After the disaster

Xinnan City is located in the central part, the temperature is rarely below zero, and it is rare to have a snowfall in three to five years, so even in winter when the temperature is the lowest, you can still see a lot of green weeds and trees in the wild .

Qiu Cheng and the others bought pasture grass at a relatively low price this time, barely enough to feed those who sell grass, but even so, there are still many people who carry pasture grass to them every day to exchange cornmeal corn buns, and the corn buns are still old. Lao Hu and his nephew are still in charge of harvesting the cornbread and grass harvested by Hu's sister, and the purchasing place is set at the entrance of the fish farming factory.

With more sheep, the manpower at the fish farming factory will be tight, and Shen Xing has recruited a few new people, including Lao Li's wife.

Before, Qiu Cheng recommended Lao Zhang to Shen Xing, because he knew electrical circuits and could install water pipes. Shen Xing wanted it, but he was the only one, because there was no shortage of manpower in the fish farming factory at that time, and bugs would not be harvested when the weather was cold. Yes, a lot of people who were in charge of processing bugs before have been idled. Shen Xing neither wants to hire people nor waste labor. In those days, she also racked her brains to arrange work for them. The reason for accepting Lao Li is because he has special skills and is hindered. For Qiu Cheng's face, she won't accept any more.

But she kept this matter in mind. After confirming with Qiu Cheng this time about raising sheep, she asked Lao Li to see if his wife would come to work here, and Lao Li agreed immediately. After he settled down, his wife went to work in the fish farming factory the next day. The family has two incomes, and their family's life will be much easier this winter.

Recently, Qiu Cheng has been busy planting and cultivating every day, and has almost no time to relax.

It was a rare weekend, and Ah Chang didn't have to go to school. Qiu Cheng also arranged the things at hand, and spared half a day to take him outside for a walk.

The two of them are not romantic people. The so-called release means that the two of them ride a creaking tricycle, bring sacks of grass ropes and mowing knives, and go outside to cut some pasture together.

Because their main purpose of this day is to let the wind go, it doesn’t matter how much the pasture is mowed, so Qiu Chengcheng chose a place with a good view and walked upstream along the Xinnan River. After passing through several villages, he finally arrived at A tricycle stopped on the edge of a wasteland.

The sun was good that day. Qiu Cheng and the others mowed grass for a while, and then lay on the grass by the river to bask in the sun for a while.

Now it is late December, and the weather in Xinnan City has turned cold. Most citizens have already put on cotton-padded jackets and down jackets. Qiu Cheng also wears sweaters and jackets. Ah Chang is more frost-resistant and doesn’t like heavy clothes. My son is only willing to wear a thin sportswear.

Qiu Cheng was lying on the grass basking in the sun, and Ah Chang rolled around him restlessly, until Qiu Cheng held him down and made a boo before finally calming down, and satisfactorily chose a feng shui treasure land next to Qiu Cheng , Squint your eyes to enjoy the sunshine in this winter.

The two spent a whole afternoon outside, and they didn't return home until the sun was about to set. There was not much grass in the tricycle.

"Brother, let me come."

"Forget it, you only have a few taels of strength."

"I'm strong now. I sold the pasture by myself yesterday, and exchanged it for a cornbread."

"Don't blow it, just half of it?"

"It's more than half, and it's almost possible to replace one."

"..."

Before Qiu Cheng and the others got on the main road, they saw two figures, one tall and one short, in front of them. The little girl looked like six or seven years old, and her clothes were not thick, and she was tall. The boy was carrying a large bundle of grass, and his voice sounded young.

Qiu Cheng was riding a three-way car in front and didn't notice. Just now, when Ah Chang heard the boy's voice, the corners of his mouth drooped, and it was rare to enjoy the world of two people. They haven't returned home yet. It belongs to the two of them. The time is about to end early, oh, why don't you pretend you don't know each other?

"Hey, do you two want to take a tricycle?" Ah Chang was struggling, but Qiu Chengcheng had already spoken.

"No need." The boy turned his head to look at Qiu Cheng, then at Ah Chang behind the tricycle, hummed inaudibly, and stopped looking at them.

"It's getting late now. At your speed, by the time we get there, people will probably have closed their stalls." Qiu Cheng grinned.

He observed Ah Chang's situation in school through his "eyes of heaven and earth", and knew that this boy was a classmate in Ah Chang's class. He lost his arrogance, was cared by the head teacher a few times, and learned some truths. Recently, he has become a bit of a good student.

"..." The boy spewed out a puff of air from his nose and ignored Qiu Cheng at all.

Ah Chang, that insidious guy, behaved like something in front of the teacher, and he was not lenient when he taught them behind his back.At this time, when he looked at Qiu Cheng, the more he looked at it, the more sinister he felt. He must be the same as Ah Chang, a guy who does one thing in front of his face and another in his back.

"Are you Ma Xudong's younger sister?" Seeing that he ignored him, Qiu Cheng didn't care. He followed them slowly on a tricycle, and turned to the little girl.

"You know my brother?" Seeing the other party, she immediately said her brother's name, and the little girl obviously let go of her guard a lot.

"No, this kid has the worst temper. It's not easy to be his sister." Qiu Cheng said with a smile.

"No way, my brother is the best!" The little girl resolutely defended her brother, even if there was something wrong, how could she tell outsiders, most of the time, her brother was still very reliable.

"He's amazing?" Qiu Cheng laughed twice and asked, "You don't know, do you? When he was in school..."

"Hey!!!" The boy named Ma Xudong quit, and threw the grass on his back to the ground: "What do you want to do?"

"..." Qiu Cheng looked at him with a smile, didn't take his anger seriously at all, just turned his chin slightly, and said, "Get in the car."

"Get up, get up." Ma Xudong couldn't hold back when he saw him, he stumbled, and then he put the bundle of grass on Qiu Cheng's tricycle as if he was on the guillotine, and they followed him up , and then pulled his older sister up.

There were two more children and a bundle of grass behind him, so Qiu Cheng didn't feel any difficulty, so he rode his tricycle to the fish factory.

"Brother, what happened to you at school?" On the way, Ma Xiaomei asked her brother curiously.

"It's nothing, why are you asking so many questions?" Ma Xudong said gruffly.

"Cut." Ma Xiaomei snorted twice and didn't say anything else. Whenever her brother said that, it meant that he must have suffered some kind of loss outside, and this time it was probably the same.

When we arrived at the fish farming factory, when there were many people, there was a long line in front of the factory. Qiu Cheng unloaded the brothers and sisters from the team, and he and Ah Chang rode tricycles to the factory. went inside.

Shen Xing was busy at the time, so Qiu Cheng took Ah Chang in for a stroll, met her, listened to her briefly talk about the situation here and the amount of cornmeal that needs to be invested recently, and left quickly. When he was at the stall, Qiu Cheng went over to say hello to their uncle and nephew, and said a few words, which made Ah Chang curl his lips.

Ma Xudong was standing in the queue, watching Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang leave on a broken tricycle that creaked, wondering if these two guys had anything to do with the boss here, Ah Wouldn't that insidious guy often wear shoes for himself?You know, selling pasture is also a very important income for their family now.

When it was finally their turn, Ma Xudong handed over his bundle of pasture for Lao Hu's nephew to weigh and check, and then waited for Lao Hu to weigh them cornmeal cornbread.

"Your name is Ma Xudong?" Lao Hu weighed more cornmeal cornbread for them according to the type and weight of the forage, but he didn't hand them the weighed cornmeal cornbread right away.

"Yes." Ma Xudong raised his head and stared straight at Lao Hu, as if Lao Hu dared to rush to bite someone as long as Lao Hu dared to say that he would not give him cornmeal cornbread.

"Which school and class?" Lao Hu asked calmly, having never met anyone in these years, and he was not intimidated by a brat.

"City No. [-] Primary School, Class [-], Grade [-]." Ma Xudong replied with his neck stuck.

"Oh, that's right." Lao Hu smiled, and took out a plastic bag from under the cabinet, which contained more than half of the bag of cornmeal cornbread, and then conveniently put the cornbread cornbread on the weighing platform into it, and handed it He went to Ma Xudong and said, "Just now your classmate said he would give it to you."

"..." This situation was obviously not what Ma Xudong expected, but he reacted quickly, took the bag with one hand, thanked him, and left with his sister.

"Brother, those two were your classmates just now? They are so big, they don't look like elementary school students at all." On the way, Ma Xiaomei chattered non-stop: "Hey, why do you think they gave us corn bread? Are you on good terms with them?"

"It's not good at all." Ma Xudong opened the bag, picked and picked a cornbread cornbread from it, and put it in his mouth.

"It's not a good relationship, why did they give us cornmeal cornbread?" Ma Xiaomei asked again.

"Who knows, go crazy." Ma Xudong tied up the plastic bag, took a bite of the cornmeal steamed bun, swallowed it with a grunt after chewing a few times.

"Brother, give me one, I want to eat too."

"You can eat in the evening."

"Why, you ate it all."

"I'll try the poison first."

"You are insane, who would poison us if nothing happened?"

"Here's half for you."

"Woo! Cheapskate!"

"..."

The two brothers and sisters were fighting and fighting in the street. Except for the food in their hands, the other cornmeal buns were wrapped in cotton jackets by the two of them.

Although the city has been strictly catching up lately, and many criminals have been shot, there are still those who are not afraid of death, and they come out from time to time to do a few minor cases.

It has been almost a year since the militarized management ended, and during this year, Xinnan City has not changed much.

Just like the street that the brother and sister walked through at this time, although the buildings on both sides of the street are tall, they are always dusty and look not energetic at all. The shops along the street are basically closed, and there are some big ones. It was open, and there were some rags and cardboard boxes inside, probably homeless people lived here temporarily.

It was the off-duty time at this time, and there were many pedestrians on the street, but they didn’t look lively at all. People always walked in a hurry with sad faces, and occasionally the voices of children laughing loudly were mixed in, as if it was in harmony with the whole picture. Out of place.

Ma Xudong was very happy on this day. He took his younger sister back home, opened the windows that had been closed all day for some ventilation, and then boiled a pot of hot water for his younger sister to feed her mother half a cornbread with the hot water.

His father passed away five or six years ago, and his mother is sick in bed now. In fact, he really didn't want to go to school at all. He was going to starve to death and read books, but his mother insisted, there was no way , he reluctantly signed up for a name, and originally planned to come out after a few days, but in a blink of an eye, a semester is almost over. I don’t know when it started, but he began to have a little nostalgia in his heart and longing...

"Tsk tsk." Sitting on the broken sofa in their house, Ma Xudong shook his legs, and while counting the remaining cornbreads, he said to his old sister: "I didn't expect such a good thing to happen while studying. Next year you Go read too."