food crisis [end times]

The sky has been sunny for more than half a month.The officials got off the bus and cleared the roads in every village and even every city.

Production has resumed in some areas, and the things produced need to be circulated, so they must not only flow in a specific place, which will not bring much benefit.The best way is naturally to exchange resources with each other and enrich the commodities in their respective markets.

So as soon as the bad weather passed, the road was cleared.Because trucks have been prepared, not only the road is spacious, but also a vacant space will be dug out every other section of the road for two trucks to meet, or for two opposite cars to meet and there will be a place to stagger each other.

The snow walls on both sides of the road were originally two meters high, and because of the snow poured on both sides when digging, the snow on both sides of the road was piled up to three meters high.The light on the road was very poor, and in the morning and evening, it was even darker and I couldn't see things clearly.

It was also at this time that the shopkeeper who hadn't come for a long time after winter came again.

This time they brought three big carts, among which there was actually a lot of cotton.

At the beginning, Zhu Yan analyzed that these peddlers were related to the robbers, but that was guesswork without substantive evidence. Although the village committee and the People's Liberation Army agreed with Zhu Yan's point of view, they did not spread the matter.

Besides, their prices are really affordable.Anyway, the law of patrolling has now become random, and even the people in the village can't control it.The safety factor is higher.As long as people are reminded not to talk too much when they go out, it is not bad to let the villagers take advantage of it.

What's more, Xiang Luo was waiting for them to come.

This time, Xiang Luo prepared a slaughtered duck for the first time. The feathers of the duck were cleaned, and the internal organs and intestines were washed clean.

Someone saw it when I came to line up, and someone immediately asked: "Where is so much meat? Or buy snacks?"

Xiang Luo said with a smile: "It's been a long time, and if you're greedy, come here and buy more at once."

"It must be that your family has the conditions. But your shot is a duck. If I want to eat a piece of duck meat, I have to grab it from others."

Xiang Luo said: "That's not a big deal. The duck meat will be doubled tomorrow. Two ducks will be sold on Wednesday and Sunday. It won't be so hard to grab."

People around hurriedly checked with Xiang Luo to see if he was joking.Xiang Luo nodded in confirmation, and the smiles of the people around him increased a little.

"This shows that there are too many ducks." Someone laughed.

"It's quite a lot. If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't fit in the house, I wouldn't be in a hurry to sell it. It's not easy these days. Now that the duck is a big one, I'm thinking about slaughtering it. But I also save more. Try to wait until the Chinese New Year. Release more at a time, and try to make meat available to every household that wants to eat meat." Xiang Luo expressed his own considerations.

This also explains why Xiang Luo has more and more ducks, but there is still only a little duck meat sold.Some young people who know a little even wonder if Xiang Luo is engaging in hunger marketing.

Xiang Luo came early today.The main reason is that the village heard about this and directly called Xiang Luo through the satellite phone.

So soon Xiang Luo arrived.

Xiang Luo arrived in front of the car and shook the duck meat in his hand: "Last time you said you wanted to eat duck, I think you will be ready to eat it as soon as it freezes. It turned out that you didn't come here until it was frozen for a month. This meat is delicious." It's past the freshest time. You shouldn't be short of this piece of meat."

The salesman looked at Xiang Luo carefully, as if analyzing the authenticity of what Xiang Luo said.After taking the duck meat and looking it over carefully, he said with a smile: "We used to have it, but now we have run out of it. The main reason is that there are too many people to raise, otherwise my family will not worry about selling these things. How can we sell them from village to village?" Goods, isn’t this anxious to see food? Only our village is generous, and other villages have to wait a long time to buy three melons and two dates, and earn that little food without even gas money.”

Xiang Luo nodded: "It's no wonder you don't want to go to that other village."

The salesman turned his eyes and looked at Xiang Luo seriously: "How can you say that?"

But Xiang Luo said with a smile: "I went to my uncle's village some time ago, and he said that he had never been to a shopkeeper in the village. Their village is not far away, just over there. I think his family lives too far away from the entrance of the village. Never heard of it."

The corner of the shopkeeper's lips moved, and he said with a dry smile, "It should be."

Xiang Luo continued, seemingly unintentionally: "There is another village in the south, and the village chief has never seen you. Or did you go there once and never went there again?"

The shopkeeper was afraid that Xiang Luo would be suspicious, so he hurriedly said, "I went there before. But since they didn't buy it, I knew there was no food. So the two trips were mainly delivered here. We have money, so we can talk."

In fact, the salesman deliberately mentioned that the people in this village are better than those in other villages, which is somehow close to the meaning.But Xiang Luo hit the snake with a stick, and even started to expose the shopkeeper.

There was cold sweat on the shopkeeper's forehead, but his eyes were fixed on Xiang Luo's mouth, for fear that he would say anything else.

Xiang Luo nodded and said: "That's for sure, our village has plenty of food. It must be more greedy and enjoy it. Then you pretend to be me."

The shopkeeper found a big bag and packed it for Xiang Luo himself.It seemed that he was afraid that Xiang Luo would be dissatisfied, so when he picked things, he always picked the big ones.What Xiang Luo brought was a frozen duck.Although it is also very precious, it is not that it cannot be bought now, at most the price is high.But it is definitely not as valuable as the big bag he packed.

Satisfied, Xiang Luo went to other cars to have a look. He also picked out two sets of cosmetics and held them in his hands. When the shopkeeper picked out snacks and gave them to Xiang Luo, Xiang Luo deliberately asked him: "How much is this?"

The shopkeeper was in the mood to grit his teeth, looked at Xiang Luo, waved his hand and said, "It's not worth anything, you can take it away."

It is worthless?Before the end of the world, these were branded products that were advertised, but now they are no longer produced, and women only use the old stocks, and use a little less.

There is no shortage of beauty-loving women in any world. As long as the family has the conditions, they will definitely buy as much as possible for themselves.Such a complete set of brand skin care products is even more in short supply and must be valuable.

Seeing that they wouldn't say anything even if this was taken away, Xiang Luo understood that what he asked just now had stimulated the nerves of the shopkeeper.

Xiang Luo was about to leave, but the shopkeeper suddenly asked, "I heard you say, you seem to go out often?"

Xiang Luo said modestly: "Not often, just occasionally."

The aunt next to me said: "Except for the People's Liberation Army in the whole village, you can go out casually. It's not convenient to go out in heavy snow now. Didn't you often go out when the weather was good?"

It was the aunt who talked fast last time who spoke.

The salesman didn't give Xiang Luo time to react, so he hurriedly asked, "Does Xiang Luo go out often?"

The aunt nodded: "Isn't it? I heard that it will be released soon..."

Xiang Luo coughed, and the aunt closed her mouth.

After Xiang Luo finished carrying his things, he smiled at the shopkeeper, "Then I'll go back."

As soon as Xiang Luo left, the shopkeeper immediately took two bags of fruit candies and stuffed them to the aunt.The aunt looked around, and hurriedly grabbed the basket she brought and put it at the bottom, for fear of being seen.

The shopkeeper lowered his voice and asked, "You said he's going out soon?"

The aunt looked around and made sure that other people were busy picking goods in other cars, then she lowered her voice and said, "I also heard from them. His family has too many ducks for the elderly, and they can hardly keep them. Sell them in the village, buy them." There are not many people. You think who is willing to buy it in this cold weather? If you buy it back and freeze to death, you will lose [-] catties of food! So I heard that he wanted to send a carload of ducks to his relatives in other villages. What happened in the past two days. Tell me, if our family wants to eat a duck egg, we can’t get it without a fight, and they pull it for relatives. Hey, who made our family not so capable What about your relatives?"

Seeing the aunt's sour speech, the shopkeeper smiled and said, "Maybe they bought it with food?"

The aunt sneered: "They do have that money. Since the beginning of the fungus packs, the village has not yet raised them, and people have already sent them to the other side by car. This time is the same. I also heard people say that sending It’s not necessarily all ducks wrapped in mushrooms, they may be other valuable things. It’s said that the nephew is close to the uncle. The old Xiang’s boy doesn’t marry a wife, he said he has some kind of disease, and he fell out with the third uncle again. It is impossible to support the nephew of the third uncle's family, and soon there will be a son left in the uncle's family? Some people say that he just sent more things, and let the younger brother of the uncle's family carry on the family line in the future, or take him from the younger brother's family. Bring a child to support. Otherwise, it’s impossible to deliver things in such a car, and the things in their house are not blown by the strong wind.”

The aunt's exaggeration in such a cadence, the shopkeeper has already believed it.

"That's it..." The shopkeeper narrowed his eyes and looked at the entrance of the village again, lowering his voice, "May I ask when was the last time he went out?"

The aunt shook her head: "Where do I remember that? It seems to be before the snow, they often go out, and they can't be idle. Only his family can come and go freely in the village. I want to go back to my natal family to see where my natal relatives lived." How about it, are you still here, and the soldiers at the entrance of the village will not let you go. Do you think it is because they are gone, that I am afraid that I will not be able to bear it in the past, so you will not let me go..."

The aunt opened the chatter box, and the shopkeeper hurriedly picked up a bag of food and handed it over: "Every village is not allowed to go out, do you have anything else you want? If you want, I will give you a discount."

And because he knew he was dead, he didn't let him out, isn't that nonsense?The soldiers of the People's Liberation Army stationed didn't even know the situation in their own village, so how could they know whether people in other villages were dead or alive.

As soon as the aunt took the things in the shopkeeper's hand, she glanced at her eyebrows and smiled.It's a pack of beef jerky worth more than seven taels, which would have cost fifty or sixty before the end of the world, and now it's even more expensive.

The salesman also reacted, but the aunt had already put the beef jerky into the basket, and she pretended to choose something.In the end, I also chose a large bag of things, and bargained with the peddler. Finally, after a lot of bargaining, the aunt went back with the things and calculated it. It seemed that she made a little more money than Xiang Luo.

Even the thoughtful shopkeeper was defeated in the battle with the aunt.

But the news he got today is definitely worth much more than the things he lost.

What he didn't know was that after the aunt returned to the village with a large bag of spoils, she saw Xiang Luo at the corner not far away.

The aunt hurried over and said with a smile, "I've told him everything you said, but I don't know how much he can believe."

This aunt was naturally arranged by Xiang Luo.It may take a lot of thought to arrange for others, but this aunt has left the shopkeeper with an impression of being outspoken, so it is the least likely for him to arouse suspicion when he says this.

And what the aunts in the village are best at is telling a flower about things with ambiguous opinions, let alone a story compiled by Xiang Luo.

"Don't worry, what you said is enough." Xiang Luo took out two duck eggs from his pocket and gave them to the aunt.The aunt immediately took it and put it in the pocket of the cotton-padded jacket and carried it close to her body.

"It's not a big deal. You can come to me when you have something to do. Is it true that you want your uncle's younger brother to inherit the family business? I..."

Xiang Luo's face turned dark, he waved his hands and said, "Why do you believe things that fool people?"

"Sounds believable..." The aunt was pushed twice, and walked away with her step and three turns. She really wanted to ask clearly.

Xiang Luo saw that the aunt's head was hurting, rubbed her temples, and looked back at the door.

At this time, there was already a long queue at the entrance of the village.

Perhaps, this is the last time they come here.Therefore, the village also intentionally incites everyone to come and buy, and strive to search and clean up everything in the car.

It's just that without this peddler, the villagers will lose the joy of shopping.

They can't get out. In such a world, most people in the village can create much higher value than ordinary people.Every human passing is a loss.

It's just that when they live without worrying about food and drink, their demand for the outside world will also increase with time.

Xiang Luo even thought that maybe he should find a time to lure them to go shopping in the county, firstly, to give them a break, and secondly, they all have food, and going to the city to buy things can also boost GDP.

Without thinking too much, Xiang Luo went back with two big bags.

It's a pity, there won't be such a good thing next time.A frozen duck in exchange for two packages of precious snacks.

Maybe when we find their lair, we can seize a little more snacks to eat.

They have ulterior motives for this village, and they must be completely resolved before they cause irreparable losses.

Since the enemy is in the dark and I am in the light, then pull the opponent to the bright side.

Xiang Luo couldn't help thinking of Zhou Xingfeng again.The man with slender eyes looking gloomy.

Maybe when the time comes, I'll have time to ask him what's going on in his head, and why he's trying so hard to torment him and attack this village.

In his impression, this village, including himself, has never done anything sorry for him.

After making these arrangements, Xiang Luo still had some things he couldn't figure out, so he stepped into Zhou Xingwen's house.

Zhou Xingwen was working in the shop. Not long after Zhou Xingwen's parents came back from buying things from the shopkeeper, they were sorting things out and discussing how to use them when they heard a knock on the door.

Because there are no zombies, some people have resumed not locking their doors during the day.However, the habit in the village is to just push the door and enter, and you are not afraid of someone doing shameful things in broad daylight.Someone knocking on the door really made Zhou Xingwen's parents a little overwhelmed.

Zhou Xingwen's father got up to open the door, and saw Xiang Luo: "Knock what door, just come in soon."

In the village, people look up and see down. Where there are so many exquisite things, they all enter when they open the door.The people who visit the door are used to it, and the host will not feel that there is anything wrong.It's the same as going into your own home.

"I'm afraid it's inconvenient." Xiang Luo only said.

"What's the inconvenience in broad daylight? Besides, if it's really inconvenient, lock the door first." Zhou Xingwen's daughter-in-law smiled obediently.

That's what everyone thinks, and the door will only be locked when doing something shameful.Of course, it is not ruled out that those who are timid or who live alone will lock the doors and windows.

Xiang Luo was invited to sit in the kang.In fact, Zhou Xingwen's parents also heard about what happened before from their son, so they were more or less prepared for Xiang Luo's arrival.They were just waiting for Xiang Luo to speak up.

Xiang Luo waited for the two of them to sit down too. His wife sat not far from him, and Zhou Xingwen's father sat on a stool by the window.

Xiang Luo didn't say it was useless, and said directly: "Don't think too much, I also know that many things have nothing to do with you two. It's just Zhou Xingfeng... I really don't have much impression. When I came to my house, I felt something was wrong, so I came here to ask."

Zhou Xingwen's parents looked at each other, and they both saw helplessness in each other's eyes.

Zhou Xingwen's mother sighed: "You may not believe it, but we may not know much more about this matter than you."

Xiang Luo only said: "I just asked about when he left, I remember it was the third year of high school? His parents divorced suddenly."

"This..." Zhou Xingwen's mother thought about it carefully, "In retrospect, we also find it strange. The relationship between elder brother and sister-in-law has always been good. Their life is a bit difficult, and your uncle and I have also helped. It's just that they are a little unlucky , every time life gets better, there will always be something. But the couple never quarrels, has a good temper, and has never blush with anyone. Two months before their divorce, she hooked up the cushion for me .My family still uses it now.”

"That is to say, the divorce was sudden?" Xiang Luo asked.

They are brothers and they have a good relationship. It is reasonable to say that these things should be known in advance.

Zhou Xingwen's mother could only smile wryly: "Maybe they quarreled behind closed doors and didn't tell us. Anyway, we didn't know anything about it, and they didn't even notify us of their divorce. Otherwise, we would have to persuade them. They divorced suddenly by themselves. After we got married, we went our separate ways, and even took our son who was about to take the college entrance examination to run quite a distance. At that time, the village said that my sister-in-law was caught stealing and that was the reason for this. I asked my elder brother, but he didn’t say anything. Two years ago, I was still in the county. When I met my sister-in-law, she has already looked for it again. She just said that life was difficult at the beginning, and my elder brother wanted to go out for a break, but she didn't agree, so the two divorced. But I don't think it is possible So simple."

Not to mention them, Xiang Luo's logic doesn't make sense.

However, this also proves that the reason why Zhou Xingfeng would make trouble is probably related to the events of that year.