food crisis [end times]

周日

A new car was parked not far away, and Zhu Yan and the two had just come out of the county town.

Zhu Yan just glanced over there and recognized the girl who just got off the car as a villager.

Although the parking place had lights, it was very dark.

Xiang Luo frowned and couldn't remember who he looked like, so he asked in a low voice, "Whose family?"

"You let this person go, forget?"

let go.

This keyword is enough to remind Xiang Luo of many things.

"It's her?" Xiang Luo took another look at the woman in disbelief, and was completely sure now.

At this time, the woman also turned her head and met Xiang Luo's eyes.

Eyes met, the woman first asked in disbelief: "Are you Xiang Luo?"

This person is none other than Zhou Zhenxing's daughter-in-law who married his youngest son.

Today, she has only left the village for more than a year.When I left, I was seventeen or eighteen years old, and now I am nearly 19 years old.

Such a girl who has not been an adult for a long time has not seen her for a year, and her temperament is completely different from that of back then.

No wonder Xiang Luo didn't recognize him.

"It's me, why are you here?"

When the two broke up, Zhou Zhenxing's youngest son came to his house to occupy the magpie's nest, forced her and allowed her to conceive a child.

She killed Zhou Zhenxing's youngest son in desperation, but because she was pregnant, Zhou Zhenhua wanted to leave the last spark for her younger brother's family, so she was half protected and half detained in the village committee.

It was Xiang Luo's plan to secretly let her leave and follow the army into the city.

When she left, she was a desperate and embarrassed woman.Looking at it now, the ability and confidence in her bones almost made her look brand new.

I know without asking, she must have a decent job that she likes now.

When the girl saw Xiang Luo, she naturally thought of the unbearable past in the village. Now that she recalled it, there was only a sigh, and her eyes were red.

"Brother Xiang is really you!"

But Xiang Luo couldn't remember her name, and said with some embarrassment: "I haven't seen you since then, and I haven't heard from you. By the way, what's your name?"

The girl didn't care about Xiang Luo's faux pas: "It doesn't matter what I was called before. I have already given myself a new name."

Xiang Luo raised his eyebrows, and the girl walked up to him, and held out her hand to Xiang Luo: "My name is Lu Shengxin. Do you still remember when you pointed to that road and said it was my last hope. Indeed, this road is my last hope. gave me a whole new life.”

Xiang Luo's heart ached when he said this sentence.

As a fellow villager, he was too aware of her situation back then.

Lu Shengxin, what a good name.This is her new life.

The original Li Yueyue almost became her.It's just that Li Yueyue reined in the precipice at that time, and with Xiang Luo's help, she solved her family's food crisis, and her life flourished day by day.It's just that Xiang Luo can't help everyone.

Lu Shengxin had no choice but to marry into Zhou Zhenxing's family because of his family's embarrassment, but he was greeted with hell.

Fortunately, she came out.

"Hello, Lu Shengxin." Xiang Luo seemed to know her for the first time.

The two looked at each other and smiled.

Lu Shengxin's companion came over to inquire about the situation, Lu Shengxin said: "This is my friend, you can say that he is my savior. I haven't seen you for more than a year, let's catch up."

Lu Shengxin's companion nodded. There are many people like this in this world, so it's understandable.

People on both sides have some relationship with each other, and they can still meet after a long time of going around.This is actually a kind of happiness.

"Would you like to have a meal together?" Lu Shengxin suggested.

Xiang Luo shook his head, thinking about going on his way tomorrow, he didn't even have to take a bath today, it's better to drive home as soon as possible today.

"We'll be on our way tomorrow morning. I'm relieved to see that you're doing well. What do you do now?"

Xiang Luo also wanted to know how far she had grown in a year.

Unable to have dinner together, Lu Shengxin was a little disappointed, and replied: "Actually, it's a sale of dumped goods. I help manage the accounts and expenses. Now the resources are extremely unbalanced across the country, so some things have the same price for each place. Let's take advantage of the opportunity to sell." Some things, make a difference."

In fact, it is similar to the downfall of the 90s and [-]s.It's just that it's more decent to do this photo now than in the past.

As long as it is not a house robbery, it is not shameful to make any kind of money.

"Where are you going?" Xiang Luo asked again.

"I go everywhere, but basically I'm still in my hometown." Lu Shengxin said, "I basically bring goods from my hometown to sell. Fortunately, we have a lot of people, and the government even approved two wooden warehouses, which haven't been released yet. What happened. How is the village now?"

Lu Shengxin is not far from the village, but he never went back to take a look for such a long time.

Xiang Luodao: "The development is very good, and we have already raised ducks. I have opened several factories, and the situation is much better than the year before last."

Lu Shengxin thought about the life in the village, smiled ironically, and stopped mentioning it.

The two said goodbye after exchanging a few pleasantries.

It was a fate that they met once, and in the days to come, they still have to live a famous life to be worthy of their own life.

After waving goodbye, Lu Shengxin also returned to his companion.

People on both sides passed by, and I heard them turn around and start discussing their own affairs.

"This surname Zhu really doesn't have any good things. He's completely ruined (bad-hearted), and he really gets everything. Such a black heart is not afraid of being struck to death by lightning!"

The voice blew along the wind, causing the two of them to startle at the same time.

"Wait a minute!" Zhu Yan turned around and stopped the group of people.

Lu Shengxin looked back in doubt, only then remembered that Zhu Yan's surname was Zhu.Immediately said apologetically: "They didn't talk about you, they talked about doing business. In fact, it's the city next door to us."

This is what Zhu Yan wants!

"You still do business with them? What kind of business?"

The group of people whispered, Lu Shengxin lowered his eyebrows and weighed it, and looked at Zhu Yan with some guesswork: "You... are not named Zhu..."

"Yes and no," Zhu Yan's answer made Lu Shengxin's heart rise in his throat, but Zhu Yan continued, "They wanted to kill me before, but I survived, and they probably don't know that I'm alive. thing."

Hearing this, Lu Shengxin was relieved.

Although business is about business, personal grievances cannot be put into it.But Zhu Yan and Xiang Luo are together after all, offending Zhu Yan is equivalent to offending Xiang Luo.

Although it will not have any substantial impact on Lu Shengxin, it is not what Lu Shengxin wants to see.

They should be friends, not enemies.

Lu Shengxin was busy: "We are also unwilling to do business with them. But there is no way. They have formed a small circle. If we don't do business with them, other people will also refuse to do business with us. We finally did that again. There is no way to change places while taking root. In addition, their circle has the best local resources and the best goods! We really despise their behavior. But..."

Lu Shengxin was also trying his best to express his helplessness.

Zhu Yan was still quite calm, and asked, "Then what evil did they do?"

Lu Shengxin confirmed that Zhu Yan's tone did not mean to vent his anger, so he eased his tone and said, "We don't know much, but the things they told us to buy are always divided into good goods and inferior goods. They do business with the government, and the ones they send are of the best quality. The ones that are not of good quality must be from ordinary people in the small supermarkets they open. Nothing else matters. This world doesn’t pay attention to good or bad. They also dare to make yin and yang on edible things."

Xiang Luo's tone became more serious: "Then you also give it to them?"

Lu Shengxin's eyes dimmed a bit: "Actually, we seldom pass on grain. After all, we travel a long distance, and the long-distance transport of grain is too uncertain. I know someone who was ordered to go to the countryside to buy a large number of those that the government expressly prohibits. Moldy grains to eat. These were originally banned by the government, and they would be bought and destroyed. But they bid higher than the government to take them away. And the amount is very large, and even bigger. Hundreds of thousands of tons .Actually, we are also very surprised. What do they buy so much moldy food? Such food, even if it is boiled for a few hours to kill the super fungus, if eaten, it may turn into a zombie monster.”

In this world, there will always be people who do some helpless things. They do business everywhere, just like an erratic duckweed, there must always be a root.

It's a pity that it's not a good place for them to take root.

Xiang Luo only asked, "How long have you been working for them?"

In fact, Lu Shengxin has only been out of the village for a year, so it is impossible to have contact with them for too long.

Lu Shengxin also felt the seriousness of the two, and vaguely thought of it.Maybe this time is a good chance to get out.

"In less than three months, there were actually a total of four handovers. After the first two discoveries, it's not that I didn't think about it, it's just that they are a network of interests formed by a circle. We pushed their big orders. Others in that city Don’t even think about big business. These two times the business has grown bigger and bigger. We are also afraid that we will really hurt someone, so we are also trying to find a way to see if we can get rid of it. Or change our roots in another place. It’s just that we are also a hundred Ten or so people, this time has missed the best time to work hard, and it is not easy to take root in a different place."

Xiang Luo didn't ask any more questions, it's not that they didn't think of refusing, it's just that the times made them have no choice.Not everyone has the conditions to take a step back like Xiang Luo.

Zhu Yan calmed down and asked, "Then if I want to break this situation, can you help me?"

Just as Lu Shengxin was about to speak, the companion behind her gently tugged at the corner of her clothes.Lu Shengxin turned around and asked them, "It would be a good thing if we could solve it once."

"But just in case..." Lu Shengxin's companion still hoped to be safer.

"Then move. Or completely become traveling merchants. Those people are in the limelight right now, we have to rely on them. But if they fail one day, we will only be implicated. It's better to cut them early."

This is the bloody lesson that Lu Shengxin has experienced.

You can't look at the other party's scenery for a while, and hold your nose and follow the other party's instructions even if you don't want to.

At the beginning, there was no food in her family, so she and her mother watched Zhou Zhenxing's family flourish in the village.A matchmaker came to their house to say goodbye to the Zhou family, even though both mother and daughter didn't like Zhou Zhenxing's family, but looking at the empty rice jar, they married Lu Sheng, who was young and ignorant at the time, in order to have enough to eat. passed.

It was a fluke that she escaped later.

It's actually pretty much the same situation now.

What was different was that this time Lu Shengxin thought about solving the problem by himself, but there were too many of them, so it was better to use a softer method.But God was really kind to her, and let him meet Xiang Luo and the two just like this.

What Lu Shengxin said made sense, but the others couldn't say anything for a moment because they looked at each other.

Zhu Yan did not force them to make a decision, but said to Lu Shengxin: "If you trust us, I can tell you clearly that I will clean them up with my own hands. If you help, it will save me a lot of trouble. After I succeed, I will definitely not treat you badly. If you take [-] steps back, even if you fail, I have the ability to give you a lot of capital, which is enough for you to settle down in a new place. In this world, even if a person is an emperor, another place is A dragon has to coil up, and a tiger has to lie down. It won’t hurt you.”

Zhu Yan seldom takes one thing seriously.Because there are not many things that can inspire him to do anything.

As for the Zhu family, it was the existence that Zhu Yan had been planning to deal with for two years.It's just that Zhu Yan himself didn't expect that the opportunity would be presented to him like this.

These words undoubtedly gave Lu Sheng new hope, which made her a little excited.

"We have just developed, but our development speed is not slow. If there is a better environment, we will definitely be able to develop better." Lu Shengxin is somewhat unwilling to accept the current situation.

However, she came out of hell. Although she was afraid of hell, she was not afraid of the confidence to climb out of it again.

This is now that she has many partners around her, so she has to think more.

After convincing Lu Shengxin, Zhu Yan didn't ask them to make a decision immediately, but said:

"I know this matter is not small. I also know your concerns. How about this, think about it tonight, and tell me how you decide in the end. It doesn't matter what the result is. I will definitely deal with them. And I will not There is no sympathy. I treat you as a friend, and I don't want to hurt you. So, if it comes to confrontation, I will try my best not to touch your interests."

This is what Zhang Fushang said.

Humans are actually quite amazing animals.When you tell them that you want to fight against his partner, the other party will persuade you first.But when you promise to the other party that you will not infringe on the other party's interests, the other party will find a way to help you.

Sometimes people get along with each other in a similar situation.

Lu Shengxin looked back at the people behind him, and said to Zhu Yan, "We will seriously consider it."

If it continues, their team will only stand still.

It's just that Lu Shengxin is not a decision maker, but one of the management.She was convinced, and she had to go back and convince others.

Zhu Yan would not live in the city, but just told them the general direction of his car.Leave at eight o'clock tomorrow morning.If you make a decision before that, you can go to him. If you don't see anyone when the time comes, just pretend they declined.Then act as if today's event never happened.

When the two parties formally bid farewell, Xiang Luo watched them register at the door, feeling a little unrealistic.

For a long time, he felt that the Zhu family was still far away from theirs, which made them seem to have a long time to prepare, grow slowly and then have a peak duel.

But at what he thought was the most unlikely time, he met such an opportunity.

Xiang Luo didn't expect this.

Back in the car, Xiang Luo put down the folding bed and found out the pillow and quilt. Zhu Yan hugged the pillow and sat on the head of the bed and leaned back, with no expression on his face, and he didn't even move his eyes.

Xiang Luo knew that he was concentrating on something, so he didn't bother him. Instead, after washing himself, he sat next to Zhu Yan and watched the time go by bit by bit.

After a while, Zhu Yan spit out two words: "Quail."

Xiang Luo didn't understand, but he didn't answer.Zhu Yan turned his head and blinked, looked at Xiang Luo and said, "Uncle Zhang's hint is correct, the key point is still the quail!"

For such a long time, Xiang Luo didn't know what flashed through Zhu Yan's mind, nor how he put everything together.

But Xiang Luo knew that once Zhu Yan fell into long-term thinking, when he presented the result, it must be the key and correct.

"So what are we going to do?"

Zhu Yan pressed the aching forehead: "Then it depends on Lu Shengxin's decision. The decision they make can directly affect my future plans."

Xiang Luo went to wash a dry towel, asked Zhu Yan to rinse his mouth with mouthwash, then undressed him and stuffed him under the bed, and turned off the light.

"Then let's make plans tomorrow morning. It seems that they have developed a certain power. In this case, it is actually a good thing to start as soon as possible. Otherwise, if they develop even more terrifying, it will be even more troublesome for us to deal with. After all, in this world Times have changed. The better they develop, the more trouble we will have."

I didn't do it before because I had no foundation and needed time to develop.

Although it has not developed to the desired level now, it is not as restrained as in the end of the world.

There are six factories under their name.The whole village can be regarded as their foundation.

Even if there is no guarantee that one blow will win, under such a background, I am not afraid to prepare again.

Especially this time when they go back, Xiang Luo and the two can bring back the pigs.

But Zhu Yan couldn't sleep.The highly functioning brain made it difficult for him to calm down for a while.

Xiang Luo knew that he was not asleep when he heard his somewhat disordered breathing, and reached out to massage his forehead.

"Can't sleep?" Xiang Luo asked knowingly.

Zhu Yan didn't go around in circles with him, and wrapped his legs around Xiang Luo's waist: "It's time to relax."

After the two of them relaxed, it was almost midnight.

I was woken up by the alarm clock at seven o'clock the next day.In the past two years, they rarely got up so late, and they lay on the bed for a while.It wasn't until 07:30 that I realized that I had made an appointment with Lu Shengxin and the others at [-] o'clock.Then I hurriedly got up to wash up.

After discussing it, we can't delay breakfast.Zhu Yan only cooked noodles in a small electric pot in the kitchen of the RV, and the two of them ate canned meat before they saw three people walking slowly from the corner, and one of them was Lu Shengxin.

Zhu Yan bit off the noodles and glanced at Xiang Luo.