After the disaster

When we got home, it was less than seven o'clock. Qiu Cheng first raised these snails, divided them into about a catty, and raised them in salt water. The others were raised in buckets with river water, and he planned to wait a few days before spreading them into the rice fields.

When Qiu Cheng fished out a few snails from the river before, he didn’t care about it. He planned to keep them in the fish pond casually. Now that Ah Chang has caught so many, he has to take it seriously. There are crucian carp and crucian carp in the fish pond. The eating habits of the snails are very mixed. The big snails cannot be chewed, but the small snails eat one bite at a time. With them, it is difficult for these snails to bloom.

The two chickens at home were already squawking with hunger at this time, Qiu Cheng fed them some crushed soaked tortillas, lifted the cloth, pulled out the plug again, and took away the light bulb, so that Ah Often move the wooden baskets to the roof to let them bask in the sun.

Then Qiu Cheng took a few mouthfuls of cornbread by himself, and began to meditate for the day, and he had to wait for him to make breakfast after he came out of meditation.

Ah Chang also ate a few corn tortillas casually, and first moved the two chickens to the roof to bask in the sun. The temperature in the morning was not high. They huddled together in a group, and after a while the sun gradually rose and the temperature also went up, and they came alive again.

After Ah Chang watered, fertilized, weeded and caught insects, he fed the goats and the fish in the fish pond. When he was throwing cabbage roots into the vole cage to scatter insects, he suddenly remembered something, so he brought it up. With this turtle box, go to the roof to find the two chickens.

The two chickens were sunburned and their eyes were squinted and drowsy at the moment. Ah Chang leaned over to have a look. They were both motley-colored. The fluffy fluff on their bodies ranged from light yellow to light brown and dark brown. Among them One is lighter in color and the other is darker in color.

Ah Chang thought for a while, then picked a smaller worm from the turtle box and threw it in. The two chickens were startled at first, then they surrounded the worm, pecked it with their light yellow beaks, and picked it up. The worm was picked up and shaken again and again, and after a while, a chick swallowed the worm into its mouth, and the other chick saw that the worm was gone, and screamed at its companion stand up.

The chicken that had swallowed the worm stretched its neck, raised its head and squeaked twice at Ah Chang, and then Ah Chang threw another worm to it, and the other chicken was not far behind, and the two chickens Grabbed the worms in the wooden basket.

Seeing them eating so happily, Ah Chang was also very happy. They grew up quickly, and Qiu Cheng would soon have meat to eat.After feeding about seven or eight small worms, Ah Chang thought about it, don't overstretch it, so he covered the turtle box and went downstairs with the remaining worms.

It was about nine o'clock in the morning when Qiu Cheng set out. As usual, he had to make breakfast first. Due to the limitation of ingredients, Qiu Cheng couldn't cook anything other than potatoes and cabbage. Scallion Ye gnawed on the corn cake, took a bite, and couldn't help but turned to look at the snails in the bucket.

"I haven't cleaned it yet, so I'll cook it and eat it at night." Qiu Cheng said to him with a chopstick of pickled shallot leaves.

"Is it delicious?" Ah Chang asked again.

"It's delicious." Qiu Cheng didn't think he was bothering him either.

"!" Ah Chang laughed, opened his mouth wide, and took a big bite of the tortilla.

After dinner, Qiu Cheng dug some ginger and garlic from the balcony, and took out the dried chilies that had been sun-dried. Since they started making pickles, they seldom let you dry chilis in the sun. These are all saved from the past.

Qiu Cheng called Ah Chang for help, and the two carried the stone mill to the sofa. Qiu Chengcheng sat on the sofa, spread his legs, put the stone mill in front of him, and turned it round and round. Dried chili, homemade dried chili, the color is not so red and bright, but the chili flavor is very strong and spicy.

"Want to watch TV?" Seeing Ah Chang squatting beside him to watch him grind chili noodles, Qiu Chengcheng asked him.Watching more is good for language learning. Ah Chang doesn't like reading very much, so Qiu Chengcheng encouraged him to watch more TV.

"Don't look." Ah Chang grabbed a handful of peppers from the coffee table and helped Qiu Cheng put them into the stone mill.

When the stone mill is turning, you have to put things into it. People with slow hands can easily touch the wooden handrails that turn round and round. Just now, when Qiu Cheng put peppers in it, he had to stop the stone mill first. After all, he is still not familiar with this tool, and he doesn't have a tacit understanding of the left and right hands.

Ah Chang didn't need it, he stretched out his hand and quickly threw a chili pepper into the stone mill, then retracted it quickly, sometimes he could throw several peppers in at once, Qiu Cheng just held the handle and turned it around, don't worry at all will hit him.

The cooperation between the two turned out to be very efficient. After a while, a lot of chili noodles were piled up in the stone trough around the lower plate. Qiu Cheng looked at the thickness and felt that it was almost enough, so he didn't plan to grind the second one.

After grinding the chili, I swept the chili noodles in the stone trough into a clean washbasin, and then started to grind the ginger and garlic. The ginger and garlic have a lot of soup. While grinding, the soup flows along the stone trough to the opening. , tick-tock fell into a clean washbasin placed below.

After grinding all these, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang carried the stone mill with its shelves into the bathroom, rinsed them with clean water, lifted them out and put them against the wall, and disassembled the upper and lower plates of the stone mill Lean it against the wall and wait for it to dry before installing it.

Qiu Cheng cut another handful of leeks from the terrace, mixed them with the ground ginger, garlic and chili noodles, and carried them upstairs.

The Chinese cabbage that was pickled in another barrel yesterday had already leaked a lot of water, and the leaves and stems had become soft. Qiu Cheng put a big pot in the room and put the cabbage in a little water. Twist it, put it in a large basin, and wash the bucket used for pickling vegetables with clean water, and put it aside to dry.

Then Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang each took a brush, opened the cabbage leaves one by one, brushed the chili sauce on it, brushed the big pot of Chinese cabbage once, and brought back the plastic bucket just now, These Chinese cabbage brushed with chili sauce were put in layer by layer, and after they were all put away, the remaining chili sauce was poured in, and then the bucket was sealed, and it was placed in a cool corner.

The batch of glass ordered yesterday was delivered after twelve o'clock. When Qiu Cheng heard the movement and ran downstairs, he heard Luo Laosan say to him: "There is no elevator, which floor do you live on?"

He ran to the elevator room by himself to have a look. Sure enough, the elevator was out of service again. It was fine when they came back from fetching water this morning. Maybe someone came to stop the elevator in the morning.

Although the electricity consumption of elevators is also limited, it is not like residential electricity. Once the quota is reached, the power will be automatically cut off. This is also related to a safety issue. It will be bad if someone is still in the elevator at that time, so every time The power can only be cut off after a staff member has confirmed on site.

Fortunately, Xinnan City is not big, there are not many high-rise buildings, and the number of elevators currently in use is limited. They are still busy enough, and they will definitely not be able to stay in a big city.

Reluctantly, Qiu Cheng had no choice but to discuss with a few masters who were pulling the goods, and asked them to help him carry the goods up to the fifteenth floor with two corn cakes each.

This batch of goods is quite a lot. Luo Laosan hired five carts in total, each of which was fully loaded. Two tortillas are not too much, but they are not too small. Although Qiu Cheng doesn't mind paying a little more , but he also had to be careful, lest some people get wronged. Since he was watched in the night market last time, Qiu Chengcheng has paid more attention to safety issues.

The masters of these five carts are all strong young people. When they were waiting downstairs, Luo Laosan said that there was no elevator, and he was worried that he would not help them carry the goods upstairs. The boss refused to pay for the tacos they had agreed upon earlier.

As a result, the young man came down and took a look, and said that each of them would give them two cornbread, and asked them to move the goods to the fifteenth floor. He suddenly became happy again, thinking that he was lucky today.

Although there is hope for everyone's life now, it is not so easy for every household. I hope that although this thing is good, it will not fill your stomach. If you have no job and no other way to earn money, you have to work hard, but This strength is not so easy to sell. When luck is unlucky, I can't find a job for several days in a row, and the family has no income, so I have to dig wild vegetables to satisfy my hunger.

"That's okay, the fifteenth floor is a bit higher, so we definitely won't be able to go up in one breath. There are just six of us, divided into three groups, two by two, and each responsible for the fifth floor." counted.

Qiu Cheng asked Ah Chang to look at the glass downstairs, picked up a few pieces of glass by himself, and went up with the first group of people. He wanted to arrange a place for unloading upstairs. Besides, the fifteenth floor was their headquarters, so he had to Go up and have a look, don't ask people to wander around, and find something.

The mirrors of the five big cars look a lot, and it takes less than two hours to actually move them. If this is not a fragile product, it can be faster.

Qiu Cheng first paid off the purchase price to Luo Laosan, and then gave each of them two corn cakes as previously agreed, and Luo Laosan's portion was naturally not left behind.Luo Laosan happily accepted the cornmeal tortillas, and told Qiu Cheng to ask him to return to him next time he asked for goods, and then happily led the people away.

After seeing Luo Laosan and the others away, Qiu Cheng first went home and replaced the snails in the salt water with a basin of clean salt water, then pulled the wires and went upstairs to install mirrors on the wall of 1507 with Ah Chang.

Qiu Cheng had never installed a mirror before, so this time he could only feel his way. First, he asked Ah Chang to press a small mirror on the wall, and punched holes in the four corners of the mirror with his impact drill. Put down the mirror, change the drill bit, drill holes on the wall according to the marks left by the mirror just drilled, and knock the plug in after drilling, then take four screws, put washers on them, and pass through the four small holes on the mirror surface , screw them into the expansion plug.

Because the grout on the ground hadn't completely dried out, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang went in barefoot, and installed mirrors from the edge of the grout on the wall up to a height of one person, and stopped working. The first thing to do is to wait until the ground is completely dry, lest the ground be crushed by the ladder, and then the waterproof grout will have to be reapplied.

After tidying up their tools, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang first went to water the crops on the fifteenth floor, then went to look at the goats, watered the wooden baskets with grass in the room, and then Go to 1505 and throw the weeds and bugs you just pulled out from other places into the fish pond.

Then they went to the roof and brought the two chickens down from the roof that had been basking in the sun all day.The space on the top floor is open and sunny, but Qiu Cheng dare not set up a gathering array here to grow crops. He is afraid that the target will be too big to be discovered. When the utilization of the space in the house increases in the future, he does not even plan to use those terraces again. Put together a spirit array.

However, if he can get enough seeds, Qiu Cheng doesn't mind planting a piece of sweet potato on the top layer. He doesn't need the Spirit Gathering Formation. If he planted a crop honestly, he can get some harvest. It's better than leaving it empty like now. It is said that there are not a few people in the city who are engaged in planting on the top floor, and the government also supports it. The local news has also broadcast this matter.

May in Xinnan City is not hot, and the sun is not too hot. The two chicks stayed on the roof for a day, and they are still in good spirits. At this time, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang came to move the wooden basket, so they chirped. Beg for food.

Qiu Cheng had seen the newly hatched chicks several times before, but they were not like this. They were gray and full of hair, round and strong, with a slightly protruding back, and the two feet were big and thick, revealing a The stock is sturdy, and he can eat several meals a day, and his appetite is quite large.Such a chick, it's hard to say anything else, probably won't die young.

When Qiu Cheng and the others returned home, they first got some food for the two chickens, then went outside to water and fertilize the crops outside the terrace, and then started making dinner for the two of them.

These snails have been soaked in salt water for a day, and they are almost clean at this time. The locals know how to clean the snails. It is said that the snails are afraid of salt, and when they feel salty, they have to drink water desperately, one end in and one end out. It is generally clean.

Qiu Cheng picked up these snails and put them into a large heat preservation box, added some water to cover the box, shook the heat preservation box up and down a few times, replaced the clean water and continued shaking, after several times, the snails were very tender. clean up.

Stir-fried snails are good, even if you don’t use oil, you don’t have to worry about sticking to the pan. Qiu Cheng added ginger, garlic, and chili to fry together, and then added soy sauce and aniseed ingredients. Although there is no oil and water, it smells very fragrant, A Changwen After thinking about the taste, I finally completely believed that snails can also be delicious.

In the evening, Qiu Cheng had a rare moment of relaxation. Together with Ah Chang, he spent a lot of time slowly making a big pot of stir-fried dough. He also let it cool down and cut it into small pieces as last time, and ate it with cabbage and potatoes.

After eating, the two of them mixed the dough, sucked on the snails, and watched TV, feeling very relaxed.It wasn't until nearly ten o'clock that Qiu Cheng put away the things on the coffee table and started to meditate that night.

As soon as Qiu Cheng walked away, Ah Chang suddenly felt bored and didn't want to watch TV. He licked his fingers, reminiscing about the delicious plate of fried snails just now, and remembered that he was looking for fish and shrimp along the upper and lower reaches of the Xinnan River a while ago. He also saw a lot of snails when he was there, so he couldn't sit still, and stayed in the room for a while as if his butt was oiled, and finally fell out of the balcony railing.

Ah Chang jumped down from the balcony on the fourteenth floor, and with a hook, he caught the railing of a house on the thirteenth floor. Garden area.

The reason why he didn't go out through the gate of their house was because Qiu Cheng used the key to lock the gate of their house again every night. Ah Chang thought it was troublesome to open the door. The gate is locked, and you can go back later and fight there.

Ah Chang remembered that there were a lot of snails in that section of water. In order to take a shortcut, he did not walk along the river, but planned to pass through the city center and go directly to the lower reaches of the Xinnan River.

As long as he thought of how happy Qiu Cheng would be to see so many snails he brought back tomorrow morning, Ah Chang couldn't help grinning, as if he had inexhaustible strength all over his body.But even when he was emotionally excited, Ah Chang did not forget to hide his whereabouts. This was a habit he had developed over the years, and he never exposed himself easily.

Xinnan City was quiet at night. Ah Chang walked through the streets and alleys without a sound. Just as he was about to leave the city center, there were some rustling noises from an alley in front of him.

"!" Ah Chang tensed his body instinctively, hiding in the dark and motionless.

"Hurry up! My back is going to be crushed by you." In an alley not far ahead, several black shadows piled up and climbed up to the second floor of a house, and one of them was urging him out with a low voice.The family on the second floor has an anti-theft net, but it doesn't matter. The people on the third floor don't have an anti-theft net. They can climb to the third floor along the anti-theft net on the second floor.

"A little higher." A black figure above said in a low voice.

"Well, we'll..." Another person muttered an idea.

Ah Chang hid in the dark, watching them push the top black figure up to the anti-theft net on the second floor, and then the black shadow hung on the anti-theft net again, reaching out to pull an accomplice below...

"!" Ah Chang's eyes widened. He first thought of the door on the thirteenth floor that was not closed tightly, and then thought of the knife that Qiu Cheng suffered by the river a few days ago. He rushed to the Yuan District, no longer caring about hiding his whereabouts, and even kicked over a trash can when he turned the corner.

"Kang, kuang, kuang..." The trash can fell off the curb and rolled out a long way. It was especially clear in the residential area at night.Due to the poor security in Xinnan City right now, everyone is very vigilant, and they dare not sleep too hard at night. When they heard the movement, the nearby people turned on the lights, and a bold man leaned out of the window to see what happened. .

"There are thieves!" The group of people who wanted to find someone else's house in the middle of the night were quickly discovered by nearby residents.

"Fuck! Don't tell them to run away!"

"Open your dog's eyes and see, this neighborhood dares to steal."

"Kill them all! Don't run away!"

Ah Chang ran all the way to Jiayuan Community, climbed up to the 1306th floor, entered 1406, locked the door tightly, turned over the railing, climbed up along the corner, grabbed the railing of [-] with one hand, and slowly poked his head out. Seeing that Qiu Cheng was still sitting there, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Woo..." Ah Chang sniffed beside Qiu Cheng, dragged a cushion from the sofa, and nestled quietly on the cushion, not going anywhere.