After the disaster

According to the couple, they bought room 1501 for nearly 60 yuan. The house has more than 130 square meters, three bedrooms, two living rooms, a terrace and a balcony.

The balcony of this house is large, facing east, and another balcony facing south. Qiu Cheng thought that neither the balcony nor the terrace would get enough sunlight, so he simply planted potatoes.

They first opened the door on the roof, and then jumped from the roof to the terrace of Room 1501. The rough houses in their community only have one entrance door, and there are no doors and windows inside. Qiu Cheng and the others entered directly from the terrace. After checking out the house, I learned about the layout of the house, and then brought up the nailed wooden baskets from my own home downstairs, and placed them one by one on the east terrace and south balcony.

Right now, food is scarce, and these potatoes were planted one day earlier. This afternoon, Qiu Chengcheng and Ah Chang went to the Xinnan River to carry two woven bags of sand back, and used the moist sand to germinate the potatoes.

A little later, Shen Xing's one hundred catties of broken jade was also brought over. Qiu Cheng paid her 75 corn cakes, and for the rest of the corn cakes, Qiu Cheng set aside another ten catties, and took all the rest to the night market that night. It's just that their business has been pretty good recently, and the time since they started setting up a stall is too short. It's not so easy to get together fifty or sixty catties of cornmeal at once.

Since the bombing of the seed company broke out, those customers who were originally quite generous have also become very stingy. Most of the tortillas at home are replaced with cornmeal. They are not as willing as before. Qiu Cheng The field mouse is not so easy to sell.

The stall on the right that exchanges cornmeal is doing very well.In order to make it easier for repeat customers to find, the location where Qiu Cheng and the others set up their stall has not changed. It is still the same place, with a stove seller on the left and a cornmeal exchange on the right.

The stall owner on the right has recently brought two relatives, young and old, out of the stall every night. Including their father and son, there are four people in total. Walking on the road mighty and mighty, generally small gangs dare not attack them, and larger gangs don't dare to be so blatant. Recently, the rumors have been tight.

When citizens go to and from the night market every night, there are often thefts and robberies. The theft usually happens inside the night market, and the robbery usually happens outside the night market.In order to maintain law and order, there have been more patrols on the street recently. Qiu Cheng set up a stall in the night market, and he can see two patrolmen passing by his stall every few minutes, and he can often be seen on the way out of the stall and on the way home. Police officers on police motorcycles.

But no matter how chaotic it was, the city government did not show the slightest intention to close the night market, because with the night market, many people would have a way out, and the society would be stable.No matter from a political point of view or from a humanistic point of view, this night market must never be closed.

The business is not easy to do. Qiu Cheng’s daily stall setting time has changed from one or two hours at the beginning to the current three or four hours. The stalls open at six o’clock every night, and usually they can’t close the stalls until after 09:30. .

Fortunately, the things he sells are also edible, and the situation is not as bad as some other stalls in the night market. Like the stove seller next to them, Qiu Cheng saw that he couldn't sell one or two stoves throughout the night.

Two days ago, Qiu Cheng and the others met Lao Hu when they were closing the stall, and they heard him complain a lot. Lao Hu said that the business could not continue, and there was no way out if it continued like this. He and a few friends planned to go to the coast to have a look. If we can sell some sea salt sometime, maybe there will be a turning point.

Qiu Cheng knew that what Lao Hu was thinking about was not only the issue of survival, but any ambitious man, at this time, everyone wanted to give it a go, as long as he could get a lot of land, as long as he could get a lot of money Yin, when the current crisis is over, there will naturally be a lot of good days ahead.

This night, when Qiu Cheng and the others closed the stall, the cornmeal exchange stall next to it also became deserted, and Qiu Cheng drove Ah Chang there in a tricycle.

"I want to change some cornmeal." Qiu Cheng said.

"Hey, Xiao Qiu, you're finally going to change to cornmeal." The stall owner was overjoyed. Since Qiu Cheng and the others came here to set up a stall the first day, he had his eye on this business, but the other party didn't come back for a long time. He showed his willingness to exchange for cornmeal, as if he had other channels.

"How much do you charge me per catty?" Qiu Cheng asked him.

"Didn't we tell you a long time ago, I'll give you half and half." In his opinion, Qiu Cheng is also a big customer.

Their business is good, but he keeps an eye on it every night. That vole only sells three tortillas. Although the business is not good recently, it means a few more hours of stalls, and the bargaining is fierce. Give some peppers and shallots as a head, sometimes when I meet a powerful customer, I want to buy a vole and ask Qiu Cheng to give me a tomato. Seeing him, others feel sorry for these two brothers, but the things are all sold out in the end. , earning dozens of tortillas every night did not run away.

"Five two eight." Qiu Cheng counter-offered.

"Hey, that's not okay. If you really want to follow what you said, all of us will have to drink the Northwest Wind." The stall owner waved his hands again and again.

"I have a lot here." Qiu Cheng said as he got out of the car, opened a piece of waterproof fabric in the tricycle body, and pulled out several cloth bags from underneath, each of which was stuffed bulgingly with cornbread.

"Five, two, six, no more." Seeing that he had so many tortillas, the stall owner wanted to close the deal very much.

"Then I'll go to another place to ask." Qiu Cheng said and put away his things again. What he said was serious. There are so many corn tortillas, and he is a big customer who can bargain at any stall. room.

"Five two seven." The stall owner gritted his teeth, raised the price again, and then said: "This is the highest price, and you can't find a higher price anywhere else. If you accidentally meet someone with a bad heart, You can also mix things into the cornmeal. We have set up a stall next to the ground for such a long time, do you think someone will come to my door and say that my cornmeal is not good? Cooking it is worse than cooking it.”

Qiu Cheng could barely accept the price of five catties and seven taels, and after hearing what the stall owner said, it really made sense after thinking about it. Although this man is a good businessman, he is also honest after all, so he nodded.

"Okay! Zhenxin, come and weigh Xiaoqiu." The stall owner asked his son to help. Although there are two nephews who set up the stall with them, he usually doesn't call on business matters. When they bumped into each other, the two brothers were asked to stand on both sides of the stall, one left and one right.

During the transaction, the stall owner made friends with Qiu Cheng again, and asked him to call himself Lao Feng. He also said that he was always the most honest person, never did things that were short of money, and the cornmeal was also the freshest. Well, he has a channel, let Qiu Cheng ask for cornmeal in the future, and ask him to change it.

In the end, the more than 100 catties of corn cakes were exchanged for more than 60 catties of cornmeal. The next day, Qiu Cheng brought enough. He successfully transferred the ownership of No. 1501 at the Housing Management Bureau, and signed a contract with the original owner. The remaining three rooms Both have to close the deal within the next month.

After buying room 1501, Qiu Cheng didn't waste any time, took the key from the original owner, changed the lock for the room, set up a gathering array inside, and transported it from the nearby farmland. A lot of soil came back, mixed with fermented manure, filled in wooden baskets, and when the potatoes that had germinated before sprouted, a small potato was planted in each wooden basket.

When Qiu Cheng planted potatoes in the temporary base, he saw that they needed to be sterilized during the cutting process, and he couldn't get any sterilizing agent at present, so he simply planted them all with small potatoes, saving the need for cutting. block segment.

The place for fermenting fertilizers was also moved upstairs. Room 1501 has three bedrooms and two living rooms. Qiu Cheng chose a small room for fermenting fertilizers.

Originally, I planned to put the voles in that room, but after thinking about it, I didn’t move them up. Now Qiu Cheng and the others use wooden baskets to raise the voles. It’s safe to keep them in the living room, except for those who go to the night market. Most of the time, there were people in their house. It was not so easy for these voles to have a victorious escape, and it was not always possible to move upstairs.

When did Qiu Cheng plan to upgrade the cages of these voles first, and then consider the issue of moving the breeding places.

Apart from going to the night market to set up stalls and tending crops at home, Qiu Cheng spent the rest of his time studying the "Mu Xiu Notes", meditating every morning and evening, according to the "Mu Xiu Notes", there is nothing wrong with cultivating the Tao The quick way is to accumulate day after day. Whether you can get the Tao in the end depends on your personal chance.

In the early morning of this day, Ah Chang managed to catch a few voles and returned home.Recently, the fields and hillsides around the outskirts of the city have been dug potholes everywhere, and the bird nests on the trees have also been destroyed a lot. Many voles and birds have moved. He now spends more and more time going out every night. , but the harvest is getting less and less.

Ah Chang opened the cage in the living room and put these voles in, and then grabbed a few corncobs from the side and threw them in. The corn on their terrace finally matured, and he and Qiu Cheng gnawed on the corn stalks as sugarcane Yes, the gnawed slag and the crushed corn leaves and corn husks are fermented into fertilizer, and the corncobs are used to grind the teeth of these mice.

Ah Chang came into the room and saw Qiu Cheng sitting on the bed with his legs crossed and his hands on his knees. He was like a stone, motionless.

"..." Ah Chang's pupils shrank, and he stood at the door for a while, then he approached slowly and silently, stretched his neck to get close to Qiu Cheng's nose, until he felt the air exhaled from the other's nose. With a long and warm breath, his tense body relaxed little by little.

Ah Chang still remembered the scene when the old cat left a long time ago. When he found it, the old cat was also motionless.He felt very happy these days with Qiu Cheng. He wanted to always have this partner and be so happy all the time. Just now seeing Qiu Cheng sitting like this motionless, he was really terrified.

The joy of being lost and regained made Ah Chang couldn't help leaning over and rubbing the tip of Qiu Cheng's nose, and then sticking out his tongue to lick his chin and lips. His lips were so soft, Ah Chang couldn't help but lick them again For a moment, feeling his softness, breathing the warm gas exhaled from his nose, soon, his body became restless...

"..." Qiu Cheng slightly opened his eyes, he was just in samadhi, he hadn't turned into a dead person yet, it was impossible for him to be totally unaware of such a big movement.

Ah Chang was squinting his eyes and savoring his lips intoxicatedly. The taste here was so good that he couldn't help but want to pry open the two lips and taste the taste inside...

"!" Suddenly, he raised his eyelids and met Qiu Cheng's gaze.

"..." Qiu Cheng was still a little unresponsive at this time.

"Woo!" Ah Chang was startled at first, and then like a frightened little animal, he uttered a miserable cry, and rushed to the window quickly, and got into the darkness outside in a few strokes, running as fast as he could. without a trace.