After the disaster

Aunt Chen looked at the young man with a slight smile in front of her, and felt that he looked pleasing to the eye. He didn't look so pleasing to the eye when Qiu Cheng bought electricity from him with cornbread.

"Go and catch it in my field, the crops will be eaten up by insects in seconds." Aunt Chen said to Qiu Cheng.

"Okay." Qiu Chengcheng went to the field with her like this, and Ah Chang naturally wanted to go with him.

When the others saw them, they couldn't help showing surprise on their faces.Before they heard from Aunt Chen that Qiu Cheng used cornbread to buy electricity from their house. piece of land?It's not good to come out after the rain stops for a while, so it has to be at this time?

These people are not fools, knowing that he is here to help, the influence on Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang in their hearts has also changed.Before, everyone was wary of Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang, but these days, a single man without a family will always make people more wary.

Qiu Cheng didn't say much, and nodded to them as a greeting, and then he and A Chang went to the field first.Aunt Chen's land mainly grows corn. These days, everyone likes to grow corn, not because they like it too much, but because it has a high yield and can satisfy hunger.

At this moment, there are many armyworms crawling on these corn seedlings. These armyworms have bitten the corn seedlings that have just grown to the height of an adult's calf. I don't know if they can be saved.

"Oh! It's a crime! I just saw that it has rained heavily these two days, and there is no need to water it... What a crime! I saw a few a few days ago, and I thought it would be fine if I caught it. So many came out!" Aunt Chen cried out in distress while catching bugs.

Everyone braved the heavy rain to catch insects in the ground, and they were all very heavy when they picked off the sticky insects from the crops.Pests are so serious, will this year's grain production be reduced again?When will I be able to live comfortably, and when will I be able to return to my previous life?

The only one who is happy, probably after Ah Chang, he has not experienced a better life, in his memory, this world is like this, now it is very good, he has Qiu Cheng, Qiu Cheng will Change various spells and get him all kinds of delicious food.

"Qiu Cheng! There are so many insects!" Ah Chang shouted excitedly after catching a circle of followers in the field, holding the bucket.Although it was a bit inappropriate, the others just thought that his brain was not working well, and they didn't take him seriously.

"Oh." Qiu Cheng responded with a smile, and Ah Chang happily continued to catch insects.

"Is he your cousin? How old is this year?" The questioner was the young woman who had just quarreled with Uncle Long. She looked 28 or [-] years old, and she was a bit thick-skinned. His man told her to go back first, but she stayed to help catch the bugs.

"26." Qiu Cheng reckoned that Ah Chang was about this age.

"Young man is really good-looking, it's a pity." She paused, and then said, "I heard that when you fetched water last time, you had a fight with a smelly old man?"

"It's not a quarrel." Qiu Cheng didn't know why she asked.

"It's okay, just quarrel. That smelly old man is my father-in-law. He doesn't do business. He's always gesticulating at home. I'm going to annoy him to death." The woman waved her hand and said nonchalantly.

"What are you talking about?" At this time her man also leaned over: "Don't let him hear it, or the family will be uneasy again."

"I'm afraid of him, I'm going to talk about how much contribution I have made to the family in the past, bah, that's what he should do, a big man, if he doesn't plan to support the family, he will get married and have a kid Look at him like that, wishing he could treat your mother like a girl, so I said, 'My mother has worked hard to dig wild vegetables today', and he pressed me with a big hat, what a disrespectful person, big or small, bah! You shameless old man!" The more she said, the more angry she became, and finally she wanted to tear her throat open and curse.

"Hi, I'm just kidding." Her man smiled at Qiu Cheng embarrassedly. Qiu Cheng saw that he was also 28 or nine years old, with a medium build. Standing next to his wife, he looked a little skinny, with a very ordinary appearance.

"No." Qiu Cheng smiled lightly.

"My surname is Hu, my name is Hu Deqing, and my wife's name is Zhu Yanming." Hu Deqing introduced himself.

"At the beginning, his father objected to our marriage, saying that the combination of our two names is Qingming, which is unlucky." Zhu Yanming added.

"My name is Qiu Cheng, and my brother's name is A Chang." Qiu Cheng smiled and introduced himself briefly.

"Qiu Cheng, I'll give you all the bugs when I catch them later," Zhu Yanming said.

"Okay, thank you."

"Thank you, it's useless for us to take it back. By the way, Qiu Cheng, don't you have voles in your house? Is it good to feed them?"

Someone in their community saw Qiu Cheng and the others set up a stall in the night market before, and said that besides tomatoes, there were also voles and sparrows. Sparrows are impatient and cannot be raised, but voles can be raised. They all guessed that Qiu Cheng must be at home There are voles, and this time he himself said that he would catch bugs and feed them back to the voles, which confirmed their conjecture.

"It's easy to feed, and it will grow if you feed some grass roots and grass seeds." Qiu Cheng replied.

"Is it growing fast?"

"Not so fast. I heard that it takes two or three months to grow. I got a litter of young mice before, and they are only half grown now."

"Hey, this field mouse is so hard to catch, how did you catch it?"

"Where can I catch it?" Qiu Cheng smiled and said, "I asked someone to collect it from the village."

"Well, if there are more in another day, can you help us get a few pairs?" Zhu Yanming asked a little embarrassed.

"Now the voles are hard to harvest. I have sold all that can be sold at my place, and there are only some half-sized ones left. Do you want it?" After all, it is a neighbor, and it is fine if the other party does not ask. Now that the other party has spoken, Qiu Chengcheng is not very good. reject.

"It's all right, but what's the price?"

"I used to sell three cornmeals at the night market, but they were all male mice. I usually don't sell female mice. This time these are a bit smaller, but I have to match you with a few female mice. How about three tortillas?" Qiu Cheng said.

"That's fine." Zhu Yanming gritted his teeth: "First catch me a male and three females."

"Why, your family also wants to raise voles?" They just made an agreement on this side, and a few people came over from the other side. When they mentioned that they wanted to raise voles, everyone was a little eager to try.

When everyone just came back from the temporary base, they were actually quite optimistic. They always thought that the most difficult time was over and the better days were just around the corner. If there is a problem in production, it is uncertain what will happen in the days to come.

Although this field mouse is small, it still has a few ounces of meat. It is clean at home, and you can rest assured that you can eat it. This thing does not need to be fed food. Even if it is not useful in the end, maybe it will be better in a few months. Well, they have chickens, ducks, fish, and meat on the dinner table, so that's not a problem. I heard that voles don't need to be fed food. If you get grass seeds and roots, and catch some bugs, it should be almost the same.

These people were talking all over the place, asking for one pair and two pairs, even Aunt Chen, who was distressed for her cornmeal, was not left behind.

"I can't afford so much now, how about this? I'll post a piece of paper in the elevator room on the first floor in a while. If you want it, just write the room number and quantity on it. When I have the stock, I'll give it to you." Send them over." I really want to supply them, but it's not that they can't be supplied, but once these voles go out, more than half of the voles in their family will have to be removed, which will affect future reproduction and growth.

"Your house is on the fourteenth floor. You have to pay for just a piece of paper? I'll just paste it up later." Aunt Chen clenched her fist and tapped her waist, straightened up and looked at her cornfield. The field that was opened is not big, and the insects were basically caught in such a short period of time: "The rain is getting heavier and heavier, so let's all go back. Thank you everyone for today."

"Old Liang, are you almost done catching?" Zhu Yanming raised his voice and asked the people in the nearby field.

"I've finished catching the bugs in my field, but there are still a lot of them on the wasteland next to me. Oh, they will definitely have to crawl over in a while." Said a 60-year-old man wearing glasses over there.

"I can't control it anymore. The wasteland is getting bigger. When do we have to catch it? Let's go back first. When it stops raining, let's go out to catch insects." Aunt Chen persuaded.

"It has to be like this." The old man stood up from the ditch helplessly. The white shirt he was wearing was covered with mud spots, and the trousers were even more dirty, but they were dark in color, which did not look obvious, and were soaked by the rain. He was dripping wet and looked very embarrassed.

"Ah Chang, I'm back." Qiu Cheng greeted Ah Chang's hands.

"Oh." Ah Chang replied, and quickly pinched two worms from the grass next to him and threw them into the bucket. The white bucket he was holding was already half full of sticky water. Worms, some of which they caught themselves, others caught and put in by others.

After staying on the ground for such a short time in the rainy day, everyone was covered with mud and water. Aunt Chen said that she was not happy, and said that when the crop of corn grew, everyone would ask for corn cobs.

Qiu Cheng's hair was drenched by the rain so much that his scalp was drenched, and his bangs, which were neither long nor short, were wetly attached to his forehead. The spring rain seemed to make his whole body moist. straight up.

"What are you looking at?" When he got home, Qiu Cheng lit the stove again and had to take a shower after being drenched in the rain, otherwise his body would smell bad.

"No." Ah Chang shifted his gaze to the terrace as if nothing had happened, the tips of his ears were red.

"We'll go to the night market later." Qiu Cheng said again.

"What do you sell?" Their family even pickled leeks with salt recently, what else can they sell?

"Don't sell anything, go shopping." Qiu Cheng said.

"Shopping?" Ah Chang opened his eyes wide.

That night, Qiu Guo really didn't bring anything, so he and Ah Chang walked to the night market with a big black umbrella.

Ah Chang has never had such an experience. In the past, he was alone in the wind and rain. He never held an umbrella. Even if he found a place to hide from the rain, he was always alone. That old cat was not interested in following him. He is in pairs.

The road was cold and clear, and it looked extraordinarily quiet. Under the illumination of the street lamps, the rain water reflected a white and crystal-clear light, falling drop by drop on the ground outside the umbrella, and splashing a lot of water.

The heavy rain was pouring down, and the two of them propped up a small world. In this small world, there were only him and Qiu Cheng.

"Why are you still setting up a stall on a rainy day?" Before they knew it, they had arrived at Wang Chengliang's stall, and Qiu Cheng was talking to him.

"Business is better on rainy days." Wang Chengliang said with a smile.What he said is true. Xinnan City is located inland, and the weather is relatively humid. It is raining, and it is impossible to dry a piece of laundry. Recently, some citizens have come to his stall to buy stoves.

"Then pay attention, don't catch a cold." Qiu Cheng saw that his shed was built solidly, made of wood and tarpaulin. Think about it, his village is engaged in garbage recycling, so there is no material for it.

"Hey, I know." Wang Chengliang smiled.

"Someone in our community wants to raise voles. Can you still catch voles in your village?" Qiu Cheng asked him again.

"You can catch them, but there are fewer of them now."

"Then if you catch any more in the future, sell them to me. Three corn cakes for adult male mice, four corn cakes for adult female mice, and we can discuss the price when we see the young mice, okay?"

"According to this price, can you still make money?" Wang Chengliang and his family also caught voles before, ate a few at home, and sold a few in the city. Qiu Cheng gave so much. Before he saw Qiu Cheng selling voles to others, it was three cornbreads for each.

"Just sell it to people in the community, classmates, and I can earn the difference from you?" As for the adult female mouse with four corn cakes, Qiu Cheng didn't plan to sell it, he wanted to keep it. For breeding and for sale to others, just take those half-grown female mice.

"That's fine, thank you buddy." Wang Chengliang remembered Qiu Cheng's favor in his heart.

He was not close to Qiu Cheng in the past. Qiu Cheng has always been indifferent, and he is not very clean with anyone. He works part-time except for class every day. Girls engage in fellowship, and sometimes they don't even participate in class group activities.

But he knew that Qiu Cheng was a good person. He remembered that there was an accident at the house of a friend in their dormitory. The tuition of his senior year was owed until he was about to graduate. .Wang Chengliang still remembers this incident until now. At that time, he was about to graduate, and everyone was about to go their separate ways. The boys who had a good relationship with that classmate didn't say a word. In the end, Qiu Cheng borrowed him thousands of dollars. .

Wang Chengliang remembered that Qiu Chengcheng said a word at that time, and he was as indifferent as usual. He said: "Remember to return it to me." He didn't say another word.