Doomsday foresight

After listening to Zhang Cheng's narration, a thought came to Jin Xi's mind, if he didn't tell Zhang Cheng the news, his parents didn't keep so much food, would there be no disaster like this.

In the evening, Ye’s family cooked a few dishes and set up a big table. When visitors come, they always have to entertain them. Although the stewed pork vermicelli has less pork and more vermicelli, the cold dish mixed with cabbage and carrots is topped with oily chili oil. dishes, and the second aunt also made chicken cakes for Zhang Cheng.The yellow-orange-orange chicken cake is sprinkled with chopped green onion and a layer of golden soybean oil floats on it. It makes people drool just looking at it, especially Zhang Cheng, who has been eating instant noodles for a while.Even the pain in his body couldn't stop his appetite.

The old man took out the Erguotou bought by Jinxi, and the father and his wife had a meal with pork stewed vermicelli.

"What are your plans for the future?" The old man asked while sitting on the kang with boiling water after dinner.

Zhang Zhong looked directly at the old man and said, "Grandpa Ye, you know our situation. It sounds nice to come and see my younger brother and classmate. In fact, we just escaped. We want to ask grandpa to help us rent a house to live here. Zheng Yuan and I Both of them are doctors. Although there is a shortage of doctors and medicines, we can still get sick. We can survive for a while with food, and there are some supplies in the car. The conditions are not good, as long as we can rent one or two acres of land, we will be fine. We all have hands and feet, and we don’t eat for nothing.”

Mr. Ye nodded. It's a good thing for young people to think so. "Okay." Grandpa Ye thought for a while and said to Jin Yang, "You run to invite your sixth master here, and just say that I have something to look for him."

Jin Yang nodded and ran out.

In fact, Jinyang is not going, and Ye Laoliu will come when it gets dark. Now, no one in the village is going to catch a meal except for the skinless and shameless.Ye Laoliu heard that Jinxi's family was coming, so he wanted to come over, but after thinking about it, he decided to wait until after dinner.In fact, many people in the village talked about who came here, and said that the cart could hold a lot of things, did it come to Jinxi's family?

As a result, before Ye Laoliu entered the house, Cao Erxian came, and he also came to inquire about the news. He was aggrieved all afternoon, and finally came after eating.

"Old brother, whose child is tall enough. Cao Erxian saw Zheng Yuan at a glance. Although Zheng Yuan is a doctor in a hospital, he is really strong and round. What envy Cao Erxian the most is the skinny Cao Erxian. That kind of people.

"It's Jinxi's classmate." The old man smiled and said, "Sit on the kang, have you eaten yet?"

"Eat, the pancakes posted yesterday are hot today."

The old man sighed, "It's hard for you to live alone, why don't you come to eat at home later." He thought about how much Cao Erxian could eat while helping Jinxi, their family, alone.

Cao Erxian chuckled twice, "Brother Xing, I don't want to cook in the future, so I'll come here for a meal. Hehe, the dishes made by my sister-in-law are very old-fashioned, and I can eat them once for half a year."

"Look what you can say, how old is it?" The old lady poured a glass of water, her face was full of folds with a smile like a flower, but she was praised for being in a good mood.

"Who is not serious?" Ye Laoliu walked in from the outside, saw Cao Erxian at a glance, and pointed, "Let's talk about you."

"Sixth brother, you are too much, why don't you put all the bad things on me." Cao Erxian said with some dissatisfaction.

Ye Laoliu ignored him, and swiped around, "You are the only one who can get this word." After saying that, the whole room laughed.

After talking and joking for a while to get to the point, Mr. Ye told about Zhang Zhong and his situation.

"Lao Liu, can you arrange for them? Zhang Zhong and Zheng Yuan are both doctors. It would be much more convenient if they can stay in our village to see a doctor. They both seem to be doctors of medicine."

When Ye Laoliu heard this, he was surprised, "Really? That's amazing." Then a smile appeared on his face, "If you come first, I can't make the decision to keep you, even though I am the village head, I can't make a decision on my own. Why do we have to hold a meeting to study it? When Cao Erxian came over, everyone voted on their own, but you all made it in time. Yesterday I went to the county for a meeting, and I have not come yet, so I am in a hurry to tell everyone." Ye Laoliu Looking at Grandpa Ye, "You also know the current situation outside. The sudden drop in temperature in the city requires a lot of effort to keep warm. In addition to the problem of food, the higher-ups have made a decision to let some families who have lost their jobs who can't afford food in the city go to the countryside."

"Through the research of several countries, it has been confirmed that the various disasters that happened on our water-blue planet were caused by the sudden appearance of the ninth planet in the solar system. Because of its sudden appearance, the magnetic field and gravity of our planet have changed. Such a change is a long-lasting process. In the end, even experts can’t predict what will happen to Aquamarine. However, the above-mentioned documents have been issued, and I hope that the government troops of various places will work together to tide over the difficulties.” Ye Laoliu took a breath and said In order to say this passage, he memorized it all morning from home. Now he will practice it first, and he will go to the compound to say it later.

"Now the external electricity is affected, many factories are shut down, and there are many unemployed people. The unemployed population in the city has reached 60.00%, and after half a year of consumption without income, our country's grain reserves are also consumed. In order to reduce the burden on the country, it is also to settle down Those who have suspended work are based on families, and if there are two unemployed in a family, the whole family will go to the countryside to prepare for next year's spring planting."

"Lao Liu said that many people will come down? But what about the land?" Mr. Ye frowned. If some outsiders were stationed in the village, the situation would be complicated.

"There is an explanation on this matter. Our place is quite biased. Not far to the north is the forest, and the land in each village is not even. The first thing to abolish is the excess land of each family. In the past, the number of people was always reduced without reducing the land. , The first thing to reduce is this group. It has been ten years since the contract was signed, and many people have died in each village. The land is allocated according to one mu per person, and it depends on how much each village can accept People, and because each village is different, it is calculated according to three acres per person, and those who exceed three acres will be returned, and those who are less will not be compensated. Almost everyone in our village will withdraw more than one mu of land." Ye Laoliu sighed, and they The village belongs to the kind with a lot of land, but I heard that there are more than ten acres for one person in the north, so it is not much compared with them. Speaking of farming, it has only been earning money in the past three or two years. The price of food used to be low. Seeds, fertilizers, and miscellaneous money for farming. If the children go to school, the elderly see a doctor, and the son gets a wife, there is really nothing left. It has only been better in the past two years.

Mr. Ye summed it up, and each of them sent back more than one mu of land for a family of three acres. "Then our family has not caught up with the land distribution. Does this count?"

"Forget it. Based on the current population statistics."

Well, their family still has [-] acres left, and the loss is not much, so they raised their heads, "Then what do you say they came at the right time? Can they still settle down?"

Ye Laoliu nodded, "The higher-ups know that some relatives from the city have come to seek refuge, and they have lived there long ago. For the sake of management, a census will be conducted this time. It is cold here in winter, so those people in the city must first register and allocate. If you want to come here, you have to wait until next year. I heard that some places in the city have already been heated, and the places that are not heated are also allocated to other places. Although they live in a bit more crowded, they will not freeze to death. The personnel will be allocated before the spring of next year. "

"Those who have been settled in the village before the census, if there is a guarantor in the village, they can settle in the village and enjoy the treatment of villagers. In fact, this is also to hope that people with rural relatives will come to the village in advance, which will also reduce the burden on the city. If before, The villages will not be happy, after all, no one wants to share the land. It’s different now. The village doesn’t want strangers to enter, and it’s easier for acquaintances and relatives to accept it. If the three of you settle down, you can get three acres of land each , From now on, you will be the people of our village. Everything will be done according to the rules of the village. I guess this is the only chance. If you don’t want to and don’t force it, I can share an acre of land with you. You can also eat it.”

Zhang Zhong and Zheng Yuan looked at each other and nodded, "We settled down." It's not a matter of how much land they have, but that they can take root after they settle down. Now the situation is getting worse and worse. If there is land, even if there is no harvest, there is still hope, unlike Everything in the city depends on the arrangements of the higher authorities, waiting for relief from others, not to mention that both of them are doctors of medicine, and it will be easy to return to the city in the future.

Ye Laoliu nodded, "Then where do you live? Let me think about it. There is an empty house in the east of the village. There is no one in their house. The house may be a bit broken, but it can be repaired and you can live in it. It is cold now and cannot be changed. Next year When the land changed, I found time to build a house. Now I don’t have the conditions to build a good house. Fortunately, there are many stones on the Dongshan Mountain. If you get some cement, you can build the house with the stones. The houses that were built like this before were not available at that time. As for the cement, the house has lived for seven or eighty years, and your uncle’s house in the front yard was built in the year he got married, and it is still warm and strong.”

"What's the matter with the big brother's house? The beams of their house are all made of good wood. Our father specially saves land." Mr. Ye also remembered the matter of building the house back then.At that time, the old man was eccentric, except for the boss and his brothers who directly paid the settlement fee and kicked them out. The money was not enough to cover half of the house. He was just married at that time, and his wife was pregnant with the second child. It was frozen in winter. Difficult childbirth, can no longer give birth, otherwise how could there be only two children in the family.His younger brothers were even more pitiful. Lao Liu was kicked out on the third day of his marriage. If he hadn't helped Lao Liu, he might have gone to the old man's house to be his son-in-law.So they have a lot of opinions on the boss.

In the end, his father was not as good as his elder brother, and he was pissed to death by his elder brother every two years, and his elder brother disappeared within two years, leaving orphans and widows, and they were not the brothers who took care of them.

"The current one of your house is not bad. It seems to be made of steel beams, otherwise it wouldn't be so big." Ye Liuye said and raised his head, but unfortunately there is a roof and he can't see what the beams look like.

"Well, the boss wouldn't have worked so hard if it wasn't for building this house, and he didn't live there for a few days." The boss of their family is very strong, because of Dabao, he always wants to be famous in the village and let those people see Look, that's why the couple made a lot of money, otherwise they would go home and farm the land honestly after paying off their debts, so what would happen later.

"Okay, brother, don't talk about the past, it's been so long, if the boss knows that the family is safe and sound underground, he will also close his eyes." Cao Erxian hurriedly eased the atmosphere.

"That's right, second brother, where did your family Jiang Chen go? Why did you never believe it? When I saw him come back in military uniform, where did he serve as a soldier?"

"We don't know, and he didn't say anything." Old Master Ye sighed again.

"You don't have to worry about him. That kid is capable. I saw it when the boss brought him back. That's fine. Why don't you find time to look at the house and live in it if it suits you. If it's not suitable, there are still vacancies in the village. , but everyone has the owner, I guess I need something. I'll tell you when I think about it."

"Brother Six, I don't think they need to look elsewhere, just go to my place. I live in the house of the second child, one room is enough for one person, and they can live in a kang the size of Westinghouse. It just doesn't matter. I know whether Yingzi and Jinyang are happy or not, it belongs to them after all." Cao Erxian said what he had been thinking about for a while.

"Yes, why did you forget that." Mr. Ye patted his leg, turned his head and asked Jin Yang, "Where's your wife, ask her if she would like it?"

"Don't ask, she definitely has no opinion." Jin Yang rubbed his head and smiled.

"Just ask if you want? Go quickly."

"Oh." Jin Yang nodded and went out.

After a while, Jinyang took Yingzi out of the east room, "We have no objection, they live here, otherwise the house will be empty and it will be broken." Yingzi agreed after thinking about it, and the living is not bad now, and the whole family is together A sense of security.

"That's it. Erxian, you take the two of them to have a look first. If it is suitable to burn the kang, you can live there today. I originally wanted to squeeze with Jinxi Dabao at night, so this arrangement is unnecessary."

After listening to the arrangement, Jin Xi also went with them, taking them and saving them face-to-face.

Cao Erxian was very enthusiastic, "You guys go live. I didn't say anything. I'm alone in the house, and it's deserted. If you go, it's more lively. Does any of you know how to cook?"

Zhang Zhong nodded, "We both know how to do something."

"That's all right. I will partner with you in the future. Don't worry, I have food and I won't eat you for nothing." Cao Erxian was really satisfied. He originally felt that he was not safe to live in and he couldn't do farm work. With the three of them helping each other, life would be easier, anyway, he has plenty of food without children.Not afraid that these people will not help him.With Jinxi in it, the personalities of a few people can still be trusted.

When Cao Erxian brought a few people to the door, he was called away by the neighbor next door, and threw the key to Jinxi, "Take them in and take a good look."

Jin Xi answered and took the key to enter the door.

The front yard is not as big as the Jinxi family's, but it is quite clean, with bluestone slabs paving the aisle and the well.As soon as you enter the yard, there is a pigsty on the left hand side. There are five large pigsties in a row. Now the inside is empty, and there are straw feeds, which Jinxi's family can't fit.On the right half of the gate, there is a brick wall more than one meter high, surrounded by a vegetable garden, and three warehouses are located in the innermost part of the vegetable garden.

Jin Xi was not in a hurry to take them into the house, so he wandered around to the back and looked at the back yard, "Although the front is not big, there is an acre in the back. My second aunt used to grow corn here, and the small garden in the front is enough to grow vegetables." It’s gone.” Now it doesn’t matter what you live in, the land for farming is the most important thing, don’t look at the many acres of land, before the drought there was a well here to water every day, and I got a lot of harvest.

Go around and go back to the front. The house is on a high terrain, and there are three steps to go up. The house is bright and dark.Also has a back door.The bright room is the kitchen, the two stoves are at the back, the front half of the room is empty, and there is a big table next to it, where meals are usually taken.

"Grandpa Cao lives in the east room. If you want to live in the west room, this house was built by my cousin when he got married. This house was also well decorated at that time."

Jin Xi pushed the door and took the two of them into the house, "There was originally a kang cabinet but let my sister-in-law take the other end, you'd better buy one or find someone to open it, there is a kang cabinet that is convenient for putting quilts or something. Let's light the fire There is a bit of smoke, and the quilt is easy to get dirty when placed outside."

Zhang Zhong and Zheng Yuan were really satisfied when they saw it. The room was quite clean, and there was a large closet next to it. The furniture might have been moved away and it was a little empty, but as soon as they brought in their things, there would be more.The kang is quite big, enough for three or four people to sleep.

Jinxi looked at Zhang Zhong and looked at the kang, "This kang is big enough, but if you don't want to live together, you can build one in the south. It's not difficult. When the house was built earlier, the flue was left. Not at all. It doesn't take much trouble, just like the east house of our house, build a north and south kang."

Zhang Zhong and Zheng Yuan were more satisfied, nodded and sat on the edge of the kang, "How about that Immortal Cao Er just now?"

"Grandpa Cao, he just moved here not long ago. He's a nice guy, and it's an advantage for you to live with him. He is a god in our area, and he is respected by the villagers. He is very loyal. You live with him. Orphans and widows will not take advantage of you, and if you have work to do in the future, it can be regarded as taking care of him."

Although Ye Jinxi didn't seem to say much, but Zhang Zhong also understood how to get along with the elderly in the future, lonely old people, I hope to care about them most.All they need is to quickly integrate into the village.This is not considered use, but mutual gain.