After the disaster

"Then how do you sell this fish?" Qiu Cheng also realized that his question just now was really inappropriate.

"Three catties of cornmeal for one catty of fish." Seeing Qiu Cheng asking the price, as if he wanted to buy it, the old man's attitude improved a lot.

"These fish are all the same price?" Qiu Cheng saw that the fish in his bucket were a bit mixed, and the sizes were different.

"It's all the same price." The old man nodded, and picked up a palm-sized crucian carp in the bucket with a net bag, and said to Qiu Cheng, "This crucian carp stew is the best. How about it? Do you want to buy one back?"

"Your fish is a bit expensive." Three catties of cornmeal is almost five catties of corn cakes, more than a dozen, more than enough to buy four big voles in their family.

"Good things are naturally expensive. After passing this village, there will be no such shop. If you want to eat fish in the future, you don't know that it will be the year of the monkey."

Qiu Cheng looked at how many small grass carp there were in his water, and thought about the weeds that had just started to glow in his house, so he said, "Help me pack all the grass carp, they need to live."

"Both big and small?" The old man looked up at Qiu Cheng.

"Both." Qiu Cheng nodded.

"Hey, this is to raise fish." The old man seemed very happy when he heard that all the grass carp were all gone, and he caught all the grass carp with the net bag to the bucket on the left, and moved the other fish that were originally in the bucket on the left. Go to the bucket on the right.He also said to Qiu Cheng: "Let's ask for a few more silver carp and bighead carp. With them, the water quality is good, and the grass carp is not easy to get sick."

"Okay." Qiu Cheng had also heard that silver carp and bighead carp can improve water quality.

"How many crucian carp do you want? You can feed them with some earthworms and worms." The old man said again.

"I want all those crucian carp." The crucian carp is tender, and Qiu Cheng prefers to eat crucian carp.

"Hey, good!" The old man was catching fish, and shouted at the nearby stall selling aniseed ingredients: "Jinghui, what are you doing, hurry up and bring me the electronic scale."

"Oh." The middle-aged owner of the big food stall next to him was reading a novel on his mobile phone at the moment. When he heard the old man shout, he quickly moved the electronic scale to him: "Father, here."

"Go get another basin." The old man ordered again.

The middle-aged boss went back to his booth and took a plastic washbasin, put it on the electronic scale, the old man reached out and pressed the tare on the electronic scale, and entered the unit price per kilogram as 6, and then he was quick. Carefully scooped all the fish that Qiu Cheng wanted into the washbasin with a net bag.

"Sixteen catties and seven taels of money, you can give sixteen catties and seven taels, and I will give you a bucket."

After weighing, he poured the fish into the bucket and weighed the corn flour. Qiu Cheng first gave him a bag of ten catties of corn flour, and then weighed another six catties and seven taels.

After buying these fish, Qiu Cheng rode a tricycle and continued to move outside the night market. After leaving the night market, the road became very smooth.

At the beginning, the temporary base was disbanded at the end of February, but now it has been two months, and May is coming.

In the past two months, Xinnan City has undergone tremendous changes. The city that was originally in ruins has been tidied up. Although it is not as prosperous and lively as before, it is still popular after all. Some places have electricity, and many shops are open for business, although cornmeal tortillas are now circulated as coins.

Leaving the shelter and restraint of the temporary base, everyone tried their best to make the lives of themselves and their families better. Those who sold real estate cleared their stocks, walked the streets to collect waste products such as metal and plastic, and even Like Lao Hu and the others, they went far away to sell goods and do business.

Of course, they have also done some bad things. The fish in the river were electrocuted to extinction, many birds flying in the sky and voles crawling on the ground were caught, and there were even people selling frogs in the night market. .Qiu Cheng knew it was bad, but he had let Ah Chang do it himself, so he had no position to deny others. It was inappropriate to talk about ecological protection to a group of hungry people.

Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang returned to Jiayuan Community, because there were a lot of things on the car, and they couldn't be moved in one trip. Qiu Chengcheng asked Ah Chang to carry the things up first, and he himself guarded below. After a while, Ah Chang came down , and the two of them carried the rest of the things back together.

While waiting downstairs, Qiu Cheng saw someone on the fourth floor open the window and look down. When he saw that it was him, he quickly shrank back.Qiu Cheng didn't know whether the other party was out of curiosity or vigilance. Everyone is more vigilant these days, and it's normal to poke your head out to check after hearing something.

There are not many residents in Jiayuan Community, but where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. Qiu Cheng believes that he is now one of the more conspicuous ones in this rivers and lakes.But even so, he didn't intend to move to the villa area outside the city. There are basically no people living there now, and the patrols don't go there very often. It's over.

Back home, Qiu Cheng first found a larger container and raised these fishes, probably because of the abundance of aura in their home, after one night, these fishes looked more lively.

The next morning, Qiu Cheng took a cart full of cornmeal and tortillas to the Housing Authority, and Ah Chang stayed to watch the house.

Yesterday evening, when Shen Xing went back, she saw the note left by Qiu Cheng, and immediately went out again. After notifying the owners who had agreed to sell the house, she ran to say hello to the two owners who refused to let go. , Let’s say they will trade at the Housing Management Bureau tomorrow morning, let them go if they want.

When Qiu Cheng arrived at the Housing Management Bureau, Shen Xing and the house owners were already waiting there. This morning, Shen Xing was basically in charge of the formalities, and Qiu Cheng could only guard the tricycle. When it’s time, just grab the tacos cornmeal outside.

In addition to the 1512 under the name of Ai Haihua, the owner of one house did not come today. A total of eight houses were traded, four of which still have mortgages that have not been paid off. The repayment of the loan will give the corresponding amount of grain, and all these mortgages will be transferred to his name in the future.

Although the banknotes of all countries in the world have depreciated, no matter how much they depreciate, they are not as bad as real estate. After a while, the food problem is solved and the market economy is active again. At that time, banknotes may be useful. That's really hard to say.

In the past few years, more than half of the world's population has died, and empty houses are everywhere. Who knows what it will be like in the future? Now let those who are willing to sell the house pay off the loan before transferring the ownership, but they are unwilling.

There is no specific notice yet about the above-mentioned policy on these unpaid houses, but the biggest problem right now is the food problem, and other things have to be sidelined. At this time, the first task is to appease the people and encourage production. Proposals that affect post-disaster reconstruction cannot be passed.

Besides, most of the people who took out loans to buy houses in the past were hard-working office workers who received a monthly salary to repay the loan. People like Qiu Cheng have not seen what their salary looks like for several years, and how can they still afford the mortgage, so this matter is currently There is no way to solve it. We can only bring it up after the restoration of social order.

One morning, Qiu Cheng obtained eight real estate certificates, spent a tricycle of food, and owed a whole lot of mortgages, and finally came out of the housing management bureau.

Afterwards, Qiu Cheng went to the city center again. When he passed the shopping plaza, he saw Zhao Lixin and his brothers were still holding a sign there, so he gave them the keys of 1502, 1503, 1504, and 1505, and asked them to use the keys from the previous one to use the rest. Putty on those putty powders, if not enough, he will buy them back later.

Because there are a lot of things to buy, Qiu Cheng went to the building materials market this time. The building materials market in Xinnan City is in the east of the city. It takes about an hour to ride a tricycle from the city center. Thinking that Ah Chang still stays at home alone, Qiu Cheng sped up the movement of his feet a little more.

There are basically no residents in the area of ​​the building materials market now, and it is more deserted than Qiu Cheng's area. Qiu Cheng rode a tricycle on the wide road, and everywhere was quiet and indescribably desolate.

Some of the roadside shops are open and some are closed, some have broken gates, some have broken logos, some have holes in the walls, and so on.Qiu Cheng rode a tricycle along the street for a while, and saw a store selling anti-theft doors in front of him, so he passed by. After some inquiries, he ordered ten anti-theft doors, gave ten cornbread as a deposit, and waited for the rest. Pay after delivering the security door.

Then he asked the store owner where cement and putty powder were sold, and ordered a batch of putty powder, a few packs of ordinary silicon cement, and a few barrels of cationic neoprene latex, which is mixed with cement and sand. , can be formulated with a very good waterproof mortar.There is no need to buy sand. There is a construction site next to the building materials market. Just go there and put two sacks back. They are all very clean medium sand.

It took a full hour and a half from the east of the city to the west of the city. It was not until after two o'clock in the afternoon that Qiu Cheng rode his tricycle back to the Jiayuan community.

When Qiu Cheng rode his bike downstairs to his house, Ah Chang was already waiting there.

"Have you had lunch?" Qiu Cheng asked him.

"No." Ah Chang replied, and leaned over to help him carry the two sacks filled with sand.

"Just take one bag, and give me the other." Qiu Cheng reached out to take a sack.

Ah Chang turned sideways, easily avoiding Qiu Cheng's outstretched hands, and went silently to the corridor. Qiu Cheng had no choice but to park the tricycle, lock the rolling shutter door of the garage, take the remaining things, and follow. building.

After Qiu Cheng went out this morning, Ah Chang waited while catching insects. At the beginning, whenever there was even the slightest movement downstairs, he would run to the railing to take a look, but the sun rose higher and higher, but Qiu Cheng He didn't come back for a long time. He waited from ten o'clock to eleven o'clock, and from eleven o'clock to twelve o'clock. His mood became more and more depressed. Even now that Qiu Cheng had returned, he was still a little depressed.

Qiu Cheng also knew that he wanted to go out with him, but Ah Chang's situation was a bit special, and the law and order in Xinnan City was very strict at the moment. If something happened to him, he would check his ID card and the problem would come out. Oh, Ah Chang has no record of his life in the temporary base at all, nor is he vaccinated against the X virus. Who knows what will happen then?

"What do you want to eat?" Qiu Cheng asked him after returning home.

"I don't know." Ah Chang put down the sack and ran to nest on the sofa, pawing and pulling the two eggs in his pocket with his fingers.

"Eat tortillas?" Qiu Cheng asked again.

"..." Ah Chang turned his head aside in disgust.

"Why don't we make something fresh today?" Qiu Cheng said, rolled up his sleeves and went to the bathroom to wash his face, and then wiped his neck and arms with a towel.

"What?" Ah Chang couldn't help becoming a little curious.

"You light the stove first." Qiu Cheng said.

"..." Ah Chang hesitated for a moment, as if he was debating whether to continue to be angry or to light the stove obediently, and soon he made a choice and got up from the sofa to light the stove.

The stove in their house has been burning in the living room for a while, because there is no cooking, and there is not much oily smoke. Put an upside-down wooden basket on the floor, and then put the stove on it, so you don’t have to worry about scalding the floor. The living room is spacious and convenient for activities. Qiu Cheng doesn't like to stay in the narrow kitchen.

After a while, Ah Chang lit the stove. Qiu Cheng brought an aluminum water boiler over, put half a pot of water on the stove, and then went to close the door of the bedroom. cigarette.

When the water in the pot boiled, Qiu Chengcheng filled a plate of cornmeal, poured cornmeal into the pot while shaking the plate, and kept stirring with a rolling pin.

This rolling pin is made of pear wood. Qiu Cheng bought it online before. It didn't cost much, but it is very practical. He used to like to make dumplings on weekends. He would make a lot of dumplings in one bag, and put them in the refrigerator When I come back from work, I will make myself a pot of dumplings, pour a plate of vinegar and a few drops of sesame oil on it, and watch TV while eating dumplings. That is also very pleasant.

"What are you doing?" Ah Chang had never seen Qiu Cheng do this before.

"Stir the ball." Qiu Cheng said and passed the rolling pin into his hand: "Come and see."

Ah Chang took the rolling pin, and imitated Qiu Cheng, and stirred it round and round in the pot. While he was stirring, Qiu Cheng sprinkled cornmeal in it, Ah Chang stirred a few times, then raised his head to look at Qiu Cheng, and then After a few stirs, gradually, his mood improved again.