food crisis [end times]

Zheng Xiaoer was originally the only child in the family, and she was thin and weak when she was young.The village is used to calling him Zheng Xiaoer, but no one remembers his last name after a long time.It's a cute name, but I'm almost forty now.

Seniority is hard to calculate, but neighbors' seniority counts, and Xiang Luo will call him Uncle Zheng when he meets each other.Xiang Luo didn't have a deep impression of him, he just remembered that he was an honest man.

After hearing what Xiang Yan said, Xiang Luo went to the door to talk about it in person.

Zheng Xiaoer is the only one in his family with an eight or nine-year-old child.No one else in the family survived the apocalypse.Also a poor man.But compared to the tragic situation where his neighbors left and right were all dead, their family is already considered pretty good.

Xiang Luo was pulled into the room by Zheng Xiaoer to sit, Xiang Luo glanced at the child sitting on the kang without making a sound, and said to Zheng Xiaoer:

"My second aunt should have told you about this. There are not many ducks now, and my own family can take care of them. But there will definitely be more and more ducks in the future. In the future, I will specially incubate a group of ducks, and they will be raised in less than two months. Kill to eat meat. The workload will definitely be heavy." Xiang Luo explained the situation.

Zheng Xiao'er also knew the importance of this matter to her, she only felt sweaty palms, grabbed her trouser legs, and said: "My family used to kill pigs and raise pigs, and the workload was not low. In my case, twenty or thirty pigs a day should be enough. No problem. Any more... I might have to hire someone to help."

"If you can do well, these are all your business. You just need to find someone who is safe. But don't think I'm harsh, some things still have to be said first. A duck comes to you, After you kill it, you take it apart and take it apart, and when you finish taking it apart, you have to put it back together again. When you take it apart, you can also divide it into duck frames, duck heads, duck necks, duck breasts, and duck legs. There are no shortages."

The corners of Zheng Xiaoer's lips twitched, a little confused: "Of course one or two is fine, but if there are more after one..."

Xiang Luodao: "If there are more in the future, I will open a small factory. There will be surveillance at that time, and there will be counts of how many ducks are removed. So don't worry about it. It's just for now. And my temporary consideration is to On Wednesday and Saturday, I will kill one duck for takeaway. So you just need to get up early and go to my house to kill it. There are too few now, and I can’t pay you. Let’s do it. Before the quantity is large, kill it I will give you all the ducks that are in the water, you can eat them yourself, or sell them for a profit.”

This is actually the rule of killing pigs in old age.In ancient times, people were not rich, and some places used water as wages to pay butchers.

Although these offals are dirty and smelly, they are rare and delicious after being processed, and they can be sold to make a little money.

But generally this kind of folks in the village are not good at asking for money.

If it was before, it would definitely not be worth it.How much is the water worth?But for now, that is free meat!Meat is much more valuable than those scattered multigrain biscuits.

What's more, he also has a thin young son who is growing up.

Zheng Xiaoer hurriedly said: "All right, all right! I'll go as soon as you agree."

"Let's start on the day my factory opens," Xiang Luo said. "On that day, we will kill four ducks for the employees to eat, and you will also have a good meal. After that, you can come to my house every Wednesday and Friday. .Do you have a watch at home? Just pay attention to the time."

Zheng Xiaoer hurriedly said: "My son has an alarm clock, but the battery is out. It's okay, I remember who still has it, and I will change it in a while."

Xiang Luo said: "I have the battery at home. If you have time in the afternoon, go to my place to install it. The time is right. Uncle Li's house opens at eight o'clock every morning. You should be able to come to my house at six o'clock when you are busy. You don't need it if you have a lot of things in the future. I'm afraid, come here at this point, at worst, if you kill on one side, there will be no delay on selling it on the other side."

At that time, the price of meat will slowly come down, and the villagers' savings will increase.Meat should have become a common ingredient for the villagers.

Stewed duck with mushrooms, or stewed duck with fungus, such dishes will always become common and good side dishes on the villagers' table in the future.

After agreeing with Zheng Xiaoer, Xiang Luo returned home.

Last time, Xiang Luo agreed with the officials to buy a large incubator.The set of incubators at home can only hatch [-] duck eggs at most at a time, unless some female ducks join in to hatch eggs together.But this will undoubtedly reduce egg production.

So it is imperative to have a better egg incubator.

The next time the official comes back, it should be able to send it back.

After all, there used to be a lot of poultry farms in the local area, so naturally there would be no shortage of incubators.After the end of the world, there is only one duck in Xiang Luo's family. Even the ten ducks raised by the government are still gifts from Xiang Luo.

However, in the same batch of ducks, Xiang Luo's ducks have already laid eggs, and the official side should have started breeding the second generation.

A few days later, Li Yueyue gave the list to Xiang Luo again.

This time I have more experience than last time. This time not only the name, but also the home address, personal resume and family situation are almost the same.

Xiang Luo looked down from the beginning to the end, looked at the list and then looked at Li Yueyue, his eyes swiveled a few times between the two: "You..."

"Can't you?" Li Yueyue raised her eyebrows, smiling quite confidently.She is quite competent in the personnel department.

"Okay," Xiang Luo joked after finishing speaking, "It's a pity that you are not a matchmaker with this talent."

As soon as the words fell, Li Yueyue got a pair of dead fish eyes in exchange.

"What? You still think I've given you too comprehensively?"

Xiang Luo smiled and said, "Good job, keep it up."

"It's about the same." Li Yueyue sat back on the sofa and said, "If there is nothing wrong with it, I'll go door to door to find it."

"There's nothing wrong with it. You can go find it. I'll take it to you in two days and I'll have a look. As long as there's no problem, you can work in the factory next Monday."

Li Yueyue sighed heavily: "In this way, forty people make fungus bags together, and it's a hard job for me to check every week, ehhhhhh."

Facing such a big monster, Xiang Luo wanted to roll his eyes.

"If you are too busy, you can consider hiring two people to help, as long as you think it is reliable." Regarding this aspect, Xiang Luo is quite generous in delegating power.

Li Yueyue sneered: "If something goes wrong with the hired person, wouldn't it be all my fault?"

"It's good for you to understand. Everything has advantages and disadvantages. If you want to relax, you must bear the corresponding risks."

Decentralization is not a kind of transfer of responsibility.If Li Yueyue wanted this convenience, she needed to be prepared for it.

After two days, more than 40 people entered the yard and it was almost full. There were men and women, ranging in age from fifteen to early thirty.But the bottom is clean.Li Yueyue eliminated all those that were out of line or unreliable.

In fact, it is not difficult to find a clean foundation before the end of the world, but after the end of the world, individuals will have more or less selfish intentions, and there will definitely be various troubles. Under such circumstances, it will not be easy to guarantee that there are no major mistakes.It was also thanks to Li Yueyue that she was able to filter and find them one by one.

Xiang Luo almost repeated what he said to those eight people last time.

The salary is definitely not a high salary, and it may not be as good as my own income at home.Good benefits and stable salary.In this world, that is a rare iron rice bowl.

What's more, you can also eat duck eggs and duck meat.

After they had their own factory, they entered the factory, and Xiang Yan and his party naturally also settled in the factory.

There were forty people here, so Xiang Luo separated the eight people who were originally brought by Xiang Yan's mother and daughter, and each took four newcomers.Familiarize yourself with the work a few days ago before starting large-scale production.

If there are more people in charge, there will naturally be more things.Xiang Yan and Zhou Tingting stopped working for the time being. One was the manager and the other was the deputy manager. They still led the eight foremen.If the eight foremen don't understand anything, they can ask Xiang Yan and the other two for advice.

After this appreciation, the salary will naturally need to be raised. The eight foremen are the same as Xiang Yan's mother and daughter. Xiang Yan's mother and daughter will increase their salary by one-third on the original basis.

Seeing that the factory is getting bigger and bigger, the salary expenditure is another big consumption.

Fortunately, Xiang Luo is not short of this now.

People who are promoted are naturally happy, and newcomers are also full of apprehension.

Xiang Yan has completely walked out of the haze of the previous period, and now she has been promoted in her career. Naturally, she is refreshed on happy occasions.

Then the next day, the officials went to the countryside and sent incubators.The power of this incubator is naturally different from the previous small incubator, but it is also relatively smarter, and it can control the situation of the eggs better.

The official also sent a solar generator very intimately.Although such a set of solar generators is not enough for such an incubator to operate, it is no problem at all to cooperate with Xiang Luo's family's wind power generation.

After placing the incubator, it is no problem to apply the temperature, and settled the account with the official.In the days to come, I will start saving eggs.Duck eggs that are not saved enough to be placed in a layer of incubators are directly hatched, and they are saved layer by layer from top to bottom.The current number of duck eggs naturally cannot hatch thousands of eggs at the same time.It is not difficult to achieve such a scale.

It's almost Xiang Luo's next "small goal".

And on the second day after the incubator was installed, the sky that had been clear for most of the day was finally filled with a thick layer of dark clouds.

Xiang Luo stood in the yard, looking at the dark clouds outside, he could hear the cheers from far away in the village.

It was the first time they had seen dark clouds since the ice melted.

The clouds in the north are very low, especially the dark clouds, which seem to be just above the head, and they block out the sky like that.

Depressed and deep.

But in this world, there is nothing more hopeful than this.

Those dark clouds are so beautiful.

Looking at it, Xiang Luo couldn't help but took out his mobile phone to take a few photos to commemorate.

In the second year of the apocalypse, when winter was about to enter in late autumn, the first dark cloud was encountered.

Just wondering if these dark clouds will bring the first rain of the year.

Regardless of whether it is possible or not, the villagers can't wait to take all the water in the house outside.Some people even exaggerated to the point of paving a small half of the yard.There are all kinds of pots and pans on the open space of the road.

No wonder they are like this, the water shortage this year is really hard.

If I use such a little every day, I can only bear it when my body is dirty and smelly.Life is not even as good as a fungus bag, so I don't have to worry about water.

This is the dark cloud hanging in the sky, looking terrifying, but it hasn't settled down yet.Thinking of this time last year, there was a flood here, and I was afraid to see dark clouds.But now everyone is staring at the few dark clouds above, and can only complain why it hasn't rained yet.

The dark clouds remained motionless from morning till noon.It only moved with the wind in the air, and what it got in return was a dissatisfied voice on the ground.

Some pious people simply knelt on the ground and begged God to take pity on the people on the earth and reward some nectar, while some people vented their dissatisfaction on the people around them.

In some families, husband and wife quarrel, and in some families children are beaten.Anyway, compared to the laughter in the morning, the longer the time, the more irritable everyone became.

It wasn't until one o'clock in the afternoon that the sky finally exploded with the first thunder of the year.

Lightning split a winding tree branch in the dark clouds, and soon, the sound of the hasty rainstorm came from a distance.

People can clearly see that there is a heavy rain coming slowly on the other side of the mountain.You can even see the dust and smoke that was splashed by the water when the hills covered by yellow sand were baptized by the torrential rain.

Xiang Luo saw the rain coming, so he didn't go out to join in the fun.

As long as it rains, when the rainwater seeps into the ground, the groundwater level will rise, and there will be well water.You won't have to worry about using it then, and there's no need to worry about it now.

Just open the window and listen to the sound.I haven't heard the sound of rain for more than a year, Xiang Luo also misses it.

But when the rainstorm gradually came from far to near, other sounds were mixed into the noisy rain.

Zhu Yan lay on the window with his butt pouted and looked out of the window. Xiang Luo couldn't take his eyes off his round buttocks, but Zhu Yan yelled: "Look!"

Xiang Luo quickly stood up and looked at Zhu Yan's eyes.

Neither of them spoke.

On the bare ground outside, even the furrows were not very obvious.But yesterday's black and yellow ground was covered with a layer of business hockey pucks the size of a thumb.

As the gust of wind blew past, the sweeping ice puck hit the window with a bang, and several ice pucks hit the window sill along the window.

Xiang Luo quickly closed the window, and after a long while, he said a word to comfort himself and Xiang Luo: "Such a big hailstone is fine."

What year does not have one or two hailstorms?

It's just that this is the first rain this year.

Xiang Luo didn't do anything at home, all he had to do was close the door and wait for the hailstorm outside to stop.

But some people in the village took out all the containers at home in order to catch the rainwater.It’s fine if it’s made of metal, and some are big porcelain bowls or plastic buckets, which can’t withstand the brilliance of hailstones.

What's worse is that some people only wear underwear and want to take advantage of this heavy rain to take the first shower of the year.

Some people hid in time and ran back to the house without being hit a few times, and some were hit by a lot of hailstones, and their bodies were covered in bruises.

The worst thing was that the people who tried to go into the yard to retrieve those fragile containers were almost all smashed badly, and some even saw blood.

But the hailstones in the sky were getting bigger and bigger, and even if they went out with an umbrella, they would soon be smashed to the ground.

The people who took out the things to catch the water heard the sound of things being smashed outside, and endless despair rose from the bottom of their hearts again.

This last bit of hope was also dashed.

This hailstorm lasted for two hours at once.

For a whole hour, the whole village was tortured by the noise and became extremely irritable.

It was only when the outside noise finally subsided that people realized that the hailstones outside had already accumulated at the window.

The rising water level due to the hail has gathered, and some houses with low foundations have begun to see water creeping down to the houses.

The foundation of Xiang Luo's house is fairly high, but when the door was opened, some hail poured into the house.

As soon as the door was opened, the eyes were already dizzy.

Before the sun came out, these reflective crystal ice cubes were already very uncomfortable for the eyes.

The small hailstones are not as big as a fingernail, but the big ones are thicker than a fist.Even the glass of Xiang Luo's house was smashed with cracks, and the roofs of the houses that could be seen were smashed into potholes.

This is still the color steel roof.Those who built their houses with bricks and tiles did not know what to expect.

Xiang Luo's house is fine, even if the windows are smashed with cracks, his house has two windows.If it is cold in winter, cover the outer window with a layer of protective film, and the heat in the room can be protected quite well.

But others in the village were not so lucky.

The decoration of Xiang Luo's house is almost all of the best quality, and the windows are also the best.But those whose families are not satisfactory are naturally not so lucky.Some windows were completely smashed, and the family could only hide on the kang.Looking desperately at the hailstones smashing in through the hole.

Even worse are those 30-year-old houses that collapsed directly under such a powerful hailstorm.

After the hailstorm, the dark clouds in the sky faded away.After confirming that the hailstorm had stopped, the People's Liberation Army immediately checked the village.

How can it be so easy to get past waist-deep hail?Even if they are willing to endure the cold and go out through the hail mixed with ice water, the speed is still quite slow.

In the end, it was not a solution. The soldiers all went up the walls around the village and walked to every corner. When they found something wrong with their naked eyes, they immediately called a few people to go there for rescue.

The severity of the hailstorm this time was far beyond Xiang Luo's imagination, and the bowl-sized hailstones were enough to deal a devastating blow to everyone.

Xiang Luo stayed at home and didn't go out until night, when the hail melted down to his knees, and the tired soldiers came to ask Xiang Luo if there were any high boots at home.If there is, I hope to be able to participate in the rescue.

It was only then that Xiang Luo realized how bad the current situation was.

"I have two sets of one-piece boots at home, how about this, you give me your boots, and I will give you these two sets of one-piece boots."

The most frightening thing at this time is that when the body is wet, a large amount of body heat will be lost.The most important thing is to ensure that the body is dry first.One-piece boots can protect the upper body, greatly reducing the possibility of getting wet.

Such equipment is already extremely luxurious for now.

"Okay, okay! This is the best."

Xiang Luo turned his head and turned the two sets of one-piece boots out, and put cotton trousers and cotton socks on his legs. Fortunately, Brother Bing was about the same height as him. Although it was difficult for his boots to be stuffed in thick cotton socks, it was not unbearable. .Zhu Yan also asked Xiang Luo to put a layer of leather pants on his coat.This thing is reflective and dazzling indoors. Although it is ugly, it has a waterproof effect.

Xiang Luo also put it on, and then went out with Brother Bing fully armed to see the disaster situation.