Doomsday foresight

Chapter 41

After the first snowfall, the weather has cooled down. Jiang Chen and the others will study the matter of salt and wait until the weather is warmer next year. There is still no shortage of salt this winter.

However, after discussing with Company Commander Zhao, they drove a truck to the city. At this time, City C was already an empty city, and only a very small number of people did not leave. I personally researched it, drove back, picked up two groups of people, and took away all the supplies in the city that could be taken away, and the rest were useless and could not be taken away.These things are not very useful for survival now, but they are very necessary for the village.The most important of these are building materials.

The news Jiang Chen and the others got was not particularly accurate, and they didn't understand what kind of harsh environment would make people in a city move away, but they still had to prepare in advance.And just like the southern cities are occupied by plants, the north will also be occupied by plants. At that time, they will face the beasts in the forest. Although there are not as many bugs in the north as in the south, there are even no mosquitos this summer because of the weather.But the beasts here are even more ferocious, the impact of a moose can kill a person, not to mention the jackals, tigers and leopards in the forest.

Although they only entered the forest for more than a month, they saw too many prey, such as rabbits, pheasants, and various birds, as long as they entered the forest, they would see them. This also means that the food for carnivores is abundant, so ginger Chen repeatedly warned people who entered the jungle not to go too deep, and they had to be prepared. When the forest covered their land, and when all kinds of animals gathered outside their walls, their survival would be threatened.They need to be prepared.

The hardware and building materials market in City C was not damaged after the disaster. Of course, some shops were evacuated due to temporary construction, but there are still a lot of materials left. Jiang Chen and the others don’t know if the owner of this shop can come back At this time, the shops are all ownerless.

Steel, cement, various tools, everything is within the scope of the collection.They don't know whether there will be factories producing these things in the future, and they can collect as much as they can now.

They found large trucks from the city to transport, moved all the things needed in the building materials market in a week, and at the same time used up their gasoline. Fortunately, Ye Ke and the others knew a few remote gas stations in the county. Get some, or they won't be able to use their cars.

"What do you say they are looking at? Come every day?" Zhang Cheng folded his arms and looked into the distance.

"Who knows, maybe come and see what we all took away." Jin Xi glanced at it and ignored it.The ak in his arms swayed, and the people in the distance were obviously taken aback, turned around and left.

They have been in the city for a week, and they have been discovered by the rest of the city. They know that these people have become a group and are now concentrated in a building in the city center, which was converted into a resettlement site last year. , which has a boiler for heating.These people came here to settle down after most people turned around.When those people first saw them, they still wanted to stop them, or they wanted to fight with them.Jiang Chen didn't want to waste time dealing with them, so he directly took out five rifles and assault rifles, and hung them on his chest so brightly that they were awe-inspiring.

In addition, Company Commander Zhao also asked his five men to guard with guns, which really scared the group of people.It's been safe and sound until now.

This morning, Jinxi and Zhang Cheng came over in a delivery truck. Almost half of the things were removed from the building materials market, and the rest should be left to others.Jinxi and the others came here because they went back today and they came to take a look.Jiang Chen didn't want him to move things either, so he let him and Zhang Cheng walk around the door with their guns hanging. After they stood for a while, they saw one or two people watching them from the other side of the street.

Seeing that person run away, Jin Xi and the others didn't care, but within half an hour, seven or eight people appeared in the alley across the street.Jin Xi pocketed the AK on his back, reached out and took out a pistol from his pocket. The rifle had a strong recoil and he was not used to it, but his own gun was better.

"Hehe, little brother, my name is Zhang Zhen, and I am the deputy head of the Flying Tiger Hunting Group. Which one of you is the leader, we have something to discuss." Zhang Zhen is a bit fat, and at this time he is either strong or thin, It's rare to see someone as fat and white as him.

Jin Xi looked him up, and then said to Zhang Cheng, "Go and call Brother Jiang." He didn't move himself, and the gun in his hand was still on the safety.The seven or eight people on the opposite side have something to do with them.

Knowing that someone was coming, Jiang Chen and Director Zhang Yun walked out.

"Hi, I'm Zhang Zhen, the deputy head of the Flying Tiger Hunting Group."

Jiang Chen sized him up and said with a smile, "I've admired him for a long time." The first time I heard about the Flying Tiger Hunting Group was when Zhang Zhong and Ye Ke came to the city to inquire about the news.This Flying Tiger was not called the Flying Tiger Hunting Group at that time, but the Flying Tiger Gang.This Zhang Zhen is a smiling tiger.

Jiang Chen invited a few people to a bathroom supplies store, Zhang Zhen came in with a man wearing glasses, and the four of them sat on the toilet in the room, there was no way for the environment to make do with it.

"Brother, I see that you have moved a lot of building materials. Are you planning to build a house?" Zhang Zhen tried.

"Hehe, we live in a remote place, unlike Brother Zhang and you. There are plenty of houses in the city. If we don't repair the house, we won't be able to get through this winter."

"You can't say that. Brothers, you live in the countryside. No matter how you say there are harvests in the fields, we can't do it. This year we have to rely on hunting. Sigh, it's difficult." The smiling tiger looked sad.

Jiang Chen didn't believe it at all, he was so fat, how could it be bitter, but he didn't expect that the city would start hunting so early, obviously they got the news from the south earlier.

Several people tested each other for a while, and Zhang Zhen found out how the weapons in their hands came from around the bush. In fact, he knew that Zhang Yun was the political commissar, so he knew what was going on.

"Brother Jiang, the remaining people in the north are estimated to be less than 20. You don't have good information. In fact, as early as July, some teams moved to the south. You may not know that the northernmost cities froze to death last winter. There were a lot of people, so everyone was scared and went south. Even the villages below were moved to the city last year because of lack of food. Now there are not many people left. 5 people. So we still have to help each other in order to survive."

"Brother Zhang was joking, we are weak, so what can we do for you?"

"Brother Jiang, we Ming people don't talk dark words. This year's harvest is not good, but I know that Brother Jiang's village still has a lot of food. Although our Flying Tiger Hunting Group has some food, but because we gathered the rest of the people in City C , It may be difficult to maintain it until next year. Brother Jiang, you know the current situation. When the weather is cold, people can’t go out of the house. There are also some materials. Let's exchange them fairly. How about it? This is definitely a good thing for mutual benefit." Zhang Zhen's face was agitated.

Jiang Chen smiled, "There is nothing wrong with exchanging supplies, but we only have some sweet potatoes and potatoes, and the rest will be confiscated this year, but sweet potatoes and potatoes are also the most hungry food now. I just don't know what supplies Brother Zhang can use to make money." Let's change. Speaking of which, we really don't lack anything."

When Zhang Zhen heard that Jiang Chen didn't say he was dead, the smile on his face widened, "Of course I won't let Brother Jiang suffer. Now everyone in the city takes things casually. Naturally, I won't exchange these things with Brother Jiang. We don't have any money." There are some grains, but fine grains, and some sugar and salt, which are scarce materials."

"Fine grains? What's there?" Jiang Chen didn't expect Zhang Zhen to have fine grains in his hand.Since it is taken out and exchanged, there are naturally many.

"Wheat flour."

Jiang Chen's eyes flickered, "I didn't expect Brother Zhang to have such hard currency in his hand."

Zhang Zhen smiled and waved his hand to the person next to him, and the person put the bag he had been carrying on the table on the table, "Brother Jiang, take a look. This is our wheat flour."

Jiang Chen opened the bag, only to see a milky yellow powder inside, and frowned, "Isn't this broken? The color is wrong."

"Hehe Brother Jiang was joking, this wheat flour is not broken, this flour is newly produced this year, and we managed to get some, but the flour is not enough for us to eat until next year, so we will exchange it with Brother Jiang, to be honest, we It is also reluctant."

Jiang Chen nodded, leaned into Instructor Zhang's ear and said, "Call Jinxi here."

Zhang Yun left after hearing this, and Jin Xi followed after a while.

"Look at their new wheat." Jiang Chen said and showed Jinxi the flour.

Jinxi looked down and saw that the flour was milky yellow or even yellowish, a bit like rough-processed black flour, but upon closer inspection, the flour was very finely ground.Not a black face.Stretching out his hand and pinching a little bit into his mouth, the scent of wheat filled his mouth immediately. Some memories suddenly appeared in Jinxi's mind. They were memories from dreams, because nightmares are always scary, and many scenes in dreams are forgotten. It will only appear when he closes his eyes and looks like he is reminiscing the taste of flour at this time, but he is actually a little excited in his heart.It took a while before I opened my eyes, looked at a few people and smiled, "This flour tastes really good. Brother Jiang, let's change it. But do you have any wheat seeds? It would be great if we could grow such delicious flour."

"Hehe, this little brother knows the goods. Don't look at the color of the flour, but the taste is really good. We also have a bag of wheat seeds, but we can't grow them here. It's too cold. These grains seem to be from the south. The winter wheat was harvested in May, and then they planted it with new seeds, but the germination rate was too low. If it weren't for our boss's relationship with the south, we wouldn't be able to get these grains."

"How does brother Zhang plan to change?" Jiang Chen asked.

"Brother Jiang's wheat tastes better than any flour in the past, and it's not easy to make now, so the price is more expensive. One catty of noodles can be exchanged for ten catties of sweet potatoes, or ten catties of potatoes. We have almost one hundred catties of wheat seeds. I need to exchange four thousand catties of sweet potatoes."

Jiang Chen shook his head after listening, "This is too expensive. One catty of noodles is exchanged for five catties of sweet potatoes, and we don't want wheat seeds."

"Brother Jiang, let's change the wheat seeds. I'll try to plant in a greenhouse when I go back, maybe it will work." Jinxi showed a disappointed expression on his face, and grabbed Jiang Chen's arm.

Jiang Chen shook his head, "Didn't you hear what Brother Zhang said, this kind of wheat can't be grown in the south. No way."

Jin Xi looked disappointed.

Zhang Zhen looked at Jiang Chen's face, "Brother, this is flour, and I would get heartburn if I ate too much sweet potatoes. If it wasn't for lack of food, we wouldn't replace the flour." If you grow wheat, you will give a thousand catties of sweet potatoes. "He wanted to make a fortune from wheat seeds, but it seemed that Jiang Chen was not very happy.

Jiang Chen still frowned. "One catty is seven catties, and the same goes for wheat seeds."

"Then how many sweet potatoes can Brother Jiang give us?" Zhang Zhen asked.

"How much wheat flour do you have?"

"Hehe, we don't have much wheat flour. We can exchange [-] catties with you."

Jin Xi thought to himself, this is not too much, it would be 80 catties if replaced with sweet potatoes.

"In that business, we will exchange [-] catties, and we will exchange [-] sweet potatoes for the white sugar in your hands."

"It's easy to say." Zhang Zhenyi calculated that 90 catties of sweet potatoes would be enough for them to eat until next year's grain production. Anyway, if they don't go out in winter, they can eat sweet potato porridge twice a day. Hehe, it can save a lot.

"Boss, they can take out 90 catties of sweet potatoes. It seems that they have a lot of food in hand, don't we?"

"You didn't look at the guns in their hands. These people are not ordinary farmers. Director Zhang, who has been silent all the time, can be seen to be from a regular background. People who can have such weapons in their hands are not weak. We are not strong now. , everything has to be looked at in the long run, unfortunately, the villages around the city have been raided a long time ago, we don’t know that the situation in the distance is not easy to fight, otherwise it would be necessary to exchange food with them, hmph, what was exchanged today, that day I want to take it back. A bunch of fools want to grow food. Huh, it’s a good idea.”

"That's right. Many people in the south have studied planting methods, but they have not succeeded. The yield is less than [-] kilograms per mu. It would be strange if they could grow it."

"If it weren't for our leader's relationship with the south, we wouldn't be able to get the food, but next year we have to let those idlers go out to farm, otherwise it would be too wasteful for us to raise them."

"Yes, the boss is right, let them grow sweet potatoes."

The food exchange went smoothly. The production of sweet potatoes and potatoes this year is not low, reaching [-] catties per mu. Each household has more than [-] mu and each family produces [-] catties of sweet potatoes. There is still no pressure. This year they are considered to be With a good harvest, the food problem was solved at once.

Through Zhang Zhen and the others, they learned that a lot of people died of freezing in the northern cities last year. The city's heating system was paralyzed, and many people died quietly at night.Urban populations plummeted.Rural people went to the city in the winter because of the pests. Although many people came down to plant the land, they mostly gave corn seeds and soybean seeds. There were few sweet potato seeds, which were eaten in winter.There are various reasons for the current situation.It's a miracle that Jinxi's village was fully prepared to make up for the lead from the very beginning.

When the urban population is transferred, the surrounding villages are included in the transfer scope, and the first condition for taking them away is that their food must be handed over and distributed uniformly.Because the situation was too serious, some people compromised, and they all followed suit in the end.There are also ambitious people like the Flying Tiger Hunting Group left in the city.

As for Jinxi's village, it belongs to a forgotten corner in a remote area.

Jiang Chen didn't ask Jinxi if those wheat seeds could be planted, since Jinxi replaced the wheat seeds, it might still be successful.It's better to go home to talk about this kind of thing, and be careful at all times.

Changing so much food with the Flying Tiger Hunting Group at once, Jiang Chen was not afraid of their greed at all, because they found out the situation of the Flying Tiger Group on the first day they entered the city. The core members of the tiger regiment do not exceed 5000 people. They have guns, which are incomparable with those in the village. What's more, Carpenter Yao has already made the crossbows two days ago, and the effect is excellent. After one winter, their strength will be doubled. It will be strengthened, not to mention that the building materials they got back this time are enough for them to build the village safely.

As for changing food, it’s not that they are not used to eating coarse grains, but eating coarse grains for a long time is not good, especially if you eat too much sweet potatoes and potatoes, you will burn your heart. If young people in the village eat coarse grains, they will consume more than fine grains, and a catty of flour can make One and a half catties of steamed buns, even hungry after eating.But sweet potatoes are prone to heartburn and digest quickly, so I really don't see what is more suitable.Presumably Zhang Zhen and the others just saw the amount of food, and they were unwilling to give those people flour.

"You want this wheat seed, can it be planted?" The old man opened the bag of wheat seed, grabbed a handful to have a look, but it was just average, much different from the previous seeds.

Jin Xi nodded, "Because there are too many dreams, I kind of forget it. This kind of wheat really appeared in the dream. And I remembered why the seeds we planted didn't germinate."

"Why?" Several people in the room asked in unison.