Surviving the end of the world

This village is called Zhuzhuang, because the main road in their village is frequently used. In order to prevent outsiders from harboring malicious intentions and, of course, also to increase income, a toll booth was set up at the intersection. Two taels of food per person, no need to pay additional fees when going out.

A group of people weighed almost two catties of sweet potato flour at the entrance of the village, and asked the person who paid the fee there if anyone in the village had goat milk.The man looked at Yijin's sleeping child and asked, "Where did this baby come from?"

The six sons replied: "We picked it up on the road, and there is no one nearby, and we don't know who lost it, so we just took it with us. We can't leave it alone, let the baby be carried away by wolves!"

The villager also showed sympathy: "This is really a crime! Even if you can't support your family, you can't just throw it away! Hey, you have worked hard all the way, why don't you leave this child in our village? There are several families in our village who lost their sons and grandchildren two years ago, and they will definitely be willing to adopt this child!"

"It's the same in our village! That's why I thought about taking this child back! It's just that this child has just been born a few days ago and needs to be fed. Where can we find it? No, I'm here to trouble you!"

"Where are you going? Take the child. Isn't this making the child suffer?" The villager was nagging, but there was no malice. He thought for a while and said, "The sheep were bred some time ago. Well, I just got pregnant, so where is the milk! But I have a cousin who just gave birth to a girl, and the milk is still enough, or I will ask you if she is willing to feed this child for two pause?"

"Success, then I will trouble you, big brother!" Several people hurriedly thanked, human milk is better than goat milk, of course, it must be more expensive, but it only takes a few meals, and it doesn't take much.

The villager directly found someone to help him guard the toll office, and went back to discuss with his cousin and daughter-in-law.The person who was called over was a boy who looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old, with half-length hair, wearing a faded scarlet sweater on his upper body, and a pair of jeans on his lower body. The hole doesn't look like it was originally there, but it looks like it was gnawed by a mouse or something.

As soon as he came over, he kept his eyes fixed on the two zebras, and muttered in his mouth: "Hey, this zebra can also pull a cart!" Then he touched the zebra's fur tentatively, and then leaned over and asked: "Hey buddy, where did this zebra come from?"

Li Liwen is not much older than him, and now he leaned over and boasted: "My cousin caught this. In the past few years, many things in the village, such as plowing land, pulling mills, pulling carts, etc., all depend on They are gone! How many troubles have been saved in the village!"

"That's great!" The young man looked envious, "Our village doesn't even have a cow, so we have to do everything by ourselves! You don't know, a few days ago, I went to the fields with my dad to plow the fields, and almost lost half of my life. go!"

Li Lixin said on the side: "No way, I saw someone on the side of the road herding cattle yesterday!"

"You are talking about Zhaozhuang!" The young man pulled his face down when he heard it, with a look of resentment, "If the people in Zhaozhuang didn't play tricks, the cow would belong to our village!"

Li Liwen immediately became interested, and after thinking about it, he took out a cornbread, broke half of it and gave it to the boy, and took half of it himself, and asked, "What's going on?"

The matter is actually very simple. Zhu Zhuang and Zhao Zhuang had some entanglements very early on. If you really count it, it must have been almost half a century. At the beginning, it was for the boundary line of the village. The original owner of the land belonged to Zhuzhuang. He was classified as a rich peasant and was shot immediately. Then the problem came, a large part of the land was originally bought by the rich peasant from people in Zhaozhuang. After that, the ownership of these lands became a problem.It turned out that the person in charge of dividing the land at that time belonged to Zhaozhuang, and he simply divided all the land into Zhaozhuang's side. Then, the relationship between the two villages that were still somewhat related by marriage suddenly became rigid.Later, there were many messy things. During the famine, we dug wild vegetables and dug across the border, and cut down the trees in the opposite village during the steelmaking... Later, when the village road was built, the section of the road where the two villages meet They refused to repair it, and until the end of the world came, the road less than 50 meters was still rough and difficult.

Later, there was a period of extreme water shortage. Zhao Zhuang relied on himself to be upstream. In order to save water, he directly blocked the dam and intercepted the water. The people in Zhu Zhuang were so angry that they directly came to the door with sticks and poles. A large-scale fight broke out. As for the matter of the cow, according to the young man, the people in Zhuzhuang were optimistic about it first. As a result, as soon as the food was raised and exchanged, they were taken back by the people in Zhaozhuang up.

All in all, the people in Zhuzhuang suffered more losses than took advantage of them, so they were even more angry with Zhaozhuang. It was almost to the point where Zhuzhuang felt that Zhaozhuang was playing tricks when something bad happened.

When the righteous indignation was attacking Zhaozhuang here, the villager had already brought a woman over: "You guys came here just in time, how about this, let's discuss how to pay for breastfeeding!"

Pingzi said slowly: "Calculate according to the time, we plan to feed it once now, and then save some for the child to drink at night, then feed it again tomorrow morning, and leave some for the child to eat tomorrow. Four times, first ask, do you have enough milk?"

The woman nodded quickly, she looked timid, but naturally, they can't take care of other people's affairs.

The villager thought for a while and asked, "How about that time?"

"How much can such a big child eat at one time, two taels of grain at a time!"

"No, this is too little, don't count how much you eat, can you feed the child directly? Also, this is the ration my sister-in-law saved from my niece's mouth!"

"Then how much do you want?" Scarface narrowed his eyes and asked.

The villager didn't hesitate: "At least half a catty!"

"Forget it, we might as well give the child porridge directly!" Pingzi snorted, "This child is not our own, and it will be raised by others in the future. Isn't this a waste of our efforts?"

The two sides bargained for a long time, and finally decided on three taels at a time, depending on the quality. If you feed your baby at home, but after you come here, the baby sucks for a long time without even filling the stomach, how can it be counted as one time.

The woman next to her kept her head down during the bargaining process, and said nothing. When the price was negotiated, she accepted the baby obediently, then turned her back, unbuttoned her clothes, and began to breastfeed.

With sharp eyes, Chen Jin vaguely saw some bruises on the woman's body and some bloodstains on her body, so she couldn't help but sighed.

The six sons quietly inquired at the side: "Brother, your sister-in-law is not young!"

When the villager heard this, disgust appeared on his face, and he also lowered his voice and said, "Don't mention it! At the beginning, my cousin paid a lot of gift money for her to marry her. Come back!" As he said, he gestured with his palms, and then continued: "As a result, after a few years, every child has to be sent to have a B-ultrasound, and the result is that there is no handle, and the child is aborted three times. , Later, she said that she couldn't beat her, and she would cause problems if she beat someone again, but she was born again as a girl..."

"I don't care about it these days, isn't it the same for boys and girls!" Heizi laughed.

"It's the same, can it be the same?" He slapped his thigh and said angrily, "My son can work in the fields now, what can a yellow-haired girl do, she can't even lift a bucket of water! Brother, in this world , it’s not that our family favors boys over girls, there’s really no way! You see, you guys can come out to do things, if there are a few girls, who can rest assured!”

Li Liwen made a face behind his back, and whispered into Li Lixin's ear: "There were no such problems before that, why didn't we just kill the child?"

While talking here, the eye circles of the woman over there were already red, she remained silent, and then handed over the child who was already full.

The villager gave her a cold look, and said impatiently: "Okay, what's wrong with you? Back then when your parents asked for the bride price, they didn't see you being wronged! A few years ago, you didn't pay back the gift." Do you always send money to your mother's house? I feel wronged now, what should I do now!"

The woman squirmed her lips, but in the end she didn't say anything, she just took the kettle and turned her back again, but there was a suppressed sob in her throat.

Chen Jin and the others were a little embarrassed, so they stopped asking about it.

The villager asked from the side: "Brother, the world is not peaceful, what are you going to do there?"

Chen Jin and the others exchanged glances, and then said: "We heard that there is a place to grow cotton over there, and we want to exchange some cotton and get some new cotton jackets and quilts! It's too cold in winter now, and there were not enough clothes and quilts before." Keep warm, adults can bear it, but children can't bear it!"

"That's it!" The villagers smiled, "We also traded over there. We originally wanted to exchange some seeds, but they refused to exchange them. That's right, most of the people over there have used them to grow cotton. If others Now that they can grow, what do they eat!"

"What's the price?" Pingzi asked as soon as he heard it.

"Fortunately, it's not expensive, but the price is also fluctuating, you can find out by asking!" The villager didn't say it directly, but just laughed, "Look at the grain you brought, it's enough to exchange a lot of cotton !"

"Sure, let's go over and have a look. If it's not enough, just come back later!" Chen Jin smiled. They still have a trump card. They don't have enough food, and they have blueprints. He doesn't believe it. Those people know how to spin yarn and weave. Cloth, if you really want to know, they are not selling cotton, but cotton cloth.