Doomsday foresight

Jiang Chen likes buckwheat noodle noodles, the thin noodles taste great when mixed with seasoning, but he loves this kind of food not because of the taste of the food itself, but because when he first came here, he was like a hedgehog. I wrapped myself up and didn't want to care about anyone. It happened to be summer at that time, and the sun was not as hot as it is now, but the sun was also full.

Grandpa went outside to exchange for a bag of buckwheat noodles. When he came back, he made rice noodles and threw them in the well water. After mixing them with a basin, he watched Jinxi sitting under the persimmon tree with a small basin, and buried his face in it. Well, although the persimmon tree didn't bear fruit, it still looks tall and big, and its shading effect is excellent. Jinxi has never grown strong. Ye's mother was old back then, maybe her body is not strong enough, so Jinxi seems to be a little malnourished Yes, but he can eat quite a bit. He ate a small pot of buckwheat rice noodles, and his stomach is so round that he can't even squat down.Watching him come out and giggling.

Jiang Chen looked at Jinxi who was sitting across the table, except that he grew up, everything else remained the same, when he ate he always used a basin and buried his head in it.

The sun started to set, this is the most comfortable time of the day, suddenly Jiang Chen saw green and round things on the tree, and an incredible smile appeared on his face, "Jinxi, see the persimmon tree bear fruit."

Jin Xi turned his head back when he heard that, Jiang Chen was frightened by the speed, fearing that he would break it himself.Jin Xi looked at the persimmon tree, almost out of breath, Huo Di jumped up, "Grandpa, grandma, the persimmon tree is bearing fruit—the persimmon tree is bearing fruit—" Jin Xi cried, incoherently excited, following Shouting Jinxi to go to the persimmon tree, hold the persimmon tree and look up at the green fruit on it. No one in the family paid attention to it before. The crown of the tree was very dense at the beginning of this year, but it was the same as other trees, so everyone didn’t take it seriously. , who have been busy all the time, no one thought that this persimmon tree, which hadn't picked fruit once since coming to their house, would bear fruit.

The old man heard Jinxi yelling, but he couldn't hear what he was yelling, but he hurried out to see what happened, and when he came out, he saw Jinxi wandering around the persimmon tree, jumping and jumping as if he was about to jump onto the tree .

Following the gazes of Jinxi and Jiang Chen, the old man saw the fruits hanging on the persimmon tree, the shocked expression on his face couldn't be concealed, the old man walked under the tree and looked up, only then realized that it was not an illusion, it was really The most important thing is that they have produced fruit, and there are quite a few of them. The fruits are all knotted and covered with leaves. No wonder they didn't find it, because these fruits are all covered under the leaves, and only a few of them leak out. , as if the leaves shaded the fruit from the sun.

"Grandpa, it really bears fruit." Jinxi saw his grandfather calm down, his nose was a little sore, he couldn't remember the feeling of wanting to eat persimmons back then, but this tree was planted by his father for him. The leaves on the persimmons grew scarcely, and there was no fruit at all. The disappointed expression on my father’s face. Since then, my parents will bring a large bag of frozen persimmons home every year. Whenever I think of him, I will remember the faces of my parents. Fuzzy but their love has always been in his heart.In this yard.The persimmon tree bears fruit today, my father will be happy if he knows.

"Well, good, good." The old man's eyes were red, and he reached out to pat the tree, "A good tree, a good tree."

Jinxi hastily ate his meal, took a ladder and stood on the top, pulled away some thick branches, and looked at the huge fruits on the tree, it was really a lot. "I think there can be thousands of these fruits." Jin Xi smiled and said to Jiang Chen under the tree.

"I can't stop looking at it. This tree has been planted for more than ten years, and this year's canopy is also very large. It's growing very well."

"I said that I saw the tree blooming before, and I wondered if it would bear fruit, but after thinking about it, it had bloomed before, so this year is not unusual." Yingzi's sister-in-law and Jinyang were also watching under the tree.

"Sister-in-law saw the persimmon tree bloom?"

"It's not that they are all hidden under the leaves. The tree is so tall that I didn't look carefully."

"That's great. The fruit trees outside of us are also growing very well, and they must be able to receive a lot of fruit. Last year, there were few fruits due to the drought. This year, we must use these fruits."

"But it can only be dried in the sun for storage. Dried shaguo and dried hawthorn are both good." Jiang Chen thought for a while and thought that if they made canned food by themselves, it would be easy to spoil, and if they were dried, they would last the longest.

"Yeah. Shaguo and hawthorn are almost ready." Jinxi slowly put down the stick. The persimmons in this tree can also dry a lot of persimmon cakes, but I don't know when they will be ripe. If it catches up with the snow, I can't make them The persimmon cakes are gone, so they can only be frozen at that time.

"Come down, just look at the fruits over there are already ripe, and this one is coming soon."

Jin Xi nodded, and just about to get off the ladder, she saw Ye Ke rushing to their house from the road. "Ye Ke is here."

Jiang Chen didn't look back after hearing this, "Maybe there's something wrong." He helped Jinxi down and put the ladder up against the wall.Only then did he look back at Ye Ke who entered the yard.

"Brother Jiang, three military vehicles came on the east road. We watched 30 people come down. The sixth uncle has already gone."

Jiang Chen nodded, "Okay, I'll go and have a look too. Do these people have guns?"

"Bring it." Ye Ke nodded and replied. It was because they had a gun that they were worried. Otherwise, 30 people would not be enough for their village to deal with.

The two went to the east gate together, and Jiang Chen saw Uncle Six and Uncle Fifth at the gate from afar, talking to the two soldiers.Jiang Chen walked over and took a look, "Company Commander Zhao?"

The company commander who was talking to Uncle Six turned his head when he heard the cry, and a smile appeared on his face, "Jiang Chen? Why are you here?"

Jiang Chen also smiled and walked over, "My home is here."

"Ah, what a coincidence. I didn't expect to meet you here." Company Commander Zhao patted Jiang Chen's shoulder with a smile, "Your boy has grown a lot, at least half a head taller than when he was discharged from the army. Big change, come on Let me introduce you, this is the new instructor of our company, your name is Brother Zhang, he is older than you." Company Commander Zhao said to the man next to him, "This is the top soldier of our company. , and finally did not stay."

"I remember it was recorded in Lian Zhi." Instructor Zhang said with a smile.

"Hehe, I didn't expect you to know each other." The sixth uncle looked at them with a smile and exchanged greetings, thinking that it's good to know people, and it's easy to talk to people.

"Yeah, what a coincidence."

"Company commander, why are you here? Aren't we in the south?" Jiang Chen felt very strange.

The company commander sighed when he heard about it, "Our previous troops have all been transferred, and all our regiments have gone north, and we have been recruited here."

Jiang Chen frowned, "How could this be?"

"It's a long story."

"Come here, don't stand outside and come in for a meeting." The sixth uncle is very discerning, and since he knows each other, he can feel somewhat safe.

"Yes, enter the house." Jiang Chen said and led the two of them in, but secretly winked at Ye Ke, even though he knew someone, he had to guard the gate, he didn't know the soldiers outside, and he was familiar with the company commander He is definitely the kind of soldier who obeys orders, so be careful with everything.

Take the company commander and instructor to the next room where the night watchman rests.

"Sit. Sit." The sixth uncle hurriedly let the person into the room.

"It seems that your place is not bad. Is the disaster situation serious?" Although I didn't see the situation of the houses inside after entering the fence, it is very good that a village can be surrounded by such a wall.

"It's not serious. There won't be much grain this year. You may have seen it when you came over. The corn and soybeans are basically gone. Oh-how is it outside now?" Uncle Six asked.

"You can tell from the fact that we came from the south. The situation is too bad. In the first half of last year, there were frequent floods and earthquakes in the south. Many people died in the subsequent disasters. Food was in short supply, electricity supply was not available, and food could not be stored. Many of them were broken. In the hottest summer, the temperature reached 48 degrees. At that time, there was no place to put the patients in the hospital, and people died every day. We originally went to the coast for disaster relief, but an earthquake buried our base. Later, it belonged to the southeast base." The company commander showed a trace of fear on his face when he said this, "When the weather cools down, people think it's all right. Who would have thought that the plants in the south will start to grow wildly in November, and the animals will also be the same. The temperature in the south is higher than that in the north. High, the temperature is always above zero, there is no room for manpower in the city, plants grow fast, many county towns are covered by plants, and animals grow extremely fast. You know that there are many snakes in the south, and those pythons are as thick as a person, and they reproduce very fast. Hurry up, bobcats look like leopards. Their living territory is expanding, and they will soon enter human cities, and these beasts will also seize the territory and attack humans. People are living in a very uneasy life."

The company commander lowered his head and didn't want to recall that time. At that time, he fought with animals almost every day, and people died every day.

"The most serious thing is the mosquitoes. The original mosquitoes and praying mantises are huge. I have seen the largest mosquito so long." The company commander made a gesture, and it was about [-] centimeters. "If you are accidentally bitten by a mosquito, you will lose your intuition and your body will not be able to move. Watching the mosquito suck the blood away, the toxin is very uncomfortable. After being sucked blood, the body will remain weak for a period of time, and the body will not be able to recover. , Mosquitoes seem to have a marking effect on the humans they absorb, they will find the blood-sucked people again, and then continue to suck blood. After being sucked blood three times in a month, they will lose too much blood and die. Even if nothing happens, the body will be extremely weak. "

"In addition to mosquitoes, there are also praying mantises. Their front forelimbs are huge, sharper than knives, and they are very fast. Some have tall legs and are good at hiding."

"Insects are like this, let alone animals. Many cities in the south have set up defense lines, burning insect repellent drugs every day. But the effect is not so good. You see, there are only these people left in our group. .Maybe the only thing better than here is that there is more food there. The temperature in winter is not so cold. We don’t know last winter, but I heard that it was minus [-] degrees here?”

"Well, I really need to bring a stick when I go to the bathroom." Jiang Chen nodded.

The company commander laughed a little when he heard him say this, "We came here last month. We originally escorted a group of people here, but after we came here, we didn't want to go back. These soldiers of mine are all homeless, no matter where they are. , Those who have families have gone back halfway, we thought it was cold here, at least we didn’t have to worry about being sucked every day. After contacting the military here, they arranged us here.” The company commander was also very helpless.

"Those mosquitoes are really so powerful? They should be easy to fight if they are so big." Jiang Chen was a little puzzled.

The company commander shook his head, "It's not that easy. The speed and strength of those mosquitoes have increased. The south said that this is an evolution, but they only changed their physical fitness, but did not increase their intelligence. Moreover, the research in the south found that people's five senses are also enhanced. , the physical fitness is getting stronger little by little, but because plants and insects are not as advanced as humans, the changes are particularly obvious. On the contrary, humans change at a much slower rate, and those animals are the same. The first thing to change is only the appearance, other changes Also a little bit."

"Is there a conclusion? Why did Shui Lanxing do this?" Jiang Chen asked.