After the disaster

After the batch of rice was dried and shelled, Qiu Cheng didn't run to the provincial capital this time, but called Boss Bai and asked him to arrange someone to pick up the goods.

Qiu Cheng made a phone call that night, and the next morning, a few brothers from Boss Bai's subordinates came to Jiayuan Community. The transaction place was in an empty room on the fourteenth floor. After two days, I haven't had time to free up my hands to organize the planning.

More than 200 catties of rice were exchanged for a total of more than 2000 catties of cornmeal. After those people left, Qiu Cheng checked the cornmeal one by one with spiritual power, and found no problems.

After cooperating with Boss Bai several times, Qiu Chengcheng feels more happy. For example, these corn noodles are not stale, moldy or mixed with silt, and there are no safety problems, and the quality is very guaranteed.

Carried some of the cornmeal to the relatively safe fifteenth floor and put it away, and took some of it out. Qiu Cheng had promised Ah Chang that he would buy a car and teach him how to drive it, and now it was time to fulfill it.

When the family wants to buy a car, the first thing they consider is the car rental company they visited before.There are basically no new cars for sale in the market now, and you can only buy second-hand cars if you want to buy one. Qiu Cheng doesn’t know much about cars, and Ah Chang is a complete layman. If you find an acquaintance, the risk is relatively small.

When they arrived at the car rental shop, Qiu Cheng first explained to the boss that they were here to buy a car. The boss of the car rental shop didn't mind at all. They were doing business anyway, whether it was renting out or selling, as long as they could make money.

After greeting the owner of the car rental company, the two began to choose a car. Ah Chang couldn't help but glance at those tall and mighty trucks.

These large and small trucks are the most popular in this car rental company. If there are so many goods these days, most people will choose to take the train. If you rent a car yourself, the rent is not much, and gasoline alone is not enough Tolerable.

"Buy this." Ah Chang looked around among these cars, and finally pointed to a blue truck that looked rather mighty and not particularly big, and said to Qiu Cheng.

"Hey, this is a farm truck. It won't drive fast." The store owner finished with a smile, then pointed to a silver-gray truck next to him that looked lighter, and asked Ah Chang, "What do you think of this?"

Ah Chang glanced at the car and lowered the corner of his mouth slightly.The car was too small for his aesthetics at all.

"How do you sell this car?" Qiu Cheng asked, pointing to the pickup truck they had rented before.

"This car..." The boss paused, and then quoted a price to Qiu Cheng. After that, the two bargained again, and then talked about after-sales service. Within an hour, the order was sold. We talked about it.

After buying the car, Qiu Cheng and A Chang put the tricycle and the remaining cornmeal in the back compartment, and drove away in the truck.

They didn't go home directly, Qiu Cheng drove the car on the ring road, and taught Ah Chang to drive on the empty road.

Ah Chang opened the car window next to the driver's seat wide, pursed the corners of his mouth and stared at the front. The summer wind that poured into the car window blew his carefully arranged hairstyle this morning into a bird's nest. The windshield shone on his body, making his arms and face bright, but he didn't feel hot, perhaps because Ah Chang's body temperature was higher than that of ordinary people, and this guy wasn't very afraid of heat.

"Legs." Qiu Cheng, who was sitting in the passenger seat, would remind him from time to time.

"Oh!" Upon hearing this, Ah Chang hastily put down one of his legs that had been unconsciously shrunk down on the seat. He used to squat in the past, even if he was sitting on a stool, he was used to shrunk his two legs. Get up and put it on the stool...

"Legs." After about 10 minutes, Qiu Cheng said again.

"..." Ah Chang stretched out his hand and scratched his messy hair, and slowly put down his leg that retracted back to the stool at some point.

"Legs." A few minutes later, Qiu Cheng spoke again.

"Woo..." Ah Chang awkwardly put down that leg, and couldn't help feeling a little discouraged in his heart: "Can't you drive while squatting?" With his reaction speed, he will definitely be able to step on the accelerator or brake or drive when he needs to. Stretch your foot over in time when the clutch is engaged.

"There are also cars that can be driven without feet." Qiu Cheng said with a yawn.

"What car?" Ah Chang's eyes lit up.

"Disability car." Qiu Cheng rubbed the corners of his eyes and said with a smile.

"Bah." Ah Chang stopped talking, there was a bend ahead, and Qiu Cheng said that he had to slow down when making the turn, so he quickly put his foot shrunk on the chair on the brake pad... just as he spoke , he unknowingly retracted his legs again, Ah Chang secretly glanced at Qiu Cheng, um, he didn't seem to notice.

When the two returned to the Jiayuan community, it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon. Qiu Cheng and the others drove a truck into the community and found several old men and women talking downstairs in the community.

Recently, many people in Jiayuan community will go outside to catch bugs to earn extra money. These old men and old ladies usually go to the turtle yellow and their fields to help catch bugs at night. At two or three o'clock in the afternoon, it was almost time for them to come out for activities.

"Hey, Qiu Cheng is back." When Qiu Cheng's pickup truck drove in, someone soon saw clearly Ah Chang and Qiu Cheng who were sitting in the driver's seat and the passenger seat.

"Xiao Zhou, Qiu Cheng and the others are back, come and recognize them."

"Oh, I'm afraid these two brothers haven't met before..."

"..."

The community was not spacious at first, and the road was blocked by a group of people in front, so Qiu Cheng had no choice but to signal Ah Chang to stop, and then pushed open the door of the passenger seat to get out.

When he was outside, he observed the situation in his house several times through the "eyes of heaven and earth", focusing on the [-]th and [-]th floors. Qiu Cheng didn't pay much attention to what happened downstairs in the community.

After hearing what these people said just now, it was obvious that someone had come looking for me. It seemed that they were relatives. Who could it be?

Since the death of Qiu Cheng's father, he and his mother have basically cut off contact with relatives there. There are not many relatives on his mother's side, and none of them are in Xinnan City. There is no contact anymore, Qiu Cheng can't think of any relatives who will come to him at this time.

Just as Qiu Cheng got off the car, a young man who was sitting beside the flower pond in front also stood up at this moment.

Qiu Cheng looked over to him, and saw that the other party was quite tall, at least 1.8 meters tall, which was considered very tall in their central region, but judging by his facial features, he was a little immature, about [-] meters tall. Not yet twenty.

"You looking for me?" Qiu Cheng couldn't remember that he had such a relative at all.

"Hello, my name is Zhou Quan." The young man smiled at Qiu Cheng, his eyes were warm and harmless, but there was a weakness in his smile.

This young man is very good-looking, although his figure is thin, he still looks tall and straight, and his facial features are also good-looking. Based on his appearance, he can surpass Qiu Cheng's old school by a few blocks. In that world five years ago, no matter which high school he attended, such a big boy would undoubtedly be like a prince, but now...

"Your surname is Zhou?" Qiu Cheng already had a guess in his mind.

"Yes." Zhou Quan looked at Qiu Cheng and said with a smile.Although the old men and women around didn't know what was going on, they could more or less sense that the young man's smile was a little weird.

"Let's talk upstairs." Qiu Cheng frowned, ran to open the shutter door of a garage, and directed Ah Chang to drive the car inside and park it first, then opened the compartment of the pickup truck, and carried the cornmeal inside on his shoulders Go up and signal Zhou Quan to go upstairs with them.

In the past few months, Qiu Cheng and the others have bought many houses on the [-]th and [-]th floors, many of which have garages. Qiu Cheng now has several garages in his hand. This car The size of the truck is not too big, just find a garage to park it.

At the height of the fourteenth floor, Qiu Cheng and A Chang both carried cornmeal on their bodies, and they climbed up easily, but Zhou Quan was out of breath after climbing a few floors. When he reached the fourteenth floor, he was already panting. It's like a broken bellows.

Entering 1406, Qiu Cheng poured him a glass of water, then took the clean clothes, went to the bathroom to take a shower, and when he came out of the shower, Zhou Quan was basically out of breath and was Drink water from a glass.

After sending Ah Chang to take a bath, Qiu Cheng himself sat down on the sofa, wiped his hair with a dry towel, thought for a while, got up and went to the bedroom to get a bottle, opened the cap, and poured out a bottle of water from the inside. A piece of "Jie Baidu", packed with a bottle cap, and placed on the coffee table.

Seeing this elixir, Zhou Quan's eyes, which seemed to have seen through life and death, froze immediately, staring at the elixir without moving.

After learning that he had been infected by that virus, Zhou Quan didn't seem to spend too much time from the initial painful struggle to the present. These days, what he thinks in his mind every day is how to make himself He left this world without regret, that's why he came to Xinnan City for this trip.

But in the final analysis, those who looked away were forced to, because he had no other choice at all.

without regret?He is still so young, and he finally survived the most difficult years. Now, the world is about to get better.He had to leave at such a time, how could he not feel regretful?

"Eat it." Qiu Cheng said.

"Is this a 'line of hope'?" Zhou Quan's throat tightened.

"Hmm." Qiu Cheng responded without saying much.

Zhou Quan swallowed his saliva, carefully picked up the elixir, put it in his mouth, and felt a scent of medicine rushing straight to his forehead, and before he could think about it, his throat unconsciously made a swallowing movement. With a "grunt", he swallowed the elixir into his stomach.

Seeing him eating "Jiebaidu", Qiu Cheng began to ask him the purpose of his trip: "Why did you come here?"

Zhou Quan was silent when he heard him ask this question, and took out a pitted tin box from his backpack: "My father passed away two years ago, and I was the only one left in the family. A while ago, I found myself... cough, thinking No matter what, at least I sent these things to you, and where she was buried, you probably don't know, do you?"

Qiu Cheng took the tin box handed over by Zhou Quan, used his nails to pry open the rusty lid, and took out a few old yellowed photos from inside.

Because it is a single-parent family, in Qiu Cheng's memory, the days when he and his mother lived together were always in short supply, and they seldom took pictures.Among the photos in the box, several of them are one-inch photos taken by Qiu Cheng in the past, some in elementary school and junior high school, and the latest one was taken in his freshman year of high school.

"How did she get away?"

"When the city government organized the evacuation, a traffic accident..."

"..."

Qiu Cheng and Zhou Quan were sitting on the sofa talking, but Ah Chang couldn't get it in, so he carried the rice cooker out of the kitchen, boiled a pot of water, and then took some cornmeal from the kitchen, pouring it into the pot Sprinkle, stirring constantly with a rolling pin.

On the way back just now, he and Qiu Cheng had already agreed that they would have dinner tonight.

Ah Chang sat on the floor of the living room, holding the rice cooker in his arms, stirring the rice cooker in circles with a rolling pin, raising his eyes from time to time to glance at Qiu Cheng and the others. Then it hangs lower and lower.

This time the situation is really not good, this kid seems to be a little prettier than him.