food crisis [end times]

Xiang Luo understood when he heard the gnashing of teeth from the people next to him. These people probably didn't know that water was needed in the process of making the mushroom bag. Although it was not much, there was no need to change the water for the mushroom bag that needed water to make. .

And the current price of a best-quality mushroom package is three catties of grain, three catties of grain for one catty of water?Water is not that expensive now.

Taking a step back, why don't the villagers spontaneously dig a deeper well with these grains?Generators are available and machines are readily available.At most, I don't know how many meters to get water out. I have already had two experience of drilling waste wells, so there is not so much waste of diesel.

Xiang Luo found it ridiculous, and the others naturally found it even more unreasonable.Just say that those people are crazy about the fungus bag, this price is impossible.

In this way, people on both sides became anxious, and the words they said were naturally not pleasant.

There was a lot of noise at the other end, but the price still didn't come down.

People around me came and went, some people turned and left impatiently, and some people came to see the excitement and inquire about the situation.

I just walked around, but I didn't sell a catty of water over there.

Xiang Luo squeezed forward and saw several red barrels inside the wooden cart.The red barrel was covered with a lid, and the car shook under the movement of other people in the car, and the splash of water in the red barrel could still be seen.

The buckets of water are placed there, and no one takes a drop.

Xiang Luo looked at it for a while and then left. Li Baoguo walked with him and kept his mouth open all the way.

"I think they're just crazy about money! Who's stupid! Use bacteria packs to change water! If you say it's raw materials, it's barely acceptable. Besides, no one is short of water to that extent!"

When the wells were able to draw water before, every household stored water like crazy. Some people even filled the beer bottles before and listed them together.Even if there is a lack of water for washing, it is not time to drink water.

It is impossible to change the water with bacteria pack 1:1 until there is no drinking water.

"Maybe they underestimated our ability to store water here,"

But logically speaking, drought is not formed in a day, as long as people are not stupid, they will always be ready to hold on to water for as long as possible.

"Maybe they really think that mushroom bags are not worth much on our side."

After all, in the eyes of most people, where something can be made, that thing is worthless.There will be a so-called cheap ex-factory price.

In fact, this kind of words, if it is clothing, it is indeed possible.

"That doesn't have to be so expensive. Besides, even if it's sold, who will buy it in the future?" Li Baoguo shook his head.

After all, in his eyes, business is all about making money with harmony.If the service is good this time, the guests may come back next time.If it is the first time that you are in a hurry because of the price, who will patronize again.

Xiang Luo just smiled, seeing that Li Baoguo didn't understand, he explained: "Because they don't plan to do business next time at all."

Li Baoguo didn't understand, and looked at Xiang Luo with a strange face.

"It's impossible for the authorities to watch us die of thirst," Xiang Luo said. "The current water shortage is only temporary. We have no way to solve it, but the country with the most top resources has nothing it can't produce even now. The solution is only a matter of time. The problem is, sooner or later. The water they buy is only for emergency life-saving water. Only people who are really out of water will buy it. At this time, every sip of water is precious, let alone changing the bacteria bag one by one. It is exchanged for gold one-to-one, and there must be someone to exchange it when there is no water. They insist on not bargaining, just waiting for people who will die without water.”

"But...knowing that the drought is going to happen, you must stockpile a lot of water." Li Baoguo didn't quite understand.

"It's not that our village has no water these days. There must be some people who ran out of water half a month ago or even earlier, so they had to borrow water from other villages. Maybe that's why they thought of going out. The idea of ​​selling water. And it is impossible for other villages to save water as hard as ours. Our village saves water mainly because we grow mushrooms, and mushrooms use more water. So we are afraid that the lack of water will delay the growth of mushrooms. It grows, so there is enough to save it. But in other villages, there is only water in the tank at home, and there may be no water at all.”

Even now, there are many self-righteous people. This side has never experienced a severe drought, especially such a severe drought.I never thought that there would be a day when there would be no water in the well.

Therefore, not only are there definitely not a few people who do not store water, but they may even sneer at others when they are desperately saving water, thinking that those who store water are fools.

It's like when there is a food crisis.Everyone is grabbing the vacuum-packed rice.But there are so many old gods in each building who didn't take it seriously at all, and said that it would be cost-effective to wait until the supermarket hoarded too much and couldn't sell it so that they could buy discounted rice.

Of course, these final results are accidental.

Most looting ends up being farce.

But when you decide not to prepare for it, you should think about the consequences you will bear.

Speaking of this, Li Baoguo can fully understand.

His mouth opened, but he didn't know what to say.

After all, I have been in this village since the end of the world, experienced and seen.Although unprecedented, it is not to the extent that it cannot survive.

The despair seen is limited, and the expectations for the future are naturally positive.

Looking at the development of this village, I always feel that other villages are not too bad.

At the moment, everyone is like a flower in a greenhouse.I don't know the suffering outside.

In fact, it is still relatively good at the moment, but I don't know what it will look like in the long run.

Perhaps, they should go outside to take a good look at the outside world and feel the cruelty of the last days.

As expected, the group of people did not sell a catty of water for the first three hours outside the village, and there were very few people in the end.If there are newcomers, the villagers standing at the door will also persuade them to go back.They have already killed the price, so there is no need to waste any more time in this hot weather.

Xiang Luo didn't know what kind of expression they had when they left, at least he could be sure that they would not come back within a certain period of time.

And on the seventh day when the water was completely cut off in the village, when all the households in the village had water, but the despair had reached its peak, a PLA unit stopped at the entrance of the village with two water tankers.

Still unable to enter the village, the villagers were asked to line up at the entrance of the village carrying buckets to get it.

Each household, each person can be allocated a bucket of water.This barrel is officially provided, about 24 liters.Moreover, it is filtered water, which can be drunk after taking it back to the boil, and the risk of infection with zombies is greatly reduced.

Xiang Luo got the news and went there with a bucket, and saw that quite a few villagers had gathered around the exit of the village, waiting to receive water.

It is true that there is water at home, but having an extra bucket of water will give you more confidence.In fact, Xiang Luo came here to join in the fun.

A row of people stood there, holding a row of umbrellas and carrying buckets of various colors, waiting for the water in the hot weather.

Someone mentioned that they came to buy water a few days ago.I don't think those people are fools.The water provided by the government is dozens of catties of water at a time, and it is free. They insist on exchanging a catty of bacteria packs for a catty of water. Isn’t it because they want the bacteria packs and want to go crazy, and they really think they have no water?

With the official release of water, the confidence came up all of a sudden.

The People's Liberation Army is also registering the water shortage situation in the village.The village must like to make themselves as miserable as possible in order to get more funding.It's a pity that there are People's Liberation Army stationed in the village, and they can't lie to their superiors.

After every household had finished distributing water, two PLA escorts went directly to the village committee.It took a long time to come out.

When people in the village noticed this, they all held umbrellas and listened outside the village.After everyone left, Zhou Zhenhua came out and told everyone.

The water delivery is only this time, and will not be delivered again in the future.

Amidst the uproar, Zhou Zhenhua gasped for breath and finished the following words: "But it's not that I won't give it to anyone. From now on, every place will use the village as a unit, and you can fetch water every three days. As for gasoline consumption, you can use In exchange for food, they will also give a certain subsidy. Every time you receive water, there must be a list, and each household will send out a person, sign and fingerprint, and then each bucket of water will be given according to the name on the list.”

The villagers were full of discussions again.

Zhou Zhenhua said: "The result of our discussion here is that the village hires a group of people to fetch water from the county, and then distributes it when they come back. We also find a bucket that is the same as theirs as a measuring device, but it is impossible to have all of them when they come back with water. There are so many taxis at home, and there are quite a lot of cars wandering around, so we need to discuss the solution to this.”

One person said: "What else can I do, just put it in a water tank."

Immediately someone retorted: "The water tank is heavy. Does anyone have a truck that can hold several water tanks? It's not as good as a plastic bucket, and it's lighter."

"But the plastic bucket is so fragile, it will leak if bumped."

"That's not the way..."

……

People were chattering and chattering, but in the end, they didn't discuss what happened.

If only buckets are used, the tractors will have to go back and forth several times for hundreds of households in the village. How much diesel will be wasted?

But if people have to carry buckets back home, people might faint from heatstroke on the way, and the water brought back is not enough for drinking water consumption along the way.

Pushing with a wheelbarrow is also unrealistic.

It took two hours in the end to finally arrange a solution that is not a solution.

Xiang Luo is the most familiar with this method, and he still uses plastic sheeting.

Find the tractor with the largest and deepest body in the village, and spread a thick layer of plastic sheet under the body.Others don't have plastic sheeting, but there must be some in the small shop that used to be, because they sell plastic sheeting for use in the fields every year, so there must be some.

It's just that the plastic sheet is not very large, so there must be omissions.All can only lay a few more layers to minimize water seepage.Some people even took out the plastic kang mats that hadn't been used in time, and threw them on the bottom of the truck, and then threw them on the plastic sheet.Pour in a little water first and try it out. There is no leakage in a short time, but there will be a little water overnight.

Of course, the water that goes out is only a small part.

If there is no professional water storage equipment, there will be a certain loss in the current situation in the village.

Three cars were bustlingly prepared, and the village paid food and hired people. On the day of getting water, they knocked on doors to get signatures and fingerprints, and then went to the village to get water with the list.

It also prevents the villagers from going to the village committee to sign every once in a while.

However, each household has to collect the water by itself. It is unrealistic to deliver so much water door-to-door.

Every household has a bucket of water every three days.Not much, but enough for just drinking.In addition, there is still a stored water source at home, as long as this kind of life continues, no one will be extremely short of water.

The north has never been a place with abundant water resources.It's just the first time that the water source is so precious.

Some people are afraid that the drought will be more serious in the future.At the moment, they only drink from the water source given to them by the government.I can't even bear to wash the rice. I put the grain directly into the pot and boil it with water. I don't even want to open the lid of the pot until I'm sure it's cooked.

If it wasn't for fear of mold contaminating food, the villagers would even have to cook a portion for a day or two at a time to save the little water vapor consumed by cooking.

All save water like never before.Even some little girls who love cleanliness will be scolded as a waste if they just wipe their face with a little water on a towel.

With the anxiety in people's hearts, water becomes extremely precious.

It was the first time they came back from fetching water. Some of those responsible for fetching water even left the village for the first time after the apocalypse.The downturn is terrible.

One person stepped in the water wearing the one-piece boots used to enter the pool in the past, and gave water to everyone with a bucket that was a little smaller than the official one.The reason for using a smaller size is that there must be loss when pulling it all the way back. If you use a large bucket, it will definitely be gone after the distribution.So use a smaller size, and if there is any surplus, share more with those who go to fetch water together, and the village will also share a share, and the village committee will have more water, which is considered public water.

Xiang Luo lined up in the crowd with a small bucket, listening to those who divided the water and shared their experience of going out to collect water this time.

Not all villages are as rich and have such good conditions as this village.

It is more than ten miles away from the village. They were sitting in the car along the way, and they saw many people along the road carrying umbrellas to the village to get water.There was a long queue.

Not every village actively organizes people to collect water. There is even a person who drives a tractor to fetch water. If other people want him to help fetch water, they can only spend food or give them part of the water in exchange for their help.But they put buckets of water in the tractor, bumping it back and forth, half of the water disappeared.

But even so, it was much better than walking such a long way on this hot day.

This day is really too hot.

Along the way, they encountered several people who suddenly fell down while walking.Some of them were immediately helped up to be fed with water, while others were lying there, and the people around them walked away as if they hadn't seen them.There is only numbness on the face.

The outside world is much worse than they imagined.

This negative energy spread along with their inanimate descriptions, and some soft-hearted people wiped their tears when they carried the bucket back.

Xiang Luo took the water and walked back. Hearing the whispers of the people around him, he thought it was time to drive out to have a look.

Although there are many traps at the door, my car can still walk on the laid wooden boards.

It's been two or three months since the last time I went out. It seems that I haven't been out since the end of the zombies.

I don't know how Luo Changsheng's family is.

The situation outside quickly spread throughout the village with the surge of people.

The villagers are even more grateful for the unity and development of their village.

Of course, the communication between people's words will inevitably contain some subjective content.Those descriptions that were already hopeless are becoming more and more demonized in people's oral language.

It seems that if you leave the village, there is a piece of purgatory outside. Only by staying can you see more hope.

In this way, the villagers not only thought of those who left the village on the eve of the bacteria pack, they firmly believed that their leader could lead them to find a paradise like Noah's Ark, and resolutely left here.

After they left, the village began to undergo a qualitative change because of the mushroom kits. Mushrooms helped the villagers who were in food predicament get out of the predicament and accumulated wealth.In the future, there will be ducks, a future that is definitely a sunrise industry for the contemporary era.

But what about those people?

Did they find what they were looking for?

This world itself has no information, not to mention that when they left, they didn't even know where they went.

These people include relatives and even family members of the villagers, but where they went is still unknown.

It's not that no one has mentioned them, but every time they are mentioned, it reminds me of the almost magical and crazy time.

The people in the small half of the village believed their words crazily. Even after they left, there were still a large number of believers in the village who did not go with them for various reasons.

But with the passage of time, these fanatical people gradually calmed down.Looking at the peace and happiness in the village, and the despair outside.I can really break out in a cold sweat.At the beginning, it was really a mistake and we were going to leave together.

Three days later, Xiang Luo packed half a carload of fungus bags and two boxes of mineral water, registered at the People's Liberation Army at the entrance of the village, and left the village under the envious eyes of several villagers.

The car was not driving fast, and the target was still Luo Changsheng's house.

Xiang Luo helped his family make plans before, but because of the outbreak of zombies, after the emergency defense in the village, the two of them never left the house again.

Anwei is still guarding the house, but he doesn't really want to go out.

At present, there is no interference with the satellite signal, and he can sit at home and learn about it wherever he wants.

But if you face it face to face, to be honest, the negative energy is too great, and Anwei doesn't like it.

After leaving the village and not going far, I saw a man covered in bruises lying on the side of the road.The man's body was bruised and purple, and he had obviously been dead for some time.

There are no buckets and umbrellas around, and they may have been picked up by passers-by.

Shili Village is located in the west of the township, and there are two small villages further west.This person should be one of those two small villages.

No one collected the body, and no one knew how long he would lie here.

Such hot weather can really kill people.

The author has something to say: the fact that you can only fetch water by yourself is to advance the plot!I believe that brothers Bin are still very considerate and will not really be so desperate.