Chapter 171

The mahjong army at home has added another strong player. Neither Song Jia nor Jian Chu expected that Xu Ming’s mahjong could be so good.

Another round was uniform, several people sighed and counted soybeans, and Song Jia even said: “If you are so good at playing, why didn’t you play cards when you had a dinner party before?”

Xu Ming chuckled: “I’m afraid I’ll win you too hard, I’m so angry that I can’t even eat.”

Jian Chu was startled. Is this something Xu Ming could say? Who is Xu Ming, who is always clean and tidy with a gentle smile, and has always been an image of a caring brother who can take care of things, but now he can be jealous? !

The other one who came to join in the share is naturally Cai Wentao, there is no way, they are not the kind who play cards every day, and they feel uncomfortable without playing cards, there is no need to find a girl to join in because of it, it is better to play an all-men game once a week, if Cai Wentao has no time to go to work, so they just happen to be able to fight the landlord among three, but it would be great if they can teach Mu Nan, so they can play anytime.

It’s a pity that Mu Nan really didn’t have this tendon at birth. Apart from recognizing all the cards, he didn’t learn anything else, not even an ordinary little Hu.

Xu Ming said while playing cards, “I’ll recommend someone to you later.”

Jian Chu: “Your partner?”

Xu Ming glanced at him with a smile: “Are you thinking about your partner all day long?”

Jian Chu nodded without embarrassment at all: “Yes.”

Song Jia threw out a card and drew another: “If it’s not the object, then who is it?”

Xu Ming: “For a rice seller, the price of rice is very expensive. It must be more expensive than the price given by the government, but they have the goods, at least for now.”

Cai Wentao, who was silent, asked curiously: “Where did the rice in his hand come from? Isn’t even the millet in the farm half empty, and he is worried about food?”

“It’s not easy.” Jian Chu, who is well versed in the twists and turns, knows how they operate without thinking about it: “It’s the government. It’s not restricting the amount of food, but there is a quota for each person every week. , Some people will use all the quota to buy rice, and then resell it, and use the money to buy miscellaneous grains and rough noodles from others, or some people will eat factories, and it is a waste to use the ration quota, so they sell rice to make some money , to fill other living expenses.”

Song Jia: “What is the price of rice?”

Xu Ming: “Last week it was seven yuan and fifty-one catties.”

“Fuck!”

Everyone is very unanimous, which shows that they really feel crazy about this price in their hearts. Before the end of the world, seven or eight yuan a catty of rice is already very good rice, let alone now. Now rice is really more expensive than gold.

“This is really outrageously expensive. How much is it a day to move bricks outside?”

Cai Wentao said: “In the beginning it was three yuan a day, but now that I am familiar with it, the price has increased to three yuan and five yuan, but the salary is not the key point, the key point is the meal package, but the meal is getting worse and worse.”

They are considered manual workers. The food does not need to be refined, but at least half full. Otherwise, it is easy to cause accidents if you are hungry. Now many reconstruction sites are directly controlled by the army, and some rights have not yet been handed over. In the hands of the government, even in the eyes of the people, the military is the government, and the government is the military.

But among them, there are still some differences.

Therefore, as for the food for workers, the above requirements do not need to eat very good, but coarse grains and miscellaneous grains are even mixed with corn stalks and ground into powder, and it is enough to feed people as much as possible.

Now there is a kind of pancake called choking dead pancake. Because it is too solid, the texture is like chewing wood shavings. You can’t chew it slowly at all. If you have bad teeth, it’s even hard to bite. It is worse than not eating after swallowing it, but it really hurts the throat after swallowing it.

There was a single old man who lived in the outer city and ate relief food. Because the shed he lived in was too smelly, when someone went to check it, he was found dead inside. After the news spread, some people said that this person choked to death on this corn stalk cake, and gradually this cake was called choking person cake.

But if you don’t eat it and have nothing else to eat, this is already the cheapest food nowadays. Even the worm meat is more expensive than this cake. You can buy a piece of cake weighing about one catty for 50 cents. Eat the mud pie that came from the north.

Although they haven’t eaten it, they saw people selling it when they went to the market, but the construction site is not always such a bad thing, the choking death cake is also the lowest-end food on the construction site, it is the kind of food that can’t wait to be fed with construction site rations For the whole family, there is a limited amount of each meal for each person. If the food is good, of course, it will be served for one person. It is impossible to eat unlimitedly. After all, many people’s meal at the construction site is There is really no limit to feeding the whole family. The government can’t afford to support everyone even if they eat and take.

Like choking cakes, there are two of them. Because they are cheap, one weighs a catty. Take two of them home a day. As long as you can bear the unpalatable taste, your family will have enough food for a day.

Now when it comes to food, Cai Wentao still wants to stock up. After all, they have just settled down here, and many things are just enough. If anything happens, they can’t afford to stay behind closed doors for too long. , but the price is really a bit expensive, and he is a bit reluctant to let him buy it by himself, but if everyone buys it, following the herd mentality, it is still possible to bite the bullet.

“So do you want to buy it or not?”

Song Jia was the first to shake his head: “No, no, no, seven yuan and five a catty, or seven yuan and five a week ago, I don’t know how much it is now, my brother only earns a few dollars a month, and the rent and electricity bills are enough to cover the burden.” I can’t afford such expensive rice, so I can only wait for the government’s quota every week.”

Xu Ming didn’t say anything, but just provided them with a channel to buy rice. He bought it himself, and he thought it was very expensive. It was double the government’s grain price. Even though his savings were not small, the price was a bit Meat hurts.

But after being persuaded by Yu Feng, he didn’t wake up until the money was spent, but he had already bought it and couldn’t refund it, so it’s expensive.

Fortunately, he usually eats on the farm, and the rent is shared by Jian Chu and the others. There are basically no other expenses, so the savings can be described as rich. Although it is very painful to spend that money on rice, it is not Can’t afford it.

Jian Chu said: “Let’s ask Mu Nan later to see if his family wants it. My family can’t afford the expensive food. Now Zibai is also on leave. There is no salary for vacation. When can I go back to work? I don’t know, but don’t spend it indiscriminately.”

Xu Ming: “You don’t need to ask, I already told Qin Huai yesterday, and they will contact me if they want.”

There was a lot of movement on the farm side, but it hadn’t affected the construction site yet. That’s why Cai Wentao didn’t know until today that the two workers working on the farm were off. Seeing that everyone’s day had successfully chatted, he followed suit. I asked the doubt in my heart: “Is the situation on the farm really so bad that you have to take so much rest?”

Xu Ming shook his head: “I don’t know, either the situation can be brought under control in the past two days, then it will be fine, everyone will go back to work after a false alarm, or the situation will escalate, and it will be really serious.”

When the next door was playing cards, Mu Nan was watching a movie on Qin Huai’s body. It was a pet movie. It was very touching. Mu Nan had already prepared tissues, but because Qin Huai’s hands kept stroking him The past made it impossible for him to watch movies immersively, and he didn’t cry when the tears came.

Another dog ran towards the owner’s tears, Qin Huai’s hand fell on his back at some point, and pressed lightly on his tailbone, Mu Nan trembled violently, as if being caught by a wave As if the electric current hit him, his attention could not fall on the projector in front of him, and he turned over and pressed Qin Huai’s hand.

“Can you watch a movie?”

Qin Huai: “I’m counting your bones.”

Mu Nan’s head was filled with question marks: “Huh?”

Qin Huai’s hand was still attached to his back: “This section, your knee-bending posture is more obvious. I don’t raise a younger brother here, but a rib.”

Mu Nan hugged the pillow and lay down again: “Then don’t sleep on the ribs.”

Qin Huai smiled lightly and hugged him up, until Mu Nan was wrapped in his arms, and then said: “Of course I don’t sleep with ribs, ribs need to be eaten.”

Mu Nan stretched out his hand to tease Qin Huai’s abs, originally when he planned to tease Qin Huai in a hurry, he rolled the quilt up and ignored no one, but before he did it, he received a video message from Daniel in the group.

I thought I had something to talk about in the group chat, but I didn’t expect to turn on the video call and hear Daniu’s anxious expression: “Close the courtyard door, close the doors and windows, there is a commotion over there in Building No. 7!”

Daniu didn’t know what was going on, the camera was shaking very badly, he was probably video chatting with them while running, and before they could reply after saying this, the screen went black.

Qin Huai frowned, got up and opened the curtains to look outside. It was very calm and there was no sound, but he still went downstairs to check the yard.

The few who were playing cards also received the video in the group, but when they clicked on it, they only heard what Da Niu said to make a fuss, and if there were too many, they turned it off without hearing the video. He happened to see Qin Huai doing nothing in the yard, so he ran down immediately.

“What’s the situation? What did Daniel just say? I called and no one answered!”

Qin Huai: “Daniu said there was a commotion in Building No. 7 and asked us to close the doors and windows, but he didn’t say why.”

Qin Huai looked at Song Jia while talking, “Is your brother back yet?”

Song Jia shook her head in panic. His brother was working in the factory, and it wasn’t time to get off work yet.

Qin Huai: “Call Wu Zheng and ask him to stay in the factory for a day. I don’t know what’s going on in Building No. 7. Since Daniel called to remind me, the problem may be serious. I just checked. The courtyard door is tightly closed, go upstairs first, adapt to any situation.”

Song Jia quickly went to the side to call Wu Zheng, and Yu Zibai also came down. He didn’t hear the video, he was cleaning at home just now, and he came down to check the situation when he saw them all standing in the yard.

Jian Chu shook her head at him: “Let’s go back first, we’ll talk about it when we go back.”

Standing on the balcony on the third floor, Mu Nan suddenly said to them, “I see a fire over there.”

Everyone hurriedly looked in the direction Mu Nan pointed, but because the lights on the side of the road were very bright at night, as bright as daytime, and their courtyard wall was very high, the height of the courtyard wall reached the second floor, so they stood You can’t see anything in the distance at all in the yard.

Cai Wentao was a little flustered by Mu Nan’s words, and said directly: “I’m going back first, please let me know if you have any news.” He has to go home and watch, otherwise, if something happens, there will only be mothers and sisters left at home. will be scared to death.

Song Jia responded, and opened the iron gate for Cai Wentao. After seeing him running away quickly towards home, he quickly locked the iron gate, and even locked several inner locks.

Everyone glanced at each other, Xu Ming: “Let’s go back first, close the doors and windows, and notify the group if there is any movement, whoever goes to the girls to inform.”

Song Jia directly sent a message to Sun Sisi, asking the girls to protect the house, and then took Niu Niu into the house. His brother is not here today. If something happens here, he feels that being at home can scare him to death.

But when he saw that they were in pairs, he was embarrassed to insert one of them. Although Xu Ming was alone, his relationship with Xu Ming was not as good as that of Jian Chu Mu Nan. many.

In just three seconds, Song Jia weighed many possibilities in her heart, and finally put her arms around Niu Niu’s neck pitifully and sighed: “Fortunately, you are with me.”

After Qin Huai went upstairs, he directly took the binoculars in Mu Nan’s hand and looked into the distance. Building No. 7 was still a bit far away from them. It would take about ten minutes to walk, and he couldn’t see it from below. Behind the building, you can vaguely see the fire over there.

Mu Nan stood by and looked over there nervously: “It must be a fire. There is no wind today. Will the fire come over? If there is a fire, shouldn’t Daniel remind us to clean up our things and prepare to escape the fire? Why not?” Shall we close the doors and windows?”

Xu Ming, who didn’t know when he came up, also went to the balcony, and said to them through half of the balcony wall: “There is an owner who contracted the farm and lives over there.”

Mu Nan frowned suddenly: “It’s the farm again, if you rob the farm, you still want to kill them at home, what kind of hatred is that?”

Xu Ming turned his head and looked towards Mu Nan: “You should never underestimate the word jealousy. In the past, whether it was jealousy or hatred of the rich, there was a moral bottom line. In the current environment, what morality can we expect?” bondage, so those people can do anything.”

Qin Huai patted Mu Nan on the head: “You go to sleep for a while, and then replace me. Today, you have to watch out for the movement outside. If there is a trouble, I’m afraid you need to spend more energy to deal with it.”

Mu Nan hurriedly said: “Then you go to rest first, it’s obvious that you won’t be able to make trouble now, I’ll watch over it, if it comes over later, I’ll have to rely on you.”

Qin Huai asked Mu Nan to rest, not because he really wanted him to change himself, but because he didn’t want him to pay too much attention to this matter and scare himself, but he did have to be prepared if the incident affected him, so he went into the house very simply. up.

Qin Huai lay down on the bed, Mu Nan opened the curtains and insulation panels on the bay window sill to pay attention to the movement outside, in order not to disturb Qin Huai, and he had to listen to the movement without wearing earphones, so he couldn’t do anything else In wasting time, I simply took a blank drawing book and drew.

He hasn’t drawn portraits for a long time, and the comic version of portraits doesn’t count, it happens that Qin Huai is sleeping, and those who don’t move can be used as materials.

It’s just that as he drew, the outline slowly shifted from his face to his body, but Qin Huai was wearing a vest and covered with a small blanket. This posture blocked his fine figure, but it didn’t matter, I couldn’t see that he had imagination, and The feeling of touching, the texture and lines of the muscles are all engraved in the mind, and can become the scenery in the drawing book at any time.

It’s a pity that he doesn’t have many paints, because he is not very interested in oil painting. He mainly paints on the computer through software, so the color pens are only those bought at the stationery store before, and he didn’t buy too many paints. Now he wants to fill up One drawing board, not to mention other colors, just Dabai is not enough.

Mu Nan sighed silently, and once again felt the irritability of being under the control of Dabai when he was studying.

When the general outline was formed and only some details needed to be revised slowly, a gunshot broke the calm of the night.

Mu Nan was so frightened that his hands shook, Qin Huai opened his eyes almost instantly, got up from the bed, quickly came to the window, put down the outside cover, and erected the heat insulation board inside the house: “Send a message in the group , Ask them to block the light in the house tightly, and turn off all the lights if it doesn’t work.”

Mu Nan hurriedly said, but she couldn’t type clearly, so she simply sent a voice message.

There were several gunshots in succession, and along with the gunshots, there were many noisy voices, screaming, and fleeing in a panic.

Qin Huai turned off the lights in the living room on the third floor, and the two carefully hid behind the curtains on the balcony door on the third floor. Qin Huai held a crossbow in his hand and carefully observed the movement outside.

The army should be dispatched. They are on the third floor. They can be seen clearly by the lights on the side of the road. A group of people are fleeing in a panic. The well-trained soldiers are chasing after them. Those who run in front want to turn over some Some people wanted to climb over their side of the courtyard wall, but their courtyard wall was too high, and if they didn’t have tools to help them, they couldn’t reach the top of the courtyard wall by jumping up.

In the end, he wasted the time of escaping, and before he could get up after falling to the ground, he was pinned down by the soldiers who were chasing him.

Seeing this situation, the few people in the room who were carefully observing the movement outside were relieved. At least someone was in charge. Now it is obvious that the soldiers are controlling the situation. Although they don’t know what happened, at least they are not so chaotic that no one is around. Tube.

Just when they thought the chaos would end soon, a voice that was obviously different from the panic sounded. It was cheers of joy, roars of excitement, and even shouts of indulging in enjoyment.

As the voice came from far to near, Mu Nan grasped Qin Huai’s arm tightly, because he saw that the man was riding a motorcycle. After the person sitting behind lit a gasoline bottle, he headed directly towards the building surrounded by courtyard walls. Dong smashed.

The glass shattered, the gasoline inside splashed, and along with the ignited flames, the fire was on the verge of breaking out. Sparks splashed onto the sunshade cloth outside the window, burning instantly.

The two buildings in front of them were ignited almost instantly.

What made Mu Nan even more horrified was that the motorcycle had already arrived at their side, and the person on the back seat lit a gasoline bottle and was about to throw it, towards their yard.

However, the gasoline bottle was not thrown out in the next second, an arrow shot directly at the man’s hand, and the oil bottle in his hand slipped due to pain. All of a sudden it came loose, the gasoline inside poured out, and the fire was lit, and the next development was known without looking.

Qin Huai pushed Mu Nan behind the curtain. He didn’t mind Mu Nan looking at the corpse, and he didn’t mind Mu Nan watching him kill someone, but he didn’t want to be the shadow of Mu Nan’s nightmare in such a way of dying in flames.

The people in the backseat of the car screamed miserably, their bodies were already doused with gasoline, the fire could not be extinguished for a while, and they were shot by arrows. In the panic, even the cyclists were brought down to the ground. The oil bottle that just rolled down, and the burning gasoline that had been scattered all over the ground, the two of them fell to the ground and inevitably burned.

The yelling that was abnormally joyful just now turned into a shrill scream in an instant.

In the hot weather, there are few clothes, and most of the skin is exposed outside. Now that you are in direct contact with the fire, the burning pain is by no means unbearable for ordinary people.

Before they were in pain for too long, the soldiers chasing after them arrived, but they had no tools other than guns in their hands, so they could only try to put out the fire by stepping on them.

Others moved the motorcycle away. This motorcycle is also powered by fuel, and it is easy to explode when exposed to high temperatures.

Soon the surrounding people who were supposed to be hiding at home and watching came out, not out to watch the excitement of these two people, but because a house was burning in front of them. If they didn’t help put out the fire together, the fire would definitely burn over. It’s over when you get to your own home, so even if it’s just for yourself, you are desperately trying to put out the fire at the moment.

Qin Huai asked Mu Nan to stay at home, he handed the crossbow to Mu Nan, and when he went downstairs, he tore off the sheets.

Xu Ming and the others also came down together. There was a fire over there, and they were collecting water in the yard. They kept a few buckets in the yard first, just in case something happened, and loaded the others directly onto the tricycle. , It was the two buildings in front of them that burned, and it was a little far away from them. Running around was too exhausting, so it would be more convenient to fill up with more water at a time, and ride a tricycle there.

Qin Huai opened the courtyard door and handed the sheet to the soldier who was still helping the arsonist put out the fire. The soldier took the sheet and slapped the two of them with his arms. No matter whether they died or not, the fire would definitely be extinguished. There are residential areas on both sides, and a little spark is a big disaster.

“Quick, quick! Is there any water? Is there anyone in the house?”

“No! Gasoline can’t be put out with water! Find a cloth, find a quilt!”

“It’s almost burning here, who has a shovel? Come and help me!”

“There is another building in front of it that is burning. Is there anyone saving there? Why is there no movement?”

Some people were calling for help, some were desperately putting out the fire, and the water that Xu Ming and the others brought over by bicycle and tricycle also came in handy. Instead of directly pouring water on the fire, they used the curtains, sheets or thin quilts that they dug out. Wet and slapped to put out the fire.

They didn’t know what was going on in other places. After the surrounding area where they lived finally calmed down, it was already dawn.

Mu Nan and Jian Chu didn’t leave the yard, but they didn’t stop either. They kept filling water. Others who dug wells and those who lived nearby were also desperately fetching water to put out the fire. Some people were even thankful that they had fetched water back then Otherwise, with their remote distance near the river, it would take three to five minutes to ride a bicycle from the water station, and they still don’t know how to save the fire.

When there was no movement outside, Mu Nan and the others were so tired that they couldn’t even lift their hands, Xu Ming and Qin Huai also came back dirty.

Seeing that Qin Huai’s face was all black, Mu Nan quickly got up from the ground and ran over: “Are you injured, did you rush into the fire?”

Qin Huai stretched out his hand and drew a black mark on his face, and said with a smile: “No, I just helped to lift him up, and didn’t enter the scene of fire.”

He has always been very careful about saving people and his own safety.

Song Jia sat paralyzed on the ground and looked up at them: “Are there any casualties?”

Xu Ming shook his head: “I don’t know, someone will take care of the rest of the matter later, so please read the notice when the time comes. I was too busy putting out the fire just now, so I didn’t care about anything else.”

Mu Nan sighed, and looked at the rising sun: “Go back first, the sun is out, what’s the matter, let’s talk about it after sleeping, I’m so tired, I really don’t understand what these people are trying to do.”

Those who live in the so-called rich areas are burned to death, what do they get? Is it just a venting pleasure? The world is already perverted enough, and human beings still want to kill each other.