After the disaster

Like Ma Xudong, Qiu Cheng has also searched for several of them recently. In today's Xinnan City, there are quite a few half-year-old teenagers like this, and quite a few of them are living a very difficult life right now.

The reason why Qiu Cheng chose Ma Xudong was because this kid looked muddled, but his mind was still clear, and he treated his sick mother and younger sister very well. Li has been taught, and his whole person is a little different from before.

Ever since Ai Wenhai's pig farm was ransacked, Qiu Cheng also began to reflect on whether his defense force was too weak. Except for those few iron gates, there was basically no defense at all.

Qiu Cheng is still observing those half-sized families in the city. He rarely approaches them intentionally. At most, he tries to help them when they are really in trouble. A backup force.

In the evening, Qiu Cheng, Ah Chang, Zhou Quan and the Wang family brothers went to the night market to set up a stall to sell some eggs and potatoes that they had recently hoarded.

When the stall was about to be closed, Qiu Cheng left alone for a while, walked towards the city for a while, and stopped in front of an unremarkable stall on the side of the road.

This stall sells several kinds of herbs that have just been excavated. Qiu Cheng looked at them and found that they were not the ones on the medicine list.

The vendors were a lean man in his 30s and a boy of four or five years old. The owner of the stall was Xiao Yang. He was from the south. The year-old nephew made a living collecting herbs, and Qiu Cheng had been observing them for some time.

When his nephew saw someone stopping in front of their booth, his dark eyes lit up obviously, and then he looked up at his uncle.

"What kind of medicine do you want?" Xiao Yang pulled a smile on his face with some difficulty. It was obvious that this person didn't like to smile, but life forced him to force himself to smile at this time.

"It's not on the list." Qiu Cheng rummaged through it a few times and said.

"These herbal medicines are also good. I heard that Xinnan City will set up a pharmaceutical factory, and the price of Chinese herbal medicine will definitely increase at that time. If you have food, it's a good deal to buy some now." Seeing that Qiu Xiangxiang didn't seem interested, Xiao Yang hurriedly Said.

"That's not necessarily true." Qiu Cheng shook his head: "Now that everyone goes to the hospital, the medical expenses are all in full. Even if there is a pharmaceutical factory in the city, the government will come forward to purchase medicinal materials, and the price may not necessarily be high."

"..." Xiao Yang was at a loss for words when he heard what Qiu Cheng said. He knew that Qiu Cheng was telling the truth.

"It's not easy to go to the mountains to collect herbs now, is it?" Qiu Cheng spoke again at this time.

"The medicinal materials on the mountain are getting less and less." Seeing that Qiu Xiangxiang didn't plan to buy medicinal materials, Xiao Yang's expression became a little more natural.

Now, all the foothills that are a little closer to the town have been picked and pulled several times. His harvest these days was also dug from a cliff after taking a lot of risks, but he still couldn't sell it. Make a good price.

If he couldn't sell it at the night market tonight, he would have to send it to the window of the grain sales office to buy Chinese herbal medicine tomorrow, because it wasn't the variety on the medicine list, and the price was very low.

"Is this your son?" Qiu Cheng asked again.

"My nephew." Xiao Yang replied.

"Then you usually go to the mountains to collect herbs and bring him with you?"

"Otherwise, what should I do?" He also knew that the young man in front of him was out of kindness, and felt sorry for this little child who was going to sleep with him, but there was nothing he could do.

Every time I go out, it takes at least three to five days. If I go far away, I may not be able to come back in ten days and a half months. How can such a young child leave him at home alone?What's more, they have just arrived in Xinnan City not long ago, the household registration issue has not yet been resolved, and the living conditions are also very poor.

"Oh, I just planned to find some people to help. If you are interested, go to the sixth building of Jiayuan Community tomorrow morning." Qiu Cheng said.

"What are you doing?" Xiao Yangli was obviously on guard. He also fought with people when he was collecting medicine on the mountain. Recently, several small gangs have invited him to join them.

"I bought a few sunny houses and planned to make them into an indoor medicine garden." Qiu Cheng replied.

Hearing that he was going to grow medicine, Xiao Yang was obviously relieved, and then a bit of disappointment appeared on his face: "I don't know how to grow medicine."

"It's okay, as long as you can fight." Qiu Cheng grinned and said, "If you don't know how to grow medicine, you can learn, and there is no rush for a while. If someone wants to take advantage of our medicine garden, you should also contribute when it is time to do so." Do your best for me."

"That's natural." Hearing what Qiu Cheng said, Xiao Yang finally felt relieved. He also heard about the ransacking of Ai Wenhai's pig farm. Now everyone in the city who has a family background is very nervous. It's not surprising that the young man in front of him would ask him to grow medicine.

"How much cornmeal are these medicines? I packed them all." Before leaving, Qiu Cheng said again.

"Six catties." Xiao Yang said.It would be best if he could find a job tomorrow. If he couldn't find it, he would have to continue to go up the mountain to collect herbs in the future, and he would have to eat with both mouths.

Qiu Guo really put down the flour bag he was carrying, and weighed out six catties of cornmeal for them. There were still some places in the pharmacies on the fourteenth floor, and he planned to plant these medicinal materials there.

As for the medicine garden that will be handed over to the uncle and nephew in the future, it will naturally be downstairs, and the varieties of medicinal materials planted will also be on the medicine list.

In their own country, the terrain is complex and diverse, and the plain area is limited. There has always been no advantage in food production. Now a large area of ​​land in the south has been designated as an infected area and a susceptible area, and they can no longer grow crops. The people there are also They migrated to the north one after another. As a result, the population density in the north that had already dropped suddenly increased again. Even if productivity is restored in the future, food presumably will not be very abundant.

In this case, it is also a good way to exchange some grains with some big grain-producing countries with medicinal materials.Now, the medicinal materials that Qiu Cheng needs to refine "Jie Baidu" are already on the drug lists of various countries, and there are several more varieties of Chinese herbal medicines.

Qiu Cheng didn't know the difference between what they analyzed with scientific instruments and the process of refining the elixirs by themselves, but it is said that not all the virus Y inhibitors currently on the market are made from Chinese herbal medicines. , which also used several chemicals as substitutes.

I don't know how long it will be until they really thoroughly study "Jie Baidu". By then, whether the Chinese herbal medicine industry in their country has found its own development path.

Or, before the secret of the "line of survival" has been cracked, some researchers have already defeated the Y virus through other methods, and it is unknown.

The next morning, when Xiao Yang brought his nephew to Building [-] of Jiayuan Community, he found that he was not the only one who came that day, and there was also a young man. Judging by his temperament, he seemed to have been a soldier.

Qiu Cheng arranged them all on the thirteenth floor, Xiao Yang and his nephew were arranged to live in one room in 1308, and the other person and his parents were arranged in two north-facing rooms in 1312.

From now on, the thirteenth floor will be under the management of their two families, and the several houses that originally planted peppers have also been vacated at this time.

The two families divided the six houses in Chaoyang into three, and the house facing north was the same. According to the direction in which the two families lived, the entire floor was divided into two and managed separately.

Qiu Cheng made an agreement with them that he would provide the medicine seedlings and lighting and temperature control equipment, and if he wanted to raise some chicks in the empty house facing north, he would also provide the chicken seedlings.

Usually, the two of them can receive the same basic salary as Aunt Chen and the others every month. If the houses they manage produce output in the future, Qiu Cheng will give them [-]% of it as a bonus.

But correspondingly, compared with Aunt Chen and the others, they also had an additional duty of security. If something happened to this building, the two of them would rush to the front.

Once the two families settled down, Qiu Cheng and the others had an extra layer of barriers on the thirteenth floor.

After entering the winter, Qiu Cheng bought a lot of houses. Now, the [-]th, [-]th, and [-]th floors belong to their family, and there are only a few houses left from the [-]th to the [-]th floors. I bought it, and I also bought a lot of the ones below the ninth floor.

The fifteenth floor is the site of Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang, and even Zhou Quan has never been there.

The sunny rooms on the [-]th floor were all renovated by Qiu Cheng into small medicine gardens. Some rooms are interconnected, and some rooms are independent. Because the medicinal materials are planted, Qiu Cheng adopts an extensive management method. , I usually don't spend a lot of time in these medicine gardens.

There are many chicks raised in the shady rooms on the fourteenth floor, and Xiao Yuping, mother and son also live there, and they are usually responsible for incubating the chicks and taking care of the chicks.

Qiu Cheng also discussed with the Wang family brothers these two days, asking them to help him find some materials, and after a few days, help him build a greenhouse on the roof.Qiu Cheng plans to move all the chili peppers downstairs to the roof, where there is plenty of light on the top floor, and there is a greenhouse to keep it warm, so even supplementary light can be saved.

For people like Aunt Chen, Qiu Cheng is quite at ease, let them go to work on the roof, and is not too worried that they will spy on the situation on the fifteenth floor. For the sake of safety, he no longer grows anything on the balcony. To see what happened, unless they turned from the top floor to the fifteenth floor.

As for the vacant rooms downstairs, Qiu Cheng intends to continue to recruit some people with a certain force value and trustworthy character, and hand over the rooms to them for management just like the thirteenth floor.

Of course, this cannot be done overnight, such a person is hard to find, and Qiu Cheng can only take his time.

The weather is getting colder and colder day by day, and Christmas is approaching in a blink of an eye. On Christmas Day, the Nancheng Shopping Center in Xinnan City opens, and the shopping card in Qiu Cheng's hand that has been in place for almost a month will come in handy soon. up.

Ah Chang was also very happy when he heard that he could go shopping in a shopping mall. He had never visited a shopping mall, but when he was watching TV and movies, he saw people walking through a bunch of shelves, picking up whatever he liked. He thought it was so beautiful, and he was so envious.

On December 24th, Shen Xing called Qiu Cheng, but what she said was not Merry Christmas, but that the fodder she bought recently was enough for the goats in the factory to survive the winter. It is not to stop buying fodder, but to buy another batch of lambs.

"Go on, I'll buy another batch of lambs in a few days." Qiu Cheng doesn't have much food left now, but their life is still manageable. At most, they can work harder and grow a few crops. Think about it For those who sell grass for a living, Qiu Cheng can hardly imagine how they would spend the winter this year without this income.

"Okay, I see." Shen Xing was very happy to hear that Qiu Cheng would continue to expand the stall. Apart from being happy, she was also surprised that Qiu Cheng could have so much food.

"After two days, there will be a New Year's Eve party in the city, and our factory has also received an invitation card. Are you going then?" Shen Xing asked Qiu Cheng.

"I won't go, you and your mother can go together." Qiu Cheng also knew about the invitation, but he didn't want to go.

In this New Year's Eve party, in addition to the heads of the government, there are also some factory owners and farmers in Xinnan City, such as Ai Wenhai and Shen Dingjun, who are all within the scope of their invitations, which can be regarded as relatively high-end.

The reason why Qiu Cheng and his factory received invitations was mainly because they harvested bugs in summer and grass in winter, which created an opportunity for many desperate people to earn food. They are relatively popular, otherwise, with their size and connections, they would have no chance with this invitation.

On the other end of the phone, in the director's office of the fish farming factory, Shen Xing hung up the phone, scratched his hair, and said to his old lady who was sitting on the opposite sofa, "Qiu Cheng said no, let us go together."

"I won't go, you go." Shen Xing's mother stretched out her hand to straighten the broken hair on her temples, and said with a smile: "Find someone to accompany you, find someone who is skilled and quick to respond, don't eat it when the time comes." deficit."

"Okay." Shen Xing replied, the light in her eyes was flickering, whether she said she held a grudge or said she was narrow-minded, she had a thorn in her heart, if she didn't pull out this thorn, she would never even think about having any happiness s future.