After the disaster

Another day later, Qiu Cheng and A Chang brought a lot of soil back from the outside, re-paved the soil in the 1506 house, and planted potatoes.

The Chinese cabbages planted in 1507 were also harvested. Qiu Cheng cut them all and left a few out. The rest of the cabbages were cut in the middle and broken in half by hand, and then placed in 1508. A water tank, put these cabbages in half and half, and sprinkle some salt on each layer. When the water tank is about to be full, there are still a lot of Chinese cabbage left.

Qiu Cheng first filled the vat with water, then filled the vat with several jugs and filled it with water pressure, then covered the vat mouth with fabric, and tied a rope along the vat to prevent dirt from falling in or being damaged. The bugs crawl in and leave it alone.

They once heard from the proprietress of the northern dumpling restaurant that their sauerkraut is made in this way. It can be eaten in about a month if it is stored like this. This is not easy to grasp, and Qiu Cheng has no experience, so he won't try it.

Qiu Cheng counted the remaining Chinese cabbage, and there were six and a half in total. Looking at them, Qiu Cheng remembered the spicy cabbage that was quite popular a few years ago.

Qiu Cheng helped out in restaurants before. He had eaten spicy cabbage himself, and he had heard about how it was made. Although it was not very specific, he basically knew what it was all about. It was nothing more than marinating the cabbage with salt, then Add chili, garlic, ginger, etc. and then marinate for the second time. The pickled spicy cabbage is sour and spicy. If you add some apples and pears and sprinkle with a handful of sugar, it can also bring some fruity and sweet taste.

So Qiu Cheng didn't think too much, and took another big bucket to pickle the cabbage with salt.Now he and Ah Chang eat corn tortillas or eat some potatoes and cabbage every day. When the cabbage is marinated, it will add a taste of sourness.

After doing this, Qiu Cheng loosened the soil in the wooden baskets where the cabbage was collected, dug out large pieces of cabbage roots from inside, mixed some fertilizer, and planted ginger and garlic in these wooden baskets.

Ginger and garlic grow slowly. A few days ago, Qiu Cheng planted the stubble on his terrace before it grew. Qiu Cheng first picked the leaves and used them to make pickles and chili sauce. He dug a tree every now and then and used it Now there is not much left, so Qiu Cheng wanted to have more variety this time. Anyway, ginger and garlic are durable, and when they are harvested, they can be dried and stored up for consumption.

The layout of 1507 is similar to that of 1506, but the orientation is different. 1507 has a terrace facing west. The Chinese cabbage before and the ginger and garlic this time are planted on this terrace. There is no sun.

The remaining four rooms 1508, 1509, 1010, and 1511 each have only a north-facing balcony, and it is probably impossible to grow crops in them. Qiu Cheng plans to use them as warehouses for the time being.

The space in the 1507 house is not small, plus there is a terrace and a balcony, it is also very transparent.After Qiu Cheng finished his work outside the terrace, he and Ah Chang picked up some bricks and built a low wall in the direction of the terrace and the balcony. On the side of the door, a low wall was also built near the entrance.

Qiu Cheng intends to make this room like 1505, where water can be added, but this time it is not fish farming, he wants to grow rice.

They used to grow food, and wheat was good. They bought flour from the night market the night before yesterday, and it took five catties of cornmeal to buy one catty of flour.

It's just that in their local area, there are very few wheat growers. Probably because of the climate, the local people mainly grow rice. In the year when the temporary base was just established, Qiu Cheng also went to the field with others to grow rice. How to plant.

After the low wall is built, it will take a day or two to install the waterproof grout. Qiu Chengcheng and Ah Chang went to sort out 1501. They only bought this room before, and all the sundries were piled up here. , Now that there are many houses, and the lighting on the side of 1501 is particularly good, it seems a bit wasteful to pile up sundries.

Together, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang sorted these things into different categories and moved them to the rooms in the north, as well as the things that had not been removed from Ah Chang's strongholds. Now they can be moved over slowly.

After a busy day, he only ate a few mouthfuls of cornbread at noon. When the sun went down, Qiu Chengcai carried a bucket of cabbage roots and went down to the fourteenth floor with Ah Chang.

Back home, Qiu Cheng put a few cabbage roots into each of the two vole cages, and Ah Chang brought out a turtle box from the corner, opened the lid and poured some worms into the vole cages.

Since someone set up a shed at the train station to collect the armyworms for about a week, the number of armyworms around the city has dropped a lot. Fortunately, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang are both good at catching insects. Every morning, when I go to the river to fetch water, I take a turtle box with me and walk around nearby, and I can more or less catch half a box of bugs back.

"Kaka..." Qiu Cheng heard two soft clicks, and looked at the pocket around Ah Chang's stomach in surprise. Can this really hatch chickens?

"!" As soon as Ah Chang heard the voice, he immediately grinned, happily untied the waist bag, unzipped the chain, put it on the tea table and put it away, waiting for the chick to crawl out of the shell by itself.

Qiu Chenghe leaned over, and the two of them were head to head, looking at the two eggs in the pocket together. After a while, they saw a small opening in one of the eggs, and the opening was getting bigger and bigger. A little gray and sticky head came out.

"It's too ugly." Qiu Cheng couldn't help laughing.

"It's ugly." Ah Chang happily agreed.

Thinking that the newly hatched chicks would easily die, Qiu Cheng ran to the [-]th floor to find some cotton, a wire, a light bulb, a lamp, and a plug.

I took a wooden basket, spread cotton in it, put the chick and the other unhatched egg on the cotton, then took out a screwdriver and a pair of scissors, and used the scissors to cut the wire at each end of the wire. Strip off a small piece of copper wire, install a lamp holder on one end, and a plug on the other end, then turn the bulb into the lamp holder, plug in the power supply, and the bulb will light up.

As soon as the light bulb came on, Ah Chang scratched his head and looked very excited.He saw Qiu Cheng brought a hanger over, first wrapped the wire twice around the clothes hanger, and put the clothes hanger on the wooden basket, the lighted light bulb was hung on the wooden basket, the incandescent light bulb The warm yellow light shines on the wooden basket, making it extra warm.

The chick has to eat too. Qiu Cheng crushed the small piece of corn tortilla, added a little bit of cold water to soak it, then filtered off the water, and fed the soggy corn tortilla to the chick. .

Qiu Chenghao and Ah Chang's dinner was still very simple. After the meal, they took advantage of the darkness to move some things back from Ah Chang's former strongholds and put them in the rooms facing north on the fifteenth floor. After ten o'clock in the evening, he went home and took a shower. Then Qiu Cheng meditated, and Ah Chang bored flipping through a second-hand book that Qiu Cheng bought for him from the night market.

In the middle of the night, after Qiu Cheng came out of meditation, he went to the living room and lifted the cloth from the wooden basket to have a look, and saw that another chick had also come out of its shell. He covered it with a cloth again, and went back to sleep.

Qiu Cheng returned to the bed, Ah Chang hugged him, Qiu Cheng didn't avoid it, covered the two of them with a quilt, and fell asleep with Ah Chang in his arms.In the dark, Ah Chang closed his eyes, took a deep breath of Qiu Cheng's scent, curled up the corners of his mouth triumphantly, and smiled like a cat that just stole the smell.

After waking up the next morning, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang first went to the river to fetch a few loads of river water, and then caught some insects and came back. Then Qiu Cheng meditated, and Ah Chang watered and fertilized the crops grown by their family, pulled weeds and eliminated insects. .

After Qiu Cheng got out of the meditation, he made some breakfast for the two of them, then went to 1507, put a layer of waterproof grout on the ground and the bottom of the wall, and then made pickles in his living room for an afternoon. For this business, it is definitely inappropriate to use cans and bottles all the time. Qiu Cheng dug up a few jars from one of Ah Chang’s strongholds yesterday, but they can’t use them now, because the tomatoes, leeks and shallots that their family collects every day are not enough. It is not easy to make a jar of pickled vegetables twice, so it is not used for the time being.

In the evening of that day, Qiu Cheng and the others went to the night market again, bringing with them the pickles they had accumulated over the past few days, as well as the few potatoes they had collected.

The atmosphere in the night market is good recently. It has been a while since someone bombed the seed company. Recently, the TV has been broadcasting about the post-disaster reconstruction work of our country and other countries in the world. The large crops shown on the TV are given to the citizens. Gradually feel at ease again.

It is precisely because of this that the owner of the house in 1510 is reluctant to let go. When the grain production catches up, no matter how much their house is sold, they will not only have dozens of catties of cornmeal.

Qiu Cheng had no choice but to ask Shen Xing to let him contact the owner on the fourteenth floor, how many rooms he could buy, and the two floors on the top floor with as little interference as possible. For him, there are only advantages and no disadvantages.However, he doesn't have much capital at the moment, and it will take about half a month for the batch of potatoes in 1506 to mature. During this period, Qiu Cheng will try his best to make as many pickles as possible to accumulate funds.

Since the rain stopped, the night market has become more and more lively. Even Qiu Cheng’s place that seemed a little deserted at first has basically no vacant seats. Fortunately, Lao Hu, Lao Feng, and Wang Chengliang are all there. Qiu Cheng Seeing that there was no room for Ah Chang, Lao Hu moved to the side and asked Qiu Cheng and the others to sit beside him.

"Why do you come here these days?" Lao Hu is still willing to deal with Qiu Cheng. Lao Feng, who exchanges cornmeal over there, is a bit disgusted with him. On the other hand, come over to Wang Xueliang's booth. For the young couple who sell bedding, the two of them are so tired of it, it makes their old teeth fall down.

"It's not like there are things for sale every day." Qiu Cheng first took out the potatoes, and then took out some cans and bottles and put them on the wooden board, and asked him, "How is your business these two days?"

"Just enough to make ends meet." Lao Hu is dissatisfied with his current state. He decided to go to the seaside to sell salt, with the idea of ​​buying low and selling high to make a fortune. Restore your vitality, take advantage of the opportunity to exploit more loopholes, and you will have a lot of good days in the future.

I didn't expect it to be like this. They went to the city where they sold salt. Now many people from all over the country go there to sell salt. Although the price is not high, it is not particularly cheap. Many people from Xinnan City also come from the coastal area After selling salt, it is a dream to sell it at a high price. People are so lively nowadays. It has not been long since they came out of the temporary base. Let alone bananas in Hainan, in more developed cities, there are even imported fruits.

"Business is difficult." Old Hu sighed, and then asked Qiu Cheng, "The can of pickled shallots I bought from you last time is finished, so I'll buy another can." Old bachelors usually don't treat you too badly my own.

"It's all here." In the past two days, Qiu Cheng didn't make many pickles, and if it wasn't for shopping today, he might not come out to set up a stall.

"I'll pick the big one." Old Hu said cheerfully.

After a while, the old Hu over there also came over, bought a few catties of potatoes with Qiu Cheng, then patted him on the shoulder, and said, "You kid is also fishing for three days and drying nets for two days, I don't know When you come out during the day next time, brother, I will still be here."

"What's wrong?" Qiu Cheng asked him.

"Haven't you heard the news yet? The higher authorities have issued a document to urge all cities to do a good job in post-disaster reconstruction. One of the contents is the water supply and power supply. It is estimated that in Xinnan City, everyone will not be able to use five kilowatt-hours of electricity in June. .” Old Feng said.

"Then how will we do it then?" In Qiu Cheng's view, the quota system is quite reasonable given the current situation. As a matter of livelihood, they have already used everything they could, be it real estate or savings, not everyone can afford the electricity bill now.

"I've heard people say that there is still a quota. This policy will be implemented for one year. If the quota exceeds the quota, you have to pay for it yourself." Lao Feng is still relatively well informed.

"What about the electricity bill?" Qiu Cheng asked him again.

"Use money to calculate." At this time, Lao Hu also said, obviously he had heard about it.He smacked his lips, covered the jar, and said, "The higher ups have long said that the old coins from the past will be used, and it's not just for fun. I didn't see that there are banks in our city that are already open for business these days. "

"That's a good relationship." Qiu Cheng said with a smile. There is not much deposit in his account, but it should be enough to pay utility bills.

Lao Feng ignored Lao Hu, said a few words to Qiu Cheng, and went back to his stall.As soon as Qiu Cheng thought about it, he soon figured it out. Now most citizens don't have the conditions to fire at home, so the city will uniformly make tortillas. In the future, there will be no restrictions on electricity consumption every month. People can cook at home. At that time, each unit only needs to distribute their rations, and Lao Feng's business of exchanging corn flour for corn cakes will naturally come to an end.

That night Qiu Cheng and the others sold out their stuff, and asked Lao Feng to exchange them for cornmeal. By the way, they asked him what his plans were for the future.

After exchanging the cornmeal, Qiu Cheng and the others went to a stall selling seeds in the night market. The stall was quite big and the location was conspicuous. Every time Qiu Cheng and the others went out of the stall to close the stall, they could see that there were all kinds of seeds on the stall. In front of the booth, there was a large board with four big characters "Boycott Freshmen" written on it.