After the disaster

In the following period of time, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang went to the south several times, and each time they went to pick up the train to pick up the train and come back. The places where "jiebaidu" was put in were not necessarily hospitals, but sometimes temples. Sometimes it is a church, sometimes it is in a village that has been locked down because of the large number of infected people.

After going to the South several times, Qiu Cheng found that temples and churches are very friendly to many people infected with the Y virus. They provide free accommodation, and even in some powerful temples or churches, they will give Although it is only a small amount of food distributed to patients, it is very rare in the current situation.

In the temporary bases in the past few years, there was little room for religion to play a role. This time, they were very active during the Y virus incident. Some temples and churches cooperated with local medical institutions and were directly transformed into temporary hospitals.

The next few times Qiu Cheng and the others went to the south again, they brought more "jiebaidu" with them. Now Qiu Cheng can refine two to three furnaces of pills a day, and each furnace has at least ten pills. They will go there in ten days. Every time you go to the South, you should carry at least a few hundred pieces of "Detoxification" with you every time.

With so many elixirs, they usually don't just put them in one place. Usually, after knowing the gathering places of Y virus-infected people in a city, they will put dozens of them in those places.

Because of this, in the recent period, there have been frequent cases of recovery in the south, and the distribution is extremely irregular.

Generally, if there is a cured case in any temple or church, the believers will say that it is the blessing of the Buddha or the blessing of God, but the relevant departments don’t care about it. Once they hear that there is another cured case, the first thing It is to supervise the water towers or wells in that place, and then send a working group to take samples and test them.

If it is confirmed that the water source in this place does have a "line of life" component, then I'm sorry, and the water towers or wells here will have to cooperate with research in the future.

After this happened several times, everyone gradually realized the importance of confidentiality. Even if a cured case appeared in some places, the news would not spread quickly.

Qiu Cheng once visited a forum and heard from a southern netizen that several cases of recovery had occurred in the hospital where his wife worked recently, and then the doctors and nurses in the hospital lined up in the hospital with buckets and jugs to collect a lot of water. Carrying home, there were many hospitalized patients and their family members, as well as residents and vendors near the hospital. When the relevant departments arrived, the water in the water tower had been changed several times.

Some netizens said that since a batch of cured cases appeared in their city, the number of foreigners has obviously increased. The samples produced are not particularly large, and many research institutions that are not authoritative may not be able to share them.

Many people knew that Yu Hongzhu was hydrated, but they also said at the beginning that the elixir was not refined by him, but passed down from his ancestors, and maybe other families also had this elixir. come down?

Moreover, no matter what, the few "lines of life" that he handed over at the beginning are always real. He is a hero and not a sinner. No one can embarrass him or even spurn him because of this matter. The benefits at hand, of course, still belong to him.

Qiu Cheng has been very busy this summer. While refining the elixir and spreading it around the south, he also maintains their normal life in Xinnan City as if nothing happened.

Speaking of it, this kind of busyness should not last for too long, because many research institutions at home and abroad are about to thoroughly study "jiebaidu". Although some substances seem very novel to them, after continuous After trying to piece it together, I heard that O continent has now researched a medicine.

Although the properties of the medicine are not as good as "Jiebaidu", it also has a certain inhibitory effect on the Y virus. At least it can delay the deterioration of the disease and allow the infected to persist for a longer time. If they persist long enough, they may be able to wait until the "first-line" The day when the secret of "vitality" was completely unraveled.

In Building [-] of Jiayuan Community, many houses are now planted with peppers by Qiu Cheng and the others. The pepper seedlings are bred on the [-]th floor. When they grow to the point where they begin to bear fruit, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang Zhou Quan Together, they moved the peppers in baskets to the various rooms downstairs.

Those houses have also been processed. The sunlight reflected into the house through the mirrors, coupled with the metal halide lamps on the walls, is enough to supply the growth of peppers. Each house can pick a batch of fresh peppers every day. These peppers It will be processed into chili sauce or dried chili noodles and sold.

Because of the increased workload, they also hired two people to help, one of them is Aunt Chen who lives in 201, and the other is Zhu Yanming, because Qiu Cheng and his team don’t have heavy work here, and their working hours are very regular, so the two of them When asked by Qiu Cheng, he always agreed immediately.

Aunt Chen is a bit older, but she still does a good job. Her grandchildren often don’t ask for money to do free work for Qiu Cheng and the others, but Qiu Cheng will occasionally give them some extra food. Children these days They are all very greedy, and it would be good to have enough cornmeal to fill their stomachs, and there is basically no need to think about snacks.

Zhu Yanming used to go to the city with her husband to find work. Since Shen Dingjun and the others lit a black light by the river, she went to catch bugs for the turtle and the others every night. It becomes more and more difficult to do it, because there are too many people catching bugs, the place is so big, and there are only so many bugs in total, so you can't earn much cornmeal in one night.

In the afternoon of this day, Qiu Cheng finished refining a batch of "Detoxification", and went downstairs with Ah Chang for a walk.

Hearing that the medicine developed by Ozhou has been promoted in various countries, Qiu Cheng finally breathed a sigh of relief. These days, he only makes one pot of medicine every day, and he won't be as busy as before. It's dark, and sometimes I go outside to walk around to relax my body and mind.

"Yo, the big boss is here." Aunt Chen and the others were making chili sauce in a room facing north on the ninth floor at this time, and when they saw Qiu Cheng and the others coming down, they joked with a smile.

"Make garlic chili sauce?" Qiu Cheng asked with a smile when he saw that one of them was stirring chili peppers and the other was stirring garlic cloves.

"That's not it, hey, Xiao Qiu, I heard that new coins will be issued sometime. When the time comes, what price do you plan to sell these chili sauces in your family?"

Zhu Yanming put chili peppers into the meat grinder neatly, while talking to Qiu Cheng with a smile. She spoke neatly and worked neatly.

"Who knows, let's see the situation and talk about it later."

Qiu Cheng also heard about this matter, and it was broadcast in the news. It is said that the country has already stored a lot of grain. After a while, when the new currency is issued, it will open warehouses to sell grain.

"What day did you come? I'll go back and exchange some new coins then." Aunt Chen asked.

"September [-]st, you don't know that yet?" Zhu Yanming said, moving the full basket of ground peppers under the meat grinder to the side, and dragged another empty basket over, sat down Return to the seat, and then grind peppers into the basket.

"Hey, it's good to have cornmeal for sale, but I think we can't buy a few catties at that time with our family's idea deposit. I heard that it's not 1000 yuan for one dollar? Our family's idea money can only be exchanged for a few yuan at that time. The old man in our family used to be quite embarrassing, just for the pension of more than 5000 yuan a month, but now it is good, once exchanged, it is only more than five yuan." Zhu Yanming laughed loudly as he said.

She said and laughed, and several other people in the room also laughed. Although it is true, the country has enough grain and can open a warehouse to sell grain. After all, this is a good thing, and everyone is actually very happy , even if the price is more expensive, after all, people will not starve to death, right?

"I heard that there is still a limit. Everyone will only exchange 5000 yuan in new currency." Zhou Quan was stirring the two of them's minced peppers and garlic into the jar, and at this time he also spoke.

"5000 yuan, how much does it cost in old currency? Five hundred million? Oh, it has nothing to do with us anyway." Hearing this, Aunt Chen stopped what she was doing, counted with her fingers, and finally gave up. Oh, too many zeros, it's a big headache for her.

"Where there is five hundred million, it's only five million. Look at you, how dare you teach your two grandchildren." Zhu Yanming laughed.

"They haven't learned 500 million yet." Aunt Chen didn't care.

The parents of her two grandchildren are basically busy outside during the day, and they are taken by her grandmother on weekdays. Aunt Chen can't always let them play around, and sometimes teaches them to recognize words or count numbers. What, he thought about it, and after a while, when it became more peaceful outside, he sent the two children to school. Fortunately, they were still young, so it didn't take much time.

"Hey, to be honest, my father-in-law used to have a colleague. I came to see him a few days ago and asked him to help exchange the new currency. Then I will give you some commission." Zhu Yanming lowered his voice at this time and said to the people in the room .

"Can you still do this?" Aunt Chen obviously didn't expect this.

"Why not? Maybe the government came up with such a way of making money for us just because it is hard for us ordinary people to understand." Zhu Yanming took it for granted.

"In the future, if there is such a good thing, you can introduce it to us." Aunt Chen is also a little itchy. Anyway, their family does not have 500 million designated, so it is better to help others exchange some, earn some commission, and save new currency. After the promotion, their accounts are empty and they have no idea to save money.

Qiu Chengcheng sat in this room for a while and talked with them for a while.

In the meantime, the children from the family on the ninth floor came over to play with Aunt Chen's two grandchildren. When his parents came back from work, the couple came over together and chatted with Qiu Cheng and the others. , because now Qiu Cheng and the others have grown chili peppers in many of the downstairs houses, and they come and go more often, and everyone gradually becomes familiar with them, not as unfamiliar as before.