food crisis [end times]

周六

Xiang Luo also put a plate of dumplings in an insulated box and handed it over: "Today is Chinese New Year, so don't be too wronged."

Yuan Shuo only felt his nose a little sore, nodded, waved to several people and turned back into the car: "We must eat this meal well in the coming year. Let's go first."

After speaking, the car turned into a flying arrow and left the yard and went straight to the entrance of the village.

After watching the car drive away, Xiang Luo pulled An Wei back to the house for dinner.

It's just that one of the four people suddenly lost one person. Although the family is still the same as last year, it seems that something has been lost when Yuan Shuo left.

An Wei looked out of the window and thought for a while: "He should be looking forward to this meal. I heard from him that he spent the New Year alone for many years. Even when his parents were not divorced, the atmosphere in his house was not very good. Well, this time he should be looking forward to it for a long time."

Playing and playing, Anwei still values ​​friends very much.

It's just that his occupation is destined to miss this New Year's Eve dinner.

But it is precisely because of people like him that most people can eat this meal in peace and stability.

"Let's save a portion of the dishes and freeze them until he comes back." Xiang Luo patted Anwei on the shoulder, found a fresh-keeping box and packed a little bit of each dish, and put them in the refrigerator after cooling down.

After that, the three of them continued to have the New Year's Eve dinner, but no matter how they ate it, they felt that something was missing.

After eating, he picked some good meat and fed it to Zhu Naonao, and tore a little lean pork meat for Xiang Dabao to mix into the feed.

Ducks are omnivores, so a small amount of meat is fine.

For those who celebrate the Chinese New Year, eat something good.

It was already late at night when the tidying up was finished.Xiang Luo found a notebook for An Wei, and he still slept alone on the kang. Xiang Luo and Zhu Yan watched the sketches from previous years together, chatted without saying a word, and watched the year together until midnight.

This year's New Year is indeed not perfect, and there are some regrets left.

When I got up the next morning, it was very troublesome to open the door.God once again shed goose feather heavy snow, and the visibility was quite low under the heavy snow.An Wei looked out the window, but he held back not to call Yuan Shuo.

I don't know what's going on over there.Even if the matter is resolved now, the car will not be able to return in this snowy day.

It can be seen how kind the sunny days were for a period of time a few years ago.After the new year, the weather is bad again.

Xiang Luo hugged Zhu Naonao, rubbed the soft dog's belly, and yawned. Zhu Yan came over and stroked the dog's head, saying, "Qingxue."

This kind of snow must be cleared before it takes shape, otherwise it will wait until the snow is over.It's troublesome when the snow is thick and heavy.

Although starting to clean now will inevitably increase the workload, but such a relatively easy goal is easier to achieve.If you wait until the snow is a few meters thick before cleaning, the difficulty is so difficult that you don't want to do it just by looking at it.

The goal should always be a little easier, and only when people do it can they lift up their strength.

When the cleaning of the yard was done well, the arrangement from the other side of the village also came, and the boys in the village gathered together to clean up the snow in the village.

Everyone in the village who had a man in his family had to come out. Xiang Luo finished his work and went there, but when he arrived at the village committee, he found that there were only about 80 people who came this time, which was far from the previous [-] or [-] people. than yours.

Xiang Luo thought it was because he came early, but after standing here for a while, the people around him started whispering.

There were too few people here this time, and the people from the village committee who organized Qingxue didn't look very good.Whispering below, even their eyes were full of sarcasm.

"Why are there only so few people? This Qingxue also has her own Xuexue in front of the door. Didn't everyone come here before?" One person frowned.

A man in his thirties in the village curled his lips and said with a smile: "Who is willing to do this job on the first day of the new year? Besides, not every household has people. Some families only have old men or widows Doesn’t the child need to send someone out? We rely on everyone to clean up the snow in front of the door, and some people must be unhappy.”

This sounds reasonable, but you must know that this is not the first time Qingxue has been organized. It has been at least five or six times from last year to this year.

It's all an excuse for the big Chinese New Year, but it's just that people from the village committee have been investigated in the past two days.

Clearing the snow in the whole village is actually a good thing, and it is a good thing that everyone pays and can benefit from it.

But when they look down on the village committee, it seems that listening to the village committee's arrangement is a disadvantage.So there are only a few people here.

"Then watch the snow continue to fall? It's not unknown how many people died of freezing last year. Why did we forget about Qingxue?"

The reason why the whole village has insisted on clearing the snow until now is that the blizzard last year caused snow disasters and killed several families.In addition, the village has begun to grow bacteria packs again, and the roads for goods need to be wider.Therefore, the smooth flow of roads is more needed now than last year.

Such a simple reason, just because they gloated at the village committee, even Qingxue, who was organized by the village committee, refused to participate.

Seeing that he was a little embarrassed, the villager smiled and said: "Then don't tell us, don't you think we are all here? But we are only about twenty people, the village is so big, you won't let us Have the roads in the whole village been cleaned up? It won’t be finished until dark, and the snow in my house hasn’t been cleaned yet.”

Immediately someone echoed: "That's right! They are lazy, there is no reason for us to work and they lie down, and we don't owe them anything, why don't we stop calling? It's still cold here. Can you clear the snow?"

Someone started, and everyone immediately started talking again.

Xiang Luo saw that the members of the village committee frowned deeply, and there was only a sigh left in his heart.

I have to sigh that people's hearts are complicated.Although the village had a lot of suspicions about the members of the village committee before, they talked behind their backs.But the village committee hardly ever slacked off when organizing anything, and they were very cooperative.But now, because of the casual report of the couple surnamed Qian, the whole village is sitting and watching the misfortune of the people in the village committee.

When watching the excitement, they even ignored the whole village activities they organized.It's as if they are deliberately making them look ugly.

The last few members of the village committee discussed together, and finally had no choice but to make a decision, waving to everyone: "You go back and wait for the notice, and I will call you when it is organized. But in the yard of my house Clean up frequently, especially the front and back of the house, so as not to be flooded by snow. There is also a chimney, so be careful not to block it at any time."

Having said this, the crowd dispersed, gathered in twos and threes, and went home without saying a word.

People in Polytechnic University should not go out during Chinese New Year, only children will visit and play around.

It’s just that this year it’s turned around. The adults went out to discuss Qingxue’s affairs, but the children were afraid that another child would have an accident because they had died before, so each family locked up their own children, at most in their own yard. The rest of them said nothing to let them contact outsiders.

In this world, people's hearts are really getting worse.

Walking to the street of his home, he soon got together with Li Baoguo.

The heavy snow is still falling, and even if it is the footprints of walking, the snow is almost knee-deep.If the snow is not cleaned up, it will reach the waist.Then moving around is more troublesome.

Li Baoguo glanced back, and said loudly to Xiang Luo in front: "They are going too far."

Xiang Luo didn't answer, but the wind picked up and he couldn't hear clearly.He only pointed to his home and asked Li Baoguo to come and sit at his home.

After entering the house, Li Baoguo swept the snow off his body, sighed and said, "Do you think it's enough? If the snow is not swept away, no one can get out. Not to mention anything else, how can you sell and buy mushrooms? If that Lao Zhang came to buy fungus bags, and finally cleared the snow all the way to the entrance of the village, but found that there was no snow in the village at all. What kind of expression did he have? Just because he thought the village committee was in trouble, he didn’t listen to anything? What do you think?"

Li Baoguo complained, Xiang Luo poured him a cup of hot tea.

"It's probably because they think it's okay if they don't sell mushrooms once or twice. After all, dried mushrooms are not easy to spoil, and it's okay even if they are put in the spring. Besides, it's almost spring."

Li Baoguo shook his head vigorously: "That can't be done, isn't it chilling? Besides, the arrangement in the village is not for the benefit of the village, it is good for everyone in the village. I really feel that it is taking advantage of not clearing the snow. Last year When you were stuck at home and couldn't get out, how could you forget how desperate you were at that time?"

"If people know that they have a long memory, they won't be called people." Xiang Luo smiled sarcastically.He took a sip of the slightly hot tea, and said again, "Besides, it is generally not the harm that is visible in front of the eyes, so no one will take it to heart. Everyone will firmly believe that bad luck will not happen to them. Uncle Li, you Don't know yet?"

Just like the repeated emphasis on not exposing wealth.Everyone has heard this sentence.Everyone knows that money is known to outsiders, and it is easy to be missed by others, which in turn leads to losses.

But in fact, who would really pay attention to it?When meeting outsiders, they always reveal the local situation without reservation.Maybe I won't talk about my family in too much detail, but the situation in the village has always been answered.

As a result, the robbers were robbed a few times before he calmed down, and he knew how to be afraid of strangers.

However, if a poor person comes to the entrance of the village to pray and ask next time, it is still unknown what the result will be.

Li Baoguo sighed, if this heavy snow really sealed the house, it is estimated that his goods would not be easy to sell.

It's not that they are in a hurry to make money, or they are afraid that the road will be difficult, but some people are eager to buy things and take risks.The snow is getting bigger and bigger, and the danger is also multiplying.

"Then is the duck ready?"

Xiang Luo said: "There will definitely be people who want to buy it. Look at the situation. If it doesn't work, I'll ask someone to come over in the afternoon and kill a few more to buy in the next few days. Then don't come here again, to avoid danger. If someone comes to buy Just sell it, but I will kill it myself, it’s okay if no one buys it, it won’t break in such a cold day.”

After confirming this, Li Baoguo drank a cup of hot tea and left.

Xiang Luo only cleaned up the snow in his own yard and the snow in front of the door, and he didn't have the energy to care about the rest.

On the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the snow seemed to be falling even more heavily than before.

Just as Xiang Luo cleaned up the yard again, he heard the sound of the siren in the house.

Zhu Yan asked Xiang Luo to rest for a while. He put on his down jacket and went outside to see who it was. When he opened the door, he saw that it was the People's Liberation Army.

Such a heavy snowstorm, but there is no way to organize the villagers to clean up the road.

It's a trivial matter that people can't go on this road. If someone's family has an accident, it will be a troublesome thing to rescue.This is not the torrential rain in summer. If someone's house is washed away, they can go to the rescue quickly.It is difficult to move an inch under the heavy snow, I am afraid that no one will know whose house has collapsed.

The village committee was rejected by the villagers, so the People's Liberation Army had to come and organize it door-to-door.

Now it is the credibility of the army that can bring people together again.

When Zhu Yan came back, he was going to wear a padded jacket and follow him. Xiang Luo was not willing to let Zhu Yan suffer, so he held Zhu Yan down, dressed himself and followed him out.At this time, the heavy snow has reached the waist.

The village committee couldn't hold so many people, but a piece of open space in front of the village committee had been cleared. When Xiang Luo arrived at the scene, there were already three to four hundred people standing here, both men and women.

The People's Liberation Army used speakers and turned them up very loudly to ensure that everyone could hear them in their ears.

This time, the People's Liberation Army will personally lead the team, and each team will have two People's Liberation Army leaders.Now it is not a man in the village who has a man, but every family, as long as it has a family of its own, regardless of gender, must send a man under the age of 60 and above the age of 15 to join the Qingxue team.This is voluntary labor in the village, and every household is no exception.

This time, no one complained anymore, and each of them started working neatly.

Everyone is divided into groups, and the speed of work is faster when there are more people.As the snow falls, everyone clears the snow.The place where the snow is deep is even as high as half a person.But an hour later, all roads in the village were open.

After finishing the work, they didn't ask each of them to go home, but held a meeting and talked together.

It roughly means that this village is a common home for everyone, and everyone needs to join in and manage it together, and we should not give up everyone's interests just because of a little personal emotion.Once an accident occurs, it is a tragedy no matter who it falls on. Everyone should not think that things will not happen to them, and feel that this matter is dispensable.

Anyway, it was a lecture.No one refuted it.Maybe some people didn't listen at all.

But from the beginning to the end of this matter, the people from the village committee stood by and did not speak.

In the past, the village committee organized everyone, and the People's Liberation Army cooperated with them.This time it was reversed directly, and even the village committee's sense of existence was even lower.

Xiang Luo cleared the snow several times a day, both at home and outside, and was very tired.I dragged my body exhausted and went home, only to find that the atmosphere in the house didn't seem right when I entered the house.

An Wei sat on the sofa and stared at the coffee table in a daze, while Zhu Yan sat next to him, saw Xiang Luo, and nodded to him.

Xiang Luo took off his heavy clothes and hung them up, so he can put them on anytime he goes out next time.Puzzled: "What's wrong?"

Zhu Yan said in a deep voice, "Yuan Shuo is injured and is being rescued."

Xiang Luo rolled his eyes: "Injured?"

Zhu Yan said: "It was his colleague who called. Apart from his colleague, Anwei's phone number was on his phone. He said that there was an accident during a mission. The situation is unclear now. He is still waiting for a call."

No wonder.Last night, Yuan Shuo didn't even have time to eat the New Year's Eve dinner. He was called away after a phone call. He hasn't returned yet. The specific situation must be worrying.

"It shouldn't be a big deal." Xiang Luo didn't know how to comfort him, but seeing the bad atmosphere, that's all he could say.

An Wei also said: "I don't think there's anything wrong. He hasn't seen any big storms before. The one who made trouble before was different from a rookie abuser. It should be that he was careless and didn't dodge, so he was injured and fell into a coma. Since it is still being rescued, it is definitely not fatal..."

It's easier for An Wei to talk when he's nervous, and Xiang Luo and Zhu Yan also understand this after living for a long time.

But no one stopped him, and Anwei didn't know what to do at the moment, the more he talked, the better he would feel in his heart.

The whole family sat together, and the atmosphere became a little stagnant.

After a while, Anwei looked out the window and said helplessly, "I can't go out this day."

What if it snowed today, even if it snowed yesterday?If it had snowed heavily yesterday, Yuan Shuo would not be able to leave.Or if it snows heavily tomorrow, Anwei will at least have a chance to visit the county.

It can only be said that God just likes to make jokes like this.What is good luck tricking people?Roughly so.

Xiang Luo leaned back on the sofa and said, "Actually, you can't go, but it will give you time to calm down and think about it."

"Calm down?" Anwei didn't understand.

Zhu Yan said, "What would you say if you saw Yuan Shuo now?"

"What are you talking about? Isn't he rescuing?" Anwei said as it should.

"..." Zhu Yan choked on a rare occasion, "I mean, what will you tell him after he is rescued?"

"Then he should be in a coma." An Wei said again.

Zhu Yan stopped talking, and Xiang Luo was more straightforward: "What if he dies?"

Anwei was startled, and immediately retorted: "How is it possible? How could he die?"

In Anwei's impression, Yuan Shuo was almost tied to the words strong and invincible.

Those are special police officers, specially trained to focus on special situations.Moreover, he has excellent grades and started to lead a team at a young age. How could such a person have anything to do with the word death?

But he didn't think about it, Xiang Luo wanted him to think about it.

"Have you ever thought about it, if he is really gone, will you have any regrets? What will it bring you? Don't rush to answer, but think about it for yourself first. This is beneficial to you There is no impact, and it really happened, how do you deal with it.”

An Wei listened to Xiang Luo's words and sat there lost in thought for a while.

What kind of feelings does he have for Yuan Shuo?He can't tell.

But if Yuan Shuo was going to die, Anwei absolutely didn't want to see it.

In Anwei's consciousness, Yuan Shuo is too strong to be defeated, at least his life will be longer than Anwei himself.

But... will he really die?

The more An Wei thought about it, the more confused his mind became. In the end, he could only frown deeply and fell into deep thought.

Xiang Luozhuyan glanced at each other, and they all got up and went to the kitchen to see what to eat for dinner, giving Anwei a quiet time to think.

In terms of emotions, Anwei is really indignant for being dull.He also needs a time to look directly at his heart.

Whether he likes Yuan Shuo or not.