After the disaster

After meeting Lao Li that night, Qiu Chengcheng began to pay attention to some information about the food problem, and soon he found out.

It turns out that the food bureau in Xinnan City is already a bit stretched. The city's food bureau intends to reduce the amount of rations that each citizen can buy every month, but there is a document on it. Right now, people from the Y virus-infected areas in the south are migrating to the north. At this critical time, the governments of various places must be stable at this time, and there must be no situation where the people's hearts are shaken and the law and order are chaotic. Wherever there is a problem, the officials in that place will be in bad luck.

It stands to reason that by this season, a large amount of grain should have been harvested in the north, but for some reason, the grain did not flow to the south continuously, at least not in Xinnan City.

Qiu Cheng listened to those people's analysis of this matter through his "eyes of heaven and earth". Some people said that while the northern provinces were busy storing grain, they exaggerated the disaster situation and refused to sell grain.Some people also say that a few developed cities along the coast, and some powerful provincial capitals have private deals with those provinces to drive up grain prices secretly. If you go to buy grain from them at the price set by the state, sorry, no.

Seeing that the stock in the grain depot was getting less and less, the people in charge of grain in Xinnan City did not report it to the above, and even went to the provincial capital or even the capital to report the situation in person.

The leaders above can also understand their difficulties in work, but in this special period, I still hope that they can overcome the difficulties as much as possible, and the state will give them strong support as much as possible. As for the food, there is still no food for the time being.

Among the people, some conflicts are also rapidly intensifying. Among them, the most concerned one is whether those people from the south enjoy the same right as the local people to limit the purchase of food rations every month.

For now, because the migration is still going on, the population statistics work has not yet been finalized, and the non-local registered population cannot buy food at the grain sales office. Because of this problem, many southerners gather at the city hall every day. At the entrance and the entrance of the grain sales office, sometimes the atmosphere became tense, and special police were dispatched to suppress it.

It stands to reason that these people should enjoy the same rights as the locals when they come to live in their local area, especially the issue of food, which is the top priority related to their life and death.

But in Xinnan City, there are also many voices of opposition. Since the outbreak of the X virus more than five years ago, the food problem has not been truly alleviated.Don't you see that there is still a purchase restriction?If the country really has so much food, how can there be a purchase restriction at this time?At this time, so many foreigners came all at once, and all their rations were distributed. If something happens, will the locals starve to death?

Sometimes, the "eyes of heaven and earth" are not all good things for Qiu Cheng, because he can see too clearly, and it is impossible for him to pretend not to know some things.

These days, Qiu Cheng brought back a few people to Building 60 of Jiayuan Community. One of them was a single mother. She lived alone with a pair of children. Her son was in her teens, and her daughter was only six or seven years old.The other is a widowed old man, an old woman in her [-]s, with no children, who came to Xinnan City alone.

This time, Aunt Chen and Zhu Yanming also noticed that Qiu Cheng didn't recruit people because he wanted to expand his business, but he had softened his heart and sympathized with those southerners.

After figuring it out, both of them gave up the idea of ​​introducing their family members to Qiu Cheng to work here.It's really more difficult, who can compare with those southerners, no matter how difficult it is for them, at least they still have the minimum amount of rations to buy every month, as long as the family has a little money, they will never die of hunger.

Qiu Cheng also arranged for the newcomers.For the mother and child, Qiu Cheng picked up some fertilized eggs from upstairs, and got a few plugs, wires, and light bulbs, and asked them to use the light bulbs to incubate the chicks, and they took care of the chicks when they hatched.

As for the old woman, Qiu Chengcheng temporarily arranged a cleaning job for her. Now most of the houses in this building are owned by Qiu Cheng. There is no property these days, and the public areas must be cleaned by someone. Maintaining the sanitation of such a building does not require cleaning every day, and the work is not too heavy. The old woman's body is still strong, and she will definitely be fine for another three to five years.

"Grandma Jiang, did you get up so early to sweep the floor?" In the morning, Zhu Yanming stepped on the stairs to go to work, and when she saw Granny Jiang sweeping the stairs with a broom, she greeted her with a smile.In the blink of an eye, it was the end of November, and the elevators in their building stopped again, and they didn't know when the electricity restriction policy in this public area would be lifted.

"That's right." Granny Jiang replied in harmony, she didn't say much, she just stopped the broom in her hand, and turned sideways to let Zhu Yanming pass by.

This old woman is kind and doesn't talk much. The reason why Qiu Cheng noticed her is also a coincidence.

That day, he watched what he wanted to see with his "eyes of heaven and earth", so he cut the scene to the night market and asked Ah Chang to watch the fun with a jade mirror. The scene of dragging in the alley was watched by many people at the time, but because of the large number of people on the other side and fear of offending those gangsters, no one dared to stand out at the time, and it turned out that an old lady appeared from nowhere. With a lot of strength, he just entangled them and dragged them until the siren sounded.

As soon as they heard the siren, those bums rushed away, but in the previous fight, the girl and the old lady both suffered some skin injuries.The rescued girl's family was also in a difficult situation. After her parents found out about the incident, they gave the old lady some food as a thank you, and sent her to the hospital. When she got out of the hospital, they "met" Qiu Cheng, and then came back with him to do cleaning work in the sixth building of Jiayuan Community, and arranged a place for him.

You can often see her cleaning the public areas of this building, and sometimes you can see her sitting alone on the stairs in a daze. When someone talks to her, she usually just smiles kindly. It doesn't seem like he likes to talk much.

But Qiu Cheng knew that after he gave her a bag of cornmeal in advance, the old lady went to the orphanage in the city early the next morning and handed most of the cornmeal to the old director of the orphanage.

Orphanages these days are not as good as they used to be. Advertisements and sponsorships are not as easy as before, and it is no longer possible to rely on some people to increase income for orphanages when they adopt orphans.

At this time, for the vast majority of people, they can't even support their own children. How many people will adopt children?How many people will do charity?In this difficult time, those who still guard the orphanage are basically people who really care about children.

Even someone like Qiu Cheng can't make up his mind to adopt children, because raising children is a responsibility, and it's not as simple as just feeding them. He has to pay not only food, but also emotion and energy.

In the end, he only sent a few bags of cornmeal to the orphanage after Granny Jiang left. He didn't send them a lot at one time, but he decided to send them some at intervals in the future.

"Meimei, I went out with your brother, you stay here alone, don't go out, remember to turn over the eggs later, you know?" The 40-year-old woman said to her child.

This woman is tall and tall, with an oval face, double eyelids, and bright eyes. It can be seen that she was beautiful when she was young, but these years have been difficult, and the years have left marks on her body prematurely. Now her hands are rough and her face is dark. There are some dark spots in the yellow, and the slightly curly hair looks dry, and the whole person looks a bit old.

"I see. Except for Uncle Zhou and Uncle Qiu, no one will open the door." The little girl sat on the small bench and obediently agreed.

In fact, she is not afraid at all. Although her brother and mother have to go out, leaving her here alone, it is already very good here, the gate is so strong, and there are no strange people walking around outside, making scary noises. The sound of talking loudly, or smashing the door panel with a stick or something.

With her daughter's assurance, Xiao Yuping took her son out, and when the chicks hatched, Qiu Cheng said that they would let the three of them, mother and child, take care of them. Yuping wants to wait for her son to go out and collect more things like wormwood seeds, which will be used to feed the chickens, which is what she saw Zhou Quan doing when raising voles.

Her son is just ten years old this year, but this child is precocious, and can help her share the family affairs. The daughter is also quite sensible, but she is still young, and she lost nutrition when she was young, and her body is weak. Telling her to climb the fourteenth floor is enough.

After her mother and brother left, Meimei stood up from the stool and went to squat next to the boxes with light bulbs. She likes to squat like this. The weather has been a little cold recently, and the place next to the boxes It was very warm, and occasionally she gently opened those boxes with her hands and looked at the round eggs inside, which made her feel very satisfied.

Alas, it would be great if I could eat eggs sometime, the little girl couldn't help swallowing.But any child who is deprived of nutrition will generally appear particularly greedy, and the desire to eat in his heart is particularly strong.

It's a pity that none of these eggs belong to their family. My mother said that winter is coming, and their family is really lucky to find such a good job at this time. Do a good job in this job. In winter, I don’t have to be afraid of starvation and cold. I heard that here is no better than the south. It is very cold in winter, especially when you are hungry, it will be very cold.

"Ka Ka Ka." At this time, a small voice came from outside the window, and the little girl in the room tensed up sharply.

"Ka Ka Ka." The small voice sounded rhythmically.

"Woo..." The little girl shrank nervously to the corner, her eyes nervously looking in the direction of the balcony.

"..." Upstairs, Ah Chang, who was knocking egg shells on the railing of the balcony, also felt something strange coming from downstairs at this time. The other party was hiding and hiding, which made him a little vigilant.

So he hung himself upside down on the railing, and slowly poked his head downstairs to see what happened.

Then, the little girl downstairs stared at the cat boy hanging upside down.

Tsk, it turned out to be a human cub.Ah Chang swayed nonchalantly in the air, then put the peeled egg into his mouth and took a bite.

"Gulu." The little girl swallowed, and stared at the egg in the cat man's hand with both eyes.

"..." The cat man looked at her and stuffed the remaining half of the egg into his mouth.

"Gulu." The little girl swallowed again, her lips pursed into a straight line.

Ah Chang thought for a while, reached out his hand to take it out of his trouser pocket, took out another egg, looked at it with some reluctance, and threw it on the balcony downstairs, only to hear a soft "pop" , the egg fell on the floor, and rolled a few more laps.

The little girl in the room couldn't bear it any longer at this time, ran over to open the glass door on the balcony with a "huh", quickly found the egg, picked it up and held it carefully in her hand.

"!" Ah Chang grinned at her, then turned around and disappeared.