food crisis [end times]

Nao Nao is very edible, although he brought back a lot of dog food, but seeing Nao Nao's daily consumption soaring, he can't eat dog food for long.

So when I usually eat, I will make it lighter, and it can be mixed for Nao Nao to eat.Fortunately, Nao Nao is not picky about eaters, and he is very interested in all kinds of food made by his fathers with different tastes. Every time he prepares a full bowl for him, he can eat cleanly.

Nao Nao now eats regularly and quantitatively. This time, I will give less leftover bowls next time. If I am hungry early this time, make Nao Nao earlier and eat more next time.Won't make it too fat, but won't starve either.

Having a dog at home definitely brings too much fun to a boring life.

Xiang Luo still goes on patrols after fishing for three days and drying nets for two days.It's just that nothing was lost in the village after Li Guanjun left, and with the severe cold outside, the number of patrols became less and less.The number of people participating in patrols has increased, but under such circumstances, it is inevitable that they will be suspected of eating public food.

Xiang Luo sat not far from the stove, warming himself up by the fire from time to time, and when he was bored, he took out the electronic paper book to pass the time.

I was fascinated by a healing manga, when I heard a bit of angry spitting not far away, Xiang Luo didn't move his body, but moved his ears in that direction, so he could hear clearly.

A man in a military overcoat spat: "This old Zhou family is really proud. They set up prices because they have mushrooms. When they first started selling, they exchanged six catties of rice for one catty of mushrooms. A few days ago, they suddenly said that the weather was too cold." , The cost of growing mushrooms is high, and it takes eight catties of rice to exchange for one catty. I went to inquire again this morning, and said that ten catties of rice was exchanged for one catty. I also said that it will increase in the future, and if I don’t buy it, I won’t be able to buy it.”

The young man in the blue padded jacket next to him hurriedly said: "My family bought it early. It's frozen and now there is no electricity, so I can chop it up and put it in porridge. No matter what he has now, he has several thousand catties of grain! But why? You can't just waste money and ask for prices like this!"

The tough old man in his sixties sitting in the corner sighed: "How much does this food earn? No one is rich now. It's a good thing to have mushrooms, but isn't it so expensive that it sucks human blood?"

A younger person sneered: "If you can't afford it, don't buy it. Those who want to give their children a bite of food can also be willing to part with the food."

The man in the military overcoat said: "But isn't this a one-shot deal? The food has been taken away by his family, who will buy it in the future? Then lower the price? Wouldn't those who bought the expensive mushrooms before also be offended?" ?”

At this time, I don't know who said it out of the blue: "What if I don't have many mushrooms?"

The words were out of the mouth, and the whole room became much quieter.

The man in the blue padded jacket smiled awkwardly: "No way, the output of mushrooms is not small, and one mushroom bag can harvest several crops. I went to his house to buy them and saw that there are still many mushroom bags."

"It's also a fungus bag. The fungus bag will always be used up one day," the young man said, "and they planned to raise it at the beginning, but they didn't even lock up the greenhouse. They don't even have a greenhouse. How many fungus bags can they buy? Actually Speaking of which, they can understand now that they are asking for a lot of money, and they will run away after eating this last sum."

At this point, everyone's heart skipped a beat.

If this is the case, then it is really a one-shot deal.In fact, this is completely understandable.Zhou Zhenxing didn't think about selling you again at all, as long as he sold you at a high price this time, it would be fine to hold the food in his hands first.

Now they have too much food in their pockets, enough food to last them for several years.

Xiang Luo didn't seem to hear it, and kept his head buried in the e-book.It's just that no one noticed that the pages of his electronic paper book haven't been turned at all since then.

Xiang Luo didn't want to get involved, but someone else mentioned Xiang Luo.

"Old Xiang boy, what do you think?"

Xiang Luo was startled, raised his head and asked, "What did you say?"

It's understandable that people can't hear anything else when they focus on what they're looking at.

The man in the military overcoat smiled: "You are still reading a book and looking stupid. It's not about the old Zhou's mushrooms. Now I'm a little suspicious that his family can't produce many mushrooms at all, just want to sell them with a hammer. You people Clever, with a working brain. What do you think this could be?"

In fact, it is really hard to say anything from Xiang Luo's standpoint. No matter what he says, when he takes out the mushrooms in the future, it will be easy to get the truth.

Xiang Luo rolled his eyes and thought about it, and smiled embarrassedly: "I don't lack mushrooms at home, so I haven't bought them."

Everyone in the room looked at Xiang Luo.

Xiang Luo explained: "My family used to have a lot of dried mushrooms, which were from last year. But they are all dried and not afraid of spoilage. And my family also bought a few fungus bags for fun, but they have been planted recently. I have a little sawdust at home. I'm researching to see if I can make my own mushrooms."

Now the research on mushrooms at home is basically taking shape.Since they asked about Xiang Luo, Xiang Luo was not afraid of revealing any news.

The main reason is that if you don't say anything now, you will be provoked by someone with a heart.

The young man hurriedly said, "Then do you have mushrooms in your house that we can order? Now the pickles at home are almost gone, and the birds are fading out of your mouth."

If you haven't eaten since childhood, in fact, it will be like that in this life.The problem is that most of the people nowadays have eaten and seen it, and they can’t eat anything now. Even a mouthful of mushrooms is like something precious right now.

Xiang Luo smiled wryly: "My family doesn't have enough to eat. It's not like you don't know it. With the addition of my three young men, I don't have much food. What is there to eat? Let's see if we can work it out now. If we can do it Come out, when the time comes, produce more so that everyone can eat."

In fact, this is tantamount to a blank check.The young man was about to keep it for himself when the time came, but in a blink of an eye, he thought, how can it be so easy to get mushrooms?

Now I know that Zhou Zhenxing's family is only using mushroom bags, and he didn't hear them process the mushroom bags by himself.

If it was really that easy, Zhou Zhenxing's family has been selling mushrooms for so long, it should have been done by now.

So no one in the room spoke much, they all felt that this matter might not happen, but they didn't want to offend anyone, they could only look at each other in silence, everything was in silence.

No one took this matter to heart.There is too much despair in this world, there is no need to find some hope for yourself and then be disappointed.

Seeing them shaking their heads and remaining silent, Xiang Luo's goal has actually been achieved.

He only opened his mouth to vaccinate them, so that it would not be too abrupt for him to suddenly take out mushrooms in the future.

As for the rest, it is not within the scope of Xiang Luo's consideration for the time being.

During the break between patrols, everyone was still chatting and laughing about some things, but it didn't take long for the whole village to be filled with the shadow of despair again.

The blizzard hit again and the roads were covered in heavy snow.The patrol team is also responsible for shoveling away the heavy snow, and the shoveled snow is only piled up outside the village.

Several low-lying houses and even the entire yard were flooded by snowstorms. The first thing to do when getting up every morning was to barely go out to shovel the snow around the house.

Of course, the accumulation of blizzards is not completely without benefits.

That is, the blizzard is very conducive to the accumulation of heat.The heavy snow insulated the severe cold brought by the blizzard, and those troubled by the blizzard soon found their homes warmer.Not only is there no longer a rush to shovel snow, but a thick layer of snow is artificially laid on the roof and the like.

It's just that when people are actively coping with all this, the tragedy is slowly approaching.

There were two cases of people freezing to death in the village.

The village committee simply decided that the patrollers would go door-to-door to ascertain the situation.

As a result, five of the first team looked at ten houses, and found that two of them were silent and the whole family froze to death.

In the past, I was naive and didn't feel that this cold winter was any threat.

It's just that the dead are too silent.

The matter was reported to the village committee, and the village committee also felt the seriousness of the matter, and hurriedly recruited more people to quickly start door-to-door investigations from the beginning.

Xiang Luo did not participate, and those who participated in the house-to-house inspection also came and went.Seeing dead people is not a good thing after all.First, it is considered unlucky in the traditional concept, and second, seeing dead people is really a kind of destruction of hope.

Some people simply died of freezing, while others had bruised lips, which could be seen from carbon monoxide poisoning.And emaciated, as if starved to death.

One of the families is the most special. There are dozens of catties of properly packaged grain in the house, and there is no mold.The couple was lying in bed.The quilt is very thick, and there are two extra layers, and a lot of firewood is piled up in the kitchen at home.But two people slept like two sculptures.If it's not completely frozen, it's like waking up with time.

For this reason, the village thought about many reasons, and finally came to the conclusion that the two died of starvation.

Those who starved to death guarding the food.

Xiang Luo didn't go out, but the patrol team who went here to check house by house was invited into the house by Xiang Luo to have a sip of hot water, and they told Xiang Luo about the matter.

Anwei was still a little unbelievable: "It's impossible to starve to death while guarding the food."

An older person smiled wryly, "Otherwise, what do you think?"

Anwei didn't open his mouth, and the man said again: "That is to say, you young people have not experienced anything. Those who really have no food to starve to death are very few. If there is no food, you can also eat food substitutes, bark, grass roots , Even the corn stalks you burnt can be ground and eaten. If you want to live, there is no one who is hungry."

"Then how could he die?" Zhu Yan didn't understand this either.

The older man's eyes dimmed: "Because no one knows that they will die. At most, they go to sleep hungry. When they are hungry, they don't want to get up if they don't have the strength. I just want to sleep well first, and wait until I wake up." Go get food again. But I can’t get up after sleeping. The same is true for those who starve to death and those who freeze to death. If you know you will die, how can you die so easily? You must have tried your best to save yourself If you run out of rice, you can borrow it, and if you can’t borrow it, you can gnaw on the bark. God won’t starve a blind house sparrow to death.”

Those who starve to death are often those who firmly believe that they will not starve to death.It is precisely because I feel that it is just this, it is not that there is no food, and I can eat whenever I want, so I skip one or two meals.

And it is just one or two meals that may cause a certain function in the body to go on strike or reduce its function, resulting in accidental death of people.

People who have never experienced starvation will never understand how painful it is to starve to death while guarding food.

In fact, when a person's daily calorie intake is lower than the calorie consumption, this is a process of slow starvation.But it's not the same as losing weight.People who lose weight can increase their intake at any time according to their own needs, and they can eat anytime they want.But people who experienced famine ate too much this meal, and may run out of food for a certain meal in the future.So every bite of food they eat will be strictly controlled, and then step by step they will go deeper into the abyss.

The famine has arrived quietly, almost without any notice by the whole village.

"By the way, did you pay attention to the person who lives on the left side of your house? Just now we knocked on the door desperately and refused to let us in. The scolding was so nasty." The patrol leader asked Xiang Luo.

Xiang Luo shook his head: "We don't communicate at all at ordinary times. His family dared to attack the People's Liberation Army before, and was overwhelmed by Mucang. There are no neighbors who have not been scolded by their family, and they dare not pay attention to it after a long time. .”

There was a barking sound from their house before, and the neighbors were worried that something happened to their house, and when they went to ask about it, they were scolded bloody.In fact, they all guessed that something might have happened to his family.But the things they have done over the years are basically thunderous, and they really angered them. They are the masters who can really block your house and scold them for a week. No one wants to provoke such an ancestor.

So even if something happened just now, as long as it doesn't hurt the surroundings, everyone is unwilling to go there.And when you knock on the door, if there are curses coming out, it means that the people inside are still alive.

The patrolmen glanced at each other.

The older man said: "Let's just go and see that nothing happened. If someone responds, it's not a big problem. In fact, it's a good thing to be scolded. At least the person is still alive. I'm afraid that there will be no sound after knocking on the door for a long time. And the yard is covered with snow. , need to shovel the road now.”

This time, the door-to-door inspection had a great impact on everyone in the patrol team.Along with their dissemination, they also taught the whole village a lesson.

In this way, the anxiety about the shortage of food in the village is even more serious.

The deceased finds his immediate family members and asks them to clean up everything in the deceased's house, and then discuss how to divide it among themselves.Some only have distant relatives. The village means that the food is handed over to the village, and other distant relatives can share it themselves.

However, not everyone agreed with this decision, and there were a few troubles because of this.

This investigation lasted for four full days. People from the patrol team came and went. At the end, they simply offered three catties of food a day with a constant salary to recruit people. It can be seen that many people were hit and left. There are a lot of them every day.

According to the final statistics, among hundreds of households in the village, 32 households died for no reason.

A small half of them are people who escaped from the city after the end of the world and settled down temporarily.Most of them are not locals, just settling here.Because I don't know the people around me well, I live in seclusion after calling, and it is even more difficult for accidents to be discovered.

Because as long as there are many relatives and friends, the accident will be discovered when the personnel walk around.

Those who died did not hand in much food to the village committee. Instead, many people who were in urgent need of food went to the village committee to apply for food relief.

Before coming to the village, everyone had to hand over 20 catties of grain, and when the government distributed relief grain, some emergency food was also stored in the village alone.The whole village knows this, and this is also the last backing of the whole village.

People are really out of food, and it is impossible for the village not to give it.

But it’s okay for one or two people to come and apply. If there are more than one person, the village’s food reserves will soon bottom out.

No one in the village expected that it would be gone so soon. Some people hadn't received it yet, so they went to the village committee to make trouble every day.

After a long time, rumors spread throughout the village, saying that so much food in the village before was ignorant.From the village head to the person who guards the food, everyone has been suspected before and after.

The village head's explanation is that recently it has been patrolling and standing guard to eat public food.The daily consumption of so many people is a huge sum, and the food itself is not much.

It's just that not many people believe this statement.

Without food, I went to the village committee to stay for a day.

It's just that it didn't last long.It stopped with another blizzard.

The temperature dropped again, and the lowest temperature of Xiang Luo's thermometer was [-] degrees, and the thermometer was placed outside, and the red line had dropped to the lowest.

Cosmetic estimated that the temperature was at least fifty degrees below zero.

In extremely cold weather, there are actually two states of wind and no wind.

In the case of no wind, in fact, even if it is minus [-] degrees, it will be the same.Because your cotton coat can shrink the heat on your body.

But when there is wind, even if it is only ten degrees below zero, people will still feel very cold wearing a padded jacket.

It will take away all the temperature that can be scraped off your body without hesitation.

In the windy weather of minus [-] degrees, the cruelty of the air can be imagined.

Subsequently, the village stopped patrolling.

Firstly, the weather is too bad, and the patrol team may be in danger of life.

On the other hand... the current food reserves in the village can no longer support the patrol team.

Every household closed their doors and did not leave.

And now, it is unimaginable how many people will never sleep in this snowstorm.

Xiang Luo has prepared a lot of firewood in advance and stacked it at the back door.Boxes of briquettes were also piled up in empty places in the house.

Anwei has lived here for such a long time, but he never noticed that there are so many briquettes in the house.

But he is not a person who asks the bottom line. Seeing that Zhu Yan didn't show the slightest shock, he didn't ask a word.

At present, the heating of the home is almost entirely based on briquettes.Firewood is rarely used.

Alcohol blocks are used to ignite the briquettes, and most of the cooking is done on the stove.Earthen stoves are rarely used anymore, and even Anwei's kang is stuffed with two red-hot briquettes.The hot one lasts longer and is lukewarm almost until the next morning.

Firewood is rarely used, so the firewood piled at the door is more durable.Firewood and snow block some wind and frost, which is more beneficial to the heat stored in the room.

The author has something to say:

The condition of Xiang Luo's house is good, but it can only be guaranteed by paying attention to the indoor temperature every day.It is unimaginable what kind of despair those families who are already in difficulty face.

The temperature in the house has been kept at a comfortable temperature, and Xiang Luo's underground livestock and rabbits gave birth to two litters of cubs.The rabbits bred before have grown up and are about to enter estrus.If this continues to breed, the food supply may not be available.

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