food crisis [end times]

One day, Zhu Yan was holding a duck and looked at it for a long while. Xiang Luo was carrying the vegetables he bought from the village, and saw Zhu Yan's movements through the window.

Then go in and have a look.

This duck is yellow, looks more than ten days old, half-sized, and looks cute with its head tilted.

Zhu Yan has always had no resistance to Furry, no wonder he likes it.

"Rare this one?" Xiang Luo asked.

Zhu Yan pointed to a cage: "It still hasn't grown up."

This duck was taken out of this cage.The other ducks in this cage have almost grown into big ducks.They're starting to lose their yellow hair.Only this one duck didn't grow much after more than ten days.It's pretty out of the way in the cage now.Other ducks also bullied it, and its buttocks were pecked bald.

A duck of the same age already weighs more than a catty, but now he only weighs three or two.

Xiang Luo joked, "I'm sure you've lost your mind."

There is a local saying that people with many eyes and heavy thoughts will not grow taller because of this.

Zhu Yan glanced at him, and Xiang Luo hurriedly said: "Why don't we take it out and raise it alone, if it just grows slowly, raise it for two months before sending it back. If it doesn't grow up all the time, then keep it as a miniature pet duck , just be a companion for Nao Nao."

Otherwise, when the three of them get busy, no one will play around with them, and it can't do anything else as a dog, so it can only lie there bored, and it's pitiful.

In the human world, there is still a human body that is always fixed at a certain age.This is a genetic problem or some disease.

So it's not surprising that the little duck didn't grow up.

"Just be careful. If this little guy sneaks out, you won't be able to catch it. And people who come later should pay attention to it. If someone catches it without paying attention, he won't know."

Zhu Yan poked the duck's mouth, thinking about the scene where the duck and Nao Nao were together, it was quite harmonious.

"Then choose a name." Xiang Luo suggested, "Nao Nao was chosen by you, and I will take this one."

Zhu Yan glanced at him: "Nao Nao is my son."

"Did it call you father?" Xiang Luo asked.

Zhu Yan raised his leg, Xiang Luo hid for a while and said, "After thinking about it, let's call it Xiang Dabao. A bad name is easy to support."

Zhu Yan sneered: "If you raise another one, it will be called Xiang Xiaobao?"

Xiang Luo smiled and said, "Of course not, you are Xiang Xiaobao."

Zhu Yan kicked over again, this time kicking Xiang Luo's ass: "You've only lived with ducks for the rest of your life."

Since then, the two have another duck son.

Introducing Xiang Dabao to Zhu Naonao, the duck and the dog looked at each other for a while, and finally, under Yaya's unrequited gaze, the dog licked the duck all over.

Fortunately, Nao Nao's saliva is not very heavy, and his hair is not completely wet.

However, Xiang Dabao's body smelled of Nao Nao's saliva, Nao Nao's love for him was even deeper, and the duck and dog were almost inseparable.

Although the ducks are noisy, they are not afraid of being locked in the boiler room at night.

It is a problem that ducks excrete everywhere.Of course, ducks generally only excrete when they are eating, and usually it is relatively small.

But that's also a problem.In the beginning, the whole family was ready to wipe shit anytime and anywhere.Later, Xiang Luo found that there was obviously less duck droppings in the house, until one time when he saw Nao Nao actually pulled Da Bao out and licked it clean.

Since then, the family has never kissed Nao Nao again.

It's quite strange to make a fuss about the dog. I don't know why the fathers don't kiss it anymore.

But fortunately, there is still little duck, and little duck kisses it.The problem is that when it kisses Dabao, Dabao can't avoid it at all.

When going to bed at night, Nao Nao would hold Dabao in his arms.

So at night, Xiang Luo could often see Dabao resting his chin on Nao Nao's neck in a heartless manner.It gets used to it over time.

It was only a week after deciding to raise Dabao.The first batch of hatched ducks gave the three of Xiang Luo a surprise.

When feeding in the morning, Xiang Luo saw a bloody duck egg in the corner nest!

Take it out to see that it has cooled down completely, and it was planted the night before.

This newborn egg is called an open crotch egg locally.It has always been said to be the most nutritious.But when the eggs came out, it was a question of who to eat.

The three of them gathered around such an egg, and studied for a long time which duckling was so powerful.

In fact, it’s almost the same. It’s not been more than four months now. This is still domesticated, and the nutrition is not particularly rich. If the ducks are carefully raised in the duck farm, they can lay eggs in more than three months.

However, female ducks mature earlier than male ducks.It takes at least one or two months for male ducks to mate.

In addition, Xiang Luo is not in a hurry to grow eggs, so he raises them first, and saves these eggs for eating first.

For the first newborn egg, the three of them broke up and cooked a pot of soup that morning, one egg and three bowls of soup, and each person drank one bowl. In fact, they didn't feel any difference in the taste, it just tasted good.

There were no eggs on the second day, but two eggs were harvested on the third day, and one duck started to lay eggs.

This time, an egg was specially kept in the nest as a guide egg, and then I looked at it every morning and evening, and I gained something almost every day.

However, this matter was not told to outsiders, and they were all eaten at home. If there was any surplus, they would give two to Li Baoguo in the meeting, or send them to the cafeteria of a small factory to make soup for the employees to improve their meals.

They also only regarded it as non-fertilized eggs that were eliminated from Xiang Luo's hatching eggs, and did not think about it in other directions.

Except for the ducks, their work of burning bricks for the factory has basically come to an end.I calculated the bricks needed to build a small factory. I didn't do anything else in the past two months, so I focused on burning bricks.During the period, due to the lack of clay, some time was wasted looking for clay.

Right now, the bricks are coming as expected, and they are almost burnt.Two more kilns were burned to prevent it from being enough, so Xiang Luo hired a well-known bricklayer in the village to start digging the foundation at the selected site and officially build the factory.

For this factory, it took nearly three months just to prepare.

Now it's finally officially closed.

Construction has started here, and workers for the assembly line will definitely be recruited in the future.Last time, Li Yueyue helped to select candidates, and there were some oolongs.At the same time, it also caused some people with strong self-esteem to offend Li Yueyue and miss out on job opportunities.

Those who are now involved in the work have been participating for several months.The salary is not particularly high, but the treatment is too eye-catching.Every day or two, they can eat a delicious meal of meat, and Xiang Luo will also buy the grown vegetables as a welfare for them to try, not to mention eggs and stewed ducks that have been eliminated.

Now, except for a few other families, almost every household has no shortage of food.However, the benefits that Xiang Luo can provide cannot be bought even if there is food.

Some people took the initiative to approach Xiang Luo, wanting to get close to Xiang Luo, so they made an appointment directly.

Xiang Luo only said that he didn't care about it, and he would appoint another person at that time.

Then the village started a discussion on who Xiang Luo would appoint.Among them, Li Yueyue's voice was the highest, and people from the village went to Li Bao's country more and more frequently.There are those who say good things to please, and there are those who are enthusiastic about kissing.

The more enthusiastic Li Baoguo saw them, the more he felt that the marriage they told was unreliable.Going back half a year, he might still be anxious about his daughter's marriage, but now he doesn't feel it at all.

On the contrary, he began to fear that his daughter would run away with someone for a while.

Some people in the village also think that Xiang Yan is also a possibility. After all, Xiang Yan is the foreman and has a lot of contacts with the village and is well-informed.

So Xiang Yan's home after get off work is very lively every day recently.Those people who had been arguing with her because of Zhou Wenshu's affairs before also changed their previous attitude, and they came to say all kinds of good things.

The marriage of Zhou Tingting, who is not yet an adult, has also been noticed, and some people have begun to propose marriage to Zhou Tingting.It sounds good.It’s just that things are different now than before, and the conditions are different.The sooner the little girl gets married, the better. If she gets married early, her in-laws can teach her well. After a few years of learning, she will have another child. When the time comes, she will be able to wash clothes, cook and serve the children with three hands, so she won't be in a hurry.

In fact, marrying wives and daughters in rural areas is such a set of logic.

Marry Han, marry Han, dress and eat.This is handed down from ancient times.

But Xiang Yan was reluctant to let Zhou Tingting leave here too early.She was even more afraid that Zhou Tingting was young and thin-skinned, and she was ashamed to say that she would be bullied when she went to her husband's house.So no matter who came to say goodbye, they were all pushed.

It was a lot of fun again, but it was finally relatively positive.

The hooligan was half-dead all the time, but later the People's Liberation Army went to check and found that his lower body could not move at all because of the infection. If it wasn't for the daily food delivery, he might have starved to death long ago.

He finally changed from his previous madness and became sluggish.But Ren's consciousness seems to be a little fuzzy, and he often talks nonsense.

The other two hooligans have already been sent to serve their sentences, but when this person will be sent away depends on the situation.

Zhou Wenshu was sentenced to probation, but his sentence was only suspended, so he was only under observation at home.

In the first few days, he went out for a walk, but everywhere he went, everyone avoided him like the plague.

And after he learned of the fate of his role models, he also became more honest, and locked himself at home for a long time without going out again.The only time I went out was because my family really ran out of food, and I went to the village to apply for food relief.

He refused to keep the mushroom bag, so he could only rely on the original food reserves to make ends meet.

Xiang Yan wished she had never known him before, so how could she reach out to help?He had long since been left to fend for himself.

The village committee also knew that Zhou Wenshu would not be able to return to Xiang Yan's place in the future, so he had no worries about being single now.The village was also afraid that he would cause trouble, so they directly gave him double the relief food for him to carry back, and kindly told him that if he didn't have enough, he would come to get it again. "

Compared with the predicament of no food before, the most important thing in the village now is food.I'm even thinking about waiting until the income is higher in the future to think about a little more welfare to improve the infrastructure of the village.

The infrastructure construction in the village is linked to the happiness of the villagers. Only when the environment is better can they have a better mentality to fight.

During the period, Xiang Luo went to Jiupaozi Village once to take a look at the fish they raised.

At this time, they have already hatched a batch of small fish, each of which is still very transparent and small.I ate the brine shrimp hatched from the brine shrimp eggs sent by Xiang Luo as a ration, and they have grown quite well now.

Xiang Luo made an appointment with the village head in advance for [-] fish for the coming year.Of course, if the distressed fish is too small to sell and it is not worth selling in the coming year, you can wait for the year after next.

Uncle Li, the head of Jiupaozi Village, could only smile wryly.It's been tough for them to hold on until now.If it weren't for the fact that they had stockpiled some food in Shili Village's water trade with Xiang Luo's Shili Village, they might have started famine by now.

The famine is really starting now.

The official food is getting less and less, and the relief food distributed to those who are unable to help themselves is getting less and less.

If there is less food, there will be more hungry people.

As soon as the hungry people change their minds, there will be more and more people robbing and robbing businesses.

Throughout history, famine years are always the worst times for bandits.

For this reason, the government also consumed a lot of manpower and material resources.It's just that if the problem of food production is not solved, these can only be suppressed.

Those who know Dayu's water control know that the water flow is channeling, not blocking.Blindly blocked, most of them are just a waste of time.

But so far, although the laboratory has been cultivating food that can resist this super fungus, it has not yet appeared that can be put into production.

Moreover, it is a famine year again, and many wells are unable to pump water.Even if there are seeds planted in the ground, there is not enough water to irrigate the planting.

So now the newly grown food can only rely on sterile cultivation.

And the output of aseptic cultivation is extremely limited.If you want to satisfy everyone, unless everyone distributes two sets of sterile cultivation equipment.

But this obviously doesn't show up.

It's not that the government has never done the construction of a sterile plant, but the chance of failure is too great.A little negligence will cause thousands of plants in the entire sterile room to be scrapped.

Now the authorities have even sent out the biochemical laboratory to convert it into a sterile planting room. Although the situation is much better, the problem remains the same, the grain production is too low.

Eating a bite of leafy vegetables is now a luxury.Not to mention the staple food that satisfies everyone's life.

This is still known as the Northeast granary, and the food situation is quite superior.

In the relatively barren areas of the country, foods such as soybean meal and wheat bran have even been added to the relief food distributed to increase satiety.

The official also clearly told them that if you don't want to eat the ingredients in it, you can replace it with relatively finer multigrain biscuits.It's just that the multigrain biscuits are given less, and the persistence time is shorter.

We must know that the food crisis is a problem of the whole world.

The current domestic treatment is already quite good.

Regardless of what other people are doing, Xiang Luo's factory is progressing very fast.

Because there are many people employed, everyone knows that this is related to the future of the village, and they are very motivated.The foundation was laid in three days, and the construction began after four days of drying.In just seven days, the general appearance of a factory was erected.

The total area is more than 300 square meters, which is not very large, but after designing several assembly lines, tens of thousands of bacterial bags a day are not a problem.

After this is put into production, there will always be a second and a third in the village, knowing that the whole village can enter the factory and become a member of the workers.

Zhu Yan has only seen buildings built in cities.That is reinforced concrete.Because it is a highly mechanical modern construction, it is sure to be fast.

He had never seen such a building brick by brick at such a fast speed.

Come over and look at the walls made of red bricks, it is a completely different feeling in my heart,

Bricks can be burned by themselves, but ceramic tiles are weak by themselves. Although it is not impossible to apply glue, there will be a lot of formaldehyde in that case, and it will take a long time to let the air out.

In contrast, general tiles are more worry-free.

But if the material needed to cover the tiles is a large number, this must be solved by the official.

The price of this tile is certainly not cheap.Moreover, there are not many official tiles, and the specifications and patterns of the finally distributed tiles are different, and there are even some incomplete couplet tiles.

But as long as you don't delay using it.

The roof of the house is still in accordance with the old calendar of the village, using thick wood to carry the beams and build a triangular roof, but the tiles made of colored steel are used on the top, which are durable.But if the installation is not good, it may be blown away in windy days.

But after the roof was built, Xiang Luo was not in a hurry to install the tiles.Instead, carefully consider the issue of heating.

The walls were built thick enough, and a layer of insulation was made on the outside at a high price.Maybe the materials that can be purchased are not enough for heating.

The previous soil heating also required a lot of metal pipes.These are relatively scarce materials.

Xiang Luo and Zhu Yan studied the site for nearly two days, and finally decided to build two hollow platforms with a width of half a meter and a height of one meter on both sides of the house, which can be used for people to sit on.When the fire is on, it will be very hot and heat up the whole room.

In this case, it is only necessary to build a narrow fire room in the middle of the house.This room can be used for cooking.When the fire is burning, the smoke inside will go to both sides from the hollow platform.The temperature will heat the platform.Finally, it is discharged from the four chimneys on both sides of the factory.

In this way, the utilization rate of heat energy is relatively high, and it is also the best solution in the absence of heating.

Because the total area of ​​the factory building is only more than 300 square meters, and the length is not very large, even the end of the platform will heat up half an hour after the fire is fired, at most the temperature will not be too high.

After really waiting for the twelfth lunar month, Xiang Luo also prepared two iron buckets with lids.At that time, fill it with boiling water, and put two in the rooms on the east and west sides, and use it as a mobile heater or a large warm water bag. Although it is a bit troublesome, it is still a good way to keep warm.

If it was really extremely cold, Xiang Luo would even consider suspending work temporarily, or letting the employees eat and live here.

However, relatively speaking, the possibility of direct shutdown at that time is relatively high.After all, there was usually heavy snow at that time, and the officials couldn’t come down to collect the fungus bags. Too much production would only lead to a backlog of goods, which was not worth it.

By this time, it is actually close to October, and the temperature has already begun to cool down.

Half a month ago, the temperature was so hot that it was difficult to breathe while standing in the sun. Now the temperature has dropped to a comfortable [-] degrees, and it is dropping at a rate of several degrees every day.

Therefore, Xiang Luo's actions must be accelerated. If the construction cannot be completed before the temperature is below zero, the water vapor during construction will not be completely evaporated due to the cold, which may leave hidden dangers.

So after the kang-like platform was built, the tiles began to be laid in a hurry.Not only on the ground, but also on the walls.

The bricklayers in the village were discussing together which bricks would look good where.For such things that are good for the village, they seem to have endless energy.

Just when the whole village was concentrating on the newly built factory, a small truck came to the entrance of the village and attracted everyone's attention.

A shopkeeper is here.