After the disaster

Eating the hot and delicious fish, Qiu Cheng felt that he was so lucky that he took in a guy who behaved strangely. He turned out to be a master at catching fish and shrimp. It seemed that he would no longer need to be hungry and eat enough every day It's easy to drink enough.

It's a pity that Qiu Cheng only had a few days of such a good day of eating and drinking. A few days later, one morning, Qiu Cheng went to the Xinnan River to fetch water as usual. As soon as he arrived at the river, he saw There were several police motorcycles parked on the embankment, he was puzzled, and just about to go over to inquire about the situation, two police officers walked over to him.

"You live near here?" one of the 40-year-old police officers asked Qiu Chengdao.

"I live in Jiayuan Community." After Qiu Cheng finished speaking, he asked them, "What happened here?"

"A group of people were fishing in the river last night, did you hear anything?" the other party asked again.

"I can't hear it. It takes 10 minutes to walk here from Jiayuan Community." Qiu Cheng shook his head.

"Then have you heard any news recently? Have you heard from neighbors or someone that they are going to come to the river to catch fish recently?"

"No, there are not many households in our building. I work in the city every day, leave early and return late, and rarely deal with them."

"Well, if you have any clues in the future, please call me at this number." The other party said and handed Qiu Cheng a business card.

Qiu Cheng felt a little strange when he took the business card, so he couldn't help asking: "Is the electric fish thing serious?"

It's not that they haven't had electric fish incidents in Xinnan City in the past, and I haven't seen them take it seriously. If they catch it, they will catch it, and if they can't catch it, they will catch it. Sound, even if the matter is over, but judging from their posture this time, it seems that they are going to fight those electric fish.

"You don't know." Another younger police officer shook his head and said, "This time it's a big scale, it's not a small fight. From the downstream of the water plant to the dam below, the fish and shrimp are almost completely killed by them." Well, in terms of scale, you say, it must be organized, and such an organization is definitely an unstable factor for our Xinnan City."

"Besides, what they did this time, the damage to the river is too serious. If you don't take artificial intervention and just rely on natural recovery, even if you wait another three to five years, you may not be able to catch fish in this water area." Just now The police officer also said that.

"Have you ever gone to Xiushui Village to ask?" The village where Qiu Cheng went to exchange seeds last time was Xiushui Village.

"Xiushui Village?" The two police officers looked at Qiu Cheng at the same time.

"Oh, I also heard something from the school teacher when I was studying at Xinnan University, saying that their place used to be a water village." Qiu Cheng was not afraid of causing trouble for the people in Xiushui Village.

Qiu Cheng remembered that when he was changing seeds in Xiushui Village, he sat by the fire with those villagers for a long time.There are only so many people in a Zhuangzi, and they must know each other very well. Qiu Cheng didn't believe that no one of the villagers would have predicted that the father and son would do such a thing, and at that time, no one had given it to them. Never had he reminded, not even a hint of it.

"Let's go and have a look in a while," said the older police officer.

"Your area is relatively far from the city center, and the police force is relatively weak. You must pay attention to safety when you travel in the future." Another police officer patted Qiu Cheng on the shoulder and said.

Qiu Cheng nodded in response, and then went back with a load of water. He had just made this shoulder pole in the past few days. He cut a piece of Moso bamboo in half, took half of it, and cut it into a slightly pointed shape at both ends. It's a bit like an arrow shape, and you don't have to worry about slipping after tying a rope behind the arrow.

When Qiu Cheng returned home, he found that Ah Chang hadn't gotten up yet. When he went out just now, this guy was lying on the bed so listlessly. He thought it was a rare time for him to stay in bed, but it turned out that was not the case.

"Is there no more fish in the river?" Qiu Cheng sat by the bed and patted Ah Chang's back.

"Hmm..." Ah Chang turned his head and looked at Qiu Cheng with an aggrieved face. He was hiding in the grass by the river last night, watching those people electrify all the big and small fish in the river. It was clean, not even a piece of dried shrimp was left for him.

"The corn on the terrace is about to ripen. I'll cook tender corn for you in two days." Seeing his expression, Qiu Cheng didn't understand anything. He was also very sad that there was no fish in the river. It's a good day to be able to eat a full stomach for a few days.

Ah Chang felt that it would be nice to have a partner. Listening to his soft words, it seemed that even having no fish in the river was not so unacceptable.He knelt up from the bed, stretched his neck and rubbed his face against Qiu Cheng's cheek, then stretched out his tongue to lick his neck, and gnawed it lightly with his teeth a few times, just like the one from before. That's what an old cat does to its mate.

"Get up quickly." Qiu Cheng was not used to this kind of overly intimate behavior, he reached out and patted Ah Chang's shoulder, then got up and left.

"..." Ah Chang licked his paws endlessly. Now he finally understood why the old cat liked to lick its partner so much. They always stayed together, body to body, paws to paws...

"Go and wash your hands!" Qiu Cheng didn't know how to clean himself, but licking his own slap with his tongue was really a bit too dirty.

"Woo!" Ah Chang jumped up from the bed and rushed into the bathroom quickly.

With the help of HM bacteria, Qiu Cheng finally successfully fermented a pile of sheep manure. This morning, he was able to fertilize the crops on the terrace. He first dug a ring-shaped shallow pit around the plant, and then scooped some Fertilizer is sprinkled into the pit and covered with soil.

After fertilizing all the crops, they were watered individually.These days, Qiu Cheng nailed a small shelf on the terrace again. There are various bottles on the shelf, and each bottle is filled with the same yellow liquid. Yes, this thing is urine.

Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang urinated in bottles, and then placed them on the shelf in order to bask in the sun for a few days, and watered the crops with the earliest bottle every day. If you mix raw urine with water and pour it directly into the soil, the smell will be slightly stronger.

The crops on the terrace are growing quite well. The corn is about to start earing. The potatoes are not visible because they grow in the soil. The tomatoes and peppers are faster, and some branches are still blooming. , Small green fruits are already hanging on some branches.

Before going out to work, Qiu Cheng asked Ah Chang to make him pay attention to safety. In the past two days, their electrician team will come to repair the power grid here, and other teams will come soon after.

Qiu Cheng's current work place is also close. Go out from the main gate of their community, walk on the main road, and then walk in the direction of the city for more than ten minutes.

The news of Xinnanhe being caught by Crazy Electric Fish spread quickly, and some people in their electrician team also talked about it, but unlike the previous situation where everyone was very excited when the accident happened, everyone looked very dignified.

It is not easy to rebuild after a disaster. With a few more bad elements like this, when will life improve?This matter is like a traffic jam. If everyone can line up properly, the problem may not be very serious, but if there are a few cracks, the road will soon be blocked.

"Xiaoqiu, it's so messy here, I think you'd better live in the city, make an application and ask them to help you change a house, I heard that some people do this now." When working, Lao Li was so right Qiu Cheng said.

"It's a really remote place. I'm next to the New South University. It's not necessarily better to change my house." Qiu Chengcheng is willing to live here. In their area, the building where his house is located is the tallest. Yeah, it's hard to see what's going on on his patio from below.

"Hey, that's right, then you should pay attention to yourself. If there is something wrong in another day, you can go to the People's Hospital to find your sister-in-law. Do you remember your sister-in-law's name?" After finishing the work in several communities near Xinnan University Well, their electrician team doesn't know where to go, maybe it will be disbanded, and the towns below heard that there are other teams in charge, so they don't need them.

"I remember." Qiu Cheng nodded, Lao Li and his family are all good, but it's a pity that there is no banquet in the world that lasts forever.

For most people, getting together, separating, and merging is not their biggest concern. What everyone cares about is whether they can earn food in the future. If there is no work, there will be no income. What will they have to fill their stomachs?

Before the meeting adjourned this afternoon, someone asked the team leader if there were any other arrangements for the electrician team after the work this time was over.

"The higher-ups have just issued a document. Maybe you haven't heard of it yet." The leader of their electrician team is a technical soldier sent by the army, so his news is better than ordinary citizens.

"What document?" After someone asked, the crowd immediately became very quiet. Everyone waited for the team leader to say the following content, for fear of missing a word.

"Everyone knows that when the X virus broke out, armies from all over the country first arranged for the evacuation of urban areas with a high concentration of population, and then went to various villages to organize rescue work. Many villages were attacked by infected people, and even In some villages, there is not even a single person left alive, which has led to a significant reduction in the rural population after this disaster."

"When we were at the temporary base, everyone had learned about farming. Now a document has been issued, which means that some urban residents will be arranged to go to the countryside to engage in agricultural planting work."

"Going to the mountains and going to the countryside?"

"Will you become a rural person after that?"

"Can you come back?"

"My grandfather used to be an educated youth, and he returned to the city with great difficulty."

"This issue……"

Immediately after the team leader's words, there was a buzz below.

"This time is different from going to the mountains and going to the countryside." The team leader signaled everyone to be calm:

"If you don't leave your registered permanent residence, your residence in the city will always be reserved for you. If you go there, you only need to sign a contract, and the local government will arrange your residence and fields in the countryside and provide you with a certain amount of rations. After that, you just need to hand over a certain amount of grain, and you can return to the city at any time during the slack season. After the one-year contract expires, whether to renew the contract for the second year is entirely up to personal preference."

After hearing these words, everyone was a little bit moved. They were afraid that they would not be able to come back after going to the countryside. If they could come back, at this moment, it would definitely be easier to live in the countryside than in the city. I don't know how much more here.

Even Lao Li was eager to give it a try, but he hesitated considering his wife's work in the hospital. Although the job of a nurse is not a great job, at least he can earn a living. If he goes to the countryside, he is not sure what to do. How about, or just let him go there alone?

Qiu Cheng didn't want to go to the countryside.When he was in high school, he responded to a classmate’s invitation. During the summer vacation, he went to his hometown in the countryside with him. As a result, within two days, everyone in the village knew that he was a poor child whose father died and mother remarried. .

Relatively speaking, Qiu Cheng prefers to be in the city, and also likes to keep a little distance from others. Everyone lives their own lives, and there is no need to pretend to greet each other face to face. This kind of living environment makes him feel at ease.

After work, Qiu Cheng took out the tortillas he had saved these days, thought for a while, and put away the freshest one he just saved today.

Give the remaining cornbread to Lao Li, and ask him to replace it with seeds. When Lao Li said that someone in the hospital where her daughter-in-law works was planting something, Qiu Chengcheng took it seriously. People in various units in the city have connections. It's probably not too difficult to get seeds. It's safer to go through them than to go to the village to find someone to change.

"Leave it to me." Lao Li didn't know that Qiu Cheng had obtained some seeds by himself. He only knew that Qiu Cheng had fermented some fertilizers with HM bacteria. The fertilizers were all there, and it was normal to buy seeds now.

"Thank you." Qiu Cheng thanked him with a smile. Lao Li and the others have some relationship, and they won't defraud him too much, so it's perfect to ask him to help.

On the other hand, Ah Chang had a very difficult day. After cutting back a bundle of grass for the three sheep, he went to the nearby hillside to dig out bird nests. Digging out bird nests was much more troublesome than fishing and catching shrimp, and the harvest was less , He dug out several bird nests throughout the day, but he still failed to fill his stomach.

As night fell, Ah Chang returned to Qiu Cheng's house in a dejected manner. It was a rare day that he came back later than Qiu Cheng.

"Are you back?" Qiu Cheng was sitting on the sofa studying the "Mu Xiu's Notes". He wanted to see what Mu Xiu was all about. If possible, he also hoped that he could start practicing as soon as possible, which would be even better. A better body and a longer lifespan, of course he also wants to have it.

"Hmm..." Ah Chang scratched his ears, and sat down next to Qiu Cheng without thinking.

"Did you catch any fish?" Qiu Cheng asked him.

"Yeah." Ah Chang looked up at Qiu Cheng, and then buried his head lower in shame. He is really a useless companion.

"Here." Qiu Cheng handed him a tortilla.

Ah Chang turned his head to look at Qiu Cheng in surprise. He didn't expect such a good thing to happen to him. You must know that the female cat in the past has never been brought back by the old cat, even a mouse. His luck is amazing. very nice!

"Let's eat." Qiu Cheng smiled, he didn't know that he had just compared a female cat.