Doomsday foresight

Jiang is still old and hot, and Mr. Ye went out to take care of both of them. I don't know how the old man talked with others. Ye Jingyang drove the donkey cart and waited in the shade. Come back a car of altars and jars.

"My lord, you are too powerful. Let alone two hundred catties of corn noodles, even if you double them, you won't be able to get them in exchange."

"What's going on in the world now, you didn't read the news last time, because of the earthquake, trains and cars stopped in many places. We are doing well here, there is a lot of food production, and there is no shortage of food. This time the insect plague has made everyone suffer. , The price of grain went up. The family had little land, and they used to grow it for others and run their own business, but now the grain is not enough, and it is not easy to buy it with money. If he wants to exchange grain, he has to exchange it at the current grain price. We shouldn't be taken advantage of." The old man sighed, and he didn't want to buy it like this, but he had to take care of his own home, and it wasn't a bad deal, he saw someone was trading corn stubble.

Jinxi helped move the jars on the cart into the house.Mr. Ye is good at shopping. He bought seven of those sealed pickle jars about the size of a basketball, and these are the only ones left in his family.The body of the beige altar is decorated with coffee-colored flowers, which is quite beautiful. There are two layers of lids, with a leather pad on the inner lid, and the outer lid is an upside-down bowl. After the lid is closed, pour water on it, as long as the water is not dry. , has been sealed.There are few such jars here, and it seems that they use more in the south.

There are also six black-glazed kimchi jars with covers, this one is half a meter high, with a lid like a basin on it, which seems to be made of fresh pickled vegetables. Fortunately, this one is big and has a flat cover, so it can be stacked directly, old man I just bought it after seeing four or five of them stacked up in their store and they are stable. I eat one tank and take another tank, so it doesn't take up space.

In addition, the old man also brought back a few clay pots, which are not as beautiful as porcelain pots, and they are not airtight, but they are good for holding things.

After buying the things, Jinxi and the others started to make tomato sauce. They boiled water to scald the jars, wiped them clean, and then cut the tomatoes into pieces and put them in. The jars were much bigger than originally thought. If the time is longer, one pot can only steam two fillings, which is a bit troublesome, but fortunately, there is a lot of filling.When the pot was boiling, Jin Yang lifted the lid, and Jin Xi and his sister-in-law were ready to cover the pot as soon as they lifted the lid, and then put the lid on the last bowl and watered it to seal it.

Afraid of being suffocated by the heat, they both covered their faces and hands, so their hands were red.

Three big pots were made at the same time, and six cans were made at one time, and there were still a lot left. I don’t know where the old man got a bunch of wine bottles. Without a lid, he used wood to make a cork. There are more than [-] bottles in total. The bottles are full.

Put the jars and bottles in the cellar when they are cool. Only one jar of black oil is used, and the beans and cucumbers are marinated with sauce, so that their family has two jars of pickled vegetables.It is no problem to deal with it for two years without vegetables.

Looking at the food and vegetables placed in the cellar, Jinxi felt much more at ease.

It's a pity that this sense of steadfastness didn't last long.

Jinxi got up late the next morning, and just as he opened his eyes in a daze, he heard a dog barking, and then a woman barking and cursing, because the window was open because of the hot weather, it should have come from the far away land.Jin Xi put on his shoes and looked outside, but he couldn't see anything behind the wall, but it was in the field to the west.

"What's going on?" Jinxi went out to see Dabao and grandpa lying on the wall and looking out.asked.

The old man frowned, "I'll go and have a look, it seems that something happened in the field."

"Grandpa, I'll go with you." Jin Xi went back to the house and took the long-sleeved clothes and straw hat, and also took the straw hat for grandpa.

The two of them went to the field, and they heard a woman crying and scolding from afar, "The guy who received a thousand knives——I won’t let people live——I was struck to death by lightning when I went out——"

Jin Xi almost laughed, the woman was crying and cursing like she was singing a big show.Fortunately, I held back, otherwise people would think he was gloating.

When you walk in and take a look, you will know what's going on. The land in this man's house was dug up. When the locusts came over, they ate all the plants on the ground, and the underground ones remained, so the loss of sweet potatoes and potatoes was planted. Not much, just that there are less things to feed the livestock in winter.

Mr. Ye looked at the woman, and it was the second daughter-in-law of the third child who was very talkative.I heard earlier that their family grows a lot of potatoes.Maybe showing off outside makes people stare.Otherwise, choose their home.And whoever doesn't grow a few acres of potatoes in their village really doesn't get that much.Maybe she offended someone.Otherwise, how could other people's homes not be stolen?

Mr. Ye looked at it for a while and dragged his grandson back. It's hard to say about this kind of thing. This woman usually offends people a lot, and she doesn't even have anyone to suspect.I don't know how the third child chose the daughter-in-law to find one like this.

Now that the first house was stolen, the second house is not far away. Maybe no one thought about it before, but now that someone has started it, they are bold, so the people in the village should keep people watching at night. Or put it away.

Jinxi’s house is ready to be put away. The leaf stems on the top are all eaten bare, and they will not grow much. Although there is less water this year, the sun is sufficient and the temperature is high. It is only half a month earlier than in previous years. It should be fine. .Moreover, the land on their side has more water than that on the Datian side, so it might grow better.

Everyone was overjoyed when the potatoes were harvested. One was that the production of potatoes was not much reduced, and the other was that this year’s potatoes grew strangely. Each of them was like eggs, and the biggest one was the size of a duck’s egg. It was hung in a large bunch and weighed too much. One mu of land can weigh three thousand eight hundred catties.

There are even more sweet potatoes, with an output of [-] kilograms per mu. Although the production of these two items has decreased compared with previous years, it has not decreased by much.Better than they expected.

Seeing so many sweet potatoes, Ye Jinxi wanted to lie down on them and sleep.

After working for a few days to get the food back, the work is not over yet. Potatoes and sweet potatoes cannot be stored like this. The weather is hot, and it is not safe to store them in the cellar.What's more, the cellar can't fit it.

The whole family is busy cooking the potatoes and sweet potatoes, drying them in the sun, so that they can be stored for a long time.Jinxi’s family dry-dries potatoes every year, and stew them with chicken or pork ribs during the Chinese New Year, which is especially delicious.And chewy.I have never eaten dried sweet potatoes, and their family grows very few sweet potatoes, only one or two acres in previous years.Most of them are boiled and baked.

After the potatoes are cooked, they are sliced ​​and dried in the sun.Now the sun is so hot that it dries in an hour or two.Maybe the drying time is short and thorough, and the potatoes dry very well, golden and transparent.Because the potatoes are about the same size, they are about the size of a dollar coin after drying.

The same is true for dried sweet potatoes, which are ready to eat after drying, but they haven’t dried them before. When they first sliced ​​them, they were too dry, and they were crunchy when bitten. Although they were also sweet and delicious, they were too hard. Cut into pieces, this is better, but it is still much harder than the ones bought in the supermarket.

Grandma Ye used the slightly harder dried sweet potatoes to cook in porridge the next morning. The taste was no worse than that of raw sweet potatoes. Did not eat.

After the sweet potatoes were dried, they were put in sacks and sent to the cellar.

Every family harvested some, and bought some from relatives even if they didn't grow them.The tense atmosphere in the village relaxed.

A week after the bumper harvest, the receivers came from above, yelling on the loudspeaker, buying grain at a high price.There were also people who collected grain before, but not many people sold it.This time, the harvest of potatoes and sweet potatoes was large, and some people were moved, but they knew that the price of food was high now, so they all waited and watched.Sure enough, there was another wave of purchases the next day, and the price was half a storey higher.In the next few days, several groups of people came, and the price rose day by day.Many people sell it.

The Ye family held a small meeting at night, and finally decided to sell six thousand catties of sweet potatoes and five thousand catties of potatoes.If they don’t sell them, they won’t be able to eat them, and they won’t be able to store them in the cellar. There is almost no place to put those dried sweet potatoes and dried potatoes.In addition, it is eye-catching that they keep all the food in stock. It may be a disaster in the future, so this time they will buy some as a pretense.

In fact, according to the way they eat in previous years, they are not short of food, and they have never stored so much food. Others in the village have never heard of anyone who has no food, but people are so weird, it seems that they will not be safe if they don’t store some food Same, maybe the disaster situation on TV is getting worse and worse, everyone is nervous now, only looking at the grain in the warehouse can make people feel relieved.

Of course, the sale of grain was not done casually. Mr. Ye went to a few brothers' homes, and the old brothers held a small meeting with their nephews, and finally sent representatives to the county seat, and then to the city.Knowing the situation, I ignored the Erdao dealers in the village and went directly to a chain supermarket in the city. Many supermarkets in the city are now closed.This store is still open, which means that they still have capital.Of course, food is not sold in supermarkets now.

The selling price was cheaper than the purchase price in the village. They discussed it with the supermarket, and the supermarket exchanged some supplies for them.Still have to secretly.Now the city is cracking down on grain reselling, and now we are discussing the unified purchase of grain in the future.It's just that the situation in different places is different, and no official order has been issued yet, but it is true to catch and resell.

In the end, I discussed with the owner of the supermarket that I don’t need any money, and I would use food in exchange for some supplies. Now many things on the market have become rare items, with prices but no market.

Mr. Ye went home and asked Jinxi to write something that might be used in the future.

They don't have much shortage of food, they mainly buy some sugar, and it depends on the family's lack of salt.There are quite a lot of them.Not to mention the large grains of salt used for pickling vegetables, but the salt in bags. My second uncle also went to the city to bring a few boxes back. At that time, no one knew what would happen in the future.

There is no shortage of oil here. Every family has soybeans. Even if they can't get oil, they can squeeze it by themselves.

Some medicines are needed, common medicines for trauma medicine, vitamin tablets.

Jinxi also wrote bicycles and pedal tricycles. The donkey cart at home does not know when it will be used, and it is convenient to have bicycles.

In fact, Jinxi has a lot of considerations. They don’t lack anything in terms of food, and they are much better than the people in the city. The people in the village have a simple life and the demand is not high, but it would be better to have electricity. They bought a solar generator set, and now that the sun is so bright, it must work well. The diesel in the village has run out, and the TV has also stopped. They have not received any news from the outside world for a while.

In the end, he asked for cotton again. He felt that many of the things in his dream had happened, so the winter cold should not be far away, and he could save as much of these things as he could.

The person in charge of the supermarket came to the village to negotiate with the Ye family. This matter is not a secret. 80.00% of the people in the village are named Ye, and the rest are more or less related. However, some old people in the Ye family said that they can do it together. , but you can't shout, and this is the first time, what will happen later.Of course, there are also some people who dislike the low price of food and do not participate.Don't bother with them.

The situation in the city is very serious now. If it continues like this, it may be controlled by the military, and it will be even more troublesome to get supplies at that time.It's not as good as this.

Except for cotton and bicycles, Jinxi's family is very difficult to get.Especially sugar and solar generators.As a reserve material, sugar is no longer available on the market, and solar power generation equipment has become a hot commodity due to the shortage of electricity.In fact, before people thought of buying, these things were gone just after the disaster.Just like the county where Jinxi and the others are located.90.00% of the stores are closed.

Fortunately, the owner of this supermarket has some knowledge and agreed to the deal. In the end, four thousand catties of sweet potatoes were used to exchange the solar generator set. This home-use power generation system sold for more than 1 before, and sweet potatoes can also be bought for eight or nine thousand. According to the price, Jinxi and the others took advantage of it, but that was in the past, and now it is uncertain who takes advantage and who suffers, everyone just takes what they need.Electricity may or may not be available, but Jin Xi thinks about the scene in his dream, it will be too difficult to get power in the future, and he will always use it.

In the end, Jinxi’s family bought some daily necessities, such as toilet paper, in addition to the things they needed. There was a large-scale power outage in the city, and many things could not be produced. Jinxi remembered that in the dream, many people secretly sold things. , Women's sanitary napkins have become rare items, and perhaps many things will not be available for purchase one day in the future.

It's not very clear what the other family changed to Jinxi, but one day Yingzi's sister-in-law came home and said that the youngest daughter-in-law of Wuye's family was wearing a big gold bracelet, which was so thick.He wondered if Wuye's family had exchanged grain for gold.

Gold can always be circulated, but the price of gold will become less and less valuable when there is no food.