After the disaster

Qiu Cheng leaned out the window and looked around, but he didn't see Ah Chang's figure. The road downstairs looked a little pale under the light of the street lamps, and there was neither corpse nor blood. I didn't fall, it was really dangerous to see him panicking just now.

Qiu Cheng has lived to such an old age, he has few friends, and he has never talked about love once. His father passed away and his mother remarried. The relationship was lukewarm. After entering college, he was busy with part-time work, and he didn't participate in class activities a few times.

He never imagined that one day he would be troubled by a man. Qiu Cheng lightly touched his lips with his fingers, and slightly lowered his eyelids...

Ah Chang wandered outside for a long time. He didn’t want to go to any of the many strongholds in the past. The night in early spring was still very cold. He usually resists freezing, but now he felt a little cold for some reason. Thinking of Qiu Cheng's warm and soft bed, he really wanted to go back.

Thinking of Qiu Cheng, Ah Chang felt very ashamed, Qiu Cheng was so kind to him, he even wanted to eat him just now, such a good partner, how can he eat him?At most, he just sniffed and licked it to enjoy himself.Qiu Cheng seems to have discovered it, he must be very annoying...

It was almost dawn, Qiu Cheng was lying on the bed as if he had fallen asleep, and there was a dark shadow poking his head over the window.

After a while, as if he had finally determined that there was no danger, he lightly jumped into the room, crept onto the bed, and nestled into a ball beside Qiu Cheng. Cheng sniffed at the neck, then stuck out his tongue and licked it, and fell asleep contentedly.

A few hours later, Qiu Cheng got up early as usual, and the first thing he did after waking up was to fetch water from the Xinnan River. In the past, two buckets of water had to be poured out every day just for the crops on a terrace. , sometimes even more, now there are two terraces and one balcony, and the terrace area of ​​Room 1501 is still very large, Qiu Cheng has to carry at least four loads of water to be enough.

Ah Chang catches mice every night, and usually sleeps late in the morning before getting up, so Qiu Cheng has always been doing the work of carrying water in the morning by himself. There is an elevator. Today, when he walked to the elevator with an empty bucket, he found that the elevator in their building stopped. It seemed that the quota for this month had been used up.

According to the current speed, it is estimated that if you want to use tap water, you will have to wait for more than half a month. I heard that only the tap water pipes have been repaired and the water supply will not be provided. The area can only use tap water after confirming that the sewage pipes can drain normally.

Qiu Cheng carried two empty buckets and arrived downstairs in a blink of an eye. It was still early, and basically no one in their area had woken up. When there was not enough food, everyone tried to sleep as much as possible and exercise less. Save energy.

He finally fell into meditation last night, and it took several hours. Qiu Cheng now knows the benefits of meditation. Apart from meditating last night, he really slept for less than three hours. I feel uncomfortable, how can I be as energetic as I am now, and my state is so good that I seem to have returned to my student days all of a sudden.

The improvement in practice made Qiu Cheng very happy. He also thought about Ah Chang's matter clearly now. Ah Chang can catch voles and help him accumulate supplies as much as possible in the shortest possible time. buy more fixed assets.And he can take Ah Chang and let him slowly integrate into this society. If he has the ability in the future, maybe he can also give him an identity, so that he will not be suspected or noticed, and become an ordinary person.

They are in a relationship where they can help each other and get along very well, that's the most important thing, and let the rest take its course.

Qiu Cheng picked up water four times back and forth, sweating from exhaustion, and took the last bucket of water back. He first poured a basin of water to wipe himself, then poured the bath water into a special bucket, and picked it up from the balcony. I took the earliest bottle of urine from the wooden shelf, poured it into a bucket, stirred it, and watered the crops on the balcony one by one.

After harvesting the corn two days ago, more than a dozen wooden baskets were vacated on the terrace. Most of these wooden baskets were planted with potatoes by Qiu Cheng, and the rest were planted with three baskets of pumpkins and one basket of bitter gourds. , a basket of loofah, and a basket of Chinese cabbage.Each basket of pumpkin, bitter gourd and loofah was planted with only one plant, and the basket of Chinese cabbage was planted with four plants.

After watering the crops on his terrace, Qiu Cheng went to room 1501 again.I heard that potatoes, if they are directly used for sowing without going through the dormant period, will affect the harvest. Qiu Cheng and the others have no other choice but to replant the potatoes they took back from their family. But the branches and leaves are growing well. It probably has a lot to do with the spirit gathering array. I hope there will be more potatoes growing under the soil.

The first batch of two baskets of potatoes that Qiu Cheng took back, except for eating them a few times at home, did not take them out for sale. After sowing this time, there were still a lot left over, and Qiu Cheng planned to keep those potatoes for a few months. After the dormancy period has passed, take them out and use them as seeds.

After doing this, Qiu Cheng began to meditate again. According to the "Wood Repair Notes", the growth of vegetation needs a certain amount of aura, but they also produce aura. Planting vegetation in the spirit gathering array can make the aura in the array More abundant, if a high-quality spiritual tree can be planted, the aura it produces can not only be supplied to ascetics, but when the aura in the formation is strong enough, it may also seep out of the spirit-gathering formation and blend into the world In the aura.

For the time being, Qiu Cheng doesn’t need to think about the spirit tree. He has no idea how to plant the so-called high-quality spirit tree, and he doesn’t know where to plant it. .

When Ah Chang woke up, Qiu Cheng had already prepared breakfast for the day, or more suitable for lunch. It contained tomato soup, steamed soft corn tortillas, and some chopped into small pieces and steamed with seasoning. Delicious dried voles.

While eating, Ah Chang carefully observed Qiu Cheng's expression, and found that he was no different from usual. Could it be that he has forgotten what happened last night?

"Eat more." Qiu Cheng said.

"Hmm." Sure enough, he forgot!Ah Chang grinned happily, gnawed on the cornbread, and secretly told himself that he must be more careful in the future.

In the afternoon, Qiu Cheng was still busy making wooden baskets. There were still three houses upstairs that would be completed within the next month.

In the evening, the two still went to set up a stall. Recently, Ah Chang’s performance in catching voles was not very good, but some of the half-sized voles caught by their family at the earliest have grown to almost the same size now. These voles are kept in cages and raised every day. Delicious and delicious, no need to exercise, all of them are very fat, and the fat voles are more popular with customers.

As soon as Qiu Cheng and the others arrived at the place, they saw a young man in his thirties waiting there. This man was their regular customer and his profession was a doctor. After the outbreak of the X virus, he got married at the temporary base and gave birth to a son. One daughter and two children, now he would come here every evening to find Qiu Cheng to buy a tomato, and after returning home, he would cut half of it for each of the brothers and sisters, as a vitamin supplement for them.

"Hurry up, hurry up, the children in the family are going to be starving." Seeing Qiu Cheng and the others coming, this man urged him repeatedly. His wife is an engineer, and this profession was relatively good in the past, but now she can't even care for the two children. The rations can't be earned back, and the mother and son are waiting for him to go back to have dinner at the moment. In addition to the rations on his side, the husband and wife put together, barely enough.

"Choose a big one yourself." With Ah Chang's help, Qiu Cheng laid out all the things in two or three strokes.

"Fresh chili, did you bring me?" The man picked the biggest tomato from a pile of tomatoes, handed Qiu Cheng half a corn tortilla, and asked again.

"Bring it." Qiu Cheng took two fresh peppers from his pocket and gave him.

"Hey, I can get this from you now, and it's all done elsewhere." The customer happily took the two fresh peppers.

"It was so easy to ask someone to transport a few pepper plants from the south. The weather is not warm enough, and the growth is too good." Qiu Cheng lied smoothly.

"The weather is fine recently, maybe it will heat up in a few days." The other party smiled and packed the tomatoes and peppers into the bag, and left in a hurry.

Qiu Cheng put the half of the tortilla he gave into a cotton bag. Recently, there have been a lot of cut corn tortillas in the night market, some cut in half and some cut into four pieces.

Sometimes when someone bought a tomato from him with a corn tortilla, Qiu Cheng had to give him change. If the half of the corn tortilla he got out was not big enough, the customer had to complain, and in the end he had to add two more. Green onions or a few chives will do.

Because Qiu Cheng is a good talker and he is quick to give his head, so the customers who have bought it usually come back, and the business is relatively stable.

Qiu Cheng saw that it was still early and there were no other customers, so he asked Ah Chang to watch the car first, and he brought the cornbread himself, planning to go to the stall next to him to buy a stove.The temporary stove he repaired before was really not easy to use, and five kilowatt-hours of electricity per month was not enough for them to cook and cook soup. There are so many things in Ah Chang’s collection, but there are stoves, but unfortunately they all burn briquettes and can’t burn firewood. .

"My fellow, how do you sell this stove?" Qiu Cheng took a fancy to a stove about [-] to [-] centimeters high. The outside was an iron bucket, and the inside was filled with mud. Divided into upper and lower layers, the upper layer is used for firewood, and the lower layer is used for receiving furnace ash and ventilation.

Qiu Cheng waited for a while, but he didn't get a response from the stall owner. He couldn't help but look at the corner of the wall where there was a ball of torn cotton wool, and he was surprised when he saw it.

"Qiu Cheng." Standing up from the pile of tattered cotton wool, a man was thin and tall. The height was 1.9 meters, and he was as thin as a hemp stick. Hearing this voice again, Qiu Cheng recognized it immediately. , this person is his college classmate, named Wang Chengliang, who lives in the dormitory next door to them.

"Wang Chengliang, why is it you?" Qiu Cheng always thought that the stall owner here was an old man.

"My father hasn't been feeling well for the past two days. I'll take care of him when he goes back." Wang Chengliang said with a smile.

"Oh." Qiu Cheng nodded. At first he wanted to say why you didn't come to my stall to say hello, but he held back after thinking about it. The business at his stall is not as deserted as Wang Chengliang and his stall. For bargaining, the two stalls are not far apart, he must have recognized his voice long ago, since he didn't go to look for him, he probably has his own ideas.

"I'll buy a stove with you." Qiu Cheng smiled and didn't say anything else.

"The one in front of you, half a tortilla." Wang Chengliang said.

"Is it enough? There is still an iron bucket outside." Qiu Cheng asked.

"Iron buckets are not worth a lot these days. Besides, my brother-in-law runs a waste collection station, and there are still a lot at home." Wang Chengliang said, and moved out the stove that Qiu Cheng liked, and asked him again Said: "Shall I move there for you?"

"Okay, you move there for me, and I'll treat you to a tomato." Qiu Cheng didn't give in.

"Thank you, brother!" Wang Chengliang finally showed a sincere smile on his face, not all because of the tomato, if Qiu Cheng distanced himself from him, he would not be happy even if he was given a tomato for nothing.

"Hi, thank you. My family lives on the fourteenth floor. The elevator stopped again today. I'll be tired when I go back later. I need to save some energy now."

"That's up to you to carry, this stove is not light." Wang Chengliang said, pulling the stove in front of him, pushing the stove up with his feet, and pulling the stove up. There is only a small thin edge under the stove. It was next to the ground, and other places were suspended, so it was tilted like this, and the stove was rolled to Qiu Cheng and his booth with both hands.

"When you move back later, do the same on flat ground. Don't roll it horizontally. The yellow mud inside is not very strong yet." Putting the stove on their booth, Wang Chengliang confessed.

"I know, here, have a tomato." Qiu Cheng said and handed him half a tortilla and a tomato.

"Thanks, then I'll go first." Wang Chengliang took the things and said he wanted to leave.

"Okay." Qiu Cheng didn't stay any longer.

"Who is he?" Ah Chang asked as soon as Wang Chengliang left.His ears are very sharp, even if the voices of Qiu Cheng and Wang Chengliang were not loud, he could hear clearly. This person knows Qiu Cheng's name, and Qiu Cheng also knows his name.

"Student." Seeing Wang Chengliang, Qiu Cheng naturally remembered his youthful college days, and the smile on his face became brighter.

"Student?" Ah Chang frowned.

"Boss, let me have a look at today's voles." At this time, customers came to the booth.After 06:30, many citizens came out to visit the night market, and the business at the stalls gradually improved. In addition, these people were very fond of bargaining, which made Qiu Cheng dizzy and dizzy, and did not notice Ah Chang's words. Anomalies of the night.

classmate?What is a classmate?This question puzzled Ah Chang, but Qiu Cheng seemed very happy to see him, and even gave him a tomato for free. Since he and Qiu Cheng set up a stall in the night market, this kind of thing had never happened.

Ah Chang felt that his status was threatened, and decided that his classmates must be a very dangerous existence. He licked his paws, and in his heart he had already listed the guy at the stall next to him as his number one enemy. It was enough for Qiu Cheng to have him alone. , I can only give him something good to eat, um, this guy must be killed...