After the disaster

In the afternoon, when Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang woke up, it was already past two o'clock. They ate something casually, went upstairs to adjust the angle of the mirrors, and went to the roof to dry the fish caught last night. Back to the bugs.

The three-wheeled bugs were full of bugs, dried enough to feed the chickens and voles at home for a long time. As for the crucian carp, Qiu Cheng decided to feed them fresh bugs, so as not to make a mess when they ate them.

After finishing all this, Qiu Cheng didn't want to do any other work today, so he pondered the Spirit Gathering Formation in his living room.

According to "Wood Xiu's Notes", the spirit-gathering array can be used flexibly. Before that, Qiu Cheng just copied the contents of the book to control the range and height of the spirit-gathering array, and didn't spend more time thinking about it.

Now Qiu Chengcheng encountered a problem. He didn't know how to connect the two adjacent spirit gathering arrays so that they could become one.

Because he has to go to the 1406th floor to meditate every day, and his food and living are on the [-]th floor. You won't have to climb up and down again.

Qiu Cheng made many attempts, all of which ended in failure.He originally wanted to open a gap between two adjacent spirit gathering formations so that the aura could flow freely, but once such a gap was formed, the spirit gathering formation would often fail and no longer have the power to gather aura.

He also wanted the two spirit gathering formations to overlap to a certain extent, but found that the spiritual energy between the two gathering spirit formations would not flow through each other because of the overlap. They were still two separate spirit gathering formations, and they were relatively powerful The Spirit Gathering Formation inside will also absorb the aura from the relatively weak Spirit Gathering Formation.

After countless failures, Qiu Cheng finally understood that no matter how he arranged it, two spirit-gathering formations are two spirit-gathering formations. The formation becomes one, and only the aura in the same gathering formation can circulate freely.

As a result, he had no choice but to devote himself to developing a strangely shaped spirit-gathering formation. Regarding the size and shape of the spirit-gathering formation, the "Wood Repair Notes" also mentioned it, but none of them were suitable for Qiu Cheng and the others. This is the case at the moment.

Based on the records in "Wood Repair Notes", Qiu Cheng carefully pondered the shapes of various spirit-gathering arrays and the arrangement of cornerstones, and studied the role of each cornerstone in the formation of spirit-gathering arrays, and finally he figured it out There are rules.

To be on the safe side, he first made an experiment with a few pieces of broken jade on the wooden frame, placed the broken jade on the upper and lower floors of the wooden frame according to the shape he wanted for the spirit-gathering formation, and finally stretched his palm into the formation , carefully feeling the aura fluctuations in the formation, and soon found that he had finally succeeded this time.

After confirming that this method was feasible, Qiu Cheng was very happy, and immediately used the jade he had tempered during this period of time to set up a spirit-gathering array connecting 1406 and the entire fifteenth floor. After it was put into operation, he removed the Spirit Gathering Formation on the fifteenth floor.

After completing the arrangement of the spirit gathering array, Qiu Cheng went back to his old position to meditate that night, without having to go up and down the stairs, which really saved a lot of trouble, his mood was smoother, and his practice was more effective with half the effort.

Now the problem of those ginsengs remained unresolved. As the weather became hotter day by day, those ginsengs on the fifteenth floor looked more and more lethargic. Qiu Cheng was not sure how long they could last.

Shen Xing's work on the acquisition of the fourteenth floor was not going smoothly, but there were a few homeowners who were willing to sell the house, but the price could not be negotiated for a long time.

Qiu Cheng thought for a while, and decided not to wait for her. He moved the wooden baskets on his balcony to the upstairs corridor, and invited a group of people to build a sun room.

When he bought the house, the original design indicated that the location of the terrace could be transformed into a sun room or bedroom, and his transformation this time was not a violation of regulations.

As long as the size of the sun room is measured and the materials are prepared, it does not take a lot of time to install it.

At around two o'clock in the afternoon of this day, Qiu Cheng paid off the cornmeal, sent away the masters who came to install the sunshine room, went outside to buy an air conditioner, and came back with the installer and the newly bought air conditioner. The machine is installed next to the terrace, on the wall under the window sill of Qiu Cheng's bedroom, and the internal machine is installed on the wall on the side of the terrace.

When everything was ready, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang moved the wooden baskets from the upstairs aisle back to the terrace of their own house, and by the way, they also moved down the baskets of life, and finally saw that their house was full. Qiu Cheng decided to tidy up some things.

Like those lush green onions and leeks, the market has been getting worse and worse recently. It has been more than three months since we came out of the temporary base, and it is summer now. Perhaps there are not many food products on the market at present, but vegetables are. There are quite a few, and the more people sell, the price will naturally come down.

But these shallots and leeks at home grow so well, it would be a pity to just pull them out.

The next day, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang collected humus again, and the place they went to was the park opposite the Xinnan River. Recently, the small hill was dug here and there, and it was about to be scraped off. up.

Fortunately, everyone is busy with making a living these days, and few people will wander in that park leisurely. Besides, there are few patrolmen there, and the law and order are not good.After a few more months, weeds will grow or be covered with fallen leaves in the places they have dug, and it will be difficult to see the traces of being dug.

After pulling a cart full of mulch back, Qiu Cheng made wooden baskets again at home. This time, the wooden baskets he made were a little smaller than the ones he made at home, and they didn't look so bulky.

After nailing it, we still put cloth inside and fill it with humus soil as usual, and then planted the shallots and leeks in these new wooden baskets one by one, and watered them with fixed root water, so that they can grow at home for two or three days. When they are strong enough to live in, they will pull a cart to sell in the night market, together with the pickles and sauces accumulated in the past few days.

"You two are finally willing to come out?" Seeing Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang coming on a tricycle, Wang Chengliang happily stood up from the stool, ran to the front of his booth, moved a few stoves, and gave them to Qiu Cheng and the others. Make room.

"What's going on in our city recently?" After Qiu Cheng got out of the car, he pushed the tricycle into the place Wang Chengliang vacated for him.

"What else can happen? I've been talking about the sixth set of XX coins all day long. Some people say that the exchange rate will be one hundred to one, and some say it will be one thousand to one. I don't know who to listen to. "Wang Chengliang shook his head and smiled.

Because Wang Chengliang's elder brother and second brother are making tofu in the city recently, the family has some income, and the distance is so close, the daily meals are more neat than before, and the whole person's complexion looks much better than before .

"It doesn't matter how much he has, the main thing is to see the price at that time." Qiu Cheng said.

"That's right, even if it's one thousand to one, as long as the purchasing power is strong enough, it won't make any difference." Wang Chengliang pointed to the shallots and leeks on Qiu Cheng's tricycle and said, "You guys will sell this this time."

"Yes." Qiu Cheng smiled, bent down and picked up a few red bricks and stones beside him, and put them on the front and back of the tricycle wheels.

"Then you two have to work hard." Wang Chengliang was obviously not very optimistic.

"If you can't sell it, put it here, and treat it as greening for you." Qiu Chenghun didn't care, he moved the shallots and leeks under the wooden pillars on both sides of the stall, and took the pickle sauce from under the cart Come out and place it on a wooden board.

"Is this also for sale?" Soon, after buying half a catty of tomato sauce, an old customer asked, pointing to the baskets of leeks on the left.

"One basket of three taels of cornmeal," Qiu Cheng said.

"It's quite tasty." The man didn't pay much attention, he reached out and grabbed a piece of leek leaf rice, chewed it in his mouth, found the taste not bad, happily paid for the cornmeal, picked up a basket of leeks and left.

"Someone really bought it?" Wang Chengliang touched his nose, that's fine, so what kind of stove does he sell?However, the shallots and leeks in their home don't grow so well, and probably no one would be willing to buy them like this.

"If you can't sell them all in a while, I'll let you here. If you sell a basket, I'll give you a tael of cornmeal. How about it?" No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat. Although there are not many cornmeal in twos and threes, think about it. With the price of the five piglets, Qiu Chengcheng felt pressured and motivated.

"Okay." Wang Chengliang agreed without hesitation. Anyway, he is basically here all day long. He doesn't sell what he sells. It's good to earn a tael of cornmeal at the end of the day.

On this day, when it was time to close the stall as usual, Qiu Cheng and the others still had a few baskets of leeks and shallots left unsold, so Qiu Cheng left them there and asked Wang Chengliang to help sell them, while he and Ah Chang went to Push the tricycle into the crowd.

Recently, the weather is hot and the house is stuffy. More people go out for entertainment at night. The night market is very lively. Of course, this is also related to the current situation. Recently, some harvest scenes in the south have been broadcast in the news. are more optimistic.

Passing the three-way intersection, Qiu Cheng saw the seed stand with the sign "Reject Freshmen" again, so he and Ah Chang squeezed over there.

Qiu Cheng now found that this stall also has an advantage, that is, there are many varieties of seeds, and you can buy them separately. For example, Qiu Cheng only bought three cowpea seeds today.

He reached out and took the seeds in his hand, and he could feel the vitality contained in the seeds, because Qiu Cheng was a practitioner of the wood system and was very sensitive to the vitality of plants and trees.

After paying a tael of cornmeal, Qiu Cheng took the three seeds and happily went home.

He wants to build a shelf in the glass house, plant a few cowpeas, and let the cowpea vines grow along the shelf to form a natural sunshade. He just needs to control the density of these cowpea leaves so that they don’t completely block the sunlight. , Plant ginseng under the cowpea rack, and then use the air conditioner to adjust the temperature to keep the inside of the glass room relatively dry and cool, presumably those ginseng will grow well.

Back home, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang immediately felt a little bit of coolness. The air conditioner was always on outside the terrace, and even their bedroom and living room seemed much cooler than usual.

Qiu Cheng found the wooden baskets that had just been vacant, which were originally used to grow shallots, and buried the cowpea seeds in them.

"What is this?" Ah Chang squatted aside and asked.

"Cowpeas." Qiu Cheng carefully filled in the soil.

"Is it delicious?" Ah Chang asked again.

"It's delicious, you can cook porridge, you can make steamed stuffed buns, you can also fry it, eat it dried, and eat it with pickled capers."

That night, Ah Chang fell into a deep sleep amidst fantasies about various delicacies. When the two of them woke up the next day, it was still after four o'clock in the morning. Already the sound of people walking and talking could be heard.

These days, Qiu Cheng and the others have already adapted to this situation. Ever since there was a duck farm beside the Xinnan River, and black lights were turned on every night to trap bugs, the residents of their community had an extra livelihood, that is It is to help the turtle Huang and the others catch bugs, often working all night long.

There have been a lot of ducklings on the duck farm in the past two days. There used to be only one breeding area surrounded by barbed wire, but now it has increased to several. The number of black lights has also increased a lot, and the time for turning on the black lights every night has also been extended. for hours.

There were a few commotions over there in the past two days, and the owners of some nearby farms also joined forces to find duck farms, but in the end there was no result.

Someone went to the government department to complain, but Shen Dingjun ran a duck farm in a regular manner, and he didn't commit any crimes, so they didn't care much about it. They just sent a few mediators out, and now they don't know what's going on. What's the matter, anyway, the black light is still turned on every night, and the people in Jiayuan Community still go out to catch insects and earn cornmeal every night.

More and more people came to Qiu Cheng to buy voles. With so many bugs, catching a few of them can make the voles fat.

Qiu Cheng went to Boss Wang to order a batch of voles cages, and sold voles. The family could earn income almost every day, and with the income from setting up a stall, the family also had some cornmeal. The three paddy fields on the fifteenth floor The rice is also growing well, Qiu Cheng feels at ease, and thinks that the cost of selling piglets should be no problem.

Just when everyone felt that everything was going in a good direction, Wang Chengliang came to Qiu Cheng's house on this day.

"Why do you come here when you have time?" Qiu Chengqi asked.Isn't Wang Chengliang guarding the stall every day?

"Lao Hu is back, and he is watching for me." Wang Chengliang is not very familiar with Lao Hu, but when it rained before, he also took Lao Hu to set up a stall in his shed. At that time, Lao Hu was still selling salt. Well, since he went to the north last time, there has been no news since then.

"What's the matter?" Seeing his serious face, Qiu Cheng had a bad guess in his heart.

"Old Hu went back to the north, traded the soap for a batch of cotton cloth, and then went to the south again. Just now he came to me and said that there was a problem with the food in the south, and he couldn't eat it at all. He told you not to waste other things. Hurry up and start stockpiling food."

Sitting in the living room of Qiu Cheng's house, Wang Chengliang repeated in a deep voice what Lao Hu had just told him.He knew that his relationship with Lao Hu was not close, and the reason why people told him this matter was entirely because of Qiu Cheng's relationship. Lao Hu didn't know where Qiu Cheng lived, so he asked him to spread the word.

"Okay, you go home in a while, and tell your eldest brother to be careful in doing business in the future. Once the news spreads, there may be chaos. Let's not tell others about this." It's not that Qiu Cheng is selfish, but once Chaos outside does no one any good.

Between Qiu Cheng and Lao Hu, when it comes to the strongest friendship, it is the bucket of salt. When he bought all the salt in Lao Hu's hand, he didn't think too much about it. Youxin, got news from the south, and asked Wang Chengliang to pass the message to himself.