After the disaster

In order to take Ah Chang out, Qiu Cheng turned back and made an image design for him.Ah Chang is very resistant to frost. In the current weather, some people still wear sweaters. People like Qiu Cheng have to wear a coat that is not too thin or thick. Ah Chang can be shirtless. Recently, under the supervision of Qiu Cheng He was wearing a vest instead. In order not to interfere with his ambush, Qiu Cheng put on a black vest for him.

Achang doesn’t like pants that are too loose or too long. He likes to wear them above the knees. The pants should be narrow, but they must be elastic. The oolong of the branches is exposed.

Now that I'm going to the night market, the outfit of shorts and vest is obviously not good, it's too eye-catching and attracts attention.Qiu Cheng found a dark purple thin sweater for Ah Chang in the closet, and found him a pair of slacks. Finally, seeing that he was still barefoot, he took a pair of clips from the shoe cabinet and dragged them out, sneakers or leather shoes, This guy is absolutely unwearable.

After getting dressed, Ah Chang stood awkwardly in front of the fitting room, looking at Qiu Cheng with some trepidation, does he look good like this?

It is said that people rely on clothes, Qiu Cheng feels that clothes also depend on people to wear, his ordinary sweater and slacks are stunned by the aura of famous products given by Ah Chang, even the pair of more than ten yuan Qian's flip flops all of a sudden have an idol temperament.

Qiu Cheng looked left and right, he was handsome, but his hair was a little messy, and it would be troublesome if he was accidentally asked by the patrolman to check his ID card, so he rummaged through boxes and boxes, and finally found him a rubber band.

The two dawdled until it was completely dark before riding a tricycle out of their community. Qiu Cheng rode in front, and Ah Chang squatted on the narrow board on the side of the tricycle, looking freshly at the people on the side of the road. house and trees.

He has lived here for a long time, and he is familiar with every tree and every house here, but at this moment, for some reason, he just feels different, even those fluttering leaves make him feel so different.

Whenever passing by pedestrians on the side of the road, Ah Chang would unconsciously retract his stretched neck. He wanted to jump off the tricycle several times and run into the shadows on the side of the road , hide yourself.

But he held back, and Ah Chang lightly hooked Qiu Cheng's clothes with his fingers. In addition to being nervous, there was also some indescribable joy in his heart.

There is a three-way intersection in front of the station square of Xinnan City Railway Station, one end leads to Xinnan University, one end leads to the lower reaches of Xinnan River, and the other end leads to the city center.

The night market is centered on this intersection and extends in three directions. As soon as Qiu Cheng arrived near the train station, he saw that the main road in front of him was full of various small stalls. Police officers can also be seen on patrol.

This end of the night market is full of sundries. Qiu Cheng brought some food tonight, so he slowly rode a tricycle through the crowds. If he guessed correctly, there should be a fork in the direction of the city. More food stalls.

"Hey, Qiu Cheng!" When Qiu Cheng squeezed to the middle of the three-way intersection, he heard the old Hu who sold children's shoes calling him.

"Are you so early?" He stopped the tricycle, turned his head and greeted Lao Hu.

"What's so early? You are too late. Everyone leaves the stall at six o'clock. It's been almost an hour now." Lao Hu said.

"I'll go early tomorrow night." Qiu Cheng smiled.

"Who is this person?" Lao Hu looked at Ah Chang and asked.

"My cousin." Qiu Cheng said.

"What happened to him?" Lao Chang asked again.As soon as Ah Chang entered the night market, he was very nervous, holding Qiu Cheng's coat tightly with both hands, his mouth was tightly pursed, his eyes wandered nervously, and he looked abnormal at first glance.

"Some things happened at home a few years ago, and he was a little scared." Qiu Cheng lied along the way.He reached out and patted the back of Ah Chang's hand, hoping that he could relax a little.

"Hey, what a pity." Lao Hu sighed, then pointed to the intersection in the direction of the city center and said to Qiu Cheng, "All the food is over there, you go over there."

"Okay, then I'll go." Qiu Cheng waved to him, and pedaled a tricycle to find a place to set up a stall.

"It's not easy." Looking at the back of Qiu Cheng and the others leaving, Lao Hu couldn't help but sigh with emotion. He was a little scared, and he was obviously scared stupid.Thinking of this, [-]% to [-]% of the sourness in his heart towards Qiu Cheng was gone.

There are indeed many food stalls at the intersection towards the city. In addition to the most common cornmeal tortillas and wild vegetables, you can also see some coastal specialties such as salted fish, kelp, and seaweed in the night market, and there are even some rare ones. Canned food is obviously circulated from other cities.

At present, their main transport channels between Xinnan City and other cities are cars and planes. In the past five years, their temporary base was barely supported by the state dispatching planes to transport salt and seeds from other places. down.

Before the disbandment of the temporary base, local governments and armies have already started to clear the roads. At present, the roads in the direction of Xinnan City and the provincial capital have resumed traffic, but because of the lack of fuel resources across the country, they are relatively In the backward central region, there are very few vehicles driving on this road every day.

They came too late, and the good seats were basically occupied by people. Besides, Ah Chang seemed very nervous, and Qiu Cheng didn't want to squeeze into a place with too many people, so they set up a stall in front of a shop next to the street. , Compared with the location in the middle of the road, their place looks deserted, the light is not very good, and there are not as many stalls as outside, but there are some here and there.

The rolling door at the back makes Ah Chang feel safe. He doesn’t like being surrounded by people, especially people behind him. At this moment, he is squatting at the door of this store, listening to the movement around him, and watching the people coming and going not far away. , The tense nerves finally got a little relaxation.

On the right side of their stall, there is a stall for exchanging cornmeal and tortillas. The stall owner looks like a father and son. The father is about 50 years old, and the son is in his early twenties.

There is also a stall on the left, a little farther away from them. It is a stove seller. There are large and small stoves in a long line, and the stall owner is huddled on a broken quilt beside him. Because of the poor light, Qiu Cheng also sees I don't know his age and appearance, but I just guess that this person has so many and heavy stoves, it is definitely unrealistic to transport them around every day, and he probably has to guard here during the day.

"Hey, where did you get such good tomatoes?" Qiu Cheng and his stall had just been set up when the middle-aged man on the right stall came over.

"Acquaintances brought it for me." Qiu Cheng didn't want to talk to him.

"Hey, now people in our city want to change something, they all use corn tortillas, but tortillas are not durable, don't you think? If you want to change some cornmeal later, remember to come to me .” The man said again.

Now in Xinnan City, they have just had electricity for water, electricity and gas. Although the whole city has been basically connected to electricity, the power resources are limited after all. Those who are not enough to cook with a fire, most of the citizens do not have the conditions to cook with a fire at home, so each unit still directly distributes tortillas to employees.

Because of the food problem and the lack of confidence in currency, people now only recognize food and metal materials such as gold, silver, copper and iron in transactions. Among them, the most widely circulated one is corn cake, but the preservation of this corn cake is indeed a big problem, especially It is for business people with small income like them.

"How?" Qiu Cheng asked him.

"One catty of corn cakes, half a catty of cornmeal." The other party quoted.

"Is it a little less?" Qiu Cheng frowned. Although the tortillas handed out in their city tended to be smaller and smaller, they were still very dry.

"Go out and ask casually. Now the price is everywhere in the city, but if you have a large quantity, I can calculate it for you." The man acted like he was innocent.

"I'll take a look." Qiu Cheng has no plans to exchange it for the time being.

"Is that your relative?" He raised his chin towards Ah Chang and asked.

"My cousin."

"Hey, the young man looks really good. You saw that over there. My son, I heard that the college entrance examination will resume in June this year. Now he is practicing listening."

Qiu Cheng looked at his booth, and sure enough, he saw the young man holding a radio and listening to it, and he could faintly hear a few English words here.

The business in the night market is indeed much better than that in the morning market. Even though Qiu Cheng and the others are a little bit off, there are still many people who will visit the stall here. Fresh tomatoes and live voles are very popular, as well as shallots and chili peppers. Most of them are going to be made heads under bargaining.

Ah Chang gradually changed from being nervous at the beginning to being enthusiastic later on. He even sneaked up to the stove selling stall next to him, hiding behind the tall and short stoves and peering at the nearby stalls.

"Is this really field mouse meat?" Just as they were about to close the stall, another female customer came to Qiu Cheng's stall. Not too worried.

"It's field mouse meat."

"Then it's been dealt with, why are you still selling it for the same price as those living?"

"I got rid of them earlier, so I don't have to keep them at home, and I don't have to feed them."

"It's really not a rat in the trench?"

"Absolutely not!"

"Oh! Was it bombed? Oh! Was it really bombed?" At this time, the stall on the right suddenly became a commotion, and the owner of the stall was surrounded by a group of people and asked, what happened.

"What's the matter?" The customer, who was planning to buy dried voles, couldn't help but also went over to see what happened.

Qiu Cheng was too involved in talking with this customer just now, and didn't notice what happened there.Ah Chang quietly came back from the stove selling stall next to him, walked up to Qiu Cheng and stood behind Qiu Cheng with some anxiety.

"Those lunatics really blew up the seed company? Didn't they say there was no evidence?" A young woman pulled the stall owner's son and kept asking, "Is that serious? Will our place be affected too?"

"I, I don't know either." The stall owner's son seemed to be very introverted. After being pulled by a woman of about the same age, he couldn't speak very smoothly: "Indeed, it was indeed bombed. People from many countries The seed companies were blown up, saying that there were traces of terrorist activities."

"Why are terrorists involved?" Everyone couldn't accept it for a while, the disaster was finally over, why are there still people making trouble at this time?

"It is said that they took advantage of the feelings of some families of the victims. Some cult organizations have come alive recently and have attracted many believers." One of the young people with a gentle face and glasses sighed and said.His English is good, and he listened to the radio for a while just now, confirming that there is indeed such a thing. You must know that there are all kinds of rumors in the city recently, and he will not believe anyone who says so casually.

"Then what about our country? Will it be affected?" The woman on the side asked quickly.

"Whether the domestic seeds are in place or not, it will definitely be affected. Although the amount of my country's grain imports has been greatly reduced in recent years, it has not stopped." Once the grain imports stop, the entire domestic grain market will become extremely tense.

If it weren't for the past five years, the dependence on food imports across the country has been greatly reduced, and they may not be able to overcome this difficulty at all.

"Hey, is the city still arranging people to go to the countryside?"

"Is there still a way to live in this city in the future?"

"It won't even be possible for the government to distribute food by then?"

"Save more rations!"

"..."

In just a short while, the news spread in the night market, and panic spread among the crowd like a virus. The originally bustling night market suddenly seemed to have been sucked out of life and became lifeless.

The author has something to say: [Note] Cornmeal: It does not refer to noodles made of corn, but refers to fine corn flour. I don’t know if there will be misunderstandings, so let me explain.