After the disaster

As for the problem in the south, Qiu Cheng wasn't too worried about himself and Ah Chang, he was just worried about chaos outside.

As early as more than five years ago, when the X virus just broke out, everyone said that the end of the world was coming, and there was a mess outside, murderers, robbers, and rapes. It became a hell on earth.

Under the circumstances at that time, most people entangled relatives and friends to collect materials basically just for their own survival, but there were still some people who had evil thoughts hidden in their hearts, and all they needed was an excuse and an opportunity .

Although many people were liquidated later, and there were not a few who were shot because of this, the damage has been done after all, the dead will never come back, and the survivors will have to wait for many years before they can forget that moment In order to be freed from that unforgettable anger and powerlessness?

Qiu Cheng and the others don't need to stockpile food. As long as the weather is sunny and the electricity is unplugged, they can continue to grow food.

You can prepare more seasonings and daily necessities. In addition, you need to buy more spices to make moldy tofu.

There is a stall selling spices in the night market, with a complete range of cheap and good quality, and the price is more affordable than that of the provincial capital. This kind of situation is rare, because most of their products in Xinnan City are from the provincial capital. Wholesale over.

The owner of this stall is Ye Jinghui. The last time he sold fish to Qiu Cheng and the others was his father. Everyone called him Old Man Ye.

Old man Ye grew up in a remote village when he was a child. At that time, the family had no money to study for him. Now that he has lived to this age, he does not know a lot of characters. This old man has a bad temper, but he is very good. A rural kid has worked hard to have a car, a house, and a shop that sells spices.

Now this shop has become a stall, inherited by his son. Old man Ye would come over to give advice when he was free. I have built a fish pond at home, and I am trying to figure out how to raise fish fry by myself.

"Xiao Qiu, what are you going to buy this time?" Seeing Qiu Cheng and the others coming, Ye Jinghui, the owner of the spice stall, hurriedly greeted Qiu Cheng and the others enthusiastically. This was their big customer.

In the past few months, his old man has almost contacted the former source of goods. The source of goods is completely fine, but now it is not selling well. The locals have a strong taste, but now the life of the big guys is not easy. Not many people are willing to buy it.

"It's the same as last time, and the portion is tripled." A few days ago, when the soybeans were ripe, Qiu Cheng had already bought spices. It had been a while since he came here for the first time. Thinking that the boss can still remember the same things he bought back then, Qiu Chengcheng said so directly today.

"Hey, okay." Hearing what Qiu Cheng said, the boss immediately smiled.

This boss is tall and strong, looks a bit naive, usually has no temper when he is called around by his father, when he is free, he likes to read novels with his mobile phone down, no matter how he looks at it, he is a bit muddy The appearance of the wall, in fact, he not only has an excellent memory, but also has super computing power. The calculator on his booth is basically a decoration. Down.

"Your father didn't come over today?" Qiu Cheng asked smoothly when Ye Jinghui weighed out the spices for him.

"It's too hot, and those fish fry are not doing well. Recently, he doesn't eat or sleep, and spends all day squatting on the edge of the fish pond to guard." Ye Jinghui said while putting pepper on the electronic scale.

"Did fry really come out? What kind of fish?" Qiu Cheng asked hastily.

"Not many, just a few hundred crucian carp fry, and we have no experience in serving fry, so we don't know if we can raise them later." Ye Jinghui shook his head, obviously not very optimistic about his father's exploration this time.

"Then ask him if it's for sale or not. I want to buy some." In a few days, Shen Xing should be able to take down a few houses on the fourteenth floor. Qiu Cheng plans to raise more fish and grow less crops.

In the Spirit Gathering Formation, although planting crops saves time, it does not save effort. If too many crops are planted, the two of them will be a bit busy, and Qiu Cheng will not have much time to spend on cultivation.

Fish farming is different. Except for feeding twice in the morning and evening, and changing the water every few days, you can basically ignore it at other times.

Although the effect of Juling Formation on animals is not obvious, but Qiu Cheng and the others raise chickens, fish, voles and goats. Up to now, they have never seen any sick ones. What could be better than a few months of rewards.

"It's not easy to feed." Ye Jinghui reminded.

"It's okay." Qiu Cheng didn't worry much about this problem.

"Okay then." Now that Qiu Chengcheng said so, Ye Jinghui stopped persuading him. After all, those fish fry belonged to his own family. If his father continued to raise them like this, he didn't know how many people would die. It's better to sell them early Well, if his father is not reconciled, at most let him keep a few dozen tails to continue researching.

"San'er, come here and take these two uncles to my house." Ye Jinghui waved to an eight or nine-year-old boy at the opposite stall, took out a fresh-keeping box from under the shelf, and opened the lid , took out a homemade cornmeal from it, tore it in half, put half in his mouth, and held the other half in his hand and shook it at Nana.

"Thank you, Uncle Ye!" The man called San'er was obviously used to this kind of thing, so he rushed over and grabbed the half cornbread in Ye Jinghui's hand, put it in his mouth and took a bite, and rushed to Qiu Cheng They waved their hands and said, "Come with me, Uncle Ye's house is very close."

Qiu Cheng asked the child to show the way, and drove him and Ah Chang to the back of the train station on a tricycle. They walked more and more sideways, and finally stopped in front of a three-story building. San'er jumped off the tricycle. , and shouted upstairs, "Old man Ye, someone wants to buy fish fry."

He was listening to the conversation between Qiu Cheng and Ye Jinghui just now, it wasn't that he was rude and refused to call grandpa, it was because the word Grandpa Ye was too difficult to pronounce.

"Who is it?" A window on the third floor opened with a "wow".

"It's me. I heard you have fish fry at home?" Qiu Cheng raised his head and said.

"Hey! It's you again!" Old man Ye squinted his eyes through the streetlight downstairs, and found that it was Qiu Cheng and his brothers who came. He was also very happy and said, "Wait, I'll come down and open the door." Then, with a "wow", the window was closed.

"Uncle, are you going back to the night market later?" the child leading the way asked Qiu Chengdao at this time.Although he wasn't very afraid of going back alone, if Qiu Cheng returned to the night market later, he'd better go with them, it would be safe with so many people.

"We still have to pass by there in a while." Qiu Cheng replied.

"Then I'll go with you," said the child.

"Okay, then you can come with us." Of course Qiu Cheng has no objection, and he doesn't feel at ease to let a child walk alone at night, especially this area is relatively remote.

"Come in, San'er, you come in too." After a while, Old Man Ye came down and opened the door, calling them to enter the room again and again.

"I'll take a look at the fry." Qiu Cheng asked directly without wasting time.

"Okay, come with me." Old man Ye said and led them to the third floor of his house.

There is no one else in their family except him and his son. The house was originally built for his son to marry a wife. I didn't expect Ye Jinghui to be less concerned about marrying a wife than Old Man Ye back then. Now He is already old, and still a bachelor. Apart from setting up a stall, he plays games and reads novels every day, which makes Old Man Ye feel annoyed to death seeing him now.

This building is very spacious, and the third floor is big enough. Old man Ye built the fish pond in the room on the east side. In addition to a few smaller nursery ponds, there are also several relatively larger ponds, which raised some fish ponds. The ones that were not sold out in the past, and the big fish and small fish that were caught from outside later, the quantity is not very large, and the variety is not very good.

"This is crucian carp fry." Qiu Cheng looked at the crucian carp fry in the nursery pond, and each one was only as long as an embroidery needle.

"That's right, these are crucian carp fry." Old Man Ye replied.

"How did you sell it?" Qiu Cheng asked.

"It's not easy to feed. Dozens of tails have died in the past few days. Do you really want to buy them?" Old man Ye also reminded Qiu Cheng the same as his son.

"It's okay, I'll buy it back and keep it safe." Qiu Cheng said so, but in his heart he was quite confident in his home's Spirit Gathering Formation.

"That's okay. For every three crucian carp fry, you can give me one or two cornmeal." This is already the reserve price of Old Man Ye. If it is lower, he would rather not sell it and keep it for himself. If he develops it, there will be a lot of profit.

Qiu Cheng didn't even bargain with him, he took out the cornmeal and offered to pack two hundred tails.He was straightforward, but Old Man Ye was reluctant, saying that he would just ask Qiu Cheng to buy 180 tails, which would also count as cornmeal.

In the end, Qiu Cheng had no choice but to buy 180 crucian carp fry, and he came down from the third floor with the bucket filled with fry, put the two buckets in the bucket of the tricycle, and the cart came out of Old Man Ye's house, and let Ah Chang and the man named San'er's children sat on the side panels on both sides of the tricycle, went to the night market first, and sent San'er back to their stall, and then went back with Ah Chang.

The fish fry are too small. In order to ensure their safety, Slim made a wooden basket to house them. The wooden basket was still placed in the pond in 1505. There was a layer of cotton cloth inside the wooden basket and a few stones underneath.The water in the pool is all connected, but the fish outside can't get in, and the fish inside can't get out.

As for the feed for these fry, Qiu Cheng took out some dried worms that had been dried and stored a few days ago, pulverized them into powder with a powder machine, steamed a few potatoes, and mixed the mashed potatoes with these dried worms, Feed several times a day, only a little bit each time.

Since coming to Jiayuan community, these fish fry have adapted well, and they don't look like they are about to lose their braids. Seeing that they are living well, Qiu Cheng is gradually relieved.

At the beginning of July, Xinnan City had already reached the hottest time of the year. It was the day we had agreed with Mr. Bai. In the early morning of this day, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang drove out in the car before dawn. The car carried them Recently harvested rice and potatoes.

Along the way, Qiu Cheng drove the car as fast as last time. When he was approaching the provincial capital, he just got off the expressway. Qiu Cheng found that the road in front of him had been buried with many nails. Fortunately, the density was not very high. , Qiu Cheng concentrated on dodging left and right, and dodged after a few turns.

"Fuck! It's really crazy!" Several black shadows hiding behind a low wall on the side of the road cursed together.

They put nails on this section of ground, not just to repair a tire and make some money. Many people drive on the road. If they find that a wheel has leaked, the first reaction is usually to get out of the car and check it. This is the opportunity.

After entering the provincial city, Qiu Cheng's face became serious. When he went to Qiaotou to buy soy milk fritters, he found that the price had indeed increased again.

By the way, I asked the young man who sold fried dough sticks for news, and the young man said to Qiu Cheng and the others: "You don't know, do you? Now there are rumors that there is a problem with the food in the south, and you can't eat it at all. Will there be problems at that time, our stall may not be open in a few days, brother, don't run around, these days, when they hear that there is going to be chaos, some people will become bolder."

After breakfast, Qiu Cheng didn't go to set up a stall. They didn't cook spicy cabbage recently. This time, they only brought rice and potatoes to the provincial capital, plus some cornmeal they had earned recently. The reason why they brought cornmeal was because they were worried The news from the south reached here, and the price of rice was affected.

When I came to the provincial capital, I found that the news had indeed come. Originally, even wandering businessmen like Lao Hu and the others could hear about it, which meant that the news itself was about to be unstoppable.

But the price of rice has not dropped at all, and even has a faint upward trend. It seems that no matter in the severe situation, there are still many people who are not short of money and food.

If there is a problem with the grain in the south as rumored, then the price of cornmeal will continue to rise for a long time to come. As a result, there will probably be fewer people growing rice, and the price of rice will The uptick is also understandable.

"Hey, are you here to pick up the goods?" When Qiu Cheng and the others passed by, Boss Wang was having a small meeting with his brothers in the chess and card room. Seeing Qiu Cheng coming, he greeted him with a smile.

A piglet earns hundreds of catties of cornmeal. In the eyes of Boss Bai, Qiu Cheng is just a fat, white sheep. In addition to the current situation, every catty of grain that he collects means he has a bargaining chip in his hand.

"Is it okay to pay directly with rice? Or should I exchange it for cornmeal first?" Qiu Cheng asked.

"What's the point of exchanging it? We have a food store at home." Boss Bai said, and then he called Qiu Cheng to see the piglets.

"It's all here, look, last time we didn't make it clear whether it was going to be raped or not, I thought about it, and I set up a male and two females for you, these three were never raped , can give birth to piglets, and the remaining two piglets are squatted, so they can be fattened." Boss Bai took Qiu Cheng and A Chang to a nearby suite, pointing to the five piglets raised there.

"Okay, that's good." Qiu Cheng really didn't think about this question at the beginning.

"The price is different for those who have been raped and those that have not, and the price for sows and boars is different. I will calculate it for you..."

As Boss Bai spoke, he told Qiu Cheng the prices of these pigs. The cheapest ones were the two bulls that had been castrated, and the most expensive were the two sows that could give birth. For breeding pigs, better piglets are selected, and the price is not low.

Qiu Cheng told Boss Bai that the price was acceptable, knowing that it was not easy to bargain with him, so he simply didn't bother with it, and nodded to express that he had no objection.

"That's fine, I'll call some people to come over and pack them up later, you don't have to worry about this, let's go to the grain store in front, first look at the rice you brought today." Rice is a good thing, if you sell it By the way, the profits are much more lucrative than other grains.

The rice that Qiu Cheng and the others planted in the Spirit Gathering Formation will naturally not disappoint Boss Bai. This guy smells the fragrance of rice and is so happy that he can't see his teeth. I heard that Qiu Cheng will use the remaining white rice, potatoes and The cornmeal was exchanged for some soybeans, and he readily agreed, and gave him a very affordable price.

The whole transaction went smoothly. When Qiu Cheng left the provincial capital in his car, it was just after nine o'clock in the morning.

Looking back on the entire transaction process just now, Boss Bai never mentioned anything about the South side to Qiu Cheng from the beginning to the end.

Qiu Cheng knew that he and Boss Bai were just casual acquaintances, and this time he was going to sell his piglets again, even if it was just for the smooth business of this business, he would not mention that.

Qiu Cheng had a good impression of Boss Bai before, and of course, he has a good impression of him now, but Qiu Cheng is not the kind of person who has a good impression of anyone and should always be enthusiastic and trust him.

Qiu Cheng always remembers the most practical things, whoever treats him and Ah Chang well is the partner worthy of his dedication and trust.Maybe the relationship between them and Boss Bai will change in the future, but that depends on how things will develop in the future.