After the disaster

As the weather gets warmer day by day, Xinnan City is slowly returning to life, and there are more vendors in the night market.

Compared with last year, there are many more electronic products in this year's night market, as well as all kinds of glamorous goods. One by one, the stalls are placed on both sides of the street. At a glance, the dazzling array is overwhelming.

But the people on the street obviously didn't have much enthusiasm for these stalls, they only lingered in the few vegetable stalls, and the entrance of the cake shop on the other side of the street was full of children.

Old man Ye started to sell fish in the night market again. This time he raised these fish himself. Although due to technical limitations, his first fish farming was not successful and many fry died, but it was the only one left. A few, also called a few men in the night market who almost robbed their heads.

His son Ye Jinghui's business is not very good. Their spice stall has been open for many days, but there has been no business. He is not in a hurry. Every night, he holds a mobile phone and looks down at his novels.

"How much did you sell for?"

Qiu Cheng finished his work that night and went to the night market with Ah Chang. Old man Wang and the others were about to start making moldy tofu again. They had no income for the past few months, and their family was basically just sitting and eating. The food that is easy to save has also been consumed. This year, I will start making fermented bean curd, and I have to ask Qiu Cheng to continue to provide them with raw materials.

"Hey, it's a lot of money. These guys really treat banknotes like paper now. Didn't the news say that the price of grain this year hasn't increased yet. With this money, it's enough for us and my father to spend a few years." Ye The old man is happy.

"There is no increase in the price of grain, but it must be available for purchase. Look at the grain sales office in our city. How long has it been since it opened?" A person at a booth next to him couldn't help but speak, This silly old man, that fish is something that can fill one's stomach, but banknotes can fill one's stomach, thanks to him, he is still happy.

"Tsk, what do you know? It's all broadcast on the news, so there is a reason for it." Old man Ye thought he was a disappointment, so he replied and ignored him. He stood up and led Qiu Cheng to the spice stall next to him: " How about it, what are you going to buy this time?"

"It's still the same." Qiu Cheng said.

"Hey, I'm still looking at my phone, don't look at it, I don't know how to greet guests when they come." Old man Ye opened his mouth to order his son.

"If it wasn't for talking to you, he would have come here long ago." Ye Jinghui put the phone aside without haste, raised his head to say hello to Qiu Cheng, and then went to pack the spices for him. It was the same as last year. I remember it all.

"Come on, Xiao Qiu, you sit down first, Ah Chang, you sit too." Old man Ye enthusiastically moved two stools over for Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang to sit on.

"Thank you." Qiu Cheng didn't refuse, and sat down with a smile. Ah Chang sat down, and he himself sat down on a stool next to him.

"Xiaoqiu, you are a celebrity now. You are such a good guy. When I saw you last year, I knew that you must be a promising person. Hey, you and that girl named Shen Xing are really a perfect match." Qiu Cheng and the others As soon as he sat down, Old Man Ye started talking to them in a rambling manner.

"We are not a couple." Qiu Cheng quickly denied it, and A Changke was sitting beside him.

"Why aren't you a couple? Now all of New South City know that you two are a couple." Old man Ye said again.

"It's really not a couple." Qiu Cheng was helpless. What exactly does this old man want to do today?

"Really? Oh, girl Shen Xing, if she doesn't even have a crush on someone like you, what kind of guy can she fall in love with?" Old man Ye sighed in a pretentious manner. What kind, has something to do with their old Ye family?

"Then I don't know." Qiu Cheng had already tasted it at this time.

"You said someone like my son, can she take a liking to him?" Sure enough, the old man had taken a liking to Shen Xing, and wanted to get her to be his son's wife.

"I don't know." Qiu Chengke never thought of being a matchmaker.

"Why don't you know? You two know each other so well, why don't you know?" Old man Ye didn't give up, and sighed at Qiu Cheng: "Oh, there are only two elders at home, what kind of life is this?"

"What are you pretending? Did I not wash your clothes or cook for you?" His son said angrily beside him.

"It's great to be able to cook and wash clothes! You have the guts to give me a grandson!" Old man Ye jumped up and down in anger.

"Then you have to be more realistic, can people see me?" Ye Jinghui said.

"Why don't you like you anymore? What's worse than others?" Seeing what he said, Old Man Ye became even more angry.

"How much is the total?" Seeing that Ye Jinghui packed the spices, Qiu Cheng hurriedly prepared to pay and leave.

Recently, most of the stalls in the night market only accept food and not banknotes, especially some stalls selling food, but the Ye family father and son are open to it, and even catch the fish at home and sell it for money.

"Hey, Xiao Qiu, don't leave in a hurry, tell me, Shen Xing really can't take a liking to my kid?" Old man Ye dragged him away.

"Then how do I know?" How do people answer this kind of question?It's not something he can say whether he looks good or not.

"Then why don't you ask us?" Old Man Ye asked.

"It's not convenient." The two of them are in a cooperative relationship, and it's really inconvenient to intervene in this emotional matter.

"Hey, I'm not afraid of making fun of you when I say it out. As soon as I saw that little girl, old man, I thought she looked like my daughter-in-law. Xiao Qiu, just do me a favor. Whether it works or not, just once, okay?" Old man Ye spoke sincerely.

"You have to keep your word." Qiu Cheng has a good impression of Ye Jinghui. He is always unhurried, lives a very stable life, has a good brain, is filial to his father, and has a particularly good temper. Some are too intense, maybe we can complement each other with him, no matter whether it succeeds or not, that's all he needs to do, if he doesn't care about it today, old man Ye won't let him go.

"Sure, our old Ye has lived most of his life, when will he stop talking." Old man Ye assured repeatedly.

Qiu Cheng had no choice but to let Ah Chang go to his stall to get some eggs, then went to the cake shop next to him to exchange for two cakes, one was taken away by himself, and the other was agreed with the cake shop owner to give to Shen Xing when Shen Xing came over. she.

The owner of the cake shop knew Qiu Cheng. Although he didn't come to buy cakes many times, compared to other people, he could already be regarded as a regular customer.He also knew Shen Xing. She hadn't come to buy cakes, but she had been on the news. Most people in Xinnan City knew her.

"Shen Xing will come over to get the cake in a while." Qiu Chengcheng is only willing to arrange it up to this point.

"Okay, that's fine, if you can't grasp the opportunity, then he should be a bachelor for the rest of his life." Old man Ye said with a smile.

On the other side, Shen Xing received a call from Qiu Cheng, saying that he was out to buy cakes tonight, and bought one for their family by the way, so that she could come and get them when she had time. Shen Xing immediately agreed, saying that he would come out and get them right away. .

Although after winning the previous divorce lawsuit, Shen Xing and his mother and daughter could be regarded as high-class people in Xinnan City, but the hard times of the previous years made the family suffer from the habit, like cakes. They have never bought luxury things.

Hearing that there were free cakes available, Shen Xing went out happily, not knowing that Qiu Cheng had arranged a chance meeting for her.

But even if she found out, she would have to be happy about it. How big of a deal is it? Is it worth thinking that she missed a cake for nothing?There is also an older child and a younger child in their family. Those two guys will go crazy after seeing the cake.

After Qiu Cheng called Shen Xing, he didn't care about the follow-up situation, and went home with Ah Chang directly. Anyway, no matter whether it works or not, he and Shen Xing are still partners, and they are not afraid even if they are exposed. I have to hope that this kind of good thing will happen more times.

Back home, Qiu Cheng turned on the TV, Ah Chang couldn't wait to open the cake box, picked up a plastic knife to cut the cake, cut a small cake into three pieces, then looked at it, picked out the smallest piece, Put it on a plate and serve it to Zhou Quan.

A talk show is being broadcast on TV. Two days ago, the central government issued a document about the decision to crack down on unscrupulous profiteers hoarding food. In the past two days, almost all TV talk shows have been talking about this matter.

"Eat the cake." Ah Chang came back after delivering the cake, picked the biggest piece and put it on a plate and handed it to Qiu Cheng, and the rest was his own.

The two watched the news while eating the cake. Looking at the expressions and tone of these commentators, this time the country's attitude seemed very firm.It is not easy to deal with those merchants hoarding grain. When it is really the most stressful time, those who can still hold the grain in their hands usually have a deep background.

Like Boss Bai in the provincial capital, and Mr. Jin, a big grain storer in Xinnan City, although they had stockpiled a lot of grain before, as the situation became more and more tense, government personnel found them time and time again. The grain in the warehouse was also transported away batch after batch. At this moment, there was not much grain left in their hands.

Without a deep enough background, there is no way to hoard so much food. Correspondingly, if you want to punish those who hoard a lot of food, you will naturally involve many high-level people.

But this is indeed a good thing in the eyes of ordinary people. Those who don't care about the lives of the people at critical times, the people naturally don't care about their lives at this time. Some people still wish that these people would die well.

After a while, news suddenly came out on the Internet, saying that several secret granaries in the north had been cracked, and the grain inside was piled up as high as a mountain. The country is now distributing the grain. Which city gets how much? , Which city is allocated how much, it is clear and clear.

Soon, the host of the news network confirmed the authenticity of the news, and gave further detailed information, and took a lot of pictures of those granaries, the golden grain, almost called the front of the TV The audience dazzled.

In those two days, the relevant units released another set of data, which recorded the total number of Chinese herbal medicines purchased in various cities across the country in the past few months.

The food in the cargo ships brought back from foreign countries this time is allocated according to this set of data. From the data point of view, the performance of Xinnan City is not bad. They should be able to get a lot of food this time. In those granaries, two batches of grain will arrive in the near future.

The leaders of Xinnan City also stated that no matter which of these two batches of grain enters the warehouse first, they will open the warehouse and sell the grain as soon as possible.

Moreover, for those migrants who have not been able to solve the household registration problem before, the city will try its best to arrange staff to implement this matter in the past few days.

The whole Xinnan City was about to boil. When Qiu Cheng went out these two days, almost everyone he saw was filled with happiness.

This reminded Qiu Cheng that a year ago, around this time, they left the temporary base that had besieged them for five years and returned to this city.At that time, everyone was like now, with hope shining in their eyes, and everyone said in their hearts: This disaster is finally over...

In March of this year, everything seemed to be the same as last year, but it was different.The difference is that people are more cautious. Even though the pictures of those glass greenhouses are shown in the news every day, I assure you that this year, the food problem will definitely be solved.

No matter what other people say, whether to dry wild vegetables or to dry wild vegetables, whether to raise voles or raise voles, if the disaster has not passed, they will be able to deal with it in the best condition when the cold winter comes this year.

"Ah Chang, let's go." It was another weekend, and Qiu Cheng decided to take their cat boy out for a walk.

"Oh." Ah Chang turned off the TV, and a missing person notice flashed across the TV screen.

"What are you looking at, you don't even turn on your voice?" Qiu Cheng walked over and asked.

"No, let's go." Ah Chang hurried to the door to change his shoes, and then urged Qiu Cheng to leave quickly.

The two set off quickly, the door was gently closed, and the small room suddenly became quiet. The sunlight shone through the glass on the terrace, making the whole room extraordinarily bright.

On the slightly old sofa, there are two sofa cushions that have collapsed due to frequent use, with two shallow pits on the left and right.There were two water cups on the coffee table, one cup had half a cup of water left, the other cup was empty, and there were a few faint marks on the mouth of the cup, which were all bitten out by Ah Chang when he was bored.

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