After the disaster

On September [-]st, the government really opened warehouses to sell grain, and various banks also opened on this day to promote the exchange of old and new coins to the public.

Both the power company and the water conservancy company have also issued notices. After the implementation of the new currency, the corresponding water and electricity charges will also be adjusted. Users with balances in their accounts will be charged by them as long as they do not exceed the maximum amount set by the water and electricity company. Help to exchange, if it exceeds, the water and electricity company will refund the excess to the customer, and let them go to the bank to exchange.

On September [-]st, Qiu Cheng and the others did not go to the bank, nor did they go to the grain sales office, but they heard from people in the Jiayuan community that the grain was not bought casually, and each person had a monthly quota. Adults and children alike.

When I was in the temporary base before, in order to establish medical records for each child, the base management center also applied for ID cards for each underage child, so now there is no such thing as saying that children cannot buy food without an ID card question.

"One catty of cornmeal is [-] cents, and ten catties is one yuan and two. Hey, I can't even buy [-] catties of cornmeal with my pension. From now on, I have to live on the face of my daughter-in-law..."

That evening, three or four old men in the community were sitting by the flower bed downstairs to enjoy the shade, and Zhu Yanming's father-in-law mentioned it among them.

"I don't know when the pensions of our old guys will be raised." Another short old man also echoed.

"It's our turn. Those who are working still get the same salary. Besides, a few dollars is not bad. How many young people can't even earn a few dollars a month?" Long Bob was a little unimpressed.

Jiayuan Community is not a very mature community. There are only those residents in total, and there are even fewer old men and women. So sometimes, even if these old men don't talk together, they usually act together.

For example, at this time every night, after they have eaten, they have to go downstairs to cool off for a while. After a while, the black light by the river is lit, and then they catch some bugs and go back to feed the voles.

The current living conditions of these four old men are decent. They either have children to support them, or they have a good relationship in the city. They don’t need to worry about starvation, so they don’t run around every day like some other old men. Do a little work and help out at home.

Like Uncle Long, he raises voles himself purely to improve food, unlike Aunt Chen and his family, who raise several litters of voles and sell a few pairs after they have cubs.

"I saw at the grain sales place today that there is also a window for collecting Chinese herbal medicines. Do you think we should grow some by ourselves? Anyway, we don't grow much, so we can just put them on the balcony." At this time, one of the darker and fatter ones The old man said it.

"It's just that the medicine seedlings are not easy to get." Long Bo obviously had the same idea.

"Xiaoqiu upstairs, he didn't know where he got so many pepper seedlings two months ago. Hey, do you think she can get the seedlings?" Zhu Yanming's father-in-law said.

"Why don't you ask?" said the short old man.

"Hi, I'm not familiar with him." Zhu Yanming's father-in-law hastily declined.He once had a quarrel with Qiu Cheng before, and his daughter-in-law told him many times to keep him away from Qiu Cheng, otherwise the quarrel would be unpleasant, and if Zhu Yanming was resigned, their family would immediately Less than half of the income.

This old man has been in government agencies for most of his life. Apart from other things, he still has a lot of eyesight and is very flexible. Otherwise, he would never be able to get the day when he will receive his pension.

"I didn't ask you to ask, you won't ask your daughter-in-law to help?" said the fat black old man.

"Hey, why don't we go to the night market later? Maybe we can find suitable medicine seedlings." Long Bo said.

"It's okay to go and have a look, but I think it's probably useless. Some medicine seedlings have been dug up, and they can't be planted at all when they are taken back. Moreover, the Chinese herbal medicines dug back by them are old and tender. , not neat..."

On the fourteenth floor of the building behind them, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang were eating a watermelon just picked in the afternoon, spitting out the watermelon seeds, and listening to the old men downstairs talking about the medicine seedlings thing.

The house was pitch dark, and no one turned on the lights, because black lights were turned on by the Xinnan River every night to attract insects, so people in their area have also developed the habit of not turning on the lights at night, so as not to scare those passing by. The bugs were recruited to the Jiayuan community.

In the next room, Zhou Quan was strumming the guitar, strumming, and singing a passage from time to time. This kid usually looked boring, but he was quite emotional when he sang.

After eating the watermelon, Qiu Cheng stood up and washed his hands in the bucket next to him, while Ah Chang went into the room and got a rag, and wiped off the watermelon juice that the two of them accidentally dropped on the ground just now.

Seeing him cleaning the floor seriously, Qiu Cheng couldn't help laughing, thought for a while, and asked, "Do you want to play with Ah Feng and the others?"

"No." Ah Chang shook his head.

He has been living with Qiu Cheng for half a year now, except that he sometimes put on a cat-like look at home, in front of outsiders, he basically doesn't see much abnormality, in the words of Lao Hu and the others That said, that's about to be "good."

Ah Chang finished wiping the floor, put away the rag and trash can, washed his hands, and took out the jade mirror made by Qiu Cheng.

Qiu Cheng understood, and then activated the eyes of heaven and earth, and observed what was happening in Xinnan City at this moment with Ah Chang.

"...Have you bought so many?" When the screen switched to Shen Dingjun's side, Qiu Cheng couldn't help frowning.

"Yes, Mr. Shen, do you think we also bought two houses in that building, and see how he will deal with it then?" The person who talked to Shen Dingjun this time was not the secretary last time, but a 20-year-old A young man of many years, at this time, he is full of flattery, anxious about the boss's needs.

"Don't touch him yet. The ducks in our duck farm over there are about to go out for slaughter. I'm afraid someone will make trouble at this time." Shen Dingjun raised his hand and said.

"If he dares to move, we brothers will chop him up." The young man made a dog-like clothes.

"What do you know? These two people are not easy-going. They were at the Xinnan River a few months ago, and the two of them were not defeated by a group of gangsters, and I heard that they have something to do with Turtle Huang. "

When Shen Dingjun said this, Qiu Cheng couldn't help but frown even deeper. This man named Shen dug quite deeply, and he even knew about their fight with those gangsters back then.

"My brothers said that they have nothing to do with Guiguihuang at all, they are just casual acquaintances." The young man was not a freelancer. The people on the side said that they have a few friends who drive freight, but our people haven’t figured out the details of his few friends until now.”

"Pay more attention to this matter, draw two subordinates and watch them specifically." Shen Dingjun ordered.

"Understood Mr. Shen, don't worry about my people handling things." The young man promised again and again.

"Okay, you have nothing to do, go back first, tell the brothers, let them all cheer up, when these ducks are ready for slaughter, we will keep a dozen or twenty ducks for ourselves, and ask everyone to improve the food. .” Shen Dingjun said again.

"Hey, I see, thank you Mr. Shen!" The young man was overjoyed.

After the man left, Shen Dingjun sat on the leather sofa in his office and began to think alone.

He returned to Xinnan City from the south, and he didn't particularly care about some forces in the city, such as Ai Wenhai and his like. He cared about the number of people in Ai Wenhai and the number of forces in Xinnan City. As long as he throws out the hawks and dogs under his hands, he will naturally be able to find out clearly. As long as he knows the root of everything, he will feel at ease in his heart.

As for this young man surnamed Qiu, although he doesn't have much influence in Xinnan City, for some reason, the people under him can't figure out the details of this person, which makes Shen Dingjun feel very uncomfortable, especially This person's den is still next to the most important duck farm in their family.

Not only Shen Dingjun was at odds with each other, but Qiu Cheng actually also felt at odds with each other. These two people really hate each other, but their territory is still so close.

After thinking about it, Qiu Cheng went into the room and called Boss Bai.

"Hello, is Brother Bai there?"

"Boss! Someone is looking for you!" The person who answered the phone didn't even say "Hello", but yelled at the top of his voice, calling for their boss to come over and answer the phone.

"Hello, who is it?" On the other end of the phone, Boss Bai naturally entered the salesman mode again.

"Brother Bai, it's me, Qiu Cheng, I want to ask, do you still harvest rice here?" Qiu Cheng said.

"Oh, it turned out to be Xiaoqiu. Of course the rice has to be harvested. Why not? Hahaha, give me as much as you can this time. Brother, I'll give you a good price."

When Boss Bai heard that Qiu Cheng had asked him to sell rice again, he was immediately overjoyed. The situation has improved now, and the food is more abundant than before. People with a little bit of conditions want to improve their food, but it is only September now , In most parts of the country, it is not yet time to harvest rice.

In fact, even at that time, there probably won't be a lot of rice on the market this year, because not many people grow rice at the beginning of spring.

Like the high-quality rice that Qiu Cheng sold to him, he usually would not retail it in the store. OK?Someone needs to help open the way on the Baidao side.

"Brother Bai, I will give you everything you want. When will your people come to pick up the goods?" Qiu Cheng said.

"I can arrive at my place at any time, as early as tomorrow morning." Boss Bai said straightforwardly.

Xinnan City is not far from their provincial capital. Although Qiu Cheng doesn't sell too much rice every time, it is worth hundreds of catties anyway. It is not uneconomical to go alone for so much rice, let alone They also have other businesses in Xinnan City, and they can bring other things back and forth.

"Or the next day, I'm afraid it will be too late." Qiu Cheng was worried that Shen Dingjun's dog legs were too inefficient and would not be in place tomorrow morning.

"Well, our people will come over the morning after tomorrow, what do you want to exchange this time? Hahaha, how about new coins?" Boss Bai asked Qiu Cheng.

"No new currency, please ask someone to bring a batch of soybeans for me. We have about [-] catties of rice this time." Qiu Cheng was busy refining "jiebaidu" for the past few months, or he would run to the south , The family has planted several crops of rice, but they have not had time to sell them.

As for the new currency, Qiu Cheng definitely doesn't need it now, and there is a lot of money in the box at their house, which is not bad at all.

Besides, the current purchasing power of the new currency is built on the basis that the government has enough food to sell to the citizens. If the government runs out of food that day, the new currency will immediately depreciate accordingly. Although the current situation is indeed very good, but in the future No one can say for sure.

Hearing that Qiu Cheng and the others could have [-] catties of rice this time, Boss Bai was very happy and promised to ask someone to bring a batch of good beans over, so that Qiu Cheng would wait for his brothers at home the next morning.

The next day, Qiu Cheng quickly found the two eyeliners around the Jiayuan community. Those two bought a house on the top floor of a six-story building opposite the six buildings. Those furniture seem to be stationed there for a long time.

According to their little leader, Qiu Cheng hides very deeply, and it is definitely not easy to find out his details. Let them prepare for a protracted war.

However, their luck seemed to be very good. They had just lived in Jiayuan Community for one night when they saw movement from Qiu Cheng and the others.

At [-]:[-] in the morning, a medium-sized truck came in from the small road outside Jiayuan Community, and drove straight towards Qiu Cheng's building, and then Qiu Cheng and the others got off quickly, and the people in the car After negotiating for a while, several young people carried sacks from the car and went downstairs with them.

There seemed to be a lot of things on the car. These people carried them back and forth many times, and sometimes brought some things down from upstairs, but compared with what they carried up, it was really much less.

The two pretended to go downstairs inadvertently, and when they saw the truck, they pretended to be surprised, and walked over to chat with the truck driver.

"Brother, with a car as big as yours, can you get in on the small road outside?" One of the young people looked left and right around the truck with a look of amazement.

"Why can't you get in? You can get in if you pass the skills." The driver of the truck was also a young man, and he couldn't help but feel a little flustered by their praise.

"Hey, I'd love to have this driving skill again and again, but it's a pity that I can't touch the steering wheel." The man shook his head half-jokingly and sighed.

"Brother, where did you come from?" Another person asked at the right time.

"Hey." The young man who drove the truck was proud of himself. After all, he was in the society. How could he be unsuspecting at this time? After looking at the two of them, he said, "Of course it is." It’s from a place you can’t offend, so don’t inquire about what you shouldn’t know.”

"Ask casually, ask casually." Hearing what he said, the two knew that there was nothing to ask, so they chatted and left quickly.

But they didn't give up, they started activities in the community that afternoon, and they also have a piece of land near here, and not all of them have such strict mouths, they inquired twice, and they were inquired soon Some eyebrows came out.

That night, Shen Dingjun got the news from his subordinates.

"What? Boss Bai!" Shen Dingjun was very surprised. He probably didn't expect that the person behind Qiu Cheng would be Boss Bai.

Of course, it's not true in fact, Qiu Cheng has nothing to do with Boss Bai at all, the most important thing is business contacts.But at this moment, they didn't know that's all. Qiu Chengxuan made a deal with Boss Bai at this juncture in order to make them misunderstand.

"Yes, I heard from my brothers that the guy named Qiu Cheng seems to buy from them." It was the young man who spoke to Shen Dingjun last night who answered.

"Boss Bai, don't mess with him. Tell them all to come back. When you see that man named Qiu Cheng in the future, stay away from me." Shen Dingjun said in a deep voice.

About Boss Bai, Shen Dingjun also knows a little bit. Don't look at his stall in the provincial capital, which is not very big, but the root is deep and has a lot of connections. With this person, Shen Dingjun basically only has What a loss.

On the terrace of 1406, Building [-], Jiayuan Community, Ah Chang looked at the picture in the jade mirror and couldn't help grinning. Although he didn't quite understand the connection, he knew that Qiu Cheng must have played tricks on these people .