Doomsday foresight

Because of the weather or the current environment is suitable for plant growth, the villagers picked a lot of mushrooms, and almost every family could get [-] catties, which was the amount after drying.

The village harvested a lot. In mid-August, there was almost no harvest of corn and soybeans in the fields outside. The old people in the village simply ordered to harvest the grain. At least the corn stalks and soybean stalks could still be fed to the livestock. During this time, the young people in the village People are trying to round up some moose and bring them back for domestication to pull carts. The moose eat a lot, so they have to prepare feed in advance. There is still a lot of charcoal on the east mountain, so the village asks every household to go up the mountain to collect it, which can save feed.

Hunting and collection are still going on, and the villagers encountered a herd of bears and wild boars several times. They were not able to contend with them, so they all avoided them far away. The most serious one was Ye Cheng's cousin Ye Hong, who was pushed by a wild boar and had a hole in his leg.If it wasn't for Zhang Zhong being in front of him, the Immortal's leg would also be crippled, even if he went home like this, he would have to rest for a long time to recover.

Ye Hong's injury extinguished the enthusiasm of the villagers for hunting, at least they would not recklessly want to enter the depths of the forest.

As they explored farther and farther away, they also met people from other villages. The village was half a day away from them. It was originally surrounded by forests, but last year their village was surrounded by forests. According to them, plants grow It grew very fast. At first it was weeds, then vines, shrubs, and then the tree seeds that flew in did not know when they germinated in the ground, and they grew to the size of the wrist in a year. The people in their village had to clear which plants every day, and finally They only kept houses in the woods, but the fields could not come back.Because there is no land to grow, they can only go hunting in the forest, but the prey is so powerful that many of them died and were disabled.Had a hard time.But those who were able to leave before had fled and left, and the rest were unwilling to leave.Besides, it doesn't matter where you go now.

These people are worthy of sympathy, but their village is too busy to take care of others.They are still far away.Now it seems that the people in that village are used to life in the forest. There used to be hunters in the village, and teaching them to set traps will make hunting easier for them.

Jinxi's village is very envious of this move. After all, Jiang Chen's traps are only superficial. The villagers went to exchange this technology with them. The village is currently short of supplies, and the most needed thing is salt. The salt family in Jinxi's village They all store ten bags and eight bags, which is not considered a scarce commodity.So some salt in exchange is still acceptable.

The forest is so big, even if all the villages around them go hunting, the prey will not disappear, not to mention the current prey breeds very fast.The forest is like the mother that breeds all things. With the increase of plants, herbivores also increase a lot, which drives the prosperity of the food chain. Perhaps humans are the only ones that are badly affected.

With the increase of prey, the issue of salt in the village has been put on the agenda. Each of their households has a lot of salt storage. When it was rumored that the doomsday was coming, everyone began to store it. This kind of necessary material is what they must buy. Grandpa Jinxi used silk bags when he bought them.But because there are many prey and the weather is hot, they need to use salt to store food. Maybe this year will be fine, but next year, the year after, they must find a stable channel.

Company Commander Zhao said that some cities in the south have formed a new order, and the north is slightly worse. It is not as fast as the south is covered by forests. Because of the long and cold winter, after the weather warms up, many people in the cities will go south. Those who can be relocated and can stay are not weak. After a summer of fighting, many places have stabilized. Although they can't buy whatever they want like before, bartering is still possible.If you want salt, look for it in coastal cities.

At the end of August, the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the village began to be harvested. In previous years, the sweet potatoes and potatoes were harvested early, and the ones planted this year were harvested late.

Before the harvest, everyone was very nervous. After all, the cultivation of corn and soybeans failed.When you started digging, you discovered that sweet potatoes and potatoes took root very deep this year, and you didn’t see them until you dug about half a meter. Moreover, both sweet potatoes and potatoes are very small. Potatoes are about the size of golf balls, and there are even smaller ones, a bit like The same is true for yam beans and sweet potatoes, but sweet potatoes are mostly long and thin. They are small and small, and the quantity is quite large. The output of each plant is similar to before, even exceeding last year.This result made everyone smile, at least not afraid of going hungry.

In fact, no matter the size, as long as the weight is enough.

Until the end of the harvest, they didn't see anyone who came to collect the grain, which made the villagers a little strange. It seemed that since the last time they killed the group of people who came to grab the food, their village seemed to have been calm.

This phenomenon is definitely not normal, so Jiang Chen decided to go out and have a look, and change some salt by the way.

"You stay at home, this time you go out just to find out about the situation." Jiang Chen put on his clothes and put the weapon on his body.Tell Jinxi.

"I don't particularly want to go. Be careful along the way."

"Don't worry, don't go hunting these days, I'm not very relieved."

"Got it. It just so happens that I'm going to dry some potatoes these days."

After Jiang Chen made his confession, he left. This time he, Zhang Zhong, Zheng Yuan, and Ye Ke went out. After some research, they still didn't bring any food. This time, they just went to inquire about the news, and they didn't plan to change things.

At night, Jinxi woke up after a flicker, opened his eyes and heard Dabao's soft snoring, his heart was beating a little, and the chicken coop next to him occasionally gurgled, but everything else was quiet.

Jin Xi suddenly woke up when he thought of the dream he had.

"Why did you get up?" Jin Xi gently opened the door, trying not to make a sound, but didn't think Grandpa would wake up long ago.

"I'm a little thirsty, I'm going to drink some water, sir, go to sleep." Jin Xi responded in a low voice.

"What time is it?" the old man asked.

"It's four o'clock." Jin Xi looked at his watch when he got up just now.

"Hey - I feel lighter when I'm old." The old man said, took out the cigarette pouch, squeezed it with his hands, and didn't smoke.

Jin Xi softly opened the door and went out, first went to the kitchen to pour some water to drink, and then walked out, it was the darkness before dawn, the yard was pitch black, but Jin Xi had good eyes and could still see clearly of.The air in the morning is very fresh. Maybe the forest area has increased and the air quality is good. Jinxi sometimes thinks that it may be a good thing that the world has become like this.

Open the grille door outside and spread a blanket, Jinxi sat on the porch.Just now he saw the scene in the south in his dream.He couldn't be sure which city it was, because the city had been taken over by plants and was full of lush greenery, where did humans still live.But they have to be careful of mosquito bites, Jinxi dare not leave the house when he sees ordinary people, some hunters, remember what Company Commander Zhao said.Those hunters drove cars or rode horses, went to the forest, hunted and killed animals, and came back to trade. Sure enough, there was a new order in the city.Humans are really adaptable.

Just now in a dream, I saw a convoy. It was very long. There were almost a hundred trucks filled with people. Human beings seemed to be migrating. He saw a sign saying that it was going south. Why did the people in the north move south? , if the people in the north have all moved away, will they be left with independent villages like them?He wondered if the reason no one came to trouble them was because those people had all left.

Jinxi's dream has always been a warning, yesterday's dream was quite peaceful, but this does not mean that this dream is good.There must be something in it that he doesn't know.

He was a little absent-minded during the day, but at night he dreamed again, but this time he woke up from the cold, it was really cold in the dream.This time he saw more convoys, people in the northern cities were migrating, Jinxi was a little worried, the temperature was about to cool down, and wondered if Jiang Chen and the others could come back before the temperature dropped.

His worry was unnecessary, he saw Jiang Chen and Zhang Zhong returning in their car before dawn in the morning.They parked the car at the door with very bad faces.

"What happened?" The old man looked at Jiang Chen and the others and asked with a cold face.

"Now the entire northern city is moving to the south. A research institute in the central region has calculated that the temperature in the northern winter will be even colder this year. Last year's lowest temperature was minus 93 degrees, which is about to catch up with the lowest temperature in Antarctica. However, the temperature will drop this year. Even the winter time is extended, and it may be cold from October to May next year. In this way, there are only four warm months in a year. Because of the hot weather in these four months, many grains cannot be grown, so many cities are Give up and prepare to migrate to live in the south.”

"Why didn't you inform us?" Jin Yang felt that they had been abandoned.

Jiang Chen shook his head, "Transferring in the city is already very troublesome, especially now that food is in short supply in the city, and we can't bring so many people."

"It's a kind of compensation for them not coming to collect grain this year." Zhang Zhong said this with a bit of sarcasm and a little relief.In fact, they all understand that they really can't control so many people at this time. In fact, even if they are notified, what will happen? Will the villagers really leave?

"Go to your sixth uncle and call the people in the village to hold a meeting." The old man sighed, life finally got better, but it's over.

"How should I tell you, should I go to the south with those people or stay here?" The sixth uncle asked Jiang Chen and the others to explain the situation, and then asked the people present.

"If you don't go, it's just cold. It wasn't warm here before, why don't we all come here? What's the matter?" Ye Shuo said nonchalantly.

"That's right, what should we do if we leave here for dinner? No matter how bad we are, at least we have sweet potatoes to eat. It's fine if we don't die of hunger. At worst, we don't leave the house in winter." The fifth uncle also yelled.

In the end, no one wanted to leave.

"Commander Zhao, what do you say?" Uncle Six asked.

Company Commander Zhao shook his head, "We're not going to leave. Although the south is warmer than here, the pests over there are too severe, so the situation may not be better than ours." In fact, they really don't want to leave for a while. Well, not to mention the weather, the resources in the forest are very rich, they are all not low in military strength, they can always eat with their hands, and the people in this village are nice, and everyone gets along relatively harmoniously.

The sixth uncle nodded, "That's fine, according to what they said, it will snow in less than a month. During this time, the houses in the village will be repaired again, and they must be kept warm. Take a good look at the house. Get the firewall, Company Commander Zhao, you have to take advantage of this month to rebuild the house before it is too simple."

"Okay, we'll do it when we get back."

The people in the village took action again and began to prepare for the winter. The women began to make winter clothes. There were too many leathers in the village. Earlier, they were distributed according to their contributions. Basically, the whole family could get some.There was also the village they came across. Because they hunted early, they had a lot of skins on their hands. Jiang Chen and the others went there once to tell them about the weather, and then exchanged some skins with sweet potatoes harvested in the village.It is basically guaranteed that everyone in the village has a leather jacket.

This month they sent only one team to go hunting, and more people went to Dongshan to collect firewood. For a month, every household surrounded the firewood pile.The firewood in Jinxi's house is placed outside the west wall, and it is almost full, so I'm afraid it's not enough.

Winter came earlier than they expected. There was a snowfall in mid-September. At that time, the persimmon trees in Jinxi's house were ripe for the first time, and several sorbet trees in the west were also ripe.They were picking persimmons that day, when the snow fell and the weather became cold.

But the temperature hadn't dropped below zero, and the snow melted very quickly. The persimmon trees in Jinxi's house bore a lot of persimmons. Some of these persimmons were dried into persimmon cakes, and some were prepared to be frozen when the weather was cold.The persimmons are round and orange-red. The skin is scraped off, threaded on a thread, and hung on a pole. The sun is still strong. The persimmon cakes will be ready in the sun for more than a week. Put the dried persimmons in a basket filled with straw In the box, and separated by straw, so that the storage time will be longer, usually pay attention to keep the straw dry.

People in their persimmon village are very jealous, but food is very important at this time, so no one really comes to ask for it, not to mention that this year there are a lot of fruits picked, and the children have no shortage of snacks.I just thought about transplanting a few fruit trees in my yard next year.

Put the pears directly in the cellar, and freeze them outside when the weather is cold. The pear itself tastes just average, but it tastes better when it is made into frozen autumn pears.

That day Jinxi was at home by himself, Jiang Chen and his grandpa went up the mountain, and grandma took the women in the family to Zhang Zhong's place, and dismantled their cotton trousers and remade them.Also add some new cotton to it.Because Zhang Zhong and the others also went up the mountain, grandma and the others went over to do the work, and also helped to look after the house. In the end, even a few younger ones went over.

It was almost time to eat. Jinxi took fresh persimmons, peeled and removed the stems, mixed them with noodles, and baked them with oil. Dabao and other children like to bring jam. Some hazelnuts are chopped and pressed on the outside of the persimmon cake, and the effect is good.

The staple food is persimmon cakes. Jinxi also made a pot of stewed potatoes with rabbit meat. The potatoes are very small, you only need to peel the skin and stew them. Moreover, the surface of the potatoes stewed in this way is still round. In fact, it has already been floured, and there is gravy in it when you bite. The taste mixed with potatoes is very soft without chewing.

In addition to this dish, Jinxi also cut moose sausages. This is learned from Vik, and it seems to be a specialty of Norway. He doesn’t know if the pure moose sausages taste like this, but they taste good, with a bacon taste. , is in line with their taste.

Vic can cook some European delicacies, but some family members are not used to them. For example, he made mashed potatoes with milk and garlic in it a few days ago. Well, the children think it’s okay, but Jinxi and the others are not used to it.

Jinxi and the others are living a good life now. The village has harvested a lot since hunting. Apart from the things they get, they can choose some. After all, not all things can be shared equally, like animal internal organs, bones and fur.The elders in this village conducted research and finally decided that these things will be allocated by the hunting team, and finally the one who contributes the most in each team will be selected first, and then by analogy, Jiang Chen can get the first allocation every time. Jin Yang is not bad either, Jin Xi rarely goes out, because the players don't let him go forward and always press the field with guns, so he can only choose once or twice.

Even though they are the first to choose, they can’t choose everything. Most of the time they choose bones, which are nutritious. Jinxi still wants to burn a kang in a few days, so he will put a big pot on the stove at the door, and boil bone soup in it. Or as a side dish or a drink, let everyone feel great.Among other things, the food is good these days, and the bodies of the men in the family have become stronger. Jiang Chen's muscles are much thicker, and Jin Yang has grown five centimeters.

It seems that after the food catches up, the young people in the village have become more and more tough. Zhang Cheng has changed a lot. He used to be better than Jinxi, but now he looks like a man from the Northeast.

Take a closer look, the whole village has not changed, only Jinxi.