After the disaster

After digging out the two nests of potatoes, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang worked together to loosen the slightly compacted soil in the baskets, mixed in some fermented goat manure, and planted them in the two wooden baskets respectively. Ginger, garlic and leeks, a basket of ginger and garlic, and a basket of leeks.

Some time ago, Qiu Cheng exchanged some seeds through Lao Li, including garlic, ginger, loofah, bitter gourd, pumpkin, leek, cabbage, etc., as well as potatoes and peppers. Qiu Cheng already had these two, but Lao Li did not Know.

The two nests of potatoes harvested this time can weigh as much as [-] to [-] catties. Looking at the corn on the terrace with only one or two cobs on each stalk, Qiu Cheng feels that growing potatoes is more cost-effective than growing corn. too much.

Moreover, judging from Qiu Cheng's previous planting experience in the temporary base, even if this batch of corn was born in the spirit gathering array, its performance is not too outstanding.This should also have something to do with the light. It is spring now, and the sunlight is not strong. Potatoes are a shade-tolerant crop, and they can grow well. Corn is a sun-loving crop. The current climate conditions are probably not suitable for them. growth.

Two days later, Qiu Cheng and his electrician team finally finished all their work and announced their disbandment.Lao Li's place to go to the countryside has also been determined, which is a town near Xinnan City, about two hours away by car.

Qiu Cheng used to have a classmate who lived in that place, and it was said that it was a land of fish and rice with beautiful mountains and clear waters. Now that five years have passed, I don’t know what the scene of the land of fish and rice is now.

"If it's not easy over there, you will come back at that time." After work on the last day, Qiu Cheng said goodbye to Lao Li.He thought in his heart that as long as it was within his power, he would help them.

"How can you still do business at a loss when you are the person above? How can you leave when you want? The contract workers have all signed, and our house has been mortgaged. If we can't pay the food in a year or so, then our family will I'm going to sleep on the main road." Lao Li said with a smile.

"Mortgage property?" Doesn't it mean that you can sign a contract?There are still many people who are not living in their own houses. They are resettled by the city. What's the point of mortgaging real estate?Qiu Cheng was a little confused.

"Do you think anyone can go? Then you have to have a good reputation and guarantee. Otherwise, those rascals would have gone crazy. Just sign a contract and you can eat for a few months. When the time comes, you won't be able to pay a single word." What do you ask the people above to do when you come up with food? It is said that everyone can apply, but how much food can they get in total? Who is the food to be invested in, so you have to evaluate the risk first?" Lao Li He is also very clear about these things.

"What about those who don't have a house?" Although the city resettled the affected people a while ago, they only lived there and did not issue real estate certificates. After all, the house is not their own.

"Those who don't have a house are less likely to go." Lao Li shook his head. Before he saw a distant relative's house collapsed and had no land to live in. He was relocated to a prosperous area in the city center, and he was secretly envious. Now it seems that, Sure enough, there is no such thing as a good thing in Tianshan. If you want to live a good life, you still have to rely on yourself after all.

"You have to take care, kid. I don't know what will happen in the next one or two months. If there are no more people in the city, you can go to the countryside to hang out with me, eat grass roots and tree bark, and you will always be able to live." Go down." Lao Li said half-jokingly, but he handed Qiu Cheng a note seriously in his hand, on which was written the address of their family in the next few months.

"Okay." Qiu Cheng took the note and nodded solemnly.

Not having to go to work, Qiu Chengcheng has a lot of free time. He decided to spend some time studying the "Wood Repair Notes", and then try to accumulate as much wealth as possible during these few months. Can further expand the planting area.

In the evening of that day, Qiu Cheng plucked a bundle of Mai Niang's tassels from the nearby wasteland and went back to feed the voles. Then he moved his desktop computer that had not been used for a long time to the coffee table in the living room, and was about to clean the dust. When he opened the case , Seeing the "Wood Repair Notes" that I had copied, I stuffed it under the sofa cushion by the way.

In the past, he regarded Ah Chang as an expert, and he was very worried for a while, but now he finally understood that this girl is not literate at all, and he did not know where to get such a book by accident. The other books were burned together as firewood, but Qiu Cheng picked them up.

After Qiu Cheng finished cleaning and maintaining the computer, he connected it to the TV in the living room. As soon as he pressed the power button, he heard the sound of the fan whirring. After a while, it turned on normally, and the computer was still usable. This made Qiu Cheng very happy. He opened a video file in the G drive, and soon, a picture of an old robot walking and working among the ruins of the city appeared on the TV.

"!" Ah Chang stretched his neck and looked in front of the screen. He stared intently at the screen on the TV. After a while, driven by curiosity, he slowly stretched out his hand, and then touched it again. The moment it arrived, it quickly retracted.

Qiu Cheng ignored him and sat on the sofa, scraping the potato skin with a stainless steel spoon.Sometimes he feels that Ah Chang's behavior is really like a cat, and he doesn't know what kind of experience made him become what he is today.

After peeling the potatoes, wash and dice them, cook them in the rice cooker, add some salt, add a few drops of soy sauce, sprinkle a handful of green onions, and stir them with chopsticks, and they have dinner for today.

"Ding dong! Ding dong!" Just as they were eating potatoes and watching a movie, the doorbell rang.

"Who?" The two people in the room stopped eating at the same time, and looked in the direction of the door warily.

"It's me, Shen Xing." A woman's voice came from outside.

As soon as Qiu Cheng heard that it was her, he remembered what he had asked her to inquire about before. He stood up from the sofa, quickly closed the curtain between the living room and the terrace, and threw a few dirty clothes on the mouse cage , Looking around the house, there was no obvious abnormality, so I went to open the door.

"Why are you here so late?" Looking at the time, it's almost eight o'clock.

"I'm just off work now." Shen Xing said, and took out a small cloth bag from his coat pocket: "You said last time that you needed broken jade, so I went to find some. Look, it's all Some good jade."

"How much do you want?" Qiu Cheng turned sideways to let the light in the room shine some light, and took a closer look at the broken jade through the light. This time, the jade she brought was more mixed. Two pieces of jade ring fingers, and a few pendants of poor quality, and the rest looked like leftovers from a jade shop.

"It's still the same price as last time." After Shen Xing finished speaking, she carefully observed Qiu Cheng's reaction. This time she brought a little more broken jade than last time, but except for the jade Buddha and the jade wrench, the rest Leftovers are really not a good thing.

"Okay." Qiu Cheng didn't bargain with her any more, he picked up a piece of broken jade that was obviously leftovers: "How much of this kind of broken jade can you get?"

"How much do you want?" Shen Xing's eyes lit up.

"It doesn't matter if it's smaller. The quality of the jade should not be too low. If you buy it by the catty, what's the approximate price?" Since Shen Xing has a source of goods, Qiu Cheng also plans to buy more jade now and put it away. It's not easy to buy cheap jade anytime soon. As soon as the price of this jade goes up, his planting cost will also go up.

"More than ten catties, two tortillas per catty." Shen Xing raised his chin slightly.

"A tortilla is a catty, and I want fifty catties, but if the quality of what you give is too low, I won't take it."

"Then you have to pay the deposit first."

Qiu Cheng nodded, and went back to the room to get her five tortillas. Shen Xing took the tortillas and finally showed some joy on his face. She took out a piece of paper from her pocket and handed it to Qiu Cheng: "This is The owner information on the 1506th and [-]th floors of your building, as well as the [-] you mentioned before, I am now in contact with the owner, and he said that there is no two hundred catties of cornmeal and he will not sell it.”

"Who is the owner?" Qiu Cheng asked her.

"Hey, I'm just a small family of real estate speculators, who specialize in this kind of small-area housing close to the suburbs. It's just the rough upstairs of your house, which is also a serviced apartment. There is no living room, no kitchen, just a large room. Bring a bathroom, and also set up two flamboyantly large and small balconies, tsk, you can jump to those two balconies from the roof of the building, so you really like that house, why don't you change it?" Shen Xing followed The bamboo tube is like beans pouring down, crackling and talking.

"The roof of the building is locked all the year round." Two days ago, Qiu Cheng found that the lock was broken, so he got another lock and hung it up.When Qiu Cheng and the others bought a house, it was clearly written on the real estate certificate that the top floor platform was jointly owned by users on the fifteenth floor, and it had nothing to do with the users below the fifteenth floor. Now that there is no one living on the fifteenth floor, he just padlocked it. , and no one asked him to pursue it.

"It's fine if you like it." Shen Xing shrugged, with an indifferent expression on his face: "I'll talk to him another day."

Food is so expensive at this time, and there are empty houses everywhere. Such a small and rough house costs two hundred catties of cornmeal. Obviously, the lion has opened his mouth.

The two of them have been standing at the door saying this, although it is a bit impolite, Qiu Cheng still does not want Shen Xing to enter the house, there are so many voles in the house, and so many crops are planted on the terrace, these are not allowed seen by her.

After finishing talking, Qiu Cheng saw that it was too late, so he sent her all the way to the main road outside the community.

Ah Chang squatted on the railing of the balcony, stretched his neck and watched Qiu Cheng and Shen Xing leave the building, walk through the green area, and walk farther and farther...

After a while, he jumped down from the railing and came to the bathroom lightly. With the little light coming in from the living room, he moved his face to the mirror and stared at himself in the mirror motionlessly. As he watched, he suddenly felt a little disappointed in his heart.Not pretty at all.

After Qiu Cheng sent Shen Xing to the main road, he turned back by himself. When he got home, he found that the light in the living room was on and Ah Chang was not there. He came back with a large sack, and took out the contents one by one in front of Qiu Cheng as if offering a treasure.

Slippers, old T-shirts, ballpoint pens, staplers, facial cleanser, toothbrush and toothpaste, myopia glasses, stockings... everything is really there.

Putting these things in front of Qiu Cheng one by one, Ah Chang finally regained a little confidence. He flaunted his wealth to his partner in broken Mandarin: "There are many more!"