After the disaster

Out of the provincial city, when he was about to get on the expressway, Qiu Cheng found that there was a traffic jam on the road ahead. Traffic jams were common in the past, but now they are rare. Qiu Cheng guessed that it was the same as those who were in the morning. It is related to the person who buried nails on the road.

"What happened in front?" Qiu Cheng stopped the pickup truck, opened the door and got out from the driver's seat. The back of the pickup truck is open, and it's fine when driving. His things were taken away, so it was difficult for Qiu Cheng and the others to wait in the car at this time.

"I caught a group of grandchildren who buried nails on the road." A middle-aged man in his 40s said by the side of the road.

There were quite a few people standing or squatting on the side of the road with him. The weather was very sunny and the car was too stuffy, and they were reluctant to turn on the air conditioner, so they had to go to the shade of a tree by the side of the road to enjoy the cool.

"Why is it blocked?" Qiu Cheng locked the pickup truck after Ah Chang got out of the car, and went to the side of the road with these people to enjoy the shade, and looked at his own car by the way.

He stretched his head and looked ahead, and there were twenty or thirty large and small vehicles blocked. It seemed that the road had been blocked for a while.If it is just to catch the person who buried the nails on the road, lift the person and pull out the nails, it will not take much time to collect the evidence.

"This group of people are habitual offenders." Another younger man said: "These days they shoot one shot for another, and they do a lot of robberies. , planted."

"I said those buddies were unlucky. A section of the road ran over and three of the four wheels were punctured. What bad luck." A thin monkey next to him also spoke: "Listen to the farmer in front, This morning when it was just dawn, a pickup truck in front of the road was fine, but within a few minutes, there was chaos here, and this jeep was tricked at that time."

"It's really bad luck." Qiu Cheng recalled the scene when he passed this section of road this morning, and was stabbed for three rounds at once, so his luck was really bad.

"No, I only brought one spare tire, which was not enough at all. Looking at it horizontally and vertically, I couldn't go anymore. I was very angry. Those few short-sighted people ran up to rob, and then the two sides broke up. There's a fight."

The road ahead was blocked for a long time, and none of their cars could go, so they had to grind their teeth on the side of the road.

"Then how many people are driving the jeep?" Qiu Cheng asked.

"Three."

"Where's the guy who buried the nails?"

"Seven."

"Then they're pretty good at it."

"No, those grandchildren dared to go up because they were few in number, and they were beaten into shit."

After waiting for a while, the car in front finally drove away. Qiu Cheng was not in a hurry to get in the car. After almost all the cars in front and behind had gone and the whole road was clear, he and A Chang got in the car and drove towards the expressway.

When passing the road where the accident happened, I saw the pools of dark red blood stains on the road, and knew that the matter was not as light as what the group of people said just now. The situation can be said to be quite tragic, otherwise it would not have happened Been barricading here for so long.

Back in Xinnan City, Qiu Cheng sent the batch of soybeans exchanged from Boss Bai to the courtyard where Wang's family lived.

After a while, the news from the South reaches Xinnan City. I don't know if their tofu business can continue, but it doesn't matter. If they can't do the tofu business, they can also let them do more. Moldy tofu, this thing is resistant to storage, when this turmoil is over, it will not be too late to sell it.

On the Wang's side, Xiaoyan, Xiaoling and Ajie have been sent to the village, and Afeng and Alei have been brought back. These days, Achang has just gotten a little more familiar with the double button, but because of three missing one, he was arrested. Forced to change to playing Doudizhu, and I am studying hard.

When Qiu Cheng passed by, he happened to see Shen Xing coming out of their yard.

"Why are you here?" Qiu Cheng asked in surprise.

"I went to see you in the morning, and you were not at home. I went in the afternoon, and you were still not at home. No, come here and ask if they know." Shen Xing was quite happy to see Qiu Cheng, and walked forward a few steps , lowered his voice and said to him: "Early this morning, two homeowners came to me. They have a total of four houses on the fourteenth floor, three facing south and one facing north, and the price is not expensive. high."

"You don't know what's going on in the south, do you?" Qiu Cheng asked her.

"What's going on in the south?" Shen Xing was at a loss.

Although their family was prosperous in the past, and they are quite familiar with people in the upper circles of Xinnan City, but after all these years, there are not many friendships left. If there are still people who are willing to extend their hands when they can't eat, it is considered a relationship. If there is righteousness, there is basically no communication at ordinary times, and the news is naturally not well-informed.

"There seems to be a problem with the food in the south. It's a big mess. I don't know if it will affect our side." Qiu Cheng said to her.

"Is that so?" Shen Xing raised his chin: "Then I'll lower the price."

"It's about the same as the fifteenth floor." Qiu Cheng didn't say that he wouldn't let Shen Xing lower the price.

These people have been stretching him before, and the price has been raised a lot compared to the fifteenth floor, but no one is willing to let go. Now that the situation is not good, they want to let go, but such a good price is no longer possible. Yes, Qiu Cheng will not press hard, as long as the price is about the same as the fifteenth floor.

"Okay." Shen Xing nodded, and she didn't worry too much about the south. She pointed to the yard behind her, smiled and said to Qiu Cheng: "I heard that you have made a lot of moldy tofu in partnership with them. , give me a bottle to try?"

In the past, Shen Xing wouldn't be able to say such things even if he was killed, but now he thinks it's nothing. Qiu Cheng is a rich man, so what's the point of asking him for a bottle of moldy tofu?Her face has long been as thick as an iron plate.Of course, it's still not as good as her old lady. After practicing in the past few years, her old lady's face is almost better than a city wall.

After Shen Xing left, Qiu Cheng directly drove the car into the courtyard where Wang's family lived. There were still a few piglets in the car, so he was worried about putting them outside.

"Hey, Qiu Cheng is here." At this time, Wang Boss and Wang Lao Er also came out of the house. They all knew that Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang went to the provincial capital today, and now they probably brought them beans again. .

"Here are the beans this time, take a look." Qiu Cheng opened the back seat of the car, and there were bags of beans inside, almost filling the space behind.

"Oh, there are so many." Boss Wang said, stretching out his hand and shaking it, he carried a bag of soybeans and put them on the open space next to him. It has not been weighed, so it is not easy to carry it directly into the house.

"Buy more, I don't know when I will go to the provincial capital next time." Qiu Cheng said.

"Hey, that's true." Boss Wang sighed. Wang Chengliang had already told his family about the matter, and they felt a little uncomfortable. Seeing that life was about to get better, there was another disturbance.

Seeing him like this, Wang Laoer just kept working. Qiu Cheng said, "Look at him these two days. If it's not peaceful, the tofu business will stop first. These beans will be used to make moldy tofu at that time. If you make it well Let’s put it aside, when it’s ready to sell, I bought a lot of spices at home, as well as white wine, I’ll send it to you some other day.”

"That's fine too. Put moldy tofu in a jar and put it in a cool place without touching it. It's fine to leave it for a few months." Wang Laoer paused while moving the beans, and said so.

Ah Feng and Ah Lei brothers were squatting in a corner of the yard, muttering, seeing Ah Chang coming, they pulled him over mysteriously: "We are going to go fishing for crayfish tomorrow afternoon, do you want to go? "

"Crayfish?" Ah Chang's eyes lit up. He didn't know what a crayfish was, but he knew that shrimp, whether it was from the river or from the sea, was delicious.

"What are you fussing about? How can there be crayfish these days? They have been caught long ago." Their old lady scolded: "It's such a hot day, getting up early in the morning to work is not enough for you to be tired, so sleep at home How nice."

"Go out after sleeping." Ah Lei replied nonchalantly, and then said to Ah Chang: "There are really lobsters, and they are in the ditch beside our village. Ah Feng and I fished them a few days ago. When it arrives, no one else will know.”

"..." Ah Chang turned to look at Qiu Cheng.

"Go." Qiu Cheng said.

"Go." Only then did Ah Chang agree to the invitation of the two brothers, Ah Feng and Ah Lei.

"That line, meet at the gate of Xinnan University at [-] noon tomorrow." Ah Feng said happily.

"Let's go out at twelve o'clock, so why don't you sleep in!" Boss Wang's daughter-in-law said again at this time.

These two boys in the family are growing up. In the past, the family conditions were poor, so they were not told to eat well. Now that the family conditions are better, I want them to eat more and sleep more, so as to restore their bodies.

"Mom, do you want to hang these clothes to dry?" Ah Lei was used to his brother's lack of eyesight, so he began to divert his mother's attention in a doggy manner.

"Go, take back the dried ones on the balcony." The eldest daughter-in-law Wang didn't mean to hold on, especially in front of Qiu Cheng, it would be a bit bad to talk too much.

"You two just came back from the provincial capital, haven't you had lunch yet? Would you like to have some corn porridge here first, and some side dishes from the village." Boss Wang's wife greeted Qiu Cheng and the others.

"No, these piglets should be taken home quickly." Qiu Cheng declined.

"That's fine. I'll bring Ah Chang over to play if I have nothing to do at night." Seeing that the piglets fighting in the back of the pickup truck seemed to be lacking in energy, the eldest daughter-in-law Wang didn't persuade her much.

After the weighing, the weight of this batch of soybeans was determined, and both sides made records. Then Qiu Cheng and the others drove away, took the piglets home, and placed them in the several pigpens prepared before.

The time has just entered July, the weather is hot, and this is the time of the day when the temperature is the highest, and few people stroll outside. During the transportation, Qiu Cheng covered the outside of the pig cage with a piece of cloth again, and no one was disturbed. See those piglets.

When he first arrived, Qiu Cheng didn't feed the piglets right away, but just added some water to each of the troughs, and then returned the car with Ah Chang.

When they came back, seeing that the piglets had gradually regained their spirits, Qiu Cheng cooked a large pot of pig food with a bag of bean dregs and rice bran that he had just brought over from Wang's house. Added some insect powder.

This big pot of pig food is distributed to five piglets, and each piglet does not get much in total. Qiu Cheng knows that when these pigs grow up a bit, almost every pig will have to eat so much a day. It takes a lot of work to cook pig food, but it doesn't matter, as long as he and Ah Chang can eat pork deliciously in a few months, the hard work will be worth it.

At noon the next day, Ah Chang and the two boys from the Wang family went out, but Qiu Cheng didn't go. During the day, the young and middle-aged people in Jiayuan Community basically went out to work, leaving only some old and young women and children at home. The situation was not very good, and he was worried that someone would take advantage of them on the fifteenth floor, so he decided to stay and watch the house.

Ah Chang, wearing a straw hat and carrying a bucket, went out the door step by step, and came back dirty after six o'clock in the evening. It turned out that this guy thought the process of fishing for crayfish was too inefficient, so he jumped into the ditch Li caught prawns with his bare hands, and sure enough he caught some, but his body was muddy and watery, and the smell was not very pleasant.

Ah Feng is careful, and knows the truth of not revealing money. Crayfish are considered a good thing these days, and it is best to hide them, so he took an old iron bucket from his home to fill Ah Chang with shrimps, and built a bucket on it The lid, the lid of the bucket is a bit small, and it fell directly into the bucket. Fortunately, the iron bucket is tapered and stuck in the middle, just right.

Ah Chang took the bucket of crayfish and ran to Qiu Cheng to present treasures. Qiu Cheng did not disappoint him. That night, he picked out some larger crayfish, twisted off the heads, and fried them with the remaining bodies and tails. A small plate of spicy crayfish.

The remaining small ones still need to be raised as usual. Didn’t Shen Xing say that there is already an owner who is willing to sell the house on the fourteenth floor? This matter should be confirmed within a few days. Qiu Cheng plans to get more things that are relatively worry-free and labor-saving, such as raising fish and shrimp.

The news broadcast that night finally broadcast the food problem in the south. Now the official statement is that the food problem in the south is because there is a virus that resides on the crops. Once people and livestock eat them, they can easily be infected. this virus.

Studies have shown that this virus is extremely chilly, and once it passes the Tropic of Cancer, there is basically no possibility of survival, which means that this virus will not spread from the south to the north...

After the news was broadcast, Qiu Chengcheng and Ah Chang went to the night market the next night to see everyone's reaction to this incident, and found that the atmosphere in the night market was still very good.

Could it be that this incident passed so lightly?

Qiu Cheng didn't bring anything out for sale that night, so he went to Wang Chengliang and Lao Hu's booth to say hello, and then went back with Ah Chang.

On the way back, when he passed the three-way intersection in front of the train station, Qiu Cheng saw the seed stand again, but this time they put up a sign next to the sign "Rejecting Freshmen", which read: "This stall The seeds sold are all from the north."