Doomsday foresight

"This is a new city, why do you want to rebuild the city here?" Jinxi looked at the high city wall in front of him, as if he had returned to ancient times, but the construction method of the city wall was modern.

"Last summer and autumn, there was a flood in the south, and many cities were flooded. The water hadn't gone down yet, and the weather had dropped in vain. Many people died of illnesses due to disasters or changes in the weather. When the floods occurred, the temperature was around [-] degrees. Those who were weak I couldn’t bear it anymore. All kinds of disasters happened, and the bodies of those people couldn’t be restrained in time. In order to prevent the plague from happening, the people in the city moved to the high ground. Later, the temperature suddenly dropped, and the organizers built houses here. As a result, animal and plant mutations occurred again, and the original city was swallowed up by plants before it was cleaned up, and the old city was simply abandoned, and the city wall was added here."

Jinxi and the others looked at the high city wall in front of them, and thought of their village, maybe if such a city wall was built outside the village, people's lives would be much safer.

It is very easy to enter the new city. Now that there are many disasters, many people flee from afar. Many hunting teams in the new city will give the city some food every day, so the city can maintain its basic operation.

There are two types of people who come to the new city to register, one is planning to live permanently, and the other is passing through or doing business.

Permanent residents need to go through population registration, which is very detailed. If newcomers want to receive assistance from Xincheng, they must obey the official arrangement of Xincheng. As long as they are laborers, both men and women must obey the arrangement, so that they can receive assistance. The assistance includes housing and food distribution. and some basic supplies.If you don't accept the arrangement, you won't be able to get any assistance, and you have to deal with housing and food by yourself.Housing and other things need to be exchanged for food.

People like Jinxi and the others belong to the floating population, and they will also be arranged by Xincheng, as if after registration, someone will lead them to a hotel in the west of Xincheng.

The house in Xincheng is very interesting, a bit like a Hakka earthen house. It is a large square building with three floors. Entering from the passage of the gate is a patio. Standing in the patio, you can see the houses connected by the corridor.

"The houses in our new city are very warm. As long as the boiler is fired once a day, the house will not be cold. You can see that there is a filter on the patio, so you are not afraid of mosquitoes entering. You can live in peace." The waiter who led them introduced, "This is the price list of our hotel." He said and gave them a few pieces of paper.Let's take a look separately.

"It's not expensive." Jinxi leaned close to Jiang Chen's ear and whispered, Jiang Chen's ears warmed up, "Well, but there are quite a lot of requirements for living."

Jinxi nodded. Although living here is not expensive every day, there are time requirements. If you only stay for three days, each person only needs to pay three catties of food per day. The hotel provides hot water and heating. If you want to eat the dinner prepared by the hotel, Just pay the food, and the hotel will take [-]% from it, but if you stay for more than three days, then the food you pay will double.

"They don't welcome people from outside?" Jin Xi didn't understand.There is no way to push people outside when doing business.

"I'm afraid they want to use this method to keep people. Generally, those who stay for a long time have to hunt outside in order to obtain food. This is the business of robbing hunters in the new city. Look here, they require outsiders to hunt. It's far away. The first three days are for people to get used to, maybe after staying for three days, they think this place is good, so they stay." Jiang Chen guessed.

"Well, it should be like this. Let's stay here. If everything goes well, we can go back in three days." Jin Xi nodded. He didn't want to stay here for a long time, and he started to miss home after being away from home for so long.

Several people got the keys to the room, and the six people opened a room relatively economically. The room paid normal food, but an extra two catties of food was added. This was the hot water fee. Although the tube house with a bathroom is not cold, Jinxi feels a little damp. In fact, he has been a little uncomfortable since he came to the south. It is too humid here, and it feels damp and cold.Spread the skins they brought on the ground, and they have been sleeping on the ground for the past few days.Fortunately, they were well prepared, first laying a layer of felt and then a layer of fur.I feel better, but it's uncomfortable not to take a bath.

The six of them ate, took a bath, and slept all night. They were exhausted these days.

Zhang Yun knew about the situation in Xincheng, and he still had a comrade in arms in Xincheng, so he would contact him.

"Seeds are available, but the price may be more expensive. This winter the new city will be surrounded by farms, and seeds will definitely be needed to grow grain next year. You will definitely not be able to buy them from the government, and you can only buy them from private individuals." Zhang Yun's friend Han Ye followed Zhang Yun Come along and tell them about the situation.

"We can discuss the price, mainly because we need seeds that were planted after October last year." Zhang Yun nodded affirmatively.

"Well, this is no problem. The new city was established last September. Many of the first batch of people came to plant food. Although the government collected a lot, everyone kept some. But what do you use for it? There is no shortage of food here. .” Han Ye didn’t think they could come up with anything.

Jiang Chen winked at Ye Ke, and Ye Ke took over a long canvas bag standing in the corner, untied the fastened bag, and poured out the things.

Han Ye looked surprised and said, "Did you get them from the north?" Zhang Yun didn't tell him their origins.

"How? How much can these be exchanged for?" Jiang Chen asked, all they brought were large pieces of whole fur.Although there are animals in the south, and their furs can also be obtained, but the animals in the north are bigger and their furs are also bigger. Company Commander Zhao asked them to get these things. Apart from some in the village, they were bought from other villages, but it cost a lot The food is all processed whole.

"If there is another bag, the amount you want will be fine." Han Ye looked through it, and found that it was all big-haired animal skins, and it was hot to the touch.Now the winter in the south has reached minus [-] to [-] degrees. This kind of weather is not as dry and cold as in the north. It is cold outside and damp in the house. Many people can't stand it, so many people are rushing for this kind of large fur to make clothes. Or sleep on it, it's very comfortable.It is not easy to get wet like a quilt.

After Han Ye finished speaking, Jinhua turned around and went downstairs to carry another bag to the car.

"Okay, this matter is on me, and it must be the seed after October last year." Han Ye patted his chest and promised.

"Then thank you Brother Han. After the matter is completed, there will be a big thank you."

"You're welcome, Zhang Yun and I are old comrades-in-arms, don't say thank you if you appreciate me, I'll contact you in this way, I think I'll have a letter in the evening."

After sending Han Ye off, the people in the room were quite bored, "Let's go out and have a look around, and see what's new in the new city."

They walked out of the hotel and went to the street. There are few people shopping now, so there is only one big market in the whole new city, which is located on the central axis of the new city and close to the north gate. The east side of the new city is the official settlement point, where there are houses that look like hotels. The layout of the room is similar to that of a hotel, except that there are multiple kitchens depending on the size of the population.There are more than 2000 people in one building, which is very crowded.

The west side belongs to various hunting teams. The houses there are similar to those on the east side, but the size changes slightly. If there are large hunting teams, they can rent a building, and small hunting teams are divided into the first floor. The building as a whole is much smaller than the east side.

Jinxi and the others looked at the houses here and thought they were interesting, but they were not suitable for their village.

When I went to the big market, I felt a bit like going back to the past, but it’s a pity that it’s not. No money, no gold and silver are accepted here, only food is exchanged, like the rice and cornmeal brought by Jinxi and the others can be used as money, and it’s very easy to exchange. easy.

Jiang Chen and the others went to the place to buy salt. The salt here was still provided by the government, and the price was not as expensive as they thought, nor was it cheap.A catty of grain is exchanged for a catty of salt.Jinhua took a closer look, "This is sea salt."

"You said, can we go to the beach to dry some? It takes only two or three days to drive from our village to the beach. If we can dry it ourselves, we don't need to exchange grain." They consume a lot of salt, and this time they traded grain for I don't know where to get it next time.

Jiang Chen nodded, "You're right. It's really not that far to go to the seaside by taking the Southeast Road. We'll do this when the weather gets warmer next year." In this way, the basic necessities of life are still in his own hands.

A few people left the salt stall. Although the market is huge, there are not many kinds of things. Food and clothing are the most important things for human beings now, and nothing else is necessary.They exchanged a lot of food for snake skin, which is hard and suitable for making leather armor.They have almost no snakes there because of the weather.

"There are still books here?" Jinxi saw a bookstall and patted his forehead, "We collected so many things, but we didn't expect to get some books. I don't know what it will be like in the future, but no matter when books They are all necessary. Those boys in our village don’t go to school anymore, if they don’t learn more, they will be caught blind in the future when order is restored.” He was so busy that he didn’t even think about it.

"I also neglected this." Jiang Chen naturally knew the power of knowledge, but he forgot this in the face of survival. "Our city's library and bookstore are still there. I think we won't take those books with us when we evacuate. We'll bring them back to the village."

"I'm afraid they burned the books to make fire last winter." Ye Ke said from the side.

"How come?" Jin Xi opened his eyes wide in surprise.

"Why not? Last winter, when I went to the city to inquire about the news, I saw someone burning books. I don't know if they were bought from the library bookstore."

"Let's go back and have a look."

After visiting the big market, a few people have nothing to change, mainly because they are reluctant. Now people have the same mentality, as if they don’t need other dispensable things except food.All for survival.

Back at the hotel, a few people had a meal in the restaurant below, all of which are specialties here, such as golden pheasant and a large platter of bugs.Not to mention the bamboo rat golden pheasant, these two things were there before, but the insect platter was an eye-opener. The large plate was half a meter in diameter, and there were eight kinds of insects on it. Jinxi knew centipedes and scorpions. Centipedes are more than 20 centimeters long, and scorpions are also about ten meters long, fat and big.Other bugs or long ones with legs and no legs are very fat and tender.

"These bugs are all larvae. He still has big ones here. He ordered this plate because he was afraid that you might not get used to it. At least it's about the same size as the previous ones." Zhang Yun introduced, and asked Jinxi to glance at the table next to him. There was only one scorpion on the plate, at least thirty centimeters long.

They have also eaten fried grasshoppers, so they don't have much objection to eating bugs. These bugs are all fried, crispy and delicious. Jinxi remembers seeing bugs on TV before, which are very nutritious.

"The price of worms here is the cheapest. There seems to be a place to buy worms here. I want to change some when I go back." Zhang Yun and the others are very used to eating worms. Before this visit, some comrades asked him to bring some back. .

"Okay, let's bring some too. Dabao and the others like it very much. I think he made it here. It tastes good after being fried and sprinkled with salt and pepper."

Jin Xi nodded, now she has to be brave enough to try any food.

Just as they were about to leave after eating, they heard a buzzing sound. They looked up to the patio and saw a large black cloud in the sky. After looking closely, they realized that it was a flying mosquito.After a while, the flying mosquitoes landed on the net above the courtyard, and when it landed too much, there was a flash of sparks from the net, and the bodies of the electrocuted flying mosquitoes fell down.Jinxi and the others took a few steps back.

"These things are the most annoying." Zhang Yun said, frowning.

"It's really a big mosquito." Ye Ke opened his mouth wide and looked up. The mosquito was as big as his fist. If it bites, it will suck a lot of blood from him.