After the disaster

At around eleven o'clock the next morning, Wang Lao Er rang the doorbell of Qiu Cheng's house with a bag of bean dregs.

"Hey, here we come."

Qiu Cheng and the others had just come down from upstairs at this time. They went out this morning and dug a lot of river mud, and spread it in the living room and southeast-facing room of the two houses of 1501 and 1512.

After going to the provincial capital, Qiu Cheng knew that the price of rice is high and the market is good. Next, he plans to buy a variety of rice. It just so happens that 1501 and 1512 still have unused space, and he will be busy with it in the next few days.

"This is today's bean dregs." After Qiu Cheng opened the door, Wang Laoer handed him a bag of bean dregs.

"I'd like to trouble you to bring it here specially, next time we can go and get it by ourselves." Qiu Cheng hurriedly welcomed him in.

"It's not troublesome, just a few steps away, and it will take a few minutes to ride a tricycle." Wang Laoer said and handed Qiu Cheng a small white plastic bag, which contained a few pieces of tender tofu: "The tofu we make, you two Try it."

"Hey, good."

Qiu Cheng responded, and called Wang Lao Er to sit down on the sofa, and the two talked about business matters.

Wang Laoer said that very few soybeans are used to make this kind of lactone tofu, and it is all water. They set the price low enough that most people are willing to eat it. The business is very good this morning.

They will do more every day in the future, with small profits but quick turnover, and the profits are still acceptable. Anyway, he, his wife, and eldest brother and sister-in-law are all in their prime of life and have a lot of strength. The children in the family are also grown up and can help .

While listening, Qiu Cheng made him a bowl of peanut soup. The peanuts they grow at home are good. After peeling off the red clothes, they are white and fat. They are boiled in water, and then put some white sugar to simmer slowly. , one simmers until it melts in the mouth, and the peanut soup turns thick white.

I bought the white sugar from the stall next to it when I set up a stall in the provincial capital yesterday. There are various stalls selling food on that street. Then, I went out for a walk by myself, and when I saw something cheap and good, I bought some at home.

Looking at the bowl of peanut soup in front of him, Wang Lao Er was a little reluctant to eat it, but he was too embarrassed to say that he would take it back. At the beginning, he kept it on the coffee table and did not move it. After finishing talking, he made up his mind , Eat a few bites, got up and said to go back.

Seeing his reaction, Qiu Cheng smiled at this moment, and asked Ah Chang to bring out a thermos from the kitchen. It was a portable one, and he didn't buy it himself. He cleaned up Ah Chang's pile before When I was collecting sundries, I saw some good ones. I picked them out, washed them, scalded them with boiling water, and put them in the cabinet. I will use them this time.

"Hey, no need." Seeing that he was going to make peanut soup for himself, Wang Laoer quickly declined.

"It's not a good thing either." As Qiu Cheng said, he filled a pot of peanut soup and handed it to him. The peanuts were all produced by himself, and he didn't put much sugar in total. He just simmered for a few hours and consumed some electricity. Electricity is cheap right now relative to everything else.

Wang Lao Er declined again, but finally accepted it with embarrassment.

Seeing Wang Lao Er away, Qiu Cheng thought about it and decided that every morning when he went out to catch bugs and collect fertilizers, he would stop by the tofu shop and get the day's bean dregs, so as not to ask them to deliver them every day.

Carrying this bag of bean dregs, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang went to the roof together. The sun was shining right now, and the roof was very hot.

The chickens in their family seemed not to be afraid of the heat, flapping their wings desperately to the wooden baskets planted with sweet potatoes, corn and soybeans, digging food from the soil with their newly grown claws, fortunately their claws are not very Powerful, will not hurt the plant roots.

These chicks have also grown up now, from being less than the size of a fist to almost the size of a palm.

Qiu Cheng looked at the chickens in his house that shuttled among the green leaves, and then looked at the sweet potatoes, soybeans and corn growing on the roof. Since he changed a large spirit gathering array for the fifteenth floor, The crops on the roof seem to grow better than before, but the impact is not too great, and the performance is not too obvious.

After half a month, these sweet potato vines should have grown luxuriantly. At that time, they can cut some sweet potato vines every day and cook them with bean dregs and fine bran to feed pigs.

As for the place to raise pigs, Qiu Cheng has also decided, in the bathrooms and kitchens of 1501 and 1512, four bathrooms plus two kitchens, one for each pig, and an extra kitchen, Qiu Cheng plans to Put a big pot there to cook pig food.

However, these things will be done in a few days. The most important thing at present is to plant the rice first and collect enough fertilizer to meet the growth needs of these crops at home.

Half a month later, the balance of the five piglets had to be paid off, so Qiu Cheng could count on the next batch of rice harvest.

It’s not feeding time in the afternoon yet, Qiu Cheng doesn’t plan to add food to these chickens, he and Ah Chang spread a scrubbed bamboo mat on a wooden frame, crush the bean dregs into small pieces, spread them on the bamboo mat to dry , dried for good storage.

After drying the bean dregs, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang went downstairs to have lunch. After lunch and a short rest, they went out again.

The rice seedlings have already started growing, and they need to prepare the paddy field before the rice seedlings grow to be suitable for transplanting. Because of the lack of fertilizer at home recently, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang had to pick up the fertile leaf humus and river mud to go home. It takes a lot of effort to move and pick and choose.

Not far from their home, the land contracted by Shen Dingjun has almost been reclaimed. A reclamation team has dozens of strong laborers. In addition, they do not all use manpower, and there are tractors "clicking". Driving back and forth on the ground, the speed of opening up wasteland is naturally very fast.

The wasteland on this side of the river has basically been contracted by Shen Dingjun, and there is no large area of ​​wasteland nearby, and they are basically owned by the owner.

Qiu Cheng and the others go out to catch insects and collect fertilizer every day, usually to the other side of the river. There is a mountain over there, which was developed into a park a long time ago, but the location is too far away, the construction is not very good, and there are few people. Go there to play, the mountain has accumulated a lot of mulch over the years.

Qiu Cheng and A Chang rode their tricycles there, parked the tricycles on the path in the park, searched on both sides of the path, and scraped off a layer with a shovel when they saw where the soil was rich enough.

There are a lot of bugs in the park, Ah Chang can catch a large box in a short time, take it home at night, feed some of them to the chickens, some to the fish, and naturally some to the voles.

Many voles have grown up in their family recently, and the market in Jiayuan Community is basically saturated. Qiu Cheng thought, it's time to sell a batch of voles, otherwise all kinds of poultry will be on the market on a large scale in the future. These voles will definitely not be popular.

In the evening, after a busy day, they come home to wash themselves up, and the two of them sit on the sofa and have dinner together.Qiu Cheng made cold noodles this night, rice is too expensive, and now they basically eat white noodles as a staple food, and white noodles are also very good, plus now they have the Internet at home, turn on the computer to search, it will not Those who want to learn and sell now, and make food in different ways.

A large bowl of cold noodles was placed on the coffee table, and it was quickly eaten by two people who had been doing physical work all day. After eating the cold noodles and peanut soup, I drank the soup while watching TV until my belly was round. .

"Let's go, let's go to the tofu shop." At [-]:[-] in the evening, it was not yet the time for Qiu Cheng to meditate every day.

"What are you going to do?" Ah Chang didn't want to move.

"Go visit." Qiu Cheng said with a smile.

When he was a child, he still had a few childhood friends. He often wandered around the city in groups, and occasionally went to their homes to play.Although Ah Chang is not a child, he is similar to a child in Qiu Cheng's eyes. It is the stage of character formation, let him deal with others more, and feel the kindness and friendship between people. Qiu Cheng also seems to be necessary.

The two of them closed the doors and windows and went out. They went out from the student street behind the community, and then walked along the path by the river to the bridge.

On the land beside the Xinnan River, the people of the land reclamation team are resting in the temporary shed area. These people have already pulled the wires over, and they are now lighting orange incandescent lamps, gathering together in small groups to pass the time. There are also people who carry washbasins to the river to bathe and wash clothes.

When Qiu Cheng and the others went to the courtyard where the Wang family lived, the eldest Wang and the second eldest Wang were washing beans. The two women were washing the dishes and washing the clothes. The children had nothing to do and were playing cards together. .

"Why are you two here?" Boss Wang and the others didn't expect Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang to come.

"It's nothing, come and have a look." Qiu Cheng smiled.

"Ah Feng, move a stool for your uncle, and play cards?" Boss Wang instructed his eldest son.

"Hey." Ah Feng responded, moved a stool for Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang, and went back to play cards with his cousins ​​after moving.

Qiu Cheng took a look, the kid named Ah Lei was not there, probably because he was completely detained by his grandparents, that unlucky kid.

On the contrary, there are two more girls, they should be the two daughters of Wang Laoer and Wang Sanjie, and the other boy must be Wang Laoer's eldest son, who looks very much like his father.Four children gathered at a table and were playing double buttons. Regardless of their young age, the poker table was full of gunpowder, and none of them looked like novices.

"Oh! I lost again! I won't play anymore." Soon the game was over, and Wang's second son threw the unfinished cards on the table and howled.

"What are you betting on?" Qiu Cheng asked.

"Wash sandals." The youngest girl grinned. "I've won seven rounds and my brother is going to brush my sandals for a week."

"You're so good, then you take our family Ah Chang with you. If you win, uncle will bring you peanuts next time." Qiu Cheng said to her with a smile.

"Really!" The little girl was very happy, and she changed seats with her cousin, and let Ah Chang sit in the position of his third cousin just now, and they fought against each other.

"Go." Qiu Cheng pushed Ah Chang, who was still a little hesitant, and let him play.

"Will you?" the little girl asked him.

"No." Ah Chang shook his head.

"It's your turn to draw cards." Another little girl next to him reminded him.

"Oh." Ah Chang stretched and retracted his claws, and quickly grabbed a card for himself, which made the children on the card table a little dumbfounded.

"No, it's okay, as long as you're lucky, Ajie just has bad luck." Said the son of Boss Wang.The Ajie he was talking about was probably Wang's second son's son, the one who just quit playing after losing.

"It's all about brushing your shoes. As for your stinky shoes, once you brush them, my luck will stink for days."

"Who made you lose the card?"

Several people were bickering and playing cards, and the boy named Ajie stood beside Achang and taught him how to play and which card to play.

Seeing that Ah Chang was having a good time, Qiu Cheng went to discuss the matter with Boss Wang. He wanted to sell the voles this time, but he didn't intend to sell them as meat rats. He wanted to ask Boss Wang to make a batch of cages for them Sell ​​it as a stud mouse.

"It's easy to ask for a cage. I'll go back to the village tomorrow to get some materials, and it won't take much effort." When Boss Wang heard that Qiu Cheng wanted a cage, he readily agreed.

"A set of four cages, the size of the cages is about the same as the ones I had last time, and it's better to put a handle on it." Qiu Cheng said.

"I see, how many do you want?" Boss Wang asked.

"Let's make twenty or thirty first. Do you have enough materials?" Qiu Cheng asked him.

"Don't worry, there are a lot of these things in our village. They used to dump waste products. When the X virus broke out, every household had a lot of goods that were not sold, and no one looked down on the junk. Five years have passed. , except for those that are rotten and broken, everything else is still there." Boss Wang said.

"A group of four cages, is it enough to give a tael of cornmeal?" Qiu Cheng certainly couldn't make them work for nothing.

"What's worth it, I'll make it right away, I don't want your cornmeal." The Wang family really don't want to take Qiu Cheng's cornmeal now.

"One tael of cornmeal is not much, you can make twenty or thirty for me, and you can earn only two or three catties, which is not enough for these girls and boys to eat for a day." Qiu Cheng is actually not too generous, he buys things from Wang's house, Giving cornmeal is exactly what it should be.

The relationship between people is like this. If he relaxes on his side, the Wang family will also loosen up. If both parties are friendly, don't be too fussy or stingy, and the relationship will be harmonious.

If he is tight on this side, the Wang family will definitely follow closely after a long time. Both parties will have to worry about it, for fear of losing money, and the relationship will naturally become tense.

But this cannot be generalized. First of all, the other party must be the kind of person who knows what to do and what to do.For now, Qiu Cheng thinks that the Wang family is still very good. He has bought things from their family several times, and every time he feels that the value for money is excellent.