Surviving the end of the world

The following days were very ordinary, and many people practiced the basic breathing exercises taught on the radio. However, because there was no effect for a while, not many people could persevere. Everyone wanted to live, and the work in the fields If you want to do it, you also have to do the housework. After a long day, you will fall asleep with your pillow on your head at night. How can you have the heart to practice? Of course, some people believe this and persevere.

However, with the gradual birth of the next generation in the village, everyone discovered new problems.In the past, people in the village, regardless of whether they were literate or not, and whether they had been out or not, unless they were old men in their eighties or nineties, everyone could understand Mandarin. After all, it is a common language in the whole country, but the problem now is that now Except for the radio, there is no Mandarin language environment, and no one usually speaks it, and they all speak dialects.This area can barely be regarded as the Jiangnan area, and even in neighboring towns, the dialects will be somewhat different. The mandarin spoken here is not too different!Those children under the age of seven or eight now regard what they hear on the radio as a foreign language, and few of them understand it, and parents have to explain it on the side.

Although everyone thinks that studying is really useless these days, in the countryside, it is far more cost-effective to learn some crafts such as carpentry and bricklaying, because, in the small, almost closed environment of the countryside, If you can add, subtract, multiply, and divide within four digits, you can get everything done. Even if you want to learn to read and write, you should find two books, or some paper and pen!

As soon as the incident about children not being able to understand the radio came out, everyone felt that no matter what, at least they should know how to pronounce the commonly used words and understand Mandarin. Otherwise, the radio, the only channel for communicating with the outside world, would be useless in the future. , and people said before that people from the security base will often come down here to exchange some daily necessities with them. If they don't understand Mandarin, they will be deceived in the future, and they don't even know it!

Where there is demand, there is a market. Unlike simple arithmetic such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, most people in the village are still able to understand Mandarin, but they can barely speak it. If you really want to teach children, it is no different from misleading children. Soon some young people in the village gathered together to discuss, found a place, and opened a study class, which is actually equivalent to a literacy class, and the class time is also very random, that is, when you are free, you can teach children pinyin. The reading and writing methods of some commonly used characters are fine without paper and pen. Anyway, calligraphy is not needed nowadays. Get a wooden box and pour some sand in it, and you can write with branches. As for the teachers, it is more convenient. Find a piece of paper. Wooden planks, get a charred branch and it will work.Of course, this is not free, and each family has to pay ten catties of food for it a month, and then, the teachers will share it equally, which is also an extra income.

As for Dad Chen, he also thought of this point. Compared with young people in Xiaohe Village who were all amateurs and were originally high school students, Dad Chen was originally a Chinese teacher, and many people in the village were his former students. Naturally, he was more trusted by others, so he asked Chen Zhe to help him, found a spare room, and set up a kindergarten enlightenment class. Although there were not many children who needed to be taught, the income was barely enough, and finally let the tight-knit The days are getting easier, and when Chen Jin went to deliver the food, they looked a lot more relaxed.

Three years have passed in a flash, and almost everyone is used to the regular life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset, and everyone is also used to the poverty compared to the past, and the safe base often comes to exchange some life Supplies, however, everyone's attitude is becoming more and more cautious. After all, the winter is too long today, and it is getting colder and colder. Even if you don't move, you have to eat a lot of food in order to maintain the normal consumption of your body. Everyone has a sense of crisis in their hearts, so except for necessities such as matches, everyone dare not change anything.One by one, like squirrels in the winter, they are desperately hoarding food.

Some courageous people will set up traps in the wild before winter, put covers, and go to look at it from time to time. They can often harvest some small prey, whether it is meat or fur, which are good things, even if there is not much fat, protein The rich meat will provide more heat, and the fur is much warmer than a cotton jacket if it is well groomed.

This also gave birth to a new profession. There are always people with little land and poor people who take risks because they can’t survive. This word also represents two kinds of people. One is those who block the road and rob. Also, when the people in the safe base come to exchange items, they will go out, and the rest of the time they don't go out alone at all.The other type is relatively professional hunters. They spend a lot of food in exchange for one or two alloy crossbows from the people in the security base. In normal times, they go hunting and exchange meat and fur for some food.People in the country are not very interested in meat. Few people are willing to spend several times the weight of grain, buy some meat that is not good, and bring back the bones. Killed chickens and ducks!However, the market for fur is very good. Even if it is used as a sleeve or a scarf, it will always be warmer in winter. In fact, the best is leather boots. Even though there are no skilled shoemakers here, a pair of leather boots will make the winter It's even easier, after all, it's impossible for anyone to stay on the kang all winter.It would be great if a blanket made of fur can be spread on the kang.

Of course, this profession is also dangerous, lacking the threat of powerful modern weapons. In such a harsh environment, animals are far more adaptable than humans. Some large cats have even evolved extremely quickly in a short period of time, such as It is said that when winter is approaching, they should put on thicker gray and white fur, which will make it easier for them to survive the severe winter. The gray and white fur will give them an excellent protective color in the cold winter, which is more conducive to them hunting.Perhaps, when the weather is warm and the plants are lush, those carnivores will not attack humans, but in winter, they don't mind whether the prey is wearing thick clothes, their sharp claws are enough to tear the flesh outside of these packages.However, although people die at their mouths every year, those hunters don't have many choices in order to survive.

Many people in Xiaohe Village plant two or three cents of cotton on their own plots. The harvested cotton and cotton cloth are one of the sources of income for the villagers of Xiaohe Village. Although these are of single color, they are cheaper in price. The fabrics brought out from the base are much cheaper. In the colder winter, everyone needs more cotton batting to make quilted jackets and quilts.

But on a certain day this winter, Chen Zhehong knocked on the door with eyes circled and brought the news of Father Chen's death.