After the disaster

On the way home, Qiu Cheng made another detour to Shen Xing's house. The residential area where Shen Xing's house was located was very old, and the houses were low and generally two-story. The courtyard, Shen Xing's family is like this.

"Knock, click, click." Qiu Cheng knocked on their courtyard door.The gate of this courtyard is also old. Through the crack of the door, you can still see some sundries piled up in the yard and a few pots of vegetables planted.

"Who is it?" At this moment, a four or five-year-old boy ran out of the room.

"Shancheng, the second sister said you can't open the door." A young girl in her 20s ran out from behind. Because of this, it looks very fair, and the whole person looks clean and soft.

But she speaks slower than ordinary people, and her words are not very clear. This is probably the third girl of the Shen family who is not very smart in the legend.Shen Xing is the daughter of Shen Dingjun. Qiu Cheng probably guessed this matter when he saw Shen Xing angry at home last time. The three daughters, one of them is a fool, and the other is carrying a bottle of oil. statement is completely consistent.

"I don't open the door." Shancheng stopped about half a meter away from the courtyard door, and asked Qiu Cheng, "Who is knocking on the door?"

"I'm looking for Shen Xing." Qiu Cheng outside the door replied.

"What are you looking for with my second aunt? She's not at home now." Shancheng said again.

"Then when she comes back, tell her to ask her to take someone to the Housing Authority tomorrow morning."

"Who are you taking?" Shancheng asked with his head tilted.

"Take everything you can." Qiu Cheng said with a smile.

"Wait a minute." Shancheng said, quickly entered the room and took out the banknotes, and passed them to Qiu Cheng through the crack of the door: "I'll write it down, I'm afraid I won't believe what I said."

Shancheng knew that his second aunt was busy with house-related matters recently, she went out angrily last time, and came back with a smile, bringing back a lot of corn cakes, and told them that when the other houses were transferred, she would You can earn lots and lots of tacos.

Qiu Cheng took the pen and paper, left a note for Shen Xing, and then he touched his body again, trying to get something to eat for the two people in the room, one big and one small, but found that he had nothing but the two hundred catties of cornmeal around him. No, so I had no choice but to give up, and told Shancheng and the others to hand over the note to Shen Xing, and then left on a tricycle.

According to the information Shen Xing gave him before, among the remaining ten houses on the fifteenth floor, the owners of seven houses are willing to trade with him. , Sell another batch of potatoes at night, it must be enough.

Of the remaining three houses, Room 1512 under the name of Ai Wenhai is larger in size, and the other two houses are also small and medium-sized houses.

In the Jiayuan community, after Qiu Cheng left, Ah Chang felt very bored. Recently, there were fewer and fewer sparrows outside and it became more and more difficult to catch them. Qiu Cheng said that he would stop catching sparrows in the future, so he would not go there.But what are you doing if you don't catch sparrows? Ah Chang went upstairs and downstairs a few times, and finally took a stick needle and squatted on the terrace of their house to tie up a dog.

As the weather gets warmer, all kinds of shallots have also increased. The terrace of their house is a little better than the outside, but there are still a lot. When they dug the soil from the outside to use it, it is inevitable that they will bring back some.

Ah Chang squatted on the terrace with a stick needle, motionless, as if his breathing was integrated with the surrounding environment.He is currently planting a potato plant in a wooden basket. These potatoes were planted later than the batch on the fifteenth floor, and it is not yet ready to harvest.

Now in this wooden basket, there are a few earth dogs that are about to move. Ah Chang's ears moved, and his hand was like lightning, and he stuck the stick needle into the soil at once, and then he carefully pushed the soil away with his fingers. , Dig down along the needle, until a dirt dog is dug out from the body of a small potato, and then the dirt is carefully covered back.

After one of his companions was impaled across the face, the other dogs in the wooden basket immediately didn't dare to move. They hid quietly in the depths of the soil and waited quietly for the perverted hunter to leave.

"!" Ah Chang yawned, tore off the dirt dog on the needle, casually threw it at his feet, and continued to squat there to guard.On the ground beside his feet, there were already more than a dozen corpses of dirt dogs lying in a mess.

Too far away and gradually slanting westward, Ah Chang went upstairs at three o'clock and adjusted the angles of the mirrors on the balcony of Room 1506 to allow as much sunlight as possible to shine into the room.

Around four o'clock, Ah Chang finally heard the sound of Qiu Cheng's broken tricycle coming from downstairs. He grabbed those dirt dogs and threw them into the vole cage, then rushed downstairs quickly.

"Squeak! Squeak!" The voles in the cage, who usually seemed docile, immediately became very fierce when they saw the dogs. A few voles rushed over, and after a while, the dogs were gnawed until there was no scum left. Down.

Qiu Cheng came back with two hundred catties of cornmeal, four bags in total, fifty catties each.Although these cornmeals were going to be spent tomorrow, he was still worried about leaving them in the garage, and carried two bags with Ah Chang up to the fourteenth floor.

After arriving home, Qiu Cheng washed his hands and face first, and then went around to check the growth of the crops. Ah Chang did a good job of weeding and watering, and he didn't find any bugs. Qiu Cheng looked around, So he went back to the house to rest in peace. He has been busy all day from morning to night and has not rested yet.

Ah Chang followed around and saw Qiu Cheng resting on the sofa, so he sat down on the floor next to him. After sitting for a while, he reached out to touch Qiu Cheng's palm hanging on the side, and asked: " Nail clipping?"

"En." Qiu Cheng's voice was already stained with sleepiness.

Ah Chang took out the nail clippers from the box under the coffee table, took out another magazine, spread it out on the floor, and then cut his fingernails as Qiu Cheng taught him.Cutting and cutting, he put his nose on Qiu Cheng's hand and sniffed it. He smiled happily when he smelled the familiar smell.

Qiu Cheng fell asleep until six o'clock in the evening before waking up. He ate a few mouthfuls of tortillas, and together with Ah Chang, he carried hundreds of catties of potatoes downstairs and sold them in the night market.

Their current meals are really too simple, with single ingredients and single cooking methods. In the absence of cooking oil, what they eat every day is either roasted, boiled, or steamed.This situation will be difficult to improve in a period of time. Now that there is not enough food for people, who will raise pigs on a large scale?

Because there were so many things to pull, Ah Chang couldn't squat on the bike for a while. Qiu Cheng rode a bike, and he ran behind.

When the two of them arrived at the night market, the time was already about an hour later than usual, and there were already several customers waiting there at the stall. For those who hadn’t bought potatoes two days ago, they all heard from Qiu Cheng that there would be a The batch of potatoes arrived, so they were waiting here early.

"Why did you come here? Just now, two customers waited and left again." At this time, Lao Feng was standing at Qiu Cheng's stall, doing nothing, just chatting with those who were waiting to buy potatoes Chatting, this chatting has been a lot, and friendship has gradually emerged. In the future, some people will come to him if they want to exchange cornmeal.

"Busy today." Qiu Cheng said and parked the tricycle.

"There must be a lot of things when the goods arrive, right? Come, help me." Lao Feng said and helped Qiu Cheng carry the potatoes: "I also just arrived a batch of cornmeal two days ago, and they are fresh."

"I'll exchange it with you when the stall is closed," Qiu Cheng said.

"Hey, it's not a small deal tonight." Lao Feng was very happy, with a bright smile on his face. As soon as the first sack of potatoes was opened, he yelled, "Oh, this batch of potatoes is good!" Ah, better than the batch two days ago!"

When the customers heard what he said, they immediately filled the sack with water, and all of them stretched out their hands to pick it out. Not to mention, this time the potatoes looked better than last time, at least they were bigger.

When there are too many people, the scene tends to be chaotic. Qiu Cheng is so busy calling potatoes and tortillas that he doesn't even look up, and sometimes he has to argue with people about a few shallots and peppers.

Seeing this situation, some people couldn't help but get a little suspicious, and left while fumbling for a few potatoes, guessing that Qiu Cheng wouldn't be able to find out.A tall, thin man in his 30s was holding potatoes in his hand and was about to put them in his pocket when he felt as if a gaze fell on him. When he raised his eyes, he saw Ah Chang with a fierce expression on his face, and his eyes were fixed on him. Looking at the hand holding the potato, he let out a low, beast-like growl.

The man swallowed his saliva, loosened his fingers, put the potato back into the sack, took two steps back, and fled.Qiu Cheng, who was calling people over there, raised his eyelids, reached out and patted Ah Chang's arm to make him relax, and then smiled at a customer next to him who seemed a little nervous because he noticed Ah Chang's abnormality.

"Children, I've seen too many animals in the world." Qiu Cheng said.

"Hey, I was shocked." He thought it was rabies just now.

"He learns what he plays on TV." Qiu Cheng said again.

"My little bastard is also like this." The man also smiled and eased the atmosphere.Many regular customers at Qiu Cheng's booth knew that he had a brother who was not very good at thinking.

This night, Ah Chang watched. Not a single potato was stolen from their house, and all of them were sold clean. It was still early when they closed the stall.

Qiu Cheng first went to Lao Feng's stall to exchange cornmeal, but he didn't exchange all of them. Maybe some homeowners would accept cornmeal tomorrow.

It was just nine o'clock when the two of them rode back, and the night market was still bustling with people and stalls on the road. Qiu Cheng pressed the brakes while riding, moving forward bit by bit with the flow of people.

While riding, Qiu Chengcheng saw an old man selling fish in two buckets next to a stall selling prickly ash and aniseed ingredients in front of him.At present, the traffic in all parts of the country is slowly recovering, and special products in various places have also been circulated to a certain extent. Although things like peppercorns are still relatively expensive, they are not particularly rare. The rare thing is that the old man next to him in the bucket fish.

"Where did your fish come from?" Qiu Cheng leaned over and saw a total of ten or twenty fish, large and small, in his two large buckets.As soon as Qiu Cheng saw the fish, he couldn't help asking, "I haven't heard that there are still people who can catch fish from the Xinnan River."

"Of course there is a place." The old man snorted, there were not two people who bought fish this night, and there were quite a few people who tried to trick him.