After the disaster

It is said that more than a month ago, in a chicken farm in a southern city, first the chickens fell one by one, and then even the big chickens began to fall one by one, and finally the big chickens and the little chickens in this farm almost All dead.

At first, the relevant personnel thought that the protection measures of the chicken farm were not in place, and chicken plague had occurred. In the follow-up investigation, the result was unexpected, because it was not an infectious disease at all, but an outbreak caused by food.

In the ensuing investigation, they soon discovered that a small number of old people and children died inexplicably around this chicken farm during this period. Relevant personnel contacted medical research institutions to conduct random checks on local people. More than [-]% of the people in the area suffer from a strange disease.

This disease does not have any obvious symptoms. Some people have this disease but still live as usual, and some people have obvious deterioration of body functions.

Most people with physical problems think that it is due to lack of nutrition, and they don’t think about it at all. These days, malnutrition causes poor health and then dies. This is a very common thing. Who would have thought that it would be Is the disease at play?

That area has now been blocked, and the country has sent the most advanced scientific and technological forces there, and some world-class medical research organizations have also participated.I heard that the preliminary research results they have come up with now are that there is a problem with the food, and no one knows what the specific problem is, and there is no news about it.

There are also rumors in the South that the same thing is happening not only in their own country, but in several tropical growing areas all over the world.

After Qiu Cheng sent Wang Chengliang away, he and Ah Chang went to the train station to find Lao Hu, while Wang Chengliang wanted to go home first.

Lao Hu has been running around all over the place these days, looking very haggard, but he is still very happy to see Qiu Cheng and the others, and he also gave Ah Chang a piece of malt candy he brought back from the north.

"Don't look at the inconspicuous candies. I took them with my nephew to several southern coastal fishing villages a while ago, and I got back a lot of dried fish, shrimp and shellfish, as well as kelp and seaweed." Old Hu smiled. Said.

"What's going on in the south now?" Qiu Cheng dragged Ah Chang to sit in the shade of the shed. The sun was shining outside, and there was no wind today, so it felt very stuffy to stay in the shed. I really don't know what happened to Wang Chengliang. How do you survive every day.

"It's better than our side, but it's not very stable. Now rumors are spreading and people's hearts are floating around. Many people have already dragged their families and fled to the inland." Lao Hu said.

"I heard that you also sold some homemade cloth and sold them all?" Qiu Cheng asked again.

"They were all sold, and together with those maltose, they were sorted out in those fishing villages." Speaking of this, Lao Hu grinned and laughed, with a rather smug expression on his face.

Then Lao Hu told Qiu Cheng some of his experiences along the way. Back then, he and his nephew took the train to the north with those soaps on their backs. I also want to go to the south to try my luck and see if I can get some food back. Didn’t the news say that there was a bumper harvest in the south? Everyone knows this.

As a result, the two of them took the train from north to south for several days. After getting off the train, they found a place to live. After chatting with a few people who were also running business, they chatted about that matter, so the uncle and nephew I had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​getting food back to Xinnan City, and went to some relatively remote fishing villages to collect seafood. Although the journey was hard and dangerous, the harvest was still considerable.

"When will you start setting up a stall, we will come and have a look." Qiu Cheng finally asked him again.For things like dried shrimps and seaweed, it would be good to buy some and keep them at home. Ah Chang has never eaten these things before, so buy some for him to try.

"I just arrived last night, and I have to rest for a whole day today, and I will open the stall tomorrow night." Lao Hu said.

They sat in this shed until Wang Chengliang came back, the three of them said a few more words, and then Qiu Chengachang and Lao Hu went back separately.

Back home, Qiu Cheng calculated the time, and it was only a few days before the time he and Mr. Bai had agreed to go to the provincial capital to pick up the goods, and hoped that it would go smoothly.

In any case, Qiu Chengcheng didn't want to give up these piglets. If he missed this opportunity, he didn't know when it would be when he wanted to buy piglets next time, and he also paid a lot of deposit. To pay and pick up the goods, those deposits are all for nothing.

In the afternoon, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang were playing with the soybeans on the roof of the building. The batch of soybeans they harvested a while ago were hung on several wooden racks on the roof to dry for a few days. Most of the pods had already opened. They fell to the ground cracklingly, and some pods did not open naturally, so they had to be peeled manually.

Qiu Cheng recently used wooden frames and side bamboo mats to block off a corner of the top floor to prevent the beans from being harmed by chickens.

The older the chickens in their family are, the stronger their fighting power will be. Seeing how tough they are digging the ground with their paws, Qiu Chengcheng is a little worried about the crops on the roof. It's okay now, wait for them to grow up a bit , Do they dig out the sweet potatoes in the soil and eat them?

They must be locked up, the question is where to lock them up.When the sun was setting, Qiu Cheng and the others collected the beans on the roof, grabbed some rice bran and mixed it with a bag of bean dregs left in the morning, and fed them to the chickens.

When the chickens received the feeding signal, Sa Yazi ran over here, a little uneasy, and surrounded Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang asking to feed the bugs, but Qiu Cheng ignored them, picky eaters are not a good habit.

Going down to the fifteenth floor, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang watered their crops to catch insects. Now the potatoes and soybeans planted in the houses of 1502, 1503, 1504, and 1506 have been harvested. Afterwards, Qiu Cheng uniformly planted potatoes in it, so as to avoid the same crops in every house, which would be laborious to take care of.

The rice in the houses of 1501, 1507, and 1512 is also growing very well. If it continues like this, it should be harvested in two or three days. When the harvested rice is dried and shelled, it will basically arrive It's time for Qiu Cheng and the others to go to the provincial capital.

There are not many vacant rooms on the fifteenth floor. There is only one room in 1501 that has not been developed for planting, but there are three goats raised there. These goats are definitely important property of their family. The location of the room occupied It's not perfect either, it's a bit reluctant to use it for planting, but it's good as a sheep pen.

Next, from 1502 to 1507, crops were planted. From 1508 to 1511, because they were facing north, they could not get the sun, so they have not been fully utilized yet. The living room and a room on the east side of 1512 were also planted with rice. The next two north rooms are currently vacant.

After Qiu Cheng walked around the fifteenth floor, he knew where he should keep those chickens in the future.

He plans to tidy up the two empty rooms on the north side of 1512 in the next few days, nail the wooden frames like other planting houses, spread the soil, and then plant some grasses that chickens like on them , Install metal halide lamps on the wall, if it is just planting grass, the metal halide lamps should be able to meet their growth needs.

On the wall between these two rooms, Qiu Cheng plans to open another doorway so that these chickens can walk freely in the two rooms. In the future, they can also put 1511 next door or even 1510, 1509, 1508 They have also been developed so that these chickens can run around in a relatively wide space.

After such a calculation, Qiu Cheng naturally thought of the trouble that he and Ah Chang had to go in and out of the fifteenth floor every day.

For the sake of safety, Qiu Cheng has always closed the door of their house and the doors on the [-]th floor for insurance. In this way, it is very inconvenient to enter and exit every time. On the fifteenth floor, it would be nice to save the trouble of unlocking and locking the door.

For this, Qiu Cheng also searched the Internet specifically, and it is said that as long as the holes in the floor are not too big, and he chooses to do it in some places that are relatively difficult to affect the load-bearing structure of the entire floor, basically it doesn't matter.

The next morning, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang finished their homework together, and then used some bamboo mats to block the entrance of 1506, blocking the view, leaving only the less than two-meter-long one in front of the bathroom. Aisle, and then went to the city to find construction workers.

After a while, two middle-aged men in their 50s and [-]s came to Jiayuan Community with Qiu Cheng and the others with their tools.

According to what Qiu Cheng said, they made a hole in the ceiling between 1406 and 1506. The hole is not big, and its length and width are only a little over half a meter, which is just enough for an adult man to go up and down. It is also difficult to carry some small things from here. Okay, big items won't work, it's better to take the stairs.

When the work was over and the cornmeal was paid to them, Qiu Cheng asked the two about the skills of making holes in the wall and the tools needed.

Because they didn't want others to know about some things on the fifteenth floor, so long as the work could be done by themselves, Qiu Cheng and the others tried their best to do it by themselves.

The two masters told Qiu Cheng that if you want to cut a door opening in the wall, you must first prepare the beam, cut out the position of the beam, and set up the beam before you can start digging the door opening below.

The two masters explained the process of how to dig the door in great detail. Qiu Cheng memorized it carefully in his heart and gave them some more cornmeal before sending them away.

Before going to the provincial capital, Qiu Cheng decided to dig out the door opening first. As for the prefabricated panels used as the door beams, he planned to go to the building materials market with Ah Chang tomorrow morning, and buy ready-made ones if they were not. Buy the materials ready-made and make them yourself.

They are going to the night market tonight, and Lao Hu has a stall today.Of course, I didn't go to the night market empty-handed. On this day, Qiu Cheng and A Chang brought a cart full of shallots and leeks, as well as some tomato and chili sauce.

The last time Qiu Cheng put the leftover shallots and leeks at Wang Chengliang's place, Wang Chengliang guarded his stall all day, watering the shallots and leeks when he had nothing to do, and they were all sold within two days. It only takes three taels of cornmeal, and the price is not high.

At present, in Xinnan City, there are many people like Wang Chengliang who have no source of income, but not everyone is like this. For example, Wang Chengliang’s third sister, she is a public servant. When it was difficult a few years ago, Thanks to the fact that she still has that job, she can get some rations home every day, and Wang Chengliang and his brothers go out to find work every day, so the whole family survives.

There are also some families in which both husband and wife hold iron rice bowls, and even the elderly in the family have retirement benefits, so life will naturally be better.

These people are basically not short of food now, three taels of corn is not too much for them, these leeks and shallots planted by Qiu Cheng look good, pick a leaf and chew it, the taste is also very good , I bought a pot and put it on my balcony. From time to time, I picked a handful of green onion leaves and cut a handful of leeks. They can be eaten for a long time after they are planted. It is actually quite cost-effective.

When Qiu Cheng and the others passed by, Lao Hu was already there, and his stall was next to Wang Chengliang's shed. Qiu Cheng saw that there was no place beside him, so he took another corner of Wang Chengliang's shed.

Ah Chang got off the tricycle and ran to Lao Hu's booth. He was quite familiar with Lao Hu, and he often played cards with the children of the Wang family recently, so he seemed to be in contact with people other than Qiu Cheng Not as exclusive as before.

"Ah Chang, what do you want to eat? Ask Qiu Cheng to bring out cornmeal and buy it for you." Old Hu teased him.

In his opinion, Ah Chang's current appearance is much better than before. In the past, Ah Chang was nervous and neurotic when he went to crowded places. He didn't look like a normal person. Now he can take the initiative to treat himself I gathered in front of the stall, and I could still grin when I said something to him. If this continues, maybe someday it will be normal.

"..." Ah Chang looked at it, didn't say anything, and went back to Qiu Cheng.

Qiu Cheng had already set up the stall at this time, and when he saw him come back from Lao Hu's stall and walked up and down beside him, he knew that he must have something he wanted, so he asked Wang Chengliang to help him look at the stall, I went to Lao Hu's stall with Ah Chang.

"Which one do you want?" Standing in front of Lao Hu's stall, Qiu Cheng asked him.

"Shrimp!" Ah Chang said.

"Do you want shrimp skins? Haha, this is a good thing. Try it. It's sweet and sweet. It's not expensive. A pound of cornmeal and half two shrimp skins." Old Hu greeted them with a smile.

"Weigh two taels, and order some shellfish and seaweed." Qiu Cheng only ordered a little of everything, and didn't buy more.

When Lao Hu was calling seaweed for Qiu Cheng and the others, a few more customers came to his stall. After buying something, Qiu Cheng took Ah Chang back to his stall. At this moment, the number of people in the night market has gradually increased. Wake up, they are going to start business too.

Qiu Cheng stood behind his stall, watching the pedestrians coming and going and the bustling night market.Once the news from the south spreads, Xinnan City will definitely not be what it is now.

"Do you want to eat?" Ah Chang handed Qiu Cheng a few shrimp skins.

"Hmm." Qiu Cheng took advantage of the opportunity to open his mouth to hold it, and chewed a few mouthfuls. He felt that the taste was really good, with a sweet and salty aroma. It must be the dried shrimp skin from the wild hairy shrimp in the sea.

"..." Ah Chang on the side blushed quietly, looked at his fingers, and awkwardly grabbed a few shrimp skins and stuffed them into his mouth.