Surviving the end of the world

After the new year, people in the village fell silent again, which is inevitable. It’s cold and the air is dry, so it’s okay to stay at home. After all, most people’s bedrooms are combined with the kitchen, and the stove is always burning. It can be regarded as a soil humidifier when exposed to water, but if you stay outside for a long time, the dry air will take away the only moisture on your skin, causing problems such as dry cracked frostbite, which is difficult for adults to bear, let alone It's the kids, so everyone goes out less.

Compared with the previous year, this winter lasted longer. This is not a good sign. If it continues like this, the time to grow food here will be shorter, and it will be more difficult to survive.

There is no radio in the village anymore, and the contact with the outside world has almost been cut off, but it is estimated that the time of thawing is already May of the second year, and the temperature rises rapidly, such an almost extreme weather change It made many people sick, but many people could only hold on. If they didn't take advantage of this time to plant food, they would not be able to grow anything when the temperature was higher.

I have learned the lesson from last year. Although the cornmeal is too thick and the sweet potatoes are too bloated, everyone dare not grow rice and so on. They just choose the corn and sweet potatoes with the shortest maturity period to plant. Maybe they are lucky. If so, you can grow another crop of corn or something after harvesting it, and now you don’t care about the taste, as long as you can fill your stomach.

In front of the house and behind the house, everyone hurriedly planted all kinds of vegetables, most of which were pumpkins or something. These things should be full, and they don’t pick the ground. They can be picked and eaten when they are not ripe. The planting time is also long, and there are not many other cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, etc., just to give the children something to think about.In addition, soybeans have to be grown, but not for eating green beans, but for extracting oil. After all, even if you make a soup or stew, it will not taste good without some oil.

After working so hard for more than half a month, I finally got the job done in the field. The high-intensity labor and the great mental pressure, when I suddenly relax, many people who were not in good health before suddenly collapsed. If it continues, there is a lack of medical care and medicine, and the barefoot doctors in the village can't do anything about it, so they can only take good care of them at home.However, nowadays, almost everyone eats porridge when they can, and the oil used for cooking can’t wait to drip it with chopsticks. If you want to keep it, how can you keep it!

Speaking of it, human beings are really cheap creatures. If such a disease was placed in the past, it might be a medicine jar for a lifetime, but now, I can't even bear to eat an egg, and I drink miscellaneous porridge every day. , but people are almost better, and will soon be able to struggle to get off the ground.

Seeing that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, the matter of going to the beach to exchange salt was brought up again.Now is the time when the crops are not harvested. Bringing food and salt will inevitably be missed by others. Especially, their matter is still blocking the way of making money for the group of people who specialize in selling salt. As the saying goes, blocking people's way of making money Such as murdering parents, not to mention that these days, blocking people's money is a dead end. Therefore, after several days of discussion in the village, a decision was made. All the people who were dispatched were young people, so as not to be robbed on the road. Be careful not to let people take the opportunity to give it to you.

Originally, the village planned to let everyone go out on bicycles, but they quickly dismissed their attention. The road conditions on this road are not very good, and it is not very smooth. I heard before that someone robbed a cyclist, and first poured a bucket of water on the road. The piles of broken glass or nails and wires are just waiting for your tires to go flat. As soon as you stop, people will rush up and snatch all the things on the car, and you have no time to chase.So in the end, three trolleys were found, food and other things were placed on the trolleys, and a group of people took turns pushing the carts.

Chen Jin and Bai Jing were also in the team going to the beach to exchange salt. They had been nesting in the village for a long time, so they really should go out for a walk, and inquire about the news. At least there is an army over there, and they should have some contact with other places. right.

This side is about two hundred miles away from the seaside, and it takes a long time to go back and forth just by walking, but there is no way to do it.You can't always rely on those people to open their mouths, salt is monopolized by them, and they have the final say on how much to ask, why not work hard on your own!

Xiaochenzhuang was on the only way they had to go to the seaside. When the sun was high, they had already arrived at Xiaochenzhuang. Asking more questions, but thinking about what is going on in my heart, Chen Jin and the others were planning to find a shady place to stop, but they heard Li Lixin shouting: "Brother Chen, look over there, is it your father?" ?”

Chen Jin turned her head to look, and couldn't help being surprised. It was indeed Father Chen standing there, but Father Chen looked much older, with white hair on his head, and his back was bent. Walking back with a yellowed plastic bucket, water splashed out of the bucket.

Chen Jin pursed her lips, told them to wait for a while, then walked over, took the bucket with her hand, and called out, "Dad, let me do it!"

Father Chen was stunned for a moment, with a somewhat embarrassed expression on his face: "It's Xiaojin, let me do it!"

Chen Jin didn't answer, and directly helped carry the bucket and followed Dad Chen into a house on the side of the road. In the house, Yang Xiaoyun was cooking, and Chen Zhe was sitting by the stove to light the fire. Yang Xiaoyun lifted the lid of the pot and put some The potato cubes that had just been cut were thrown into the pot, and then he took a pot, carefully scooped out a small spoonful of yellowish salt grains with a spoon, sprinkled it into the pot, and sighed.

Chen Zhe was the first to see Chen Jin, and he greeted uncomfortably: "Brother, it's you!" Chen Zhe also changed a lot, looking a little sloppy, his hair hasn't been trimmed for a long time, and it's greasy The greasy ground was on his head, and his complexion was not very good. The clothes on his body were a bit too big, and the cloth slippers on his feet were torn a few times, exposing his toes.

Yang Xiaoyun forced a smile on her face when she heard the voice: "It's Xiaojin, sit down quickly, I can eat later!"

Chen Jin shook her head and said, "No, I'm just passing by. People are still waiting for me, so I'm leaving now!"

Father Chen twisted a towel for Chen Jin. The original color of the towel could no longer be seen. He coughed twice and said, "Let's go after eating! Don't worry about it for a while!"

Chen Jin shook her head firmly and said, "No need, a group of people are waiting for me!"

Chen Zhe was a little curious and asked, "Brother, where are you going?"

Chen Jin hesitated for a moment, lowered her voice, and said, "We're going to change some salt!"

Yang Xiaoyun's eyes lit up, and she quickly gave Dad Chen a wink. Dad Chen was a little embarrassed, but he still said: "Go and change the salt! Otherwise, Xiaojin can bring some back for us, and I'll go get you some corn right now." !"

We, Chen Jin chewed on this word in his heart, secretly let out a sarcasm laugh, lowered his eyes, and said lightly: "Okay, by the way anyway!"

Father Chen quickly found a cloth bag, poured a bag full of unmilled corn kernels into it, and handed it to Chen Jin. Chen Jin weighed it, and it weighed about ten catties. Their lives were not so well off, but Chen Jin didn't say much, just said goodbye and went out with the bag.

When he was going out, he heard Father Chen sigh. He looked back and saw that Father Chen hesitated to speak for a while. In the end, he didn’t say anything. He just waved his hand and said, “Be careful on the road. If there is no food, it will be gone.” !"

Chen Jin nodded: "Yes, I know! Dad, don't tell others about this, lest someone make up their minds!"

Father Chen responded: "Well, I know the seriousness!"

Chen Jin carried the bag and left. Bai Jing was sitting on the cart boredly, fanning the wind with a straw hat. Seeing Chen Jin come back, he greeted Chen Jin with a smile on his face: "So fast!"

Chen Zhe put the bag on the cart, and said to the others: "I'll bring one for my dad!"

The rest of the people didn't have any objections, it was inevitable, not to mention that they didn't need to pay food, they just said: "This is what it should be!"

Several people pushed the scooter and walked for a while, found a shady place and stopped, ready to eat something, rest for a while before leaving.

For fear of trouble, everyone brought dry food. The so-called dry food is homemade cornmeal cakes, fermented with some flour, made into a pancake with a diameter of about [-] cm, thick in the middle and thin around the periphery, cut into slices and dried in the sun. It tastes very tough on the teeth, but it is resistant to storage and is not easy to break. If you bring more, it will not be a problem to eat for ten days and a half months.Chen Jin took out a large glass jar, which was full of pickles, and fried with some soybeans, it was easy to eat. A group of people ate a few slices of bread with pickles, and filled half their stomachs with water. There is nothing to complain about. If you don’t go out, who would be willing to eat like this? If you don’t work, you can stay at home and cook a big pot of porridge, and you can fool around for a day.

Bai Jing obviously felt a little depressed about this, and Chen Jin heard him muttering that he would not have come out if he knew it, so he had to secretly comfort him a few words.

They soon set off again and walked eastward along the main road. The road conditions were really bad. The originally flat gravel road was now full of potholes, and some areas had collapsed due to the previous earthquake, and there were palm-wide cracks in the ground. , which greatly affected their speed. Even when passing a river, the original bridge on the river was broken, and the pontoon bridge built on the water obviously did not have enough load-bearing capacity. They had to take things off the car and carry them to the opposite side first. Go, and then push the empty cart over.

After walking all the way, when it was dark, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.They found an open place by a river, a group of people took turns taking a bath in the river, and then ate something, Chen Jin and Bai Jing kept watch, and the rest directly spread a sheet on the ground, Soon fell asleep.

Chen Jin found some branches or something, and built a fire. The two swayed by the fire, but because they were afraid of waking up others, they didn't make it to the end.After Bai Jing vented on Chen Jin's hands twice, he said with a little satisfaction that he was going to take a bath, and then came back with a few snakes. Chen Jin accompanied him to clean up those unlucky snakes with some dumbfounding. Chop it into pieces, then took a pot from the cart and put it on the fire, threw the snake pieces into the pot, added water, and started to cook the soup.

The few people who had slept soundly woke up from the smell of snake soup. They looked at the pot eagerly, and Li Lixin asked directly: "What kind of soup is this, it's so fragrant!"

Chen Jin just filled a large bowl for Bai Jing, most of which was snake meat, Bai Jing held the bowl and took a sip, then glared at the group of people, and then said slowly: "It's snake meat soup! "

The eyes of several people brightened. People in the countryside don’t have any psychological pressure on eating snakes. When they heard it now, their saliva was even secreted. Chen Jin was not stingy, and said: "There is quite a lot of soup, you guys Let's drink some too!"

Although the pot is not small and there is a lot of soup, there are too many people. A share of a dozen people is not much. Everyone is holding bowls. There are not a few pieces of snake meat in a bowl, and there are still many bones, but no one wants to eat it. Disgusted, they each tore open the cake and soaked it in the soup, and ate it in a hurry, with satisfaction on their faces.