Chapter 152

When the well in the small yard was dug, the convoy from the north had just arrived in their province, and got in touch with the military base here by radio, so they bypassed the epidemic area in the city center that had not been completely cleaned up, and came to Residential area.

Because of Qinhuai’s private sponsorship, the workers were given extra eggs to deepen the well by ten meters. Since the government’s underground water line is fifty meters, they can drill it to sixty meters. A little deeper is not harmful. Although they now have their own well water, the free water from the government water station cannot be wasted.

For example, when I sell bamboo worms every week, I will fetch water by the way, or when Jianchu goes to sell bread every three to five, I will also fetch water, because the frequency of stalls is more, and sometimes I will eat and have nothing to do when I have nothing to do. Strolling to the small square with a bucket to get some water, so often contact with the crowd, so even though few people in their small courtyard work in government units, there are not many information channels at all. When they were in the cloud, they heard the news.

It is said that there is an extreme lack of water in the north, so short that the water source is used as oil, but it is still unable to maintain the supply and demand of the entire northern region. In addition to the terrain, the violent heat has dried up the green plants on the ground, and there are no plants. The north has been swept by sandstorms more than once.

Dust billowed all over the sky, and even if the doors and windows were closed, the house seemed to be buried in the desert. Many people tried to hide underground, but the earthquake destroyed many underground facilities, and there were not many places for people to hide.

If it was in the past, how could people survive such a huge dust storm, but now the lack of supplies and the lack of reconstruction speed, many people are even crowded in the rescue cabin, without even a place to live. I don’t know how many people will die. When many people were found, they were buried in the sand several meters deep and suffocated to death.

In addition, the diseases brought by sandstorms and the damage to plants and various buildings are even greater. Coupled with the scarcity of water sources, people have no way to survive.

If it weren’t for this, who would want to leave their hometowns, but there are not many people who can go. Those places that are not severely ravaged by sandstorms are still there and continue to suffer. I couldn’t go on anymore, I was hungry and thirsty all the way, just trying to survive.

Mu Nan has never left the place where he grew up, so he doesn’t know much about the terrible dust storms brought about by the climate and environment in the north, but he just heard others say how miserable the northerners who defected were. , inexplicably followed by a sense of crisis: “Brother, you said that the sun is shining like this, the plants are getting less and less, and there is drought and no rain. Will a sandstorm come to us one day?”

Qin Huai is holding a kindle and reading the novels that Mu Nan downloaded before, a little confused about what to watch in the plot because of eating habits, one eats spicy food and the other doesn’t eat spicy food. Just order a plate of mutual favorites. Listening to Mu Nan’s inquiry, he said casually, “I will, it’s just a matter of time.”

Mu Nan leaned over: “What are you looking at, you don’t take my questions seriously.”

Qin Huai said without raising his head, “You downloaded the romance novel inside.”

Mu Nan looked at him with disgust: “You still read this, shouldn’t a person like you sign a contract with a contract, type code with an expensive notebook, and read romance novels, and collapse.”

Qin Huai smiled and said, “What’s wrong with romance, there are many things worth learning from in romance.”

Mu Nan complained without even thinking about it: “What do you learn? Learn from other people’s rustic love words or flirting routines?”

What responded to Mu Nan was a chuckle, and Qin Huai hugged him in his arms and whispered in his ear: “There is a golden house in the book, and I discovered that the door to my new world can be opened from here.”

“???” Mu Nan looked puzzled.

Qin Huai kindly explained: “For example, there are many new postures that I have never thought of before.”

Mu Nan was shocked in an instant, staring at Qin Huai with wide-eyed eyes in disbelief, looking for a pose in the book, is this still life-threatening!

“I’m talking about catastrophe, you tell me this!”

Qin Huai chuckled and said, “Isn’t it because of the catastrophe that we should cherish every day?”

Seeing Qin Huai’s serious face, as if he planned to study the novel as a subject, Mu Nan quickly took the Kindle away from his hand, he was so scared, he couldn’t read this thing!

The sound of the phone’s alarm brought Mu Nan back to his senses from this panic, and quickly pushed Qin Huai: “Hurry up and grab the flour!”

Flour is still on sale online, but there is a daily purchase limit. Rice has been purchased per person every week since last week. Everyone can only buy once a week. You can only buy five catties at a time. The purchase is limited and limited, but always It’s better than the ones that couldn’t be grabbed by fighting hand speed before, at least everyone has a chance to buy it.

Now that Jianchu sells bread and snacks, the flour is consumed the fastest, so Mu Nan and the others specially set an alarm to watch out for the rush to buy.

It’s a pity that too many people snatched it. Mu Nan didn’t get it, but Qin Huai did. Mu Nan sighed, “It’s really the speed of typing codes. This hand speed is amazing.”

Qin Huai flicked his forehead lightly, and then handed him the phone: “Look at what else you want to buy, and make enough for home delivery.”

Mu Nan flipped through his phone, but there was nothing to buy on it. Most of them were supplies, clothes and pants, cups and pans, and some second-hand home appliances, juicers, hair dryers, everything you can eat and drink. Don’t worry, Mu Nan really didn’t have much to buy, so he bought a bunch of dried grubs, the kind of air-dried worms without any seasoning, which his chicken loves the most.

Ever since he found out that there were dried grubs for sale, Mu Nan tried to buy some to feed the chickens for the first time. His chickens were crazy about laying eggs, and they were actively laying eggs. Well, anyway, this dried worm is not expensive, and you can buy two or three catties for one yuan, which is cheaper than feeding his chickens with rice, so I just buy some every now and then to add to the chicken at home.

It’s a pity that rabbits don’t like to eat. The rabbit’s favorite is grass, but the growth rate of grass is not so fast. Now the first crop has not grown yet, so I can only eat the leaves of vegetables. Fortunately, there are enough fresh vegetables in his space. Otherwise, seeing the rabbit’s belly grow bigger again, the food for the rabbit would not be enough.

The fastest-growing planting area on the second floor and the roof is alfalfa. Now it has a tendency to be green, but it has not yet grown up. It may take a month before it can be harvested and fed to rabbits. By then, Song Jia and Jian Chu The alfalfa at home can be harvested, and the little rabbit is just born, so there is no need to worry about food.

The watermelon has already grown vines, but pollination is needed. How to pollinate? Mu Nan spent money on the Internet to find an expert one-on-one professor. Anyway, the expert watched the video and said that the possibility of successful melon fruiting is very high, and the sunshine Very enough, as long as there is enough fertilizer and water, the resulting melons will be delicious.

In addition, the Chinese cabbage is also growing well, because there is no shortage of water, almost a piece of it rises every day, and it won’t be long before they can be harvested.

Chickens can lay eggs every day, but recently those hens started to cuddle. Qin Huai went to have a look and found that they were all eggs that could hatch chicks, so their family’s food army will grow again in a while!

Mu Nan lay on Qin Huai’s body and counted the property: “They don’t know how much cloth they can collect when they go to Qinghe this time. Yang Jing’s cloth is all finished, and the finished clothes are almost sold out. One family even ordered two sets. Children’s clothes use less material, but the price is the same as that of adults, Yang Jing said that this time, he will make more women’s clothes, and girls’ clothes will sell more.”

Qin Huai played with his hair, listened to him calculating the family’s expenses and income, and said with a smile, “That’s right, it looks like a good wife.”

Mu Nan turned over and pinched him on the waist: “I’m planning with you! Two roosters were used to dig a well before, but now I borrowed one of the two roosters, and it will hatch soon. A pile of chickens, Jianchu earns a lot of desserts, every time he sells a stall, he can earn more than 100, with me, 50 cents and 50 cents, and Yu Zibai’s income from running Qinghe, but it’s all money, You said, should we ask Yu Feng, where is there food for sale? We are not short of food, but they are short of it, and it is not safe to have money in hand. Why don’t we replace it with food? Now that the north is here? There are few people, I heard that there are more in the back, this person is here, it must be a treat, there are too many people, food consumption is great, I feel flustered when I think about it.”

Before Qin Huai said anything, a car horn sounded outside. Mu Nan hurriedly got up and opened the curtains to look out. Seeing that it was their car, she subconsciously checked the time. It was only after nine o’clock, and they set off at seven o’clock. Qing He, it is impossible to go back and forth so fast, the plane is not so fast.

Seeing Qin Huai walking over, Mu Nan couldn’t help but said, “Nothing happened, so I turned back?”

Qin Huai said: “I’ll go down and have a look.”

Mu Nan quickly took the vest on the sofa and put it on her body: “I’ll go with you.”

As soon as they arrived downstairs, Jian Chu had already ran out to open the door. Fortunately, a car of people went out, and a car of people came back, and none of them were missing, and their bodies looked intact, with no missing arms and legs, so they let go. Take a breath.

Song Jia said: “What’s the situation? Why did you come back? Is there a problem with the person or the car?”

Daniel said: “It’s all right, it’s something wrong with Qing He.”

Jian Chu couldn’t help frowning: “What’s wrong? There won’t be food shortage riots?”

Yu Zibai said: “We are almost at the boundary of Qinghe, but suddenly many cars drive out, and the sky on Qinghe’s side is all red, because there is no way to stop people from asking what’s going on, but it looks like there may be a mountain fire So we came back straight away and didn’t dare to venture past.”

Mu Nan looked at Qin Huai: “But Qinghe’s mountain is almost bald.”

The last time they went, the mountain was basically dried out, and even the centuries-old trees were dead. The summer was exposed to the sun, and the winter was cut for warmth. Although Qinghe is along the mountain, there are only pieces of dry land left on the bare mountain. .

Qin Huai: “The bald ones are the outskirts of the mountain, and there is a dense forest of poisonous insects inside. If it is a mountain fire, it may be burning inside the mountain.”

Song Jia said: “Is that dense forest close to the Cai family?”

Song Jia hasn’t been to Qinghe yet, and she doesn’t know where Cai’s family lives, and whether the wildfire will reach their home. After all, it’s been almost two months since they cooperated. From the beginning of the bamboo worm, to the Later, I even shared some mushrooms with them. Once the mushrooms were brought back, it was a huge profit. The real one, especially now that there is a shortage of water, whether it is fried mushrooms or fresh mushrooms, the price is expensive but many people are scrambling for it. want.

This cooperation is so good, of course I hope that the other party’s family will be safe and sound, even if he has never met the Cai family.

Mu Nan said: “Cai’s house is at the foot of the mountain. It’s not too close, but it’s not too far. If the mountain fire burns down, they must have time to run.”

Jian Chu hesitated and said: “Now we can only run to our side, if they come to our side, do we want to take them in?”

Anyway, it’s a cooperative relationship. When they went to Qinghe, they lived in other people’s homes. Although they took money there, after more than two months of dating, they didn’t take less care of them. They couldn’t do anything. There is no place in the house for people who are turned away. Although people don’t come over, I don’t know if they will come, but it’s better to plan everything well than to make a hasty decision at the end of the day.

Wu Zheng said: “If they really come, they can live on the second floor over my side, if they want.”

Qin Huai said: “Let’s go back to the house first, we have something to chat in the group, it’s hot and there are many mosquitoes.”

Everyone went upstairs, Daniel also returned to his side, Mu Nan walked upstairs and asked: “Will the fire come over?”

Qin Huai: “Probably not. There are no continuous mountains and forests, so it’s very difficult to burn over. It is estimated that the official news will talk about this in the past two days. Let’s see the situation first.”

Mu Nan sighed: “Okay, why did a fire break out, these days are really hopeless, and I don’t know if there is enough water to put out the fire.”

The incident of Qinghe’s fire did not wait until the next day, it was on the news that night, and many people were talking about it.

Since the two sides opened to traffic, because Qinghe has some specialties that they don’t have here, and they still have such a large business district ruins to search for, there are a lot of daily necessities, which are considered the most lacking things in Qinghe, so The two sides began to communicate back and forth, and there were quite a few people like Yu Zibai and the others tossing around on both sides, so there was no way to hide any big movements between the two sides.

Before the northern convoy came over, Qinghe received the news. At that time, it was also said that the population of Kangyun’s side had increased rapidly, and they were afraid that something would happen sooner or later due to lack of food and water.

As a result, there was no accident on their side, but the mountain fire broke out in Qinghe first.

The official news posted a picture of Qinghe’s fiery red sky. Even though it was not close to Qinghe District, the whole night was burned red at night.

In addition, there are many photos of people running away in messy clothes. Some even grabbed some cars and tried to let the cars run away, but they fell to the ground and were trampled to death by the crowd running behind. Some tried to stop the car, but were knocked away by the driver without hesitation.

It is impossible to fully describe the situation of Qing He at this moment with just a few words and pictures, but with just a few photos, it can be seen that the impact of the fire is definitely not small.

Originally, Mu Nan’s perception of the Qinghe mountain fire was that it was on fire, but the people living at the foot of the mountain still had enough time to run around, because in the residential area along the mountain, the mountain was so dry that there were no grass roots, and there was nothing on the mountain. Naturally, it is difficult to burn down. As long as the government evacuates, the situation should not be serious.

But now these photos show that the residential areas are all on fire, and many people even run barefoot on the ground, and the crowded refugees are stampeded to death by pushing and shoving each other. Judging from their appearance, it seems that the fire has come down Sometimes there is no reaction time at all.

As for vehicles, there are very few people who have the conditions for private cars now. Even the cross-district cooperation with them like the Cai family can be regarded as making huge profits. There is no such condition to own a car, so the first batch of people who run out are all Those with cars, as for the many left without cars, it is not certain whether they can escape.

Mu Nan flipped through various news related to Qinghe, and said worriedly: “The situation seems to be more serious than I thought. You said it would be great if there was a heavy rainstorm that flooded before.”

Qin Huai rubbed his hair: “There’s no such thing as a coincidence, and if it rains, the mountain fire won’t start.”

Mu Nan leaned against Qin Huai’s arms and sighed: “Can the Cai family escape safely?”

Qin Huai really couldn’t answer him this question, he just comforted him: “I hope.”

It’s not easy for the Cai family to run away. It’s okay if they are all young people, but there is also an old woman who needs to use a cane to walk. It is impossible for Uncle Cai to leave his mother alone. They don’t have a car, so this , It’s really bad, I just hope everyone is safe and sound.

The fire on Qinghe’s side is still burning, but their life here is still the same, the night market is still lively, and the occasional discussion is a gossip mentality that has nothing to do with themselves, and in the information group on Jianchu’s side, there is still Aite Jianchu Ask if there are bamboo worms and mushrooms. Of course, this is normal. After all, life and death issues that have nothing to do with me will naturally not be taken to heart.

It’s like they don’t know anyone in the north, so they don’t care much about the depletion of water sources and the deaths caused by sandstorms in the north. There are too many people asking, so Jian Chu simply hung up a notice in the group, suspending the bamboo insects and Mushroom business.

And those people in the group are just lamenting that it is a pity that there is one less edible thing, that’s all.

However, with the evacuation from the sandstorm in the north and the mountain fire in Qinghe, it is obvious that the problem of population explosion will increase. When the population increases, the consumption of resources will increase. Therefore, even if they don’t want to trouble others, Yu Zibai and the others still discussed it. He was going to find Xu Ming, and asked Xu Ming to ask Yu Feng if there was still a way to buy grain, and the high price was fine.

It’s a pity that Yu Feng has no such connections this time, and he can’t buy rice grains at high prices. He can only buy the quota issued by the government every week. I don’t even have to eat.

In view of the current situation, Jian Chu tried to exchange food for chicken cakes, and no longer charged money. Five chicken cakes per catty of rice, one per hundred grams, and not limited to rice, glutinous rice, corn flour, millet flour cakes, etc., as long as It’s food, whatever.

Although there is no unified pricing standard for bartering like this, it is a bit troublesome, and it takes a long time to bargain with people, but you can get back a lot of rice and noodles at a time, which is much more reassuring than making money.

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The condition of the Cai family was not good when the wildfire broke out. If it was just a wildfire, the situation would not be so bad. It was daytime when the fire broke out, and now every house is closed during the day, and every light is blocked. How can this be possible? The first time I found out that there was a fire on the mountain, and when I realized something was wrong, the fire was out of control.

But the fire didn’t burn down at that time, because even the soil at the edge of the mountain could not wait to be dug back to grow vegetables in a small field at home. What kind of trees and grasses had died long ago as fuel, and there was nothing to burn, so many People think that the fire may not spread, and with the scorching sun outside, where can they go? If they go outside for more than ten or twenty minutes, they will be dehydrated due to heat stroke, so many people have no choice but to stay at home.

Those with conditions, such as the Cai family, quickly prepare enough water, so that they can spend some time to save themselves if the situation is critical. Those without conditions can only pack up their things at home and be ready to run at any time.

But what people never expected was that with the wildfire and strong wind, the sparks scattered with the wind and directly ignited the residential area.

Those who had a car couldn’t care less about anything, and drove away while driving, while those without a car dragged their families and ran against the sun. Fortunately, it was already six or seven o’clock at that time, and the sun was still there, but it would not be too violent to kill people.

I don’t know where the government’s rescue is, and no one knows whether it is on the mountain to put out the fire. No one came to organize the evacuation. Many people can only instinctively run out in the direction of the crowd, just like the one in the photo. Those who don’t have a car can’t wait In the pick-up car, those who were blocked in the road were afraid that the fire that had already burned in the residential area would catch up and drive directly into people to clear the road.

The Cai family has no car, so they can only run with the crowd. The daughter-in-law, daughter and niece bring all the food and water that can be eaten in the family. As for other valuables, food and water are life-saving. Uncle Cai and his son Cai Wentao take turns Mrs. Cai is on her back, and Guo Hui, Uncle Cai’s young comrade-in-arms, also helps from time to time. The three-year-old Xiaozhu tries to hold on to her mother’s hand and run along. When she can’t run, she will let her mother and aunt hug .

When the fire burned down, they luckily ran out of the residential area and followed a group of people on foot on the big driveway. Now they only have two ways to go. They turned back and took another road to the former urban area, and then crossed the urban area. Go to other places of residence, but the entire Qinghe mountains are connected, that is to say, even if the mountains are a little far away, as long as the mountain wind is strong enough to blow a little spark, other places can also burn.

The other is to walk along the national highway to Kangyun, which is the closest to their Qinghe. Compared with crossing urban areas, although this cross-provincial distance is a bit farther, it is obviously easier to walk, because there are not many roads open to traffic. Collapsed buildings, but the problem is, whether they can walk before dawn is a problem. If they fail to reach Kangyun before dawn, they don’t even have a place to shelter from the sun.

Uncle Cai’s family chose to go to Kangyun across the province with the fleeing crowd. There is a residential area and a military base there. Even if the wildfire spreads, the situation may not get out of control. If there are people you know, among other things, it should be possible to give them some water and food to let them take a break.

On the way, Cai Wenwen, Uncle Cai’s daughter, was still saying, “Today is the time for trading, so I don’t know if I will meet them on the way.”

Cai Wentao said: “I’m sure we won’t meet them. They probably turned around when they saw the red-hot sky, but fortunately they didn’t come over, otherwise the people would run out, the car might not be real, and they’re not the kind who can be ruthless.” The one who knocks people away.”

When they said this, Yu Zibai and the others happened to turn their heads in the middle of the road, and the distance between the two people was only one kilometer away. If Yu Zibai and the others just drove a little further, they would be able to meet them, but unfortunately they just missed it.