After the disaster

Now is the time when supplies are scarce, and the daily necessities brought back by Ah Chang are still worth some money. When the market economy starts to operate and various factories resume productivity, these things may be worthless by then.

Five years ago, when everyone bought clothes and daily necessities, no matter if they were expensive or cheap, at least they must be new. Who cares about old ones?

"You still have a lot? Where are you?" Qiu Cheng asked.Ah Chang has a strong learning ability. When he first came here, he couldn't speak a word. After living with Qiu Cheng for a short time, he was able to communicate in a simple way.

"!" Seeing that Qiu Guo really liked these things, Ah Chang grinned happily, and then he led the way, showing Qiu Cheng the treasures he had hidden in various strongholds.

The first thing they came to was a two-story house behind the Jiayuan community. They saw Ah Chang walking around the corner of the house, using both hands and feet, climbed up to the second floor in a few strokes, opened the window and got in. Then go downstairs from inside and open the door for Qiu Cheng.

After Qiu Cheng entered the room, he lit the small piece of candle that he carried with him. By the light of the candle, he identified the things in the room one by one. The tables, stools and stools were full of bottles and jars. There are few drink bottles, but they are all empty.

Qiu Cheng looked for it, found a few bottles of dishwashing liquid from the corner, and moved it to the door to store it, planning to take it back later.

"It's not delicious." When Ah Chang saw these bottles, he couldn't help but frowned. When he saw these colorful bottles, they looked similar to those drink bottles, and they smelled good. He opened them and tasted them. One bite, the taste is still fresh in my memory.

"This is not for eating." Qiu Cheng smiled, and then went to look over the pile of sundries in the corner.

Afterwards, Qiu Cheng followed Ah Chang to visit several other strongholds, and found many useful things, among which he was most satisfied with a tricycle and an electronic scale, which he brought back home Charged it and found it still works normally.

The tricycle is parked in the garage downstairs, where there is now a battery car that Qiu Cheng used for transportation, and it is no problem to put another tricycle.

They moved things back and forth several times that night, except for some things they needed at home, mainly clothes, shoes and socks, Qiu Cheng planned to deal with these things first.

Ah Chang followed Qiu Cheng time and time again, removing piles of treasures from his stronghold, which made him feel a little entangled. Sure enough, if he wanted to find a good Partner, you have to give more things.

Fortunately, he still has a few strongholds on the other side of the river, which made him feel somewhat comforted.It seems that he has to continue to open up new strongholds... How many treasures will it take to keep Qiu Cheng as his partner? Ah Chang looked at the back of the man in front of him and thought, he thinks it must be a lot. .

Early the next morning, although he didn't have to go to work anymore, Qiu Cheng got up at the usual time. He went to the terrace to pick the ripe tomatoes and peppers, and then watered the crops. There are several more big mice, it seems that Ah Chang's harvest last night was not bad.

After they finished moving things last night, Ah Chang went out to catch mice again. After working all night, he was probably exhausted, and he was sleeping soundly on the bed right now.

Qiu Cheng tidied up the things he had accumulated during this period, including a few bottles of chili sauce, a few handfuls of dried chili peppers, and some fresh tomatoes. The shallots have grown a lot, and they can be dug again.There were more than 20 big rats in the basket. Qiu Cheng thought about it, but he didn't catch all of them, so he brought more than ten rats, and a few slices of field mice.

The three wheels of the tricycle downstairs were all deflated. If he just rode to the city like this, even the steel rim might be scrapped, so Qiu Cheng had to push it over. After a while, he would go find it See if there is a stall for car repair.

It's the same street as last time. I haven't been here for a few days, and this place is much more lively. Qiu Cheng walked along the street, but for a while, he didn't find any vacancy for a stall.

"Dude! Dude! Hey, here!"

When Qiu Cheng heard the voice and looked back, he saw a middle-aged man waving at him. At first he felt that this man was familiar, and then he quickly remembered that the last time he was setting up a stall on this street , this person is selling children's shoes next to him.

"Hey, come here, come here, I'll make room for you." The shoe stall owner warmly greeted Qiu Cheng.

Qiu Cheng pushed the tricycle over as he said, and he really moved his shoe stall to the side to make room for Qiu Cheng.

"Why do you go these days, boy? Why don't you come to set up a stall?" The shoe stall owner talked to Qiu Cheng while tidying up the messy pairs of children's shoes on his stall.

"I'm still at work." Qiu Cheng laid a board on the back of the tricycle, and placed all the things to sell on it.

"Then you won't go to work today?" the other party asked again.

"If there is no work to do, we will leave." Qiu Cheng replied.

"The team broke up yesterday. Are you an electrician?" The man's news is very well-informed: "My nephew is also an electrician. My sister's son is just [-] this year. He was bragging to me a while ago. , It is said that being an electrician is easy and earns a lot. Now I am dumbfounded, haha, how fast the work of the electrician team is, the work of laying the water pipes is not halfway done, and the whole city of Xinnan City is about to be electrified."

"It's still your kid who has the ability. You can still do business after you don't work as an electrician. You also have a good ability to catch voles. I heard that this thing is very good. How did you catch it?" It seemed to be glued to the pieces of dried field mouse, and it couldn't be pulled off.

"I didn't catch it." Qiu Cheng has no ability to catch voles.

"Your boy just has channels, and having channels is also a skill. Do you remember those who bought voles with you last time? I found them again two days ago. I said I haven't seen you for a few days, and they asked me when Seeing you, please help me with a message." said the shoe stall owner.

"Which unit do they belong to?" Can they still do business if they have business?

"It belongs to the Municipal Construction Bureau. Walk along this street to the end, turn to the left, and walk another [-] meters. It's very close." The man pointed to the end of the street and said.

"I'll take a look when I close the stall," Qiu Cheng said.He didn't know this person well, so he didn't feel at ease asking him to help watch the stall, but with such a short distance, if he put away all his things in front of him, he seemed a little too careful, so I'd better wait a while.

"Hey, they are the most free at the moment, maybe they will go out later, otherwise, I will help you go, anyway, I don't have much business at this stall all day long." The other party offered to help run errands.

"Then I'll trouble you." Qiu Cheng said, and handed him a big, red tomato.

"You're too polite." The middle-aged stall owner took the tomatoes with a smile on his face, and told Qiu Cheng, "You have to look at these shoes for me. Recently, there are a bunch of little bastards on the street, and their hands and feet are not very clean."

Hearing what he said, Qiu Cheng didn't dare to take it lightly, and guarded the two stalls carefully. After a while, the stall owner just now led some staff from the Construction Bureau over.

"Return the price from last time!" These people opened the woven bag that Qiu Cheng handed over and took a look, and found that these voles this time seemed to be bigger and fatter than those last time, and they couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"Okay." They want a lot more, and they are long-term stable high-quality customers, so Qiu Cheng didn't care too much.

"How many are there in total?"

"Eleven."

"Only eleven? Not enough points."

"It doesn't matter, just buy it back and talk about it later."

"Eight tortillas for three voles, how many tortillas for eleven?"

"Eleven times eight-thirds, how much?"

"29:29, boss, let's forget about [-]."

"Take another handful of shallots."

"I need some chili too."

"Take a few more, take a few more..."

"Go away."

"Wait, what's the hurry, I'll buy two more tomatoes."

"How do you sell the tomatoes?"

"One tortilla for two."

"This ketchup smells good, can you try it?"

"Row."

"Oh, this taste is right, it would be even better if it was spicy."

"Two tortillas? I want a bottle."

"..."

These people made a lot of noise, and after a while, they left with the dozen or so voles, and the tomatoes, shallots and peppers on the stall were all gone by half.Qiu Cheng took out a cloth pocket made of cotton t-shirts from his bag, and put the tortillas in one by one, making the bag bulging.

"Those people are rich and powerful." Seeing that Qiu Cheng's business is so good here, the people in the nearby stalls looked this way.

"Just these people, the couple are dual-employees, and still worry about having nothing to eat? There is one in our community, and even the old man above has not retired yet, and the tortillas they bring home every day can't be eaten up."

"Hey, you still have to take the civil service exam?"

"That's not necessarily the case. You see, those who sell voles have a better life than them."

"Why are you so easy to catch when you're a field mouse? Can you find where the field mouse hole is?"

"It's okay for a child to go out and look for something. If he just wants to rely on this to eat, he will starve to death sooner or later."

They talked about theirs, but Qiu Cheng didn't talk too much. He wondered whether live voles would be easy to sell, so he would get less voles in the future and let him and Ah Chang consume the ones that were already made at home. It's not wasted anyway.

Ketchup is not considered spicy. Qiu Cheng has no way to solve this problem for the time being. What he is making now is the simplest plain tomato sauce. Boil the tomatoes and sprinkle some salt on it. Putting chili is so simple, adding some ginger and garlic is the minimum, otherwise it will not be fragrant, and the ginger and garlic on their terrace have just sprouted.

"You kid earns more in one day than I do in a month." The shoe stall owner said this with a bit of sourness.

"It's not that there is no cost." Qiu Cheng smiled.

The next business will be much lighter. The owner of the shoe stall next to him is enthusiastic, and the two of them chatted naturally. There is a children's shoe store in the city center. They have a car, a house and no wife. They live a very chic life.

"Let me tell you, it's too eye-catching for people like you to do business here. Look at them all, they are almost suffering from red eyes." His heart was still sour, what kind of life did he live in the past, he didn't pay attention to young people like Qiu Cheng at all.

"Then where else can I go?" Otherwise, in the future, he would simply deliver the business to the Construction Bureau?

"Do you know there's a night market at the train station?" Lao Hu asked him.

"There's a night market over there?" Qiu Cheng hadn't heard of it. He wasn't well-informed. In the past, Lao Li had told him about anything happening in the city. Now that the electrician team had dispersed, Lao Li wanted to After going to the countryside, he will be even more closed in the future.

"It's just started, those in those units, don't they have to go to work during the day, and they are free at night. I go every night, and the business is better than during the day."

"I'll go and have a look tonight." He only sells a little stuff every day. If the business is better at night than during the day, he won't have to come out to set up a stall in the morning.

"Business is good, but it's safe at night. Anyway, you should be careful." Lao Hu reminded him.

"I know." Qiu Cheng nodded. Night and day are definitely different, and if the train station is really as easy to do business as the old nonsense said, some of the city's elites will definitely go there.

After setting up the stall for a while, Qiu Cheng saw that there was no business, so he closed the stall early and went back, planning to go to the train station in the evening to check the situation.

He asked Lao Hu about a place to repair bicycles. He pushed his tricycle there and spent a cornbread to ask the repairman to repair the two leaking inner tubes. The other one was too damaged and had to be replaced. The car mechanic was considerate, and even helped him change a pedal and oiled the chain.After repairing the car, Qiu Chengcheng rode a tricycle back instead of walking.

For the next whole day, Qiu Cheng sorted out the clothes and shoes that he moved back yesterday. Men's clothes belonged to men's clothes, women's clothes belonged to women's clothes, and children's clothes belonged to children's clothes. These clothes have been piled up for such a long time, and they have a musty smell, so don't take them away. I was afraid that they would not be able to sell for a price, so Qiu Cheng had no choice but to transport them to the riverside to wash them one by one. After washing, they were hung on the roof to dry, almost covering the entire roof.

Before dark, he nailed up another wooden basket for raising voles, which was about the same size as the original one. The two wooden baskets stacked together did not take up too much space, but it was troublesome when feeding and catching the mice on the lower floor. A little, but with his carpentry level, he can't make a small door that opens sideways, so that's all for now.

When the sky was getting dark, Qiu Cheng had dinner and was about to go out again. During the daytime, several tomatoes were ripening on the terrace of his house, and there were many unsold ones during the day. He can still catch a few more mice. He just sewed some cloth bags this afternoon, which can be used to hold mice.

"Where are you going?" Ah Chang saw him reaching for his backpack, and immediately stood up from the sofa. Qiu Cheng rarely went out at night before.

"Go sell things, and I'll be back in a while." Ah Chang's overly clingy behavior sometimes made Qiu Cheng unable to help treating him like a child.

Qiu Cheng packed everything, put his backpack on his back and put on a cloth bag and walked towards the door. When he turned around and was about to close the door, he found that Ah Chang was following behind him step by step.

"You..." Qiu Cheng suddenly felt a little unbearable.

"!" Ah Chang's eyes were filled with anticipation.

"Do you want to go with me?" Anyway, it's night now, even if Ah Chang's behavior is a little weird, it's not easy for people to find out.