After the disaster

Time has entered the winter vacation, and it will be New Year's Eve in more than ten days. At this juncture, there are still a large number of refugees pouring into Xinnan City.If it were not really desperate, there would not be so many people who would choose to leave their homes during the Chinese New Year.

I heard that in several big cities in the northern grain-producing areas, the situation is much worse than here. Many people from other places go there for food. There was little chaos.

A few days ago, there was a light rain in Xinnan City. Qiu Cheng and the others have built a greenhouse on the top floor platform of Building [-] of Jiayuan Community. When it is rainy, the high-pressure sodium lamps and metal halide lamps in the greenhouse will be turned off. All lights up.

This greenhouse was contracted by Qiu Cheng to an engineering team in the city, and they were responsible for the construction. The crops in the greenhouse were not directly planted on the top floor, but the batch of wooden troughs that Qiu Cheng had made before were placed in the greenhouse. Put it away and plant the crops in it.

At present, potatoes are planted in the entire greenhouse on the top floor, and Zheng Jitao and others are usually responsible for taking care of them. It is expected that they will be harvested by the end of the first lunar month.

Rainy days in winter are always humid and cold, and if you don’t have enough to eat, the days will become especially difficult.The stalls at the fish farming factory are not closed even on rainy days, and there are still so many people queuing up in the cold wind and rain every day.

Recently, Qiu Cheng has seldom spent time on the "eyes of heaven and earth". Except for meditating twice a day in the morning and evening, refining some jade stones and "eliminating all kinds of poisons", the rest of the time, he just took Ah Chang around ten Work on the fifth floor.

It wasn't until the morning of February [-]st in the Gregorian calendar that Qiu Cheng opened his "eyes of heaven and earth" again, and fixed the picture at the grain sales office in the city center.

On a winter morning, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and it looked like it was about to start raining again.The street in front of the grain sales office was crowded with people, and everyone stretched their necks to look at the window of the grain sales office, hoping that they could also buy grain this month.

Director Jin of the Food Bureau was standing in front of the crowd and shouting.

"... Don't worry, everyone! Our food in Xinnan City is already on the way. We just urgently borrowed a batch of food from the north, but it hasn't arrived yet!"

"Everyone line up! In order to make the limited food available to every citizen more fairly, we will temporarily sell the food in the first ten days of February to you today. After the NO.11 in February, please come back to buy the food in the middle of February. Grain, after February 21st, come to buy food for the second half of February..."

Qiu Cheng also knew about this city's decision early on. In fact, there was no emergency secondment of food at all. It was true that several cadres from Xinnan City were sent to the north to buy food.

When is it now, not to mention that most of the grain-producing areas in the north have been wiped out by groups of people in the past few months, and they have tried their best to scrape away most of the grain.Even if they really still have food on hand, with the influx of refugees, they are already too busy to take care of themselves, and they are not willing to take food outside.

Qiu Cheng looked at it for a while, and seeing that nothing happened, he closed the "eyes of heaven and earth".

Today, most of those who bought grain in the past had already prepared for the worst. At this time, Director Jin said that he would only sell them grain in the first ten days of February, and it seemed that there was nothing wrong with it.

Whether it's five catties or three catties, it's better to buy it back first. Who knows what will happen in the next one or two months?

After breakfast, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang went to work on the fifteenth floor, and Zhou Quan also went to work on his own.

Now the tenth to twelfth floors of this building, like the previous thirteenth floor, were all bought by Qiu Cheng, and relevant personnel were arranged to take charge.

Zhou Quan has also handed over the voles to others to raise them. He is now mainly responsible for arranging the work of the greenhouse on the top floor, and also planting a small amount of crops in the south-facing houses below the tenth floor, all of which are in his charge.

As for the tenth floor to the thirteenth floor, those people usually do their own things, and Zhou Quan's input and output are all recorded and sorted out, and they only need to make a settlement at the end of each month.

Around eleven o'clock at noon, when Qiu Chengzheng and Ah Chang were cooking pig food with silage sweet potato vines and rice bran on the fifteenth floor, they suddenly heard a loud noise from the main road outside.

Qiu Cheng went to the south-facing balcony and looked over there, and saw a mighty group of people coming from the direction of the train station, different from dozens of people at most hundreds of people in the past, this time they came back Qiu Cheng estimated that there must be at least a few thousand people.

"Hey, what's going on? Where did so many people come from?" Soon, Zhu Yanming and others who were working upstairs also noticed something strange outside.

"Oh, so many people, and so many soldiers, what's the matter?"

"Are you fleeing from famine?"

"Why are there so many all of a sudden today?"

"Look, they have gone to Xinnan University. It seems that this time they plan to place people in the school."

"Oh, I'm sorry to see you, and you have a child with you. It's such a cold day."

"..."

The people upstairs are chattering, Qiu Cheng has opened his "eyes of heaven and earth" at this time, suddenly so many people came, it must be unusual, pay attention to those well-informed people in Xinnan City Yes, we will find out soon.

In a high-end apartment in Xinnan city center, Ai Wenhai was sitting on the sofa talking to a fat, white, middle-aged man.

"Over there in Changwei City, I heard that there will be no food available this month." The middle-aged man said.

"That's right. At nine o'clock, I heard from a friend at the train station that many people there have bought train tickets to our side. It is estimated that everyone should arrive by this time." Ai Wenhai said.

"We don't know how long we can hold on here. Those grandchildren are all staring at Shen Dingjun's little grain now. They are making a lot of noise. I don't know when the trouble will end." The middle-aged man said.

"It's not that easy, everyone wants to get involved, and Shen Dingjun's wife filed a divorce lawsuit at this time, Lao Shen will have to peel off if he doesn't die this time." Ai Wenhai shook his head.

"Yes! Look at how much food that grandson has hoarded, especially at this juncture, he probably has no good intentions." The middle-aged man said with a smile.

"He's the one who wins and loses anyway." Ai Wenhai obviously didn't have a good impression of Shen Dingjun either.

"Brother, what do you think, did you really give all the food to the city? Don't tell me you didn't keep any of it yourself." The middle-aged man asked.

"I just kept a little bit of rations for my brothers, and now I still have a few sheds and a few pigs on hand. When the factory starts to work, the output of those sheds will probably be able to support me." Ai Wenhai said.

"Oh, brother, you have the foresight. You picked yourself out early. You don't know those people in the city. Now they are looking for us to work every day. Life is not easy." The middle-aged man shook his head and sighed. .

"Brother, if you want to pick yourself out, it's not too late now." Ai Wenhai laughed.

"I can't, I can't, I can't see it, I have no food in my hand, I have to panic." The fat middle-aged man also laughed.

"Over there in Changwei City, I don't know what's going on now." After a while, Ai Wenhai changed the subject again.

"It's not very optimistic. Unless the food is distributed from above, the people who stay there will have to work hard." The middle-aged man obviously didn't think that the city government in Changwei City could get it from other places by its own ability. food.

"There are so many people coming all of a sudden, the impact on our side is not small." Ai Wenhai said again.

"The higher-ups are very serious about it, and they have brought a lot of soldiers from the temporary base. It is estimated that there will be no chaos in a while." The middle-aged man said.

When Qiu Cheng heard this, he closed the "Eye of Heaven and Earth". Through the conversation between the two, he already knew that these refugees came from Changwei City next to Xinnan City, and the reason for the large-scale migration of these people was, It was because the grain sales office in Changwei City was out of stock.

And their Xinnan City, if there is no accident, will start to run out of food in the middle of this month.Qiu Cheng can't imagine what kind of scene Xinnan City will be at that time, but it can be concluded that the consequences will definitely be much more serious than Changwei City, because the current population of Xinnan City is much larger than that of Changwei City .

At this time, the discussion upstairs continued.

"...Why don't you arrange people in the student dormitories? The classrooms are empty."

"Yeah, it's such a cold day."

"Probably for the convenience of management."

"I see that many of them don't have much luggage and don't know how to sleep."

"..."

At 12:30 noon, when Aunt Chen and the others finished their lunch and were resting at home, they saw Qiu Cheng and the others driving the pickup truck out of the garage, and Zhou Quan and the others were loading things into the truck.

"What are you guys busy with?" Aunt Chen was also idle, so she went over to have a look, only to see the things they moved, including quilts, blankets, cotton jackets, power strips, electric kettles, and various models. Large and small rice cookers, etc. These things are not brand new, some look like [-]% to [-]% new, and some are already very old.

"Send something to the school." Qiu Cheng said, throwing a bundle of power strips onto the car.

"Are there any deliveries over there? Many soldiers are watching." Aunt Chen asked.

"Here, I just asked the security guards over there." When Xia Tian collected bugs, Lao Hu and the others had set up a stall at the gate of Xinnan University for several months. Qiu Cheng was also familiar with those security guards, and a few important numbers He also wrote it down, and just called to ask about it.

"Then wait, I have some things at home." Aunt Chen said and went home to move things. This early spring, when they first came out of the temporary base, they more or less collected some supplies.

Aunt Chen knew everyone in the community well, and when she moved, many people followed suit. When Qiu Cheng and the others set off, the back compartment of the truck was almost full.

They drove the car out of the Jiayuan community, and just arrived at the gate of Xinnan University, when there was another light rain in the sky.

Unlike a few days ago, the security room at the gate of Xinnan University now has two more soldiers besides the original security guards.Fortunately, Qiu Cheng and the others knew the security guards, and they had greeted them beforehand, so they went in without a hitch.

Driving the car to the front of the teaching building designated by the other party, Qiu Cheng looked up and saw that the rows of glass windows on the upper floor were full of people, and everyone's eyes were focused on their car , Qiu Cheng's mood suddenly became a little depressed.

Those pairs of eyes, those obscure figures...