Cats grow fields in the apocalyptic wasteland

Xia Lunong stood in the dark for a while, not knowing what to say.

Xia Huoqu was drowsy and was about to fall asleep again. He didn't get any response, so he opened his eyes and looked at him, his voice sounded sleepy, "What are you thinking? Still not asleep?"

"Just, just come." Xia Lunong ran two steps forward guiltily, supported the mattress with her hands and got on the bed, and lay down beside his brother.

His brother casually threw half of the quilt over and let him cover his belly.

That night, Xia Lunong's dream was extremely chaotic.

He felt that his dream was like an overturned color box, and large chunks of warm yellow and warm red appeared alternately in the depths of his dream.

This strange dream was accompanied by an inexplicable dampness.

He was wrapped in the quilt, sweat seeped out, and his breath was full of moisture.

When he woke up the next day, the sky was bright, and the half of his brother lying down had no body temperature, and he was alone on the bed.

He lifted the quilt and got up, only to see that the clothes on his body were crumpled and messy, like a piece of wet and dried paper.

He also smelled faintly of sweat, alcohol, and some very subtle smells, which together made a kind of "spring" breath.

Xia Lunong looked down, feeling a little bit annoyed.

He jumped to the ground with bare feet, took out new underwear, new trousers, and a new T-shirt from the closet, stretched out his hand to roll them up, took them out all at once, and stuffed them into the bathroom.

Kong Zhi was preparing breakfast, saw him rushing into the bathroom sullenly, and glanced at him.

He brought out a bucket from the bathroom, scooped up water from the tank with a bang, and scooped up most of the bucket in two or three strokes.

The water splashed out and drenched a small area near the bucket.

Kong Zhi asked, "What are you doing scooping up water?"

"Taking a bath." Xia Lunong dropped the sentence, carrying the bucket in one hand to the bathroom.

Kong Zhi walked into the bathroom to cut off the water in his hand, looked down at him and asked, "What cold water do you take in the morning?"

Xia Lunong was afraid that he would smell her body, so she took two steps back to avoid it, and said sullenly, "I didn't wash it yesterday."

"Burn some hot water and mix it up before washing." Kong Zhi lifted the water out, replaced it with a pot specially designed for boiling bath water, scooped water into the pot in twos, then turned it under the stove to start a fire, and looked up at him , "Look at the fire yourself."

"Oh."

Xia Lunong turned to the stove, turned around and took a dry wooden stick, which was not too big or small, and put it on her knees. With a slight force of both hands, she broke the firewood into two pieces with a "snap", stuffed it into the stove, and burned it silently. Get up the water.

The water boiled quickly, and he carried the water to wash his hair and take a bath.

When he came out again, Kong Zhi had already prepared breakfast, Xia Huoqu and Yan Xiannian had also returned and were talking in the living room.

Seeing Xia Lunong coming out, Yan Xiannian got up to get his meal, and asked with a smile, "Why do you get up so early in the morning to take a shower?"

Xia Lunong: "I didn't wash it yesterday."

The four of them went to the table for dinner, and Yan Xiannian talked about the distribution of supplies at home, "Yesterday, I wanted to say, now that we have more and more things, it's not good to mix things together, why don't we share them?"

During Xia Lunong's coma, all his brother's wealth was sent to Dr. Ou, and he didn't save any money at all.

At that time, Yan Xiannian's entire net worth was invested in Bailou, and he had no money left.

The two families eat what they collect, they don't have any inventory, and there is no need to divide the supplies.

Kong Zhi escaped to their base with only a backpack and no extra supplies. Xia Huoqu was kind enough not to ask him for food and accommodation expenses, let alone distribute food to him.

The latter is different.

Xia Lunong has already made a lot of money making chili cakes.

They went to Yacheng later and brought back thousands of catties of weapons and rice, even if they rented fields, they didn't run out.

Now there is honey, which is really expensive and not easy to mix.

Yan Xi Nian said: "Brothers settle accounts clearly, we feel that feelings belong to feelings, and accounts still belong to accounts."

Xia Lunong looked at his brother, then at Kong Zhi, and said blankly: "We are still eating together, how should we divide this?"

"A part of the public goods will be taken as public goods. We will draw a second time when this part of public goods is used up. For example, the bee pupae we found together will be confiscated directly and eaten together."

Yan Xiannian had a plan in mind, "Except for this part of public goods, we will divide them in proportion."

"For example, Xiao Nong, you and your brother found the honey this time, and you are considered a contribution. In the later stage of collecting honey, Xiao Nong, you basically did not contribute, and it is only your brother, Kong Zhi and my contribution. This time The way to divide honey is to find honey, one for you, one for your brother, one for your brother, one for me, and one for me. All the honey is divided into five parts, except your brother gets two In addition to the share, each of us has a share—something like this.”

Xia Lunong nodded, "This is fine."

Yan Xi Nian said: "It is also divided in the same way at other times. According to the contribution, a rough division is enough, and there is no need to divide it too finely, it is too fussy."

Xia Huoqu said first, "I have no problem."

Xia Lunong hurriedly followed, "I have no problem."

Kong Zhi silently nodded at the side.

Yan Xinian smiled, "Then let's divide it up like this. The Bailou is my property. I took a lot of things from the house before. Yesterday I took some honey and bee pupae. I don't want the honey this time. You three point."

Xia Huo's channel: "No, you can take half of your share at most, and the other half will still be given to you. It won't be troublesome to weigh it later."

Xia Lunong nodded hurriedly, "That's right, that's right, we don't take advantage of anyone, but we can't take advantage either."

Yan Xiannian didn't argue with them, "That's fine."

"Let's talk after breakfast." Xia Huo channeled, "I have no objection to using your share in the Bailou, but the news has been leaked out many times, and the scientific research staff's operations are not standardized. I'm afraid you have to rectify it."

Xia Huoqu still remembered the matter of Yan Mingqing. Yan Mingqing came to the door to apologize twice, but he did not forgive him.

Yan Xiannian nodded, "I will talk to Director Jin."

After breakfast, the four of them called honey first.

The honey harvested yesterday has a total of 180 catties left, Yan Xinian gets 41 catties, Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi each get 82 catties, Xia Huoqu gets [-] catties, and the remaining [-] catties The catty is public honey, and it is usually released to soak honey water.

Xia Lunong straightened up, "What a bumper harvest."

"Yes." Yan Xinian smiled, "This is just the beginning, and there will definitely be more gains in the future."

The honey has been divided, but it is still piled up in Xia's house.

Xia Lunong looked at the mountains of grain and rice piled up in the living room and utility room, and felt a little headache for the first time, "It's hard to turn around now, and when the peanuts come back, we probably won't even have a place to stay."

Xia Huo's channel: "See if you are free this winter. If you are free, you can add a floor upstairs as a utility floor."

Yan Xianian raised his hands in agreement, "I have no objection. I'm sure I'll be free this winter."

After the four of them had breakfast, Yan Xiannian went to the White House, while the other three went to dry peanuts.

The peanuts that were just washed yesterday are almost dry today.

Xia Lunong grabbed a handful from the ground, squeezed open the shell and ate the peanut kernels inside, feeling that it would take another two or three days to dry before being sent to the oil press.

The three of them rummaged through it, Xia Huoqu wiped the sweat from his forehead, and took his two younger brothers, "Let's go, go back to have lunch first, let Aunt Gu and the others watch over here."

Aunt Gu's house is also drying peanuts, she has been sitting in the shade, flipping through them from time to time.Xia Huoqu didn't bother to look at it, so he specially asked her to take care of it, and call them in time if it rains.

Xia Lunong's face was flushed with heat, and she wiped her forehead with her arm, "Shall I have cold noodles for lunch? Later, I will get some shredded cucumbers, sliced ​​tomatoes, and some chili oil and mature vinegar, and have a good meal."

Kong Zhi: "I'll knead the dough."

"Okay, then I'll go to the cafeteria to see if I can get some meat instead. It's better to make some minced meat."

The three of them went back side by side. Before they got home, someone called them from behind, mainly Xia Huoqu, "Deputy Xia!"

Xia Huoqu turned his head, and behind him was a middle-aged woman carrying a pig cage.

Xia Huoqu whispered to Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi: "This person's name is Lu Qingxuan, you can just call her Sister Lu."

Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi nodded together, and greeted Lu Qingxuan.

Lv Qingxuan caught up panting, greeted them, put the pig cage on the ground, and said, "Deputy Xia, I heard that your family wants piglets?"

"Are you going to exchange piglets with us?" Xia Huo channeled, "If you want to exchange honey, we will only offer a price of one tael of honey plus twenty catties of rice."

"I don't want honey, but rice." Lu Qingxuan panted, "This is a piglet raised by our family this year. Do you want it?"

Charlon had gone to see her piggies as she spoke.

The piglets in her family are all black pigs, which look thinner and rougher than those in Shi's family.

As for the mutation, among the three piglets, two had an extra eye, and one had an extra hoof.

Seeing that Xia Lunong was interested, Lu Qingxuan said, "They are all good pigs. Our family really couldn't keep them, so we sent them out for exchange. There were originally twelve pigs, but now there are only three left."

Xia Lunong asked: "Sister Lu, is your house a pigsty built on Dongpo?"

"Yes. There is still vacant land there. If you think pigs are raised near your home, you can also raise them in Dongpo. Deputy Xia knows this. Renting land in Dongpo is not expensive. Our family There are still empty pig sheds available for rent to you.”

Xia Huoqu asked, "Is this a piglet born from a hybrid between a domestic pig and a wild boar?"

"Almost, it is said to be a wild boar, but it is actually a mutation of a domestic pig before the catastrophe." Lu Qingxuan said, "I won't hide it from you, my pig is a bit more wild than the Shi family's, but the rice I exchanged is also less. , a catty of live pigs only needs three catties of rice."

Xia Huo's channel: "The Shi family also has three catties of rice for one catty of live pigs."

Lu Qingxuan wiped her sweat and smiled, "It was suggested by someone else, and his family refused to exchange it. He used to exchange pigs at least three and a half catties of rice for one catty of live pigs."

Xia Huoqu looked at his brother, then at Kong Zhi, and said, "Let's think about it again. Sister Lu, why did you just pick the pig over?"

"Pick it here for you to see, it doesn't bother you to go left and right, if you don't want it, I'll pick it back,"

It's not far from home, Xia Huo channeled: "Go to our house to drink some water first."

"Hey." Lu Qingxuan responded, ready to pick up the burden and continue walking.

Xia Huoqu took her carrying pole, "I'll do it."

Lu Qingxuan let go of her hand, panting, "Then I will trouble you."

Kong Zhi said: "Brother Huo Qu, let me do it."

Xia Huoqu: "No, it's not a few steps."

Lu Qingxuan was afraid that they would not want piglets, so she said as they walked: "It's good to raise pigs. You can spend a little time raising them for a year. You don't have to worry about the usual manure. In winter, you can harvest a big fat pig. Making sausages and bacon is comparable to outsiders." The hit wild boar smells better."

Xia Lunong said: "It's not easy to serve pigs every day."

"It's okay. If you can't get it out, you can hire someone else to raise it. Like Ye Bacheng's family, he spends ten or twenty catties of rice a month, and Jinhua's family helps to raise it."

Xia Lunong: "Can it still be like this?"

"Of course you can. Aren't you busy? It doesn't take much rice to ask someone to raise them."

Lu Qingxuan said, "I see that your family has replaced so many peanuts. Once the oil is squeezed, there will be a large amount of oil residue, which is just used to feed the pigs. The oil residue is mixed with sweet potato vines. After the pig eats it, the meat rises slowly. It will be ready for slaughter in four to five months."

Xia Lunong also considered the oil meal before, so she wanted to change pigs.

As for the sweet potato vines, there are so many sweet potatoes planted in the base, the sweet potato vines can be harvested repeatedly, and a lot of rice can be exchanged for a pound of rice, which is very convenient.

Xia Lunong glanced at his brother, and asked: "Three catties of rice is too expensive, can two catties do it? I heard that several piglets in your family were exchanged for two catties."

Lu Qingxuan didn't expect him to inquire about this, she stared at him with wide eyes, with a surprised expression on her face.

Xia Lunong went to the square at night and heard a lot of gossip, so she knew it very well, and immediately looked back calmly.

Lu Qingxuan said distressedly: "My batch of piglets is better than the last batch."

Xia Lunong: "Yeah."

Lu Qingxuan waited for his next words, but she didn't expect him to disappear after "um", so she couldn't help but stare at him again in a daze.

Xia Huoqu's eyes were full of smiles.

When the three returned home, Xia Huoqu put the piglet in the corridor and called Lu Qingxuan in for tea.

Lu Qingxuan was not polite to them either.

Dozens of catties of rice are nothing to them now, Xia Huoqu handed over the matter to his younger brother, and he sifted tea for them on the ground.

The tea his family drinks is bamboo leaf tea, which is also traded from the market. It is not a good tea, so just drink it.

Xia Lunong calmly discussed with Lu Qingxuan, and finally exchanged all three of her piglets at the price of two catties and two meters per catty of live pigs.

These three piglets are all male pigs, one weighs 21 catties and [-] taels, one weighs [-] catties and [-] taels, and the other weighs [-] catties and three taels. They are all newly weaned piglets and have all been castrated.

Almost everyone who raises pigs in the base has a tacit understanding, and the boars sold are generally castrated before being sent to the seller.

Before the delivery, Xia Lunong confirmed with her that if the piglet died of illness within a month, she would have to return half of the rice, and if they encountered any difficulties in raising pigs, she would also have to guide them.

Lu Qingxuan agreed, and even offered to lend them a free pigsty for a month.

After the delivery was clear, Xia Huoqu and her picked the piglet back to the vacant pigsty in Dongpo's house, exchanged some sweet potato vines and rice bran from her, and fed the piglet first.

These three pigs are considered the public property of the four people.

Yan Xiannian came back and heard that they had changed piglets and were about to find someone to feed them, so she said: "Don't look for someone else, I'll ask Aunt Zheng to see if she is willing. Leave it to her, so you don't have to worry about it."

Xia Lunong often went to the square and knew who his brother was talking about in the past.

Aunt Zheng was talking about Zheng Linguang, who has an 11-year-old son at home.

This aunt's name is very masculine, and she is more generous in her work than ordinary men. She never asks for what she deserves, and never takes anything she doesn't deserve.

Xia Lunong always heard people in the square say that she was stubborn, that she was inflexible, but she never denied her character.

Xia Lunong asked: "Can she be willing?"

Yan Xiannian: "Ask first, then talk later. It should be fine."

Yan Xiannian went to her house to ask questions that afternoon, and Zheng Linguang agreed, saying that he would cook pig food for them at home, as long as he would prepare corresponding firewood for her every month.

Pigs will grow faster if they eat cooked pig food than if they eat raw pig food. Asking her for help also requires her to cook pig food.

She offered to cook at her home, so Yan Xiannian went to the market to buy a new pot for her to use temporarily, and bought a batch of firewood to send to her home.

In addition, they exchanged rice bran at the market, and ordered sweet potato vines at the property management committee. They spent hours doing everything until the evening.

When they returned home, people from the Yu family came to ask them if they wanted piglets. Only then did Xia Lunong know that the live pig market in the base was falsely prosperous.

Piglets seem to be very popular, but in fact, most people are unwilling to raise them, because they find it troublesome.

Xia Lunong sighed, "I also said that Shi Jiacheng and Sister Lu acted so fast, so they regarded us as rich customers."

Xia Huo's channel: "The base is so big, with countless pairs of eyes watching, everyone knows exactly who's situation, and the action is naturally fast."