The door was shut, and a fourth candle was lit in the room.

Qi Yuanshan looked at Li Zhen for a long time, and only after a long time did he let out a long breath: "It's the first time I've seen a general, and it's still a real person." ”

"What are you talking nonsense!" Liu Cui'e brought a pot of steaming stew from the back kitchen and put it on the table, glanced at Qi Yuanshan and rubbed her hands: "Auntie has nothing to entertain you, just a little something, make do with it!" ”

Her smile and tone were very sincere, but Li Zhen could feel that the two in front of her were not very natural. Just because of this identity? He smiled, "Didn't we eat this in the past—the same thing." ”

He took out a handy chopstick from the side, broke it open, and scooped up a piece of tofu to eat first.

Qi Yuanshan and Liu Cui'e both seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

In fact, nature is abnormal. Once he knew that the person he knew well in the past had become a capable person who could destroy a city...... No matter how good the psychological quality is, people have to be stunned for a long time. What's more, he is now "resurrected" again, and right before his eyes.

But in any case, the hot food is a little refreshed as soon as you eat it. Qi Yuanshan poured him a glass of beer, thought about it, filled it for himself, and after a long time of silence, he asked again: "Li Zhen, you are really ......"

Aunt Liu didn't interrupt him this time, but just shielded her face with the steaming white mist, and carefully looked at the strange and familiar young man opposite.

"The Able." Li Zhen nodded, "I'm sorry I didn't tell you before." At that time, it had to be kept secret. I'm worried that I'm going to get you involved, and it's going to be a lot of trouble. ”

"No wonder. Last time you told me you were dangerous. Qi Yuanshan sighed. You don't know that when your incident was reported years ago, we were all confused. Then my aunt was at home and shed tears for several days......"

Liu Cui'e knocked him on the head with chopsticks: "Hiss...... What are you talking about? ”

And there's another thing. Li Zhen was slightly stunned, raised his eyes and smiled gently at Liu Cui'e: "Auntie, I'm worried about you." ”

"It's all in the past, it's good that you don't have anything to do." Liu Cui'e waved her hand and served him vegetables again, "Eat more." It doesn't matter if you are a capable person or a general, you are still Li Zhen in my place. ”

In the end, she is a bold and spilling character, and at this time she slowly let go.

Li Zhen laughed: "Hmm." ”

In fact, he only said it for ten minutes, but he felt. The purpose of coming here has been accomplished. I'm not the same person I used to be. But these people are the same people they used to be. Maybe the current Qi Yuanshan is white and chubby, fashionably dressed, and is no longer the black-faced rural boy he met on the long-distance bus for the first time, but ...... But the heart does not change.

His left hand flexed slightly, touching the glass of beer with water droplets hanging from it. After a second of hesitation, he finally picked it up. With a smile: "Come." Let's have a drink! ”

Three glasses clammed together. Gently "ding". It was at this moment that a thought suddenly came to his heart—

I gotta get myself back.

He's right, I've thought about it a long time ago.

Candles crackled. The aroma of the food is pervasive. Li Zhen's mouth was filled with a familiar taste, and he felt that his pores were slowly stretching, and something was quietly growing in his heart.

They said a lot of things again. For example, how the business of barbecue restaurants is declining day by day, such as Li Zhen being wanted in the Philippines and encountering the aurora. He tried to downplay some of the details, but it still caused the two of them to gasp, lamenting that he was "fatal".

When the wine was half-drunk, Liu Cui'e asked: "Li Zhen, what do you say we should do?" Earlier, I told Yuanshan that I wanted to sell this storefront...... Do you have any inside information over there? If I buy food, is it reliable? ”

Li Zhen put the chopsticks on the table and thought for a while: "I also just returned to China, and I don't know the specific things." But the current situation is all caused by Aurora and other species - most of the factories are paralyzed when Aurora comes, so many people are unemployed. If something goes wrong in the industrial system, it will affect many aspects, and the production of food will also be affected. But in the short term it should not be a big problem - we have food reserves. But the key is that there are still kinds of species - as I told you before, the war situation is not very optimistic, and there may be a big war in the future. It's far-sighted that you're going to stock up on food, but it shouldn't work in the near future. ”

Hearing Li Zhen say that she was "far-sighted", Aunt Liu grinned. But then she asked, "Why can't you do it lately?" ”

"Because the food reserves can last for a long time. There are bound to be people hoarding food when any catastrophe comes, but this time is different. Maybe you don't know a lot of things in China, but from my point of view, this time it is a matter of life and death for mankind. Therefore, once the limelight of hoarding and panic buying appears, the punishment will inevitably be extremely severe. If you can't be foolproof...... The results may not be encouraging. ”

Qi Yuanshan and Aunt Liu looked at him in a daze. Although the news of the same kind of fighting has been announced in China, it is not real. This time, I heard the words "life and death" coming out of Li Zhen's mouth...... Both of them felt a little hairy in their hearts.

Li Zhen realized that he had overestimated the bearing capacity of ordinary people, and smiled slightly: "It's different from the domestic statement? In fact, in a few days you will know the truth. But we don't have no way at all, and the Philippine side is still preparing for a counteroffensive. ”

Qi Yuanshan thought sullenly for a while, and waved his hand: "That's it." If it doesn't work, I'll join the army! ”

Aunt Liu ignored him and hesitated for a while: "Then you say it's better for me to sell this store?" ”

Li Zhen smiled slightly bitterly in his heart. They really think of themselves as "generals". But even a "general" can't come up with an idea for such a thing. He thought for a moment, "You can do something else." When I arrived, I met a few shops on the way, all of which were selling bread and stuff – and business was doing very well. It's all residential around here, so you can try that. ”

Aunt Liu and Qi Yuanshan glanced at each other and sighed, "We've thought about it." ”

Li Zhen was stunned: "And then?" ”

"Now the food purchase is restricted." Qi Yuanshan used chopsticks to scratch the bottom of the pot a few times, and put it down to take a sip of wine. "The stores you see are all related, and they have been licensed and have channels to buy goods. If you don't have a license like us, you have to go to the market and buy it as before. But now the price has risen by ...... If you buy something and sell it, you may not be able to get it back. ”

"If you want to change to that kind of store, you'll have to go to the grain store and buy it. The grain store is now a government monopoly, and the price is not high, but it can be opened. But each neighborhood has a designated point, so we have to go there and say hello. Aunt Liu said, "But let's ...... here."

She paused and stopped talking.

Li Zhen looked at her face through the light - a little helpless. Looking at the distant mountains, he didn't speak again.

He frowned: "What's wrong?" People don't sell? ”

"Didn't ask." Qi Yuanshan said angrily, "It's useless to ask." Guess who's in charge of selling food here? ”

"I know?"

"Hmm." Qi Yuanshan sighed. "Yu Yongqiang."

Li Zhen was stunned. Then he smiled: "So he changed his ways?" ”

"I don't know if I have changed my ways. Usually we don't deal with him when we go to buy rations, but if we ask him for business...... Hehe. Qi Yuanshan shook his head and stopped talking.

At this time, Aunt Liu stood up and cleaned up the dishes on the table, and added: "Alas." What are you talking about at this time? ”

Li Zhen understood what she meant—speak it out at this time. It sounds like you're going to have to do it yourself. Maybe they don't have that in mind. Just casually. But he thought about it and smiled slightly: "I'll go see tomorrow." ”

Aunt Liu frowned: "Don't, don't go." Let people say how bad it affects you. ”

"I don't care." Li Zhen got up and took the plate from her hand as before. "Actually, you did me a favor."

His last sentence was low and vague, and Liu Cui'e didn't hear it clearly. By the time she wanted to ask, Li Zhen had already stepped out of the range shrouded in candlelight and disappeared into the darkness.

Aunt Liu looked at Qi Yuanshan, who was staggering, and poked his head with her finger: "Still sitting!" Let the family serve you?! ”

Qi Yuanshan squinted his eyes and smiled, and stood up lightly: "Hehe...... That's my buddy......"

These days, Qi Yuanshan and Aunt Liu are sleeping in the store - on the one hand, they are afraid that someone will break the door in the middle of the night to steal things, and on the other hand, the two of them are good companions. Liu Cui'e's community had a power outage, and in her words, living there was "panicking".

Li Zhen planned to spend the night here, and Aunt Liu made a bed from the table in the lobby for him to sleep on.

The street is quiet. In fact, it was only nine o'clock in the evening, but it was as quiet as three or four o'clock in the morning. He lay on a soft mattress and stared at the ceiling with his eyes open, hearing the muffled conversation in the back room fade and eventually snore.

So he let out a slight breath and closed his eyes as well.

The next day he got up early in the morning. When I opened the shutter door, I found that there was a fog outside—a reddish mist lingering in the crowd, as if I had come to life. Qi Yuanshan looked at the mechanical watch on his wrist and said that the grain station would open in another hour.

And at this time, Li Zhen also figured out why he saw so many people on the street yesterday. It stands to reason that a large number of people are unemployed, and the streets should be deserted. But yesterday he came to Binh Duong during the period before the grain station closed – and many people rushed there to get today's grain.

Each person receives a ration on the basis of his or her own identity card, and the maximum number of days cannot exceed the quota of three days. This makes the streets flourish again in the morning and evening, but not to go to work, but to be hungry. After thinking about it for a while, he understood the purpose of this - first, it could fix a large number of people in the city, so that they would not become homeless. Second, a wealth of information can be obtained from the records of food purchases – such as population increases and decreases, migrations, and changes in per capita demand.

The most important thing is to demonstrate the government's control – they also have the ability to control the whole situation and be reassured.

Yesterday, Qi Yuanshan had already bought the three-day limit, so Li Zhen wanted to go by himself, and he didn't plan to let Qi Yuanshan follow. Because what he wanted was to leave here and never come back. Yesterday, the two of them asked him, "Why don't you have guards when you are a general", and he only jokingly said that he came to the "micro-service private visit".

In fact, he "escaped".

Then it's not good to stay in one place for too long, just in case someone comes to you, and it's a bunch of trouble.

So he ate breakfast and went out into the street alone.

The grain store is not far away, just walk three streets. On his way to the grain store, he passed by the "Beichuan Freezing Point House" - the roller shutter door had been lowered. There was a thick layer of dust in the crack of the door, and it seemed that it hadn't been opened for a long time.

When he walked to the grain store, he found that there were already two long queues. It was originally a two-storey storey storehouse, but now it seems that the two next rooms have also been rented. At the end of the two lines were two tables, on which a heavy ledger was spread, and a man was taking his identity card, examining it, and then registering the name of the person who had taken it.

Then the visitor walked and took out the money on one side, handed over the money with one hand and received the grain with the other.

Li Zhen felt that the two behind the table were a little familiar, so he took a few more looks. Then he was slightly stunned, and smiled in his heart - it turned out to be Yu Yongqiang's two followers. One of them is still writing with his left hand.

And he laughed because he figured out something. When he came, he thought, now electronic devices can't be used, and if you only use your ID card to buy food...... What should I do if it is a false testimony? Now he knows what to do with the Tao - let the false testimony come and investigate.

It's really a good use.

The door in the middle is the one that buys rations, and the door on the left is a little deserted. He stood for a few minutes when he saw three men walk in, then walked out with three bags of flour and threw them onto a tricycle. In this way, this should be the place that Qi Yuanshan said.

So he walked to the door and saw a young man in a blue uniform sitting in a chair shaking the newspaper.

Li Zhen thought for a while and said, "Excuse me, if you want to buy a large amount of grain in the store, do you go through the formalities here?" ”

The young man glanced up at him from the newspaper. In fact, I can't see anything clearly-the light is dim, and Li Zhen is condescending and backlit.

All he saw was a young man, and he was empty-handed.

He felt that this man was not in the right way, so he lowered his eyelids and stared at the newspaper again.

In fact, it's been a long time since I've experienced this feeling of being ignored. Li Zhen only glanced at him, then didn't ask any more questions, and walked towards the door.

Now he couldn't sit still, turned around and called out to him, "Hey, where are you going?" ”

"I thought you were dumb." Li Zhen glanced back at him and shrugged, "I'll go find someone who can communicate normally." ”

The one stood up and was anxious: "Who are you scolding?" (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please read it on m.biquge.info. )