After the disaster

Is there a courier now?Qiu Cheng couldn't help but sighed in his heart. Sure enough, without the Internet, it is easy to cause information lag.

Qiu Cheng took ten catties of earthworms and asked the boss to change the price and pay through online banking.After he opened the network two days ago, in order to recharge and pay on the network in the future, he deposited some money on the ATM next to the telecommunications hall to the online banking card, which was enough for this time.

"Boss, which courier are you going to send me? Is there any courier here in Xinnan City?" After paying, Qiu Cheng asked the owner of the online shop about the courier.

"Longwei Express." The store owner replied.

"This name is really prestigious. How much does it usually cost to ship a product?" Qiu Cheng asked again.

"Of course it's prestige. Who dares to open a courier company without a little prestige these days? They were robbed in minutes. Sending a package to your Xinnan City is basically two or three hundred yuan. The speed is very fast. You probably I can receive the goods tomorrow." The owner of the online store over there didn't think she was bothering her either.

"It's not too expensive." Taking the price of 100 yuan for a cup of soy milk in the provincial capital, 300 yuan by express delivery is really not expensive.

"It's okay. Isn't it cheaper to take the train? They all take the goods from the railway, and there are a lot of goods going from the provincial capital to Xinnan City every day. The small amount makes a lot, and the profit is also very good." The shop owner said.

"Thank you, boss. We just connected to the Internet here, so we don't know anything. We are like bumpkins." Qiu Cheng thanked.

"I have only connected here for more than a month. At the beginning, there was no express delivery, and there were few bank outlets. It is not enough to recharge online banking. Now it is much more convenient." The online store owner is very enthusiastic.

"Thank you boss! Business is booming!" Qiu Cheng said.

"Thank you for your good words, come to me next time if you want to buy earthworms, and I will give you a preferential price." Earthworms are really hard to sell these days. Their family used to raise earthworms. Looking at the earthworm pit, wow, there are so many earthworms, but they can't be sold.

Thanks to the boss again, Qiu Cheng turned off the computer, and went outside with Ah Chang to pick up some bricks.

On the north side of the Xinnan River, past Shen Xing’s residential area and go northward, there is a half-developed real estate. The house was only half built when the X virus broke out. Over the past few years, a large number of building materials I don't know who was dragged away for a long time, but it is not difficult to find a few bricks here and there.

Qiu Cheng and the others pulled a cart full of bricks back and moved to 1505. This room was where fish were raised, and it was cooler than other rooms in the supermarket. There was little light in the bathroom. Qiu Chengcheng planned to raise the first batch of earthworms here.

He first found out the remaining cement and sand, and used these bricks to build four pillars with a height of 1.5 meters in the four corners of the bathroom. Place buckets for raising earthworms on three sides against the wall.

Then he built a few low piers at the foot of these pillars. At that time, a few wooden boards will be put on these short piers, and buckets can also be placed underneath to raise earthworms. The wooden basket can reach the lid of the bucket, and the lower layer is not too short. Usually, take a basin, bucket, etc., and place it on the ground to receive insect tea from the faucet.

After the racks are finished, more buckets for raising earthworms need to be prepared. Tall and thin buckets will definitely not work. They must be thick and relatively low buckets. There are not many buckets that meet the requirements in their family. In the evening, the two of them went to the night market again and bought a lot of old buckets and faucets at a very low price.

After returning home, Qiu Cheng was still full of energy, until he processed all these buckets and calculated the quantity, it seemed that there would not be more in the bathroom of 1505, so he went to meditate contentedly.

The next morning, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang finished their homework together, and went outside to catch insects and collect leaf mold. There are several materials on the Internet for raising earthworms. Some say they use sawdust, and some It is said to use cow dung, and it is said to use newspaper or shredded grass.

After all, it was the first time for Qiu Cheng and the others to do this. They were inexperienced and worried that it would not be good to raise them. Some materials would take a lot of time to prepare, so he decided to prepare more leaf mulch this time, and wait for him to grow earthworms in the future. , you can find opportunities to try other materials.

After staying outside for about two hours, Ah Chang caught bugs in a turtle box, and Qiu Cheng collected three big bags full of humus, and both of them returned with a full load.

"Uncle Qiu, there is your express." As soon as Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang entered the community, they heard Aunt Chen's granddaughter calling at them from the window of their house.

"Hey, Qiu Cheng, there is a courier from your family. You were not there just now. I happened to bump into it, so I signed for it for you." Aunt Chen also went to the window to take a look when she heard what her granddaughter said. Seeing Qiu Cheng and the others If he came back, he also yelled.

"Is it at your place?" Qiu Cheng asked her.

"Yes, hurry up and get it." Aunt Chen waved at him.

Qiu Cheng locked the tricycle in the garage, and together with Ah Chang, they carried three bags of rotten leaf soil. After a few pushes, they went up to the second floor, threw the rotten leaf soil into the corner of the stairs, and went to 201 Ask Aunt Chen to get the courier.

"I don't know what's inside, it's quite heavy." When Qiu Cheng and the others passed by, Aunt Chen's grandchildren had already opened the door and waited there. Aunt Chen pointed to the door when she saw them enter the house A cardboard box next to them said to them.

"I bought something online." Qiu Cheng said with a smile.

"What? You can buy things online now? Oh, that's great, it's convenient to have the Internet." Aunt Chen also looked envious when she heard that online shopping is now available.

"Would you like to pull a network cable from me?" Aunt Chen is a nice person, and Qiu Cheng should also be courteous, not too stingy.

"Oh, what's the point of that?" Aunt Chen's eyes lit up, and she seemed a little moved.

"It's okay, just pull the network cable down." Qiu Cheng said.

"Forget it." Aunt Chen thought for a while, and finally shook her head and refused: "It's not just our two households living in this building, this matter is about to start, and when the time comes, this one will ask you to pull the network cable and the other will also look for it." If you pull the network cable, if you say not to pull it, you will definitely offend people."

"Why do they have so many?" Qiu Cheng knew that Aunt Chen's words made sense, but since he had already spoken, he couldn't take it back easily. "

"No, no, no, it's difficult for you to do, and it's not just a matter of pulling a network cable." Aunt Chen didn't agree with anything.

Since she was resolute, Qiu Cheng followed suit, said a few more words, looked at their voles, and left with the cardboard box in his arms.

When catching voles for Aunt Chen and his family, Qiu Cheng picked a few slightly larger ones, and now a mother mouse has given birth to a litter of pink little voles.The two children in their family fed grass seeds and worms every day with great dedication, waiting for the pups to grow up and eat voles.

Moving things and taking the elevator up to the [-]th floor, Qiu Cheng first put the mulch that he collected from outside into the buckets that were processed yesterday.Then I opened the cardboard box that came by express delivery. The earthworms in the cardboard box were wrapped in a cloth bag. The bag was damp and smelled a bit fishy.

Qiu Cheng put a plastic bag in his hand, held the cloth bag in one hand, and reached into it with the other to catch earthworms. First he grabbed two handfuls into each bucket, and when there were some left over, he poured them back into each bucket. A little was added to the bucket until it was allotted.

The pillars that were built yesterday were not completely dry yet, so Qiu Chengcheng didn't move the barrels to the shelves immediately, and put them in the corridor for the time being.In order to prevent earthworms from escaping, a piece of cloth is tied to each earthworm bucket. The reason why no plastic cover is used is to ensure ventilation.

At noon, Boss Wang and Lao Er Wang came to fetch the beans. They also took away with the beans a jar of white wine, a packet of chili noodles, some spices, and a few catties of salt.

"It will be ready in about a month." Boss Wang said to Qiu Cheng before leaving.

"Don't worry, Wang Chengliang told me that you still want to make tofu for sale. I will look at the beans in the next two days." Qiu Cheng said.

"When the tofu is made, it will be the same as moldy tofu. After deducting the cost, the profit will be divided in half."

Wang Lao Er seemed a little impatient, for fear that Qiu Cheng would not support him in doing this. Today, if these dozens of catties of beans were taken back, it would be enough to make a hundred catties of moldy tofu. For more than a month, didn't they do anything during this time?

Qiu Cheng didn't take up this topic. He would get up early and greedily to make tofu every day, and he would easily share half of the profit. No matter how you think about it, it was a bit exploitative, especially because the other party was the brother of his college classmate. Qiu Cheng was really embarrassed.

He turned to ask Wang Laoer: "Your home is too far away from the city, where do you plan to make this tofu in the future?"

"It's not too far away. We have a lot of strength. This little road is nothing." Wang Laoer said.

"That's fine, you go back first, and tell Wang Chengliang after I buy beans." Knowing that they have no place in the city, Qiu Cheng stopped talking, and once again explained that he would pay attention to beans these days thing, sent the two away.

In the afternoon, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang went to Shen Xing's house together. They rode a tricycle and creaked through the somewhat decayed old street. They didn't feel embarrassed when they met the patrolling policemen head-on, and rushed to the house with great enthusiasm. The police comrade smiled, laughing so that the faces of the two patrolmen were puzzled.

Qiu Cheng and the others came back to find Shen Xing this time to ask her if there were any old houses for sale in this area, and there was a lot of cornmeal on the back of the tricycle.The last time Qiu Cheng was in the provincial capital, he exchanged all the corn flour he earned for white flour. After returning, he sold some pickled vegetables one after another, and gradually saved a lot.

These days, Shen Xing is inquiring about real estate and collecting jade, and he is very familiar with the streets and alleys of Xinnan City, let alone the old district where they live.

Hearing that Qiu Cheng was going to buy a yard in this area to use as a tofu shop, he took them to the west. This old street was originally in the northwest corner of Xinnan City, and the city center was in the southeast direction. Going northwest, the more remote.

Walking through the streets, Shen Xing quickly brought Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang to a yard, said, "This is it." Then he took out the key to open the door.

"Is this house your own?" Qiu Cheng also understood at this time.

"Why don't you think I earn so much food and eat it yourself? Why don't you like me to invest?" Shen Xing opened an iron gate at the entrance of the courtyard, pushed the door and entered. It was a small courtyard with a concrete floor. It looked clean, as if it had been cleaned. There were two two-story brick houses directly opposite, and sheds were set up on both sides of the yard.

"How much cornmeal do you plan to sell for this house?" Qiu Cheng asked her.

"Sixty catties." Shen Xing said: "Although this house is a bit old, it is big, and it is relatively close to the urban area. It is also next to the Xinnan River, so the land price is not cheap."

Qiu Cheng took a look in the yard and felt quite satisfied. The price of sixty catties of cornmeal was quite reasonable. After all, there was still such a large piece of land, and it was close to the river. You could see the river from the second floor. Not too bad.

Although he also knew in his heart that Shen Xing's price must have been very low when he first bought the house, but she is what she eats, and she is willing to spend that effort to do it if she has the time. Order the cornmeal as well.