food crisis [end times]

The place Xiang Luo went to first was a family that was relatively close to his own house, and it was also a low-lying family.Because the terrain is low, the water itself is easy to gather.And those hailstones at high places actually gathered in the direction below while rolling.

In the worst case, the entire courtyard was mostly buried by hailstones, and even spread to the eaves.

The People's Liberation Army has already gone down and tried to open the doors and windows to get people out first.Then find a way to clear the hail in the yard, at least let the hail in the yard fall down first.

The only thing Xiang Luo could do to help was to lend a helping hand, carrying the family's children on their backs and sending them to the village committee first.

Then came another family whose house was smashed down.

There are quite a few old houses in the village, and such houses are repaired almost every year, but they have not been able to rebuild them because of their lack of money.

But what I never expected was that the previous earthquakes failed to collapse the decades-old house, but it was destroyed by a doomsday hailstorm.

Among the family of three inside, the man was dead, and there was a woman and a little girl.The little girl was dying due to the severe hypothermia, and the woman was very weak, but she still just hugged the little girl.

Before the hailstorm, everyone was happily waiting for the rain to fall, and they were still imagining what would happen in the days when there was no shortage of water.

But before I could think about it, the house was already destroyed.

Xiang Luo joined the rescue as a volunteer with the People's Liberation Army until late at night.

Because of the hail, the temperature dropped directly from a few degrees above zero to below zero.In addition, there is no light source for heating in the middle of the night, and it is already so cold that people shiver at all.

The village is actually lucky, because there are troops stationed there, and the soldiers rescued them immediately, greatly recovering the losses.

But what would happen to other poor villages without an army... No one dared to think about it.

In the middle of the night, the hail on the ground still reached the calf.The cold seemed to come from deep winter.Perhaps more unbearable than deep winter.

Basically all the people who could be saved were saved.Those who died were also registered.It's just that people who are still seriously injured can survive.

Casualties from the hailstorm are still unknown.

Xiang Luo dragged his tired body back home and found that the house was brightly lit, and felt a wave of heat as soon as he entered the house.

The stove was burning in the room, and it was warm.

There was a smell of ginger soup in the air.The chill in Xiang Luo's bones dissipated a bit.

Hearing the voice, Zhu Yan and An Wei came over.

There are only two sets of one-piece boots in the house, and Xiang Luo's pair of boots was exchanged with the soldiers.The two of them don't have any equipment, so naturally they can't make trouble.But they are also waiting for Xiang Luo at home until now.

Xiang Luo didn't enter the house either, so he took off all his clothes in the outer room.After taking off half of the water from the boots, he had to open the door and push them out. The cotton trousers he was wearing were soaked in water and were freezing cold.

Zhu Yan touched Xiang Luo's leg, it was very cold.

"You go take a hot bath first." At least wash away the coldness on your body first, don't catch a cold.

Now there is no need to think about saving water. There is hail all over the place outside, and you can just scoop up two buckets and boil it.

Xiang Luo took a hot shower and then got into bed.Xiang Luo pulled out the last big quilt and covered him.He was given another cup of ginger tea.

Holding ginger tea in his hand, Xiang Luo regained his composure.

Only then did Zhu Yan ask: "What's the matter?"

Xiang Luo sighed: "It was much worse than I thought. Seven or eight people died, and some people seemed to be unable to hold on. Some houses collapsed. Some even ran outside under the hailstorm, and were smashed into pieces. He was seriously injured. The biggest of those buns was bigger than a bowl. He died when he hit his head."

"All the houses have collapsed?" Anwei couldn't believe it.

Xiang Luo nodded: "If it wasn't for demolishing all the dilapidated buildings when building the fence, I'm afraid there will be more collapses."

The danger caused by the earthquake before, and the lesson of freezing to death.So if the condition of the house is too bad, the people from the village committee will contact the owner to help change the house.Anyway, there are so many empty houses in the village.Some people don't want to, and think that the vacant house is a haunted house, so it can only be that they have been busy with scaring and persuasion for a while.

Later, when the fence was built, these dilapidated houses were also demolished for the construction of the village.

Now it seems that there is no higher vision than this.It directly and greatly reduced the losses in the village.

Zhu Yan asked, "What about the window?"

That's what makes it even more of a headache.

"The windows of almost every household are broken. It's just that some people have cracks, and some people have leaks and air leakage. It's easy to be fooled in summer. It's hard to say when it's winter." serious problem.

Zhu Yan asked: "How many holes are there?"

Xiang Luo shook his head: "I don't know, but there are definitely quite a few. I saw no less than fifty of them. Some would be fine if only one room's glass was broken. Some of the old-fashioned glass still in use, all The windows are broken."

Anwei frowned and said nothing.

Xiang Luo said: "For such a serious hail disaster, the authorities will think of some solutions. We... can do too little after all."

It's not that Xiang Luo never thought of helping, but there's nothing to help in such a disaster.

"There must be a way. Even if it is to take these people to the city." Xiang Luo's eyes dimmed, "If this year is like last year, people living in such windows will not be able to survive."

This is all they can think of.

Xiang Luo took a sip of ginger tea, shivered, and said to Zhu Yan, "It's still cold."

Zhu Yan touched his forehead, but he didn't have a fever.

"It will be warm in a while, or should I get you a hot water bottle?"

Xiang Luo knew: "Just get me you, I just need a bed warmer."

Zhu Yan glanced at him.Anwei went out knowingly and closed the door behind him.

Zhu Yan rubbed his fist: "What do you lack?"

Xiang Luo put the tea aside, opened the bed and pulled Zhu Yan into the bed.

"I'm dying of cold, feel it." Xiang Luo stretched out his arm to Zhu Yan, Zhu Yan touched it and found that it was really cold.

Xiang Luo wrapped him up with a stick, and rubbed against Zhu Yan's ear: "You'll get hot if you hug more."

Zhu Yan suspects that Xiang Luo is driving, and he has evidence.

Because somewhere in Xiang Luo is really hot.

Under this catastrophe, the two comforted each other and asked for it, no matter what worries about tomorrow.

The next day, after a whole night, there were still some unmelted hailstones on the ground.

Some hailstones have been connected together on the ground, and after the sun came out, it reflected the icy ice.

As soon as Xiang Luo went out, his eyes almost went blind.

Zhu Yan took out his own sunglasses and gave them to Xiang Luo. Xiang Luo's eyes couldn't see clearly in the room, and it took him a while to get used to it.

Go out and see the ducks first.The garage is closed, even if the water floods Jinshan, it will not be flooded, but there is no time to feed in the afternoon. At this time, the ducks are about to have breakfast, and when they see Xiang Luo, they pull their necks and call.

Xiang Luo fed the ducks, and even gave them a little more. Seeing how they devoured them, he felt a little better.

Then he turned his attention to those ducks that were picked out individually and prepared to buy meat.

Duck:……

After Xiang Luo had eaten, he took the three ducks to the village committee.

The village council is full of wounded and homeless people.A layer of quilts was spread on the ground, and even the office of the village chief was moved to the wounded.

Xiang Luolin, the duck, came over, and the cries of ducks from far away came through.

Ducks are different from chickens and geese. When they pull their necks and call, their voices can travel far and far.

Xiang Luo walked in and saw some soldiers sitting and resting at the door, so he handed the duck over.

"This is..." The little soldier didn't respond.

"Donate it. Kill it and eat it. It's not much. But it's definitely enough for one person here."

The little soldier shook his head again and again: "We have canned food here."

"Canned food is not comparable to fresh meat. These were originally intended to be sold. It may take a long time for the villagers to recover from the hailstorm. It is a waste of food for me to keep it for a long time. Kill it, and you can try it too." .”

After Xiang Luo finished speaking, he went in and looked around.There are also people he rescued last night.

Xiang Luo went to the soldier who knew a little about medical knowledge and asked, "How's it going?"

The soldier's eyes were red and he said: "The two of you left last night. It should be hypothermia."

Not many people were killed.Most of them are due to the rapid drop in body temperature after being submerged by hail and not leaving the environment in time.

It's pretty deadly.

Xiang Luo stayed silent for a while and then left.Before leaving, I saw someone killing a duck outside, so I felt relieved.

Then Xiang Luo went to Xiang Yan's house to have a look.

The glass of Xiang Yan's house was also cracked, but fortunately, it was double-layered glass, and the inner glass didn't seem to be a big problem.Xiang Yan has already covered the split part with tape.It's just that the broken glass is still very uncomfortable to look at.

"Brother!" Zhou Tingting yelled when she saw Xiang Luo.

Xiang Luo responded and entered the room: "Is our house okay?"

"It's fine, it's just a little cold." Zhou Tingting even put on a down jacket, put a cushion on the kang and asked Xiang Luo to sit on it, saving her butt from the cold kang.

Xiang Luo also felt that it was colder inside the room than outside.

"Why didn't you light the fire?" Xiang Luo asked.

"How can there be firewood?" Zhou Tingting said helplessly: "The firewood outside is soaked in water. There is not much in the house, so I can only save it for burning. The coal is also wet and can't be lit at all." I can only hope that the next few days The sun is better today.Otherwise, there will be almost no firewood for cooking at home.

Although the multigrain biscuits obtained from the official side are all well-cooked and can be eaten dry, they can't compare to eating warm ones.

Xiang Luo said: "If you run out of firewood, you can go to my house to eat first. My coal is in the next room, most of it is dry, and it is already on fire now. Or I can bring you some."

Xiang Yan had just returned from work in the backyard when she heard this: "That doesn't need to be so troublesome. My house is full of coal, and it will dry up after a day or two. The firewood is a problem, and all the households are equally wet. It all depends on whether God can give me a good day. Fortunately, the quilt at home is quite hot, and I can last for a day or two."

"Is there alcohol at home?" Xiang Luo asked.

"There are still two pots, I exchanged them with the People's Liberation Army before."

Xiang Luo reminded Xiang Yan to prepare more alcohol, so Xiang Yan kept some on purpose.

"Then I have an alcohol pot. The pot is not big, but it's no problem to eat something warm, or to heat up hot water for drinking or filling a hot water bottle." Xiang Luo said.

"That's much better than carrying coal!" Xiang Yan said happily.

After making sure that Xiang Yan's family was fine, Xiang Luo walked back.

This hailstorm made the village, which had been thriving, suddenly lose a lot of enthusiasm.

Seriously, it might as well continue to dry out.Water at least has a solution when there is a drought.There is no water in the village to go outside the village.If there is no water in the county, go to the city, there is always another way.

But when such a hailstorm came down, it would be full of hatred.

And even if it is known in advance, it is difficult to do anything to prevent it.

There is no way to make windows resistant to hailstones.There is no way to make the hailstones smaller or less.

Xiang Luo went to Li Baoguo, which was diagonally opposite.Li Baoguo is fine.Because the family is doing business, Li Baoguo people are kind, and he doesn't want guests to come and feel cold.So when the weather is cold, the fire is started.A few days ago, I just added a batch of coal to my home, enough to burn for several days.Just the same no firewood.It's a bit of a hassle to start the fire.But if this fire burns all day and all night, I feel a little bit reluctant.

Burning coal is a luxury in this world.If you burn one piece and lose one piece, you can only buy it.But now we know that nearby coal-producing places have been shut down, and we have not heard of resumption of production until now.And even if production resumes, it will definitely be given priority to some important industries of the government.There are still many, many foundations for the official to restore.There are very few that can be allocated.

Xiang Luo sent some wax blocks.These wax blocks can be cut into several pieces and placed a little at a time over the coals.After the wax block burns and immerses in the coal and ignites the coal, it is easy to ignite.

After coming out from Li Baoguo, Xiang Luo returned home.The sun has risen so high, and as the temperature warms up, the slippery layer of hail and ice on the surface gradually melts away, and it creaks under the feet, which sounds quite relaxing.

That's it for the situation in the village, at least for now it doesn't look any worse.

Xiang Luo asked An Wei: "Have you checked the situation on the Internet? Is this situation only in our place?"

An Wei said: "For the time being, only five people have been contacted, one of them is from Maozi, and there is hail on their side, and the others are from Eastern Europe. It didn't happen, but it was said that it was raining very often, every It will flood once in a while."

This is strange.Residents of the same continent, this one has been in a drought for a whole year, and it is a severe drought.There was heavy rain on their side.Could it be that the water evaporated from here has gone there?

This kind of thing is incomprehensible.

Xiang Luo thought for a while and said, "Then you should pay more attention to what kind of natural disasters will happen in other places recently. If there are serious disasters, you must tell me."

Although Anwei didn't know why he wanted to know this, he didn't refuse, and nodded in response.

Subsequent post-disaster reconstruction, in fact, there is nothing to build.

The house has collapsed, and it is almost winter now, and it is impossible to build a house.They can only stay with relatives.The widow, mother and daughter went to the county with the army earlier, and took food and so on.But the house was not bad, and it was empty.

Then there is Liu Shirong's house next door to Xiang Luo's house.Their family died one by one, and no one dared to step in since the body was discovered.It's just that the house was new five or six years ago, and it was fine after the hailstorm.

But in this world now, there are so many dead people, no matter how much you dislike it, it is better than crowding with other people on the floor.After discussing with the village committee, two families with few people were arranged here.They are each other's companions, and there is no need to be afraid to cheer each other up.

There is also a family surnamed Zhao on the left side of Xiang Luo's front yard. They live alone, and their house is not small.

People from the village committee contacted him to ask if he would like it, and he nodded.

Just like this, the homeless people were solved by patchwork, and the corpses had no firewood to burn.People are more afraid of corpses when they leave.After discussing with the People's Liberation Army, they took it up the mountain and dug a deep pit to bury it, and put a few more stones moved from nearby on it.

Even if the corpse has changed, it is impossible to crawl out of the soil with such great strength.

It was a sunny day for the next few days, but this haze has been surrounding the village.

Walking in the village, the laughter of the past is less.

On the third day of the hailstorm, the army's rescue team came down.In fact, it wasn't that their response was slow, but that they knew very well that there were troops stationed there, and they also got in touch immediately, knowing that the rescue operation here was timely, so there was no need to worry.Therefore, this is the opportunity to send relief supplies after waiting for the emergency and disaster relief in the county to be almost completed.

Knowing that the army was coming, the whole village became restless.They all gathered at the entrance of the village, looking at what the higher-ups had sent.

In fact, what they eat and drink is not important, and they are not lacking.What is missing is a solution to the windows problem!

Those homeless people have been solved by the village committee.However, if the windows were smashed out and the house was leaking, the village committee could do nothing.You must know that the house of the village committee is also riddled with holes, and there is no way to repair it.

The People's Liberation Army brought a stereo, and an officer stepped on a stool and looked at the thousands of villagers surrounded by him.

To be honest, apart from the city, only this village can see such a huge population gathered.

That's right, these people can already be described as huge.

At least for now.

Although there were casualties in this village, compared with other villages, it is undoubtedly too lucky.

"I know that what everyone is most concerned about at the moment is the issue of windows and firewood. We have increased the mining of coal mines, and we will gradually send enough coal to all parties in the future. As for the issue of windows, there are still too few resources in this area. Can’t reach the ability to change windows.”

There was a sound of disappointment at the scene.

The People's Liberation Army hastily raised its voice and said: "But it's not that there is no solution. It was decided after an overnight meeting at the top. The windows cannot be replaced, but it does not mean that they cannot be covered. We have already transferred military winter tents. Now we have pulled them over. We will These tents are all cut open, everyone goes home and calculates the size of their own broken windows, we will cut out the corresponding size on the spot, let everyone nail the outside of the window, and then cover the outside of the window with a layer of plastic film. It is better to keep warm than the original windows when it is dark. If the windows are cracked but not broken, you can also get plastic film to seal the windows, and strive to have a good winter this year!"

As soon as the voice fell, there was already a burst of applause and cheers from the audience.

These are all big things!