After the disaster

The surrounding area of ​​the North Bus Station is also very lively. In addition to selling machinery, there are also many agricultural product transactions here, but most of them are large transactions.

Qiu Cheng first found a store that sold oil presses and bought a plug-in oil press. It was not very big, only half the height of a person, and it was heavy to carry. It weighed more than 100 catties. Qiu Cheng paid the store The boss put 65 catties of cornmeal, put the oil press on the back seat of the pickup truck, and drove away.

There is also a vegetable market near the North Bus Station, and several shops facing the street outside the vegetable market are also engaged in food business. Most of these shops are both wholesale and retail, and the wholesale price is different from the retail price.

After thinking about it, Qiu Cheng replaced all the corn flour in the car with white flour. It is suitable for these white flour to be transported back, no matter whether it is to be kept at home or to be sold. You can earn some money, the white noodles in Xinnan City are more expensive than here.

In addition, Qiu Cheng also bought some Chinese cabbage seeds and some melon and fruit seeds from a nearby seed shop.Spicy cabbage is so easy to sell, the growth cycle of cabbage is short, and the pickling time is also short. Qiu Cheng plans to make more next time and bring them to the provincial capital for sale. By the way, he will look for lamb and piglets.

There are only three sheep in the family, after all, it is still too little. The big fat pig Qiu Cheng also wants to raise a few. Then he just needs to come out of the kitchen and bathroom a few times, keep the pigs inside, and often wash the ground with water, and do a good job of sanitation. The residents downstairs shouldn't have much opinion. Of course, it would be best not to let them know.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Qiu Cheng and the others returned to Xinnan City, first drove the pickup truck into the Jiayuan community, moved the contents of the car upstairs, and then put their tricycle in the truck, and arrived at the rental car. Go to return the car.

When we got home again, it was getting dark.The two of them didn't care about eating, so the first thing they did when they got home was to add water to the rice fields at 1507. They pulled the leather pipes from the large kettles in the corridor outside to 1507, and drained six large kettles until the water level in the rice fields reached [-]. Finally back to normal height.

The sun was good on this day, they went out all day, the crops at home were a little short of water, and a lot of tender weeds grew, the two of them watered and fertilized, worked until after [-] o'clock in the evening, and fed the chickens again Food, and finally finished the work.

The group of chickens in the family are now raised in a room in 1501. Qiu Cheng plans to build a shed for them on the roof in two days, and then they can plan their own food in the ground. Feed them twice a day in the morning and evening.

On this trip to the provincial capital, Qiu Cheng felt that he had gained a lot. Not only did he buy an oil press, he also felt the booming atmosphere in the provincial capital, and he also had a more specific understanding of the purchasing power of banknotes.

In terms of prices, it has always been easy to raise prices and difficult to lower prices. I am afraid that it will not be long before the country will issue the sixth set of RMB.Qiu Cheng once heard people say that when the second set of RMB was first issued, the exchange rate with the first set of RMB was [-]:[-], but this time, he does not know what it will be.

No matter how much it is, throwing money at home under the current uncertain situation is undoubtedly gambling in nature.Qiu Cheng doesn't have much interest in gambling. He still prefers to accumulate wealth bit by bit and live a down-to-earth life. For now, the most down-to-earth thing must be food.

Back home, life went on as before. Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang first set up the chicken coop on the roof, and then went to the Xinnan River to cut a few loads of weeds, and piled them all up to 1511 for composting.

The retting container is also made by myself. First, a large wooden basket with a width of 1.5 meters, a length of [-] meters and a height of [-] meters is nailed with wood, and then a layer of tarpaulin and a layer of plastic film are spread inside, and the weeds and sawdust chicken and sheep manure are mixed together. Stack them layer by layer until the entire large wooden basket is filled, and some sheep manure that has been decomposed with EM bacteria is sprinkled in the middle to speed up the composting speed.

Composting is a long process, and it will take at least half a year until all the weeds in this basket are composted into fertilizer. Before this, Qiu Cheng and the others could barely support themselves with sheep and chicken manure.Now they need to compost more, so as not to have enough fertilizer in the future. For growers, there is never too much fertilizer.

Two days later, the dozen or so soybeans planted in 1504 were finally ready to be harvested. The peanuts planted in one room had a longer growth cycle than soybeans, so they could not be harvested yet.

This morning, Qiu Cheng took Ah Chang to pull out the dozens of soybeans, nailed a wooden frame on the roof, hung the soybeans with their branches, leaves and pods on the wooden frame to dry, and pulled out a small basket of green beans. The pods were taken downstairs, washed and sprinkled with a handful of salt, boiled and eaten on the stove.

In the evening, Qiu Chengcheng took Ah Chang to the night market to set up a stall. Qiu Cheng rode a tricycle in front, and Ah Chang squatted behind to eat soybeans, holding two plastic bags in his hand, one containing boiled salted soybeans, A plastic bag is used to hold the pods. These pods can be taken back to feed the voles. The voles eat the leftovers, and then sweep them and take them to the fifteenth floor for composting. There is no waste at all.

The shallots, leeks, peppers, and tomatoes in their family have grown very prosperous recently, and they can make a lot of hot sauce every day. They have used up all the cans and bottles that can be used at home. Recently, Qiu Cheng has been using larger containers. There are ceramic jars, glass jars and large fresh-keeping boxes. In short, you can use whatever you can find.

The weather was fine these two days, and there were a lot of people at the stall. The old stall of Qiu Cheng's family had been occupied by someone, so they had no choice but to go to Wang Chengliang's.

"The field mouse cage is ready, are you at home tomorrow?" Wang Chengliang saw the two of them coming, and immediately began to move the stove to make room for them.

"Yes, how is your business these two days?" Qiu Cheng didn't watch from the side, and got off the tricycle to move with him.

"It's not like that. My second brother has been a little bit impatient recently, and he also wants to pack up some things to go north, but my dad won't let him. The family is having trouble now." Wang Chengliang said.

"Old Hu hasn't come back yet." Qiu Cheng said.

Some people in their city dumped some daily necessities from the south to the north, and some brought back a lot of food, and some of them disappeared after this trip. The world is in chaos now, so it’s better to be in a big city, and a little more remote. I really don't know what happened, when Qiu Cheng went to a village outside the city to exchange seeds, he almost lost his life outside.

"My father is worried, and my elder brother also disagrees. He probably won't be able to leave alone." Wang Chengliang smiled.

"I went to the provincial capital a few days ago and saw that many factories were open." Qiu Cheng said to him.Although those factories are definitely trying their best to exploit the labor force now, but if there is a job to do, at least they can make some money.

"We've heard about it too, but it's useless. Good jobs have to go through the back door. Ordinarily, local people must be given priority." Wang Chengliang shook his head as he said.

"That's true." Qiu Cheng also sighed.

"Didn't you go to the provincial capital? What's the provincial capital like now?" Wang Chengliang changed the subject at this time.

"It's quite lively, but the price is extremely expensive, and a deep-fried dough stick costs 500 yuan." Qiu Cheng said.

"Then are you still willing to eat?" Wang Chengliang laughed.

"I bought two, I feel sorry for me." Qiu Cheng also laughed: "Ah Chang, don't patronize yourself to eat."

"Oh." Ah Chang responded, and handed the plastic bag containing soybeans to Qiu Cheng.

"This kid." Qiu Cheng smiled and stretched out his hand to grab a handful of soybeans from the plastic bottom and handed it to Wang Chengliang: "Eat soybeans."

"Thank you." Wang Chengliang didn't refuse, and reached out to take it.

A few people were talking while eating soybeans. After a while, business came to the door. This time they were not packed in cans and bottles, so they had to be sold by weight. A pound of pickled vegetables sold for six taels of cornmeal.Since June, many units in Xinnan City have stopped distributing corn cakes and instead distributing cornmeal. The size and portion of homemade cornmeal is not uniform, and it is basically out of circulation in the market now.

"Boss, do you want discs? There are everything from life encyclopedias, movies and TV shows, and sci-fi martial arts." When the booth was closing, a young man of eighteen or nineteen came to their booth to sell discs.

"What movies and TV shows are there?" Xinnan City TV Station seems to be out of stock recently, and it always pulls out the movies and TV shows that have been released before, and both Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang find it meaningless.

"Oh, that's a lot. You want British dramas, American dramas, Korean dramas, and Japanese dramas. I also have a lot of Hong Kong dramas here. Do you want "Up to the Sky?" The young man handed Qiu Cheng several discs as he spoke.

"I've seen it all. You probably recorded it from our city's TV station, right?" Qiu Cheng flipped through it, but didn't see anything new.

"There are also fresh ones. Our city's TV station has never let go of them. "Golden Branch Desire", my friend just brought it to me from Shanghai yesterday, and I carved such a copy overnight. There is no second copy in the whole Xinnan City. .”

"Is there anything else?" A Chang kid is still in the learning stage, why don't you watch Gongdou?

"Do you want the Encyclopedia of Life? Several of us compiled it together. The content is complete, and it also contains many traditional crafts. A disc is full. You can buy it and take a look. It is guaranteed to be worth it." No more, he There is really nothing new.

"How did you sell it?" Qiu Cheng asked him.

"You can just weigh me some chili sauce." The boy said with a grin.

Since it was something from his own stall, Qiu Cheng was not too stingy, and weighed half a catty for him in a fresh-keeping bag. The pickled leeks and pickled green onion leaves were all sold out, and now there was still some tomato chili sauce left.

When the people left, Qiu Cheng took a look at the newly bought disc. He wondered if there was any recipe for tomato and chili sauce. He was thinking about improving his own sauce. He used this simple method at the beginning. The main reason is that there is too much shortage of materials. Now their soybeans are ripe, and after a few days they can be dried to extract oil, and then everything will be complete.

Going back in the evening, Qiu Chengcheng put the disc on. While playing, he also moved a few wooden baskets from the terrace into the house, and planted the ginseng seeds they bought from the provincial capital a few days ago.

These wooden baskets were used to grow peppers and tomatoes in the past, because the plants were too old to produce much fruit. They were pulled out by Qiu Cheng some time ago, and these wooden baskets are still empty for the time being without planting other things.

The young man who bought the disc really didn’t lie to him. There are quite a lot of things in this disc. There are documents and videos. The documents are played in the form of pictures. If you are interested, let Ah often press the remote control to pause.

One of the videos was about making tofu. Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang were both interested in watching it. They planned to wait for the soybeans on the roof to dry in the sun in a few days, and then grind some to make tofu.

Qiu Cheng buried the baskets of ginseng and moved them to the terrace. It will take some time for the ginseng to germinate.Qiu Cheng heard that ginseng likes soft and fertile soil and a cool and dry climate, and he wonders if it can be grown in Xinnan City.

After watching two more videos, Qiu Cheng saw that the time was almost up, so he began to meditate for the day. Ah Chang was bored watching it by himself, so he turned off the TV and nestled beside him.

Qiu Cheng intends to wait for a while until he has a better understanding of this "Wood Repair Notes", and then try to let Ah Chang also get in touch with the matter of practice. Now even he himself is in the groping stage, and he is still far away. It is far below the level that can be a teacher for others.

When meditating that night, Qiu Cheng felt that everything was normal. When he started meditating again the next morning, he obviously felt a little stagnant. Even the aura in the room seemed to be weak. a lot.

Qiu Cheng got out early and ran to the terrace to take a look. Sure enough, those few baskets of ginseng had already grown tender green shoots. Only these few shoots made the spirit gathering array that they had been operating for the longest All the aura in them had been absorbed, and Qiu Cheng couldn't imagine how much aura they would consume in the future.