Doomsday foresight

The car drove home, and Dabao, who had been waiting in the yard, came out to meet him, and looked at the big bag on the roof with a smile, "There are so many."

"We also brought back two mountain grapes, which will be squeezed for you to drink when they bear fruit." Jin Xi replied with a smile after getting out of the car.

"Okay, okay, drink juice." The smile on Dabao's face became brighter and brighter.

Looking at his smiling face, Jinxi felt that Dabao was also happy, carefree and free from worries all day long.Thinking about pinching his face, "What are you doing at home today?"

"By the way, a lot of chickens are born." Dabao was excited.

"Really." Jin Xi was also happy, because the hatching time had changed, and he didn't know which day it was.

Thinking of this, he followed Dabao to the next house.As soon as I entered the room, there was a bad smell, but listening to the twittering, and looking at the yellow hairball-like chickens on the kang, I felt much happier.

This year, there are few chickens in the village, only a few households, unlike the Jinxi family who have been raising chickens. Except for Jinxi who has a premonition that these animals can live well, other families really dare not raise them like this, after all, it is so cold. The chickens and ducks will freeze to death every day, so there are not many families left to raise them one after another.

The situation in the village is now being managed by a few elders with the assistance of the sixth uncle. A large part of the reason for the attack on Jinxi’s house before was that the livestock and chickens in the family were too eye-catching. So at the beginning of the year, Mr. Ye proposed to help the villagers hatch some chicks. , Their family saved some eggs.

Mr. Ye discussed this matter with his family. The current situation of their family is indeed conspicuous, not to mention the livestock at home. Before Jiang Chen and the others went out to bring back the supplies stored in the plane, some of those substances cannot be stored for a long time, so You have to get it back or change it to something else or eat it at home.

Because people in this village know to some extent that the Ye family has some family background, even if they don't know the details, everyone will guess.Muttering a little behind his back.A day or two is okay, but a long time is not good for their family.

So the old man thought of this method, hatched the eggs he had saved, and distributed them to the villagers.In this way, when everyone gets benefits, they will not always stare at them. When there are more chickens in the village, their family will not be so conspicuous.

In fact, because of Mr. Ye's idea, the people in the village were indeed less jealous of them.

All the breeding eggs saved by this family were donated.This is the sixth time to hatch eggs after the year, and it will be the last time. After saving a certain amount of eggs, they can be hatched directly on the kang without a hen, but it is a little more troublesome than a hen to hatch eggs. Jinxi's grandma is the best. To touch the egg, there was no room for it in the house, so a kang was built in the lower room, and the old lady touched it several times a day to control the temperature.

Each household in the village can get five chickens. At that time, blindfolded groping, whether to get a rooster or a hen depends on luck. Fortunately, more hens hatch than roosters. changed.At least two hens per family are guaranteed.

The Jinxi family didn’t keep any of the eggs hatched these few times. Anyway, the 37 hens hatched in their family years ago were all alive and well, and now they have grown quite big, and they are growing well. The 24 hens died last month. I started to lay eggs. My grandma said that the eggs in the family used to be laid only half a year ago. This year, the laying time of these eggs has been brought forward.Moreover, the shell of the egg is very hard, and the yolk is also yellow, which is obviously very mature.But Jinxi thinks that even the hatching time of the eggs has changed, and it is normal for the chickens to have some changes.

Jinxi has also carefully observed these chickens. Most of his nightmares are in the city, and there are many disasters at the beginning, but there are two dreams of the jungle, a very dense jungle. He doesn't know where it is, but where is it? The animals are very powerful. In my dream, I really wanted to go hunting, but I met a very huge wild boar. The wild boar seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, with long teeth, and fur as hard as armor. It was like a giant.At that time, the wild boar ran towards him and woke him up. The second time he dreamed that he was walking in the jungle, but that time he saw a building in the jungle. It was a three-story building covered by plants. Surrounded by it, he wondered at the time why there were buildings in the forest, but later thought that maybe it was originally a city, but it was covered by plants.That time he also saw a chicken-like animal, but the chicken was too big for him to confirm.

It was precisely because of these two dreams that Jinxi seemed to have noticed something, but the traces were not clear yet. He could only follow his own heart and keep all the livestock in the family.

If he observed the chickens hatched at home, it seemed that the ones he hatched years ago were healthier and stronger, while the chicks hatched later were slightly worse. Jinxi still remembers when the chickens at home ran out and ended up in the snow. It wasn't freezing at all, but the chicks hatched for the second time were worse. The outside temperature had risen a lot, but they still seemed a little afraid of the cold, shivering a little outside, and they all huddled together.Apparently they are not as frost resistant as the first batch.Perhaps because the first batch was born when the weather was the coldest.

In fact, Jinxi didn't want to prove anything by observing these things. Many things have become reality without proof. It's like a cold winter. Many people didn't even survive the winter because of the sharp drop in temperature. There are eight people in their village. Caught a bad cold, six did not survive.And the people who survived this winter seem to be stronger and have a lot more strength.From here, it has been confirmed that although the cold in winter makes people sad, it also strengthens people's physical resistance and enhances their physical fitness.

Animals and people are obviously the same.

Change has been there since the beginning.

Jinxi’s chickens lay an egg every two days. Adding the previous chickens, their family has a lot of laying hens. They have to pick up more than [-] eggs every day. Some people in the village have children at home. Jinxi's family didn't pick anything, they basically agreed, and kept the eggs they ate, and exchanged everything else.They also got some beans, and the villagers knew that there was no shortage of things in their family. Most of the things they brought were mung beans, and they didn't produce glutinous rice, so they were very sincere.

A few days ago, Ye Shuo brought a pork leg over and asked them to save a hundred eggs. His daughter-in-law was about to have a baby and was ready to give birth.It was a whole pig larvae, which had been frozen all winter and was not willing to eat, so it was brought here.

Because the snow was about to melt, there was no more pigtails left. Grandma cooked it in a big pot today, and Jinxi could smell the aroma as soon as he entered the house.

Jin Xi sniffled, wandered around the kitchen, she hadn't eaten meat for a long time.Jiang Chen had already washed his face, and poured him another basin of hot water, "This is the last batch, right? How much did it come out?"

"It seems that only six did not come out, enough."

"That's okay, as long as you have enough points, I just left the house to make room for the bracken kang."

"Is the Kang's alright?" Jin Xi rubbed the soap.

"It's okay, just eat the same thing, the sun is not good outside now, the sky is always gray."

As soon as Jiang Chen finished speaking, he saw the old man enter the house carrying a basket containing firewood, which was filled with charcoal brought from the mountains, section by section. "Grandpa, call me next time. I'll get it." He said and took over the charcoal basket, which was very heavy.

"I'm not old yet, and I'm still tired from carrying these things?" The old man said, panting a bit, but he was in good spirits, and he always had a particularly tenacious spirit.

Jin Xi handed over the towel that was filled with water, but he didn't persuade Grandpa, didn't say anything like you don't want to rest, it's not that he's not filial, it's just that the old man has been here all his life, if you let him rest Maybe people are really old. The old man has too many things to worry about and can't be free. In this way, he has a belief that the family still needs me and that I am still the head of the family. Therefore, no difficulties can beat him. Jinxi and the others can do it The only thing is to take over the tiring work so that the old man is not really tired.

In fact, there are examples of this. Ye Cheng's second father was originally physically better than his father, and he was also caught outside the house. The old man has become energetic and can't stay idle all day long. His five sons all go out to work. The old man looked at so many lands by himself, and he didn't need to get started. He was just worried, and there were so many things that most people couldn't figure it out. Anyone who saw him said yes, Jinxi hadn't gone to college at that time, every time we saw each other, the second master over there would be smiling and full of energy, I didn't expect that he would be gone when he came back in his freshman year.

After asking, I found out that the old man broke his leg when he went up the mountain. It's not serious, but the fracture will take a while to heal.His eldest son and second son did not go to the city either.Take care at home.Don’t look at the five sons of their family who go out to work as if they are not filial. In fact, they are like this here. Those with a little ability go out and work hard for a few days when they come back from farming and autumn harvest. Wan, no one will stop them and drive them out, but don't support those who are not diligent.The five sons in their family are all very filial, but the eldest and the second are not well-educated and go outside to work as coolies. The three younger brothers are better and have a more secure job.So the brothers discussed together, the eldest and the second went home to serve his father, and the others bought a lot of things for his father.

The second master over there didn't lack for anything, but it was a pity that once his leg was broken, people couldn't walk back and forth. Although his son always pushed him to go out, he didn't like it, and felt that he was useless.I couldn't think about it.I don’t know if he is resting, not exercising, or something. He is suffering from all kinds of illnesses. This hurts and that hurts. Even if his legs are good, he can’t get up. He went to the hospital and the doctor diagnosed it as a geriatric disease. It didn’t take half a year. People are gone.

Because the old man in this village is very embarrassed, always saying that people can't be idle, Jinxi doesn't know if what they say is right, he will always let his grandfather understand that he needs him, if the old man feels that the child still needs him, his spirit will be broken. Will be stronger and live longer.

But Jinxi still pays close attention to the health of his grandparents. Seeing that the ewe at home is about to give birth again, this time even if grandpa is against it, he must let him drink some goat milk. He remembers where he saw it, using almond or jasmine tea It can remove the smell.There seems to be a pack of jasmine tea at home, try it when the time comes.

"By the way, I have time to go to Carpenter Yao tomorrow. He has finished the things he made for our house. Go and bring them back." The old man said as he put the towel into the basin.

"It's done, so fast." Jiang Chen came out of the kitchen and said in surprise.He thought it was at least a month.

"He and his two sons made it together. The wood is ready-made, and they are all brought back from Dongshan. You can ask the size of the wood to make the pillars next day. Take advantage of these few days. Go to Dongshan to look for it. There are a lot of trees there that haven’t been burned, and they can’t survive at first sight, so it’s just right for you.”

"Well, I remember. Do we need to add another girder?" Jiang Chen asked again.

"Well, this carpenter Yao prepared it. After the Dongshan fire, he went up the mountain to find a lot of materials. Among them was a red pine, which happened to be a beam for our house. If I hadn't said hello in advance, maybe others would have to leave. Still With the food we agreed to bring over, there is no need to wait for the house to be built, their family members are sincere, and it seems that there will be some left after the chickens are divided?" Old Master Ye said and looked at Jinxi.

"Well, there can be eight left, but I have to make up two for Uncle Qi's family. Their family was unlucky last time, and they were all roosters. This time, they made up two females. I guess the rest are all roosters."

"Hehe, their family is still quarreling because of this, right?" Mr. Ye rubbed his chin and smiled for a while.

"Well, Ye Mo said, his mother will go home and give Uncle Ba a good lesson."

"Okay, let's send it to their family first, and send two of the remaining roosters to Carpenter Yao."

After dinner, Jinxi and Jiang Chen went to the gate to dig a hole and planted the two grapes. This kind of grapes is also found in Dongshan next to Jinxi’s house. When they were twelve or thirteen years old, they went to the mountain to pick them together. The taste is not as good as the street. The grapes bought here are delicious, but take some home, squeeze the juice out with gauze, add some water, and add some sugar to taste.Of course, the purpose of bringing back the grapes this time was not for eating, Jinxi just wanted to know what the two grapes would grow into in the end.

The ground is so frozen that you have to use a pickaxe to dig it out. Jiang Chen did all the hard work. Jinxi just used a shovel to get out the soil he dug up, and then smashed it into pieces, and added the rot soil he got from the forest, and Dongshan ashes from above.When they went to pick up charcoal, they also bought a lot of these things to add fertilizer to the family land.

Jiang Chen supported the mountain grape, and Jin Xi stepped on it firmly with his feet, "I saw some snow on its roots, and I always feel that the snow will protect it." Jin Xi thought for a while and said.

"It seems so." Jiang Chen thought about what Jin Xi said was right.

The two of them got a lot of snow after that, and wrapped the branches around the wall next to them, just along the two walls to the woods next to them.

The next day Jiang Chen took the donkey cart to Yao Carpenter's house in the street before them to pull things. Yao Carpenter is the man of Ye Shuo's third sister, Ye Cheng's uncle, a veteran carpenter, and everyone in the village looks to him for everything. , his work is old-fashioned, the kind that doesn't use nails. These years, the young people in the village love to use new furniture to find him, but the old people know that the cabinets made by Carpenter Yao have been used for decades without carrying them. bad.

Jinxi's family smashed the windows of their east house because the assailants broke in. After that, they didn't fix it. They just nailed the boards and added thick quilts to cover them. The original windows of their house were new. I learned it in the city, a whole big window, it’s cold here, and the houses are thicker. The walls of Jinxi’s house are about half a meter thick, and there’s a big window sill inside the window, on which two Potted flowers and the like look very neat and beautiful, but they can't do it now. During the previous attack, someone smashed the window of their house and jumped in. It's too dangerous.Because of this Yingzi and sister-in-law can't sleep well at night, for fear that someone will come in through the window again.

Not only here, Jinxi's family is also planning to renovate the whole house. One is to increase the firmness of the house, and the other is to keep warm. It was too cold last winter. Their house is constantly on fire every day, and the house is not warm, especially the east and west houses. , the walls are covered with frost.

Whenever he thinks of repairing the house and changing the windows, the old man thinks of Carpenter Yao. Regardless of whether his work is old-fashioned or not, a little bit good and strong is enough.And to be honest, Carpenter Yao's old craftsmanship seems quite artistic now.

This time, all the windows and spare items were pulled back. Speaking of which, Jinxi really doesn’t know where all these things are. Anyway, it can be seen that Carpenter Yao is quite caring, and even made some on the windows. Engraving or something.He can understand the window. It is an old-fashioned split window. The bottom is sealed. Maybe the window is opened too wide. If someone smashes the window, there is a circle of ice-cracked wooden lattice in the big window. The middle is rectangular. The windows at most allow a child as big as a tiger to climb in.Jinxi touched the cracked wood with his hands, and found that they were all solid wood, very strong, and could not be easily chopped down.

The upper floor is a lattice window that can be opened, which is used for ventilation in summer. If it is closed, it cannot be opened easily.Looking at it, Jin Xi felt that some old things from the past were still very good, like this window, which is absolutely beautiful and strong.The only downside is the poor lighting.This can also be ignored.

He was flipping through other things when he heard someone talking outside, which sounded familiar. He went out and saw that it was Ye Ke.He still doesn't like Ye Ke very much, but this kid doesn't know why, now he admires Jiang Chen very much, and Jiang Chen is quite willing to use him, and Jin Xi doesn't want to make trouble.So when I saw him, I still showed a smile, but it was too fake.

Ye Ke rolled his eyes, "If you look at me, don't laugh if you don't want to. It looks weird."

Jin Xi also rolled her eyes with a cold face.

Jiang Chen put his hand on Jinxi's shoulder with a smile, "Those people from the city are coming to exchange things with us, do you want to go and see?"

Jin Xi turned her head after hearing this, "Change something? What's there?"

"I have everything, and I have more." Ye Ke said angrily.

Jin Xi didn't look at him either, "It's food in exchange."

Jiang Chen nodded, "Yes. They are short of food now."

"Then let's go and have a look." Jin Xi said and was about to go out.

"Wait, change into a padded jacket, or put on a vest, it's still cold outside." Jiang Chen quickly pulled him back.

Jinxi looked down and saw that she was still wearing the thin padded jacket she wore indoors at this time, and then saw that Jiang Chen had already put on a sweater and a jacket outside, feeling depressed for a while, but she went back honestly and put on a hat vest.It's gray and inconspicuous, and grandma has sewed a layer of soft fur inside, so that Jinxi can wear it in and out of a cotton-padded jacket.

He had a lot of clothes, which Zhang Cheng gave him back then, and Jiang Chen also got a lot when he came back from outside, especially winter clothes such as fur coats and down jackets, which are also important supplies. They got a lot from that gang, enough for them to wear.Jiang Chen picked some for him and took them back, and the rest were still stored in the plane, but Jinxi still prefers to wear something like a padded jacket made by his grandma, not to mention comfortable, not dazzling, and Jinxi doesn't know if it's because he has a lot of nightmares Yes, a bit of a miser's posture, put away all good things for later use, full of sense of crisis.

He is wearing very rustic clothes now. The trousers are a pair of overalls that are a little fat. They are for sitting comfortably on the kang. Cotton trousers inside the tight trousers are a bit rough on the kang and off the kang. It is a padded jacket with a gray-green bamboo leaf woven gold satin surface. The padded jacket was originally quite beautiful, with an antique atmosphere. Jinxi didn't even know whether the satin was given by Zhang Zhong and his grandma, anyway. He made a padded jacket.He didn't want to wear a coat at home, and he was afraid of getting it dirty, so he wore a dark red sleeve, which seemed to have been used by his mother.

Coupled with the gray vest and some old cloth cotton shoes, a rustic suit rushed towards him. Jiang Chen felt a special sense of joy in the clothes, which had been covered by Jinxi for a whole winter, on the gentleman's face.

The three of them walked to the big east wall. The gate was open, and they could see some stalls outside from the gate.Many people in the village are picking things.

"It seems that it's not just people who come to farm." Jin Xi felt that there were more people than what he had heard before.

"Well, there should be someone who came here to buy things, you see." Jiang Chen said and raised his head to signal Jinxi to look at the other side.

Jin Xi took a look, "It can't be some forces in the city."

"It should be." Jiang Chen looked secretly in his heart, only what he saw should be three powerful gangs, and the ones who drove here should still have some capital.But they have to be careful.Who knows what these people are thinking.

In fact, these urban people who came to farm the land did not have any food at all. The city still distributed food to them, once a month according to the population of each household.Jin Xi saw that these people were not hungry at all. After all, they are a large grain-producing province, and there is still a lot of food in stock, at least it is not much different from the scene in his nightmare.

Those who come here to set up stalls are usually daily necessities, or there are some luxury goods that ordinary people can't afford because of the high price of disaster money, but these things have become slow-selling items now.Some people who have passed the time exchanged rice and white noodles for corn noodles. Jinxi asked a family to exchange one catty for two catties.Or one catty for three catties, it depends on how the cornmeal is ground.

What surprised Jinxi the most was that there was someone here who exchanged food with a knife. Seeing the stall owner holding a knife and gesticulating to introduce it to others, and the stall owner next to him didn't feel any difference at all, he knew in his heart that the current The world is really different.

Leaving the stall, Jinxi went to a place with the most people. When he walked over, he saw that piglets were being exchanged for food. There were a dozen or so piglets in a car. They were probably just weaned. People in the village were most interested in this. But the price is not cheap, a piglet needs to exchange fifty catties of corn noodles.These piglets weigh only seven or eight kilograms, which is almost three times the difference.

The price is not high, and people in the village can still get [-] catties of corn noodles, but the pigs are not easy to raise, and now every household has no feed to raise them.So everyone just watched and no one bought it.

After waiting for a while, Ye Qi and his brother Ye Bei came over, both carrying grain on their backs, "A total of two hundred catties for four heads." Ye Qi said and put the grain down.

"Okay, it's finally opened, the pig is here, you can pick it yourself." The seller smiled when he saw the grain.

Ye Qi and Ye Bei walked over, and the villagers also helped the staff, "This one is big."

"This spirit."

After a while, the two of them picked it out and put it in the sack directly, ready to carry it back.As soon as Ye Qi turned around, he saw Jin Xi with his hands in his pockets, watching the excitement.

"Jinxi is here too. I didn't catch one for your family."

Jin Xi smiled, "I can't make up my mind about this. Let's talk about my grandfather coming later. Uncle Ba will go home tomorrow."

Ye Qi was amused when he heard it, "Come out?"

"Well, let Auntie do it anyway, don't be picky anymore."

"Hehe, okay, let your eighth aunt go."

Jinxi smiled and watched Eighth Uncle and the others leave, and then looked at the pigs. It is estimated that no one will come. Ye Qi and his family run the only oil extraction room in the village. There are five brothers in their family, mostly young and middle-aged. Afterwards, the oil mill was set up again. Although only a few surrounding villages came to press oil, their family could still keep some bean cakes and so on.However, Jinxi's family, which raises pigs, will not be able to buy bean cakes from them in the future.

Fortunately, the plants have grown, and there is no shortage of food for sheep and donkeys. As for winter feed, we need to store more this year.

Sure enough, Grandpa Jinxi also came to watch the fun, and he looked at the place where the pigs were sold for a long time, but he didn't buy them in the end. Raising pigs is definitely not a wise choice now.

This small market for exchanging grain has been open for three days, and then most people left, and the rest are those who came here to take root and prepare to farm.

Jin Xi took advantage of the time when everyone was exchanging and took a look. Those people lived in tents, military green military tents, bigger than the tents they used last time, inflatable enough to accommodate a family.When the houses are not built, these people will live in tents.

These people didn't look as down and out as he thought, maybe they didn't eat as well as before the disaster, but they were all healthy, but they were more defensive, their eyes were always vigilant, Jinxi even saw some people Carry weapons such as knives with you.

The market was over, and the vigilance in the village became stricter. Too many outsiders came to the market that day, and they had to be on guard.And just looking at the sudden formation of the bazaar, we can know that there may be such bazaars in other places.They are controlled by some forces.The power in the village is not strong enough, they must be strong and always on the alert.