I still have some seeds for killing the snake, you see Take it back and see if it can grow, this thing feels more useful than realgar!"

Lu Xueyi was the first to rush over politely, and kept admiring: "Ziqing, Ziqing, you are such a little jingle! You can get what you want! Even this thing is prepared in so much detail!"

"That's because snakes have entered my house before, and my third brother was almost bitten. Fortunately, I found it in time, so I have prepared a lot of anti-snake things!"

"Hiss~~ It's scary! No, I want my parents to fumigate the whole house tonight! Otherwise, I'll be scared to sleep!"

Lei Gang and Lei Yi's harvest at night is not small. Tofu balls are quite popular. There may be many people in the city who can make tofu balls, but there are probably not many who can turn soybeans into tofu.And water tofu needs to be soaked in water when it is made.Now that the water shortage has reached such an extent, who would bother to make tofu.

Moreover, tofu meatballs are relatively cheap. One catty of rice can be exchanged for five children's fist-sized meatballs, which seems to be a good deal.Because it is already steamed, it is still warm when you bring it over.Some people buy a few pieces of fried chicken and a few tofu balls, and they have a meal like this, which is quite satisfying.

Lei Gang and Lei Yi saw that the sales volume was good, so they decided to come back at night. For ordinary people, distributing tofu is probably a bit difficult, because there is no such kind of brine, and some people don't know how to make it with gypsum powder.With the convenience of life, how many people have the leisure time to study this kind of thing.

Lei Gang's grandma is the only one in the village who knows how to make tofu. It can be said that it is a family handed down craft.That's about it.So tofu balls are even more popular than fried chicken.

With hope in life, I suddenly feel that the hot weather is no longer a problem, and people become more motivated!

After some discussion, they finally decided to buy the pig from Xiong Mingzhang's family.The main reason is that the family has not seen meat for several months, no matter the elderly or children, they are all a bit greedy for meat.A few families share it together, but it’s actually not much.

However, I was delayed for a long time today, and finally decided to take a nap first, and then go to Xiong Mingzhang's house after waking up and it's dark. The specific exchange needs to be discussed.If the asking price is too outrageous, forget it.Anyway, chicken is also meat, and you might be able to buy a chicken after selling tofu balls for a few days.And Fang Jinlei sold it for the same price, and the ones in his own village would definitely not be that expensive.

Since grandma knows that the ice can be reused, dragging the melted water to the balcony every day, the sun can evaporate quickly.Then add some water, and it will cool down in the igloo without the help of the grandchildren.

Fang Jinlei's house doesn't have a cellar, so some things are not easy to store, so they just put them in Yao Ziqing's house.To be honest, he has now taken care of Yao Nai as his grandmother, and their family is probably the only one in this village that he can feel warm and memorable.

After eating, drinking and taking a bath, Yao Ziqing and the others went into grandma's room.The ice cubes in the three large basins are cooling down, the small fan is fanning, and the watering can is used to spray some water from time to time, which is quite pleasant.

Lei Lang took a small mirror and looked at it smugly. When he saw the fire blisters around his mouth and under his nose, he wanted to pick them off: "I've eaten a lot of fried chicken recently, and I'm getting angry. Sier, where are you going? I have chrysanthemum tea, it’s hot, I feel like the air coming out of my nose is hot!”

Yao Ziqing turned to face the second brother, too lazy to listen to the third brother complaining.He ate too much fried chicken...does he know how hateful these words are!But it is true that I should take out some chrysanthemums to make tea, even the second brother is very hot.

Stretch out your hand to touch the pimples around the second brother's mouth: "Does it hurt? I have medicine, rub some on it?"

Lei Xiao held the hand that he took the opportunity to touch randomly, don't think that he just touched his mouth accidentally and he didn't realize it.

"sleep"

"Can't sleep, or, second brother, let me listen to your singing!"

Lei Lang couldn't help laughing out loud, this is a dark history.When I was a child, about four or six years old, I got chickenpox, and my body was so itchy that I couldn't sleep and I couldn't scratch it.At that time, grandma touched him all night, as long as he stopped, he would wake up.So Lei Xiao had to switch hands so that grandma could go to rest.As a result, the kid was so itchy that he couldn't sleep, and because he was sick and uncomfortable, he insisted on asking the second brother to sing to lull him to sleep.

At that time, the second brother's face was tense, and he sang expressionlessly: "There is a group of ducks passing by the bridge in front of the gate, come and count them, two four six seven eight..."

From then on, Lei Lang could no longer look directly at this nursery rhyme, so much so that even now, his memory is still fresh!

Hearing the third brother's laughter, Yao Ziqing knew that he must have thought of something.Sure enough, Lei Xiao glanced at Lei Lang coldly.Someone on the bed over there turned over quickly without ambition and started snoring.

"go to bed!"

After a while, the room became quiet.

In order to avoid direct sunlight, Yao Ziqing bought a lot of double-sided sunscreen cloths before.Now the doors and windows are covered with this kind of sunscreen cloth. As long as the doors and windows are closed, there will be no light in the room, and it will be pitch black.

Listening to the breathing rate of everyone in the room slowly slowing down, Yao Ziqing leaned carefully to the second brother's side.I've been so busy lately, I haven't had a good time making out.Of course, now that everyone is sleeping in the same room, it is impossible to make out.But even a little physical touch is happy.

Lei Xiao just let him move, watched him toss for a long time, and finally fell asleep satisfied, and then carefully put the person on his arm.He can also control the airflow now, much better than Yao Ziqing.

The room was quiet, with a weak air current floating around Yao Ziqing, and the breeze brought by it dissipated a little of the heat.Yao Ziqing slept next to his second brother, feeling the breeze around him, and fell asleep with a slight smile on his lips.

It was almost dark when Lu Xueyi came running in high spirits. Yao Ziqing just got up and yawned and snatched the watermelon that the third brother had just processed. He just sat on the sofa with a big bowl in his arms, took a bite and fed it by himself. Little five.

Lu Xueyi glared and accused: "Fuck! How shameless! Do you know that the masses of the people are living in dire straits today! You are so extravagant!"

With a whimper, he rushed over: "Please give me a reward~~"

Yao Ziqing pointed at Lei Lang: "The source of the evil is there, go find him!"

Lei Lang moved the watermelon in his arms, and the small steel bowl in Si'er's hand contained half of the watermelon, and the remaining half was not enough for him to eat by himself!This watermelon is not the kind of big watermelon that weighs only a dozen or twenty catties, only five or six catties, peeled and dehydrated, almost an adult can kill one.

Lu Xueyi fluttered: "Aww! Eating alone has no friends!"

During the fight, Lei Gang and the others also came over, and after almost everyone had arrived, they stepped on their respective bikes and rode to Xiong Mingzhang's house at the end of the village.

Hearing that they were here to buy pigs, Xiong Mingzhang immediately beamed with joy.This pig is not meat in his eyes now, but a hot potato.It's really cheap to sell, but it's hard to keep it!

Lei Zheng looked at the thin pig and shook his head: "There is no fat at all, I am afraid that even the lard can't be fried, and this pig is not young, the meat is probably very bad!"

"How could it be! This pig is only five months old, and it is when the meat is tender. I am not afraid to tell the truth even if the weather is bad. It’s broken, it’s really difficult to deal with, it’s all from the same village, you can open it for the price, and take it away if you can.”

Speaking of which, Xiong Mingzhang became a little depressed, and he was really sad to see the pig that was still humming and humming.How could it be possible to sell some money before.Now, as long as someone is willing to accept it.

Lei Li pondered for a moment, then said: "This pig is about 150 to [-] catties now, and the price of six catties of rice is one catty of meat. What do you think? This pig is [-] catties. Integer, a thousand catties of rice."

This price is indeed very fair, not too much and not too little, but for the sake of a village, it is not necessary to bargain too hard.Xiong Mingzhang also knew in his heart that most of the asking price was really based on affection.Without much hesitation, he nodded and agreed.

"Shall I help you get rid of the pig?"

"No need, let's drag it back and deal with it ourselves"

Generally, they help people deal with live pigs, and they don't want some pig offal, but now even if it's pig offal, it's still edible.If you don't want it, you are reluctant, if you want it, you feel embarrassed.A big man is so stingy.

The main reason is that although they now have a sense of food crisis, they are still short of water and not so short of food.

If Yao Ziqing knew what they were thinking, he would only think that they were really not in charge of the family and didn't know the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt.I'm sorry to see if they won't be more stingy in a few months.As long as you can eat enough, face counts as fart!