After the disaster

Sitting on the road beside the street, Qiu Cheng looked so ordinary, wearing a suit of old clothes that had been washed and faded, and the slightly wider clothes made him look thinner than he actually was.

Red tomatoes and green shallots are indeed attractive, and what could be more attractive than something edible in this day and age?However, even if there are people who occasionally stop, most of them are just addicted to their eyes. The citizens are having a hard time. They would rather have a few more taels of cornmeal than these that look delicious but actually can’t fill their stomachs. Carry hungry vegetables.

"How do you sell these tomatoes?" After a while, a middle-aged woman finally expressed her willingness to buy.This woman is about 50 years old, with a medium to thin body, and her facial features are very delicate. She combs her hair in a neat bun and wears clean and tidy clothes. She looks like a very decent person.

"What do you have?" Qiu Cheng asked her.

"I'm rich, how much is your tomato?" The woman smiled calmly and gently.

"I don't want money." Qiu Cheng frowned, and his expression became less kind. At this time, he had already noticed the gazes of several stall owners nearby.

"What else do you want if you don't want money?" The woman seemed to have not seen Qiu Cheng's face, she brushed her hair from her temples, squatted down, and reached out to pick out the tomatoes on the stall, returning them as she went. He raised his head and asked Qiu Cheng, "How much is it per catty? You make a price, and I can afford it."

Qiu Cheng knew that if he met a lunatic, or he would meet a hobgoblin, and the other party was a woman who talked to him so nicely, it would be difficult for him to drive him away.But if he doesn't get people away, he might not even think about doing business this morning. He's heard of such things in the base before. Sometimes I have to suffer.

"One for 100 yuan, I can sell you two at most, if there are more." Not knowing whether the other party is really crazy or pretending to be crazy, Qiu Cheng is not bad for these two tomatoes, and decides to make a big deal into a small one.

Regarding monetary policy, there are different opinions in the market. Some people say that the government will issue new currency and the old currency will be invalidated. Others say that it is impossible. The old currency must still be useful. Can banknotes be invalidated if they are invalidated?

But for now, there are basically no banknotes in circulation in the market, at least on this street, there is not a single stall willing to accept banknotes.

"Oh, that's really great." The woman looked very happy when she heard that Qiu Cheng was willing to sell her tomatoes. She squatted in front of the stall and picked this and that, as if she couldn't put it down for every tomato, and finally I still picked the two that looked the biggest.

After picking out the tomatoes, she took out her wallet from the shopping bag hanging on her shoulder, took out two [-]-yuan bills and handed them to Qiu Cheng, put the tomatoes in the shopping bag again, and finally said to Qiu Cheng One sentence: "Young man, you are really kind." Then he left happily.

Qiu Cheng reluctantly put the two banknotes into his pocket, sat on the side of the road and continued to guard his stall.

"Brother, did you hear something?" A middle-aged man selling children's shoes next to him whispered to Qiu Cheng.

Seeing Qiu Cheng doing this, he wondered if the young man had any inside information. After all, he could even get tomatoes, so maybe he really had some sources of information.

The current monetary policy is still unclear, and everyone is not a fool, but anyone who can survive at home knows to keep some belongings for themselves, and keep the paper money that is not very valuable now, as long as it can be kept, maybe it will be of great use in the future Woolen cloth?If there is any news that the banknotes will be worth money in the future, they must work hard to get more money now.

"No." Qiu Cheng didn't know what the policy was.After speaking, he couldn't help asking the other party about the woman just now: "Who was that person just now, do you know him?"

"You said that girl just now, does Shen Dingjun know?" Speaking of this, the stall owner became excited.

"I've heard of it." In Xinnan City, who doesn't know Shen Dingjun's name?

"This is Shen Dingjun's eldest wife." Someone laughed and said.

"Eldest Wife?" Qiu Cheng was stunned.

"Hey, it seems that you still don't know that Shen Dingjun slowly made his fortune in the past because he married the granddaughter of our old mayor. He was originally a rural child. He did well in the university entrance examination, and was later assigned to work in our city. , I went to sea again after not working for a few years, and with his father-in-law's relationship, do you think he can lose money in business?"

"Shen Dingjun's parents are all from the countryside, and they desperately want a son and grandson, but their daughter-in-law always has daughters. The first two are daughters, and the third is still a daughter. That's not counting. The third Ah, she is still a fool. Shen Dingjun also raised a woman outside in those years. That woman was lucky and gave him a son in no time. Now her tail is up to the sky, and she is more powerful than the real wife. Everyone secretly calls her Shen Dingjun's second wife."

"What about now?" Shen Dingjun is a real estate tycoon in Xinnan City. If this woman is really his wife, with so many houses, selling just a few of them will be enough for them to eat. They still need it like now. People are disgusting everywhere for ordering food.

"That guy Shen Dingjun is not human. Not long after the chaos started, he left their mother and daughter, took their wives and children outside, found a relationship, and went to the south with a cargo plane. These properties and so on , but it’s all under his own name, and his wife can’t move at all?” The shoe seller couldn’t help but sigh and shake his head when he said this.

"What about his own parents?" Qiu Cheng asked again.

"They all left together. I heard people say that this was the idea given by his parents. I don't know if it's true or not. I'm a black heart." No matter how difficult life is, ruthless people always To be spurned by others, not to mention that Shen Dingjun's family is rich and powerful, and they have reached the point where they have to abandon their wives and children.

"A tortilla and two tomatoes?" At this time, another man with a briefcase appeared in front of Qiu Cheng's stall.

"Exchange." Qiu Cheng agreed without hesitation. The price offered by the other party was still fair. After all, tortillas could fill one's stomach and satisfy one's hunger, but tomatoes could not.

The man exchanged two corn tortillas for four tomatoes, and asked Qiu Cheng to give him two green onions. Then he opened his briefcase by the side of the road and carefully packed the things into the briefcase.

"Do you want the field mouse?" Qiu Cheng asked him again at this time.

"Vole?" Hearing this, the man looked up at Qiu Cheng.

"It's right here." Qiu Cheng pointed to the woven bag beside him.

"Open me and have a look." The other party was obviously very interested.

Qiu Cheng opened the woven bag and showed him the three big oily voles inside. The man probed into the woven bag, and couldn't help swallowing. People are like this these days. It looks so glamorous and decent on the outside, but it still makes your mouth water when you see the meat.

"How to sell?" he asked.

"One vole and three corn cakes, if you want them all, I'll take eight." After setting up a stall for a while, Qiu Cheng understood that there might indeed be people in the city who don't have to worry about eating, but if you think about it It's really not easy to meet one in a short time.

"I don't have that much on hand right now, just wait, I'll call someone over." The man obviously liked these voles.

"Then hurry up, I have to go to work soon." Qiu Cheng said.

"Just a few minutes, very close." The other party said, picked up the briefcase and ran all the way.

In more than ten minutes after he left, Qiu Cheng made another business deal. The tight living conditions made everyone very preoccupied. A big old man, just to get two more green onions, and Qiu Cheng It's a good one.

"It's right here." Soon, the man came back with two colleagues from the unit.

"Where is the field mouse, show it to us." One of them urged Qiu Chengdao.

Qiu Cheng didn't speak, but opened the woven bag and told them to take a closer look.

"It's not small, but isn't it a little expensive to ask for three tortillas?" These people wanted to bargain.

"After tidying up, there will still be four or five ounces." Qiu Cheng said to them.

"How to clean up this thing?" Most of the locals have never eaten voles.

"It's almost like killing a chicken." Qiu Cheng said, and told them the process of dealing with the voles in detail.

"I don't know if this vole meat is delicious?" One of them seemed a little hesitant.

"I've eaten it, and it tastes good." Qiu Cheng took advantage of the situation and added fire.

"Tsk, how can you say that your own food is not delicious?" As he said this, he obviously wanted to buy it in his heart.

"Or let's just buy it. He said just now that three tortillas are needed for eight corn tortillas."

"what do you say?"

"I bought it, and I see that his field mouse is still clean."

The two people who came behind each took out three tortillas, and the person who bought tomatoes from Qiu Cheng at the beginning also took out three. He first handed the two tortillas to Qiu Cheng, and then broke the remaining one into pieces. Three pieces, two of which were given to his two colleagues, and the other was kept by himself.

They gave cornbread and asked Qiu Cheng to give them a few scallions, and then the three happily left with the woven bag. Qiu Cheng looked at the back of them leaving and felt a little pity for the woven bag Well, next time he has to learn his lesson and stop selling things in woven bags.

After finishing the business, Qiu Cheng checked that it was getting late, so he conveniently packed up the remaining five or six tomatoes and a handful of shallots sold at the stall, and he had to go back to work.

Hurry up, Qiu Cheng finally arrived more than ten minutes late. When he arrived at the gate of the community where their electrician team was currently constructing, everyone had already gone to do their own work, and only their team leader was still there. Holding a notebook, sitting by the flower bed in front of the community, writing and drawing.

"You're late." Hearing Qiu Cheng's footsteps, the other party looked up, with the same serious expression on his face.

"I went to the city in the morning, but I didn't make a good time." After Qiu Cheng finished speaking, he thought about it, and then took out a tomato from his backpack and handed it over: "This tomato is good, you can try it."

The leader of the electrician team didn't speak, he just frowned and stared at Qiu Cheng for a long time, with a stormy look on his face.Qiu Cheng felt a little nervous when he saw it, but he quickly thought about it. It was just a tomato, and he couldn't accuse himself of bribery, at worst he would just lose his job.

After looking at Qiu Cheng for a while, the team leader finally reached out to pick up the tomato, then he stood up from the edge of the flower bed, turned and left.

"Just this once," he said.Except for himself, no one else would understand how unwilling he was to take over this tomato.

More than ten years ago, when he was still a high school student, he went to the South with his father to work as a construction worker. That foreman was like this at that time. It's convenient, if you don't give him benefits, you will be made things difficult for him.

At that time, because his father was reluctant to spend money to buy a few packs of good cigarettes, the father and son suffered a lot during those two months. After the two months were over, he went back to school to continue his studies, and his father stayed on the construction site to continue to suffer.

Now, his father is no longer alive, and he himself has become a foreman. He doesn't want to have any overlap with the scum in his memory.

It's just that his daughter is only one and a half years old this year, such a cute little thing, such a beautiful existence, she definitely deserves the best things in this world, but because of her useless father, she has been in this world for so long Alright, don't even know what a tomato tastes like yet.